1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

This was something that the entire Japanese cultural propaganda department had been working on, but it had never satisfied him. Now, the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Theory" had appeared at the perfect time! This was what he wanted!

As for the overly "socialist" content in the article, he automatically interpreted it as "necessary deception (superficial writing)." After all, who is the author?

Fujiwara Kanezane!

Japan's great nobles and landlords! The dignified Japanese royal family!

How could such a person really be tainted with anything socialist? It is nothing more than a means of ruling.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your praise. Since you agree with my ideas, then, in order to convince others, we must first set a benchmark, allowing all of Asia and even the world to see the ideals and efforts of the Japanese..."

In summary, I suggest that the administrative power separated from the Manchurian Railway and the Kwantung Army be completely transferred to Manchukuo, allowing it to become an independent and autonomous country on the surface.

. ...

When he said this, Hirohito showed a hint of ambiguous smile on his face. On the surface...

The army was completely under Japanese control (he believed);

The deputy ministers of each ministry are all Japanese (although most of them are dead);

Many officials in important departments and bureaus are also Japanese (none of whom have yet to take up their posts);

On top of that, the former emperor's empress was a member of the Japanese imperial family, and was even pregnant with a child from the Japanese imperial family (oh, this is actually true). However, on the surface, this is indeed an "independent" country, just more friendly with Japan, isn't that right?

Indeed, this is a perfect "benchmark" set for East Asian nations to follow, a necessary contribution to building the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." "Very good, I agree with everything you said. What about the final independent intelligence agency?"

"Your Majesty, this is not my strong point..."

"Just say it when I tell you to!"

"Well, actually, during my time in Manchuria, I discovered a talent who is very suitable for this job." "Who?"

"Kenji Doihara."

Hearing this name, the smile on Hirohito's face gradually faded.

228 The New King of Northeast China

Hearing the name "Kenji Doihara", the smile on Hirohito's face faded a lot: "Him? Why him?"

"Uh... Your Majesty, is there something wrong with him?"

Fujiwara Kanezane revealed a perfectly clear puzzlement: "I've met this person before. He's quite capable and has a lot of ideas..."

Hirohito frowned, clearly recalling the deeds of Kenji Doihara, and then a deep sense of vigilance flashed in his eyes: "When he was mayor of Shenyang, he paid his subordinates' salaries on behalf of the Empire, didn't you know?"

For a feudal emperor (yes, this statement is not an exaggeration at all), "power comes from above, grace comes from above" is the foundation of his throne; "thunder, lightning, rain and dew are all grace from the emperor." Anyone who dares to challenge or even slightly provoke or threaten this will be severely punished by him.

For example, Yongren, Yongren, and Yongren...and so on.

In fact, the more threatening chaebols, local powerful groups and politicians have to step back a little.

Therefore, even though Kenji Doihara may have been unintentional, and actually had no other ideas or the ability to threaten the imperial power, and even in a sense was expressing his loyalty to the royal family, Hirohito still disliked him for this; after all, you can only know a person's face but not his heart, and not everyone is like Fujiwara no Kanezane, who always keeps "loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor" in mind.

Apparently, the "young and ignorant" Fujiwara no Kanezane seems to have no idea how bad the nature of Kenji Doihara's behavior is. Continue to recommend:

"I know! This is truly a model of a wise minister, Your Majesty! I have never seen a minister more loyal to the empire than him! That's why I think this person will be of great use!"

Looking at Fujiwara no Kanezane's innocent and approving look, Hirohito suddenly didn't want to "point out" the truth to him; well, this kind of capable, "naive" and loyal minister was what Hirohito needed most.

If he could give birth to a son as soon as possible, this person would be the best "minister of state" for the future emperor; but unfortunately...

Thinking of his wife Yoshiko's still motionless belly, Hirohito sighed silently. Or, should he really try to find another woman?

Sneaky?

Seeing Hirohito lost in thought, Fujiwara Kanezane said cautiously:

"Your Majesty? Doihara... If you are not satisfied, then you can designate..." "..."

