In recent years, the Japanese have swelled so much and their economy has been getting better and better, not only has their own industrial development been very fast, but they have also taken advantage of the opportunity of the severance of economic exchanges between China and the United States to import a lot of technology from the United States, such as automobiles and petrochemicals, and all technologies that the Americans have an advantage in exporting to China but cannot export due to political reasons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past few years, Japan has cooperated with GM to establish an automobile factory in Japan, Japan's Mitsubishi chaebol holding, and Ford Motor Co., Ltd. established a joint venture company, Mitsui zaibatsu holding, which has had a huge impact on China's auto industry since last year's production; The petrochemical plant that is a joint venture with Rockefeller imports petrochemical products produced by American oil, including gasoline and diesel, has had an impact on the Chinese market.

The establishment of the automobile industry led to a set of machining technology, and the profits of petrochemical companies were extremely lucrative, so Japan's economic situation was very good, and the Kanto Economic Belt centered on Tokyo was quite rudimentary, and the industrialization rate was much stronger than they should have been.

After becoming economically strong, the ambitions of the Japanese began to swell, and the Japanese fascists were very active, actively encouraging the government to break away from Chinese control, saying that Japan should have its own independent political and foreign policy, rather than obeying China like a vassal state.

The earthquake hit the Kanto region of Japan, which happened to be the fastest growing, most urbanized, and industrialized economic belt.

Anyway, the joint venture factories of Ford and GM were all destroyed by this earthquake, not that the factories they built were not strong, but the steel-concrete buildings of this era could not withstand such a major earthquake of magnitude 8 or more, and the seismic effect of high-rise buildings was not even as good as those shacks.

In the earthquake, many of the high-rise buildings in the Tokyo area were destroyed by the earthquake, and many of the old buildings were reduced to ruins in the earthquake, and it is initially estimated that more than 10% of Japan's fixed assets were destroyed by nature in the earthquake, and the loss of intangible assets is even more difficult to estimate.

After Yang Chao returned to China, it was because Pan Xun asked him to return to China, and he hoped that Yang Chao would come forward to organize an international rescue for Japan on behalf of China.

Pan Xun's purpose is very simple, that is, to take this opportunity to consolidate China's dominance in East Asia, to set an example for other countries, and to show countries like North Korea, the Ryukyus, and Siam that China will not be able to die without help, and this is the best opportunity to gain international image scores.

The reason why Yang Chao was chosen is because Yang Chao's international prestige is higher than that of other people in China, and Yang Chao can get more points when he comes forward, and it seems that he does not pay enough attention to changing people.

Another reason why Pan Xun chose Yang Chao is that he is now entangled in all kinds of affairs and has no time to take care of Japanese affairs, because he is doing a political project with great influence - moving the capital!

Yang Chao was naturally willing to accept it, and immediately telegraphed the world to say that he must help Japan, and China would never see the people of any friendly country struggling in dire straits.

After returning to Beijing, Yang Chao immediately announced that he would set up a rescue team, and on behalf of the Chinese government, he promised to provide 100 million taels of cement, steel and other building materials to aid Japan.

North Korea immediately announced that it would provide Japan with 10 million taels of timber to help Japan rebuild its homeland, and the Ryukyus announced that it would assist 100,000-ton ships to help transport supplies.

Because of the feud between the Russian Empire and Japan, the government had no way to come to the rescue, but the Tsaress herself announced that she would donate 1 million gold dollars of personal property to help Japan tide over the difficulties.

In the face of a group of friends who are showing their international friendship, what can the Japanese say other than to express their gratitude.

Hirohito is sluggish, he has been very deferential in the past few years, but he is not convinced in his heart, he has always motivated himself with lying on his salary and tasting courage, on the surface he is submissive, and he does not resist the Chinese garrison, but tries his best to serve, and even the comfort station with Japanese characteristics is built with high standards for those big soldiers.

But behind the scenes, Japan's 100,000 troops are well-equipped and well-trained, and they must be familiar with all kinds of weapons and equipment, and they are completely trained as officers, just waiting for the opportunity to stand up again, but this time the earthquake destroyed everything.

All countries announced that they would give money and supplies, and Westerners expressed their concern to some extent and donated some things, but this time the loss could not be compensated for by material things, and the blow to the hearts of the Japanese was too great.

Before the earthquake, the national mood in Japan was high, but after the earthquake struck, it completely changed, became sunk, became negative, and public opinion in the apocalypse soared, and there were countless rumors that Japan would be silent.

Hirohito, who had been sluggish for the whole day, regained his spirits, and his first decree was to immediately mobilize troops to impose martial law on Tokyo, and he now had to consider not allowing careerists to take the opportunity to overthrow the current government, and then personally asked Ma Tengfei, the new commander-in-chief of the Chinese garrison in Japan, to help maintain order.

