Chapter 20: The Chrysanthemum and the Knife
Although the idea of the rest of his life is very good, intelligence work is really a highly professional and talent-oriented job. The news collected by several teenagers is probably related to the Japanese, but it is all gossip in the Japanese army in the Japanese ruling power across the river.
Although it is secretive, it has nothing to do with the current threat of the Zodiac. There isn't much value. However, after reading various materials about Japanese people in the library for the rest of my life and night without light, I learned a lot. Combined with what the rest of my life and future generations have known, my understanding of Japanese people has gradually deepened.
Sometimes when I think back to the history and many details of this nation, I can't help but smile bitterly for the rest of my life.
In the American scholar Ruth Benedict's "The Chrysanthemum and the Knife", he has this judgment on the Japanese - the Japanese are extremely aggressive and very gentle; martial and beautiful; arrogant, self-respecting and polite; stubborn and weak and fickle; tame and unwilling to be manipulated; loyal and prone to rebellion; brave and cowardly; Conservative but very welcoming to the new way of life.
In Benedict's view, the character of the Japanese is contradictory. But for the Chinese, the character of the Japanese is not difficult to understand. Before modern times, the Japanese learned a lot about Chinese culture, and although the Japanese did not copy it as it was, there are still a lot of traces of ancient Chinese culture in the Japanese character.
The Japanese pay attention to the concept of hierarchy, pay attention to the superiority of men and women, obey the collective and the strong, pay attention to morality and the "shame" of violating morality, know how to endure, know how to learn, and are extremely serious......
If we analyze it carefully, we can see that most of these characteristics are derived from ancient Chinese culture. In particular, Confucian culture, however, has been mutated. Confucian culture emphasizes that "villains are the same but not harmonious, and gentlemen are harmonious but different".
The requirement for a person is to maintain a harmonious relationship with the people around him, but he must think independently of his own brain when dealing with everything, and he never wants to follow the crowd and blindly go along with it.
And despise those who do not have their own independent opinions, only seek to be completely consistent with others, and do not pay attention to principles. And think that this kind of person does not maintain a harmonious relationship with the people around him.
The Japanese people's requirements for a person have become whether they are the same or not, but they must be with! If it's different, you can disagree, you can draw a knife against each other!
This kind of straightforward and resolute approach makes the Japanese a strange contradiction of a gentleman and a villain.
Such a requirement makes the Japanese pay attention to the word "forbearance" when they are different from others, but they cannot draw their swords against each other! And this person's "forbearance" is a knife hanging in the heart, which requires extremely strong mental strength and willpower. Therefore, the Japanese people's affirmation and pursuit of spiritual will far exceed that of the Chinese!
This is extremely terrible for the enemies of this nation. It is precisely because of this extreme spiritual pursuit that the Japanese will commit suicide by disembowelment, the spirit of bushido, ninjas, kamikaze commandos who will never return without regard for their own lives and the lives of others, the "national jade shattering" after the defeat of World War II, the more than 10,000 civilians who committed suicide on Saipan, and the Japanese veterans who have fought alone for decades and will never surrender!
This extreme pursuit of spirituality, to the extreme, has become a philosophy that can be unscrupulous. If you don't value your own life, how can you expect such values to value the lives of others? The massacre of 300,000 people was naturally taken for granted......
On the other hand, although there are examples Chinese of killing people in their traditional culture, although there are examples of killing oneself in its traditional culture, what is important is to live, and it is better to die than to live. The Chinese's efforts to forge ahead and wash away shame do not rely on broken jade, but rely on tenacious survival ability, there is a way that "those who have a will, things can be done, the cauldron is broken, and the one hundred and two Qin passes ultimately belong to Chu; Hard-working people, the sky does not bear, lying on the salary to taste the gall, three thousand Yuejia can swallow Wu. ”
As long as there is a breath left, as long as there are chips in hand, there will always be a chance to turn the book, and there will always be a comeback!
Although it is not easy to compare, which of these two similar but very different personalities is more conducive to survival and more awe-inspiring. However, only in terms of lethality and destructiveness, this character of the Japanese is clearly a little stronger.
In addition, Japan's small land area and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters have caused the Japanese to covet China's territory since modern times. It has become an obsession of Japanese people today. To be something that is not only a material pursuit, but also a spiritual pursuit. And with the intensity of the Japanese people's obsession and pursuit, of course, they will not give up until they achieve their goals. Therefore, since the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, it has been an undying enemy. Until 1937, he completely tore his face......
For the rest of his life, when he sighed, he was a little worried. I had been extremely careful in my daily commute to and from work, and I was still clearly aware of the following several times, and even once, a member of the Zodiac almost took a risk on the street. Fortunately, he escaped in time. Although he has good martial arts, he doesn't think he can use his body against bullets.
And although he had a near-perfect assassination plan, he had no choice but to collect too little information, and he really couldn't make a specific plan, so he could only wait for an opportunity in anxiety and defense. And when he was worried for the rest of his life, Qing Xiaoyi pushed the door in.
