With this tradition, the Kawasaki family has always regarded all kinds of antiques, especially precious Chinese antiques, as part of their important assets. Even after the death of Kawasaki Masazome, the collection of Chinese antiques continued. However, during the war, in order to support the war, the Kawasaki family had to invest a lot of money in the manufacture of munitions, and the plan to acquire antiques was temporarily shelved.

After the war, when the Americans occupied Japan, the Japanese economic system collapsed, and people's livelihood withered into a mess, the Kawasaki family also reined in. Although there are still a lot of fields in the private property under his name, the grain and vegetables grown in these fields are only enough to supply the Kawasaki family. There is little surplus. At first, I didn't think about what I was going to get for the little food. After all, no one knows how long the years of this famine will last, and if you eat a bite of food, you will lose a mouthful, and if you can save, you will save.

And for the rest of his life in Tokyo, as well as in other cities in Japan, the large-scale acquisition of antiques is difficult to hide from these Japanese chaebols. Many people recognize this as a shortcut to leaving capital for future generations. Therefore, several chaebols contacted the Kawasaki family, led by the Kawasaki family, who had been collecting Chinese antiques for generations and was extremely experienced, and several chaebols worked together to provide food and people, taking advantage of the famine years, to purchase a large number of precious things collected in the private sector, including antiques.

However, if you want to make a large-scale acquisition, you will have to conflict with the rest of your life. At least stop the team led by Ye Wuguang and let them retreat for a while, so as to facilitate the actions of these chaebols. Therefore, stopping cars halfway and fighting have also become a proper obligation. This is still the softest method that these chaebols consider themselves to be.

Japan's chaebol has a long history. Sumitomo zaibatsu, which originated in the 16th century, had deep entanglements with the Tokugawa shogunate. The Mitsui Zaibatsu originated in the 17th century and began to operate a money exchange business in the 18th century. Mitsubishi chaebol. Originating in the 19th century, Yataro Iwasaki was in the Tosa domain as a transportation business, Osaka was already the commercial capital of Japan, and the transportation industry was frighteningly lucrative, taking advantage of the Meiji Restoration and Japan's rapid development. Yasuda zaibatsu was originally a red-roofed merchant during the Meiji Restoration, and in 1863, when he opened the "Yasudaya" money bank in Tokyo, he had 250,000 taels of gold as operating capital. These chaebols were all formed in the early 20th century. It continues to be the afterlife.

In addition to these major chaebols, with the rapid rise of Japan after the Meiji Restoration and the plundering of China. There are also a number of new chaebols, along with the emergence of new industries, such as Kawasaki, Nissan, Nakajima, Nomura, Asano, Okura, Furukawa and so on. These zaibatsu were the backbone of Japan's economy and the main force in the development and manufacture of munitions, supporting Japan's foreign wars. And the orders brought about by the war also allowed the wealth of these chaebols to accumulate at a rate that is difficult for outsiders to estimate.

So, to the post-war period. The first thing the Americans wanted to dismantle the Japanese military system was to dissolve these zaibats. In October 1945, the U.S. Garrison General Command demanded that 15 Japanese zaibatsu submit reports on the basic contents of their operations and the capital structure of their companies. The report was submitted shortly.

November 1945. The General Headquarters of the US garrison ordered the assets of these fifteen Japanese zaibatsu to be frozen!

However, Americans will not understand the secrets of the wealth of the Orientals. In Europe and the United States, the main wealth of a middle class is the stock of one or several companies in its hands. Property or something. None of them can be considered major wealth. And in the East, all the chaebols, the families. The main wealth of the middle class and the small townspeople, even the farmers who work in the fields, will not be in the stock of the company. This has been the case since ancient times. The main wealth in the hands of these people is a large number of real estate, real estate, farmland, pastures, forest farms, antiques, gold, silver and jewelry, and all kinds of things that seem to have no huge profits, but in fact have a stable value and can be passed down from generation to generation.

The same is true of the assets in the hands of these Japanese zaibatos, although in order to support the war, these zaibatsu invested a large amount of liquidity in the military industrial enterprises under their own names. However, the total value of the real estate in his hands is still staggering.

