在1976年，世界和中国之间的问题达到了顶峰。正因为如此，美国自由第二百周年的庆祝活动被推迟了。由于同样的原因，地球上的各个国家的许多其他计划都被扭曲，纠缠和推迟。世界因其危险而突然醒来;但是七十多年来，在没有察觉的情况下，事态一直在朝这个方向发展。

1904年在逻辑上标志着七十年后的发展开始，令整个世界感到惊愕。日俄战争发生在1904年，当时的历史学家严肃地指出，这一事件标志着日本进入国际大家庭。它真正的标志是中国的觉醒。长期以来，这种觉醒终于被放弃了。西方国家试图唤起中国，他们失败了。因此，他们的本土乐观主义和种族自我主义因此得出结论认为，任务是不可能的，中国永远不会觉醒。

他们未能考虑到的是：他们之间和中国之间没有共同的心理学演讲。他们的思想过程完全不同。没有私密的词汇。西方的思想渗透到了中国人的心灵中，但是当它发现自己陷入了一个无法理解的迷宫中时，它的距离很短。中国人的思想在一个空白的，难以理解的墙壁上突破了西方思想的同样短距离。这完全是语言问题。没有办法将西方思想传达给中国人的思想。中国仍然睡着了。西方的物质成就和进步对她来说是一本封闭的书;西方也不能打开这本书。在英语种族的头脑中，背部和内心深处的意识排骨，是一种能够用萨克森的短语激动人心的能力;回归和深入了解中国人心灵意识的束缚，是对自己的象形文字感到振奋的能力;但是，中国人的思想不能用萨克森的短语来激动人心;说英语的心灵也不会对象形文字感到兴奋。他们心中的面料是用完全不同的东西编织而成的。他们是精神外星人。因此，西方的物质成就和进步并没有削弱中国的整体睡眠。

来到日本，1904年她战胜了俄罗斯。现在，日本的种族是东方人民的怪癖和悖论。以某种奇怪的方式，日本接受了西方所提供的一切。日本迅速吸收了西方的思想，并消化了它们，因此能够应用它们，她突然爆发出来，全力以赴，成为世界强国。没有解释日本对西方外来文化的这种特殊开放性。也许可以解释动物王国中的任何生物运动。

日本决定性地摧毁了伟大的俄罗斯帝国，日本立即开始为自己梦想一个巨大的帝国梦想。韩国她已经成为粮仓和殖民地;条约特权和庸俗外交使她成为满洲的垄断者。但日本并不满意。她把目光转向了中国。这片土地面积广阔，是铁和煤世界中最大的矿床 – 工业文明的支柱。鉴于自然资源，工业的另一个重要因素是劳动力。在那个地区有4亿人口 – 占地球总人口的四分之一。此外，中国人是优秀的工人，而他们的宿命哲学（或宗教）和他们顽固的神经组织构成了他们出色的士兵 – 如果他们得到妥善管理。毋庸置疑，日本准备提供这种管理。

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.

但最重要的是，从日本的角度来看，中国人是一个同类竞赛。对于西方来说，汉字令人费解的谜团对日本人来说并不是一件莫名其妙的谜。日本人理解我们永远不会自学或希望理解。他们的心理过程是一样的。日本人用与中国人相同的思想符号思考，他们想到了同样奇特的凹槽。在中国人心目中，日本人继续前行，我们被不理解的障碍所困扰。他们采取了我们无法察觉的转弯，扭曲在障碍物周围，并且在我们无法追随的中国思想的影响中看不见。他们是兄弟。很久以前，一个人借用了另一个人的书面语言，而在此之前的几代人中，他们已经与普通的蒙古股票分道扬..不同的条件和其他血液的输注带来了变化，分化;但是在他们的生命的底部，扭曲成他们的纤维，是一种共同的遗产，同样的实物，时间没有消失。

因此，日本承担了对中国的管理。在与俄罗斯的战争结束后的几年里，她的代理人涌入了中华帝国。距离最后一个任务站一千英里的工作人员和间谍，在流动商人或传教佛教牧师的幌子下穿着苦力，注意每个瀑布的马力，工厂的可能地点，山脉的高度和通行证，战略优势和劣势，农业山谷的财富，一个地区的公牛数量或可以通过强制征收收集的劳动力数量。从未有过这样的人口普查，除了顽固，耐心，爱国的日本人之外，没有其他人可以采取这种普查。

