4 The Death of Kanto (4)
Except for the "market competition" put forward by the People's Party in its economic policy, Bei Yihui's other economic policy propositions are completely copies of the People's Party. In terms of strategy, Kita Ikki boldly put forward the idea of the Sino-Japanese alliance, "to build a new Asian alliance of equal countries in the future with equal workers!" ”
This is not the view of Kita Yihui alone, members of the Japanese People's Party and even many Japanese in China have this kind of thought. The turbulent revolution in China over the past decade and the rapid development of China's national strength have deeply touched the Japanese who joined this revolution.
"Do you want Japan to perish?" It is not easy for Japan and China to compete for a sphere of influence, and it has only been less than 10 years since Japan and China annexed Korea, and if they want to form an alliance with China, it is naturally very easy to think of the word "annexation."
"Building a New Asian Alliance of Equal Workers in the Future!" Kita Kazuki once again emphasized this foundation, "The new national alliance is a national federation of equal workers. China's Hebei and Yunnan's Guizhou are almost completely different countries. Language, customs, clothing, and lifestyles are all very different. If we do not discuss the historical issue that the two places have always been within the territory of China, the only thing in common between the two places is that the people live by labor. ”
"Speaking of which, this is still annexation!" Okawa Zhou Ming shook his head again and again.
Ikki Kita was able to understand Shuaki Okawa's thoughts, and he said loudly: "As a federation of countries, China and Japan will fully realize the free flow of people and fully realize economic integration. The technology, raw materials, and markets that Japan needs can all be obtained from China. Dachuan-kun, what is the biggest problem that China's 600 million people are encountering now? Precisely not a surplus of labor. As far as I've learned, there is a shortage of labor all over China. ”
There will be a shortage of labor in China with a population of 600 million, Dachuan Zhou Ming frowned suspiciously, "Beijun, don't be joking. ”
"I'm not kidding!" "There is a shortage of labor everywhere in China, and China is now overhauling railways to connect cities. Is it too much to build 10,000 kilometers of railways a year? However, if China builds 10,000 kilometers of railways every year, it will take 20 years to complete 200,000 kilometers of railways. That's just catching up with the level of the United States. It's not just people laying the tracks, the trains running on the tracks, the wagons, the management, the maintenance of the rails, and the supplies transported on the rails. It all takes people to run it. In the vast countryside, China has built reservoirs, leveled land, and planted trees. There is a group of decaying people in China who have spared no effort to criticize the economic policies of the People's Party. At present, there is a shortage of labor force in all parts of China, and as long as there is labor, there are opportunities to make money. ”
Originally, Japan still collected a lot of intelligence on China, but in the last few years, Sino-Japanese relations have been tense, and the work of intelligence gathering has lagged behind considerably. Okawa Shuming did not have such first-hand information as Kita Yihui, and after listening to the changes in China, he would be suspicious, and he did not know whether to believe Kita Yihui's words or not.
"The state is an instrument of class rule, and the ideals of the Meiji Restoration have been completely destroyed, and the present Japan is only a tool used by the gatekeepers to extract wealth, not a country in which Japanese workers live. Even if Japan does not merge with China, I will never accept that Japan will become the hell on earth that it is now. Kita Ikki impassionedly expounded his point of view, China and Japan alliance, after the merger of the two navies, will be the first navy in the entire western Pacific, and the overall scale can even be equal to the tonnage and capital ships of the British and American navies. China has the world's largest army and has established a peaceful stance with Russia to ensure stability in the north. All that remains is to try to liberate the whole of Asia and build a world island of working people together with the Soviet Union. Liberate the world in the distant future.
Okawa Shuming can also be regarded as a so-called "radical reformer", but Kita Yihui is obviously looking for the wrong comrade. Okawa Zhouming listened more and asked less questions after that. Most of the questions were about Kita's views on the Japanese government.
The two talked about breaking up late at night. Okawa Shumei ran to find Okamura Ninji Nakasa of the War Department early the next morning and talked to him about Kita Kazuki's "ideological problems."
Because of the rise of the People's Party and the successive mistakes in various judgments, the Chinese generals in the old Japanese army were no longer taken seriously. Since Okamura Ninji escaped from the northeast, his views on China are very different from those of the War Department, but he has always been able to make correct predictions, and Okamura Ninji is now a well-known "China expert" in the War Department. When Kita Ikki, a well-known anti-establishment element, returned from China, the Japanese War Ministry sent Okamura Ninji to take charge of surveillance.
