The next day, Feng Tiandong began to follow Ishikawa Ichiro's request. He was ready to make contact with the senior officials of the Provisional Government in North China and secretly find out their views on Wang Jingwei's preparations for the establishment of a central government.

Through a conversation with Ishikawa Ichiro on the train yesterday, Feng Tiandong could feel his faint urgency, combined with the history he vaguely knew, and understood it in his heart. The Japanese troops in North China wanted to support Wang Jingwei in establishing a central government in Nanjing, but they also did not want Wang Jingwei to extend his hand to the rear of North China, but they did not want to say it directly, and in order to hide people's eyes and ears, they also needed the Beiping Provisional Government to take the initiative to strive for relevant interests.

It turned out that after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese believed that by occupying Wuhan, controlling Hubei, the "thoroughfare of nine provinces", driving the Kuomintang government out of the Central Plains and letting them retreat in the southwestern mountain city of Chongqing, they would eliminate the central government of China and thus create conditions for cultivating a pro-Japanese regime.

As a matter of fact, the Japanese devils have also been trying to make peace with the Kuomintang central government, and for this reason, they have not only sent representatives to contact the Chinese Nationalist Government on many occasions, but the Japanese government has also issued three Konoe statements in succession, the original intention of these statements was to recruit the Chinese government in the hope of being able to occupy all of China without bloodshed.

Whether to fight or make peace was a fierce debate within the Kuomintang. The pro-British and American generals and presidents responded to the strong desire of the people and swore to the death and resolutely resist Japan; The pro-Japanese Wang Ching-wei faction believed that China could not defeat the Japanese Empire and advocated peace.

Arguments went on and on, and in the end, it was the main battle faction that had the absolute upper hand, coupled with the long-standing historical contradictions between Chiang and Wang, which led to Wang Jingwei openly splitting the Kuomintang, fleeing Chongqing, and throwing himself into the arms of the Japanese devils.

At the end of 1938, Wang Ching-wei issued a so-called Yandian telegram calling for peace, actively responding to the Japanese Government's third Konoe statement, and personally rushed to Japan to prepare for negotiations with the Japanese Government to implement his so-called "curve to save the country."

In August 1939, Wang Jingwei convened the so-called Sixth Congress of Wang's Kuomintang in Shanghai. This congress marked the complete split of the pro-Japanese faction headed by Wang Ching-wei from the Kuomintang.

After that, Wang Ching-wei and his faction openly threw themselves into the arms of the Japanese invaders, and made intensive preparations for the establishment of a puppet government in a vain attempt to stand up to the Chinese government in Chongqing.

In view of the current situation in China, the Japanese base camp held an extraordinary meeting to discuss the China policy, and the meeting decided to give full support to Wang Jingwei in establishing a new central government in Nanjing. After all, he once served as the vice president of the Kuomintang, had many followers, and had a high prestige, so he could better serve Japan.

But the current situation in China is very complicated. With the "Nanjing Restoration Government" in the south and the "Beiping Provisional Government" in the north, will these two governments, which have been established for a long time, willingly obey Wang Jingwei's orders?

In particular, the correct name of the puppet government in Peiping is the "Provisional Government of the Republic of China", and the significance he represents is self-evident, and the purpose of their establishment was to become the central government of China.

Sure enough, the news that the devils supported Wang Jingwei in establishing the central government reached Beiping, and immediately aroused the dissatisfaction of the bigwigs of the puppet government in Beiping, and many people in the government even publicly stated that they would never obey Wang Jingwei's dispatch and threatened to become independent.

How to properly solve this problem, integrate well the several puppet governments that have already been established in China, and rationally distribute the existing rights of several governments without arousing resistance from all sides is the primary task of the Japanese Command of the Japanese Invasion of China and the Japanese Xingya Yuan at present.

As a matter of fact, the attitude of the puppet government in North China is exactly what the Japanese need, and it is the most beneficial to the Japanese army invading China at present.

Feng Tiandong understood that the task assigned to him by Ishikawa Ichiro was to find out the true attitude of the senior officials of the puppet government in North China through Feng Tiandong, Wang Kemin's old man, or to guide them.

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The office of the Provisional Government of North China is located in Zhongnanhai, Beiping.

This is the place where Feng Tiandong wanted to come in and have a look in his previous life, but he never had the opportunity to come in, he walked into Zhongnanhai with curiosity, and no one cared about him, he didn't look for anyone, didn't ask anyone, and wandered around freely, and Erliang was sent by him to follow far behind.

Zhongnanhai is a mysterious place, starting from Jin Liao, it was the garden where the rulers played at that time, and when the Yuan capital was built, it was included in the imperial palace.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were several emperors who were keen to listen to the government in Zhongnanhai in the summer, and later it became a place for ministers from various countries to rest and play before meeting the emperor.

After the failure of the Wuxu Reform, the Guangxu Emperor was imprisoned by Cixi in Yingtai in Zhongnanhai.

After the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled westward, Zhongnanhai became the barracks of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

During the Beiyang government, Yuan Shikai chose Zhongnanhai as the presidential palace.

When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, Zhongnanhai became the general headquarters of the 29th Army. He held a press conference here to explain his determination to resist Japan.

After the fall of Beiping, the Provisional Government of Beiping, supported by the Japanese devils, also used Zhongnanhai as its office. At the same time, there were many Japanese puppet agencies stationed in the park, including the puppet Manchukuo Embassy at that time, the North China Branch of the Supreme Court, etc.

Not only that, but there are also many Japanese expatriates living in Zhongnanhai.

Feng Tiandong lingered in Zhongnanhai, walked around before and after, and fully appreciated the beautiful scenery there. After being tired of shopping and having had enough, Feng Tiandong remembered that he was here today, so he walked to the Qinzheng Palace, the office of the Beiping Provisional Government in the park.

Feng Tiandong was going to meet Wang Kemin, one of the main leaders of the puppet government in Beiping.

Wang Kemin was a man from the late Qing Dynasty and once served as a minister to Japan, and was a typical pro-Japanese faction. Later, he served as the chief financial officer of the Beiyang government three times. After the 918 Incident, Zhang Xueliang prepared to establish the Beiyang Financial Consolidation Committee, concurrently served as the chairman of the committee, and appointed Wang Kemin as the vice chairman. The work of the Financial Consolidation Committee is under the specific responsibility of Wang Kemin.

Therefore, in Beiping at that time, whether in the economic or political circles, Wang Kemin had a very high status.

In view of Wang Kemin's influence, after the July 7 Incident, Seiichiro Kita, director of the Special Service Department of the North China Front, who was working hard to establish a puppet regime in North China, quickly set his sights on Wang Kemin, an old pro-Japanese element, hoping that he would come forward to form a puppet government.

Although he recognized Japan's invasion of China, he was very concerned about what rights the newly formed government could have, and in this matter, he argued with Kita Seiichiro for a long time, and after some bargaining, Wang Kemin became the chairman of the Political Affairs Committee of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China.

Although after Wang Kemin threw himself into the arms of the Japanese and formed a puppet government, the military commanders also carried out assassination operations against him many times, but unfortunately they were unsuccessful.

Feng Tiandong had heard his father talk about Wang Kemin before, and it was said that the relationship with the Feng family was still very good.

Wang Kemin and Cao Cunyue, as well as Feng Tiandong's father Feng Houpu, are old acquaintances, and they also have a good friendship with Feng Tiandong's grandfather.

Today, Feng Tiandong is preparing to visit Wang Kemin in the name of the son of the deceased.

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