The Japanese vice-consul was looked down upon by his colleagues and attempted suicide by fleeing on hunger strike, which almost caused war between the two countries
Japan is a strange nation, and the emperor's slogan can make hundreds of millions of people enthusiastically serve the country. In 1934, a vice-consul of the Japanese consulate in Nanjing suddenly disappeared, and his disappearance caused serious diplomatic negotiations between China and Japan, and the Japanese warships had even berthed on the Xiaguan River in Nanjing, preparing to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China in advance of the July 7 Incident in 1937. As a result, the vice-consul was eventually found hiding in Ichibashi-dong and preparing to commit suicide because his Japanese colleagues looked down on him.
Fragile souls
In June 1934, a deputy consul of the Japanese consulate in Nanjing, Hideaki Kuromoto, was an introverted and sensitive personality, and always had something like Ah Qing's sister-in-law who was sullen in his heart and never confided in people. He has worked in Japanese diplomatic circles for more than twenty years, and he is still an ordinary vice-consul, and he feels that the height of his career in this life is like this.
Secondly, his former colleagues have already entered the cabinet of the Japanese central government, and even the prime minister, and he is still a civil servant who runs errands, which not only makes himself and his wife and family look down on him, but also makes his colleagues who work with him look down on him.
Before the incident, Hidemoto Yingming sent a colleague Youji minister to Shanghai, but there was no seat for him on the bus to send him off, everyone sat, only Zangben stood. This made Zangben feel that everyone generally looked down on him and deliberately embarrassed him. Introverted and inferior and fragile, Hidemoto finally collapsed and decided to protest with death and escape from this tragic world.
So, on June 8, 1934, Hidemoto disappeared.
Sensitive Japan
On June 9, the Japanese Consulate in Nanjing, which found hideen hideaki, orally informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China that the deputy consul of the consulate, Comrade Hideaki Zomoto, had suddenly disappeared and asked the National Government in Nanjing to assist in the investigation. When The Nanjing side received the news, Wang Jingwei, the number two figure of the Kuomintang, immediately and tremblingly ordered the Nanjing Police Headquarters and the Police Department to do their utmost to investigate the disappearance of one of the consulate's many consuls (or deputies), although the disappearance was less than twenty-four hours.
Participating in the search were Chen Zhuo, director of the Nanjing Police Department, and Dai Kasa, director of the Special Service Department, and others, and the scale of the search was very large, equivalent to the census of a province. The Kuomintang government issued a reward of 10,000 silver dollars, regardless of the reward that any citizen could find directly, and provided a reward of 5,000 silver dollars found indirectly by key clues.
The Nationalist Government sincerely feared that the whole people would search for and rescue a Japanese diplomat, and the Japanese threatened with their legs crossed at the side: The Japanese Government requires the Nationalist Government to wholeheartedly investigate the truth of the matter and quickly find a way to solve it, and if an unexpected incident occurs due to the National Government's mishandling of this incident, it shall be the responsibility of the Chinese side; Japan may retain that after its incident is determined, it will demand that the Nationalist Government apologize, punish those responsible, compensate for losses, and protect future rights and interests.
At the same time, the Japanese military sent warships to the Shimonoseki River in Nanjing to launch a war of aggression at any time. Chiang Kai-shek was the first to express "serious concern" over the disappearance of Hidemoto Hideaki, and at the same time strictly ordered the military police in the capital to properly and cautiously search for it, so that the truth could be revealed early.
On June 13, a worker in Ming Xiaoling reported an important clue, and the Guard Office immediately went to look for it, and finally found Hideaki Zomoto himself in a cave on the Purple Mountain.
After Hidemoto Hideaki was discovered, he ate the food brought by the searchers and explained the reason for his disappearance: he himself looked down on it and hired a rickshaw to zhongshan avenue and went up the Purple Mountain. Originally thinking that there were many wild beasts in the mountains, he fed the beasts a full meal, and then heard the leopard's cry, so he stripped off his clothes to facilitate his eating, but the leopard wandered back and forth several times without getting close.
The next day he was so thirsty that he went down the mountain to find water to drink, and at night he went back to the mountain to wait for the beasts to come and fulfill himself; as a result, there were still no wild beasts coming, and it seemed that even the beasts did not despise eating themselves, and the animals looked down on themselves; on June 10, he was so thirsty that he went down the mountain to the tea house to drink a fierce tea, and returned to the mountain.
Originally, I wanted to dig a pit and buried myself, but I was hungry for two days and didn't eat anything, and I didn't even have the strength to dig a pit; on the 11th, I went down the mountain to a noodle restaurant to eat a large bowl of noodles, and I didn't bring money at that time, and I gave the gold buckle on my body as collateral to others, and returned to the mountain. Two days later, you found out.
After the Kuomintang found the Tibetan book, it immediately breathed a sigh of relief and immediately issued a statement in the "Ta Kung Pao", called "The Great White of the Case of Tibet": Comrade Zangben's disappearance is his intention to commit suicide, and the Chinese side has no responsibility; in the past few days of searching for the Tibetan version, the National Government has set aside all affairs and handled the case exclusively; the military and police on the Nanjing side have been active day and night, hundreds of thousands of residents have been searched door to door, and "the anxiety of the authorities and the panic of the people are beyond imagination and indescribable."
On June 15, Hideaki Kuromoto was sent to Japan and has never been seen again.
postscript
Some people say that it is a true portrayal of the tense situation between the two countries in those years and is an accidental event, and some people say that it is a reason created by Japan to launch a full-scale invasion of China, which is the same as the nature of the September 18 incident. In the end, the truth is what the reader friends can discuss in the comment area.