After listening to Okawa Shuming's revelation, Okamura Ninji asked slowly: "Is Kita Kazuki just trying to overthrow the Japanese government?" ”
Okawa Shuming was a little puzzled why such a big thing as overthrowing the Japanese government turned out to be "just" in Okamura Ninji's mouth. He said decisively: "Bei Yihui really wants to overthrow the current government!" ”
Okamura Ninji still said in a slow tone: "If Kita Yihui says anything to Okawa-kun in the future, I hope Okawa-kun can report it in time." ”
It is extremely normal for the War Department not to treat the government, but Okamura Ningji's attitude has reached such a point of ignorance, which cannot but surprise Okawa Shumei, but Okawa Shuming has already played the role of an informant, and it is impossible for him to accuse Okamura Ningji Nakasa of being disrespectful to the government with any righteous and stern attitude, and with great incomprehension, Okawa Shumei resigned.
Kita Yihui didn't know what Okawa Zhouming did, and after getting up early in the morning, Kita Yihui changed into a kimono and went out with a shoulder bag. From the time he returned to Japan, being stalked was something that Kita Ikki could fully imagine. He walked down the street as if he hadn't seen anyone following him.
Gramophones were produced in Japan as early as 1910, and many recording companies were established. Many of the more upscale shops on the street have gramophones in them, and they often play records to attract customers. Instead of going to Ginza, Kita Ikki went to a store in an area with low consumption. After entering the store, Kita Yihui gave the store owner a dime, but instead of buying anything, he asked the store owner to help "test the record". The proprietor, of course, was quite satisfied with the sale, and after spinning the record, he put the stylus on the record. In the faint sound of electricity, a deep male voice came out of the speaker.
The record plays a song, only listening to the tune and singing: "Tears and tears are sung, and the witch mountain is a mixed ,......."
This is the only old Japanese song that Chen Ke can remember the lyrics, firstly, because the lyrics are full of allusions quoting China, and secondly, because Chen Ke happened to discuss the 226 Mutiny with the people on the forum before crossing over. Similar to ordinary travelers, Chen Ke was full of thoughts of destroying Japan and slaughtering the United States at the beginning, and in order to avoid his inevitable forgetfulness in the future, this original Japanese rebellion song was recorded by Chen Ke.
At that time, it was not written completely, and it was supplemented and revised by Japanese comrades. With a simple tune, it is simple and clear, and the atmosphere is tragic. Another Japanese song recorded by Chen Ke is the original version of "Senbon Sakura". These records were later left in Chen Ke's database, but I didn't expect these preparations to come in handy more than ten years later. Before Kita Kazuki was a revolutionary, before returning to Japan, the People's Party poured a record for Kita Kazuki to bring back to Japan.
Of course, the song has also been changed. 1923 was not the Showa era, and Taisho was still in power. So "Showa Restoration Song" became "Taisho Restoration Song". The difference of a few notes does not affect the integrity of the song.
"やめよ離騒の一tragedy,��めよ離騒の一tragedy,悄めよ離騒の一tragedy,悄めよややよりぬ,われらが剣今こそは,Kuoqingの血に躍るかな." Coming out of the phonograph's loudspeaker, many people on the street had already noticed the song and began to stop and listen.
Kita Ikki liked this song very much, and the author of this song in history was himself a follower of Kita Ikki's thoughts. On the contrary, the latter song "Thousand Sakura" does not please Kita Yihui, except that the song is too Westernized, and the text is too sarcastic. There are also some words that I don't understand. For example, that ICBM and the light gun. It's just that the professional rebellion song itself is not so easy to write, and Kita Yihui can only be simplified because of ugliness.
The two guys outside were obviously soldiers, and they stood outside the store with gloomy expressions and stared at Kita Yihui. Kita wanted to buy a pack of cigarettes, but found that the price of cigarettes was at least four times more expensive than in China, and after getting used to Chinese prices, Kita felt very uncomfortable no matter how he looked at the prices in Japan.
The song didn't last long, and Kita played it three times in a row before he took the record and left the store. While walking around the streets of Japan, he investigated and found a shop to play the tunes several times every once in a while. In the afternoon, the two followers finally couldn't bear it anymore, and they waited for Bei Yihui to play the record again, and then directly stopped Bei Yihui on the street.
"Mr. North, what exactly do you want to do?" The two soldiers were not very old, and one of them looked at the twenty-four or five-year-old and asked politely.
"I want to get people's attention." Kita Ikki replied very simply.
The young spy was stunned, and the spy, who was almost thirty years old, took over and asked, "And then?" ”
"Then, of course, there is propaganda to save Japan." Kita doesn't hide his point of view at all. After most of the day's investigation, Kita Ikki came into contact with more about the specific situation in Japan, and the Japanese economic situation was worse than Kita Ikki thought.
