"Why don't you dance?"

Zhang Xueliang had just extinguished the cigarette butt when he suddenly heard someone talking. He looked up, but it was Zhou Hexuan standing next to him with a smile, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Mingcheng is here, sit down." ”

"Smack!"

Zhou Hexuan snapped his fingers, asked the maid for a glass of red wine, and asked, "What's the trouble?" ”

Zhang Xueliang had a little anger on his face, and said with a turbid breath: "I just received a telegram that "Xinsheng Weekly" was controlled, and the Jiangsu High Court filed a case and summoned Du Chongyuan. ”

Du Qianxue, a patriotic industrialist, the first person in the Northeast national industry, Zhang Xueliang's staff friend and core think tank, the main leader of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association, and the editor-in-chief and chief publisher of the anti-imperialist patriotic magazine "Xinsheng Weekly".

"Mr. Du was arraigned in court? When was this? Zhou Hexuan was a little surprised, he had met Du Chongyuan a few times before, and he had a very good impression of this person, and he also donated 50,000 yuan to the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Association at that time.

Zhang Xueliang said helplessly: "Just yesterday, the charges were 'insulting the emperor' and 'harming diplomatic relations'. ”

Zhou Hexuan laughed angrily: "Hehe, this crime is really big." Aren't you ready to save him? ”

"Save him? How can I save it? Zhang Xueliang drank half a glass of red wine violently, and said in an excited tone, "I called Lao Jiang, and Lao Jiang's secretary told me some nonsense." I sent a telegram to Wu Tiecheng, and Wu Tiecheng told me to wait slowly, and he would try to deal with the Japanese as much as possible. Round and round! ”

Zhang Xueliang has every reason to be angry, his confidential secretary was shot dead by Lao Jiang some time ago, and now his friend and think tank has been arraigned by the court, and it seems that he is ready to sentence Du Chongyuan severely.

Putting aside personal feelings, just talking about political confrontations, Zhang Xueliang felt that his right arm had been cut off, and Lao Jiang's knife was already on his neck.

"Alas!"

Zhou Hexuan sighed, and he suddenly remembered that this was a "new event" in history.

Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng and Zhang Xueliang have a good relationship, and they originally wanted to protect them, but the Japanese side pressed forward step by step. At first, the Japanese ronin gathered to make trouble in Shanghai, and then Japan simply sent troops to Shanghai to threaten.

Historically, just next month, Wu Tiecheng could not withstand the pressure of the Japanese, and not only completely closed down the "Xinsheng Weekly", but also removed the director of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau and officially announced the trial date for Du Chongyuan. Du Chongyuan was sentenced to one year and two months in prison on charges of "spreading words and defamation."

How did Du Chongyuan "slander" the emperor?

It's just one article.

"Xinsheng Weekly" published an article "Gossip Emperor", in which the article mentioned the emperor of Japan, saying: "The emperor of Japan is a biologist, and he has to be an emperor because of hereditary relations...... It is the Japanese military and the bourgeoisie that are the real rulers of Japan. ”

It was this passage that caused dissatisfaction among the Japanese, and in fact the article did not scold the Japanese emperor, but rather praised academically. The author believes that if the Japanese emperor had not been emperor, he would have been able to achieve more in biology, and that the Japanese emperor himself was extremely intelligent.

How can this also sentence the editor-in-chief of a publication?

What's even funnier is that at the same time as Du Chongyuan was sentenced, a satirical cartoon was also published in "Zilinxi Daily". In the comics, the Japanese emperor pulls a gun carriage carrying a Nobel Peace Prize certificate, alluding to Japan's shouting of peace and friendship, but in fact it is reckless.

The Japanese protested badly, but the newspaper was British, and the original author of the cartoon was an American. This cartoon, which really insulted the emperor of Japan, was also taken to court, but the ending was not resolved.

Compared with the two, Du Chongyuan's sentence is really unjust.

Why can Zhou Hexuan clearly remember the "new incident", because this incident was the internal cause of the "Xi'an Incident". Soon after Du Chongyuan was sentenced to prison, Zhang Xueliang was transferred by Lao Jiang to the northwest to "suppress bandits", which made the Northeast Army feel uncertain.

As a result, the members of Zhang Xueliang's think tank went to the prison to hold a meeting with Du Chongyuan to discuss the future of the Northeast Army. That secret prison conference changed the history of China, and Du Chongyuan, who was still in prison, put forward a plan: "Zhang Xueliang should take advantage of the opportunity in the northwest to contact Yang Hucheng, stop the civil war, engage in a great alliance in the northwest, use the northwest as an anti-Japanese base area, and contact various powerful factions in the country." ”

This set the tone for the "Xi'an Incident".

Why did Zhang Xueliang force Jiang to resist Japan? There's no other way at all. If he didn't do this, the Northeast Army would be swallowed up by Lao Jiang sooner or later, and even if Zhang Xueliang couldn't make up his mind, his think tank and subordinates would help him make a decision.

Forcing Chiang to resist Japan was the collective will of the entire Northeast Army.

The Northeast Army was not all a bad breed, and countless officers and soldiers wanted to fight back to the Northeast and want to return to their native hometown, but Lao Chiang forced them to fight hard with the Red Army.

Since the Northeast region was occupied by the Japanese invaders, the Northeast Army secretly made various efforts. In the first year or two of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War behind enemy lines, more than 80% of those non-governmental anti-Japanese organizations in Northeast China were supported by the Northeast Army. The Northeast Non-Japanese Salvation Association, speaking of a non-governmental organization, is actually directly led by Zhang Xueliang, and the core leading members are Zhang Xueliang's think tank.

Zhang Xueliang's ears are really soft.

After Zhang Xueliang went into the wilderness the year before last, he began to study communism for a time, believing that communism could save China. However, he went to Europe to inspect and saw that Germany had begun to revive under the leadership of Hitler, so after returning to China, he openly propagated fascism, believing that under the leadership of Lao Chiang, a strong fascist China could be built.

It can be said that last year's Zhang Xueliang really wanted to assist Lao Jiang and was willing to serve Lao Jiang's dictatorship.

For this reason, Zhang Xueliang's friends and think tanks, including Du Chongyuan and Yan Baohang, expressed their dissatisfaction, and even left Zhang Xueliang's group for a time.

But Zhang Xueliang's flattering eyes were purely for the blind to see, Lao Jiang not only was not grateful, but instead transferred Zhang Xueliang to "suppress bandits" to fight the civil war, and also shot Zhang Xueliang's confidential secretary, and now he wants to throw Du Chongyuan into prison, and has not let Zhang Xueliang return to Beiping, wanting to encroach on Zhang Xueliang's territory in North China.

It's like an infatuated girl who is willing to give everything for her lover. Who knew that the lover was a negative man, who only thought about stealing the girl's family property and framing the girl's relatives and friends.

Zhang Xueliang is that girl, he finally got angry and completely gave up on Lao Jiang.

"Mingcheng, what do you think I should do?" Zhang Xueliang smiled bitterly.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and asked: "What is the most important thing in China now?" ”

Zhang Xueliang said: "Stop the civil war and unite to resist Japan." ”

"Then you can just do this, why bother thinking about the details?" Zhou Hexuan said.