Chapter 29 Outer Part (4) Puppet King's founding of Manchukuo?

On the afternoon of March 9, 1932, Puyi's inauguration ceremony for the puppet Manchukuo "government" was held in Changchun, symbolizing the introduction of the puppet Manchukuo.In order to whitewash the peace, under the arrangement of the Japanese Kwantung Army, fireworks were set off and parades were held all over Manchukuo.However, apart from the military and police, the parade team consisted of students, businessmen, etc. who were organized to take to the streets under pressure. Ordinary people closed their doors, expressing their inner resistance in this negative way.As a result, even Japanese magazines had to sigh in the captions of the photos of the founding parade of the Puppet Manchukuo—the team participating in the parade seemed deserted.

Although these people came out to march, most of them had very conflicting attitudes toward the Japanese.When the Litton investigation team went to Manchukuo to investigate, the Japanese also organized various petition groups. The group stated: Don't look at the petition, it is all Japanese nonsense or has been modified by them, "it does not represent our original intention." People can make mistakes, so it should be said that slogans should not be wrong.However, at the moment when the puppet Manchukuo was instigated, even the slogan made an international joke with the Japanese—the Kwantung Army hung a slogan on the city wall of Shenyang in order to "celebrate the founding of Manchukuo", "Independence of Manchuria" and "Mongolian independence" "The words fell out for no reason, and were photographed by Japanese reporters and left in "The History of Showa of 100 Million People".This is probably an extremely rare mistake for the meticulous Japanese.

Why did you drop the word "Mongolian"?Sa speculates that this may be a black humor of God, telling the world that the puppet Manchukuo cannot be fooled. In fact, the puppet Manchukuo really cannot be fooled.Although the Japanese side made various whitewashes, what cannot be concealed is that Japanese officials and soldiers openly occupy various real power departments of "Manchukuo" and have determined their dominance through regulations. The nature of "Manchukuo", its puppet, was directly written into the documents in black and white. Even Puyi, the "emperor" of the puppet Manchukuo, could not escape the fate of a puppet.Under the strict guard of the Japanese Kwantung Army, this "caged emperor" was locked inside the high walls of the Manchukuo Palace in the southeast corner of Changchun, without freedom of movement. Most of his activities were limited to Qinmin Building, Jixi Building and The three buildings of Tongde Hall.

Surprisingly, according to Japanese records, Puyi, the puppet emperor of Manchukuo, also had "anti-Japanese" behaviors.It turned out that although Puyi was a puppet supported by the Kwantung Army, he, who was full of revival of the thoughts of the Qing Dynasty, also thought about getting rid of the control of the Kwantung Army and strengthening his right to speak in the puppet Manchukuo.Just like the schemes of many puppet emperors in many dynasties, Puyi also planned to use the method of driving away tigers and devouring wolves, triggering internal struggles in Japan to profit from it.In this regard, the Japanese side is actually vigilant.As an elite army, the Japanese Kwantung Army has a natural opponent, and that is the Japanese Navy.Japan's political circles cannot restrain the military circles, and the military circles have always been a situation where the army and navy are fighting.Therefore, in order to avoid conflicts between the navy and the army in Manchukuo, the Kwantung Army was very careful to prevent the navy from entering the Manchukuo system from the very beginning.Although Japan could establish a navy for the Wang Jingwei regime, it has been unwilling to establish an "imperial navy" for the puppet Manchukuo. Instead, it has integrated its water power into a nondescript "Jiangshangjun", which means the river defense force under the army.In this way, the puppet Manchukuo has no possibility of making use of this contradiction to make it bigger.However, Pu Yi's cleverness surprised the Japanese. The supporters he was looking for in Japan were really very feared by the Kwantung Army. Army concessions.This activity reached its climax around Puyi's visit to Japan in 1935.

However, since the Kwantung Army is the most famous "down and up" unit in the Japanese army, and the Northeast is its most important forbidden area, and the Japanese royal family's favor for Puyi did not reach the point of sacrificing the interests of the army, so Puyi's struggle was ultimately ineffective , his right-hand assistant Zheng Xiaoxu died of illness, his cronies Ling Sheng and others were killed, and Puyi himself was almost replaced by the Kwantung Army.Puyi's almost perverted fear of the Japanese in the later period probably stemmed from this unsuccessful effort.

This kind of statement is the saying of the Japanese family. Although there is a certain basis in history, it may not be reliable.However, when we look at the photos of Puyi before and after the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo, we will find a strange phenomenon-there are almost no photos of Puyi smiling during the Puppet Manchukuo era. Previously, most of Pu Yi's photos had a relaxed expression, and there were even some intimate photos of him with the Empress Wanrong. Is this puppet emperor of Manchukuo comfortable?This kind of comparison makes people unable to help but let out a long sigh.