On March 30, 1940, Wang Jingwei, with the support of the Japanese, held the so-called "National Government" capital ceremony in Nanjing, announcing the establishment of a puppet regime and beginning to compete with the Nationalist government in Chongqing for the status of "orthodoxy". After the news came out, all countries in the world expressed their attitude of not recognizing the "Wang puppet government," but what Wang Jingwei and other traitors never expected was that their Japanese masters did not even publicly express their approval of themselves
Inuyasha had "given him a preventive injection" in advance and told him clearly that Japan would not immediately recognize the "Wang puppet government", but would have to "go through a period of time".
In the face of the Japanese people's "temporary change of opinion," Zhou Fohai naturally knew that the Japanese were still secretly conducting negotiations with the Chongqing side, and they were not dead set on winning over Chiang Kai-shek, so in their view, Wang Jingwei was just a "spare tire." What he did not expect was that behind this secret negotiation was also related to the life and death of their many traitors.
At the end of 1939, following the end of the Battle of Wuhan and the First Battle of Changsha, the Japanese army base camp knew that its national strength had been seriously overdrawn, and in order to be able to escape from the Chinese battlefield as soon as possible, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters gave Imai Takeo a top-secret task, that is, to induce Chiang Kai-shek to come forward to negotiate with Japan.
Because of the assumption of prime ministership
In the "Konoe Statement" issued by Konoe Fumimaro, it was clearly declared that "the Chongqing Nationalist Government will not be used as a negotiating opponent", so it is impossible for the two sides to communicate through open channels, and the General Staff Headquarters handed it over
Takeo Imai's task was to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek "in secret."
Shortly after receiving the mission, Emperor Hirohito's younger brother Chichibu-miya suddenly came to visit Takeo Imai and gave him his own advice: could he build a dam near Yichang so that the Japanese navy could go straight to Chongqing. hear out
On the advice of the Prince,
Takeo Imai rejected him euphemistically on the grounds that he had "a lot of work" and revealed to him that he could hook up with Chongqing and end the war with dignity.
Why is Takeo Imai so confident? In fact, he had already inquired clearly: Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Soong Mei-ling, would often fly to Hong Kong to visit her family, and if she hooked up with the Song family, it would not be directly equivalent to hooking up with Chiang Kai-shek.
At first, the first "matchmaker" That Imai tooko sought was Song Ziwen, but Song Ziwen was a staunch resistance faction, which was made public as early as the July 7 Incident
He had shown his determination to fight to the end, so when he proposed to meet with Song Ziwen, he was directly rejected by the other side. Seeing that Song Ziwen is not successful,
Imai Takeo then looked directly at Soong Mei-ling, but Soong Mei-ling was heavily guarded around him, and he couldn't insert himself at all, so he had to "sit and wait for the pie to fall from the sky", hoping that Chiang Kai-shek would take the initiative to send someone to contact him.
However, just when Takeo Imai was about to "lose hope", a man who claimed to be "Song Ziliang" suddenly took the initiative to find him and expressed his willingness to negotiate with the Japanese, which made the Japanese army fall into ecstasy, because this "Song Ziliang" was no one else, it was Song Meiling's brother, and then the Japanese army handed over the specific "engagement matters" to Imai Takeo, and called the operation "Kirito Work". During the first meeting between the two sides, "Song Ziliang" put forward the first condition
The specific content can be discussed slowly, but please do not recognize the "Wang puppet government" for the time being.
After listening to "Song Ziliang's" words, Imai Takeo did not feel that this was a difficult condition to accept, so he agreed to his request on the spot and took the initiative to explain it to him in order to express his sincerity
Japan had long been prepared that as long as Chiang Kai-shek announced his surrender, wang jingwei and other traitors under his control would be handed over to the nationalist government as a "gift" to deal with as an internal affair, and during this negotiation, if Wang Jingwei interfered with the peace talks between the two sides, the Japanese themselves would directly "get rid of" them without Chiang Kai-shek's action.
After the establishment of the "Wang puppet government," the Japanese adopted "delaying tactics" to continue to "coax" Wang Jingwei, but behind the scenes, they still co-opted "Song Ziliang" in Hong Kong. At the negotiating table, "Song Ziliang" often clings to the details of the problem,
For example, on the issue of recognizing "puppet Manchukuo", it is said that it has been opposed by the generals in the northeast, and it is now trying to persuade it, which will take time.
In the face of the "delaying tactics" of "Song Ziliang", the Japanese are also aware of this, but Takeo Imai is unwilling to give up this rare "opportunity", so he simply investigated the identity of this "Song Ziliang" during this leisure period. As a result, when he sent the secretly taken photos of "Song Ziliang" to the "Wang puppet government" to identify, these former "high-ranking Kuomintang officials" gave two different views, in Chen Gongbo's view, this "Song Ziliang" did not look like it was true, but Zhou Fohai had to insist on saying "like"
"Let him ask Chiang Kai-shek to come and negotiate in person, and say that it is me and Wang Jingwei's intention, as long as he can be called, whether he is true or false." ”
As time passed day by day, the patience of the Japanese army was almost exhausted, and it was during this period that
Cabinet of Ministers
After successive changes, the newly appointed Minister of War Hideki Tojo was very angry at the "ultra vires act" of privately negotiating with the enemy by "China's dispatch of troops", so he instructed that it would be absolutely prohibited in the future.
No way
Takeo Imai had to urgently halt the plan, and "Soko-ryo" disappeared from the Japanese shortly after this, and his true identity was not revealed until the Japanese surrendered.
In June 1945, the Japanese gendarmerie captured a group of military command agents, and shortly thereafter, there was a military command
Served in "Kirito Work"
The translator Makoto Sakata recognized an "acquaintance" in this group of agents, much like the "Song Ziliang" of that year, so he told the news
Takeo Imai. After listening to the report, Imai Takeo immediately went to observe and recognized him as the "Song Ziliang" of that year, and then the agent who had called himself "Song Ziliang" revealed his true identity to Imai Takeo -
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Zeng Guang
And made it clear that his task was to delay the Japanese attack, and when he finished, he was ready to die, but Imai Takeo admired him very much, so he simply came forward to save the life of "Zeng Guang", and went to the prison many times to visit him, and every time they saw each other, the two recalled the "contest" of that year.
After Japan's surrender, "Tsang Hiroshi" regained his freedom, and Takeo Imai was thrown into prison for war crimes.
For this reason, "Zeng Guang"
He also made a special trip to see the detained Takeo Imai and maintained correspondence with him for many years, and in this way, the two former negotiators eventually became good friends in their later years.
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