The letter to Zhang Xueliang was sent by King Kong nearly a month after he arrived in Shanghai.
On May 15th, when he was paid, there were two surprises for King Kong: First, it was written on the outside of his paybag "Mr. CAI Mi"; In addition, instead of the original 120 yuan, there were 180 yuan notes inside. Manager Wu of the factory told "Mr. CAI Mi" to rest assured and work well, and he will get a pay raise in the future.
In Shanghainese, the pronunciation of "CAI Mi" is exactly the same as that of "King Kong". Since I'm not familiar with Manager Wu, it sounds a bit harsh to hear him call me this nickname. But because I'm not familiar with him, I can't explain it to him.
The factory's management used to call him "Mr. Light", and since then they have called him "Mr. Caimi", and gradually King Kong got used to it. And in the Shanghainese at the time, people who were called "King Kong" were called "Jews" or "skin scrapers", and no one thought "Mr. CAI Mi" to mean "King Kong"; Especially when he adopted a group of poor orphans a few days later, no one thought of him as "King Kong".
Although the goal of leaving the factory was still far away, the survival problem of King Kong was solved and he was firmly established in Shanghai.
Ono and Tanaka, fully prepared mentally, were no less shocked by the current situation in Japan than Kondo. Because in two different times and Spaces, the gap between Japan and Japan is just too great! The previous preparations were, after all, a written understanding of the past, but the poverty and backwardness seen now are the reality.
In the eyes of Tanaka and Ono, the poverty and backwardness of Japan in 1929 could only be described as "miserable". Productivity was backward, and most people were struggling for food and clothing. People don't pay attention to hygiene, and most houses in cities like Tokyo are small wooden ones! And rural houses are even more dilapidated!
Especially since the end of the year, it has been greatly affected by the economic crisis in the Western world because of its excessive reliance on Western markets and its close ties to the Western economy. The Great Depression, unemployment, panic, bankruptcy... It swept through Japan like a storm, paralyzing the Japanese economy as well. The economic crisis and shrinking trade have changed the fate of thousands of households all at once.
China, which had little economic connection with the West and adopted a silver standard monetary policy, was relatively less affected by this economic crisis.
But Ono and the others don't have to worry about the economy for the time being. They were well-prepared to set off with ten kilograms of gold (another ten kilograms became the burial objects of Yamamoto and Okamura). So they also began to work towards the mission they had set. The disappearance of Yamamoto and Okamura dealt a heavy blow to their mission, and they had to get everything done, including what was supposed to be done by Yamamoto and Okamura.
Since they were only going back to 1929, not before the originally planned 1928, their first planned goal, to prevent the murder of General Zhang in Northeast China, was no longer possible.
The plan to prevent the murder of Marshal Zhang was not to say that they had any favorable impression of him, but that it turned out that the young marshal Zhang, half a year after the murder of Marshal Zhang in Japan, disregarded all the activities in Japan and strongly opposed, declared a change of flag in Northeast China. If Zhang had been there, he might have been able to get him to declare Northeast independence; if not, at least he wouldn't have declared the unification of China so soon. Stupid Lieutenant Colonel Kawamoto! His intention was to bring Tohoku into Japan's hands quickly, but it turned out to be the opposite.
Now Ono and Tanaka's first goal is to get acquainted with the backbone of the "imperial cause," namely the militarists. They first managed to visit the idol of the militarists: Kita-ichi. They wanted to use him to organize and join the militarist clique "One Night Club".
Kita-ichi was born in 1883 into a dilapidated merchant's family in the town of Sumachi, Niigata Prefecture, on the coast of Japan. At the age of seventeen, he was forced to drop out of school because he failed most of his subjects, and thus became a rogue, though the rogue of the East is also professional and has a nice name, "Ronin". In his twenties, he went to the Great China and made a living by extortion and "support from friends".
China in the midst of chaos is a paradise for robbers and hooligans, especially foreigners. Where else could it be easier to live than the Great China of the past? The common people are timid and fearful, and the government is tough at home and fearful at home. At that time, the government would not interfere in any wrongdoing committed by foreigners in China. But he did something unknown. In 1913, he was sentenced to three years of deportation by the Beiyang government of China.
In 1919, Bei Yi wrote the Outline of the Japanese Reform Act, which advocated militarism, to transform the country into a large military camp. Because the Outline of the bill was appreciated by some people, he was invited to join a right-wing group called the "Yonsei Society", which had only a few people at the time. The Outline of the Bill became the program of the Society and was later circulated among many young officers and right-wing college students.
