Chapter 481 Japan in the Great Earthquake

How did the time-traveler prove to the "ancients" that he was a time-traveler?

The best way to do this is to be a god and predict some "natural disasters" that cannot be "created" by manpower, such as earthquakes.

It would be too easy for the pretending gods to recruit believers if they could accurately predict the occurrence of an earthquake.

This is especially true for Japan, the country with the highest number of earthquakes on the planet.

Historically, in the four years before and after the end of World War II, Japan has had as many as four major earthquakes with a intensity of 6 or higher. The largest, most devastating, and most far-reaching of these earthquakes was the 7.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Kii Peninsula in Mie Prefecture in central Japan on December 7, 1944, which endangered much of Nagoya, Shizuoka, Nagano, and Wakayama prefectures, and triggered a 9-meter-high tsunami that swept across the coastal areas of central Japan. The New York Times, far away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, said in a report the next day: "This earthquake shook the earth for six hours."

The earthquake occurred at 1:36 p.m. on December 7, 1944. Nine months later, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. At that time, Japan's production line for Gale fighters in Nagoya was severely damaged by the earthquake, and hundreds of Gale fighters in construction were scrapped as a result.

The Gale fighter could not compete with the strongest live (crab) fighter of the United States HNA F8F Panda, which has always been a regret for many World War II military fans.

But this plane, this regret will not happen.

As of December 7, 1944, the whole of Japan was still at peace, and since Tokyo had been bombed by a surprise attack by the American fleet nearly two years earlier, not a single bombing order had been dropped.

And the Japanese side. Soon after the birth of the "Yamato Nadeshiko", it was warned that a super earthquake would occur in the Nagoya area in the future, and in the following years, Japan deliberately avoided Nagoya as much as possible when building industrial factories and layouts.

In 1944, Li Huamei, who was incarnated as Yamato Nadeshiko, informed the Japanese government at the beginning of the year of the exact time when the earthquake was about to occur.

In November of that year, the Japanese government issued a warning to the citizens of the Nagoya area for future earthquakes. After that, all the ships along the coast of Nagoya were evacuated ahead of schedule to avoid the tsunami that would occur after the earthquake.

In later generations, the biggest headache for seismologists and governments around the world is that no one dares to take responsibility for "misreporting" earthquakes. China's Haicheng earthquake is famous for its boldness and boldness, becoming the first positive case in human history to successfully predict an earthquake and greatly reduce damage.

In this plane of Japan, Yamato Nadeshiko has been recognized as a "god" walking in the world throughout Japan, when she issued an early warning "oracle" of earthquakes. Everyone in Japan believed it without any doubt, and made a series of countermeasures based on the forecast. The severe pain of the Great Kanto Earthquake more than a decade ago is still painful in the wounds of the Japanese people, and no one dares to take this matter lightly.

By 12 o'clock at noon on December 7, the whole of Japan had fallen silent, and all eyes were on Nagoya. At this time, the residents of Nagoya had already retreated to a safe place yesterday. In order to escape the tsunami caused by the earthquake, all residents of the beach were evacuated.

The local police and firefighters are on the verge of maintaining law and order to prevent theft. They were going from house to house to inspect the city for the last time for possible sources of open fires.

The streets of Nagoya City and several surrounding cities are empty. All cars have been evacuated ahead of schedule. As early as a month ago, the factory moved the machinery first, and the Xu house was urgently reinforced. Some buildings that are obviously dilapidated and do not look like they can withstand earthquakes no matter how they are strengthened are stripped off the roof in advance to reduce the burden on the walls and improve their "earthquake resistance". Look into the city from above. In Nagoya City, you can find many buildings that have lost their roofs and have only four walls left.

For those houses with roofs removed, the demolished building materials are piled up on the vacant lot, which is also conducive to saving material costs in the reconstruction after the earthquake.

The inhabitants of the castle completely heeded Yamato Nadeshiko's warning. The family's valuable belongings have long been transferred. In addition to the military and police who maintain order, there are journalists from all over the world who want to "see" the earthquake. Hundreds of cameras installed in and out of Nagoya City were turned on at this time, just waiting for Her Excellency Yamato Nadeshiko to predict that a 7.9-magnitude earthquake would occur off the coast of the Kii Peninsula in Mie Prefecture at 1:36 p.m.

