Chapter 33 Three nights see Doihara
Doihara and Itagaki, among the twenty-five war criminals tried by the "Far East International Military Tribunal", were the two convicted of the most crimes.The two of them had the same crime, and they both committed the most serious crime of "crimes against the laws and customs of war and against humanity", that is, the crime of "ordering permission to violate the contract".The International Military Tribunal for the Far East delayed the verdict on these war criminals until November 1948. Doihara, Itagaki and five other war criminals were all sentenced to hang.
Doihara was a Japanese soldier who made his fortune entirely by invading China.After graduating from the Infantry Division of the 16th Phase of the Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy and the Army University, he served as a member of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters and the captain of the 13th Infantry Regiment. He came to China in 1913 and served in the Kwantung Army. The warlord's adviser, Lieutenant General Rihachiro Sakanishi, served as an adjutant for more than ten years.He had a particularly deep relationship with Zhang Zuolin. During the Zhifeng War in 1924, he instigated the Kwantung Army to help Zhang Zuolin.In 1928, the Kwantung Army decided to eliminate Zhang Zuolin, and he also participated in the conspiracy to blow up Zhang Zuolin in Huanggutun.Not long after, he was promoted to Colonel due to his meritorious service and took up the position of head of the Shenyang Secret Service. From then on, he started the crimes mentioned in the verdict and started his career.In fact, many "masterpieces" of Doihara are not mentioned in the "Judgment", such as the Tianjin riot in November 1931, the outbreak of the Jehol War in 1932, and the May 1935 incident. The Fengtai Incident, the establishment of the Jidong puppet organization, the Xianghe riots in November, and the emergence of the special regime in Jicha were all inseparable from Doihara's planning activities.It can be said that during that time, wherever Doihara went, disasters befell.He failed only once, that is, Ma Zhanshan, who was treasonous under his co-option, later resisted Japan anyway.But this did not affect his subsequent promotion. He was transferred to be the brigade commander for a short time, and then transferred back to serve as the chief of the secret service of the Kwantung Army.It wasn't until the "July 7th" incident that the pseudo-organizations that the Japanese wanted to establish were all established, and riots, riots, etc. were replaced by armed attacks. Only then did Doihara take off his white gloves, picked up the command sword, and fought with the division. As commander, legion commander, commander-in-chief of the front army, etc., he commanded the Japanese soldiers to massacre and plunder in mainland China and Southeast Asia.In this way, in a pool of bones and blood, he was promoted from major to general in less than ten years since the "September 18th" incident.
At that time, there were all kinds of mysterious legends about him. Western newspapers called him "Oriental", and Chinese newspapers said that he was accustomed to wearing Chinese clothes and was good at Chinese dialects.According to my understanding, if his activities in China are like encouraging me to leave the customs, he does not need the deceit and scheming of the legendary Lawrence, as long as he has a face for gambling and can tell lies as the truth.He didn't wear Chinese clothes when he met me, but a Japanese-style suit; his Chinese didn't seem to be very good, so he used Yoshida Chutaro as our interpreter in order not to misunderstand or mishear. .
He was forty-eight years old at the time, the muscles around his eyes showed signs of relaxation, he had a small mustache under his nose, and he had a gentle and submissive smile from beginning to end.The only feeling that this kind of smile gives people is that not a single word this person says is unreliable.
After he asked me about his health, he turned to the topic, first explaining the actions of the Japanese army, saying that they only dealt with Zhang Xueliang alone, and saying that Zhang Xueliang "made Manchuria a mess, and the Japanese's rights, lives and property could not be guaranteed. Japan had no choice but to send troops."He said that the Kwantung Army had absolutely no territorial ambitions for Manchuria, but "sincerely, to help the people of Manchuria and build their own new country." Ben will enter into an offensive and defensive alliance with this country, and its sovereign territory will be fully protected by Japan; as the head of state of this country, I can do everything myself.
His sincere tone, submissive smile, and his fame and status completely do not allow me to treat him with the attitude I treat Luo Zhenyu and Kamikaku Riichi.What Chen Baochen was worried about—Boluo and Shangjiao could not represent the Kwantung Army, fearing that the Kwantung Army would not be able to represent the Japanese government—these two problems, I think, did not even exist.Doi was originally a pivotal figure in the Kwantung Army, and he said firmly, "His Majesty the Emperor believes in the Kwantung Army!"