Gradually, some right-wing groups of young officers and college students began to regard Bei Yi Yi as their spiritual mentor. There were quite a few small right-wing groups in Japan at the time, such as the Baden-Baden group, which was a group of five people in Baden-Baden, Germany, namely Nagata Tetsuyama, Kanamura Ningji, Kokada Toshijiro, Tojo Hideki and Kamatsu Mitsuhiro.
There were many such small groups of more than ten or several dozen people in Japan at the time. For example, there was a small group of about twenty members, including Seijiro Itagaki, Kenji Tsuchihara and Daisaku Kawamoto, called the "Niyokai". There was also the Kogaku-kai, organized by Suzuki Sadakichi of the General Staff Headquarters, which was mainly composed of graduates from the 20th class of the civil academy, including Ishihara Kanji.
After presenting ten gold bars (weighing a total of five hundred grams), Bei Yi Yi received Xiao Ye and Tian Zhong. Or perhaps it could only be said that he accepted their "worship", sat for a few minutes, I don't know if he listened to what they said, and finally snorted a few times before seeing them off.
After gaining some prestige, Bei Yi began to play tricks, saying, "Japan has not only an emperor but also a prophet," and he himself is the prophet, whose thoughts come from divine revelation, and who has the divine power to see through all things and govern the world. In addition, he was unfaithful to his bad habits and extorted money from all sides, and thus his wealth flowed in.
The five hundred grams of gold that Ono Jiro and Tanaka Sengo had at the time was worth about two thousand or so yen, but only worth a meeting and a snort.
One-sided propaganda about historical figures is really harmful. This is how the militarist mentor Kita-ichi is! At least one-twentieth of the precious funds of Tanaka and his team were ruined.
However, by giving gifts and being familiar with the main members of the two-leaf Society and the Wood Sunday Society, and sharing the same bad habits, more than a month later, in May 1929, through Ono's arrangement, the two right-wing groups were united to form the later notorious "One-Night Society", and he himself played a relatively important role in it.
And Tanaka began to prepare for the production of penicilline as they had planned, in order to gain an economic foundation. This was supposed to be done by Okamura, who specializes in biochemistry, but Yamamoto and Okamura never showed up. Since they have come to this time and space, there is no reason for them not to come. Could it be that for the sake of the ten kilograms of gold they brought, they hid themselves, or went to a foreign country and, regardless of the empire, made their own money? That's unlikely, isn't it?
Tanaka has read some information about the production of penicilline. But since I'm not a professional and the CDS I brought are no longer useful, I can only get a rough idea of it now. The strain brought from another time and space also disappeared along with Okamura and the others. Fortunately, Tanaka remembers that the penicillin strain should have been successfully cultivated in a British laboratory by then. Tanaka's attitude towards learning and his memory are really good.
Tokyo's real estate prices are high, so in terms of the conditions for setting up a factory, Nagasaki is the best. So Okamura left Tokyo as planned and rented a house in Nagasaki. After making some preparations, Tanaka took a ship to Britain, where he would try to get penicillin strains by stealing or robbing.
On May 15, 1929, while Tanaka was preparing to go to Britain to get penicillin strains, Kondo had no idea that penicillin was not produced in the world at that time. Although he had read about penicillin, he did not pay much attention to it.
King Kong was only glad that he had received his first paycheck at the chemical plant, after all, it was an unexpected increase.
One hundred and eighty yuan was considered an upper-middle salary in Shanghai at that time. King Kong now has a good idea of the prices and wages in Shanghai. The average worker in a chemical plant earns 40 yuan a month, a skilled master earns between 50 and 70 yuan, and a workshop supervisor or shift supervisor earns around 100 yuan. Textile workers are paid even less, with the average worker earning more than 20 yuan a month! A skilled worker earns 30 or 35 yuan, and a workshop supervisor or shift supervisor earns 50 or 60 yuan.
King Kong doesn't know that he gets 180 yuan a month, not only because of his excellent work performance, but also because of his habit of reading the newspaper every day.
To familiarize himself with the situation in Shanghai and understand the prices there, King Kong often takes a look at the advertisement section. And the innkeeper thought he was looking at the job advertisement, because the job advertisement was also on this page. Fortunately, no one was Posting a marriage-seeking advertisement in the newspaper at that time, otherwise there would have been some other misunderstanding.
And the superior of the chemical plant, the personnel work of the Meiya Consortium, was very meticulous. Not only did he know his job performance, but he also learned that he was looking at recruitment advertisements every day, so he voluntarily raised his salary.
So it's good for young people to read more books and newspapers, as the saying goes, "Reading is beneficial."