Chapter 218 Reversing Black and White
The Japanese Embassy in the United States is holding a press conference at this time.
Matsuoka Yoyu stood in front of the podium, holding a book called Rabe Diary in his hand, and said to the microphone with a serious look on his face: "I can tell you very much that the content described in this book is all fiction!"
A reporter from the audience raised his hand and asked: "Ambassador Matsuoka, what do you mean is that what is written in this book is fake?"
"Yes, they are all fake! Everything the Imperial Army of our Great Japanese Empire did was to establish a circle of ***. The Imperial Army's military operations in China were friendly, how could it be possible to massacre civilians! The content in this book was entirely intentional rumor and slander against Japan!" Matsuoka Yoyu said firmly.
"Ambassador Matsuoka, why do you think this book is deliberately slandering your country?" Another reporter asked.
Matsuoka Yoyou said, "As we all know, Japan and China are currently in a state of war. As a Chinese, Chen Qiang will inevitably try his best to slander Japan, so he uses such shameful means to slander the imperial army!"
"Ambassador Matsuoka, if the contents here are all fabricated, then the massacre mentioned in the book does not exist? Is this just a public opinion offensive launched by the Chinese?" the reporter asked again.
"Of course there is no massacre. The Chinese deliberately fabricated a lie to fool you! As far as I know, Nanjing is now peaceful. If you don't believe it, you can go to Nanjing to take a look and you will know that what I said is true, and there is no massacre at all."
Matsuoka Yoyu paused and continued, "On the contrary, Chen Qiang published this book to slander our Japanese Imperial Army, but he could not produce any evidence at all. He would only fabricate some stories. So I here also call on the general public not to be deceived by that Chinese! All he said is lies!"
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After the press conference ended, Matsuoka Yosuke finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Another Japanese ambassador to China, Yusuke Tsurumi, quietly walked over and asked in a low voice: "Amistantor Matsuoka, you directly denied the authenticity of this book. Is this really useful? You should know that the records in this book are all true. At the beginning of this year, I read newspapers sent from China. Our soldiers actually started a murder contest in Nanjing! They are really massacring civilians!"
"The Imperial Army is just a few resistance people." Matsuoka Yoyou said without pain.
"Resist? Will the woman with long hair in the photo be the middle-aged man?" Tsuruma Yusuke said.
"When Tsuru meets the ambassador, don't care about these things. Americans don't know the truth, and they shouldn't know the truth either." Yoyuzu Matsuoka replied.
Matsuoka Yoyou said, looking at Tsuruka Yusuke with some contempt, thinking that this scholar had a lot of things.
Yusuke Tsurumi is one of the three Japanese ambassadors to the United States. He is the writer and he is a moderate in the Japanese government. His political views are originally inconsistent with the Japanese right wing, so Yosuke Matsuoka always felt that he and Yusuke Tsurumi were not the same person.
Tsuruji Yusuke asked anxiously: "Ambassador Matsuoka, you must know that the lies will be exposed sooner or later!"
"No, I have already said that Americans don't know the truth! That's why I held this press conference to guide Americans to change their perceptions. As long as we insist, the contents in this book were fabricated by the Chinese, that's enough. Anyway, the Chinese have no evidence of massacre." Yoyou Matsuoka said quite relaxedly.
"This book is a diary written by a German. If the Chinese call the German who wrote the diary, how should we deal with it?" Tsurumai Yusuke asked again.
"The Germans are our allies, so they cannot stand up and accuse us. Even if that Rabe really stands up, we can say that he and Chen Qiang are in the same group. The two of them conspired to fabricate such a book to deceive the world and steal reputation!" Matsuoka Yoyou answered, but his tone was already a little impatient.
Tsurumi Yusuke asked again: "But if American journalists really go to China, they will investigate the truth."
"Nanjing is now controlled by the empire. What if American journalists go there? Every move they make will be under the surveillance of the Imperial Intelligence Department, so there will be no gains. What's more, I bet that these journalists dare not go to China. China is now a war zone, and these timid Americans dare not die!"
Matsuoka Yoyou paused and continued, "Chiroka, you should know that the history books were written by the victors, and the Imperial Army will soon occupy the entire China. By that time, what happened in Nanjing will be buried in the long river of history, and will never be mentioned by people, and will never be known to the world!"