There was another very important question in my mind, and I asked:
"What kind of country is this new country?"
"I have already said that it is independent and completely decided by Emperor Xuantong."
"That's not what I'm asking. I want to know whether this country is a republic or an empire? Is it an empire?"
"These problems can be solved in Shenyang."
"No," I insisted, "if it's a restoration, I'll go, otherwise I won't go."
He smiled, and said in the same tone:
"Of course it's the Empire, there's no problem with that."
"If it's an empire, I can go!" I expressed my satisfaction.
"Then Emperor Xuantong is requested to leave as soon as possible. In any case, he must arrive in Manchuria before the 16th. The detailed method will be discussed in Shenyang. The method of departure will be arranged by Yoshida."
He congratulated me on a safe journey as respectfully as when he came, saluted, and took his leave.After Doihara left, I met Jin Liang who came with Doihara. He brought news of the Northeast veterans headed by Yuan Jinkai, saying that they could call on the old Northeast Army to surrender.Anyway, I think it's totally fine.
After Doihara left, Yoshida told me that there was no need to tell the consulate general about it; he would make proper arrangements for me to leave for Dalian.I decided at that time that I would not discuss it with anyone other than Zheng Xiaoxu.
However, this time the news spread faster than the last time I went to the Japanese barracks. The news that Doihara and I met was published in the newspaper the next day, and the purpose of Doihara's trip was revealed.Chen Baochen was not in Tianjin those few days, but when he got the news, he ran back from Beijing in a hurry, got off the train and went straight to Zheng Xiaoxu's house, inquired about the news, and then rushed to Jingyuan.At this time, Liu Xiangye sent a telegram from Tokyo, Japan, saying that the Japanese military department believed that the time for me to leave the mountain had not yet come.After reading this telegram, I had no choice but to tell him about the meeting with Doihara, and promised to discuss it with everyone.
This day was November 5th, and a special "imperial meeting" was held in Jingyuan.I remember that in addition to Chen Baochen, Zheng Xiaoxu, and Hu Siyuan, Yuan Dahua and Tie Liang (Sheng Yun had just passed away) who were living in Tianjin were also summoned by me.At this meeting, Chen Baochen and Zheng Xiaoxu had a heated debate.
"The overall situation is uncertain at present, and rash actions will be harmful and useless. Luo Zhenyu's move to welcome the driver is impetuous, and the idea of driving now is not impetuous!" Chen Baochen looked at Zheng Xiaoxu and said.
"At that time, at this time. If the opportunity is missed, the enthusiasm of allies will be lost outside, and the favor of the people will be lost at home. I don't know the current affairs, and I am not prudent!" Zheng Xiaoxu looked at Chen Baochen and said.
"Even though the Japanese military department is enthusiastic, the Japanese cabinet has no such intentions. This is not a child's play. Please think twice before deciding."
"The Japanese cabinet is insignificant, and the Japanese military has the right to act. Think twice, that's all!"
"I asked the emperor to think twice, not you!"
"Think twice! Think twice! When the Japanese help Pu Wei up, where will we, the courtiers, fall into the emperor?"
"Pu Wei makes good and bad things, but Zuo is still Pu Wei. The emperor can only succeed, not lose. If not, where will the emperor fall? How can he be worthy of his ancestors?"
"Seeing that we are at the end of our ropes! After arriving outside the customs, we have restored our ancestral property and no longer worry about life. What can we do to our ancestors?"
Under Zheng Xiaoxu's spittle, Chen Baochen's face was pale, he leaned on the table tremblingly, leaned out his upper body, approached the bald head on the opposite side, and said with a sneer:
"You have your plans and passions. You have no success or failure, it's worthless!..."
Yuan Dahua, who was silent, Tie Liang, who bowed his head and kept silent, and Hu Siyuan, who could only pant by because of his status, felt that he could no longer be silent, so they came out to smooth things over.Tie Liang said something about "planning in the long run", revealing that he supported Chen Baochen, Yuan Dahua muttered a few words, but he didn't even know the meaning.Hu Siyuan wanted to support Chen Baochen, but he couldn't explain it clearly.I didn't express my attitude at the meeting, but I thought Chen Baochen was "respectable for his loyalty and extremely pedantic".
