Chapter 18 East Asia Integration (Part 2)

In order to repay war reparations and huge foreign debts, the Japanese government had to reorganize its finances, add some taxes, and further reduce the income of government employees and teachers. After the "Old People's Dedication" movement, Japan's food consumption was reduced. The government adopted the unified purchase and sale of agricultural and forestry products, and after the purchase was uniformly purchased at a low price, it was sold to the Chinese occupying troops in Japan at the market price, or directly transported to the coastal area for military and civilians, and then sold to Northeast China and North Korea, which had been under war.

According to the spirit of economic synchronization, Japan also adopted a land reform similar to China to guide the abolition of the tenancy system. However, as many land owners were purged before and after the rebellion and a large amount of land was confiscated, at Xu Fan's suggestion, the Japanese government decided to take more efficient and radical measures: forcibly repurchase the land, allocate it to farmers, and form small self-cultivated farmers.

Xu Fan was also surprised by the Japanese government's decisive behavior. Within a year, they actually gave 80 million mu of arable land across the country to 4 million farmers at an average of 20 mu. A large number of people of all kinds flocked to cities and factories and mines. Many unemployed people responded to the government's recruitment orders to cross the sea to northern China and North Korea to engage in infrastructure construction, and many people signed up to participate in the Northern Breeding Group of the Chinese Empire.

A series of unrest, war, natural disasters and man-made disasters, repeated liquidation of the government, policy guidance, and labor exports. After experiencing storms, by the end of 1906, the population of the Japanese archipelago had suddenly dropped to 33 million, including 500,000 migrant Chinese and garrison troops.

At the same time, the Japanese were hardworking and working everywhere in the newly-entered colonial regiments in northern China, factories in Dongning Province, construction sites in North Korea and Northeast China, road construction troops on the Northwest Railway Line, and Chinese plantations in Nanyang. These obedient, tenacious, hard-working laborers were soon praised. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Ministry of Labor even set up recruitment sites in Japan to recruit more Japanese to work in China.

Suppressing the confiscation of property by the rebels, reorganizing equity and assets of the chaebol, tax reform, unified purchase and sale, and adding high luxury taxes. The paper currency depreciated greatly to reduce state debts, severe domestic debts were cut, government spending was cut, and the loss of the army and navy, which accounted for 70% to 80% of the expenditure, a series of measures, coupled with the "special demand" economy of war materials supply to China, the Japanese government's financial situation has come back to life. Not only did it pay the second war reparation on time, pay interest on the government bonds to China, but it has a large fiscal surplus left.

The Japanese government's tense nerves were slightly loose at this time. In turn, it began to restore wages to teachers, strengthen investment in education, issue new "unconditional repayment" government bonds to raise funds. In addition, loans from China Banking Bank began to renovate railways and roads, rebuild areas damaged by the war, renovate years of abandoned water conservancy facilities, expand the agricultural and forestry product processing industry, repair ship terminals, and revitalize the fishing and whaling industries.

In this way, the Japanese economy gradually began to recover.

With the help of the Customs Alliance, Japan not only achieved domestic food and clothing, but also achieved surplus agricultural, forestry and fishery products, but also sold well in the surrounding areas.

North Korea is much lower than Japan's - Piaotianyi. It has backward education, backward infrastructure, weak industrial and commercial foundations, some minerals in the north are insufficient in exploration, and transportation is inconvenient, while the south is basically full of agriculture and fishery. This country is the poorest mountain in Northeast Asia.

The gradual clarity of the East Asian consortium system and the conclusion of the commercial agreement have given a large number of North Koreans a new opportunity: to go to China.

A large number of North Koreans either joined the colonial troop through the public selection of the China Immigration Bureau and the Ministry of Agriculture, or crossed the border to China to act as "black households". Except for a few lucky people, most North Koreans can only withstand cruel exploitation as black households. Relatively speaking, young girls in North Korea are in better condition. As long as they rely on a Chinese man, they can become naturalized even if they are young.

Various Chinese banks have also opened branches in North Korea to absorb North Korean private funds and first provide loans and trade letters of credit services to Chinese companies operating in North Korea.

