1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

A show of force, this is a show of force!

What was even more unexpected was that after the "inaugural speech" was completed, Ozaki Hidemi did not leave, but extended his right hand and invited another person.

UMP40 lightly walked to the front of the stage. Facing the gazes of the audience, she removed her veil, her stunning beauty instantly shocking the entire venue.

However, that cute little mouth said nothing but words that frightened some people present:

"Your Highness has ordered that Gu Xianrong, Chen Zhonghe, Su Yunying, and Su Yunti...are suspected of killing civilians, tax evasion, counterfeiting, deceiving superiors and subordinates...in violation of numerous laws and regulations. Now, please come with us!"

Before he could finish his words, a group of Northeastern military and police rushed into the crowd like tigers and wolves. While the traitors who survived last time were stunned, they pinned them all to the ground, tied their hands and feet, and gagged them with balls. Their movements were very swift and efficient.

The reason for arresting these traitors was not only because of Fujiwara no Kanezane's simple national sentiment and natural aversion to traitors, but also out of extremely important practical interests.

When you first arrive in a complex and unfamiliar region, what should you do if you want to win over the local people at the lowest cost and achieve "great governance" as quickly as possible?

Answer: Use the wisdom of our ancestors:

That is, arrest all the local wealthy families and chop off their heads one by one, and then distribute the profits to the local "common people".

Fujiwara no Kanezane killed landlords and bandits in the Northeast and distributed land and houses to the common people. Although in essence, his approach was slightly different from Zhang Tang's approach in the Western Han Dynasty more than 2000 years ago, the means were basically similar.

Aren't there too many "middlemen" in Taiwan?

Melon seeds may be useless, but knives are always effective.

UMP40 dodged and punched the female traitor Chen Xingcun, who was trying to shout, in the jaw. She grabbed her hair and threw her to the military police, looking at everyone with a grin, showing her big white teeth:

"From today, Taiwan will enter a brand new future.

495 This place stands out

One day in April 1933, in a solitary cell in the No. 4 Detention Center in Jiangning, Nanjing, a man in his fifties with gray hair, a bald forehead, and a sickly face sat at a table and wrote furiously.

"...I am fifty-five years old now. Since I came of age, I have been resisting the Qing emperor, the Beiyang warlords, feudal ideology, and imperialism. I have been campaigning for the transformation of China for over thirty years."

"The first half, that is, the movement before May Fourth, was focused on the intellectuals. The second half turned to the workers, peasants and the toiling masses..."

"After the war, Chiang Kai-shek's betrayal of the revolution, and the Japanese invasion, the general trend of world revolution and the domestic situation made it clear to me that I had no choice but to make this change..."

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"Mr. Chen? Mr. Chen? Mr. Chen!!"

The old man was buried in his papers and didn't notice the jailer's shouts at all. It was not until the jailer raised his voice and yelled a few times that he raised his head impatiently:

"What's the matter?"

"Sir, someone is here to visit you.

"Zhang Shizhao? If that's him, then ask him to go back!

"That's not Lawyer Zhang."

"Who is that?"

"Well..

"Can't tell? If you can't tell, forget it. There are too many people visiting me recently and I can't see them all.

"Sir, I am just a jailer, I am just following orders, why are you making things difficult for me?

This moved the old man slightly, and he sighed softly:

"Okay, please ask that gentleman to come over.

"Okay, Mr. Chen.

After a while, a man in military uniform came in and said with a smile:

"Hello, Mr. Chen, I am He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs of the National Government and Chairman of the Peking Military Commission.

"He Yingqin?"

Mr. Chen thought for a while and said in surprise:

"Huang is the deputy chief instructor of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

"It's me, I didn't expect that the gentleman still remembered me.

After confirming that it was this person, "Mr. Chen's" expression suddenly turned cold:

"I don't know why a close confidant of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek would come to see me, Chen Duxiu?

That’s right, the person who was arrested and imprisoned by the Kuomintang was called Chen Duxiu.

There is no need to explain the name and status of this former Chinese Communist Party leader, but some friends who are not familiar with his history may be curious. Isn't it true that the KMT and the CCP are cooperating now and the two sides no longer arrest each other's people?

