preface
On the afternoon of September 9, 1943, Li Shiqun, the founder of the Murder Devil Cave "No. 76", died at home, and when he died, his whole body was out of water and his body was dry, like a piece of paper, and the traitor Li Shiqun was only 38 years old when he died.
From 1942 to 1943, Li Shiqun was proud of the spring breeze, holding four pseudo-positions with real power: governor of Jiangsu Province, secretary general of the Qingxiang Committee, minister of police, and director of the secret service headquarters (i.e., "No. 76"). Coupled with countless official titles, it can be said that the southeast half of the wall is in the hands, and it is a figure that no one knows and is feared.
The cause of his death was poisoned by the Japanese, and this is certain. But the specific kind of food that was poisoned is still controversial. There are two mainstream views, one is poison in coffee and the other is poison in beef cake, but the more credible is the first.
The reasons for Li Shiqun's poisoning were extremely complicated, because of his great power and power, he made enemies on all sides, and had a deep vendetta with the Japanese, Dai Kasa of the military command, and Zhou Fohai, a traitor of the Great Han Dynasty, and others.
Li Shiqun and Zhou Fohai were at odds
Li Shiqun's status in the Kuomintang was originally very low, and he was only a small intelligence officer in the central government. After surrendering to the enemy, knowing that he did not have enough seniority and did not know Zhou Fohai and Wang Jingwei at all, Li Shiqun sent people to Kunming to bring the frustrated Ding Mo Estate to Shanghai as a banner.
Ding Mo Estate has a high status as a special agent in the Kuomintang and has always been on an equal footing with Dai Kasa. After Dai Kasa continued to suppress him, he was dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek and died in Kunming. Li Shiqun met Zhou Fohai through Ding Mo Estate, and then through Zhou Fohai, he met Wang Jingwei. After cracking the major case of Dai Kasa's assassination of Wang Jingwei many times, Li Shiqun became an important figure in Wang Jingwei's "Gongguan Faction", and since then Li Shiqun has been proud of his achievements and gradually has friction with Zhou Fohai.
At the beginning of the Wang puppet regime, Li Shiqun was originally a member of Zhou Fohai, but later his power expanded, which caused contradictions and conflicts. Here are three things to illustrate the process of Zhou and Li's intercourse, and finally laid the groundwork for his murder.
The first is the tax police corps. When the Wang puppet government was established in 1940, Zhou and Li had a good relationship. In order to gain real power, Li Shiqun urged Zhou Fohai to follow the example of Song Ziwen, the Kuomintang finance minister, and set up a tax police regiment.
Zhou was the pseudo-finance minister, and as soon as he heard that he was in the right place, he prepared to set up a tax police corps of about 20,000 people with the consent of Major General Yingsa Zhenzhao, the top adviser of the Wang puppet government. At first, it was decided that Li Shiqun would start it, and Li was very happy, so he sent Lin Zhijiang, the leader of the "No. 76" action brigade, to preside. Although Lin is a secret agent, he is from the fifth stage of the Whampoa Military Academy, and this sign can be lifted. The address has also been chosen, in the "Pure Heart Girls' Middle School" in Nanjing, Shanghai.
Unexpectedly, Luo Junqiang, who was beside Zhou Fohai, thought that this matter was inappropriate, and the tax police regiment must be in Zhou's own hands. Zhou Fohai was right when he heard it, so he withdrew his own affairs. In order to deal with Li Shiqun, Zhou Fohai gave the post of pseudo-police minister to Li.
Li Mingsheng descended darkly, indignant in his heart, and his heart had accumulated resentment against Zhou Fohai. Zhou Fohai did not care about him, so he also served as the head of the regiment, and sent Luo Junqiang and Xiong Jiandong as deputy leaders. This was the first thing Zhou and Li did.
The second is the "clearing of the countryside". In 1941, Riwang planned to implement the qingxiang plan in Jiangsu Province. Jiang Jingwei was preparing to set up a "Qingxiang Supervision Office", which was supervised by Luo Junqiang.
Zhou Fohai and Luo Junqiang were very happy, and even the celebration party had already been held. Unexpectedly, Major General Yingsa on the Japanese side wanted Li Shiqun to come to power on the grounds that there were Li's special agent stations everywhere, and it was easy to clear the countryside. When Zhou Fohai and Luo Junqiang learned of this, they trembled with anger and formed a deep vendetta with Li Shiqun.
