The night was dark, and the night in Pyongyang was very quiet, and there was no dog barking, and it was impossible for a stray cat to suddenly come out of nowhere. Dogs in the nursing home also have to eat, and in North Korea, where it is not easy for people to eat, it is too luxurious to raise these animals. Except for the footsteps of the Japanese soldiers and the muttering pleading of the Koreans bound by ropes, the streets were as silent as death.

Finally waiting for the Japanese patrol to walk through the street, Jin Liuling waited for a while, and saw that there was no one else on the street, so he sneaked out of the hideout. There are also a few street lights on Pyongyang's main roads, although the places where there are lights are often Japanese police stations and patrol points, which also makes the dark Pyongyang feel a lot brighter. It's just that these lights are nothing compared to Wuhan. In Jin Liuling's view, Wuhan, which was newly built by the People's Party, is extremely grandiose, and there is a wide road outside the four-story residential area. The street lights are not very dense, but they always come on every night. The neighborhood of the lights is also a popular gathering place for the masses, and even if it does not reach the point of never sleeping, Wuhan is always lively at night. Leaving the bustling city of Wuhan and returning to the familiar Pyongyang, Jin Liuling felt an indescribable discomfort.

The Kim family is a wealthy local man in Pyongyang, and the size of the house in the house is definitely much larger than that of a building with an area of 60 or 70 square meters for five or six people, but the atmosphere in the People's Party residential area is completely different from the running water, electric lights, rail transportation that can be taken when you go out, and even the new gas-burning cars and electric trams. Compared to Pyongyang, those are two different worlds.

The ground under his feet was full of potholes, walking high and low, Jin Liuling missed the smooth asphalt road and cement road in Wuhan. That is the power of industry, and the People's Party, which has the power of industry, suddenly creates a whole new world. The world is so fluid, so grandiose.

"We must drive the Japanese out of Korea and make Korea a country like China. At least make Pyongyang as prosperous as Wuhan! Jin Liuling once again confirmed his determination.

I walked through the dark reception and went all the way home. After knocking on the door according to the code, it didn't take long for the door to open a crack slightly. "It's me! Six years old! Jin Liuling said in a low voice.

The person who opened the door didn't say much, just opened the door a little wider, and Jin Liuling quickly slipped in. After entering the main house, the family had already woken up one after another, and it was naturally overjoyed to see that Jin Liuling, who had been away from home for more than a year, had finally returned home safely. arranged for Jin Liuling to eat first, and the cold wotou and kimchi naturally could not be heated immediately, and even the water was cold. If you are in Wuhan, even if the honeycomb coal cannot immediately enter the temperature of the stir-fry, there will be hot water in the kettle to drink. But this is my own home, and the unhappiness caused by the inconvenience of life is completely overwhelmed by the happiness of going home.

The family surrounded Jin Liuling, watching him gobble up his meal, his mother's eyes flashed with tears, while his father and brother had relieved looks on their faces.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus were defeated repeatedly, and Korea did not want to see the Manchus in the first place, and saw that China was no longer the hegemon of East Asia, so it wanted to get rid of the control of the Manchus. After flattering Russia and Japan one after another, North Korea finally colluded with Japan. But what the upper echelons of North Korea never expected was that the Manchus were very hateful and the Manchus were very incompetent, but it did not mean that it was wrong to choose the Manchus. Korea's act of luring wolves into the house directly led to the complete annexation of Japan 15 years after the First Sino-Japanese War.

Jin Liuling is very much expected by the family as a scholar, hoping that he can complete the mission of honoring his ancestors after being admitted to the imperial examination. Of course, Japan will not recognize the imperial examinations in North Korea, and it is unlikely that old-fashioned families such as Kim Liuling will immediately integrate into the certificates of the new education system. After their future was cut short, the Kim family went from being an ordinary wealthy North Korean class to a radical anti-Japanese faction. Kim Liuling and his brother Kim Sam-soon went out to find a way to liberate North Korea. The Kim family stayed in Pyongyang to secretly contact local personnel who needed North Korea's reinstatement.

