Chapter 418: Ishihara Wan'er's China Tour (Part II)

PS1: Something suddenly happened last night, and it's only sent now, I'm sorry.

PS2: Okay, okay, I was wrong, you won! I didn't expect the repercussions to Jin Lin's attribution to be so fierce, Lu Xiaming's little fat man's fiancée changed to. changed to Jin Lin's apprentice "Tang Feng", and the sister got it. I didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing too, I had only encountered it in other books before, so embarrassing.

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...... The facts of the aftermath of the First World War proved the limits of "Asianism", as evidenced by the withered people. The success of the First World War shows that the "Asianism" that we had hoped for had succeeded, and with the support of China, we withstood the pressure of Britain and France and firmly grasped the Morshan, which was the success of Asianism.

However, it was only the chaebols and the powerful who benefited from this, and the vast number of Japanese people did not get the benefits they deserved, and they were still struggling on the line of hunger and cold. In addition to cultivating the land in the summer, many peasants have to go to the city to work in the winter, and even so, it is often difficult to maintain the family's food and clothing after the annual income is not covered by taxes and taxes. Some farmers, especially those in the mountainous areas around the Shinano River in Nagano Prefecture, had to leave their homes with their families to follow a government-organized pioneer group to the Moshan land to earn a living. In the cities, young men and women with a labor force work in factories, and although they are very industrious, working more than 18 hours a day, they still earn a meager salary that is difficult to support their families. The various conglomerates brutally exploit the working masses by virtue of their industrial and economic superiority. In Japan as a whole, the polarization of the poor and the rich became richer, and the monopoly of capital was more serious than before the war.

I've read Mr. Kita's "Outline for the Transformation of Japan" before, but I don't think he's alarmist. It wasn't until I arrived in China and learned about the social changes here that I came to my senses. Mr. Kita is right, the disaster of the Japanese people is the inherent defect of the emperor system, because the emperor himself is the protector of the zaibatsu, and in turn, the zaibatsu has become the biggest supporter and defender of the emperor system. As long as the emperor system remains, no matter what we do, we will not be able to change this phenomenon.

———— excerpted from From Asianism to Scientific Socialism by Ishihara Wanji.

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In the first thirty years of the 20th century, despite the First Sino-Japanese War and the Gengzi Incident, the Qing Dynasty had been completely defeated back to its prototype. However, at this time, some Japanese still had some feelings for China, believing that both China and Japan were yellow and oppressed by the white race, and if China and Japan also rose, then the two countries could rely on each other.

Moreover, there was still a large market for this trend of thought in Japan at that time. For example, Konoe Fumiro's father, Atsumi Konoe, who served as prime minister many times during the invasion of China, was a very active Asianist. He once put forward the "Theory of East Asian Conservation" and the "Theory of Asian Integration", and advocated the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Alliance and the establishment of the East Asian Tongbun Academy, with the aim of opposing the domination of China by Europe, the United States, and Russia, and promoting Asianism.

Later, seeing that I was too wasteful, they turned to support the revolutionary party and tried to help the Chinese revolution, so as to create a strong ally. Although by the time of the later war of aggression against China, Asianist slogans such as "Sino-Japanese friendship and East Asian co-prosperity" completely became a cover to fool the Chinese. However, in the half century from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, the trend of "Asianism" had many supporters in both China and Japan, and many people sincerely believed in this theory.

This Ishihara Waner is also one of them. In 1911, Ishihara was stationed in Korea as a second lieutenant. When he heard the news of the success of the Wuchang uprising, he took a small group of his soldiers to a nearby mountain, and then fired a gun into the sky, and a group of people burst into tears and shouted: "Long live the Republic of China!"

The time of the Chinese Revolution on this plane was even earlier, when the "Ding Wei Revolution" was in 1907, he had not yet graduated. He ran to the hillside near the school with his classmates from the Army Non-commissioned Officers School and shouted slogans such as "Long live the Chinese Revolution!" with tears streaming down his face.

Later, when the Sino-Japanese war broke out, Japan was severely beaten, ceded land and paid reparations, and the results of years of expansion were ruined. But instead of reducing the audience of "Asianism" in Japan, Japan's fiasco has become even more popular than it was in the original time.

