readx; Of course, it didn't take long for all the people of their country to fall silent in the face of the harsh reality brought about by the war. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

First of all, the most realistic kind of life distress faced by the people is the shortage of various daily necessities.

In mid-1938, after the war escalated, a limited supply system of cotton products was implemented, and all gasoline was required to be used in the war, and private vehicles were replaced by charcoal cars that slow down like snails.

In 1939, he began to strictly restrict the use of steel, gold and silver in the country, reduce the business hours of entertainment venues, prohibit perms, and strictly prohibit large-scale weddings. Slogans such as "Waste is the enemy" can be seen everywhere in the streets of Tokyo.

After the outbreak of the Pacific War at the end of 1941, the national economy in China was not supported by foreign industrial raw materials, and it entered a state of drought to smoke. The issuance of "public bonds for serving the country" was endless, and matches, sugar, paper, soap, and other ordinary necessities could only be supplied in small quantities with tickets, and a strict grain rationing system was implemented. At this stage, most restaurants in the city and countryside simply closed their doors because they could not buy rice.

One of the things that made the militaristic state feel the most fatal thing was that because of the shortage of raw materials, there was a grim situation in which the supply of ammunition could not be supplied in sufficient quantities and the quality of weapons had dropped sharply. Therefore, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek, who had received supplies from Britain and the United States to aid China, stood on a slope of the Huangshan official residence on the outskirts of Chongqing, and he looked at the thinning bombers in the sky, and could not help but jokingly said to the officials who were close to him: "When you see that he is now using a Czech machine gun, you can know that he lacks steel in China, and many weapons cannot be made by himself." That's what he has been gradually consumed by us in terms of weapons. ”

"Others, such as airplanes, gasoline, and all kinds of weapons and supplies, have been consumed day by day. Even if he is bombed by the air force now, every bomb dropped is tantamount to consuming a cent of his own life, and he must no longer drop it as casually as before. It's time for him to 'a drop of gasoline, a drop of blood, a piece of steel and a piece of meat'! ”

Under such an embarrassing situation, the mainland is no longer able to provide material supplies for its troops fighting in the Chinese theater. As a result, Emperor Hirohito and his General Staff began to implement a series of new countermeasures in China to "use China to contain China" and "use war to nourish war."

On November 8, 1940, the Cabinet adopted an "Emergency Economic Countermeasures against China." Its policy was: "With the signing of the Triple Alliance, the amount of supplies to China stipulated in our material mobilization plan has been sharply reduced. In view of this situation, China's economic measures should, under our guidance, go beyond the traditional measures, rapidly strengthen the comprehensive use of China's economic forces in all aspects, and promote the allocation of necessary local materials and the import of materials necessary for the Empire. At the same time, it is necessary to reasonably reduce our consumption in China. In this way, it is expected that the national defense strength of the empire, especially the comprehensive combat effectiveness, will be rapidly improved. ”

The essentials are: "First, we should strive to actively reduce our consumption in China, and at the same time achieve a thorough recycling of local materials. Second, the development and increase of local industries should be strictly limited to wartime, and the national defense resources (iron ore, coal, salt, fluorite, mica, asbestos, and specific resources) stored in the areas that should be guaranteed should be quickly exploited as soon as possible. At the same time, to the extent necessary, to strengthen the port equipment and transport capacity as soon as possible; At the same time, the development of these resources should be planned in an overall manner, and the order of development should be determined according to the efficiency of each development, so as to promote development. "And so on.

He said that he was trying to "feed the war with war" and frantically plundered China's supplies.

The Imperial Council, convened by Emperor Hirohito himself, reaffirmed its economic policy: "The current economic policy toward China is to increase the acquisition of materials necessary for the completion of the war, and to focus on the development and acquisition of vital materials in the occupied areas and the active acquisition of enemy materials. "Wait.

The utilitarian surnames of the above-mentioned strategies towards China are very obvious. To put it bluntly, it is necessary to loot the people in the occupied areas of China to the greatest extent in order to meet the needs of the invading army to the greatest extent.

However, in order to collect all kinds of materials urgently needed from the vast cities and towns in China, the army was faced with one of the biggest problems at this time, that is, the shortage of armed personnel.

