Under Yang Chao's order, Li Fuan raised a capable team, with international students who had studied in Japan as the main force, and immediately rushed to Japan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

They wanted to set up a wartime industrial bureau in Japan as well, and Yang Chao planned to hand over most of the rifle orders in the American order to the Japanese.

There is no shortage of skilled workers in Japan, not even machinery and equipment, but only a market.

Although a large number of Japanese skilled workers have been encouraged by the government to work in China in recent months, the technical strength of the 5,000 large-scale factories that Yang Chao finally put into production has been strengthened at once, and they can finally produce at full speed, these factories were put into operation in the second year of the war, and they were all put into operation this year, but the factories are easy to build, and talents are rare, and these factories were originally planned to recruit technicians from Germany, but the war in Europe made it impossible for the Germans to work in China.

So the technical force was always very insufficient, and the production capacity could not be completely activated, but now it is good, the skilled workers in Japan, who filled the gap with the Germans, and the technical skills they cultivated, so that the factory had enough manpower and began to run at full speed to produce a large amount of equipment for the United States.

The Japanese were lucky to get a piece of the pie, of course, it was just leftovers, Yang Chao was impossible for them to make war money, the orders were distributed by the wartime Industrial Bureau, and the difference between the purchase price and the selling price was huge, for example, each rifle gave the Japanese ten taels of silver processing fees, and it was 50 taels to sell to the Americans, which was not expensive, and during the Russo-Japanese War, Yang Chao sold 80 taels of silver.

Only earn a hard money, but the Japanese are still very satisfied, the materials are provided by the Industrial Bureau, they are only responsible for processing, can earn 10 taels of silver, can feed tens of thousands of workers, why not.

However, even if these factories were to be directly involved in the development of war revenue, they would not be able to do so, first of all, Japan was seriously short of foreign exchange, and without the materials provided by China, they could not afford to operate the factories at all, so they would only think of this as a kind of support.

Not only did the Japanese factories meet the requirements, but the Japanese government also promoted a large number of them, actively cooperating with Li Fu'an's control of Japanese industry, and the highly obedient Japanese soon adjusted the industry to the wartime mode and began to continuously produce all kinds of military materials.

As a result, the employment rate began to rise, the yen began to stabilize, and the Japanese began to accumulate foreign exchange little by little, moving towards the path of the world's largest foreign exchange reserves.

Although there were many critical voices of policy in the Chinese newspapers, and the nationalism that had been stirred up by the victories of several wars and demanded the destruction of Japan, they kept turning out the First Sino-Japanese War and the Lushun Massacre, and they were right, these things were first driven by Yang Chao and the Fuqiang Daily, which was for the war at that time, and now they are quoted by other newspapers.

The newspapers were very dissatisfied with the government's preferential treatment of Japan, and nationalism often had a narrow-minded sentiment, but many traditional literati also expressed dissatisfaction with this, believing that Japan had not ceded land after defeat, and that it should occupy at least two of the four islands as compensation, which was the work of the feudal imperial ideology of expanding territory.

For example, Mr. Lu Xun, who teaches at Peking University, said that there is absolutely no point in exterminating Japan and that it will pay a heavy price, and that Japan's territory is small, the land is barren, and there is not enough property, so there is no point in forcibly occupying Japan.

There are also traditional literati who agree, they believe that survival and death are great benevolence, and Japan should be grateful to **** forever, yes, these people have moved out of ****, and they believe that the Japanese will be as grateful to China as the Koreans.

However, the ethnic elements were dissatisfied, saying that although Japan had no resources and no land, it would not destroy how Japan could comfort the lives of those who had died. What survival succession, they are not rare, the strong historical foundation also said that the survival and death of the succession is internal, the survival of the Duke of Qi Huan can of course get the gratitude of the vassal states, but the Han Cun Xiongnu have five chaos in China, and the Tang Turks also have five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Appeasing Japan now will surely become a great disaster in the future.

Yang Chao didn't care about this, on the contrary, he read the newspaper every day with great interest, and it was more important for literati to think independently than anything else.

"Overbearing?"

Seeing that one traditional scholar after another talked about the affairs of Qi Huangong, Yang Chao felt that it was still reliable, who said that it was useless to inherit thousands of years of history, blindly learning from others, learning from Japan today, learning from the United States tomorrow, and learning from Soviet Russia the day after tomorrow, there is no future.

There are many things to learn in Chinese history, the Spring and Autumn Period for hegemony may not be able to be applied, in this modern era, it is indeed meaningless to destroy the country and open up the territory, and Japan's territory, there is really nothing worth exploring, the most important thing is the annexation of Japan, but there are tens of millions of unique cultures, strong self-identity of the Japanese nation, China is enough, in addition to a big nation, do you want to learn from Austria-Hungary to play a pluralistic empire?

The so-called hegemony is not to rule, but to control, the cost is much lower, but to a greater extent, let others be used by me.

The reason why the US imperialists did not destroy Japan was not only because the cost of colonial rule was too high, but also because they wanted to use Japan to contain the Soviet Union, and later to contain China.

China does not need Japan to contain the United States, because Japan is on the side of China's couch, and if Japan is used to contain the United States, then it must arm Japan, which is to raise a tiger for trouble, and there is no object to contain it, so it must have the courage to roll up its sleeves and pick up its arms, like Britain and France, which did not have the courage to attack the Soviet Union, and thought of allowing Germany to arm against the Soviet Union, and in the end they could only hurt themselves.

But is Japan really useless?

That's not necessarily, Japan is obedient, this is the greatest use, China to establish the hegemony of East Asia, of course, rely on hard power, but after maintaining hegemony, it is still more necessary to use soft power.

At this time, the Japanese nation is more useful, their failure this time, will definitely produce a wave of reflection, and the reflection of the Japanese is often more peculiar, often unwilling to analyze the problem from the essence, but only look at the surface, after the West overwhelmed the East, they immediately learned from the West in an all-round way, and after they were defeated by the United States, they immediately began to imitate the United States, they lost in heavy industry, and after World War II, they actively developed heavy industry.

This is a people who value technology, and that's where they succeed and why they've always been able to do second-rate roles.

After Japan's defeat in this war, it will definitely think again, and then begin to imitate some of China's systems and spread China's soft power.

At the same time, using Japan to counterbalance Korea is a clever trick, just like the later American imperialists played a balance between Japan and South Korea, so that these two countries can never leave the Americans.

Although the North Koreans are still relatively obedient, North Korea's nationalism is still relatively strong, and when they become stronger, they will inevitably produce something unrealistic, such as grand nationalism and the like.

And the Japanese know each other very well in this regard, they will never rebel against a country stronger than them, of course, as long as this country can control them, they will be very obedient, obedient to the point that you are very comfortable.

For example, Yang Chao has always been worried that the army stationed in Japan will be a little troublesome, and even prepared for military suppression, who knows that the attitude of the Japanese towards the Chinese National Defense Force is surprising, Tokyo has always been orderly, except for a few officers who committed suicide, there are no people who resist.

The common people even welcomed the Chinese soldiers, who had large amounts of silver (paper money) in their hands.

Just as after World War II, the Japanese welcomed the U.S. military, not to mention the comfort stations built by the Japanese government for Chinese soldiers, and a large number of Japanese women often invited soldiers on leave to their homes to entertain them with Japanese food and their bodies.

Many of these women are women who lost their husbands in the war and became unfrequent, and even their husbands were probably killed by these Chinese soldiers, but what does the war have to do with these women, their husbands are dead, the state can't take care of them, they still have to support their children, if they don't look for rich Chinese soldiers, who are they looking for?

Due to the fact that many Chinese soldiers go in and out of Japanese women's homes all year round, and even a unique social phenomenon has emerged, many Japanese children have a Chinese father.

This is the urine nature of the Oriental nation, no one should laugh at anyone, if you want to find a large number of admirable advantages, you can also turn over a lot of disgusting dross.

When Britain fought the Opium War and Britain and France entered Beijing, the common people did not think about resisting the invasion at first, but carried baskets to foreigners to sell eggs, and were complacent about slaughtering foreigners.

Tokyo was occupied, and ordinary Japanese did not think about fighting guerrilla warfare, but about how to squeeze their salaries out of the Chinese soldiers.

As for guerrilla warfare? Don't be stupid, you didn't destroy the country, people didn't destroy your country, what kind of guerrilla warfare are you fighting? It is still the emperor who rules Japan, just as it is the emperor who rules China, and the devil is willing to resist.

In this regard, Westerners feel incredible, after Japan's surrender, Westerners are not optimistic about China's ability to maintain hegemony in East Asia, especially the British, they are very aware of the dilemma of maintaining colonial rule, and the resistance and resistance encountered everywhere will make you feel collapsed, even the black uncles in Africa are not easy to rule, not to mention Japan, a country that has entered the world powers.

What surprised them was that the Japanese had so easily and decisively transitioned from a powerful country to a militarily occupied country, and the degree of peace of mind made Westerners dumbfounded.

If the British had known that Japan was such a nation, would they have occupied Japan long ago and then controlled the country by maintaining the emperor's rule, making the country an obedient enough watchdog to watch over their interests in Asia.

The Yankees were still clever in their methods, and of course they also conducted research on Japan in all aspects, and the book "Chrysanthemums and Knives" was one of the results of the research, so later Yankees found the best way to play with Japan.

The British don't know how to play, so now they feel a little caught off guard, and Japan is so tame that it means that China can free up its hands as soon as possible and enter the war in Europe as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )