the world is at stake

The leftists advocate positive reforms, to get rid of the old ideology and system, so as to establish a brand new society and country; the rightists are conservative, advocating a safe, orderly, gradual and slow reform method, emphasizing the maintenance of old traditions.

Now China is looking for a revolutionary road, but whose revolutionary road can be more radical than the Communist Party, which represents the interests of the bottom?

'Holy Light' is eager to eradicate the landlord class immediately, rebuild the bureaucratic system, overthrow the colonial oppression, and call on the proletariat of the world to unite to liberate all mankind.

The passionate youth went to the imperial capital to demand the equalization of land rights, and President Xiao immediately expressed his support for land reform;

Hot-blooded young people yell at corrupt officials, as long as they can provide strong evidence, the Political Security Bureau will immediately investigate;

The hot-blooded youth wants to protect the dignity of the country and drive away all foreign troops. President Xiao has ordered the National Defense Forces to fight against the world's most powerful country.

But to change the scene, if Miura went to Japan to carry out land reform, the emperor representing the interests of the big landlords would shoot him to death immediately.Miura said that ordinary people should also become officials and enter politics, and that the aristocratic bureaucrats who survived the shogunate period could shoot him a hundred times.

As for protecting the face of the country, forget it.In order to raise military expenses, Japan is organizing its young women to be sent to Nanyang as prostitutes.

Japan's "Nanyang sister" is an important export product alongside raw silk, cotton, and coal.This is unique in human history.

Now the great powers and countries are dominated by rightist conservative forces.Even in the United States, which is absorbing a large number of immigrants, its conglomerate forces are economically open, but politically very conservative.

In ancient and modern China and abroad, all dynasties and dynasties, the rulers are all like this.Only... the "Holy Light" with the members of the Turkish Communist Party as the main body is the least afraid of revolution.

Miura has never studied politics before, but at this moment he deeply understands the importance of politics—in terms of mobilizing the masses, the land has a natural advantage.

In a daze, several mechanics asked Miura, who was eating at the same table, "Master Li, what's wrong with you? You don't look very good. Are you uncomfortable? Is it okay?"

Miura just thought too much, his head became dizzy and his face turned pale.

Asked by others, he was startled, fearing that his flaws would be seen, he said casually: "Ah...listening to your chats. I think that the country has not yet been unified, the British occupied Hong Kong, and the Japanese occupied Taiwan. I feel uncomfortable."

Ah... the mechanics were suddenly in awe.

Author's Note: The previous chapter said that the new aircraft is "blue on the top and green on the bottom", which is not wrong.In the early days of aviation, airplanes were meant to stand out.

Chapter 47

It's just lunch, but I'm not happy with it.

Miura looked at the pickled radish, grilled fish and seafood soup, as well as the big bowl of brown rice on his dinner plate, without much appetite.The mechanic next to him was grunting and satisfied.

Relying on domestic anti-corruption and foreign borrowing, the central government has raised a large amount of funds and materials for industrial development.Only controlled Henan, Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong, and Anhui and Hubei are all places with developed agriculture, which can harvest a large amount of grain and products.

Although the "finding fault" land reform has only started, judging from the current situation of spring plowing, the enthusiasm of farmers who have been allocated fields to grow grain has greatly increased.The government's well-drilling team has been warmly welcomed in the local area, which has greatly improved the production and life of farmers.

Farmers who have not yet completed the land reform are looking forward to the central government sending a work team as soon as possible.Many people took the initiative to report to governments at all levels, demanding that local local tyrants and bullies be punished.

As for meat, the raising of pigs and chickens has not yet started, but the number of offshore fishing vessels is increasing day by day.Coupled with the continuous influx of grain ships from Southeast Asia and the United States, it is an indisputable fact that the six provinces directly under the central government can have enough food.

Miura recently read in the newspapers that some British and American transport ships directly sold the ships to the government after transporting the goods needed by China.

In March, nearly [-] tons of second-hand ships docked at Jiangnan Shipyard and joined offshore shipping after overhaul.There are also some ships that are too dilapidated and old. After a trip to China, they are sent to shipbreaking yards and sold as scrap iron.

The Yantai Sea School in Shandong has received a large sum of money and is expanding the school building, recruiting young fishermen in batches, and training the crew.Relying on spending money, China's offshore shipping capacity is increasing rapidly.

Anyway, recently there have been exciting news in the newspapers almost every day, and people can see that their lives are improving little by little.

Thinking about the embarrassment of Japan's "sending women as prostitutes" in order to build a navy, Miura sighed in his heart, "China is really a big empire, and you can get money by just sweeping your family. If you don't work hard, Japan will be surpassed."

