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11. The Pathetic and Lamentable "Imperial People" of Taiwan

If we say that in the three northeastern provinces today, there is basically no one who loves the "royal paradise" of the puppet Manchukuo, let alone hope to see hundreds of thousands of Japanese Kwantung Army and 5 million Japanese pioneer regiments falling from the sky. Then, on the island of Taiwan, another colony that was once ruled by the Japanese for a long time, there are indeed many Taiwanese who have become Japanese imperial citizens in thought and action, and no longer regard themselves as Chinese.

As for whether Taiwan during the Japanese occupation period can be regarded as an integral part of the Republic of China era, in my opinion, it is very tangled.

Because, long before the beginning of the Republic of China era, the Manchu court ceded Taiwan to Japan. And in 1912, when China entered the Republican era, Japan had established a solid rule over Taiwan. Legally, until 1945, the island of Taiwan was not part of China, but the territory of the Japanese Empire. When the ******** flag was hung on the island of Taiwan, the era of the Republic of China in the textbooks had basically come to an end.

On the contrary, when China's big 6 has entered the era of new China, the island of Taiwan continues to use the era name of the Republic of China, which has not changed to this day...... In short, the people of Taiwan have neither experienced the birth of the Republic of China era nor the end of the Republic of China era. We can say that Taiwanese people are still living in the Republic of China era, or we can say that Taiwan has basically not experienced the Republic of China era......

However, in view of the fact that in recent years, with the hustle and bustle of **** ideas on the treasure island, some political forces have begun to constantly exaggerate and beautify Taiwan's Japanese occupation era in order to advocate ****, and the more they talk about it, the more absurd it becomes.

Many influential media in Taiwan, aside from a large number of historical materials in black and white and the social system that strictly discriminated against Taiwanese people at that time, tried their best to mislead the people by referring to the ups and downs of the Japanese occupation era and the history of barnyard officials, describing that era of colonial rule as infinitely romantic. It seems that a few Taiwanese who lived well during the Japanese occupation era can represent the entire face of Taiwan's colonies at that time -- for example, Lin Jialong, the former secretary general of the ******, made an astonishing remark in an interview with an American reporter: "The vast majority of Taiwanese feel that it is more comfortable for the Japanese to rule than for the Kuomintang to rule." ”

So in the era of the Republic of China, or Taiwan in the era of Japanese occupation, was it a paradise of civilization and happiness, or a hell of misery? And do the Japanese really regard the Taiwanese, at least the "imperial people" Iwasato Masao (******'s Japanese name), as compatriots?

Before we begin to discuss the style of Taiwan in the era of the Republic of China, it needs to be pointed out in advance that the emergence and proliferation of the ******** ideas of Taiwan's "imperial people" also have deep historical roots, and cannot be simply attributed to the members of the ****** and the digital dictionary of Taiwan's "green camp" forgetting their ancestors.

-- In fact, if we carefully investigate the origin of this separatist ideological trend in the Taiwan region, the responsibility for the crimes that the Kuomintang in power in the past needs to bear is even heavier than the clown-like ****** jumping off the beam.

First, let's look back at the style of Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule at the time when China's big 6 entered the era of the Republic of China.

When the wheel of ******** history rolled to the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, Taiwan had been ruled by Japanese colonists for more than ten years.

-- The defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War and the cession of the treasure island of Taiwan were a great shame for the entire Chinese nation.

In the face of the conquest and rule of the Japanese colonialists, the Taiwanese people once carried out a tragic resistance, and in the defense of Taiwan in 1895, the Japanese army paid a heavy price of more than 32ooo casualties. After the defeat on the frontal battlefield, the remnants of Taiwanese volunteers went underground and waged guerrilla warfare for many years. However, the problem is that with the passage of time, due to the fact that it has not been able to receive the strong support of the motherland's big six and the disparity in strength between the two sides, although the self-resistance movement of the Taiwan people was once gaining momentum, it eventually declined day by day and tended to be defeated.

By 1912, the large-scale armed revolt against the Japanese colonizers in various parts of the island had largely subsided, and only a few sporadic skirmishes remained—in terms of numbers and social influence, they were probably inferior to the rice riots in Japan.

In short, forced by the harsh reality, the people of Taiwan finally went from fierce resistance to reluctantly obeying, and accepted Japanese rule without choice.

