77 The Yellow Finch That Flew Away (10)
"Comrade Kita Kazuki's suggestion that we send troops to Kyushu in an emergency to help establish a Japanese republic is not too radical? Will there be resistance from the local Japanese people? Even a bold comrade like Zhang Yu felt that this matter was unreliable.
Kita Ikki's plan was to first launch a series of demands for tax cuts throughout Japan, and try to prevent Japan from embarking on a militaristic path. This can be regarded as grasping the key point, and if Japan wants to follow the militarist line, it must raise taxes. There is no need to even follow militarism, just restoring the current number and equipment of the Japanese army to the pre-Taiwan campaign will require a large tax increase. So Kita Ikki's plan was supported by Takahashi Isaki.
In the extension of this plan, if the final effort fails and a large-scale revolt in Japan occurs, Kita Kazuki suggested that the People's Party take advantage of this turbulent period to enter Kyushu and enforce policies in Kyushu, including land reform, and establish a revolutionary regime, and the Japanese comrades would do their best to help.
This idea is theoretically correct, and there is indeed no way to continue the revolution without proving that the Japanese people were able to live well under the new system after the old feudal system was really eradicated. Under the system of the industrialized countries, the probability of direct success of a part of the peasants rising up in rebellion is equal to zero. Civil war may lead to the bankruptcy of the governments of the industrialized countries, but this does not mean that the revolution has succeeded.
Even a well-informed guy like Chen Ke has only seen the United States force Japan to implement political changes from the outside after it has beaten Japan to the point of exhaustion. As for the revolution in Japan...... I really haven't seen it. Chen Ke has only seen Japan's mad slaughter of its own socialists.
The so-called "great man" is a leader who can at least point out a feasible path that has never been seen in history, and even a guy like Chen Ke, who is focused on plagiarizing correct answers, can now pretend to be a leader. Beating Japan hard is not a new road for Chen Ke, but it is an unprecedented road to truly promote the Japanese revolution and completely eradicate Japan's feudal system.
"Shall we send someone to Japan to investigate?" Chen Tianhua gave such a suggestion. He was the only member of the Politburo Standing Committee who had been to Japan, and it was 30 years ago that he almost married a Japanese daughter-in-law. As the saying goes, 30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river, what the specific situation of Japan is now is also a matter of ambiguity for the People's Party. In particular, the attitude of the Japanese people toward the revolution is even more of a problem.
"There is no industrial country that does not engage in nationalism, and as soon as this nationalism is engaged, it will be a." Zhang Yu is quite aware of the general trend in the world now.
Nationalism, or ultra-nationalism, nominally stinks on the streets, and that was after World War II. Without the farce of the mustaches and Aryans, nationalism would not have been seen as politically incorrect in some way. Before World War II, nationalism was one of the world's mainstream political correctness.
For example, the contradiction between China and Japan, for the general public in Japan and even the general public in China, there is no need to analyze it with difficulty, and a sentence of "he is Chinese" or "he is Japanese" can give the public a sufficient explanation. This is the characteristic of nationalism. Rulers want to use this very easy tool to divert domestic contradictions.
Rather than China spending great efforts to gradually liberate Japan, it is better for China to conquer Japan first and then completely transform Japan. This increases efficiency and reduces costs.
"Take one step at a time, let Japan make trouble on its own first." Chen Ke put forward his own opinion, everyone wants to pursue the most trouble-free way, "We the People's Party have an obligation to China's domestic affairs, but we have no obligation to solve Japan's affairs. If the precious national strength is used now, it will be able to produce several times more than ten times the output in a few years. At that time, it was also more efficient to solve Japan. ”
This is one of the clichés, and China's investment in infrastructure, education, and scientific research is not so large that the central government is grinning. Before the Great Depression, China was able to survive on foreign trade. Importing a large amount of raw materials can activate production and reduce domestic costs. Now that the Great Depression has occurred, imports and exports under the trade balance have shown a weak posture. In addition, many of the large-scale investment projects approved by Chen Ke personally belong to cross-era technology, and it will take some time to see the benefits.
"Then how do you answer Comrade Bei Yihui's request?" In fact, Chen Tianhua still hopes to see the Japanese people's revolution with his own eyes.
