The job of receiving Hirohito, the little devil, is carefully arranged, and the most important scene is to visit the prefecture of Kaihara, which was destroyed by a great earthquake, on the airship, on the way to Northwest New Japan. After arriving in New Japan, the Japanese were filled with joy and were dyed by the prosperity of New Japan. Excluding minerals and forests in more than 400,000 square kilometers, there are 200 million mu of cultivated land alone, nearly three times the amount of Japan's existing cultivated land.

Even if he doesn't like Japan anymore, in the vast northwest, thinking about the steel torrent of Soviet Russia in the future, Yang Rui is still slightly relieved. In later generations, the Kwantung Army was useless in the face of the Soviet Red Army, but when they accepted modernization in the future, once the Soviet Army went south and drove the Chinese Leopard and the T34 to the end, they could still be of great use; There is also the struggle between Shinto and Islam, which is also a great help for the Han people to completely take root in the northwest.

Therefore, before arriving in New Japan, the two sides were still somewhat diplomatically polite, but after visiting New Japan, especially in Ludene, the northernmost city of New Japan, and seeing Soviet outposts and Red Army soldiers standing with guns on the vast snowy fields outside the national border, the friendly atmosphere between China and Japan soared. There was no better catalyst for friendship than a common threat, so on the night they left, everyone got drunk and dragged the geisha around, which led both sides to destroy the records of the night the next day - the prime minister flew to the Japanese geisha, the Japanese prince blew himself up and the secret history of breasts - and so on, and it was almost a world of overhaul.

In addition to the joint murder of men's friendship, joint prostitution is also an important aspect, and when it is transferred from Beiting to Taiyuan, Shanxi, Yang Rui and Hirohito are already familiar with each other.

"I heard that when Your Highness went to Europe, he went to the previous battlefield to see it?" In Taiyuan Second Automobile. Yang Rui asked at the little devil, the two of them don't need honorifics, and they don't need to use honorifics. At this time, everyone was in the finished warehouse full of tricycles, and Hirohito rode on the bike, trying to drive.

"Yes. When I was in France, I saw the battlefields and went to Verdun. There's also the flag of the Ba'ath Army there," the little devil said, stroking his glasses, it was obvious that he was deliberately currying favor, "War is terrible, I just want the world to enjoy peace forever!" ”

No matter how you look at it, Hirohito, a little devil with glasses, is a Sven person. But Yang Rui knew that this was just his disguised appearance, and he didn't talk about history, just the bust of Napoleon that he brought back from Paris. and the tone of voice that does not tolerate the disobedience of subordinates in daily life, and at the same time deliberately contrived in order to show uniqueness, all show that this person is self-righteous and secretive and vain. Japan is ruled by such a person, and when the economy cannot find a new growth point and at the same time suffers from an economic crisis, he really has no other way in his head than to send troops to plunder abroad.

Of course, Japan is much better now than it used to be. Although it has experienced the Sino-Japanese war, which cost people and money, and lost its prestige, the extremist forces in its country are not as rampant as they used to be, as evidenced by the fact that the current Prime Minister Yuan Jing is still alive and well; At the same time, the gains of the First World War were no less than in history. And because there was no war in Siberia, a large amount of money could be saved; And the post-war economic crisis. Driven by the strong investment in fixed assets in China and New Japan, there was a slight setback, but it was still not much worse than the wartime depression.

It can be said that from an economic point of view, as long as Japan can avoid the major earthquake and the world economic crisis in the future, it is very unlikely that Japan will tear its skin and rob it. But. Under the pressure of China's strong rise, that is, the heavy economic pressure, it is not known whether the aggrieved soul of the Japanese will take risks in the hope of launching a foreign war to improve the strength of dialogue.

Without debunking the politeness of the little devil, Yang Rui asked with a smile: "In addition to peace, what else does Your Highness feel?" ”

glanced at Yang Rui vigilantly. The little devil stared and said: "The future war will be an all-out war, and controlling the economy is becoming more and more important. Like China and Europe, Japan should build a reserve and control the economy......"

