Chapter 45 House of Tiger and Wolf

Taiming listened to the persuasion of Sato, whom he met by chance, and visited him in Taipei. When Sato met last time, he proposed to ask Taiming to help him with the magazine editor job he was working on. Sato welcomed Taiming's visit happily.Sato was even more relieved when he knew that Taiming had resigned from the association.So I immediately explained the purpose of publishing the magazine.His intention is to use the legal situation to achieve certain tasks under the control of extreme speech. 'History has come to a period of transition, so conditions must be ripe.Pediatric-like moves are useless, we must be steady and steady, focusing on the essential things.Although it is simple to argue against the current situation, it is self-defeating.Pretending to be in concert with the current situation, and slowly letting readers know the reality, this is the editorial direction that the magazine must hold. When Taiming heard what Sato said, he thought it was a kind of insight. Sato was completely different from the Japanese people Taiming had ever met, so he naturally respected him and felt that he was a person who could work with him. people.

Taimei immediately worked with Sato.Taiming's task was to collect materials according to Sato's editorial policy, so he had to interview intellectuals in Taipei.This is not such a difficult job, but it takes a lot of hard work to get to know some people first, but after getting used to it, Tai Ming felt that it was more meaningful than wasting time doing nothing in the association.The magazine came out one after another, which made Taiming feel a fresh joy. During his work, Sato often talked about his own speculation on the situation of the world war. Taiming admired Sato's thorough analysis and insights.And the battle situation really progressed as Sato predicted.The coalition forces landed in Normandy, and in the Pacific Ocean, after Mackin and Tarawa, came the jade fragments of Saipan.Both the war situation and the political situation were fierce and turbulent.At this time.The superficially optimistic predictions about the outcome of the Pacific War died down before the dire reality.

Taiming couldn't help having an ominous premonition.And that day when he and Sato went to the street, it was a hot day, and the summer sun glared at the asphalt road.As the two walked, the chorus of the Pacific battle song came from behind. It was the formation of a team of young people from the island.Because the two walked slowly, the Huangmin Liancheng team immediately overtook the two. The four-column team was orderly, but all the youths in ragged clothes and walking barefoot looked shabby.Sato looked at the team and said, "Look, those look like defeated soldiers... look at those women..." The women Sato mentioned were those Japanese women who were shopping in costumes on the road, and he said to Mrs. Ming said: "What do you think of the comparison between the two?" 'Although Sato didn't say much, but just these two sentences of his, the two people's feelings are connected with each other.

Sato is a pungent critic, everything is the object of his comments.For example, home fire training also caused him to criticize. According to Sato, it was a manifestation of the hopelessly unscientific Japanese and an ignorant practice produced by spiritualists. In this way, if the well-dressed Japanese women and the ostentatious gentlemen who stand in long queues in front of pastry shops and restaurants, if they strip off their arrogant masks, aren't they the same as the belittled Taiwanese? Abominably shabby. After a while, the two walked to Sakae Town and entered a tea shop. It was quite a big shop, and there were many customers.Sato probably came to this store often. He stood and looked around frequently, apparently to see if there were any acquaintances.Then a person stood up from the corner and waved to Sato.Sato saw it: 'Oh! ’ He responded and walked over with Taiming.The other party also has a companion, both of whom are said to be journalists.Taiming suddenly noticed that both of them were wearing the membership badges of the Literature Feng Guild on their chests.Taiming thought, they are writers, and felt a sense of awe towards them.

After sitting down, the topic immediately shifted to literature. Taiming was somewhat fond of Chinese poetry. Although he was not new to literature, he didn't know much about modern literature, foreign literature, and the trends in the literary world.Therefore, what they said was all new and fresh to him.Seeing Taiming listening to them humbly, one of them explained to Taiming about Maupassant, Balzac, and Russian literature. He was overwhelmed, making him feel as if he had explored an unknown world, and he felt a little excited in his heart. Soon, the four of them walked out of the tea shop together.Sato asked the other two to walk in front, and as he walked, he whispered to Taiming who was walking side by side: "Hu Jun!Seeing how you admire them, there is actually nothing to admire. To put it bluntly, this is just buying and selling the guide reading of "The Complete Works of World Literature". ' Sato slammed it down with his pungent words as usual.Taiming paid tribute to Sato's sharp critical eye and penetrating observation, but at this time, Sato poured cold water on it, somehow Taiming felt disgusted, and felt that it should be enough to stop when he likes to expose people's scars.However, when Taiming followed them to the newspaper office and stayed there for a while, he understood what Sato said.

