One day in September 1931, an elderly woman in her eighties came to the prison of the Japanese Kwantung Army to visit her son, who was imprisoned. She had heard that her son was unyielding in the face of the Japanese, even protesting with hunger strikes. In order to be able to visit her son, she bought the guards with 10 oceans and brought a hearty meal. In prison, when she saw her haggard-faced son, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
The mother visits her son in prison
The son was also very happy about his mother's arrival, and he was full of emotions while holding the meal. However, during the meal, his mother constantly reminded him to look at the bottom of the bowl. Taking advantage of the guards' lack of attention, he turned the bottom of the bowl over to look at it, and suddenly trembled: what was hidden at the bottom of the bowl was a large piece of smoke paste.
Tobacco paste, also known as opium, has maimed Chinese people for more than a hundred years. Opium can cause excitement, but if too much is consumed, it can lead to death on the spot. As the saying goes, the tiger poison does not eat the child, when the son does not understand, why does the mother want to put herself to death?
Looking at his mother's expectant gaze, the son pondered for a moment and made a choice: he returned the rice bowl to his mother intact, watched her leave, and then sighed bitterly.
Why did this mother kill her son with her own hands? Everything has to start in 1885.
Zang Shiyi
Zhang Zuolin was killed by the explosion, and he helped Zhang Xueliang take over the northeast
I believe that many people have watched the TV series "Breaking into the Guandong", a group of old masters from Shandong crossed the Shanhaiguan and went to the three eastern provinces to make a living. Zang Shiyi's ancestors were part of the "Guandong" army, and during the drought in Shandong, the Zang family was forced to move to Fengtian (present-day Shenyang) in Liaoning Province, Sujiatun ShahepuQian Sandaogangzi Village to settle down. In 1885, Zang Shiyi was born.
Zang Shiyi had a remarkable mother, and despite the family's poverty, her mother sent him to a private school to study and disciplined him quite severely. Zang Shiyi also did not live up to his mother's expectations, and in 1909, he was given the opportunity to study at public expense, and traveled east to Japan, studying at the Zhenwu School in Tokyo and the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School.
Professor Jin Yinan once said that if students sent by the public to abandon the motherland, they will not become experts. He once cited the example of the first batch of international students sent out in the late Qing Dynasty, more than a hundred international students went abroad to study foreign economic, military and political ideas, and returned to China after completing their studies. Of course, when those students returned to China, almost all of them later embarked on the revolutionary road, and they were stunned that the Qing Dynasty was destroyed.
In 1911, the year when the revolutionary movement was intensifying, Zang Shiyi returned to China and served as the chief of staff of the Northeast Border Defense Army under Zhang Zuolin's brother-in-law Sun Liechen. In the Huanggutun incident, Zang Shiyi showed a very high crisis handling ability, which made him soar and become Zhang Xueliang's confidant.
Stills of Zhang Zuolin being injured by the explosion
On June 24, 1928, Zhang Zuolin took a special train back to Fengtian, and when passing through Huanggutun, he was seriously injured by a bomb planted in advance by the Japanese, and Zang Shiyi, who was the chairman of the Senate at the time, was also on the train, and he was able to escape the disaster. Zhang Zuolin died after being dragged back to the Marshal's Mansion, and if the news of his death came out at this time, it was bound to cause political turmoil, and the Japanese took advantage of the situation.
Zang Shiyi was a close confidant of Zhang Zuolin, and his speech was very weighty, and while he informed Zhang Xueliang, who was far away in Baoding, to rush back, he declared to the outside world that the marshal had only hurt his throat and could not speak for a while.
The Japanese, of course, were not so deceitful, and they sent spies to the head of the city and used telescopes to spy on the movements of the Marshal's Mansion. At this time, Zang Shiyi showed his superiority, and he asked the Shuai Mansion to do everything as usual, sending food and cigarette cream to Zhang Zuolin as usual, without showing a single flaw.
The Japanese also sent Japanese women into the Shuai Mansion to inquire, and Zang Shiyi let people hide in Zhang Zuolin's bedroom, imitating Zhang Zuolin's voice and cursing, completely confusing the Japanese. Later, Zhang Xueliang returned safely and took over the military and political power of the three eastern provinces, and behind this series of decisions, Zang Shiyi's figure was indispensable.
Zhang Xueliang was very grateful to Zang Shiyi, and appointed him chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Government and commander-in-chief of the rear, and until his later years, he defended Zang Shiyi's traitorous behavior.
Reduced to a traitor, his mother committed suicide in shame
Zang Shiyi's tutor is very strict, although he is in a high position, his family is poor, and the family rents a few bungalows. Every time he went out to work, Zang Shiyi wore a robe that he did not know how many times he had been washed, and others talked about him behind his back, and he did not think so, and said: Not greedy and poor, upright.
Zhang Xueliang has always spent money like dirt, and did not expect that the life of the chairman of his provincial government was so embarrassing, so he bought a house for him, praising Zang Shiyi's down-to-earth style and selflessness.
