But while Zhou Wen and the others were still having a banquet, He Congxian, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, 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 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've told you that drinking too much is harmful to your health. Drinking for entertainment 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 was in his early forties. He had studied in Japan when he was young. He returned to his hometown of Taiyuan when he was thirty, and soon entered the Shanxi Governor's Mansion. He is very capable and well-rounded, and he has a background of studying in Japan, so he is 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 Civil Affairs Department during the Republic of China was an agency with great power. Mainly responsible for the appointment and dismissal of county and city government administrative personnel in the province, household registration, land, police security, health, cooperative relief, etiquette and religion, smoking and drug bans, elections, local self-government, assistance with 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 to meet 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, privately, He Congxian was a greedy and unscrupulous national scum.
When he was studying in Japan, his life was in embarrassment due to his modest family background. The long-term acceptance of funds and loans from a company branded as the Japan-China Friendship and Mutual Aid Association is actually a spy organization called Kobayashi established by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs.
By the time he understood the true identity of the so-called Japan-China Friendship and Mutual Aid Association, he was already in huge debt and could no longer escape. In the end, he thought he was bad and joined this spy organization.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Japan, Kobayashi Kobayashi, was proposed in 1871 by a Japanese university professor named Kobayashi Kakuichi. He advocated that the rise of the Japanese Empire should not only focus on the development of economy, science and technology, and education, but also take several generations to gradually improve the race genes of the Yamato nation and change the generally short stature of the Japanese. He cited the hybrid vigor theory that had been widely studied in Europe at that time, and proposed that if foreign populations were married to Japanese, the offspring would be excellent, etc.
His hybrid theory was recognized and supported by the Japanese government. Marriage among immigrants is nothing more than two ways, marrying out and marrying in. Therefore, from 1872 to around 1930, a large number of young Japanese women went to Southeast Asia to borrow seeds from foreign countries. Those who couldn't get married would work directly as prostitutes to pick up clients, and they could 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 best, but Chinese are also acceptable.
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 marry out, but it is difficult to marry in. At that time, transportation and communication were inconvenient, and international population mobility was not large. How many foreign women would marry in Japan? Many people even did not know Japan as a country.
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 methods are nothing more than kidnapping, robbing and buying. For this reason, they sent or developed many Japanese trading companies. Under the cover of doing business, they secretly engaged in the business of abducting Chinese people.
As a result, a large number of Chinese adult and underage women, under the cover of many traitors like He Congxian who grew up in Xiaolin Ke, 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 and married to local fishermen or farmers. Some were sold directly to brothels and prostitution houses in various places, where they suffered torture and humiliation.
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 serve as spies when they grow up.
He Congxian has been cooperating with Japanese trading companies since he returned to Taiyuan. The Hebang is a gangster force 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. Japanese trading companies, while completing the tasks assigned by Kobayashi, also earned huge wealth. Later, as his ambitions grew and He Congxian's official position became larger and larger, he began to send out various lackeys everywhere to look for opportunities to take action directly.
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 security department of the provincial party headquarters, a young man..."
"What? Director of the Security Department?" He Cong immediately became alert and asked again to confirm.
"Yes, he is the newly arrived director of the provincial party department 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 was already mostly awake from his drunkenness. Although he had been on the road for many years, his shady identity and shady activities behind the scenes still kept him vigilant.
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. I didn't even dare to say anything, so I agreed to register. How could such a powerful person be hired by a small character like Chang Tong?
He Congxian closed his eyes and began to think. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Immediately he couldn't sit still, strode towards the clothes rack, picked up his coat and put it on, and asked: "He is talking about the guests he invited in Jinxiu Garden?"
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 he replied: "Yes, he said it was in Jinxiu Garden when he came home to change his suit today."
He Congxian hurriedly walked to the door and shouted: "Old Ma, prepare the car and go to Jinxiu Garden quickly."
No matter how much his wife didn't understand, she realized something was wrong at this time. When had her husband ever been so impatient? My younger brother is afraid that he will get into trouble. Watching He Congxian rush to get on his rickshaw, quickly get to the street intersection, and drift away on the street, I began to feel uneasy.
