Chapter 241 Hunger (first update, please subscribe)
Occupy Japan and evacuate Japan!
Just thinking about it a little bit, Li Yian couldn't help but feel a little agitated in his heart.
Although after Germany surrendered, he also moved a lot of machinery and equipment, and obtained so many scientists and engineers. It was simply a gift package of three virtues.
But Japan...
It was different, absolutely different emotionally.
That’s the enemy!
Moving in Japan is more than just moving.
It was like arriving at the enemy's house. It was not as simple as moving, but more of an emotional catharsis. No, it should be said to be an emotional catharsis. The catharsis was spent in the past half of the year. In the past century, Japan has given China various painful memories.
“As long as we move, we should try our best to move it all at once, and we must not leave Japan any room to turn around.”
We must fully implement Big Brother's spirit of moving. With this thought in his mind, Li Yi'an became even more looking forward to landing in Japan, and even looked at the calendar specifically.
October 4th, counting the days, it should be soon!
It would only be a month at most. Thinking of the scene of millions of Allied troops marching into Japan a month later, Li Yian couldn't help but lean back on his chair and whistle softly.
"God bless me, this time this "one, billion jade, broken into pieces" may come true."
"One, billion jade, broken into pieces"!
Just thinking about that jade, broken piece, Li Yian became a little excited, even a little excited. Apart from being excited, he was also curious about the effect of the hundreds of thousands of tons of "Agent Orange" sprayed by the United States in Japan. Can little Japan be plunged into famine?
It can only be said that Li Yian's feelings for the Japanese are sincere, otherwise how could he miss them so much.
In fact, it is just to weigh whether they are hungry or not.
While Li Yian was worried about whether the Japanese people were hungry, what he didn't know was that, in fact, Japan had already fallen into hunger.
Since March, in order to cut off Japan’s mainland and overseas sea lines of communication, the United States has used B29 bombers to begin aerial mine-laying and blockade operations in the waters and ports surrounding Japan. Since then, a ship has been bombed by a mine Shen, one port after another was forced to close due to mine blockade.
The mine blockade has almost completely cut off Japan's vital maritime transportation. Compared with a few months ago, the transportation volume in the Shimonoseki Strait has dropped by 98% and is almost completely interrupted. The Seto Inland Sea can only pass small ships such as motors and sailing ships. In just a few months, imported materials dropped by 90%, and the supply of strategic materials such as oil, coal, and food that were urgently needed to maintain the war was almost interrupted; military industrial enterprises suspended production or closed due to the shortage of raw materials; a large number of Japanese aircraft and ships were extremely short of fuel. And was forced to ground and suspend flights.
The most direct impact is due to the interruption of shipping, but Japan’s domestic food supply is extremely difficult. Because the needs of the military must be prioritized, civilian food rations are reduced to a minimum. By October, they will not have enough to eat. Struggling on the line of hunger.
“It will be fine when the rice is harvested!”
When people endure the hunger, they still cherish a glimmer of hope - it will be fine in October, every year The end of September and the beginning of October is the rice harvest season in Japan.
As in previous years, the old people have been sharpening their sickles since August. As for the women, they imagine that after the harvest, they will go to the city with the rice they have withheld to exchange for the rice made of silk made by the women in the city. Kimonos, as well as other clothing and jewelry, have been Food is getting more and more expensive, and farmers can still make ends meet, but the same cannot be said for city dwellers. Faced with increasingly dwindling rations, in order to fill their stomachs, millions of people bring clothes, jewelry, furniture and other supplies every Sunday. For any valuable items, go to the countryside and exchange them with farmers for sweet potatoes, vegetables and fruits. Some women even had to exchange their bodies for food.
But they soon discovered that this year's rice was different from previous years.
The ears of grain are not heavy, but light. Even without crushing them, you can find that there are not many grains growing in the ears of grain...
The feeling of hunger is the worst. Uncomfortable!
Mieko woke up from her sleep hungry!
Hungry!
In the past two months, she almost never had enough to eat. In order to exchange for food, she had to give away her mother's kimono, her own kimono, and even the silver coins, Buddha statues and cheongsam her husband sent back from China. All kinds of things are taken to the countryside to be made into food.
