Some people once said that forgetting history is equivalent to betrayal, the Chinese nation has experienced more than 5,000 years of development, there have been many heroes, they paid their lives in order to resist the invaders, in the 30s of the last century, the Japanese army launched a war of aggression against China, they launched the September 18 Incident in 1931, and then invaded the three northeastern provinces, supported the last emperor Puyi to establish a puppet Manchukuo, on July 7, 1937, the Japanese army launched the Lugou Bridge Incident, and on August 13 of the same year, the Japanese army launched the Battle of Songhu. More than 300,000 Chinese soldiers were killed.
At the same time as countless martyrs shed blood and sacrificed, there were some traitors who defected to the Japanese, one of whom was called Zhang Benzheng, who was born in 1865, his ancestral home was Shandong, and later lived in Lushun, when he was a child, he had read the poetry of the sages, and when the Sino-Japanese War broke out in 1894, Zhang Benzheng met the Japanese agent Takahashi Fujibei, worked as a miscellaneous servant in his hotel, and also followed Takahashi to Weihai and Yantai to do business, in 1901, Zhang Benzheng rented two Japanese ships, set up his own company, and engaged in maritime transportation.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, Zhang Benzheng as a Chinese, but for the Japanese to transport arms, raise military funds, and later with the help of the Japanese, his steamship company became bigger and bigger, the route reached Hong Kong, Japan, Dalian, Qingdao, Andong, Longkou, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places, he had 32 ships, tonnage of more than 50,000 tons, employed more than 130 Japanese personnel, 1500 Chinese crew, during the Pacific War, he transported arms for the Japanese, Fourteen of these ships were sunk by Allied aircraft and submarines, killing all their crews.
In 1937, the Japanese army launched the July 7 Incident, Zhang Benzheng immediately donated 740,000 yen, but also donated 40 aircraft to the Japanese army, commended by the Japanese side, he has been to Tokyo many times, but also received by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito personally, but also won a lot of medals and gold medals, August 15, 1945, Japan announced unconditional surrender, Zhang Benzheng's traitor career also ended, in 1949 Zhang Benzheng was arrested, when cleaning up his property found that Zhang Benzheng had bank deposits of 1.71 million yuan, land 1055 acres, There are 1886 houses.
On June 10, 1951, the traitor Zhang Benzheng was sentenced to death by the Luda Municipal People's Court, and finally executed by firing squad, and his former private residence became the current Seventh People's Hospital of Dalian City, which was once magnificent, these are all the money he earned as a traitor, for this big traitor, do you have anything to say?