Chapter 600: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai and Songhu in Shanghai

Three months after the Kwantung Army launched the 918 Incident, the League of Nations finally formed the Lytton Investigation Group for this purpose at the repeated urging of the Chinese government. update

After the September 18 incident, Shi Zhaoji, China's representative to the League of Nations, was ordered by the Nationalist Government to complain to the Council of the League of Nations on 21 September against Japan for invading China's territory and breaking the treaty of the League of Nations. The League of Nations was called upon to take action to stop Japan's threat to peace and the deterioration of the situation. "so that the situation that is detrimental to the peace will not expand" and return to the status quo ante to which the incident broke out.

However, the League of Nations, manipulated by Britain and France, adopted a very disappointing and conniving attitude towards Japan.

The Council of the League of Nations debated the issue of Japan's armed invasion of Northeast China for three months and made many resolutions, but it did not make a resolution explicitly condemning Japan, and of course it could not have the slightest effect on stopping Japan's expansion of aggression. It was only at the repeated request of the Chinese delegates that on December 10, 1931, the Council of the League of Nations finally passed a resolution deciding to send an investigation team of the League of Nations to the Far East to investigate the "September 18" incident.

However, the League of Nations also stipulated that the mission of the investigation team was limited to studying the background of the dispute between China and Japan and reporting to the League of Nations, and had no right to intervene in the military operations of the two countries or to recommend direct negotiations between the two sides.

In other words, the mission of the League of Nations Investigation Team is only of an investigative nature, and as for China and Japan, what should you do and what will you continue to do......

On January 21, the League of Nations Investigation Mission was formally established. The mission consisted of representatives from five countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany, and Italy. The head of the regiment was Sir Lytton, an Englishman, so it was also known as the Lytton Investigation Mission.

During his time in British colonial India, Lytton served as Governor of Bombay and Acting British Governor in India. The United States was represented by General McCawyi, a former Governor General of the Philippines. The representative of France is Henry? General Claude was the commander of the French West African Army. The representative of Germany is Enrik? Dr. Heaney, former Governor of German East Africa. The representative of Italy was Count Marcodi, who was an arbitrary minister to South America.

According to the resolution of the Council, Gu Weijun, the former director of the China Division, participated in the meeting as the director of the China Representative Office, and Yu Nengmo participated as a special member of the China Representative Office of the Investigation Committee of the International Federation. The Japanese "participating member" was Isaburo Yoshida, who was the consul general in Shenyang. The Secretary-General of the delegation was Haas, Head of the Secretariat of the League of Nations. There are also a number of translators.

Before the investigation team left, the Executive Yuan of the League of Nations stipulated that in addition to investigating the Manchurian issue caused by the "September 18" incident launched by Japan in China, they should also investigate the domestic situation in China.

This is because Japan declared in the League of Nations that, because of the political situation in China, the Chinese Government is no longer able to fulfill its responsibilities to protect foreign interests, especially Japan's treaty rights and interests in Manchuria.

The implication is that it has no choice but to use force to occupy Northeast China, and that only if Japan retains force in Northeast China can it safeguard its "treaty and interests." ”

This is a very good Japanese trick. Another implicit meaning is to tell the great powers of Britain, the United States, France and Italy that you also have many interests in China that are bound by various treaties by force, and if my interests are not allowed for me to protect by force, so that the Chinese can taste the sweetness, the consequences will be unimaginable, and the Chinese will also encroach on your interests, and your interests will be violated in the future, how will you protect them?

As for the Japanese government's "goodwill" reminder, although the governments of various countries are well aware, they absolutely do not want Japan to do whatever it wants in China and achieve greater and greater benefits.

You must know that interests must be evenly shared, and it is unacceptable in any way to allow the Japanese to take advantage of their geographical advantages and take advantage of the fact that the economic crisis makes the great powers unable to get more hands on China to achieve huge benefits in China that surpass all the powers. …,

Therefore, the investigation team must grasp the issue of degree during this trip. What's more, now the Nationalist Government is pestering the Great Powers to withdraw the tariffs.

It has become an unspeakable consensus of all countries not to let the Chinese think that existing treaties can be arbitrarily violated and changed, but also to restrict the exclusive interests of the Japanese.

