In order to cover up the essence of its aggression, the Kwantung Army is creating public opinion that "Japan's troops only helped the Manchurians to end the tyrannical rule of Zhang Xueliang's old warlords." Zang Shiyi, who was originally the chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Government, is now making a comeback to become the governor of Fengtian Province, which really creates an illusion in people's minds that the original regime has been restored, but Zhang Xueliang has withdrawn.
It was precisely because the Japanese invaders used this illusion to confuse the common people and to win over some northeastern military and political figures who were watching at that time, and Zang Shiyi was also willing to take advantage of it. At that time, Yu Zhishan, the envoy stationed at the eastern border of Liaoning Province, was undecided, and Banyuan ordered Zang Shiyi to send people to persuade him to surrender, and Zang sent Zhao Pengdi to the mountain town to persuade him to surrender, and finally made Yu Zhishan and his troops lay down their weapons.
At that time, the power of the Japanese Kwantung Army had not yet extended to western Liaoning, and the Jinzhou and Suizhong areas were still the sphere of influence of Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army, and after the Kwantung Army had solved the problem of the anti-Japanese armed forces in Northern Manchuria, it turned its military spearhead and wanted to take Jinzhou in western Liaoning to the south, and Japan again introduced the traitor Zang Shiyi to do the work, and Lieutenant Katakura of the Kwantung Army conveyed to him the instructions of the commander of Honzhuang, asking Zang to write a letter to Zhang Xueliang in his personal name, persuading Zhang to withdraw the Northeast Army stationed in jinzhou and Suizhong into Guannei.
At this time, Zang Shiyi was already unable to help himself, because from the day he was released, there was a gendarmerie Cao Hengshan Masao who followed him, named "protection", which was actually surveillance, and when he went out, he was in the same car, and when he entered, he lived together, and received all the people who came and went, all of which needed to be agreed by the military cobia, and had been monitoring. Therefore, Zang Shiyi could only obey all the instructions of the Kwantung Army and could not oppose them in the slightest.
Zang Shiyi had no choice but to obediently write a letter to Zhang Xueliang according to the requirements of Benzhuang fan, saying that Japan was about to occupy the Suizhong area of Jinzhou and that all the northeastern troops and organs in the area should be withdrawn into Guannei, so as to avoid war and the people suffering. After the letter was written, xu Shaoqing, a consultant of the puppet provincial bureau, was specially sent to Beiping with the letter in accordance with the arrangements of The Village, and accompanied by the military attaché of the Japanese legation in Beiping, he handed the letter to Zhang Xueliang.
After Zhang read the letter, although there was no reply, from December 21, the Northeast Army and the volunteer armies in various places resolutely resisted the invading Kwantung Army in Tianzhuangtai, Dada, Panshan and other places, and although the Japanese army attacked by aircraft, artillery, and tanks, the Northeast Army and the Volunteer Army were just as Zhang Xueliang said in a telegram to the Nationalist Government on January 6, 1932: "Fighting bravely, fiercely fighting for ten days and nights, the former servants followed, and the dead and wounded were hidden." In contrast, how clear should the iron bones of loyalty and courage and the soft bones of the enemy and traitors be!
At the end of December 1931, the senior staff officer Itagaki Seishiro came forward to entertain more than 20 pseudo-officials from China, such as Zang Shiyi and Yu Jingyuan, who were born in China, at the "Cuishan" restaurant in Shenyang, as well as more than 10 Japanese officials involved in the local administrative work of Fengtian. Itagaki said in his speech before the table: "All of you are very hard, especially Governor Zang has made greater contributions, only to express condolences, please drink more and eat more, and talk freely." Encourage People such as Shi Shi Yi to continue their traitorous activities.
At the end of 1931, former Riku Minister Nanjiro came to Shenyang as a military senator on the orders of the Japanese government to hold talks with Zang Shiyi on how to prepare for the establishment of a puppet regime. Minamijiro put forward two plans drawn up by the Japanese government: one was to use Zhang Zuoxiang to establish a special regime that worked closely with Japan; the other was to break away from the Nanjing government and take Puyi to the northeast to establish a new country.
