Chapter 365
To the lease is not for nothing, Su Chunjun made up his mind to take a bite of meat from the Japanese mouth.
Zhu Yuyan also can not be idle, the Japanese military in this area host, Yamamoto, finally approached her.
The Japanese teachers, Sakai and Kobayashi, were in charge of inviting her to the door.
Zhu Yuyan has always been “pro-Japanese”, but thanks to her immature behavior at school, her teachers are also familiar with her resentment and hostility towards Japan.
However, they all believed that this could be corrected and that she could be made to favor Japan.
The Japanese teachers came to her to make her an honorary alumna of the university, to advocate for Chinese students to enter the now Japanese-dominated university and to study Japanese textbooks, learn about Japanese culture, and be kind to the Japanese.
Back when President Tang was still alive, the Japanese had always held this idea and had sent a class of Japanese students and teachers to the school.
Principal Tang and Prof. Dai and the others were well aware that the Japanese had always taken two routes, one of military pressure and one of civil integration.
The Japanese Chamber of Commerce and the Japanese teachers were the mainstay of the second route.
Mr. Sakai earnestly said, “The children should still go back to school, no matter what the relationship between the two countries is, no matter what the military is going to do to fight, the children should sit in the classroom and absorb the knowledge in their best years, so that they can get a good job later and make more money to support their families, instead of going to the docks to work as a laborer and a prostitute.”
It was fitting that Sakai-sensei should be the one to say this.
Sakai-sensei had come from a good family and had married a good husband, so she was able to study, excel in flower arranging, tea ceremony, and calligraphy, and then sell her skills to get a job on Flower Street after her family’s decline.
Women in this world is difficult, she has been out of their own out of a very exciting road.
Zhu Yuyan also thinks that the children should be allowed to go to class, rather than to mix with the gangs now, not to cabinet high to do hard labor work.
Most of the schools were now closed, only the Japanese and the schools and the church schools were still open, but the students had run away – mostly because their families didn’t have any money and couldn’t afford to send them to school anymore. A significant number of children were also abandoned by their parents.
Fleeing for their lives was sometimes a matter of not being able to take everyone with them, and many women, children, elderly parents, brothers and sisters, and so on, were left behind.
By now the business of the parlors, cabarets and casinos is booming because of this constant supply. Young women and half-grown children can work, only the elderly are not wanted.
Many old people jumped into rivers, hanged themselves, swallowed pills and needles, and killed themselves in various ways just to end their lives and stop suffering.
Among them, the half-grown children became the freshest blood of the gangs.
Whether boys or girls, they would disappear from the streets and reappear, either as thieves and crooks or as gang thugs, doing things like setting fires and carrying goods.
The girls had a much more singular job, just sitting around the house in one of the most fashionable halter tops, even skipping the clothes. Thin into a dry wood girls crowded on the sofa, corner edge, only eyes black and white, through the vitality of life.
Zhu Yuyan was powerless.
She lacked many things, not just money or supplies or a location, but the ability to maintain peace and order.
The Japanese dared to open so many schools here because no one dared to mess with the Japanese now. Gangsters and hooligans dared to break into any home on the street, but would never dare to break into a Japanese school.
Zhu Yuyan agreed without much thought that she could speak for the Japanese schools in the newspaper.
Mr. Sakai and Mr. Kobayashi were delighted.
Mr. Kobayashi said, “I knew it, Yanji is a reliable friend.”
Zhu Yuyan could only fight for more benefits for the students and their parents.
In the end, they agreed that there would be no tuition, books, miscellaneous fees, lodging, or clothing fees in the school, and that they must also take care of the students’ two meals.
That is, not to charge a penny, but also to take care of the students two meals a day.
It doesn’t matter what kind of meal it is, but it must be edible.
Zhu Yuyan: “Nutritional food. It’s the same for boys and girls, the lower grades are the same as the upper grades, there can’t be differential treatment, and the food has to be supervised.”
Sakai-sensei and Kobayashi-sensei both agreed, and also drafted a school regulation on the spot, which included provisions for not charging students money, and for packaged meals.
As for the standard of the meal, Zhu Yuyan also made the requirement that there must be a main meal of rice or bread, there must be two dishes, and there must be a bowl of soup.
