...... We in Japan gained a lot from the First World War, not only by forgiving all foreign debts, but also by receiving at least 5 billion yen in revenue, including "aid" paid by Britain and France, booty from Europe, and we also received Moshan, which was more than twice as fertile land as Japan itself. These benefits were all bought by the vast number of our people with their lives and blood, and my colleagues and I naively believe that the situation at home should be better and that the Japanese should be able to live a good life. Because in the past, high-ranking officials always said that as long as the empire had this kind and that, the people would be able to live happily.

But when I returned to Japan, I still saw poor people, tired all day long, hungry and unclothed, and their lives were like candles in the wind, and the slightest disturbance would be silently extinguished. Oda Juncao of my squadron is a very good fighter. He had shed blood and wounded for the empire in Europe, but his family was hungry and cold, and because he could not pay the annual tribute, his sister was sent to a brothel by the landlord...... When I learned about it, our squadron had enough money for his sister's ransom......

The situation of Oda's family is not the worst, we can save Oda's sisters, but we can't save more people, it's just that the strength of our people is too small. In stark contrast to the hungry and cold poor are Japan's zaibatsu elites, who live a life of luxury.

Japan gained so many benefits in World War I, why are the vast numbers of the people still so poor? Why are the grass people always suffering, what is wrong with this country? I can't help but fall into deep contemplation, Japan should not be like this! This must be a problem of the system!

In November 1921, I went to China for the first time, ostensibly in the name of a visiting scholar at Lu University, but in fact the military department asked me to be a spy, a legal spy with a public identity. I didn't get to finish my mission as a spy, but I saw the future of Japan here. I have traveled to most of China, and here I have finally found a way to save Japan, and that is the great scientific socialism, which is the only way to save Japan......

———— excerpt from From Asianism to Scientific Socialism by Ishihara Wanji, Field Marshal of the Japanese People's Republic, first published in January 1956.

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On November 7, 2762 (1921), Shanghai Airport Customs Quarantine Station.

"Director Lu, these people have all had blood tests drawn, and there is no abnormality during the observation period...... "A young doctor held a stack of materials in front of his boss.

"Well, it seems that there is no problem with this group of people......" Lu Xiaming flipped through the information, and said with a relaxed expression: "Allow them to enter the country......" As he spoke, he picked up a pen and signed the quarantine certificate.

"Director Lu, no cases have been found for three months now, and it seems that the Spanish flu has completely subsided. The young doctor said happily, "Then we can breathe a sigh of relief......

"Well, my superiors have already said that after this month, I can return to normal state, and I don't have to be as nervous as before. And I heard that soon a new type of testing equipment will be distributed to various customs and quarantine stations, and the detection of epidemics will be very fast and fast, so that their own customs personnel will be sufficient, and there will be no need for our reinforcements. Lu Xiaming smiled and said sweetly: "When I'm done here, I'll go back to my hometown to get married......

"Congratulations, you and Professor Jin have finally arrived at the station after these eight years of long-distance running...... "Colleagues all came up to congratulate.

Those who are older are fine, but the expressions of some young doctors are not so consistent. Their faces were full of envy, jealousy and hatred, and some even had expressions like mourning. There is no way, who let Lu Xiaming's fiancée be Jin Lin, she is the most famous goddess in the Chinese medical system, there are not many people who admire her, and those who directly pursue her can form a strengthening group. Lu Xiaming didn't know how many glass hearts he had shattered.

Because of the Spanish flu, doctors all over the world have been busy in the past two years, especially doctors specializing in infectious diseases like Lu Xiaming, who are even more busy. The vast majority of China's domestic residents have been vaccinated, and the problem is not big, but such a large country needs to be controlled, and a large number of medical personnel are also needed. There are also people who can't ignore the little brothers of the Revolutionary Union and Belarus, they all need medical assistance from China, and the other is to go to the European and American powers to brush up their prestige. In the past two years, Chinese doctors and nurses have flown all over the world, for example, Lu Xiaming has traveled to more than a dozen countries.