I think the best way is not to express your thoughts or reveal your intentions.This is true for the people around you, and even more so for the society.Here I would like to interject, about two or three days after the meeting with Doihara, a period after I met Takatomo.
There were so many people who asked to see me in those days, I thought that refusing them all would only confirm the speculation in the newspaper, which would be even more detrimental to me.As for Gao Youtang, it is even more necessary to meet him.He was also a guest of Zhang Yuan before, and Zhang Yuan regarded him as an old man, because he came from the official academy of the Qing Dynasty, served as an official in the Qing Dynasty, later ran several newspapers, and became a member of the Kuomintang's Supervisory Council. Asked Nanjing for "annual fee" (no result).I thought he might have some news for me, so I interviewed him.Unexpectedly, he came to be a lobbyist for Chiang Kai-shek.He said that the Kuomintang government sent him a telegram, asking him to tell me that the Kuomintang government is willing to restore the preferential treatment conditions, and pay the preferential treatment fee every year, or pay me a round sum at a time. I choose Shanghai. If I want to go abroad, or go anywhere except the Northeast and Japan, I can do it.
After hearing what he said, I sneered and said:
"What did the national government do? How many years have the preferential treatment conditions been abolished? Sun Dianying violated my ancestral tomb and didn't even take care of it. Now he is afraid that I will go out and throw away Chiang Kai-shek and others. That's why I remembered the preferential treatment. I This person doesn't receive any special treatment, and I don't plan to go anywhere. You are still an old minister of the Qing Dynasty, why bother to speak for them!"
Gao Youtang spoke to me as a widowed old man in a tone that was completely imagined for me.He said that the terms of the national government are very favorable to me. Of course, they often don't count, but if I think it is necessary, I can use a foreign bank as a guarantee.He said: "If there is a foreigner as a guarantor, Chiang Kai-shek will never dare to lie this time." He seemed to understand my psychology quite well, saying that the preferential treatment conditions have been restored, and of course the imperial title will be restored. negotiable.
I don't believe his words.I have long heard that Chiang Kai-shek is very cunning. Some people say that he married Song Meiling in order to win over Britain and the United States. He didn’t even want his first wife.Because he is afraid of the Japanese, now that he sees the Japanese approaching me, he agrees to any conditions. When I leave the Japanese, he should probably deal with me.Even if what he said counts, he gave me an emperor title, how can it compare to the emperor promised by Doihara?How can the money he can give me be compared to the entire Northeast?No matter how nice Chiang Kai-shek is to me, can he give me the country?Thinking of this, I don't plan to talk to Gao Youtang anymore.
"Well, I know what you said, and this conversation can come to an end."
Gao Youtang said this after seeing me pondering, but he mistook the matter for hope, and said quickly: "Okay, okay, think about it again, and I will come back in a few days."
"Well, come again."
He left with hope.Later, I heard that he came back from Beijing after being active with my seventh uncle. He encountered the "Tianjin Incident" and was stopped outside the concession.By the time he managed to get into the Japanese Concession, I was no longer in Jingyuan.
During those two days, people came one after another to inquire about the news or offer advice, and I also received quite a few letters.People gave me advice and warnings, and even someone surnamed Aixinjueluo advised me not to recognize a thief as my father, but to cherish the dignity of the Chinese people.I have been so enthralled by dreams of Restoration that no counsel has any effect.I decided not to say anything honest.There was a Tianjin tabloid reporter named Liu Rangong, who was also a frequent guest of Zhang Yuan and Jing Yuan. He often wrote articles in his newspaper to compliment me.He saw that I strongly denied it, so he fulfilled the obligation to refute the rumors for me.But he didn't expect that on the same day his newspaper published the news that dispelled the rumors about me, I boarded the Japanese ship to Yingkou.
I have to tell you about an incident that happened two days before I left Tianjin.That day, under the spit of stars, I listened to the talk:
"Don't lose the enthusiasm of allies, and don't reject the favor of the people of the country... This is a heroic cause, and it is definitely beyond the comprehension of scholars and scholars..."
