Magical Vest
Shili Yangchang was not a specific street but a general term for the old Shanghai downtown area. In the old days, because there were many foreigners and foreign goods in the concession area of Shanghai, there were all kinds of people. "Tongguang Pear Garden Record":"Ten miles north of Shanghai, Chinese and foreign giants gather here.”Now, the protagonist of this book, Ma Jun, was standing in the square in front of the landmark building of Shili Yangchang, the Shanghai and Shanghai Bank Building. He stared at the endless crowd and sighed helplessly from the bottom of his heart.
As the world's number one fighter in the 78kg weight class, Ma Jun had made a name for himself two years ago. Relying on his monstrous strength, his iron bones, and his unique moves, he had created a miracle of 56 consecutive wins and 56 KO's. Three days ago, Ma Jun had been invited to participate in the " Shanghai 2016 International Freestyle Combat Competition ". In the final, he had knocked down his opponent three times in the first round and won the championship. He put on the designer watch given by the organizer and the tailor-made suit and leather shoes from the sponsor. He secretly left the station and went to the Bund on the west bank of Huangpu River, where he had long been looking forward to. While he was admiring the buildings in the Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicist, Renaissance, and Chinese-Western architectural styles with excitement and complicated feelings, a deep voice suddenly came from behind him."Is this your first time in Shanghai?”Ma Jun was shocked and immediately turned around. In front of him stood an old man in his sixties. He was dressed in a fitting Tang suit and had a medium build. His deep eyes contained a faint smile. He quickly put on a smile and replied,"Yes, I'm from Henan. It's my first time in Shanghai. Are you a local?" The old man smiled and nodded. He took out a silver-gray vest with exquisite workmanship from the handbag beside him and handed it to Ma Jun."It's fate that we met. This vest matches your outfit very well. I'll give it to you as a souvenir. I think you'll like it very much.”After saying that, without waiting for Ma Jun's reply, he turned around and joined the crowd at the side, leaving.
Ma Jun stared blankly at the vest in his hand and then at the old man's back as he left. For the first time, he felt at a loss. What was going on? Wasn't his luck a little too good this year? Someone gave him a gift when he went out shopping, and it was a stranger who had only spoken two sentences. No matter how he looked at it, it was a little unbelievable. Ma Jun smiled bitterly as he looked at the vest in his hand. He muttered in a self-deprecating manner," His character is off the charts. This luck can't be stopped." Shaking open the vest in his hand, Ma Jun couldn't help but be shocked. It was neither silk nor cotton, nor did it look like wool. He did not know what kind of fabric it was made of, but it was a perfect match for the color of his suit. He couldn't help but take off his shirt and put on the vest. After putting on his shirt, he walked to the window of a nearby building and looked at his figure reflected in the glass window. He couldn't help but feel smug. It was hard to give up on a natural beauty. However, he had forgotten that there was an old saying in China that went," extreme joy begets sorrow." In front of the glass window, he did not notice that the air around him had suddenly undergone an incredible change. It was as if it had distorted. In the cries of the pedestrians, our hero Ma Jun soared into the sky in a handsome manner and disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Now, our Great Hero Ma is once again standing in the "Wan Guo Building Complex" on the west bank of Huangpu River, but things have changed. Just now, he had learned from passers-by A, B, C, and D that he had hit the jackpot less than two years after his debut. He had become a member of the tens of millions of transmigrators, and the current date was February 28, 1936! Just two days ago, Japan had just experienced the infamous '2'. 26th mutiny.
"Two. There was a deep background to the February 6th mutiny. On October 24th, 1929, the New York stock market plummeted, and the capitalist economic crisis, known as the Great Recession, broke out. The economic crisis quickly swept through the United States and the entire capitalist world, and Japan was also severely hit.
Under the impact of the economic crisis, small and medium-sized enterprises were disbanded or closed down due to their inability to maintain production, and the number of unemployed workers increased greatly. According to official statistics, there were 310,000 unemployed workers in 1931 and nearly 490,000 in 1932. Together with the semi-unemployed, there were a total of 3 million (the population of Japan was about 65 million during the same period). By the middle of the 1930s, 830 companies had gone bankrupt, 311 had reduced their capital, and the total amount of bankruptcy and capital reduction had reached 582 million yen.
In 1930, Japan's agriculture had an unprecedented bumper harvest, but the prices of agricultural products fell nationwide. The prices of raw silk and rice, the two pillars of agriculture, fell below production costs. In 1931, farmers 'income was less than half of that of 1926. Industrial and mining production was 75% of that of 1926, the gross national product was 82% of that of 1929, export was 53% of that of 1929, personal consumption was 83% of that of 1929, equipment investment was 69% of that of 1929, the net output of agriculture, forests, and aquatic products was 57% of that of 1929, and foreign trade was 45% of that of 1929.