Although he wasn't entirely happy with Kenji Doihara, Hirohito agreed to the proposal, given that it was recommended by the loyal Prince Hachimangu Kanezane and that he had the power to back him up. Of course, the Emperor also insisted that the highest authority of the intelligence agency be Fujiwara no Kanezane himself, not Doihara himself.

Soon, Fujiwara Kanezane flew back to Northeast China with a series of orders. He immediately summoned Kenji Doihara and informed him of the matter:

...Therefore, now, I appoint you as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Manchuria National Internal Affairs Review Committee. The establishment of this intelligence agency is entirely handed over to you!"

Kenji Doihara was thrilled. Monitoring the entire Northeast and North Korea! What a huge power and trust!

The most crucial point is that this agency reports directly to His Highness, and can even be said to be directly responsible to His Majesty the Emperor! This way, he doesn't have to deal with those annoying bureaucrats, and it's easier for his achievements to be noticed by the higher-ups! A gentleman will die for his confidant!

Doihara Kenji bowed deeply to Fujiwara no Kanezane and said, "I will serve you with all my heart and soul, even until my death!"

"Well, Kenji-kun, go ahead and do it! I'll be there to support you, no one will dare to say no! We must become the sharpest sword in Manchuria!" Fujiwara Kanezane waved his hand.

"Remember, we handle matters that the Special High Technology Department dare not handle; we kill those that the Special High Technology Department dare not kill; we handle matters that the Military Police can handle, and we handle matters that the Military Police cannot handle even more!

Execute first and report later, imperial authority grants special permission!"

"Hi! ! !"

Doihara Kensuke left the office in high spirits. Fujiwara Kanezane took a sip of tea and said leisurely, "Brigade Commander Wang, do you understand?"

Chen Sai, who had been holding his breath, slowly walked out from behind the large screen in the office with a complicated expression.

Although he had heard from Zhao Ziqi that Fujiwara no Kanezane had a very high status in Japan, he had never expected it to be so high.

Split up the Manchurian Railway, restrict the Kwantung Army, return administrative power to Manchukuo, establish a special intelligence agency to monitor the entire Northeast China and even the Korean region and report directly to Fujiwara no Kanezane. What a tremendous power!

What a great national figure this is!

How could such a person be just the "head of the Far East region of the SRP"? It's really unbelievable.

World Revolutionary Party, World Revolutionary Party...

"I understand. We will arrange for someone to sneak in immediately..."

Just now, Chairman Fujiwara and Vice Chairman Doihara systematically explained the general concept of the "National Internal Affairs Review Commission" and issued "important instructions":

The organization's members can't just be Japanese; Chinese, Koreans, and others must also join in. After all, the scope of this organization's review is so broad that it would be difficult to carry out the work relying solely on the Japanese. On the surface, it sounds reasonable, but in fact, someone deliberately opened a big loophole for the CCP and other resistance forces, allowing them to legitimately arrange for their own people to perform NTR. Moreover, even if Kenji Doihara doesn't pass the previous one, the final personnel control is still in the hands of Fujiwara Kanezane, the "Chairman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs"!

Isn't it that he lets in whoever he wants?

So, just thinking about what this "Manchukuo intelligence organization" used to monitor the entire Northeast and North Korea would eventually become was enough to make it difficult to suppress one's expression, and the corners of one's mouth curled up. With this thought, Chen Ying further carefully reviewed the various aspects of Northeast China, and his heart was suddenly even more shocked.

The Manchukuo Imperial Family System: Puyi was dead (undisclosed), and the Empress Dowager Wanrong, who was in charge of the government, completely disregarded state affairs. Furthermore, she was the wife of Fujiwara no Kanezane and was extremely obedient. Therefore, all attempts and attempts by the remnants of the Qing dynasty were temporarily thwarted, maintaining the so-called "legitimacy" of Manchu rule while preventing the outflow of power.

