Chapter 630: Qingdao
The general general of the Republic of China, Wang Yuanyue's heart disease ring has a block!
Qingdao!
After the outbreak of the European War, Japan, which had been peeping at Qingdao for a long time, finally began to take action!
The Japanese Government immediately called on the Japanese to move to Qingdao and the interior of Shandong on a large scale, and its purpose was very clear, that is, to further expand the forces of aggression against China, not only to conquer Qingdao and Shandong by force, but also to use more Japanese to subdue the Qingdao and Shandong people. This policy of force and emigration reflects the two-pronged strategy pursued by Japan in its invasion of Qingdao. Previously, Qingdao residents abandoned their houses and property and fled the Qingdao war zone in order to escape the fighting between Japan and Germany in Qingdao.
After the war ended, they demanded to return home. However, the Japanese garrison openly issued a notice prohibiting Chinese residents from returning to Qingdao, and violators would be severely punished. Within a few weeks of the end of the war, the number of Japanese in Qingdao had reached several thousand, more than ten times the number before the war. By the time order was restored in Qingdao, more than 10,000 Japanese had poured into Qingdao. Not only did the German public and private property take possession of all the property, but more often they seized the houses, property, land, and enterprises of Chinese residents who had fled abroad.
The property of the Chinese became the property of the Japanese in the blink of an eye, and many Japanese became nouveau riche overnight. At the strong demand of the Chinese residents, the Japanese garrison finally agreed to allow the former Qingdao residents to return to the city, but the Japanese refused to return the houses and property they occupied.
The residents of Qingdao repeatedly appealed to the Japanese colonial authorities for the return of the occupied property, but the Japanese army deliberately made things difficult and demanded various documents to prove the identity of their owners.
Many Chinese property fell into the hands of the Japanese in this way. Although the Chinese Beiyang Government has repeatedly made representations about the above-mentioned actions of the Japanese garrison, Japan has always ignored them. During the years of Japan's illegal occupation of Qingdao, the number of expatriates in Qingdao continued to grow, covering Qingdao and the interior of Shandong.
These Japanese took advantage of their privileges or set up factories, shops, banks, companies, farms and other industrial and commercial enterprises to plunder wealth on a large scale; or work in military and political organs, or operate drug trafficking, prostitution, smuggling arms and other underworld businesses. Due to the influx of a large number of Japanese, the proportion of the population of Qingdao City has changed significantly.
1Q2。 The total urban and rural population of Qingdao is 253352, of which the urban population is 1. 21A6 people. Among the urban population, there are 7Q851 Chinese, 2,187 Japanese, not including nearly 20,000 Japanese Navy and Army soldiers and 417 other foreigners.
The Japanese account for more than 20% of the total population of Qingdao. If we add the Japanese soldiers, the number of Japanese in Qingdao is as high as more than 40,000, accounting for nearly 40% of the total population of the urban area.
At the same time, Japan also stepped up cultural infiltration and vigorously promoted slavery education in an attempt to establish permanent colonial rule over Qingdao. The Japanese authorities stipulate that Japanese language learning is mandatory for elementary school students. In January 1Q15, a Japanese shrine was established at Qingdao Shuishan Mountain, forcing Chinese passing by the mountain to bow to the Japanese shrine.
In addition, the roads, hills, parks, and islands of Qingdao were renamed in Japanese with colonial markers. For example, Huiquan Park was called Asahi Park, and Little Aoshima was changed to Kato Island, all of which were used to maintain its colonial rule.
After Wang Hengyue seized power in the country, his eyes were already on Qingdao. Qingdao is the land of China, every inch is, and foreigners are not allowed to run rampant here!
Wang Hengyue will definitely not let go of Qingdao and ignore Qingdao!
Your own land is always your own, and you don't give an inch to outsiders!
And the two chess pieces that Wang Hengyue planted in Qingdao: Duan Qirui and Cao Yin!
They used to be Wang Hengyue's enemies, and they fought for power, but Wang-Hengyue trusted them, and it was an infinite trust.
It is your own family's business to fight, and when outsiders bully you:
Hit him!
Wang Hengyue knows better that whether it is Duan Qirui, Cao Yin, or Wu Peifu and Zhang Zuolin, they were indeed warlords, but they are a group of patriotic warlords! When national sovereignty is violated and national dignity is trampled on, Wang Hengyue firmly believes:
They will definitely step up!
Duan Qirui and Cao Kun also understand this very clearly!
They knew what they were here for, and they also knew even more that in the face of safeguarding national sovereignty and dignity, those personal grievances with Wang Hengyue could be completely put aside.
The generals are fighting for the strength of the country, and so are they!
"Therefore, I would like to invite Quan Gong and Brother Zhong Shan to enter Shandong, and also act as advisers, handle negotiations, and even ...... It is even possible to use the reposition as a scapegoat six...,
Before entering Qingdao, Wang Hengyue's words were still ringing in the ears of Duan Qirui and Cao Yin.
They don't care that they will be scapegoats, if they can take Qingdao back, then this scapegoat will admit it.
However, there is another meaning in Wang-Hengyue's sentence: In Qingdao, Duan Qirui and Cao Kun can do whatever they want, as long as they can solve the Qingdao problem, no matter how much trouble they cause, it will be borne by the general manager!
