064 The beginning and the end
In China, since ancient times, the guys who fell into the water and became traitors were all regarded as third-rate, fifth-rate, or non-mainstream characters, where did they get on the stage?
And the beautiful man Wang Wei is not ordinary in the end, and there is another set.
As the number one traitor, he still has to retain the complete system of the Kuomintang, maintain the name of the Nationalist Government and the banner of the blue sky and the red sky.
After the betrayal of the country, the movement that came up with it was called the "Movement to Organize the Government of the Capital".
The first thing he organized was the Central Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, and he went around gathering a group of people who had eaten party meals together to reorganize a Central Committee.
People who are engaged in any profession in society have more or less the same vocational skills. Whether it's repairing shoes or selling cars, there is always a skill at the high-end and low-end.
Only those who have done party and government work in the national government have a high social status after being involved in politics and the party, but they can't do the same thing, and they can't live if they are idle. Because I can't do anything, I can't do anything.
Therefore, Wang did not beckon to set up a so-called "national puppet government", and many former party figures rushed to squeeze into the list. Since the opening of his Wang Ji Zhaoxian Hall, many former Kuomintang party insiders have voted to receive allowances.
The bad thing is that in the past few days, the two doctored poems in the newspaper have made Wang extremely angry. The newspaper simply published "He Zeng was quick to draw the knife and became the head of a traitor", such a short two sentences, but it reminded everyone of the scene of Wang Wei's assassination of the regent in the past.
In that year, he and his comrades of the League failed to assassinate the regent Zaifeng and were arrested. After the trial, the Qing court decided to punish him with "great rebellion and immediate beheading".
At that time, Wang Wei was also young and vigorous, full of pride, and decided to die.
Hence the famous poem "Generosity" to express his revolutionary determination.
"Generous Geyan City, calmly as a prisoner of Chu. Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the boy's head! ”
If he really had his head cut off for assassinating the regent when he was younger, it would have been a great experience. Now he really lived up to his good head and became the number one traitor, thus leaving a stench for thousands of years.
Wang Wei followed Mr. Zhongshan very early, and his qualifications and popularity in the Kuomintang were much stronger than Chang Baldhead. And he is also an elegant image of a beautiful man.
He, a seemingly humble gentleman and a majestic figure, actually became a traitor, which caught everyone off guard. really responded to a sentence in the sketch of later generations - I didn't expect your thick-eyed and big-eyed person to rebel.
Wang's defection to the enemy as a traitor is related to his personality. Although he has old qualifications and great contributions to the party, he is just a literati after all, and in the era of warlord separation, only the ability to write poems and pen strokes is of little use.
Although Mr. Zhongshan's will was drafted by him, after Mr. Zhongshan's death, he was often forced to "go abroad for treatment" in the Kuomintang, and was always suppressed by Chang Kaishen, so he was never reconciled.
Therefore, Wang's lack of contact with the Japanese was during the most difficult period of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
At that time, North China fell, Shanghai was defeated, Nanjing fell, Xuzhou, Wuhan, and Guangzhou fell one after another, and several battles caused the elite of the Chinese army to be lost.
Internationally, China was even more isolated and helpless at that time, the European powers pursued a policy of appeasement, and Britain and France stood still and watched the fire from across the strait. Although the Yankees verbally condemned Japan, in action, they have always provided Japan with strategic materials such as oil and scrap steel.
Including Chang Kaishen, in desperation, he also negotiated with the Japanese government at that time through the German ambassador to China, Todmann, hoping to end the war. But he still has some bottom line, which is to "restore the state before the July Seven Incident".
In fact, this bottom line is really low, which is equivalent to giving up Northeast China and Inner Mongolia in disguise, and semi-giving up North China.
However, the Japanese military was so arrogant that it was unwilling to agree to such low conditions, and while continuing to attack, it put forward very harsh conditions for negotiations. Negotiations have not continued.
At this time, Wang Wei felt that his opportunity had come. He felt that since it was better to make peace with Japan sooner rather than later, it would be better to make peace sooner rather than later. Moreover, what Chang Kaishen couldn't talk about was negotiated by him, so his status in the party naturally didn't need much.
Therefore, the disaster of the entire Chinese people has become his personal political bargaining chip. He gambled that Japan would win the War of Resistance against Japan and China would lose. While there are still chips now, he wants to take the position of this side with the Japanese before everyone else!
What is called Liling's wisdom, this is it!
So Wang Wei simply didn't do anything and managed to run out of Chongqing. He arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam, via Yunnan, and as soon as he arrived in Hanoi, he published the famous "Yan Dian" (the date code on the day of the telegram was "Yan").
In the telegram, he probably talked like this, "The Japanese government has already talked to us, as long as we are willing to make peace, people will withdraw their troops immediately, not only do not want us to cede land and pay compensation, but also help China cancel the lease, take back the Anglo-American and French concessions, and abolish the unequal treaty. ”
The message added, "It's not just him. Most of the top brass in the government wanted an armistice. It's just that Chang Kaishen holds the power of the army, and everyone can't openly oppose it, so he can only be tied to the chariot by Chang Kaishen and continue to fight with the Japanese. And now if he wants to make peace with Japan, he can only break away from Chongqing and get rid of Chang Kaishen's control to promote the peace movement. ”
After the telegram was published, the ambassador of the Nationalist Government to Britain sent a telegram to Wang Wei on the orders of Chang Kaishen, urging Wang not to make peace public, and hoped that Wang would go to Europe for temporary recuperation at an early date. Wang ignored him.
In mid-February, Chang Kaishin sent important members of the former reorganization faction to Hanoi to bring passports and travel expenses to the Wang couple and their cronies, and once again persuaded them to go to Europe, but the Wang couple flatly refused.
It's just that after arriving in Hanoi, Wang Wei's calculations were extremely unsmooth. As expected, he raised his arms and shouted, and the situation in which people from all walks of life in the country responded to the peace movement did not appear at all.
Even a few of his former cronies went to Hong Kong to send a report to disassociate him after seeing that Japan's ambition was obviously to deceive Wang.
As a matter of fact, the most tempting thing for Wang Wei was that Japan promised him to form a new regime, but the Japanese side did not move, which made him uneasy while he was in Hanoi.
On March 18, 1939, Wang Wei received news from the Japanese government that it had decided to support him in establishing a new central government. Two days later, in the evening, agents sent out by Chen Gongshu attempted to assassinate him. Wang Wei was not furious, and immediately determined that the murderer was assigned by Chang Kaishen.
On 27 March, Wang Wei published "Take an Example" and released the minutes of the 34th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Supreme Council of National Defense on 6 December 1937 to explain that he was not alone in seeking "peace" with Japan, and that the powerful faction in the Kuomintang also held the same view.
At this point, Wang Wei broke with the Chongqing Nationalist Government.
After the assassination attempt by the military commanders, in order to ensure Wang Wei's safety, the Japanese side sent Akira Kagesa, chief of the Military Affairs Section of the Ministry of the Army, Rear Admiral Hikojiro Suga of the Ministry of the Navy, Seiki Yano, secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and secretary of the Koya Academy, and Ken Inukai, a member of the House of Representatives, to Vietnam to "rescue."
Wang went to Shanghai first without proposing. Therefore, under the protection of Japanese agents, Wang Jingwei arrived in the enemy-occupied area of Shanghai by ship on 25 April and embarked on the road of no return to surrender to the enemy.