Late at night on November 6, Mao Nakajima appeared at the Toa Tongbun Academy, along with the presidents and editors-in-chief of more than a dozen newspapers. The reason why these Japanese propaganda machines in China were brought together was www.biquge.info a press release sent by the military from Central China. The content reads, "Huang Haoran, a famous general of China, was killed by the Imperial Japanese Army a day ago."

First of all, how to ensure the authenticity of the content?

This question was the first thing that flashed through Nakajima's mind. As far as he knew, the Honma Masaharu Division of the Central China Dispatch Army had been compressed by the Chinese army into a very small area in recent days and was about to be destroyed, and the commander of the Chinese army that surrounded and annihilated the 27th Division was Huang Haoran, who had been dead for almost a day in the press release.

Could it be that now the 27th Division is being besieged by an army commanded by a dead man?

Secondly, the authenticity of the news aside, this press release is also absolute rubbish. The whole article only knows how to render the bravery of the Japanese Imperial Army, as well as the calmness of the attack on Huang Haoran. Pictures were distributed of well-armed Japanese soldiers, jubilant people on the ground, and people celebrating in Japanese-occupied areas such as Manchuria and North China. This is a rather formulaic propaganda article, and at a glance it is clear that it is from the hands of the propaganda organs of the Central China Dispatch Army, and it is completely out of touch with China's local atmosphere.

If it weren't for the bright red seal of the Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters under the draft, Dean Nakajima would have really wanted to tear up this stack of waste paper. The army does have a set of ways to fight wars, but when it comes to propaganda, these soldiers are simply at the level of kindergartens.

Mao Nakajima, who has been playing with the "pen" in China for decades, believes that news must first move the hearts of the Chinese, and then it is a propaganda tool to publicize Japan's strategy toward China.

No one reads a newspaper, no matter how wonderful the words and pictures on it are, but it can only end up in the fate of burning. November has entered the winter in China, and Nakajima does not want to give Shanghai citizens a bunch of heating materials for nothing.

What is even worse is that if this kind of idiotic text made up by the propaganda organs of the Central China Dispatch Army is rashly published in the newspaper, it will only expose the Japanese-funded background behind the newspaper and make Chinese readers resist. This is an absolute fatal blow to Japan's propaganda strategy in China.

There are three main platforms that the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs now controls in the Chinese press:

The first is newspapers founded entirely by Japanese investment, which are basically engaged in trade and missionary services for overseas Chinese, and are all in Japanese, which are only suitable for publishing false and true news, confusing China's intelligence agencies, or inciting Chinese infighting.

The second type is newspapers controlled by Japanese capital, such as Shimbun, Wen Wei Po, and Far Eastern Times. Take, for example, Wen Wei Po, a newspaper founded by an Englishman in Shanghai in 1879. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese began to intervene and constantly encroach on the shares of other countries. In 1917, Japan became the largest shareholder, with half of the shares, the second largest shareholder, the United States, holding 3/2 percent, and the United Kingdom less than 20 percent. The newspaper used the British as a cover to vigorously advocate Japan's policy of aggression against China. The Far Eastern Times did the same thing, with the Japanese crowding out the American founders and turning a financially ill-fated newspaper into the mouthpiece of the Japanese government.

The third type is newspapers acquired by the Japanese government or organizations, such as Tongwen Shanghai Daily. His predecessor was actually the "Oriental Times" founded by the Japanese Otokai in June 1889, and later combined with the "Zilin Shanghai Newspaper" to transform into the "Tongwen Shanghai Daily".

In order to cooperate with newspapers, Japan also opened more than a dozen printing houses and several bookstores in Shanghai. The printing house served the Japanese newspaper and various Japanese businesses, and the bookstore was another important place to promote Japanese culture in general. For example, the Chengtang Bookstore on the corner of Wusong Road and Haining Road in Hongkou and the Neishan Bookstore on North Sichuan Road are bookstores with great scale and influence, and even the famous Chinese literati Lu Xun is often frequented, which is also the result of years of operation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This shows how difficult the construction of the platform was, and it cost the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a lot of money and effort. And what is more difficult than construction is maintenance. For Chinese readers to accept the message of the newspaper, they have to put on a neutral façade.

This pattern lasted until the outbreak of the "August 13" War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the all-out occupation of Shanghai, and in order to occupy the position of public opinion and propaganda, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stepped up the reorganization of Shanghai's newspapers. First, the "Shanghai **** News" was reorganized into "New Declaration", and later renamed "Mainland New News". The reason for this is that Chinese readers are afraid that they will see the Japanese background of the newspaper. Today, these relatively hidden newspapers are the most important official mouthpiece of the Japanese government in China. And those newspapers that have accidentally revealed their identities can only watch as their circulation decreases day by day, and many of them are already facing closure.

It was as if he saw the fate of his newspapers closing down one after another, if he did publish this rotten article.

"Gentlemen, we have to find a way to wipe the ass of the propaganda organs of the Central China Dispatch Army, and we must not let the empire's years of efforts in Shanghai be wiped out overnight!"

Mao Nakajima almost gritted his teeth and said this, you can imagine how much he hated the guy who sent the press at this time.

"It sucks! Luckily, I'm Japanese, so if it's a Shina person who sees this news at the moment, I think I'll tear the newspaper to shreds right away and never buy it again......"

"yes, how can you write such a......"

"Army, what a bunch of unlearned bastards!"

Cursing rang out in the conference room, an indictment from the Imperial Japanese propaganda apparatus to the military, although it was of little use.

"Or give it to the greedy Chinese...... Let them publish it first, and our newspaper will only be responsible for reprinting. In this way, you are not responsible for the authenticity of the content, and the background is not revealed. ”

finally came up with a decent suggestion, from Kobayashi Akiyama, the actual controller of "Wen Wei Po". On the surface, the British president is just an ornament, and Wen Wei Po is now full of agents installed by the Japanese, which have been tightly controlled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is precisely because of such a good performance that Kobayashi Akiyama has such confidence to speak.

Sometimes, in order to comply with the need to obey the strategy of aggression against China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs inevitably receives orders from Tokyo to publish articles that are too inclined to Japan. In order to avoid being too obvious and being resisted by Chinese readers. Kobayashi Akiyama and the others had to find another way, bribing the editors and reporters of other newspapers with money to speak for the Japanese, and then reprint it. This is actually equivalent to spending money on advertorials.

Today, Kobayashi Akiyama plans to do it again.

"This kind of news, big newspapers may not be willing to publish, and small newspapers have no weight, Kobayashi-kun, do you think, which newspaper editor should be bribed?" Mazuo Nakajima asked, in fact, even if he agreed.

Kobayashi Akiyama thought for a moment, and then said an executable plan:

""Zilinxi News", "Declaration", "Shanghai Times", just choose one of them~ I have an old relationship that I can cooperate with, as long as I am willing to spend money and do not ask for the front page, I can still do it......"

"Choose the one that can be published the fastest!" Mao Nakajima made the final decision. (To be continued.) )