Because Chen Duxiu was no longer a member of the Communist Party.

After the "412" Incident, at the request of the Communist International, Chen Duxiu was kicked out of the central leadership. While writing articles to continue lashing out at the Kuomintang, he also reflected on the reasons for the failure of the Great Revolution and tried to find a new way out.

It was at this time that he came into contact with Trotsky's ideas and resonated with them. He then organized a group of people to form the "Left Opposition", which later became the famous "Trotsky-Chen Cancellationists".

This operation directly touched upon the Communist International, especially Stalin's dermatitis. Chen Duxiu and his gang, who had only been dismissed from their posts, were quickly suppressed and expelled from the party.

Since they were no longer members of the Communist Party, the CCP would have no way to protest if the Kuomintang arrested them. The reason was naturally that Chen Duxiu criticized the Kuomintang and the CCP's actions as "harming democracy and betraying the country."

At present, Chen Duxiu has been arrested for almost a month and has been detained in this detention center. People have come to visit, interrogate, or persuade him to surrender.

"Oh, Mr. Chen, don't get excited. I came to you to ask about the situation..."

As he spoke, He Yingqin frowned and began to ask various questions in an interrogative manner, such as "Why did you publish those reactionary articles?" and "Have you colluded with Nanchang?"

This made Chen Duxiu very strange.

He had answered these questions countless times. Logically, an official of He Yingqin's rank couldn't have been unaware of them. There was no need to waste his breath on them, let alone come over and interrogate them in person, and with such a gentle attitude.

You know, He Yingqin was one of the people who was most active in carrying out Chiang Kai-shek's "purge of communism" order and had the deepest aversion to the Communist Party!

What surprised and incomprehensible Chen Duxiu even more was that after such an "interrogation", He Yingqin actually ordered his attendants to take notes and formally stated:

...Although Chen Duxiu is a criminal who endangers the Republic of China, he is not an active-duty soldier, and the location of the crime is inconsistent with the first paragraph of Article 7 of the Republic of China's Emergency Criminal Law. Therefore, the Military Court has no jurisdiction and recommends that his case be transferred to the court for an open trial..."

What does this mean?

Chen Duxiu was so famous and high-ranking that the news of his arrest quickly spread via radio throughout China and even to major metropolitan cities around the world;

Newspapers in Moscow, Leningrad, Berlin, Hamburg, Brussels, Leipzig, London, Paris, New York, and Tokyo reported on it;

Furthermore, celebrities such as Cai Yuanpei, Yang Xingfo, Liu Yazi, Lin Yutang, and Soong Ching Ling sent letters and telegrams to the KMT Central Committee or the government, demanding that Chen Duxiu be released and that any trial be open.

Einstein even personally sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek saying, "Chen is a literary star in the East, not a misfortune, nor a prisoner. Please release him."

This made Chiang Kai-shek extremely angry and passive. He was already in a bad mood and simply planned to hand Chen Duxiu over to the Military Court for trial on the grounds that he was "involved in military secrets."

Military courts are different from ordinary courts. All information can be kept secret and Chen Duxiu can be dealt with secretly to avoid more intense social public opinion.

After being imprisoned, Chen Duxiu always insisted that "I have no hope for anyone in prison. My only request is that the authorities give me a public trial." One of the reasons was to avoid this kind of situation.

As a result, He Yingqin came over and, after a round of "interrogation", denied the reasons for the military court's intervention.

Doesn't this save me?

What the hell is this???

Chen Duxiu frowned and remained silent for a while. After completing this task, He Yingqin dismissed the others and said with a smile:

"Mr. Chen, are you satisfied with this result?"

"...There's no satisfaction or dissatisfaction. If the law is fair, it will naturally give me a not guilty verdict.

"hehe."

He Yingqin, who had come with a political mission, did not take Chen Duxiu's provocative attitude seriously and did not respond. He jumped straight to his own topic:

"Mr. Chen, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has asked me to bring you a message."

"What did Chiang Kai-shek say?

"He said, as long as you are willing to invest... willing to publicly declare that you no longer believe in communism and completely sever ties with the Communist Party, our party is willing to invest."

