Chapter 104: Changes in Japan
After receiving 100 Chinese won from the police station, Saburo Narita felt a little heavy. After all, it was bought at the cost of his brother's life. However, for the sake of his family's livelihood, he can't care so much. When passing by the grain store, Saburo Narita bought 20 catties of rice, and then went to buy some fish and meat, ready to improve his life. These days, their lives are so bad that they don't even have enough to eat, let alone meat. Now, with a large bounty and a decent job on the verge of getting a decent job, he no longer has to worry about making a living.
"San Lang, are you back?" Michiko was waiting for Saburo Narita at the door of her house, and when she saw Saburo Narita coming back with a large bag of things, she greeted her happily. She had already thought that if Saburo Narita didn't succeed, then she would go to work in a tavern on the docks.
"Well, it's back. Yes, this is the grain that was just bought, as well as fish and meat. Here's the rest of the money. After Saburo Narita entered the house, he handed over the things to Michiko. In his heart, something was not very comfortable.
"So much?" Michiko was very happy. With this money and food, the family was finally able to live a good life.
"This is only a part, when they confirm the news and wipe out my brother's troops, they will give me another 900 yuan bonus and arrange a decent job for me." Saburo Narita said.
It's just that when he talked about this, he wasn't too happy, and his mood was a little heavy. After all, all this was bought with his brother's life! He was very guilty in his heart.
"San Lang, you are doing this for the sake of the children, and for the continuation of the Narita family." Michiko comforted.
"Alright, Michiko, you go cook. Let the children have a good meal. Saburo Narita cleaned up his mood and said.
"Hmm." Michiko nodded and went to work.
Soon, the two sons, who had been playing outside, came back and cheered when they found their mother making food. They gathered around the stove and did not leave a single step, their eyes completely falling on the fish and meat in the pot. When they were still young, they couldn't remember the last time they ate meat. Seeing the children's expressions like this, Narita Saburo was also a little sad in his heart. At the same time, the guilt in his heart has disappeared a lot.
"Brother, for the sake of the children, for the sake of the Narita family, I can only be sorry for you." Narita Saburo said secretly in his heart.
A week later, the 163rd Regiment of the Imperial Army and the security forces of Osaka exterminated the resistance led by Taro Narita, and Taro Narita was killed, and all the hundreds of resistance elements under his command were also killed, which made the danger around Osaka much lower.
Saburo Narita also got the remaining bounty of the 900 Chinese dollars. In addition, the Osaka Police Department also appointed him as a squad leader, leading dozens of police officers to be responsible for the security of a precinct in Osaka City. By betraying his brother, Saburo Narita changed the fate of himself and his family. As his life gets better and better, he has long forgotten about the brother he killed. In addition, his interests are also completely tied to the Japanese Governor's Office. In order to protect his own interests and allow himself to continue to live such a good life, Saburo Narita worked hard to protect the interests of the Governor's Office and the empire.
People like Saburo Narita, I don't know how many there are. People are selfish, and for their own interests, many people have betrayed the former country and become lackeys of the Chinese. It was with their assistance that those resistance forces were dealt a devastating blow. The vast majority of the resistance forces have been wiped out, and only a very small part of the resistance forces continue to hold out in the deep mountains and old forests. It's just that they have no supplies, no popular support, no food, and it is simply impossible for them to fight against the powerful Chinese occupation army, and it is only a matter of time before they are exterminated. From this point of view, the policies of the Chinese Empire in the Japanese Governor-General's Office were completely correct and achieved great success.
The Japanese government-in-exile in the United States also secretly sent a large number of intelligence agents back to Japan in an attempt to provoke those Japanese to rebel against the Imperial Chinese Governor-General's Office in Japan and attack the garrisons of China and other countries in Japan.
In the beginning, these intelligence officers sent by the Japanese government-in-exile did cause a lot of losses to the empire. However, under the orders of the Imperial Governor's Office, all intelligence agents who reported the Japanese government-in-exile would be rewarded heavily. If you can catch those intelligence officers, you will be able to get more rewards. Under such an order, almost the whole of Japan became a sensation. Countless Japanese who wanted to live a good life widened their eyes and searched for traces of those intelligence agents sent by the government-in-exile. Even the Japanese resistors, who had been recruited by the government-in-exile, took the opportunity to surrender and arrested the intelligence agents and received rewards from the Imperial Governor-General in Japan. Under such circumstances, the intelligence personnel dispatched by the Japanese government-in-exile soon suffered a devastating blow. The vast majority of the intelligence agents were dug up, and only a handful were able to continue to be lurking. Their influence on the Empire's transformation program in Japan was also minimal.
