the world is at stake

Every time he flies over the Yangtze River waterway, Kira really feels the specific meaning of the word "big land and abundant resources" - the rivers in Japan are small and narrow, how can there be a big river like the Yangtze River that winds more than 6000 kilometers? !

"Compared to China with 1000 million square kilometers and more than 40 million square kilometers, Japan with less than [-] square kilometers is really too small. The greatness of Chinese civilization was born from it."

Looking at the busy waterway at the mouth of the Yangtze River on Kanjima, Kira thought to himself: "Maybe it is not a bad thing to join China, at least you won't have to stay on the main island where there are earthquakes every day. It doesn't matter if you are Japanese or not."

Chapter 36 This country is different

Changxing Island, where the four "Fengxiang" class aircraft carriers dock, is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Thousands of ships come and go here every day, transporting tens of thousands of people and goods.

A passenger ship from Tokyo was about to enter the Huangpu River. Three or five Europeans stood on the deck and pointed at the aircraft carrier not far away. "Look, Great Britain has lost the Far East, completely lost."

Such laments have often occurred recently.

Sullivan, who had experienced the Tokyo mutiny, was among them, leaning on the railing and looking towards Changxing Island.It was September when the British broker was released by the mutiny forces, and the situation in East Asia has changed.

"I used to love this land because it is full of ancient civilizations and exotic customs that are different from Europe. People here follow the way of life that has been handed down for thousands of years. It is wild, dangerous but very charming.

But now, industrial civilization has eroded this ancient land.

Steam ships can be seen everywhere on the sea, and factory chimneys are constantly standing on the land.Northeast Asia is no longer mystical, nor is it an adventure playground.

People of the yellow race began to study natural science, build power plants and dams, and fly planes into the sky.It was terrifying, as if the apes could suddenly speak human language.

The natives no longer respect us.Look at the waiters on this passenger ship, how humble they were in the past, how proud they are now.Even an Annan man dared to raise his head and face my gaze. "

The bumbling British passengers drank a few more drinks, pointing at the aircraft carrier for a while, and pointing at the Asians on board for a while, bursting out with strong resentment and dissatisfaction.He felt enraged at the violation of his natural superiority.

The chatting Europeans nodded one after another, explaining their impressions in East Asia in recent years.What they say is nothing more than the belief that East Asia is becoming more and more like Europe, and is no longer a pure and pure land.

Although Sullivan didn't interrupt much, he felt the same in his heart, full of loss.

Since the Industrial Revolution, the white Europeans represented by the British have been proud for hundreds of years.They used guns, technology and commodities to show their civilization and progress to the backward natives in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

However, after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, the superiority and self-confidence of Europeans in East Asia was hit hard.

Inexplicably, it is obviously a war between two backward countries.But after they finished playing, they burst out with strong self-confidence and hope for the future.

Chinese newspapers said it was a fully modernized war, representing the direction of future military progress.

China's victory proves that national security has been further guaranteed, and there is no need to report fear to the European and American powers, let alone be humble.

This point of view is correct, and Europeans have to recognize it even if they don’t.They have long been accustomed to this ancient and huge country, relying on in-depth reforms and size advantages, it can always burst out incredible strength.

Japanese thinking is also very strange.Except for the hapless warlords and the old feudal forces, the people at the bottom actually think that defeat is a victory and an unprecedented liberation.

There is no cession of land and compensation, no heavy war tax, no endless labor, and no insurmountable superiority and inferiority.Food prices are low and supplies are plentiful, and the economy is improving rapidly.

After experiencing painful self-analysis and anesthesia, Japanese society has taken a 180-degree turn in thinking in order to adapt to the status quo.The scale of this shift has caught European and American diplomats in Japan by surprise.

When the Europeans deliberately reminded that China was about to annex Japan, the Japanese responded with great anger-how can it be called an annexation when East Asia has ended internal friction and gained autonomy?

The Chinese civilization has dominated East Asia for thousands of years, and now it is only returning strongly after a short-term sinking.

Japan has longed to live on the mainland since the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and now this dream has come true.Although the method is a bit different, the result is quite good.

Europeans just can't see the unity of East Asia, but we don't want to listen to your demagogues and provocations at all.

Whoops... this reversal of thinking fills the Japanese populace with optimism.

The Chinese government also took the initiative to ask the Japanese academic circles, political circles, military circles and even ordinary people to visit China.Let the other party feel the benefits of being a dog of China...integrating into China.

Chinese and Japanese newspapers and radio stations are repeatedly discussing the status quo of the two countries. Both advantages and disadvantages can be mentioned, and radical topics can also be tolerated.Even if there are strong opposition from extreme conservatives, they are allowed to speak out.

