Originally, this kind of recruitment did not need to be handled by Tang Ning personally, but because this show was extremely important to him, he still supervised the whole process.

Through this recruitment, Tang Ning had to sigh that Japan's national education since the Meiji Restoration has indeed been effective, although the Japanese people live in poverty, but the level of education is much higher than that of China in the same period, even in such a difficult situation, the lunch of primary school is still distributed for free, and even some middle school students take the initiative to apply and ask to be transferred back to primary school, because they can eat free lunch.

Although Tang Ning did not interfere too much in recruitment, he was responsible for the final review, so all the obscene-looking Japanese men were vetoed by him, and when his subordinates saw his attitude, they naturally understood his intentions, so in the end, the five staff recruits were all young and beautiful.

Seeing that the show was on the right track, Tang Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief, and planned to go out for a walk to relax, accompanied by the manservant Mitsuhiko, because there was no fixed goal, so he just walked around casually, when passing by a zoo, Tang Ning wanted to go in to have a look, but was stopped by Mitsuhiko: "Sir, there is no need to go here, the animals inside have been eaten." ”

Tang Ning was stunned when he heard this: "Eaten?" I heard you right! If you say you ran away, I can still believe it. ”

Mitsuhiko nodded and replied, "Sir, you heard it right, it was indeed eaten. Because we were so hungry, the government had stipulated that each person would be given four taels of rice a day, but in fact they couldn't distribute that much, and sometimes they didn't distribute at all, so everyone was very hungry. At first, the zoo planned to leave these animals to fend for themselves, but then everyone was really hungry, so people started to slaughter the animals, and then everyone started pouring into the zoo, so all the animals were eaten. ”

Tang Ning listened very freshly and asked, "All of them have been eaten?" Tigers and lions, do you dare to eat them? ”

Mitsuhiko replied with a complicated expression: "When you are really hungry, you only have meat in your eyes, not a beast. ”

Tang Ning didn't say anything after listening, although the matter is a little unbelievable, but it is indeed understandable in this specific situation, not only that, but now the lawns and green spaces in Tokyo, including the flower beds in the park, have also been planted with vegetables and potatoes, this kind of thing is estimated to be known to the Japanese government, but it is estimated that it is impossible to manage it, after all, you don't distribute food, you can't watch everyone starve to death.

After walking for a while, when I was almost at the station, I finally saw something more interesting, which made Downing's mood a little better, there was a stall selling some very peculiar, unprecedented, and not necessarily future works of art.

Although the name of this thing sounds big, its origin is not very good. Buildings within a radius of two or three kilometers from the center of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima were razed to the ground, and many Japanese people picked up the melted materials in the ruins to sell as souvenirs. It is true that this thing is saying that it is unprecedented, and that it will never be the hope of all mankind again.

There are many of these melts in the ruins of Hiroshima, but they are no longer suitable for human life, so many people pick up the melt there and sell it in other cities, and Downing also paid for one out of curiosity, but the interesting thing is that when the vendor saw that he was an American, he insisted that he would rather ask for less dollars than yen.

During this period, the exchange rate between the yen and the U.S. dollar was not adjusted according to market fluctuations, but was forcibly established by the United States, called the military exchange rate, and the exchange rate was 15 yen per 1 U.S. dollar in September 1945 when the U.S. military first entered the country. But at this time, the yen was actually not so valuable, during World War II, in order to raise military spending, the military had instructed the central bank to print a large amount of money to buy government bonds, so Japan's economy has long been on the verge of collapse, after the defeat, it is even worse, plus now the shortage of materials and the black market is rampant, the purchasing power of the yen is getting lower and lower. If Downing knew the history of the yen, he would know that a few months later, in March 1947, the military exchange rate became 50 yen per dollar, 270 yen a year later, and 360 yen in '49.

Downing finally bought the atomic bomb souvenir for five dollars, but shortly after they left, a group of men armed with sticks and sharp knives rushed to the stall, punched and kicked the vendor, and smashed the vendor's goods and stall.

After inquiring about it, Tang Ning learned that there was an extremely large open-air market nearby, that is, the black market (the Japanese black market after World War II was a very huge subject, and there were many things to write about, and I would talk about it step by step when it was involved in the future), called Shimbashi Market, which is nominally under the supervision of the police, but in fact the real owner of this place is the Matsuda Group, and every vendor who wants to do business here must register with the Matsuda Group and pay the protection fee on time, while the Matsuda Group is responsible for the lighting of the market. sanitation and other facilities and responsible for maintaining order.

And this hawker's behavior is obviously to avoid the payment of protection money, so he set up a stall near the entrance of the market, and does not dare to enter inside, but the Matsuda Group will never allow this phenomenon to happen, if this thing is not done today, then tomorrow more people will do it, so this phenomenon must be severely cracked down on, killing chickens and monkeys.

For this kind of thing, Tang Ning definitely didn't have the heart to go up and meddle in things, the only thing he felt was the incompetence and inaction of the Japanese police, because when the members of the Matsuda group beat up the vendors, there were two policemen passing by, but they walked over directly as if they didn't see it.

Not only that, but Downing also heard about the theft of an office in the Osaka City Hall, and the theft of a staff member's coat. When the owner found out about this, he went straight to the local black market with the right instincts, and two hours later he found his coat, which was priced at 3,500 yen. He called in two policemen, but the policemen advised him to negotiate with the black market owner, in which case they could not intervene. In the end, the black market owner calmly sold the coat to his original owner for 500 yen, and the owner's monthly salary was only 700 yen.

Just when Tang Ning was watching the excitement, suddenly a little boy tugged at the corner of his clothes and asked, "Sir, do you want to know my sister?" ”