December 30, 1913 in the Western calendar

A large number of marchers gathered on the streets of Tokyo, with ragged peasants, làng people with swords on their waists, and Japanese jinv wearing ornate kimonos with their faces as white as dead people, gathered into the marchers, and the vast dàngdàng stormed the Diet and the Prime Minister's residence, with slogans and curses resounding in the sky. The police were nervous, but most of them showed deep sympathy for the poor Japanese who were marching and did not stop the outrageous behavior. The peaceful demonstrations targeted the Japanese government, and the violence against Mitsui, Mitsubishi and other chaebols was the high cháo part of the play.

Tokyo, fashion, Nagoya, Yokohama... Almost all of Japan's big cities, the semicolons of the chaebols such as Mitsui and Mitsubishi were looted by the mob, and even many of the policemen who maintained order threw away their hats and joined the crowd of sāoluàn.

The initiator of this largest nationwide protest and demonstration was the Dongei Daily.

The Toei Daily has unsurprisingly become popular, and it is inevitable that the new rising powers will be dissatisfied with the old world order, especially in a country like Japan, which has a habit of abusing popular morale.

The magic weapon of "Toei Daily" that is highly sought after by Japanese readers is nothing more than the following four points. The first is to scold Britain and the United States, criticize these traditional powers as locusts lying on the blood of emerging countries, and regard the suffering of the Japanese people as the result of exploitation by Britain and the United States.

The second is to scold the weak civil and political officials, advocate the power of the military, and erect the military as moral models, and regard the rational civil and political affairs as a stumbling block to the country's progress. However, the "Dongying Daily" did not mince words about high-ranking officers, but it did its best to praise middle- and lower-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers.

The third is to scold the rich and do everything they can to vilify the rich, and regard the destitute as people who are born with high morals, and the rich as destroyers of social tradition and order.

The fourth is to use gossip news to entertain the public, satisfy readers' curiosity and dark psychology, and make them unable to stop.

With these means, the fame of Koji Yano and Kazuki Kita rose to prominence, and they quickly became political stars chased by the Japanese media and the public, especially the scandal that exposed the involvement of the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet and the navy in the "Nishimén incident" corruption case, which made the influence of the "Toei Daily" in Japan skyrocket, and its sales in Japan also climbed steadily. Especially for the poor in Japan, many of them would rather go hungry and save money for a meal than buy a newspaper to read.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan's military strength and national strength have increased day by day, but the lives of the common people are actually poorer than in the shogunate era, especially although the Russo-Japanese War defeated Russia, but did not receive a kopeck of indemnity, and because of the huge debts owed by the war, they have not been able to pay off for decades, which makes the Japanese people extremely hateful to the civilian government and the British and American powers.

After exposing the Nishi-mén corruption case and giving the Navy and the Yamamoto Gonbei cabinet a blow to the government, the Toei Daily turned its guns and aimed directly at Mitsui, Mitsubishi and other Japanese chaebols.

Ordinary people in Japan only know that the Mitsui and Mitsubishi families are very rich, but how they developed to today's scale, the common people do not know. "Dongying Daily" lost no time in revealing their family history.

It turned out that their first few factories were given to them by the Japanese government, not only did they not need a single money, but also gave them the long-term exclusivity of several docks as an add-on.

When the news spread, the whole country of Japan was in an uproar. The first few factories during the Meiji Restoration were all invested by the government, and the source of funds was the indemnity of the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese Dynasty, and a larger part was private taxes. And these enterprises, which originally belonged to the state, were actually given to those rich people by the government, and also included those wharves that made money every day

The loss of state-owned assets is too big a blow to the wharf coolies who took out the last copper plate and the jinv who donated all the money. In post-Meiji Japan, the government used various means to shape the country into a moral model, so that all Japanese people believed that any sacrifice for the country was justified. It also makes the Japanese people extremely hateful of those who embezzle national assets.

Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and other chaebols suffered, not to mention the workers' strikes, but also began to destroy machines, and the procession stormed the prime minister's residence and the parliament, and the police not only did not make it, but secretly assisted them, to put it bluntly, the police are also the bottom of society.

The most unbearable thing for people who have been brainwashed and fooled is to find that they have been deceived.

The demonstrations gradually spread from the big cities to the central towns, and the local sāoluàn had the momentum of turning into a nationwide riot*, and finally it was the elders of the mountain mountain who came forward to make a decision, and the army sent troops to suppress it to gradually restore order, but the output value of Japan's industry in December fell by 40%, and exports were almost paralyzed.

The country's narrow land area, extreme lack of resources, and the high concentration of industrial zones in a few cities such as Osaka and Yokohama, especially the economic over-dependence on exports, make Japan unable to withstand any twists and turns, even a small sāoluàn, will cause the Japanese economy to suffer a serious blow.

As a result of this incident, the "Toei Daily" has a copy in the Japanese political circles, and the great names of Koji Yano and Kazuki Kita have made the Japanese cultural circles look up to the mountains and become a new generation of political stars.

