Chapter 443 The Land of Paradise (first update, please subscribe)
In the last year of the 1940s, people all over the world were spending the year in their own way, and some places were carrying out Construction, the future is ushered in during construction, and some places are on the eve of dawn, ushering in new life amidst the war.
And some places are full of despair!
This is almost the case in Japan. Its north is occupied by Russia and its south is occupied by the Allies. Although it is also under partitioned occupation, Japan is almost a neglected corner compared to Germany, which has attracted the attention of the world.
For the world, no one can notice this place, even though it is shrouded in unemployment and hunger. Although the United States and the United Nations Relief Agency have provided a large amount of aid, they cannot solve the unemployment-a large number of Factories were demolished, resulting in the inability to restore industrial production, and huge war compensation, etc., made Japan unable to breathe.
The shadow of unemployment and poverty has been hanging over Japan like a dark cloud.
Faced with a future without any hope, leaving has become the best choice. In order to pursue a better future.
For the post-war Japanese, going to Southeast Asia has long been their only option to escape poverty.
Along with articles and photos in newspapers and magazines, especially with the popularity of Nanyang films.
In the hearts of most Japanese, Nanyang has long become synonymous with "paradise".
In the movie theater, like many people, Takeshi Fujita looked stupidly at the living environment of the male and female protagonists in the movie, his eyes filled with envy.
In front of the neatly arranged western-style building, men and women smile happily, children play on the grass, and the bright restaurant not only has a variety of food, but also a variety of fruits. The flush toilet in the bathroom has hot water 24 hours a day.
Everything is as beautiful as heaven.
Finally, with the light of the cannon light, I woke up from the dream.
After watching "Temporary Couple", Takeshi Fujita's desire for Nanyang became even stronger.
Even when I returned home - if this house made of wooden sticks and broken cardboard could be considered a home,
bitter cold wind blew in through the gaps between the cardboard and iron sheets, making the house even colder. .
Although the room is cold, my heart is hot.
Takeshi Fujita’s mind once again recalled the home that the hero and heroine finally moved into.
In that home, there were no telephones or cars like those in American movies, but everything was so real, so real that people believed it was real.
No matter how good the United States is, it is the United States of Americans and has nothing to do with the Japanese, but Nanyang is different!
As long as you go to Nanyang, you are a Nanyang person!
Many women went to Nanyang, married Nanyang people, and lived a good life there.
For women, it is easy to go to Nanyang. They only need to line up in front of the labor service company, sign up, and then they can go to Nanyang. Next, they have two years to change their fate and stay in Nanyang - as long as they marry a Nanyang person.
This is the simplest and most convenient method.
Women are doing everything possible to leave Japan, and so are men. However, unlike women, it is very difficult for men to go to Nanyang. You must obtain a work visa to have the opportunity to go to Nanyang.
Who is issued a work visa?
University professors, doctors, engineers, and the best workers.
And Takeshi Fujita was nothing. He only served as an apprentice in a factory for three years, and then he was drafted into the army, and then guarded an island in the Pacific for two years. He was lucky - the island he was stationed on He was jumped over by the US military, and he waited until the war was over, and then returned to Japan.
But the following days were painful. Like most people, Fujita Takeshi could not find a job and lived hungry all day long.
After being tortured by difficult times for more than two years, Takeda Tengtian had only one hope left in his heart - to go to Nanyang!
Go to that paradise where it is like spring all year round.
No more starvation, no more worries about unemployment...
"It seems the only way to do it..."
Once again, Fujita Takeshi picked up A shoddy business card - 10,000 yen, go to China.
In fact, this is a business card for smuggling. As long as they contact the gang, the gang will put them on the boat. For 10,000 yen, they can be smuggled to China.
Why are some people willing to spend money to smuggle themselves into China? Because you can go to Nanyang from China!
“In China, there are immigrant ships going to Southeast Asia everywhere. For us, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky, but for the Chinese, it is extremely simple. They are compatriots!”< br>
The intermediary's words made Fujita Takeshi's eyes become hot - go to the mainland and get on a boat to the Southeast Asia from there. Then he can go to Nanyang and go to that paradise.
"Xinxi, I can go to heaven like this!"
It is not only Fujita who has this dream, but there are actually many more. In order to be able to go to Nanyang, I don’t know how many Japanese people have chosen this dream. It was a road destined to be full of ups and downs, and many of them ended up dying in a foreign land.
