Chapter 716: Poison Scheme

After the Japanese army began to encircle the Hebei-Shandong border, the headquarters of the North China Front Army in Beiping was full of jubilation, and even the voices of those staff officers shouting reports were much stronger than usual.

The common people say that there are four joys in life, namely the wind flag, the làng fish, the eighteen-year-old girl, and the trough donkey. Fengliqi, làng Liyu, and the eighteen-year-old girl are not appropriate to describe Shanshanyuan, the commander of the North China Front at this time, so that it is indeed a little similar to Shanshanyuan at this time. If you think about it, if you think about the mō appearance when you scream at the donkey and come into heat, you can imagine the mood of Sugi Sugi Yuan at this time.

Shanshan Yuan is a person who is happy to be happy, this guy who is the best at hmm-hmm-ahh

After recovering the county seat of Cangxian County, the base camp transferred the first division and the second division to return to the Kwantung Army, and also returned to the Kwantung Army with the fifth division and the guards division to return to China to rest and replenish, and even the armored brigade was chōu to Central China. It is estimated that Prime Minister Hiranuma will have to worry about military spending again.

Shanshanyuan is not worried about the lack of training of the newly expanded troops and the low command level of officers. He believed that after the army encircled the Jilu border this time, the forces of the Eighth Route Army could be completely eliminated from the Jilu border. Even if the order cannot be completely eliminated, as long as enough defenders are stationed on the Jilu border, the situation on the Jilu border can be controlled. Let these newly formed units be stationed in Jilubian, Jizhong, southern Hebei, and Luxi, let them improve their combat effectiveness in the sweeping operations, and use the heads of the common people and those guerrillas and militia to temper these newly formed troops, and I believe that their combat effectiveness will soon come up. Soldiers, they all have changed from recruits to veterans, how can recruits become veterans without fighting?

Lieutenant General Seiichi Kita, head of the special service of the North China Front, became the commander of the rebuilt 14th Division, but not because of Sugi Moto's protection, but because of Terauchi Shouichi's protection. The rebuilding of the 14th Division was the result of the secret play between Prince Zaihito Miyaji, Chief of the General Staff, to Emperor Hirohito, and Sugi Sugimoto did not know the inside story of the decision, so naturally he could not guarantee it. Terauchi Shouichi specifically planned the second North China public security operation plan in the base camp, and took advantage of the situation to protect his right-hand man Kita Seiichi.

As soon as Kita Makoto left, there was no suitable candidate for the head of the special service of the North China Front Army for the time being, and Sugi Sugimoto ordered Muto Akira, deputy chief of staff of the Front Army, to temporarily act as his deputy.

Shanshan Yuan, who was a little carried away, asked Yamashita Fengwen and Muto Zhang to prepare a plan for the garrisons of Jilubian, Jizhong, southern Hebei, and Luxi early in the morning, and asked each county to reach a large group of Japanese troops and a regiment of security forces. This stumped Yamashita Fengwen and Muto Zhang, with such a large territory, how many infantry brigades do you need? You must know that the Japanese army has only 12 infantry brigades in a four-unit division, a three-unit garrison division has only 9 infantry brigades, and an independent hún brigade has only 5 infantry brigades. According to Shanshanyuan's plan, it may not be enough to exhaust the rebuilt 35th Division and the independent Hún Brigade that was transferred to North China. Moreover, although the North China Public Security Force has now been expanded to eight groups, each group has only two regiments, a total of 16 regiments, plus seven independent regiments, a total of only 24 regiments, which is far from the requirements of His Excellency the commander.

The saddest thing is that Shanshanyuan's pressure is realistic, garrisoning such a large territory, such a force scale is too small, not only is it impossible to control the development of the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army, but it may be broken by the Eighth Route Army.

Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira had no choice but to report to Shanshan Yuan, for the time being, they could only deploy the Jilu border and central Hebei regions first, and according to the requirements of one county and one brigade, first transfer a few troops from the newly built independent hún brigade regiment transferred from the mainland as the Jilu border garrison force, and then deploy a division as the main force to guard the Jilu border. As for central Hebei, southern Hebei, and Luxi, it will be determined after the army recovers.