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The next day, Japanese ambassador to the United States, Yoyou Matsuoka, denied the massacre and accused Rabe of being a lie. Chen Qiang also saw related reports.
Chen Qiang was not surprised by Matsuoka Yoyou's performance. Since the end of World War II, Japan has never admitted to the massacre. Even if the iron facts are placed in front of them, they selectively pretend not to see it.
Moreover, these invaders packaged themselves as victims of World War II, as if the whole world owed them. The key is that in the end, even the Japanese themselves believed that they were victims rather than invaders!
Chen Qiang originally thought that after "Rabe's Diary" became popular in the United States, the Japanese at most did not speak silently, and treated it as an ostrich and buried their heads in the soil, causing a three-combo attack of "not hearing, not seeing, not knowing". However, Chen Qiang did not expect that Matsuoka Yoyu's reaction was so fierce, so he held a press conference directly, and instead accused Chen Qiang of spreading rumors and slandering.
"It's really the evil one who complains first!" Chen Qiang curled his lips disdainfully.
At this moment, the phone ringing in Chen Qiang's room rang. Chen Qiang answered the phone and the voice of the hotel lobby manager came from the receiver.
"Mr. Chen, another reporter said that if I want to interview you, should I reply to him like before?" the lobby manager asked.
"Of course, I still have a cold and am resting in bed. In order to avoid the spread of the disease, I will not see anyone for the time being." After Chen Qiang ordered, he put down the phone.
Since Japanese Ambassador to China, Yoyo Matsuoka turned black and white, and a villain first complained, several reporters have wanted to interview Chen Qiang, and they want to hear how Chen Qiang responded to Yoyo Matsuoka.
Chen Qiang adopted a strategy of avoiding it, claiming to the outside world that he had a cold and needed cultivation.
The reason Chen Qiang did this is not because he could not refute Matsuoka Yoyou, but was waiting for the fermentation of public opinion.
Matsuoka Yoyu held a press conference, not only denied the atrocities of the Japanese army, but also accused Chen Qiang of making fraud, which would inevitably attract the attention of the media. Not to mention anything else, just the fraud of contents of hot-selling books is enough to make the media create a lot of topics.
Moreover, the author of the book is Chen Qiang. Now Chen Qiang is still as popular as a US Open champion, and coupled with the halo of the world's number one athlete, this kind of celebrity scandal will attract more attention and more intense discussion.
So Chen Qiang simply chose to lie down. He did not immediately refute Matsuoka Yosuke. At this time, the public opinion was not paid enough. Even if he refuted Matsuoka Yosuke, the slap in the face was not enough.
The effect Chen Qiang wanted was the sensational face-slapping effect, which was the result of Matsuoka Yosuke's defeat and he could never turn over again.
And things were as Chen Qiang expected. The more he pretended to be sick, the more the media could not get the truth, the more they would hype it up. Many media even believed that the reason why Chen Qiang did not respond was because what Matsuoka Yoyu said was true. The content of the book "Rabe Diary" was really fictional, and there was no massacre. Chen Qiang was guilty and deliberately avoided media interviews.
In terms of the Japanese Embassy, Matsuoka Yoyu was not idle either. He found the media and began to whitewash Japan. At the same time, he promoted the content of "Rabe Diary" fabricated by Chen Qiang.
When Matsuoka Yosuke came to the United States with his uncle when he was young, he grew up in the United States and was a "meaningful American faction" in Japan. He had some connections in the United States, so he was sent to the United States as an ambassador. At this time, Matsuoka Yosuke was using his accumulated connections to launch a public opinion offensive against Chen Qiang.
Faced with the surging public opinion, Chen Qiang pretended to be sick, while secretly planning a counterattack.
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Even in the 21st century, Americans believed in public opinion propaganda. For example, if a country is an evil country in public opinion, then Americans believed that this country is a really evil country; if a country has weapons of mass destruction, Americans really believed that this country has weapons of mass destruction; if a country says that a country steals intellectual property rights, then in the eyes of Americans, everything in this country is stolen from the United States.
In this regard, Americans are really stupid. At least they are not as awesome as in the movie. They have let other countries "stole" American technology so easily. And once they "stole" for decades, they have no way to stop them. Other countries in the world are even stupider, watching other countries "stole" technology from the United States, and these countries have not learned how to "steal" them for decades. By the way, you are so stupid, why can you develop new technologies?