"impossible!"

Chen Duxiu blurted out, paused for a moment, and quickly changed his words:

"After being expelled from the party, I have no further contact with the Chinese Communist Party, but it is absolutely impossible for me not to believe in communism!"

The tone was resounding and unwavering.

Obviously, no matter what favorable conditions the Kuomintang proposed, Chen Duxiu would never agree to them.

“Oh, okay, I get it.

Unexpectedly, He Yingqin, as if he had completed a task, said nothing more after finishing his sentence, and did not even bother to argue, and quickly jumped to the next topic:

"Mr. Chen, I came to see you this time for another matter.

"What?

"The salesman from A-Long wants to see you.

"

Soon, a man with his face covered by a large hood walked in. He Yingqin nodded and left the cell obediently.

He would not care about what the important intelligence officer sent by His Highness to lurk in Nanjing looked like, nor would he inquire about his identity. Moreover, His Highness had specifically instructed that he should not interfere no matter what this person did.

Under Chen Duxiu's scrutinizing gaze, the man took off his hood, revealing a handsome and elegant face:

"Hello, Mr. Chen, my name is Hu Di.

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Chen Duxiu tried to identify it for a while and said in astonishment:

"You are...you are Tang Monk!?"

I knew I would be recognized.

Hu Di cursed inwardly and admitted it frankly.

"Yes, Mr. Chen, I am Hu who played in "Pansi Cave" a few years ago.

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Chen Duxiu took a deep breath, and his eyes regained their composure.

"Is Hu Di your alias?"

"right.

"Who do you serve? Why do you come to see me?

"I serve His Highness Fujiwara no Kanezane, and I came to see you because we have reached an agreement with the Kuomintang and hope that you can work in the Five-Star Eastern Republic.

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Compared to his extreme disgust and resistance to the Kuomintang, Chen Duxiu remained silent about this request. Hu Di saw that there was a chance, suppressed his complicated feelings, and continued to persuade:

"Sir, Your Highness has read some of your discussions on the 'Important Thought of the Three Represents' and deeply agrees with some of your views. I hope you can put aside your prejudices like Mr. Lu Xun and go there to take a look.

Although he was no longer a member of the Communist Party, Chen Duxiu never gave up his pursuit of communism and truth. He had been closely following the changes in the current situation and had written many articles to criticize the Kuomintang. Naturally, he also knew Fujiwara Kanezane.

In fact, as a "Japanese expatriate" who had once stirred up trouble in Tokyo, Chen Duxiu did not have too much prejudice against Fujiwara Kanezane because of his Japanese identity;

On the contrary, after carefully studying the "Three Represents" theory, he even said a lot of "good things" about it, and was criticized along with Lu Xun.

There is no way. Chen Duxiu is such a "straightforward and stubborn" person. He only recognizes the truth and doesn't care who speaks the truth or which country it comes from.

Hu Di believes that this is why Fujiwara Kanezane thought that Chen Duxiu could be "persuaded to surrender."

"Were you the ones who forced the Kuomintang to release me?

Yes, His Highness has ordered that if the Kuomintang does not give you a deserved trial and result according to the law, the Republic’s Army and Navy will teach the Kuomintang a lesson.”

This was the reason why the Kuomintang was in a dilemma, and it was also the most important reason why He Yingqin successfully persuaded Chiang Kai-shek to give up the use of military law to deal with Chen Duxiu:

Since the Japanese want Chen Duxiu to surrender, let them do it!

Chen Duxiu would not have suffered any loss if he had not surrendered. It would have been even better if he had surrendered to Japan.

It would not only damage Chen’s own reputation, but also the reputation of the Chinese Communist Party;

This gentleman was once the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party!

After this set of rhetoric was put forward, Chiang Kai-shek, who was already under pressure from all sides, no longer insisted on persuading Chen Duxiu to surrender or killing him. Instead, he sent He Yingqin to clean up the mess.

However, despite his admiration and agreement for Fujiwara Kanezane himself and some of his theories, and his desire to visit the Northeast to see Mr. Lu Xun and the situation there, Chen Duxiu ultimately shook his head: