Among these key industrial sectors, coal, steel and fertilizers rank first.
Among them, the most important is coal.
This kind of tilt toward production is not only preferential treatment in terms of loans, but also comprehensive tilt and preferential treatment in terms of production materials and workers' lives.
Due to this tilt in focusing the efforts of the entire country, 1947 became the fastest growing year for the coal industry in Japanese history.
The growth rate is as high as 33.2%.
In one fell swoop, Japan's negative growth in industrial production was reversed.
The Japanese economy has finally breathed a sigh of relief.
A virtual recovery began.
Of course, the Americans' transformation of Japan did not stop at industry.
When dismantling Japan's family chaebols, the Americans began to transform Japanese agriculture.
The Japanese agricultural relationship was influenced by China.
For thousands of years, it has been a feudal relationship between the upper class and the lower class, and a relationship between landlords and tenant farmers.
Although influenced by the West, the Japanese changed earlier.
During the Meiji Restoration period in Japan, in 1872, the Meiji government of Japan began land reform.
During this reform, the Meiji government of Japan recognized the private ownership of land, and determined land ownership based on the actual control rights of the land.
Land rented hereditarily by farmers belongs to the farmers; land rented by farmers for a short period of time belongs to the lessor; land pledged , owned by the bondee.
In 1873, the Japanese promulgated local tax reform regulations.
However, such a change does not have much effect.
After the local tax reform, the rent and local taxes were equivalent to more than 60% of the annual harvest.
The relationship between landlords and farmers still retains its original relationship.
The land issue of farmers has not been substantively solved at all.
Therefore, a large number of Japanese still maintain the lifestyle of renting and farming. and economic means of acquisition.
These people simply do not have the ability to enter factories and cities.
This shift in labor force in industry prevented Japan from seeing a steady stream of industrial reserve forces who left agricultural production and flowed into the urban labor market during the Meiji Restoration period, as was the case in Western countries during the period of primitive accumulation.
Due to the lack of labor force and the operation of the low-level economic system, the consumption ability of ordinary people is lacking.
The Japanese simply don't have much of a domestic market to speak of.
This left the Japanese economy to find another way out during the period of primitive accumulation.
If you want to develop, foreign markets and foreign resources are essential.
In order to develop their economy, the Japanese can only plunder wealth from the outside world.
Americans clearly see this.
Therefore, while allowing the Japanese to restore their economy, they also began to dismantle Japan's original agricultural production methods.
Because this is the root of Japan's external expansion and plunder.
From October 1946 until 1950, according to the Agricultural Land Reform Act enacted by the Americans, one of the leased lands of approximately 14.8 acres or more was granted to the rural landlords in Doichichobu.
One hundred and ninety-four thousand steps.
It was forcibly acquired by the Americans at pre-war land prices and resold to 4.2 million ordinary farmers.
Due to the collapse of the Japanese economy after the war, Japan's inflation was extremely serious.
Therefore, the price of purchasing an item was a hundred times what it was before the war.
Buying land after the war at pre-war prices was tantamount to forcible plunder.
The so-called purchase of land is simply giving it away for free.
So, this kind of reform.
Very popular with the general public.
Under the supervision of Americans, "Agricultural Land Reform Committees" were quickly established across Japan.
The Japanese landowners, who were obviously outnumbered, were powerless to resist under the guns of the Americans.
The land was quickly divided up by others.
Because of the American agricultural land reform in Japan.
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Japanese farmers' enthusiasm for farming has increased significantly.
Under this premise, the output of farming has also increased significantly.
This allowed the Japanese to gradually get rid of the shadow of hunger after the post-war economic collapse after carrying out agricultural land reforms. and.
After the large number of farmers stabilized their lives, Japan's post-war floating hearts finally completely settled down.
As economic critic Nishi Tadao said: "The prosperous rural areas are the most fundamental reason for the long-term stability of Japanese society and the continuous economic development."
However, when Americans do this, they actually have no good intentions.
Although, the agricultural land reform in Japan initially alleviated the hunger of the Japanese.
However, the consequences are not small.
