At 11:58 a.m. on September 1, 1923, an 8.6-magnitude earthquake occurred in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Prior to the earthquake, martial law had been imposed throughout Japan, and based on China's experience in fighting the virus flu, the Japanese emperor ordered the issuance of the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments are an exact copy of the Ten Demands for Fighting the Japanese Plague issued by the Chinese Ministry of Health, and of course, the Chinese government has not claimed copyright from Japan. The Japanese government's active fight against this super virus has gradually achieved results, and the number of deaths is on a downward trend, and the Japanese people are excited.

However, the Great Kanto Earthquake plunged Japan into mourning once again.

When the earthquake struck, it was noon, and citizens in Tokyo and other places were busy making lunch, and many homes were on fire. When a great earthquake struck, the stove overturned, flames splashed, and sparks flew wildly. The two major cities of Tokyo and Yokohama, located in the Kanto region, are not only densely populated, but also have many wooden buildings, and the earthquake damaged the gas pipes, causing gas to overflow and ignite in case of fire. The combination of several factors, such as the stoves that provide the fire source and the gas and wooden houses that are the best fuels, has turned Tokyo and other places into a sea of fire, and the sound of explosions and the cries for help from people in the fires are heard one after another. Although the fires in Tokyo and Yokohama started small, the underground water supply pipes were damaged and the firefighting facilities were destroyed, and many streets were crowded and narrow, and firefighters were unable to extinguish the fires. Firefighters tried in every possible way to pump water from ditches and wells, but to no avail. When the fire is approaching. People rushed to carry their belongings and pull rickshaws to flee for their lives, resulting in traffic jams. Delayed the fire, and brought the fire across the road, causing the fire to spread. The fire grows and the wind increases, and the raging fire rolls up a whirlwind that expands the fire area.

Particularly tragic is Tokyo's Shitamachi Ward (Sumida Ward), where about 40,000 people have fled to the Fukichang Square for refuge. Due to the downwind location, the square was soon surrounded by fierce fires. There was no escape, many splashing sparks came with the wind, and the clothes began to burn. The entire evacuation square was in flames. Some people who couldn't bear to barbecue jumped into the river, either drowned or scalded to death by the hot water, and 38,000 people were burned alive here.

The fire burned for 3 days until it was burned out.

The disaster caused as many as 250,000 casualties in the Kanto region of Japan. The direct death toll is about 143,000. The property damage was astronomical, and almost all heavy industry factories, shipyards, machinery factories, and factories in Kanagawa Prefecture, including Mitsubishi Industries, were destroyed.

On September 1, almost all countries in East Asia felt a slight earthquake, but the earthquake in Beijing was very weak, and Wang Maoru thought that because his butterfly had fanned the wind in Asia, Japan would not be earthquake.

On 1 September, representatives of the Chinese government, headed by Shi Shaoyang, President of the Senate, Wu Zhaolin, Vice President of the Senate, Liu Enge, Speaker of the House of Deputies, and Liang Qichao, Vice President of the House of Deputies, formally took over the Italian concession in China in Tianjin. One after another, they took over and regained foreign concessions. It gave the Chinese people in distress a huge surprise, and also gave the Chinese people confidence in the war epidemic.

However, the headlines in China's major newspapers on September 2 were not China's reconquest of the Italian concession in Tianjin. It was yesterday's earthquake in Japan. Although the circumstances of the earthquake were unknown, and even Japan's communications were cut off, Chinese journalists used their imagination to describe the earthquake in Japan as if they had seen it with their own eyes. "The Strictest Earthquake in Japan's History" - Yenching Daily

"To add insult to injury, the Japanese government has gotten out of control" -- Tianjin Daily

"With JVIS and then a major earthquake, where does Japan go from here?" -- Declaration

"In the face of national disaster, why not give up Kanto Prefecture to help China?" -- Wuhan Daily

"The death toll of the Great Japanese Earthquake is estimated to be as high as 600,000" - Yangcheng Daily

"Big news, the earthquake in Japan, countless deaths and injuries! -- Tianfu News

Of course, in the end of the earthquake in Japan, in just one day, in this era of underdeveloped communications, Chinese journalists can only rely on imagination, and some journalists even wrote the news of Japan's sinking, which made everyone laugh.

However, due to the devastating earthquake, the Tokyo area was still in ruins, and the official residence of the Japanese emperor was even inconnected with the outside world, and had to use the ancient form of carrier pigeons to transmit news to the outside world. All the power facilities near Tokyo were destroyed, and the Yokohama National Shipyard in Yokohama sank to the bottom of the sea.

At this time, it has been more than half a month since the closure of customs transactions, and the Chinese government is still in a state of "closed to the rest of the country".

This isolation has indeed brought great benefits to the Chinese government, especially in the diplomatic field, and China has refused to trade with European countries because of the Japanese virus and flu. For China, thousands of years of self-sufficient economic form is completely enough to create its own wealth in the "closed country", China does not need foreign countries to produce and live and work as usual, there is no foreign canned food, we ordinary people eat their own turnips. For foreign powers, without the huge market of China, they are very anxious, Chinese porcelain, tea, soybeans, wheat, sorghum, rice, peanuts, cotton, sesame, cane sugar, silk, embroidery, tobacco, tungsten ore, machinery and so on are the materials they need, especially for the pursuit of high-quality life in Europe and the United States, Chinese porcelain silk and even embroidery - especially Cantonese embroidery, has been an indispensable daily necessities for wealthy European families.