Just as he was sighing, the mechanic next to him approached Miura and said modestly, "Master Li, can you give us two more repair classes this afternoon?"

Miura worked as a technician in a silk reeling factory and was trained full-time. Naturally, he had to agree to the request for classes.The mechanics were overjoyed and expressed their thanks in a hurry.

It is not only patriotic enthusiasm that can drive workers to be so eager to learn, but also visible interests.

Miura's ability in all aspects is still good. As a senior training technician, his monthly income can be [-] silver dollars, which is almost comparable to that of a university professor.

Currently, the government and the factory implement a rationing system. He eats meat and eggs in the cafeteria for three meals, and the accommodation is also a double room.

Ordinary technicians often have elementary school education, can easily read and understand addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Not to mention only a salary of twelve silver dollars a month and a shared shop for at least eight people, just enough to eat three meals is enough for them to study hard.

As for the female production line workers with a monthly salary of [-] yuan, they have even more difficult backgrounds. After seeing the city life where they can eat and drink well, they don't want to go back to the countryside.

They are naturally envious of skilled workers. Once they understand the difference in income and treatment, they can either sharpen their heads and find a technician to marry, or study hard by themselves.

In the industrial system designed by 'Holy Light', workers are encouraged to continuously improve themselves, and a variety of promotion and competition routes are arranged.As long as you work hard, you will definitely gain something.

To recruit talents in an eclectic manner, the country is eager to produce a few senior engineers among the ordinary workers at the grassroots level.

Miura has a high level of class and is regarded as a gold medal lecturer in the factory.The workers liked to listen to his class, and after getting the promise, they happily talked about other strange topics.

"I heard that a silk reeling factory and a cotton spinning factory are also going to be built in Suzhou, and all of them are Japanese workers." A mechanic deliberately told a gossip.

"How is it possible?" Miura retorted immediately, "Haven't all the Japanese in the country been arrested? They even had a big fight with the Japanese government."

Now the relationship between China and Japan is extremely bad, and the Japanese side has stated more than once that it will dispatch the navy to severely punish violent expenditures.China is eager to strengthen its naval aviation to ensure safety within [-] kilometers of the coast.

After the more than 300 teachers and students of Dongya Tongwen Academy were all executed by the Chinese side for espionage, Japan also arrested many Chinese students studying in Japan and expressed that they would be treated equally.

It's just that the British navy didn't mobilize, and Japan always barged its teeth and claws, and didn't have the confidence to do it.

"It's true." The mechanic who spoke raised his voice. "It's the Japanese nationals who were arrested before. There are a lot of them. The government doesn't plan to raise them for nothing, and simply let them work to make money."

Before the National Defense Forces solved Zhang Xun, the central government announced to the outside world that relations with Japan had deteriorated and informed students and Chinese people in Japan to leave.The number of international students detained by the Japanese side is now relatively small, and many of them are from the Revolutionary Party.

As for the Japanese nationals in China, apart from those who died on the battlefield, many of them were arrested and managed in various cities.This group of people is at least tens of thousands, and it is impossible to eat free food.

Alas... If the matter was nothing more than that, Miura would at most sigh inwardly and pray for his compatriots.But the mechanic who opened the mouth reported another big news, "Not only are there Japanese expatriates working, but there are also technicians hired from Japan."

Wait...a technician hired from Japan?

"Doesn't the central government hate the Japanese the most? Why still hire Japanese technicians? This must be a rumor." Miura said that he absolutely did not believe it.

"It's true." Another mechanic replied: "I heard that Japan is very poor now. Their professors can't get enough to eat, and workers' wages are very low, which is not enough to support their families."

As soon as I said this, Miura, who came from Japan, burst into tears.

In the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, although Japan won, it suffered 25 casualties, spent 15 billion yen in military expenditures, and incurred foreign debts of 8 million yen.

This is equivalent to Japan's current ten-year fiscal revenue.

Although Russia gave up Lushun and other places under its control, and also ceded South Sakhalin Island, it didn't pay a single coin-Japan asked for 30 billion yen in compensation, but Nicholas II ignored it.

After the war, the Japanese economy collapsed, and it was only relieved by British blood transfusions.However, the living standard of the people in the country has dropped suddenly. In order to repay the high interest rate national debt, they can only squeeze the people of the country desperately.

A mechanic knocked on the plate and continued: "I heard that in order to make money, Japan borrowed the British ship and sold the rice they grew to us.

The government didn't want to buy Japanese products, but who can tell whether the Brits are shipping Thai rice or Japanese rice?Maybe what we eat today is Japanese rice.