The situation in the newspaper office may be due to the fact that the deadline is up, and the reporters are all scribbling with pencils in front of the manuscript paper. Anyone who walks into the editorial room does not pay attention, and only concentrates on their own work.That surname Ding and another reporter led Taiming and Sato through the center of the room, to a corner of the editorial room, and showed them the framed slogans hanging on the wall.These were all produced according to the instructions of the Ministry of Intelligence, and the slogans were full of fighting spirit. Reporter Ding showed them one by one, and when he saw his own work, he asked: "How is it?"How about this slogan...' He only missed that he didn't praise it, so he looked at the reaction expressions on the faces of Sato and Taiming.Towards Ding's attitude, Taiming suddenly felt that he was vulgar and not like a scholar of literature, so the expression on Taiming's face became stiff. At the same time, he felt that even the literary talk he gave in the teahouse just now was a bit superficial. It was too vulgar, and only then did he think of what Sato criticized.Thinking this way, Taiming realized that even those propaganda texts were just lip-service topics, so Taiming felt even more disgusted.It is a tongue-twister who avoids the sacrifices to be practiced and only deceives everyone with the pen.He felt that this kind of brash apprentice would stand out.And that's just a lip service, but it misleads countless innocent young people.Thinking of this, even the atmosphere in the newspaper office was unbearable.

After a while, Taiming and Sato walked out of the newspaper office. Sato said, "They are all bad guys!" ' Sato spit fast. 'Hu Jun!Didn't you admire them a lot in the teahouse just now?If these fellows had a literary spirit, writers would weep bitterly.Today's writers can't have a conscience, and people with a conscience can't write.Writers during the Russo-Japanese War still had some conscience, which is why they produced such excellent works as "One Soldier".A dim-eyed fellow like the present writer is terribly blind to reality.So they have been willing to be the minions of the military. Sato paused at this point, then suddenly remembered and said: "Just now the surname Ding said: If you are engaged in literature, you will not succeed if you don't do it. They obviously regard literature as a commodity. But literature is not personal success or not. It is a question of whether people can make more contributions to mankind." Hu Jun! There are no good people in the newspaper office. Recently, the issue of the treatment of Taiwanese has been frequently raised in newspapers, but from the perspective of those who know the content, it will I am surprised that they actually have the face to write that kind of argument. Under this rule, they who come from Japan are all people without conscience. It is said that a reporter of the lowest rank has a basic salary of 195 yuan, plus an additional salary of 50 yuan. Cheng, the chief of the editorial bureau has a basic salary of 1,000 yuan and an additional salary of 500 yuan. However, the director with the highest position in Taiwan can only receive more than 140 yuan. But they declared in the newspaper: "Improve the Taiwanese Treatment, "Hu Jun, are they trying to impress the hearts of the people in the world?" Sato said with his first-class sarcasm, but Taiming was not as disgusted with his words at this time as he was just now, and he felt that those all It is a work that caters to the current situation and has no meaning. If it is noticed by the critics of later generations, those literati of this era who have lost their souls and lost their true literary spirit will undoubtedly be criticized to pieces. Therefore, he vowed to himself in his heart : It's better to do nothing naturally, and use nothing to deal with it.