Historically, Europe was so fascinated by Chinese goods that it even went to the cost of discovering the New World of America in order to be able to open up trade routes with China, which shows the importance of Chinese goods to Europe, and European goods actually had no other role for the Chinese people than the oil in the oil lamps.

Therefore, China's seclusion has brought certain benefits to China, and it has also prompted countries to redefine the status of the Chinese government, which is a highly centralized country, which is no longer a scattered sand.

In fact, this kind of seclusion and seclusion is also very harmful to China, and China's own scientific and technological level has lagged behind foreign countries for more than ten years. But it is also officially because of the "closed country" for more than half a month. Wang Maoru has taken over China in an all-round way, from the national conditions to the military and the people's livelihood, and Wang Maoru knows that the temptation of this kind of power is very great, but the danger is even greater.

September 2nd. When Lu Zhengxiang and Gu Weijun came to find Wang Maoru in the morning and asked him if he should end the state of "closing the country", Wang Maoru was silent for a long time before saying: "Can't you stand it after just over half a month?" Has China's economy collapsed? No! We can still hold on, so why bother switching in a hurry? ”

"Xiusheng, the great powers can't bear it anymore, if it continues like this, I'm afraid there will be a war." Gu Weijun said worriedly.

Wang Maoru nodded. said: "I also know the strictness of things, but it is Japan that is even stricter. ”

"What's wrong with Japan?"

"There was a major earthquake in Japan, and various sources estimated the number of dead and injured as high as half a million (due to inaccurate numbers. The number of dead and wounded transmitted back from Japan is twice as high as it actually is). Wang Maoru frowned and said, "And Japan is in the midst of a viral flu outbreak at this time, what I am worried about is the death and injury plus the flu." It will cause a new round of great plague in Japan. ”

"What's this?" Gu Weijun said with a smile. "Didn't we survive the last time the Japanese virus was hit by the flu? Being able to perfectly control this big flu, Xiusheng, you have made great contributions, are you still afraid of the next round? ”

Wang Maoru smiled bitterly in his heart, there are some things that he can't say yet, the previous viral flu was deliberately spread by our agents in Japan, we have medicine, plus preventive measures, we can naturally create a zào myth. However, once the virus, flu and plague bacteria were mixed together, the real "Japanese plague" was created. It's hard to control. "So we're going to wait, wait for news from the Japanese side," he said. So be it. The first part of the ban was lifted, China's export industry was fully restored, and the import industry was temporarily suspended, and the time was still one month, and the resumption of the import industry was considered after a month. As for the public, they must still wear gloves and masks when traveling, students will resume classes, and factories will resume work, but they must not gather in crowded places. ”

"If imports are suspended again, our cars will run out of gasoline." Lu Zhengxiang smiled bitterly.

Wang Maoru thought for a while and said, "Foreign Minister Lu, Vice Minister Gu, I think you are right, China has been closed off for 20 days, and the damage caused to China is also very great. In this way, in addition to the goods from Japan, a part of the import list will be appropriately restored, and the quota and size will be handed over to you. ”

"But the Japanese ......," Lu Zhengxiang asked worriedly, "will it take the opportunity to make trouble?" ”

Wang Maoru said: "Don't worry, Japan is a pathogenic country, and China is not the only country that has embargoed Japan; if Japan asks, it will say that China will follow the attitude of Britain, the United States, and France, and if the three countries switch goods to Japan, we will lift the embargo." ”

"Yes." Lu Gu and the others said with a smile, this is obviously to use Japan's allies to fight back against Japan.

After China's policy of closing the country to the outside world was appropriately liberalized, the hanging hearts of all countries were finally relaxed, this is really an efficient centralized country, from the order from above, the people can not even go out of the house, can not work, refuse to buy a qiē foreign goods, refuse to have any contact with a foreigner.

The arm-and-arm state system has allowed foreign countries, which have long been known for their freedom and democracy, to see the power of China's traditional class. China is a great country that can quickly concentrate its national capacity to do one thing, for example, in the battle against the pandemic, China won a big battle.

After the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, the intractable JVIS flu and the plague caused by a large number of corpses not being cleaned up in time appeared at the same time, producing a mutated plague virus, which even infected the Japanese troops involved in the rescue. Even one-fifth of the soldiers of the 15th Division stationed in Japan's Kwantung region died because of the plague, which Wang Maoru did not expect.

Japan immediately appealed to the world for help, and Japan, with a population of 70 million, was on the verge of collapse in the face of this month's hellish disaster. The super plague virus began to spread from the Kanto Prefecture of Japan to the whole of Japan, and the daily death toll in Japan was as high as tens of thousands, and the whole of Japan fell into a doomsday panic, and many people even chose to commit suicide by jumping into the sea in order not to be affected by this panic. On September 10 alone, as many as 4,000 people in Japan committed suicide by jumping into the sea, and even Tokyo Bay was blocked with corpses. (To be continued......)