Shanshanyuan kept smiling on his face until Yamashita Fengwen and Muto Zhang finished speaking, and Shanshanyuan said in a mocking tone: "Yamashita-kun and Muto-kun are afraid that the imperial army will not be able to recover Jizhong, southern Hebei, and Luxi?" At present, Jizhong is basically under the control of the imperial army and the security army, and southern Hebei and Luxi will soon be recovered. The strength of the imperial army is sufficient, and the difference is the strength of the security army, so we can let the security army continue to expand the army, and all the areas occupied by the imperial army will be counted according to the household registration chōu zhuangding. This policy was set by Earl Terauchi when he was in office, and the fact that the security forces can have the size they have today is the result of the implementation of this policy. In addition, you can also borrow troops. Have you forgotten that Shi Yousan and Sun Dianying have both arrived in southern Hebei, and these two people should belong to the miscellaneous army. Sun Dianying once fought with the imperial army on the front line of the Great Wall, Shi Yousan has always been supported by the Japanese Empire, General Tu Féihara said that Shi Yousan had seen him in 1932, should I contact him and let him assist us in defending against the Communists? Think about it, if Shi Yousan can surrender, won't we have a lot of troops? ”

At this point, Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira both opened their mouths and called the commander wise.

Shanshan Yuan, this guy, has just come up with a plan and another plan, and found the leaders of the pen unit, Nobu Hasegawa, Takefu Nakamura, Hideji Hojo, and Fumiko Hayashi, and asked them to immediately guide the special service organs of the front army to compile and print slogans, the main content of which is three: First, to publicize the significance of the Great East Asian Holy War, the focus is to publicize that Asia is the Asia of Asians, Chiang Kai-shek represents the interests of the British and American powers, ** represents the interests of Soviet Russia, and only Japan sincerely protects China's interests. The second is to publicize the invincibility of the Great Japanese Army, to list the achievements of the army, so that the people of North China no longer count on Chiang Kai-shek, **. The third is to expose the crimes of the Eighth Route Army, especially the crimes of the Eighth Route Army in dividing up the landlords' land and plundering the people's property. Fourth, it is necessary to publicize and mobilize the establishment of maintenance associations and self-defense regiments, and all villages and imperial armies that have established maintenance associations and self-defense regiments will not be allowed to enter, and those who refuse to set up them will be dealt with as the crime of colluding with the enemy. Fifth, it is necessary to mobilize the common people in North China to report and expose the first and the worst roads, and assist the imperial army and the public security army in capturing the cadres and armed personnel of the first political power. Fifth, it is necessary to publicize and mobilize the Chinese people to launch a campaign to donate money to the imperial army and support the holy war in Greater East Asia.

After Shanshan Yuan finished speaking, without waiting for others to speak, Lin Fumiko swept the face of His Excellency the Commander with charming eyes, and then asked delicately: "Your Excellency Commander, I have a suggestion, that is, to set the rewards for capturing ** cadres and Tubalu in great detail, and let those stupid people of China consciously raise their heads and smash their hoes on the top of Tubalu's head for money." For example, killing a militia member will reward 50 yen, and capturing a militia will reward a joint coupon of 60 yuan; 70 yuan for killing a district xiǎo team member, and 80 yuan for capturing a district xiǎo team member; 90 yuan for killing a county brigade member, and 100 yuan for capturing a county brigade member; 150 yen for killing a regular soldier of the Eighth Route Army, and 160 yen for capturing a regular soldier of the Eighth Route Army; Killing or capturing the militia captain, ** village head, fù committee director, district xiǎo team, and squad leader of the Eighth Route Army will be rewarded with 180 yen; Killing or capturing ** district and county cadres, district xiǎo team captains, and platoon commanders of the Eighth Route Army will be rewarded with 200 yen; Kill or capture the ** district commander and the company commander of the Eighth Route Army, and reward 300 yen; Kill or capture the secretary of the ** county party committee, the county magistrate, the captain of the county brigade, the political commissar, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, and the instructor, and reward 1,000 yen; Killing or capturing the commander and political commissar of the Eighth Route Army will reward 10,000 yen; kill the brigade commander, political commissar, and commissioner of the Eighth Route Army, and reward 50,000 yen; Kill or capture the division-level cadres of the Eighth Route Army, and reward 100,000 yen; Kill or capture Zhu De, Peng Dehuai, Liu Yimin, Luo Ronghuan, **, Nie Rongzhen, Xu Xiangqian, Yang Shangkun, Liu Bocheng, and Deng *ping, and reward 2 million yen, which can also be exchanged for silver dollars, US dollars, and British pounds. Your Excellency, Commander, do you think my suggestion is okay? ”

