Volume Two: Bloodlust, 1921- 31: Watch how the wolf-like youth became famous in the northeast and became the terrifying Specter No. 1.
Speaking of the ambitions of the Japanese, it could be said that they had a long history. First of all, from a geographical point of view, Japan was located in the Pacific island country on the east coast of the Asian continent. To the west and north, it was separated by the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan, and the Sea of Okhotsk. It faced China, North Korea, Korea, and Russia. To the east, it was the Pacific Ocean. Its territory consisted of four large islands, namely Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, and more than 3900 small islands. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Japanese archipelago had a population of more than 67 million, but only had a land area of more than 370,000 square kilometers. The contradiction between the huge population base and the pitifully small land area was destined to make the people of this country full of ambition...
From a historical point of view, as an island nation, the Japanese originally relied on fishing for a living. From the primitive period until the Meiji Restoration, they were a small country that mainly relied on agriculture. Before the 5th century, the Japanese archipelago was not called Japan. In ancient mythology, the Japanese originally made a living by fishing. From the primitive period until the Meiji Restoration, they were a small country that mainly relied on agriculture. Before 5th AD, the Japanese archipelago was not called Japan. In ancient times, Japan was known as the "Japan" or "Japan"(meaning the Dwarf Kingdom). After the 5th century, Japanese cuisine was unified and the name of the country was called "Yamato". As for the name "Japan", it didn't appear in China until the end of the 7th century. According to the records in the Old Book of Tang, the Japanese did not like the title of "Wei Nation" and had repeatedly ascended the throne. As for why it was called Japan, according to Han Shu, the ancient Japanese worshiped the sun god and believed that the sun god rose from the sky above their country. Japan. The other countries belonged to their branches (Ha, that's crazy. It's said that the word 'China' slowly evolved in this way. It can be seen that the Japanese have great ambitions)
At the beginning of the 14th century, Japan entered a period of division between the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The feudal lords divided their territories and fought each other for power. At the same time, some of the feudal lords of the southern dynasties who had lost the war organized warriors, merchants, and ronin to the coastal areas of China to carry out armed smuggling, robbery, and pirate operations. The name of the Japanese pirates began. However, even though Japan had the intention to invade China, it did not do so. On one hand, it was because of its lack of national strength, and on the other hand, China was still very powerful at that time, so it did not succeed. It was not until the middle of the 19th century that the Western powers opened the door to feudalism in Japan and overthrew the feudal rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. This allowed the entire country of Japan to have a qualitative leap! In the 1860s, Japan was impacted by the industrial civilization of Western capitalists. In 1868, Emperor Meiji established a new government. The Japanese government carried out modern reforms and became a feudal and constitutionalized monarch. Such a top-down, capitalistic, comprehensive refinement and modern reform turned Japan from a feudal and backward agricultural country into an industrial power, making Japan one of the world's top countries. At the same time, Japan embarked on the path of foreign aggression and expansion...
As for why Japan embarked on the path of militarism, it was inseparable from their Japanese spirit. Then what exactly did the Japanese spirit refer to? Bushido? (This is the first thing we think of) But is that all?
"If you want to ask Yamato's soul, look at the mountain cherry under the morning sun.”
This is a song by the Japanese poet Juyi. From the poem, we can understand: "The Japanese believe that life is short, and that one should live as brightly as cherry blossoms. Even if one dies, one should leave decisively.）When the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, they were extremely dazzling. When the cherry blossoms fell, they were untainted and very clean!
Japan was known as the Yamato nation, and its core spirit was "collective selfishness". "Collectivity is the soul of the Japanese nation, and it is also one of the reasons for the rise of Japan in modern times and the rapid recovery of modern times. The root of this problem lies in the Japanese culture and the commonality of their hearts (in this regard, it is the flaw of the entire Chinese nation).
The last point is the samurai spirit that we are most familiar with and most afraid of. Speaking of the Japanese's quintessence 'and' Bushido,'it could be traced back to the Kamakura shogunate period in Japan. It was formed after absorbing Confucianism and Buddhism during the Edo period. At first, it advocated loyalty, faith, shame, martial arts, and reputation (especially martial arts, which made the Japanese brave and ruthless). However, Bushido was later used by the rulers as a "killing tool" to implement the policy of aggression and expansion. The Japanese rulers began to forcefully instill this poison root spirit into the children since they were young because the rulers needed to use it to motivate morale and strengthen the army. They also needed to use Bushido to confine and unify the minds of the people. This kind of indifference and even contempt for life had deeply rooted the evil behavior of the cruel and bloodthirsty Japanese people...
Other than the Meiji Restoration, another reason for Japan's rapid rise was its invasion. From the end of the 20th century to the beginning of the 21st century, Japan's invasion of China, North Korea, and other Asian countries not only allowed Japan to obtain a large amount of capital and raw materials, but it also obtained rich colonies including North Korea, South Manchuria, Dalian, and Taiwan. The signing of the treaty of Shimanto allowed Japan to obtain huge gains:
1. China compensated Japan with 200 million taels of silver.(At that time, Japan's annual treasury income was only 8000 yuan. The compensation from China alone was equivalent to more than four years of financial income.)
2. China ceded the Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan, and the Penghu Islands to Japan (Needless to say, the gains from the colonies not only brought various war resources to Japan in the future, but also provided Japan with a steady stream of labor, puppet soldiers, and strategic bases)
3. Open Chongqing, Shashi, Suzhou, and Hangzhou as trading ports. Japan can set up factories in the trading ports of China (economic monopoly! ** Naked economic aggression! The corrupt Qing government! They had no idea how much of an impact such an economic blow would have on China's industrial development! At the same time, the Japanese also took advantage of this opportunity to send agents and intelligence personnel to China to collect military intelligence, draw maps, military deployment maps, and so on…They laid a deep foreshadowing for the defeat of China in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War…)
On the other hand, ever since the Qing government implemented the policy of seclusion in the early 20th century. China, which was already lagging behind, had been left far behind the great powers. Ever since June 28, 1840, when the first Opium War broke out, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. China's history of humiliation for nearly a hundred years seemed to have become inevitable. The invasion of foreign powers did not allow China to quickly break away from feudal shackles like Japan. After all, the Qing Dynasty was a hundred-year-old dynasty. It had long been feudal and ignorant at home, leaving China at the mercy of others...
From the above conclusion, the Japanese's ambition was small, but the corruption of the Chinese at that time was big! As Japan's foreign aggression continued to intensify, it had already gained huge economic benefits. The Japanese imperialists 'ambition to encroach on China and dominate the world was getting bigger and bigger...
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