That being the case, it is only natural that the Mission will have to listen to the advice of the Governments of the various powers.

The trip of the Lytton investigation team was not to first go to China, which was ravaged by the Japanese army, but to inquire about the attitudes of the major powers and countries towards the incident. On 3 February, after listening to the opinions of France, Italy, and Germany, the investigation team set out from the French port of Le Havre, first to London, Washington, and then to Japan.

Despite this, the establishment of the investigation team still exerted great pressure on the Japanese government, and criticism of the Kwantung Army began to increase within the government, accusing Shigeru Honjo, Seishiro Itagaki, Ishihara Waner, Dohihara, and Hanaya of not obeying the government orders and the military department's orders to provoke a war against China without authorization.

This made the Kwantung Army very aggrieved and resentful. They understand that this is some forces in the government that are afraid of the Western powers, preparing for possible sanctions from the powers, and they need to find a few scapegoats.

Now that we understand the conspiracy of the conservative forces in the country, we must find a way to resolve the crisis and must not sit idly by.

Shigeru Honjo, Seishiro Itagaki, Ishihara Waner, Dohihara, Hanayamasa and others discussed for a few days, and finally thought of a solution that was not a solution.

A good way to reduce stress is to divert the attention of others so that the pressure is shared. Moreover, if there are too many scapegoats, the opposition within the government will not dare to do anything to them.

If you think of a way, you have to choose the location of the incident. Where is the most suitable and which force is more suitable?

Finally, Ishihara suggested that the most suitable location would be Shanghai. Because Shanghai is the most prosperous international metropolis in the Far East, it is only what happens there that attracts the attention of the great powers the most. Moreover, it is the territory of the navy, except for things, it is absolutely difficult for the navy to stay in trouble, as long as the navy is dragged into the water, they will not have anything, and the opposition of the government and the military department will definitely not dare to challenge the authority of the army and navy at the same time.

Ishihara's suggestion was unanimously agreed by everyone, and it was necessary to do something about Shanghai, a big international city, so that everyone, including the Japanese government, would pay attention to Shanghai.

Mars is needed to ignite the flames of war, but how to find this Mars? Shanghai was not the territory of the Army, but the sphere of influence of the Japanese Navy. If the Kwantung Army asks the navy to help make trouble, I am afraid that those navies who treat the army as mountain monkeys will not be fooled at all, or even ignore it at all.

However, this is not difficult to do itigaki and Tu Feiyuan, doing these things, for them it is a trivial matter.

To do things, it is still up to the Army's own brothers. So, Itagaki and Dohihara asked Takayoshi Tanaka, the army attache at the consulate in Shanghai, to throw this spark.

Takayoshi Tanaka successively served in the branch of the General Staff Headquarters and the special services of Beiping and Zhangjiakou, and served as a military attache at the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai in October 30.

In order to do this vote, Honjo Fan was very bold, and killed Zhang Zuolin that year, and the Kwantung Army's funds were only 1,000 yuan. For this business, Honzhuang Fan actually took out 20,000 yuan at a time.

20,000 yuan? Zhang Xueliang bribed Japanese politicians with hundreds of thousands of yuan. What can you do with 20,000 yuan?

Although Itagaki and Dochihara were disgusted by Honjo's small family, they didn't say much. At this time, Japan's military expenditure was only 500 million yen, and because of the large-scale invasion of Tohoku, the military expenditure was greatly overrun, and in order to meet the military demand, the country had to raise taxes now.

Others think that there is little money, but this Tanaka Takayoshi would rather do it with money. This guy, who was later scolded as a conspirator by his colleagues, actually got another 100,000 yuan from a Japanese company in Shanghai. …,

If you have the money, you have to have someone to help, because because of his own identity, it is very inconvenient to come forward to do this. So, Takayoshi Tanaka found a mysterious woman to do this big business together.

This mysterious woman is the famous Yoshiko Kawashima from now on.

When it comes to this name, many people will think of "witch", "spy and so on". She was a Japanese female spy who thundered in China and Japan during the Anti-Japanese War. The trial of her after the war attracted countless reporters to observe, and both China and Japan have filmed film and television dramas with her as the theme, not to mention books and articles. To this day, there are still people who are verifying whether she was actually shot.