Shin Hasegawa, Takerov Nakamura, and Hideji Hojo couldn't figure out where the delicate and beautiful NV writer Lin Fumiko got the information from, and said the official positions of ** and the Eighth Route Army clearly, and even remembered the names of the main officers of the Eighth Route Army so accurately, and they all said such detailed reward standards in one breath, and they all stared at Lin Fumiko with mímí mushy eyes.

Shanshan Yuan was also surprised, and after thinking about it, he was relieved, Lin Fumiko has been in North China for a while, and it is normal to be familiar with the situation of the Eighth Route Army, Zhu De and others he said are the main leaders of the Eighth Route Army, and there are photos of them in the newspapers, as long as you pay a little attention, you will be very familiar. However, the fact that the weak and slender Lin Fumiko could say such things that seemed to be thoughtful still made Shanshan Yuan couldn't help but take a few more looks.

Lin Fumiko seemed to feel Shanshanyuan's eyes, reached out and stroked her long hair, and looked at Shanshanyuan coquettishly, and said in a coquettish voice: "Your Excellency Commander, I got inspiration from Liu Yimin's encouragement of the soldiers of the Imperial Army. By the way, there is another one, which must encourage the troops of Tubalu and Chiang Kai-shek to surrender to the Imperial Army, such as 100 yen for soldiers to surrender with guns, 1,000 yen for surrendering with a squad, 5,000 yen for surrendering with a platoon, 10,000 yen for surrendering with a company, 50,000 yen for surrendering with a battalion, 200,000 yen for surrendering with a regiment, 500,000 yen for surrendering with a Kuomintang division commander and brigade commander of the Eighth Route Army, and 1 million Japanese troops for surrendering to the Kuomintang army commander and Eighth Route Army division commander. The commander of the Kuomintang group army and the commander of the Eighth Route Army were rewarded with 2 million yen for surrendering, and so on. There is a saying in China that people die for money, and birds die for food, and I believe that there will be brave men under heavy rewards, and you must know that according to the current prices, 50 yen is equivalent to a month's salary of a high-level skilled worker in the Japanese Empire, and you can buy a lot of things. Maybe soon there will be a situation where troops are reduced like máo and generals are like cháo. ”

Hasegawa Shin couldn't help but say: "Your method is indeed very clever, but where does the Great Japanese Empire have so much money?" If you go to Jinan, Qingdao, and Tianjin, you can see where the prices are outrageously high, the assets of the expatriates have been robbed by Liu Yimin, and they have all become poor, and Zhengjin Bank is about to collapse. ”

These people are all degenerate literati, and it is okay to write boring theories, essays, poems, and political theories, but they don't know anything about politics, military and economics. Nakamura Takerov suggested that it is not possible to set the reward standard a little lower, such as rewarding a 5 yuan joint coupon for killing a soldier, so many people in China, how many soldiers have died of disease, human life is very cheap, and it is not worth so many precious yen.

Shanshan Yuan knew that these people were literati and didn't understand politics, so he waved his hand, stopped them, and said lightly: "There is a saying in China that the sheep máo comes out of the sheep. How could the Japanese Empire pay for the war in China? Don't worry about money. Sister Hayashi Fumiko xiǎo, write down your thoughts, jiāo to Deputy Chief of Staff Muto Akira, publish them in the newspaper as soon as possible, and broadcast them continuously on the radio. By the way, it is also necessary to print leaflets as soon as possible and distribute them by plane in Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan, Méng, and other places. The soldiers of the imperial army and the security army should carry them with them, and they should post propaganda in a timely manner wherever the troops go, so that the Chinese should rise up and kill the Chinese, and let everyone in the squadron want to surrender and surrender, forming a kind of madness of surrendering and receiving rewards and returning home to be rich people. ”

After Shanshan Yuan finished speaking, he waved his hand to let these degenerate literati leave.

When Lin Fumiko walked to the entrance of Mén, she heard Shanshan Yuan call softly: "Sister Miko Xiǎo, please stay!" ”

Lin Fumiko immediately turned around, her eyes lit up, and waited for Sugi Sugi Yuan to speak.

