CHAPTER XLIV. Japan's Continental Policy
Wu Tiecheng has taken back the Shanghai Concession to his own management, at this time he first demolished all the police booths at the junction of the concession and Hongkou, and closely connected Shanghai and Hongkou, he knew that if he did not do this, it would be the same as the concession, Wu Tiecheng himself also saw that without the support of Hongkou, it was just a joke, and there was a notice that casinos and brothels were not allowed to appear in Shanghai, and the Shanghai Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce was also established, and the Blue Coat Society in Shanghai at this time also began to enter Shanghai.
Blue Coat Society. A national spy organization established by the government of Nanjing, China. Founded in March 1932, it was modeled after the Italian fascist organization Brown Shirts. With the Whampoa military as the core, the public name is Lixing Society, and it is called the Blue Coat Society because the uniforms of the members are blue clothes and yellow pants. At the same time, the Chinese National Rejuvenation Society, a peripheral organization, was established, referred to as the "Renaissance Society". The main persons in charge are He Jinhan, Dai Li, Kang Ze, etc. The work is divided into four categories: investigation, action, training, and fundraising. Carried out fascist terror within the rule of the Nanjing government, suppressed the people's democratic movement, and maintained the one-party dictatorship of the Nanjing government and the autocratic rule of the chairman. However, during the period of dealing with the Japanese side, he also engaged in assassination of traitors in the Japanese puppet occupation area. The scope of activities was initially dominated by the military system of the Nanking government, and later expanded to other areas. The Blue Coat Society was later subordinate to the Survey and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the Nanjing Government.
At this time, the central unification of the Nanjing government was not willing to be lonely and also set up several offices in Shanghai, at this time Jiang Qiang was very uncomfortable, but there was no way, the predecessor of the central unification was the party affairs investigation section of the Central Organization Department of the Nanjing government composed of C.C elements in 1927, and the party affairs investigation department was merged into the first division of the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission, and Xu En, a member of the CC department, was the director. With the party departments of the Nanjing government at all levels as its activity base, the Central Committee has set up investigation and statistics offices in the provincial and municipal party departments, and has set up special personnel in the party departments below the provincial level to be responsible for "investigation and statistics." It has extensively established a "party member survey network" in cultural organizations, colleges and universities, and key middle schools to carry out all kinds of counterrevolutionary spy sabotage activities.
In fact, Jiang Qiang still has a good impression of the military command, at least military intelligence is a strong point, and Dai Li, a person in general, still has a great contribution to the Blue Coat Society, unlike the Central Union, which is only the East Factory of the Ming Dynasty, and will take his own people, and as long as there is a little suspicion, he will be arrested first and then interrogated, which is what Jiang Qiang hates the most.
A few days ago, regardless of the attitude of the Japanese government, the Fifth Division forcibly occupied Jinzhou and was still marching into Chengde in the south, and the Saito cabinet at this time was also helpless, and those officers of the Shaozhuang faction did not understand the thoughts of the Japanese government at all, and if Wang Yizhe was powerful, we would not fight Wang Yizhe, just beat Zhang Shaoshuai.
At this time, Japan officially recognized Manchukuo and signed the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol. On 2 October, the Lytton mission issued its report. At the Extraordinary General Assembly of the League of Nations, held the following year, Japan's claim was rejected by a vote of 42 to 1. Earlier, the Kwantung Army attacked the Chinese province of Rehe, and the opinion of the members of the League of Nations towards Japan deteriorated further. In March, Japan announced its withdrawal from the League of Nations and began to embark on the path of isolation. As a result, military spending has surged, and the people's lives have become even more miserable. The Saito Cabinet is a drop in the bucket no matter how it does rural relief. In order to avoid the crisis, Saito carried out various levels of work on the relevant actions of the military department, but they were all unsuccessful. And most of this work is done by the competent ministers. The situation required a shrewd response from the Cabinet, but the Saito Cabinet did not produce the desired results, hence the name "Sabotage Cabinet." This cabinet is full of powerful figures, and it is not so much about the prime minister's leadership as it is about trying to implement practical policies.
