Chapter XVII: Spies

When he came to Neishan Bookstore, Sun Yurong and He Qinghan rushed into the bookstore impatiently, and he was very familiar with this place. Wen Hao also followed them into the bookstore.

Books in the bookstore are open for reading and can be read, and there are benches and tables for readers to read. In addition, Uchiyama Bookstore can sell on credit to Chinese customers regardless of the amount of money. Because of their popularity with readers, the business is quite prosperous.

There are a lot of people in the bookstore who read and buy books here, and there are all kinds of people. Wen Hao also followed them to the bookshelf and found that there were many books by left-wing writers on the shelves, including some books of propaganda. Lu Xun's books are also here. Some people took some books and went to the table and chairs over there to sit down and read them slowly. The atmosphere of reading is very strong.

For Uchiyama Wanzo, Wen Hao is a close friend of Lu Xun in his memory, and he is also a Japanese friend who is committed to Sino-Japanese friendship.

But at the time, some people said that Uchiyama was a Japanese spy. In 1934, there was an article on the social press entitled "The Secret of Uchiyama Kanzo". The article reads so.

"There is not a merchant in the overlord of the colony who is not as cruel, vile, and ugly as a robber. This sentence was said by Romain Rolland. Although China was not a Japanese colony, Japanese merchants had long regarded themselves as suzerains in China.

Uchiyama is just a Japanese ronin who has been imprisoned by the police in his hometown for selling contraband such as morphine, and is not allowed to come to China in his hometown. Came to China to run a bookstore. Prostitution and gambling made it impossible for the bookstore to operate, but fortunately, he found a job as a secret detective at the consulate police station and with the help of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Uchiyama's methods are very ingenious, with a left-leaning attitude to make friends with ** and left-leaning figures, obtain intelligence from them, and at the same time use left-leaning as a cover for his intelligence work.

At that time, not only did some people suspect that Uchiyama was a spy, but also some people said that Lu Xun was a traitor. One reason is the friendship between Lu Xun and Uchiyama. There is also the main place where Lu Xun lived, which is the Hongkou area of Shanghai, which is the sphere of influence of the Japanese Concession.

We studied "In Memory of Liu He Zhenjun" when we were young, and it can be said that Liu He Zhenjun is an admirer of Lu Xun. Now it's called fans. It was such a fan who died, and Lu Xun wrote this article. The article scolded the Beiyang government at that time.

Why did Liu and Zhenjun die under the knife of the Beiyang government at that time. It was because of the protest against the Japanese government's bombardment of our Tanggu Fort. Under pressure from the Japanese, the Beiyang government suppressed Chinese students, and Liu Hezhen became a victim. And we have read this article of Lu Xun only scolding the Beiyang government at that time, and none of the culprits in the article condemning this incident --- Japanese militarism. There is no disrespect for the Japanese. Lu Xun only scolded the slave in the full text, not the master.

Lu Xun lived in that era, and he did not see the vigorous "May Fourth Patriotic Movement" or the 19th Route Army heroically defending the country in the "1.28" incident. I didn't see the "9/18" incident when the Japanese invaded and occupied Tohoku. We only see the dark side of China, but we cannot see the bright side of China.

Wen Hao always had some confusion about Lu Xun when he grew up. Can he bear the "soul of the nation"? There is another reason for some people's suspicion of Lu Xun, after Lu Xun's death in 1936, the Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1937, and his younger brother Zhou Zuoren became a traitor. Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren was arrested by the Nationalist Government for being a traitor after the Nationalist victory. was sentenced to ten years in prison, his wife is Japanese, and the Lu Xun brothers have a deep Japanese complex, it is inevitable that some people will think that they are traitors.

In the Second Battle of Songhu, other Chinese either threw themselves into the war of resistance and fled Shanghai timidly, unable to escape into the concession, but most of them entered the Anglo-American and French spheres of influence, but Lu Xun's first reaction when he encountered these things was to go to the Neishan Bookstore in the Japanese Concession. His course of action was the same as that of those Japanese, who were mainly Japanese expatriates, and when there was a risk of war, he hid back in Japan. Most of the Chinese fled Shanghai to the rear. If you don't know that Japan will not dare to fight with the British and American imperialists, you will flee there if you have money. Only Lu Xun went to the Japanese concession if he was at risk, and he ignored the hot fight outside. It has also caused many Chinese to be suspicious of him.