In addition to this, the empire also began to recruit workers in Japan on a large scale. Among them, the industries with the largest number of recruits are mining, construction and green buildings. The territory of the empire was vast and rich in resources. But mining minerals is hard work and a special threat. The miners of the empire often preferred to use the natives of the South Seas for mining. Those natives, even if they die in a mining accident, they will die in vain, and they will not lose any money. If the workers of the empire had been killed in a mining disaster, the consequences would have been severe. It's just that the natives are too thin and weak, and at the same time have no culture, and many machines can't be operated, which makes mining very inefficient. However, these Japanese are different. The level of education of the Japanese is already high in Asia. Coupled with their hard-working nature, they are undoubtedly good candidates for miners. The mining industry alone recruited more than half a million workers in Japan within six months of the end of the war.
In addition, the construction industry is also a major industry that absorbs Japanese workers. The empire needed a lot of manpower to build railways and roads over a vast territory. The workers of Japan were cheaper than the workers of the Empire. In particular, it was very dangerous to build roads in dangerous areas, and allowing these Japanese to do dangerous work would undoubtedly reduce the losses of the empire.
The Qinglou industry recruited in Japan is undoubtedly those young and beautiful girls. The conditions in Japan are very bad right now, and many Japanese girls suffer in Japan. If they go to China, they do very simple work, but they make a lot of money. If you are lucky, valued by the Chinese, and accepted as a concubine, you will be able to soar into the sky and live a good life. Therefore, when those Qinglou groups in China went to Japan to recruit staff, a large number of Japanese girls signed up. There are even many Japanese parents who take the initiative to send their daughters. The Japanese don't think of this as something unseemly. As long as you can improve your family's life, whatever you do is understandable.
It is precisely because of these Japanese who work in Japan that they send a large amount of wages to China, so that many Japanese people have been lifted out of poverty and become rich, and their living conditions are getting better and better. In the countryside of Kobe, there is a Japanese man who has a total of seven daughters, except for the younger daughter, who stayed at home, the other six daughters have gone to work in China. The money these daughters send to their families every month alone amounts to thousands of dollars. This kind of income is already very high in Japan. The family not only bought a house in the city, but also bought a large piece of land and lived a good life.
Young Japanese girls who work in China return to Japan after a few years to find someone to marry. If you are a little older, you will not be able to get married. Those Japanese men do not discriminate against them, but will take the initiative to pursue these girls because they earn a lot of money in China.
The power of role models is endless, and it is precisely because of these role models that countless Japanese girls dream of going to China to pan for gold. Even if they were to sell their flesh, they would be willing.
Under such circumstances, some Chinese singles also took the opportunity to come to Japan to marry wives. Although, these Chinese singles are not too rich, but at least they have solved the problem of food and clothing. Coupled with the identity of Chinese, those Japanese girls are even more flocking.
In China's vassal system, citizens who acquired the citizenship of the Chinese Empire were of the first rank. The nationals of those vassal states are second-class. If you marry a Chinese, you can become a Chinese citizen according to the law. Having Chinese nationality is equivalent to being a superior person, which is the goal of many Japanese people.
Even those high-ranking officials in the Japanese Prime Minister's Office, such as Saionji Gongwang and others, have become Chinese nationals.
In addition, many Japanese people have changed their surnames. For example, the public hope of Xiyuan Temple changed his surname to Ximen. Yuan Jing changed his surname to Yuan. Rejiro Wakatsuki changed his surname to Lee, and Yukio Hamaguchi changed his surname to Hayashi. In Japan, there are already many Japanese people who have given up their original Japanese surnames and changed to Chinese surnames.
At the same time, the Chinese government has also encouraged many enterprises to invest in Japan, which has further accelerated the development of the Japanese economy. A large number of chemical companies, building materials companies, iron and steel companies, and other labor-intensive or polluting enterprises have invested and built factories in Japan. Although this polluted Japan's environment, it led to the rapid development of Japan's economy. The Japanese who worked in these factories also made a good living because of this. (To be continued.) )