On the other hand, in the years when Taiwan's colonial rule was established, Japan's supreme power was still dominated by the civilian government. Although Japan's civilian government is not of the good type, at least in terms of cruelty and tyranny, it is not as terrible as the militarists who provoked a world war in the future.

Therefore, the art of the Japanese Empire's domination of Taiwan at that time basically reached the level of the British Indian colony, which made the Taiwanese people feel both love and hate - although the high-pressure rule and slavery and exploitation are all definite facts, and the discriminatory treatment of the second-class people made the Taiwanese feel deeply humiliated, but the various infrastructure construction in the Japanese occupation era is also inseparable from Taiwan's modernization, and its scars have always been in the lives of Taiwanese people today.

The famous Taiwanese historian Xu Zhuoyun once said in an interview with Big 6 media: "...... The Japanese administering Taiwan is different from administering the DPRK and the Northeast, and it takes considerable effort. There was a man named Goto Shinpei who advocated building Taiwan into a modern place: free from plagues, water conservancy, universal education, and non-corrupt courts. These things have made the people of Taiwan surrender from the bottom of their hearts. ”

Indeed, during the era of Japanese occupation, the Japanese colonial authorities imposed harsh lashes on the people of Taiwan on the one hand, but on the other hand, they adopted a policy of softness and carried out a considerable amount of modernization in Taiwan. For example, when Goto Shinpei was Taiwan's chief civil affairs officer, he vigorously promoted the construction of Taiwan's railways, seaports and highways, creating a modern transportation system for Taiwan, and several important railway lines have been used to this day. In addition, he also built the first batch of power stations in Taiwan, laid the power grid, and laid the foundation for the future Taiwan Industrial Exhibition.

Another Japanese engineer Hatta Yoichi, who dedicated himself to Taiwan's water conservancy cause and presided over the construction of the Jianan Dazhen Water Conservancy Project, is as respectable as Dr. Bethune in the eyes of many Taiwanese - before the Japanese colonized Taiwan, the Jianan Plain in southwest Taiwan was a barren and barren land for a long time due to the lack of rain, and the Japanese hydraulic engineer Hatta Yoichi was determined to change this situation and turn this wilderness into fertile land.

He spent ten years in Taiwan, working with the local people to build the Wutou Mountain Reservoir, the largest reservoir in Asia and the third largest in the world. At the same time, 10,000 kilometers of irrigation channels have been built, enough to irrigate 150,000 hectares of farmland in the Jianan Plain, accounting for 14 percent of the island's cultivated land. With irrigation canals and thorough land improvement, when the Jianan Dazhen was finally completed in 1934, the three major reclamation obstacles that had plagued the Jianan Plain, such as floods, drought and salinization, were all basically removed, and agricultural output has since increased dramatically, benefiting 600,000 farmers, and Hatta and Ichi are still grateful and remembered by the Taiwanese people - in order to thank him for his contribution, the people of Chiata cast a bronze statue of Hatta and Ichi in work clothes, wearing work boots, and sitting on the ground next to the Wutou Mountain Reservoir. It still stands majestically.

In terms of public health, the Japanese colonial authorities also popularized the modern public medical system in Taiwan, greatly reducing the incidence of various infectious diseases, and at the same time banned opium and foot binding in Taiwan, popularized common sense of hygiene, and enabled the Taiwanese people to initially have a modern concept of hygiene.

In addition, Japan also imposed a six-year compulsory primary school education in Taiwan, and by 1944, the enrollment rate of local schoolchildren in Taiwan had reached 71. 17%, which is not only far better than the illiterate Chinese big 6, but also higher than the world average at that time. Although higher education still prioritizes the service of Japanese expatriates – for example, Taipei Imperial University, the only supreme university in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, has always been dominated by Japanese expatriates, making it difficult for local Taiwanese students to get in. In 1945, only 322 of the 1,666 students at Taipei's Imperial University were Taiwanese — but at least primary education was universal.

Of course, the Japanese colonizers were not philanthropists, and their fundamental goal in building Taiwan was to extract resources from it, as well as to colonize and colonize - without the influence of a single "good Japanese" or many "good Japanese", the worse the state machinery and bad institutions and policies.

First of all, Taiwan's economy during the Japanese occupation era was a fairly typical colonial economic model, that is, Taiwan's natural resources and manpower were used to cultivate the overall development of Japan, the suzerain, and relying on the resources plundered from Taiwan to nourish Japan's local economy and industry.

