Chapter 61 Ten Disasters and Hatred of the People in Northeast China

Regarding the disasters caused by the Japanese invaders in the Northeast, I have never heard anyone talk about it in detail before, and I have never paid attention to it.I know more or less the resentment of some people in the Northeast, but I only think that it is a matter between the Northeast people and the Japanese, and has nothing to do with me.More than ten years have passed in history, and it is only today that I wake up like a dream and feel the real seriousness. The members of the working group gave us a special talk about some of the investigation results of the crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors in the Northeast.I was a little skeptical when I heard that.He cited some incomplete statistics, such as the number of tragedies, the number of mass murders in some tragedies, the area of ​​opium planting, the number of smokers who smoke opium, and the number of profits from opium trafficking, etc., are appalling. .The plots of massacres and tragedies are even more heinous.When I heard it, I felt creepy, but I was thinking: Is this really the case?If it's true, I don't know, why didn't my younger brother, brother-in-law, nephew and attendants tell me about it?

I didn't doubt these bloody facts until I participated in a study conference for Japanese war criminals. This is the first time we have seen Japanese war criminals.It was later learned from the newspaper that the Japanese war criminals in Fushun were part of the Japanese war criminals detained in China.According to this conference and the subsequent release and sentencing of Japanese war criminals, as well as subsequent news, we found that these criminals had undergone unexpected changes in their studies.I will say more about this later.Now tell me about this conference.This conference was organized by their own academic committee, although there were people from Fang Fang and the working group present.The Academic Committee is an organization elected by the majority of Japanese war criminals to manage their own life and study after their thoughts have been awakened.At this conference, several Japanese war criminals talked about their learning experience and confessed many crimes, and some of them reported others.They answered a central question of study with facts: Did Japanese imperialism commit a crime in China.All of us war criminals from Manchukuo attended the meeting.Among those confessions and reports, the ones that impressed us the most and shocked us the most were the confessions made by the former deputy director of the General Affairs Office of the Puppet Manchukuo, Gu Haizhongzhi, and a captain of the puppet Manchukuo gendarmerie.

Tadanobu Furumi was a popular figure in front of the Japanese military. He and Takebu Rokuzang (Chief of the General Affairs Department) followed the will of the Kwantung Army and planned and executed the plunder and rule of the entire Northeast as the actual ruler of the Puppet Manchukuo regime.He specifically talked about the immigration development policy of occupying the land of farmers in the Northeast, the five-year industrial development plan to plunder the resources of the Northeast, the opium policy that poisoned the people of the Northeast, and the inside story of how to extract food and other materials from the Northeast to prepare for the Pacific War.He gave details of secret meetings, and staggering figures; every instance of the consequences of the policies he spoke of was a catastrophe.For example, in 1944, more than 15,000 laborers were requisitioned from various counties to build military projects in the Wangye Temple in Xing'an Mountains. Due to poor working and living conditions, they lacked food and clothing in the severe cold, and more than 6,000 people died. .Another example is that in order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union, the channel of the Muling River flowing into Xingkai Lake was modified. More than 1,700 workers died due to the same reason.

What I remember most is the opium policy he talked about. In early 1933, before launching a military operation in Jehol, the Japanese army decided to adopt the opium policy in order to raise military expenses.At that time, opium production in Northeast China had not yet been controlled, and there was not enough stock in hand, so they sold more than two million taels abroad. At the same time, they used airplanes to spread leaflets in Rehe to encourage the cultivation of opium.Later, around 1936, the planting area was expanded in the seven provinces of Manchukuo, and production was vigorously carried out. Later, the opium monopoly was established in legal form.In order to encourage drug use, anti-smoking associations, opium dens, and hostesses were set up all over the country to attract young people.In 1942, Japan’s Koya Institute held a China Opium Supply Conference, and made a resolution that Manchukuo and Mengjiang would supply the opium needs of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. thousand hectares.According to Gu Hai's estimation, by the time of the fall of the Puppet Manchukuo, the Puppet Manchukuo had produced a total of 300 million taels of opium.In 1938, opium profits accounted for one-sixth of the fiscal revenue of the Puppet Manchukuo. In 1944, the profit increased to 300 million yuan, a hundred times that of the early days of the Puppet Manchukuo. It was one of the important sources of military expenditure for the Japanese war of aggression. .There are about 300,000 drug-addicted smokers in Rehe province alone, and there are five drug-addicted people out of 100 residents in the Northeast.