In front of Yang Rui, the little devil still told the truth, but Yang Rui smiled and said: "This is the appearance, Your Highness is false!" ”

The trip to Europe is just a trip, and understanding is also your own understanding, and the French who have shed their blood are proud of their grief and pride have no one to analyze the war at all. Yang Rui showed his words at this time, and the little devil immediately got off the tricycle and said solemnly: "Please also ask Your Excellency for advice!" ”

"Don't dare to advise!" Yang Rui said politely, "The reserve and the control of the economy are just wartime strategies, and the real war potential lies in the national economy, why can't France beat Germany." The loose folk customs are one reason, a democratic constitutional state, if it is really going to the battlefield, it is really not as good as the monarchical Germany, this is one of them; Moreover, Germany is the largest industrial country in Europe, while France's industry is not weak, and it is all in the north, and some are near Paris, once Paris is lost, as far as France alone is concerned, he has already been defeated.

Controlling the economy can only concentrate all its forces to reduce losses, but this only solves the problem of utilization, but does not solve the problem of growth. If it weren't for the war, we would be thinking about economic growth, or industrial growth. Only in the face of war can we take into account the issue of control. His Royal Highness thinks about war as a consideration, of course, he will think that it is important to control the economy, and which of the following officials does not approve of control? Where does the power come from if they don't control them? However, in normal times, controlling the economy is not conducive to economic growth, and our best way is to let it go. Sheep are generally herded, captive in wartime, slaughtered if needed, and let the sheep graze by themselves in peacetime. ”

Hirohito's trip to Europe really learned two lessons, one of which is that imperial power cannot be abandoned. This was the resurgence of Taisho democracy and the lesson of the Russian Tsar and the German Emperor, that both countries did not collapse because of defeat, but because of internal revolutions. Of course, what he could imagine was that once Japan was democratic, revolution would break out when the war became prolonged. The second is to control the economy, specifically to develop domestic industries in the context of war, but if it is not paid for by the government (in fact, the peasantry), as in the Stalinist model, it is necessary to give these industries competitiveness and find markets to support their growth.

Things are always easier said than done, but Prince Zaihito, who was standing on Hirohito's side, interrupted Yang Rui's brainwashing and asked directly: "May I ask Your Excellency, what if the free-range sheep can't eat grass?" ”

"Haha......" Yang Rui laughed, and he asked rhetorically, "Does Your Excellency the Prince want to say?" What if our sheep can't rob other people's sheep? ”

Zairen is an army general, and now he has a love-hate relationship with China, and he is also in awe of Yang Rui. After listening to the question relayed by the translator, he nodded and said, "Officially." China and Japan are both latecomers, and the fertile grasslands are all in other people's pastures, so it may be difficult to breed them. If there is no control. Then the sheep must not be as big as someone else's. ”

"The prince's words sound reasonable, but in fact, ......," Yang Rui shook his head and said, "Although the pasture is in someone else's house, the sheep now eat grass all over the world after all." Of course, there are many restrictions on other people's meadows, and we are not allowed to do this, we are not allowed to do that, anyway, we don't want our sheep to eat his grass. When he said this, he felt that it was not enough for him to say it, and looked at a person in the distance who was holding a notebook and counting the production statistics, and pointed at him and beckoned him to come over.

The Prime Minister took foreign guests to visit the Second Automobile Company, which made all the workers extremely proud, even though the Second Automobile Company was a state-owned company. But the employees are hired for life, and at the same time, the employees hold about 15% of the company's shares, and it is true that this is their own factory, which can be proud, and meeting the prime minister in person is something these people have not thought of. The statistic was stunned for a while before he shook suddenly, and then ran over very incongruously.

"What's it called, where are you?" Yang Rui waited for him to walk in front of him, and asked directly without looking at his badge.

"I... Grass people—" a group of adults watched. The body seemed to be shaking chaff, and the knees were bent. Almost on your knees.

"Stand firm, don't kneel!" The effect of imperial power and fooling the people was perfectly reflected in this person, and Yang Rui had to shout.

But his drink, especially the word 'kneel' at the end, made him kneel down immediately, but fortunately, a production manager who accompanied him stepped forward and pulled him. His knees didn't touch the ground. Although Yang Rui knew that this person's age could not be changed in this life, he didn't care, he just looked at him with a panic and asked with a smile: "Do you want to bring it?" ”

"Gift...... Adult: With... Handful. At the prompting of others, he finally spoke, and then he was very embarrassed.