The camp at the quarantine station is divided into dozens of communities, each with a distance of more than 10 meters between them, and people who come by each flight are arranged to quarantine in different communities. The observation period is 10 days, which means that all foreigners or returnees who enter China will stay in China for five days. This has been the norm since the outbreak of the Spanish flu, even among diplomats. Of course, those invited heads of state are different, their quarantine is a personal service, and the quarantine personnel follow the whole process.

At this moment, people in a small area are gathered, and several customs officials and doctors at the quarantine station are issuing quarantine certificates to them.

"The passengers of flight 652 from Tokyo to Shanghai have passed the quarantine at this station and all of them are qualified. Now that you have received your certificate, you can leave the quarantine station and continue your journey......" said a customs official, who repeated his words to the crowd as the interpreter translated his words into Japanese.

"Now if I read the name, I will come up and get the certificate......" The customs official read with a list: "Ishihara Kanji, Fujita Yao, Takaya Yoshiki, Tanaka Yoshiki, Umegawa Kuyoko, Ichiha Shichijiro, Hikawa Tsukasaka......" He read one, and the translator repeated it in Japanese. The people on this flight were all Japanese, and they came up in turn with their luggage to get their quarantine certificates.

"Ishihara Waner, visiting scholar at the Japanese Army University......" The official who issued the certificate looked at the Japanese in front of him and asked against his passport.

"Hai, it's under the ......" Ishihara quickly bowed.

"Mr. Ishihara, please pay five yuan for the cost of the certificate, as well as nine yuan for the quarantine fee and room and board during the quarantine period, a total of nine yuan and five jiao...... "The staff next to him said in stiff Japanese.

"I haven't had time to exchange your banknotes, can I pay in yen?"

"Yes, we will settle the ...... according to the exchange rate"

Ishihara hurriedly took out a 10 yen Taisho gold coin and handed it over. At this time, the exchange rate between the Chinese dollar and the Japanese yen was 100:115, and the staff made up the renminbi according to the exchange rate.

"This is your quarantine certificate, please keep it. The official handed him a small notebook with a hard blue cover, and reminded him: "When traveling within our country, this is an indispensable certificate, whether it is accommodation or buying a bus or ferry ticket, you need to show a quarantine certificate." If it is lost, it must be reissued at the local quarantine department as soon as possible. ”

"Thank you very much, Ishihara has caused you ...... trouble" Ishihara Waner took the certificate and flipped through it, the first page inside was his name, age, identity and other information, and there was also a half-length standard photo, which was stamped with the steel seal of the customs. The second page is filled with the date of entry and the words "quarantine clearance", also stamped, and the signatures of doctors and officials.

"Okay, next, Waseda University, Yoshi Fujita ......"

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"Hey, it's finally out......" Fujita Yao stretched out after walking out of the customs quarantine station. "Ishihara-kun, it's like a confinement in this quarantine station, and if I don't come out again, I'll get moldy. If I had known that it would be so troublesome, I might as well go back to my home directly......"

Ishihara Wan'er smiled: "Fujita-kun, then you haven't really seen the confinement of the barracks, and the conditions at the quarantine station are much better." You don't have to complain, the Spanish flu is so bad, the whole world is entering the country like China for quarantine, even if we return to China now, we will have to stay at the quarantine station in Tokyo for a few days......"

"Well, the conditions at the Shanghai quarantine station are much better than those at the Tokyo quarantine station, first of all, the food, what do you eat in Tokyo? Every day, there are three kinds of brown rice, pickled radish, and miso soup, and the portions are pitiful. There are three dishes and one soup here in Shanghai, which are not the same for a week, there is meat every day, and the rice is eaten openly, which is not comparable at all. Fujita Yao said with some aftertaste.

Yao Fujita is a small, thin man with a typical Japanese appearance and is in his early 30s. He was a full-fledged associate professor of history at Waseda University, a middle-class born, a fanatical Asianist, and his "East Asian Integration Theory" was well known in circles. He believed that China, Japan, North Korea, Vietnam and other countries could be regarded as one country in principle, and their respective languages should be regarded as branches of Chinese, and that East Asia must be unified in order to confront the European and American powers. He used the advantages of analytic language to learn mathematics, the illiteracy of analytic language, and the high industrial growth rate after the Meiji Restoration, and argued the superiority of Chinese characters, and pushed all the contradictions in the argument to the head of the Qing Dynasty.