The area of cultivated land in Japan is inherently small.
Once divided into millions of parts, each part becomes even smaller and pitiful.
According to human nature, once something is dispersed into the hands of each individual, it will be extremely difficult to gather it together.
To reunite, there will be at least millions of people with interests that need to be reconciled.
This is almost impossible to achieve without the use of violent coercion.
Therefore, the agricultural land reform carried out by the Americans on the Japanese actually blocked the possibility of large-scale agricultural production by the Japanese.
The secret to Americans' high production efficiency and low agricultural product prices is large-scale mechanized production.
After the Japanese lost the possibility of large-scale agricultural production, the price of Japanese agricultural products will naturally be higher than that of Americans.
The output will not be very high.
In this way, the Japanese had to rely on foreign countries for their food supply.
And because its food prices are too high, Japan will naturally become one of the dumping grounds for American agricultural products.
The longer the time, the more obvious this effect is.
After the golden age of Japan's agricultural land reform passed, the Japanese's food self-sufficiency rate was 79% in 1960.
By 1990, the Japanese's food self-sufficiency rate had dropped to 100%.
Forty/forty points.
If calculated in terms of calories, the Japanese need to import 66% of their food.
However, in later generations, in order to maintain the competitiveness of their agricultural products, the Japanese had to maintain agricultural product tariffs at the highest level in the world.
The tariff on wheat is 210%, the tariff on rice is 490%, the tariff on peanuts is 500%, and the tariff on a certain kind of konjac is as high as 990% As agricultural output and productivity failed to increase, a large number of Japanese had to choose other industries to work in the commercial society of later generations.
The number of people employed in agriculture has been declining day by day, from 14 million to 2.8 million.
As for the contribution to the gross national product, in 2002, agriculture, as a basic industry, only accounted for one percent.
At the same time, later generations of Japan were unable to obtain high profits from agriculture due to a large number of people.
Land neglect is very serious.
Nearly half of Japan's 4.8 million hectares of agricultural land.
In a state of desolation.
According to Yamashita Hitoshi, a former bureaucrat of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan and now the Institute of Industrial Economics, Japan's current 4.8 million hectares of agricultural land can only feed the Japanese if all of it is used to grow potatoes.
In the event of an emergency such as World War II, the daily rations per person across Japan would have to be reduced by two-thirds to cope.
Japan's post-war situation of starving people everywhere will reappear Takeichi Ogura, one of the drafters of Japan's Agricultural Basic Law and a senior bureaucrat who later participated in many WTO negotiations, is even more worried about Japan's food self-sufficiency rate.
"Leaving such a bad impression in international public opinion, free trade in the world They have paid the price of being deeply isolated, living in inexplicable fear all day long, fearing that imported rice farmers will be destroyed and the staple food supply will be completely transferred to the hands of outsiders.”
"The current situation in Japan today is really worrying.
Some people use food security as an excuse to oppose the import of rice, but when the rice produced at home is seven to eight times more expensive than abroad, what kind of security is there?"
Under these circumstances, Japan appears to be prospering.
In fact, just by blocking its food imports, Japan's economy will collapse again in just over a month.
Social order will also be in chaos.
Therefore, when later generations of Japanese reinterpreted the agricultural land reform carried out by the Americans, they generally believed that it was just a product of the combination of "the absolute authority of the occupying forces and the misunderstanding and enthusiasm of the intellectual bureaucrats."
As an oversight by the Time and Space Administration, I traveled here for the rest of my life.
Of course I know this.
Since the Americans have this plan, they might as well contribute to it for the rest of their lives.
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In 1947, the Americans began to carry out agricultural land reform in Japan, which was at its peak.
In the rest of my life, I quietly added a ship to transport grain from the United States to Japan.
Also, there is no longer any control over the amount of food shipped to Japan.
At this time, the purpose of the rest of my life is no longer to let the Japanese starve to death.
Or hollow out the Japanese.
After more than a year of searching.
Ye Wuguang has already led a group of old and young people from the Qing Dynasty to plunder the black markets all over Japan.
Today, these treasures are rarely seen on the black market.