In the trade, the commodity that suffered the most was raw silk. In 1934, the proportion of raw silk in Japan's total export volume fell from 42% before the crisis to 18%. The price of raw silk in Japan plummeted. In September 1929, the price of 60 kilograms of raw silk was 1330 yen, and in October 1930, it fell to 540 yen. The sharp decline in demand and price of raw silk caused a sharp decline in raw silk raw material cocoons. The price of spring silkworms in 1932 was less than 1/3 of the price of spring silkworms in 1929. The total output value of cocoons in 1931 was only 42% of that in 1929. Sericultural farmers had serious livelihood difficulties. As sericultural farmers accounted for 40% of all Japanese farmers, the rural economy of Japan suffered a serious blow. In 1929, the debt of the entire rural area of Japan was 4.6 billion yen. In 1932, it increased to 5.5 billion yen, which was equivalent to about three times the total production of agricultural products. The average debt of each Japanese farmer was 900 yen (the average balance of each farmer was only about 200 yen in normal years. In the early 1930s, the proportion of the rural population in Japan was about 70%). The farmers who raised silkworms were even more miserable. In 1931, the average debt of each farmer was 1437 yen. The huge debt was a heavy burden on Japan's agriculture and even the entire Japanese economy.
A large number of farmers were forced to flee or sell their daughters. According to the statistics of a village in Yamagata Prefecture, out of 467 young women aged 15 to 24, 110 had been betrayed, and another 150 had gone out to work as maids or waitresses. In times of crisis, the average net worth of young women was only 50 to 100 yen, and young women in the Aomori area were only 9 yen.
Since then, the economic crisis, whether in the city or in the countryside, had caused the lives of the low-class people in Japan to fall into a great predicament. In the army, soldiers and junior officers from the bottom of society, especially those from the countryside, were easily attracted by the slogans of the imperial fascists, such as "anti-power","anti-capital", and "relief to the countryside", when they were faced with the debauchery of the city dignitaries and remembered the tragic scene in their hometown. Therefore, they actively demanded the implementation of the "reform" and "reform" Shawa Restoration.
The need to invade and expand, to seize new colonies as raw material supplies and product dumping places, also greatly expanded under the stimulation of the economic crisis. On the eve of the incident, the army was mainly divided into the Imperial Faction and the Control Faction. The "Imperial Faction" were radical middle-level young officers, while the "Control Faction" were high-level generals in the army. The Imperial Faction believed that the Emperor of Japan had been surrounded by the "bad guys around him" and could not understand the sufferings of the people. Therefore, they had to "clean up the side of the emperor" and abolish the cabinet so that the Emperor could directly become a military dictator like Adolf Hitler. The political views of the two factions were completely different, but their goal was to further transform Japan into a fascist war machine country, which was a counterattack against the spirit of the Taisho Era of Humanity.
Under such a background, a small group of soldiers of the Imperial Sect launched a mutiny on February 26th, 1936 to clear the emperor's side! Although the coup was suppressed and ended in failure, the irony was that the goals that the Imperial Faction actively pursued when they launched the coup, such as the military dictatorship and the fascization of the state power, were realized after the failure of the coup. This was not only because the control faction, which belonged to the fascist faction, firmly held the power of the military, but also because the cabinet was controlled by the civil service fascist group headed by the new prime minister, Hiroshi.
Now, the Great Master Ma Junma, who had disappeared into thin air, was standing in front of the 1936 Shanghai Bank. He thought that he had actually traveled to the eve of the War of Resistance. Under the careful training and guidance of his master, Ma Jun, who had the characteristics of a little angry youth, not only did he not panic, but he also felt an inexplicable excitement. Wakaka, the martial arts that he practiced in the winter and summer were finally put to good use. The English, German, and Japanese languages that he had mastered under the pressure of his master were also put to good use! Just as the brainless person was fantasizing about the feeling of 007 possessing him, he suddenly thought of a question. Money! That's right, now that he was in the old dynasty of the 1930s, the wad of RMB and a few bank cards in his wallet were worthless. His identity card was a time bomb that could expose his identity at any time.
Ma Jun, who had calmed down, put his hands into the two pockets of his vest and was ready to think about his future. However, he felt something in his right hand. It was a piece of paper. It was indeed a piece of paper. Ma Jun opened the folded letter and saw a familiar hand of regular script."Ma Jun, my disciple: When you read this letter, you should have returned to at least 70 years ago. At the same time, it means that your master's experiment has been more than half successful. In order to comfort your young, fragile, and easily hurt heart, I've prepared an absolutely magnificent gift for you, which is the vest you're wearing. This vest was woven from Kunlun spider silk and carbon fiber. It was invulnerable and could withstand close-range shots from rifles within 50 meters. However, this was not the most impressive part. There were two pockets inside. The one on the left was called the Universe Bag, and it had a capacity of one million cubic meters. As long as it was something you could carry (except living things), it could be stored inside. The one on the right was called a money bag. It had a capacity of 100 cubic meters and could only be filled with gold and silver. Although it was a little small, as long as it was used well, it could be a good helper for you to rob, swindle, and commit crimes. Also, Master was afraid that you would suddenly come to an unfamiliar environment and be bullied by others, so he specially made a set of thirty-six Tiangang Flying Daggers for you to protect yourself. There were also five 1000-gram gold bars in the money bag in case of emergency. Hehe, how is it, my good disciple? Master treats you well, right? Are you quite touched now? Right, squeeze a few drops of blood onto the vest and make it your exclusive item. To operate it, one had to recite the incantation in one's heart. When using the Qiankun Bag, one had to recite the Heavenly Lord of Immeasurable. When using the money bag, one had to recite the God of Wealth. With your mind, you could control the access. Alright, kid, I won't say anything else. I wish you a pleasant journey, a smooth work, a bright future!”
After Ma Jun finished reading, he could not help but sigh."Old man, you're so stingy. You've already tricked me into coming to the Republic of China, but you're still unwilling to give me more.”
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