中国在微笑地等待着。在她的土地边,沿着她的国界,驻扎了以百万计的欧洲战士。她动员了五倍于此的民兵等待入侵。这次看来与上次一样。但中国突然感到困惑。因为这支庞大的队伍并没有开始入侵。她无法理解这一现象。广大的西伯利亚边境一切都归于平静。她的海岸城镇和村庄甚至没有遭到炮轰。在世界历史上,从来没有过如此强大的战争舰队的聚集。世界上所有的船队,百万吨的战舰聚集在她的海岸线上,却什么都没有发生。没有任何尝试。他们想使她离开她的地盘吗?中国笑了。他们以为能够厌倦死她,或饿死她吗?中国又笑了。
世界和中国之间的麻烦,在1976年达到其顶峰。因此,美国自由女神像屹立二百年的庆祝活动被延期。世界上的许多国家的其他计划也出于同样的原因被取消,改变或者推迟了。世界冷不丁醒来,发现了这个七十年来未被察觉的危险,但事态已经不可控制地向着它必然的趋势发展。
在中国的帝国议会充满了日本的使者。在政治家的耳朵边上低声诉说。日本人重建了帝国的政治。他们驱逐了中国的传统学者,并斥之为反动暴力分子,而选派要求进步的革命的官员进入办公室。并在每个乡镇和城市开始发行帝国报纸。当然,日本的编辑按照直接从东京来的政策负责这些报纸的导向。正是这些文字教育了巨大的人口并使他们获得进步。
Following upon the alarm raised by Burchaldter's figures, in 1970 France made a long-threatened stand. French Indo-China had been overrun, filled up, by Chinese immigrants. France called a halt. The Chinese wave flowed on. France assembled a force of a hundred thousand on the boundary between her unfortunate colony and China, and China sent down an army of militia-soldiers a million strong. Behind came the wives and sons and daughters and relatives, with their personal household luggage, in a second army. The French force was brushed aside like a fly. The Chinese militia-soldiers, along with their families, over five millions all told, coolly took possession of French Indo-China and settled down to stay for a few thousand years.
在1976年的夏季和秋季,中国是一个地狱。微生物武器到达了每一个最偏远的藏身地,无处躲避。未掩埋的尸体繁衍着细菌导致传染能力翻倍,最后,每天数百万人死于饥饿。此外,饥饿削弱了受害者的身体,并摧毁他们对瘟疫的天然免疫能力。整个国家陷入了自相残杀,谋杀和疯狂之中。至此,中国灭亡。
但旧的战争模式在这里已经被彻底的笑话和嘲弄,除了巡逻执勤之外它似乎也只值一晒。中国曾经嘲笑战争,于是她得到了战争,但这是超现代的战争,二十世纪的战争,来自战争科学家和实验室,是雅克布斯兰宁道尔的战争。几百吨的和实验室制造的可供投掷的微生物制剂相比,就如玩具一般,后者才是真正的死亡使者,横行在十亿人口的大国上空的毁灭天使。
Having decisively thrashed the great Russian Empire, Japan promptly set about dreaming a colossal dream of empire for herself. Korea she had made into a granary and a colony; treaty privileges and vulpine diplomacy gave her the monopoly of Manchuria. But Japan was not satisfied. She turned her eyes upon China. There lay a vast territory, and in that territory were the hugest deposits in the world of iron and coal - the backbone of industrial civilization. Given natural resources, the other great factor in industry is labour. In that territory was a population of 400,000,000 souls - one quarter of the then total population of the earth. Furthermore, the Chinese were excellent workers, while their fatalistic philosophy (or religion) and their stolid nervous organization constituted them splendid soldiers - if they were properly managed. Needless to say, Japan was prepared to furnish that management.
THE UNPARALLELED INVASION
Such was the unparalleled invasion of China. For that billion of people there was no hope. Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die. They could not escape. As they were flung back from their land frontiers, so were they flung back from the sea. Seventy-five thousand vessels patrolled the coasts. By day their smoking funnels dimmed the sea-rim, and by night their flashing searchlights ploughed the dark and harrowed it for the tiniest escaping junk. The attempts of the immense fleets of junks were pitiful. Not one ever got by the guarding sea-hounds. Modern war- machinery held back the disorganized mass of China, while the plagues did the work.
China's swift and remarkable rise was due, perhaps more than to anything else, to the superlative quality of her labour. The Chinese was the perfect type of industry. He had always been that. For sheer ability to work no worker in the world could compare with him. Work was the breath of his nostrils. It was to him what wandering and fighting in far lands and spiritual adventure had been to other peoples. Liberty, to him, epitomized itself in access to the means of toil. To till the soil and labour interminably was all he asked of life and the powers that be. And the awakening of China had given its vast population not merely free and unlimited access to the means of toil, but access to the highest and most scientific machine-means of toil.

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