"Tell him that the Chinese revolution and the Japanese revolution cannot be simple imitations. The situation in the two countries is different, and the roads are certainly different. In addition, Comrade Kita Kazuki would like to draw attention to the very possibility of a counterattack in Japan against Takahashi Isei's current policy. Chen Ke gave an answer.
Kita was not dissatisfied with the implicit rejection of the People's Party, and he knew that he also felt the weakness of the revolutionary forces. The People's Party likes to say that the Chinese people are great, because politically and culturally, China has a thousand-year-old imperial examination system, and social mobility is not bad. Compared with Japan's hierarchical system, the Chinese who dare to sing "The emperor takes turns to come to my house next year" in the play do not have so much spiritual baggage.
As for Takahashi Shiqing's policy being counterattacked, it is not unusual.
Japanese Prime Minister Takahashi is a clear taker of inflationary economics that cannot be practiced indefinitely, and anyone with a discerning eye knows that such an approach will invite uncontrollable hyperinflation. In the exchange between Kita Kazuki and Takahashi Shiqing, Takahashi Shiqing was of course well aware of this, and according to Takahashi Shiqing's plan, he was ready to suddenly implement the policy of "drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle" when the Japanese economy was "thriving", that is, opposing "quantitative easing".
The main means of this is a major reduction in public spending, including military spending. Public finances changed course, and the Japanese political situation at that time had to be approved by various ministries and councils, and Takahashi had successfully persuaded the Ministry of the Interior, Commerce, and Agriculture, so Takahashi's final budget was called the "Cooperation Budget".
The only thing that was difficult to convince was a lawsuit between the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Commerce, and during the Great Depression, Takahashi introduced ammonia technology from the United States at great expense. The technology is very good, but there is a problem of high cost in the early stage of the process of transforming technology into a practical industry. Fortunately, Takahashi has also obtained the "Chinese alkali method", and finally no longer relies on importing cheap soda ash from China. Significant savings in external expenditures.
However, the upfront cost of synthetic ammonia fertilizer is very high, and the Japanese people do not know about chemical fertilizers. If you want to sell at a price that is acceptable to the Japanese people, you have to reduce the price below the cost, and you have to sell at a loss. Japan's commercial sector is firmly opposed to using soda ash profits to subsidize the cost gap in the early stage of the implementation of synthetic ammonia fertilizers.
In this matter, Kita Yihui has made great efforts. He used all his connections, especially his students from the big chaebol to thread the needle, met countless people, and said countless truths and pleads. Finally, the chaebols behind the bureaucracy relented a little and agreed to the specific implementation plan of the subsidy for three years. Then Kita Yihui took the lead in promoting chemical fertilizer in his own agricultural communes, and the fine dojo was made in the Japanese snail shell, and the results were really good. The bumper harvest of nearly 20% of the increase in grain production has triggered the enthusiasm for chemical fertilizers in the Kanto region and throughout Japan.
The chaebols also have plans to take a long line to catch big fish, and they have demanded from Takahashi that the fertilizer company should not be nationalized, and that the industry must be privatized in the future. The reason is that the state-owned enterprises are inefficient, and they are attacking Japanese state-owned enterprises with all their might. At this time, after several rounds of privatization in Japan, where are there state-owned enterprises in addition to the military-industrial complex? The chaebols have even turned up old accounts and cited the "backward practices" of state-owned enterprises in the middle of the Meiji Restoration decades ago as a reason for the privatization of fertilizer companies.
As a Japanese politician, Takahashi has long been aware of the virtues of these zaibatos, and he has adopted the word "procrastination" to try to perpetuate the problem in the future.
After seeing the situation, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture put forward a request to increase the amount of agricultural taxes when the initial application of chemical fertilizers in Japan was less than 10%. The reason is that chemical fertilizers can effectively increase production, which must be taxed.
Whether it was the privatization of fertilizer companies or the demand for tax increases in the agricultural sector, these proposals were quickly opposed by the military department. The military department was extremely unfavorable to the big chaebols, and they lobbied desperately in the Diet on the grounds of opposing the plutocracy's exploitation. But Kita Ichiki's people in the military department told him the inside story. The military ministry opposed the privatization of fertilizer companies and did not approve of tax increases, because they hoped that the military would control the production and distribution of fertilizers, and control the rural areas of Japan through the fertilizer distribution system.