但是在很短的时间内，秘密被抛到了风中。日本军官重组了中国军队;她的训练中士使中世纪的战士变成二十世纪的士兵，习惯于所有现代战争机器，并且比任何西方国家的士兵都具有更高的平均枪法。日本的工程师深化和拓宽了错综复杂的运河系统，建造了工厂和铸造厂，通过电报和电话为帝国提供了支持，并开创了铁路建设的时代。正是这些机器文明的主角发现了春山的巨大油层，Whang-Sing的铁山，钦奇的铜矿，他们沉没了Wow-Wee的气井，这是最奇妙的天然气储层。在全世界。

在中国，帝国议会是日本的使者。在政治家的耳边，低声说着日本政治家。帝国的政治重建是由他们造成的。他们驱逐了那些暴力反动的学者阶层，并将进步的官员当职。在帝国的每个城镇都开始报纸。当然，日本编辑负责这些文件的政策，这些政策是他们从东京直接获得的。正是这些论文教育了大量人口并使其取得了进步。

中国终于醒了。在西方失败的地方，日本取得了成功。她将西方文化和成就转化为对中国人的理解能够理解的术语。当她如此突然觉醒时，日本本人震惊世界。但当时她只有四千万人。中国以她的四亿人和世界的科学进步觉醒，令人震惊。她是各国的巨人，她的声音在国家的事务和议会中毫不含糊地听到了她的声音。日本怂恿她，骄傲的西方人民恭敬地倾听。

中国迅速而显着的崛起应该归功于其劳动力的最高质量，或许更重要的是。中国人是完美的行业。他一直都是这样。对于纯粹的工作能力，世界上没有工人可以与他相比。工作是他鼻孔的气息。对他来说，在遥远的土地上游荡和战斗，以及对其他民族的精神冒险。对他而言，自由是获取劳动手段的缩影。无休止地耕种土地和劳动是他所要求的生命和权力。而中国的觉醒使其庞大的人口不仅可以自由无限地获得辛劳的手段，而且可以获得最高，最科学的机器 – 劳动力。

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.

中国重新焕发活力！这只是中国猖獗的一步。她发现了自己的新骄傲和她自己的意志。她在日本的指导下开始发抖，但她并没有长时间的骚扰。根据日本的建议，一开始，她已经从帝国开除了所有西方传教士，工程师，训练军士，商人和教师。她现在开始驱逐日本的类似代表。后者的咨询政治家们获得了荣誉和装饰，并被送回家。西方已经唤醒了日本，而且，随着日本向西方提出申诉，日本没有被中国所取代。日本感谢她的善意援助，并通过她巨大的保护措施扔掉了包和行李。西方国家笑了。日本的彩虹梦想已经黯然失色。她生气了。中国嘲笑她。武士的血和剑将会出局，日本则轻率地开战。这发生在1922年，七个血腥的月份，满洲里，韩国和福尔摩沙被带离她，她被赶回家，破产，在她拥挤的小岛上窒息。从世界戏剧中退出日本。此后，她致力于艺术，她的任务是通过她的奇妙和美丽的创造来取悦世界。

与预期相反，中国没有证明是好战的。她没有拿破仑的梦想，并且满足于致力于和平艺术。在经历了一段时间的不安之后，人们接受了这样的想法，即中国不仅在战争中，而且在商业中受到恐惧。可以看出真正的危险并未被逮捕。中国继续完善她的机器文明。她没有一支庞大的常备军队，而是建立了一支规模更大，效率更高的民兵。她的海军非常小，以至于它是世界的笑柄;她也没有试图加强她的海军。她访问的战列舰从未进入过世界的条约口岸。

真正的危险在于她的腰部的繁殖力，并且在1970年第一次发出警报声。有一段时间，与中国相邻的所有地区一直抱怨中国移民;但现在它突然回到世界，中国的人口是5亿。自她觉醒以来，她增加了一亿。 Burchaldter提请注意这样一个事实：存在的中国人比白皮肤的人多。他在算术中执行了一个简单的求和。他将美国，加拿大，新西兰，澳大利亚，南非，英国，法国，德国，意大利，奥地利，欧洲俄罗斯和所有斯堪的纳维亚半岛的人口加在一起。结果是495,000,000。中国人口超过了这个巨大的总数500万。 Burchaldter的数字遍布全球，世界也在颤抖。

几个世纪以来，中国的人口一直不变。她的领土已经饱和了人口;也就是说，她的领土以原始的生产方式支持了人口的最大限度。但当她醒来并启动机器文明时，她的生产力却大大提高了。因此，在同一领土上，她能够支持更多的人口。出生率开始上升，死亡率下降。在人口压迫生存手段之前，过剩的人口已经被饥荒所冲走。但是现在，由于机器文明，中国的生存手段得到了极大的扩展，没有饥荒;她的人口紧随着生活资料的增加。

