At that time, Liu Xiang was suffering from a stomach ulcer and could not work, and the affairs of the provincial government were represented by Secretary General Deng Hanxiang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On August 21, Deng Hanxiang summoned Jiang Shangpu, commander of the Chengdu garrison, Zhong Tiqian, mayor of Chengdu, Jiang Zhicheng, director of the provincial education department, and Fan Chongshi, chief of the police department, to discuss countermeasures.

It is necessary not only to prevent Japan from provoking incidents, but also to prevent the agents of the Fuxing Society from blaming the Sichuan people.

The meeting came up with three approaches:

1. Send personnel to the Dachuan Hotel, explain to the four Japanese that Chengdu cannot set up a consulate, persuade them to leave as soon as possible, and if it does not work, they will instigate a demonstration of the people to force them to leave the country.

2. In order to prevent the agents of the Fuxing Society from making trouble, and to deal with the central government's criticism in the future, people from Kangze were invited to participate in the march and guide the procession.

3. During demonstrations, the military and police can only maintain order and cannot interfere.

At that time, it was agreed that ordinary citizens would participate in the parade, and the city government would inform the districts and streets to pay attention to order, and that the Department of Education would inform Kang Ze to be in charge of the students, and that the cadres of the Einsatzgruppen were conducting military training for the Chengdu students.

In addition, Liu Xiang also arranged for people to carry portable cameras to shoot the actions of the spies in the procession.

At noon on August 24, a procession of Chengdu citizens began to demonstrate.

As the procession passed by the Okawa Hotel, the crowd chanted slogans and sent representatives to talk to the four Japanese and express their firm rejection of the establishment of a Japanese consulate.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, representatives of the masses went to the Dachuan Hotel to ask about the identities of the four Japanese and their mission to come to Chengdu, and they replied that they were businessmen, journalists, and tourists who had come to Chengdu and had nothing to do with the establishment of the consulate.

After questioning, the delegates resigned and nothing else happened.

In fact, among the four Japanese, Seto is still the accountant of the South Manchurian Railway's Cultural Foundation for China, and the other three are all Japanese bushido.

The kendo of Shenzhen Keiji reached the fifth dan, and the judo of Watanabe Junzaburo and Takeo Tanaka was also above the second dan, and apparently, they were both subordinate to the espionage system of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters.

The demonstrations had achieved their goal and moved on.

When passing through the gate of the Sichuan Provincial Government, the deputies presented a petition opposing the establishment of a Japanese consulate in Chengdu, and the deputies demanded that Secretary General Deng Hanxiang accept the petition and promised to immediately call the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sternly reject the Japanese side.

At this point, the marchers began to disperse.

However, at around 5 p.m., the situation changed abruptly!

Demonstrations mobilized by agents of the Kuomintang Renaissance Society and the Central Military Academy began.

A large number of students from Xindu County rushed to the north gate of Chengdu to join the student army of the Central Military Academy, numbering more than 10,000 people.

The procession was huge, and it attracted many people along the way, and the number of people was even larger.

When the student procession marched to the Okawa Hotel and was about to rush inside, the hotel door was closed, and the police dissuaded them outside the door, and guarded them inside the door, while calling for an emergency.

After receiving the call, the garrison commander Jiang Shangpu first rushed to persuade him, and in the chaos, some students threw stones and smashed the glass of Jiang Shangpu's car.

Jiang Shangpu was furious, and even said, "No matter, no matter!" Then he drove away.

The students blasted Jiang Shangpu away and stormed the door of the hotel.

The police desperately resisted, and in the middle of the standoff, the police chief Fan Chongshi immediately rushed to the south exit of Luomashi Street, at this time, the street was already flooded.

Fan Chongshi got out of the car and squeezed inside, and when he squeezed near the car room of the Dachuan Hotel, the door of the car room had been knocked down by the students, and someone was looking for gasoline to burn the house.

After Fan Chongshi stepped forward to stop him, he rushed to the opposite side of the hotel, borrowed a bench from a store, stood up and shouted to the students, asking them to maintain order, and said that he could escort the Japanese out of the country.

Fan Chongshi was short and fat, covered in sweat, shouted several times, and ordinary citizens began to withdraw one after another.

At this time, suddenly the bench under Fan Chongshi's feet was pushed down, and Fan Chongshi rolled to the ground.

The captain of the student parade immediately blew his horn, and someone pulled out a note and shouted, "Kill the Japanese!" The Japanese get out of China! ”

Immediately, the cadets took the lead and knocked down the door of the hotel, and the crowd rushed in, twisting with the police inside, and the rest of the students poured into the lobby and rushed straight to the stairs, and the police were pushed up and down step by step.

The students went upstairs and smashed the doors, windows, glass, and other items.

The four Japanese who were hiding upstairs saw that the situation was not good and rushed out of the room.