The 'Holy Light' team is well aware of the truth that 'preventing the mouths of the people is better than defending Sichuan'. Its propaganda department has never thought of blocking the mouths of the common people. Instead, it hopes that the ideological confrontation will be more intense.

After all, what the hell are bureaucrats? Zhou Qingfeng and others are fully aware of their greed, shamelessness, and deception.

The back-and-forth debate left European and American diplomats at a loss as their methods of trying to sow Sino-Japanese relations were publicly discussed in the heated debate.After the people at the bottom had their psychological expectations, they calmed down a lot.

The economic comparison between China and Japan; the contradictions between East Asia and Europe and the United States; the deconstruction and reconstruction of Japanese culture--such key political topics are being heated up on newspapers and radio stations every day.

The so-called "a hundred schools of thought contend, a hundred flowers bloom", such speculation quickly spread from China and Japan to China, Japan and North Korea, and then continued to expand to the entire East Asia.

Local intellectuals in Southeast Asia were also greatly motivated to discuss the impact of integrating into the Chinese civilization circle on their own nation and country.

Regarding the complaints from his compatriots, Sullivan, who had been silent for a long time, said quietly, "This war made the yellow people in East Asia discover that there is nothing mysterious about industry and technology.

As long as they work hard, people of the yellow race can master the mysteries just like us.They have newer and higher-level goals, so they can let go of some contradictions and unite.The integration of China and Japan is just a prelude to the integration of East Asia. "

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere of the conversation on the deck froze.

Several Europeans wanted to refute, but they didn't know what to say for a while?Just like the four aircraft carriers parked on Changxing Island, such military weapons are no longer unique to Westerners.

Beside the passenger ship, several transport ships sailing from the interior of China are heading for Japan.That was in accordance with the agreement in the "Sino-Japanese Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance" as compensation for Japan's joining the joint fleet.

As far away as Sichuan, as close as Jiangsu, provinces including Henan and Liaoning are mobilizing grain.

The central government is taking the opportunity to take inventory of the national and provincial grain reserves established in recent years, with a total of 500 million tons of grain to be shipped out.And in the future, grain will be shipped to Japan at a low price every year.

There is no way to solve such a large-scale transportation by dismantling things.

Five or six major corruption cases were detected in the food system in September alone, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection sent more than a dozen investigation teams to various provinces to investigate.The media did not shy away from this kind of family ugliness, calling them names and scolding them.

The news spread to Japan, and Sullivan, who was released from house arrest, found that the Japanese were extremely concerned about these major corruption cases—the little devil discovered that China's central government had investigated nearly a hundred provincial and municipal officials in one go, including many officials in Xinjiang. .

The strength and ruthlessness of this kind of blade facing inward, bone scraping and healing make the Japanese people very envious.Many scholars openly petitioned the Miura cabinet, requesting to learn from the Chinese government and to fight corruption against Japanese bureaucrats.

Ha ha ha ha...

Miura bit the bullet and said that the situation in China and Japan was different. After the cabinet had no such plans for the time being, the Japanese media and academic circles suddenly criticized-not China, but the Japanese government for corruption, darkness, lack of democracy, and failure to Thoroughly learn from China.

Some radicals simply went to the newly established Chinese embassy in Japan and asked the first ambassador, Katya, to make a solemn request—to ask China to send officials to Japan to fight corruption, and to send troops to protect the people from oppression.

The Japanese people have probably been oppressed by the bureaucracy for too long, and they rebound violently if they have a little room to play. The matter of 'please China to fight corruption' was aroused, and the whole people discussed it, and even took to the streets to parade.

It's only been a month since the last mutiny ended, is it going to happen again?The Japanese bureaucrats were terribly frightened, and Miura was even roasted on the fire, devastated.

In the end, Katya told the media as an ambassador that China and Japan have plans to send officials to each other to learn from each other. The first batch of about 700 people has already been in place, and the list of personnel will be published in the newspaper, please social supervision.

Secretly, Katya proposed to Prime Minister Miura-should we set up a special search department of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police?

idiot!

Miura exploded with anger in the prime minister's office—Chinese people, don't go too far!This is a privilege that only American fathers have. How could I agree so easily?

But within two days, under the turbulent public opinion, Miura finally bowed his head-with the framework of mutual assistance between party organizations, China and Japan jointly established an independent discipline supervision committee in Tokyo.

Katya served concurrently as the first secretary to help Japan eliminate corrupt and lazy officials in the government.

The first unlucky one was Emperor Taisho's relative, a top minister, a general of the Japanese army, and Prince Hanin Gong Zaijin.This old military leader who participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War was placed under house arrest because of the mutiny and lost power, so he happened to be a living target.

