Han Yunhua himself also has a certain understanding of the puppet forces that were active in various places during the Anti-Japanese War, among which the largest Han Jiān puppet organization in the country is the puppet national government of Wang Jīngwei, which will be formed later, followed by which puppet Manchukuo in the northeast is full of taste, and then which puppet national provisional government in Beijing is to be counted. If we talk about the number of Han Jiān organizations at the provincial and municipal levels, there are too many Han Yunhua at the provincial and municipal levels, so it is not very clear that there are a large number of provinces and cities. But Han Yunhua knows a lot about this Xinmin Association, if nothing else, because what this Xinmin Association did for the Japanese army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression or played a role in the Japanese army is too great.

In terms of organizational composition and status, as well as its nature, the Xinmin Association itself is a Han Jiān puppet organization. The Xinmin Association is nominally a so-called "people's organization" that believes in "New People's Principles, the construction of a new China, and the realization of the coexistence and co-prosperity of East Asian cultures and races, China, Japan, and Manchuria." However, in reality it was not independent, and like all puppet organizations in China, the Xinmin Society was under the control of the Japanese army. The main role of the Xinmin Association is "a special government organ that issues opinions from above and reports from below, and because of the relationship between cooperatives, it eventually becomes an organ for economic work."

As an organization, the Xinmin Association also has its own organizational program, and the original program of the Xinmin Association was: "Support the new regime in order to unblock public opinion"; "Develop industries to ensure people's livelihood"; "Carry forward the cultural morality of the East"; "Under the banner of suppressing the Communist Party and destroying the party, participate in the ** front"; "To promote the realization of alliances of friends in order to contribute to the peace of mankind". Combined with the background of the times at that time, it is not difficult to see that this Xinmin Association is a two-devil puppet Han Jiān organization that serves the Japanese army through and through. The history of the Xinmin Association is not very long, but it is famous in the history of China. On December 27, 1937, after the Japanese army entered Jinan, the great Xiǎo Han Jiān of Jinan City followed the Japanese army's Xuanfu class to set up propaganda points in Jinan City, railway stations, and parks on important streets, organize Japanese language classes, and convene youth student meetings to publicize "the sacredness of the Great East Asian War" and "Japan's coexistence and common prosperity". By February of the following year, most of Shandong had fallen. In the same month, the Japanese opened the Chinese newspaper Qingdao Xinmin Bao in Qingdao. In its founding declaration, the "Qingdao Public Security Maintenance Association" shamelessly declared that the Japanese invasion was "an urgent need to remember the city's collapse, and sent a large army to stop it, and the whole people were able to recover, and they were extremely grateful"; "Japan's friendly forces are dedicated to defending the region and have no territorial ambitions for China," so it is of the utmost importance to demand that "all the people should keep order and give convenience to friendly forces." In March 1938, the puppet Shandong Provincial Office with Ma Liang as governor was established. In July, the Shandong Provincial Guidance Department of the Xinmin Association was listed in Jinan, and the "Shandong Xinmin Daily" was published at the same time. The Xinmin Association began to combine with the puppet regime in Shandong, carried out propaganda on enslavement and established local organizations in Shandong Province, ordered the county offices to set up propaganda classes, held a meeting at the Jinan Chamber of Commerce to "suppress the Communist Party and destroy the party", and marched in the city. In November, the "** Salvation Association" was established in Jinan. Subsequently, from November to December, the director, counselors, and propagandists were successively sent to various provinces to hold the "National Salvation" conference for publicity. According to the statistics of the work report of the puppet Shandong Provincial Office, within nine months after the establishment of the puppet provincial office, a total of 7 such assemblies (processions) were held, dozens of xiǎo meetings, and hundreds of propaganda and speeches, including radio propaganda, school speeches, street speeches, and speeches in entertainment venues. In 1938, the puppet provincial office established 4 provincial Xinmin Japanese language schools, and the Jinan Municipal Office established 13 municipal Xinmin Japanese language schools. In February 1939, Tang Yangdu succeeded Ma Liang as the governor of the puppet Shandong Provincial Office and concurrently led the Shandong Provincial Guidance Department of the Xinmin Association. The activities of the Xinmin Association were expanded to include ideological education and the establishment and expansion of local organizations and the organization of training. The so-called ideological education was mainly enslavement education, the distribution of newspapers and periodicals of the Xinmin Association, the cleaning up of anti-Japanese books, and the holding of various pro-Japanese lectures, film meetings, and Japanese language seminars. To this end, the following organizations have been set up: the "Rural Autonomy Seminar" (to train the actual staff of the seminar), the "Construction Guidance Committee" (to promote rural reform and prepare for the establishment of agricultural cooperatives), the Xinmin Association Information Office, the Xinmin Teahouse, and the Newspaper Reading Room (attached to the teahouse, which displays the newspapers and books of the Xinmin Association). The so-called establishment and expansion of local organizations is mainly to develop Xinmin associations in the newly occupied areas, especially the county guidance departments, and to be responsible for training work, opening youth training centers, setting up experimental villages, and guiding the formation of branches, organizing and supporting rural cooperatives. The Youth League, the Youth League, and the Young NV League are all under the jurisdiction of the Xinmin Association, and most of the rural cooperatives are also operated by the Xinmin Association, so as to unify the purchase and use of rural trafficking, financial business, equipment and equipment, and strengthen control over the occupied areas. With the expansion of the Japanese puppet occupation area and the expansion of the organization of the Xinmin Association, the activities of the Xinmin Association became more extensive. Of course, Han Yunhua has nothing to say about such a Han Jiān organization, hoe Jiān is a must, but this Xinmin Association is a relatively difficult organization. The entire Xinmin Association has extremely large strength in Shandong. Although it is only an organization that has only been established for less than two years, it has received strong support from the Japanese army and the entire puppet Shandong Administrative Office, so the speed of development of this Xinmin Association is extremely rapid. ,

