As a visionary leader, Han Yunhua still sees some issues far. Now many people think that China's biggest enemy should be the Japanese, and that the puppet army and puppet regime that exists as a dependence on Japan are nothing more than a tool used by the Japanese army to rule China and contain China, and they are not afraid. As long as the Japanese army is defeated, these two devil lackeys can't afford to make a big deal at all. But Han Yunhua didn't think so, in Han Yunhua's eyes, the Japanese army was just a foreign trouble, even if China was defeated by the Japanese army for a while, even if most of China was lost, but it was obviously far from enough for Japan to conquer China like this. However, those who forgot their ancestors and betrayed their ancestors were real internal worries, and if it were not for those Han Jiān lackeys, China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would not have been as difficult as it was in history.

After all, the devils were outsiders, and without the help of the separatists inside China, it would have been quite difficult for the Japanese to gain a foothold in China. Although the Xinmin Association is only a local puppet organization of Han Jiān, it has all the qualities that it can expand into a national puppet regime. Han Yunhua would never allow such an organization to continue to develop in his defense area, which was an insult to him.

Perhaps the current Xinmin Association is just a mediocre xiǎo organization, and its position among all Han Jiān organizations under the control of the Japanese army is not so prominent. However, Han Yunhua knew how terrifying the future development of the Xinmin Association would be, and the degree of development of this terror seriously affected the course of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

In order to enable the Xinmin Association to play a role under the unified leadership, at the end of 1939, the Japanese army in North China reorganized the Xinmin Association. On December 2, Wang Kemin, chairman of the Provisional Political Committee, was elected as the chairman, and Wang Yitang, Minister of the Interior, Kizaburo Ando, adviser to the Xinmin Association, and Miao Bin, director of the Central Guidance Department of the Xinmin Association, were appointed as vice presidents. As a result, the Xinmin Association integrated the government, religion, government, and association, and changed the situation that it was mainly dependent on the military to carry out its activities. Subsequently, the local Xinmin Association also carried out institutional changes. In March 1940, Wang's puppet regime was established in Nanjing, and a "special system" was implemented in North China, and the provisional government was dissolved, and the puppet North China Political Affairs Committee was established. With this change in the system, the Xinmin Association reformed again. In late February 1940, the military propaganda and maintenance class, which was originally attached to the Japanese army, was disbanded and merged into the Xinmin Association. On March 8, the merged Daxin People's Association was officially formed. In this way, the New People's Association is no longer a mere "indoctrination group" or "mass organization", but is closely integrated with the military and the puppet regime, and has the quality of a political organization. Its new program is: "Carry forward the new people and show the royal way"; "Carry out **, revive culture, establish peace"; "Revitalizing the industry and improving people's lives"; "Good-Neighborly Alliance for a New Order in East Asia". The Xinmin Association has become a political organization integrating education, economy, and education in the service of the Japanese puppet rule. After the reorganization, the Xinmin Association changed the previous guidance department system and implemented the general meeting and council system.

According to the new constitution of the Xinmin Association, on April 1, 1940, the Shandong Xinmin Association was reorganized, merging the Provincial Guidance Department with the Japanese Army Xuanfu Class to form the Shandong Provincial General Association of the Xinmin Association, with Tang Yangdu as the president and a member of the Central Committee. The General Association has a secretariat, which consists of three divisions: General Affairs, Health and Welfare, and Education, and a training department. Subsequently, the provincial office, the county (city) general association and grassroots organizations and the provincial Xinmin Education Center began to be established. Relying on the education center, the Shandong Provincial Federation vigorously carried out the public security strengthening education campaign in the Japanese puppet occupation area, cooperated with the organization construction, carried out pro-Japanese slavery propaganda, expanded the organization, promoted the establishment and expansion of rural armor protection, autonomous self-defense groups and cooperatives, adhered to the relationship between the political council and the one axis and two rounds, and fully supported the rule of the Japanese puppet in Shandong. In 1940 alone, the Shandong Xinmin Association used the Education Center and its affiliated schools and educational institutions to hold 1,296 pro-Japanese "public security strengthening speeches". At this point, the influence of the Xinmin Association has reached a new height, and its members are all over the Shandong Peninsula. The Great Xiǎo organizations attached to the Xinmin Society were numerous throughout the northern region.

