Since the September 18 Incident, the Japanese invaders began to gradually encroach on China until a few years later, when the all-out War of Resistance broke out, and finally Japan was defeated and surrendered. For more than a decade, the Chinese military and civilians paid a heavy price for the War of Resistance. However, at a time of national crisis, although the vast number of patriotic soldiers and civilians stepped forward to confront the Japanese aggressors to the end. But there are still some shameful people, many of whom are highly powerful, but at a time of national crisis, they have betrayed their national interests and become the running dogs of the Japanese. Among these shameful traitors, Yin Rugeng was an extremely famous one, and as the chairman of the first puppet government in North China, he was forever nailed to the pillar of shame because of his traitorous behavior.
Among the many traitors and thieves, the transformation of some people is still incomprehensible to this day, and Yin Rugeng is such a person. Like Wang Jingwei, Yin Rugeng in his early years was a warm-blooded patriotic youth. He was born into a wealthy family, and his father served as the prefect of the Qing Dynasty. Shortly after Yin Rugeng was born, his father died, and the whole family moved to other places to continue their lives under the control of their eldest brother. Yin Rugeng was brought up by his eldest brother Yin Zhimu since he was a child, and with the help of his brother, Yin Rugeng also got a place to study in Japan.
In this way, in 1905, at the age of 17, Yin Rugeng went to Japan to study, and there were many revolutionaries from China in Japan at that time. Influenced by them, Yin Rugeng decided to devote himself to the revolution to serve the country, and at the age of 21 he joined the League and became the backbone of the early revolution. After the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, Yin Rugeng threw his pen into the rong and set foot on the battlefield to fight with the enemy, and in the defense of Hanyang, he saw countless revolutionary fighters fall under the artillery fire of Yuan Shikai's troops. However, the result of the revolutionaries' hard work was eventually stolen by Yuan Shikai. After the defeat of the revolution, he returned to Japan to continue studying and made various friends in Japan.
After Sun Yat-sen founded the Kuomintang, because its predecessor, the League, had close ties with Japan, he maintained contacts with the Japanese side after the founding of the party. Yin Rugeng took advantage of his familiarity with the Japanese language to get to know many Japanese military personnel through education and other fields. After returning from studying abroad, he entered the House of Representatives as a secretary, and because he had studied in Japan for a long time, he was very familiar with the environment there. Soon, Yin Rugeng was sent to Japan to be responsible for economic and trade relations with the Bank of China with Japan. With the increase of power, Yin Rugeng began to be swallowed up by desire. He changed the court many times, but at that time, the domestic situation was unstable, yin Rugeng repeatedly jumped, and never got more benefits, which allowed him to start cooperating with the Japanese.
After Guo Songling's rebellion failed, Yin Rugeng immediately ran to the Japanese side to accept asylum, and the political speculation along the way had ended in failure, and he felt that Japanese talents were the most reliable. The Japanese realized that Yin Rugeng was a talent that would inevitably be of great use in the future, so they began to constantly seduce him. In 1925, the Japanese sent Yin Rugeng to Chiang Kai-shek, and he became a translator for Chiang Kai-shek. Ironically, Yin Rugeng gradually gained a foothold on Chiang's side by cooperating with the Japanese. However, his brother spent his whole life working for the country and resolutely confronted the Japanese to the end.
His brother's identity was not simple, Yin Ruli joined him in the revolution in his early years, but the difference was that Yin Ruli's talent was soon revealed. He raised money in Japan with others to help the revolutionaries who had fled to Japan, and since then he has gained some prestige within the League. Subsequently, Yin Ruli returned to China to engage in politics while investing in the development of industry. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yin Ruli was highly valued by the Nationalist government, and successively served as the premier of the Bank of Henan Province, a member of the Fujian Provincial Government and other important positions, and was a rising political star. Later, in order to support the Nineteenth Route Army's War of Resistance, Yin Ruli organized a Zhejiang business group in Shanghai with Shen Junru and others, and raised a large amount of material funds for the Nineteenth Route Army. However, just when Yin Ruli was concentrating on working for the country, he was arrested by the Kuomintang authorities.
Yin Ruli's arrest naturally had a great relationship with Yin Rugeng. Because at this time, Yin Rugeng had openly betrayed the country as a traitor, and because he was Yin Rugeng's brother, Yin Ruli was naturally suspected, so he was arrested. Yin Rugeng's identity from a hot-blooded patriot to today's traitor has changed considerably. In his early years, Yin Rugeng could fight for the revolution and fight the enemy on the battlefield of Hanyang, but now he has betrayed the country, and many people have not understood what he is trying to do.