Just when Takeshi Fujita, like many others, handed over all his money to the gangsters, tried to take a boat from Kyushu to Shanghai, and went to Nanyang, a piece of news suddenly came - Shanghai Occupied by Northern troops.
They can't go!
And what’s more terrible?
The gangster who collected the money ran away and disappeared!
Just like that, Fujita was dumbfounded and finished.
The penniless Teng Tian just stood on the streets of Fukuoka, looking at the unfamiliar streets around him, his eyes blank.
“Is this still Japan?”
On the streets of Fukuoka, Chinese characters are everywhere. Not only that, many people on the streets use Chinese to solicit business.
Fukuoka under occupation, like other places in Kyushu, seems to have a much better environment than Kanto and is more prosperous economically. After all, there are more than 1.5 million occupying troops stationed here. The presence of the occupying troops has prospered the local economy. Of course, it also deeply Deeply change this land.
In the past few years, the occupying troops from the mainland have formed families with local women. While they were giving birth to children here, perhaps Chinese characters, Chinese language and even cuisine and snacks from various parts of China were brought to this land.
“5.7 million!”
As the car passed through the streets of Fukuoka, looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar street scenes around him, Li Shaowu heard Guan Sen say.
"I mean the local population! If you exclude the occupying troops and their children, there are less than 3 million people. Before the war, there were more than 7 million people on the island. That scene in the winter of 1945 Famine, almost one-fifth of the people died from famine. In order to resist the Allies, more than one million people died. Now there are still more than one million prisoners imprisoned in Nanyang. The little devil said "one hundred million pieces of jade" and other I don’t know how the place was broken, but basically everything here is broken. Basically all men over the age of twelve or thirteen are broken, and many of them may be younger..."
Guan Sen, who was driving the car, turned to look at the colleague next to him who had come from Nanyang. Although he didn’t know why he came here, he still took the initiative to introduce him. Many colleagues from Nanyang didn’t know much about Japan, especially Kyushu. How to understand.
“Look at those shops. In addition to some opened by compatriots from China, there are also many shops and stalls run by women. In fact, most of them are wives of occupying officers and soldiers. They surrendered to the occupying army just for a bite of food, even if their fathers, brothers and children were very poor. It is possible that he died after them, but this is the only way to make a living. It is not uncommon for a mother and daughter to serve an occupying army together, all in order to survive..."
This is Kyushu Island ...a place where almost all the men are dead and the women live off the occupying forces.
“In the past two years, because the mainland has cut off military pay, the troops currently stationed in the occupied territories can only survive on the subsidy provided by the United States. The subsidy is only US$5 a month, which is more than 2,200 yen on the black market. , almost equivalent to the staff in Tokyo Club The employees earn one and a half months. It sounds like a lot, but it’s just enough to make ends meet, so many women go out to do business, and many work in textile and clothing factories. ”
After a brief explanation, Guan Sen smiled.
"So, there is not much difference between here and Tangshan. Many people can speak Chinese. Most of the women are garrison wives, and so are the children. I mean children aged two or three. As for other people, in order to make a living, they have also started to learn Chinese. If you have learned Chinese, there will definitely be no problem speaking Chinese here. This is why everyone now calls this place "Little China". In fact, this is also why the garrison is unwilling to return to China - after fighting several battles, it is not easy for the wife and children to have a big family. If you want to drag them back to fight... they will mutiny."
Hearing this, Li Shaowu said with some confusion.
“Didn’t I read in the newspaper that there were more than 20,000 elite garrison troops traveling from Nagasaki to Shanghai last month.”
“Hey, that’s a lie... ..."
Lowering his voice, Guan Sen said.
"Those people are not the garrison at all. They are all little Japan who want to go to Nanyang. In order to deal with the old man in Jinling, the garrison headquarters thought of a way and coaxed a group of cannon fodder to go over in Japan. They were all soldiers. Old devil, but even so, so what, in the face of a large army, it is still a matter of being wiped out. No, more than 20,000 people have become cannon fodder. Fortunately, the officers and non-commissioned officers in the army ran fast and went directly to the garrison commander. The boat was prepared in advance, otherwise everything would have to be left there!”
What!
Li Shaowu frowned and said in shock.
"How could they do this? This is not robbing business!"
(End of this chapter)