But now, the valuable things at home are long gone. If this continues, what will we do?
I’m so hungry!
Once again, in order to exchange for some food, Mieko had to take out the only kimono left by her mother-in-law after her death from the box.
“People always have to fill their stomachs first. If Moriguchi knows this, he will be considerate.”
After leaving the city, Mieko walked along the road to the countryside. There were buses in the past, but due to lack of fuel, the current buses were all burning charcoal gas. Even so, it would take an hour or two to get a bus. Mieko couldn't wait that long anymore.
While walking, I waited for the car. Almost half an hour later, the car came. From the moment she got in the car, Mieko couldn't get rid of the feeling: someone was staring at her secretly, it was a man's eyes. .
The woman's intuition told Miezi that the man in the car was staring at him.
Who could it be?
There are workers among these people. Forget about such people, they may be like her and only eat half full every day. Well, finally, among the passengers in the carriage, Mieko saw a passenger. He was a typical farmer, at least fifty years old. In the past, Mieko would not even look at such a farmer, but he was different from the others. Yes, his face is rosy and healthy - in the countryside, people can always have a full stomach, whether it is vegetables or sweet potatoes.
The man looked straight at Mieko, his eyes full of greed. When he was about to stop, he walked past Mieko with the basket in his hand and paused for a moment. Mieko also saw it. His basket - half full of sweet potatoes.
Sweet potatoes!
Mieko only felt hungrier!
Dool also flowed out.
The car stopped and when the man walked forward, Mieko's eyes followed the basket in the man's hand. When the man got out of the car, he specifically looked back at Mieko. Seeing that the man was about to leave, Mieko stood up quickly and hurriedly Got out of the car.
After getting off the car, she saw the man standing on the roadside, staring at her with eyes full of forgetfulness.
"Madam, you don't want to go hungry!"
The man shook the basket in his hand, looked at Miezi greedily, and then the man walked straight to the grove on the roadside.
Looking at the man, and then at the package in his hand - it contained a kimono. The silk kimono was the last valuable thing in the house.
At this moment, her stomach growled again, and her hunger made Mieko no longer hesitate. She looked at the small forest and then walked over.
But before entering the woods, she still hesitated.
"Moriguchi should be considerate of me..."
A few minutes later, Mieko was lying on the grass with her eyes dazed, and the man had already stood up, but he still had some unfinished thoughts. He stretched out his hand to the woman and sighed.
“Oh, I am indeed a woman in the city, so... white...”
The delicate white and the dark, calloused roughness formed a sharp contrast. Seeing the woman's unwillingness, the man took out a few more sweet potatoes from the basket and said.
"Here you go, do it again!"
Facing Baishu, Mieko nodded. Looking at her unwilling look, the man couldn't help but laugh wantonly.
White potatoes are really good!
Finally, when everything was over, the satisfied man said carelessly.
"Let me tell you, you should buy more sweet potatoes now while you can still get them. When winter comes, no one will want them like you. In winter, food will be even more precious. You don’t know that today’s harvest is all over, and you don’t know what the American bombers sprayed in the fields. This year’s rice fields didn’t grow any millet at all...”
Mieko heard the man’s words. He made a sound and said in surprise.
"How is this possible? Didn't the newspaper say that this year's harvest was very good..."
"The newspaper also said that we sank several American aircraft carriers. ! "
The man grinned and said,
"None of the things in the newspaper is trustworthy. My son died on the battlefield... Baga, if it were as good as what is written in the newspaper, you wouldn't exchange it for sweet potatoes here, so He doesn’t understand simple principles, he is such an idiot!”
The man looked at the woman, as if he pitied the idiot, and took out another sweet potato and said.
"Put it away and go back to eat quickly! I am afraid only God knows whether you will be able to eat in the future!"
Yes, only God knows whether you will be able to eat in the future, because The Agent Orange sprayed by planes caused a sharp increase in grain production in Japan, which was only one-third of previous years. Coupled with the mine-blocked shipping, grain from the mainland and North Korea could not be transported to Japan, leaving the Japanese to look at the sea and sigh. . For them, the winter of 45 years is destined to be spent in hunger. I don’t know how many people will starve to death in this winter. This winter is destined to be very cold, but also very hot...
(This chapter End)