Nowadays, public opinion is building momentum that Chen Qiang's book "Rabe Diary" is completely fake, and many Americans really believe this. They think that Chen Qiang either continues to become famous in this book "Rabe Diary" or wants to achieve political goals.
However, it is precisely because of the hype of public opinion that the sales of "Rabe Diary" have increased significantly. Many people did not intend to read this book, but when they heard that the contents in it were "fictional", they would be curious about what the book "fictionalized".
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In the bookstore, Williams came to buy the book again. To his surprise, "Rabbe Diary" was still placed in the most conspicuous position, and there were customers standing next to him, obviously intending to buy the book.
"Why is this book still here? Haven't you read the newspaper? The contents here are completely fictional and all fake!" Williams said.
The clerk came over and said with a smile: "Mr. Williams, although the newspaper said that this book was completely fabricated, the sales volume of this book was very good. That's why we put it in the most conspicuous position."
"It's really strange. Even though I know that the contents are all compiled, why do you still buy this book?" Williams asked in confusion.
At this time, the customer who was planning to buy a book said, "Actually, I came to buy a book after reading the newspaper. I want to know what it is written in it. It can deceive so many people around!"
"Oh, actually a lot of content in it will make you feel uncomfortable. If you buy this book, don't read it while dining." Williams said.
The customer was slightly stunned and then said, "I was hesitating whether to buy this book, but now I'm even more curious after hearing what you said. I decided to buy this book!"
People are curious, and there are also many people who consume to satisfy their curiosity. For example, many Trojan virus programs in the early days were spread through people's curiosity. A very attractive advertisement popped up, and netizens pointed it in and then got infected with the virus in the computer.
Moreover, people always have a curiosity. For example, a super big and bad movie in Wei gave a super low score on the review website. Countless critics also said that this is an unprecedented super big and bad movie. However, the box office of this bad movie is good, not because the audience is stupid and has money to spend, but because many viewers want to see how bad this bad movie is.
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Yoyou Matsuoka went to the media to whitewash Japan's atrocities, but the more popular "Rabe Diary", which greatly increased the sales of "Rabe Diary". Many people who did not plan to read books would buy one and read it, and then treat the contents of the book as topics for conversation after dinner.
In a restaurant, diners at one table were discussing the "Rabe Diary".
"The book actually says that there are thousands of refugee bodies on the dock. It sounds like fake. There are more than a thousand people. How could so many people be killed at the same time? Even if they use machine guns, they have to be killed for a long time!"
"There is another paragraph in the book that is even more exaggerated, saying that there are more than 3,000 corpses in a canal. When I saw this paragraph, I knew it was a random content. Massacre of more than 3,000 unarmed civilians, no one can do such anti-human things!"
"It also says that a baby was stabbed to death by a bayonet. I absolutely don't believe that such a thing will happen. The baby has no ability to resist. I think no one can do anything to kill a baby. Even a perverted murderer will not lose his conscience to such an extent."
Diners were discussing, and in the corner, Japanese ambassador to the United States, Yooyou Matsuoka, smiled with a traitorous smile.
"I've said a long time ago that as long as we insist, the content of the book is fabricated and published entirely by Chen Qiang to slander the imperial army, then all problems will be solved! Chen Qiang has no evidence to refute us." Matsuoka Yoyou said to his companion proudly.
The companion immediately praised: "Ambassador Matsuoka is really far-sighted. You resolved a crisis and it also embarrassed the Chinese! I think he will never dare to cause trouble for us in the future."
Matsuoka Yoyu was enjoying the compliment of his companions. At this moment, someone approached the restaurant. Matsuoka Yoyu looked up and saw that the person was a staff member of the Japanese Embassy in the United States. The man came directly to Matsuoka Yoyu's table.
"Is there anything?" Matsuoka Yoyou asked.
"Ambassador Matsuoka, we just got the news that Chen Qiang is going to hold a press conference!" said the visitor.
"Oh, it seems that Chen Qiang couldn't help but finally fight back? Let's keep an eye on him and see what he is doing!" Matsuoka Yoyou smiled slightly, and then asked subconsciously: "By the way, when will this press conference be held? Where?"
"At 2 pm, the location is the New York Art Center." The visitor replied.
"New York Art Center? Why did you choose this kind of place? Is it because the location is easier to find?" Matsuoka Yoyu murmured to himself, but he did not take it seriously.
Chapter completed!