在这个过渡和发展权力的时期，中国没有征服征服的梦想。中国人不是一个帝国的种族。这是勤劳，节俭和爱好和平的。战争被视为有时必须执行的令人不快但必要的任务。因此，虽然西方种族发生争吵和争斗，而且世界各地相互冒险，但中国却平静地继续在她的机器上工作并不断发展。现在，她正在溢出帝国的边界 – 这就是全部，只是溢出到冰川的确切和可怕的缓慢动力的邻近地区。

继Burchaldter的人物引起警报之后，1970年法国制造了一个长期受到威胁的立场。法国印度支那中国人被中国移民填满了。法国停止了。中国的浪潮继续流淌。法国在她不幸的殖民地和中国之间的边界上聚集了十万人的力量，中国派遣了一支百万军队的民兵。妻子，儿子，女儿和亲戚带着他们的私人家庭行李，落后于第二支军队。法国军队像苍蝇一样被拉到一边。中国民兵和他们的家人，五百多万人都告诉他们，他们冷静地占领了法属印度支那，并定居下来，待了几千年。

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.

During this time of transition and development of power, China had entertained no dreams of conquest. The Chinese was not an imperial race. It was industrious, thrifty, and peace-loving. War was looked upon as an unpleasant but necessary task that at times must be performed. And so, while the Western races had squabbled and fought, and world-adventured against one another, China had calmly gone on working at her machines and growing. Now she was spilling over the boundaries of her Empire – that was all, just spilling over into the adjacent territories with all the certainty and terrifying slow momentum of a glacier.

Following upon the alarm raised by Burchaldter’s figures, in 1970 France made a long-threatened stand. French Indo-China had been overrun, filled up, by Chinese immigrants. France called a halt. The Chinese wave flowed on. France assembled a force of a hundred thousand on the boundary between her unfortunate colony and China, and China sent down an army of militia-soldiers a million strong. Behind came the wives and sons and daughters and relatives, with their personal household luggage, in a second army. The French force was brushed aside like a fly. The Chinese militia-soldiers, along with their families, over five millions all told, coolly took possession of French Indo-China and settled down to stay for a few thousand years.

愤怒的法国陷入了困境。她在舰队对抗中国海岸后向舰队投掷，并且几乎因此努力破坏了自己。中国没有海军。她像一只乌龟一样撤回了她的壳里。一年来，法国舰队封锁了海岸并轰炸了暴露的城镇和村庄。中国并不介意。她没有依赖世界其他任何地方。她平静地远离法国枪支射击并继续工作。法国哭泣和哭泣，扭曲了她的无能为力的手，并呼吁这些愚蠢的国家。然后，她进行了一次惩罚性的远征，前往北京。它是二十五万强，它是法国的花。它在没有反对的情况下降落并进入内陆。这是有史以来最后一次见到的。第二天，通讯线被抢购一空。没有幸存者回来告诉发生了什么。它已被吞噬在中国的海绵状食物中，就是这样。

在随后的五年中，中国在所有陆地方向的扩张都在快速增长。暹罗成为了帝国的一部分，尽管英格兰可以做到这一切，但缅甸和马来半岛都被淹没了;虽然整个西伯利亚的长南边界，俄罗斯受到中国前进的部落的严重压力。这个过程很简单。首先是中国移民（或者更确切地说，它已经在那里，在过去的几年中缓慢且阴险地来到那里）。接下来是武装冲突和一群民兵军队的所有反对者，其次是他们的家人和家庭行李。最后他们在被征服的领土上作为殖民者定居下来。从未有过如此奇怪和有效的世界征服方法。

纳帕尔和不丹被侵占，印度的整个北部边界都被这种可怕的生命浪潮所压制。在西部，博卡拉，甚至南部和西部的阿富汗都被吞没了。波斯，土耳其斯坦和整个中亚都感受到洪水的压力。正是在这个时候，Burchaldter修改了他的数据。他错了。中国的人口必须是七亿，八亿，没有人知道数百万，但无论如何，它很快就会达到十亿。 Burchaldter宣布，世界上每个白皮肤的人都有两个中国人，世界都在颤抖。中国的增长必须在1904年立即开始。人们记得，从那时起，就没有一次饥荒。每年增加5,000,000，她在七十年间的总增长必须达到350,000,000。但是谁知道呢？它可能更多。谁知道二十世纪这种奇怪的新威胁 – 中国，旧中国，复兴，富有成效，好战！

1975年的“公约”在费城召开。所有西方国家和一些东方国家都有代表。什么都没有完成。有传言称所有国家都会对孩子们给予奖励以提高出生率，但是算术学家嘲笑他们，他们指出中国在这个方向上处于领先地位。没有提出应对中国的可行方法。中国受到联合国的呼吁和威胁，这就是费城的所有公约;中国嘲笑“公约”和“大国”。龙王座背后的力量李唐Fwung辞职回复。

