Later generations mostly believe that Liu Ruming is pro-Japanese, especially when he was the commander of the 143rd Division of the 29th Army and concurrently the chairman of Chahar Province, he made many compromises with the Japanese side, and even after the "77 Incident", he did not eliminate the Japanese secret services, businessmen, and ronin, but allowed them to operate and collect information on our army's activities. In this regard, Liu Ruming's explanation is, of course, a "plan to drag the knife", and I will not comment on it for the time being. But he recorded two things in his memoirs, which can be regarded as a "script of wisdom".
When he went to Zhangjiakou to take charge of the affairs of the province, he had many contacts with the Japanese secret service agencies stationed in Zhangjiakou, the Japanese consul was called Nakane, the head of the secret service was Omoto Nakasa, and the adviser was Sakurai, Omoto was a soldier and a cheerful person, Sakurai was treacherous and cunning, and it was the most difficult to deal with.
One day, China and Japan held a meeting, and Sakurai jumped out again, ignoring the existence of the governors Nakane and Omoto, and spoke directly. Liu Ruming sneered and said to him: "Consultant, it's Gu Er, I didn't ask you, don't speak." Sakurai's face was flushed with anger, but he stopped talking nonsense.
The second thing is that at that time the Japanese supported a puppet army in Chahar Province, that is, the notorious bandit Li Shouxinbu. In the past, the supply of Li was generally transported by land through Rehe Province, and it was very inconvenient to take mountain roads. Later, the Japanese side directly transported it from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou by train, and then transferred Zhangbei Li Shouxin's troops. Because China and Japan had not yet declared war at that time, they had not completely torn their faces, so the Japanese packed the munitions, disguised them as commercial goods, and entrusted a transshipment company to transfer them. It was tentative at first, and then it became more and more daring, even in large quantities, semi-openly transshipment.
After Liu Ruming got the exact information, he immediately sent people to fence off Zhangjiakou Station. Liu Ruming himself pretended to go out and did not accept the ** of Nakamoto and others. Here, this batch of munitions was confiscated, a total of 500 Type 38 rifles, and 4 Type 14 field guns produced by the Shenyang Arsenal. It was these four field artillery pieces that Liu Ruming's department used for eight years until the end of the Anti-Japanese War.
The next day, Daben negotiated with Liu Ruming, and Liu Ruming said perfunctorily: "I have never detained your arms, and you have never told me to transport arms, I just got the following report that a batch of commercial goods from a certain transshipment company was seized." ”
Because the Japanese side violated the regulations first, although they exerted pressure on Liu for many days, Liu was unmoved, and finally had no choice but to do so. History