At that time, because Li Shiqun's seniority was too low, as a "Qingxiang Supervisor", it was afraid that it would be difficult to convince the public, so the "Qingxiang Committee" was set up, which was at the same level as the pseudo-Executive Yuan, with Wang Jingwei as the chairman and Li Shiqun as the secretary general. Since then, Li has been in power for less than a year, and he is also the governor of pseudo-Jiangsu Province. This was the second and most serious thing that Zhou and Li had done, and Li Shiqun no longer took Zhou Fohai in his eyes.
The third is the exchange of fake reserve vouchers in the Qingxiang area for legal tender. Zhou Fohai is a pseudo-finance minister and president of the "Central Reserve Bank", and naturally wants to promote counterfeit banknotes in the Qingxiang area. According to the regulations, two yuan of legal tender is exchanged for one dollar reserve coupon. But Li Shiqun put on the face of a savior who asked for the people's lives, and only agreed to a one-to-one exchange in the Qingxiang area.
The lawsuit reached Wang Jingwei, Wang supported Li, and Zhou Fohai had to comply. But as soon as Li Shiqun turned around, he still exchanged it at a price of two to one, and he won nearly 4 million yuan in benefits at once, making Zhou Fohai's eyes black with anger. The enmity between the two deepened another step.
Judging from the above three things alone, we know that there are reasons for the evil things that Zhou and Li have done. Li Shiqun and Zhou Fohai clashed hard, and in large part they doomed him to the cause of death.
Li Shiqun befriended the Japanese
On the Japanese side, before the outbreak of the Pacific War, there had always been a struggle between the "enlargement faction" and the "non-enlargement faction", whose main representative was Hideki Tojo, advocated the conquest of China by force. The representatives of the non-enlargement faction, such as Akira Inasa and Ishihara Guan'er, advocated the implementation of the policy of "using China to govern China."
After the fall of Nanjing, the non-enlargementists actively supported Wang Jingwei and established a Japanese puppet regime, hoping to conquer China at an early date through moderate means. "No. 76" is an armed secret service agency approved by the Japanese Military Department.
However, after the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, corruption was rampant and was boycotted by the whole people, and it was impossible to solve the Sino-Japanese problem.
In 1941, Hideki Tojo came to power and became prime minister, deciding to start a Pacific War.
Hideki Tojo had always opposed the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, Japan was extremely short of materials, and Tojo Hideki decided to treat the Wang puppet regime as an institution to loot property for Japan.
Hideki Tojo personally visited Nanjing in 1942, learned about the corruption of the Wang puppet regime, and decided to implement a policy of strengthening it to make it an effective weapon for looting, so he sent Masanobu Tsuji, who was very famous in the Japanese army, to deal with the Japanese officers, ronin and Chinese traitors.
Masanobu Tsuji first rectified the corrupt officers of the Japanese military. At that time, many Japanese officers in China colluded with traitors and became degenerate elements, and Tsuji Masanobu said that they were engaged in "brothel politics" in China. He repatriated a large number of well-founded Japanese officers and ronin to Japan for trial. For example, Lieutenant General Kantake Yazaki, a well-known military adviser to the puppet government, was repatriated to Japan because he mixed with social flowers. As soon as he did this, he caused the Japanese and traitors to tremble with fear and anxiety.
When Tsuji Masanobu was investigating the strategic material grain, he found Li Shiqun's head. At that time, the Japanese army strictly forbade the free flow of rice grain, cotton yarn, sugar, and so on, but Li Shiqun, believing that he had great power, colluded with Gu Baoheng, minister of the pseudo-grain department, and Zhou Naiwen, vice minister of the ministry of grain, to escort a large amount of military grain to the Kuomintang Third Theater of Operations for material exchange.
The case was discovered by Tsuji Masanobu, who immediately ordered the arrest of Minister of Grain Gu Baoheng, Vice Minister Zhou Naiwen, Director of the Jiangsu Grain Bureau Shi Dachun, and Grain Commissioner Hu Zheng, and demanded that they be immediately executed. Wang Jingwei repeatedly tried to protect the lives of the minister and vice minister, but Shi Hu and the two were executed in Nanjing.
Tsuji Masanobu was satisfied with this, as Shi Dachun and Hu Zheng were Li Shiqun's confidants, which could warn Li Shiqun. However, Li thought that his feathers were abundant, and Wang Jingwei was the backstage, and he even ignored Tsuji Masanobu's "strengthening" policy and did not make a mistake, which buried the Japanese killing opportunity for Li.
