Under the vigorous call of China's political axe, the Chinese people of all walks of life responded positively and showed a rare cohesion. The Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce immediately decided to "purchase 10,000 bags of flour and 3,000 bags of rice" and paid 6.11 million silver dollars in advance, with Gu Xinyi and Rong Zongjing purchasing flour and loading it on the ship, and Yu Qiaqing handling the customs declaration. China Merchants sent the "Xinming" steamer to deliver it free of charge. Because of their very high efficiency, on the day of 3 September, the "Xinming," loaded with the first batch of relief supplies such as flour and rice, lifted anchor and sailed for Yueben, which became the first international aid received by Yueben and the first international ships to arrive at the same time as the US [***] ship.

Zhuang Dezhi, then chairman of the General Office of the Red Cross Society of China, and Niu Huilin, chief medical officer, personally led a medical rescue team and medicines and equipment to set off for Tokyo by boat on September 8 to participate in the disaster relief work. This is the first international medical rescue team to arrive in the disaster area.

In order to help the victims of the disaster, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang initiated the establishment of the "National International Donation Conference for the Art Circle", and stars such as Yu Shuyan and Yang Xiaolou participated in the charity performance and raised 50,000 silver dollars for the disaster relief. The "Shanghai Lingjie Federation" also carried out a two-day charity performance on the "New Stage", sponsored by He Fenglin, Sheng Zhushu, Yu Qiaqing, Ye Chuling, Zhang Jiluan and others. The Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Preservation Society raised funds for disaster relief through auctions. The Shanghai County Education Bureau and the Education Association initiated the establishment of the "Disaster Relief Association" to raise funds and materials for the disaster victims. On September 5, all walks of life in Yanjing gathered at the "Laijin Yuxuan" in Central Park, and the Yanjing Bank Association donated 100,000 silver dollars to buy 30,000 stones of rice noodles. The Chinese Federation of the World Red Cross Society decided to allocate 50,000 yuan for disaster relief and sent representatives to carry food, clothing, and medicine to the city. In Tianjin, Wang Chengbin, governor of Zhili, convened a meeting of Tianjin business people to discuss assistance to the disaster-stricken areas. The Tianjin Red Cross Society and the Tianjin Press Association have taken action to raise food and funds to support the company. Guangzhou, Nanjing, and the three eastern provinces all donated large sums of food, goods, and money. At the inauguration ceremony of the "Disaster Relief Comrades Association" initiated by Duan Qirui, Ni Sichong, Zhou Xuexi, Jin Yunpeng, Cao Rui, Cao Rulin, Bao Guiqing and others attended and donated money, raising funds worth 100,000 yuan on the spot, which were directly remitted to Prime Minister Yamamoto Gonbei. In addition, Cao Kun, who served as the patrol envoy of Zhilu and Henan, personally donated 50,000 yuan, 30,000 yuan for relief people, and 20,000 yuan for overseas Chinese and international students; Wu Peifu, the envoy of the two lakes, and Xiao Yaonan, the governor of Hubei Province, each donated 20,000 yuan; Han Jun, Governor of Jiangsu, Wang Chengbin, Governor of Zhili, He Fenglin, Envoy of Songhu Protector, Lu Tiaoyuan, Governor of Anhui Province, Lu Yongxiang, Governor of Zhejiang Province, and Zhang Zaiyang, Governor of Zhejiang Province, all donated 1,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan. The total amount of donations for these three items alone reached more than 440,000 yuan, according to the Shanghai "Declaration", the Tianjin "Ta Kung Pao" and the separately published announcement of the receipt of donations from Duan Qirui and others of the Disaster Relief Comrades Association. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, with Shanghai as the center, became the main force in this disaster relief, and many small and medium-sized towns, including Wenzhou, have also set up disaster relief groups. It is said that the ship even went directly to Wenzhou, carrying charcoal, tobacco leaves, rapeseeds, fresh eggs and other materials, and the value was as high as 510,000 yuan at one time. Wang Yiting, a Chinese businessman and painter who is also the leader of Buddhism in Shanghai, raised 6,000 stones of rice, more than 2,000 bags of flour and various urgently needed items to be shipped to Yuben, which was the first batch of relief materials from abroad, and the people of Yuben were extremely grateful for this, and called Wang Yiting "Wang Bodhisattva". The pure sense of morality and internationalism and humanitarian spirit displayed by the Chinese people during the earthquake were widely praised by all countries in the world for a time.