This is because Japan is a very strange country, and their cerebral sulcus is very different from other peoples. If other countries are violently beaten by enemy countries, they will definitely hold grudges for the rest of their lives. But Japan is different, they are a nation that is born to shake M, the worse they are pumped, the more obedient they are, and the worse they are beaten, the more they obey you. This also has a precedent, for example, in the Tang Dynasty, they were pushed by the Tang army at the mouth of the Baijiang River, so they directly knelt and licked the Tang Dynasty and learned everything from the Tang Dynasty. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was violently beaten by the Ming Dynasty, and the next Tokugawa was honest to the Ming Dynasty. In World War II, he was beaten by the United States, and he was forcibly fed two mushrooms, so he honestly became a concubine to the United States, and learned everything from the United States.

Therefore, if Japan wants to have good relations, it must first beat them severely, and the worse the smoke, the better. After smoking, they will automatically stick up and kneel and lick, and they can't get rid of it. This method is absolutely effective, and there is no need to engage in any friendship or anything like that, it is useless at all. Just catch and beat them, the worse you beat them, the more filial they will be to you. Of course, we can't rule out exceptions, but at least the vast majority of Japanese people think in this way.

That's right, that's how strange this country is. Therefore, after the Sino-Japanese war, the number of "pro-China factions" and "Asianists" did not decrease, but instead rolled upward.

The situation of "a large increase in pro-China factions" seems to be good, but it does not satisfy Mr. Wen. Because their so-called "Asianist pro-China faction" is not how deep their feelings for China they really have, at least not the vast majority. The reason why they are "pro-China" is simply that they think that doing so can bring more benefits than "anti-China." Of course, this is also human nature, and it is not worth making a fuss about, but the most important thing is that they are still "black cards" as spiritual idols, and they are still inclined to the monarchy, which is the same as the anti-Chinese faction in the past.

This point especially displeased Mr. Wen, as long as the old idol of "the sky is black" is not overturned, then it is impossible for Japan's mainstream ideology to be straightened over, and scientific socialism will not be able to grow. This is not to say that the monarchy and scientific socialism are completely incompatible, but that Japan has a strange historical tradition, and their "heavenly black card" has a very strong religious color, which has a strong influence on the entire social class of Japan, even if they have no real power.

Mr. Wen's attitude towards Japan is very clear, that is, it is necessary to completely control it, and if this kind of thing is not enough to rely on force alone, it must also be broken ideologically, coupled with economic control, so that such control means can be firmly established. After the development of the Science and Technology Socialist Party in Japan over the years, it has been proved that as long as the "dark card in the sky" still exists, it will be difficult for scientific socialism to become the mainstream trend of thought and be recognized by the majority of Japanese people. Of course, this is intolerable, so in Mr. Wen's plan, the Japanese imperial family must be eliminated, and the spiritual idol of "Tianhao Heika" must be finished, and it must be eliminated by the Japanese themselves, and only in this way can they accept a new idea as soon as possible.

Therefore, if it is only "pro-China", it is not in line with Mr. Wen's plan. This is also the reason why Sino-Japanese relations have always been lukewarm in recent years; no matter how hard the Japanese Government tries to engage in "Sino-Japanese goodwill" and high-level visits to China are frequent, China's attitude is only superficially amiable and cordial, and normal business is done as usual, and general international cooperation is fine, such as on the African issue, but there is really no need to think about more in-depth cooperation.

Although Kita Ikki's Japanese Science and Technology Organization developed well in the years during World War I, it was only relative to European and American countries. Their sympathizers and supporters, though numerous, still have expectations for the "dark card", a situation that is far from the goal of Wendehei. In particular, after Japan gained a lot of benefits in World War I, Japan's social contradictions were eased somewhat by its successive victories, and the development of the scientific and social organizations seemed to have reached a bottleneck.

Originally, Mr. Wen no longer had much hope for this, but after the deduction of the main control of the light brain, it will be difficult for scientific socialism to develop in Japan if it continues according to the current situation. Because the benefits and large colonies of Japan in World War I were enough to buy off a large number of lower-class people, social contradictions would be greatly eased.

