Chapter 194: The Witch of the East

Yoshiko Kawashima's identity was still very mysterious at this time, including her residence in Tianjin. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info However, for Xiao Siming, a soul traveler, the mysterious Oriental witch Yoshiko Kawashima is transparent!

Xiao Siming knows that historical knowledge is sometimes inaccurate, because a lot of historical knowledge is confusing, and it is difficult to find out the authenticity unless it is professionally verified.

For example, the movie "Kawashima Yoshiko" cites many memoirs, saying that Kawashima Yoshiko opened a Dongxinglou restaurant in Tianjin, but Xiao Siming read the information that said that Kawashima Yoshiko opened a Japanese restaurant in the Japanese concession in Tianjin, and some information said that Dongxinglou is not a restaurant, but is the base of Kawashima Yoshiko's activities, but opposite Dongxinglou, there is a restaurant. But whether that belongs to Yoshiko Kawashima or not, it's hard to say.

As for the location of Dongxing Building, there are different opinions, and it is said that it is in Tianjin Nanshi, some say that it is in Simianzhong, and it is said that it is in Qiushan Street in the Japanese Concession, and some say that it is in Furong Pavilion, and some say that it is on Hebei Road. The most reliable theory is that someone consulted the 1937 Tianjin telephone book and the 1940 map of the Tianjin Japanese Concession and thought that the address on the telephone book was reliable, that is, No. 13 Songdao Street.

Xiao Siming first had to check whether Yoshiko Kawashima opened a Dongxinglou restaurant or a Japanese restaurant.

Among the national concessions in Tianjin, the Japanese concession is the dirtiest. Before the Lugou Bridge Incident, brothels and tobacco houses were everywhere in the Japanese Concession. Among them, there are more than 200 brothels opened by Japanese, Koreans and Chinese, and more than 1,000 prostitutes are publicly registered; Smoke houses are even more powerful, with 160 belonging to the Japanese and 500 opened by the Chinese.

Not only did they connive at prostitution and drug abuse, but the Japanese also used the gangsters in Nanshi to create incidents and riots in Tianjin, and the Japanese concession was the base and base camp for the Japanese invasion of China.

After the Japanese army invaded and occupied Tianjin, the Chinese boundary in Tianjin City was lifeless, but the concession was deformed and prosperous. However, the prostitutes who often went to the Japanese Concession to solicit prostitutes were afraid of the Japanese army, so they turned to the French Concession, which was adjacent to the Japanese Concession. Even the British Concession, where the upper class had always lived, had brothels run by foreigners.

The Huizhong Hotel where Xiao Siming and Yan Rou live, there are prostitutes upstairs, but they are all high-end prostitutes, also called courtesans, and the asking price is very high.

When Yan Rou followed, no one stepped forward to solicit those secret prostitutes, brokers, and drug buyers. Now Xiao Siming is walking alone on the street, and after a while, he met several groups of prostitution and drug sellers. Xiao Siming thought of a way, and when he passed by a patrol house, he took a sheep by the hand, smoothed a bicycle on the side of the road, rode it, whistled, and headed towards the Japanese concession.

The Japanese concession is in the south of the old city of Tianjin, the north of the French concession, east to the Haihe River, southeast along the Qiushan Road and the French Concession, south to the Wallzi River, west to the South Gate Outer Street, north from the southeast corner gate along both sides of Xu Street to Fukushima Street to the west, with a total area of 2450 acres.

Along the Qiushan Road, when entering the Japanese concession, Xiao Siming took out a document that he had searched from a spy on the Tianjin Road, shook it in front of the sentry's face, said "Shayanara", and went in.

Along the way, he met drunken Japanese ronin, soldiers, and Japanese women in kimonos, Xiao Siming didn't bother to pay attention to them, and found No. 13 Songdao Street according to the signs on the map of Tianjin and the map of the Japanese concession during the Republic of China in his mind.

It is really Dongxinglou Restaurant, and the scale is not small, although it is only two floors, but it covers an area of not small, the whole building is about 50 meters long from east to west, about 15 meters wide from north to south, and there is a yard about one acre behind it.

The main entrance of Dongxinglou Restaurant is open on Songdao Street, and there is a convenient door on one side.

It is said that Dongxing Building was owned by the Beiyang warlord Wang Huaiqing, and was first leased to Mrs. Hirotaek, the aunt of the chairman of the Bank of Japan in Tianjin, and later to Park Seok-yun, a Korean.

Park Seok-yun has a complex identity, having the title of the standard-bearer of the Korean independence movement and the director of the North Korean Gyeongseong Ilbo.

Park Xiyun opened Dongxinglou Restaurant, but he couldn't fight the Japanese Mrs. Hirosawa, the restaurant couldn't be opened, and I don't know what he thought, so he went to Japan to ask Kawashima Yoshiko to come to Tianjin to open a restaurant with him.

This was in August 1935, after Kawashima Yoshiko planned and participated in a series of major events such as Huanggutun Solid Zhang Zuolin, the 128 Shanghai Incident, persuading Pu Yi to go to the Northeast to be a puppet of the Japanese army, smuggling Wanrong to the Northeast to meet Pu Yi, and taking office as the commander of An ****, etc., she lost her position with the Japanese and lived in Japan.

Due to Park Xiyun's invitation, Yoshiko Kawashima came to Tianjin again from Japan, under the pseudonym Wang Mei, and lived in the Shi Mansion at No. 27 Shishan Street in the Japanese Concession.