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Anhui Military Advisory Office, Chai Dongliang patted the table and said: "Beautiful"

Gao Chuguan twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Yano Koji is a spicy method, the pen swept through the five thousand troops, and one article made Japan big, haha, now all parts of Japan are raiding the semicolon of the "Dongying Daily", làng people and coolies spontaneously protect the newspaper, Japanese politicians and many soldiers in the opposition also come forward to defend it, and the Japanese police dare not carry out the order. ”

Chai Dongliang said with a smile: "Let them copy, the more they copy, the more they copy Koji Yano, the greater their fame, and the greater their influence."

Gao Chuguan pouted: "The Japanese government is indeed a bit of a mess, the tax revenue has reached more than 30%, and the people are miserable, but they gave the factories built with the imperial grain and state funds to those rich people in vain, and also set up a few wharves as an add-on, I don't know how much they have received from these people."

Chai Dongliang laughed and said, "The old master was also deceived? It's normal for you to think so, I paid for the Shanghai Manufacturing Bureau left by the Qing Dynasty, and Japan..."

Chai Dongliang talked eloquently, and Gao Chuguan nodded frequently when he listened. The Meiji Restoration initially followed almost the same path as the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty, concentrating limited funds on a few government-run enterprises. Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong of the Qing Dynasty could not play this kind of government-run enterprises, and Japan's Ito Hirobumi and Yamayama Aritomo also couldn't handle it. The Qing Dynasty has a relatively thick family background, and Li Hongzhang and Zhang Zhidong can barely hold on, so Japan can't stand it

Ito Hirobumi and others made up their minds to follow the example of the West to engage in private enterprises, but none of the merchants in Japan knew that these factories were the lifeblood of the country. The Japanese government wanted to sell the company, but no one in the whole country was willing to buy it, and finally lowered the standard, planning to give it to Mitsui, Mitsubishi and several other chaebols for nothing, even if it was for nothing, they would not be respectful. In the end, the Japanese government had no choice but to give away the exclusive rights to operate several lucrative wharves, and the Mitsui and Mitsubishi families pinched their noses and knotted those hot potatoes.

Before the Meiji Restoration, the Mitsui and Mitsubishi families were only engaged in commercial trade, but where did they engage in industry? They only saw that the official period was seriously loss-making, but they didn't expect that after they handled it themselves, they immediately turned losses into profits, and the hot potato turned out to be fragrant.

How can ordinary Japanese people know about this past history? All they know is that the factories built by the government and the taxes they have stolen from them have been given to the rich people in vain. Moreover, the aftermath of the "Nishimén incident" has not yet subsided, and ordinary Japanese people will naturally associate it with such things as embezzlement, bribery, and corruption.

Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo and other chaebols have rumors of suffering, and they openly spread rumors in the newspapers, but where are the common people willing to believe it.

Is there a free lunch in this world? Who will believe it?

Although the sāoluàn was suppressed, the seeds of hatred between the Japanese poor and the zaibatos, between the military and the civilian government, between the middle and lower rank officers and high-ranking officials, had been planted deep in the heart, and once there was the right temperature, it would immediately thrive.

Chai Dongliang felt that the propaganda offensive against Japan had not yet reached the height he expected, that Yamaguchi Youtomo and others still had the ability to control the situation, and that the mania of the Japanese people and middle- and lower-ranking officers had not yet been fully stirred up.

Strike while the iron is hot, it's time to take out the bombshell

After sending Gao Chuguan away, Chai Dongliang returned to the office, kicked everyone out, and then opened the safe and took out the laptop of the heart and liver baby.

chā turned on the power and opened the folder, which contained "Japan Can Say No", which had already been written more than halfway.

This plagiarized the work of the two indignant classics of later generations, it took Chai Dongliang half a year to sort out more than half of it, and the whole book is expected to be 150,000 words in seven parts, and 100,000 words in five parts have been completed.

Chai Dongliang believes that when Koji Yano and Kita Kazuki publish this book, they will immediately become the most prestigious scholars in Japan, and these articles, which are full of yin conspiracy and extreme thoughts, are too much in line with the way of thinking and tastes of the Japanese people in this era.

Chai Dongliang could even imagine that when those middle- and lower-level officers and politicians in Japan who were burned by militaristic ideology and had their heads burned, after reading this book, they would definitely be excited to cover up the book and wander around the room.

Not to mention this era of lack of advice, even a hundred years later, in the era of knowledge and information explosion, there are still countless people who are bewitched by this kind of books.

To be honest, Chai Dongliang also feels that many of the arguments in these books are reasonable, and the author's views on social issues are also unique.

However, they have all overlooked, consciously or unconsciously, the most important issue, that is, human creativity must have an environment of freedom of thought and expression in order to be fully developed. And the greatest enemy of all centralized rule is freedom of thought