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Chapter 20: The Chrysanthemum and the Knife


Although Yu Sheng's idea is good, intelligence work is really a highly professional job that requires talent.

The information collected by several teenagers was probably related to the Japanese, but it was all gossip from the Japanese rule across the river and the Japanese army.

Although it can be considered secretive, it is not related to the current threat of the Zodiac Society.

Not much value.

However, Yu Sheng and Ye Wuguang learned a lot after looking through various materials about the Japanese in the library.

Combined with what I learned in the rest of my life and later generations, my understanding of the Japanese gradually deepened.

Sometimes when I think about the history and details of this nation, I can’t help but smile bitterly.

In The Chrysanthemum and the Knife by American scholar Ruth Benedict, she makes such judgments about the Japanese.

The Japanese are extremely aggressive yet very gentle by nature; militaristic yet fond of beauty; arrogant yet self-respecting yet polite; stubborn yet stubborn yet gentle.

Weak and fickle; docile yet unwilling to be manipulated; loyal yet prone to rebellion; brave yet cowardly; conservative yet very welcoming of new ways of life.

In Benedict's view, the Japanese character is contradictory.

But for Chinese people, the Japanese character is not difficult to understand.

Before modern times, the Japanese studied a lot of Chinese culture.

Although the Japanese did not copy it exactly, there were still a lot of traces of ancient Chinese culture in the Japanese character.

The Japanese pay attention to the concept of hierarchy, pay attention to the superiority of men to women, obey the group and the strong, pay attention to morality and the "shame" that violates morality, know how to endure, know how to learn, and are extremely serious If analyzed carefully, we can see that most of these characteristics come from ancient Chinese culture.

Especially Confucian culture, however, has some variations.

Confucian culture emphasizes that "little people are harmonious but not harmonious, and gentlemen are harmonious but not harmonious".

The requirement for a person is to maintain a harmonious and harmonious relationship with the people around him, but he must deal with everything through independent thinking of his own brain, and is never willing to follow what others say or blindly agree.

And despise those villains who have no independent opinions of their own and only seek to be completely consistent with others without paying attention to principles.

And believe that this kind of person cannot maintain a harmonious and harmonious relationship with the people around him.

The Japanese's requirement for a person is that no matter whether they are the same or not, they must be in harmony with each other.

If they are different, they can be at odds or draw swords against each other.

This straightforward and decisive way of handling things makes the Japanese become a strange contradictory body where gentlemen and villains are mixed together.

Such requirements make the Japanese pay attention to the word "forbearance" when they are different from others but cannot draw swords against each other.

And this person's "forbearance" means that the sword is hanging in the heart, which requires extremely strong mental strength and will. force.

Therefore, the Japanese affirm and pursue spiritual will far more than the Chinese This is extremely terrifying to the enemies of this nation.

It is precisely because of this extreme spiritual pursuit that the Japanese commit caesarean suicide, have the bushido spirit, have ninjas, have kamikaze commandos who have no regard for their own lives and the lives of others and will never return, and have the defeat of World War II.

In the future, when "the whole country is shattered", there will be more than 10,000 civilians in Saipan who committed suicide, and there will be Japanese veterans who have been fighting alone for decades without surrendering.

This extreme pursuit of spirituality has reached its extreme and has become a philosophy in which one can do whatever it takes.

If you don’t value your own life, how can you expect such values ​​to value the lives of others?

The massacre of 300,000 people is a matter of course.

On the other hand, the Chinese people, although there are examples of killing oneself in their traditional culture, the emphasis is on living, and it is better to die than to live in vain.

The Chinese people's progress and eradication of shame do not rely on jade fragments, but on the tenacious ability to survive.

There is a saying that "where there is a will, things will come true.

If you break the cauldron and sink the boat, a hundred and two Qin passes will eventually belong to Chu; if you work hard, you will not be let down by God.

If you lie down and taste the courage, you will be able to survive." , Three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu."

As long as you have a breath left, as long as you still have chips in your hands, there will always be a chance to make a comeback, and you will always turn defeat into victory.

Although it's not easy to compare, which of these two similar yet distinct personalities is more conducive to survival and more awe-inspiring.

However, in terms of lethality and destructive power, the Japanese's character is obviously stronger.

Japan's small land area and frequent natural disasters have made the Japanese coveted China's territory since modern times.

It has now become an obsession of the Japanese.

Become something that is not only a material pursuit, but also a spiritual pursuit.

And with the intensity of the Japanese's pursuit of obsession, of course they will never give up until they achieve their goals.

Therefore, since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, we have been a relentless enemy.

Until they completely broke up in 1937 When I sighed for the rest of my life, I felt a little worried.

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I was already extremely careful when commuting to and from get off work and going out every day, but I still clearly noticed several stalkings, and even once, someone from the Zodiac almost took a risk on the street.

Fortunately, he escaped in time.

Although he was good at martial arts, he didn't think he could fight bullets with his body.

Although he had an almost perfect assassination idea, he had no choice but to collect too little information and could not make a detailed plan.