At that time, China's seven major cities: Beiping, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, and Hankou had all fallen under the trampling of the iron hooves of the Chinese army. However, with the ability of a mere 800,000 troops to invade China (this number does not include the Kwantung Army stationed in the three eastern provinces), the place that really gives them a little sense of security is at most these metropolises and the transportation network that connects them. The vast surrounding towns and villages are under the control of the [***] armed forces, or the Kuomintang Loyal Salvation Guerrilla Army.

At first, the army had 800,000 troops to defend these "points" and "lines," but it was already very difficult.

However, after the flames of war in the Pacific were ignited, the war between the Chinese army and Britain and the United States on the islands of the South Pacific intensified.

Emperor Hirohito had no choice but to order the division of troops from the army stationed in China to the islands of the South Pacific.

In that year, in order to ensure the smooth operation of the Pacific War, the base camp once arranged its combat units into four strategic phalanxes: One was the 730,000-strong "Kwantung Army" in the three eastern provinces of China, whose combat effectiveness was the first of all armies. One is the 400,000-strong "Southern Army" set up for the Pacific War, which is slightly less elite than the Kwantung Army. One is the "Chinese Dispatch Army" of more than 800,000 people in China's Guannai, ranking third in terms of credibility in fighting tough battles. The last one is the 380,000 local "domestic army", and this phalanx is about a reserve, so it is ranked last.

However, in the year when the Pacific Campaign was planned, the combat force of the "China Dispatch Army" stationed in Guannai was sharply reduced to 550,000. In 1942, it was reduced to 450,000 people, and he continued to put elite troops into the Pacific theater. In this way, it was almost an extravagant dream for the army stationed on the front line of Shanghai and Nanjing to accomplish the task of collecting grain and goods from the vast towns and villages of China on their own.

Therefore, under the banner of "developing and acquiring national defense resources" and "stabilizing the hearts and minds of the people in the occupied areas," Wang Ching-wei touted his "clean-up movement" to General Toshiroku Hatata, commander of the military forces stationed in Central China, and Major General Akira Kagezo of the "Mei Organ."

Kagesa Zhenzhao, a native of Hiroshima. In his early years, he graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University. After 1928, he was sent to China to engage in a high-level espionage work. He has a good understanding of China's politics and the politicians who were involved in it.

Therefore, Kagesa Zhenzhao seems to be much quieter than a group of fanatical militarist officers who were dizzy. At the very least, he's a soldier who likes to think with his brain. It's just that under the frenzy of militarism in those years, many young people who could have lived in a state of mind were also sacrificed in vain by the war monster of militarism.

Since March 1940, when Kagesashi became the supreme governor of the "Mei Agency", his cooperation with Wang Jingwei has been pleasant.

The "Township Cleansing Movement" planned by Wang Jingwei seems to have selfishly wanted to take advantage of this to enhance his prestige in the peace army, and even to reorganize a fighting armed force loyal to Wang. Ying Zuo Zhenzhao felt that Wang's thoughts at that time and the political and military status quo that he had no time to take care of both ends were quite mutually beneficial. Therefore, Kagezo Zhenzhao was not in front of the six generals of Hata Jun, and broke through Wang Jingwei's thoughts.

In July 1941, the Wang puppet regime set up a high-level administrative committee for the cleansing of the townships. Wang Jingwei appointed himself chairman, Zhou Fohai and Chen Gongbo were vice chairmen, and more than 10 members of the CPPCC National Committee, including Chen Qun, Mei Siping, Bao Wenyue, Yang Kuiyi, Ren Yuandao, Zhao Zhengping, Li Shengwu, Lin Bosheng, Ding Mocun, Zhao Yusong, Luo Junqiang, Cen Deguang, Chen Chunpu, and Gao Guanwu, were all high-ranking and powerful figures in Wang's puppet regime for a time. This also shows that Wang Jingwei's ambition will be successful.

However, some of the above characters are probably put on a show in the newspapers and magazines, and they should be named.

Wang Jingwei handed over all the specific affairs to Li Shiqun to lay out.

Li Shiqun was the secretary general of the Qingxiang Committee and director of the office in the Soviet Union, and he gave Wang Manyun the title of deputy director of the office in the Soviet Union, and the two took office immediately.