However, Yin Ruli, who was implicated in his brother's affairs, had a very clear understanding of this, and he said: "This brother is of extremely bad quality, as long as he is profitable, he can sell friends and even betray the nation." I have to say that Yin Ruli's remarks were very well evaluated, and the reasons for Yin Ru's betrayal of the country were explained very clearly.
After failing to defect to Guo Songling, Yin Rugeng realized that the powerful Japanese were the most reliable side. Therefore, before he was escorted to Chiang Kai-shek by the Japanese, he had already become a traitor in his heart. After that, Yin Rugeng's words and deeds reflected his pro-Japanese side, and with the outbreak of the War of Resistance, Yin Rugeng could not wait to betray the country and become a traitor. He would not consider the position of his relatives and friends at all, nor would he think of his brother who was almost killed by himself because of his traitor.
The different life trajectories of these two brothers do confirm the old saying, "The dragon gives birth to nine sons, each of which is different." What makes people even more speechless is that Yin Rugeng's traitorous behavior is one of the best even among the traitors, and during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, some people may have been forced to become traitors, and some people became traitors due to various complicated factors. Then Yin Rugeng's being a traitor belongs to being a traitor.
In 1933, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on all parts of the Great Wall, and although the Chinese army fought bravely, the Great Wall Resistance was not successful. In desperation, the Kuomintang had to sign the Tanggu Agreement with the Japanese side, and as an important interpreter for Chiang Kai-shek, Yin Rugeng actively participated in the matter. In the agreement, the Kuomintang divided 22 counties in eastern Hebei into demilitarized zones. In fact, these places already belonged to the Japanese sphere of influence, and Yin Rugeng, who was close to the Japanese, soon obtained the right to administer the two districts. Yin Rugeng, who had received the sweetness, could not wait to start betraying the country, and during his administration, he did anything to please the Japanese. Ironically, even though Yin Rugeng was so capable of licking, the Japanese didn't look up to him at all.
In 1935, Japan had decided to launch a major offensive against North China in an attempt to turn it into a second "Northeast." Previously, Japan's support for puppet governments in the northeast has achieved good results, and they intend to continue to use this method. Then Japan must consider who will be responsible for organizing the puppet government in North China, although Yin Rugeng rushed to betray the country and went crazy to please the Japanese, but the Japanese were very aware of his ability. In the beginning, the Japanese did not consider Yin Rugeng at all, however, although the Japanese had many traitors, most of these people were very incompetent. Even a person like Yin Rugeng was already a top-notch person in this group of people. Therefore, the Japanese searched around, but they could not find a suitable person, so they could only take Yin Rugeng out and let him take charge of the matter.
In this way, Yin Rugeng ushered in the peak of his power, and he was appointed as the chairman of the pseudo-"Jidong Defense Communist Autonomous Government". This made him the head of the second Chinese puppet government after Puyi, and unlike Puyi, Yin Rugeng had great power in north China. Under his leadership, the puppet government absorbed a large number of traitors, and also formed security forces and other armed forces, seizing a lot of territory. In the area under his responsibility, Yin Rugeng carried out a wide-scale raid and handed over all the wealth obtained by the plundered people to the Japanese. In addition, he repeatedly used force to suppress those armed forces that resisted Japan in China, and even the patriotic movement of students and workers was also bloodily suppressed by force. Over the years, countless patriots have died at the hands of Yin Rugeng, who has done many evil things with his puppet government.
Yin Rugeng also sold a large number of local resources, inspected all kinds of important resources such as minerals, and handed them over to the Japanese army. At the same time, he also arrested people everywhere and forced them to work as coolies for the Japanese army. With his assistance, the Japanese soon mastered important materials such as minerals and salt throughout eastern Hebei. In addition, Yin Rugeng also actively assisted the Japanese in smuggling activities in China, helping Japan to transport a large number of low-cost products to the country and suppressing the domestic local industry. What is even more shameless is that in order to completely disintegrate China, Japan began to import drugs into China very early. During Yin Rugeng's reign, he actively assisted the Japanese in smuggling and trafficking drugs in China, and through his unremitting efforts, drugs spread throughout eastern Hebei, and many people became addicted to drugs.