She says the standards are not meant to be difficult, but to attract more people to send their children to school.
Zhu Yuyan: “The better the conditions, the more people go.”
Mr. Kobayashi says, “We understand your efforts to protect your own nationals.”
Zhu Yuyan didn’t need to hide anything anymore, she did side with the Chinese from start to finish.
She said, “What I am saying is also the truth, and I am truly thinking of you.”
Mr. Kobayashi: “You are using yangmou. In Chinese books, yangmou is the highest level of strategy. Yanji, you have given me a new understanding of Chinese women.”
Mr. Sakai took the opportunity to say, “Mr. Kobayashi married a Chinese wife.”
Zhu Yuyan laughed dryly, “…… That’s a real congratulations.”
Chinese wives and Japanese wives are both very popular right now.
In fact, when they are said to be wives, they are both concubines in terms of legal etiquette. The correct call should be Chinese concubine and Japanese concubine.
In Japan, the propaganda for China never stops. The saying that sooner or later the land of China will be Japan’s has also taken root in the hearts of every Japanese. Many Japanese – specifically those who cannot survive in Japan.
Japan is now being intensified as a war machine, and everyone is being put on the machine. Of course, there are people who are not happy to fight for the great military cause of Japan, and among them, Japanese businessmen and Japanese women are the most numerous.
When I say Japanese businessmen, I really mean small Japanese businessmen, that is, businessmen who do not own land in Japan. In Japan, the land was in the hands of large landowners, and under the warlord politics, the land was all in the hands of the rich, and the rich would be even richer if they had land.
Japanese women came out because there was a lot of class unrest in Japan, and a lot of middle-class merchants were going bankrupt – mostly because the men in their families had been conscripted into the military, their property had been expropriated, or they had been beaten by the low prices of American machinery and products, and so on.
Much of Japan is family-oriented, with the male being the mainstay of the family income, and when a male is lost, the female either takes the male’s place and continues to work, or she is relegated to the land of fireworks. Middle-aged and elderly women, who are not even accepted in the land of fireworks, can only go to commit suicide.
In this situation, not only was the Japanese government transporting immigrants to China, but the Japanese themselves were also running to China. They were also smuggled over.
Not all the Japanese who were smuggled in could find suitable jobs. True, they are Japanese and seem to be superior in this city. But without money the Japanese are trash. The Japanese army guarded the docks every day to catch the Japanese men who had been smuggled in, and when they were caught, they were dragged directly to the army to be enlisted as long as they were of the right age. The young women were sent to comfort centers.
But the catch is not enough, there are some have a way to have a way, escaped the Japanese army’s search and investigation, successfully walked into the city of Japanese, but also must rely on their own skills to live. Those who have the ability and education to go to work as a buyer, to the Japanese businessmen or Chinese businessmen to run errands, Japanese young women are committed to marrying rich Chinese.
Zhu Yuyan will understand so clearly because someone to Su Chunjun lead the line, there are Japanese women to introduce themselves to the pillow, specially dressed in Chinese cheongsam, speaking a little not too smooth Chinese, to give themselves a Chinese name, a serious said admiring Su Chunjun, want to marry him as a concubine.
The Japanese woman said gently like water, “Becoming your wife will be the honor of my life.”
Zhu Yuyan: “……”
She was sitting on the sofa, and reflexively, she revealed a smile that was brilliant.
Su Chunjun, who was standing in front of the sofa and was exchanging opinions with the Japanese businessman about the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, was stunned for a second before he looked at her, and he also reflexively revealed a smile, and crisply said in Japanese, “This won’t do. Perhaps none of you have heard that I am a member of the family, and when I got married back then, I was the one who lived in the Zhu family’s house. So I can’t take a concubine, I can’t betray my wife, everything I have is hers.”
In Japan, there is also a very long history of redundant son-in-laws, so mentioning it like that, there is no need to over-explain anything.
But the fact that Su Chunjun was a son-in-law of the Zhu family spread quickly, and a tabloid newspaper wrote a story about Su Chunjun’s endurance of insults and humiliation, as if he had witnessed it with his own eyes.
The two couples closed the door, but Zhu Yuyan carefully taught Mr. Su about how to be a good son-in-law.