There were two opium wars in China's modern history, and the opium exporting countries were all European powers, but few people knew that the country that poisoned China the most with opium after World War I was Japan.
The advantages of importing opium are: firstly, the income can be greatly increased to meet the expenses of invading China and establishing a puppet regime. Secondly, it can endanger people's health, kill people's will, and attack mentally and consciously. According to statistics, Japanese sales of opium in China earned 2.4 billion yen. If this money is used as military expenditure to build the most advanced aircraft carriers in Japan at that time, 30 ships can be built.
From 65438 to 0925, countries all over the world began to formulate a series of international conventions to resist the illegal opium trade. In this context, in order to continue planting in China, Japanese began to sell opium under a series of disguises. The "ten-year smoking ban" formulated by the Japanese army is ostensibly a ban on smoking, but in fact it is used as an excuse to recover the right to grow and sell cigarettes from the government in order to increase government revenue.
Open a charity museum and sell medicine in the name of charity. Japan's largest drug trafficking agency in Central China is Hongji Shantang. According to statistics, Hongji Shantang has sold 960 million yuan of opium in the past five years. Jiang Gong once said: "Tobacco poison and Japanese pirates are the biggest enemies of our nation, and the war of resistance is as important as smoking ban." During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the opium strategy of the Japanese army did great harm to our country.
The national spirit is weak, the constitution is weak, the soldiers smoke a lot, the military discipline is slack, the combat effectiveness is declining, and a large amount of silver is flowing out. According to The Reality of Anesthesia Secret Societies in North China, there were nearly 200,000 opium addicts in Shanxi in 1943. At that time, the tobacco fields in Taigu County covered an area of more than 6,000 mu, and the Japanese army levied a tobacco tax of 2 million yuan every year. There are many cigarette shops in each village, and some villages account for more than half of drug addicts, even children under the age of 10 take drugs.