Chapter 230 So-called Civilization

What's worse is that Zhou Charter can't ignore this brainless power of attorney!

Because this power of attorney is warning Zhou Charter that his every move is under the control of Li Hongzhang!

Zhou Charter handed over the power of attorney to Guo Er pole and said, "Since this power of attorney is from you, please make it clear what Beiyang government has authorized me to talk about with you?"

Baraufu smiled and said, "Well, let's talk openly about Liaodong."

Zhou Charter shook his head: "Sorry, Liaodong is not under my jurisdiction."

Ye Mian Liaoke sneered: "So, whose jurisdiction is Liaodong? Is it under the rule of Dashanyan?

"Mr. Ye Mian Liaoke joked that Dashanyan is an invader! The Qing court had its own arrangements for Liaodong. My jurisdiction is in North Korea.

"Mr. Zhou is worried that North Korea will fall back into the hands of the Japanese." Ye Mian Liaoke smiled and said, "I think Mr. Zhou can dispel this doubt. North Korea belongs to North Koreans! If Zhang Jun returns to Liaodong, I don't think North Korea will fall into the hands of the Japanese, at least not Pyongyang. On the contrary, Pyongyang will become a strong backing for Zhang Jun.

Zhou Charter was shocked.

There is something in Ye Mian and Liao Ke's words!

Zhou Charter remembered the North Korean outside Anzhou, the monk named Kongming, and a woman who looked very similar to Jin Shu.

Is it that Russia already has their spokesperson in North Korea?

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Anzhou, the night is thick.

The north wind mixed with snowflakes roared in the streets and alleys of Anzhou.

Lights are shining on the Guanhai Tower.

In the dark, a small boat approached the beach west of Anzhou, driven by the tide.

Shenwei Guangchen jumped off the beach, pulled his raincoat, lowered the hat above his head, and looked at the Guanhai Tower not far away.

Behind him, eight shadows followed Shenwei Guangchen and jumped onto the beach.

The boat slid out of the beach and disappeared into the reefs in the south.

Nine black shadows trotted all the way across the beach and quietly drilled into a pine forest under the Guanhai building.

Shenwei Guangchen stopped at an old pine tree, and the lights on the sea floor shone hazy in the pine forest.

Shenwei Guangchen turned around and asked, "Lu Wenjun, are you sure that the passage to the Guanhai Tower is open?"

A man with a scar on his face came out from behind Shenwei Guangchen: "I dare not confirm that it is not actually a passage. When the Guanhai Tower was built, the craftsmen repaired the outer wall between the ground floor and the second floor into a wall in order to cut corners. Two months ago, when the Guanhai Tower fell, I was from that floor. Escape from the wall. However, the Later Zhou Charter bombarded Guanhai Tower with artillery. I don't know if the mezzanine can withstand the shelling.

Shenwei Guangchen snorted in his nose. He looked down on Lu Wenjun from his heart, but Lu Wenjun's face was burned by the fire. Now he is completely out of sight, and it is not easy for Shenwei Guangchen to accuse him any more. Moreover, today's actions have to rely on him.

Two months ago, Zhou Charter attacked Anzhou, and Lu Wenjun was the only survivor on the Guanhai Tower.

"Where is the mezzanine exit?" Shenwei Mitsumi asked.

"In the rubble pile on the south side of Guanhai Tower, if the mezzanine still exists, we need to dig up the rubble first."

Shenwei Guangchen nodded, took off the hat on his head, and threw away his raincoat.

Behind him, seven shadows took off their bamboo hats at the same time, revealing the blue and black Japanese military uniforms.

Shenwei Guangchen said in a low voice, "You should understand the purpose of this operation."

Captain Kenichiro Kono stood up and said, "Eradicate the traitors of the great Japanese enemy country!"

On the eve of the Battle of Liaodong, Kenichiro Mukino and Mitsuomi Kamio's proud disciple "Misaki" went to Lushun to spy on the defense of the Qing army. As a result, "Misaki" was captured and killed by the Qing army, and only Kenichiro Mukino came back alive. The death of Misaki led to the division commander Yamatoji's order to slaughter Lushun. Kenichiro Mukino was promoted to captain because he brought back the defense map of Lushun City.

Shenwei Mitsuchen nodded, but shook his head gently: "To be precise, our action is to safeguard the highest national interests of the enemy of Japan! What we eradicate is a person who harms the interests of the country!"

"Isn't a person who harms national interests a traitor?" Kenichiro Mukino is very puzzled.

Shinsei Mitsutomi shook his head: "In the Southwest War, 20,000 people died at the gunpoint of the government army. Are they all traitors to Japan?"

