Chapter 142 Section 2 Scolding the Secretary of State to death

As early as December 1, 1894, the well-known American magazine "Harper's Weekly" published a long report "The United States Stands by in China". This report did not scare the Americans to death.According to the report: …The Chinese took the two Japanese youths to Nanking, where they were tortured for 2 days—some say 3 days.They let the Japanese kneel on the iron chains, with wooden bars piercing their legs, and they still stood on the wooden bars.The fingernails of the Japanese were also pulled out.They tied iron chains around the wrists of the Japanese, and then poured boiling water on the chains until the chains were embedded in the bones.They clamp the tongues of the Japanese.They crushed the most sensitive parts of the Japanese body.Among all the tortures that are worse than death, the executioner's sword has become the most enjoyable one...

The article pointed out that the weak US government became an accomplice in the murder of two young Japanese by the Chinese government. Americans are uneducated and don't know the criminal law of piercing their legs with wooden sticks and then standing on the wooden sticks to exert pressure. This is the best punishment culture in China, which is called upper clamping stick.But what are these two kind-hearted Japanese youths doing?Why did the Chinese government at that time repair them so cruelly? These two Japanese youths, one named Yujiro Kusuchi, who was born in Hesa ​​County, Kyushu, were not admitted because of poor eyesight when they applied for the military academy.So he went to Shanghai, China, devoted himself to the research of espionage technology, and has been lurking in China ever since.

The other is Linping Fukuhara, a native of Okayama Prefecture. He has great ambitions since he was young, and he prides himself on being a national scholar.He applied for the spy school but failed, so he simply kicked open the principal's door and made a generous speech, which impressed the principal Sei Arao, so he was admitted exceptionally, and became a partner with Yujiro Kusuchi. Since then, the two have disguised themselves as Chinese businessmen and wandered around, collecting information and drawing maps.When the two were scouting along the Yangtze River by boat, Fukuhara Linping suddenly became very popular in poetry, and wrote two poems on the spot, one of which was:

If you want to try to swim thousands of miles in the Yangtze River, you will float to cast a moonlight boat. The cup can be used to laugh at human affairs, and the more water and Wushan make me worry. After reciting this one, Fukuhara Linping also recited another one for his fiancée, Yamamoto Sachiko, and wanted to recite a third one, but it was too late, and the officers of the Zatai Yamen boarded the ship, and took the two of them down on the spot. A map of the Kanto region and a roster of Qing army officers were also found. That's conclusive evidence. But conclusive evidence is useless, because the territory where the two Japanese spies were captured was the French Concession, and the criminals had to be handed over to the French police first, and then China strongly protested to France and proposed extradition.

But the Frenchman is a ghost, knowing that if the spy is handed over to China, the spy will definitely be tortured to death, so the Westerners will definitely not do it.But if it is not handed over, the Chinese side will definitely not agree.So the French used the strange trick of blaming Jiangdong to send the two Japanese spies to the Americans. So the Chinese government chased him to the U.S. Consulate and demanded that the U.S. Consul General Zonigan hand over the man.Zonigan knew the Chinese too well, so he immediately refused, claiming to protect the two Japanese spies. How can the Chinese government swallow this breath?They used the Chinese method to send a large group of people to the United States to petition, and went to the door of the US Secretary of State Gregory Hill, and lined up to submit petition materials.Think about that Yankee Grace, who ever heard of petitioning in the world?There is no way to stop the visit, and the US envoy to China is ordered to surrender.

The U.S. ambassador to China was astounded upon seeing this official document, lodged a strong protest, and wrote a letter cursing Secretary of State Gregory Hill.No matter how willing Ge Lishan was to show weakness, he also wrote back and scolded. After a period of scolding and fighting between the two sides, Ge Lishan finally crushed people to death and won, and the two Japanese spies were handed over to the Chinese government. Now Fukuhara Linhei and Kusuchi Yujiro are miserable. The Chinese government has tried all the famous and unknown tortures on these two spies, and beheaded them after breaking them into pieces.

When this matter spread to the United States, once it was reported, Secretary of State Grace became the target of public criticism. All Americans scolded Grace for being inappropriate and compromising with China, resulting in two Japanese being tortured more cruelly than in the Middle Ages.From then on, Grace never left his office. He wrote letters non-stop from morning to night, and scolded everyone who scolded him. When he came up, he was scolded to death. Just because of the two Japanese spies, the US Secretary of State was scolded to death. Fukuhara Linhei and Kusuchi Yujiro should be smiling.

After the death of the spy Fukuhara Rinhei, the poem he wrote for his fiancée Yamamoto Sachiko was finally sent back to China. Yamamoto Sachiko picked up the poem and read it, and saw that it was written: Qing is in the North Sea of ​​Yingzhou, and I have traveled thousands of miles in Shu and Wuchuan. This Jiangyue camps this true shadow, writing about the fate of adventures in the past. Sachiko Yamamoto read her lover's poem, burst into tears, wailed loudly, vowed not to marry for life, and devoted herself to women's education. Kusuchi Tomojiro and Fukuhara Linping should be the first Japanese spy case that broke out in China, and then the most exciting monk spy Fujishima case.