After several months of suspension, the merchant ship of the Beiyang Shipping Company once again appeared in the Bohai Bay, a merchant ship of no more than 1,000 tons, moving smoothly on the surface of the Bohai Sea, the flying scissor bow like a sharp dagger, cutting out two white waves spread along the sides, and several white seagulls flew with the bow of the ship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, because in a few hours, they will arrive at the destination, many passengers are preparing to get off the ship, and there are also some passengers who are anxious to stand on the deck with their luggage, and a young man in a suit in the crowd is very eye-catching, which is no wonder, after all, most of the Chinese people are now wearing horse coats and braids, even in the northeast, many have cut off their braids, but there are still not many people wearing suits.

Leaning on the railing at the bow, Kenichiro Sato had been standing here for almost five hours, silently staring into the distance, which was the direction of the cow farm, the destination of his trip. Like many Japanese, when Japan was facing its demise, he chose to leave Japan and come to China, and Harada couldn't help but let out a long sigh when he thought of the fate of his motherland.

"Hey!"

When the sigh came from Zoten's throat, his eyes flashed with some sparkle that no one else could perceive, it was tears, tears of despair, tears of heartache.

What a pain it is!

It's a pain that is so powerless that it makes people hopeless.

He took out half a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit the cigarette and then the thick smoke spit out from Zuo Teng's lips, and the smoke was instantly blown away by the sea breeze.

When he left Japan, he saw the soldiers of the Lu Kingdom in the city. He even witnessed the humiliation of women by Lu Guobing. Japan is finished. Although Tokyo had not yet fallen, and although places such as Kyushu were still under Japanese control, after the defeat in the Battle of Kanto, even the most arrogant Japanese knew that Japan was finished.

As soon as the Lu Province and the army, which had been badly damaged in the Battle of Kanto, finished recuperating, they would attack Tokyo, Shimoseki, Kyushu, Shikoku, and other places, no, they didn't even need to do that. As long as Tokyo is taken, Japan will obediently hand over its territory, and the so-called self-improvement and reform will become a joke.

Yes, what a ridiculous joke, the days of the monkeys, which were contemptuously called by Westerners, were so arrogant that they wanted to learn from the West, and finally broke away from Asia and joined Europe, squeezed into the ranks of the white race with the yellow race, and even imitated the West in order to annex China, even Britain, the most powerful country in the West, had no such ambition.

Arrogant! It is this arrogance that has ruined Japan!

Come to think of this. He thought of his father, when he returned from studying in England. In the face of the powerful Beiyang Naval Division, he vowed to build a warship more powerful than the two ships in Dingzhen and sank them, what his father said.

"You see, the calligraphy hanging on the wall of our home is Chinese characters, your grandfather was a very famous sinologist back then, and the first character you know is also Chinese characters, everything you see in Japan, Japan's clothing, food, housing and transportation all benefit from China. China is such a fantastic country, how can we invade such a country? How can such a China be an enemy that we hate? ”

In the face of his father's words, Zoto once laughed at his father's short-sightedness in his heart, of course, more ignorance, but now it seems that it is not his father who is really ignorant, but himself, and Japan as a whole, especially the Fukuzawa Yukichi who advocates "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe" and "conquering China", it is those Japanese who know a little about the skin of the West but think they have the essence of it, and they have ruined Japan with their arrogance.

"Nope! It was Japan's stupidity that ruined itself! It was Japan's ingratitude that ruined Japan's ......"

In his view, everything that Japan has suffered today is self-inflicted, and as early as a few decades, when the Japanese people regarded Fukuzawa Yukichi's "theory of detachment" as a national policy, it was the inevitable result of the national policy.

Yukichi Fukuzawa is really a sinner in Japan! Why not seppuku yet!

Zoten, who placed Fukuzawa Yukichi in the land of sinners, looked into the distance again, and at this time the sun was about to set, and the sea under the setting sun was shining with golden light, and the breeze on the sea was blowing, and the blue waves were rippling, and he was in a trance to another world. The sea is dyed red by the setting sun, and seagulls fly low across the bow of the ship, chasing the passing waves.

