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In 1946, Japan imported goods from China with a total value of more than $1.2 billion, and in the same year, all the goods exported by Japan to China plus the remittances of the Japanese in China were only more than $400 million. But until the war, Japan's consumption is extremely huge, even though the total amount of wealth plundered during this period is quite amazing, but there are not many hard currencies that can be used for international payments, and they have been used almost in the past few years.

At first, the Japanese government wanted to use the cultural relics and works of art looted in the war to offset the account, but the Chinese could only pay the price of cabbage, and they did not accept non-high-quality products, and as a result, the Japanese government calculated that even if all those "treasures" were sold, it was not worth $100 million. The Japanese government also wants to mortgage or even sell some of the industries seized in the war to China to obtain funds, but the Chinese government is obviously not so stupid, and now the Japanese army is already losing ground in the Pacific Ocean, and if China really buys those industries, it will be returned to their original owners or simply pocketed by American figures within a few days, and with China's limited national strength, especially its naval strength, where is it possible to get it back? Isn't this a big mistake?

In the end, the Japanese government had no choice but to sign two important treaties with China, the "Sino-Japanese Employment Agreement" and the "Sino-Japanese Immigration Agreement", in exchange for the Chinese government providing it with three huge loans totaling 2 billion yuan to purchase Chinese goods. The loan was to be disbursed in 1947.

Before the signing of the Sino-Japanese Employment Agreement, although China could also import skilled workers from Japan, but the industry and quantity were restricted by the Japanese government, and then it could hire a large number of workers from Japan without restrictions to make up for China's already serious labor shortage, so as to survive until the first batch of children receiving compulsory education after the founding of the People's Republic of China graduated from junior high school at a smaller cost.

The China-Japan Immigration Agreement relaxes the restrictions on immigration naturalization between the two countries, and Japanese people can become naturalized in China as long as they marry Chinese and settle in China for more than 5 years, and renounce their original Japanese nationality. To put it bluntly, this agreement is actually to facilitate the introduction of women from Japan. to alleviate the problem of more men and fewer women in the country

As everyone knows. The base birth rate of male babies in China has been higher than that of women, and the gap between men and women who can reach marriage age is even larger. Even today, when China has not yet begun to implement a family planning policy, boys are given priority when there are too many children from poor families to feed them all, although this situation has rapidly decreased to almost extinction after the founding of the People's Republic of China. But today's Chinese teenagers of marriageable age and about to enter marriageable age were born in the old society. As a result, there is a serious imbalance between men and women in China's 20-30 marriage-age population.

And unlike most other countries. Historically, the mortality rate of the elderly, the weak, women and children in China has been much higher than that of young and middle-aged men (Note 1), so after so many years of war, there has not been a situation in China where there are many boys and girls in the Soviet Union and other countries. There are still more men than women, and the disparity in the proportion of men and women of marriageable age is even wider.

In the old society, there were two problems that greatly increased the proportion of singles, one was that under polygamy, a small number of men with wealth and status possessed a much larger number of women, making it more difficult for ordinary men who accounted for the majority of the population to marry wives, although the Republic of China period was not as exaggerated as in ancient times, but the problem was still quite serious, and the second was that the low level of medical and health care made the mortality rate of women before and after childbirth extremely high, which led to the production of a large number of young and middle-aged widowers, most of whom had to be continued, Objectively, it also makes the phenomenon of groups of singles more common

But then again, the issue of singles has never been a problem in the thousands of years of Chinese history, and only the new society is the only exception, because before the establishment of New China, the Chinese government, or the imperial court, never cared about the marriage of ordinary young and middle-aged people unless it was for the purpose of increasing the population. However, the new Chinese government is a "big government" that manages everything, so it is also the responsibility of the government that the young man cannot marry his daughter-in-law, so this problem has become a problem

However, this problem itself is a problem that cannot be solved at all, and even Hu Weidong, who is considered by the Red Party to be the most ghostly and has the most ideas, has no choice but to propose a method of importing it from abroad. This is not much operational in peacetime, not to mention that it is often difficult to have a satisfactory result in foreign marriages because of various differences in culture and other aspects, even if these are not careless, other countries will not be able to meet China's huge needs, after all, there are many countries in the world with more men and fewer women, and there are relatively few countries with more women and fewer men, and the gap in proportion is not likely to be as large as China's, and considering China's huge population base, even if you do not consider the high cost of introduction, it is a drop in the bucket

But now is a once-in-a-lifetime time when countries are fighting in the dark, and far more men than women are dying, especially in China's neighbors the Soviet Union and Japan.

On the one hand, the Soviet Union was originally one of the few countries in the world with more men and girls, and on the other hand, the Soviet-German war was too tragic, which made the Soviet Union even more disparity between men and women. In addition, the facial features and face shape of Slavic women are also more in line with the mainstream aesthetic habits of Chinese (shelf life aside), if it is a black African woman, it is estimated that most Chinese bachelors would rather never marry, and it is impossible to accept

But the Soviet Union's vast and sparsely populated country was already severe, so how could their government sit idly by and watch the exodus of population? What's more, the elite areas of the Soviet Union are too far away from China, and the differences in culture and customs are also very huge, even if it is difficult to find a good match in China, Soviet women of marriageable age are rarely willing to marry far away from China. After the Soviet-German war entered the middle of the war, it became more and more brutal, and the Soviet Union began to form a large number of female soldiers, and it was even more impossible to let them go abroad. Not only that, but the Soviet government even tried all kinds of ways to bring in male immigrants from China, which objectively reduced the number of singles in China in disguise. However, due to the Soviet government's consideration of reducing the difficulty of assimilation, the immigrants they introduced were all those ethnic groups whose appearance was quite different from the Han Chinese, such as several local ethnic groups in Xinjiang, especially the White Russians who fled to China after the October Revolution, after the Soviet government promised not to pursue the previous problems, the patriotism was quickly aroused, and the proportion of them who returned to China to participate in the war was very high, but even so, the total number of people added up to hundreds of thousands, and it had no impact on the total number of singles in China who were not less than 10 million

Therefore, the Chinese government could only import from Japan, although even since the war of aggression against China, the total number of deaths in Japan is far less than that of the Soviet Union, but because it was not invaded on the mainland, almost all of the more than 3 million people who died were men, and they were still young men, so there were naturally many widows and women who could not marry. Although the short legs of Japanese girls are not quite in line with the aesthetics of Chinese men, they are still passable in other aspects, and their personalities are very popular with Chinese people, and because the aesthetics and cultures of the two countries are relatively close, there are many Japanese women who are willing to marry in China, so it is natural that they have become the first choice for China's "imported brides".

It is worth mentioning that these two agreements are also applicable in reverse, but because Japan is affected by the war, not only is the standard of living in China not only inferior to China's, but also life-threatening, so the number of Japanese willing to come to China is far greater than the number of Chinese willing to go to Japan, so the two agreements are actually no different from unilateral. Whether it is skilled workers or women of marriageable age, the exodus of large numbers will seriously affect Japan's future development potential, but the Japanese government has no choice in the face of the aggressive and fierce offensive of the US military today

Note 1: The main reason is that war in China will almost certainly be accompanied by famine, and the possibility of dying of starvation and illness is far greater than that of the young and strong labor force. (To be continued......)