“中国关心国家的礼让是什么？”李唐Fwung说。 “我们是最古老，最光荣，最皇家的种族。我们有自己的命运要完成。我们的命运与世界其他地方的命运不相符是令人不快的，但你会怎么样？你风靡一时关于皇家种族和地球的遗产，我们只能回答那仍有待观察的事情。你不能入侵我们。别介意你的海军。不要大声喊叫。我们知道我们的海军很小。你看我们使用它用于警察目的。我们不关心海洋。我们的力量在我们的人口中，很快将达到十亿。感谢你，我们配备了所有现代战争机器。发送你的海军。我们不会注意到它们发送你的惩罚性探险，但首先要记住法国。在我们的海岸上埋葬50万士兵会使你们任何一方的资源紧张。我们的千万人会吞下他们一口。发送一百万;送五百万，和我们会像往常一样把它们吞下去.Pouf！一点也不，只是微薄的一点点。正如你所威胁的那样，毁灭你，美国，我们迫使你的海岸上的一千万苦力 – 为什么，这个数字几乎等于我们一年超出生育率的一半。“

所以说李唐Fwung。世界感到困惑，无助，害怕。他真的说过话。没有打击中国令人惊讶的出生率。如果她的人口是十亿，并且每年增加两千万，那么在二十五年内它将达到十亿分之一 – 相当于1904年世界总人口的数量。

Outraged France was in arms. She hurled fleet after fleet against the coast of China, and nearly bankrupted herself by the effort. China had no navy. She withdrew like a turtle into her shell. For a year the French fleets blockaded the coast and bombarded exposed towns and villages. China did not mind. She did not depend upon the rest of the world for anything. She calmly kept out of range of the French guns and went on working. France wept and wailed, wrung her impotent hands and appealed to the dumfounded nations. Then she landed a punitive expedition to march to Peking. It was two hundred and fifty thousand strong, and it was the flower of France. It landed without opposition and marched into the interior. And that was the last ever seen of it. The line of communication was snapped on the second day. Not a survivor came back to tell what had happened. It had been swallowed up in China’s cavernous maw, that was all.

In the five years that followed, China’s expansion, in all land directions, went on apace. Siam was made part of the Empire, and, in spite of all that England could do, Burma and the Malay Peninsula were overrun; while all along the long south boundary of Siberia, Russia was pressed severely by China’s advancing hordes. The process was simple. First came the Chinese immigration (or, rather, it was already there, having come there slowly and insidiously during the previous years). Next came the clash of arms and the brushing away of all opposition by a monster army of militia-soldiers, followed by their families and household baggage. And finally came their settling down as colonists in the conquered territory. Never was there so strange and effective a method of world conquest.

Napal and Bhutan were overrun, and the whole northern boundary of India pressed against by this fearful tide of life. To the west, Bokhara, and, even to the south and west, Afghanistan, were swallowed up. Persia, Turkestan, and all Central Asia felt the pressure of the flood. It was at this time that Burchaldter revised his figures. He had been mistaken. China’s population must be seven hundred millions, eight hundred millions, nobody knew how many millions, but at any rate it would soon be a billion. There were two Chinese for every white-skinned human in the world, Burchaldter announced, and the world trembled. China’s increase must have begun immediately, in 1904. It was remembered that since that date there had not been a single famine. At 5,000,000 a year increase, her total increase in the intervening seventy years must be 350,000,000. But who was to know? It might be more. Who was to know anything of this strange new menace of the twentieth century – China, old China, rejuvenescent, fruitful, and militant!

The Convention of 1975 was called at Philadelphia. All the Western nations, and some few of the Eastern, were represented. Nothing was accomplished. There was talk of all countries putting bounties on children to increase the birth rate, but it was laughed to scorn by the arithmeticians, who pointed out that China was too far in the lead in that direction. No feasible way of coping with China was suggested. China was appealed to and threatened by the United Powers, and that was all the Convention of Philadelphia came to; and the Convention and the Powers were laughed at by China. Li Tang Fwung, the power behind the Dragon Throne, deigned to reply.