In order to effectively achieve the goal of controlling Taiwan's economic lifeline and plundering Taiwan's resources, the Japanese colonial authorities set up a monopoly bureau in Taiwan since 191o, and the most profitable industries in Taiwan, such as oil, tobacco, salt, camphor, opium, and liquor, were managed by the official monopoly monopoly, and profited from them, accounting for 5o percent of the total financial revenue of the colonial authorities. But at the same time, it has also squeezed the living space of private capital and private enterprises -- all the most profitable businesses are basically monopolized by the Japanese colonial authorities or Japanese trading companies in Taiwan, and Taiwanese locals are not allowed to meddle at all, and they have to endure all kinds of heavy exploitation in the process of exporting raw materials and importing daily necessities, so the Taiwanese have always criticized the monopoly system the most.

Second, Japan has also been relocating its own expatriates to settle in Taiwan. It is only because of Taiwan's limited area and dense population that the number of Japanese who emigrated to Taiwan is not as large as the "Manchurian Pioneer Group" in the three northeastern provinces, but there are as many as 300,000 people, and they enjoy national treatment in Taiwan.

However, despite all the above-mentioned unsatisfactory aspects of the Japanese occupation era for the Taiwanese, after all, there were no cruel mass graves (as a predetermined agricultural and timber base, Japan did not build much heavy industry in Taiwan), nor did it have the excessive staking of land like the "Manchurian Pioneer Group" (Japanese trading companies and expatriates still occupy land, but at least it is milder than that of the Northeast), and it is just an unequal economic and trade policy to plunder Taiwan's agricultural products and raw materials, plus some legal discrimination. His journey did not pass the "three mountains" that pressed on the heads of the people of China's big 6 during the same period. The efficiency and integrity of the Japanese colonial authorities were even better than those of the decadent and dark local government of the late Qing Dynasty.

Truth be told, of all the regions that were once occupied by Japan, Taiwan was the most successfully governed colony, even better than Korea. At that time, the Taiwanese identified with the Japanese colonial government, which may have been slightly inferior to that of British Hong Kong, but at least at the level of British India.

At the same time, on the other side of the strait, China's Big 6 is an unprecedented miserable situation of warlords fighting, starvation, ignorance and backwardness, and the people's lack of livelihood. In contrast, the humiliating but relatively stable life of the Taiwanese under Japanese colonial rule actually made many big 6 compatriots in the Republic of China feel envious, and at the same time, some Taiwanese completely lost confidence in the motherland - they no longer resisted Japanese rule, but really wanted to integrate into the Japanese, began to study Japanese hard, adapt to Japanese culture and customs, and try to "naturalize" themselves into Japanese.

As a result, when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in 1937, compared with China's big 6 "the land is not divided into north and south, people are not divided into old and young, and they all have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war", the mood of the people in Taiwan is mixed, including both patriots who crossed the sea to participate in the war of resistance, and there are also "volunteers" who serve as coolies to follow the actions of the Japanese army, and the vast majority of people are helpless in the face of this turbulent situation, and can only sigh from the heart of the sorrow brought by the war.

(The Japanese believe that Taiwanese and Chinese are of the same language, and they are inevitably worried that the Taiwanese will turn against the Japanese and protect China during the war.) Therefore, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, Taiwanese did not have the obligation to serve as soldiers, at most they were only "volunteers" to be recruited as coolies and porters with the army. ）

Against this background, in order to strengthen their control over Taiwanese society and turn Taiwan into a rear base for the "Greater East Asian Holy War," the Japanese colonial authorities set off an imperialist movement in Taiwan -- specifically, they carried out a set of educational activities in Taiwan to enforce Japanese culture, cut off the cultural ties between Taiwan and China, and train the Taiwanese people to become subjects of the emperor, or "imperial people" for short, to serve Japan's war of aggression.

Before 1937, Japan had intermittently implemented some imperial policies in Taiwan, such as making Japanese the Chinese language in Taiwanese schools, giving holidays in government departments according to Japanese holidays, publishing Japanese newspapers, and so on.

After 1937, the progress of this imperial movement increased dramatically. Its main contents include vigorously promoting the Japanese language, carrying out slavery education, advocating the Japaneseization of living customs, and forcibly changing religious beliefs. During this period, Chinese-language newspapers and periodicals completely disappeared in Taiwan, Chinese language classes were no longer held in schools, and those who did not understand Japanese were fined money, forcing Taiwanese to make great efforts to learn Japanese. According to the Governor-General's Office, the Japanese language penetration rate among Taiwanese was 38% in 1937, 51% in 194o, and 71% in 1944.