He was already looking for an opportunity to beat Japan again. The big deal is that China will go straight to the end, abolish the Japanese monarchy, and support a new Japanese government, just like the United States in the original time and space. Of course, it will be too ugly to eat like this, and there will be a lot of trouble. After all, the monarchy is the mainstream of the world at present, and only China, the United States and France are republics among the eight major powers. And the current attitude of Japan is so deferential, it is difficult to find excuses.

But not long after the war, Mr. Wen found that he was thinking too much, and he didn't need China to end up at all. Because of what Kita Yihui has always wanted to do but failed to do well, the Japanese upper echelons have already helped them do it properly.

Japan's upper-class elites and chaebols are even more greedy and bottomless than he thought. Because all the benefits that Japan gained in World War I were all taken by them, and the low-level people did not get a share. In the case of the land they acquired, Japan has less than 5.5 million hectares of arable land, while Moshan (Mozambique) has a good topography and has about 45% of the country's land area, about 36 million hectares, equivalent to 6 of their own land. 5 times more. If Japan implements the homestead land law like Europe, the United States and China, and distributes the land of Moshan to the poor people in China who lack land and little land, then Japan's social contradictions will definitely be greatly eased.

According to the understanding of normal people, it seems that they should do what they should do, but the practice of the Japanese upper class has once again refreshed Mr. Wen's cognition. Not long after the end of World War I, the Japanese government declared Moshan an imperial domain, which means that this 800,000 square kilometers of fertile land nominally belonged to the "Heavenly Trouble". Of course, so many royal families will definitely not be able to use it up, so the "Sky Trouble Black Card" has given most of the land to the upper elites, and everyone has a share in the chaebols, military leaders, and new and old aristocrats. As for the people, what do they want land for? They can be tenants for the master, and they can only rent a few acres of land before, but now they can rent dozens of acres.

It was not only the Japanese peasants who rejoiced, but also the workers, who developed by leaps and bounds during the First World War, and the chaebol capitalists made a lot of money, but their workers were still living in misery, with the highest working hours in the world, the lowest wages, and no benefits.

In other words, in the battlefield war, the low-level civilians of Japan did not reap any practical benefits, nor did their lives improve in the slightest, except for some spiritual satisfaction such as "the invincibility of the Japanese Empire" and "the defeat of the European ghost animals." They sell their bodies and meat and their lives, just to do the work for the upper elite.

Wen Deji has always been very incomprehensible to the thoughts of those Japanese elites, needless to say in socialist countries like China, even if it is the European and American powers, although their upper echelons are also desperately squeezing the lower strata and do not treat the people as human beings, but they themselves eat meat, and they have to leak some leftovers from their fingers and leave some soup for the lower strata. It's unheard of for the Japanese upper class to eat alone and eat so cleanly.

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Ishihara couldn't help but sigh: "It's really unimaginable, in such a big city, there is not a single beggar!"

He is now in a Japanese restaurant in downtown Shanghai, and the owner of this restaurant is actually Chinese, but the hostess is an authentic Japanese girl. The proprietress is called Momoeko Yamaguchi, and she is one of the Japanese girls who was handed over by the Japanese government as a "reparation for defeat". Of course, both countries openly say that this is a lofty statement such as "increasing transnational marriage between the two countries and strengthening friendship and exchanges between the two countries."

The owner of the restaurant, Niu Dachun, is a veteran, he met his current wife at the "blind date meeting" organized by the Political Department, and after the two were interesting, they became a couple under the organization's matchmaking. Momoeko Yamaguchi learned her skills in the "bridal school" and made good dishes. Because the cooking class of the bridal school teaches them not only Chinese food, but also the preparation of local style dishes, so the "brides" who come out of it can not only cook Chinese food, but also the dishes of their hometown.

After Niu Dachun was discharged from the army, he took his wife to open this Japanese restaurant called "Moon Pavilion" in Shanghai. As we all know, China is a famous empire of big foodies. The Chinese people's interest in food is the highest in the world, no country can compare, they can't eat enough before, and naturally they don't have the heart to pursue taste. Because of the emergence of Mr. Wen, the living standards of the Chinese people in this plane have improved very quickly, and there are more people willing to try exotic flavors, and the business of "Moon Pavilion" is also particularly good.

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