Since then, some 5 million impoverished Russian Jews have been imprisoned like cattle on the land, in addition to about 310,000 Jews living secretly outside the "fenced areas" and at risk of deportation if discovered. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, is closed to Jews, and the royal resort area of southern Crimea from Sevastopol to Feodosia is never allowed to Jews. Jews were restricted from traveling, were not allowed to own land, and were subject to double taxes. With the advent of the modern financial system in the 19th century, the traditional Jewish business activities of credit and money were also severely attacked, and many urban Jews were reduced to poverty.

As recently as 1871, there was a mass persecution of Jews in Odessa, southern Russia. Jews were beaten in the streets, Jewish shops looted, and Jewish property destroyed. This massive wave of anti-Semitic massacres brought great suffering and fear to the Jews of Russia and Eastern Europe, who were forced to embark on another wave of great migration.

In Western Europe, the persecution of Jews by the "civilized nations" had been extinguished by the Enlightenment and liberal movements, but when European nationalism reached its climax in the second half of the 19th century with the wars of the unification of Italy and Germany (the process of German unification was delayed because of Hayashi's connections, which was not a good thing for the Jews), and replaced religion as the main theme of European life, anti-Semitism began to re-emerge in a frightening way.

As a Jew, Nathan has an innate sensitivity to changes in the external environment, and now he has a premonition that another unprecedented disaster for the Jewish nation is about to begin.

"Did you foresee something? Forest? At this time, Nathan had regained his usual composure and asked Lin Yizhe, "Or did you learn something unknown?" ”

Listening to Nathan's inquiry, Lin Yizhe couldn't help but let out a sigh in his heart.

As a time-traveler who knows history well, he certainly knows what the future holds.

But how did he tell Nathan and his daughter that the Jews were about to face another catastrophe?

How did he tell them that just nine years later, in 1881, when Tsar Alexander II was assassinated on the streets of St. Petersburg, Jews became the prime suspect, and that the tyrannical regime of Alexander III used this as an excuse to encourage mobs to massacre Jews?

How did he tell them that Russian Interior Minister Ignatiev even openly declared that he would solve the Jewish question once and for all by exterminating a third of the Jews, expelling a third of the Jews from the country, and forcing the remaining third to convert! In the years that followed, anti-Semitic atrocities continued in Russia, culminating between 1903 and 1908, and spread to Eastern European countries such as Romania and Hungary!

Some historians have compared the anti-Jewish atrocities of Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century to the anti-Jewish atrocities in Spain in 1492 - because it was from then on that the Jews ceased to be concentrated in Russia and Eastern Europe, and were no longer confined to the continent, but began to spread in earnest and on a large scale throughout the world! From 1882 to 1917, almost 200,000 Russian Jews went to England and South Africa, more than 60,000 went to Palestine, and more than 2.7 million Russian Jews flew away and emigrated to the American continent across the Atlantic!

"Isn't the tragedy that happened in Odessa last year very revealing? You should already know the details. "Russia has already raised a butcher's knife against the Jewish people, and the tragedy in Odessa is just the beginning." ”

"I have a hunch of that too." Nathan sighed, "So, at this family meeting, I was strongly opposed to investing in Russia and opening up the East. ”

"Oh? Now among your family, someone is suggesting to develop in Russia? Lin Yizhe was shocked and immediately asked.

"Yes." Nathan had already regarded Lin Yizhe as his own at this time, and told him the main content of this family meeting without any worries, "You know, the Rothchild family has branches in various European countries, but there is not even an office in Russia. This time, a member of the family suggested negotiating with the Russians to set up an office in Russia to finance Russia's expansion to the East. ”

"The Russians are killing their compatriots, and they are proposing to finance the Russian government?" Lin Yizhe knew that this should be a rather helpless response from the Jewish "Red Shield" family to the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe, and couldn't help but sneer, "What kind of logic is this?" ”

"It sounds a bit incredible, but it's actually a helpless choice." Nathan smiled bitterly, "Their idea is to give the Russian government a huge amount of money in exchange for a guarantee that the Russian government will no longer persecute our people. ”

