We, Japan, gained a lot of benefits from World War I.
Not only were all foreign debts forgiven, but we also received at least 5 billion yen in revenue, including "aid" paid by Britain and France, spoils from Europe, and we also received Morocco.
Sugi, this piece of fertile land is more than twice the size of Japan itself.
These benefits were obtained by our people with their lives and blood.
My colleagues and I naively believed that the situation in the country should get better now and the Japanese should be able to live a good life.
Because in the past, senior officials always said that as long as the empire has such and such, the citizens can live a happy life.
But when I returned to Japan, what I saw were still poor people.
They worked hard all day but were hungry and had no clothes to cover their bodies.
Their lives were like candles in the wind.
The slightest disturbance would make them silent. of extinguished.
Sergeant Oda of my squadron is a very good soldier.
He had been bled and wounded for the empire in Europe, but his family was suffering from hunger and cold.
Because he could not pay the annual tribute, his sister was sent to a brothel by the landlord to be sold.
Later, I found out about this, and our squadron raised money for his sister.
Enough ransom money The situation of Sergeant Oda's family is not the worst.
We can save one of Oda's sisters, but we cannot save more people.
It's just that our power is too small.
In direct contrast to the hungry and cold poor, Japan's chaebol rich and powerful live a luxurious life of feasting and feasting.
Japan gained so much benefit from World War I.
Why are the majority of its people still so poor?
Why are the common people always the ones who suffer?
What is wrong with this country?
I couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.
Japan shouldn’t be like this.
This must be a systemic problem.
In November 1921, I went to China for the first time.
On the surface, I went there in the name of a visiting scholar in mainland China, but in fact, the military asked me to be a spy, a legal spy with an open identity.
I failed to complete my mission as a spy, but I saw the future of Japan here.
I traveled through most of China, and here I finally found a way to save Japan, and that is the great scientific socialism.
Only it can save Japan.
Excerpted from From Asianism to Scientific Socialism, author Ishihara Kanji, Field Marshal of the People's Republic of Japan, first published in January 1956.
November 7, 1921, 2762 AD, Shanghai Airport Customs and Quarantine Station.
"Director Lu, these people have all undergone blood tests and there are no abnormalities during the observation period."
A young doctor held a stack of information and placed it in front of his boss.
"Well, there seems to be no problem with this group of people."
Lu Xiaming flipped through the information and said with a relaxed expression: "Let them enter the country."
He picked up a pen and signed the quarantine certificate.
"Director Lu, no cases have been found for three months now.
It seems that the Spanish flu has completely subsided."
The young doctor said happily: "This way we can breathe a sigh of relief."
"Well, my superiors have said that we can return to normal after this month, and we don't need to be as nervous as before.
And I heard that a new type of testing instrument will be distributed to various customs and quarantine stations soon, and it will be very fast to detect epidemics.
Quickly, then their own customs staff will be enough, and they won't need our reinforcements."
Lu Xiaming smiled and said sweetly: "When the work here is over, I will go back to my hometown to get married."
"Congratulations, the eight-year long run between you and Director Tang has finally come to an end."
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Colleagues all came up to congratulate.
Those who are older are fine, but the expressions of some young doctors are not so consistent.
Their faces were full of envy, jealousy, and hatred, and some even looked like they were mourning for their heirs.
There is no way, Lu Xiaming's fiancée is Tang Feng.
She is one of the four most famous goddesses in the Chinese medical system.
There are countless people who admire her, and those who directly pursue her can form a reinforcement group.
Lu Xiaming's heart was shattered by this move.
Because of the Spanish flu, doctors all over the world have been extremely busy in the past two years, especially doctors like Lu Xiaming who specialize in infectious diseases.
The vast majority of Chinese residents have been vaccinated, so the problem is not big.
However, such a large territory needs to be controlled, and a large number of medical personnel are also needed.
There are also younger brothers such as the Revolutionary Alliance countries and Belarus, which cannot be ignored.
They all need medical assistance from China.
In addition, they need to go to European and American powers to gain reputation.
In the past two years, Chinese doctors and nurses have traveled all over the world.
For example, Lu Xiaming has traveled to more than a dozen countries.
The camp at the quarantine station is divided into dozens of communities, with more than 10 meters between each community.
People coming from each flight are arranged to different communities for quarantine observation.
