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Unlike the fanatical grassroots young Zhuang faction of the Japanese army, most of the Japanese generals who were already in high positions cherished their lives, even Okamura Ninji, a hardcore militarist (he was one of the three black birds of the "Baden-Baden League" that created the Showa warlords). The only thing that can make these Japanese warlords "loyal to the emperor" is Japan's harsh military law, but now that the defeat of the Japanese army has been completed, the Japanese army base camp may not have the opportunity to enforce military law in the future, and the deterrent effect is naturally much worse than before. Therefore, seeing that the general trend was gone, Okamura Ninji no longer resisted to the death, but directly ordered surrender rather shamelessly.

It must be admitted that Okamura Ninji is indeed a China expert, and he is well aware of Chinese extremely realistic national character, and he knows very well that even if the leaders of the Chinese Red Party do not have the pedantic idea of "repaying grievances with virtue" like traditional Chinese politicians, they will inevitably be lenient because of the surrender of their troops, the reduction of the casualties of the Eighth Route Army, and the huge demonstration effect produced by this, and at least it should not be a problem to save one old life. You must know that a mature politician will never sacrifice more lives and waste more money, food, and arms just to vent his anger

And Okamura Ningji's timing of surrender was also very accurate, and he waited until the time when the Japanese army was about to collapse but not collapsed, if it was early, the young Zhuang faction in the army still had liliang to stop him, and it was not easy to break out infighting, and even his "heavenly punishment" was not a small possibility, and if it was too late, the Japanese army had been defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and he was able to take the surrender with probably thousands of people around him, and the credit could not be compared with the current sixty or seventy thousand people to lay down their arms together.

Hu Weidong was also aware of this, so he was immediately shocked and angry when he learned the news of Okamura's surrender. But he soon sighed helplessly, because he found that he really didn't seem to be able to do anything about this old devil, on the one hand, Okamura Ningji in this time and space had not yet come up with the "three-light policy" that made the anti-Japanese soldiers and people in North China hate it to the bone. On the contrary, he was quite deceptive because of his relatively strict restraint on the military discipline of his subordinates; On the other hand, even if Okamura Ninji had the heinous crime, he took the initiative to surrender with tens of thousands of devils. The Central Committee will also leave his dog life as a model to induce more Japanese troops to surrender, just like Wu Huawen in history. Although most of the main leaders of the Red Party, such as Taejo, were idealists, they were generally very realistic. We will not let the vast number of commanders and fighters sacrifice needlessly in order to vent their anger

If Okamura Ninji had been captured by the 15th Army, Hu Weidong might have been able to cut it first, but now it was the Eighth Route Army that accepted the surrender of the remnants of the Japanese 2nd Army. Where is Hu Weidong's room to meddle? The only thing he could do now was to send a report to the Central Committee to block the proposal of some Wang Mingyu's party to hand over Okamura to the Chongqing government on the grounds of "maintaining the united front."

Hu Weidong knew in his heart that as long as Okamura Ningji was in the hands of the Red Party, he would at least be locked up and reformed; If it were handed over to Lao Chiang, judging from the historical precedent (in fact, it should be called a "later precedent"), Lao Chiang would have released him as soon as he could, and even asked him to help train the army to deal with the Red Party

Taizu didn't plan to give Okamura to Lao Jiang in the first place. The telegram signed by Hu Weidong, the party's number one "Japan expert," made him more confident in persuading other leaders of the central authorities, and Hu Weidong's suggestion that the middle and high-ranking generals of the Japanese army headed by Okamura Ninji be sent to Qinghai, where the conditions were very difficult, was to undergo labor reform, and the great man saw through his true attitude toward Okamura Ninji at a glance, but he knew very well that Hu Weidong had always taken the overall situation into account, so he did not explain it in detail to him in the telegram. It wasn't until Hu Weidong went to the Central Committee for a meeting a few months later that Taizu specially invited him to his home as a guest, and in the casual chat, he vaguely pointed out his thoughts on how to deal with these characters who "deserve death" and are "not conducive to killing" for the time being

It turned out that the temporary pardon and even preferential treatment of those sinners was only an expedient measure that had to be adopted for the sake of the overall situation, and it would be much less expensive to come back to liquidate it in the future when the Red Party unified China and stabilized the situation in the whole country. It must be known that labor reform is not invincible, and the more high-ranking people are, the more difficult it is to reform, so it is not difficult to find a crime at that time, not to mention the killer trick of "turning over old accounts". Only then did Hu Weidong understand that those political movements in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China still had this role (Note 1), but although this trick was indeed powerful, it was also easy to be used by others to cause unjust cases, and the act of "turning over old accounts" could easily lead the outside world to question the credibility of the Red Party, so Hu Weidong also put forward some opinions and suggestions of his own in this regard.

Although Taizu had a stubborn personality, Hu Weidong had never disappointed him over the years, so he finally partially accepted Hu Weidong's opinion and appropriately reduced the use of sports as a means. And Hu Weidong "does not turn over the old accounts for the crimes that have been pardoned, and focuses on those who have not been dug up before to make a fuss." The suggestion was also adopted by Taizu, which is correct, as Hu Weidong said, how can those who have committed great sins have no other stains? As long as there are one or two minor sins that have not been voluntarily confessed or exposed before (if they can voluntarily confess all the crimes, it means that they are sincerely accepted for reform, then it is okay to give them a chance to change their ways). ), it can be used as "I didn't confess honestly before, indicating that it has been maliciously resisting transformation." The charges were taken out and dealt with severely, and those who spoke cannons could not use this to attack the Red Party for not believing their words. Later, Okamura Ninji was reported to be the inventor of the "comfort women" system and had to be tried again, and soon made up for the bullet that was several years late

Note 1: The most typical example in history is Kang Ze, who died 10,000 times for the crimes he committed, but after being captured, he was only locked up for labor reform, and pardoned him on the premise that he knew that he had not changed his position, and also arranged a good job, the purpose of which was nothing more than to follow Liu Bang's advice to listen to Zhang Liang's plan to seal Yongya to reassure the people's hearts, which means that the party can forgive even Kang Ze, a great executioner who killed millions of people in the Soviet area, let alone others? As a result, those old officials who had served in the Nanjing government for a long time, and even some of the guys who had committed crimes against the people, could work with peace of mind, and the newly established New China was quickly stabilized.

However, after the country is really stabilized, those who should be liquidated will still be liquidated after all, especially those who have not sincerely repented, such as Kang Ze who failed to get a good death later, and other old officials who have committed big sins and don't know how to be a man with their tails between their legs, and who are not special talents that the country is lacking, unless they die early like Wu Huawen, the ending will be similar (to be continued. )