Before the earthquake, both China and Britain donated a batch of tent-type relief materials to Japan in advance out of "humanitarianism". China now has a strange relationship with Japan, and if he can donate materials at this time, Lin Han is also secretly (crab) to help.

Lin Han supported the donation of earthquake materials to Japan, not because he liked Japan, but because he knew what kind of face Japan's chaebol would be. As the tipping point of his plan to redden Japan is getting closer and closer, the earthquake foreseen in advance, the donations from overseas, and the way the Japanese side handles it will be an important breakthrough in intensifying Japan's domestic contradictions. It is for this reason that the Chinese side sent a batch of relief materials to Japan ahead of schedule.

By 1:36 p.m., the ground off the Kii Peninsula in Mie Prefecture shook violently, and then centered on it, and the waves quickly spread in all directions, and Nagoya, which is very close to the Kii Peninsula, was no exception.

Soon, a large number of local houses collapsed in a violent tremor, and reporters from all over the world, who had been prepared in advance, held their cameras and excitedly filmed the scene when the earthquake was accurately predicted for the first time in human history.

Due to their mental preparation, only a few people exclaimed as the ground shook.

Soon after the earthquake, a nine-meter-high tsunami was set off by an undersea earthquake, which hit the coastal embankments and houses. Similarly, as a result of the preparations, the ships involved have long since been withdrawn and the facilities on the docks have been relocated. The Japanese suffered little damage from the earthquake and tsunami, and only collapsed a bunch of houses that were not sturdy. Apart from the loss of houses and buildings, the loss of human life and material is not significant. The few injuries reported that day were police officers patrolling the streets who sprained their feet in the tremors, and a journalist who was filming in the mountains was injured by a rock falling from the top of the roof.

After the earthquake, the Japanese were helped by the Marine Corps, who had been prepared for a long time. At the first time, the work of self-rescue after the disaster began. The reason why the Marines carried out this mission was that Emperor Shohito listened to Li Huamei's suggestion and took the opportunity to buy the hearts and minds of his "own son" Marines.

At the time of the earthquake, Yamato Nadeshiko, who was a combination of Li Huamei and Katyusha, was praying for the blessing of Japan at a shrine built specifically for her in Tokyo. On that day, thousands of Japanese people gathered outside the shrine who volunteered to pray with her.

Before the earthquake, there may have been some doubts in Japan about their identity as "Yamato Nadeshiko", but after the earthquake, all doubts no longer existed, and that day the two girls gained a much stronger Japanese faith than ever before.

This part of Nagoya. As early as a year ago, the local dense population began to evacuate, and the evacuation destination was not elsewhere in Japan, but in the Philippines to the south.

Japan is an island country with many earthquakes, and every ten years or so, the Japanese islands receive a major earthquake. The environment of many earthquakes and tsunamis has made the Japanese people dream of leaving this disaster-ridden land for hundreds of years. Go to live on a stable continent.

In the past, Japan chose to move to the area of Manchuria, Mongolia in northeast China, but the end of the Sino-Japanese War. Crushed the dreams of the Japanese.

Now the Japanese are looking at the territory of the Philippines, which they have seized from the Americans. The land here is fertile, the sunshine is abundant, the minerals are abundant, and the grain can be harvested four times a year. Since the seizure of the island in the 1942 war, the Japanese have been immigrating to the island. And in 19434. After being warned of the Yamato Nadeshiko earthquake, the Japanese side took the opportunity to move many local civilians in Nagoya directly to the island for the reason of "earthquake avoidance".

Further south, Indonesia's large islands include West New Guinea with an area of 416,000 km2, Kalimantan with 539,000 km2, Sumatra with 470,000 km2, Sulawesi with 175,000 km2 and Java with 132,000 km2.

At present, among the five islands, Kalimantan Island is divided between China, Britain and Japan. And Sulawesi was completely swallowed by Japan. The remaining three large islands were British territory.