The Stone Mansion was the property of the Ningxia warlord Ma Hongkui.

In Tianjin, Yoshiko Kawashima not only opened the Dongxinglou Restaurant, but also opened a drug-making factory and a dance hall. However, where would Kawashima Yoshiko concentrate on business, her purpose was politics, and she took the opportunity of Tada Jun, the demon who invaded China at that time, to become the commander of the Tianjin garrison army, to stir up trouble and participate in the North China Autonomy Movement to split China, and when the "North China Autonomy Committee" was established, Kawashima Yoshiko served as the commander-in-chief of the "North China People's Self-Defense Army", and the office was located in Kawashima Yoshiko's residence in Tianjin-Shi Mansion.

Later, in 1936, with the dismissal of Tada, Yoshiko Kawashima was again repatriated to Japan by the Japanese military.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Yoshiko Kawashima once again appeared on the stage, returned to Tianjin, renovated the Dongxinglou restaurant, and recruited the old department when he founded An****, as the management and service staff of the hotel, and used Dongxinglou to reopen the espionage work to assist the Japanese army in the full-scale invasion of China.

At this time, Yoshiko Kawashima was still planning big things, that is, she wanted the puppet emperor Pu Yi of Manchukuo to come to Beiping to interpret the story of the Manchu restoration. At the same time, he assisted the Japanese secret service to carry out the work of plotting against Wang Jingwei.

Not only that, when the Japanese army was attacking cities in North China and creating one tragedy after another, Kawashima Yoshiko in order to cheer up the Japanese army, turned the Dongxinglou restaurant into a home for the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army. The little devil soldiers were grateful, and they also wrote articles in Japanese newspapers thanking Yoshiko Kawashima!

Iniquity is forgivable, but self-inflicted iniquity cannot be lived!

Every thing that the Oriental Witch Yoshiko Kawashima does, people and gods are outraged!

Standing outside the door of Dongxinglou Restaurant, as soon as he saw this posture, Xiao Siming knew that he had found the right one, this was the main activity location of the famous Oriental Witch Yoshiko Kawashima in Tianjin.

At this time, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening, and the lights in the Dongxing Building were dim, and it seemed that it was almost closed, and Yoshiko Kawashima was definitely not here.

Since it was judged that Yoshiko Kawashima was not in Dongxing Building, Xiao Siming did not delay at all, got on his bicycle and left, and went straight to the Shi Mansion.

When he arrived outside the stone mansion, he saw that the gate was closed, and there were only a few lights, not like Kawashima Yoshiko at home, Xiao Siming turned around and left, rode back the same way, and went from the French Concession to the British Concession.

Yoshiko Kawashima's habit of living is to get up in the afternoon every day, and this is the time when she is torn between various characters, and she definitely doesn't fall asleep. She should be dancing at the Li Shunde Hotel in the British Concession!

Whether she is there or not, you have to go and see, what if she is there?

The British Concession is different from the French Concession and the Japanese Concession, it is a residential area of the upper class, there are not so many commercial places, and there are not so many big smoke houses and brothels. If there is no one to introduce ordinary people, they are standing at the door of a brothel of a dark * prostitution * opened by foreigners, and they cannot see that it is a place to seek pleasure.

Therefore, as soon as Xiao Siming arrived in the British Concession, he saw the flashing neon lights of the Li Shunde Hotel from afar and heard the faint sound of dance music.

Park the bicycle, take out a cigarette, light it and smoke one, and see enough of the surrounding environment of the Li Shunde Hotel, Xiao Siming threw away the cigarette butt, tidied up the straight suit, and Shi Shiran walked into the Li Shunde Hotel.

Li Shunde Hotel is worthy of being the most famous hotel in the British Concession, the service of the waiters is very thoughtful, and all of them are a bit of a British gentleman. Seeing that Xiao Siming was going to dance, he politely led him to the dance hall.

The ballroom of the Li Shunde Hotel is very luxuriously decorated, and there are many guests inside, dancing in pairs on the dance floor, and the guests sitting on the seats on one side are either whispering or drinking slowly.

Xiao Siming was led directly by the waiter to a small round table and sat down, took out 5 yuan of fiat currency, and put it in the waiter's tray as a tip.

The waiter immediately smiled, bent over, and opened his mouth to say what does Mr. English need?

Xiao Siming didn't need anything, but he couldn't say that he didn't need it, so he ordered a cup of sour plum soup, a plate of melon seeds, a plate of pine nuts, a plate of popcorn flowers, and a plate of tiger skin peanuts.

The waiter saw that he was a money-spending master, and he went to the messy area, and it didn't take long to get together.

After taking a sip of sour plum soup and eating popcorn, Xiao Siming's eyes wandered around the dance hall as if nothing had happened.

Dancing on the dance floor, there are blonde foreigners, there are also Chinese with oily hair and flour faces, suits and leather shoes, and judging by their appearance, there should be Japanese and Koreans.

Looking at it, Xiao Siming saw the target he was looking for.

Yoshiko Kawashima, no, it should be Manager Jin at this time, wearing a suit and a split head, and is dancing on the dance floor with a sweet-looking girl of seventeen or eighteen.

Yoshiko Kawashima is not tall, but her figure is well-proportioned, her eyes are very smart, and she looks forward to Shenfei when she looks at people, and she has a beautiful and longing demeanor.

This year, the Oriental witch Yoshiko Kawashima was 32 years old. (To be continued.) )