However, compared with the later popularity, Yoshiko Kawashima at this time is not yet famous in the rivers and lakes.

Although she did know a lot of Japanese military and political officials, no one regarded her as an excellent spy, they were only interested in her identity, the fourteenth daughter of Prince Su of the Manchu Iron Hat, like a fake Qing Gege.

Prince Su, one of the eight iron hat kings of the founding of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the eldest son of Huang Taiji, Haoge.

According to the practice of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the title of the prince is generally inherited by a lower rank, that is, the son of the prince will not be the prince, but can only be demoted to a first-class title. But Prince Su is different, he is a hereditary prince, and the descendants of the prince are still princes, so he is also called the iron hat king. The nobility of the status is extraordinary.

Haoge made outstanding achievements, and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty was slaughtered by this Prince Su. Yoshiko Kawashima's father is the last Prince Su of this Haoge to pass on the 9th generation.

As soon as the Qing Dynasty died, the Manchu dignitaries were scattered. However, this Prince Su is different, and he is determined to restore.

To have a helper for restoration, Prince Su thought that the Manchu nobles were a group of incompetent people with fat brains, and he was inspired by Sun Yat-sen's revolution, and he also recruited a group of Japanese to help, especially a man named Kawashima Naniwa, who simply became Prince Su's henchman and think tank.

These two brothers are wonderful, how good are they?

For example, Prince Su pointed to one of his daughters and said, "I will give you this daughter as a daughter." This daughter is Yoshiko Kawashima, at that time, she was still called Xianyu, and she was not a few years old.

In order to restore, Kawashima Naniwa and Prince Su tossed a lot in the northeast, and Prince Su even sold his property to raise 1 million for military expenses. However, things didn't go well, and every time Zhang Zuolin was wiped out. Prince Su didn't see his full ** standing until he took his last breath. But his daughter, who grew up with Japanese education and was instilled with the idea of restoration, slowly became a powerful character who could maneuver between the Japanese dignitaries and the old and young of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In the beginning, no one was going to make her a spy. In 1927, when Yoshiko Kawashima was 20 years old, she married a Mongolian nobleman, but three years later, Yoshiko Kawashima ran away from home and returned to Japan, where she became entangled with a group of young Japanese generals who wanted to make trouble all day long.

And it was one of them that finally brought her into a spy career, this Tanaka Takayoshi.

Many Chinese know Takayoshi Tanaka because of the movie "Tokyo Trial", and they are deeply impressed by this "Lieutenant General Takayoshi Tanaka" who appeared in court to testify against Japanese war criminals, and some viewers even think that he "adheres to justice and is not afraid of people's words." But unfortunately, this Tanaka Takayoshi is only a tainted witness at best, and when he was in China, he fanned the flames everywhere, fearing that the world would not be chaotic, and even within the Japanese army, Tanaka Takayoshi was regarded as a monster.

One wanted to use the Japanese power to restore the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the other wanted to use the remnants of the Manchu aristocracy and their familiarity with the Chinese situation to achieve personal feats. In this way, this man and woman quickly got together.

In the words of the Japanese themselves, it is a combination of a snake and a demon.

During the days in Shanghai, under the arrangement of Takayoshi Tanaka, what Yoshiko Kawashima did, few people can say clearly. Some people say that she once disguised herself as a dancer to obtain information in the dance hall, and others say that she used her beauty to get close to the former Nanjing government officials. There are even rumors that she has a good relationship with Sun Yat-sen's eldest son Sun Ke, and she gets information from Sun Ke. …,

Internationally, if you want to find something, it is generally a routine. That is, first scratch a little skin on himself, and then beat people down indiscriminately with an old fist, step on one foot and swear that he is a victim and wants everyone to uphold justice.

The 918 Incident was a small blow up of the Kwantung Army's own railway, but after all, it was a place where the Japanese were stationed, and it was easy to do it.

The situation in Shanghai is different, and most of the so-called rights and interests of the Japanese are concentrated in the concession. The Ministry of Industry and Bureau, which is responsible for the security of the concession, are all blue-eyed and big-nosed foreigners, and it is not so easy to let the Chinese rush into the concession to destroy "Japanese rights and interests." If that were the case, I am afraid that as soon as the Chinese entered the concession, they would first be arrested and dispersed.