Moreover, these zaibatsu were in essence involved in the formulation of various domestic policies in Japan, including war and defeat and surrender. Before the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, these Japanese high-ranking officials did not know the news in advance. And after these chaebols knew in advance that Japan was going to be defeated, the military supplies prepared for the decisive battle on the mainland, 100 million jade pieces, were all divided and swallowed up by these chaebols and other high-level Japanese families.

After the war, there is no trace of the military supplies prepared for the decisive battle on the mainland, and there is no record of its whereabouts. Disappear silently. Therefore, although these chaebols suffered some losses due to Japan's defeat in the war, in fact, they did not hurt their vitality at all. These military supplies were slowly put into the black market of post-war Japan, and they were unconsciously digested and realized. It becomes the capital that it later preserves itself. And these things, after the Americans occupied Japan, because they did not fall under the accounts of a certain company, were regarded as the private property of each family, and could not be robbed.

Therefore, although the Americans later implemented dismantling measures such as purging the management of the Japanese chaebols, compulsory stock sales, and dispersion of stock ownership. However, most of the shares of these large companies that have been dispersed and dismantled have been bought by these chaebols. So, although the Americans removed the military-industrial production system of the Japanese, in fact, the industrial system of the Japanese, the financial capabilities of the big banks and the strength of these chaebols themselves, did not have much to lose. It was saved in the war. Even, in later generations, according to the research of many scholars, the production line of civilian products of the Japanese can be turned into a military production line again with only a slight adjustment.

In 1951, after the San Francisco Peace Treaty, Japan's economy resumed its development, with the banking industry as the center, and Japan's monopoly capital made a comeback. As Japanese public opinion circles say, it is "the reorganization of the chaebol."

With such influence and strength, it is really very easy for these Japanese chaebols to buy some antiques with grain in the Japanese people, taking advantage of the famine. There is no need to force or use power to suppress people, as long as the wind is released and one sentence - the Kawasaki family wants to exchange grain for antiques, and if there is enough food, there will be a large number of Japanese people with the treasures treasured at home. Take the initiative to come here.

And the Kawasaki family and several other joint operations adopted this method after blocking the people in the night without light. The results collected in a few days are better than half a month of busy work with a group of people in the night. Nearly 10,000 items were collected from major cities in Japan! Among them, there is no shortage of treasures.

After Ye Wuguang and Yu Sheng learned the news that Chen Tian had sent back, they quickly deduced the cause and reason of the incident based on what Yu Sheng knew and the information they had at hand. And the Kawasaki family did not move at all after the personnel returned one after another, while most of the people settled down. Preparations are underway to transfer these nearly 10,000 antiques collected from various places to a safe place in Tokyo that several chaebols have joined forces to protect them.

And in Chen Tian's eavesdropping in the corner of the wall for several days, he basically figured out who the allies of the Kawasaki family were. The only person who can be friends with lions is probably the tiger. Or crocodiles and goshawks will do. Compared to the several families that cooperate with the Kawasaki family, the Kawasaki family is a veritable weakness.

It's not that the Kawasaki family's industry or wealth is inferior to the others, but because Kawasaki Masazo had already burped as early as 1912, and now the prestige of the Kawasaki family's head. It really can't be compared with the founders of several other chaebols.

Among these families, the highest status is Okochi Masatoshi, who is the eldest son of the lord of the Daki Domain. Born in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo, he later became the stepson of the Okochi family, the viscount of the former Mikawa Yoshida Domain. Later, he married the daughter of the last feudal lord, Nobuko Okochi. Due to the excellent genes selected for several generations and the good supply of resources from an early age, the general short stature of Japanese men at this time will definitely not be able to cover the head of Masatoshi Okochi.

This person is 1.8 meters tall. Among the Japanese, it stands out from the crowd. When he was in school, he was a classmate of the future Emperor Taisho. 1903. Masatoshi Okochi graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in Weapons Studies from the Faculty of Engineering, and then stayed on as a lecturer. Later, he went to Germany and Austria for further studies and obtained a doctorate in engineering. After returning to Japan, he taught at his alma mater, which was renamed the University of Tokyo, for a period of time.

is a rich and handsome man with good knowledge, worth and appearance. It's a winner in life. In this era, mastering the most advanced knowledge is equivalent to mastering the door of wealth, and in 1927, Masatoshi Okochi established the Physical and Chemical Promotion Project Co., Ltd. Become a new chaebol in Japan. Because of his profound knowledge of physics, he was one of the leaders of Japan's atomic bomb research program during World War II.

