It is Kokang and Changchun

　Eve extended her hand, signaling Xiang not to worry, saying, "Don't worry, the cause of progress is bound to succeed. If Hang Zhan and the others go crazy, they'll be in big trouble sooner or later."

　"It's true that the reactionaries will eventually meet their end, but what I'm worried about is the present and the near future. We can't just sit back and let them sabotage the revolution, whether ongoing or present, just because evil will ultimately prevail over good."

　Xiang was worried about Eve's arrogant attitude. She didn't understand why Eve, a well-educated revolutionary, was so lax about the ideological issues of air warfare.

　"I'm not talking about the distant future, but now." Eve raised her index finger, looked at Xiang meaningfully, and clarified, "What I mean is, if they dare to sabotage the revolution, I will find ways to make them pay in this life."

　Xiang was confused, but Eve never explained it clearly.

　After a while, Xiang suddenly realized that the Hangzhan's thoughts seemed to have changed a lot. She asked Kongo, who was close to the Hangzhan and other battleships, what was going on, but Kongo didn't know either.

　King Kong didn't know how to respond to Xiang's question. "I'm also surprised. They haven't read any revolutionary books, nor have they come into contact with any progressive people, yet they have gradually become completely anti-war and even interested in communism."

　"Comrade King Kong, this fairy-tale joke is beautiful, but it's not funny at all!" When Xiang heard this reason, she thought King Kong was making fun of her and almost called her "Dasha".

　King Kong tried his best to guarantee the truthfulness of his words: "Comrade Xiang, every word I said is true! I may be a little silly at ordinary times, but I would never be confused on such a serious issue!"

　Kongo's tone didn't sound like he was lying, but it was too unbelievable. Hibiki used some methods to contact the aircraft carrier with a reasonable reason.

　By carefully hinting at something, Xiang confirmed that Kongo was indeed not lying to him. Judging from his temperament alone, the hostility of the carriers was not as strong as before.

　For example, Zuikaku, in the words of the anime, the Zuikaku of the past is like the murderous Zuikaku who fought against the enterprise in the TV version. But the current Zuikaku is like the person in the slow pace.

　The harmless Zuikaku...

　“That’s good, but it’s not scientific!”

　After verifying that what King Kong said was true, Xiang not only did not have an epiphany, but became even more confused.

　Later, Xiang contacted Eve and talked to her about it. Eve listened to Xiang's description and was surprised on the surface, but her inner fluctuation was not too big.

　After Eve put down the phone, she muttered to herself, "Tsk...why are the situations of the carriers so similar to those of the Fortress Princesses from the previous plane? (For details, turn left to the next page, Volume 2, Chapter 11)"

　"But..." Eve thought about it carefully and felt something was wrong. "The Fortress Princess was originally implanted with an anti-human code. Could it be that the ship girls in this world also have the setting of blue ship spirits?"

　Eve thought this was impossible, because she had secretly collected research reports from ship girl research teams in various countries around the world, and she had also observed the ship girls in this world. The ship girls in this world and the ship spirits in the previous plane were not in the same system at all.

　"Could it be Yakumo Yukari and the others? But in the Touhou series, if I remember correctly, there doesn't seem to be any characters who can change people's thoughts and ideas?"

　Thinking of this, Eve immediately ran to Yakumo Yukari and asked her what was going on with the carrier battles.

　Yakumo Yukari was rather surprised by Eve's arrival. After hearing about the situation of the air battle, she was also surprised: "Huh? There's actually such a thing?"

　Yakumo Shirashige is a very deep-seated person, often speaking in riddles to ordinary people, mixing truth with falsehood. However, she is quite frank with Eve, who is far more powerful than herself.

　Eve knew this very well, so she did not doubt what Yakumo Yukari said.

　Yakumo Shirokazu smiled calmly and comforted Eve, "There's no need to suppress a benign mutation like this, which you and I both welcome. Otherwise, a revolution will ignite, and how much more will be paid to eliminate the carrier battle."

　"Besides, my foodie best friend is a lazy bum. She absolutely doesn't want to see more ghosts in the underworld. She hopes that humans can cherish their lives and not make unnecessary sacrifices."

　When talking about Saigyouji Yuyuko, Yakumo Yukari's expression became much more humorous.

　After confirming that it was not Yakumo Yukari who caused the trouble, Eve said goodbye to Yakumo Yukari and returned to her residence in Japan.

　After eliminating all possible explanations, Eve came up with the most likely cause: "If that's the case, then there's only one possible truth: this is an idealized revision of the cosmic consciousness..."

　Eve sighed, looked up at the sky, shrugged, and grumbled, "Ah, to do anything to advance the plot, what a bad-tempered and lazy cosmic consciousness..."