Tanaka Takayoshi and Kawashima Yoshiko thought about it, and finally decided that it was more feasible to get some lives and kill a handful of Japanese nationals to ignite the war between Japan and China.

But who should be allowed to do this wrong?

You can't just look for this wronged person, this is very particular.

The first is that this wronged boss can't be a local snake, an expatriate who has lived in Shanghai for a long time. If such a person kills one, the initiation relationship of the seven aunts and eight aunts is easy to expose, and if it is not good, it will really lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot. Second, this wronged boss must be ignorant and fearless. The timid and clever Japanese expatriates are reluctant to casually go to the Chinese enclave with strong anti-Japanese sentiment when they see that the limelight is not right. Thirdly, this unjust boss has to die a worthwhile death, and his identity is enough to make the Japanese especially angry about his death.

Come to think of it, a few Japanese people were put on this list. These wrongdoers were a group of Nichiren monks who had not been in Shanghai long after coming to Shanghai.

Nichiren was born in 1222 in a small fishing village in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. He became a monk at the age of 12 and became a monk at the age of 16, named Lotus Chang. The following year, he went to Kamakura to study, and then studied the teachings of all Buddhist schools of the time in Mt. Hiei and Nara. At the age of 32, through the Lotus Sutra, he realized the precious "Buddha Realm" hidden in everyone's life, and taught that the "Myoho-renge-kyo" is the ultimate of Buddhism. He made a manifesto, changed his name to Nichiren, and began the program of the Reformation.

There are two methods of Nichiren religion: "subduing" and "receiving". After the extinction, the six old monks under his door, such as Rizhao, Rilang, Rixing, Rixiang, Riding, and Rizhi, buried their remains in Shenyan Mountain, and built Jiuyuan Temple, which is the general mountain of today's Lotus Sect. He is the author of more than 300 books, including "On Defending the Country" and "On the Establishment of a Righteous and Secure Country". Later, Nichiren's disciples divided into many factions. Of the dozens of new religious orders in modern Japan, 70% belong to the Nichiren lineage. Very influential in Japan.

These Nichiren monks, not long after they came to Shanghai from Japan, had no relatives or friends among the Shanghai diaspora, and no one knew them when they died. Moreover, these monks themselves still can't figure out the situation in Shanghai.

Even better, in Japan, monks are outsiders who do not care about mundane matters and are highly respected by the people. If the monks who are merciful and do not care about Hongchen are killed by the Chinese, of course, it is more likely to arouse the anger of the Japanese than the killing of ordinary Japanese.

In addition, this group of Japanese monks was not just ordinary monks, but the monks of the Nichiren sect, which was notoriously aggressive, and in the early days of the preaching, the monks of the Nichiren sect would go out into the streets and argue with people fiercely. And the teacher of these monks is even more ruthless, it is at this time that the leader of the famous Japanese assassination organization Blood Alliance, the Nichiren sect monk Inoue Hichizhao.

The monk organized an assassination group, which was very powerful. This is the characteristic of Japanese monks.

can quarrel and play backstage, and he is a monk who has just come to Shanghai, which is definitely a very good wrongdoer.

The wronged boss who is about to be killed has been found, and then it is natural to think about who to deduct the basin on. Soon, a company called Mitomo Industrial Co., Ltd. was chosen by Takayoshi Tanaka. …,

Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd., which sounds a lot like a Japanese name, but is a standard Chinese company.

Although there are not many people who know Sanyou Industrial Society today, but in Shanghai was famous in the textile industry, where the Japanese originally had an absolute advantage, this company fought hard and grabbed a large market share of the Japanese, known as China's first large-scale textile factory, and has long become a thorn in the side of the Japanese textile factory.

Sanyou Industrial Society was founded by Chen Wanyun, Shen Jiucheng and Shen Qiyong in the early years of the Republic of China.