(I'll emphasize again that "legitimacy" is extremely important, at least for the "semi-feudal, semi-colonial" China at the time.) (Having said that, it's actually the same now, except that the "legitimacy" and "rule of law" of each era and dynasty are slightly different.) Almost all the high-ranking officials of the Manchukuo government system, including the Japanese, had been taken away in one go, leaving a huge power vacuum.

With the support of Fujiwara no Kanezane, the officials with the highest actual positions, the greatest power, and who constantly issue various government orders are actually the two "communists", Zhao Ziqi, the director of the "National Highway Bureau", and Ma Shiling, the "acting government affairs processing officer";

The Manchukuo military system—the "Nationalist Army," transformed from the former Northeastern Army—was either in disarray, in a state of panic, or already in rebellion. The only independent armed force with real combat capabilities was the 386th Brigade, controlled by Chen Kang.

As for the Japanese Kwantung Army, the demoralized and disorganized 2nd Division was replaced by the 4th Division. From the perspective of these subsequent events, it was clear that the true leader of this army was Fujiwara no Kanezane himself.

Regarding the once-huge South Manchuria Railway, it now faces the impending dismantling of its president and the withdrawal of administrative and military power, signaling a clear decline. Regarding Japanese intelligence, the establishment of the Manchukuo National Internal Affairs Review Committee, directly controlled by Fujiwara no Kanezane, will inevitably significantly curtail the power of agencies like the Kempeitai.

In other words, Fujiwara no Kanezane has already completed the control and containment of various forces in Northeast China through various means. As long as he wants, he can become the "King of Northeast China" in the true sense at any time; No!

He is already the de facto "King of Northeast China"!

The Kwantung Army Headquarters could not and dared not manage him, but was instead subject to his checks and balances; the 4th Division and the Independent Garrison were loyal to him;

He controlled Manchukuo from the top down, and he himself was the "Commander-in-Chief of Manchuria's Bandit Suppression"; now, he is also the head of the intelligence agency!

If this isn't the King of Northeast China, then what is the King of Northeast China?

Thinking of this, Chen Li couldn't help but take a breath and secretly feel relieved.

Fortunately, this person is a member of the "World Revolutionary Party" and not a reactionary force, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. It seems that the Party must speed up its construction and infiltration of Northeast China.

229 The Commander-in-Chief is teaching you personally, learn from him!

"...Comrade Wujiu, this is our idea..."

Chen Ying of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division of Manchukuo wanted to report to his sponsor the CCP's plans and plans for Northeast China, but the sponsor acted as if he was too lazy to listen:

"You guys make your own arrangements. I don't care about these things. You can do whatever you want. Just be careful about your safety and don't expose yourself easily, or you'll always have me cleaning up your mess." As someone who's enjoying life to the fullest, his enthusiasm only lasts three minutes. Do you expect him to work as hard as our revolutionary predecessors?

Go take a shower and go to bed!

"No, Comrade Wu Jiu, although we appreciate your support and trust in us, we still have to inform you of our ideas to avoid conflicts between the two sides' arrangements..." For example, the Communist Party of China has its eyes on a certain position, but the World Revolutionary Party has another candidate.

"I already told you, I don't have any plans!"

Seeing Chen Li's inner thoughts, Mark waved his hand impatiently:

"The World Revolutionary Party has no intention of directly establishing a political power in any country, and I personally have no such intentions. There's no need to test me."

Knowing he had been seen through, Chen P could only smile awkwardly: "Sorry."

"No, because with the Soviet example in front of us, it's normal for you to have so many ideas. In short, we in the World Revolutionary Party are different."

"No matter how much investment is made in the early stages, how much planning is completed, and how many sacrifices are made, the final results will be handed over free of charge to the people of this country and the party recognized by the people." Mark thought for a moment and changed his tone.

"No, we should leave it to the party that fought and sacrificed alongside us for the future of this country, not to other speculators who are just reaping the benefits." "... Let me ask one more question: what if that party is not the Communist Party?"

"If the majority of local people agree, then we will hand it over to them. Although communism is the future, the development of things cannot be separated from objective laws and the level of people's cognition, otherwise there will be big problems."

