Professor Taira Toyomori looked at Nagata and couldn't help comparing the 'Pair of Jade in the Army.' Ishiwara's baby face was so distinctive that all officers looked older than Ishiwara.

Looking at Nagata in front of him, Professor Taira Toyomori forgot Ishiwara's baby face. The person in front of the professor wore similar glasses and had almost the same scholarly temperament. Calm and self-controlled, because of a clear understanding of the world, he naturally revealed an attitude of neither humbleness nor arrogance. In this regard, Professor Taira Toyomori felt very familiar; that was another self in the mirror.

After greeting politely, Nagata asked his question, "Professor, the description of the Chinese nationals' attitude towards land reform in your report shocked me very much, but it also made me feel somewhat unreal."

"Your Excellency Nagata, based on my observation, the current Chinese populace cannot be called nationals yet. The current Chinese populace can only be regarded as the masses; they have not understood the rights and obligations they possess as nationals. If Nagata-kun feels unreal, perhaps the reason lies here. As for China's land reform policy, although from the results, it has very good achievements. But the land reform policy was a unilateral decision by the new government led by He-kun from the beginning, without soliciting any opinions from the Chinese populace at all. Therefore, the Chinese populace's feelings about land reform are also passive. From the beginning of land reform to now, the Chinese populace has been bystanders."

Listening to Professor Taira Toyomori's narration, Nagata's evaluation of this senior advisor to the Japanese government became higher and higher. This is the level a scholar should have. Neither exaggerating nor cutting. In Professor Taira Toyomori's description, he just told what happened.

"After reading the professor's report, I found that the professor's approval of this policy is mostly concentrated on the construction of the internal market. Do you think the same effect can be produced in Japan?"

"It will inevitably produce results, and the effect will be better than in China. The degree of industrialization of Japanese society is higher than that of China. Once the broad masses get land, they have more ways to obtain industrial products. The consumption capacity of the rural market will expand to industrial demand at an extremely fast speed. We visited many rural areas in China and found that He-kun's follow-up policy is very precise, aiming to promote the small commodity economy as the next goal. In this regard, Japan will do much better than China."

"Small commodity economy? Please explain more clearly, Professor." Nagata had an understanding of the economy, but he didn't know much about many specific terms in economics.

For those who admit they don't know, Professor Taira Toyomori never looked down on them, and immediately explained to Nagata.

Small commodity economy is also called simple commodity economy. Its characteristic is that commodity producers own the means of production, work by themselves, and own the products; they sell their products to purchase other products that satisfy their consumption needs. Therefore, the small commodity economy is a form of commodity economy based on individual private ownership of means of production and individual labor. It is a historical stage of the commodity economy.

Nagata suddenly realized after hearing this; isn't this the family workshops that exist in large numbers in Japan now? He continued to ask, "So, Japan is indeed ahead of China."

Professor Taira Toyomori felt that Nagata indeed had a broad vision and understood a lot immediately, so he continued, "Once farmers get land, they can buy goods from local small commodity economy producers. And small commodity producers need more parts and raw materials produced by industrial cities. They can even buy some new equipment, which has a very obvious pulling effect on the economy."

Nagata nodded slightly; at this time, he finally fully understood the logical relationship in Professor Taira Toyomori's report.

Professor Taira Toyomori continued, "According to the survey in China, at least in the first three years, the development speed of Japan's small commodity economy may increase by more than 15% annually. The economic pull of small commodity production for industrial zones may exceed 5%, probably between 4-7%. Most importantly, the government does not need any investment; this part of the domestic market will be generated naturally. Moreover, the unemployment situation in rural Japan will also change. More employment opportunities will be created than we imagine. When farmers are free from farming, the number of people going to factories to work will also be more stable. After all, after everyone has food to eat, everyone's enthusiasm for labor will not decrease. This is also a fact confirmed in the survey in China."

Hearing this, Nagata also understood why Minister of War Ugaki marveled at the description of the Japanese people's high acceptance of the civil war triggered by land reform. If it was such a civil war, indeed there was nothing unacceptable. And since it was a civil war, it was destined to end one day.

In Professor Taira Toyomori's report, the Chinese people were also quite frightened by the destruction of the old system at first. But the new order was established quickly, continuously providing security guarantees, employment opportunities, and commodity trading channels to rural areas. Although farmers were still uneasy, they accepted the new order with the mentality of 'try it out, and talk about it later if it doesn't work.' As China's land reform was about to be implemented for two years, and the second autumn harvest was about to be completed. Farmers understood that the old order wanted to destroy the new order, and if the new order was destroyed, the benefits farmers had already obtained would be lost. Therefore, although farmers still had sympathy for the old order, farmers no longer had any interest in helping the old order.

Now some farmers still say a few words for the old order, but only a few words. In another two years, farmers will be too lazy to say anything for the old order. At that time, the old order will be uprooted. The civil war covering the whole of China will end completely.

Feeling these, Nagata's heart churned a bit. To calm this discomfort, Nagata asked, "Professor, is your judgment on the implementation of land reform in Japan too optimistic?"

Professor Taira Toyomori did not hide anything and answered frankly, "If land reform is implemented, its impact on Japan has been written in the report. But in my opinion, the biggest difficulty lies in the fact that it is difficult for Japan to make a decision on land reform from the government level."

But having said this, Professor Taira Toyomori said no more. In this investigation, Professor Taira Toyomori confirmed that there was absolutely no possibility of bottom-up reform in China. All current policies were based on He Rui promoting his policies from top to bottom after seizing political power in China.

This requires a centralized government without internal privileged classes to execute. And this government must have a profound understanding of the economy and a unified analysis of 'bottom-up' at the economic level. Current Japan does not have such a government, nor does it have such a political system.

If Professor Taira Toyomori wrote a report on this, the result of the report would probably be that Japan needs an internal revolution.

Given Japan's current status quo, if Professor Taira Toyomori wrote this report and published it on the first day, he would be taken away or even executed on the second day.

Nagata could also think of similar words, so after asking a few details he didn't understand, he stood up to take his leave.

On the way back to the Japanese Mobilization Bureau, Nagata only felt the summer wind blowing, and a burst of anxiety in his heart. Now the influence of the Chinese revolution on Japan had grown to the extent that Nagata felt fear. Once a road is successfully walked, there will inevitably be imitators. Moreover, since the Chinese revolution and Chinese policies are based on rational analysis, more and more Japanese will accept this path.

Nagata unbuttoned his collar to let the wind blow into his chest, finally feeling a little cooler. But the anxiety in Nagata's heart was reinforced instead. In the future Japan, even those intellectuals whom Nagata thought should stand on the Emperor's side began to become unreliable. This was more dangerous than the rebellion of ordinary poor people.