At this time, Han Yunhua still clearly remembered some data about the Xinmin Association, and it was these data that evoked some memories hidden in Han Yunhua's brain. The provincial general meeting of the Xinmin Association has jurisdiction over the Jinan City General Association, 10 provincial general associations and 108 county, city and special district general associations. By September 1942, the Shandong Xinmin Federation had established a total of 5,056 branches, with 153442 full members, 1863766 associate members, and 2017208 members. The subordinate groups under its jurisdiction are: Youth League, with a total of 457 regiments and 123675 members; the Youth League, with a total of 302 regiments and 49,287 members; less NV regiments, a total of 152 regiments, 19,428 people; NV Youth League, a total of 3 regiments, 252 people; fùnv associations, 131, 37,989 people; A total of 1,063 regiments (meetings) with 230631 people. Such a huge amount of data is enough to show that the difficulty of the Xinmin Society's forces can be said to have penetrated the entire Shandong region, and it is impossible to eliminate it at once, and there must be a clear and complete overall plan.

Of course, Han Yunhua also knew how much harm an all-encompassing and complex organization like the Xinmin Association did to the entire Chinese nation, and he knew even more that the existence of these people was a huge and invisible blow to the entire anti-Japanese situation. The means and channels of propaganda of the Xinmin Association are much wider than Han Yunhua imagined, and its tentacles extend to almost all aspects of the Japanese puppet rule area in Shandong. It monitored and controlled the thoughts, speech, and actions of the people under the Japanese puppet rule, and undertook the work of grassroots political power such as neighborhood protection organizations, food rationing, and household registration, armed work such as training self-defense regiments and even standing guard with guns, and organizing economic work such as production and consumption cooperatives. The criminal activities of the Xinmin Association have caused great harm to all the anti-Japanese organizations operating in Shandong, and the reason why the Japanese army was able to wipe out so many large anti-Japanese forces in such a short period of time was that these Han forces did not make a small contribution. Now this bullshit Xinmin Association is targeting Han Yunhua's department, Han Yunhua is a vegetarian. Immediately ordered the Ministry of Intelligence to start urgently collecting the criminal activities of the Xinmin Association in Shandong, and as long as it was involved, it should be reported to the Yanggu County Headquarters as soon as possible. At the same time, Han Yunhua also organized the Propaganda Department to widely publicize the criminal activities of the entire Xinmin Association, and he wanted all Shandong people to find out what kind of organization this Xinmin Association was.