Chen Wanyun, also known as Chen Manyun, was born in a small merchant family in Cixi, Zhejiang. Chen Wanyun studied in a private school in his hometown when he was a child, and went to Shanghai with his father at the age of 15 to make a living. He first worked as an apprentice in Sanyang Tai Tobacco Grocery Store in Pu Town, on the outskirts of the city, and then transferred to the Qianxinxiang Cigarette Paper Shop on Jiaxing Road in Hongkou as an apprentice. The young Chen Wanyun is serious in his work, and he is willing to use his brains, and he is deeply valued by the shopkeeper, and he stays in the store as a buddy after completing his school.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the trend of thought of "saving the country through industry" surged in China, and Chen Wanyun, who was concerned about national affairs, was influenced by it and germinated the idea of taking the road of saving the country through industry. After a long period of careful observation, Chen Wanyun finally found a way to start a business.

At that time, the Western powers wantonly dumped Chinese goods, and daily commodities were the only foreign goods in the world, and the import of foreign candles alone reached one million taels in 1910, and foreign candles replaced China's old-fashioned oil lamps and earthen candles. Chen Wanyun found that the wicks of foreign candles have been exclusively distributed by Nichi-Zhong Tong & Co., and although the asking price is high, it is in short supply. Chen Wanyun, who has worked in a cigarette paper shop for many years, speculated that he could start with this project with light profits and relatively simple production technology, and embark on the journey of establishing an industry.

In April 1912, he found two partners, one was fellow villager Shen Jiucheng, who was an apprentice at Gao Yuxing's candle shop in Shanghai, and the other was Chen's relative, Shen Qiyong, who was also working at the "Qianxinxiang cigarette paper shop" at that time. 3 people poured everything they had, raised 450 yuan, rented 5 huts in Dingxingli, Shiqing Road, South Hengbang Bridge, North Sichuan Road, purchased 10 hand-cranked candle wick cars, and began to manufacture foreign candle wicks. The small workshop is named "Sanyou Industrial Society", which means that the cooperation of three friends and the salvation of the country by industry. The product trademark is set as "Golden Star" brand.

A year later, Shen Qiyong jumped ship, split shares and broke up, and soon Chen Wanyun's fellow villager Chen Lufu invested 2,100 yuan, and the capital increased to 2,400 yuan at that time, and the word "Meiji" was added to the name of the factory. The product came out, and it became a problem to break into the candle wick market monopolized by Japanese businessmen. In order to open up the situation, Chen Wanyun and Shen Wancheng walked the streets by themselves, setting up stalls near Japanese and foreign candle shops to light homemade candles. Pedestrians watched one after another, and saw that the candle did not leak oil, did not bend, and did not go out halfway, which was indeed not inferior to foreign candles. This street advertisement made the "Venus" brand candle wick famous since then, and the candle wick of "Sanyou" also quickly opened the market with the advantage of low price and high quality.

After the outbreak of World War I, the supply of candle wicks from Europe was interrupted, and Japanese merchants took advantage of this to raise prices, and British and American manufacturers had to place orders from "Sanyou". In this way, the Jinxing brand wick gradually squeezed the wick of Japanese goods out of the Chinese market. The production scale of "Sanyou" also began to expand.

In March 1915, Shen and Chen increased their capital to 8,400 yuan, changed the "Sanyou Industrial Society Meiji" to "Sanyou Industrial Society Unlimited Company", and on December 16 of the same year, "Sanyou" was reorganized into a joint-stock company "Sanyou Industrial Society Co., Ltd.", the capital increased to 30,000 yuan, the board of directors was established, and Cixi industrialist Shi Youfeng in Shanghai was elected as the chairman, Shen Jiucheng and Chen Wanyun were the directors, and the deputy manager was also the director. In the same year, "Sanyou" also built a three-storey factory building in the south of Hengbang Bridge, increased the number of workers to more than 100 people, added 16 electric candle core cars, 2 candle core ball cars, and the variety of candle wicks developed to 6 kinds, with a daily output of 500~600 pounds, and the market share was further expanded. …,

In 1917, Chen Wanyun purchased 30 acres of land in Yangshupu Yinxiang Port to build a large-scale production plant to produce "Triangle" brand towels to compete with the Japanese Donghua towel factory in the west. In 1918, after discussion by the board of directors, it was decided to increase the capital again, raising 70,000 yuan from abroad, with a total capital of 100,000 yuan. In 1919, the "Triangle" brand was registered with the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce in Beijing, and its pattern is composed of a circle and an inner triangle, implying that the three people share joys and sorrows. In the same year, a workshop was set up in Chuansha and more than 100 wooden machines were purchased.

