What is so crazy about this Japanese who treats Chinese feces as a treasure and abandons his wife and children?

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In 2009, Hiroto Kawasaki arrived in Qingdao, China. He came to China for another purpose.

Before coming, he worked hard in agricultural research in China and had a certain understanding of the current situation in rural China. But when he actually came to China, he was shocked by what he saw.

Most rural areas in northern China do not have any pastoral scenery at all, but more like a huge garbage dump!

On both sides of the muddy roads in rural areas, domestic garbage discarded by villagers can be found everywhere. The feces of various animals can be seen everywhere, and the stench is overwhelming.

Most villagers are used to this kind of scene.

They can walk on chicken dung and sheep dung calmly, and they will allow their children to urinate and defecate everywhere, and even proudly say that they are fertilizing the land. But Hiroto Kawasaki couldn't accept it at all, and he felt extremely heartbroken.

In his opinion, the excrement that is randomly discarded is a priceless treasure, but it is a pity that the villagers do not know how to use it rationally and instead use it to pollute the environment.

Even if some people use manure as fertilizer, they pour it directly into the land without any treatment.

This kind of feces, which is called "farmyard manure" by ordinary people, smells bad and does not allow crops to obtain more nutrients. On the contrary, it is easy to breed bacteria.

Japan, the hometown of Hiroto Kawasaki, has already "turned waste into treasure".

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The fertilizer produced after treatment not only has no odor, but can also better increase the fertility of the land. Using this composting technology is simply killing two birds with one stone. It not only increases crop yields, but also solves the garbage problem.

Kawasaki Hiroto is determined to promote this composting technology to China to help Chinese farmers.

After returning to Japan, he studied all the knowledge related to composting technology day and night. Four years later, in 2013, he decided to return to China.

However, his decision was strongly opposed by his wife. To his wife, Hiroto Kawasaki is simply crazy.

He worked diligently in the company for most of his life and finally managed to retire, receiving a generous pension every month. After struggling all his life, he could finally live a beautiful life of drinking wine and soaking in hot springs, but he had to give up everything?

Let’s not talk about whether he can adapt to life in China, a place he is unfamiliar with. The historical hatred between the two countries and whether Kawasaki Hiroto can be treated well makes his wife worried.

What magic power does China have that draws away the soul of Hiroto Kawasaki? Although his wife objected in every possible way, Hiroto Kawasaki was determined.

He has a secret concern.

He has read a lot of information about Japan's war of aggression against China and knows that China has suffered great harm from Japan.

Hiroto Kawasaki once told reporters in broken Chinese: "At that time, the Japanese army killed many Chinese people. This was not right, so we Japanese reflected on it."

For the Chinese Guilt has been lingering in Hiroto Kawasaki's mind. Although, he never participated in the war of aggression against China.

He often reads Mao Zedong's works and has also seen "Red Star Shines on China", and has great sympathy and affection for socialist China.

Nowadays, Japan has become a developed country, but many areas in China are still poor and backward, and the situation in rural areas is not optimistic.

Going to China and helping Chinese farmers has become Hiroto Kawasaki’s greatest desire.

In 2013, after many twists and turns, Hiroto Kawasaki finally convinced his family. He took 200,000 yuan and boarded a flight to China alone.

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Kawasaki Hiroto’s trip to China was not smooth at all. He worked in Tianshui, Gansu and Luoyang, Henan, but failed to realize his ambitions and no one wanted to believe in him.

In 2014, under the introduction of a friend, he came to Xiaoliugu Farm in Yuanyang County, Henan Province.

The owner of this farm is Li Wei, who is willing to support Kawasaki Hiroto's experiment. But this place used to be a pig farm, and the conditions were very harsh. The environment was even dirtier and worse than before.

But for Hiroto Kawasaki, trust is more important than anything else.

He regarded Xiaoliugu Farm as his base camp. But problems came one after another.

The Chinese language is broad and profound, and Hiroto Kawasaki struggled to learn even the basics of it.

After arriving in Yuanyang, he discovered an even more desperate fact: everyone here spoke Henan dialect, and he couldn’t understand it at all. Conversations with local farmers turned into chicken-to-duck talk. , playing the piano to the cow.

After finally finding a reliable translator, Hiroto Kawasaki found that the farmers did not understand his behavior at all, but instead waited to see his jokes with a mocking attitude.