The first ones entering North Korea include trading companies, shipping companies, and railway companies participating in the bidding, followed by exploration teams of the royal family, state-owned and mining companies under the chaebol.

Zheng Yu only knew about the North Korean mineral deposits. Fortunately, through a treaty with North Korea, the underground minerals north of the Datong River belonged to China, so he made a tender without hesitation. In the end, he was naturally the most optimistic about the Royal Northeast Mining Company, which is under the royal mining and smelting industry, bidding: others can afford the money, but they will not pay such a high price for an unpredictable area.

Zheng Yu is not in a hurry.

This thing is buried underground and will not fly. However, as long as China develops the Northeast well and then builds several key projects in recent years, the steel output will not be bound by iron ore. After all, it was a big country with an annual output of 700 million tons of crude steel in the future. Now the output of millions of tons is really not enough for him.

The most important thing now is to repair the Shenyang-Anshan-Fushun-Dandong-Sinyizhou railway line and the Yalu River Bridge, and then transform the railway line in North Korea to closely connect North Korea with China, so that North Korea will be completely integrated into China's political economy.

Zheng Yu, a North Korean, has a better understanding of the North Korean. He knew that these people were called Asian Poles and were devoted to each other when they were mingling with the boss, but once they had thicker thighs, they turned the boss over to the ground, and the gorgeous turn of the stick was faster than anyone else. They were absolutely incompatible, and they also had to turn others into their servants from the source of history.

This is roughly a typical example of the inferiority in the bones being concealed by superficial self-expansion.

So Zheng Yu decided to no longer give North Koreans similar opportunities from now on.

All the textbooks in North Korea are compiled by the Ministry of Culture and Education, and are basically based on Chinese textbooks. North Korea has been talking about Sinology for thousands of years, and the so-called Korean characters only appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the writings are still written today. Therefore, it is easy for this textbook to be in Chinese. China has also sent a large number of teachers, and the central government subsidized funds to go to North Korea to "support the border".

Under the voluntary labor provided by China's financial loans and the voluntary labor provided by all walks of life in North Korea, North Korea was the first school to build like mushrooms after a rain.

After being persuaded or beaten by his parents, the naughty North Korean child obediently entered the classroom, began to learn Chinese, history, the 99 arithmetic table, and learned from scratch what discipline and collective life meant. Some senior students who once studied Japanese during the Japanese occupation and were disciplined by Japanese teachers and "school supervisors" were relatively much better. Instead, they felt that China's teaching methods were more flexible than Japan, and the atmosphere was a little looser, making people "more dignified".

Although it was difficult to start and the teaching conditions at the beginning were also very difficult, as North Korea's transportation conditions improved, the materials gradually became in place. Gradually, China provided exquisitely printed textbooks, various extracurricular reading materials, fairy tales, seriousness in class, kind Chinese teachers, and various small things made in China, became a landscape in schools in various parts of North Korea. These young generations of North Korea also clearly felt the Chinese school life, which was like a paradise compared to the closed and poor Korean countryside.

China = civilization and progress, this concept began to take root in the hearts of the next generation of North Korea. When they grew up, North Korea's complete "Sinicization" was just around the corner.

Of course, it is also very important to help the younger generation of North Korea establish a correct, objective, and materialistic historical view, and not to create some conscientious newcomers in the history of Goryeo.

North Korea's history textbooks basically use China-South Korea relations as clues to explain the history of North Korea (in fact, this is the case), explaining the origin of the Korean nation, the difference between Goguryeo and Goryeo, the grievances between Silla Baekje and the Japanese, the relationship with the Tang Dynasty, the relationship between the Bohai Kingdom and the Korean survivors, the Wang Goryeo and Goguryeo are not the same, etc.

The North Korean teenager listened and carried his back while thinking about the eggs and canned food at noon. He answered correctly and had good things to eat, but this question was very serious.

The most troublesome thing the North Korean government is the finances.