Elder Shanshan's face flushed slightly, and he immediately said softly, "Please come to my bedroom in the evening, I have a question about literature that I need to ask you." ”

Lin Fumiko chuckled, glanced at Shanshan Yuan's face, and smiled: "I am very happy to serve Your Excellency the General." After speaking, he stretched out his finger and poked Shanshan Yuan on the forehead, twisted his ass and walked out.

Hasegawa stretched out the tip of his ear and heard Sugi Sugimoto shout Fumiko Hayashi and deliberately waited outside the mén. Seeing Lin Fumiko coming out, she said in a tone full of vinegar: "Sister Miko Xiǎo, didn't you say that you would come to my room at night to discuss the tea ceremony?" ”

Lin Fumiko gave him a blank look: "Is it to discuss the importance of the tea ceremony with you or the importance of literature with His Excellency the Commander?" ”

Nobu Hasegawa choked on the ground, and in hatred he lifted his foot and kicked an empty huā basin on the side of the road to pieces. Now that he was in trouble, the guards outside Shanshanyuan's office immediately pointed their guns at him, and they were about to make him ugly.

Hideji Hojo, who had not spoken, hurriedly explained to the guards that Hase-kun was in a hurry to complete the task given by His Excellency the Commander, and I was really sorry for causing you trouble. The guard put away his gun in a huff.

Nakamura Takerov looked at Hayashi Fumiko, swallowed his saliva, and said to Hasegawa Shin: "Hase-kun, work calmly, serving His Excellency the Commander is equivalent to serving the Japanese Empire, Sister Miko Xiǎo is right, it is important to hurry up and get down to business." ”

Shin Hasegawa wanted to say something more, but Takerov Nakamura grabbed him and said to Fumiko Hayashi: "Sister Miko Xiǎo, please!" ”

Seeing that Fumiko Hayashi entered Muto's office with her long hair fluttering, Hideji Hojo squeezed her eyes at Shin Hasegawa and Takerov Nakamura, and said in a loud voice: "Sister Miko Xiǎo's writing is good and famous. But she's too slender, she doesn't have a few taels of ròu all over her body, except for the fame of a beautiful NV writer, it really doesn't mean much, I don't think the comfort fù of the comfort station is enough to taste! If you don't believe me, ask Nakamura-kun to see if you have the same opinion? ”

At this time, Nobu Hasegawa was reluctant, saying that Hideji Hojo had insulted Sister Miko Xiǎo, a beautiful NV writer, and that he was going to duel him.

A few people were pulling and making noise, when they heard a majestic cough sound coming from Shanshanyuan's office, which frightened the three of them into nothing.

Driving out these degenerate literati, Wang Kemin, chairman of the Executive Yuan of the puppet Provisional Government of the Republic of China, accompanied Shanshanyuan to meet with two important guests. One is Naoki Hoshino, director of the General Affairs Department of the State Council of Manchukuo, and the other is Koshiya Koyi, who served as the Tibetan minister of the Konoe cabinet and is now the president of the "North China Development Joint Stock Company".

Although Naoki Hoshino was the director of the General Affairs Department of the State Council of the puppet Manchukuo, Sugi knew that he was the de facto state premier of the puppet Manchukuo, who monopolized all the administrative powers of the "puppet Manchukuo" and was also the head of Japan's finance in the northeast.

Naoki Hoshino has several big initiatives in Tohoku.

First, the central bank of "Manchukuo," controlled by the Japanese, was established and took control of the financial power.

Second, the Japanese chaebols were encouraged to invest in Northeast China, and 64 large-scale factories, mines, and enterprises were set up in Northeast China that could influence the national economy and the people's livelihood in Northeast China, accounting for 50 percent of the entire Northeast industry, basically monopolizing and controlling the industries in Northeast China. For example, the "Manchuria Heavy Industry Development Co., Ltd.", founded by the big chaebol Ayukawa Yoshisuke, was founded with a capital of 450 million yen, and now it has soared to 2.4 billion yen.