The campaign for the toppling of the Saito cabinet has not stopped. The military department hated Saito's liberal smell, and the suspicion of embezzlement by Minister of Commerce and Industry of Kuwanyoshi Nakajima in the establishment of Nippon Steel was exposed; The magazine published "Ashikaga Takashi Praise Theory"; Hatoyama Fumixiang's Birch Industry is suspected of accepting bribes; The "Mingtang Incident" and so on have become scandals. It is clear that all this hype is aimed at overthrowing the Saito cabinet. In the end, the cabinet had to resign on the grounds of corruption in the stock trading of imperial artificial silk (Teijin incident).
When Saito was a teenager, he was known as one of Mizusawa's three talents, and he was a hard-working man. He himself later said that he would not have been born to be a great man, but he was not a mediocre person, he had just been working hard, and time passed slowly. Saito has a lot of foreign friends, and when he was young, he worked in the United States for four years, so he was very close to Americans. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Joseph M. C. Gru was his good friend. His English is the best of all prime ministers, and he doesn't need a translator for important occasions. Even his diary was written in English. When he was young, he was thin and weak, and he was very envious of the tall and big foreign devils, so he drank beer every day to grow his belly. As a result, Saito's body is noticeably stronger. When Emperor Meiji was critically ill, the cabinet officials at that time crowded into the palace and prayed for the emperor to recover, but no one else could stand it for a week, only he still had the spirit to brag, boasting that when he was young, he didn't have anything to do with sleeping one day a week. When he went to the Joseon Governor's Office to take up his post, he began his work in the afternoon of his arrival. This physical strength surprised everyone around him.
On May 15, 1932, Japanese army and navy officers, under the leadership of the "Bloody Regiment", broke into the prime minister's residence, shot Prime Minister Inukai Takeshi, attacked the Metropolitan Police Department, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Mitsubishi, the headquarters of the Political Friendship Association, etc., they opposed the Orthodox Cabinet, strengthened the militarist system, and immediately fought against the Soviet Union "May 15, after the incident, the cabinet headed by retired Admiral Minoru Saito, after Minoru Saito came to power, immediately expanded the spy network, frantically suppressed all democratic forces, and deprived the people of all democratic rights, Nationwide mass arrests began.
Hirohito thought that his country was following the footsteps of the Nanyang people in the dream of this very beautiful continent, and the Japanese government at this time began to stop the footsteps, Hirohito and Prime Minister Saito said, we must attract the footsteps of the young Zhuang faction to those islands in the South Seas, we can't afford to eat the fat meat in China, and we are already walking in the footsteps of the Chinese in the South Seas, but we don't know how far they want us to go before they do it to us.
Saito said, now they are so bad, as long as we do not meet their intentions to start assassination, even I am cautious, for fear that they will kill me and my family, and our footsteps can not stop, the former Northeast Army is also too bad, a wing of soldiers to take Jinzhou, this young Zhuang faction even more believes that the people are vulnerable, now we have no way to control the situation at all, if Chengde is taken, then a full-scale war against China is inevitable, This situation is completely beyond our control in Japan, and the Nanyang people have completely controlled Burma.
Yes, those people are really powerful, just forced those foreigners to give up the concession in Shanghai, and let Keisuke Okada take over from me, after all, he has the status of an imperial admiral, and our Australian plans are still inseparable from him.
The year Okada was born coincided with the last year of the shogunate system, which lasted for more than 260 years. On October 23 of that year, the government changed the name to Meiji. His birthplace, Wakasa Province, was restored in the second year of the Meiji era, when the feudal system was completely abolished, and in the fourth year of the Meiji era, the feudal domain was abolished and the prefecture was established. It should be mentioned here that only the 28th Prime Minister Yuyuki Hamaguchi (Meiji 3 1870) was born in the Meiji period among Okada's previous prime ministers, and the only prime ministers born before the Meiji era were the 35th Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma and the 40th Prime Minister Kantaro Suzuki. In this sense, the prime ministers of the Meiji and Taisho periods were not born in the Meiji period, and the first prime minister to be born in the Meiji period was Yuyuki Hamaguchi. On the other hand, during the Taisho and Showa periods around the time of Okada's birth, the successive prime ministers, from Hara Kei to Okada, were born in the vortex of the great transition from the end of the shogunate system to the Meiji era, and they worked hard to build the modern Japanese state system out of loyalty to the emperors. None of the post-war prime ministers were born in the Meiji period.