According to the slogan put forward by Wang Jingwei, the "Township Clean-up Movement" must be "both military and political, suppressing and appeasing at the same time," and "three parts military, seven parts political." No matter how high-sounding the slogan is, Wang Jingwei wants to cultivate the military strength of his descendants, and military affairs are always a major event.

However, Tai Sui of the No. 76 class led by Li Shiqun is an expert in climbing the courtyard wall and shooting black guns at people's bedrooms. Wang Manyun is also just a piece of administrative clerical material. When it comes to the serious deployment and charge on the battlefield, the two really don't have that experience. So, Li Shiqun recommended: "Let Tang Shengming come over to take charge of the military, that kid and I have a good surname." ”

Wang Jingwei's impression of Tang Shengming was originally clear and hearty, so naturally he had no different opinions.

In this way, when the backbone forces of Qingxiang sat down at No. 22 Matai Street in Nanjing to discuss specific matters, they included Li Shiqun, Wang Manyun, Chen Guangzhong, Yu Bailu, Tang Shengming, Tang Huimin, Ma Xiaotian, Dai Yingfu, Huang Erkang, Bao Zhichao, Qingqi Qingyin of the "Mei Organ," Nakajima, and Onishi of the "Mei Organ," Nakajima, and Onishi of the Yueben Military Police. As far as Tang Shengming's part in charge of military affairs is concerned, it can be said to be an important aspect of the "Qingxiang Movement".

As for Tang Shengming's infiltration into the "Township Cleansing Movement", the Yucheng political axe heard that it was the highlight of the work carried out by the Wang puppet regime in the next few years, and Dai Li, of course, could not ask for it.

Dai Li went to report to Chiang Kai-shek, who was sitting in the living room holding a hand-signed copy of the Bible by Soong Meiling, thinking leisurely.

Chiang Kai-shek listened to Dai Li's report and happily praised Tang Shengming: "Ji Li is still willing to use his brains and knows how to share worries for the principal." ”

Wang Jingwei inspected the Qingxiang area and delivered a speechThere are two old sayings that have always been circulated in China, called: "Heaven in the sky, Suzhou and Hangzhou in the ground." "Suhu is ripe, and the world is full."

He has also heard these two proverbs that have been circulating since the Southern Song Dynasty. Therefore, he wanted to collect the abundant grain, cloth, and other scarce materials in the Yangtze River Delta as soon as possible.

Therefore, Li Shiqun, who was good at speculating on the intentions of his master, chose the experimental area of the Qingxiang Movement in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Triangle in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River

However, Wang Jingwei, who is sitting right as a slave, still has so many ideals in his heart.

Wang Jingwei's life is a life of secretly competing with Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek first engaged in a "New Life Movement" in the Kuomintang region. Wang Jingwei must also build the Suzhou Experimental Zone into a "model peace zone."

Wang Jingwei talked about his rough plan with Li Shiqun, Wang Manyun, Chen Guangzhong, Tang Shengming and other backbones.

After a few people retreated, they went to the bank of the Qinhuai River, which was swaying with the color of roses, to drink flower wine.

Li, Wang, Chen, and Tang asked for a big flower boat.

During the period of the occupation, the lights on the banks of the Qinhuai River were bleak and the tracks were lonely, and the hatch of the ship was quite spacious, and twenty or thirty people sat in one place, and there was still room for maneuver. The calligraphy, paintings, and mahogany furniture furnished inside are probably in the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the table is embedded with a cool marble surface. The panes are also delicately carved with the patterns of ancient insects, birds and ladies, and sitting down makes people feel a kind of soft thoughts.

At this time, it was the harsh period of the Anti-Japanese War. The hundred industries in the occupied area show a kind of desolate withering.

Therefore, the atmosphere on the surface of the Qinhuai River also reveals a cold silence. At that time, in addition to a flower boat chartered by Li Shiqun and several people, there were also several painting boats that came out to forage. This shows that the lights on the banks of the Qinhuai River are bleak and the tracks are lonely.

