Chapter 237: Deliberation
Seeing that Wang Kemin's words were ambiguous, Feng Tiandong wanted to guide Wang Kemin to reveal more ideas. m.x23us
So, Feng Tiandong said bluntly: "Uncle Wang, I think this surnamed Wang is picking peaches, the Beiping Provisional Government has been established for more than two years, why do you want to set up a new government?" ”
Wang Kemin shook his head, did not follow Feng Tiandong's words, but remained silent. The cunning man seemed to not want to talk about it more, and his eyes were fixed on the pot of green plants again.
Feng Tiandong saw that Wang Kemin didn't answer his words, so he couldn't continue the topic, so he took a sip of the tea bowl again, lit a cigarette, and looked at the scenery outside the car window.
There was an instant silence in the box.
After a while, Wang Kemin broke his calm and asked softly, "Virtuous nephew, what did the Japanese say before you left?" What do they think? ”
Feng Tiandong said vaguely: "Uncle Wang, the Japanese didn't say it directly, but according to my conversation with Ishikawa Ichiro Taijun, I can still understand some of their meanings."
When Wang Kemin heard this, he immediately became interested, and hurriedly asked: "What does Japanese mean?" ”
Feng Tiandong replied: "Listening to what they said, it means that after the establishment of Wang Jingwei's government, it must not harm the interests of the Japanese Empire in North China. ”
Feng Tiandong's purpose in saying this is to arouse Wang Kemin's ambitions, muddy the waters, and let Wang Kemin and Wang Jingwei fight to the death.
"Virtuous nephew, the several plans we talked about last time, whether positive or negative, are all safeguarding the interests of North China. Which one is preferred? Wang Kemin asked again.
"I'm not sure, but it seems that they don't agree with the establishment of a new country, but they don't explicitly oppose it, just that the Japanese base camp may not agree, or that sentence, they don't care about the form, they care about their interests in North China." Feng Tiandong said it very tactfully.
Seeing that Wang Kemin was pondering, Feng Tiandong said again: "Safeguarding the interests of the Japanese Empire in North China is not safeguarding the interests of the existing Provisional Government in North China?" Uncle Wang, this time you must strive for more interests for our North China. ”
Wang Kemin smiled, bowed his head slightly to show that he understood, after listening to what Feng Tiandong said, he felt that the Japanese would support his idea, and now he felt more confident in his heart.
"Come and eat with me in the evening." Wang Kemin invited.
"Great, Uncle Wang, I don't know what to eat at night? It's going to take so long on the train and it doesn't suffocate me. Feng Tiandong threw out his squishy temperament again.
"Hehehe......" Wang Kemin chuckled.
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Needless to say, Wang Kemin and his ilk were certainly unwilling to be under the control of Wang Jingwei.
At that time, Wang Kemin and his ilk, as well as the Japanese, believed that the occupation of Nanjing by the Japanese marked the collapse of the Kuomintang regime, and that the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China" established in Peiping would be the new Chinese government that would replace it.
With the gradual encroachment of the Japanese devils on China, the jurisdiction of the puppet government in North China is also gradually expanding. Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, plus Beiping, Tianjin, Qingdao.
At that time, Wang Kemin was full of ambition and had already begun to dream of "the king of a country" leading the whole of China, but unfortunately, it didn't take long for the Japanese devils who occupied Nanjing to also support a "Republic of China Restoration Government" in Nanjing, which shattered his dream.
For a long time after that, Wang Kemin sought a merger of the two governments to form a pseudo-central government, and he also made great efforts to this end.
However, since the provisional government in Peiping was supported by the North China Front with a Japanese army background, and the Nanjing Restoration government was supported by the Central China Front with a Japanese naval background, the Japanese naval and land authorities had their own ideas for forming a central government.
The Japanese army authorities held that North China was the basis for the occupation of the whole of China, and that the North China Provisional Government should be the main body, and that the Central Government should be established and that the Nanjing Restoration Government should be abolished. This, of course, is more beneficial to the Japanese Army.
However, the Japanese naval authorities believed that if the central government was located in Beiping, they would not be able to directly control it, and that it would be very unfavorable to the development of the Japanese navy, so they did not want to merge with North China.
In the end, due to the inability of the Japanese devils to coordinate the opinions of the navy and the army, the governments of the north and the south were never able to achieve convergence. In the end, after negotiations and consultations, with the approval of the Japanese devils, an intermediary agency, the "Federation of Governments of the Republic of China," was established to coordinate the partition and cooperation between the two governments.
And this federation is jointly run by both the North and the South.
In order to realize the integration of the north and the south, Wang Kemin made great efforts, and even went to Japan to lobby for this purpose, but he failed to do so.
The failure to establish a central government to lead the whole of China is a major regret for Wang.
Now that Wang Jingwei wants to set up a central government in Nanjing and put the North China Provisional Government under his jurisdiction, Wang Kemin naturally cannot easily agree.
In addition, in the early days of the establishment of the puppet government in Peiping, although the Japanese devils also sent advisers, these Japanese advisers never pointed fingers at the operation of the government, and did not override the high-ranking officials of provinces, cities, and counties like the Japanese advisers stationed at all levels of government in Northeast Manchukuo.
In fact, Wang Kemin, where did they think that although these advisers were silent in the government, they had been watching coldly, and then grasped the key points, worked out corresponding plans, and handed them over to the Special Service Department of the North China Front, which is now the North China Liaison Office of the Xingya Academy, and then fed back to the government for implementation.
For example, Feng Tiandong's suggestion of "checking household registration, residence permits, and the armor protection system" was put forward by the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy and handed over to governments at all levels for implementation.
This is also why in Guhuai, Feng Tiandong's role is so great and his status is so high, he is the link between the Guhuai secret service and the Guhuai City Office, and he is indispensable.
In this way, on the surface, the North China Provisional Government is operating under the operation of Wang Kemin and others, and it feels that they still have their own administrative sovereignty, which can meet Wang Kemin's power**.
Therefore, Wang Kemin is not like giving up what he thinks is an independent administrative power, and the focus of this meeting with Wang Jingwei is to solve this problem.
Since the Japanese insisted on supporting Wang Jingwei in setting up a new puppet "Nationalist Government" in Nanjing, and Wang Kemin's prestige and appeal in the whole country were far inferior to Wang Jingwei's, and he could not compete with him, he had no choice but to think of another way to make the North China Provisional Government have independent administrative powers.
Wang Kemin is very confident, and his hole card is General Seiichiro Kita of the North China Liaison Department of the Xingya Academy. He had a good relationship with General Kita, and it was Kita Seiichiro who persuaded Wang Kemin to come forward to form the puppet "North China Provisional Government", and he felt that Kita Seiichiro would support him.
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