But despite this, the development of the Xinmin Association is far from its peak. Before that, the Xinmin Association was just a relatively simple Han Jiān organization, and their relatively powerful weapons were economic strength and the Japanese army behind them. However, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army, out of the strategic need to consolidate the war base in North China, was ready to use North China as its strategic rear and reserve granary, so it paid more attention to the situation in North China. However, at this time, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was also entering the most difficult period, and the offensive intensity of both the Kuomintang and even the Japanese army was greatly reduced. Both China and Japan have reached the critical point of attrition, and it is not an exaggeration to say that both sides are defeated. ,

It was at this time that the Japanese army demanded a further transformation into a political organization to play a greater role in the Xinmin Association. As a result, the Xinmin Association carried out another institutional change. In this reform, the Japanese army highlighted the role of supporting and strengthening the Chinese in the Xinmin Association and its significance to the puppet regime in North China. The Japanese North China Front stated in its "Outline for the Support of the New People's Association": "In order to make the political affairs committee strong, it is necessary to support and strengthen the New People's Association, which is the foundation. "Considering the policy towards the current enemy in North China, as you know, with the trinity of the party, the government, and the army, the relationship with the people is like a fish in water, and we are actively winning over the people, and our side must also use the army, the government, and the congress to confront it and fight a war to win over the people." He also said that Wang Pseudo "The New Kuomintang and the New People's Association are sister organizations of China's new system, and their status is reciprocal." Judging from the history of establishing innovative ideas, it is not too much to say that the Xinmin Society is more advanced than the Kuomintang. Therefore, last year, the Central Committee decided that the Xinmin Association in North China and the Kuomintang in Central and South China would be divided into regions to assist in the work of law and order and rectification, and to compete with each other for their own goodness. Obviously, the Japanese army intended to change the Xinmin Association into a political party organization that could better adapt to the needs of the Japanese puppet rule, had the ability to control the situation in North China, and stood side by side with the puppet forces in the south. To this end, the Japanese army and the Shinmin Kai held a provisional general council on December 24, 1941, in contrast to the previous order of holding joint councils from the bottom up, and issued and clarified the new policy of the Shinmin Kai movement. The puppet Shandong Provincial Office carried out a reform of the organization of the Shandong Xinmin Association accordingly, and held a provincial joint council on December 28 to form a county (city), provincial and provincial joint council, and set up a department of affairs under the provincial federation, which set up four departments of general affairs, organization, propaganda and training, and added counselors' offices and investigation rooms (units) at all levels; The office was changed to the provincial federation, and the deputy chief (Japanese) of the general association at all levels was changed to the chief counselor and concurrently served as the advisor of the provincial and county (city) to promote the integration of the government and the council. So far, the organizational system of the Shandong Xinmin Association has been basically established.

In October 1942, in order to make it easier for the New People's Association to play its role, the New People's Association held a four-day general meeting to revise and adopt a new program and movement policy, hoping to carry out a major reform of the appearance of the New People's Association. The newly adopted program is: "Carry forward the new people jīng god"; "Practice Peace**"; "Completion of the National Organization"; "Uniting the East Asian Nations"; "Building a New World Order". The policy of the movement is: "The New People's Association must take up the task of leading the Chinese people in the national movement to build a new China." This is the historical mission of the Xinmin Association, which is the guiding body of the New National Organization"; "The Xinmin Association has the important task of leading the people to remove the obstacles of "**", Anglo-American liberalism, and feudal remnants", and should take the promotion of China's national consciousness and support for the basic requirements of the Greater East Asia War as the basis for unifying the people's beliefs, "adhere to the leadership of the god of the unity of government, the meeting and the inside", and "mobilize the maximum manpower and material resources to strengthen the system of North China's participation in the war and assist in the completion of the Greater East Asia War"; "The New People's Association focuses on the establishment of a new national organization by rectifying and expanding the three organizations of branches, peripheral organizations, and youth, and on this basis, the establishment of a national mobilization system is the goal of the movement." The purpose of this reform was to use the Xinmin Association to drag North China into the whirlpool of Japan's Pacific War. On January 9, 1943, under the Japanese cào longitudinal, Wang Puppet Government declared war on Britain and the United States, and transferred to the "wartime system". In order to adapt to this change, the New People's Association convened a temporary general meeting on January 20 and decided to implement the "New National Movement" in North China. During this period, the activities of the Shandong Xinmin Association basically revolved around these aspects. In September 1942, under the name of the Department of Education, the Youth League Department of Shandong Xinmin Youth Group was established. The Shandong Provincial General Assembly of the Xinmin Association put forward the four major goals of the "New National Movement": "to build the country together, increase production and save the people, correct the mind, and innovate life". From September 1 to 2, 1943, the Shandong Provincial General Association of the Xinmin Association held the 1943 Shandong Provincial United Council in the Jinan Shangbu Guild Hall, in order to further promote the "New National Movement". Tang Yangdu delivered a congratulatory speech at the meeting: "East Asian holy war, common death and life, China and Japan consistently, Vytaru Province, rear base. The great cause of Xingya, the decisive battle system, the victory of the Cào, relying on the people, each fulfilling his duties, and vowing to sweep away the enemy's atmosphere. From this, we can see the reactionary essence of the Shandong Xinmin Association.