Despite the Japanese efforts to block intelligence, the Kim family also knew a little bit of the news that the People's Party had inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army in the northeast. Jin Liuling's mouth was full of nests, kimchi, and cold water, and he still tried his best to put out his tongue, and excitedly told all the recent news he knew to his family. Hearing that Jin Liuling, who had been away from home for a long time, had defected to the People's Party, the Jin family was very happy.

After talking about his own affairs, Jin Liuling asked about the situation in his family, especially the incident of Japan's arrest in North Korea that he had just seen.

The biggest feeling of the Jin family in recent years is that Japan's exploitation of places is becoming more and more ruthless, and the Jin family also finds it quite strange to arrest people. The Japanese first took away all the beggars and homeless people in Pyongyang, and the petty thieves were also caught. Without these people, Pyongyang still had a hard time, but after going out, he felt a lot better.

"Where did the Japanese arrest all those people?" Jin Liuling was quite strange.

"This ......, but I heard that they were taken to the north. What exactly these people are going to do has not yet been discovered. The father of the Jin family said. After saying this, the father of the Jin family couldn't help but ask again: "The People's Party has seized China?" ”

Jin Liuling replied with confidence: "The People's Party has now captured Beijing, and it will not be long before it will be able to seize the whole of China." ”

Afraid that his family would not believe it, Jin Liuling also told about what he had seen and heard by train from Wuhan on the Yangtze River to the border between China and North Korea. If you haven't really seen anything like travel, it's hard to tell a lie. Seeing what Jin Liuling said, the Jin family really believed it. With the support of such a big force, the Kim family is full of confidence in the restoration of North Korea.

But the excitement was also temporary, and everyone was sleepy after talking late at night. Jin Liuling slept until three o'clock in the morning before getting up, and when he got up, he found that everyone in the family was still at home. The Jin family has their own drug business, and they operate around the house on weekdays, so they don't have much leisure time at all. Jin Liuling felt very embarrassed, and he also delayed the business at home.

"These days, the Japanese are checking very well, and it's better not to open the door." The old father of the Jin family explained to his son.

As soon as the words of the old father of the Kim family fell, Kim Liuling's eldest brother Jin Sanshun said angrily: "Not only Pyongyang, but the whole of North Korea. What kind of military stamps were issued by the Japanese in Korea, and a few pieces of torn paper were used as money. There are restrictions on the purchase of things with this military ticket, and you have to buy things in a place specially opened by the Japanese. But the Japanese used this military ticket to buy things everywhere in Korea. As long as they refused to accept the military ticket, they would be arrested by the Japanese. Our family has suffered a big loss. If we don't get the Japanese out of Korea as soon as possible, we will soon be unable to live this life. ”

Kim Liuling knew that his eldest brother Kim Sam-soon was mainly active in Seoul, and he asked, "The same is true in the south?" ”

Jin Sanshun gritted his teeth and said: "Seoul is even worse, the Japanese have bought all the food with military tickets in the past few months, and I heard that there are a lot of starving people over there." ”

Kim Liuling didn't expect to be absent from North Korea for a while, but North Korea actually had such a change. The hatred of the country and the family were intertwined, and the anger in Jin Liuling's heart could not be vented, and with a "bang", his fist slammed on the innocent table.

It was naturally useless to be angry, and anger made Jin Liuling and his family quickly reach an agreement. The only way to change the current situation is to let the People's Party enter Korea as soon as possible and drive out all the Japanese.

This time, Jin Liuling got the job of building a transportation line. Japan has massively increased its troops in Korea, and Pyongyang has stationed a Japanese division of troops, and Kim Liuling walked around the streets and understood that the dozen or twenty Korean men who had come back together were simply moths to the flames of fire when they planned an attack on Japan. After meeting with Kim Sung-il, Kim Sung-il's anger was even higher than Kim Liu-ling. Japan's intensified exploitation of the DPRK, especially the frenzied exploitation of the DPRK with military tickets, is extremely terrifying.