In addition, Taiwanese people are also forced to collectively change to Japanese-style names, wear Japanese kimonos, live Japanese-style tatami mats, and perform Japanese-style 9o degree bowing salutes. In schools, students are forced to learn ikebana, tea ceremony, archery and other courses (now they have to pay for expensive training courses), and at the same time, they ordered the Taiwanese people to do voluntary labor, and built a large number of shrines in various places (God knows who made cameos inside), and visited them on time.

Next, it is to propagate the "Greater East Asian Holy War" and the militaristic ideology of the jungle, and advocate the justice of the war of aggression - in short, the country is divided into strong and weak, and the weak and small countries should be controlled by the strong countries; Cultures are divided into precedence, and backward cultures should accept the assimilation of advanced cultures; There are superior races, and the inferior races should be dominated by the superior races. And the Japanese, as an excellent race, should naturally conquer the world......

Although the Imperial Nationalization Movement seems to be in full swing, in general, until Japan's defeat and surrender, this vigorous Imperial Nationalization Movement, in addition to greatly improving the Japanese language proficiency of the Taiwanese people, was not very successful - at least it failed to make the Taiwanese truly Japanese.

First, although this movement of the imperial people has been brewing for a long time, the real large-scale implementation has lasted for about eight years, which is obviously not enough time - the movement has indeed created a group of Taiwanese who are proud to be "imperial people". They regard Japan as the motherland, degrade China as a "shina", and their way of life is comprehensively Japanese, wearing kimonos, sleeping on tatami mats, and speaking in Japanese, forming a sense of flattery to Japan and sparse Han, and even being ashamed that the elders of the family cannot speak Japanese. Some of them, such as the likes of Masao Iwasato, also served in the Japanese army in the Pacific War, and regarded dying for the emperor as the "highest honor...... But after all, the number of these people is limited, and most Taiwanese have not become Japanese imperial citizens in terms of lifestyle or cultural thought, and they are still veritable Chinese.

Second, Taiwan's movement to become an imperialist was carried out during the world war, where materials were scarce and life was difficult. For those Taiwanese who became "imperial citizens", the colonial authorities did not give them too many "candy" to reward them, except for a slight increase in rations, and often organized them to "serve the public", that is, to work without compensation.

In addition, traditional Japanese arts such as ikebana and tea ceremony are hard to appeal to people when they can't fill their stomachs – in fact, they didn't really become known to the people of East Asian countries until the future era of Japanese anime was popular.

Third, although the goal of the Imperial Nationalization Movement was to turn Taiwanese into Japanese, in fact, despite their Japanese education and knowledge of Japanese, they were still regarded as second-class citizens by the Japanese and subjected to various discriminatory policies, which deeply disappointed many "Imperial People."

Fourth, the invincible Japanese Empire, which was advocated during the Imperial Nationalization Movement, was eventually bombed into ruins and reduced to a U.S. occupation zone by unconditional surrender.

Not to mention that at that time, there were many Japanese literati who advocated that "Japan should be incorporated into the United States and become the 51st state of the United States...... In the face of such a situation, how should you let Taiwan's "imperial citizens" "naturalize" as Japanese? Even the Japanese themselves don't want to be Japanese anymore!

At that time, even if anyone did not want to be Chinese, they should sharpen their heads and immigrate to the United States!

Therefore, in the second month of Japan's surrender, all Taiwanese people quickly abandoned their Japanese names and changed back to their old Chinese names.

What is even more remarkable is that at that time, there were many Taiwanese "imperial citizens" who were in Japan, and they were already fluent in Japanese than Chinese, but as soon as they heard the announcement of Japan's surrender, they immediately turned into Chinese and arrogantly looked at the Japanese around them as "citizens of the victorious country...... I really don't know whether to praise them for their nostalgia for their homeland, or to sigh for their Ah Q spirit?

In short, at that point in time when Japan surrendered unconditionally, the vast majority of Taiwanese abandoned their former suzerains without any nostalgia, and at the same time happily looked forward to the return of the motherland's army to Taiwan - "the islanders are like a thousand days and autumns, and like orphans waiting for the arrival of the ancestral ** team with a warm mother's heart." Even those hardcore "imperial people" who had become highly Japanese were mostly busy learning Chinese from scratch and preparing to dissociate themselves from Japan (no one could have predicted Japan's revival at the time), and no one wanted to accompany the Japanese militarist martyrdom.