After asking Hideki Tojo, Tsuji Masanobu decided to wait for an opportunity to get rid of Lee Shiqun. However, because Li's armed forces had spread all over the occupied areas and Wang Jingwei was used as a backer, Tsuji Masanobu did not act immediately, but killing Li Shiqun was a matter of certainty, it was only a matter of time.
Dai Kasa ordered Li Shiqun to be poisoned
The main reason for Dai Kasa's deep feud with Li Shiqun was that Li Shiqun had cracked the underground intelligence organization that Dai Kasa had painstakingly operated in Shanghai for many years, and the district governor Chen Gongshu was arrested and surrendered to the enemy, causing Dai Kasa's base in the Ninghu-Hangzhou area to be completely destroyed.
Since 1942, Dai Kasa has completely abandoned the illusion of wooing Li Shiqun and instead colluded with the traitors Zhou Fohai, Luo Junqiang, and Xiong Jiandong. Dai Kasa knew that Li Shiqun and these three people had a deep contradiction, which laid the groundwork for poisoning Li Shiqun afterwards.
At this time, Li Shiqun was actually in danger, but he still did not look at the situation and insisted on going his own way.
In early 1943, the Japanese side transferred Major General Akira, the supreme military adviser who had single-handedly planned the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, to fight in the Pacific. As soon as Yingzuo left, Li Shiqun suddenly lost his biggest backer. At the same time, in order to deal with Li Shiqun, the Japanese military department also transferred the largest backstage of "No. 76" Qingyin Zhongzuo to work in North China.
Before leaving, he painstakingly advised Li Shiqun to stop all improper business activities and not to leave any more handles on the Japanese side, so as not to cause great trouble. But Li Shiqun did not listen, believing that his strength was already great, and the Japanese could not help him for a while.
At this time, Zhou Fohai had secretly already defected to Dai Kasa and became the main reliance of the military command in the southeastern occupied areas. By 1943, Japan had suffered a crushing defeat in the Pacific, and Chongqing and the United States and Britain were preparing to land on China's southeast coast.
The Chongqing side believes that Li Shiqun in the southeast is an obstacle to landing and must be removed. However, Li Shiqun had at least one platoon of troops around him to defend him, which could be said to be armed to the teeth, and Dai Kasa could not eliminate Li Shiqun by force.
So in the summer of 1943, Dai Kasa secretly telegraphed Zhou Fohai: "Execute Li Shiqun, and execute it immediately." Dai Kasa's move, both public and private, took revenge.
Li Shiqun was poisoned during the process
Zhou Fohai, Luo Junqiang, and Xiong Jiandong, who had been secretly consulting many times, had studied the method of assassinating Li Shiqun, including mutiny, but they were not very sure, and finally Xiong Jiandong's wife, Tang Yijun, came up with a method of using the Japanese to poison Li Shiqun, which was the most thorough.
At that time, Okamura Nakasa was serving as the head of the Special High School at the Shanghai Japanese Military Police Command. Xiong Jiandong and Okamura have a very deep personal relationship, and whenever Xiong Jiandong has something to ask for help from Okamura, he is happy to help.
After several consultations and secret conversations with Okamura, Zhou Fohai and others finalized a plan to poison Li Shiqun. Okamura reported the matter to Tokyo, which was exactly what Masanobu Tsuji had wished, and naturally approved it.
As for the specific poisoning process, according to Tang Yijun's later recollection, it was like this: "On the afternoon of September 6, 1943, at Li Shiqun's home at No. 68, Lane 749, Yuyuan Road, Shanghai, a telephone rang. The call was from Okamura Nakasa, the head of the special high school of the Japanese Gendarmerie Command, and was answered by Xia Zhongming, Li Tuqun's personal translator. Okamura said very sincerely on the phone: "The situation in Japan is very bad now, but I heard that the contradiction between Li Shiqunjun and Zhou Fohaijun and Xiong Jiandongjun is very deep, and the Imperial Army is very uneasy about this." At this critical time, we should unite to cope with the future situation. Therefore, the army entrusted me to come forward and ask Li Jun, Zhou Jun, and Xiong Jun to meet with each other, openly and honestly, and reconcile with each other. I am Xiong Jun's old classmate, the friendship is very deep, and I have already negotiated well. In terms of Zhou Jun and Xiong Jun, there was absolutely no problem. Therefore, I ask Li Shiqunjun to talk to the Broadway Building no matter what. The words were very modest and very factual, and Li Shiqun decided to go with Xia Zhongming. ”
Before leaving, Li Shiqun's wife, Ye Jiqing, repeatedly cared: "Don't eat anything." ”
Why is there such a call? It was the plan that Tang Yijun came up with above. The phone call did not say that guests were invited to dinner, only that they would mediate disputes, which was the reason that could best make Li Shiqun take the bait.
