On December 13, 1937, Nanjing fell. In the next 40 days, Nanjing became a purgatory on earth. The Japanese invaders, in a frenzy, carried out a brutal massacre of these innocent citizens and prisoners of war who laid down their arms in Nanjing.
They did nothing wrong in our Chinese territory, and a large number of Nanjing soldiers and civilians rose up to resist and bravely fought the aggressors to the death in order to safeguard our national dignity.
However, in the context of such an era, there is such a group of heroic rebels, and there are also a group of traitors who are greedy for life and afraid of death, and who abandon the interests of the country for personal interests. They have been swallowed up by desires and interests, and such people are bound to become the object of historical scorn, and eventually they will pay a terrible price for their actions.
When a Nanjing man became a lackey of the Japanese army and searched for Chinese women for the Japanese soldiers every day, he did not expect that one day, his own daughter and aunt and wife would not be able to escape the clutches of the Japanese soldiers and be humiliated.
Tao Xisan is a native of Nanjing, who previously opened a "Tao Lu Bath" in Tangshan, Nanjing, and his business was booming and he also made a lot of money.
In his early years, he also went to Japan to study, and when he returned to China, he immediately joined the New Deal at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and once worked as a parliamentarian and lawyer, and he was also involved in philanthropy. Since he retired from politics, he has taken care of his business map while also being the president of the Nanjing branch of the "Red Swastika Society".
The World Red Swastika Society, also known as the Taoist Academy, advocated the concept of the unity of the five religions, and at the beginning of the Republic of China, many major cities had their branches. However, after the liberation of our country, it was banned as a sectarian organization.
In 1922, Tao Xisan became the president of the Nanjing branch of the World Red Swastika Society. Only a year later, a major earthquake occurred in Japan, and the Red Swastika Branch immediately made a decision to launch a Chinese to donate money and food to Japan. Later, in 1927, when there was another major earthquake in Japan, Tao Xisan led the Red Swastika Society to Japan to provide disaster relief.
After the Japanese invaded the city of Nanjing, for two months, they did not have real management over a "safe zone" in Nanjing, but the international committee led by the Germans exercised the right to administer. Almost all of the people living in this safe zone are Nanjing residents who have survived the disaster.
However, Japan's ambitions are particularly large, and under their occupation, there is even a place for foreigners to manage, which naturally makes the Japanese feel very unconvinced.
They also felt that there must be a large number of Chinese soldiers in the safe zone, posing a certain threat to their invaders, and that the foreigners in the safe zone had been constantly revealing their atrocities to the international community, which made Japan feel very annoyed.
Since the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, Nanjing has been dead and silent, and the order of life cannot be completely restored, which makes the Japanese leaders feel slightly embarrassed. However, in order for the order in Nanjing to function properly, at least there must be an institution at its own disposal to replace the International Committee.
The Japanese were desperate to establish a puppet regime, but they found that there was no suitable person. Because after the Japanese army entered Nanjing at that time, people with a little money and a little status had already fled, and those who did not flee, they had seen the ugly face of the Japanese army, and no one was willing to take on this role.
Later, most of the People found by the Japanese were Shimono officials with little achievement, or treacherous businessmen, or heads of social charities.
On the other hand, some people who are usually not taken seriously feel that they can have the opportunity to perform this time, and they become active.
When it comes to traitors in Nanjing, we have to mention Sun Maorong, who has been serving at the Japanese Consulate in Nanjing before. However, he also knew that he did not have the diamond diamond, so naturally he did not dare to take porcelain work, so he silently stayed in the red swastika club and pushed the long Tao Xisan to the Japanese.
Before the Northern Expedition, Tao Xisan was still very influential in Nanjing, he and Qi Xieyuan had a certain friendship, and Sun Maorong was in the middle of it, naturally, the Japanese were interested in Tao Xisan.
Ironically, Tao Xisan repeatedly stated that one of the main purposes of their Red Swastika Society was not to participate in politics, but when the Japanese gave him orders, he agreed with a full mouth, found a bunch of excuses, and successfully became the chairman of the autonomous committee.
On the 18th day after the Japanese army invaded the city of Nanjing, this organization was successfully established, and Tao Xisan had just become the president, and he immediately replaced his travel tools with the latest Chevrolet sedan. However, he always said that the car was left behind by a general in a foreign firm because of his hasty escape, and was confiscated by their committee.
Tao Xisan's life was also "tasteful", and every day he mixed with those high-ranking Japanese officers, eating, drinking, and enjoying life. At that time, in the city of Nanjing, false slogans were plastered everywhere, such as "The Imperial Army is our savior", which was ridiculous.