After the fall of Saipan, it immediately called for the fortification of the entire island of Taiwan.All the 6.7 million islanders were mobilized, and even the sixty-year-old Taiwanese were mobilized for the construction of the fortress. Tai Ming also received a mobilization order to attend the 'Congress of Diligence and Dedication to the Country'.Those who received the mobilization order gathered in the auditorium of the guild hall.Due to special duties, those who are unable to participate in the dedication team are seated on the second floor.Taiming was waiting on the second floor with the certificate of Sato's discretion.At the beginning of the meeting, a national ceremony was held as usual, and the representative of the organizer gave a speech, followed by the military and political chief explaining its purpose, and the main personnel of the Huangminfeng Guild made a loud speech.On the Taiwanese side, the royal gentlemen came to the stage in shifts to call on the people to sacrifice their lives to protect the righteousness of the country and to serve the sincerity of the country with their lives. Their speeches all received thunderous applause.

After the meeting, thousands of citizens were divided into teams and followed the team leader to engage in construction work.In the end, about a thousand people remained upstairs.Each of these people holds a certificate, or is disabled or sick.Those with certificates were almost all Taiwanese gentlemen, and Taiming was among them waiting for inspection by the authorities. After a while, five or six staff members from the municipal office came up to the second floor. They were in charge of arranging the mobilization of the people, and one of them stood in the middle and began to direct. The insignia of the soldier in the village on the chest of the commander is particularly eye-catching.For some reason, he was murderous from the beginning, explaining the sequence of inspections in a loud, angry voice.Everyone listened in silence.After the previous words were finished, the commander said even louder: "Everyone goes out in order. From the first row, those on the left go to the left, and those on the right go out to the right, and stand by in front of the management personnel." ’ He ordered like this, but he did not specify whether it was from the first row in front, or the first row in tandem, so there were two kinds of actions; People wanted to leave too. The commander saw it, walked over immediately, and slapped seven or eight people in a row, saying that they violated the order. One of the people who was beaten bravely protested: "Act according to the order." The commander did not listen. After he finished speaking, he shouted angrily: "Red Deer Yelang (bastard)!" At the same time, the defender's face was slapped.

It was quiet and no one made a sound, but all those present were ignited with raging anger against the cruelty of the commander. From that silence, one could feel the fiery and wordless resistance. It took two hours for Taiming to finally leave the guild hall, perhaps because he was too excited and dizzy, and everyone who came out with him looked pale. After half a month, Taiming received another mobilization order to work hard to protect the country.This time it is to mobilize office workers to serve a day of labor on Sunday, and the Japanese are no exception.It was Sunday, and we gathered at 5 o'clock in the morning, and the service teams set off in formation. Taiming also took the gardening shovel to participate.