(****** Although it seems to be very ****, when Japan surrendered, he didn't commit suicide like many Japanese militarists!) ）

At that time, if the Kuomintang regime that took over Taiwan was able to show a positive outlook, patiently eliminate the estrangement caused by the long-term separation of compatriots on both sides of the strait, and bring a better new life to the Taiwan people, then the "Japanese imperial people" remaining on the island of Taiwan, like the old and young remnants of the Manchu Dynasty, would soon disappear with the passage of time...... But the problem is that if the Kuomintang regime really had such a ability, it would not have been driven to Taiwan by the People's Liberation Army from the Big 6 in just four years!

In any case, starting in 1945, the people of Taiwan, who finally returned to the motherland, have truly entered the era of the Republic of China.

However, the joy of returning to the embrace of the motherland has not yet dissipated, but the Taiwan compatriots were soon stunned to realize that what they ushered in was not some anti-Japanese heroes and national liberators, but a group of corrupt officials who did their best to be corrupt!

-- Without any ideological preparation, the Taiwan compatriots have just returned to the motherland and have seen the darkest and most decadent side of the Republic of China era.

First of all, after the Kuomintang government took over Taiwan, it generally adopted a policy of discriminating against Taiwanese, and almost as soon as it ascended to the throne, it swept away a large number of Taiwanese who had served in the Japanese colonial government in one fell swoop under the pretext that the Taiwanese had been "enslaved and educated" by Japan too deeply and did not understand Mandarin. Even if some Taiwanese are lucky enough to keep their jobs, although they are in the same position, the salary of the big six is much higher than that of Taiwanese, and they can enjoy some special benefits. This completely unfair treatment naturally makes the people of Taiwan feel deeply unjust, feeling that in the past, the Japanese were a first-class person, but now the six people are first-class people, and the Taiwanese are always second-class citizens...... All kinds of beautiful expectations for the motherland were quickly shattered for a while.

Then, as in the case of other occupied areas, the Kuomintang government in Taiwan also turned the reception work into "looting," and under the banner of "cleaning up the enemy's property," the senior receivers wantonly looted the people's fat and ointment, and embezzled in one fell swoop 1.1 billion yuan worth of old Taiwan dollars, 3o percent of the houses in various counties and cities, and more than 20 percent of the province's cultivated area. Regarding the ugly state of "robbery" of these receivers, reporter Tang Xianlong described it in "The Inside Story of the Taiwan Incident" as follows: "Since many people in China took over Taiwan, they have robbed, stolen, sold, transferred, and smuggled, and all the dramas that were seized in China have been moved to Taiwan." And Taiwanese writer Wu Xunliu also described it in the novel "Potsdam Chief": "Taiwan is really a good place, from Chongqing only wearing a suit, soon you can become a millionaire." ”

Obviously, the greedy and ugly faces of these Kuomintang receivers have completely broken the hearts of the Taiwan compatriots.

What is even worse is that after the Kuomintang took over Taiwan, in order to meet the impending civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, it immediately and relentlessly expropriated and looted the people of Taiwan, resulting in chaos in the social order on the island, soaring prices, and the people's misery and complaints. Through these monopolistic trades, the Kuomintang authorities and a gang of corrupt officials and corrupt officials made huge profits from them, but the broad masses of the people were heavily exploited and overwhelmed by soaring prices, thus greatly intensifying the contradictions between the Taiwan people and the Kuomintang regime.

Moreover, after the Kuomintang took over Taiwan, it also brought the problem of indiscriminate paper money here, and the result was shocking inflation - from 1945 to 1949, in just four years, prices in Taiwan skyrocketed by 12oo times! The savings of Taiwanese residents were quickly wiped out.

In particular, in order to collect military rations for the civil war, after the Kuomintang took over Taiwan, it tried its best to collect rice and export it to the big 6, coupled with the hoarding and reselling of profiteers, the result was that Taiwan obviously had a bumper rice harvest in 1946, but there was a rice shortage - as of the eve of the "228" incident, the Kuomintang took over Taiwan for only 16 months, but the price of rice rose 25o times, and the people of Taiwan committed suicide with their families because they had no rice to cook. Forced by hunger, men became thieves and robbers, women became prostitutes, and the thieves alone filled the prisons, and the number of people in the house was three or four times higher than usual.

