Chapter 151 New Order in East Asia (III)

Under strict military discipline, the soldiers of the Chinese Empire did not engage in silence or abuse of the people, but made all fair transactions. A large number of food and food shipped from China were open for supply, and the prices... were naturally followed by the market.

Japanese citizens who were requisitioned and hungry because of lack of materials went to pawn shops and acquisition stations opened in China to sell all kinds of treasures with bargain prices. Among the Japanese, a group of cultural relics dealers emerged. These people were vicious in their eyes and active in their minds. They used various means to buy "real guys" of their own people at low prices, and then sold them to Chinese officials, businessmen and soldiers twice, and then exchanged them for the intimate necessities of life from these people, and then sold them to the hungry Japanese people selling cultural relics at high prices. It was a joy.

Antique tea sets from the Kamakura era, ancient Buddhist scriptures, Chinese treasures brought back by the Tang envoys during the Tang Dynasty, objects given by imperial courts in the Tang Dynasty, famous paintings inherited from Japanese daimyos and noble families, all fell into the hands of Chinese officials, businessmen and soldiers at incredibly cheap prices.

Zheng Yu had already planned that the so-called antiques in prosperous times and gold in troubled times, when Japan is working hard to get rich, hundreds of these things will be sold out every year, and almost a large amount of money in the Japanese pockets.

According to the strategy of the base camp of the Chinese Empire, China adopted a monetary policy for occupying the zone in Japan, that is, the "Japanese banknotes" printed by the Chinese Empire, referred to as "daily tickets" as valid payment certificates and forced circulation.

As for the foreign exchange and gold reserves worth 30 million pounds in Japan's treasury, as early as when the Chinese Imperial Guards entered Tokyo, they were requisitioned by the Chinese Empire in the name of "ensure the payment of war compensation" and shipped to China. They then became the first batch of war compensation paid by Japan.

This time, the Japanese yen exchange rate fell sharply, and Japan's prices soared. However, the "daily ticket" occupied by the Chinese Empire seemed much stronger. For a moment, the Japanese yen in the market was like waste paper, but the "daily ticket" was extremely popular. The Japanese government was helpless. Nishinoji Temple, Masayoshi Matsukata, Inoue Kin and others had to visit the Japanese dispatched forces and asked Xu Fan to solve the problem.

Xu Fan's countermeasure is also very simple: "Since the yen is not a good deal, everyone recognizes the daily tickets of the Imperial Credit Bank, so just use the daily ticket. When the situation stabilizes in the future, your country will print a new version of the yen and replace the daily tickets."

The Japanese elders looked at each other, but they had no choice but to do anything about it.

In order to meet the costs, the Japanese government printed Japanese yen banknotes indiscriminately, and the yen had already depreciated several times. Now that Japanese tickets have appeared, Japanese hard currency has been shipped back by China, the credit of the yen has collapsed. Instead of saving the bankrupt yen in vain, it is better to rely on China's credit for the time being and use "daily tickets".

In this way, "The Tokyo Branch of the Imperial Credit Bank" quietly opened. The "daily tickets" printed by the Chinese Empire's Special Printing Institute were continuously supplied to the Japanese government and the Japanese dispatched forces authorities to pay employees' wages and purchase supplies. All taxes were also paid by daily tickets. After this blow, the dying Japanese yen fell sharply. The savings of the wealthy Japanese class in Japan were wasted. Many of the eclipse classes who rely on interest to make a living, including many Japanese with unknown assets, could only find jobs again.

In the end, the Japanese government simply announced that it would recycle the yen at a exchange rate of 10,000 to 1 and issue daily notes. Japan became the first country in the world to adopt pure credit banknotes at that time. However, the Japanese, who had been tortured by inflation and shortage of materials, and even the Chinese who were secretly happy, did not expect that Japan was a blessing in disguise and laid the monetary foundation for the so-called "Japanese economic miracle".

