六个星期后，如果有人再次在北京出现，他会发现一千一百万人大都不知所终。他也许会看到其中的一少部分，大约几十万人，他们的尸体溃烂，分散在房屋和无人的街道上或是堆积在被丢弃的堆得高高的运尸车上。而其他人会分布在帝国各个公路和小道上。所有人都在逃离鼠疫灾区，远离北京，成千上万的人撇下未掩埋的尸体，火速撤离。但瘟疫不仅仅发生在北京，而是发生在帝国所有的城市，城镇，和村庄。瘟疫毁掉了这个国家。不是一种两种瘟疫，而是十几种的瘟疫。各种致命的传染病都在大地上快速蔓延。直到此时，中国政府终于理解了之前的准备工作，来自世界的舰队，锡制飞艇，和玻璃试管的含义。政府文件是徒劳的。他们无法阻止人口从鼠疫灾区逃离，把疾病从北京一个城市传到所有的土地。医生和卫生官员死在自己的岗位上，一切都已经被死亡征服了，无视皇帝和李唐福的法令。李唐福死在第二个星期，皇帝隐藏在里，死在第四个星期。 如果当时只流行一种瘟疫，中国有可能应付。但当时流行了十几种瘟疫，没有生物对此全部免疫。从猩红热前逃脱的人被天花带走了。对霍乱免疫的人被黄热病带走了，如果有幸免疫，黑死病也能把他带走。这些细菌，病菌和微生物在西方的实验室被培养，又通过玻璃试管送到中国。 然后所有组织消失。政府崩溃了。当签订条款的人几天后就会死去的时候，法令和宣言毫无用处。数以百万计的逃亡者在这片土地上狂奔，什么都顾不上。他们把传染病从城市带到农村，，无论他们逃到哪里，就把灾祸带到哪里。届时正值炎热的夏季，这是雅克布斯兰宁道尔精心挑选的日期，因此瘟疫到处肆虐。人们已经无法知道到底发生了什么事情，只能从为数不多的幸存者的故事中了解只言片语。生物袭击使整个帝国充斥着逃亡者。广大军队在从中国的边界消失了。农场充斥着被糟蹋的庄稼，无人下种，地里生长的庄稼无人看管，也无人收获。这里最大的问题是流民。他们集结成几百万的群体，冲向被西方的巨大军队封锁的帝国边界，与其遭遇，并被驱赶回去。这场在边界线上的屠杀是惊人的。防卫线再次后退二三十公里以躲避众多死者的传染。 但瘟疫还是爆发了，守卫边境的德国和奥地利的士兵以及土耳其士兵被击倒。虽然已经为这种情况的发生做了准备，依然有欧洲的六万名士兵因此倒下，但疫区随即被国际医生集团免疫隔离。但是在这场斗争中，有人发现了一种新的鼠疫病菌，它来自于鼠疫病菌之间以及与其他病菌之间的杂交，从而产生了一个新的且可怕致命的菌种。首先由温伯格发现，并怀疑其为致病菌，后来被史蒂文斯分离，并被海恩法特，诺曼和兰德斯研究。 这是对中国的一次前所未有的入侵。对于这十几亿人来说，他们毫无希望。只能蜷缩在停尸的房子里面腐烂和发臭，失去所有的组织力和凝聚力，他们的一切努力都化为乌有，只能等待死亡。他们无法逃脱，被从自己的陆地边界驱赶回来，也被从海洋边界驱赶回来。因为有七万五千艘军舰在沿海岸线巡逻。白天，军舰排风口的烟雾的使海面暗淡，夜间，闪烁着的探照灯扫过黑暗，找到每一艘逃跑的中国帆船。数量庞大的帆船船队没有一艘能逃得了的。没有人能越得过巡洋舰的范围。现代战争机械阻碍了中国人的杂乱无章的逃亡，而瘟疫继续做它该做的事。 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。 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。 直到次年2月，在最寒冷的天气中，各国开始了小心翼翼的第一次远征。这支探险队伍由科学家和专职部队组成，他们从各个侧面进入中国。尽管采取了最详尽的抗感染预防措施，依然有数位士兵和医生染病致死。但是远征勇敢地继续了下去。他们发现中国满目疮痍，到处都是萧瑟的旷野，只有成群的野狗和和绝望的幸存者们像土匪一样地徘徊。所有发现的幸存者都被当即处死。然后开始了一项庞大的工程，彻底地把中国打扫干净。五年的时间内，亿万珠宝被找到并搜走，然后全世界人民都迁入了中国，不是分区居住，而是杂居而处——这是阿尔布雷希特男爵提出的想法，并根据美国的民主程序实施。1982年及其以后，大批兴高采烈的各个国家民族在1982年和随后的几年里共同落户中国，成为一个巨大的且成功的民族混合实验。并产生了在机械，智力和艺术方面的辉煌产出。 1987年，全世界的联盟已经解散，法国和德国再次因为阿尔萨斯-洛林地区的古老争议争敌对起来。到了四月，战争的威胁和阴影再次降临这个世界，于是4月17日一场大会在哥本哈根召开。所有世界国家的代表全部出现，并一致严肃地宣誓永远不会把用于中国的实验室战争方法用于他们彼此之间的战争中。
THE STRENGTH OF THE STRONG THE UNPARALLELED INVASION http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/invasion.html It was in the year 1976 that the trouble between the world and China reached its culmination. It was because of this that the celebration of the Second Centennial of American Liberty was deferred. Many other plans of the nations of the earth were twisted and tangled and postponed for the same reason. The world awoke rather abruptly to its danger; but for over seventy years, unperceived, affairs had been shaping toward this very end. The year 1904 logically marks the beginning of the development that, seventy years later, was to bring consternation to the whole world. The Japanese-Russian War took place in 1904, and the historians of the time gravely noted it down that that event marked the entrance of Japan into the comity of nations. What it really did mark was the awakening of China. This awakening, long expected, had finally been given up. The Western nations had tried to arouse China, and they had failed. Out of their native optimism and race-egotism they had therefore concluded that the task was impossible, that China would never awaken. What they had failed to take into account was this: THAT BETWEEN THEM AND CHINA WAS NO COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL SPEECH. Their thought- processes were radically dissimilar. There was no intimate vocabulary. The Western mind penetrated the Chinese mind but a short distance when it found itself in a fathomless maze. The Chinese mind penetrated the Western mind an equally short distance when it fetched up against a blank, incomprehensible wall. It was all a matter of language. There was no way to communicate Western ideas to the Chinese mind. China remained asleep. The material achievement and progress of the West was a closed book to her; nor could the West open the book. Back and deep down on the tie-ribs of consciousness, in the mind, say, of the English-speaking race, was a capacity to thrill to short, Saxon words; back and deep down on the tie-ribs of consciousness of the Chinese mind was a capacity to thrill to its own hieroglyphics; but the Chinese mind could not thrill to short, Saxon words; nor