It would be a mistake to think that he was just a mere scholar. Several of his academic rivals, scholars who were bent on the study of Japanese European and American ancestry, were killed at a party. And Fujita Yao had bought some things that could be used to make explosive devices before, and he himself had a high level of chemistry, and the most important thing was that he had been to the meeting place of the victims before the explosion. Although his suspicion was very serious, in the end, there was insufficient evidence and it was closed.

This time, he was invited by the Chinese Archaeological Society to study the oracle bone inscriptions.

In the quarantine station, he has gained a few pounds in the past few days, there is no way, the food is too good. Breakfast is soybean milk, fritters, steamed buns, baked cakes, buns, noodles to eat, lunch dinner main dishes have meat, chicken, duck and fish meat to change the pattern, vegetable soup, pickles and rice are all available in unlimited quantities, you can eat as much as you want. If he had known that the cost of a meal for Chinese citizens there was only five cents a day (five cents for breakfast and one dime for lunch and dinner), I am afraid that he would have been even more embarrassed if he knew that the cost of a meal for Chinese citizens there was two and a half cents a day (five cents for breakfast and one dime for lunch and dinner).

"Well, there are TV and newspapers to read, and the barracks have basketball courts and health rooms, and the accommodation fee is only five dimes a day. The Tokyo quarantine station doesn't have these, and it costs more, so there's nothing wrong with it except not being able to go out......" Ishihara looked at the list of expenses and receipts given to him by the staff, and said helplessly.

"Let's get a car out of here first, Fujita-kun, where are you going?" Ishihara asked. They met on the airship, and to their surprise, the other party was actually the same as themselves, both Asianists, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and they became good friends.

"I'm going to Hanking University, where hundreds of thousands of oracle bones are waiting for me. A Chinese friend of mine, Zhou Shuren, told me in a letter that there might be evidence of the Yin Shang Dongdu that I had been looking for......" Fujita said, frowning with a fluttering eyebrow.

"I'm going to see ...... in Shanghai first"

"Alright then, I'll give you my contact address at Hanking University, I may stay in China for a while, and you can come to Hanking if you have time. ”

What they didn't know was that in an office at the quarantine station, several national security agents were talking about them.

"Old Wu, have the identities of this group of Japanese been verified? I don't think there's anything wrong with that Ishihara, he doesn't look like he'......s coming for an academic visit," said a mustachioed agent.

"It's been verified over there, and their identities are all real. That Ishihara Wan'er is indeed a lecturer at the Army University, and he is indeed here as a freelance visiting scholar, of course, his purpose is definitely not for academic visits......" Lao Wu handed him a document. During the five days of quarantine, with China's intelligence capabilities, they have long been able to figure out their heels.

"Damn, the Japanese are now learning to be obedient, and come in directly with their identities. The mustache was a little surprised, touched his chin and said, "They came in like this, we really can't do it......"

You must know that China's counter-espionage capability is very explosive, and the spies infiltrated by foreign countries are basically meat buns and dogs, that is, there are not many people, and only a few big ones can survive, but they have also been "reformed" into double agents. Especially the kind of people who sneak in incognito, because there is no entry record in China, then theoretically speaking, this person does not exist in China. Therefore, whether they become "volunteers dedicated to science", or "contribute to the cause of socialism", or something else, depends on the needs and moods of each sector.

As a result, China has become a "tiger's den" and a "forbidden area for life" in the minds of intelligence officers from all over the world. The loss rate of covert infiltration is too high, and it is extremely painful for the intelligence agencies of various countries. You know, it's not easy to train a professional spy, this thing is really expensive and time-consuming, and no country can stand this kind of meat bun beating dog.

So now the intelligence agencies of various countries have also learned to behave. simply came in generously as a public identity, so that even if something happened, it would be easy to get people. Lest they be like the unlucky ones who disappeared in the past, China does not admit that they have ever been to China. The customs side only needs to spread their hands: there is no record of XX on our entry, which means that XX has never been to China at all.

"What should I do? He came in openly, and if he didn't commit a crime, we wouldn't be able to do it......

The mustache said: "Well, then set it as a B-level monitoring target and notify the local departments to pay attention." That's all it can do now......"

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