Although they have established the People's Self-Government Committee, they have not made any contribution to the people's self-government. At the beginning, they talked about maintaining social order, but in fact, after the establishment of this committee, they did not do a serious job, but also used various shady means to force women who were living in hardship to be comfort women.
In terms of sending comfort women to the Japanese, the one who made the greatest contribution was wang Chengdian, the office manager. He was very familiar with the lower class society in Nanjing, and he found Qiao Hongnian, who knew a lot about running brothels, so he asked him to accompany some Japanese agents to major refugee houses and search for some Chinese women. In just two days, 300 women fell into their hands.
In addition to the forcible conscription of these innocent women, the Autonomous Council has carried out many other heinous activities, such as getting the Nanjing refugees to return to their homes. At that time, these refugees in Nanjing personally experienced the brutal acts of the Japanese army, how dare they go home?
The leaders of the Autonomous Council, seeing that the refugees were reluctant to leave the security zone, took the police and thugs with them and directly burned down the shacks in which they lived, cutting off their food and coal supplies, and destroying the stoves.
There is no way, on February 14, this safe zone can only choose to be forced to close.
It was not an easy task to survive under the hands of the enemy, and the Japanese secret service asked Wang Chunsheng, who was the head of the police department, to send them 500 Chinese women as comfort women.
However, Wang Chunsheng failed to complete this task within the stipulated time, and in front of everyone, the chief of the Japanese secret service did not say a word, and directly rewarded him with several slaps, and after this, his position would not be guaranteed.
Such things are not uncommon, and these traitors are often beaten by them because they fail to meet the instructions of the Japanese. At the beginning, the autonomous committee members often had to hide from the Japanese soldiers, and if they were not careful, they would be surrounded by them, and once the leaders of the committee were immediately beaten to the head and bloodied.
Tao Xisan had a luxurious mansion, and on the day of the Lantern Festival, he prepared a wealth of delicious dishes in the house and set up a banquet to entertain the senior Japanese officers.
At that time, all the backlog in Nanjing was looted by The Japanese officers, and Tao Xisan made every effort to make the Japanese happy, and specially asked people to run to a distance to purchase ingredients. At the banquet, the Japanese officers praised the delicious food set by Tao Xisan, which made Tao Xisan feel very satisfied.
However, just as they were drinking and having fun, the guards of these Japanese officers accidentally saw Tao Xisan's daughter and aunt, several of whom were dressed gorgeously and behaved elegantly, and they could not help but be moved by the beast's heart, directly pressing them to the bed and wantonly insulting them.
Tao Xisan was holding up a wine glass, drinking and having fun with the Japanese officer, when he suddenly heard the sound of a woman crying wolf, he immediately ran to the inner room, not expecting that the scene in front of him made him unforgettable.
His own aunt and daughter were actually pressed to the bed by the Japanese soldiers, usually he collected other people's women to dedicate to the Japanese officers, did not expect this kind of thing, one day also fell on himself, maybe this is karma!
Although Tao Xisan nodded to the Japanese, he still couldn't bear it in this kind of thing, and he hurriedly wanted to go forward and pull away the Japanese soldiers who were beastly. But another Japanese soldier held out his bayonet and stopped him directly, and he ran to the front hall trembling to find the senior Japanese officer.
After the officer heard about this, he only smiled disdainfully, and then went to the inner room with Tao Xisan. When the Japanese soldiers saw the commander coming, they hurriedly lifted their pants, while Tao Xisan's aunt and daughter, both lying on the bed in disheveled clothes, cried incessantly.
Tao Xisan thought that his master would make his own decisions, but he did not expect the officer to say to him: "Xi San, you give me these two beautiful women." ”
Before Tao Xisan could respond, the Japanese officer had his aunt and daughter wrapped up in a quilt and carried them to the barracks.
In this matter, he was so greatly stimulated and insulted that his spirit almost collapsed. For several days afterward, he did not go to work in the Autonomous Council and offered to resign because of his poor health, but his Japanese master did not approve.
On January 29, Tao Xisan's house was forcibly invaded by the Japanese army, and all the valuable treasures inside were robbed by them.
A dozen days later, the Japanese agreed to Tao Xisan's request to resign, making the former traitor Sun Maorong the official president.
After the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Tao Xisan was sentenced to 8 years in prison, and later after a heavy reduction, he was only imprisoned for two years, but all the family property owned by Tao Xisan was confiscated. The bath he painstakingly operated in his early years no longer belonged to him and became chairman Jiang's hot spring villa. Just two months after his release, he died at the age of 73.
After the Japanese army occupied the city of Nanjing, the Red Swastika Branch became an important group serving them, and a large number of traitors appeared in it, willing to be the lackeys of the Japanese invaders, but in the end they did not end up with any good end.
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