Since the last time Qing Xiaoyi saw the "Neon Dress Continuation" on the recliner for the rest of his life, this kind of book was classified as ** in the boudoir, although he was embarrassed and shy. But the relationship between the two seems to be so close, and they are obviously much more casual when they speak, and they are no longer polite and distant.
Recently, every evening, Qing Xiaoyi will inevitably send a pot of tea to the rest of his life. Say a few words to the rest of your life before leaving. The rest of his life was also a little contradictory, Qing Xiaoyi's voice and tone were too similar to Ye Qingyu, if he was just talking and chatting, he couldn't refuse at all. And this woman is not the person who has passed away in her heart after all.
Today, Qing Xiaoyi not only sent a pot of tea, but also brought a thick book. This book is just bound up on the cheapest and coarsest rice paper, but the binding is neat and elegant, not crude. On every page, there are dense small characters. Yu Sheng opened the cover of the book and found that what was densely memorized turned out to be a piece of information!
Yu Sheng was shocked and asked Qing Xiaoyi, "Where did this come from?" ”
Qing Xiaoyi said: "This is an excerpt from various old newspapers and materials, is it still useful for Brother Yu to take a look?" ”
Yu Sheng carefully looked at the information excerpted by Qing Xiaoyi, and said, "These, it seems that they are not just the things reported in the newspapers recently, right?" ”
Qing Xiaoyi said: "After Brother Yu gave the order that day, I thought, if I just look for information from the nearest newspaper, I am afraid that this information is too little, and there is no context, and it is estimated that it is not valuable." In addition to leaving a newspaper for themselves to read every day, we also collected all kinds of old newspapers from many other newspapers. Even, as long as it is paper with words, everything that can be collected is collected by them! ”
This thick book excerpted by Qing Xiaoyi is afraid that there are hundreds of pages, and each page has at least more than 1,000 words! A rough calculation, this book will cost hundreds of thousands of words!
After calculating for the rest of his life, he sighed lightly and said, "Xiaoyi, thank you for your hard work!" ”
"It's okay, Brother Yu! These words seem like a lot, but in fact, it doesn't take much work, thousands of newspaper materials, and it only takes seven or eight days to sort them out. ”
Yu Sheng was shocked: "So fast! Xiaoyi, how much time do you spend every day? "You must know that in later generations, even if you use a computer to type, most people's speed is only about 1,000 words per hour, even if you are an Internet writer, the hand speed of 3 or 4,000 words per hour can already be laughing at the rivers and lakes! This is a speed that handwriting is far beyond reach.
Moreover, extracting information is not as simple as fighting for speed, but requires a lot of reading and an extremely clear mind to sort out the cause and effect of all the details with extremely clear logic. and make a record.
The rest of his life is also a liberal arts student in the next generation, and his reading speed is nearly 70,000 or 80,000 words per hour! However, at this rate, it is absolutely impossible to read thousands of newspapers in seven or eight days and make such a detailed arrangement.
The depth of Qing Xiaoyi's intentions is undoubted, and this speed is also unexpected......
"Uh...... I haven't calculated this, three or four hours a day, anyway, you and your brother have gone out to earn money, and the children have gone out to sell newspapers, and I have nothing to do, so I'll do this! Anyway, there is no problem in copying and reading more than a dozen newspapers for an hour, and writing ten or twenty pages......"
According to the word count of current newspapers, more than a dozen newspapers are three or four hundred thousand words! Qing Xiaoyi's reading speed is an average of 100,000 words per hour! According to the number of words copied by Qing Xiaoyi, there are more than 5,000 words per hour! It's several times stronger than the pseudo-Wenqing who traveled through for the rest of his life!
Yu Sheng's face was full of shock, and he muttered: "Xiaoyi, you are so powerful!" ”
Qing Xiaoyi's face was colorful, and she said to Yu Sheng: "I have been reading and writing very fast since I was a child. I remember when I was a child, I was naughty once and broke a good inkstone of my father, and my father asked me to copy the history book to meditate. picked and chosen, and picked out "Zizhi Tongjian" for me, and asked me to copy it in a year and calm down. If I had copied it early, I would have been left to play with it this year. ”
"Zizhi Tongjian" is a chronicle of the Northern Song Dynasty Sima Guang compiled for 19 years, a total of 294 volumes, with time as the guideline, events as the purpose, from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou, that is, 403 BC to the fifth generation of Zhou Shizong Xiande 6 years, that is, 959 AD, the expedition to Huainan stopped writing, covering 16 dynasties, a total of 1,362 years of history. For the rest of his life, there was an electronic version of WORD, with a total of 2,585,244 crosses!
It's all the word count of a web novel!
"So you finished copying it early?"
"Of course, it only took me a little over two months to finish copying! Daddy was very helpless at the time......" Qing Xiaoyi said with a smile. Under the light, this smile is like a begonia blooming in the depths of the night.
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Sorry for the late update. Let's collect it, it turns out that collecting is good for physical and mental health......