could the English-speaking mind thrill to hieroglyphics. The fabrics of their minds were woven from totally different stuffs. They were mental aliens. And so it was that Western material achievement and progress made no dent on the rounded sleep of China. Came Japan and her victory over Russia in 1904. Now the Japanese race was the freak and paradox among Eastern peoples. In some strange way Japan was receptive to all the West had to offer. Japan swiftly assimilated the Western ideas, and digested them, and so capably applied them that she suddenly burst forth, full- panoplied, a world-power. There is no explaining this peculiar openness of Japan to the alien culture of the West. As well might be explained any biological sport in the animal kingdom. 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. But best of all, from the standpoint of Japan, the Chinese was a kindred race. The baffling enigma of the Chinese character to the West was no baffling enigma to the Japanese. The Japanese understood as we could never school ourselves or hope to understand. Their mental processes were the same. The Japanese thought with the same thought-symbols as did the Chinese, and they thought in the same peculiar grooves. Into the Chinese mind the Japanese went on where we were balked by the obstacle of incomprehension. They took the turning which we could not perceive, twisted around the obstacle, and were out of sight in the ramifications of the Chinese mind where we could not follow. They were brothers. Long ago one had borrowed the other's written language, and, untold generations before that, they had diverged from the common Mongol stock. There had been changes, differentiations brought about by diverse conditions and infusions of other blood; but down at the bottom of their beings, twisted into the fibres of them, was a heritage in common, a sameness in kind that time had not obliterated. And so Japan took upon herself the management of China. In the years immediately following the war with Russia, her agents swarmed over the Chinese Empire. A thousand miles beyond the last mission station toiled her engineers and spies, clad as coolies, under the guise of itinerant merchants or proselytizing Buddhist priests, noting down the horse-power of every waterfall, the likely sites for factories, the heights of mountains and passes, the strategic advantages and weaknesses, the wealth of the farming valleys, the number of bullocks in a district or the number of labourers that could be collected by forced levies. Never was there such a census, and it could have been taken by no other people than the dogged, patient, patriotic Japanese. But in a short time secrecy was thrown to the winds. Japan's officers reorganized the Chinese army; her drill sergeants made the mediaeval warriors over into twentieth century soldiers, accustomed to all the modern machinery of war and with a higher average of marksmanship than the soldiers of any Western nation. The engineers of Japan deepened and widened the intricate system of canals, built factories and foundries, netted the empire with telegraphs and telephones, and inaugurated the era of railroad- building. It was these same protagonists of machine-civilization that discovered the great oil deposits of Chunsan, the iron mountains of Whang-Sing, the copper ranges of Chinchi, and they sank the gas wells of Wow-Wee, that most marvellous reservoir of natural gas in all the world. In China's councils of empire were the Japanese emissaries. In the ears of the statesmen whispered the Japanese statesmen. The political reconstruction of the Empire was due to them. They evicted the scholar class, which was violently reactionary, and put into office progressive officials. And in every town and city of the Empire newspapers were started. Of course, Japanese editors ran the policy of these papers, which policy they got direct from Tokio. It was these papers that educated and made progressive the great mass of the population. China was at last awake. Where the West had failed, Japan succeeded. She had transmuted Western culture and achievement into terms that were intelligible to the Chinese understanding. Japan herself, when she so suddenly awakened, had astounded the world. But at the time she was only forty millions strong. China's awakening, with her four hundred millions and the scientific advance of the world, was frightfully astounding. She was the colossus of the nations, and swiftly her voice was heard in no uncertain tones in the affairs and councils of the nations. Japan egged her on, and the proud Western peoples listened with respectful ears. 