What the gendarmerie captain confessed were very specific examples.Everything he confessed was a bloody picture. He was the captain of the gendarmerie in the southwestern region of Manchukuo.In order to suppress the people, the gendarmerie adopted various horrific means.Murder is often a massacre, and after the killing, the masses are called to visit the corpse.Sometimes people they thought were suspicious were arrested, stood in a row, randomly picked out one of them, and hacked to death with a knife in front of everyone.He himself killed more than 30 people in this way.Those caught will be subjected to various punishments: beating with sticks, pouring cold water, hot pepper water, and kerosene into their nostrils, burning with incense, burning with a red iron, hanging upside down, and so on.

Among the reports of many Japanese war criminals, there are countless soul-stirring tragedies.The protagonists of these tragedies are more cruel than beasts.I remember a story like this: A Japanese soldier broke into a house, and a young mother was sitting on the edge of the pot, hugging and breastfeeding her baby. The mother was raped, and finally inserted into the vagina with a stick and killed alive.This kind of story generally happened in various parts of the Northeast and in various occupied areas of the Japanese army.It turns out that this is the content of the jihad. These warriors of the imperial army were the objects I blessed, worshiped, and supported back then, and they were the ones I relied on back then.

Later, the prosecutors continued to send investigation materials, statistical materials, and complaints and reports from the people of Northeast China.The hellish scene in Northeast China was becoming clearer and clearer to me.I finally understood how many kind and innocent people died while I was submitting to and flattering the Japanese Kwantung Army and trying to preserve my title; People with lofty ideals threw their heads and sprinkled their blood to fight against the enemy. If the damage suffered by the people of Northeast China is not counted directly at the hands of the Japanese rulers, but only indirectly received through the puppet regime and traitors, many examples and figures can be cited without trouble.For example, under various decrees and policies related to grain, the so-called regulations on the distribution of grain and grain, the grain harvested by the people of the Northeast was looted in large quantities every year. Live on the mixed noodles made of sub-noodles and so on.In addition to being used for military purposes, most of the looted food was shipped to Japan.The quantity exported to Japan has increased year by year. According to the official data of the Puppet Manchukuo, in 1944, 3 million tons were exported to Japan.During the last six years of Manchukuo, more than 11.1 million tons of grain were exported to Japan.

Under the laws governing grain, cotton cloth, metal and other materials, the people become economic criminals at every turn.For example, ordinary people are absolutely not allowed to eat rice. Even if it is found that they ate rice from vomiting, they will be regarded as economic crimes and punished.In just one year from 1944 to 1945, 317,100 people were convicted as economic crimes.Of course, those who were arrested and released after being severely beaten were not included in this number. Farmers in the Northeast are being forcibly expropriated for food, but their arable land is also constantly being encroached upon.According to the Japan-Manchukuo Plantation Treaty, Japan plans to immigrate 5 million people from Japan to the Northeast within 20 years.This plan was not fully realized, and Japan collapsed, but the 390,000 people who immigrated in the last two years took away 36.5 million hectares of land from the farmers in Northeast China through the Manchukuo regime.In addition, the policy of concentrating households and villages under the pretext of coping with the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces caused the people in the Northeast to lose a lot of land, which has not been counted.

For another example, in order to squeeze the resources of the Northeast and build the Northeast into its rear base, the Japanese rulers, through the puppet Manchukuo regime, set up various names, cruelly enslaved the people of the Northeast, and implemented the barbaric slave labor system, resulting in Amazing death.Since the Labor Control Law was promulgated in my name in 1938, 2.5 million laborers (not counting those recruited from the customs) were forced to work without pay every year.Most of them work in mines and military projects, and the conditions are very harsh, resulting in mass deaths.For example, in the waterproofing work in Liaoyang City in 1944, 2,000 young laborers were tortured to death within a year due to overwork, and as many as 170 were tortured to death.Wang Shengcai, a farmer in Kaoshantun, Jiaohe County, Jilin Province, wrote a letter of indictment, saying:

