Chapter 748**

The natural disaster is not over yet, and then a terrible one strikes!

In the face of an unprecedented earthquake, the Japanese government was caught off guard.

At this time, the Japanese economy was in a downturn. In the short 15 years that the Taisho "Emperor" was in power, there were as many as 10 cabinet changes in Japan, almost once a year.

When the earthquake struck, Japan was in the midst of a transition between the old and new cabinets, and uprisings were raging in various parts of Japan. Prime Minister-designate Gonbei Yamamoto has not yet confirmed the list of cabinet members, and former Prime Minister Yuzaburo Kato is still serving as caretaker cabinet prime minister.

As a result, the Japanese government decided to move the conflict from the earthquake to another place

Late that night, the smoking ruins from Tokyo to Yokohama were filled with theories such as "the Koreans rioted and set fires everywhere," "The fires were set by the socialists and the Koreans," and "They poisoned wells, robbed, raped, and committed all kinds of evil."

Overnight, the "abdication of the emperor" and the call for accountability to the government subsided.

In the streets and alleys, countless young people and veterans have organized self-police regiments. They set up checkpoints to closely check passers-by. Armed with broadswords, bamboo spears and clubs.

The Chinese in Japan have also been greatly impacted.

Huang Zilian, a native of Zhejiang, was nervously huddled in the Hayashi Heji Inn in Oshima Town, Koto District. With him, there are a total of 174 Zhejiang villagers, all of whom are from Wenzhou and Chuzhou in southern Zhejiang. Huang Zilian's hometown is Kengyuan Village, Yongjia County.

Aftershocks still occur from time to time, and the earth still trembles.

At a little after o'clock in the evening, the tranquility of the Hayashi Inn was shattered by the swarming Japanese. Hundreds of members of the Japanese "Youth Self-Police Corps," policemen, and soldiers stormed the small inn and demanded that the Chinese get up immediately and send them home.

Huang Zilian was kicked out of the inn, and the Japanese led them to meet in the open space outside the store.

Suddenly, the Japanese shouted: "Earthquake! Lie down!"

174 Chinese obediently lay on the trembling earth. The Japanese swarmed up, axes, slashes, swords, and hooks, and the miserable howls of the Chinese resounded in the sky, echoing the rumbling of the earth.

Huang Zilian passed out, and a large hole was opened in his head and behind his right ear. Companions struggled and writhed before dying, and some climbed on top of him. Under the cover of these corpses, he became the only survivor of the 174 people.

When her life was hanging by a thread, Huang Zilian saw a Japanese policeman walking by and shouted for help. The police rescued him and handed him over to the Japanese martial law troops. &*．． The Japanese army treated Huang Zilian as if it were a prisoner of war, and imprisoned Huang Zilian in the Xi Shino concentration camp in Shimochiba. There, quite a few surviving Chinese have gathered.

After Huang Zilian was imprisoned in the Xi Zhiye concentration camp, he learned that tragic stories like his still happened to many compatriots.

Ouhai Pan Ruifa recalled: "The three of us took the cable car, arrived at Sanhe Island Station, and wanted to get off, but as soon as one person in front of us came, he was hooked to death by the Japanese with an iron hook tied on a bamboo pole, so scared that the two of us did not dare to get off the car." ”

Ouhai Chen Chongfan recalled: "I lived in Hachome, Oshima Town, went out on the day of the earthquake, and came back a few days later, and the people who lived with me died. Six of our people were killed by the Japanese. My cousin Chen Yinshou was arrested on the road and later locked up in Chiba Prefecture for a month before being released. ”

Qingtian Zhu Mukun said: "I saw from a distance that the Japanese were carrying things to beat people, and they chased and beat Koreans and Chinese with sticks, large knives, guns, and long iron hooks, and some of them were pulled out and killed when they hid under the bed, and even killed when they saw that the back of their heads was flat." ”

In fact, this is the third massacre in the history of the Chinese since the Spanish massacre in the Philippines in 1603 and the Dutch in Indonesia in 1704. …,

Later statistics showed that a total of 716 Chinese were killed in the earthquake in Japan, of which 622 died on the spot, 11 were missing, and 83 were injured. Among the victims, a total of 658 people from Wenzhou and Chuzhou in Zhejiang Province, 605 were killed and 53 were injured. In addition, there are 42 Chinese workers from Wen, although there are witnesses from the same company, but because their names are unknown, they are not counted. A total of 700 Chinese workers were killed in Zhejiang, of which 63 were killed and 61 were injured.

The news spread back to Wenzhou and Chuzhou, from Tongqu Avenue to the countryside village, crying almost everywhere!

After Huang Zilian was knocked unconscious, the Japanese took 30 yuan from him, and almost all the Chinese victims were robbed of their belongings, and their bodies were either thrown into rivers or set on fire.

