Chapter 295: Jingyanggang Sweep Dàng (3) (Make up for what you owe yesterday)

However, this newly established puppet Shandong Provincial Office is really good enough, and Han Fuyu, an old warlord in Shandong, also hates the Japanese very much. Originally, he was the emperor of Shandong, but the Japanese made such a fuss that he had to run away. The foundation that had been running for most of his life was ruined, so when Han Fuqu retreated, he burned down the original provincial government building in Shandong Province in a fit of rage, resulting in the establishment of the pseudo-"Provincial Office" at the beginning of the establishment of the "Provincial Office" did not even have a decent office space, so he had to temporarily borrow the Yuemiao Street Normal School Building as an office location. At the same time, the Construction Department was also sent to survey the area around the former Education Department and the Provincial Theater on Gongyuan Wallen Street in the city, and rebuild the premises of the Provincial Office, which is actually the reconstruction of the Shandong Provincial Government Building. Han Yunhua also knows a lot about this project, which began to be prepared in July 1938 and completed in March 1939, which lasted half a year and cost 90,000 yuan. After that, the Provincial Office moved to a new location until 1945, when it collapsed, except for the Police Department, all departments and offices were concentrated in the Office and adopted the form of co-office. It is said that when the Japanese army entered Jinan, a group of people from the Taoist Institute and the Buddhist Association brought by He Supu, a group of people from the Red Swastika Society brought by Zhang Xingwu, president of the Red Swastika Society, and Wang Zifeng, Han Chunyi, Li Bocheng, Fu Yuting, Zhang Guansan and others from the business association bowed at the Puli Mén Road on Jinger Road to welcome the Japanese army into the city. Regarding the scene when the Japanese army entered the city, everyone can also see it in TV or movies and other scenes, the people who open the way are often those Chinese who hold the Japanese flag and nod their heads, and then the Japanese officer riding a tall horse follows behind with a proud expression

Due to the speed of the main advance of the Japanese army, the troops of the Shandong warlord Han Fuqu were not far from the main force of the Japanese army. In order to chase after Han Fuyu's troops who retreated south, the main force of the Japanese army did not leave many troops in Jinan City when they entered Jinan, and most of the troops only rested in Jinan for a while, and then quickly moved south. As a result, the number of garrisons in Jinan at that time was very small, and the order in the city was still unstable. At that time, the Luàn Bureau had seriously threatened the rule of the Japanese army in Jinan. Even the Japanese army's banks, warehouses, and freight yards in Jinan were smashed and looted by a small number of people, and those Japanese spies, Japanese businessmen, and Japanese people who opened daidang (xiǎo-type pawnshops) in Jinan before the war, selling foreign goods, drugs, morphine, and opium cigarettes, became more and more rampant, fearless, and wantonly inspected and looted with the Japanese army. The wanton recklessness of the Japanese troops entering the city further strengthened the order, first the Taikang Food Company and the Shanghai Food Company were smashed, and then the ordinary dim sum shops were also smashed. The smashed merchants have approached business associations and asked for protection; The people who smashed the shop also went to the business association and ordered the supply.

In order to solve the problem of supplying the imperial army and maintaining law and order in the city of Jinan, out of consideration of various factors, Xin Zhujiu, president of the Jinan Commercial Association, He Supu, the head of the Jinan Provincial Academy, and Ma Liang, the pro-Japanese warlord, began to organize a puppet regime to maintain law and order in the city. Compared to the well-known people in Jinan City at that time, this newly established maintenance organization was actually a lackey of the Japanese army, and from the perspective of the Chinese, this puppet regime was the Han Jiān puppet government. Therefore, there were not many people who responded to the Japanese army at that time, and the Chinese have always paid attention to the way of loyalty and filial piety since ancient times, and being a Han jiān lackey was despised by the whole world, just like Qin Huan and a group of courtiers.

Therefore, as a last resort, few people are willing to throw their heads and become Han jiān. And for the Japanese army, the key to the puppet government is also the question of candidates. The initial candidates were three people: Xin Zhujiu, president of the Jinan Chamber of Commerce, He Supu, the head of the Jinan Provincial Academy, and Ma Liang, a pro-Japanese warlord. They represent the three forces of Jinan's business, religious, and military and political circles. The main figures of these three forces were actually the backbone of the puppet regime in Shandong in the future, such as Wei Shoushan in the business world, Tang Yangdu, Zhang Xingwu, and Cheng Yi'an in the Taoist Academy.

According to the situation at that time, the most suitable person for the Japanese army to come forward to organize political power and business associations was Xin Zhujiu, but Xin saw the essence of this so-called Shandong Provincial Office, so he did not hesitate to refuse. Xin believes that due to the rampant Japanese invaders, the market húnluàn, and the crisis, the citizens asked for the organization of a maintenance association to temporarily maintain order in the market, so it is possible to come forward to the Japanese invaders, but it is not appropriate to maintain the president of the association. ,