Li Shiqun and Xia Zhongming arrived at Okamura's house and saw that Zhou Fohai and Xiong Jiandong were already there. Okamura wore a kimono, and the two sides greeted each other very politely and sat down to talk.
Okamura first said: "The current situation is very unfavorable to Japan, the navy and air force are already in a defeated situation, and japan's final fate seems to be to use Chinese mainland as an operating base." If the war is going to go on, how can the 3 not be harmonious. Today, please come 3 people, shake hands and make peace, and plan a big plan together. ”
The words were extremely sincere, making Li Shiqun believe it to be true. At the same time, Zhou Fohai and Xiong Jiandong also said that in the past, the restraint of their subordinates was not strict, and there were many offenses, hoping that Li Shiqun would forgive. In this way, it lasted for nearly 2 hours, and the conversation was very speculative, And Li Shiqun thought it was reasonable and reasonable, so he relaxed his vigilance.
In the kitchen at this time, there were two women, one was Mrs. Okamura and the other was Tang Yijun. They were doing poisoning work, and the other women didn't know about it. It used the septic bacteria developed by the Japanese army's 731 unit, and there was no medicine to save it, but it took 3 to 6 days after eating before it fell ill and died.
The dishes were served one by one, and the atmosphere between the two sides was more harmonious, and although Li Shiqun relaxed his vigilance, he still said that his stomach was not good and he did not eat anything.
This upset Lady Okamura and Tang Yijun, who were about to disperse and the poisoning plan was about to fail. Finally, Mrs. Okamura dressed in a kimono and carries a plate with 5 empty cups and a pot of coffee. Mrs. Okamura fell to her knees, poured coffee one by one, and brought it to everyone. This is the highest etiquette in The Japanese, and if you don't eat a bite, it is a serious disrespect to the owner.
Li Shiqun looked at it, the coffee was poured from the same pot, and it should not be poisonous. But he never expected that the problem was precisely on the empty cup, and Tang Yijun had already smeared bacteria on Li Shiqun's cup. Under such a grand etiquette, Li Shiqun could not refuse, so he took a small sip. At this time, Tang Yijun, who was hiding in the kitchen, had a hanging heart to land.
Li Shiqun returned home. Ye Jiqing knew that Li had drunk a sip of coffee, so he immediately found Li's personal doctor Chu Linsun to wash Li's stomach. Afterwards everything was normal, Li Shiqun drank wine and had dinner, and the next day Li went to Suzhou, and everything was fine.
Unexpectedly, late the next night, Li Shiqun began to fall ill, vomiting up and down diarrhea, sweating profusely, and Dr. Chu Linsun was helpless.
At this time, the major hospitals in Shanghai had already received orders not to send people to Suzhou to see a doctor.
Therefore, the Suzhou Li family called the hospitals and replied almost unanimously: "The president is not there." ”
On the third day, Li Shiqun was in a state of dehydration and semi-coma, and he wanted to shoot himself, but he didn't even have the strength to pull the bolt. He knew that the problem was in that sip of coffee, and intermittently said to Ye Jiqing: "After I died, I told Mr. Wang and Mrs. Wang that it was poisoned by the Japanese." ”
By the afternoon of September 9, Li Shiqun was bleeding from seven holes and finally died of exhaustion.
After Li's death, Wang Jingwei knew that it was poisoned by the Japanese, but he dared to be angry and did not dare to speak. Only Chen Chunpu, secretary general of the puppet Executive Yuan, was sent as a special envoy to Suzhou to pay tribute. Wang gave a foot red stamp as a funeral offering. And he made an exception and wrote a handwritten sacrifice, saying, "It is enough to save the world, and the heavens will not last forever." Whoops, whoops, whoops! The whole text does not dare to mention a word "poison".
After Li Shiqun's subordinates learned that Li had been poisoned by the Japanese, the crowd was indignant and organized the "Lingtang Revenge Group" to avenge Li. The Japanese troops of Suzhou Xiaolin surrounded the Lingtang and surrendered the arms of these agents. At the same time, Shanghai "No. 76" and local secret service stations were also controlled by the Japanese army. At this point, Li Shiqun's poisoning and death could not be solved.
epilogue
This once rampant murderous demon Leader Li Shiqun ended his life in this way. Even if he survived by chance, after the victory of the War of Resistance, this traitor who had harmed countless people could not escape the people's trial of him in the end.