　Chapter 264 "Rice Riot"

　Although the change in thinking of the carrier fighters was so unexpected and unpredictable, it was still a good thing, as it meant that the serious hidden dangers existing in the Japanese ship girls had been eliminated.

　The problem of Japanese ship girls has been solved, so the next step before the revolution is inseparable from the dynamics of the Japanese left.

　As a true social democratic party, the Social Democratic Party of Japan still persists in peaceful struggle.

　The struggle between the revolutionaries and the peace factions within the Japanese Communist Party has already reached a fever pitch. Although there are still no revolutionaries in the JCP Central Standing Committee, the revolutionaries intend to implement an "encirclement tactic" against the peace faction of the Party Central Committee through the composition of the Party Congress and the Central Committee.

　The Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party is formed from the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party, and the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party is formed from the National Party Congress of the Japanese Communist Party.

　The Party Congress is not a rubber stamp for the Central Committee. If more than one-third of the county (equivalent to provincial) level organizations believe it is necessary to hold the Party Congress in advance, the Party Congress can be held in advance.

　The revolutionary faction's tactic was to win over one-third of the county-level party organizations, then put forward the demand for the need to convene a party congress, and finally argue with the peace faction at the party congress, reorganize the Central Committee, and nominate as many members of their faction as possible to the Central Standing Committee, in an effort to force the leadership group centered on Shiori Kazuo to step down.

　The remaining ones are the core faction, the Revolutionary Communist Party, the Revolutionary Marxist Association, and other groups that are the legacy of the Japanese left-wing student movement. They know that the revolutionary faction within the Japanese Communist Party is thriving and they all have their own ideas.

　After learning about the propositions of the Japanese Communist Party’s revolutionary faction, the core faction found that some aspects were very different from their own ideas. The core faction is an organization that likes to “purify” and said that it would not cooperate with the Japanese Communist Party’s revolutionary faction, but would not strongly oppose it either.

　Compared with the core faction who are good at infighting, although the Revolutionary Communist Party is a Trotskyist organization, they are more down-to-earth and are very disgusted with the endless infighting and divisiveness of the left.

　The Japan Revolutionary Communist League has never participated in the violent infighting among Japanese leftists. The League opposes organizations such as the Revolutionary Labor Union and the Center-Nuke faction that actively participate in the infighting.

　Based on this realistic understanding, they actively contacted the Japanese Communist Party revolutionaries, learned about their ideas, and decided to establish a cooperative relationship to help the Japanese Communist Party revolutionaries do their best to win over the people.

　Through their own ideas and efforts, the revolutionary faction of the Japanese Communist Party succeeded in getting some revolutionary comrades into the Central Committee, but their efforts to get them into the Central Standing Committee were unsuccessful.

　Just as Japan's left-wing political parties and organizations were cooperating or criticizing each other, a series of rice-grabbing incidents suddenly occurred in Nishimizubashi Town, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

　Before the rice rush, all the men here went to the fishing grounds in the Sea of ​​Japan to fish, leaving only some housewives or local working women at home.

　Fishermen usually go out to sea for a few days or even weeks at most; during this time they cannot return to their home port to sell fish, let alone earn enough money to support their families.

　At this time, rice prices continued to soar, and the savings of many local people were about to be exhausted in order to maintain the ever-increasing consumption of survival materials due to inflation that had lasted for nearly half a year.

　"Last month, buying rice for the whole family took up half of my monthly salary. The cost of meat, fish, vegetables, oil, sauce, vinegar, salt, plus rent, water, electricity, and gas is not enough for my monthly salary!" - the anger of a local middle-aged office worker.

　A few days later, the wife of a local fisherman noticed that a local rice merchant was loading rice from his shop onto a truck. She hurried over and asked, "Sir, where are you shipping all this rice?"

　"Send it out to other places to sell, otherwise it will just sit there in a rotten warehouse?" The rice shop owner, who was supervising the workers loading the rice onto the truck, replied unhappily.

　The fisherman's wife found this completely unreasonable. She was very angry, but she tried to remain polite. "There's a rice shortage here right now. Please don't sell your rice elsewhere. If rice gets any more expensive, we really won't be able to afford food anymore."

　"What are you talking about? My rice has been slow to sell recently. I heard there are markets in other cities and towns, so I will definitely ship it out to sell." The rice shop owner looked at the fisherman's wife with contempt.

　Suddenly, the boss smelled the fishy smell on the fisherman's wife and complained, "So she's a fishmonger. You don't have rice to eat, so why don't you eat your own fish?"

　"Yeah, why do you think rice is too expensive, while those bosses don't think it's expensive? Isn't it because you don't work hard, so you can only sell fish in this life?" The boss's younger brother was behind him, also mocking the fisherman's wife.

