In fact, there is no need for Zhou Hexuan to remind that the Nanjing government's consistent policy is to "use razing to defeat raze".

After the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the "Tenyu Statement," Nanjing immediately dispatched diplomats to actively contact the envoys of various countries in China, hoping to obtain greater support from the international community.

The envoys of various countries in China quickly conveyed the views of their respective governments and were willing to provide China with assistance to a certain extent. But this kind of aid is all about asking for something in return, and China must come up with corresponding benefits in exchange, especially Britain and France.

On the contrary, the United States has behaved quite generously, and anyway, American agricultural products are seriously unsalable, and it doesn't matter if some of them are shipped over to support China.

Don't think that the Yankees are the good guys, and the British and French are the big bad guys. The reason for this is that Britain and France have already gained enough market in China, and the United States, if it wants to catch up, must show some sincerity to make friends with the Chinese government.

Just like the "Wheat Cotton Loan Contract" and the "Sino-US Aviation Secret Agreement" signed last year, they are all goodwill from American capitalists who want to exchange for a larger Chinese market. It was said that it was a secret agreement, but in fact, it was exposed by the media not long after it was signed, and the "Tianyu Statement" issued by Japan was largely aimed at the United States.

Fundamentally, however, China's life or death is none of Americans' business. After Japan's "Tianyu Statement," the US Secretary of State actually said: "At present and in the future, we are more interested in not China's independence, but the freedom of action of the United States in the Pacific." ”

The Yankees did not have any restraints, and on the one hand, they supported China in exchange for a larger market, and on the other hand, they frantically sold strategic materials to Japan to help Japan invade China more smoothly.

Until the outbreak of the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, American loans and materials were still being imported into Japan. At that time, the proportion of Japan's purchases of materials from the United States to Japan's total imports of military supplies was: 90 percent of scrap steel, 45 percent of lead, 90 percent of copper, 65 percent of petroleum and petroleum products, and 70 percent of machine tools for aircraft and tanks.

In other words, at least half of the planes, tanks, and artillery shells used by Japan in its invasion of China were produced by materials sold by the United States.

In the middle of World War II, former U.S. Secretary of State Stimson (who pursued interventionism and advocated aid to China) pointed out with great dissatisfaction: "Japan's aggression is strongly supported by our country. Not only is this aggression supported, but our assistance is so effective and so important that it could be stopped and stopped if it were cut off. ”

Zhou Hexuan's article was published with the magazine "Fei Offensive" and immediately aroused tremendous repercussions from all walks of life, at least the content of "building a united front of the whole nation" was recognized by many people.

Not only recognition, but the Communists and progressives have even begun to take action.

The "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee," secretly planned by the Communist Party and initiated by Madame Sun, He Xiangning, Zhang Naiqi, and other progressives, has entered the formal preparatory stage. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the China Anti-Imperialist and Anti-Fascist League, and other organizations have responded one after another, and even the Chinese branch of Zhou Hexuan's International Anti-Fascist League has received invitations.

Tianjin, Sanle Hall.

Cui Huifu took an express letter and said, "Sir, it's from Shanghai." ”

Zhou Hexuan immediately opened and read it, and the content was actually the "Basic Program for the Chinese People's War against Japan."

This "program" reviewed the fall of Northeast China, stressed that the Chinese nation had reached a life-and-death juncture, and that the people of the whole country, regardless of class or nationality, should unite to resist Japanese aggression, and put forward a detailed anti-Japanese program for China. The following points were put forward: first, the general mobilization of the entire navy, army, and air force to fight against Japan; second, the general mobilization of the whole people; third, the general armament of the whole people; Fourth, immediately try to solve the anti-Japanese military expenditure; Fifth, call on all the people and overseas Chinese, as well as all those who sympathize with China, to raise donations; Sixth, unite all the enemies of Japanese imperialism.

Some of these proposals are very correct, such as trying to solve the problem of anti-Japanese military expenditure, uniting all enemies in Japan, and so on. However, some of the proposals were empty words, such as the general arming of the whole people, and the demand that the Kuomintang immediately open the national arsenal and distribute all kinds of weapons to the People's Volunteers, which obviously would not be approved by the Nanjing government.

However, there are some contents that Zhou Hexuan particularly likes, that is, once China and Japan go to war, immediately confiscate all the property of Japanese imperialism in China, and stop paying the principal and interest of all Japanese debts. It even listed detailed data that the total amount of Japanese investment in China has exceeded 4 billion silver dollars, and the confiscation of these funds is enough to support China's resistance against Japan for a period of time.

The last two sentences of this document are "Long live the Chinese nation's sacred war against Japan" and "Long live the liberation of the great Chinese nation", and the inscription is "Preparatory Committee for the Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee", and the initiator is Mrs. Sun (leader).

In addition to the program for the war against Japan, the letter also invited Zhou Hexuan to go to Shanghai to participate in the preparation for the establishment of the "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee" on behalf of the "China Branch of the International Anti-Fascist League," and hoped that Zhou Hexuan would sign the "Basic Program for the Chinese People's War against Japan."

Zhou Hexuan looked at the time when the program of war against Japan was written, and it was actually April 20, 1934.

In other words, this thing was completed on the day of the "Second Tianyu Statement". It is very likely that as soon as the "First Tianyu Statement" was published, the Communist Party began to write it immediately, and it took less than three days from the beginning of writing to the completion of the draft.

The speed of the Communist Party is really fast, and the timing is too good!

Zhou Hexuan immediately signed the program of the war against Japan, handed it to Cui Huifu and said: "Send it back to Shanghai immediately, and by the way, ask Yu Peichen to order a ticket for me to Shanghai, and I will go there in person." ”

"Okay." Cui Huifu said.

In the name of Mrs. Sun, the Communist Party has sent the "Basic Program for the Chinese People's War against Japan" to the whole country, and some people have even secretly taken it to the occupied areas in northeast China.

In just a few days, as many as 1,780 people signed the program. In addition to Zhou Hexuan, He Xiangning, Hu Hanmin, Ma Xiangbo, Zhang Renzhuo, Li Da, Ye Xiasheng, Li Du, Yang Jingyu, Weng Zhaoyuan and others signed in favor, as well as many progressives, big capitalists, and overseas Chinese leaders.

Immediately, the Communist Party simply published this program in the newspaper, calling on the entire public to support it, and more than 100,000 people signed in favor of it one after another.

Seeing the tremendous momentum, the Nanjing Nationalist Government immediately panicked and strictly ordered the major newspapers not to publish the "Program of the War of Resistance," but it could not stop the mouth of Youyou at all.

In early May, Zhou Hexuan went south to Shanghai to attend a preparatory meeting for the "Chinese National Armed Self-Defense Committee."

Accompanying Yu Peichen was Yu Peichen, the eldest sister bought an extra train ticket on her own initiative, saying that she would assist Zhou Hexuan in his work at any time.