However, no matter how bleak the wind and moon on the Qinhuai River are, Li Shiqun and the others are veterans on the wind and moon field, and they always have a way to recruit some young women. Later, when several happy women who exuded the fragrance of jasmine, white orchid, and the incense of long-gauze clothes walked into the painting boat, the rippling Qinhuai River flowed with a trace of sweet dark fragrance

Li Shiqun drank to a point where he was hearty, and suddenly opened his confused eyes and asked Tang Shengming: "Hey, Ji Li, we don't have experience in what to do with the 'Model Peace Zone' that Chairman Wang talked about. ”

Tang Shengming replied with a grin: "It's not a new thing, if you want to say that the 'new life movement' that old man Jiang did, it is not far from the previous armor protection system."

Speaking of the wartime armor protection system, when Tang Shengming was the commander of the Changtao garrison in Changde, the drunken kid once assisted him in doing it. Therefore, Tang Shengming has an impression of that set of procedures.

Later, Wang Manyun got a copy of Chiang Kai-shek's armor chain defense plan when he suppressed the communists in Jiangxi, and he said to everyone disapprovingly: "In fact, there is nothing worth mysteriously about that thing, and the first step of that thing is to establish a household registration and verify the population." Ten households are one first, and ten are one guarantee. The first chief and the chief of the security guard should choose those that look pleasing to the eyebrows, and do not show fierce eyes. On this basis, a security zone will be built and a militia group carrying guns will be allocated. Blockades or checkpoints are set up in each sensitive area. Residents are issued a certificate of good citizenship, and residents must go to the local security department to apply for a passage permit when they go out. In addition, there must be a sign at the front entrance of each house to explain the population. The people who came out to visit relatives and friends and needed to stay overnight were also greeted by the chief of the armor.

Li Shiqun, the main assistant of the intelligence king Pan Hannian, together with Wang Manyun, Chen Guangzhong, and Tang Shengming, compiled a plan of action.

Later, Qingqi Qingyin, Nakajima, Onishi and several others also referred to the method of the North China puppet army in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, and added a method of blockading and combing the grate in the Qingxiang operation in the Suzhou Experimental Zone. The fertile countryside of Suzhou is divided into large squares, separated and carefully cleaned one by one. After each section of the clean-up is completed and the acceptance is qualified, a fence isolation zone is built, and a high fort equipped with complete firepower is established to respond to each other. For those guerrilla areas where the New Fourth Army and the Loyal and Righteous Rescue [***] were infested with impermanence for a while, Qingqi Qingyin suggested: simply set up a "no man's land" about twenty or thirty miles deep and isolate them.

Later, Wang Jingwei carefully divided this "township cleansing plan" into "military township clearance," "political township clearance," "economic township clearance," and "ideological township clearance." As for its effect, it cannot be said that there is none, but there is still a considerable distance from the effect that Wang Wang's top brass expected at first.

This is naturally related to the backbone elements of the implementation of the "clean-up", because everyone has their own thoughts. First of all, Li Shiqun himself is a troubled era annihilation figure with a rather vague concept of loyalty and annihilation.

He also saw that his present was not what he used to be, and his heart was naturally churning greatly. Li Shiqun's later vision was to establish his wings everywhere.

The second is Tang Shengming, who is in charge of military affairs, and his centrifugal departure from morality is needless to say.

Later, Li Shiqun relied on Yuan Shu, Hu Junhe and others who were his confidants, and they turned out to be the nails carefully planted by Pan Hannian, the intelligence king of the New Fourth Army! In this way, even in the first two years of the best implementation of the "Qingxiang" system, Wang Yue's military campaign to clear the countryside did not really damage the bones of the New Fourth Army and the Yucheng political axe. When Wangda's military operation was about to take place, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had their clever and free intelligence systems to transmit information in a timely manner. Only small and scattered places were inevitably the loss of the resistance forces. Those who were really poisoned by the "Clean-up Movement" were naturally the ordinary people who were confined to the "Model Peace Zone."

During this period, ordinary people could also see that the rule of the Wang regime was like a rabbit's tail - it could not grow. It is said that I am almost crazy about the plundering of all kinds of materials. Ordinary people have to maintain a difficult life, and they are very worried that the supply of household supplies will be suddenly cut off.

So, regardless of whether they have money or not, everyone hoards everything they can to collect!

(To be continued)