But what happened in Yueben later greatly dampened the feelings of the Chinese people.

Immediately after the earthquake, martial law was declared throughout the country, and the task of martial law in the disaster-stricken areas was actually undertaken by the local "youth self-police regiments" at the beginning. At that time, it was rumored in the disaster area that the North Koreans took advantage of the chaos to set fires and poisoned the wells. Therefore, beginning on the afternoon of September 2, with the cooperation of the military and police, the "Youth Self-Police Corps" used swords to carry out an extremely cold-blooded and brutal massacre of the Korean settlement, and in the course of this massacre, Yue himself also aimed the finger at the Chinese. Statistics later showed that tens of thousands of Koreans were killed in the earthquake, while 716 Chinese were slaughtered, of whom 622 died on the spot, 11 were missing (some were found to have been killed later), and 83 were injured (some died of their injuries afterwards).

At that time, China's domestic newspapers and media reported on this, and the "Beihua Daily" downloaded as follows:

“…… At that time, there were rumors in Tokyo and nearby counties that Koreans had thrown themselves on fire and poisoned them. So with all the strength of the military police, the Youth League, the citizens, and the villagers, they wantonly killed people, young and old, men and women. The most terrible people are the Koreans and the Chinese people, and they are often mentioned together. Chinese As a result, he suffered a heinous catastrophe, and was deliberately killed and humiliated, and countless people were killed, and they were not ......treated as human beings."

"Zhejiang's Han Chaochu (Kobe High Business School), Shen Yuchuan (Gao Shi), Cai Jingde (Gao Gong), and Chen Mourning have proved that they are Chinese in many ways, and they are inevitably beaten to death, and they claim that the people should also be beaten."

"Jiang Jianwu, a native of Jiangsu, and six other people avoided the Omori Coast, Tokyo, Yokohama, and rented a house in the house, and after the disaster, the head of the family pulled out a knife and said that 'today is going to kill the Chinese people'. After a few pleas, I was spared a death......"

"At that time, people were sad and angry, and most of them had lost their surnames, and they were cruel and poisonous, and they trembled when they heard it. And because of China's exclusion, every time you meet Chinese, you are always susceptible to emotional impulses, and you are happy. Moreover, this is a good opportunity to sweep away Chinese laborers. ”

"When Wang Xitianjun came to our squadron to visit the squadron commanders, he was willing to contribute to the workers in escorting the Chinese. There is no one in the Chinese who does not know Wang Xitian. After that, one day, we walked to the guard of the tax office and heard that Wang Xitian had been beheaded by a certain official. The half-new and old bicycle he rode was occupied by the army as a trophy......"

After the reports of the brutal massacres of Chinese and Koreans, public opinion in China was greatly stimulated, and the upsurge of anti-earthquake aid turned into an angry wave of protest against the massacre of Chinese workers. The Chinese people have accused him of "benevolence, righteousness, and morality." Our people are compassionate and compassionate, raising funds to help their urgency, and their ronins are killing and repaying grievances with virtue, nothing more than Si, we still have a breath, and we should quickly protest, punish the evil culprit, and compensate for losses. ”

The Shanghai "Morning Post" editorial: "Our country has expressed its deep sympathy for the earthquake disaster and has done its best to provide relief, so that our side can improve the relations between the two countries and promote the goodwill between the people...... Although we are sympathetic to the earthquake, we cannot but lodge a serious protest against the torture and killing. If the political axe does not urgently seek a way to thank him, it will be more difficult to improve the relationship between the two countries. ”