Let the reduction of the style of Yi to show his attitude, the scheming of the reduction of the style of Yi, on the big issue of determining the fate of the northeast, unwilling to bear the responsibility of traitor alone, and did not dare to offend Nanjiro, so he played a trick, not clearly expressing his position only to say that he was determined to cooperate with Xi Qia, everything was based on Jilin's propositions, the two plans were left to Xi Qia's choice, and he would definitely take concerted action with Xi Qia.
No matter how Zang Shiyi played tricks and escaped responsibility, he had sold himself to the Japanese and promised to cooperate with the Japanese, and could only slip farther and farther on the evil road of betraying the country and seeking glory. After this, as a leading figure in the political circles of the former northeast, he participated in the so-called "founding conference" of the four giants together with Zhang Jinghui, Xi Qia, and Ma Zhanshan, and at the behest of the Kwantung Army, he staged one ugly drama after another announcing "independence" and preparing for the establishment of a puppet state, of which Zang Shiyi was an indispensable protagonist.
Even the Japanese Noda Ryo wrote: "The sudden comeback of Zang Shiyi is actually a major reason for accelerating the founding of Manchuria." At that time, the Japanese appreciated his position in the history of the founding of "Manchukuo" with Yu Chong Han and Yuan Jinjiao, and the great cause of Japan's Meiji Restoration. Some articles even openly pointed out: "It is expected to be a powerful talent for the future prime minister" and "the first pillar talent to write the history of Manchukuo".
However, Zang Shiyi, known as a "strategist", was not carried away by these compliments, and he had always considered his puppet status. He had talked to Honjo about the establishment of advisers by the Kwantung Army in the puppet province of Fengtian, which was a key issue in Japan's colonial rule in China, and the Kwantung Army was even more aware of the power of this "strategist."
Commander Honzhuang tried his best to cover it up and said something unashamed, saying that the people of the three eastern provinces were abused by the old warlord Zhang Xueliang, and the people were not happy about their lives; in order to save the thirty million people in Manchuria, Japan sent troops to Fengtian and other places.
Honjo's grandiose self-justification can deceive the world's public opinion for a while, but for Zang Shiyi, who is manipulated by the Kwantung Army and is quite brainy, it is not as good as coaxing a child to talk nonsense. However, because he had a contract of sale in the hands of Itagaki Seishiro, he had to endure, and continued to play the main puppet role, not only as the governor of the puppet Fengtian Province, but also after the establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo in March 1932, he also served as the chief of the puppet ministry of civil affairs.
After the implementation of the imperial system in March 1934, he was changed to the minister of civil affairs, nominally responsible for local administration and police rule in Manchuria, so Zang Shiyi sometimes handled provincial affairs in Shenyang, and sometimes went to Changchun to handle civil affairs.
Zang Shiyi's position as the chief of the puppet Ministry of Civil Affairs in the early days of puppet Manchuria was not simple, and it really helped the Kwantung Army a lot. Let us give a few examples to prove this: Zang Shiyi, in the name of the pseudo-chief of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, sent Japanese officials to various places to establish county-level political power, implemented the armor protection and hukou system, established more than 520,000 "self-defense regiments," and stabilized the administrative rule at the grass-roots level below the county level.
Zang Shiyi also ordered the expansion and strengthening of the top-down police apparatus directly controlled by the Japanese, expanded the pseudo-police to more than 830,000 people, and set up special police units on the border, coast, and mountainous areas, laying the foundation for fascist repressive rule.
In order to fundamentally prevent the people from resisting, Zang Shiyi ordered the promulgation of the "Provisional Rules for Banning Guns and Artillery" and forcibly confiscated the weapons hidden by the people, so that the broad masses of the people lost the ability to resist Japan and defend themselves.
In order to facilitate the downward extension of its own invading magic hand, the Kwantung Army forced the Ministry of Civil Affairs to issue a decree of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, re-divided the provinces and regions, divided the original four provinces (including Rehe) into ten provinces, and established a new framework for local administrative rule in Puppet Manchuria...
In this way, Zang Shiyi used a deed of sale to firmly tie himself to the broken car of colonial rule controlled by the Kwantung Army, and walked farther and farther along the evil road of betraying the country and harming the people. To this end, he was successively awarded the First Class Ruibao Medal, the First Class Rising Sun Medal and the Puyi Medal of The Order of Honor, the Order of Jingyun And the Dragon Light Grand Ribbon.