In rural Japan, it has been said that you can eat white rice every day with chemical fertilizer. Eating white rice every day is one of the biggest appeals that the Navy uses to attract people to join the Navy. The unification faction hopes that after the chemical fertilizer is controlled, "those who follow the unification faction" will be able to eat white rice.
In addition to using public opinion, the military department also has its own sharp weapon in its hands, that is, the high-temperature and high-pressure steel of the reactor can only be produced by the arsenal that has mastered the technology of cannon steel. They used this as a means of coercion and resolutely refused to produce synthetic ammonia reactors. Let the synthetic ammonia industry, which could have expanded rapidly, come to an artificial halt.
Originally, it was a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, but various factions and interest groups used all kinds of high-sounding excuses to make this matter a miasma. On the contrary, Takahashi Isyoshi and Kita Yihui were abused and attacked countless times.
Takahashi is an old man who is 79 years old this year, and he has been through so many things, he has long felt that he is no longer stepping into the coffin on one leg, but has been lying in the coffin waiting for someone to put the lid on. He didn't care about the idea of insulting him at all.
Kita Yihui himself tried not to care, but people have some temperament. For the sake of the country and the people, he has become a traitor who "harms the public and fats the private interests" and "only thinks about making the commune under his name famous and getting a good harvest, completely ignoring the Japanese people". Kita Yihui couldn't hold back his anger.
After reading the People's Party's reminder that "someone wants to fight back against Takahashi's Seiki policy", Kita Ikki felt that the People's Party underestimated Japan too much. A comprehensive counterattack on Takahashi's policy has been going on and has never disappeared. Now it's just that someone stabbed Takahashi to death with a knife.
Of course, Kita Ikki didn't think about whether someone would really want to assassinate Takahashi Shiqing. However, after reflection, Kita Yihui felt that this possibility existed, but it was unlikely to become a reality. For now, Takahashi is the only one who can save the Japanese economy. Takahashi was the only politician in Kiyoya's chaotic political situation in Japan who could be recognized by various factions. Getting rid of Takahashi will not only fail to solve the problem, but will also lead Japan into a full-fledged political chaos. Now is far from the time to unload the mill and kill the donkey.
Of course, the Admiralty and the War Department are against the "cooperation budget" agreed upon by Takahashi in the cabinet to reduce military spending and the size of the armed forces, and will not cooperate. However, after the Admiralty and the War Department took out Takahashi Isei, they could only come to power to solve the problem on their own, and their economic capabilities were not at all enough to solve the difficult situation facing Japan. If they nurture a puppet to become prime minister, no matter which faction proposes a candidate, it is impossible to really sit in the position of prime minister. Kita believes that such a thing cannot happen now.
As for what will happen in a few years...... Takahashi is 79 years old, and he will be in his 80s in a few years. According to Japanese custom, Takahashi is a Qing in the countryside of the mountains of Japan, and the old guy of this age should have been sent to the mountains to "hide", that is to say, to be sent to the mountains to starve to death. Takahashi is a big question mark over whether Kiyoshi will survive until Japan's economy recovers. Assassinating such an old man who is really contributing to Japan is either a complete confusion or a loss of conscience.
It's just that reality is always more outrageous than the story, and Kita Ichiki burned the letter from the Chinese side, and when he went to Matsurumaru for dinner according to his custom, he saw a group of his students fighting as soon as he entered the backyard. It is also common for young people to fight, and in such an impetuous era, everyone has a point, and they can't convince the other side at all, and fights are even more common.
Kita Yihui shouted angrily, "Stop fighting!" Everyone immediately put away their fists and feet and stood honestly in place. Commanding the students to tidy up the overturned tables and chairs, and cleaning the floor, Kita Yihui asked, "What's the matter?" ”
The students from the gate valve immediately jumped out to accuse the students from ordinary backgrounds of malicious abuse, while the students from ordinary backgrounds immediately retorted, believing that the students from the gate valve always said good things about the gate valve. Kita Yihui knew that such things were inevitable, and he didn't ask everyone's reasoning. Instead, he asked, "How exactly did you fight this time?" ”
After a while, a stunned man from an ordinary background, Aoyama Momonosuke, replied: "Now that Japan has reached such a point, the traitors must all be eliminated in order to launch a revolution in Japan!" Takahashi is Kiyoshi and those people must die! ”
Kita Yihui felt a headache, he couldn't help but rub his temples, it seems that someone really wants to physically eliminate Takahashi is old man.