The observation period is ten days, which means that all foreigners or returnees who enter China must stay there for five days.
This has been the rule ever since the Spanish Flu, even among diplomats.
Of course, those heads of state who are invited are different.
Their quarantine services are carried out with them, and quarantine personnel follow them throughout the process.
At this time, people in a community were gathered together, and several customs officials and doctors at the quarantine station were issuing quarantine certificates to them.
"Passengers on flight 652 from Tokyo to Shanghai have passed the quarantine at this station and all passed the quarantine.
Now after you receive the certificate, you can leave the quarantine station and continue your journey," a customs official said, and the interpreter next to him translated his words into Japanese repeated to everyone.
"Now that I have read the name, come up and get the certificate."
The customs officer read out with a list: "Ishihara Wanji, Fujita Yoshi, Takaya Yoshiki, Tanaka Yoshiki, Umegawa Kuyoko, Ichiyo Nanjiro, Japan Kawagosaka" he read one, and the translator repeated it in Japanese.
The people on this flight were all Japanese.
They carried their luggage and came up one after another to receive quarantine certificates.
"Wanji Ishihara, visiting scholar at Japan Army University."
The official who issued the certificate looked at the Japanese in front of him and asked, comparing it with his passport.
"Hai, you're right there."
Ishihara Wanji quickly bowed.
"Mr.
Ishihara, please pay 50 cents for the certificate production fee, 9 yuan for the quarantine fee and room and board during the quarantine period, for a total of 9 yuan and 50 cents per person," the staff next to me said in blunt Japanese.
"I haven't had time to exchange your country's banknotes.
Can I pay in Japanese yen?"
"Yes, we will settle according to the exchange rate" Ishihara Wanji quickly took out a 10-yen Taisho gold coin and handed it over.
At this time, the exchange rate between Chinese yuan and Japanese yen was 100:115, and the staff supplied him with RMB according to the exchange rate.
"This is your quarantine certificate, please keep it."
The official handed him a small blue hard-cover book and reminded: "When traveling within our country, this is an indispensable certificate, whether for accommodation or purchase.
You need to show the quarantine certificate for your train and boat tickets.
If you lose it, you must go to the local quarantine department to get a replacement as soon as possible.”
"Thank you very much, I'm sorry to trouble you."
Ishihara Wanji took the certificate and flipped through it.
The first page inside was his name, age, identity and other information, and there was also a half-length standard photo with a customs stamp on it. of steel seal.
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The second page is filled with the date of entry and quarantine qualification, and is also stamped with the signatures of doctors and officials.
"Okay, next, Waseda University, Fujita Yoshi" "Hey, I'm finally out."
Fujita Yao stretched greatly after walking out of the customs and quarantine station.
"Ishihara-kun, being in this quarantine station is like confinement.
If I don't come out, I will become moldy.
If I had known that it would be such a trouble, I might as well just go back to the country."
Ishihara smiled and said: "Fujita-kun, you have never really seen the confinement in a military camp.
The conditions at the quarantine station are much better.
You don't have to complain.
The Spanish flu is so powerful.
People all over the world are doing this like China."
Quarantine, even if we return to China now, we will still have to stay at the quarantine station in Tokyo for a few days."
"That's true.
The conditions at the Shanghai Quarantine Station are much better than those at the Tokyo Quarantine Station.
The first thing is the food.
What do you eat there in Tokyo?
Every day they eat brown rice, pickled radish, and miso soup.
The portions are quite small.
It's pitiful.
In Shanghai, they only have three dishes and one soup, and they don't have the same meal every day.
They have meat and rice.
It's not even comparable."
Fujita Yao said with some afterthought.
Fujita Yoshi is a thin little man with a typical Japanese appearance and is in his early 30s.
He is a full-time associate professor in the History Department of Waseda University.
He was born in the middle class and is an avid Asianist.
The "East Asian Unity Theory" he invented is very famous in the circle.
He believed that countries such as China, Japan, North Korea and Vietnam could in principle be regarded as one country, and their respective languages could be regarded as branches of Chinese.
He believed that East Asia must be unified in order to fight against European and American powers.
He used the advantages of analytic language in learning mathematics, its ease of literacy, and the high industrial growth rate after the Meiji Restoration to demonstrate the superiority of Chinese characters, and blamed all the contradictions in the argument on Daqing.