"This..." Kenichiro Xiangno said.

"For the sake of national interests, some people must die! But please respect their personality!"

"Yes!"

Shenwei Mitsuchen pulled out a revolver, which is a Colt .45 revolver imported from the United States. Among the pistol family, the Corte .45 revolver has the best performance, while the performance of the revolver made in Japan is much worse than similar products in Western countries. The action team of Mitsumi Kamio is equipped with a Colt.45 revolver and a Murata-style combo rifle. The Japanese are more confident in their rifles, but they dare not compliment their pistols.

"Let's move!" Shenwei Mitsushin walked out of the pine forest, and the others followed him closely.

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In a narrow room overlooking the sea, Kamui sat in front of the granite window sill, looking at the night outside the window.

Looking out from the window sill, it was a vast night, and he couldn't see anything.

However, he could hear the awe-dden north and the sound of sea waves looming in the north wind.

The window sill faces south, which should be the Bohai Sea. If he takes a small boat on the beach and goes all the way east, a few days later, he can see Tokyo, Japan, which is a prosperous city that never sleeps, or, according to the Japanese, it is a civilized city!

Zuming Kamei once studied in Western Europe and saw European cities that represented the peak of civilization in the 19th century, London, Paris, Florence..., neat and wide streets, high-rise buildings standing on both sides of the streets, street lights and public trams representing civilized society. These scenes remain in his camera.

In the eyes of Kazuaki Kameno, what represents the civilization of a society is not a magnificent building and a powerful army, but a social public utility, which includes urban sewers, street lights, public toilets, hospitals, public transportation systems, libraries, universities, parks...

A civilized society is a society of citizens, a society in which the rights and interests of citizens are fully guaranteed.

According to this view, today's Tokyo is not yet a civilized city.

There are many high-rise buildings in Tokyo, and modern factories in the suburbs of Tokyo. Japan can produce steel, ships, trains, cannons, guns and ammunition. Japan can also maintain a strong army and navy. This army can even challenge Western powers, but this does not prove that Japan has entered a civilized society. , and it can't prove that the Japanese have evolved into civilized human beings!

There seems to be no logical relationship between a strong industrial and civilized society!

In Tokyo, there are also shantytowns and low thatched houses, where there are no public toilets, street lights, and sewers. There are sewage flowing mosquitoes and flies. The people there do not enjoy the progress and prosperity brought by the Meiji Restoration. On the contrary, they seem to be forgotten by civilization.

Throughout Japan, it seems that the lucky person to enjoy the achievements of the Meiji Restoration is just a small crowd in the center of Tokyo. The official statement is that it is the elite of the country, or, in other words, it is a group of vested interests.

The vested interests are actually not a derogatory term. In the West, the vested interests of the industrial revolution are the broad class of society. Unfortunately, in Japan, vested interests are a very small number of countries, which makes the connotation of " vested interests" full of derogatory meaning.

Japan's extremely uneven modernization process is far from the word "civilization".

Even those so-called "elites" do not know what civilization is, let alone the people at the bottom of Japanese society.

They only understood civilization as the rapid westernization of society, the strength of military power, and the crazy expansion of the outside world, and took this as the standard to formulate Japan's national development plan.

In the eyes of those elites, as long as Japan has its own overseas colonies like the Western powers, and then sends Japan's understanding of civilization to those enslaved populations, Japan can become a civilized world!

However, even if this assumption is correct, Japan's understanding of civilization is not correct!

Tsuno got on the ship with the Japanese First Army in Incheon and came to Liaodong.

In Lushun, Azuming witnessed Japan's understanding of civilization with his own eyes - this understanding is actually a ruthless mockery of civilization!

The Japanese army completed a cruel massacre of unarmed civilians. Lushun, a prosperous city known as Little Hong Kong in the East, has become a terrible hell on earth within three days!

It is really unimaginable that the Japanese army that caused this tragedy was born and died for the Meiji Restoration. Those who led the massacre were the Japanese upper elites who thought they had been completely westernized and civilized!

Zumiaki Kameno recorded those terrible shots with a camera, although he could only resist the nausea and hatred from the bottom of his heart and lift the camera.

Every photo is so disgusting! Tosuno had to close his eyes to face the bloody photos.

He knew that he recorded the shame of Japan! These photos will completely tear the cloak of Japan's so-called civilization and show Japan, a naked beast, to the world.

However, he still recorded those cruel pictures with his camera. Because, as a photojournalist, he knows better that he records human scars!

A responsible reporter should record this scar.

However, he knew that Japanese generals and politicians, including the benevolent and famous General Oyamaiwa, would not tolerate these photos.