The British guy also asked us if we would like to hire Japanese workers. The government originally refused to agree, after all, we have all arrested the Japanese.

But I heard that a big boss in the government came up with an idea, saying that if it is a senior technician from Japan, it is still possible to ask for it.For example, shipbuilders, steelmakers, machine builders, and munitions builders.

Japan's "Meiji Restoration" was quite successful, with many factories.Recently, this list has gradually expanded, and the silk reeling factory also intends to introduce Japanese technicians, but it must be strictly managed. "

Oops... This plan is so poisonous!

As soon as Miura heard it, he knew who came up with the idea of ​​lacking eight lifetimes of virtue—except for a ghost like Zhou Qingfeng, who else would be so shameless?

China is short of industrial workers, and so is Japan.

After poaching engineers and senior technicians, what else do Japanese factories do?China is now a deadly enemy with Japan, but Zhou Qingfeng will not let go of any opportunity to weaken the opponent.

This is like the struggle between China and the United States, but it does not prevent many Chinese from going to the United States to study, get a job, or even immigrate.

As long as the Chinese side can guarantee safety and offer a reasonable salary, there will definitely be Japanese traitors who will come to make money.After all, Japan's domestic bureaucratic problems are also very serious, and it has failed to solve the problem of eating for the common people at the bottom.

The mechanics continued their discussion.

"I heard that many German engineers came from China to help us build factories, and also hired many foreign sailors to sail the ship."

"Foreign technicians are too expensive, two hundred silver dollars a month. The monthly salary of Japanese technicians is only fifty silver dollars."

"The foreigners are not smarter than us. The newspapers say they are just one step ahead. As long as they catch up, the Chinese will soon be on par with them."

""Sun Tzu's Art of War" said, 'Eat the enemy for one minute, and I will serve for twenty minutes.' Although it sounds embarrassing to hire enemy technicians, this is a great idea!"

Wonderful ghost, big bad!

Miura's scalp tingled when he heard that.He is too aware of the domestic situation in Japan, and with the British ghost as an intermediary, this matter will surely happen.Thinking of a large number of scarce Japanese talents coming to work for China, he was very anxious.

The distance between China and Japan is too close. It only takes five days from Shanghai to Tokyo, and only two days to Nagasaki.Now that the news has spread to ordinary mechanics in the silk reeling factory, it is obvious that it has been going on for a long time, and the matter has been leaked long ago.

"How many Japanese technicians has our government hired?" Miura endured the pain and wanted to know the specific number.

But the mechanics shook their heads.

"I don't know. I heard that the passenger ship transporting the Japanese technicians does not stop in Shanghai at all. They are all placed in the inland factories, isolated from the outside world. The specific location and personnel list are top secret."

"How did this thing get out?"

"It was reported by foreigners in the imperial capital. They found that there were Japanese-speaking engineers on the Jinpu Railway under construction, so they asked the Japanese embassy.

The Japanese were shocked, but they wanted to investigate but were stopped.But it seems that there are quite a lot of technicians hired from Japan, and the news spread out of nowhere.

A few days ago, a ship brought machines from Wuhan. The crew said that there were more than [-] Japanese technicians who started machine tools in Hanyang Arsenal, all of whom had worked for more than five years.

The people in Hanyang said that the Japanese technicians were very obedient. Although they didn't show up much on weekdays, they did a good job of explaining their work.

In addition, isn't the Jinling Machinery Bureau undergoing reconstruction?There are more Japanese technicians hired, and it is said that there are hundreds of them.They have their own separate dormitory, where they are taken care of by special personnel and do not cause trouble.

These are only known to the outside world, and there are more people who don't know.The only thing that is certain is that these Japanese technicians are all hired by the British, and the money is calculated on a per capita basis. "

Miura's face was extremely ugly, and he cursed in his heart: "What are the British doing? Britain and Japan are allies. They came to cheat Japan for money!"

The mechanics were concerned: "Master Li, what's wrong with you? You don't even eat, you look so bad."

The corner of the big Japan is about to be dug down, how can my motherfucker look better?

Miura was extremely sad and indignant, and forced a smile, "It's okay, I was born with this problem. When I get excited, my face turns pale. The person who came up with this idea is too powerful, and the country is saved! I am very happy in my heart."

Chapter 48

The female workers who had passed the medical examination lined up and walked into the cafeteria with the smell of disinfectant.The foreman who led the team grabbed a stick and was responsible for teaching the girls in the countryside all the rules about walking, sitting, lying down.