In the process, Yin Rugeng and his confidants took advantage of the opportunity to help the Japanese do things and made a lot of money. With the assistance of Yin Rugeng, Japan turned north China into a strategic base for its own invasion of China. However, the military and people in North China have always been resisting the war, and the resistance activities in various places have never stopped, and although Yin Rugeng actively cooperated with the Japanese army in suppressing the anti-Japanese activities in various places, there were too many people to resist and could not be managed at all. Eventually, the Japanese began a brutal sweep throughout North China, and wherever the Japanese army went, the people everywhere were slaughtered. In the face of such cruel acts of the Japanese army, Yin Rugeng actively cooperated with the Japanese army's sweep and assisted them in plundering all over North China, bringing great disasters to countless people.
Not only that, Yin Rugeng also actively opened schools in various places, and he vigorously promoted servile thinking, requiring all localities to learn Japanese and forbidding the study of traditional Chinese culture such as Chinese. At the same time, Yin Rugeng also instructed his confidants to continuously promote the concepts of Sino-Japanese friendship and east Asian co-prosperity in various places. All he did was to help Japan gain complete control over China. At that time, among the many pseudo-governments supported by Japan, Yin Rugeng was the most vigorous, and the harm caused by Yin Rugeng to the country was one of the best, both on the surface and in fact. Therefore, his insistence on betraying the country naturally aroused the anger of the whole country.
Yin Rugeng's brother Yin Ruli was later rehabilitated and was not implicated, but lost the opportunity to remain in the Nanjing government. Originally a rising political star, it was dimmed by his brother's involvement. Since then, Yin Ruli has been demanding that ties with his brother's family be severed, and even future generations will not be allowed to communicate with each other. Since then, he has been living in seclusion and seclusion. Most of Yin Rugeng's other brothers also cut off contact with him, but he himself did not care about these. After controlling Jidong, the Japanese wanted to continue to control all of Northern China and then seize China. Yin Rugeng was busy assisting the Japanese in accomplishing these great things, but he did not expect that his good life would soon come to an end.
Yin Rugeng's long-term traitorous behavior in eastern Hebei has caused great dissatisfaction among the people. Many people within his puppet government were forced to surrender, and they were patriotic in their hearts. So on July 28, 1937, Yin Rugeng's security team, led by Zhang Qingyu and others, led the troops to a successful uprising. They hunted down the Japanese in Tongzhou and other places, and arrested Yin Rugeng and other traitors. At that time, the July 7 Incident planned by the Japanese was very successful, and just when they were happy, the uprising appeared under their eyes. The rebel army inflicted great losses on the local Japanese, and Yin Rugeng was arrested while fleeing, but because the receiving troops arranged by the Kuomintang did not arrive at the agreed time, the rebel army soon encountered heavy Japanese encirclement and suppression.
In the end, the uprising ended in failure, and Yin Rugeng was rescued by the Japanese in the rebellion. However, this incident made the Japanese very dissatisfied with him, and a large number of Japanese were killed in the incident, and the Japanese military lost face. As a result, after Yin Rugeng was sent to Japan, he was imprisoned. He had been an active traitor in the past, so that he was not killed by the Japanese in the end. However, Yin Rugeng had lost value on the Japanese side since then, and he had not been able to obtain any more important positions. Although he later won some positions in the Wang puppet government by relying on his own foolishness, he had no actual power, which made him feel very uncomfortable.
In 1945, Japan was defeated and surrendered, and at this time Yin Rugeng realized that his road had come to an end. Ironically, if Mr. Yin had stayed in Japan, he might have escaped justice. He was desperate to get an official position from the Japanese, so he took the initiative to run back to China, and this time he waited for the trial of the state. Yin Rugeng was arrested soon after the war, and such a figure as him was already well known in China, and the Kuomintang government had no bottom line and would not let him go.
He knew the depth of his sins and was lucky. So he actively glorified himself in prison, copied the Diamond Sutra, and wrote a long confession to justify his actions. He also wrote a poem: Spring comes and goes in a timely manner, and flowers bloom and fall endlessly. The same is true of the metabolism of life, killing oneself into benevolence and resignation.
Don't misunderstand, he himself is not talented, and writing poetry has nothing to do with him. He was just copying Wang Jingwei's poems and wanted to show off them. Wang Jingwei himself is talented, "leading the knife into a fast, not living up to the young man's head" is from Wang Jingwei, but Wang Jingwei's poetry and his behavior are diametrically opposed, he is not loyal to the country, but became a traitor.
Yin Rugeng's beautification did not work, and no matter how much he disguised himself, he could not escape the punishment of the law. The Supreme Court rejected his multiple appeals, and on November 8, 1947, Yin Rugeng was sentenced to death, and dozens of days later, he was executed by firing squad, ending his sinful life.