My elder brother Wang Shengyou was arrested by the Lafa Village Office in January of the tenth lunar calendar in Kant, Manchukuo, and went to work as a laborer in Dong'an Province. He ate acorn noodles there and was not allowed to eat. He slept on the damp ground at night and was beaten. He was scolded and went there for seven months. He became sick due to torture and died nine months after returning.My sister-in-law remarried, my father was worried all day long, and soon died.There are four members of my family, and I am the only one left, which makes my family ruined. Such families were very common in the Northeast at that time.Not only peasants, but ordinary employees, students, and youths who failed to meet the requirements for military service due to physical examination, the so-called national soldiers, had to engage in this kind of slave labor on a regular basis, which was the so-called hardworking service.Chen Chengcai from Lafatun, Jiaohe County complained:

On the first day of the fifth lunar month in the 10th year of the Kangde Puppet Manchukuo, the Puppet Jiaohe County Office organized me and 198 other youths who failed the inspection of the national soldiers in my hometown into a hard-working service team and concentrated them in the county.On the third day, Japanese soldiers escorted us to do hard labor at Xiaowang Station, Bohe County, Dong'an Province.Let us dig ditches one meter wide and forty meters long in the wild, and build straw mat sheds one by one.There is some wild grass in it, it's very damp, let's live here.I can't say enough about the food. I only have acorn noodle rice balls every day, and I am not full.Before eating, you have to line up and pray silently for three minutes with your hands up.Heavy labor for more than 12 hours a day, no matter whether the weather is hot or cold, we are asked to take off all our clothes and work.In winter, we get pimples from the cold, and in summer, we become pus scars and water.In such an environment of toil and suffering, the so-called border road was built for the puppet Manchukuo.Liu Jisheng's home in Futaihetun, my township, was a father and son family. Liu Jisheng died on the construction site on July 17 of the same year.When the father heard at home that his son had died, he also hanged himself.Beatings are common.Five escaped on the fourth day of May of the same year, but unfortunately one was captured by the devils. The captured young man was tied to the neck of the horse with a rope on the spot, and the man rode the horse in the field, until the man's stomach was worn out. The intestines flow out and die. Those in the worst situation are those in the correctional and counseling institutes.In the late period of the Puppet Manchukuo, Japan's rule was already cruel to the point of madness.In order to solve the shortage of labor force and suppress the growing resistance of the people, the Thought Correction Law and the Security Correction Law were promulgated in 1943. Concentration camps, called correctional and counseling institutes, were set up in all parts of Northeast China. In the name of floating, kidnap the poor and unemployed or those who are considered dissatisfied, and engage in the hardest labor.Sometimes, even without any questioning, passers-by are suddenly stopped, charged with the crime of vagabonds, and sent to a correctional and counseling institution.After entering, there is no day to come out.Those who survived until the collapse of the Manchukuo, today complained to the People's Government of the Manchukuo regime with deep-seated hatred.A farmer in Fanshen Street, Hegang City, who was originally a civil engineering worker in Hegang Xinkaiji Manchuria during the Puppet Manchukuo, was arrested in 1944 and taken to the Puppet Police Station in the name of opposing Manchuria and resisting Japan.Seventeen people were with him.After they were beaten, they were sent to the Hegang Correctional and Counseling Institute, where they were forced to dig coal in the Dongshan Coal Mine. They worked 12 hours a day. They only had a small sorghum rice ball for each meal, and they had no clothes or quilts. They were often beaten severely.He said: My mother heard that I was detained in the counseling center, so she went to the place where I was working to watch me through the gill net, and was seen by the counseling police. At that time, my mother was pulled by her hair, kicked and punched, and my mother was lying on the ground. Can't get up from the ground.Later, they beat me with a pickaxe. I was injured all over my body, and I was unconscious for seven days.Once, because we didn't give food for dinner, Song Kaitong, who was in custody, took my money to buy some green onions from passers-by. The traitor Wang, the chief of the counseling department, saw me and Song Kaitong, and found five yuan on me. money.They beat me until my mouth and nose bled, then put me in a sack, knocked me on the head if I didn't squat down, put me in the sack, lifted me up and threw me, and I passed out after falling three times.People die every day, and seven or eight dead people are carried out every three or four days. Nine