“What does China care for the comity of nations?” said Li Tang Fwung. “We are the most ancient, honourable, and royal of races. We have our own destiny to accomplish. It is unpleasant that our destiny does not tally with the destiny of the rest of the world, but what would you? You have talked windily about the royal races and the heritage of the earth, and we can only reply that that remains to be seen. You cannot invade us. Never mind about your navies. Don’t shout. We know our navy is small. You see we use it for police purposes. We do not care for the sea. Our strength is in our population, which will soon be a billion. Thanks to you, we are equipped with all modern war-machinery. Send your navies. We will not notice them. Send your punitive expeditions, but first remember France. To land half a million soldiers on our shores would strain the resources of any of you. And our thousand millions would swallow them down in a mouthful. Send a million; send five millions, and we will swallow them down just as readily. Pouf! A mere nothing, a meagre morsel. Destroy, as you have threatened, you United States, the ten million coolies we have forced upon your shores – why, the amount scarcely equals half of our excess birth rate for a year.”

So spoke Li Tang Fwung. The world was nonplussed, helpless, terrified. Truly had he spoken. There was no combating China’s amazing birth rate. If her population was a billion, and was increasing twenty millions a year, in twenty-five years it would be a billion and a half – equal to the total population of the world in 1904. And nothing could be done. There was no way to dam up the over-spilling monstrous flood of life. War was futile. China laughed at a blockade of her coasts. She welcomed invasion. In her capacious maw was room for all the hosts of earth that could be hurled at her. And in the meantime her flood of yellow life poured out and on over Asia. China laughed and read in their magazines the learned lucubrations of the distracted Western scholars.

但有一位学者中国未能考虑 – 雅各布斯拉宁代尔。并不是说他是一个学者，除了最广泛的意义。首先，Jacobus Laningdale是一名科学家，并且直到那时，他还是一位非常模糊的科学家，一位在纽约市卫生办公室实验室工作的教授。 Jacobus Laningdale的头像任何其他头部一样，但在那个头脑中演变了一个想法。而且，那个头脑是保持这个想法秘密的智慧。他没有为杂志写一篇文章。相反，他要求度假。 1975年9月19日，他抵达华盛顿。那是晚上，但他直接前往白宫，因为他已经安排了与总统的观众。他与莫耶总统关系了三个小时。他们之间传递的东西直到很久以后才被世界其他地方所学习;事实上，当时世界对Jacobus Laningdale并不感兴趣。第二天，总统打电话到他的内阁。雅各布斯拉宁代尔出席了会议。诉讼程序保密。但就在那个下午，国务卿鲁弗斯·考德里离开华盛顿，第二天一早就开始前往英格兰。他携带的秘密开始传播，但它只在各国政府首脑中传播。可能有一个国家的六个人被委以Jacobus Laningdale头脑中形成的想法。随着秘密的传播，所有船坞，军火库和海军船坞都开展了大量活动。法国和奥地利人民开始怀疑，但他们的政府要求他们相信他们默许正在进行的未知项目是如此真诚。

这是大休战的时候。所有国家都庄严承诺不与任何其他国家开战。第一个明确的行动是逐步动员俄罗斯，德国，奥地利，意大利，希腊和土耳其的军队。然后开始向东运动。所有进入亚洲的铁路都充斥着部队列车。中国是目标，这就是众所周知的。稍后开始了伟大的海上运动。所有国家都发射了战舰远征队。舰队跟随舰队，全部前往中国沿海。各国清理了他们的海军码。他们派出了他们的收入切割工，派遣靴子和灯塔招标，他们派出了他们最后的陈旧巡洋舰和战列舰。不满足于此，他们给商船印象深刻。统计数据显示，有58,640艘装有探照灯和快速火炮的商船，由各国派往中国。

中国微笑着等待。在她的土地一侧，沿着她的边界，有数百万欧洲的战士。她动员了数百万民兵，并等待入侵。在她的海岸上她做了同样的事情。但中国感到困惑。经过所有这些巨大的准备，没有入侵。她无法理解。沿着伟大的西伯利亚边境，一切都很安静。沿着她的海岸，城镇和村庄甚至没有遭到炮击。从来没有，在世界历史上，曾经有如此强大的战争舰队集会。全世界的舰队都在那里，白天和黑夜数百万吨的战列舰在她的海岸的盐水中犁过，没有任何事情发生。没有尝试过。他们有没有想过要让她从她的外壳中脱颖而出？中国笑了。他们是否想过让她疲惫不堪，或者让她饿死？中国再次笑了笑。