Shenzhen Jing Er's strength and high rank led the way to break through, grabbing the sheriff's stick to cover the students, and the other three followed, rushing down the stairs.

Running out of the gate of the hotel, the students on the street immediately stepped forward to intercept them, and Shenzhen Jinger grabbed a military stick, but still grabbed the sheriff and fled.

At this time, Watanabe Kuzaburo was still able to keep up with Shenzhen Jingji, and the two broke out of the encirclement and fled in the direction of the north road, and when they passed the Chengdu County Government, Watanabe ran inside, was pushed out by the janitor, and closed the gate.

A large number of students then chased after him, and they beat Watanabe to death on the spot.

Shenzhen Jinger grabbed the sheriff with one hand and waved a wooden stick with the other, and marched to Zhengfu Street, and the students chased after him, but they couldn't get close to him for a while.

Shenzhen Jinger confronted the students under the eaves of the street, looking around and sneering.

In the standoff, someone behind him went up to the roof, uncovered the tile and smashed it down, Shenzhen Jinger was hit in the head and fell to the ground, and the students rushed up and killed him with sticks.

Takeo Tanaka and Seto were not able to go far, and the two were besieged in front of the Okawa Hotel and beat their heads to the ground.

Police Chief Fan Chongshi arrived, separated the students, and first dragged Takeo Tanaka to the south exit of Luomashi Street, helped him into a car and sent him to the police station.

When Fan Chongshi turned back to the door of the hotel, Seto was seriously injured and lying in the ditch, and the students thought he would not survive and dispersed.

Fan Chongshi found a few street residents, lifted him into a car, and sent him to the police station. The two Japanese were initially bandaged in the bureau, changed into bloody clothes, and were immediately sent to the military medical department of the Pacification Office for treatment, and they survived.

While the students were besieging the Dachuan Hotel, some citizens and businessmen smashed three shops selling Japanese goods on Chunxi Road, the busiest street in Chengdu.

On the night of the incident, Ye Jieren, an important subordinate of Kang Ze, summoned the backbone elements of the Fuxing Society and CC in Chengdu in his residence to hold an all-night meeting to study and agree on the agreement, and sent two telegrams:

1. Fuxing Society and CC United Telegraph reported to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that Liu Xiang secretly sent people to kill the Japanese in an attempt to increase the difficulties of the central government's diplomacy with Japan, and asked Liu Xiang to be removed from the post of chairman of the province to thank the Japanese side.

2. The CC molecule called Chen Lifu and asked him to recommend Kang Ze to replace Liu Xiang as chairman of Sichuan Province.

The two telegrams were sent out, which were immediately intercepted by Liu Xiang's reconnaissance radio station, and the code was deciphered.

The day after the Japanese were killed, Deng Hanxiang, secretary general of the Sichuan Provincial Government, convened a meeting of the mayor of Chengdu, the commander of the garrison, and the chief of the police to discuss measures to deal with the aftermath. Decision:

1. Use two coffins to bury the Japanese corpse and stop at the accident site for inspection by the Japanese side.

2. The garrison command will propose from the prison two death row inmates who are about to be executed, as the murderers caught on the spot, to be shot at the scene of the accident, still put them in coffins, and put them in front of the Japanese coffins for public display, and prepare them for inspection by the Japanese side.

3. Liu Xiang sent a secret telegram to the Nanjing government, pointing out that Kang Ze's subordinates, Ye Jieren and others, instructed the students to beat the Japanese to death.

Chiang Kai-shek originally intended to use the diplomatic incident to remove Liu Xiang, but on the third day after the incident, the Nanjing Central News Agency issued a message according to Kang Ze's wording, and on the same day, the Executive Yuan of the Nanjing Government telegraphed Liu Xiang.

Liu Xiang replied by telegram saying that the incident was initiated by the intervention of the Chengdu central personnel and the leadership, and sent the photos taken during the day's movement to Nanjing, and Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to negotiate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing.

Foreign Minister Zhang Qun also telegraphed Liu Xiang and Deng Hanxiang in his personal capacity, saying that the Nanjing Government had no intention of punishing Liu Xiang and asked Liu Xiang to rest assured.

Diplomatic negotiations, investigations, and cases have not yet been concluded.

Needless to say, the Nanjing government apologized to the Japanese government and demanded that the Sichuan provincial government pay money, and although Liu Xiang was not punished, the commander of the Chengdu garrison and the chief of police were removed from their posts together.

That's the whole course of events.

The Japanese government seized on this incident and made a big fuss, so the negotiations could not proceed.

Because of this incident, Gao Zongwu, director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government, frequently contacted Japanese Ambassador to China Shigeru Kawa Yue and held reconciliation talks in private.

However, the purpose of the Japanese negotiations is no longer just to be in the matter of the "Chengdu Dachuan Hotel Incident", their appetite is even greater!