Chapter 0431: Restoration Government

Just when Li Shiqun and his wife were preparing to recruit troops and discuss a big fight, the puppet "Republic of China Restoration Government" organized by Liang Hongzhi with the support of the Japanese was established in Nanjing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liang Hongzhi is a native of Changle, Fujian, in his early years, he was admitted to the Beijing Normal University Hall in 1905 to study, and after graduation, he served as the section chief of the Yin Office of Shandong Denglai Gaojiao Road, and a teacher of the Fengtian Superior Normal School.

After the founding of the Republic of China in 1912, Liang Hongzhi served in the State Council in Beijing, and was also the editor of the "Asia Daily".

After the defeat of Duan Qirui of the Anhui system in 1920, Liang Hongzhi was listed as one of the top ten culprits and was wanted, and took refuge in Tianjin.

In 1925, after Duan Qirui returned to the Beijing government, Liang Hongzhi served as the secretary general of the ruling government, and after the fall of Duan Qirui, Liang Hongzhi successively lived in Tianjin, Dalian, Shanghai, and Hangzhou.

After the "77" incident in 1937, Liang Hongzhi took refuge in Hangzhou at the time of this national crisis, ignoring the things outside the window, and reading and writing poems in his apartment all day long.

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese invading army occupied Nanjing, implemented the policy of "using China to contain China", and prepared to set up a puppet regime in Nanjing.

On March 28, 1938, under the direct manipulation of the Japanese, the "Restoration Government of the Republic of China" headed by Liang Hongzhi was announced in Nanjing.

The "Restoration Government" consists of the Executive Yuan, the Legislative Yuan, and no chairman, the Executive Yuan is the first court, with Liang Hongzhi as the president of the Executive Yuan, and eight departments, one department and three bureaus.

The list of ministers of the puppet government is as follows:

Minister of the Interior, Chen Qun; Minister of Foreign Affairs Chen Zhen; Minister of Finance Chen Jintao; The Minister of Communications is concurrently served by Liang Hongzhi; Chen Qun is also the Minister of Education; Wang Zihui, Minister of Industry; Minister of Appeasement; Minister of Justice and Administration Hu Naitai.

However, a confidential agreement between the Japanese military advisory department, which was controlled by Kenji Dohihara, and Liang Hongzhi established the rule: "The reform authorities" were not allowed to carry out their administrative affairs without making peace with the advisers.

The contents of the Executive Yuan meetings and the resolutions were set in advance by the Japanese advisers in accordance with the opinions of the Japanese side, and even the diet and daily life of the traitors of the puppet regime were supervised by the Japanese advisers.

Immediately after the establishment of the Restoration Government of the Republic of China, it signed a series of traitorous treaties with Japan, such as the "Guidelines for the Establishment of Central China Iron Ore Co., Ltd.", which sold the resources of Central China, enabling Japan to quickly control the economy of Central China and plunder China's resources and materials.

The Yangtze River Delta region, centered on Shanghai, was the economic and financial center of China, and as such became a key area for Japan's economic plunder.

The greatest crime of the Restoration Government was to help the Japanese invaders economically plunder the people in the occupied areas and serve the Japanese army in expanding its war of aggression.

First of all, in the name of the "government", Liang Hongzhi and other traitors hijacked the Shanghai Customs and the Chinese government's tax collection organs in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, which were nominally under the jurisdiction of the puppet regime, but in fact were the royal organs of the Japanese invaders.

Second, the Restoration Government also signed a series of traitorous agreements with the Japanese invaders to sell their economic interests, and established the "Central China Revitalization Co., Ltd." in Shanghai, with the famous Japanese capitalist Kodama Ken as the second president.

From then on, transportation, electricity, communications, minerals, aquatic products, and gas in central China were basically controlled by the Japanese invaders.

Thirdly, the Restoration government opened Huaxing Bank, which was nominally a commercial bank, and issued commercial bank bills to circulate as a currency equivalent to legal tender, thus undermining China's finance.

The Restoration government stipulated that all taxes must be paid with Huaxing coupons, and that Huaxing coupons could not be refused in the course of trading, bonds, and debt transfers, and forced the use of Huaxing coupons at Shanghai Customs, attacking the export monopoly of the Nationalist Government and foreign merchants, and punishing those who refused to use Huaxing coupons.

In order to flatter the Japanese masters and profligate themselves, the new government also openly implemented the three major poisoning policies of "smoking, gambling, and prostitution," and frantically poisoned the compatriots and squeezed out money.

Under the rule of the puppet regime, the occupied areas were in a miasma, and I don't know how many people went bankrupt, how many families were torn apart, and how many women from good families fell into the fire pit.