When the Tokyo Commission for Discipline Inspection forcibly pulled this Chinese public official out to criticize, the whole city of Tokyo was deserted!Newspapers and radio stations are like chicken blood, and they keep sending out extras and latest reports.

Prince Zairen has a deep network in the army and a deep city. No one dares to provoke him in the Japanese political arena. He is the real leader of the army hidden behind the scenes.

Just such a great man, in uniform and medals, being tried in public.The prince initially vehemently denounced the trial as illegal and groundless, and denied all accusations.

But there are too many black materials that can't stand the Japanese army.

As long as you talk about the 'spirit injection stick', every Japanese soldier is guaranteed to tremble.In addition, the Japanese public ministers really do not do personnel affairs. The higher the power of Prince Zairen, the more things will be broken.

In the interrogation recorded and broadcast on the radio, Prince Zairen admitted many accusations of forced military rations and soldiers, and agreed with the general abuse and corporal punishment of the army.

On the first day of the interrogation, the anger of the Japanese people was transferred from the Miura cabinet to the royal family, the big backstage of the feudal forces.Now almost everyone wants to have a good time, and there is a lot of scolding.

Sullivan knew the case was growing when he left Tokyo.The emperor, who seemed to be hiding in the Imperial Palace, couldn't sit still or escape.

For example, the 2.6 million taels of silver indemnity received from China during the Sino-Japanese War.

The money was advertised as being used for education, but in fact most of it was used to expand armaments.The Japanese imperial family took 5.00% and [-]%, and less than [-]% was actually used for education.

To illustrate how much the Japanese royal family spent, the emperor's imperial residence in Chiyoda was opened.

For one yen, anyone can go in and visit.Emperor Taisho could only stay in the Imperial Palace in panic, living the life of a zoo monkey.

On the first day of opening, the Tokyo government earned tens of thousands of yen.Before dawn, a large number of people lined up outside the walls of the Imperial Palace, waiting to see the emperor's residence, which has always been forbidden for civilians to spy on.

Imperial Palace, the name is noble and mysterious, can it not arouse people's infinite reverie?Anyone who has visited must be both envious and cursed.

The luxury and enjoyment of the royal family are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.When the poor are worrying about three meals a day to satisfy their hunger, the nobles have begun to dislike eating too much and turn to health preservation.

The Japanese media also want to report on the current treatment of the former Chinese royal family-the Forbidden City is already a tourist attraction, and the emperor has become an ordinary person, and he has to rely on labor to earn wages.The nobles were repeatedly liquidated, and the people were the masters of their own affairs.

New China, which is undergoing socialist reforms, has no historical burden. It can completely criticize any corrupt and backward country from the moral high ground, accept any well-intentioned criticism, and is willing to make corrections.

In this regard, not only the Japanese people feel that it is an eye-opener, but also convinced.Even the lower class in Europe and the United States are fascinated, as if they have encountered an utopia and are greatly encouraged.

Europeans and Americans currently in China are very disturbed by this.

This country is still very poor, bureaucratic corruption is common, and social conflicts are also sharp.But it is so different that people can't tell clearly.

Chapter 37 The Railway to Ulaanbaatar

What is an economic colony?

Selling the primary products produced in the national economy to foreign countries at low prices cost a lot of natural resources, means of production, and manpower, and the foreign exchange earned was returned to the exporters in exchange for high-priced industrial products and settlement of debts.

"This is the economic colonization of us by Britain and France with the help of compradors! The great Russia has fallen into a heavy debt trap and cannot get out of it at all."

This anonymous article was published in St. Petersburg's "Kommersant". The author used a lot of space and data to describe the miserable life of the bottom of Russia, and attributed it to the country's too much foreign debt.

It is true that Tsarist Russia has owed too much foreign debt in recent years, and the principal and interest it bears has reached the level of the gross national product of the year-but if it did not owe debts, the country would have been ruined long ago!

In the town hall offices of the Smolny Palace, the contents of the newspaper made Vladimir Vladimir unnamed angry - ever since Lenin returned to Russia from Germany, he had become restless.

Public security joint defense, secret police, army search and arrest, encouragement of informants, almost all methods have been exhausted, but they failed to catch several leaders of the Russian Communist Party's "cloth".

Lenin publicly went to the St. Petersburg shipyard to speak to the workers.The secret police who sneaked into the factory forgot to arrest because they were so engrossed in listening, so that they reported back and failed to find the target.

There are a lot of double-dealers and fence-sitters in the Tsarist Russian government. As long as they can make money, no one will be offended.As for Pu Dadi's repeated orders, they just pretended not to hear them.

From the beginning to the end of 1917, Pu Dadi lived in fear.He united with the social reformers and tried his best to improve the lives of the people at the bottom, repair public facilities, establish minimum guarantees, and try his best to provide jobs.

effective?Effective, very effective.