This pioneering move was later talked about by the Japanese for many years. Not only did no one feel that China used paper to "scammers" by paper, but he was very grateful to the "father of the new Japan" Xu Fan and the great emperor of the Greater China for his kindness.

After the rebellion was put down, the purge of the Japanese army began.

According to the agreement, the Japanese government wanted China to hand over the archives of the government and military departments, and submitted a "list of war criminals" recommended by Japan. Basically, they were all Sa Chang clans, old vassal warriors, chaebols and backbone of right-wing associations, royal family and ministers almost disappeared, and the veterans of the anti-war faction and their followers were completely suppressed.

Not long after, a public trial was held in Tokyo. More than 26,800 war criminals from Japan were sentenced, more than 1,800 of whom were sentenced to death and would serve their sentences in China together with Japanese military and political personnel captured by China.

The scale of the Japanese army in the future will be greatly reduced, and the army will be limited to four divisions, each division will be organized into a third regiment, and will be organized according to the B Division of the Chinese Defense Forces. In addition, the four simple brigades will be retained, which are actually corps of the gang size, which can be expanded into divisions during wartime.

The Marine Corps is limited to two brigades, and the Navy Fleet's current ships of more than 5,000 tons are transferred to the Chinese naval authorities as spoils. Within the next five years, Japan will not be allowed to own more than 10,000 tons of warships, and the total naval tonnage will be limited to 10,000 tons of the Chinese naval tonnage.

The Japanese army surrendered and captured in Liaodong and North Korea have been sent to prisoners of war camps to organize. One month of brainwashing education and reorganization, through criticism and self-criticism, and mutual reporting and exposure, will receive the due punishment in the unified public trial in Beijing in the future. Those who serve their sentences are naturally sent to North Korea as cheap labor to engage in "labor reform" and "reemployment training", mainly engaged in road and bridge construction and mining. In this regard, Zhao Bingjun's "Police Ministry" has rich experience in organizing the "labor camp" of bannermen: strict militarization management, extensive war labor competitions, and determine treatment and status based on results. Carry out all-round brainwashing education within the prisoners, launching prisoners to start war criticism and self-criticism, report and expose each other, and organize advanced elements among the prisoners to serve as management. Ordinary criminals who have performed particularly well for ten years and can be reduced or exempted as appropriate. Those who have performed stubbornly will have to be extra.

According to Zheng Yu's calculations, the wealth that these strong laborers can create for the empire is still expected by the bannermen and men. Run? The Koreans hate the Japanese to the core. No wise Japanese will be foolish enough to escape here. The wisest choice is to serve their sentences honestly.

In view of the financial difficulties, the Japanese government finally began to make up ideas on labor exports. A large number of rebel prisoners captured in the counter-rebellion and the arrested criminals were simply sentenced to crimes by the Japanese government and "transferred" to China. China approved labor remuneration according to standards (of course, extremely low standards), and these people became legally used laborers in China.

This part of the laborers was handed over to the Ministry of Police by the Chinese government to the mainland and was sent to the mainland, and was invested in hot construction. The Japanese government, who suddenly became more and more generous, purging the "traitors" every few days, and sending some stubborn elements to China for "reform". The business actually grew bigger and bigger, and for a long time after the war, it became one of the main sources of Japan's "foreign exchange".

It should be said that due to the inheritance of the folk family in Japan, the people actually hid a lot of wealth. During this great purge, many Japanese families were uprooted and confiscated a large number of hidden wealth. In disguise, the financial dilemma of the Japanese government was also alleviated to a certain extent.

According to the previous consensus between China and Japan, the transformation of Japan's economic system has been carried out in full swing.

