But while Zhou Wen and the others were still having a banquet, He Congxian, the deputy director of the Department of Civil Affairs of Shanxi Provincial Government, just finished drinking the social wine and returned to his home in a two-story building on Gulou Road. He looked at He Congxian who was feeling a little drunk.
First, his wife and the maid hurriedly came up to help him take off his coat, and then quickly brought him hot water and a hot towel to wipe his face.
While serving him, his wife complained: "Look, I have told you that drinking too much is harmful to your health. Drinking for social purposes is just for socializing. Why drink so much? You men, you drink all day long, you...
My brother-in-law has made a bad move. No, Chang Tong went to invite someone to drink today, and I think he will go home drunk."
He Congxian is in his early forties. He once studied in Japan when he was young. When he was thirty, he returned to his hometown of Taiyuan and soon entered the Shanxi Governor's Office. He is very capable and well-rounded, and he has a history of studying in Japan.
, was highly appreciated by Marshal Yan. In just over ten years, he was promoted to the high position of Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs.
You must know that the Department of Civil Affairs during the Republic of China was an agency with great power. It was mainly responsible for the appointment and dismissal of county and city government administrators in the province, household registration, land, police security, health, cooperative relief, etiquette and religion, smoking and drug bans, elections, and local affairs.
Autonomy, assisting in military service and other civil affairs matters. It was not until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937 that many functions and powers were assigned to other departments for the needs of the Anti-Japanese War.
Previously, all affairs of the Taiyuan Police Station had been under the jurisdiction of the Civil Affairs Department. However, after Marshal Yan stepped down, Chief Xu, who was a soldier, placed the police station under the Taiyuan Garrison Headquarters for easier management. However, the funds were still budgeted and reviewed by the Civil Affairs Department.
Therefore, He Congxian was considered a powerful figure in Taiyuan official circles. However, in private, He Congxian was a greedy and unscrupulous national scum.
When he was studying in Japan, his family was of modest means and his life was in embarrassment. For a long time, he received funding and loans from a spy organization called Kobayashi Branch established by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs under the name of Japan-China Friendship and Mutual Aid Association.
By the time he understood the true nature of the so-called Japan-China Friendship and Mutual Aid Association, he was already burdened with huge debts and could no longer escape. In the end, he resigned himself to death and simply joined this spy organization.
Kobayashi Kobayashi, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Japan, was proposed in 1871 by a Japanese university professor named Kobayashi Kakuichi. He advocated that the rise of the Japanese Empire should not only pay attention to the development of economy, technology and education, but also take several generations to gradually improve
The racial genes of the Yamato nation changed the generally short stature of Japanese people. He quoted the theory of hybrid vigor that had been widely studied in Europe at that time, and proposed that if foreign populations were married to Japanese people, the offspring would be excellent, etc.
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His hybrid (mating) theory was recognized and supported by the Japanese government. Marriage among foreigners was nothing more than two ways, marrying out and marrying in. So from around 1872 to 1930, a large number of young Japanese women
Go to Nanyang to borrow seeds from foreign countries. Those who can't get married will directly work as prostitutes to pick up customers, and they can also earn huge amounts of foreign exchange for the Japanese Empire. At the same time, the Japanese government also encourages Japanese women to marry foreigners in Japan. Foreigners are the best, and Chinese are also
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Therefore, it was very common for Chinese people who went to Japan to study or live as guests during the Republic of China to marry a Japanese wife.
But it is easy to get married, but it is difficult to marry in. At that time, transportation and communication were not convenient, and international population mobility was not large. How could any foreign women marry in Japan? Many people did not even know about Japan.
Therefore, Japan focused on China, which was suffering from constant civil strife and a poor and weak country.
The original intention of the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kobayashi was to use all means to transport Chinese women to Japan. The means were nothing more than abducting, robbing, and buying. To this end, they sent or developed many Japanese trading companies. Under the cover of doing business,
Secretly, they are engaged in trafficking in Chinese people.
As a result, a large number of Chinese adult and underage women, under the cover of many traitors like He Congxian, who was developed by Xiao Linke, were trafficked to Japan in batches in various ways.
The fate of these trafficked women is miserable. The older ones are sold directly to remote islands such as Hokkaido to be married to local fishermen or farmers. Some are sold directly to brothels and prostitution houses everywhere, where they suffer torture and humiliation.
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Those who are young will enter various training centers or be adopted by so-called kind-hearted Japanese families and be brainwashed in various ways. Those who are successfully brainwashed will even be sent back to China to work as spies when they grow up.
He Congxian has been cooperating with Japanese trading companies since he returned to Taiyuan. The Hebang is a gang of underworld minions that he has supported for a long time. At first, he only played the role of a middleman, buying trafficked people from people from all over the world and then reselling them.
Nippon Trading Company, while completing the tasks assigned by Kobayashi, also earned huge wealth. Later, as its ambitions expanded and He Congxian's official position became larger and larger, they began to send out various lackeys everywhere to look for opportunities to take direct action.
After he supported his brother-in-law Chang Tong to the position of chief of the Nancheng District Police Station, he became even more unscrupulous, not even sparing suitable targets in Taiyuan City.
At this time, He Congxian wiped his face and asked his wife casually: "Who did Chang Tong invite to drink again?"
"I heard he is the director of the Provincial Party Headquarters Security Department, a young man..."
"What? Director of the Security Department?" He Congxian immediately became alert and asked again to confirm.
"Yes, he is the newly arrived director of the Provincial Party Committee named Zhou. I heard he is very lustful and lustful. Chang Tong invited him to have a drink and dinner in Jinxiu Garden today. After all, he is still his boss in name."
He Congxian had already sobered up from his drunken state. Although he had been on the road for many years, his shady identity and shady activities behind the scenes still kept him alert.
He had heard about the Director of the Security Department. He was said to be from Shanxi. Not long ago, he went home and did a big thing.
He agreed to register without even daring to give a shit. How could such a powerful person be hired by a small role like Chang Tong?
He Congxian closed his eyes and began to think. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He couldn't sit still anymore, strode to the clothes rack, picked up his coat and put it on again, and asked: "He said he was inviting guests to Jinxiu Garden."
Customer?"
My wife looked a little puzzled. Isn't it just to hire a director? Could it be that his official is older than you, the deputy director? But she replied: "Yes, when he came to the house today to change into a suit."
I mean, it’s in Jinxiu Garden.”
He Congxian hurriedly walked to the door and shouted: "Old horse, prepare the car and go to Jinxiu Garden quickly."
No matter how understanding he was, his wife also saw that something was wrong at this time. When had her husband ever been so impatient? Her brother was afraid that he might have gotten into trouble. He Congxian rushed to get on his rickshaw and quickly walked to the street.
As we walked further and further down the street, I began to feel uneasy.