Therefore, all of these traitors of the new government were on the blacklist of assassinations by the Military Command Bureau, and Dai Li, the Second Division of the Military Command Bureau, issued a killing order to his subordinates, hoeing and killing these traitors, no matter what means they used.

After Feng Chen discussed with Wan Molin, he decided to give Zhang Tietang a list of hoes and traitors, so as to test Zhang Tiedan's loyalty and see if he really fell into the water and became a traitor.

Feng Chen will never allow it, it is too dangerous to let a person suspected of falling into the water be responsible for his own safety, which is equivalent to handing over his life and death to the Japanese.

In a complicated situation, safety is the first priority, and the head is gone, how to fight the enemy!

Back at Zhonghui Bank, Feng Chen adjusted the security work on Aidoya Road, Wang Tiemin's team was responsible for the security of Zhonghui Bank building 24 hours a day, and Xu Jian's team was responsible for the security of Jinjiang Chuanwei Restaurant.

Feng Chen and Wan Molin agreed to transfer Gu Jiarong to the European-style café on Aidoya Road to be in charge, while Zhang Tiedan adjusted it and formed a hoe and rape team directly under the intelligence group.

This hoe and rape squad is composed of a total of 15 people, most of whom are Zhang Tiedan's subordinates, with Fang Xiaoman as the commander-in-chief, responsible for planning the assassination plan and issuing action orders.

Zhang Tiedan served as the deputy captain, and Feng Chen asked Dai Li to transfer the guerrilla commander Ruan Qingyuan from the special service brigade directly under the Songhu Special Brigade to assist Fang Xiaoman's hoeing and rape operation.

All arrangements were ready, and Feng Chen issued the No. 1 hoe order against Liang Hongzhi's puppet "Restoration Government" to get rid of Chen Zemin, the puppet governor of Jiangsu Province.

Chen Zemin, a native of Guangfu in Wu County, Suzhou, worked as a lawyer after returning to Shanghai from studying in Japan.

Matsui Shigen, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army of the Japanese invasion of China, was once a classmate of Chen Zemin, and it was because of this relationship that Chen Zemin finally lost his personality and became a traitor after being lured and wooed by Matsui Shigen.

After Chen Zemin fell into the water and became a traitor, he first became the president of the Suzhou Maintenance Association, and then became the puppet governor of Jiangsu Province in Liang Hongzhi's puppet "Restoration Government".

The day before yesterday, Chen Zemin was ordered to come to Shanghai from Suzhou to prepare for a secret deal with the Japanese military police headquarters in Shanghai.

When traitors are afraid of cowardice after all, Chen Zemin is afraid of being discovered by acquaintances, so he does not dare to blatantly live in his own home in Shanghai, but secretly opens a room in Cangzhou Hotel.

Chen Zemin's room number on the third floor of the Cangzhou Hotel was Room 308, and this news was inadvertently grasped by Feng Chen, and he immediately ordered Fang Xiaoman to open a room in Room 307 next to Room 308 of the Cangzhou Hotel.

Everything was ready, and the next night, Zhang Tiedan and Ruan Qingyuan secretly carried guns and stayed in room 307 of the Cangzhou Hotel, closely monitoring Chen Zemin's every move, preparing to start in the second half of the night.

On the periphery of the Cangzhou Hotel, Fang Xiaoman personally took Ruan Qingyuan's two assistants, Liu Jinxi and Zheng Liang, to be responsible for the vigilance and response of the periphery.

Zheng Liang was in charge of driving, and Liu Jinxi was in charge of monitoring the movements around the Cangzhou Hotel.

In this operation, because there was also the intention of testing Zhang Tiedan, except for Zhang Tiedan himself, none of his subordinates participated, and Feng Chen's plan was almost foolproof.

Time passed one by one, the night was late, not far from the Cangzhou Hotel, in a car parked, Fang Xiaoman and the three of them paid close attention to the movement of the Cangzhou Hotel.

"Sir Fang, I want to get out of the car to make it easier." At this time, Liu Jinxi, who was sitting in the back seat, suddenly spoke.

"Well, hurry up, don't run far." Fang Xiaoman agreed casually.

Liu Jinxi opened the car door, jumped out of the car, and walked slowly towards the dark shadow next to him, and soon disappeared without a trace, everything seemed to be normal, Fang Xiaoman didn't care, continued to lean on the passenger seat, closed his eyes and recuperated.

However, half an hour passed, it was almost midnight, and the Cangzhou Hotel was still terrifyingly quiet, without the slightest movement.