但是，在1976年5月1日，如果读者曾在北京的皇城，其当时的人口为一千一百万，他就会目睹一个好奇的景象。他会看到街道上满是喋喋不休的黄色民众，每个排队的头都向后倾斜，每一个倾斜的眼睛都向天空转。在蓝色的高处，他会看到一个黑色的小点，由于其有序的演变，他会认定为飞艇。从这架飞艇上来看，当飞机在城市上空来回弯曲时，它会落下导弹 – 奇怪的，无害的导弹，脆弱的玻璃管，在街道和屋顶上碎成数千个碎片。但是这些玻璃管没有任何致命的东西。没啥事儿。没有爆炸。确实，三名中国人被巨大的高度落在他们的头上而被杀死;但是三个中国人的出生率超过二千万呢？一根管垂直地撞在花园里的鱼塘里，没有被打破。它被房子的主人拖上岸。他不敢打开它，但是在他的朋友的陪同下，他们被不断增加的人群所包围，他将这个神秘的管道带到了该区的地方法官那里。后者是一个勇敢的人。所有的目光都集中在他身上，他用黄铜管子吹了一下管子。没啥事儿。在那些非常近的人中，有一两个人认为他们看到一些蚊子飞了出去。这就是全部了。人群开始大笑并散去。

由于北京被玻璃管轰击，所以也是如此

But there was one scholar China failed to reckon on – Jacobus Laningdale. Not that he was a scholar, except in the widest sense. Primarily, Jacobus Laningdale was a scientist, and, up to that time, a very obscure scientist, a professor employed in the laboratories of the Health Office of New York City. Jacobus Laningdale’s head was very like any other head, but in that head was evolved an idea. Also, in that head was the wisdom to keep that idea secret. He did not write an article for the magazines. Instead, he asked for a vacation. On September 19, 1975, he arrived in Washington. It was evening, but he proceeded straight to the White House, for he had already arranged an audience with the President. He was closeted with President Moyer for three hours. What passed between them was not learned by the rest of the world until long after; in fact, at that time the world was not interested in Jacobus Laningdale. Next day the President called in his Cabinet. Jacobus Laningdale was present. The proceedings were kept secret. But that very afternoon Rufus Cowdery, Secretary of State, left Washington, and early the following morning sailed for England. The secret that he carried began to spread, but it spread only among the heads of Governments. Possibly half-a-dozen men in a nation were entrusted with the idea that had formed in Jacobus Laningdale’s head. Following the spread of the secret, sprang up great activity in all the dockyards, arsenals, and navy-yards. The people of France and Austria became suspicious, but so sincere were their Governments’ calls for confidence that they acquiesced in the unknown project that was afoot.

This was the time of the Great Truce. All countries pledged themselves solemnly not to go to war with any other country. The first definite action was the gradual mobilization of the armies of Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Then began the eastward movement. All railroads into Asia were glutted with troop trains. China was the objective, that was all that was known. A little later began the great sea movement. Expeditions of warships were launched from all countries. Fleet followed fleet, and all proceeded to the coast of China. The nations cleaned out their navy-yards. They sent their revenue cutters and dispatch boots and lighthouse tenders, and they sent their last antiquated cruisers and battleships. Not content with this, they impressed the merchant marine. The statistics show that 58,640 merchant steamers, equipped with searchlights and rapid-fire guns, were despatched by the various nations to China.

And China smiled and waited. On her land side, along her boundaries, were millions of the warriors of Europe. She mobilized five times as many millions of her militia and awaited the invasion. On her sea coasts she did the same. But China was puzzled. After all this enormous preparation, there was no invasion. She could not understand. Along the great Siberian frontier all was quiet. Along her coasts the towns and villages were not even shelled. Never, in the history of the world, had there been so mighty a gathering of war fleets. The fleets of all the world were there, and day and night millions of tons of battleships ploughed the brine of her coasts, and nothing happened. Nothing was attempted. Did they think to make her emerge from her shell? China smiled. Did they think to tire her out, or starve her out? China smiled again.

But on May 1, 1976, had the reader been in the imperial city of Peking, with its then population of eleven millions, he would have witnessed a curious sight. He would have seen the streets filled with the chattering yellow populace, every queued head tilted back, every slant eye turned skyward. And high up in the blue he would have beheld a tiny dot of black, which, because of its orderly evolutions, he would have identified as an airship. From this airship, as it curved its flight back and forth over the city, fell missiles – strange, harmless missiles, tubes of fragile glass that shattered into thousands of fragments on the streets and house- tops. But there was nothing deadly about these tubes of glass. Nothing happened. There were no explosions. It is true, three Chinese were killed by the tubes dropping on their heads from so enormous a height; but what were three Chinese against an excess birth rate of twenty millions? One tube struck perpendicularly in a fish-pond in a garden and was not broken. It was dragged ashore by the master of the house. He did not dare to open it, but, accompanied by his friends, and surrounded by an ever-increasing crowd, he carried the mysterious tube to the magistrate of the district. The latter was a brave man. With all eyes upon him, he shattered the tube with a blow from his brass-bowled pipe. Nothing happened. Of those who were very near, one or two thought they saw some mosquitoes fly out. That was all. The crowd set up a great laugh and dispersed.

