In the process of planning the establishment of the puppet Manchurians, there were two things, and Yoshiko Kawashima played a key role.

The first thing was to deliver Puyi's empress Wanrong safely from Tianjin to Lushun. Although it is similar to the Huanggutun incident, history does not know exactly how Yoshiko Kawashima did it. Later generations say that Kawashima Yoshiko put Empress Wanrong in a coffin and transported it away, and some say that it was for Empress Wanrong to disguise herself as a woman and escape smoothly. Anyway, there are different opinions. But Yoshiko Kawashima's wit is amazing.

If it is said that taking away Empress Wanrong, a weak woman, is a harmless trivial matter, then directly provoking the 128 Incident can be regarded as a major event involving the lives of tens of millions of people and China and Japan.

On December 17, 1931, Yoshiko Kawashima was ordered to return to Shanghai. Conspired with Takayoshi Tanaka to stir up trouble in Shanghai.

At this time, the September 18 Incident had just ended, and there was a counteroffensive and condemnation in China. Chiang Kai-shek hesitated. Although Japan's Kwantung Army was strong, if Chiang Kai-shek really made up his mind to counterattack and gather the strength of the whole country, he could still take the three northeastern provinces. It is not even impossible to liquidate the power of the Japanese in major cities in China!

Having foreseen this possibility, the Japanese did not choose to back down. Instead, he chose to encircle Wei to save Zhao! In this era, the two most developed cities in China, one is Shanghai and the other is Harbin! Harbin in this era is the second largest metropolis in Asia except Shanghai!

Thirty-four foreign banks have opened branches in Harbin and have direct business contacts with international financial centers such as Paris and New York. The financial dynamics of Harbin affect the financial situation in the Far East. There are 1,809 foreign business establishments in Harbin! And it has become the largest flour production and export base, alcohol and beer production base in China.

Since the Japanese have taken Harbin, which has the same status as Shanghai, then only by attacking Shanghai will Chiang Kai-shek divert his attention and calmly make a choice. Therefore, Yoshiko Kawashima and Takayoshi Tanaka's planning in Shanghai is very important!

After a month of planning, Takayoshi Tanaka gave the order to do it.

On the evening of January 18, 1932, Takayoshi Tanaka ordered the Nichiren monks Keisei Amazaki and Hideo Mizumi, who lived at Miaofa Temple on Jiangwan Road in Shanghai, to lead five believers to the Shanghai Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. General Factory located on Mayushan Road in Yinxianggang to make trouble.

Since the Japanese captured Beijing in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Nation Alliance, they sent a large number of ronins to China under various pretexts. Monk is just one of them. Keisei Amazaki and Hideo Minakami are called monks, but in fact they are just Japanese ronins who eat in the name of monks. wanted to make a living in Shanghai, Takayoshi Tanaka didn't dare not listen to his words. But unexpectedly, it was the western sky.

And Yoshiko Kawashima became an anti-Japanese activist because she could speak fluent Shanghainese. When Amazaki Kaisheng and Hideo Mizumi took a few believers to make trouble, they came out from the side, spoke up, provoked the anger in the hearts of dozens of patriotic workers of Sanyou Sanyou Industrial Society, and beat up a few monks who made trouble!

But Yoshiko Kawashima took advantage of the chaos to flee and was never seen again.

Several troublesome Japanese ronins were seriously injured and fell to the ground after being beaten by stinking. On January 24, 1932, Hideo Mizumi died of his injuries and deserved to die.

Tanaka Takayoshi and Kawashima Yoshiko had already prepared, and they allocated funds to organize young men among the Japanese diaspora in Shanghai to establish the so-called "Shina Volunteer Regiment." A total of more than 30 people were recruited. He also sent Captain Chiharu Shigeto to command more than 30 fanatical young Japanese expatriates to carry out a retaliatory attack on the Sanyou Industrial Company on 20 January in the name of chasing down the murderers. Set fire to Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. and burn Sanyou Industrial Co., Ltd. to the ground.

Takayoshi Tanaka also took this opportunity to incite more than 1,200 Japanese expatriates to rally at the Japanese Resident Group on Jianshi Road and march along North Sichuan Road. The road led to the headquarters of the Japanese Marine Corps, and activists appointed by Takayoshi Tanaka took the opportunity to publicly ask the Japanese Marines to intervene. In this way, the Japanese army was skillfully involved.

Moreover, as soon as this incident came out, the Japanese had an excuse. The Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, Murai Kuramatsu, took the opportunity to make four demands to the Shanghai authorities.

1. Apologize to Japan; 2. Severely punish the murderers; 3. Bear the medical expenses and alimony of the victim monks; 4. Immediately dissolve anti-Japanese organizations from all walks of life in Shanghai and ban anti-Japanese activities.

At this time, Wu Tiecheng, the mayor of Shanghai, followed the instructions of the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, and prepared to make compromises. And if they were really wronged, the Japanese would have no excuse to go to war. As a result, Tanaka Takayoshi and Kawashima Yoshiko coerced and lured Fukushima Kizo, who was doing business in Shanghai at this time, and Fukushima Kizo, who had some prestige among the Japanese diaspora, came forward to ask the imperial government to send troops to Shanghai immediately.

In 1932, on January 24, the day of Hideo Mizumi's death, Yoshiko Kawashima and Takayoshi Tanaka sent people to burn down the residence of Shigemitsu Aoi, the Japanese minister to China, in Shanghai. Since the murderer was not caught, it can be framed and claimed that it was done by the Chinese!

The Japanese government's response to this matter was extremely swift because it had planned for a long time. There is no procrastination in the normal conduct of international affairs. On 22 January, 1932, Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the 1st Japanese Foreign Fleet in Shanghai, declared that if the Shanghai authorities did not accede to Japan's four demands, the Japanese Navy would take appropriate action.

At this time, the Japanese had already completed the deployment of troops. Before Shiozawa Koichi made his statement, the Japanese mainland sent the cruiser Oi and the 15th Destroyer Group, which had four destroyers, carrying more than 450 men of the 1st Marine Corps, loaded with weapons, and arrived in Shanghai. At the same time, the aircraft carrier Noto Lu also arrived in Shanghai!

By 28 January 1932, the Japanese had assembled 24 warships, more than 20 aircraft, more than 1,830 marines, and more than 3,000 armed Japanese overseas Chinese in Shanghai. On 28 July, the Japanese Ministry of the Navy ordered the mobilization of two aircraft carriers, three cruisers, and four ships to Shanghai.

At this point, the plan of Takayoshi Tanaka and Yoshiko Kawashima to provoke a war between the two countries was completely successful, and the war was on the verge of breaking out!

On the evening of January 28, 1932, the Japanese army suddenly launched an attack on the 19th Route Army stationed in Zhabei, and the 128 Incident broke out!

And because the Japanese didn't plan to really start a war with China at this time from the beginning, they just wanted to encircle Wei and save Zhao. Therefore, the war was fought for more than a month, and on March 3, 1932, the war stopped. And at this time, the puppet Manchurians have already declared the founding of the country! The predetermined goal of the Japanese was accomplished. The three northeastern provinces fell completely under the control of the Japanese.