Chapter 4 First round

In January of the ninth year of Taisho (1920).Shanghai Pier at night.Sounds specific to the docks (motorboat whistles, engines and winches loading cargo).Bei Yihui and Tan Renfeng saw him off. Bei: Although there are rumors in the society that the murderer of my close friend, the revolutionary Song Jiaoren, was Yuan Shikai, but I am convinced that the real criminal is Sun Wen... this black hand of the Guangdong faction and the South China faction! Tan: You're voicing your big talk again...Say it, talk it, you won't hear it again after breaking up. Bei: He is the same age as me.He is an international student at Waseda University, and I am an auditor at Waseda University. It can be said that we have a friendship with each other.After he heard the news of the uprising of the motherland, he hurried back to the motherland.According to the agreement with him on the night he returned to China, I arrived in Shanghai ten months later; by then Wuhan had been completely under the control of the revolutionary army.

Tan: At that time, you asked me to be the president of the revolution, because I declined, and you said that I had the old morality of abdication, and you were still angry. Bei: On the night when the glass windows of the Dudu Mansion in Wuchang vibrated under the hail of bullets, Lao Song and I were lying together.He said: "Since Lao Tan is already here... I plan to lead the new army in Nanjing to seize the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, so as to control the world..." Tan: (attracted) Well, well, Lao Song's voice and smile come to mind again. North: The New Army is the garrison in Wuhan.The sixth battalion of the infantry had cavalry, and a company of engineering and artillery. Because they were not paid, they rioted.The commander is a young officer.The new army in Nanjing also rose up.As a result, this revolutionary army failed.However, I thought that the Qing Dynasty, which lasted for three hundred years, would be in danger and the revolution would be successful because the awakened people and peasants from all over China flocked up from now on...

Tan: The traitor in Beijing is the traitor Yuan Shikai who sold his soul to British imperialism. (Laughs) At that time, you were absolutely resentful of the old man's repeated mistakes and his stupidity. Bei: ...No, the most stupid ones are the Japanese government, or the Japanese adventurers wandering in China, or God is playing tricks... In order to make Japan understand China's republican regime, Song Jiaoren went to the Japanese plenipotentiary Identity went to Japan.His progress was hampered by the short-sightedness of Japanese adventurers who had delusions of Japanese speculation and privilege; Suicide in Japan.The result was to get rid of Lao Song and assassinate him at the Shanghai railway station.I am sure that the one who killed Lao Song was definitely not the Yuan Shikai regime with whom he had a bad relationship, but the assassins sent by Sun Wen who opposed Lao Song.

Tan: ...Let's not forget the last words he left behind while clutching the bleeding wound: "The reunification of the North and the South is the ambition of the rest of my life!" Bei: "My friends, don't use small things to harm the country... Friends, don't use small things to harm the country..." I was forced to leave China.Yes, I was looking at the pier in the same dejected way as I am today.That was seven years ago. Tan followed Bei's gaze, overlooking the sea. Bei: When I came from Japan, I was always high-spirited, but when I returned, I was like a bereaved dog.

Tan: It's different this time, isn't it?A few days ago, Shuming Okawa came to Shanghai specially to welcome you back to Japan.Those people in the Survival Society are indeed looking forward to your return to China. Bei: So what?What depresses me is the anti-Japanese storm that is now spreading to the whole of China.I went on a hunger strike for forty days on the second floor of Changtian Hospital, skinny and sweaty, drafting the "Outline of the Japanese Reconstruction Act"... At that time, there was a lot of shouting outside the window every day: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" Those who commanded angrily in front were all comrades who have shared weal and woe for ten years.

Tan: You have to leave China while listening to the anti-Japanese voices behind your back. Your mood is understandable.However, Japan is your home country after all.From now on, your mission will be to lead the revolution in your motherland, Japan—the revolution since the Meiji Restoration. Jingzi took Yingsheng (xu seven years old) and played with Nagata. Tan: (Picking up grandson Yingsheng) Yingsheng... grow up quickly!You will be a bridge between China and Japan... (to Nagata) Even my grandson is a child of a strange fate... He was born in Japan, where his father died, and lost his life when he was born. Mother.The participating army aided by Japan shot his father dead again.Today, this child is going to Japan again as your adopted son.