Third, it launched an arms production program, attracted hundreds of Japanese companies to invest, and established a military industrial system to provide military supplies for the Japanese troops stationed in Northeast China. In l937, he ordered that in the next five years, 5 million tons of pig iron, 3.5 million tons of steel, 38 million tons of coal, 2 million tons of crude oil, and 300 million yen worth of gold should be produced, and a number of tanks, armored vehicles, and military speedboats should be produced to meet the needs of Japan's military expansion. It can be said that 60 percent of the arms of the Japanese army invading China came from the Northeast Military Industrial Enterprise established by Naoki Hoshino.

Fourth, in order to "feed war with war," Nonaoki went so far as to openly violate the international "Third Geneva Convention," which Japan also participated, and unscrupulously forced opium cultivation and tobacco and drug trafficking, and set up 32 opium "monopoly offices" throughout "Manchukuo," under the jurisdiction of more than 1,800 "tobacco control offices," the Shenyang Xiǎo Riverside Tobacco Paste Factory, and two monopoly companies, "Damanhao" and "Dadong," to fully supply finished opium products. As a result of the "monopoly", drug use became an officially permitted activity, and the number of drug users increased dramatically. By 1936, the total area of opium poppy cultivation in South Manchuria reached 685,000 mu. According to the statistics of the League of Nations, before the "918" incident, one out of every l20 people here took drugs, but at this time the ratio has been rewritten to 40:1, and the number of drug users has increased sharply from 50,000 to 900,000!" Manchukuo's "main street Xiǎo Lane is lined with tobacco houses, and in front of the tobacco houses is leaning on the signboard of the Yòu people: "The upper floor of the museum has been opened, the opium is delicious and cheap, please taste it"; "The best bōs opium, made by experts, can be bought for a dime for a penny, beautiful nv maid shì bong". Just when the beautiful poppy huā poisoned the Chinese, the money flowed into the pockets of the Japanese. In a report written in 1936, the U.S. finance officer in Shanghai said that the military budget of "Manchukuo" amounted to 200 million yen a year, and that most of the revenue came from the monopoly of salt and opium.

The reason why countries around the world call China the sick man of East Asia is directly related to Naoki Hoshino. A reporter took a series of photos that were reprinted by major newspapers around the world. The man in the picture is Lou Laigui, lying on a couch in a cigarette shop called "Shili Fan". He turned out to be a real estate owner with a litter of aunts. Now all that was left of him was his bony body, panting, groaning, coughing, longing for the last fire to burn him to ashes. The whole world saw this image. They say: this is China. The sick man of East Asia, this is China.

Fifth, it established a puppet Manchukuo fiscal and taxation system, implemented exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and put the wealth of Northeast China into the pockets of the Japanese.

Taking Dalian as an example, during the reign of Tsarist Russia, there were two types of taxes: national tax and local tax. There are four types of national taxes: land tax, liquor franchise tax, tobacco monopoly tax and salt tax, and there are two types of land tax, including state tax and municipal tax, with a maximum annual tax of 300,000 rubles (one ruble is about one yen).

During the period of Japanese rule in Dalian, the types of taxes were increased and the tax rate was raised. The national tax became land rent, salt tax, liquor tax, tobacco tax, income tax, jiāo tax on easy office, and temporary profit tax; The land tax became a hybrid tax, a business tax, a land price increase tax, a municipal tax, and an association tax. Among them, there are three types of municipal taxes: household tax (i.e., tax collected from house to house), Kanto Prefecture local tax, additional tax, and special tax; There are three types of taxes: household tax, land tax, and special tax. By 1926, the taxes and fees collected by the Japanese army in Dalian Special City amounted to 25 million yen a year, 82 times that of the Russian period.

That's it, Naoki Hoshino was not satisfied, and after he arrived in the Northeast, Dalian added temporary income tax, flour tax, and cement tax. In particular, after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, in order to support the war of aggression against China, Naoki Hoshino ordered the imposition of a special tax on income, a special tax on temporary profits, a special tax on the matching of interests, a special tax on the interests of public bonds and social debts, a special tax on materials, a special tax on foreign currency debts, a special tax on corporate capital, a special tax on the Shina Incident, a house tax, a building tax, a toll tax, an admission tax, a special admission tax, and a tax on the food and drink of Youxing, etc., so that the Japanese colonial government had as many as 62 kinds of taxes in Dalian. The amount of taxes collected has also been greatly increased, and the common people have been stripped of their poverty.

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