At this point, the development of the Xinmin Association has reached its true peak. However, Han Yunhua has always had an attitude towards the Han Jiān organization, and the prevention is greater than the fear of the Han Jiān organization. In Han Yunhua's view, the Han Jiān organization is only a Han Jiān organization after all, and their actual cohesion and combat effectiveness are extremely weak. To paraphrase a vernacular, that good person is willing to wear a hat on the street every day, so it is conceivable that most of the people who join the Xinmin Association are some people who forget their righteousness, are mercenary, have an eye for money, and see the wind and steer, and it is a luxury to have such a group of people to form an organization and unity. ,

Just as Han Yunhua analyzed, although the Japanese puppets made all kinds of efforts to give play to the role of the Xinmin Association, the actual activities of the Xinmin Association still failed to meet the requirements and goals of the Japanese puppets. What made the Japanese army most angry was that the Xinmin Association also had a phenomenon of fighting and factions in its organization.

As the Japanese army wrote in "The War of Public Security in North China": "With the expansion of the organization and the passage of time, factions and party systems gradually emerged, and a fresh and lively atmosphere was lost, which is not difficult to imagine, especially for government-run organizations. "The Xinmin Association began to decline, and after 1943, the situation of the Xinmin Association was even worse. In the second half of this year, the puppet regime in North China launched the "North China New Construction Movement". In order to support this movement, the Xinmin Association convened a special congress in an attempt to take advantage of the close unity of the 21 social, religious, cultural, and ideological groups under its control to make a difference in the movement. In fact, it was only the establishment of the so-called "North China People's Organizations ** Great Alliance" (headquartered in Beiping, with branches in all localities, and ** working groups in all mass organizations, dedicated to engaging in ** activities), but no major action could be taken, nor did it achieve great results. Since then, the Xinmin Association has had little effect at all. The Japanese also believed: "The decision of the Shinmin Kai to launch the Movement for National Salvation through the General Assembly of the United Nations in October [1944] has created momentum, but it has not produced any concrete measures. In this way, by August 1945, with the defeat of the Japanese army and the collapse of the puppet regime, the Xinmin Society finally collapsed and died.

Han Yunhua is familiar with the history of the development of the Xinmin Association, and what he has to do now is to strangle the Xinmin Association in the cradle when it has just developed. Although the Xinmin Association has been developing in Shandong for nearly two years now, due to various reasons, the influence of the Xinmin Association at this time is still far from enough, especially in the area of Liaocheng Luxi. Therefore, Han Yunhua was ready to take advantage of the favorable opportunity that the Xinmin Association had not yet "invaded" Luxi, and eliminated some Han Jiān organizations or Han Jiān chambers of commerce and pro-Japanese merchants and landlords in Liaocheng. So that the Xinmin Association will no longer have a chance to enter Luxi and the southeast of Hebei.

As the imperial group of the Japanese puppet regime, the Xinmin Association itself is very weak in terms of freedom and independence. However, although the New People's Association made great progress between 1940 and 1942, this was not due to the people's voluntariness, but the result of high-pressure coercion. This also determined that the Xinmin Association could not achieve the desired goal, it only recruited a group of Han jiān and did some things to bully and enslave compatriots.

However, the harm of the Xinmin Association is still quite large, because the strength of the Japanese army in Shandong is extremely large, with such a master behind the back, even if the Chinese anti-Japanese armed forces know that the Xinmin Association is just a paper tiger and stinky fox, but they insist that they exist under their noses for eight years, and they also let it form a top-down organizational system in actual activities, constituting the Japanese puppet regime to oppress the people and carry out traitorous activities.

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