Chapter 548: Zhennanpu Landing (8)
After receiving the task assigned by the working group, Luo Yue immediately began to make arrangements. The task of transporting the prisoners to Qingdao was, of course, the easiest, just arranging ships and doing a good job of organization. The matter of distributing the materials has just been handled by the South Korean defectors led by Choi Haozhi, and the People's Army only needs to send people to supervise it.
Pyongyang is one of the two megacities in South Korea, densely populated, and the residents are relatively wealthy, so it is also a place where the Japanese army focuses on collecting materials, and many residents' food and materials are almost all looted by the Japanese army, and they make a living by digging wild vegetables. The food supplies distributed under the leadership of the People's Army are indeed carbon in the snow.
In addition, although the People's Army has not been in Pyongyang for a long time, the military discipline is strict, and there is no offense against the residents of Pyongyang, and the price is also fair, which is in very sharp contrast with the Japanese army, and the Koreans have been influenced by Chinese civilization for more than 500 years, and they have always regarded themselves as Little China, and at this time they still have a great sense of cultural identity with China, so in this short period of 10 days, the favorability of the People's Army has greatly increased, and now they have been allocated food and materials, and everyone praises the People's Army as a benevolent and righteous army from the Heavenly Empire, and many people hope that the People's Army can stay in Pyongyang for a long timeγ
The first two tasks can be said to have been accomplished well, but the task of finding anti-log fighters is not satisfactory, and of course this is also the most difficult of these three tasks, after all, the People's Army is not familiar with the place on the Korean Peninsula, the language is not understood, and the time is short, so where to go to find anti-war soldiers! Therefore, Luo Yue can only hand over this work to Cui Haozhi, after all, he is a local, and there will always be some way.
In the past few days, Cui Hao has also found a few people, all of whom are children of Korean eunuch families, because they are dissatisfied with Japan's rule on the Korean Peninsula, and hope to use the power of the People's Army to drive away the Japanese army. However, after talking with them, Luo Yue found that these people completely pinned their hopes of driving out the Japanese army on the East China government, but they did not want to contribute at all, and even did not want to come forward, and some people even unashamedly believed that South Korea had always taken China as the right thing, so the East China government had the obligation to help South Korea expel Japan and let South Korea restore its autonomy and independence, and Luo Yue invited them to Qingdao to negotiate the anti-Japanese time, and even found various reasons to prevaricate, and did not want to leave South Korea at all.
Luo Yue was also very disappointed in these people, because such people were obviously not needed by the East China government. Although the East China government does want to cultivate its own agents on the Korean Peninsula, it must also be capable and responsible, not pig teammates. Now Cui Haozhi has found another person, hoping that this person can have some merit.
After a short time, I saw Cui Hao directly lead a young man, who seemed to be about 30 years old, wearing a suit and a pair of glasses, and looked a little bookish.
Cui Hao said straightly: "Commander Luo, this is Mr. Kim Chang-so, who is still a well-known anti-war fighter in my country, 10 years ago, he assassinated the Japanese Army Lieutenant Tsuchida Rangliang and was imprisoned for it. After escaping from prison six years ago, schools have been set up in various parts of Hwanghae-do, and they have been engaged in the anti-Japanese movement. β
Luo Yue listened and nodded, this young man dared to assassinate a Japanese officer, and he had the courage to do so, which was much stronger than the previous ones, so he said, "Okay, Mr. Jin, please take a seat." β
After Kim Chang-so thanked him, after sitting down opposite Luo Yue, and Cui Haozhi knew that Luo Yue would have a private conversation with each other when he saw each of the more anti-log soldiers, so he said to Luo Yue: "Commander Luo, I will retire first." With that, he exited Luo Yue's office. When he went out, he glanced back at Kim Chang-so, and his expression was quite complicated.
In fact, when Kim Chang-so was introduced to Luo Yue, Choi Haozhi was somewhat unwilling, because this Kim Chang-so was different from the previous introductions, he joined Donghak-do, a new religious organization in Korea, when he was young, and participated in the Donghak Peasant Movement that triggered the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894.
In Chinese history books, this event is generally referred to as the Dongxue Uprising, which actually bears some similarities with the Taiping Rebellion in China, which was a peasant uprising under the banner of religion under the oppression of the domestic government and foreign invaders. The difference is that the Taiping Rebellion lasted for 14 years and established its own political institutions, which spread throughout most of China, and at one point threatened the rule of the Qing court, and finally failed under the combined suppression of the domestic government and foreign invaders.
The Donghak peasant movement was much smaller in terms of time and scope, and of course the Korean Peninsula was also a place where the palm was bigger, so the Donghak peasant movement could have a much impact if it was sustained. And the time only lasted 10 months, mainly because the North Korean government and Dong Hak-do at that time were afraid of making a big deal and attracting foreign interference, so the two sides made peace, Dong Hak-do no longer made trouble, and the North Korean government no longer pursued it. However, Japan still used this incident as an excuse to send troops to the Korean Peninsula, which led to the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, and finally Japan defeated the Qing court and thus took full control of the Korean Peninsula.