At that time, there were rumors in Tokyo and nearby counties that North Koreans had poisoned the North Koreans. So with all the strength of the military police, the Youth League, the citizens, and the villagers, they killed all the people, young and old, men and women. The most terrible people are the Koreans and the Chinese people, and they are often mentioned together. As a result, the Chinese suffered a monstrous calamity, deliberately killed and humiliated, innumerable, and the swords and sticks were exchanged for a while, and they were not treated as human beings

Zhejiang native Han Chaochu (Kobe High School of Commerce), Shen Yuwan (Gao Shi), Cai Jingde (Gao Gong), and Chen Mourning have proved that they are Chinese in many ways, and they are inevitably beaten several times, and claim that the people of Zhina should also be beaten"

"Jiang Jianwu, a native of Jiangsu, and six other people avoided the Omori Coast, Tokyo, Yokohama, and rented a Japanese house. After a few pleas, he was spared death."

"At that time, people were sad and angry, and most of them had lost their humanity, were cruel and poisonous, and trembled when they heard it. And because China excludes Japan, every time you meet Chinese, you are always susceptible to emotional impulses, and you are happy. Moreover, this is a good opportunity to sweep away Chinese laborers. ”

Even worse than the Chinese are the North Koreans.

The Holocaust was meant to be targeted.

The day after the earthquake, martial law was declared nationwide, and the task of martial law in the affected areas was actually undertaken by local "youth vigilantes" at the beginning.

On the same day, it was rumored in the disaster area that North Koreans took advantage of the chaos to set fires and poisoned wells. Thus, under the secret planning of the government, a plan for a massacre against North Koreans was introduced.

Beginning on the afternoon of 2 July, with the cooperation of the military and police, the "Youth Self-Police Regiment" carried out extremely cold-blooded and brutal massacres in areas inhabited by North Koreans, using a large number of cold weapons, and almost all of the dead had complete bodies, and the death toll was about 6,000 to 10,000.

In just a few days, thousands of North Koreans were killed. Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs Police and Security Bureau later announced that a total of 231 Koreans, three Chinese and five Japanese had been executed for taking advantage of the fire and robbery, and that "most of their own citizens were killed by mistake."

However, not only are the facts of the crimes purely fabricated, but the number of victims of Korean nationality, Chinese nationality, and Japanese nationality has been greatly reduced.

So, how did all this happen? Was it just a speculative handiwork by Hirohito? Why were the Japanese so indifferent when the catastrophe came? Behind it, what kind of spiritual code does it contain for this nation?

It all dates back to May 22, 103.

On that day, next to the Huayan Waterfall in Nikko, an 18-year-old college student, Fujimura, committed suicide after cutting off a piece of bark from a tree and writing "The Feeling of the Rock Head". In this suicide note, which later became a sensation, Fujimura Cao repeatedly asked about the meaning of life. He also wrote his own answer: "'Unsolvable'." ”

He said, "I am so angry with this hatred that I will die at all."

Soon, the word "boredom" became the most popular word among Japanese college students. At the same time as "boredom", it is "success". If it is said that since the Meiji Restoration, tens of millions of Japanese people have been prostrate under this goal in pursuit of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe" and enriching the country and strengthening the army, thus creating the "Meiji Spirit", then from here, this spirit has not only retreated to the corner of the Japanese nation's heart, but has gradually grown in the midst of the vast and constantly changing market, and it is precisely its opposite. …,

Unlike their parents, the "success" pursued by the new generation of young people has nothing to do with the country.

Almost as soon as the Russo-Japanese War ended, a new Japanese consciousness grew among millions of young people: that the status of a great power had been achieved, and that "it was time to pursue personal goals that had nothing to do with national goals."

To this end, they worked hard, got into college, and gradually embraced liberal ideas; Immediately, they entered the company, became the middle class, and began to emulate the European and American way of life.

However, this group of people is so isolated: there are too few young people who have become "new citizens" and receive a decent salary; For those young people who were born in the countryside or from poor families, the only way to change their fate is still to join the army!

In other words, they are not only in opposition to their parents and the "Meiji spirit" in terms of their identity, but also to their peers, especially young soldiers. In one generation, Japan was divided into two parts: Western, urban, middle-class, and representative politics, and the Oriental, commune, destitute peasants, and emperors.

Compared with the young soldiers, they are superior, knowledgeable, and favored by society. With them as carriers, modern political parties have set off wave after wave of constitutional movements. The so-called "Taisho Democratic Period" is, to a large extent, a product of them. However, this representative system is so ridiculous and so glamorous, as is their relationship with Japanese society: from the Hara Kei Cabinet to the Takahashi Cabinet to the Kato Cabinet, Japan's party politics has always been shrouded in the shadow of ancient traditions; It can almost be said that it is nothing more than a gift from the old people, especially the elders of Xiyuan Temple. In the case of several prime ministers, most of them came from military backgrounds, and only joined the political friends or constitutional councils when they needed the support of political parties.

All of this makes young people extremely "bored" and always bored. In the midst of their annoyance, a confrontational and disintegrated Japan emerged: the "Meiji spirit" of the old "Meiji spirit" of reverence and rebellion, retro and restoration, seclusion and founding, preservation of the quintessence of the country or civilization and enlightenment, and even representative system or militarization, war or peace, has died, and a new Taisho faith has not yet been born. This fragmented and fragmented world of ideas is the source of the expression of the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Just as 123 years was the peak of Japan's party politics and its end, 123 years have seen Japan stand at the crack of the times.

And at this time, Wang Hengyue, the president of the Republic of China, also decided to burn another "fire" to Japan!