Even if someone wants to take action.
They will also directly contact the people stationed in these black markets by Ye Wuguang.
As long as something is genuine, it will naturally get a more ideal price.
It is much simpler and more cost-effective than setting up a street stall and being charged stall fees.
The goal for the rest of my life at this time is to occupy the Japanese food market as much as possible.
Even if you can't take it all, you still have to take half of it.
But in today's Japan, there is only one person who has the protection and connivance of Americans, strong funds and a certain source of goods, and cooperation with Japanese local snakes.
When Yu Sheng shipped a large amount of grain to Japan, people from the Osaka business group were naturally responsible for selling it.
The Osaka business group has been among Japan's elite for hundreds of years, with sales networks and contacts all over Japan.
Distributing food was no problem at all.
Although the Americans have carried out agricultural land reforms in Japan, it will take another two years for Japan's grain production to increase on a large scale.
In Japan in 1947, food was still a controlled commodity.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about the sales of food for the rest of my life.
Through the black market, as long as the price is low enough, Yu Sheng can sell all the shipped grain in a few days.
At this time, the second grain ship will arrive in Japan.
Both Americans and Japanese must turn a blind eye to this kind of thing.
After all, the Japanese government cannot deliberately let its people starve to death, and what the Americans want is just to dismantle Japan's original agricultural economic operation method.
As for whether Japan's food prices will drop rapidly, it is not within the scope of Americans' thinking.
Moreover, in the eyes of Americans, Yu Sheng is considered half-American.
Rather than allowing the Japanese to be self-sufficient, Americans would rather see the Japanese food market controlled by American capital.
As a result, the lifeline of the Japanese people was controlled by the Americans.
As for whether this person lives for the rest of his life, it is not very important.
With this tacit approval, the number of grain transport ships quickly increased from two to eight.
Food prices in Japan have dropped rapidly, and farmers in the United States, who are worried about food surpluses, also regard Yu Sheng as their savior.
Before he knew it, Yu Sheng quickly controlled half of the Japanese grain market.
Moreover, in order to reduce competition, Yu Sheng and the Osaka business group discussed another idea.
That is to guide these Japanese farmers who already own land to grow cash crops instead of food.
While the Osaka Business Group is expanding its grain sales network, it is also opening up channels for purchasing various cash crops.
While dumping grain at low prices, various cash crops were purchased at high prices.
Whether it is tea or tobacco, as long as it is a cash crop, everyone will be welcome.
All purchased at high prices.
As a result, even without the propaganda of the Osaka business group, these farmers will calculate that in the end, the food they have worked hard to grow for a year will not sell for one-third or even one-quarter of cash crops with the same growth cycle. money.
In this way, after the Americans carried out agricultural land reform, a large number of Japanese farmers chose to grow cash crops instead of food such as rice.
Moreover, in order to make this matter final, Yu Sheng and the Osaka business group adopted a reservation method.
When using banknote offensive to impress a large number of Japanese farmers, they signed contracts with these Japanese farmers.
Agree on what kind of cash crops will be planted on the land in their hands, and the purchase price.
And paid part of the deposit in advance.
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As a result, many Japanese farmers have no chance to regret their actions.
Once you regret it, you will have to pay money.
If you don’t have money, you have to use the newly acquired land as a mortgage.
The Japanese upper class cannot reject this business model.
In 1947, Japan's exports were only one-tenth of what they were before the war.
If we can export some cash crops in exchange for a substantial increase in export volume, it will be a very cost-effective thing.
This is easy to say, but extremely time-consuming to do.
I spent half a year of my life working on this matter.
In the early autumn of 1947, when Japan's grain output was calculated, Yu Sheng looked at the report and laughed.
Although with the food shipped for the rest of their lives, the Japanese no longer have to worry about going hungry.
However, its grain output was actually worse than in 1946.
The total amount is not even as much as the grain shipped from the United States to Japan in the rest of the year.
At this point, Yu Sheng has occupied half of the Japanese grain industry.
As long as the rest of my life is willing, the Japanese can feel hungry again at any time
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