For the children of wealthy families like Cui Haozhi, Dongxuedao is of course an evil and crooked way, and the Dongxue-do peasant movement is an out-and-out rebellion, and if it were not for the Dongxue-dao uprising and trouble, it would not have attracted Japanese intervention and would not have triggered the First Sino-Japanese War, so South Korea had fallen to such a point, and Dongxuedao was fully responsible. As a matter of fact, Japan had long wanted to invade Korea and use the peninsula as a springboard to invade China, and the Donghak Peasant Movement was just a pretext, and even if there was no such incident, Japan would have found other excuses to invade.
However, with Choi Haozhi's knowledge, the experience can only see the surface, but not so far-reaching, so although Kim Chang-so was later arrested for assassinating * Japanese Army Lieutenant Tsuchida Rangliang, and after escaping from prison, he has been secretly engaged in the anti-Japanese movement, and he is also somewhat famous in South Korea, but Choi Haozhi still has no good impression of him. In fact, Kim Chang-so came to Pyongyang three days ago to ask to see the People's Army, but Choi Ho-zhi never wanted to introduce him to Na Yue.
It's just that Cui Haozhi introduced a few people to Luo Yue, and Luo Yue felt dissatisfied, although Luo Yue didn't blame Cui Haozhi, but Cui Haozhi was a little worried in his heart, if he didn't find someone who satisfied Luo Yue, I was afraid that he would leave a bad impression on Luo Yue, so Cui Haozhi thought about it and decided to introduce Jin Changzhu to Luo Yue, after all, Jin Changzhu assassinated Japanese soldiers, which may meet Luo Yue's requirements.
Sure enough, after Luo Yue talked to Kim Chang-so, he was very satisfied with him. Although Kim Chang-so is not very old, several years younger than Cui Haozhi, after all, he has experienced great storms, but his experience and vision are far above Cui Haozhi, and he has a certain understanding of the general trend of the world, and he also has a considerable understanding of the East China government.
It turned out that during his time in prison, Kim Chang-so read new books such as "A New History of Tae-se" and "World Geography", from which he absorbed new knowledge, opened up new horizons, and then had new thoughts on the road to national independence.
In 1903, Kim Chang-so embraced Christianity, hid himself as a priest, and came into contact with a lot of Western culture, economy, and politics in the church, and had a deeper understanding of the overall situation of the world. Although Kim Chang-so has not yet formed a complete and mature world view and political concept ideologically, he is much more mature than he used to rely on the passionate impulses of teenagers.
After learning the news of the East China government, Kim Chang-so was quite interested, because Kim Chang-so also identified with Chinese culture, and naturally had a natural good impression of the East China government, and after collecting information about the East China government from many parties, Kim Chang-so actively defended the interests of China in the East China government, competed with the Western powers, and did not fall behind at all, and these behaviors made Kim Chang-su very admired. And after several years of experience, Kim Chang-so thinks that he can't expect the Korean royal family to work hard to save South Korea, but to expel Japan, there must be strong external support, and now it seems that only the East China government can help South Korea, so Kim Chang-so also once planned to go to Qingdao to see the style of the East China government, but at this time the Russo-Japanese War broke out, Japan strengthened its supervision of South Korea, and Kim Chang-so had to temporarily suspend the plan to go to Qingdao.
After learning that the KPA had landed at Jinnampo and captured Pyongyang, Kim Chang-so was also very happy, and took advantage of the chaotic management of the Japanese army during this time, and immediately rushed to Pyongyang, hoping to meet the KPA and get help from the East China government.
As for the fact that it was impossible for the People's Army to expel the Japanese troops from the Korean Peninsula this time, Kim Chang-su was able to understand after listening to Luo Yue's explanation, after all, the current East China government does not have a strong foundation, and can only ensure its own interests, and it has no flaws to take care of the Korean Peninsula. However, Kim Chang-so can now see more far-reaching, and if the People's Army wins the Far East War this time, its strength will inevitably rise sharply, while Japan's strength will be weakened, and if he can get the support of the East China government and recruit people with lofty ideals in South Korea, it will no longer be a dream to expel Japan and restore South Korea's independence in the future.
So the two also talked quite speculatively, Luo Yue took the opportunity to propose to Kim Chang-so, asking Kim Chang-so to go to Qingdao to talk in detail with the person in charge of the East China government, and Kim Chang-so had already had this plan, so he gladly accepted. Moreover, Kim Chang-so came to Pyongyang this time, he was not the only one, there were more than 10 people accompanying him, all of whom were his fellow believers, hoping to take them with him, Luo Yue of course would not refuse, and the more people who went to Qingdao, the better.