Although the island of Kalimantan is large. However, the soil is brick red soil, which is not suitable for planting, and even if rice is grown, the yield is very low. The largest island of Kalimantan, with a population only slightly larger than that of West New Guinea, is not even as large as the volcanic island of Sulawesi. (Historically, the population of these five islands in Indonesia is 1.4% in West New Guinea, 5.28% in Kalimantan, 20.97% in Sumatra, 7.1% in Sulawesi, and 59.19% in Java.)

Although the Japanese enclosed a large area of land in Kalimantan, the Philippines was the final focus of immigration.

After taking the Philippines, the Japanese, in order to taste the huge arms debts owed by Britain and Germany during the war, desperately plundered local labor and sent them to work in the mines of the Philippines, mainly copper ore and chromite. Both of these ores are scarce in both China and Germany, and the Philippines is extremely rich in local reserves.

The Japanese want the land here, the resources here, and the death of the natives here to make room for their immigrants.

Driven by the destructive motives of the Japanese side, a large number of local young and strong laborers died of exhaustion and starvation in the mines in various places. The bones of countless local natives were exchanged for ore and sent to China or shipped back to the mainland for smelting, and the proceeds from the sale were turned into military expenses for the operation of Japan's war machine.

In addition to the predatory exploitation of local resources, the Japanese also repeated their other plundering policies in the Philippines, confiscating all local rubber plantations and cash crops, and even issued a ban on the consumption of rice by local residents, claiming that the consumption of rice by local people was illegal.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the brutal oppression of the Japanese naturally led to an uprising and resistance of the local residents, but it led to an even greater massacre. Since the outbreak of the war, millions of locals have died on many of the Philippines' major islands.

In the Philippines, the victims are not only local natives, but also local Chinese. However, Japan was forced by China's pressure, and Li Huamei was secretly coordinating, so it did not dare to do too much in this matter.

At Lin Han's suggestion, Li Huamei came up with an idea to the Japanese military department: to move all the overseas Chinese in the Philippines to Mindoro Island and its surrounding islands to "live in a concentrated manner." This is also convenient for management, but in fact it is taking the opportunity to embezzle the property of the Chinese in various places.

The Japanese side agreed to this approach.

After 1942, the number of local Chinese in the Philippines exceeded one million, and the island of Mindoro was about 9,000 square kilometers, close to the South China Sea side, and close to Palawan, which was sold to Germany. The island, which is 144 kilometres long and 96 kilometres wide, covers an area of 9,826 square miles, produces rice, and has gold, copper, and coal mines, making it a good place – although at this time the gold and copper mines here have not yet been discovered.

However, with the productivity of the forties, so many Chinese poured in at once, and the local area could not digest it in a short time. Fortunately, the Chinese side and the Lanfang area, which had been prepared for a long time, sent ships to pick up nearly one million Chinese. Most of these Chinese were taken in by overseas Chinese farms in New China, and some were taken in by Lanfang. Lin Han has enclosed a large (crab) area in Lanfang, and he needs to replenish the Chinese population to increase his control over the place.

After that, from 1943 onwards, there were basically not many Chinese on the other islands of the Philippines.

Lin Han used Li Huamei's identity to influence Japan's national policy, and came up with this idea precisely to serve his plan to "turn the South China Sea into China's internal lake".

Mindoro Island, the original garrison was only about 100,000 at this time, and in the early stage, driven by the plundering labor of the Japanese side, the local area lost tens of thousands of young people, even if only more than 200,000 Chinese were moved over, the number still overwhelmed the local original residents at once, and the Chinese became a dominant population, and the local natives were seriously lacking in young and strong at this time, and they were powerless to resist in the face of the influx of a large number of Chinese.

This is a conspiracy secretly planned by Lin Han and Li Huamei.

After the end of the war, no matter what the outcome of the war is, the island will be surnamed "China". As for the wealth lost by the local overseas Chinese in the process, it could not be preserved, and it could be exchanged for a large island with an area of more than 9,000 square kilometers, in Lin Han's view, this business was really profitable.

The Japanese were happy to see that they had eliminated the most troublesome Chinese presence in the Philippines, and Lin Han was also happy to see that he had eaten a large island rich in resources. Although the island is still under the control of the Japanese, when Japan is defeated under the coercion of the United States, it is a good time for China and Lanfang to send troops to occupy the island under the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese. (To be continued......)