But it would be a big mistake to think that he is just a simple scholar.
Several of his academic opponents, several scholars who were bent on proving that the Japanese were of European and American origin, were bombed to death at a party.
Fujita Yao had previously purchased some things that could be used to make explosive devices, and his own chemical level was also very high.
The most important thing was that he had been to the gathering place of the victims before the explosion.
Although his suspicion was very serious, in the end there was insufficient evidence and the matter was dropped.
This time he was invited by the Chinese Archaeological Society to study oracle bone inscriptions.
He had gained a few pounds in the past few days at the quarantine station.
He couldn't help it, the food was so good.
Breakfast consists of soy milk, fried dough sticks, steamed buns, sesame seed pancakes, steamed buns, and noodles.
The main dishes for lunch and dinner all have meat.
Chicken, duck, and fish are available in various varieties.
Vegetable soup, pickles, and rice are all available in unlimited quantities.
You can eat them all.
Eat as much as you like.
Such good food only costs 50 cents a day.
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How can such a good thing happen in Japan?
He would be even more embarrassed if he knew that Chinese citizens' meal expenses there are 25 cents a day.
Breakfast is 5 cents, lunch and dinner are 10 cents each.
"Well, there are TVs and newspapers here, and the barracks also have a basketball court and a health room.
The accommodation fee is only 50 cents a day.
Tokyo Quarantine Station doesn't have these, and it costs more.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with it except that you can't go out."
Ishihara Wanji looked at the expense list and receipt given to him by the staff, and said helplessly.
"Let's find a car and leave here first, Fujita-kun, where are you going?"
Ishihara asked.
They met on the airship, and to their surprise, the other person was an Asianist like themselves.
The more they talked, the more they talked about each other, and they became good friends.
"I'm going to Hanking University, where hundreds of thousands of oracle bones are waiting for me.
A Chinese friend of mine, Zhou Shuren, told me in a letter that there may be evidence in it about the Yin Shang's eastward journey that I have been looking for," Fujita said with excitement.
“I’m going to have a look in Shanghai first” "Well, I'll give you my contact address at Hanking University.
I may stay in China for a while.
If you have time, come to Hanking to find me."
What they didn't know was that in an office at the quarantine station, several national security agents were talking about them.
"Old Wu, have the identities of this batch of Japanese been verified?
I don't think there's something right about Ishihara Wan'er.
He doesn't look like he's here for an academic visit," said an agent with a mustache.
"It has been verified over there, and their identities are all true.
That Ishihara Kanji is indeed a lecturer at Army University, and he is indeed here as a free visiting scholar.
Of course, his purpose is definitely not an academic visit."
Old Wu handed him a document.
During the five days of quarantine, China's intelligence capabilities had already figured out their whereabouts.
"Damn it, the Japanese have learned a lesson now.
They just show their identity and come in."
Mustache was a little surprised and said while stroking his chin: "It's really hard for us to take action when they come in like this."
You must know that China's counter-espionage capabilities in this plane are very impressive.
The spies that infiltrate from foreign countries are basically meat buns and beat up dogs.
There are not many of them.
Only a few lucky ones can survive, but they are also "influenced" "Became a double agent.
Especially those who sneak in anonymously.
Because there is no entry record in China, theoretically speaking, this person does not exist in China.
Therefore, whether they become "volunteers who devote themselves to science", or "contribute to the cause of socialism", or something else, depends on the needs and mood of each department.
As a result, China has become a "dragon pool and tiger's den" and a "life forbidden area" in the minds of intelligence personnel from various countries.
The loss rate of secret infiltration is so high that it makes the intelligence agencies of various countries extremely painful.
You know, it is not easy to train a professional spy.
This thing is really expensive and time-consuming.
No country can stand this kind of approach like a meat bun beating a dog.
Therefore, now the intelligence agencies of various countries have also learned the lesson.
Simply come in openly and with a public identity, so that even if something happens, you can easily find people.
Lest they be like those unlucky people who disappeared before, China would not admit that they had ever been to China.
The customs department only needs to show its hand: there is no record of xx on our entry, which means that xx has never been to China at all.
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"What should I do?
He came in openly.
If he didn't commit any crime, we can't take action."
Mustache said: "Well, then let's set it as a Class B surveillance target and notify various departments to pay attention.
This is the only way we can do it now." s: There will be another update tonight.
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