Chapter 45 Yasunao Nanayoshioka

The Kwantung Army is like a powerful high-voltage power supply, I am like a precise and sensitive motor, and Yoshioka Anzhi is a wire with good conductivity. This Japanese Kagoshima native with high cheekbones, a moustache and a short stature stayed by my side from 1935 to 1945 when Japan surrendered and was taken prisoner by the Soviet army with me. pass me.In ten years, he was promoted step by step from an army lieutenant to lieutenant general.He has two identities, one is the senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, and the other is the imperial official of the Manchukuo Kingdom.The latter is the name of Japan. It is said that the meaning seems to be walking in the inner court, and it is also like the secretary of the imperial family. I don’t think it matters what it should be translated into, because no matter what its literal meaning is, it cannot explain Yoshioka’s actual function. .His actual function is a wire.Every meaning of the Kwantung Army was conveyed to me through this wire.I go on tour, receive guests, salute, instruct my subjects, toast, and even nod and smile, all under Yoshioka's command.Who I can meet, who I cannot meet, what to say when I meet, what meetings I will attend, what to talk about at the meetings, etc., all follow his orders.Most of what I want to say is written on the note in Japanese-style Chinese by him in advance.

Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and the Puppet Manchukuo was required to send out food, people, and supplies. I ordered Zhang Jinghui to follow Yoshioka's note at a meeting of governors to encourage the governors to work hard and support the jihad.Japan launched the Pacific War and was short of troops. The puppet Manchukuo army was required to take over some of the tasks on the battlefield in China. At the banquet of the commander of the military control area, I wrote a note expressing that I would live and die with Japan. Determination. In addition, every time Japan captured a large city in Kannai, after Yoshioka reported the results of the battle, he would let me stand up with him, bow towards the battlefield, and pay a silent tribute to the Japanese soldiers who died in battle.After several times of training by him, when Wuhan fell, I no longer needed him to remind me. As soon as he finished reporting the results of the battle, I would stand up automatically, bow in silence.

As the grades continued to improve, he also continued to add homework to me.For example, during the fall of Wuhan, he instructed me to write a personal message to Neiji Okamura, the great executioner who captured Wuhan, praising his martial arts, and instructed me to send a congratulatory message to the Emperor of Japan. Later, the Jianguo Temple was built, and I went there every month to pray for the victory of the Japanese army, which was also carried out under the instruction of this wire. Before the July 7th Incident, the Kwantung Army didn't get involved in my private and family affairs, but after the incident, the situation was different.

Before the July 7th Incident, as usual, some people from my family in the pass would come to celebrate my birthday every year, and they usually came and went.After the July 7th Incident, the Kwantung Army stipulated that only a few people on the list were allowed to come to Changchun at a certain time.And it is stipulated that except for my close relatives, the rest of the people can only salute me and are not allowed to talk to me. At the same time, all letters sent to me from outside were first shown to Yoshioka's minion, the Japanese officials in the Imperial Household Prefecture, and Yoshioka finally decided whether to send them to me.

Of course, the Kwantung Army also knew that I would not oppose Manchuria and Japan, but they were still worried that I would collude with the Kwantung to restore the Qing Dynasty, which did not meet their requirements. At that time, it was simply impossible to meet with outsiders or receive a letter without knowing Yoshioka.At that time, there was a gendarme room in the Imperial Palace, and there lived a group of Japanese gendarmes in dark green uniforms. Not only could everyone entering and leaving cannot escape their sight, even what happened in the yard could not escape their ears.In addition, all the Japanese in the Imperial Household from the deputy minister down are Yoshioka's minions, which resulted in strict control over me.

The reason why Yoshioka was able to serve as the incarnation of the Kwantung Army for ten years is because of his skills. Some books say that Yoshioka was originally a good friend of mine in Tianjin, and later became a staff officer of the Kwantung Army. At this time, the Kwantung Army wanted to choose a liaison between the imperial family and the Kwantung Army to replace the dismissed military officer Ishimaru Shito Grinding, so he was chosen.In fact, when he was in Tianjin, he often told me about current affairs for a period of time, so he could not be considered a good friend of mine.He was sent to me as a liaison, and it was not just the right time for him to be a staff officer of the Kwantung Army.If it is said that he is Pu Jie's friend, it is half true.After the establishment of the Puppet Manchukuo, Pu Jie entered the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy, where Yoshioka was serving as an instructor of war history.He invited Pu Jie to his house as a guest almost every Sunday, and entertained him hospitablely.After the two of them became good friends, he immediately revealed to Pu Jie that the Kwantung Army intended to invite him to Manchuria to act as a liaison between the military and me personally.Pu Jie told me in a letter, and later told him of my welcome in reply.He said at this time that it was his honor, but if he could not get the status of a senior staff officer of the Kwantung Army, he would not want to do it, because Nakajima Hidaki and Ishimaru Shi who did this job in the past did not gain a foothold in Manchuria because they did not work in the Kwantung Army. Take root in the army.