　The fisherman's wife was furious, the rage of the working people suddenly erupting, leaving only anger, no manners. "You eat fish every day, right? Your fish can be kept for as long as rice, right?"

　As for the boss's brother's sarcasm about "not working hard" in the second half of the sentence, the fisherman's wife, who was not well educated, didn't know how to refute it for a moment and could only swallow her anger.

　Seeing that the rice merchant was unreasonable, the fisherman's wife could only turn around and leave with dissatisfaction.

　Just as she walked a dozen meters, the boss's brother pointed at the fisherman's wife and roared ferociously, "You idiot, you still dare to bargain? Woman, you're just a stinky fishmonger! You can't afford rice, so you deserve to starve to death!"

　The insulted fisherman's wife was so angry that she gritted her teeth. She wanted to turn around and beat up the boss's brother, but because of the difference in strength, she controlled herself.

　In the evening, the fisherman's wife looked at the empty rice bag, the last bowl of hot rice, and the yen in her pocket that could not even buy a pound of rice. What happened in the morning lingered in her mind.

　"My husband won't be back for another two weeks. How am I going to get by with this little money left these few days?"

　She called other sisters and they all said that their rice jars were almost empty and that they could only eat for two or three days, but it was far from enough to last for half a month.

　She felt really helpless, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she became. Finally, she couldn't help but bang on the table, deciding to teach the rice shop owner a lesson.

　Then she used her good interpersonal relationships to gather together the wives of other fishermen she knew and complained to them about the anger she had suffered that day.

　As other women sisters who were also facing the problem of having no rice and no money, after hearing about this unfair experience, they were all indignant at the extremely shameless words of the rice merchant brothers, and everyone was furious.

　"This profiteer is so despicable, we should teach him a lesson!"

　"Yes, sisters, how can people in this modern world starve to death? Let's go to his house tonight and divide his rice!"

　"That's right. His is the only rice shop nearby. If they want to sell it somewhere else, who can we buy it from?"

　In the end, everyone reached a consensus, and the fishermen's wives, who were extremely angry, organized themselves and took up their weapons at night. Some took harpoons, some took sticks, and some even took frozen fish.

　When the women arrived at the rice shop, they shouted angrily, cursing the owner of the rice shop for being heartless and calling him a bastard who deserved to die, and used violence to pry open the door of the rice shop.

　The two rice shop owners saw the fishermen's wives holding their tools and hurriedly tried to stop them from doing anything rash. But when everyone else was almost out of food, who would pay attention to them?

　"I tell you, we don't want to hurt anyone, we just want to take the rice, we just don't want to starve to death! Don't stop us!" The fisherman's wife, who was insulted by the boss's brother in the morning, threatened the rice shop owner brothers with frozen fish.

　Seeing that there were so many people around, the rice shop owner could not resist and could only watch his rice warehouse being emptied.

　After the women moved all the rice out of the rice shop, the owner of the rice shop saw that it was safe and took out his cell phone to call the police.

　The local Japanese police responded quickly and intercepted the fishermen's wives who wanted to take the rice home. They arrested them all, took them to the police station, and confiscated the rice they had stolen.

　When they were stopped by the police, the women saw the officers and mocked them, saying, "You police officers are well fed and still have the energy to deal with this. Go back to sleep!"

　In today's information society, such news can easily spread like wildfire. Some people who were quietly watching the incident filmed the entire process and posted it online, causing an uproar.

　Many Japanese netizens scolded the Japanese government and law enforcement agencies for not eating meat, and then there were demonstrations on the streets to support and

　Women who demanded amnesty for grabbing rice.

　The people who were facing the problem of food and clothing held banners and slogans such as "We want rice!" and "Lower the price of rice!", and cheered for their own food and clothing and for the wives of fishermen in Nishimizubashi Town.

　In some places, as a response to support, some individuals or groups have forced local rice merchants and supermarkets to sell rice at low prices through voluntary actions, sit-ins, and even violence. Otherwise, they will directly snatch the rice and distribute it to everyone.

　Since the US sanctions included an embargo on agricultural products to Japan, the Soviet Union stopped exporting grain due to the Civil War, and other countries selling grain to Japan would be interfered with and sanctioned by the US, it was really difficult for Japan to buy grain on the international market.

　If we turn to China, China just happened to hold its own rice bowl, and out of the exchange of interests and class friendship, it gave the Soviet Union a lot of food, and no longer had any surplus food to sell outside.

　These factors have resulted in the Japanese government having no way to effectively resolve the domestic food crisis through open source methods.

　What about cutting costs? Unless the Japanese government has the courage to take drastic action and crack down on the agricultural cooperatives—a combination of trust, syndicate, and cartel—then forget it.

