Text/Xu Yongchao
On the morning of March 25, 1948, Beiping Xuanwai No. 1 Prison. A female prisoner in a gray prison coat and olive wool suit pants was pulled to the corner of the prison wall. After writing the will, the executioner read out the execution of her. A gunshot rang out and the bullet came out between the eyebrows. Her sinful life came to an end. This person is Yoshiko Kawashima.
It all starts at the beginning.
Yoshiko Kawashima (1906–1948), real name Aisin Kyora Xianxuan, was the fourteenth daughter of the former Prince of Qingsu, and a cousin of Puyi. In 1912, the Qing Emperor abdicated and was replaced by the Republic of China. Prince Su was unwilling, and with the restoration of the Qing Dynasty as his life's ambition, he gave the young Xianxuan to his friend Kawashima Nanasu as an adopted daughter to receive education in Japanese militarism. Since then, she has had a Japanese name, Yoshiko Kawashima. Under the careful cultivation of her adoptive father, she received specialized training in political affairs, military skills, intelligence and data gathering. At the age of 17, she was defiled by her adoptive father, Kawashima. Kawashima brazenly explained why he did this: "Your father was a benevolent man, and I was a brave man. I think that a child born of the combination of the blood of the benevolent and the brave must be a person who has both wisdom and courage and benevolence. ”
On that day, she wrote in her handwriting: "On October 6, 2013, I liquidated women forever. ”
"I hate men!" It was her inner cry.
In 1928, the Kwantung Army decided to secretly kill the disobedient Zhang Zuolin. To this end, the Kwantung Army Secret Service sent Masakatsu Shosa to return to China and persuaded Kawashima Yoshiko to go to Fengtian to assist them in completing their tasks. Yoshiko Kawashima agreed.
In this way, Kawashima Yoshiko changed back to the fourteen grids of Prince Su, arrived in the name of "provincial relatives" and returned to the northeast to collect intelligence on the northeast army. She used her hue to seduce Zhang Xueliang's aide-de-camp, Zheng Mou, and spied from him the specific route and schedule of Zhang Zuolin's return to Liaoning.
At five o'clock in the morning of June 4, 1928, Zhang Zuolin was killed by an explosion in Huanggutun, and Yoshiko Kawashima was indispensable. Since then, she has become a "spy star" favored by the Japanese secret service. Soon, Yoshiko Kawashima returned to Japan to recuperate. On board, she fell in love with Hiroshi Omura, the younger brother of fellow Japanese Kwantung Army spy Jun Omura, and became his lover. Omura told her: "Manchurian independence must be operated with Japan as the center to succeed. Manchuria is the younger brother of Japan, and brothers cooperate to establish a big family of affinity in order to stand in an invincible position. ”
After the "September 18 Incident", Yoshiko Kawashima rushed to Fengtian again on the orders of Tanaka Takayoshi and served under the account of Itagaki, a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army. Relying on her status as a princess of the Qing dynasty, she did a lot of work to stabilize the hearts and minds of the puppet manchukuo.
At that time, the Kwantung Army had already received Puyi from Tianjin to Lushun. However, Puyi's "empress" Wanrong remained in Jinmen, and she mistakenly thought that she had been abandoned by Puyi, so she made a big fuss. After settling Down Puyi, the Japanese military immediately sent Yoshiko Kawashima as a secret envoy to pick up Empress Wanrong.
Yoshiko Kawashima, in the case of stealing beams for pillars, transported Wanrong out of the Tsu gate with a coffin and delivered it to the Kwantung Army. Afterwards, the Kwantung Army rewarded her for her meritorious deeds and awarded her the rank of Army Junior, becoming the highest ranking woman in the Japanese army. In addition, Kawashima Yoshiko also raised a large amount of money from some Manchu Qing widows, and she used this money to recruit troops and horses, and formed the cavalry regiment of the Dingguo Army, which was better than the addiction of being a commander-in-chief.
In early 1932, the Japanese military wanted to divert the attention of Europe and the United States from "Manchurian independence" and was determined to provoke an incident in Shanghai. Yoshiko Kawashima, after deliberating with her agent Takayoshi Tanaka, came up with the following ruse:
On January 18, 1932, when five monks from Nichiren Zongshan Myoho-ji Temple passed in front of the Shanghai Sanyou Industrial Company, dozens of workers suddenly attacked them, injuring 3 people, and one named Shui shui Xiu xiong died. Gendarmerie Captain Shigeto Chiharu, on the pretext of retaliation, organized 30 Japanese ronin to burn down the Mitomo Industrial Company and clashed with the Chinese police, and the police officer Junsheng Tian was shot and killed.
Japanese Consul General in Shanghai Murakura Matsu took the opportunity to make the following arbitrary demands on the mayor of Shanghai:
1. Apologize to Japan;
2. Punishment of perpetrators;
(c) Bear the medical expenses and alimony of the injured or injured;
4. Immediately disband anti-Japanese groups and ban anti-Japanese activities.
On the night of the 28th, the commander of the Japanese fleet, Yan Ze Yukiichi, issued an order to attack Zhabei in Shanghai and engage in a fierce battle with the Chinese defenders commanded by Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangnai. The "January 28" incident broke out. At this time, Yoshiko Kawashima secretly infiltrated the Wusong Fort, checked the firepower configuration here, and sent the information to the military in time.
In the end, Chiang Kai-shek and the Japanese side signed the humiliating "Songhu Armistice Agreement."
In the ballroom, Tanaka rubbed her snow-white neck with her burred cheeks and said with a mouth that was spewing wine: "Thanks to this blow, Manchuria has succeeded in independence!" ”
Later, Yoshiko Kawashima disguised herself as a rich young master and sang at night at the Paramount Dance Hall, where she became acquainted with Sun Ke, the president of the Executive Yuan, and spied from him the news that Chiang Kai-shek was about to leave the wilderness.
After the Japanese army occupied Peiping, Kawashima Yoshiko became even more powerful. Japanese newspapers called her "Marta Harley of the East", and the writer Muramatsu wrote a novel called "Men's Beauty" based on her.
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. She was regarded by the Nationalist government as the number one female traitor, arrested from her home in Dongsijiutiao, and imprisoned in Beijing prison. Subsequently, Dai Kasa secretly interrogated Yoshiko Kawashima several times. On October 8, 1947, the Hebei Provincial High Court conducted a public trial of her. More than three thousand people watching the bustle crowded into the small courtroom. The scene was very chaotic at one point. During the banquet, she continued to be cunning, shirking the crimes she had committed, and declaring, "I love China wholeheartedly, and although I have acquired Japanese nationality, I still swore loyalty to the Qing Dynasty." ”
After trial, the court sentenced him to death. During the trial, Yoshiko Kawashima repeatedly stated that her adoptive father was Japanese, that she had Japanese nationality, and that China had no right to try foreigners. Unwilling to sit still, Yoshiko Kawashima wrote a letter to her adoptive father, Kawashima, asking him to send her a forged copy of her household registration. In this way, she had evidence of Japanese citizenship. In the end, her wishful thinking fell through.
In March 1948, Yoshiko Kawashima was executed. After her death, there were rumors that she was not dead, and that it was Liu Fengzhen who replaced her. When the execution was carried out, the head was directly shot, so that the face of the deceased was completely destroyed, and the body was quickly cremated on the spot. Whether Yoshiko Kawashima is dead or not has become a mystery.