Spy War: I am the Living King of Hell

Not long after, Yang Xuewu went to the darkroom to develop the photos and took them outside to check.

The more he read the content, the deeper Yang Xuewu's brows furrowed.

According to the contents of the documents, the origins of Japan's "Pen Army" can be traced back to the Meiji Restoration.

Japan has long had the intention to invade China, and its suggestions and strategies for invasion are inextricably linked to the "pen army". In the process of forming its "continental policy", the "pen army" played a very bad role.

Among them, a group of writers during the Meiji Restoration period in Japan spared no effort to promote the "theory of China's national destruction", "theory of Japanese national superiority", "Asianism", "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" and so on among the Japanese people, becoming the main force of the earliest group of "pen troops".

This document introduces a person in detail. His name is Fukui Yukichi. Fukui Yukichi was a Japanese Enlightenment thinker and writer, and one of the first Japanese to pay attention to China's issues.

Fu Yi Yukichi's "contribution" to the formation of Japan's "national policy" of invading China was that he was the first to regard China as a semi-civilized country on an equal footing with Japan from a "civilized" country.

When seeing this, Yang Xuewu really wanted to kill this Fu Yi Yuji with one knife. Japan, a mere pirate country, a barbaric country, actually dared to offend the great China.

What is even more infuriating is that later on, Fukui Yukichi simply portrayed Japan as the embodiment of "civilization", while China was described as "barbaric".

This reversal of positions marked the beginning of the idea of ​​invading China in the Japanese intellectual circles and pushed Japan step by step onto the path of aggression and expansion.

Fu Yi Yuji once said something that was included in this document: "I am a Japanese, and one day I will conquer India and China like the British."

After Fukui Yukichi started, more and more Japanese writers emerged.

For example, Okazawa Tenshin, who is recorded in the book, advocated that Asian "integration" was the "Oriental ideal" and Japan's "great privilege". His theoretical propositions were later used by the Japanese militarist authorities and became the theoretical basis for Japan to establish the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".

For example, Kodera Kenkichi believed that China could not save itself and could only be corrected by the so-called "civilized countries" in Asia. As the "leader of the East", Japan naturally had to undertake the tasks of "support" and "transformation".

Before the invasion of China, the "Pen Army" carried out ideological education on the Japanese people and inspired their fighting spirit, which is commonly known as "brainwashing."

Under the "brainwashing" of the "pen army", the Japanese generally do not regard the Chinese as human beings. "The Chinese are inferior creatures and do not deserve any praise." This was the argument of the Japanese during the war of aggression against China.

This kind of argument is prevalent in all walks of life in Japan. Over time, the Japanese no longer have any psychological barriers to invading China, and they no longer have any psychological burden for the heinous crimes they committed in China.

When Yang Xuewu saw this, he realized how terrible this "pen army" was. It can be said that it was the ideological guidance of the "pen army" that led to the emergence of Japanese militarism, and it was the promotion of the "pen army" that led to Japan's national policy of "invading China". In this process, the "pen army" played a very important role. Honey to others is poison to me. The "pen army" may be very important to the Japanese, but in Yang Xuewu's view, the Japanese "pen army" is a cancer. If the Japanese "pen army" is allowed to remain, the consequences will become more and more terrible.

Yang Xuewu also had a guess in his mind that those so-called "experts" who later advocated Japan every day in the country might be the descendants of the Japanese "pen army".

After lighting a cigarette and calming himself down, Yang Xuewu continued reading.

The Japanese knew very well that if they wanted to gain a foothold in China, they needed to brainwash the Chinese in exchange for their support, and the best way was to raise a group of traitors who were loyal to Japan. To this end, the Japanese, in addition to relying on material bribery, used cultural invasion to brainwash the Chinese on a large scale.

When seeing this, Yang Xuewu thought of Wang Tianhai. It was obvious that the Japanese brainwashing was aimed at people like Wang Tianhai who were relatively soft-hearted. But sadly, there were too many people like Wang Tianhai who were relatively soft-hearted.

After the September 1931th Incident in , Japan established the puppet Manchukuo regime in Northeast China. In order to strengthen its rule in Northeast China, the "Pen Army" proposed to control China's cultural institutions, such as libraries, museums, and cinemas, which must be under Japanese control.

In order to convey Japanese ideas and achieve the goal of cultural colonial aggression, the "Pen Army" proposed to make a movie for propaganda, and this proposal was quickly approved.

Later, Japanese actress Yamaguchi Yoshiko starred in the movie "Journey to the East", which tells the story of two ignorant Chinese farmers who went to visit a friend and made a fool of themselves on the journey. Their Chinese friend Lao Wang was vain, selfish, and a boaster and liar.

The Japanese, on the contrary, are civilized and polite. Japan is different from China. This country is rich, civilized, advanced and has a bright future.

The purpose of the "Pen Army" in making this movie is obvious. They want to use this movie to promote the idea that Japan is an advanced, excellent, and well-educated country, while China is an ignorant, arrogant, and vain country.

The ultimate goal of these Japanese propaganda methods is only one, which is to suppress and eliminate the Chinese people's national pride, destroy the Chinese people's national consciousness, and make the Chinese people slaves of the Japanese.

After the July 7th Lugou Bridge Incident, in order to cooperate with the Japanese army's offensive on the battlefield, Japan implemented a "general mobilization of the cultural circles" across the country. The "Pen Corps" was formally established to specialize in propaganda and reporting on the war. Shortly after the establishment of the "Pen Corps", it wrote a number of works that were in line with its colonial intentions.

The contents of these works can be roughly divided into three aspects: praising the bravery and tenacity of Japanese soldiers; vilifying the Chinese people; and covering up the brutality of the war.

The "Pen Army" never tires of glorifying the war. They write about killing prisoners, fierce fighting, military exploits, "goodwill" and "propaganda". They actively advocate war and glorify their war of aggression. For example, the Japanese army pretended to give candies to Chinese children to show their goodwill. These photos were taken by the "Pen Army" specifically for propaganda.

On the other hand, the works of the "Pen Troops" also praised the bravery of the Japanese army and vilified the image of China. In their works, they said: "The Chinese army looted rice, money, clothes, girls, and everything everywhere, while the Japanese army took nothing, which was very good.

This kind of reversal of right and wrong, fabrication of stories, trying to confuse people through literature and cover up the content of aggression against China, made Yang Xuewu so angry that he almost vomited blood. Now he really wanted to kill a group of Japanese devils to vent his anger. (End of this chapter)