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. China rejuvenescent! It was but a step to China rampant. She discovered a new pride in herself and a will of her own. She began to chafe under the guidance of Japan, but she did not chafe long. On Japan's advice, in the beginning, she had expelled from the Empire all Western missionaries, engineers, drill sergeants, merchants, and teachers. She now began to expel the similar representatives of Japan. The latter's advisory statesmen were showered with honours and decorations, and sent home. The West had awakened Japan, and, as Japan had then requited the West, Japan was not requited by China. Japan was thanked for her kindly aid and flung out bag and baggage by her gigantic protege. The Western nations chuckled. Japan's rainbow dream had gone glimmering. She grew angry. China laughed at her. The blood and the swords of the Samurai would out, and Japan rashly went to war. This occurred in 1922, and in seven bloody months Manchuria, Korea, and Formosa were taken away from her and she was hurled back, bankrupt, to stifle in her tiny, crowded islands. Exit Japan from the world drama. Thereafter she devoted herself to art, and her task became to please the world greatly with her creations of wonder and beauty. Contrary to expectation, China did not prove warlike. She had no Napoleonic dream, and was content to devote herself to the arts of peace. After a time of disquiet, the idea was accepted that China was to be feared, not in war, but in commerce. It will be seen that the real danger was not apprehended. China went on consummating her machine-civilization. Instead of a large standing army, she developed an immensely larger and splendidly efficient militia. Her navy was so small that it was the laughing stock of the world; nor did she attempt to strengthen her navy. The treaty ports of the world were never entered by her visiting battleships. The real danger lay in the fecundity of her loins, and it was in 1970 that the first cry of alarm was raised. For some time all territories adjacent to China had been grumbling at Chinese immigration; but now it suddenly came home to the world that China's population was 500,000,000. She had increased by a hundred millions since her awakening. Burchaldter called attention to the fact that there were more Chinese in existence than white-skinned people. He performed a simple sum in arithmetic. He added together the populations of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, European Russia, and all Scandinavia. The result was 495,000,000. And the population of China overtopped this tremendous total by 5,000,000. Burchaldter's figures went round the world, and the world shivered. For many centuries China's population had been constant. Her territory had been saturated with population; that is to say, her territory, with the primitive method of production, had supported the maximum limit of population. But when she awoke and inaugurated the machine-civilization, her productive power had been enormously increased. Thus, on the same territory, she was able to support a far larger population. At once the birth rate began to rise and the death rate to fall. Before, when population pressed against the means of subsistence, the excess population had been swept away by famine. But now, thanks to the machine-civilization, China's means of subsistence had been enormously extended, and there were no famines; her population followed on the heels of the increase in the means of subsistence. |
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