In addition, the incompetence, corruption, and irregularities of the Kuomintang officials caused a depression in all industries and a soaring unemployment rate on the entire island of Taiwan. By the end of 1946, 9o% of Taiwan's state-run and private factories had been shut down, and 80,000 workers were unemployed, accounting for more than 1o% of the island's population. In addition, after 1946, hundreds of thousands of students, veterans, and military dependents returned to Taiwan from Japan, making the unemployment problem on the island even more severe. And the people's resentment against the Kuomintang government has reached the point where it can no longer be tolerated. Social order was chaotic in various places, with military-civilian clashes, rice grabbing riots, and demonstrations one after another.

As a result, it has only been a little more than a year since Taiwan's return to the motherland, and the mood of the compatriots on the island has changed from the expectation and joy at the beginning of the recovery to an indescribable loss and despair -- even under the rule of the Japanese colonizers, their lives have never been so bleak. Although the wartime ration was scarce, the sweet potatoes and potatoes were still half full. However, when the Kuomintang government came, the people of Taiwan had no way to live...... Many disappointed Taiwanese complained one after another, saying that they had known that returning to the motherland would be such an end, and that it was better to continue to be second-class citizens of the Japanese!

Under these circumstances, the Taiwan people's resentment against the Kuomintang regime accumulated day by day, but there was nowhere to vent it, and finally ushered in a vigorous general explosion -- this is the "228" incident that is still often mentioned by the Taiwan media.

On the surface, the cause and process of Taiwan's "228" incident are quite similar to the "Arab Spring" in previous years -- on February 27, 1947, inspectors of the Kuomintang Monopoly Bureau (somewhat similar to armed chengguan) beat a cigarette vendor on the streets of Taipei, causing public outrage and reprimand from onlookers. In order to intimidate the citizens, the Kuomintang inspectors actually shot and killed one person on the spot, which immediately made the citizens of Taipei even more excited. The next day, February 28, tens of thousands of citizens took to the streets to demonstrate and petition the Kuomintang authorities to punish the murderers, but the reactionary Kuomintang authorities went so far as to shoot the demonstrators with machine guns, causing a bloody tragedy......

At this point, the demonstration really turned into an armed riot, and the citizens of Taipei occupied the radio station in the afternoon of the same day, calling on the people of the whole island to resist together, and then this great riot swept the whole island like the "Arab Spring" of the 21st century......

What needs to be pointed out here is that before and after the "228" incident in Taiwan, although some ** people and Taiwanese retired Japanese soldiers participated in it, in general, this was not an armed riot organized and planned, let alone a **** traitor organization in the resurgence (Japan was still occupied by the US military at that time, what kind of fool would go to Japan), but it was just a self-inflicted civil uprising, and it was also an integral part of the nationwide "anti-hunger, anti-civil war, and anti-persecution" movement at that time.

In this incident, due to a lack of understanding of the current situation of the motherland's Big 6, the angry Taiwan people failed to distinguish between the corrupt officials of the Kuomintang and the ordinary compatriots of the Big 6, but as soon as they saw people from other provinces, they attacked them en masse, and for a time the streets were full of scenes of chasing and beating people from other provinces -- this not only caused many innocent ordinary people to suffer from the fish in the pond, but also drew a deep gap between Taiwan's "people from this province" and "people from other provinces."

After the incident, celebrities from all walks of life in Taiwan sent telegrams to Nanjing, begging the central government to resolve the matter peacefully, but Chiang Kai-shek's answer was******** tens of thousands of Kuomintang troops were dispatched to create the "April 12" **** tragedy in those years, and wantonly burned and killed in Taiwan.

As soon as the army landed at the port of Keelung, it slaughtered 2,000 dock workers, and then moved into Taipei, where it began a brutal crackdown for four days and four nights. According to Taiwanese accounts at the time, there were troops shooting on every street in the city. On the roads, in the alleys, by the railway, there were dead bodies everywhere. The brutal Kuomintang troops even set fire to workers' shacks, burning the old and weak women and children alive to ashes. Next, Taichung, Chiayi, Kaohsiung and other places were all slaughtered and swept up with extreme cruelty, and their methods were so appalling that it was impossible to imagine that they were treating their own compatriots. A Taiwanese angrily compared the actions of the Kuomintang troops to the Nanjing Massacre, and claimed that "my outlook on life and China's outlook have been reversed at once"!

