The Japanese army that killed Zhang Zuolin died in China at the age of 70, and the words spoken before his death alerted Japan
Speaking of Zhang Zuolin, everyone must be familiar with him, as the leader of the warlords who was famous at that time, his name was widely spread among the people. But speaking of the death of the leader of the Beiyang warlords, we have to talk about another historical figure, that is, the Japanese officer Kawamoto Daisaku. The Japanese man is famous for designing the first half of his life to kill Zhang Zuolin, but what he did in the second half of his life is little known. Today Xiaobian is going to take you into the second half of this Japanese person's life.
1. What punishment is there after killing Zhang Zuolin
Kawamoto is an extremely confident and wanton radical. During their time in China, the Japanese army has been spying on the territory of northeast China, trying to occupy it for itself, including him and Zhang's Kenji Toihara and others, who attempted to assassinate Zhang and further occupied the northeast.
As a radical, Kawamoto stubbornly believed that other people's outbreaks were useless, so he personally selected the location and method of the crime, tried many times, and finally two months later, through the bomb button in his hand, Zhang Zuolin was killed.
Although the Japanese investigated him and punished him despite the opposition of the military, he still found a new job with the military's tacit support.
2. With a lot of money, build a luxury villa in Dalian
After killing Zhang Zuolin, Kawamoto Daisaku, with the help of the Japanese military and at the invitation of the commander of the Kwantung Military Region, took over the Xi'an coal mine, which was the largest in Manchuria at that time.
Daisaku Kawamoto was born into a family of merchants and was very business-minded from an early age. During his tenure at the Xi'an Coal Mine, he rose to the top and rose to the post of chairman of the board of directors in less than two years. During his six years in Manchuria, he built railways and seized the mine resources of our country. In just five years, manchurian mines have increased to 16, with a total of up to 20 billion tons of coal storage.
After Kawamoto's great work became bigger, he also brought his family to China and constantly squeezed China's coal resources to provide financial support for the Japanese invasion of China. And the relatives and friends who tasted the sweetness built a three-story villa with an area of up to 500 square meters for him as a reward, and he became a veritable "Manchurian Emperor" at that time.
3. After Japan's surrender, why did he not want to leave China?
After Kawamoto became bigger in Manchuria, because the commander of the Kwantung Army was replaced, he was squeezed out in Manchuria and lost his huge interests in the coal mine, just when the commander of the Japanese army in Shanxi threw an olive branch to him, he went to Shanxi and restarted his career.
Adhering to the belief of putting profit first, Kawamoto Seized Shanxi's coal mines, rare metal mines, timber and other resources, bringing great wealth to the Japanese. While he was planning an even greater crime, Japan suffered a crushing defeat in the struggle against the Chinese army and chose to surrender.
However, as a greedy and ugly Japanese, he could not accept that his dream of becoming rich was shattered, and at the same time, he would also be executed by the Allies after returning to China, so he finally chose to continue to stay in Shanxi in such a precarious situation.
4. Falsely claim that Japan's revival began in Shanxi.
Daisaku Kawamoto has always believed that the Japanese emperor has not failed, and they will be able to make a comeback. So he took his three hundred employees to Yan Xishan in an attempt to establish a state within a state subject to the control of the Japanese. But his wolf ambitions didn't materialize. In April 1949, the People's Liberation Army captured Taiyuan, and when Shanxi was liberated, he was also captured.
5. A word of caution for the Japanese.
During his captivity, Kawamoto received preferential treatment from our country for his captives, and later died of illness at the Taiyuan War Criminals Management Center in 1953 at the age of 70. Before his death, he said that "things have been overdone, the consequences are counterproductive, he said that this is a lesson learned from a lifetime experience", Kawamoto Daisaku's words summing up his own life lessons sounded the alarm bell of the Japanese at that time, let the Japanese.