Although this person is a Japanese aristocrat, he is only a successful scholar and entrepreneur, and has not directly caused direct harm to China or other countries invaded by Japan, but his influence in Japan and the influence on Japan's military industry are very important.

Today, Masatoshi Okochi has heard the call to list him as a Class A war criminal. I don't know what the fate of the future will be, so I began to plan for my descendants, and this low-priced antique horse is part of it.

Of course, the term Class A war criminal is not so accurate. The division of war criminals into three levels: A, B, and C is only a customary term used in academic research and news reports. In fact, there is no precise basis for the classification of war criminals. In none of the official international documents mentions the term "Class A war criminals".

In the London Agreement signed by Britain, the United States, France, and the Soviet Union on August 8, 1945, and in the charter of the International Military Tribunal, the term "major war criminals" was used in describing war criminals.

On January 9, 1946, the Supreme Allied High Command in Tokyo issued a circular establishing the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and the charter of the Tribunal, which also used the words "fair and prompt trial and punishment of the main war criminals in the Far East."

In order to quickly distinguish the importance of war criminals in news reports at this time, these "major war criminals" became "Class A war criminals" according to the "A" crimes stipulated in the Nuremberg and Tokyo Charters - crimes against peace, that is, crimes of planning, preparing, initiating or carrying out wars of aggression. These people are in high positions of power, and they can at least control a certain industry or a certain field where their country is located. In this way, a certain policy can be formulated.

Most of the Class B and C war criminals who distinguish them from each other are ordinary war crimes or crimes against humanity. It belongs to the shrimp soldier crab general who actually performs something.

In addition to Dakochi Masatoshi, the heads of the other two chaebols are also Class A war criminals. One is Chikuhei Nakajima, and the other is Yoshisuke Ayukawa.

Nakajima controls half of Japan's aircraft industry, is on an equal footing with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and has a friend and foe relationship with the Kawasaki family. In 1917, after Nakajima Chikuhei established the first private aircraft company in Japan, "Nakajima Aircraft Company", Nakajima's net worth began to skyrocket, and within ten years, he became a chaebol and became extremely rich. The aircraft designed by Nakajima were widely adopted by the Japanese Air Force. Although its aircraft design is not as famous as the Zero, the Type 97 fighter and the Dragon Swallowing bomber are both famous. And these two are the main models used during the Japanese invasion of China.

Yoshisuke Ayukawa, on the other hand, is the founder of Nissan Motor and Fuji Chaebol, and the pioneer of venture capital in Japan. Although his position relied on nepotism - his mother was the niece of Inoue Shin, who was a hero of the Meiji Restoration, his wife Mifei was the daughter of Takashimaya Chairman Iida Fujijiro, his wife and sister were married to Hibiya Yuzo, the director of the Hibiya Bank, his younger brother passed on to Fujita Taro of the Fujita Cooperative as an adopted son, and his sister married Hisashi Yata Motomura, who was the minister of Mitsubishi. Three younger sisters, one married to Kaijima Taiichi of the Kaijima Co., Ltd., one married Shinichi Kondo, the president of the Japanese Securities Corporation, and the other married the head of the famous Kuhara chaebol, Kuhara Bonosuke.

But he does have talents. He used to be incognito, stealing technology in the factories of the Americans. Even when he founded his own company, he planned to learn from the Americans, the Soviet Union, Italy, and the Germans. Back then, before the Japanese occupation, it was this Ayukawa Yoshisuke who mastered the heavy industry in Northeast China! What was left over from the defeat of the Japanese became the only heavy industry system in China later.

After a few days of probing and listening to the corners, Chen Tian not only found out the details of his opponents, but also found out the time, method and storage place of these chaebols, preparing to concentrate antiques. Even, even the transportation route map, Chen Tian drew a copy of the gourd. (To be continued.) )