After the outbreak of the "918" incident, Zhang Xueliang ran away, and most of the military and political officials of the three eastern provinces also ran away, but Zang Shiyi did not flee, he said: "The young marshal asked me to guard the three eastern provinces, I must not run, and it is my duty to defend the land, nothing more than death." Zang Shiyi fantasized that one day he would be able to merge with Zhang Xueliang and "restore" the three eastern provinces.
The day after the outbreak of "918", Zang Shiyi held a meeting at his home with Rong Zhen, chief of staff of the Northeast Army, and was taken away by the Japanese agents who broke in. The Japanese coerced and seduced him and invited him to serve as a spokesman for Japan's interests in the three eastern provinces. Zang Shiyi was unmoved, and even protested with a hunger strike. Up to this point, Zang Shiyi's performance was qualified.
At this time, the anti-Japanese situation in the three eastern provinces took a sharp turn for the worse, and the Tibetan mother wondered whether his son would implement the "non-resistance" policy like Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, or even become a traitor. In desperation, she decided to "kill her son and be loyal", taking advantage of the opportunity to deliver food to her son, hiding a large piece of smoke cream at the bottom of the bowl and letting her son commit suicide by taking poison. After her son's death, she will also follow her son and martyr her country together.
9/18 Incident
After Zang Shiyi saw the big piece of smoke paste, he immediately understood his mother's intentions, but he had already initially reached the intention of cooperating with the Japanese, at this juncture, how could he sacrifice himself for righteousness, so he returned the dishes and chopsticks to his mother unchanged.
Under the persuasion of Kenji Toihara, Itagaki Seishiro and other leaders of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Zang Shiyi finally could not withstand the temptation, his knees were weak, and he became a lackey of the Japanese. On December 16, 1931, Zang Shiyi sent a telegram to the three eastern provinces and became the governor of the pseudo-Fengtian Province, completely embarking on the road of betraying the country and seeking glory. The Japanese were overjoyed and praised him as "the pillar of talent who wrote the first page of Manchukuo's history."
Zang's mother learned that her son had become a traitor and fell ill. When Zang Shiyi went to visit, his mother pointed at his nose and scolded, why did he become a traitor? After Zang Shiyi left, Zang's mother wrote a suicide note, saying that I had a son, who had become a traitor, and no longer had the face to face the countrymen, and decided to apologize for my sins with death.
That night, Zang's mother was draped in a shawl to show her facelessness to face her ancestors, hung a white aya on the roof, and hanged herself. After Zang's mother died, Zang Shiyi was deeply saddened and helplessly said: "Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be complete, not to mention that I have not yet fulfilled my loyalty." ”
In this way, a mother and son, one for jade fragments, one for Waquan, in the face of national difficulties, chose two different ways.
Puyi became the emperor of "pseudo-Manchukuo"
The fate of the traitors
His mother's death did not awaken Zang Shiyi's conscience, but he intensified his efforts and went farther and farther down the road of being a traitor.
Under the control of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Zang Shiyi invited the former emperor Puyi to the northeast and established the so-called "puppet manchukuo" to cooperate with Japan's colonial rule in the three eastern provinces. At that time, there were the famous "four big traitors" in the northeast, namely Zang Shiyi, Zhang Jinghui, Xi Qia and Ma Zhanshan. Zang Shiyi, who was at the head of the "Four Great Traitors," united three other traitors, telegraphed the whole country, issued the so-called "Declaration of Independence," broke away from the Nationalist government at that time, and was willing to fight for the Japanese.
In 1934, Zang Shiyi went to Japan again and was received by Emperor Hirohito of Japan. Feeling "supreme glory", Zang Shiyi gave speeches all over Japan, thanking Emperor Hirohito for "helping to establish Manchukuo", and the traitors' faces were unmistakable.
The former site of the Fushun War Criminals Management Center
In October 1941, Zang Shiyi went to Nanjing again, and signed the so-called "Three States Joint Declaration of Japan, Manchuria and China" with Wang Jingwei, a traitor to the Great Han Dynasty. This gang of traitors and lackeys, disregarding the great righteousness of the nation and devoting themselves to it, has many revolutionary heroes died under their butcher's knife.
Traitors are doomed to have no good end. In August 1945, the Soviet Red Army advanced into northeast China, and the Japanese Kwantung Army was defeated in World War I, and a large number of soldiers were taken prisoner. Zang Shiyi considered himself a powerful figure in the "puppet Manchukuo" and tried to negotiate with the Soviet Red Army to preserve the "puppet Manchukuo". As a result, the Soviets did not eat his set, beat him up, and when the prisoners were taken to the Soviet Union, they were thrown into prison. In a foreign country, 60-year-old Zang Shiyi suffered humiliation, but all this he deserved.
After the founding of New China, Zang Shiyi, Puyi and other leaders of "puppet Manchukuo" were sent back to China by the Soviets and imprisoned in the Fushun War Criminals Management Center. Zang Shiyi spent the last days of his life there, and in 1956, Zang Shiyi died depressed.
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