On this day, Li Mu came to Singapore to discuss investing in and building a factory in Australia. There is really a shortage of meat in the country. Many people do not even know the taste of meat for several months. It is necessary to increase the domestic supply of meat.
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The animal husbandry industry in Australia is extremely developed. Not only does it have a large amount of beef and mutton, but also because of the proliferation of rabbits and the destruction of pastures, local organized rabbit hunting is often carried out. As a result, there is no place to process a large amount of rabbit meat. The local people do not like to eat it and throw it away casually.
, it will also pollute the environment and breed a large number of mosquitoes and flies.
Sometimes, the local area even pays to hire some companies to deal with these rabbits.
In view of this, Li Mu decided to invest in a number of meat factories here to produce canned meat and bacon with extremely long shelf life and transport them back to China.
As for the 21st century, according to research, eating too much bacon and bacon is not good and can easily lead to cancer and weight gain. How can we still pay attention to this in this era?
Gaining weight? Everyone is eager to eat something oily and watery, and their stomachs are full of butterflies.
Even more, let alone meat, there are some famine-prone places these days, and even the bark of the trees is almost eaten away. Who cares about this. In this troubled world, not dying of hunger is a kind of luck.
After personally experiencing this era, especially after witnessing some things with my own eyes, some filters about the Republic of China have been completely shattered. The life plight of the people at the bottom today is so tragic that people in the 21st century cannot imagine it.
Li Mu remembered that before coming to this world, he collected a lot of information about the Anti-Japanese War period and had many doubts that he could not answer. After coming to this era, some of the doubts were gradually clarified.
For example, a very sensitive question, where have all the young men recruited for the Anti-Japanese War gone?
Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Guofu has recruited 1 million to 1.9 million people every year. Even in the first nine months of 1945, 810,000 people were recruited, and a total of 16,728,659 people were mobilized in eight years.
Unprecedented in history, it can also be ranked among the top three countries along with the Soviet Union and the United States among the major participating countries in World War II.
But the strange thing is that when the Soviet Union and the United States won World War II, the number of troops in the Soviet Union and the United States swelled from hundreds of thousands to more than one million before entering the war to more than 10 million.
At the time of the July 7th Incident, the total number of troops was 2.8 million, and an average of more than 1.5 million men were recruited every year. By 1945, the total military strength was only over 5 million. Where have the more than 10 million men gone?
People may say that they sacrificed their lives. It was widely spread in later generations that Guofu sacrificed 3.2 million troops.
In fact, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Guofu compiled the casualties of the Army since the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War.
Among them, 1,759,715 were killed, 1,319,358 were wounded, and 116,593 were missing. The total number of killed, missing, and wounded was 3,195,666.
Later, after the casualties of the navy and air force were added, Guofu adjusted the figures to 1,776,678 killed, 1,301,357 wounded, and 77,108 disabled due to injuries were listed separately. The number of missing was still 116,593.
In 1946, as the Allies were preparing to claim compensation against Japan, it was necessary to collect figures on pension expenditures in various countries. The Guofu further verified the losses during the Anti-Japanese War, and finally determined the number of military casualties during the Anti-Japanese War to 3.4 million 7,931. This number was also confirmed by the Guofu
The "General List of Anti-Japanese War Losses" compiled can be regarded as the official internal conclusion.
So, there are a total of more than 16 million strong men, the number of strong men who were absorbed and supplemented by the frontline army, and the strong men who joined the army, the total number is less than 5 million.
Where are the more than 11 million strong men left?
It is also said that there are five million people working as traffic servants, so there are still more than six million people!
Take Sichuan as an example. It is said that three million warriors came out of Sichuan to fight the war. In fact, the army was only a few hundred thousand, and most of them were young men.
Sichuan is also the place that produces the most young men, with 2.578 million young men. Henan Province ranks second, with 1.89 million young men, and Hunan ranks third, with 1.57 million young men...
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, how many of these strong men actually came back alive? Is it half?
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, even He Yingqin of Guofu was very confused about this and sent people to conduct statistics. According to He's final statistics in 1946, the "loss" of recruiting young men was as high as 14,050,521. Similarly, this number was also confirmed by He Yingqin of Guofu.