"It's not good!" My attendant Qi Jizhong suddenly ran in in a panic, "Bomb! Two bombs!..."
I sat on the sofa, too scared to even stand up.In the confusion, it was hard to figure out that a stranger sent a gift just now, with a business card of Zhao Xinbo, the former adviser of the Northeast Security Headquarters attached.The visitor put down the gift and walked away.Qi Jizhong checked the gifts as usual, and found two bombs in the fruit basket.
Jingyuan was still in shock. The Japanese police and officers from the Japanese Army Headquarters came and took the bomb.The next day, the translator Yoshida reported to me that the two bombs were tested and proved to be made by Zhang Xueliang's arsenal.
"Emperor Xuantong don't meet outsiders anymore." Yoshida advised me, "It's better to leave earlier."
"Okay! Please arrange it quickly."
"Obey! Your Majesty, please don't tell anyone who has nothing to do with it."
"Don't tell me. I will only bring Zheng Xiaoxu and his son and one or two attendants this time."
I received a lot of threatening letters in those two days.Some of the letters are short and the wording is scary.There was only one sentence: "If you don't leave here, watch out for your head!" What was even more astonishing was that Qi Jizhong received a phone call.According to Qi Jizhong, the other party was a waiter in the Victoria restaurant. He warned me not to eat there these days because some "suspicious people" came there to inquire about me.The friend who cared about me also said that when he saw those people acting suspiciously, they seemed to have electric knives hidden in their clothes.What's even more strange is that he could recognize that those people were all sent by Zhang Xueliang.
I can't tell what kind of person that waiter was, but I will never forget Qi Jizhong.He was a manservant I brought to Tianjin from Beijing. After the eunuchs were dismissed from the palace, he came to the palace. He was still a young man at that time, and he was very favored by me.In the days of Tianjin, he was one of my favorite attendants. When I was in Manchukuo, I sent him to the Japanese NCO Academy for training.But later, I found out that he was actually a character in the "inner court scandal". At that time, I happened to hear that he was quarreling with his classmates in Japan, so I borrowed the topic of destroying diplomatic relations between Japan and Manchuria, and asked the Japanese to expel him. School.Later, he was introduced by the Japanese to become an officer of the puppet army in North China, and later became a major general of the puppet army in North China. After liberation, he was suppressed due to counter-revolutionary cases.I left Tianjin for the Northeast, and he was one of the three attendants who went with me, and he knew everything about me.I didn't realize it until very late, the Japanese and Zheng Xiaoxu were so clear about my movement at that time, grasped my mood so accurately and timely, and the play shown to me—although the actors were quite clumsy— The effect is so good, Qi Jizhong is really a very connected person.
Immediately after bombs, black letters, and phone calls, the "Tianjin incident" occurred.The traitor plainclothes team organized by the Japanese harassed the Chinese world (this is also the "masterpiece" of director Doihara), the Japanese Concession declared martial law and cut off the traffic with the Chinese world.The iron armored vehicles that were responsible for "protection" came from outside the gate of Jingyuan.So Jingyuan was also isolated from the outside world.The only ones who can get the pass are Zheng and his son.
Later I recalled that Doihara was so eager to get me to go to the Northeast. If it wasn’t for the fact that the Kwantung Army’s young men were eager to deal with their internal opposition, or for other reasons, but just because I was afraid that I would change my mind again, then I would have sent me to the Northeast. The influence of the outside world has been overestimated for me.In fact, not only did I make up my mind at this time, but even the attitudes of Hu Siyuan, Chen Zengshou and others under the influence of Chen Baochen also changed.They no longer insisted on waiting and watching, and began to plan to actively contact Japan.However, they were still afraid that the soldiers would be unreliable, and they thought it would be better to go to the Japanese government.The change of these people, like me, is that they are afraid of missing the opportunity, and they are also afraid that if the mutton is not eaten, it will cause a mess.Regarding the conditions for negotiating with the Japanese, what they care about is whether they can become a high-ranking official, so they advocate that "using human rights" must be in my hands. As for national honor, economic rights, etc., they can be given away as the price for their own status. of.Chen Zengshou handed over such a memorial immediately after my meeting with Doihara:
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