Gazing into the distance, Zo Teng knew that the port of Niuzhuang was getting closer and closer, and he would soon be there to get there. However, he did not know what awaited him in the cattle farm.

Like other Japanese who fled Japan, the Qing was also his best choice, not because of the concessions of Shanghai and Tianjin, but because the Qing was a large country in East Asia, and compared to Western ghosts, China and Japan were the same language and the same species.

"For thousands of years, East Asian civilization has been under the protection of China, although China has been declining after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but in the name of a thousand years, it has sheltered East Asia for nearly two hundred years...... If Japan wants to restore the country, the Western ghosts and animals cannot be trusted, so they can only turn to China for ......"

Regardless of his father's advice, Zo Teng would come to the Qing Kingdom, because he knew that Westerners despised East Asians in their bones, and in the Qing Kingdom, at least he looked the same as the Qing people.

But half a month ago, as soon as he set foot on the land of China, after leaving the concession, his heart immediately cooled half, and everywhere he saw was a dilapidated and devastated scene. He was well aware of the poverty and backwardness of East Asia, but he did not expect that, compared with Japan, China's cities were completely dirty, and the air was filled with a pungent stench.

One night in Tianjin, he walked through the city, and on both sides of the street, under the low eaves, lying on the sides of the street, there were people lying in all directions, all of them were homeless and beggars from all over the world, and the number was amazing. They all fled to Tianjin. In Japan, even though the Japanese peasants are poorer, there are no dozen beggars within 100 meters of the wide streets of Nagasaki. China has always had a lot of land and more land than Japan, but why is it so poor?

Zuo Teng also saw the prosperous side of China, in that restaurant and restaurant, you can see Chinese who buy drunk wine, and there are always mountains of chicken, duck and fish on their dinner tables. It was on that day that he finally realized the "Zhumen wine and meat stink" in the Han poem. There are frozen bones on the road". And then what really made him desperate was Qingguo's attitude towards him. When he was looking for a job in Beiyang Yamen, he was actually asked for a red envelope.

What he witnessed in Tianjin finally made him desperate for the Qing Kingdom, and he couldn't even believe that this was like the so-called "Guardian of East Asia", which was the "hope of East Asia", and then he immediately chose to leave, and at the suggestion of the Japanese trading company in Tianjin, he came to the Northeast.

"You've come to the wrong place. China is the hope of East Asia, but the Qing State is not China! Go to the Northeast, Zuo Tengjun, it will definitely become Chinese in the future! ”

The words of the compatriots of the trading company made Zuo Teng a little confused, the Qing country is not China, but the Northeast is China? Why? In anxiety and uneasiness, the merchant ship slowly approached Niuzhuang Harbor, and when the ship docked, he hurriedly lifted his suitcase and walked towards the side of the ship with the flow of people. As I walked, I looked at the port in front of me.

"The first passage is exclusive to officials, businessmen, teachers, students and tourists......"

As soon as you set foot on Niuzhuang Port. Zoten found that this place was different from other areas, but fortunately it was clearly written on the ticket that if ordinary immigrants needed to go through the second route, they would receive immigration training and would enjoy the basic benefits of new immigrants - food rations and land for several months.

Because there are few people in the Northeast and many places, there are more than 200 years in Zhili, Shandong and other places to break into the eastern part of the country, but they are all spontaneous by the people, and after the establishment of the Northeast Governor's Office, the spontaneous migration of the people has become a government-led migration, and immigrants must receive immigration training, so its customs will screen passengers, and only officials, businessmen, teachers, students and tourists can enjoy exemptions.

Unless he wanted to farm or he had a family in the northeast, there was only one option for him to enter the immigration training -- farming, and they did not need to recruit workers from the immigrants -- the labor service company could recruit hundreds of thousands of workers with good physical fitness from the customs every year.

The reason why Zo Teng came to China was not to farm, he was to continue his career, and he was also ashamed to be with the same village husband, when he passed through the customs, he found that the customs exit officer screened the passengers in a very simple way, just took out a hard book, and made him read out ten words on a certain page, and when he arrived at Zo Teng, he saw that he was Japanese, and the customs officer took out another book, which was written in Japanese.