The little foundation of North Korea over the years, and even the accumulation of the people, has been plundered by the Japanese. Although it has received some construction achievements from the Japanese, it is basically military facilities, and the civilians are nothing more than canned factories in Busan, several Japanese flour companies, etc. If it is said to be industry, even the Koreans themselves will burst into tears.

North Korea wants to establish a government, maintain officials, and also support the Chinese supervisory authorities and military stationed in North Korea. It is almost driven crazy by debt collection every day. Finally, China is generous and temporarily advances part of it, but it is clear: If North Korea's finances cannot be independent within two years, then this government...

North Korea's largest source of foreign exchange is "special control".

These special existences, known as "special bandits" in each occupied areas, issued control regulations, restricting the behavior of residents of the occupied areas, and imposing heavy fines on any violators. They searched for "banned materials", levied "strategic materials", collected various fees such as "occupied areas' control fees", and also levied "property fees". The residents of the occupied areas had no time to escape, and soon declared bankruptcy under the search of this group of special management. The Kuanren occupation authorities only needed them to sign an agreement, and the "debt" was cancelled, and they could still obtain fifty rubles and a boat ticket, and went to the location of the Tsar's government to report, accompanied by a letter of introduction issued by China, "This proves that the xx citizens performed their duties in the Far East/Siberia, and they deserved the tsar and God, and he was willing to continue to fight for the revival of Russia."

In this way, Russian families who came to the Far East to make a fortune and became rich left the Far East Siberia dejectedly. Of course, there were also many passionate Russian girls who had entangled Chinese soldiers and naturalized their families. This is another matter.

According to regulations, 20% of the various income belongs to the "collective ownership" of the North Korean special management, while the North Korean government and these people share the share in half. In this way, the North Korean government also enjoyed a lot of income with a smile.

The North Korean special management in Japan is even more vicious.

When it comes to the 1895 Japanese riots, the Koreans were simply chewing their teeth. Now they have a chance to turn over and immediately transform into Hell Shura. Although the constraints of the Chinese occupation forces are getting stricter, the North Korean special management is already called "the Korean thief who comes out to lose the Korean clique" in Japan (a waste-like North Korean thief). Fortunately, the plunder is almost done now, and a treaty has been concluded. The occupation fee is settled. The East Asian Union is also more respectful. The Chinese occupation authorities have begun to gradually repatriate the North Korean special management, allowing these people to return to their country to serve as officials, police officers, and even the Korean National Defense Forces.

Seeing that the "Goryeo Mud Stick" was sent onto the boat by the Celestial Army soldiers, and his face was reluctant to leave, the Japanese were so happy that they slapped their hands red. When they saw the Chinese soldiers, they bowed one after another: "The hard work of the King, the North Koreans have the lead, and Japan has peace. These are the kindness of the Celestial Army..."

In later folk stories of Japan, most of the Koreans were portrayed as fraudsters, robbers, thieves, and later, more fashionable homosexual backings. Of course, this also caused many lawsuits between the two countries, so there is no need to say in detail.

In short, we can summarize it in a sentence from Japan's Qianhai Priest Yamamoto after getting drunk once, "I have long seen that the Koreans belong to a semi-civilized inferior nation, but now I just regret it. Why didn't the Imperial Army completely slaughter them back then?"

Generally speaking, the Japanese have such deep resentment towards North Korea.

The situation in Siam is a bit more special.

Here, traces of the British are everywhere, and there are many Germans and even French people.

Former Siam King Rama V was a long-standing dancer. He visited Europe and had contacts with various countries. On the one hand, he hired British people as royal consultants, and on the other hand, he opened some places to French capital. On the other hand, he hired German consultants from the army, and was obviously close to Britain in diplomacy and ceded a lot of land in Malay Province to Britain.

Even after the mutiny, the Siam military government still had to move closer to the UK and tried to seek land from China with the help of Britain's support and protection.

However, this time, the Chinese army occupied the entire territory of Siam with great momentum. The Buddhist army was defeated. The "Miao Thai" that was so magical that it could only retreat in the face of the dense rain of bullets. King Rama VI, who was pushed back, smiled bitterly and had to accept the reality: the British had given up their efforts to save Siam and instead used Siam to exchange for the Chinese support for the British.