As Peking was bombarded by glass tubes, so was all China. The tiny airships, dispatched from the warships, contained but two men each, and over all cities, towns, and villages they wheeled and curved, one man directing the ship, the other man throwing over the glass tubes.

Had the reader again been in Peking, six weeks later, he would have looked in vain for the eleven million inhabitants. Some few of them he would have found, a few hundred thousand, perhaps, their carcasses festering in the houses and in the deserted streets, and piled high on the abandoned death-waggons. But for the rest he would have had to seek along the highways and byways of the Empire. And not all would he have found fleeing from plague-stricken Peking, for behind them, by hundreds of thousands of unburied corpses by the wayside, he could have marked their flight. And as it was with Peking, so it was with all the cities, towns, and villages of the Empire. The plague smote them all. Nor was it one plague, nor two plagues; it was a score of plagues. Every virulent form of infectious death stalked through the land. Too late the Chinese government apprehended the meaning of the colossal preparations, the marshalling of the world-hosts, the flights of the tin airships, and the rain of the tubes of glass. The proclamations of the government were vain. They could not stop the eleven million plague-stricken wretches, fleeing from the one city of Peking to spread disease through all the land. The physicians and health officers died at their posts; and death, the all- conqueror, rode over the decrees of the Emperor and Li Tang Fwung. It rode over them as well, for Li Tang Fwung died in the second week, and the Emperor, hidden away in the Summer Palace, died in the fourth week.

Had there been one plague, China might have coped with it. But from a score of plagues no creature was immune. The man who escaped smallpox went down before scarlet fever. The man who was immune to yellow fever was carried away by cholera; and if he were immune to that, too, the Black Death, which was the bubonic plague, swept him away. For it was these bacteria, and germs, and microbes, and bacilli, cultured in the laboratories of the West, that had come down upon China in the rain of glass.

All organization vanished. The government crumbled away. Decrees and proclamations were useless when the men who made them and signed them one moment were dead the next. Nor could the maddened millions, spurred on to flight by death, pause to heed anything. They fled from the cities to infect the country, and wherever they fled they carried the plagues with them. The hot summer was on – Jacobus Laningdale had selected the time shrewdly – and the plague festered everywhere. Much is conjectured of what occurred, and much has been learned from the stories of the few survivors. The wretched creatures stormed across the Empire in many-millioned flight. The vast armies China had collected on her frontiers melted away. The farms were ravaged for food, and no more crops were planted, while the crops already in were left unattended and never came to harvest. The most remarkable thing, perhaps, was the flights. Many millions engaged in them, charging to the bounds of the Empire to be met and turned back by the gigantic armies of the West. The slaughter of the mad hosts on the boundaries was stupendous. Time and again the guarding line was drawn back twenty or thirty miles to escape the contagion of the multitudinous dead.

一旦瘟疫突破并抓住了守卫土耳其斯坦边界的德国和奥地利士兵。已经为这种情况做了准备，虽然有六万名欧洲士兵被带走，但国际医生队员将这一传染病隔离开来并将其拦截。正是在这场斗争中，有人提出一种新的鼠疫起源，以某种方式或某种方式发生了鼠疫菌之间的杂交，产生了一种新的，可怕的毒性胚芽。最初被Vomberg怀疑，他被感染并死亡，后来被Stevens，Hazenfelt，Norman和Landers分离和研究。

这是对中国的无与伦比的入侵。对于那十亿人来说，没有希望。在他们庞大而恶化的殡仪馆里，所有的组织和凝聚都失败了，他们只能死而已。他们无法逃脱。当他们从陆地边界甩回来时，他们也被从海上甩回来。七万五千艘船在海岸巡逻。白天他们的吸烟漏斗使海边变暗，到了晚上，他们闪烁的探照灯掠过黑暗，耙成最小的垃圾。巨大的船队的尝试是可怜的。从来没有一个守卫海猎犬。现代战争机器阻止了中国的混乱群众，而瘟疫则完成了这项工作。

但旧战争成了笑声。没有留给他，但巡逻任务。中国曾嘲笑战争和战争，但这是超现代的战争，二十世纪的战争，科学家和实验室的战争，雅各布斯拉宁代尔的战争。与实验室投掷的微型有机射弹相比，数百吨的枪是玩具，死亡的使者，摧毁了十亿人的帝国的摧毁天使。

在整个1976年的夏季和秋季，中国都是一个地狱。没有找到寻找最偏远的藏身之处的微观射弹。数以亿计的死者仍然没有被埋葬，细菌成倍增加，最后，每天有数百万人死于饥饿。此外，饥饿削弱了受害者并摧毁了他们对瘟疫的天然防御。自食主义，谋杀和疯狂统治着。所以中国灭亡了。

