During the period of Japan's invasion of China, there were many anti-Japanese heroes, and there were also many traitors who surrendered to Japan.
Among the traitors who can reach the tonnage of "Dajia", there is such a strange figure named Zen Minyi, who is the fourth person in the Wang pseudo-group, second only to Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai, and Chen Gongbo.
In the tenth year of the Qing Dynasty (1884), Zen Minyi was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province, to a family of traditional knowledge intellectuals, his father was a famous local doctor, hanging pot Ji Shi, Zen Minyi received a good education from an early age. In 1906, the 22-year-old Chu Minyi followed Zhang Jingjiang, a later Kuomintang elder, to study in France, and joined the League while passing through Singapore.
Zen Minyi was very similar to another traitor, Wang Yitang, who was first of all scholar-type officials, and although they were high-ranking officials, they were essentially feudal scholars. Zen Minyi's circle of friends in the cultural circles is very extensive, and Cai Yuanpei, Wu Zhihui, Guo Moruo, and other popular figures in the cultural circles have very close contacts, and even had an intersection with Chairman Mao.
It was May 9, 1926, do you know what may 9th is? It was the day that Japan forced China to sign the Twenty-One Articles (May 9, 1915), so the Republic of China designated this day as the "National Shame Day". On this day, many people within the Kuomintang held a meeting in the auditorium of Guangdong University to commemorate the National Shame Day. This is a good thing, but everyone in the Kuomintang also knows that there are many internal factions, leaning on each other, and everyone commemorates the twenty-one national humiliations, but slowly, the various factions bite each other.
The various factions met in the school square and fought and cursed for days, worse than street hooligans fighting. When the police heard the news, they immediately rushed to arrest people.
As the acting president of Guangdong University, Zen Minyi and Chairman Mao, then acting propaganda director of the Kuomintang, jointly reported the matter to the central authorities, demanding that the central authorities handle it fairly and severely punish those who made trouble.
I am afraid that no one would have thought that these two people who jointly signed the book would go to a very different life in the future.
Zen Minyi's becoming a traitor can actually be said to be "misguided." If he only tossed in the cultural circle, he was likely to become a generation of people, but since he intersected with Wang Jingwei, he went farther and farther down the wrong road.
Wang Jingwei's wife was the famous Chen Bijun, and Chen Bijun's mother adopted a daughter named Chen Shunzhen. Chen Shunzhen, on the other hand, was married to Zen Minyi. This marriage was brokered by Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun, and the purpose was simple: to tie up Zen Minyi and make him work for his "cause".
Zen Minyi could not get on Chiang Kai-shek's big ship, and could only gamble on Wang Jingwei, so Zen Minyi was dead set on Wang Jingwei, and everyone in the circle knew about the relationship between Yu and Wang. When Zen Minyi became the secretary general of the Executive Yuan of the Kuomintang, who was the chief executive? It was Wang Jingwei.
If you become a traitor, you must serve your Japanese masters. In October 1939, Japan's Osaka Mainichi Shimbun asked Zen Minyi to write an article advocating so-called Sino-Japanese peace, entitled "The Foundations of Sino-Japanese Peace." Zen Minyi smeared grease on Japan's act of aggression against China, saying that Japan knew that China could not be destroyed, and was willing to maintain peace and friendship with China and help China in construction.
Even Zen Minyi himself didn't believe in this nonsense, who could he fool? However, the Japanese side admired Zen Minyi very much and awarded him a first-class Rising Sun Medal.
(Photo: Chu Minyi and Wang Jingwei)
But when Wang Jingwei died violently in Japan, Zen Minyi already had an ominous premonition: their "cause of protecting the people", the rabbit tail could not grow. However, Chu Minyi, the idiom of "cunning rabbit three caves", still knows that as early as when he was a high-ranking official of Wang Pseudo, he left a way back for himself, and in the future, when Chiang Kai-shek wanted to hold himself responsible, he could offer him a treasure that was enough to save his life.
What baby? It turned out to be a liver soaked in formalin!
Whose liver? Dr. Sun Yat-sen's.
How could Zen Minyi have Sun Yat-sen's liver?
After Sun Yat-sen's death in 1925, Peking Union Medical College Hospital took out his liver and prepared for medical research, but said that the liver was cremated, and even Song Qingling and Sun Ke did not know it. The hospital originally did not have any evil thoughts, but there were too many helpless evil people, and after the Japanese army knew about this matter, it knew the political significance of this liver, and in 1942, it broke into the Union Hospital and snatched Sun Yat-sen's liver and related materials in spite of the objections of the Americans.
Japan wants Sun Yat-sen's liver, which is actually of little use, but for Wang Jingwei, it means the orthodoxy of his "national government". Therefore, after Wang Jingwei asked Japan for permission, Yu Minyi went to Beiping and brought Sun Yat-sen's liver back to Nanjing. If Wang Jingwei received the most precious treasure, he enshrined Sun Yat-sen's liver in the spirit of Mr. Zhongshan in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, declaring to the world that he was the descendant of Mr. Zhongshan.
It is conceivable how upset Chiang Kai-shek in Chongqing must have been. However, Mr. Zhongshan's liver can return to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, and Chiang Kai-shek is somewhat comforted in his heart, but what he never expected is that this liver was not buried in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum at all, but was privately collected by Zen Minyi, who handled the matter!
Zen Minyi really had a vision, and the dispute between Wang and Chiang Kai-shek was still the last laugh of Chiang Kai-shek, and after Chiang Kai-shek regained Nanjing, he began to liquidate the traitors of the Wang puppet clique. Knowing that the opportunity was coming, He told Mao Renfeng that he was willing to offer Jiang Gong a "priceless treasure."
When he learned that The so-called "priceless treasure" of Zen Minyi was actually the liver of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek almost dropped his jaw in shock.
However, Chu Minyi's trick was wrong, and Chiang Kai-shek not only did not appreciate him, but he hated him very much, and this product was insulting Mr. Zhongshan!
Chiang Kai-shek prides himself on being the descendant of Mr. Zhongshan, and his acting skills are also very good, and he immediately keeps Sun Yat-sen's liver properly and lets the world know his feelings for Mr. Zhongshan. At the same time, Zen Minyi committed a taboo in the world, and just took him to open the knife and add points to his politics.
On March 21, 1946, the Nanjing High Court convicted Zen Minyi of adultery and sentenced him to death.