It was accepted by the "Academia Sinica-Social Research Department" and included as an official record in the "Population Casualties" subject of the "General List of Anti-Japanese War Losses".
So, where have all these strong men gone?
In 1940, Professor He Jihong, a well-known legal expert, participated in the "Discipline Inspection Team" of Guofu and conducted an investigation into the counties of Henan Province belonging to the First and Fifth War Zones. He revealed that Yan Guo stripped skin of men during the recruitment process.
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According to the 40-year regulations of Guofu, a strong man was recruited, and a collection fee of 2 yuan was allocated to provide the young man with food along the way. Although it was pitiful, according to the prices at that time, it was still possible to barely avoid starving to death.
However, when it falls into the hands of the chiefs and village wise men, it will not be that simple. In the division-administered area and the regiment-administered area, 1 yuan and 4 cents are usually withheld first, and only 6 cents are given to the county magistrate; even if the county magistrate does not receive a penny.
For example, the joint security chief of each township generally deducts 1.5 cents, and the chief security officer generally deducts 1 cent.
The elders eat meat, and the shrimps also have to drink soup. When the boss gets it, he has to deduct 5 cents, euphemistically called "office expenses." In this way, the food expenses have changed from 2 yuan to 3 yuan.
Mao. They had to buy both staple food and fuel, so the young men could only get two meals a day of sweet potato and millet porridge, which was almost as thin as water.
In addition, the production of cotton-padded clothes for young men is also a good way to make a fortune. You tie a few feet of cloth, and I pull a few kilograms of cotton. The cotton-padded clothes that are finally issued are all short and thin. The escorting officers also use these young men to transport private goods.
For example, the commanders of two supplementary regiments in the area under the control of the Xulu Division took advantage of the opportunity to fight in Yunnan and smuggled 20,000 kilograms of Sichuan salt, all of which was carried on the shoulders of strong men.
What's even more frightening is that many officers are very violent. In 1941, Qiu Kaiji, the captain of the principal's bodyguard, went to Sichuan to serve as the commander of the "Jianping Division Area". After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in 1946, the people of Jiange County collectively submitted a letter to sue him for his appointment.
As many as 4,000 young men were killed inside.
Another example is Gansu. From 37 to 41, a total of more than 200,000 strong men were conscripted. Among them, less than one in a hundred served on the battlefield, and those who died due to cold and starvation accounted for almost 30%, and those who escaped accounted for about 10%.
In October 1941, the 4th Regiment of the 26th Replenishment Division of the 8th War Zone recruited more than 2,000 men from Qin'an and Tianshui. After arriving in Dingxi, more than 200 kilometers away, more than 1,300 men died of cold, starvation and disease.
As for treating strong men, it's a joke. It's just a consumable. If you starve to death, you won't care. They will still treat you. Whoever gets sick will be supported. If you die of illness, you will just die in obscurity. No one will remember you.
In this day and age, becoming a young man is something that all young people are excited about. Running away from a young man and hiring a young man has become the norm.
From this, another more cruel thing happened, the sale of young men.
Guofu is very ruthless in arresting strong men, especially in the directly ruled areas. As the territory becomes less and less, there are many places where one will be drawn from every two men, or even two from every three men. That is, two of three adult men will be arrested.
In order to reduce the number of young men and avoid serving as soldiers, there are even tragedies of brothers killing each other.
What should those whose families have some money or who are in the middle class and don't want to be a young man? Just spend money to buy a young man and do it for themselves. For this reason, even if the family's wealth is even small, they will lose everything.
As a result, a huge market for young men was created.
At that time, not to mention all the troops in Guofu, a large number of them participated in the trade of young men.
Except for a few of the senior officers who escaped that year, most of them were very rich and even transformed into successful businessmen.
Do they all have business talents? Where does the capital come from?
Many people think that the Republic of China is romantic. If it really comes over, you can say that you are rich and powerful. That is really romantic.
If you are at the bottom, no one will treat you as a human being. At best, you will be treated as a consumable. You will starve to death or die of illness at any time.