He could only wait for the opportunity in anxiety and preparedness.

But when she was worrying about the rest of her life, Qing Xiaoyi opened the door and walked in.

Since the last time Xiaoyi saw Yu Sheng's "Nice Clothes Continued Music" placed on the recliner, this kind of book was classified as a category in the boudoir, although she was embarrassed and shy.

But the relationship between the two people seems to be so close.

They are obviously much more casual when talking, and they are no longer polite and distant.

Recently, every night, Qing Xiaoyi would definitely bring Yu Sheng a pot of tea.

Say a few words to Yu Sheng before leaving.

Yu Sheng was also somewhat conflicted.

Qing Xiaoyi's voice and tone were too similar to Ye Qingyu's.

If he was just chatting, he couldn't refuse at all.

After all, this woman is not the person who has passed away in her heart.

Today, Qing Xiaoyi not only brought a pot of tea, but also a thick book.

This book is bound with the cheapest and roughest rice paper, but the binding is neat and elegant, not crude.

On every page, there are densely packed small characters of Juanxiu.

Yu Sheng opened the cover of the book and found that what was densely written down turned out to be pieces of information.

Yu Sheng was shocked and asked Qing Xiaoyi: "Where did this come from?"

Qing Xiaoyi said: "I excerpted this from various old newspapers and materials.

Brother Yu, let's see if it's still useful."

Yu Sheng carefully looked through the information excerpted by Qing Xiaoyi and said, "These seem to be more than just things reported in the newspapers recently."

Qing Xiaoyi said: "After Brother Yu gave the order that day, I thought that if I just looked for information from the nearest newspaper, the information would be too little, without context, and probably of little value.

Let's go to the streets and sell it.

In addition to leaving a newspaper for themselves to read every day, the children who worked at the newspaper also collected many old newspapers from other newspapers.

They even collected all the papers with words on them."

This thick book excerpted by Qing Xiaoyi is probably not as long as hundreds of pages, but each page has at least a thousand words.

A rough calculation means that this book has hundreds of thousands of words.

After calculating the rest of his life, he sighed softly and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Xiaoyi."

"It doesn't matter.

Brother Yu, these words may seem like a lot, but in fact it doesn't take much effort.

It only takes seven or eight days to organize thousands of newspaper materials."

Yu Sheng was shocked: "Xiaoyi is so fast, how much time do you spend every day?"

You know, even if they use computers to type in the future, most people can only type at a speed of more than a thousand words per hour.

Even Internet writers can type every day.

The handwriting speed of three to four thousand words per hour is already impressive.

This is a speed that is far beyond the reach of handwriting.

Moreover, excerpting information is not as simple as hand speed.

It requires a lot of reading and an extremely clear mind to sort out the cause and effect of all details with extremely clear logic. and make records.

Yu Sheng will also be a liberal arts student in later generations, and his reading speed is close to 70,000 to 80,000 words per hour.

However, at this speed, it is absolutely impossible to read thousands of newspapers and compile such detailed information in seven or eight days.

Qing Xiaoyi’s deep intention is unquestionable, and the speed is also unexpected.

"Well, I haven't calculated this.

It's three or four hours a day.

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Anyway, you and your brother have gone out to make money, and the children have gone out to sell newspapers.

I have nothing to do, so I just do this.

Anyway, I can copy and read in one hour. , read a dozen newspapers, and write a dozen or twenty pages without any problem.”

According to the word count of current newspapers, a dozen newspapers would be Qing Xiaoyi's reading speed of 300,000 to 400,000 words, an average of 100,000 words per hour.

However, based on the number of words copied by Qing Xiaoyi, it would be more than 5,000 words per hour.

Zi Zuo is many times better than Yu Sheng, a pseudo-literary youth who came from time-travel.

Yu Sheng's face was full of shock and he murmured: "Xiao Yi, you are so powerful."

Qing Xiaoyi looked happy and said to Yu Sheng: "I have been very fast at reading and writing since I was a child.

I remember when I was a child, I was naughty and broke a good inkstone of my father.

My father asked me to copy history books and meditate.

Pick and choose.

Go and pick out the Zizhi Tongjian for me and ask me to finish it in a year.

If I finish it early, I can have fun this year."

Zizhi Tongjian is a chronological history book compiled by Sima Guang of the Northern Song Dynasty over a period of 19 years.

It has a total of 294 volumes, with time as the outline and events as the objectives.

It starts from the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou Dynasty, that is, 400 BC.

It was written in 2003 and ended in AD 959, the sixth year after the Five Dynasties when Zhou Shizong showed his virtue.

It covers sixteen dynasties and a total of one thousand three hundred and sixty-two years of history.

There was an electronic version of Word for the rest of my life, with a total of 2,585,240 words.

That’s the number of words in an online novel "Then you finished copying it early."

"Of course, it only took me a little over two months to finish copying.

Dad was very helpless at the time," Qing Xiaoyi said with a smile.

Under the light, this smile is like a blooming begonia in the depths of the night.

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