After receiving the news, Lu Zongyu, the Chinese minister to Kobe, and Shi Luben, the new chargé d'affaires of the People's Republic of China in Kobe, lodged a serious protest with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After receiving the protest letter, the present side first flatly denied this, and then immediately admitted that it was only a manslaughter: "At the time of the earthquake, disputes broke out everywhere in the Korean riots, and many Chinese were killed or injured by mistake", "During the earthquake, the Koreans rioted, and the masses were angry and injured the Chinese by mistake", "The killing of such a large number of people is unbelievable from the perspective of common sense, and the cause is force majeure such as earthquakes and floods, which is really nothing to do." Chinese Foreign Minister Gu Weijun immediately sent a note to Fang Ze Qianji, Minister Plenipotentiary in China, lodged a serious protest against the torture and killing of Chinese workers, demanded that the murderers be severely punished, that the atrocities be announced, that compensation be given to the refugees, and that similar incidents would not occur again. In the face of the surging wave of protests by the Chinese people, the political axe was forced by the Chinese side to make resolutions such as "apologize," "punish the murderers," and "compensate," "arrest 22 military and police officers who committed the murders, and sentence nine of the first offenders to death, and the remaining ones be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 10 years to several months," and compensate the dead Chinese workers with a total of 600,000 yuan in pensions.

The Great Kanto Earthquake is known as the "Great Earthquake That Influenced History" because it had a profound impact on the future history of Asia.

When the boom in Chinese aid was just emerging, the overjoyed Osaka Asahi Shimbun published an editorial entitled "Thanks for the Sympathy of Good Neighbors": "...... The fact that the Chinese would come out with such enthusiasm to save the disaster is really something that I could not have dreamed of, and everyone from all walks of life in this world is greatly amazed by the swiftness of the Chinese's action this time, and thanks to the high righteousness of the Chinese. However, on October 6, the newspaper published an editorial entitled "The Impact of the Earthquake on China," reminding the people that "there is a lot of friendship born from Chinese's heart, and half of the responsibility for whether it can grow or not lies entirely with the book." That is, he pointed out the bad impact of the massacre of the Chinese on the relations between the two countries. Just as some people of insight in China were worried, "the earthquake disaster disaster for the Chinese people to actively help the Chinese people in the earthquake was supposed to be the best opportunity for the relations between the two countries to warm up, but after the disaster, the relations between China and China have not improved, and since then they have become worse and more tense. ”

As a result of the massacre of Koreans in the aftermath of the disaster, nearly 10,000 Koreans were killed, which aroused the general anger of the Koreans, and large-scale rallies and demonstrations broke out in various parts of the northern part of Korea under the Chinese mandate, while armed insurrection broke out in the southern part of the country, which was still occupied by the country, and then the Korean people began a vigorous "restoration movement", which eventually led to the Chinese political axe being forced by the pressure of the Korean people to ask China to help Korea restore the country, and after five years of trusteeship, despite the opposition of the Korean side, The mandate over the northern part of Korea was ended ahead of schedule, and the "Republic of Korea" was established with Pyongyang as the capital. Since then, Korea has become "a bleeding wound on the body of the Empire", which has caused the Empire to involve a lot of energy in order to keep the southern part of Korea, and has become one of the fuses of the all-out war between China and China in the future.

The impact of the Great Kanto Earthquake on the Great Kanto Earthquake was also enormous, and in this unprecedented earthquake in the history of the Zoben, a total of 99,331 people died, 43,476 people were missing, and 103733 people were injured. 128266 houses were destroyed, 126233 were severely damaged, and 447128 were burned, and the fires caused after the earthquake burned about 38.3 square kilometers in Tokyo, destroying 85% of Tokyo's houses, and Yokohama burned about 9.5 square kilometers and razing 96% of the houses to the ground. The earthquake also caused a tsunami, with a maximum wave height of more than 12 meters, and the tsunami swept away and destroyed 868 houses, and the navy suffered huge losses in the tsunami, including the two main battleships "Kaga" and "Tosa," the unfinished "Amagi" battlecruiser and "Naka," as well as a large number of merchant ships. Direct property damage is as high as $30 billion.

The Great Kanto Earthquake turned the Edo culture that had existed for 200 years into ashes. As a result, he felt that the country was small and that natural disasters were frequent, so he wanted to "open up living space" to the outside world. Since then, he has concentrated on the development of the eastern Siberian region, and has established a large number of migrant villages in the eastern Siberian region he occupies, causing a large number of people to migrate to Siberia, and the development of Siberian resources has injected new impetus into the economic development of the region, greatly enhancing the military strength of the region, and the aggressive ambition has also swelled dramatically. While trying to re-annex North Korea, he remained the same as before, with his main focus on neighboring China. After the Great Kwantung Earthquake, in order to ease the domestic pressure and make up for the lack of domestic resources, a series of invasion strategies were formulated, and "if you want to conquer the world first, you must first conquer China" has become the national policy of the country, and the Great Kwantung Earthquake has put the country in a difficult situation at the same time, it has also accelerated the pace of China's invasion of China, and it was the invasion of China that eventually led to the full-scale outbreak of World War II.

But at this time, neither the "quasi-emperor" Hirohito, nor the peasants in the countryside realized that they were going to hell step by step.

Hirohito, who had finished processing the official documents, felt deeply tired, and he left the office and returned to his bedroom, where the court maid served him to lie down, but somehow, although Hirohito felt tired, he did not feel the slightest sleepiness, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

At this time, Hirohito's mind somehow came to the battleships "Kaga" and "Tosa" that were grounded and sunk during the earthquake and tsunami.

For these two battleships, he had a special affection.

On March 3, 1921, more than half a year before the Washington Conference, Prince Hirohito, the 20-year-old Prince Hirohito, the regent, of the newly built battleship Kaga, set out from Yokohama for a visit to Britain under the escort of the battleship Tosa, seeking to continue the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance." This trip was also a preparation for his succession to the throne of the emperor after returning to Japan.

The "Imperial Summoning Ship", the "Kaga" and the "Tosa", which Hirohito took on on his first overseas visit, also had the meaning of showing strength to the British. It is a pity that less than two years after the return of these two new battleships, they died in the tsunami caused by the Great Kanto Earthquake.

Thinking back to the experience of visiting the sea by ship, Hirohito senses as if there were signs of something at that time.

Hirohito's fleet passed through Hong Kong, Singapore, Colombo, Aden, Suez, Port Said, Malta, Gibraltar, and other places where he was warmly welcomed by the British Colonial Axe and the Admiralty.

After 75 days of sailing, Hirohito's fleet arrived at the British military port of Portsmouth, where the British political axe welcomed Hirohito with a grand ceremony, the Prince of Wales went to the military port to greet him, and King George V personally went to Victoria Station in London to welcome Hirohito, and rode with him in a magnificent court carriage to Buckingham Palace. Hirohito spent three days at Buckingham Palace as a personal guest of George V, where he spent a great time with him, and then spent eight days at Chesterfield House as a British state guest, where he attended various welcome ceremonies, visited places of interest, and held talks with British Prime Minister Lloyd-George to discuss the future of the "British-Japanese Alliance", but the results of the talks were not satisfactory.

The reason why it is difficult for the "British-Spoken Alliance" to continue is, first of all, that the United States bitterly hates the "Anglo-Coalition," which is supposed to be the pillar of its expansion in Asia, and the dismantling of this alliance has always been the goal that the United States has diligently pursued. The main purpose of the United States in choosing China as its partner is mainly aimed at the British alliance. As early as 1907, the United States tried to form an alliance with China and Germany to counter the "British alliance", but it was secretly sabotaged. At the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, the failure of the United States to once again attempt to break up the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance" made it all the more necessary to break down this important obstacle to competition with Japan in the Far East. Second, what is even more dangerous to the United States is that the "Anglo-Coalition" stipulates that the two countries "shall not declare war or hostility to each other," and the continued existence of the "Anglo-Coalition" is obviously aimed at the United States when the targets it originally aimed at Tsarist Russia and the German Empire no longer exist.

After the Paris Peace Conference, the United States began to exert greater pressure on Britain to abolish the British alliance. During Hirohito's visit to Britain, U.S. Secretary of State Hughes warned the British ambassador to the United States, Geddes, that "the 'Anglo-Coalition' will continue to fuel the ambition of further expansion in the Far East, and that any U.S. opposition to U.S. efforts to seek new advantages would lead to a conflict between the United States and Britain." Britain itself was unwilling to take advantage of this alliance, which had long since lost its relevance to Britain, to continue to expand its influence in the Far East. Geddes even wrote in The Times, "Most Americans believe that the 'British Alliance' emboldens the British to attack the ...... However, the expansion of influence in China is not only harmful to the United States, but also to Britain, and the Anglo-US policy toward China and the countermeasures for the expansion of Britain in China are no different...... At this time, the "Anglo-British alliance" has become a serious obstacle to handling US-British relations and an important factor affecting international relations in the Far East.

(To be continued)