These teams are as listless as sheep being led to the slaughterhouse, and before they have walked two kilometers, these people are already tired, and the team is scattered and irregular, and they are overtaken by the peasant squadron coming from behind. The farmers are energetic and have complete tools for labor services. Overtaking the advancing peasants, they looked back at Taemin and his team and said to each other, "It's too harsh to mobilize even such pale-faced people." 'Shortly the team arrived at the ╳╳ public land, and there was already a shift to start working.The voluntary service team from the countryside worked hard to dig and pick the soil.However, people from the city use their hands to take clay blocks because they don’t have all the tools, and everyone passes them on from hand to hand. Taiming's class is almost all the salaried living class.The squad leader came and divided them into two groups: the stretcher carrying group and the digging group.Taiming was assigned to the moving group. His partner was a young and energetic Taiwanese official. He was very active in labor and service, as if he was moving, so Taiming couldn't keep pace with him, and the other party finally got impatient and wanted to slow down. Waiting to cooperate with Taiming, he reported Taiming to the monitor for being lazy, and the monitor immediately came over to question Taiming. Taiming concealed it instantly and said, "It's true that my stomach has been unwell since last night and there's nothing I can do about it. ''yes?If you are sick, there is nothing you can do. The squad leader is a reasonable person: "Since you are sick, go to rest!" ’ He relieved Taiming from his labor.Taiming sat under the tree and watched everyone working: "This is not cowardice, but also a kind of passive resistance." ' Taiming thought so.At this time, two Japanese passed in front of Taiming, but they didn't notice Taiming under the tree, and said loudly: "The donkeys (referring to the Taiwanese) will do the work, and they are really willing to do it." ''Yes, like a cow. ' Taiming couldn't help blushing when he heard their conversation. The next day, Sato saw Taiming, and said mockingly: "How is the work of building the airport with hoes? Is there any progress?" ’ Then he asked Taiming again: ‘What do you think about the fortification of Taiwan and the landing of US troops? ''The Japanese army wants to fight in Taiwan, right?In this way, Taiwan's materials and manpower can be used.When the Wushe incident happened in the past.Its appeasement also drives people from the surrounding Fanshe to do it.Now the mainland has also supported Wang Jingwei, adopting the policy of fighting barbarians with barbarians.Moreover, Taiwan has excellent conditions as a fortress.But the United States will not make Taiwan a problem, because Taiwan has no influence on the overall situation.Fortification of Taiwan, I think the ending is not beneficial to Japan, but quite beneficial to Taiwanese. ' Taiming told the truth what he usually thought.Sato said: 'From your point of view, this is bad intentions playing the role of good intentions. Sato said with a smile, and from Sato's words, it was obvious that he also agreed with Taiming's opinion.Then he leaned on the easy chair and looked at the ceiling as if thinking about something. 'Today we will go to the wolf's stronghold! Said Sato, threw away the cigarette butt vigorously, and stood up abruptly.Taiming thought that the base of the wolf mentioned by Sato was obviously referring to the headquarters of the Imperial Court, so he went with him without further questioning.However, unexpectedly, the destination is a university of the highest institution.He thought: 'Why is this the base of wolves? 'But when he finished his business and left, Taiming finally understood what Sato said. Taiming remembered that in the newspaper four or five days ago, there was a paper on Japanese language education written by the president of this university and a certain professor, thinking that in order to completely imperialize the people of Taiwan, what must be done?Killing the Taiwanese language is the way to go. This is a violent argument that scholars should not have.It can be seen that the royal scholars' flattery towards the authorities' policies was fully revealed.Thinking of this, Taiming felt that this was the base of wolves as Sato said.Recently, too many government officials are from this university, and the consultants of the Huangminfeng Guild are also served by professors here.It is this university that rationalizes colonial extraction, its spiritual armament.The professors here are not loyal to academics and truth, but loyal to policy. This only needs to be considered unreasonable, and there is no one in the whole island of Taiwan. It can be seen that the professor has objections.The spirit of learning here is dead, and only serving as a policy pawn is the supreme proposition.It really hangs the signboard of the Palace of Learning and plays the role of a spiritual tiger and wolf. In October, there will be big air raids. However, the targets of the air strikes are all military installations, and ordinary citizens are not in great danger.However, in response to the air strike on Taiwan, the US military landed on Leyte Island.Launch a fierce Jedi counterattack.At this time, the Japanese seemed a little dying.The Governor's Mansion, a symbol of imperialism, also seems to be dressed in mourning, looking a little desolate. The development of the war situation was unfavorable day by day. On that day, Sato suddenly said: "The German army is just resisting like animals, meaningless sacrifices."We are about to see a major shift in history. ’ Sato criticized the situation, and then said frankly: ‘Actually, I want to go back to Japan. 'What he meant was that they should return to Japan now to prepare for the new situation in the future.In terms of what he meant by the new state of affairs, Taiming had a certain understanding from his usual words and deeds.Sato wanted to go back to Japan, Taiming felt lonely, but knowing that Sato was determined, there was no way to keep him.For his sake, let him get more meaningful activities and opportunities, and now we should celebrate his great journey.Moreover, the magazine Sato runs has basically achieved its purpose, so there is no reason to keep him. It was finally time to say goodbye.Taiming made a farewell farewell for Sato, the two drank a lot of wine and talked, Sato held Taiming's hand and said: "Hu Jun!I like an honest person like you, and I will never forget you in my life.But you are too poetic, you are too innocent, and you are too clumsy to face reality.Be very careful about this in the future.For a theory without practice is an empty theory. Sato advised Taiming this sincerely.