"Are you trying to incite a riot?" The older spy sneered.
Faced with such an accusation, Kita Yihui smiled, "Who is inciting the riots?" If the situation in Japan is good and everyone lives without worry, what can I do alone to incite a riot? Aren't the people who really instigated the riots the same people who were in charge of Japanese politics? ”
The older spy's face became even more grim, and the younger one was stunned at first, and then at a loss.
"If you two don't have anything else to do, I'll go shopping." Kita Yihui said.
After a day of tossing, Kita Ikki returned to the hotel in the evening. The room was on the second floor, and Kita Yihui saw through the window that the two spies downstairs were guarding first, and after a while, the older spies left first. And the young spy looked up at the room where Kita Yihui was from time to time.
Kita Ikki didn't care about this, and the situation in Japan was much worse than imagined. He sorted and listed the data he copied during the day, and put the data into the price index equation compiled by the People's Party, and he could probably calculate the comprehensive price level. This is one of the methods of the BJP in social management. Although the data is still very insufficient, it is better to have calculations than no calculations.
After writing for a while, there was a knock on the door outside, and Kita Yihui got up and opened the door, and it turned out to be the young spy outside the door, with a cramped expression on his face. Kita Ikki let him into the house, and the young spy said, "Mr. Kita, I wonder what you think about the future of Japan today?" ”
"Japan's economy is getting worse and worse." Kita replied. While inviting the young spy to sit down, Kita Yihui took out the data that had been listed. Before World War I, Kita Ikki still remembered Japanese data, and if you put consumer goods and wages at 100 per cent, according to incomplete data from Kita Ikki's survey, prices in Tokyo had risen to more than 300, while wages were only 190.
"What does that mean?" The young spy couldn't read the data sheet at all, so he could only ask the results directly.
"This means that people's real incomes are not only not increasing, but decreasing." Kita Kazuki explained. Normally, the price index rises from 100 to 300, and the corresponding wage index also gets 300 to be considered flat. Those above 300 are those with an increase in real income, and those below 300 are those with a decrease in real income.
Even a relatively high-profile lackey such as a spy would not be able to receive such professional political training. Not to mention that it is impossible for a stalking spy to receive administrative training. If he hadn't been in China for so many years, he wouldn't have had such professional knowledge.
Listening to Bei Yihui talk about economic problems so seriously, although the spies were confused about the sampling calculation method, they were quite in agreement with the judgment of the results. He really understands why he is making more money, but he feels that his life is getting worse and worse. Because the price increase is never all at once, and each time the price is only a part of the goods. Everyone needs different goods, and it is simply impossible to notice the price of all goods. As a result, everyone's overall feeling about the price increase is the same, but the degree of impact of the price increase is different, and they cannot feel the details of the price increase.
After Kita Yihui's explanation, the young spies became more respectful of Kita Yihui's attitude. He nodded again and again, "Prices are getting more and more expensive, and life is indeed getting more and more difficult." ”
"Now more and more factories are open, which shows that the money is invested in production." Kita Kazuki continued to explain. Capital operation is to continuously expand the scale of production, even if there is no more specific data, Kita Ikki saw that there are more and more factories in Tokyo, indicating that funds are being invested in the production field at a great speed.
The spy has already admired Kita Ikki's knowledge and insight, Kita Ikki has been away from Japan for a long time, and the spy has been in Tokyo since graduating from the military academy, and he simply provided Kita Ikki with his own knowledge. Now that the spies have followed Kita's train of thought, the next thing is simple. Since Japan did not lend aggressively, the total amount of money was relatively stable. Since the capitalists are frantically squeezing the wages of the workers, they are investing their money in expanding the scale of production. Then the workers have no money in their hands and their purchasing power is insufficient, and the expanded scale of production produces more commodities, and the commodities cannot be sold, and the operation will naturally be greatly affected.
There is no profit on capital, and the direct result of this is the underoperation of factories. The lack of factory operations has affected the price of industrial products for industrial use to plummet.
The young spy had to ask almost all of Kita's nouns to make sure he understood what Kita said. However, he had to put more effort into listening and trying to understand Kita's interpretation of the concepts of industrial production and consumption. When he finally barely understood these facts, the spy did not have a look of sudden realization, but his expression was full of doubt.
Kita Ikki can understand this kind of doubt, and he also had such profound doubts when he was studying sociology in the People's Party base area. So Bei Yihui patted the young spy on the shoulder, "If you can't understand the concept of capital, it will naturally be difficult to understand what I said." If you're interested, you can ask your younger friends to discuss these things with me when you have time. I believe this knowledge will be helpful to everyone. ”