Farmers called him "the Japanese in the pig farm", and some old ladies in the countryside complained behind his back that he was a Japanese devil, vividly describing how the Japanese burned, killed and looted.

Hiroto Kawasaki used local materials and painstakingly produced "liquid fertilizer" for everyone to try for free. The farmers were not grateful at all, but were secretly happy that they could take advantage of it.

The dry toilets in rural areas are even more unacceptable to Kawasaki people. He had never seen such a dirty and smelly toilet in Japan. In order to avoid going to the toilet, he drank as little water and ate as little as possible every day.

With poor sanitation, Hiroto Kawasaki is worried about how to grow truly healthy food.

Although he is trying hard to learn Chinese, it is obviously still too difficult for him to curse in Chinese. Whenever he saw villagers not observing hygienic habits, he couldn't help but scream.

When I was most angry, I had to go on a hunger strike to express my protest. He knew that because of his age, everyone still took care of him. If he usually refused to listen, just a hunger strike would definitely help.

Gradually, he created an astonishing miracle at Xiao Liugu Farm. After using the "liquid fertilizer" produced by Hiroto Kawasaki, the farm's output increased rapidly.

Not only that, the quality of wheat is also much better than in previous years. This immediate effect gave Hiroto Kawasaki the courage to continue moving forward: As long as I can help Chinese agriculture, I will persevere no matter how difficult it is!

After composting technology was widely used on farms, the yield of wheat increased, but the growth of tomatoes was still not good.

After research, Hiroto Kawasaki decided to spend money to buy a greenhouse to improve the growing environment of tomatoes. But the farmer reluctantly told him that there was no extra funds at all.

At this moment, almost all the 200,000 RMB that Hiroto Kawasaki brought from Japan was spent. He gritted his teeth and took out his last 3,000 yuan - the money for his air ticket back to Japan.

He told his wife that he would not go back and would die in China.

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After building the greenhouse, Hiroto Kawasaki stayed in the tomato field day and night. He took a notebook and kept recording problems existing in tomato growth, and read professional books for timely diagnosis and treatment.

His research on composting technology has also become increasingly sophisticated.

Hiroto Kawasaki, who is over 70 years old, insists on working more than 14 hours a day no matter the cold winter or the scorching heat, which puts many young people to shame.

God paid off, and after hard work, Xiaoliu Gu’s farm achieved a bumper harvest of tomatoes. Since the tomatoes use composting technology, they taste very good and everyone who tastes them praises them highly.

After media reports, the farm’s tomato sales increased significantly, and demand exceeded supply for a while. However, Hiroto Kawasaki is very strict about quality control. He will never use any ripening agent for tomatoes that are not yet mature.

It is better not to make money than to deceive consumers.

Xiao Liugu Farm has become a holy place that many farmers across the country yearn for. Hiroto Kawasaki has also been invited by many universities to give lectures.

But soon, the old man discovered that groups of people were arriving one after another, not because they were eager for his skills, but because his Japanese identity had become a big selling point, and the old man fell silent.

He no longer takes visitors to introduce technology. When he sees someone approaching, he often smiles politely and plunges into the fields again.

Hiroto Kawasaki did not take any of the remuneration received from previous lectures, and donated all of it to Xiao Liugu Farm.

He never came to China to be a farmer for money, but to transform the face of Chinese agriculture and let Chinese farmers live a prosperous life. Only in this way can he make up for the apology he feels towards the Chinese people.

The war of aggression that has passed for more than half a century also hurt Hiroto Kawasaki’s friends. Due to the shortage of supplies during the war, his friend died of starvation.

In the eyes of many people, Hiroto Kawasaki has a rare idealism.

He gave up the comfortable life that many people strive for all their lives, and even "abandoned his wife and children" just for his own beliefs.

His children once told him that if they insisted on coming to China, they would not recognize him as their father. The old man just sighed helplessly and packed his bags silently.

When he was alone, he often read a passage from the Bible to himself: "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way, which leads to destruction. Enter There are many who lead to eternal life; the gate is narrow and the road is narrow, and those who find it are few."

Although he knew that he had chosen a narrow road, this stubborn old man, He still said in his poor Chinese that he would "die on the land of China" for this!

In this era when ideals are dead, Hiroto Kawasaki sailed across the ocean on the wings of singing, building a utopia brick by brick.