Duan Qirui and Cao Kun's officials
Fang's name is "Special Adviser to Qingdao Provincial Government. These two special advisers have a lot of power in their hands, and they can even mobilize two divisions that followed them into Shandong!
Duan Qirui and Cao Yin, it stands to reason that they can be regarded as "old friends" of Japan, and when Wang-Hengyue unified the whole country, Japan gave a lot of help to the Beiyang government for its own interests.
Therefore, when they became "special advisers", the Japanese side even expressed their joy.
And Duan Qirui and Cao Won, the two descendants of Yuan Shikai who were cultivated single-handedly, and the former warlords who have been in the political arena for a long time, also showed their ability.
In the absence of a firm foothold, they did not directly clash with Japan, but conveyed their "friendship" to the Japanese in Qingdao through some means, and even not long after arriving in Shandong, they "visited" Kenichi Oshima, commander of the Japanese garrison in Qingdao, and Masanosuke Akiyama, the "chief of civil affairs," in their private capacities.
This created an illusion for the Japanese: Duan Qirui and Cao Yin were not at all the same people as Hengyue, the general general of the Republic of China, and they were still "friends" of Japan.
Duan Qirui and Cao Roller want this effect...... It's nothing to sacrifice a little personal reputation for the sake of the big picture......
1Q2。 Year 1. In the month, Duan Qirui and Cao Yin's carefully planned "Dajia Salt Factory Auction Incident ......" and "Changfulun Incident" were staged one after another
The salt industry in Qingdao is the most important thing for the Japanese.
During the European War, Japan's domestic industrial salt consumption soared. From 1Q18 to 1Q1Q, there was a salt shortage in Japan. 1Q18 1. On 7 July, the Qingdao Garrison Command formulated the "Qingdao Salt Industry Management Rules", announcing that the opening and use of salt pans must be approved by the Qingdao Garrison Command of Japan, stipulating that the salt tax imported into Japan is 3 yuan per quintal of silver, which is lower than the tax on domestic salt sales, and the salt tax per quintal of Qingdao salt exported to other provinces is 2.5 yuan, with an additional donation of 1.5 to 1.8 yuan.
On the one hand, Japan plundered Qingdao's salt at a low price, and on the other hand, it rewarded the Japanese for opening up a large number of salt flats and adding refined salt factories in Qingdao.
During the Japanese occupation of Qingdao, a new salt factory 1Q was established.
However, the Japanese have always had a heart disease, that is, the largest salt factory in Qingdao, "Dajia Salt Factory", has always been in the hands of Chinese......
Shen Jiaxiong, the owner of the Dajia Salt Factory, persevered for nearly three years under the coercion and temptation of the Japanese, no matter how difficult it was, no matter how difficult the years, even if the Japanese threw grenades into their factories, even if their son was kidnapped, they never gave up the Dajia Salt Factory.
This is the last pride and hope of Chinese in Qingdao's salt industry......
However, Shen Jiaxiong still collapsed in internal and external difficulties, 1Q2. In Q of the year, Shen Jiaxiong fell ill and left his beloved "Dajia Salt Factory" forever......
Shen Jiaxiong's death made the Japanese cheer, and the owner of the last position held by the Chinese salt industry in Qingdao finally fell!
As soon as Shen Jiaxiong died, the crisis of the "Dajia Salt Factory" broke out suddenly, especially the debt crisis. When Shen Jiaxiong was alive, in order to maintain the "Dajia Salt Factory", he borrowed 290,000 yuan from the Moore Brothers Bank in Britain twice, plus various debts, and the total amount owed reached an astonishing 530,000 yuan.
In other words, the "Dajia Salt Factory" was actually just an empty shelf before Shen Jiaxiong's death!
After Shen Jiaxiong's death, the British Moore Brothers Company, at the instigation of the Japanese, forcibly auctioned off the "Dajia Salt Factory" to repay the debt with the auction proceeds.
Participating in the bidding were Japan's "Nobi Co., Ltd.", which is determined to win, and "Double Happiness Company", where Ma Yisan is the general manager.
Ma Yisan, the general manager of Double Happiness Company, was a close friend of Shen Jiaxiong before his death, and he was also a patriotic businessman.
On the day Shen Jiaxiong died, Ma Yisan was by his friend's side, and he couldn't forget that Shen Jiaxiong held his hand before he died, and told himself:
"I have been fighting with the Japanese for so many years, and there is only one Dajia Salt Factory left, and if the Japanese get the Dajia Salt Factory, then Qingdao's salt industry will be all in the hands of the Japanese...... After my death, the Dajia Salt Factory will definitely be forcibly auctioned...... Brother Yisan, buy it, sell my house, all my property, I would rather give it to you than to the Japanese. I have no other request, so I beg you to do this thing......"
Looking at his friend's eyes full of expectation, Ma Yisan nodded vigorously.
Shen Jiaxiong called his son Shen Muyun to the front again, and carefully told him that even if he was living on the streets, he would fulfill his last wish.
Shen Muyun knew his father's intentions, and he also knew what his father was doing in his life, so he shed tears and told his father:
"I will listen to Uncle Yisan, no matter how difficult it is, I will definitely work with Uncle Yi to keep the Dajia Salt Factory!" )