Japan's consortiums such as Yasuda, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Sumitomo, and Okura Group finally began to suffer ruthless control from the government. As a group responsible for the war, some radical leaders of these organizations were liquidated. Since they had long been governed by the ruling economic control, their assets and business were fully controlled by the government. The government directly cleaned up the equity situation of these chaebols and forcibly occupied 30% of their shares. The other 30% were held by the semi-official and semi-private organization "Japan Fairness Society", and its main executive body was the board of directors, which was jointly composed of Japan and China. Their investment income was used to form and maintain Japan's lower-level people's livelihood maintenance system.

Many Japanese companies that were in trouble due to the severance of war and maritime trade, such as raw silk, textile, chemical industry, etc., were included in China's economic system. By forming trade cooperation with Chinese counterparts, they soon obtained new orders and raw materials, resumed production, and even obtained crucial financing from the Chinese banking community, ordering machines, transforming facilities, and expanding production capacity from China.

Military-industrial enterprises such as Mitsubishi and Kawasaki, as well as various official arsenals of the Japanese Army and Navy, including Koishikawa Guns Factory, Osaka Artillery Factory, Muroran Steel Factory, Tokyo Artillery Factory, Hachiman Iron Factory, Meiji Steel Factory, etc., were all taken over by the receiving team sent by the Economic Group of the Chinese Empire Base Camp. With the cooperation of the Japanese side, the main personnel were strictly identified and then quickly began to resume production selectively, especially focusing on the 75-mm shells, grenades, grenade launchers, grenade launchers, explosives, twelve-inch high-explosion bombs, various steels, etc., which consume the largest amount and have the same caliber standards.

At Mitsubishi and Kawasaki's shipyards, as well as naval factories such as Yokosuka, Sasebo, Nagasaki, Yokohama, the receiving team composed of the Imperial Naval Military System and several major shipbuilding private giants began to rectify the shipyards, identify personnel, supplement and replace machinery and equipment, dispatch technicians, and quickly resume ship repair and civilian ship construction and other businesses.

In the future plan, the Japanese Navy will not have warships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons within five years, but Japan's shipbuilding industry, as a highly developed and complete industrial system, cannot be wasted. These factory areas, machines, workers, technicians, drawings, ship platforms, and various technical schools are very valuable productivity. And they are also of great significance for the recovery of the Japanese economy and consolidating China's influence and control over Japan. In the future, Japan will be one of the important production bases for light ships and civilian ships, and will be included in the overall shipbuilding system of the Chinese Empire, narrowing the gap between China and Europe and the United States in the scale of ship construction, learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, and develop together.

In this way, Japanese companies that quickly restored their productivity with the help of China and Japan's strong wartime integrated economic system not only met the demand for domestic consumption, but also began to fill the productivity gap brought about by China's rapid expansion of the scale of the war. In the later development of North Korea, the Japanese economy, which was close to the waters, also benefited a lot, of course this is a later story.

The "day ticket" provided by China is itself a kind of credit banknote without precious metal mortgages.

In order to obtain Japanese tickets, the Japanese government must rely on exporting physical assets to China or simply issue treasury bonds to China.

On the other hand, the Chinese government in Japan, sending personnel and garrison troops, had already paid half of the victory prize (usually from twelve to thirty-six months' wages) with daily tickets. These big-time investors arrived in Japan and began to think about the enthusiastic and friendly people of the defeated country.

There are some scarce things from China, buying some cheap goods from Japan, and even trying out the cheapest Japanese girls, geisha, visiting various restaurants, teahouses, and wine shops, trying Japanese cuisine, buying a few sets of Tang clothes, folding fans and other handicrafts, which have gradually driven Japan's increasingly depressed consumer market.

In this way, with its sufficient number of daily tickets, it quickly created strong demand, which stimulated the rapid recovery and expansion of the Japanese economy.

Of course, in the context of such credit expansion and rapid economic expansion, inflation is inevitable. However, such easing and hidden inflation is much better than the previous vicious depreciation of the Japanese yen several times a year. In addition, the supply of materials guaranteed by China's Huayuan loans, the Japanese government has also strictly controlled public expenditures and has not adopted the indiscriminate printing of paper money, so inflation is indeed not obvious.