　However, it turned out that the Japanese government did not have such courage at all. They used the simplest method, which was to dispatch violent agencies to respond to the demands of the people.

　Faced with people who are struggling to make ends meet and have nowhere else to go, fighting violence with violence will only lead to stronger dissatisfaction among the people.

　Within just one week, actions like the ones in Nishimizubashi Town and Higashimizubashi Town where people attacked rice shops and punished unscrupulous merchants occurred one after another in various cities and towns in Toyama Prefecture. In each place, large numbers of people were snatching rice day and night, and the entire Toyama Prefecture became lively.

　The police tried to stop them, but the people, desperate to get food, fought with them. Some devised clever schemes to steal food, while others, with their unwavering martial spirit, engaged in direct, violent confrontations with the police, openly robbing them.

　Xiang was reading newspapers in the port area and learned about the relevant situation. He was excited about the people's awakening, but at the same time he sighed at the reactionary Japanese government.

　"This moment is just like that moment... This rice riot has an uncanny sense of déjà vu. It's practically identical to the 1918 rice riot. From the direct causes to the reactions of the people and the government, they're all so similar."

　Xiang sighed with emotion. She felt that sometimes, history is a circle.

　Ever since the rice price spiked, Xiang hadn't eaten any human food. Not only did she practice this herself, she also supervised her fellow soldiers and comrades, such as Yudachi and Shigure, who were caught by Xiang last time.

　As for the Daiginjo I drank at the late-night restaurant two days ago, that was bought by the proprietress before inflation. If I don't drink it, it will eventually expire and be wasted. And if it's free, don't miss it.

　Xiang was thinking about how to seize this rice riot to further promote revolutionary work.

　The next morning, after refining the plans and ideas she had thought about all day yesterday, she prepared to call Xiao, Lei, Dian, Ayanami and other ships over to discuss something.

　While waiting for them to arrive, Hibiki checked the news on his phone. Suddenly, a breaking news report came through: [Emergency! Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shot while giving a speech in Nara at 11:30 AM that day and is currently in cardiopulmonary arrest.]

　Yes, that's right. Shinzo Abe avoided the first day, but not the fifteenth.

　When he returned to Nara City to give a speech again, and returned to the familiar intersection of Yamato-Saidaiji Station to give a speech, Toru Yamagami was still not absent from Abe's speech.

　However, the only difference this time was that the homemade shotgun in Toru Yamagami's hand, which was aimed at Shinzo Abe's back, did not misfire.

　Chapter 265 The Dark Night

　"What? Shinzo Abe is dead?"

　On the afternoon of the day Shinzo Abe was assassinated, Yoshihide Suga received sad news from the Nara Prefectural Medical University Hospital.

　Suga Yoshihide felt that this was a serious matter. As the prime minister, he naturally knew what Abe's death meant to Japanese politics.

　Abe's status as a right-wing leader will definitely lead to the rise of the right wing in Japan, and it is not ruled out that it will even accelerate the constitutional amendment process that Abe has been thinking about.

　The rice-grabbing craze just happened, and then Abe was assassinated. These two events happened right after each other, and it is impossible for them not to be used by the radical right to make a fuss.

　Furthermore, Suga Yoshihide and Shinzo Abe have a very good relationship. Suga Yoshihide's sadness for Abe's death is genuine, but the same may not be true for others.

　Moreover, Suga Yoshihide's rise to power is inseparable from the support of Shinzo Abe. Now that Abe has died, he is afraid that his position as prime minister will not last long.

　"This guy Fumio Kishida will definitely take the opportunity to develop his own power, and even worse things may happen..." Suga Yoshihide didn't want to think further.

　On the surface, Fumio Kishida is a moderate right-winger, but Yoshihide Suga, who has worked with Abe for many years, is actually quite clear that beneath that moderate appearance lies the true face of the radical right.

　Regarding the rice-grabbing craze, Suga Yoshihide did not take the initiative to send the Self-Defense Forces to suppress it like he did in the "Fukushima incident" two years ago.

　He came from a peasant family and he knew that the people who had no food to eat would really fight the government to the death and would not compromise, even if the government took a tough stance.

　As the saying goes: "If we make a big plan now, we will die. If we have no rice and grain, we will die. If we wait for death, is it acceptable for us to die with our country?"

　Therefore, although he could not tolerate the masses' indifference on other issues,

　He could tolerate the people's rebellion due to lack of food, but he could tolerate the people's seizure of food due to lack of food.

　As for opening the rice warehouses? Just ask the Agricultural Cooperatives if they agree. Suga Yoshihide is a farmer, and he knows the power of the Agricultural Cooperatives better than most politicians in the party.