Although "most people agree" doesn't necessarily mean it's correct, but the choice is made by oneself, and of course the consequences must be borne by oneself; don't you agree, Ukraine?

"..."

Chen Ying deeply agreed with Fujiwara Kanezane's ideas.

He had previously been very dissatisfied with the Soviet Union's approach of "taking charge of everything, guiding everything, influencing everything, and demanding everything," but due to the atmosphere within the party, he was unable to speak out directly.

But now...

"Anyway, I'm too lazy to ask about these matters in detail. You don't need to ask for instructions today and report tomorrow. Just make your own arrangements..."

After discussing the placement of CCP members in Japanese intelligence agencies, Mark asked with interest about other tasks: "By the way, Commander Wang, how many people do you have under your command now? How many of them can form a certain combat effectiveness?"

"Uh..."

Chen Ying was stunned for a few seconds, then quickly replied:

"There are currently around 1200 of them. In terms of combat effectiveness, we can only say that they can barely hold together, but they are definitely not capable of fighting, at least not a hard battle. Taking into account weapons and equipment, their combat effectiveness is roughly equivalent to that of the Red Army's second-line division."

"Well, that's enough."

Fujiwara no Kanezane nodded and said:

"Pull out your team and prepare to go out with me." "Huh? What for?"

"Suppress the bandits."

"? ? ?"

Two days later, Fujiwara Kanezane looked at the mighty army of over a thousand men not far away and nodded and asked:

"Are all the supplies ready?" "Yes, Commander! Everything is ready!"

Nakamura Masakazu, a sergeant from a unit of the 8th Regiment who had been temporarily assigned to serve as Fujiwara no Kanezane's messenger (the private who had been beaten by the police in Osaka), quickly bowed and agreed: "According to your order, our squad has managed to obtain 20 horses and brought enough canned food, rice, silver dollars, and..."

Although I don't understand why we need to carry these things instead of "machine guns, rifles and grenade launchers", His Highness's orders are His Highness's orders; we must follow them whether we understand them or not;

Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, if His Highness says to move forward, then we will move forward without hesitation!

By the way, because Fujiwara no Kanezane was always very polite to everyone, some people took the initiative to bring a large amount of guns and ammunition to "suppress the bandits". They were then severely scolded: "Baga! Who told you to bring those useless things?"

"I told you long ago! I didn't bring you to Manchuria to fight, bastards!" "Except for rifles, exchange everything else for food, supplies and money, bastards!" So, that's how it was.

Fujiwara nods with satisfaction and waves his hand: "Let's go!"

A Japanese squad of more than 50 soldiers, along with more than 1000 soldiers from the "Manchukuo Independent 386th Brigade," went to "suppress bandits" in a mighty force. Thinking about the humanities and geography of the area, Chen Li felt a little worried and doubtful:

"Your Highness, as far as I know, there don't seem to be any bandits around here, right?" "No, but aren't there civilians?"

“Oh, it’s the common people… huh?

Seeing Chen Ying's suddenly unfriendly look, Fujiwara Kanezane said with a smile: "Okay, okay, you'll know in a moment..."

Not long after, a small village with about 200 people appeared in front of everyone. The guarding villagers saw the large group of people from afar and quickly sounded the alarm, followed by a large number of gongs and drums.

Soon, teams of men and women rushed to the wooden fence, armed with crude weapons such as large lifting poles, muzzle-loading muskets, bows and arrows, sticks, and dung forks. It was obvious that they had rich experience in dealing with this kind of situation. Although they were nervous, they did not panic too much.

Until we got closer and saw a large number of fully armed soldiers.

Fujiwara Kanezane pursed his lips at Chen Ying:

"Go! Tell them! We're here to suppress the bandits! Make all the men lay down their weapons and come out for inspection! I have something else to tell them. If they don't obey, they'll be killed..."

Hearing that someone was deliberately making trouble and believing that he would not do anything bad, Chen Ying had no choice but to call a local soldier to pass on the message.