"Stand up straight!" Yang Rui said loudly. "Kneeling to the sky and kneeling to the ancestors, what are you kneeling when you see the officials!" He no longer asked for warmth, and said directly: "Let me ask you a question: why do the three-wheeled cars in the factory sell so well?" ”

The question was so simple that the man immediately said, "My lord, the car is good, and the people like ......."

The answer is rotten on the street, but this is what Yang Rui wants, he gave him a gadget casually, and then said to Zairen: "Your Excellency, sheep can't eat grass, is it a problem of grass or a problem of sheep." Seeing that one of them was dry, the Japanese fell into deep thought, and said: "Is it a problem of product competition?" Or is it a question of market capacity? With the population and land area of your country, it is no less than that of European countries. China and Japan are allies, and although there are taxes, the tax refund of the new Japan can ......"

Although China's customs does not use the country but the product category system to tariff the outside world, the existence of New Japan is a big cheat, because foreigners who have lost control over China cannot know whether those Japanese goods in the name of transit are really sold to New Japan, Central Asia, West Asia and other places, or transferred back to the Chinese mainland market. If the latter is the case, then the tariffs on Japanese goods will be very advantageous for European and American goods. In front of the public, Yang Rui just clicked on it, but did not elaborate.

“…… Anyway, our own ranch is actually not small, is it to cultivate our own ranch? Or do you always look at someone else's ranch? This is a question worth digging into; Besides, although all sheep eat grass, the grass they eat is also different. Goats eat grass roots, sheep eat grass tips, and rats and sheep eat grass seeds. As long as our sheep eat something different from other people's sheep, they can still open the net. ”

The non-existent creature of rats and sheep was created by Yang Rui, which only made everyone laugh. But he didn't finish his words, he said, "In my opinion, the most important thing is to cultivate your own pasture, when the grass grows, the sheep will naturally fat; The sheep is fat, and you still care about whether you control it or not? So the root of the matter is still grass raising. Judging from the situation in China and Japan, it is really worth the loss to rely on other people's pastures, or to spend all their time and money to engage in captivity. Moreover, I see that many of the sheep in your country are unhealthy, and they may die in less than ten years. ”

"This ......" The Japanese who love face were said by Yang Rui and couldn't save face at the moment. Hirohito touched his glasses uneasily, Zaihito was glaring at his beard, only Mori Ke, the general manager of Mitsui & Co.'s China store, asked, "Your Excellency the Prime Minister said ...... What is the management of our company? ”

"Managing a disease is also one of them, and it's a big disease. But even more serious than this is the problem of government subsidies and support, your country only has large companies, and large companies are like goats. If it is allowed to eat grass roots, the grass roots will eat and the pasture will be desertified. Once desertification, I don't need to say what the result will be. ”

Yang Rui continued to use sheep as a metaphor, and then said: "There are goats in my country," he patted a three-wheeled car: "This is it." But we just delivered it. After that, it will no longer be subsidized and supported, which is tantamount to prohibiting it from eating grass roots. It doesn't matter whether it's dead or alive, fat or thin, it never matters, if he goes out of business tomorrow, then it will go out of business tomorrow, I don't blink half an eye, why? Well deserved! ”

Although it was a good medicine, the straightforward criticism still made Hirohito lose face, so much so that he politely ended the day after the visit. When he returned to the hotel, he locked himself in his room and was furious, and when his anger was a little lower, Sen Ke, the head of Mitsui & Co. China, was summoned by him. "What Yang said today......" Hirohito looked at Mori Ke, because he was angry when he said it, so he only said half of the words.

Sen Ke fully understood what he meant, he looked at the crown prince Hirohito and the prince Zaihito and Zhentian next to him and said: "Your Highness: What Yang said is true, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China has submitted a proposal to our country to improve management and pay attention to quality, and believes that if no change is made. Within 10 years, Chinese companies will go bankrupt on a large scale......"

