In this time and space, because of Hu Weidong's relationship, Japan's military spending on the one hand is much larger than the same period in history, and on the other hand, the early advent of nylon has directly impacted Japan's most important export commodity, raw silk, which not only made Japan's mulberry farmers and silk reeling factories bankrupt, but also made Japan's export revenue begin to decline sharply, and the already huge trade deficit is getting out of control. As a result, it was only January 1939, and the Japanese government's foreign exchange and gold reserves had been completely exhausted, and if it wanted to import goods, it had to use the reserves necessary for the issuance of yen banknotes

The most direct impact of the depletion of hard currency is that Japan has to reduce the import of various essential materials, of which grain is the first to bear the brunt; although the Japanese government has issued a price limit order to strictly prohibit the price of grain and other daily necessities from rising, the supply cannot be increased because of this. According to the Japanese government's estimates, even if the war situation does not worsen, the demand for rice in Japan in 1939 will reach 80 million koku, and with the current grain production in Japan, the gap is as much as 20 million koku, and due to factors such as the war and local military supplies, Japan is expected to be able to import about 1 million koku of grain from Korea and Taiwan in the coming year, which is almost the same.

Due to the severe food crisis, and also because the necessary training time for peasant recruits was too long, as a result, in order to reverse the decline on the battlefield, the Japanese authorities did not hesitate to dry up and fish, and began to recruit more and more industrial workers into the army, even those skilled Jishu workers, which directly led to a sharp decline in the quality of Japanese industrial products, including the military industry. This partially compensates for the negative impact of the reduction in skilled workers, and the quality of Japanese products is even worse. Even so, compared with the Chinese military's increasingly improved weaponry in both design and quality, Japan's arms manufacturers and military personnel are still feeling unprecedented pressure. Under their repeated persuasion, the Japanese army headquarters had to suspend the recruitment of skilled technicians from the factories, but this was the case. The peasants can't be conscripted, the workers can't be conscripted, and where do the soldiers come from? The headquarters of the Japanese army could not help but fall into deep distress

And even with the suspension of conscription, the food crisis in Japan is still intensifying, and the Japanese authorities have tried everything they can to do so. They ordered the peasants to sell rice, wheat, and other grain products to the government at official prices, except for their own consumption and seeds, to implement grain rationing, and to prohibit the sale of rice in ordinary restaurants and restaurants. Even with the promotion of alternative foods, which limit breakfast to 1 yen, lunch 2.5 yen, and dinner 5 yen, there was still a huge shortage of more than 10 million koku, and malnutrition and famine were widespread in Japan. The situation is even more serious than in history in 1941. In addition, the Japanese army suffered heavy setbacks on the battlefield of aggression against China, and the Japanese Communist Party, which thought that it saw an opportunity, set off armed insurrections in many places in Japan, and the momentum was far greater than before

In order to defuse the unprecedented crisis of rule, the Japanese authorities adopted a two-pronged approach, on the one hand, sending troops to carry out brutal suppression. It took several months, more than 100,000 casualties, and finally brought the situation under control, during which more than 100,000 rebel soldiers and civilians were killed, and the number of party members arrested (many of whom were mistaken) was as many as hundreds of thousands, and less than 100 members of the Japanese Communist Party in Japan escaped the catastrophe.

When Hu Weidong learned about it, he was very dissatisfied with the "rash advance" of the Japanese Communist Party, but in a certain sense, the "red faction" of the Japanese Communist Party, which mainly came from the reform of Japanese prisoners and overseas Japanese in China, thus completely grasped the leadership of the party, which Hu Weidong was happy to see. Thankfully, out of prudence, Hu Weidong arranged for only a few people to have direct contact with Kiyogen Kato, an important pawn, and although one of those people was unfortunately arrested and killed after numerous tortures, he remained steadfast and kept this important secret. And the Japanese warlords could never have imagined that Kato Kiyogen, a big capitalist with a net worth of hundreds of millions, would actually be one of the core members of the Japanese Communist Party.

It is worth mentioning that because the export of raw silk has been hit like never before, instant noodles have unexpectedly become Japan's most important export commodity, and Kato Kiyogen has become one of Japan's most important emerging capitalists

Having become one of the largest capitalists in Japan like a dream, it would be undoubtedly self-deception to say that Kiyogen Kato did not have any intentions, but he did not dare to betray the organization after all. Kato Kiyogen is a smart man, he knows very well that everything he has is given by the organization, once he betrays the organization, those chaebols, warlords and politicians who have long coveted Kato Kiyogen's "Nissin Foods Co., Ltd." will not let go of this piece of fat because of their whistleblowing skills, and with their greed, it is strange not to take the opportunity to fall into the well! And with the good news of the 15th Group Army and other red party forces on the Chinese battlefield again and again, Kato Kiyogen, who was already in awe of Hu Weidong, the "big snake of the eight variants" in the Japanese population, did not dare to think about it carefully

Although Hu Weidong severely criticized the Japanese comrades' mistakes of leaning left and making rash advances, he was still optimistic about the prospects of the revolution in Japan; although the organization of the Japanese Communist Party had suffered heavy blows, as long as Kato Kiyogen still had his money bag, there was still the possibility of redevelopment, and the Japanese army's successive defeats and retreats on the battlefield of aggression against China and the continuous deterioration of Japan's domestic economic situation would become the fuse for the sparks in Japan

Naturally, the Japanese authorities also knew this, and in a desperate situation, they adopted the strategy of sacrificing the colonies to protect their homeland, so that the Korean people, who were already struggling to eat and cloth, became more and more miserable, and Taiwan, which had been regarded as the breadbasket of Japan for decades, also experienced a large-scale famine for the first time, and the two places, which were originally regarded by Japan as a successful example of the rule of the "imperial state", suddenly boiled with public resentment. On the one hand, Taiwan has been occupied by Japan for a longer period of time (Japan completely occupied Korea until after the victory in the Russo-Japanese War), and its residents have a stronger sense of identification with Japan (hence the existence of mongrels like Lee Teng-hui), so they have a higher tolerance for harsh government. What's more, Taiwan is an island, and the Japanese, out of self-confidence in the Combined Fleet, instinctively believe that it will never be lost, and therefore take more care of Taiwan's management, which is very different from the Korean Peninsula on the mainland (to be continued). )

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