Chapter 444: Preparing for the Worst (Part II)

It was thanks to the countless Chinese dollars sent back by so many Japanese expatriates that the Japanese government was able to pay off the war reparations ahead of schedule and began to modernize the country at a faster rate than before the First Sino-Japanese War. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 However, the fact that so many young people have gone abroad has inevitably caused a lot of negative effects that can shake the foundation of Japan......

The most direct impact is naturally the rapid aging of Japan's domestic population structure, so that many jobs that were originally performed by young people can only be done by middle-aged and elderly people, but even if the Japanese endure hardships and stand hard work, age is not forgiving after all, and the exploitation of Japanese capitalists during the period of primitive accumulation is extremely cruel, resulting in a large number of middle-aged and elderly workers who are unbearable and generally become ill. According to Japanese government statistics, the average age of death in Japan in 1906 was more than five years lower than it was before the Sino-Japanese War.

Japan's population is now more than 12 million fewer than at the same time in history, and in addition to the impact of food shortages in the first few years after the First Sino-Japanese War, it also has a lot to do with the widespread premature death of people over the age of 40. It is precisely because of this factor that the aging of Japan's population structure was quickly stopped, and then there was a noticeable resurgence of the tide, and if you include Japan living in China, the overall age structure is even more frighteningly younger. Nowadays, even middle-income families in Japan are able to find less than 1 in 10 people over the age of 50, and even many poor places have revived the bad habit of sending the elderly who have lost their ability to work to the mountains to fend for themselves under the tremendous pressure of life......

Although it is said that "where there is oppression, there is resistance." But in the face of a massive exodus of young people, how can the revolution succeed, which can only rely on middle-aged and elderly people? You know, even Japan's army, which has now shrunk greatly, has begun to worry about not being able to recruit people as soldiers in recent years!

In addition, even after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese government still retained the world's best ability to suppress internal insurrection, and in the past ten years, there were more than 30,000 armed riots in Japan (not counting individual acts), and the total number of people involved was several million, the largest of which had tens of thousands of participants, but none of the uprisings could last more than a week. Of course, this is also because of the national character of fear of the strong and bullying formed in Japan since ancient times, so that most of the rioters did not dare to fight against those in power, but set the targets of violence on those weaker targets.

Population growth has not increased as the death rate has increased dramatically, but if there is one factor that has influenced Japan's population growth, it is actually to blame that too many young people have gone to China.

You must know that the vast majority of them came to China to work as workers, and it is basically impossible to get married until they have saved enough money to return to China, and the age of marriage is often postponed for seven or eight years, or even more......

The impact is too great, 5 million young people, accounting for more than one-third of Japan's golden marriage and childbearing age population, and almost half of the women of childbearing age, how can this population growth be fast?

It is ironic to say that with the death of a large number of elderly people who are unable to work, and the postponement of marriage and childbearing by a large number of young people, the number of children has naturally decreased significantly, resulting in a significant decline in the dependency ratio in Japan. God is really playing a cruel joke......

However, Japan has now become a vine wrapped around China's big tree, and although it looks quite stout, if it is torn off China, it will immediately collapse to the ground and cannot get up, and no matter how beautiful the economic data is, it is useless. Because more than half of Japan's agriculture, more than two-thirds of its mining industry, and nearly eighty percent of its industry are now serving China, once the Chinese market is suddenly closed to Japan, what will become of Japan makes those who understand Japan shudder to think about it.

What's more, under the current situation where one-third (and the best one-third) of young people have gone to China, even if the Japanese government has two hearts, it is useless, without young people, it will not be able to expand its army, and how can it get rid of China's control without expanding its army? If those young Japanese living in China are still loyal to Japan, Ito Hirobumi and others may be able to make some trouble, but even if Japan's domestic economic situation has improved greatly, it still cannot be compared with China, at least China's dozen or so key industrial cities Chinese......

Therefore, the current situation in Japan is the same as when the American father was stationed in the army, from top to bottom, almost all of them are pro-China, and even Li Hui, who single-handedly concocted this situation, was deeply surprised by this.

However, the role of things is always mutual, while Japan is heavily dependent on China, China's economy, at least China's industry, is also inseparable from the Japanese, strictly speaking, it is inseparable from the 5 million Japanese who come to work in China, because in the current situation that ordinary domestic technicians still have no time to train, it is precisely because of the use of Japanese with a better foundation to shorten the talent training cycle, China's industrial scale can be among the top in the world in such a short period of time.

In 1906, Li Hui asked the relevant departments to conduct a secret assessment, and the results showed that once all the Japanese in China were driven back, more than half of China's heavy industry, nearly one-third of modern shipping, and no less than a quarter of railway operations would be suspended, and even some military enterprises would not be able to operate normally because of the shrinking output of the upstream industry. Originally, this was not a big problem, because Li Hui had long been ready to gradually replace it with his own people after the popularization of compulsory education, but now that Li Hui has changed his plans due to the outbreak of the Three Kingdoms War, this work can only be postponed, and in order to retain those older workers whose life events can no longer be delayed, the world's strictest naturalization conditions will also have to be appropriately relaxed.