Later, I don’t know how he acted, but his wish came true. The Kwantung Army decided to appoint him as a senior staff officer and assign him a full-time liaison position with me.Before he left for Manchuria, he asked Pu Jie to write to me to tell me the news, and said at the same time: If Brother Ling can prepare an office room for me in advance, I will be even more honored.I found out about it and satisfied his sense of honor.It took me a long time to realize that he was showing it to the Kwantung Army on purpose.In the eyes of the Kwantung Army, he has an extraordinary relationship with me, and in my eyes he is also concerned with the tiger skin of Gao Shen of the Eastern Army.

Yoshioka likes to draw ink paintings.Once he drew a picture of ink bamboo, asked Zheng Xiaoxu to inscribe a poem, and asked me to inscribe (what word, I have long forgotten), and then brought it to Japan and gave it to Hirohito’s mother, the Japanese Empress Dowager.Soon, the painting was published in Japanese newspapers, and Yoshioka was praised as a colored pen soldier.I don’t know whether Yoshioka’s artistic reputation emerged from this, but I can be sure that what he expected from this painting was not an artistic title, but something more valuable than this title.When I came back from my visit to Japan, the Japanese Empress Dowager and I had regular contacts, and kept giving each other small gifts, and the middleman was this Yoshioka.After he gave the ink bamboo that time, the exchanges between Tokyo and Changchun became more frequent.

He goes back and forth to Tokyo several times a year, and before he leaves, he always asks me to make some food such as snacks, which he will bring to the Japanese Empress Dowager, and when he comes back, he will bring back a gift from the Japanese Empress Dowager. One of the must-haves is Japanese dim sum.Fortunately, the old lady and I both have ready-made pastry chefs, and it doesn't take much trouble to send them to each other.However, due to my paranoia, every time Yoshioka brings back dim sum, I always ask others to eat it first before moving. Of course, Yoshioka travels between the Japanese royal family once a year. This is by no means arbitrary by him, but I believe that the content of each trip is mainly his original design.For example, once, he saw my four-way combined radio, and suddenly asked me as if he had discovered a miracle:

Can this machine record (record)? His Chinese is not very good, but it is not difficult for us to talk because he can speak some English.The English level of the two of us is about the same. We usually speak Chinese with English, and with the help of written conversation, we can explain the meaning clearly. Record is great.I said, and took out a tape to try to show him. well!He smiled happily, watched me install the film, and said: Let me teach your majesty a few words of Japanese!Um!Then he said in Japanese: I wish His Majesty the Emperor good health! I will repeat what he said in Japanese: I wish His Majesty the Emperor good health, this sentence was recorded on the record.He played the record twice and picked it up with satisfaction.

Well, this time I'm in Tokyo, eh!Give it to His Majesty the Emperor! When Yoshioka talks, he always brings a few!ha!Eyebrows raised at the same time.This problem became more and more later, and I also felt that it was not useful.Simultaneously with this change was his interpretation of our relationship. When I visited Japan in 1934, the Empress Dowager of Japan wrote several Waka songs for me. At that time, Yoshioka's words were the most pleasing to my ears. Her Majesty the Empress Dowager is His Majesty's mother, and I feel honored as His Majesty's quasi-family! He said to Pu Jie at that time: You and I are like brothers.His Majesty the Emperor and I, although we can't say that we are siblings, we can still be regarded as the relationship between fingers and toes.We are quasi-family! But around 1936, his words changed: Japan is like the father of His Majesty, um, the Kwantung Army is the representative of Japan, um, the commander of the Kwantung Army is also tantamount to the father of His Majesty, ha! The worse the situation on the front lines of the Japanese army, the lower my seniority in front of the Kwantung Army and Yoshioka. Later he actually said this: The Kwantung Army is your father, I am the representative of the Kwantung Army, eh! Later, Yoshioka entered the palace very frequently every day, and sometimes he left after only ten minutes, and came again after less than five minutes.The reasons for going back and forth are very unreasonable, such as forgetting to say something just now, or forgetting to ask me what I have to do tomorrow, and so on.So I couldn't help worrying about whether he was testing me by surprise. In order to make him not suspicious, I had no choice but to meet him as soon as I heard he was coming, and try my best to reduce his waiting time.Even when he was eating, he immediately put down his rice bowl and went to see him.For him, I really have achieved the level of one meal, three feeds, and one bath, three shakes.