Although such a cruel scene of rivers of blood has long been common in China's Big 6, which is full of flames and corpses, it is really the first time in decades on the island of Taiwan, which has been basically calm for half a century, and it cannot but make the Taiwan people hate it to the bitter end.

In short, the "228" incident was a major tragedy in Taiwan's history, a portrayal of the Kuomintang's cruel and decadent rule in Taiwan, and also a major historical root cause of the Kuomintang's loss of political power in Taiwan in the future -- through Chairman Chiang's "resolute killing," the riot was indeed quelled, but the image of the Kuomintang in Taiwan was also completely destroyed, and the seeds of hatred were planted deep in the hearts of the Taiwan compatriots until the full-scale explosion in the 90s.

(Now you can understand why ******, the hardcore "imperial citizen of Taiwan", would be the leader of the Kuomintang while digging into the wall from the inside to bring down the Kuomintang -- the deep hatred accumulated over the decades!) ）

After the "228" incident subsided, the economic situation on the island of Taiwan did not improve in the slightest, but the White Terror intensified. With the successive defeats of the Great 6 War, the Kuomintang authorities have repeatedly carried out "township clearance" in Taiwan in order to build Taiwan into a reliable **** base, and more than 100,000 people have been arrested under the hat of "******".

Next, with the end of the Liberation War and the retreat of the Kuomintang to Taiwan, more than one million people, the so-called "people from other provinces", also followed, and inevitably had to compete with the local people in Taiwan for living space. The Kuomintang government is inextricably linked with these big 6 refugees, but it is an airborne foreign regime for the Taiwanese, so it has been biased towards people from other provinces in many cases, suppressing people from other provinces, especially government positions have been occupied by people from other provinces for a long time, forming a political monopoly (imagine the four major families of the Republic of China), which has further intensified the ethnic division and provincial antagonism among the people.

Although Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo later realized this danger and gradually adopted some pacification measures, due to the accumulated blood debts in history and the conflict of interests in reality, the hatred of the Kuomintang and the hostility of the Taiwan compatriots to people from other provinces have not diminished much. Some celebrities in Taiwan have resisted even the "Chinese" campaign launched by the Kuomintang because of their extreme hatred of the KMT; they have insisted on speaking Taiwan instead of speaking a word of Mandarin for decades, and later they even scolded KMT officials in Taiwanese in the "Legislative Yuan," making people in Taiwan applaud when they heard it.

In the 90s when the government was democratized, the ** elements constantly rehashed the "228" incident, played the sad card, and deliberately intensified the contradictions between the people in their own province and the people in other provinces, so as to stir up the dissatisfaction of the Taiwan compatriots against the Kuomintang and even the entire Great 6. In order to create public support for the "****" separatist activities - the propaganda theme of these ** elements is: "The Kuomintang has oppressed the Taiwanese from the Big 6 and added endless suffering to Taiwan. **It's also a big 6 people, and it won't be a good thing either, so Taiwan must be decided by the Taiwanese themselves! ”，

In the eyes of the six of us, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which have fought fiercely with each other for decades and have diametrically opposed class positions, cannot be classified as the same kind no matter how you look at it. But the problem is that from the special perspective of some Taiwanese, whether it is the Kuomintang or **, they are all the same "people from other provinces".

At the same time, a crazy ****, nostalgic for the Japanese colonial rule of the "imperial people" countercurrent, also criticized the Kuomintang crimes, quietly set off on the island of Taiwan. One of its typical representatives is "Masao Iwasato", who claims to be "Japanese before the age of 20", ******.

To sum up, although the Japanese Empire carried out colonial rule over Taiwan for half a century and carried out the "Imperial Nationalization Movement" in an attempt to transform the Taiwan people, due to the strong cohesion of the Chinese nation, until Japan's defeat and surrender, most Taiwanese people were still veritable Chinese in habits and thoughts, still deeply attached to their motherland, and longed to return to the embrace of the big family of the Chinese nation.

But the problem is that after Taiwan's return to the motherland, the people of Taiwan not only failed to live a comfortable life for a few days with their eyebrows raised, but ushered in the shocking famine and tragic "228" incident. The Kuomintang government's misdeeds in Taiwan, especially the rampant expropriation and inhumane bloody killings, have completely cooled the hearts of these returned children, and even turned their anger on the heads of all the big six compatriots.