Regarding the foreign trade settlement of Japan's economy, China provided a total of 200 million Chinese yuan in credit funds. Due to the huge scale of China's foreign trade and the huge size of the Greater China Economic Circle, the Chinese Yuan has already achieved the status of an international trade settlement currency. This loan has almost completely settled in Japan's foreign trade, especially imports, in China, which helped the Chinese Yuan expand its share in the international circulation market.

In order to improve the fiscal situation and to stimulate the economy, Japan has even begun to export high-quality wood, copper ore and sulfur on a large scale to compensate China's loan interest, and exchange it for various machinery and equipment produced in China and other scarce raw materials to restore and expand industrial production.

The Japanese parliament quickly passed a new tax law, re-clearing Japan's fiscal and tax system, removing some heavy taxes that harm the long-term interests of industry and commerce, and adding high progressive income taxes to the middle and wealthy classes. It turned out that the super-national treatment given to foreign companies was cancelled by the parliament on the grounds of "unconstitutionality", which made Japan feel angry and the people's anger.

Can it be able to disobey the will of European and American powers and limit the exploitation of Japan, which is also a benefit brought by China's "supervisation"?

In response, the European and American business circles naturally protested, but the protest was in vain. Super-national treatment is not in line with the principle of fairness. Since it is unconstitutional, then...

The most important thing is that the Chinese Empire used 400,000 tons of steel that sank to the seabed to capture the great military power established by the two Japanese and Russian fleet command personnel; it was the undefeated reputation established by the Baikal Front after the Chinese Empire wiped out the Russian Empire and captured Kropatkin; it was the iron-blooded heroic spirit of Chinese soldiers chasing the north, and those who violated the powerful Han would be punished even if they were far away.

Even the great powers had to give enough respect to all this.

The one who is most happy about the arrival of the Chinese army is the Japanese girls.

In traditional Japanese society, girls have always existed as some kind of "goods". For parents, it is natural to sell girls at a good price for the sake of their homes. The loss of a large number of strong labor after the war caused many families to lose their main source of income and fall into difficulties, and these girls became the best tools to change their family conditions.

As the war progressed, a large number of Japanese young men died on the battlefield, and those who survived did not know when they would stay in China's prisoner-of-war camps and labor camps. The shortage of young men caused a deep sense of crisis for a whole generation of young women in Japan.

In the city, handsome and heroic Chinese soldiers with "daily tickets" in their hands, especially military officers and non-commissioned officers, have become the targets of young Japanese girls to cling to. Not to mention unmarried soldiers, even married - doesn't China allow polygamy? Being young is not a problem. I heard that after the liberation of Chinese women, even if they are young wives, they must enjoy full rights. Isn't it? Even if the concubine has a child, even if they do not have the right to inherit the family business, shouldn't they also ensure the right to receive education?

In major cities in Japan, on holidays, you can often see Chinese soldiers in military uniforms. They are surrounded by birds, wearing traditional Japanese clothes, with shyness and sweetness on their faces. The Japanese girls along the way look at these two people with even more jealousy and envy.

In order to win the favor of Chinese soldiers, many uninformed Japanese girls recommend themselves to pillows.

Aren’t Chinese traditional? You have to be responsible when you apply it? Since this is the case with the word "Shao"...

In the countryside, the Chinese Empire was anxious about the Japanese people's urgent needs and released a "recruitment advertisement" to recruit female workers at a price twice as high as Japan, and pay a year's wage first.

Because it was released by the reputable Chinese government and went to China to "make gold" and the poor Japanese rural families were immediately moved. With the mobilization of their fathers and brothers, and going to "big places" to take a look, making money, and even "having the opportunity to marry a Chinese", the girls flocked to them.

Soon, 100,000 Japanese girls had arrived in China and were placed in a large number of newly built clothing factories for training. In the future, these hard-working and obedient Japanese female workers will work in China for ten years.

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