After a week's preliminary summary, Han Yunhua summarized the four major sins to the Xinmin Association. The first is to act as a royal machine for Japanese slavery propaganda and to harm the minds of the Chinese. Han Yunhua This is not a lie, the Xinmin Association has enslaved the means and methods of propaganda in the past eight years of the War of Resistance against Japan, mainly: publishing and distributing Xinmin Society newspapers and periodicals, such as "Xinmin Daily", "Xinmin Youth Weekly", etc.; Lectures, concerts, film shows, Japanese language classes, and celebrations are held. Organize various seminars and training centers, such as rural self-government seminars and youth training centers, to train propaganda backbones; opened the Xinmin Teahouse, and set up a newspaper reading room in the teahouse to display Japanese pseudo books; Essay contests and essay contests are held through affiliated organizations, newspapers and periodicals, the Education Bureau, radio stations, etc. The Japanese puppets attempted to instill pro-Japanese ideology into the common people in this simple and practical way. Secondly, the Xinmin Association also acted as the vanguard of the Japanese puppet **. **It is the backbone of the Anti-Japanese War in North China and the great disaster of the Japanese puppet. In order to eliminate this great disaster, the Japanese army constantly mobilized troops to carry out "sweeping". However, not only has it not been eliminated, but it has grown stronger and stronger. This made the Japanese army realize: "The suppression of the Communists cannot be achieved by relying only on force to carry out a crusade." "Because ** is the trinity of the party, government, and military, the relationship with the people is like fish and water. Therefore, "it is necessary to focus on active and tenacious efforts and the unified use of the military, government, and civilian forces, the destruction of the enemy's organizational forces, and the winning over of the people." The Xinmin Society, which was spread throughout the urban and rural areas, was adapted to this need, and for this reason, the Japanese army proposed to the Xinmin Association the task of "undertaking the mission of organizing the people." As a result, the Xinmin Association became the vanguard of the Japanese puppet. From 1941 to 1942, the Japanese puppets in North China launched five successive "public security strengthening campaigns", attempting to use the unified strength of the army, government, and parliament to deal with the party, government, and military trinity, and "fight a war for the people." While actively establishing and expanding grassroots branches, the Xinmin Association also actively established and expanded organizations such as the Youth League, the Youth League, the Youth League, the Youth League, the Youth League, and the FÙNV Association, implemented the armor protection system, established rural autonomous self-defense organizations, organized rural armed groups, organized "Xinmin Commandos" and "Vanguards" under various names, and directly carried out ** activities, which played a very bad role. ,

At the same time, the Xinmin Association also conducts intelligence gathering. The Xinmin Association not only has the role of "issuing orders from above", but is also a special organ for "reporting the situation from above", and intelligence gathering is one of its functions. The Xinmin Society is a huge spy intelligence organization. The investigation departments (offices and units) at all levels set up in the Xinmin Association are the full-time intelligence networks of the Xinmin Association system and one of the four major intelligence networks of the Japanese puppet society. The Xinmin Association has established two major intelligence organizations in Shandong: the first is an intelligence network based in the Jinan Branch of the Central Investigation Department of the Xinmin Association. The Jinan Branch of the Central Investigation Department of the Xinmin Association was established at the end of 1942 and ended with the surrender of the Japanese army. There are three departments: the first department, which is responsible for personnel and general affairs; the second department, responsible for organization and supervision; The third department is responsible for intelligence collation and guidance. There are 31 key personnel. In addition, there are "workers" with professional cover in Jining, Huimin, Linyi, Méngyīn, Zhoucun, Yidu, Zhucheng, Tancheng, Weixian and other places. The branch is directly subordinate to the Central Investigation Department of the Xinmin Association, and does not have contact with local Xinmin associations, and its main task is to collect local political, economic, and military intelligence under the cover of economic surveys. The second is the intelligence network with the investigation office of the Shandong Provincial General Association of the Xinmin Association as the backbone. The Investigation Office of the Shandong Provincial General Association of the Xinmin Association was established in April 1943 and ended with the surrender of Japan. The director is Wang Tiemin. This office is one of the internal organs of the Provincial Xinmin Association, which is divided into internal and field services, and is responsible for monitoring the staff of each department of the Xinmin Association and providing guidance to the investigation units of the province, city and county. However, the office mainly accepts the leadership of the Japanese Counselor's Office of the Xinmin Association, and has working contacts with the Japanese military police in Jinan City, so it is also a special intelligence agency attached to the Xinmin Association, which is mainly responsible for collecting information and compiling information on the "suppression of the Communist Party". There are investigators in Changqing, Tai'an, Guangrao, Zhucheng, Méngyīn, Yidu, Yishui, Weixian, Jining, Zhangqiu and other places. It is linked to the investigation units of the provincial, city, and county associations, and effectively constitutes a top-down intelligence system. Finally, the Xinmin Association also organized rural cooperatives to promote the rural economy. The rural cooperatives promoted by the Japanese puppet institute are an organizational form that integrates political, economic, and military management with the combination of rural autonomy and armor protection systems. The Xinmin Association is the de facto director of the cooperative. The Xinmin Society tried to take advantage of the unique functions of the cooperatives to completely integrate the rural people and the rural economy into the orbit of serving the Japanese puppet rule. In short, the Xinmin Association is an out-and-out Han Jiān organization, with the pro-Japanese ** as its vocation, it has gathered a large number of Han Jiān backbones, and the organization is extremely extensive, not only in the cities, but also scattered in the countryside Xiǎo Town, and has established various forms of affiliated organizations, its activities involve ideological and cultural, political, economic and military aspects, this kind of extensive xìng is incomparable with other Japanese and puppet forces.

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