In addition, Uchiyama Mitsuzo is a smooth sail in China, Japanese imperialism is a **, peace-loving and democratic progressives, and it is also the same as the Nationalist Government, how many Japanese ** progressives died under the sword of Japanese militarism, Uchiyama Mitsuzo carried out these activities in the Japanese concession but there was no major obstacle, at most it was suspicion, under the threat of his mouth, the Japanese military department did not know anything about these things, or under their noses. Fang Zhimin and Qu Qiubai's suicide notes fell into his hands so coincidentally. Lu Xun believes that there will be no danger in the Uchiyama bookstore, does he believe Uchiyama or the Japanese government? A lot of people have questions about this?

Lu Xun did not say a bad word about the Japanese, we have learned that Lu Xun's "Mr. Fujino" is his teacher, and the article is full of good things to say about him, a Japanese teacher. Lu Xun did not say a bad word about the Japanese in all his articles, but he did not say many good things, but his daily behavior is inseparable from the word Japan. Wen Hao couldn't understand what Lu Xun did at that time.

Lu Xun and Liang Qiushi argued for many years, and Liang Qiushi asked him, "You also scold, that scold, what is your claim." "Lu Xun added him and said, 'He has a doctrine, he doesn't scold.'" Liang Qiushi asked him what doctrine he was, but Lu Xun did not answer. In fact, Lu Xun did not scold militarism.

Yang Yinyu, the former female principal of Peking University Girls' School, who was scolded by Lu Xun, found the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie and scolded the Japanese soldiers in order to protect her female students from being ** by the Japanese**, but was killed by the Japanese squirrel and kicked off the bridge. The rival "Gao Changhong", who was repeatedly scolded by Lu Xun, later went to France to study. In 1937, when he was shocked to hear of Japan's invasion of China, he immediately put down his work, traveled tens of thousands of miles to return to China, and followed the squadron to fight in most of China. What kind of hero is this, who died for his country.

And Lu Xun grew a Japanese beard, saw a Japanese doctor, made Japanese friends, and said that Japanese children are cuter than Chinese children. It is also said that the Chinese are all Ah Q.

As for whether Uchiyama was a spy or Lu Xun was a traitor, there is no evidence to show it. It's just people's conjecture. Just like the Diaoyu Islands incident, some people smashed Japanese cars indiscriminately, irrational patriotism. At that time, some people thought that Lu Xun was close to Japan, and he usually lived in a Japanese-style house, and the Japanese doctor refused to go to Chinese medicine to see a doctor. It has never been said that the scandal of Japanese militarism has been exposed. If you have pro-Japanese thoughts, you will think that he is a traitor. The thinking is a little extreme.

Although Uchiyama has done many things that are conducive to Sino-Japanese friendship, some Chinese still hate the Japanese, so the Japanese will not believe those Japanese, so they will say that he is a spy.

These were just two views of the Chinese people at that time, and there was no evidence to show that they were traitors and spies. Now there is a saying that having a picture is not necessarily the truth, and their affairs still belong to the situation of not having a picture. So it's the idea of a few people.

However, it is true that Lu Xun did not condemn Japanese militarism in his writings. ** The evaluation of him also said this: "Lu Xun is a national hero on the cultural front, and his special thing is that he rarely criticizes foreign invaders, but only criticizes his own nation."

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Uchiyama Wanzao was sent back to China by the Nationalist Government, and it was easy to use in Japan. There was not much of a major event during the war, and there was nothing to repatriate after the war. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, he became the ambassador of friendship between China and Japan. He has done so many things against the Japanese Eyelash House, but he has not been suspected or hurt at all. Some of them are confusing.

In addition, after the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and Nanjing, Uchiyama Kanzo actually managed Chinese property such as the Commercial Library for the Japanese army-this is called accepting enemy property. After Japan's defeat in World War II, Uchiyama also became the elected leader of hundreds of thousands of Shanghai expatriates. Arrange the affairs of the expatriate in Canada. How could they have done this if they didn't have a background. Is this something that ordinary Japanese people can do? Will such a person be a "friend of the Chinese people?"