直到次年2月，在最寒冷的天气里，才进行了第一次探险。这些探险队很小，由科学家和部队组成;但他们从各方面进入中国。尽管采取了最精心的预防措施，但仍有许多士兵和一些医生受伤。但是，探索勇敢地进行了探索。他们发现中国遭受了破坏，一个嚎叫的荒野，漫游的野狗和绝望的匪徒幸存下来。所有幸存者在被发现的地方都被处死。然后开始了伟大的任务，中国的卫生。根据民主的美国计划，五年和数以亿计的宝藏被消耗，然后世界进入 – 而不是在区域，就像Baron Albrecht的想法一样，但是不同寻常。这是一个巨大而愉快的民族融合，在1982年和随后的几年中定居在中国 – 这是一次巨大而成功的交叉实验。我们今天知道随后的辉煌的机械，知识和艺术输出。

1987年，伟大的休战解散了，法国和德国之间在阿尔萨斯 – 洛林之间的古老争吵再次发生。战争云在4月变得黑暗和威胁，并于4月17日召开了哥本哈根会议。世界各国的代表在场，所有国家都庄严地保证，他们不会相互使用他们在入侵中国时使用的实验室战争方法。

– 摘自沃尔特梅尔文的“历史上的某些事物”。

Once the plague broke through and seized upon the German and Austrian soldiers who were guarding the borders of Turkestan. Preparations had been made for such a happening, and though sixty thousand soldiers of Europe were carried off, the international corps of physicians isolated the contagion and dammed it back. It was during this struggle that it was suggested that a new plague- germ had originated, that in some way or other a sort of hybridization between plague-germs had taken place, producing a new and frightfully virulent germ. First suspected by Vomberg, who became infected with it and died, it was later isolated and studied by Stevens, Hazenfelt, Norman, and Landers.

Such was the unparalleled invasion of China. For that billion of people there was no hope. Pent in their vast and festering charnel-house, all organization and cohesion lost, they could do naught but die. They could not escape. As they were flung back from their land frontiers, so were they flung back from the sea. Seventy-five thousand vessels patrolled the coasts. By day their smoking funnels dimmed the sea-rim, and by night their flashing searchlights ploughed the dark and harrowed it for the tiniest escaping junk. The attempts of the immense fleets of junks were pitiful. Not one ever got by the guarding sea-hounds. Modern war- machinery held back the disorganized mass of China, while the plagues did the work.

But old War was made a thing of laughter. Naught remained to him but patrol duty. China had laughed at war, and war she was getting, but it was ultra-modern war, twentieth century war, the war of the scientist and the laboratory, the war of Jacobus Laningdale. Hundred-ton guns were toys compared with the micro- organic projectiles hurled from the laboratories, the messengers of death, the destroying angels that stalked through the empire of a billion souls.

During all the summer and fall of 1976 China was an inferno. There was no eluding the microscopic projectiles that sought out the remotest hiding-places. The hundreds of millions of dead remained unburied and the germs multiplied themselves, and, toward the last, millions died daily of starvation. Besides, starvation weakened the victims and destroyed their natural defences against the plagues. Cannibalism, murder, and madness reigned. And so perished China.

Not until the following February, in the coldest weather, were the first expeditions made. These expeditions were small, composed of scientists and bodies of troops; but they entered China from every side. In spite of the most elaborate precautions against infection, numbers of soldiers and a few of the physicians were stricken. But the exploration went bravely on. They found China devastated, a howling wilderness through which wandered bands of wild dogs and desperate bandits who had survived. All survivors were put to death wherever found. And then began the great task, the sanitation of China. Five years and hundreds of millions of treasure were consumed, and then the world moved in – not in zones, as was the idea of Baron Albrecht, but heterogeneously, according to the democratic American programme. It was a vast and happy intermingling of nationalities that settled down in China in 1982 and the years that followed – a tremendous and successful experiment in cross-fertilization. We know to-day the splendid mechanical, intellectual, and art output that followed.

It was in 1987, the Great Truce having been dissolved, that the ancient quarrel between France and Germany over Alsace-Lorraine recrudesced. The war-cloud grew dark and threatening in April, and on April 17 the Convention of Copenhagen was called. The representatives of the nations of the world, being present, all nations solemnly pledged themselves never to use against one another the laboratory methods of warfare they had employed in the invasion of China.

— Excerpt from Walt Mervin’s “CERTAIN ESSAYS IN HISTORY.”

http://london.sonoma.edu/Writings/StrengthStrong/invasion.html