A few minutes later, out of the port of Zuo Teng, finally saw Niuzhuang, in front of his eyes reflected a very prosperous city, the houses on both sides of the street are not even as good as Tianjin, are low Chinese houses, although the houses are old, but obviously have been cleaned up, the door on both sides of the road is paved with sunshade cloth, is also similar to the size and style of the same neat very, and the road can be seen at a glance is just built asphalt road, pedestrians walk along the left and right, although many passers-by are still dressed in shabby, but the clothes are very clean, all walk on the rightAt least the roads are clean, and there is no pungent smell in the air, not only the roads are extremely clean, but also the street vendors will take the initiative to run over and clean up when they see dirt in front of the door, which looks very nervous, and sometimes you can even see two door-to-door shops rushing out to grab a piece of garbage.

What's wrong with these people? How can you take such an initiative to pick up garbage?

Although his heart was full of doubts, because he had to hurry to the company's Zuo Teng continued to walk forward, when he saw the two-storey western-style building of the "Vocational Registration Institute" in Niuzhuang Port, he hurriedly quickened his pace to get there before the other party closed, so as to implement his work, which is different from the errand of the Beiyang Yamen, which requires the nod and consent of the adults. In Northeast China, both government agencies and company positions are open to recruitment, not only Chinese can apply, but also foreigners can apply.

"Oh? Ship Engineer? ”

The clerk in charge of the professional registration looked at the Japanese in surprise, although he had come into contact with many Japanese, including naval engineers, it was the first time he had met a naval engineer.

"Yes sir, I worked at the Yokosuka Naval Shipyard and was involved in the construction of the cruiser Hashidate! ”

Although he despised the "Three Scenery Ships" set up by Bai Laoyi in his heart, this large warship has now become a bargaining chip for him to increase his weight, after all, it is a cruiser of more than 4,000 tons, not a gunboat of several hundred tons.

"Oh, that's right......"

The professional registrar didn't even look at whether there were vacancies in the form, in fact, for the profession of engineer, whether it was a company or the government, he was always open, he looked at the documents provided by the other party, and finally took out a form and said.

"Mr. Zoteng, you can take this month's application exam, the exam venue is Mukden, well, if you want, the institute can provide you with a second-class ticket, and go to Mukden tomorrow, what do you think?"

In fact, now both the transportation of materials and the resettlement of migrants rely on river transportation, especially the large-scale resettlement of migrants is heavily dependent on water transportation, and dozens of tons of merchant ships can sail along the Liao River into Tieling, which is why the Agricultural Reclamation Department and the Immigration Department will focus on the development of the two banks of the Liao River in the past two years, and traffic determines everything. And for people like Zo Teng who come to the Northeast by sea to get to Mukden, the waterway is also the most convenient way.

"It's up to you!"

Naturally, Zoten had no objection to the other party's arrangement, in fact, this was the reason why he tried to rush here before his end of work.

"Well, this is a registration meter, you can use the meter to stay at the East Asia Hotel in the port as an employee, and as for the ferry ticket, you can get it directly at the front desk tomorrow morning!"

Everything went smoothly, compared to the hard to find recommendation letters in Tianjin and the red envelopes when asking to see adults, everything here was simple and even a little excessive, so that until the time he took the registration watch, Zo Teng didn't even react, and was stunned for a while before he got up and thanked the other party, and the Chinese staff was also very polite, and even sent him to the door.

After leaving the vocational registration office, Zuo Teng, who was carrying his luggage, looked at the port town in front of him, occasionally a Chinese wearing Hanfu passed by, because the kimono originated from Hanfu, the Hanfu on those Chinese would always give him a sense of intimacy, and in addition to the cordial, he thought of Japan, when he thought of Japan, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, replaced by sadness, and even until he lived in the East Asia Hotel, in the hotel room, staring at the sunset on the horizon, Zoteng's heart felt a little emotional, this sunset is not like Japan......

(These two days are riddled with trivial matters, others are on vacation, speechless but on a business trip in the field, and can not return today, the original promise of the addition, now can not be guaranteed, can only guarantee not to stop.) I hope you can understand. (To be continued.) )