After the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, the unequal policy of occupying a high position for a long time by the big 6 people and essentially discriminating against the Taiwanese further buried the bane of Taiwan's social and ethnic divisions in the future, and made some Taiwanese have a strong rebellious psychology - as the so-called "there is a contrast, only then can we know the good and the bad", the heinous crimes of the Kuomintang in the big 6 made the people who suffered a lot of disasters resolutely choose **. The various perverse actions of the Kuomintang after taking over Taiwan have made many Taiwanese nostalgic for the Japanese colonizers in the past. Then, we watched Japan recover again after the war like a phoenix, with a prosperous economy and an open and free society. Some Taiwanese are even more envious and only hate that they have not become Japanese.

- It's not that the Japanese colonial authorities have a good impression of the Taiwanese people, but that the later Kuomintang authorities are really bad......

In particular, those Taiwanese who have a deep "imperial nationalization", such as ****** and others, after feeling completely desperate for the decadent and reactionary Kuomintang government, and even losing confidence in the future of the entire Chinese nation, have aroused their strong **** consciousness - in their opinion, first, compared with the incompetent and only known about looting, Japan, which brought modernization to Taiwan, is more suitable to become Taiwan's "mother country"; Second, since the Kuomintang government is the government of people from other provinces and does not regard Taiwanese as Chinese, why should it continue to be Chinese?

The so-called "poor people must have something to hate", and vice versa - it is precisely because of the various crimes and injustices of the Kuomintang government after taking over Taiwan that the already depressed "imperial people" of Taiwan have once again revived. Although they seem to us to be quite hateful as clowns who are trying to split the country and the nation, if we look at the original origin of these "imperial people" in Taiwan, it is so sad and lamentable.

However, even if these Taiwanese "imperial citizens" have their pathos and helplessness worthy of pity, their **** behavior of forgetting their ancestors, reversing black and white, and splitting the nation also makes people feel resentful and disdainful - just as the so-called "son does not dislike the mother ugly", even in the darkest times such as the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, our ancestors did not forget their identity as Chinese, and being a traitor is still an extremely contemptible crime.

What's more, no matter how much these Taiwanese "imperial citizens" want to become Japanese, will Japanese society really be willing to accept them?

Indeed, in the early days, Japan was a relatively open country, and there were constantly exiles from the Central Plains who crossed the sea from the Great 6 and took root in this country. Many famous families in ancient Japan, such as the Nagasamune Ibu family on Shikoku Island, originated from the Great 6 Chinese ...... But the problem is that that's all in the past! The modern Yamato nation has long since become very closed and xenophobic, and it is difficult to accept new blood.

For example, the island of Ryukyu, which is very close to Taiwan, was colonized by Japan (Satsuma Domain) as early as the 17th century, and it has been more than 100 years since it was officially incorporated into Japan, and the language and customs of the local people have long been assimilated with the Japanese. However, there are still many Japanese people who do not regard the Ryukyuan people as compatriots, and in recent years there has been a storm of the Ryukyu independence movement.

In addition, there are many foreign workers in Japan who are poorly paid and discriminated against, but this is a common phenomenon around the world. But the problem is that there is a special group of foreign workers, their ancestors immigrated to South America before and after World War II (one of the representatives is the former Peruvian President Fujimori), due to the economic downturn in Latin America in recent years, life is difficult, so they let their children return to their home countries to find jobs - these Japanese laborers from Latin American countries are pure Japanese in blood and appearance, and they are also fluent in Japanese, and even their parents were born and raised in Japan, but they are still not regarded as compatriots by the Japanese around them, Like other foreign workers, they are discriminated against and have no preferential treatment.

A Chinese was surprised to see this and asked why the Japanese treated their compatriots the way they did. The Japanese replied, "Legally, they don't have Japanese nationality and are not Japanese." The Chinese continued to ask, in this case, why are those Chinese, Koreans, and even Ryukyuan people with Japanese nationality not really respected fairly in Japan? A Japanese person explained, "We Japanese have very strict standards for 'our own people,' and we must be truly Japanese in terms of blood, law, and ability. ”

-- Therefore, I hope that those Taiwanese "imperial citizens" who are bent on "naturalizing" themselves as Japanese can well understand this "heartfelt statement" of the Japanese. Looking back at Chinese attitude towards overseas Chinese, ethnic Chinese and "green card people", I believe it should not be difficult to draw the right conclusion......