The entire Kanto region is in chaos, completely out of control, and the resentment in the hearts of more than 2 million people after being left homeless is like an active volcano on the verge of eruption, and a single spark can trigger a rebellion.

Under the rapid development of the economy, there is an increasingly unbalanced society, the chaebols are swelling day by day, and it is difficult to guarantee three meals a day for the poor, and many peasants have to pay taxes and owe debts to the banks in order to pay taxes.

The ever-expanding scale of the industrial zone is also based on the expansion of the wealth accumulated by the workers who are barely enough to survive on low wages and constantly exporting goods to China.

The social imbalance made fascist societies such as Kita Kazuki and Okawa Shuaki very popular, including in the military, and it would be difficult for Hirohito to do so if those low-level officers took the opportunity to express their dissatisfaction and admonish them by force.

After recovering his spirits, Hirohito consulted with his ministers and decided that the most important thing was to restore the confidence of the common people, that their homes could be rebuilt, and that factories could be reopened, but that the problem of confidence would be difficult to solve.

It not only made a concrete announcement of the large donations made by various countries to Japan, but also focused on publicizing the news that the Chinese government had appointed their former president to represent China to form a plenipotentiary representative of the Committee for the Rescue of Japan, and that they would soon arrive in Japan to participate in the disaster relief.

Yang Chao's reputation has a large number of fans in countries like Germany with a tradition of power, and in a country like Japan, which worships the strong more deeply, not to mention, it is completely at the level of a national idol, and Yang Chao's prestige is worth a billion funds.

Yang Chao set up a crack team in Beijing and mobilized more than 1,000 people from the railway company and even the army, all of whom were the organizers who had participated in the disaster relief in Jiangnan in those years, including engineers and station masters of the railway company, logistics personnel and officers in the army, and rushed to Japan as soon as the personnel arrived.

Having an emergency meeting with Hirohito, Hirohito seemed much more decadent than in the past, and the blow was too great, and a large number of new industrial zones were destroyed as a whole, and the destroyed places were the most elite areas in Japan, and even his imperial palace was not badly damaged.

It's just that the specific losses can't be counted yet.

After Yang Chao communicated with Hirohito, he immediately decided to go to various places with Hirohito and began to appear frequently.

They will visit the disaster relief workers in various disaster areas and visit the injured in the earthquake, which is a political show.

In ten days, after reaping the cheap gratitude of countless ordinary Japanese people with Hirohito, Yang Chao's team and the Japanese team finally counted the economic losses of the Japanese, totaling more than 5 billion, which was twice as high as the original history, because Japan at this time was more industrially powerful than the original history.

What is the concept of 5 billion, France carried out the post-war reconstruction of the ten northern provinces, and the final capital used was 4 billion US dollars, it is no exaggeration to say that the earthquake in Japan was greater than the loss of France, which suffered the most damage in China in the world war.

The difference is that the French are very confident in their national spirit after winning the war, while the Japanese are fighting against natural disasters, and it is really difficult for the superstitious Japanese to recover their spirits.

The teams of the two countries have developed a detailed disaster relief plan, which will procure 1 million tents to provide shelter for the homeless victims first, and then have a fixed place to live, so as to facilitate the distribution of food and other supplies.

At the same time, the reconstruction plan for the affected areas will be restarted as soon as possible, firstly, to restore economic order in the Kanto region of Japan as soon as possible, and secondly, to provide a job for the homeless and unemployed during the reconstruction process.

Yang Chao also suggested that the Japanese could take advantage of this opportunity to completely rearrange the backward Japanese urban pattern, invite experienced designers to design and construct as a whole, and complete the work in one battle.

Invitations were sent to Chinese and Western architecture firms to participate in Japan's urban design, and at least a dozen prefectures near Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa, Chiba, Shizuoka, and Yamanashi had to be demolished and rebuilt.

The problem is that reconstruction requires a large number of building materials, Japan was originally a big cement country, which was originally a huge market, but the layout of Japan's cement industry is near Tokyo, one-third is in the Tokyo area, Saitama Prefecture is also a cement industry center, Mitsui, Mitsubishi companies have built companies here, and a large number of family businesses are engaged in the cement industry, an earthquake is all destroyed, Japan needs to import.

"The plan is out?"

A month later, the efficient team had calculated the funds needed for Japan's reconstruction.

"$3 billion!"

It would cost $3 billion to rebuild the building alone.

"How are the Japanese going to raise money?"

Yang Chao asked.

"They have 1 billion in foreign exchange reserves, and they intend to raise 1 billion in the domestic market and 1 billion in the international market."

In the international market, it is equivalent to financing in Shanghai.

The Japanese have worked hard to save up 1 billion foreign exchange reserves over the years, and this time the earthquake can be regarded as taking out all of them, and once they returned to the pre-liberation period. (To be continued.) )