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Chapter 266 General Ishii and Major Suzuki
The train is like a long giant beast, traveling on the land of North China time after time.Pass through the mountains, cross the roads and rivers, and go straight to Shanxi.

The carriage was not very warm, Major Suzuki ordered a cup of hot coffee.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, his thoughts went back to the past.

It was the first time he came to mainland China. It was far less prosperous than Tokyo, but it was quite cultural.

"What a pity!"

Major Suzuki graduated from the Medical Faculty of Kyoto Imperial University. He is the second son in the family and does not have to consider inheriting the family business.

So it can be based on his interest, and his interest is to be a doctor, a doctor who can cure diseases and save lives, and can be admired by thousands of people.

And he really did go in that direction.

At Kyoto Imperial University, he studied and studied bacteriology, serology, epidemiology, pathology and preventive medicine.

In nineteen twenty-four.

That year, a strange sleeping sickness broke out in Japan. In just a few months, more than 3000 people died.

Suzuki proposed to set up an investigation team to find out the cause.

However, he was not taken seriously because of his soft words, and the person who presided over the investigation became Shiro Ishii, a classmate of Kyoto University.

Really know how to study!
Ishii Shiro is a person who likes to show off very much. In Tokyo, he has the reputation of a pervert, a night wanderer, and a drunkard.

He was in the hospital during the day, and at night he would party all night in pubs and geisha houses. He preferred geisha aged fifteen or sixteen.

Because his family was rich, he squandered a lot, and he was never short of money to spend.

Regarding why he was replaced, Suzuki learned the reason from the instructor, Kimura Ren.

Ishii Shiro often visits without authorization, Araki Tozaburo, President of Kyoto Imperial University.

The intention of fawning couldn't be more obvious. The instructor Ren Kimura, who is also Shiro Ishii's instructor, commented unceremoniously: "It's really cheeky, you can do it."

But Ishii not only won the appreciation of the principal Araki, but also married Araki's daughter.

At that time, Suzuki did not get the appointment and funding from the school. In order to conduct the investigation smoothly, he even asked his family to sell part of the forest land to make up enough funds.

His fanatical drive made some people sigh: "Suzuki is really a good researcher!"

In the end, Suzuki was the first to study the cause of infectious diseases, one step faster than Shiro Ishii, who led the official staff.

But no matter how good the research is, it's not as good as being able to lick, flatter, and behave.

In the Japanese Army, the highest military rank of a military doctor is lieutenant general, but Shiro Ishii's mantra at that time was: "I must be promoted to general."

Ishii is very smart and hard-working, but he is not a scholar-type character, he is an ambitious person who likes to do big things.

He is keen to enhance his status by achieving meritorious achievements.

Shiro Ishii finally set his sights on bacterial warfare.

He made up his mind to engage in the research of bacterial warfare, which originated from his discovery of the report on bacterial warfare written by the second-class military doctor Harada, which aroused a strong resonance in his heart.

Both Harada and Ishii Shiro knew very well: at the Disarmament Conference held in Geneva in 1925, chemical warfare and biological warfare (germ warfare) were declared illegal.

However, the killing power possessed by germ warfare deeply attracted Ishii Shiro.

According to the old path, as a military doctor, he could never be promoted to general.A new path could be blazed, a more important path, which would undoubtedly make him a unique character.

It is natural that there is a lot to be done to make steady progress.

During , Shiro Ishii traveled frequently between Kyoto and Tokyo.

Saburo Endo once recorded in his diary at the time: "At that time, Ishii often appeared in the staff headquarters. Everyone knew him, and he lobbied the importance of germ warfare to the staff."

It is certain that the military attaches great importance to bacterial warfare, and Shiro Ishii has contributed a lot.

With the father-in-law of the president of Kyoto University, coupled with his personal love of performance, Ishii Shiro has made great progress in the military world, and gradually distanced himself from him.

After graduating in the same year, Shiro Ishii was promoted to major general at the end of the year, but Suzuki was still a major general, serving under his subordinates.

In the army, many things are beyond Suzuki's control.

In the second half of the year, Shiro Ishii ordered to manufacture 70 kg of typhoid bacteria and 50 kg of cholera bacteria.

Major Suzuki had no choice but to obey, anyway, he just conveyed the order.As for working hard for Ishii Shiro's exploits, it is simply impossible.

This is Suzuki's last stubbornness.

Ishii Shiro seemed to still remember what happened back then, and he was robbed of the limelight. For a long time, he couldn't hold his head up, always feeling that others were laughing at him.

"You want to save people, but you don't want to kill people? I'm making it impossible for you to do so."

Ishii Shiro transferred Major Suzuki to a special expedition team for special operations in mainland China.

The expedition team arrived in the area of ​​Hankou in central China.

Ishii Shiro asked him, a technical officer with no flying experience, to get on a plane carrying fleas and various bacterial weapons and go to the Kuomintang-controlled areas to spread them.

Let a person who does not want to kill to participate in mass killing.

The arrogant Shiro Ishii annoyed Suzuki, who refused to obey orders.

"Of course, if you want to be a deserter." Ishii Shiro threatened.

Playing tricks on his former genius classmates gave him a sense of accomplishment.

When Major Nozaki brought back several newspapers that recorded the epidemic in Ningbo, Suzuki had already submitted an application for retirement.

But Ishii Shiro was still unwilling to let him go, and his application for retirement was rejected.

Reason for refusal: Suzuki has no reason to retire. The empire needs talents, and he must continue to serve the empire.

This time, another dirty job fell into his hands.

Twenty kilograms of plague fleas, fifty kilograms of cholera bacteria, and one hundred kilograms of typhoid bacteria.

If so many viruses can spread, it is enough to kill tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, turning many places into no-man's land.

Suzuki knew Shiro Ishii's vicious thoughts, but as a soldier, he had no right to refuse.

Picking up the coffee and taking a sip, the bitter taste rushed straight into the brain, Suzuki said to himself:
"Ishii, in the Chinese language, it is you who forced me to come and not reciprocate to be indecent."

Honest people will carry knives when they are in a hurry, embezzling military expenses, if they want others to know, they have to do nothing.

Although it may not be possible to bring down a general, even if he is disgusting, he must be disgusting to death.

The annoying infrasound is gone, and the train is coming to a stop.It is about adding water and coal to the front of the car, and the steam train is just this troublesome.

Major Suzuki asked, "Where are we now?"

"Sir, we are almost in Pingding County."

Pingding County, Suzuki is not very familiar with, just looked at the map before coming here, it is not too far from Yangquan.

Probably get some sleep, tomorrow will be here.

The sky outside also gradually darkened.

(End of this chapter)