After the establishment of puppet Manchuria, Puyi sat back on the dragon chair, although he became emperor again, but he was not happy at all, this is because he also had a "Taishang Emperor" on his head, this person was named Muto Nobuyoshi, who was the commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army at the time, and also served as the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Manchukuo and the chief of the Kwantung Department.
After taking office, Muto Nobuyoshi first suppressed the Northeast Volunteer Army, then led his troops to invade Rehe Province, and then broke the defense of 200,000 nationalist troops on the front line of the Great Wall, forcing He Yingqin to sign an alliance under the castle. In recognition of his contribution, on May 3, 1933, the Emperor of Japan awarded Marshal Muto Nobuyoshi the title, but just two months later, the new Japanese marshal died mysteriously in the headquarters of the puppet Manchu Shinkyo.
Muto Nobuyoshi and Puyi
There are four most widely circulated accounts of Muto Nobuyoshi's death:
One: It is rumored that he was poisoned by Puyi. A few days before Muto Nobuyoshi's death, Puyi once sent someone to send him 6 bottles of wine, after Muto's death, many people in the Kwantung Army suspected that Puyi had poisoned him with wine. However, this statement was quickly denied by the then chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Koiso Kuniaki, who after Muto's death, took someone into the room to check in detail, and found that the wine sent by Puyi had not yet been opened, so Muto could not have been poisoned by Puyi.
Koiso Kuniaki
Second: The official Japanese saying is "death from jaundice." But this statement is also difficult to convince, Muto was already a field marshal at the time, if he really had jaundice, he would definitely be sent to the hospital for treatment, unless it was a sudden death that was too late to send to the hospital, but Koiso Kuniaki found that Muto's room was very messy when he inspected the scene, many things were torn up, and the items on the table were also knocked to the ground, which was obviously not a sudden death.
Nobuaki Muto
Three: Muto committed suicide. This statement is detailed in the book "Uncovering the Big Secret: Japanese Spies in China," the author of which Amret Vespa was a former Japanese agent. Some reports in Japan at that time also confirmed this statement from the side, and Japanese newspapers carried Muto Nobuyoshi's "suicide note is secretly submitted, although the matter is not announced, but it is clear that three items will be related to the big plan, and it will be fought to the death." Muto disagreed with then Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka over how to deal with the Tohoku issue, and the two quarreled in front of Emperor Hirohito, and eventually Hirohito supported Yoshiichi Tanaka, and Muto was disappointed and determined to fight to the death.
Four: Muto died of a heart attack. The claim stems from the 2005 book Column of Shame in History, in which the author described Muto as "suddenly dying of a heart attack in excite excitement." So what is it that makes Muto so excited? It turned out that on the eve of Muto's death, his chief of staff, Koiso Kuniaki, learned through his close friends in Tokyo that Emperor Hirohito was about to award Muto the highest rank medal in Japan, and in order to please Muto, Koiso Kuniaki called him overnight to tell him the news, Ando had been depressed after a failed argument with Yoshiichi Tanaka, and suddenly learned of the good news, and suddenly died of a heart attack. After Muto's death, he was posthumously awarded the Grand Order of the Rising Sun, First Class. Dear friends, which statement do you think is true?