Banknotes are also a common currency in the liberated areas of the People's Party, but with that thin banknote, you can indeed buy a lot of goods. The purchasing power of the renminbi is very high. But Japan's military tickets are not like this at all, and Kim Sung-il's family was originally engaged in the sale of livestock, and the losses suffered were even greater. The Japanese army forcibly "bought" all the big animals from Kim Sung-il's house at the price of one hundred military tickets and one big animal. The price of a large animal is 120 military tickets. The difference is not particularly large. However, for North Koreans, these points of use simply have no price. The few products that can be purchased are all extremely expensive, and the relatively fair price of goods is not available.

"It's a robbery!" Kim Sung-il said with red eyes.

"Let's quickly set up a traffic station and complete the task as soon as possible." Jin Liuling already knew that there was no need to have any illusions about the Japanese, and there was no choice at all except to drive the Japanese out.

Kim Liuling and Kim Sung-il separately contacted the local North Korean people in Pyongyang, and soon contacted a considerable number of people. The Japanese military ticket was a catalyst that quickly divided the wealthy in North Korea. As long as the interests of the rich people were damaged, they all sided against Japan. Even if you are timid and afraid, you just dare to be angry and dare not speak.

After the people were contacted, there was more information. The whereabouts of the Koreans captured by the Japanese are also beginning to become much clearer. Pyongyang is the most important city in the north of Korea, and after the Japanese occupied Korea, they began to build railways in Korea on a large scale. Pyongyang is an important junction for many railways. According to the information provided by Park Lan-jeong, a new member of the anti-Japanese organization, the Japanese sent all the captured Koreans to the railway construction site. These railways not only connect the rest of North Korea, but also to several important mining areas.

In any case, the Japanese still need some Korean assistance. Jin Liuling and others finally found an errand to transport the construction site. It's not just about seeing what the Japanese are doing, but also about having such a collaborator as a cover for many future operations. Under the watchful eye of the Japanese army, several convoys of Korean warriors, including Kim Liuling, participated in the errand of transporting supplies to the north.

The northern part of North Korea is mountainous, and Pyongyang is named "Pyongyang" because of its flat terrain and quiet environment. To the northwest of the city are low hills, and to the east are rolling hills and fertile fields. The Taedong River, which flows through the city center, and its tributary, the Pyongyang River, add a touch of charm to Pyongyang. Since ancient times, Pyongyang has been known as "Liujing", because it is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and many Uncle Liu are planted in Pyongyang City. But now the willows are mostly gone. The transport team in which Jin Liuling participated carried a lot of wooden piles made of willow trees onto the train. The Japanese wanted to save trouble, and when they cut down trees, they left a trunk at least one foot high on the ground. As a result, it is difficult to dig out the roots of the trees, and because Pyongyang lacks fuel, many citizens secretly collect branches and other things home. We will also try to make the best use of the trunks.

However, the latest change is that the Japanese side has suddenly arrested citizens with axes and saws in the name of "destroying the construction of cities" for several days. In addition to the fine, the "tools of the crime" were confiscated. Jin Liuling saw that among the materials transported this time, there were many axes and saws in the local style of North Korea. plundered to such a frenzied point, Jin Liuling really couldn't imagine it.

When North Korea tried to cope with changes in Asia on its own, the later Emperor Myeongseong was still a "Concubine Min" at that time. She encouraged Gojong to adopt a policy of enlightenment and introduce Japanese influence, support cronies in the government and the opposition, promote relatives to important positions, and reject the power of Daewonjun. In the process, Concubine Min gradually distanced herself from the pro-Japanese reformist and liberal forces, leaned towards pro-China, and repeatedly used the power of the Qing army to sweep away political opponents in order to gain power. After Japan's victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War, Concubine Min, who was seized power by the pro-Japanese Kaihua faction and lost power, wanted to cooperate with Russia against Japan, which led to the "Yiwei Incident" on October 8, 1895, when the Japanese minister Miura Wulou led the Japanese ronin and rebels to invade Gyeongbokgung Palace, killed Concubine Min in the Jade Hulou, and burned her body, and coerced Gaozong to depose her as a concubine, until two years later in 1897, Gaozong changed the name of the country to the Korean Empire, and proclaimed himself emperor, only to restore Concubine Min and posthumously become Empress Ming Chengtai, And buried in the Hongling of Jingu-dong, Nanyangzhou City.

