1-2 Like Father Like Son

1-2 Like Father, Like Son

The special agents of the invading Japanese Army were headed up by a general Kenji Doihara, and his right-hand man was Ding Mocun.

It was thus a top priority for Ding, to train some specialized students, who could blend in with regular students, thereby monitor them.

In this capacity, they could spot any traces of anti-Japanese sentiments or activities, arrest and remove those involved.

Jiang Shi-jun hoped much for his son's success.

He knew well that only those who have served as special agents could be trusted or promoted in rank by the Japanese Army.

Jiang Shi-jun seized the opportunity of the sessions and strongly made the case for his son.

Jiang Ze-min attended the training.

Interestingly, the special agents took political classes, alongside those courses providing training in technique subjects, effecting something of a brainwashing program.

All special agents were forbidden from having any mainstream religious believes.

Nietzsche, the man who once claimed that God is dead, and who did much to advance the cause of atheism, thus made for a perfect, read, and become part of the agents' indoctrination.

Jiang Ze-min was not only exempted from paying tuition but further received a stipend.

He led an extravagant life in college, often visiting whore houses, with a band of shady friends, who sucked up to the rich and powerful.

Jiang Ze-min grew corrupted early, due to his capacity as a special agent, explaining, in part, why he visited, and easily knew how to find prostitutes on his first business trip to the United States, as the Minister of Electronics Industry.

Such behavior was rather rare among minister level officials at the time.

After completing the session, a student would be admitted directly to Central University.

Jiang Ze-min chose Electrical Engineering as his major.

The subject, of course, had something to do with his father's hobby, but gained particular interest for Jiang Ze-min, in that his father's Exhibition of Military Successes, in the Pacific Region of the Great Crusade in East Asia, had captured his imagination, and held him rapt.

With the surrender of Japan's forces on Sept. 3, 1945, Jiang Zemin's father, Jiang Shi-jun sensed that he himself was in imminent danger, and thus discarded his pseudonym, Jiang Guanqian, and switched his identity back to Jiang Shi-jun, the businessman, engineer, and a lover of literature.

He returned to his hometown and lived in hiding for some time.

On Sept. 26, 1945, the Nationalist KMT Government started an investigation of puppet students, attending public colleges in the Japanese occupied territories.

Jiang Ze-min was among the puppet students, suspected of treason, and marked for investigation.

Before he was to be examined, however, Jiang Ze-min had left school and run away.

Gone with the days of special agent's operating funds, he roamed about in a place named Mian Hua Ping, located in Yongxin, Jiangxi Province...