Secret: A key figure in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japanese spy Takeshi Ishikawa.

Japanese spies disguised themselves as businessmen in Sichuan.

Kawago Takeichi was born in Akita Prefecture, Japan on 1866. He first went to a private school to study, and later went to Xingya School to specialize in Chinese, which laid a certain Chinese foundation. Ishikawa Takeichi 18 years old came to China and first worked under Navy Captain Zeng Genjun Hu. He is very clever and speaks fluent Chinese.

At that time, Japanese Leshan Hall appeared in many places in China, which was established and developed by Japanese kishida fumio Seal in 1878. Kishida fumio Yinxiang is a Japanese businessman, but Leshantang is not a charity. Their usual trick is to secretly collect information in the name of selling books and medicines, and at the same time to subdue those Japanese ronins for their own use.

1886, the war department sent Captain Kenji Wilderness to secretly set up a spy organization in China, and Kenji Wilderness first went to Shanghai to visit kishida fumio. Kishida fumio is a wily man. He told him that the best way is to open a shop to do business, which will not arouse the suspicion of China people, but also make money and raise funds from scratch, so as to achieve the purpose of keeping spies by business. With the strong support of kishida fumio Yinxiang, Wasteland Chengsi quickly set up a secret spy agency, Leshantang, in Hankou to recruit personnel. Upon hearing the news, Ishikawa immediately joined in and became one of the backbones, officially starting his spy career.

After the Leshan Guild Hall took shape, Huang Weijing couldn't wait to draw up a huge spy plan, euphemistically called "exploration of more than 400 states", and sent a large number of spies into the mountainous rural areas of China to collect information on geography and human environment. Ishikawa Takeichi is the actual person in charge.

Most of these Japanese spies are young people in their twenties. They can bear hardships, carry the burden of vendors, ride donkeys and sell medicines and books all the way. They have both money and information. When the goods are sold out, they dress up as fortune tellers, unemployed people or even beggars and return all the way. As soon as you check, you will say that you are from Fujian, Guangdong and other places.

Ishikawa May Day and his companions traveled all over the farthest place in Yunguichuan. Once, when Ishikawa Wu Ran went to the western Sichuan Plateau, their suspicious behavior aroused the suspicion of the local people and was arrested and imprisoned by the government. In the face of the trial, Ishikawa Takeshi was calm and calm. He repeatedly defended himself, saying that he was just an ordinary businessman and wanted to buy some local products such as medicinal materials and leather goods. Ishikawa Takeichi finally got away with it with his cunning and fluent Chinese, and was released shortly after being blocked.

Ishikawa has been active in Sichuan for a long time. He has basically found out the situation in southwest China, drawn accurate maps and written a thick stack of exploration and investigation reports. He has become the treasure of the Japanese Ministry and won high praise from Japan. 1893, Ishikawa successfully completed the investigation task in southwest China on May 1st, and was sent to Tianjin by Leshan Hall in Hankou, starting another crime.

Takeichi Ishikawa was the most crucial Japanese spy in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. He committed heinous crimes in China.

After arriving in Tianjin, Takeichi Ishikawa became the assistant of Guan Wenbing, the Japanese military attache and naval colonel in China, and followed Guan Wenbing everywhere, never letting go of a detail. He has been to Shandong, Shenyang and other places, visited various islands and Lushun Fort by boat, and even visited Datong River and Pyongyang in North Korea.

After returning to Tianjin, Takeichi Ishikawa ostensibly worked in a foreign company, but actually continued to engage in espionage. 1894, Ishikawa met Liu Fen of Tianjin Ordnance Bureau on May 1st, and often invited him to Japanese brothels and gave him money. Liu Fenze provided him with a detailed list of mechanical ammunition of various military camps in Tianjin, as well as the daily ammunition production and inventory of Tianjin Ordnance Bureau. Ishikawa Takeichi is a treasure, and the Gao Shenghao incident is a "masterpiece" to obtain this information.

1894, the East Korean Learning Party revolted, and the Qing Dynasty sent troops to suppress it at the request of korean king. The Japanese also took the opportunity to send troops to Korea, burn the palace and hijack the king. At this time, Japan has not withdrawn its troops, but has continuously increased its troops, which is likely to annex North Korea. Qing * * * also had to secretly send more troops to North Korea. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, the Qing Dynasty hired the British merchant ship "Gao Shenghao" to transport troops and fly the British flag, but it was sunk by a Japanese warship unsuspecting, which shocked the world.

How was this information leaked? According to a German who was employed by a Japanese foreign firm at that time, "There was a Japanese who lived in Tanggu for a long time. This Japanese talent is excellent, proficient in Chinese, English, German and French ... caring for human beings, flying whales, carrying a number of soldiers on the Goldman Sachs ship, paying a certain amount of money, who will escort him to any port ... "This Japanese is none other than Ishikawa Wuyi, who triggered the Sino-Japanese War.

On August 1894 and 1 day, China and Japan officially declared war and the Sino-Japanese War broke out. Takeichi Ishikawa and another Japanese spy, Saburo Nakazaki, lurked down and continued their espionage activities. A few hours after the war broke out, Japanese diplomats and expatriates were evacuated by the British ship Chongqing, which docked at Tianjin Port. A man named Jia Changrui hated the Japanese because his brother died in the Gao Shenghao incident. He took a group of people to put on the uniforms of the Qing army and rushed to the ship to catch the Japanese and beat them up. In the chaos, a Japanese secret letter was lost, exposing Ishikawa's secret activities on May 1.

Three days later, on August 4th, Ishikawa Takeichi and Liu Fen were arrested at their Tianjin home in Liu Fen. Ishikawa May Day couldn't deny the fact that he was a spy. Investigators searched Liu Fen's home and found a letter recording the number of troops transported by Gao Shenghao, the names of officers and the materials he brought, thus uncovering the truth of Gao Shenghao's attack.

Because the Chinese people were lax, Qing * * * didn't pay much attention to spying on military intelligence at that time. It was not until August of 13 that the case of Ishikawa Wu attracted the attention of the Qing Dynasty. Guangxu was frightened and ordered it to be strictly enforced, searching for Japanese spies everywhere.

At that time, American envoys tried to rescue Japanese spies such as Takeichi Ishikawa. In his final report to the Prime Minister's yamen, Li Hongzhang said: "The witness is conclusive, that is, he mentioned Takeichi Ishikawa and wrote to retired scribe Liu Fen without any excuse. At the beginning, they all confessed that Toshi Utsumi Inoue, a former Japanese naval officer stationed in Tianjin, asked Takeichi Ishikawa to entrust him to go to Liu Fen to copy the list of China naval artillery privately and send him a thank-you gift. After the declaration of war, the Japanese army returned to China, stayed to explore the military situation, modified Hanfu, and sneaked up on the fourth day of July (August 4). "

On September 20th, Ishikawa Takeichi and Liu Fen were executed in Tianjin. Ishikawa was executed by foreign gun teams in accordance with European and American practices on May 1st. Ishikawa Takeichi also became the first person in China to enjoy the treatment of being shot, while Liu Fen was beheaded. At that time, the audience was like a tidal wave, which sensationalized the whole country and newspapers rushed to report it. "But I heard a lot of applause."

Japanese spy Takeichi Ishikawa finally came to an end.