Among the current group of Korean aspirants gathered by Jin Liuling, there are actually many descendants of those families who originally supported Japan. The Japanese are now plundering and oppressing all Koreans without discrimination, and the richer the more they suffer. Not all of the Korean bureaucrats who had defected to the Japanese were wealthy, and many middle- and lower-class families suffered great losses, so they turned to seek to get rid of the Japanese.

"If I knew now, what did I do back then?" Jin Liuling didn't have a good impression of the Manchu Qing either, but he still couldn't help muttering in his heart.

The supplies were finally transported to the place, and Jin Liuling also knew some Japanese, and he heard the Japanese soldiers in charge of handing over the goods say, "We have delivered this month's rations to you." ”

The site was very close to the construction site, and Kim Liuling saw a large number of North Korean laborers working under Japanese soldiers and overseers on the winding mountains. It's already April, and the weather isn't too cold, but it's still quite chilly when the mountain breeze blows. The clothes of the large number of thinly clothed North Koreans were in tatters because they carried stones, smashed gravel used to pave railways, carried sleepers, and carried wooden stakes. As long as the work is a little slower, the overseers will go up with whips and even whip them.

These Korean laborers did not dare to resist, and compared with the Japanese overseers and Japanese soldiers who looked rather stout, the Korean laborers looked very thin one by one, but such a large number of strong men held weapons and forced a group of thin Koreans to work. This scene made Jin Liuling feel extremely distressed.

The Japanese army's attitude towards the Koreans was quite bad, and Jin Liuling just looked around, and was immediately reprimanded by the Japanese army. The people who traveled with him hurriedly shouted and cursed a few words, and let Jin Liuling return to the team.

The handling team is not only responsible for unloading, but also for loading and returning the goods. There weren't a lot of things shipped this time, but there were more than a dozen coffin-like large boxes, which made people feel very wrong. However, as soon as the train door closed, Jin Liuling had never learned to pick up a train, and there was no way to know what was inside.

I took the train back to Pyongyang, and a few of the people who came to pick it up were wearing white coats over their military uniforms. Jin Liuling only vaguely heard that the Japanese said a bunch of words with a serious expression. As for what was in the car, Jin Liuling was really curious. Some of these North Korean warriors also worked at the train station, and Kim Liuling asked them to be in charge of inquiring.

Three days later, Jin Liuling went to find the train station personnel who handed over the shift, and the faces of the people working at the railway station were extremely ugly. He was very concerned about the "coffins", and finally overheard the conversation of the Japanese, what looked like a coffin turned out to be a coffin, and it was actually a coffin, which contained the corpses of Korean laborers, and it was said that they were going to be sent to Japan to do "medical research specimens".

Hearing this, Jin Liuling's legs were weak and he almost fell to the ground. In the People's Party, Jin Liuling also received a lot of modern knowledge, and he was extremely disgusted with the human anatomy and specimens in modern medicine. East Asia has a tradition of burial, and dissecting a corpse is considered disrespectful. So the Korean warriors who worked at the train station didn't know what was going on, but Kim had already guessed that all medical schools in Japan lacked materials for dissection. Many Koreans died during the construction of the railroad in Japan, and the bodies of these Koreans were transported to Japan to be used as autopsy materials and organ specimens for Japanese medical schools.

As far as the weight Jin Liuling felt when he participated in the transportation and the feeling when he shook it, those coffins were not just a corpse, but were stuffed with corpses. The Japanese side not only exploited and bullied the Koreans, but even used them as specimens by the Japanese after the Koreans died. Jin Liuling didn't know when he was already in tears and cried.

Because of a misunderstanding of the reason why Jin Liuling cried bitterly, the North Korean soldier at the train station said with a sad and indignant face: "I also found out one thing, the Japanese give the workers on the construction site four taels of food a day. It's all heavy work, and I only eat four taels a day, isn't this killing me? ”