Chen Wanyun hired Zheng Zulian, who had just returned from studying in the United States, as the first factory director to control the technology. They changed the bleaching of raw yarn to the bleaching of cooked yarn, which improved the water absorption, feel, whiteness and degreasing of the towel to a new level, which was an innovation in the bleaching and dyeing process at that time.

Then, Sanyou Society continued to carry out research on towel fancy style, they improved the red and blue towel that had been produced for many years and had a monotonous style, and printed the words "Good Morning Wish" on the snow-white plain cloth with bright red, and also added the font number for bulk customers for free. Later, Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. researched and produced novel and unique multi-piece heald woven bath towels. These three tricks have made a huge leap forward in the quality of domestic towels. After being put on the market, it is favored by users and even exported to Southeast Asia.

Triangle brand towels are popular among Chinese people and sell well all over the country, but at the same time, the business of Japanese iron anchor towels is declining. The Japanese businessmen were not willing to fail, so they changed their strategy, used cheap policies, and then competed for the market, and transported 200 sets of single-width towel iron machines, and the Shiruihe towel factory was between Gaolang Bridge and Lanzhou Road on Huade Road, and used cheap labor to produce iron anchor brand towels in large quantities, which was fierce.

Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. improves quality, strives for excellence, reduces waste and reduces costs. In advocating domestic products, boycotting Japanese goods, the people's consciousness is generally improved, love to use domestic products deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Japanese iron anchor towel production is more, the price is cheaper, can not compete with high-quality triangle towels, inventory backlog, factory shutdown, less than three years, Japanese business Ruihe towel factory was forced to close, and Japanese iron anchor towel also completely withdrew from the Chinese market in 1923. At the 1926 World's Fair held in Philadelphia, USA, the "Triangle" towel won the gold medal.

Chen Wanyun also hired cartoonist Ye Qianyu and others to paint and promote the advertising department of Sanyou Industrial Society; Zhang Leping, the author of the famous comic "Sanmao Wanderings", was working as a draftsman in the advertising department of Sanyou Industrial Society at that time.

Due to the operation and management of Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd., the enterprise developed rapidly, and the number of products and business prosperity of Sanyou was one of the few in the industrial industry at that time. With the continuous improvement of the market share of "triangle" brand towels, the profits of Sanyou Society have also risen, and the income level of employees is much higher than that of other industrial and commercial enterprises. Chen Wanyun also set up a library, club, medical room and other facilities in the factory, thinking about the welfare of workers everywhere, so the workers of Sanyou Society regard the society as their home and have strong cohesion. Soon, Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. bought Hangzhou Tongyizhong Yarn Factory and Dingxin Weaving Factory, and changed it to Hangzhou Branch of Sanyou Society, becoming a well-known textile enterprise in China.

This Chen Wanyun is a "profiteer" Xiao Liuzi in "The Big Dyeing Workshop".

Although Chen Wanyun is a businessman, he is extremely patriotic. After the 18th Incident, Chen Wanyun set up the Anti-Japanese Salvation Association in the main factory, organized the Three Friends Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, as many as 400 people participated, Chen Wanyun personally served as the captain, and the team members made military uniforms at their own expense, and practiced every day before going to work. Zhang Leping also posted a huge propaganda poster on the high wall at the entrance of the factory, with the title "The Three Northeast Provinces Will Be Recovered," which depicted a volunteer soldier holding a spear and pointing it at the Japanese soldiers.

For this Chen Wanyun, Takayoshi Tanaka has long hated itchy, and it is just right to buckle this basin on Chen Wanyun's head, it is definitely killing two birds with one stone.

The September 18 Incident came together, and patriotism did not distinguish between bosses and workers, and this Sanyou Industrial Society, as a large Chinese-funded factory, threw itself into the activities of severing economic relations with Japan. …,

In short, from the perspective of Takayoshi Tanaka, this is a factory with a "very **, very xenophobic" appearance. It seems reasonable to plant a hat that kills the Japanese.