"It's a move to cut off the meat to feed the tigers, and it may be able to buy peace for the time being, but it's not a long-term solution." Lin Yizhe said, "There will always be a time when the meat will be eaten, and the tiger's desire to eat people cannot disappear because of a little bit of meat." ”

"I think the same as you." Nathan nodded, "So at this family meeting, I am categorically opposed to funding the Russians in any way. The meeting ended unhappily. ”

"We had hoped that liberators like Napoleon would liberate us, and Napoleon did abolish the segregation system and promised to return Jerusalem to the Jewish people, but he was ultimately unable to fulfill his promise because he failed to conquer Palestine." "And after the fall of Napoleon, there was a wave of restoration in Europe, and discrimination and persecution against our people began in different forms. Russia is one of the most vicious of our enemies. And now, we don't have a protector like Napoleon. ”

"I have always been skeptical of the search for a protector to liberate the Jewish people." Lin Yizhe shook his head and said, "I think that the Jewish people should rely on their own efforts to devote themselves to the struggle to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine and restore the Jewish state that was destroyed by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago." ”

Hearing Lin Yizhe's words, Nathan's father and daughter quickly exchanged glances.

"I am willing to help the Jewish people realize this dream and dedicate all my strength." Lin Yizhe continued. "If I could, I would teach my children and grandchildren to continue to give all their strength."

"I want to know, dear Lin, why did you go out of your way to help us like this?" Nathan asked.

"Because we have a common enemy." Lin Yizhe replied without hesitation, "For China, Russia is also the most vicious enemy. After a pause, Lin Yizhe continued: "Moreover, since you can realize my dream of becoming a strong country, I am naturally obliged to realize your dream of a homeland, this is a noble business, isn't it?" ”

"Yes, it's a noble business." Nathan looked straight into Lin Yizhe's eyes, "I have asked myself more than once, where is the way out for the Jewish people? How can anti-Semitism be completely and effectively eradicated? I've been plagued by these questions for years. Today, I finally understand that the problem facing the Jewish people is neither a social nor a religious problem, but a national problem. The fundamental salvation of the Jewish people is the establishment of a state of their own. ”

"It is sad to have a nation without a state, and I want you to understand that the Jewish nation will not be able to integrate into Christian society in the end, and that in Europe, the dream of the Jewish people being accepted by other peoples can never be realized, and the only way to change the tragic fate of the Jewish people is to build a state of their own." "This is the only way out for the Jewish people. ”

"But how can we build a state that truly belongs to the Jewish people?" Sara asked, with some eagerness, "You know, our attempts to return to Jerusalem have not stopped, but the gates there are still closed to us. ”

"Napoleon once said, 'A Jerusalem can be found on French soil.' Today, too, I want to say to you that you can find a Jerusalem in the land of the East. Lin Yizhe said.

"In the land of the East?" Nathan listened to Lin Yizhe's words and was shocked again.

"What we have to face up to is that it is not feasible to return to Jerusalem and establish a Jewish state now, but it is very feasible to acquire a piece of land in the East and establish a 'Jerusalem of the East.'" Lin Yizhe said.

"You mean, let's go back to Kaifeng?" Nathan thought of the Kaifeng Jewish handwritten scripture that Lin Yizhe had given him, and asked tentatively.

"I think your understanding is a little biased, today's Kaifeng is no longer the Kaifeng depicted on the "Qingming Riverside Map". Lin Yizhe smiled, "The location of the 'Jerusalem of the East' that I am referring to is Japan. ”

"Japan?" Nathan was even more surprised, apparently this time he couldn't keep up with Hayashi's leapfrog thinking.

"Your Excellency, you must be clear that for China, before it can start a war with Russia and defeat it, it must first ensure the harmlessness of Japan." Lin Yizhe said unhurriedly, word by word, "A Japan that is harmless to China does not need such a large area of land, and I can tell you frankly: although there are many ports along the coast of China, there are only a handful of good ports with superior conditions, and Japan's coastline is rich in such good ports, which is the cornerstone that China must have in order to accumulate combat strength against Russia, when the Great Emperor of China becomes the ruler of these ports and dependent lands, I think he would be more than happy to give a portion of this land as a reward for the generosity of the Jewish people you represent to the court, and this land is the 'Jerusalem of the East.'" ”