of the seventeen people arrested with me died.I got lung disease, and I can't work now.At that time my mother was also suffering from madness, and my three younger brothers, the oldest of whom was eleven years old, begged for food every day. Yin Ying, who was working as a staff member in the Employment Department of the Hegang Correctional and Counseling Institute at the time, wrote in the report: From 1944 to August 9, 1945, the Hegang Correctional and Counseling Institute of the Puppet Manchukuo had 1,190 prisoners.Most of the imprisoned persons were escorted from prisons in Jiamusi, Mudanjiang, Fujin and other regions.One of them was Chen Yongfu, whom I knew.He was walking on the street and was arrested by the police for no reason.Prisoners in the correctional and counseling home work twelve hours a day, and each person is given only six taels of coarse grain and wears rehabilitated civilian clothes.There is not enough food to wear and warm clothes, and the working hours are long. The ventilation in the pit is poor, and the air is very bad.When sick, not only are they not given nutritious food to eat, but the food is reduced to four or three to two and a half. Some people are afraid of reducing food and go to work to dig coal while sick.That's how it killed a lot of people.Some died in the ward for a long time before they were discovered, and they were not carried away after death. After one or two days, they were carried out and placed in the morgue. A small wooden plate was written with a number and tied to the wrist, according to the well. piled up.On March 20, 1945, I saw with my own eyes that 34 corpses were rolled up in yellow blankets, and two sick people were asked to carry one, and sent to Dongshan mass grave in Hegang for burial. Send it to others for use.In order to prevent the fugitives (detainees) from escaping, terrorism is used to suppress them. The prison cell often asks the detainees to strip off their clothes, hang them up and beat them so badly that they turn blue all over, and they are also forced to work.I still remember a time when Liu Yongcai, a so-called vagabond who was escorted from Fujin County Prison, was beaten on the urine and brought back to his cell to die. The suppression of the Northeast people by the army, police, courts, and prisons of Manchukuo was even more bloody and caused countless tragedies.According to some materials found by the prosecutors from the remaining official files of the Puppet Manchukuo, there are more than 60,000 anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians killed by the puppet Manchukuo army, more than 8,800 residents were massacred, and 3,000 civilian houses were burned. More than one hundred places.The number of kind-hearted people killed by the puppet Manchukuo police and secret service agencies is incalculable.According to the statistics of only 36 recorded cases, among the 5,098 patriots and innocent people who were arrested, only three were released without charge, and the files stated that the death penalty was 421 Among them, 213 people died in prison without being sentenced, 2,177 people were sentenced to imprisonment, and the remaining 2,284 people have no whereabouts.During the Puppet Manchukuo period, the Northeast was a world of policemen, and almost every village had policemen.A police station in a county is equivalent to a palace of the king of hell.The tragedies created in this kind of place are no different in hell.Huang Yonghong, a 61-year-old farmer in Bajiazi, Zhaoyuan County, was arrested by the pseudo-police department because he delivered a letter to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. He experienced a massacre.He said: On the twenty-sixth day of the second lunar month of this year, the pseudo-police suggested that more than 30 of us were detained to dig a pit outside the west gate of Zhaoyuan with foreign picks, and returned to the prison after dark.On the twenty-seventh day, I, Wang Yamin, Gao Shousan, and Liu Chengfa were brought up again, and another group of twenty people were brought up. When they arrived outside the west gate, the twenty people were shot, and another twenty-two people were brought up, and they were shot again. up.After they were shot, the police poured gasoline on them and set them ablaze. During the burning, one person was still alive. Once he was burned, he escaped and was shot to death by the police again.After the burning, the four of us were asked to bury all forty-two of them with soil.Now there is that big pit outside the west gate of Zhaoyuan, I can still find that place This living hell has existed for fourteen years under the guise of being in power, Emperor Kant, the king's paradise, etc.!All the brutal atrocities were carried out under the label of my ruler and emperor.Every victim was forced to bow to Yu Zhenying, recite the imperial edict, and thank the relatives and the emperor for their gifts.Hence the cry behind every indictment today: Ask the people's government to avenge us!We want to pay back the debt of blood from the Japanese invaders and traitors! Avenge our dead relatives!Punish the Japanese invaders and traitors!