Bei: This child's compatriots, the Chinese people, now hate Japan and keep shouting to resist Japan like a raging wave.Contradictions, really big contradictions. Nagata: Anyone who hopes for cooperation between Japan and China will inevitably suffer from this contradiction.As an advanced oriental country that completed the Meiji Restoration, Japan should have been respected by the leadership of New China.Unexpectedly, the military and the government colluded with each other. During the European war, when the great powers had no time to look after them, they degenerated into robbers who took advantage of the fire!For the interests of Zhimada in the Shandong Peninsula, "21" was imposed on others; and a large amount of weapons and military expenditures were handed over to the reactionary warlord Duan Qirui to help him massacre Chinese revolutionary comrades.All this is caused by the blind policy of short-sighted Japan...

Bei: I have learned the success and failure of the Chinese revolution, and I am going back to Japan. Nagata: In the face of the roar of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism", the Japanese people can only keep their mouths shut.As you said in that book, you confuse the national system with the country, and the emperor with the country.Recently, according to the words in your article, those mountain monks who superstitiously believe in the emperor's idol have become more and more rampant. Bei: Are you talking about "National Constitution and Pure Socialism"? ...it was my young twenty-three-year-old book, written arrogantly, it was ill-fated, it was banned...

Nagata: No, no, at that time you were influenced by Yano Ryukei (Japanese bourgeois political commentator and novelist, advocating the theory of civil rights), Katayama Qian, Fukuda Tokuzo (Japanese bourgeois economist, author of "Japanese Economic History" , "Social Policy and Class Struggle", etc.), Kawagami Hajime and others gave a very high evaluation!Kita Ikki, Mr. Kita Kazuki (original name of Kita Ikki), especially as a Japanese, you were born a little too early... Bei: Even though he is thirty-eight years old, he will be 40 years old in two years, so maybe he is still young!

Nagata: (laughs) Of course, otherwise, I would never have gone on a hunger strike so recklessly and engaged in writing... Nevertheless, in order to prevent the masterpiece "Outline of the Japanese Reconstruction Act" from bringing you innocent disasters in Japan, every page of the original manuscript I've read them all; about the discourse on the Emperor's system, I've asked all kinds of questions tirelessly, which made you vomit your blood, and it's all out of my heart. Kita: Terujiro will always remember that in his heart. Gongs. Jingzi: Ah, the boat is about to sail...Grandpa Tan wants to say goodbye to you!

Old man Tan put Yingsheng down. Shizuko: Say goodbye to Grandpa, Yingsheng! Tan: Yingsheng is all up to you! Shizuko: Please don't miss it.Grandpa should also take care of his health, may the old man live a long life! Tan: My old age seems to be over. Nagata: I also plan to go back to Tokyo soon.Jingzi, Lao Bei's temperament is so unrestrained, you must have worked hard!When he is in season, he is a remarkable figure.Please take care! Jingzi: I have been cared for for a long time, which is better than a relative... Please pay my respects to Madam! Bei, Shizuko, and Yingsheng boarded the gangway.Soon there was the sound of an engine.The sailing whistle blew.The boat moves.The two waved towards the shore. Shizuko: Shanghai——is getting farther and farther away. Bei: Shanghai - when and what month will I visit you again! (Sentimental and slightly arrogant) Jingzi: Yingsheng, take a good look.This is your country - we are saying goodbye to your country. Bei: (holding Yingsheng up) Yingsheng!The glorious child born in the first Chinese revolution, the unfortunate child, Yingsheng! ... static field.The ship leaves the port. Shizuko: The wind is so cold, let's go into the cabin! Jingzi Baoyingsheng enters the cabin.Bei stood alone on the deck.On the moonlit sea, the siren blared. North (slowly monologues) the surging Yangtze River flows thousands of miles into the turbid sea... the sound of white gulls stops, and everything is as quiet as death... leaning over the fence and watching, the clouds are eternally sad, and you raise your head to the sky, and the sky is full of sadness... a long time Reminiscing, reappearing and passing away. Except for Bei's voice, everything was silent. Bei: Ah!Where is the country that can contain my boiling passion... I am wandering, I will return to the east... I will return to the east, the monarchy of a drop in the East Sea!