"Nani!" Hirohito was shocked. He said, "Why haven't I heard of ......?" How is this possible? ”

"Probably...... Maybe everyone has forgotten about it. Sen Ke didn't want to offend anyone, so he vaguely skipped the previous question and answered the latter question in detail. The wages of workers in China are twice that of China, but the efficiency is far inferior to them, and now the market is more demand than supply, but once the output is saturated, the final result can only be a large-scale bankruptcy of China's companies. In addition, Yang's metaphor of herding sheep is referential. Because China implements a policy of raising grass, in their words, that is, when the peasants have money, they will naturally buy three-wheeled cars, buy three-wheeled vehicles. Naturally, there will be the automobile industry, the steel industry, ......"

"Yaga!" Prince Zaihito, who was born in the military, immediately drank, "Are you saying that only a few Japanese can top a Chinese?" ”

Everyone is very clear about the wage difference between Chinese and Japanese workers, and even some people think that this is a specific manifestation of Japan's superiority over China, and they don't think about the difference in rice prices between the two countries at all, and now they hear that the Japanese are not as efficient as the Chinese, including Hirohito, and the Japanese are not convinced, completely forgetting the difference in shipbuilding efficiency between the two countries before.

Zhentian, who was a diplomat, calmed himself down and said, "You can say it well." What is the difference between the Chinese factory and the Japanese factory? ”

"Many factories in China are state-owned, and employees will not be dismissed once hired, and many people can become factory shareholders...... Although he was dissatisfied with China's superiority over Japan, several big people still listened to Mori Ke's words, and when he heard that workers could become shareholders, Hirohito asked anxiously: "Is this naked communism?" ”

"No, Your Highness. Communism is that all workers are shareholders, but the real shareholders are the Soviets; In Chinese factories, older workers are shareholders, younger ones are not. There were some workers who made trouble because they were against it, but the result was ....... Chinese said that this is teamwork, the factory performance is good, everyone has a high bonus, and if the performance is not good, the bonus is low...... Sen Ke said: "The basic salary of workers is very low, relying on wages can only eat sorghum rice and pickles for a family, and the bonus is several times or more than ten times the salary, and the bonus for people with the same length of service is the same......

"Don't good soldiers be rewarded?" Prince Jaehito laughed when he heard this, and asked again.

This ...... "Lifetime employment system and seniority sequence system are complementary to each other, Sen Ke is just a businessman, of course he doesn't understand the key, but he still hearsay some of the essence of it, he said: "Your Excellency, the Chinese manager said that he would rather have an ordinary team than an excellent individual. When Zairen was deflated, he said: "Your Highness, my country's Toyota clan also intends to produce automobiles, and his son Kiichiro has been in Taiyuan for a year, what is the difference between the factories of the two countries, His Highness can interrogate him." ”

Toyota's famous in Japan is the textile king Toyoda Sakichi, whose textile machinery is not only sold well in China, but also exported to China. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, took root in Taiyuan Second Automobile after traveling all over Europe and the United States last year. It is said that this kind of stealing teachers to learn art is to be driven away, but he is sent by Tongji University in Shanghai to intern in the factory in the name of management trainees, so as long as he does not exceed his duties and do something that should not be done, he can still stay. And in Yang Rui's words, a set of industrial management system can really be stolen by just a few people. Then let him steal it.

It was already late at night when Kiichiro Toyoda was summoned to the inn, and although he was excited to face Hirohito, he had passed away after all and had been interning at the Second Automobile Factory for a long time, and he said in the face of the previous question: "Your Highness, the Chinese factory is as clean as the Navy's dreadnought, and you can't see waste; Workers also call factories home. Efficiency improvement and quality improvement are discussed all the time; On the other hand, in China's factories, there is chaos and waste everywhere, and workers only work hard when they go to work, and forget about the factory when they get off work; If it's piecework, workers will fight for high-priced jobs......"