Takayoshi Tanaka provoked the incident and was short of money, and got 100,000 yuan from a Japanese textile factory. Taking the opportunity to bring down a strong rival of a Japanese company can be regarded as a reward for the Japanese bosses.

At this point, the wronged boss and the framed have been found, and the following is how to choose a suitable opportunity.

I don't know what tricks Tanaka Tatsuyoshi and Kawashima Yoshiko used, but they easily persuaded the monks of the Nichiren sect anyway.

On the afternoon of January 18, two monks and three Japanese believers appeared at the door of Sanyou Industrial Society on Mayushan Road in the Shanghai Public Concession.

As soon as they appeared, they first confused the Chinese here. Everyone knows that the anti-Japanese atmosphere here is strong, and the Japanese do not dare to come at all.

Now it's good that the Japanese are not only here, but they are also ringing bells and drums, chirping crookedly, as if they want to emphasize to you that he is Japanese, how do you look like finding fault.

The western and southern parts of the place, including the Sanyou Industrial Society, belong to the concession, but the northern area belongs to the Chinese boundary.

The Chinese workers prevented the Japanese monks from entering the "purely inland" Chinese realm, all of which Takayoshi Tanaka could have predicted, but these Japanese monks, who had not been in Shanghai for a long time, were completely unaware, not to mention the fact that they could not understand the language, quarrels and even pushes were inevitable.

At this time, the "patriotic people" appeared.

The "patriotic people" are the apprentices of Chang Yuqing, the boss of the Shanghai Youth Gang, who has a close relationship with Takayoshi Tanaka. But seeing that some people in the crowd gathered became more and more excited, and soon moved their hands.

Chang Yuqing is the leader of the "Anjie Gang", and he runs a bathroom called "Daguanyuan" in the Zhabei area, which is actually a secret prostitution parlor. As soon as the boss of the Green Gang makes a move, he can get dozens of apprentices and grandchildren, and he doesn't even need to explain it, and naturally someone will flatten people for the eldest brother when he shouts and beats him, not to mention that the flat is Japanese.

One person made a move, 10,000 people shouted and beaten, and in the chaos, two Japanese monks were injured, and one was sent to the hospital and whined. When the patrol came, the disciples of the Green Gang had long since disappeared, and the concession patrol had to arrest three workers from the Sanyou Industrial Society and go back to count.

One Japanese was killed and two were wounded, and Takayoshi Tanaka was satisfied. Mars had risen, and now he needed to fan the wind harder.

Late at night the next day after the incident, dozens of Japanese "hot-blooded youths" suddenly rushed into the Sanyou Industrial Company with knives and guns and set it on fire. There were casualties on both sides, and as soon as blood flowed, the situation suddenly took a turn for the worse.

Originally, after the attack on the Japanese monks, the demands of the Japanese expatriates held a meeting and protested to the Shanghai Municipal Government through normal negotiation channels, but a fire burned down the Sanyou Industrial Society, causing most of the Japanese expatriates to go crazy.

The next day, at the instigation of well-intentioned people, more than 600 Japanese expatriates wantonly smashed Chinese shops and Chinese in the concession, and even injured the British patrol who came to stop them. And that's not all, these crazy expatriates also petitioned the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai to increase the number of naval troops in Shanghai.

Under the tremendous pressure of the expatriates, the Japanese consulate, which had been adhering to the government's directives and trying to control the situation, also hardened its attitude. On 21 July, the Japanese consul issued four demands to the Shanghai Municipal Government, including an apology, arrest of the culprits, and condolences to the injured, but the fourth, the demand for banning anti-Japanese activities and disbanding anti-Japanese organizations, suddenly raised the number of cases and forced the Shanghai Municipal Government into a corner.

On the 22nd, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Shanghai, the commander of the 1st Foreign Fleet, Koichi Shiozawa, also threw off the consulate and issued a separate statement, threatening the Shanghai government to take "appropriate action" if the Shanghai government did not agree to these four demands.

The dark clouds of war quickly loomed. And the next thing is that there is no need for the two initiators, Takayoshi Tanaka and Yoshiko Kawashima, to worry too much......

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