However, in the eyes of the Japanese, Xin Zhujiu, as the leader of the merchants of Shandong, was the most suitable candidate, and He Supu, as a person in the religious circles, was really not easy to face in the military and political aspects, let alone serve as a high-ranking official in politics. As for Ma Liang, he himself is a warlord, and no matter how pro-Japanese he is to a warlord, the Japanese will not trust him too much. Therefore, Xin Zhujiu was the most favorite candidate of the Japanese at that time, but Xin Zhujiu himself was unwilling to wade into this troubled water. As a result, Xin, He, and Ma went together to meet the head of the Japanese army's secret service, and Jiāo was involved in maintaining order in the market. However, after Jiāo's involvement this time, the result was that Xin Zhujiu was unwilling to act for the tiger and took refuge in the Hongjialou Catholic Church in the eastern suburbs of Jinan. As a representative figure in the religious circles, He Supu is inconvenient to stand out in the military and political circles, so he can only be indulged behind the scenes. In this way, Maleonn became the natural candidate to maintain the president of the association. Ma Liang, the word Zizhen. Hui. A native of Qingyuan, Hebei. Graduated from Beiyang Military Academy. Since 1901, he has been a teacher at the Shanxi Military Academy and the Zhili Army Accelerated School. Ma Liang, as a cadre of the warlords of the Duan Qirui and Anhui factions with the Japanese as the background, has always been a die-hard pro-Japanese element. He used to be the commander of the baggage battalion of the Beiyang Standing Army, the chief staff officer of the sixth town, the standard commander of the 21st infantry (regiment), and the standard commander of the artillery of the sixth town (division). In June 1911, he was transferred to the Ninth Association (Brigade Commander) of the Fifth Town of Beiyang. After 912, he served as the commander of the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, and the commander and division commander of the 47th Hún Brigade in Shandong.

As early as the May Fourth Movement, Ma Liang was deeply hated and notorious by the Chinese people for flattering the Japanese and killing patriotic compatriots. The Japanese knew this, but at that time, when some of the Han jiāns were hesitant, some looked forward and backward, and some were fishy, they pulled Ma Liang out for temporary use, and it was also a last resort. Just as the Japanese dealt with Han Jiān elsewhere, the Japanese army in Shandong did not forget to limit the development of Ma Liang's department while supporting the formation of the Jinan Maintenance Association. While the Japanese army continued to attack the whole province of Shandong along the Jinpu Road and Jiaoji Road, the Japanese army supported a large number of large Han Jiān regimes and some fairly eye-catching bandit troops along the way. Jinpu Road: On January 1, 1938, the 10th Division of the Japanese Second Army fell into Tai'an and Féi City; On the 2nd, from Tai'an to the south in two ways, all the way to Yanzhou, all the way to Dongping, on the same day, trapped in Dawenkou; On the 4th, Yanzhou, Qufu, and Méngyīn. On the 5th, Han Fuyu's troops abandoned Jining and withdrew to the west bank of the canal, and the main force retreated to the areas of Caoxian, Chengwu and Shanxian. On the 6th, the Japanese army occupied Zou County, captured Jining on the 11th, and captured Jiaxiang on February 25. At this point, the Japanese army and the Kuomintang army confronted the Jining, Tengxian, and Méngyīn lines. Jiaoji Road: On December 25, 1937, the Japanese army occupied Zhoucun and marched eastward along Jiaoji Road, and fell into Weixian County on January 10, 1938; On the same day, the Japanese marines landed in Qingdao and drove into the city, forming a trend of east-west advance along the Jiaoji Road. On January 15, the Jiaoji Railway was taken over by the South Manchurian Railway Bureau; At the same time, the northern section of Jinpu Road was also accepted.

On the same day, the puppet puppet government of Beiping announced the appointment of Zhao Qi and Zhang Huanan to take charge of Qingdao and Yantai respectively. On the 17th, the "Qingdao Public Security Maintenance Association" with Zhao Qi as the chairman was established in Qingdao Shandong Road General Business Association, which consists of a secretariat, a general affairs department and a police department. Qingdao and Jinan maintained that the two associations echoed each other and contained each other, creating conditions for the Japanese puppet to control the whole province of Shandong. On February 3, the Japanese army in Qingdao invaded the east and occupied Yantai. On the 4th, the Japanese army fell into Zhucheng, and on the 20th, it fell into Rizhao and Juxian, and confronted the Kuomintang army in the Linyi area. The Japanese army on the eastern and western fronts formed a flank attack on the Kuomintang troops in Lunan and Xuzhou. On March 7, the Japanese army fell into Weihaiwei. At this point, most of Shandong became a occupied area, and the Japanese puppets occupied the main Jiāo line and nearby cities. At this time, the Japanese army was engaged in offensive operations in the Lunan and Xuzhou areas, and was unable to fully maintain the situation in the occupied areas, and the surging development of anti-Japanese armed organizations and activities had threatened the security of the Japanese army's rear.

To be honest, no one was good at that time, including Han Jiān. You said that when Han Jiān is not only despised by the countrymen, but also has to accept the great xiǎo order from the master Japanese, and if it is not good, it will be replaced by the following xiǎo Han Jiān. Although Ma Liang was the founder of the puppet Shandong regime, his tenure was only one year. Although the year of his tenure (counting from the maintenance meeting) can be said to be the initial period of the establishment of the puppet regime in Shandong, although the order and administrative institutions at all levels in the province are still unstable, the puppet regime has basically been erected.

However, although Ma Liang and his ilk served the Japanese army loyally, they were still not satisfied with the Japanese army. Dissatisfaction mainly comes from two aspects: First, as mentioned earlier, Ma Liang is notorious and discredited in Shandong, whether it is the local gentry or ordinary people in Jinan, Shandong, they all hate Ma Liang. As a result, Ma Liang's order could hardly leave the city of Jinan, which caused great trouble to the Japanese rule; Second, during this period, Shandong's anti-Japanese activities were surging, and the Japanese puppet regime was advancing slowly and the situation was unstable. Ma Liang was often criticized and even insulted by the Japanese army because of this, and Ma Liang was originally an old warlord, and those who have been warlords for a long time will have a kind of arrogance, and they seem extremely unruly. Therefore, the Japanese's favorability towards Ma Liang was declining day by day, and when he became governor for less than half a year, the Japanese army wanted to remove him and replace him with a more suitable candidate.