During this period, the Army put forward a proposal for the reform of Japan's institutions in Manchuria during the Saito Cabinet, which was supported by the military staff. Hayashi Mijuro reiterated the idea to Prime Minister Okada and put pressure on the cabinet to realize the plan as a condition for him to remain in office. Until this issue was resolved, Okada had been serving as Minister of Extension in charge of colonial affairs. At that time, the Japanese institutions in Manchukuo had their own command systems and policy objectives, and the Kwantung Army (responsible for maintaining law and order and the joint defense of Japan and Manchukuo), the embassy in Manchukuo (responsible for foreign affairs), and the Kwantung Agency (responsible for administration and economy) formed a three-pronged trend.
Although the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Nobuyoshi Muto (succeeded by General Takashi Hishigari after his death in Showa 8), served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Director General of the Kanto Agency, the management did not run smoothly due to the close relationship between the institutions. The army attempted to control all the military, diplomatic, political, and economic powers of Manchukuo, the son of the army, in the name of streamlining management and streamlining its organization. After some bargaining, the Cabinet proposed a compromise proposal, whereby the commander of the Kwantung Army would concurrently serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Manchuria, forming a two-in-one system, and at the same time, a Manchurian Affairs Bureau would be set up in the Cabinet, with the Minister of the Army concurrently serving as president. The Kanto Office was abolished, and the Ministry of Extension was completely defeated in this struggle for power. After this unsolved case was resolved, Okada hired Hideo Kodama as the Minister of Extension. The Army achieved its goal of meddling in administrative institutions other than military and political affairs and military orders, and its position in the new field was higher than that of civilian officials, turning Manchuria into a testing ground for them to do as they pleased.
Since the Hara Kei cabinet, the country's fiscal policy has been formulated by Takahashi Isyoshi, Inoue Junnosuke, and Hamaguchi Yuyuki. Okada accepted Takahashi's recommendation and appointed Fujii (who had served as director of the tax bureau and chief comptroller bureau) as the minister of Tibet. As the hope of the Ministry of Finance and Fujii himself, the Ministry of Finance, which pursues a sound fiscal policy, took the lead in formulating the Showa 10 Budget. However, the army and navy stubbornly demanded an increase in the budget under the pretext that they were currently in an extraordinary period. The poor economic environment (without large-scale natural income increases, the public debt deficit is difficult to digest) has also become a stumbling block to a sound budget, and Fujii is riddled with illness. Despite this, Fujii did not give up his determination to draw up a balanced budget, and he tried his best to suppress the demands of various ministries and agencies for an increase in the budget, and decided to raise taxes to make up for the fiscal shortfall caused by the reduction in the issuance of government bonds. The Showa 10 Budget was approved by the Ministry of Finance and submitted to the Cabinet for deliberation. Compared with the previous fiscal year, the total expenditure of this budget decreased by 90 million yen, and the issuance of government bonds decreased by 200 million and 7 million yen. The ministries and agencies did not accept the budget, and the financial community was shocked by the sudden tax increase. The Army, Navy, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and other departments strongly demanded that the original budget be restored, and the budget could not pass after four cabinet deliberations. Minister of Railways Nobuya Uchida suggested that Okada add railway revenues to the budget as a last hand, and the budget and tax increase bills were finally passed by the Diet. Immediately after that, the government changed the Tibetan minister, and Takahashi replaced Fujii.
Hirohito said, this can be like this, there is also to control the battlefield of China, take Chengde and don't fight in the south, at this time if you go south, it is impossible to take back the initiative in the war, at this time we have to take the initiative to attack the countries of the South Seas, the biggest target is Australia, which is also the result that the overseas Chinese in the South Seas are willing to see, and the military power of Europe will be aimed at the Chinese in the South Seas, and we will be supplemented by national strength in Australia. In this way, the first empire is also a great help.
Jiang Qiang and Wang Yaqiao and Tang Juwu held a meeting together, Jiang Qiang said that after the New Year, General Tang Juwu would have to go to the north to conduct an inspection, and that we must pay attention to our ethnic policy, and that they should report the intelligence of Xinjiang once a day, and that the displaced people in the Central Plains should also try to move to Xinjiang as much as possible, and we must give them the greatest help, give the greatest attraction to those displaced people, and even that Ma Bufang must not relax his intelligence work. If necessary, you can take down Ma Bufang, I heard that this Ma Bufang is a lewd sex, in fact, it is just Jiang Qiang's careful eyes, and the Red Party has suffered a big loss at the hands of Ma Bufang, at this time Jiang Qiang is just looking for an excuse to take Qinghai and connect with Tibet.