Kiichiro Toyoda is not a management talent at all, but he is still very clear about the difference between his own factory and Taiyuan Second Automobile, he probably stated for nearly half an hour, and Hirohito also listened for half an hour. After he said, 'That's about it,' Zhentian, who stayed up all night with him, asked, "Can Japanese companies compete with Chinese companies?" ”

The question is so direct, Kiichiro Toyoda can't be tactful even if he wants to. Patriotic, he had to take out the Nissan Monkey brand matches he bought from the Chinese market, and then picked up the Chinese auspicious matches provided by the inn from the table, and then started to scrape matches without saying anything: auspicious scrape, monkey scrape, auspicious scrape, monkey scrape ......, after scraping a box of matches, he looked at the thoughtful Hirohito and said: "Your Highness, most of the raw materials for Chinese match stalks are imported to Japan." And many Chinese don't know that the Monkey brand is made in Japan, but ......"

Kiichiro Toyoda after the match test. Hirohito stayed up all night. He had heard of Japanese goods as a representative of the next three indiscriminate, but Japanese goods at that time still had a price advantage; Now the next three indiscriminate or the next three indiscriminate, but the price advantage no longer exists, so that if the market is saturated, the first to eliminate is Japanese goods. Yang Rui's rebellious words during the day finally turned into bitter medicine after one night.

"Your Highness doesn't seem to have slept well last night?" In the inn, Yang Rui looked at the two little devils with panda eyes and asked with a smile,

"I didn't sleep well." Hirohito is a face-loving person after all, and he wants to ask Yang Rui about the solution of Japanese goats, but it is difficult to ask directly. Very squirming, he said, "Your Excellency, can you not visit today?" Can the story of yesterday's sheep herding be recounted again......

"Sheep herding may be the key, but raising grass is even more important, and there can be no good sheep without good grass." While Yang Rui was talking, Hirohito retreated, and when Yang Rui saw him like this, he also let his entourage retreat.

'Once the sheep are told, what will the shepherd do?' After waiting for everyone to leave, Hirohito took out a pen and paper and began to talk, which was the only effective way for the two to communicate without the need for an interpreter.

Yang Rui knew exactly where Hirohito's heart was, and wrote: "Then it depends on what the shepherd wants to do." If it is only for itself, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a lesson from the past, and if it is happy with the people, it is a society for ten thousand years. Whether I am the state, the state is the me, or I am the me, the state is just a private thing, all in one thought. ’

'Is the king of your kingdom that I am my country, and my country my country?' Hirohito wrote again, although his expression was still serious, but his eyes were disdainful, he didn't want to be a torii like Zhu Kuansu after all.

'Changing an entire country by one's own will, without acting in accordance with reality, will have unimaginable consequences if it fails. Yang Rui couldn't completely stand on his opposite, so he could only persuade him tactfully.

'What about Your Excellency?' Every change in China is not your personal will? Hirohito's sentence hit Yang Rui at the critical point, and he couldn't tell others that everything he did was based on history.

"Haha......" Yang Rui couldn't help laughing, the little devil was more difficult than he imagined, and he wrote after laughing: "Everything I, and my comrades-in-arms, have done is for this country and not for my own family; At the same time, everything we do is conducive to economic development and helping people get rich, not the other way around. ’

When Yang Rui wrote, Hirohito wrote: 'But China is rising, and Japan is gradually declining, if you don't want to do it, then ......'." The last dots he used a pen to point extremely heavily, in the end he was only a young man of twenty years old, and his heart was still not sinking.

Instead of cutting the grass and feeding the sheep, the solution is to raise the grass and graze the sheep. The more the grass is cut and the more captive it is, the weaker the sheep become. When the pasture is barren and the lambs die, they can only rob other people's pastures, otherwise the ranch will go bankrupt. Look around, who can you rob? Yang Rui also paused the tip of his pen on the table when writing the question mark, and then wrote: "But if the Chinese model is adopted, then the sheep of China and Japan are better than Europe and the United States, they can't live, we can live; They can't eat, we can. Not surprisingly, in 30 years, Asia will be our pasture, and in 50 years, the whole world will be our pasture. ’

After this prophecy was written, he added: 'There will be a war then, but if it is a war in Europe that comes first, then for us everything of the previous years will be repeated.' ’

'Alone? Lu Guo? When he heard that Europe would fight again, Hirohito was full of light behind his glasses, and he wanted it to happen again.

'I don't know. Yang Rui wrote with a smile, and then wrote: "But no matter what, as long as we endure for 20 years, there is hope for Asia." (To be continued.) )