Miura took a look, and felt that she was no different from the "chaihuo girl" in the Japanese countryside.They wore work clothes made of Indian homespun cloth, their hands and feet were as thin as reed sticks, and there was no flesh on their faces, only fear and anxiety.

The Political Security Bureau sent a cadre behind the team, a middle-aged man with an imperial accent.As soon as he appeared, the atmosphere in the cafeteria was tense, but people were not very scared.

The female workers sat at the long dining table, and the master chef in the cafeteria came out with a wooden barrel and distributed plates, bowls and chopsticks to everyone.When they first arrived, most of them were weak, and the meals they were given were based on the standards of senior technicians, and they had to be fed for at least two months.

The first thing to serve is a large bowl of fish porridge, sprinkled with green onion and small slices of ginger, which is easy to digest and warms the spleen and stomach.Behind is grilled fish and rice, and seafood soup is enough.

The first meal in the factory always surprises the female workers from the countryside.They waited and watched, not daring to do anything, for fear of breaking the rules, and they couldn't believe that they were eating for themselves.

In the countryside, landlords also wear patched clothes, and there is no meat on the dining table.Ordinary people can't eat like this. It's good to eat sweet potato rice, and it's all about pickles.

The cadres of the Political Security Bureau went around and made sure that the meals met the standards.

"Eat." The foreman ordered, and the high-pitched voice echoed in the cafeteria, "Don't worry, you can all eat this kind of food in the future."

A few courageous female workers picked up the bowls, blew on the hot fish porridge, took a sip carefully, and then looked around.After making sure no one scolded them, more girls began to eat with a sigh of relief.

Many female workers were crying while eating.

Alas... Miura's eyes were moist, and he wanted to cry too.

There are also a large number of emaciated female workers in Japan's silk reeling factories, also in their teens, who are sent to the hot and humid production line to be used as cattle and horses.What they eat is tofu dregs that are fed to pigs, they live in a pigsty-like soil hut, and they wear shabby clothes, not as good as a pig.

The female silk reelers in Japan also came from the countryside, and they were often unable to feed their families, so they sent animals out of the factory for very low wages.They have to work more than ten hours a day, supervised by the supervisor's stick, so tired that their backs are sore and their legs ache, and they are exhausted.

Workers in the early stages of industrialization, especially women workers, did not live long.They are like consumables on the production line, recruited one after another from the countryside, and after a few years of hard work, they turn into dust and disappear.

But for 'Holy Light', the protection of labor rights is the foundation of their ruling legitimacy.The greatest source of power for the central government came from the workers.

They also come from the countryside and have the same harsh production environment, but state-owned factories obviously take care of the recruited workers more.The factory must provide them with medical examinations, provide high-quality food and training, and guarantee labor income and legal rights.

The stick in the foreman's hand was only used as a teaching aid, and he tapped on the dining table from time to time to remind the female workers who had just entered the factory not to eat too fast, lest they choke and burn.

The cadres of the Political Security Bureau supervised the whole process to ensure that during the training period, workers would not be abused while being educated--'Holy Light' needs a working class with consciousness and enthusiasm, not a numb 'bonded labor'.

There are not many large factories in Shanghai now, and the top management of 'Shengguang' including Zhou Qingfeng visit the grassroots from time to time to inspect the grassroots, pay close attention to the style of work, and absolutely do not allow their unformed foundation to be shaken.

Miura was so worried that he couldn't eat anymore, so he put down his chopsticks and left the cafeteria.

Last month, Charles I of England sent people to Japan, promising to provide 5000 million pounds of low-interest loans over five years.This windfall made the Japanese military and political circles ecstatic, and felt that it was encouraging them to continue to confront China.

President Marcos of the United States also stated that he would strengthen cooperation with the Japanese government, support Japan's advantageous industries, and give preferential treatment to raw materials.

As for the Japanese candidates including Miura, they also received a large amount of aid from the United Kingdom and the United States, and penetrated into the military and political circles by starting businesses and doing business.

But as long as he can count, Miura realizes that the benefits given by Britain and the United States are too little-5000 million pounds is roughly equivalent to [-] million U.S. dollars, [-] million silver dollars.

This money seems to be a lot, but it is not enough.

For comparison, the historical value of China's current financial revenue in 1910 is estimated at 700 million pounds.But after being strengthened by the 'Holy Light', there must be more than that, and it is likely to double or even triple.

After Miura arrived in Shanghai, he carefully counted the number of British and American grain ships that arrived at the port in the past month. 'Shengguang' purchased at least [-] tons of grain from outside to meet the rapidly increasing industrialized population.