In addition, the Japanese army frantically seized Ding, recklessly produced, plundered China's human resources and slaughtered civilian workers, which was even more cruel. According to the statistics from1July 1937 to1July 1942, there were 5.29 million young and middle-aged people arrested by the Japanese army as "laborers". During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, more than 6,000 people died in Datong mining area. At Fujiatan Coal Mine in Lingshi, Shanxi Province, the Japanese army plundered 654.38+0.03 million tons of coal, and more than 654.38+0.0000 miners died. In other words, for every 65,438+000 tons of coal plundered by the Japanese army, one China lost his precious life. During the seven years of Japanese occupation of Jiaozuo, Henan Province, they plundered more than 5 million tons of coal, slaughtered tens of thousands of miners and burned tens of thousands of houses. Historic sites such as Rishan Temple and Miaole Temple were also destroyed by the Japanese army.
In Beiping, the Japanese army occupied China Electric Company, Shijingshan Ironmaking Factory, Changxindian Locomotive Repair Shop, Qingyuan Mud Factory and other enterprises in the form of "military management". All railway facilities from Beiping to all parts of North China and other areas were also taken by the Japanese army. Including 1 1 railway factory, more than 200 locomotives and more than 4,600 wagons. The Japanese army also plundered financially. The United Reserve Bank of China (established in February 1937, manipulated by the Japanese aggressors), with its head office in Beiping, issued a large number of "United Bank Notes" without reserves, forcing the people in North China to use them by force. Causing the price to soar. At the beginning, there were counterfeit currency volumes with three denominations: 1 yuan, 5 yuan and 10 yuan. Later, due to the increase in issuance, the printing speed could not keep up, so the pseudo-Zhonglian printed more banknotes with a face value of 100 yuan in 50 yuan. On March 1945, 500 yuan banknotes were issued. In May of the same year, 1000 yuan banknotes were issued. When I surrendered to Japan, I had 5000 yuan bills.
According to the statistics of Wang Shican, the president of the pseudo-Zhonglian, * * * issued a total of counterfeit banknotes123.8 billion yuan during his tenure. At that time, the population of North China colonized by the Japanese army was only 6,543.8+billion, with an average of 1.238 yuan per person. As a result, prices have soared at an extremely rapid rate. In Beiping, the price of 1938 corn flour is 0 per catty. About 10 yuan, 1942 15 yuan per catty, 1944 In mid-August, 5 yuan, before Japanese surrender, soared to 1000 yuan per catty. While the Japanese puppet government issued joint banknotes, it strongly opposed attacking the legal tender issued by the China government. 1939 In March, the Japanese puppet government promulgated the Temporary Punishment Law for Disrupting Finance, which explicitly prohibited the circulation of legal tender in the occupied areas and forced people to exchange their legal tender for bank-linked bills at low prices. Then the Japanese side went to the Kuomintang-controlled areas to buy foreign exchange with French currency to supplement the army, which further aggravated the inflation in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.
The Japanese army stepped up its plunder and oppression of Peiping citizens. First of all, tax increases will increase the burden on the citizens of Beiping. 1September, 942, the Japanese puppet government in North China raised the original tax and income tax several times. Secondly, the Japanese puppet government also launched a series of so-called "donating money", "donating machines" and "donating bags" under various pretexts. The so-called "donation" is to search for folk bronzes and provide weapons for the Japanese army. Beijing residents' household bronzes, knockers, etc. They've all been taken away. The bronze cultural relics of the Forbidden City were also forcibly removed 1000 kilograms. By 1944, the Japanese army plundered hundreds of thousands of Jin of copper from Beiping in the name of "offering gifts". "Aircraft donation" refers to the puppet Beiping Municipal Office forcing citizens to pay the "aircraft donation fund" to buy aircraft for the Japanese army. Only the municipal government office is responsible for cutting down all the timber trees in Beiping and "dedicating them" to the Japanese army. It robbed more than 20,000 trees, including many ancient trees with preservation value. "Gift bag" refers to a "sympathy bag for the Great East Asian War" collected by the puppet government office and "presented to the old army". In Tianjin, since the July 7th Incident in 1937, Japan has occupied 92 plots of fertile land. 1.7 million mu, accounting for about 1/2 of the cultivated land area in Tianjin County and Qinghe County at that time. And established the Tianjin Migu Control Association, which was dominated by military leaders, implemented the cruel and greedy "Migu Control" and plundered a large amount of grain from Tianjin. The Japanese invaders also plundered China's national industries through military management, entrusted operation, Sino-Japanese joint venture, lease and purchase. In the name of "material control", Japan also prohibits the free operation and trafficking of more than 40 kinds of materials such as steel, grain, cotton yarn, cotton cloth, fur, tobacco, matches, building materials, dyes and gasoline.
In the early days of the fall of Tianjin, the Japanese army took this place as the center of plundering strategic resources in North China, radiating from Tianjin to the whole of North China, making North China a base for expanding its war of aggression. The Japanese government obtained a large number of military and civilian materials through brutal plunder. From 1937 to 1938 alone, the Japanese occupiers plundered materials worth about 4 billion pounds from Tianjin. In particular, after the Japanese army blocked Tianjin's land and water transportation, controlled Tianjin's port and took over the customs, Tianjin became a processing and distribution center for Japanese strategic materials, and Tianjin's industry was completely absorbed into the track of Japan's expanding war of aggression. The Japanese army also established North China Salt Company, and instructed traitors to open Xinglu public stores, and successively opened 25 salt fields. More than 30 thousand mu of raw salt is imported into Japan in large quantities, reaching hundreds of thousands of tons every year. In order to further plunder the products and resources in North China, Japan began to expand Tanggu New Port from 1939. By 1945, Xingang will basically build four 3000-ton general cargo berths and 1 5000-ton coal berths. Japan shipped a large number of important strategic resources such as coal, iron, salt and cotton from Tianjin Port, taking away thousands of workers.
The Japanese invaders not only plundered the resources from the occupied areas, but also attempted to destroy the anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines in North China and the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians by military means such as "siege" and "clearing", and plundered the materials in the base areas. According to incomplete statistics, during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, 24 counties in northwest Shanxi were robbed of 3,057,500 grains of grain and 0,049,940 heads of livestock by the Japanese army. 3 1 counties in Beiyue District (Jinji District) were plundered by the Japanese army10/0/100 million Jin, 713,008 heads of livestock and 3,987,530 pieces of clothing; In the Taihang area, the Japanese army snatched grain 12056 100 stone, 279,774 livestock and 30,20514 pieces of clothes. In Taiyue District, the Japanese army snatched 226,543.8 billion Jin of grain, 70.2 billion Jin of salt, 4.78 million heads of livestock and 946,500 pieces of clothing.