Following the Chinese army, a huge road construction army came. China's two railway lines extended from Vientiane in Annan Province and the former Myanmar's Yan State to Siam, and connected with Siam's own railways. Since they are both "international standard gauge" of Britain, it is not difficult to connect. Along with the railways, there are also highways like spider webs.

China's road construction machinery broke the tranquility of the Siam Valley. The roaring steel beasts flattened the forest. The heavy rollers rammed the three-piece soil and then pressed the tarmac densely. Standard Chinese-style roads extended from all directions to Bangkok.

Siam is an agricultural country.

The humid and warm climate, rich tropical fruits, rice that ripens three times a year, precious teak and rubber gardens everywhere, hardworking Chinese make the residents here generally more hospitality and lazy. The "Great Siam nationalism" briefly inspired by the military government has long become a laughing stock. Siam young people look at the heroic and handsome Chinese soldiers and the road building machinery full of violent aesthetics in large-scale industries, and they are not disgust, but curiosity and envy.

Compared with the undisguised contempt of the British and French whites towards the Siamese, the Chinese seem more equal. As long as they do not violate the laws and military rules, the young Siamese can not only chat with them freely, but also go to the scene to help and settle their wages on a daily basis. With these banknotes from the "Imperial Credit Bank" can be exchanged for a lot of daily necessities—all kinds of military and official materials collected from Siamese.

Compared with Japan, China's control over Siam is a little more gentle, and basically did not make the Siam people feel too much influence - of course, there was no Japanese-style civil war or great purge in Siam. This country, which has always been a bit submissive, originally relied on the rift between the cracks of European powers, but now seeing the powerful Chinese rolling south, they soon habitually chose obedience and obedience.

Culturally, Zheng Yu chose the Thai Chinese hero with the same surname as him, Zheng Xin of the Thonburi Dynasty, who is the so-called "Zheng Emperor" as a breakthrough. As soon as the rumors came out, Siam returned home, and the Chinese army heading south was unstoppable. The Siam people, who were deeply suffering from the military violence, drank and ate a pot of slurry.

Now that Siam is pacified, the "Xin Zheng Emperor" did not allow the "descendants of King Rama" to repay their blood debts, but instead retained the Siam royal family and announced "reluctance to Siam".

While feeling moved, in the hearts of the Siamese people, the prestige of "Empress Zheng" is at its peak, and it has vaguely surpassed the current Rama VI. After all, this person has been a puppet of the military government for so many years. If it weren't for the King Rama V of whom "Empress Zhulalongkorn", I was afraid that the Siamese people would rise up to "destroy the emperor" and welcome the "Empress Zheng".

However, the Siam royal family was not a fool. Seeing that the Chinese occupation authorities had calmly cleansed the government, demoted the royal family and noble relatives of the Choker Dynasty to common people and even detained as war criminals, replaced them with all Chinese, pro-Chinese elements, and even just Chinese people. In the name of the new government, they announced that "implement constitutionalism, confiscate royal industries, and maintain the royal family quota", these Siam royal families gradually began to panic.

They don't know where these Chinese people are going to push Thailand and what fate they are going to.

Soon, the Siam government, with a fresh face, began propaganda work. The history of Sino-Siam, the glory of the Zheng Xin Dynasty, and even the Thai people originated from the Baiyue people in the southern part of the Yangtze River. Later, they went south, and Siam and Zhuang languages ​​were of the same origin. The Thai people were originally a mixture of Chinese blood and local Malays. Sino-Thailand had the same origin (historical facts, in 1939, the King of Siam had clearly stated that he himself had Chinese blood, and his subjects had Chinese blood, and six or seven out of ten of the 100 Chinese bloodlines. Siam's history books indicate that Siam's motherland was in southern China). Even the privacy calculations of the Chokrichari Dynasty Rama I and pretended to be descendants of Zheng Xin gradually shook out.

Among the people, gradually, an undercurrent began to surge.

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