The Russian Communist Party'B' hated this important Russian minister known as the 'tsar's right hand'.If there was no Emperor Pu, Tsarist Russia would have been turned upside down long ago, and then lost its power.

Now the two 'Vladimirs' seem to be in a tug-of-war, they must grit their teeth and try their best, and any slack will lead to the wastage of previous efforts.They were helpless against each other and exhausted.

The article in "Kommersant" looked like it was written by the Russian Communist Party's "Bu". After scolding Britain and France, the threat of the emerging imperialist country China was mentioned at the end of the article.

"China's annexation of Japan has at least doubled its strength. It has made up for its weakest navy and has strong industrial strength."

"The Far East and Central Asia have not been infiltrated by Chinese immigrants for a day or two, and even Ukraine is being exploited.

This year the Kiev region will produce 50.00 tons of grain per hectare, [-] tons of sugar beets and [-] tons of sunflower seeds.But under the bumper harvest, grain prices rose by [-]%.The shameless rich peasants transported large quantities of grain abroad in order to obtain high profits. "

Emperor Puteri was also annoyed by these data. Compared with the British and French loans, which only need to repay the principal and interest, China secretly transported away a large number of Russian physical products-grain, steel, and oil are all flowing out.

What makes Russia even more nervous is that after the end of the Sino-Japanese War, a country with a vast territory and internal stability emerged.It has more than one million powerful troops with combat experience and high morale, and it is also eyeing the Far East.

The time has come to the end of November. According to the statistics of diplomats stationed in China, China's steel production will exceed the 1000 million tons mark this year, and after swallowing Japan, the output will soar to 500 million tons next year.

On the grounds of Japan's narrow domestic territory and lack of resources, China moved the industry cultivated during the "Meiji Restoration" to the mainland.The Japanese still take it for granted, wishing they could move collectively.

Britain and the United States spent a full seven years investing billions of pounds in loans, expending huge manpower and material resources to support Japan, and all the results were made for China in the blink of an eye.

Yawata Steel, Kure Port Shipbuilding, Kawasaki Aviation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and hundreds of Japanese companies will establish branches in China or even relocate as a whole.Millions of industrial workers have been absorbed by China to expand production and expansion.

Surprised, Europe and the United States are more optimistic about China's national debt.Even the Japanese government bonds have finally returned to a 'rational price', but there is no market for them.

China under the governance of 'Holy Light' has always been short of industrial talents, and most of the first batch of nine-year compulsory education students are still in junior high school.There are no more than [-] science and engineering college students graduating from home and abroad every year, and the quality is still uneven.

Now, Japan has fallen, and China is full.In less than three to five years, its industrial scale will double.Before Britain, France and the United States realized it, Russia was under great pressure.

Emperor Pu Da is now the mayor of the capital of Tsarist Russia, and he worries about the rise of China every day.Early in the morning, he was disturbed by the "Kommersant", and the news that made him even more restless came again.

China's "Emperor Capital to Ulan Bator" railway has been repaired to Saiyinshanda, which is less than 1918 kilometers away from Ulaanbaatar. It is expected that it will definitely be completed in [-].

The news was like a critical blow, making Emperor Pu feel like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Because Ulaanbaatar in Outer Mongolia is only more than 400 kilometers away from Lake Baikal, and the Trans-Siberian Railway, which is related to the fate of the Far East, passes through the section of Lake Baikal.

If this railway is completed, it will be much easier for the Chinese army to cut off the east and west ends of Russia.The whole of Eastern Siberia will no longer be safe.

Emperor Pu didn't want to sit back and watch China complete the railway, but he didn't dare to engage in a two-front war when the domestic situation was tense.He felt like he was sitting on a powder keg, ready to be blown away at any moment.

Just under the severe cold at the end of the year, a train departed from the imperial capital, passing through Zhangjiakou and heading north to the railway construction site of Sai Yinshanda.Its front is a diesel locomotive with electric transmission, which has a large starting torque and is suitable for heavy loads.

It was late at night when the train arrived at Sai Yinshanda, and the headlights on the front of the train illuminated the temporary station brightly.In the snowstorm, Zhan Tianyou, chief engineer of the 'Beijing-Ukrainian Railway', got off the carriage and approached the construction site stepping on the creaking snow.

"Oh, this place is well built."

There are rows of simple buildings on the construction site, and there is no shortage of coal.The boiler room provides hot water throughout the day, the high-pressure steam drives a [-]-horsepower steam turbine to generate electricity, and the [-]-volt substation supplies power to the surrounding area of ​​[-] kilometers.

A small town appeared in the depths of the desert.

When Zhan Tianyou arrived, the night shift workers were working.The two track-laying cars are pre-installed with sleepers and rails, and they take turns to lay the tracks.