The news from Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" is the famous "Gao Tao Incident" in history.

There were many traitors who followed Wang Zhaoming to commit treason, including Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu.

Tao Xisheng, as we mentioned earlier, also connected with a group of "Lord and Sect" literati, and wrote an article with Zhou Fohai and others to smear Zhou Hexuan.

And Gao Zongwu is even more incredible, he is the bastard who contributed the most in Wang Zhaoming's defection to the enemy, except for Chen Bijun. Wang Zhaoming had no contact with the Japanese in the first place, but it was this Gao Zongwu who made the match, and it was Gao Zongwu who took the initiative to contact the Japanese.

At the beginning of Wang Zhaoming's surrender to the enemy, he sent a telegram to expose Chang Kaishen's superficial resistance to war and secret peace, which was actually a bunch of bad things done by Gao Zongwu.

After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, Chang Kaishen sent Gao Zongwu to Hong Kong to engage in intelligence work.

Gao Zongwu was really capable, and he contacted Matsumoto Shigeharu, the personal representative of Konoe Fumima in China, and the head of the Special High Section of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, Kasa Zhenaki. He handed over a handwritten letter from Kagesa Zhenzhao to Chang Kaishen, and brought Chang Kaishen's "conditions for peace talks" to the Japanese.

However, there have always been doubts about whether Chang Kaishen agreed to the peace talks, and even the Japanese Nishi Yoshixian, who was in contact with Gao Zongwu, did not believe it, believing that the conditions for the peace talks were not like what Chang Kaishen himself said, but more like Gao Zongwu's own response by imitating Lao Chiang's tone.

Although the "peace talks" failed this time, they soon ushered in a new turning point: Japan's cabinet was reshuffled, and Kazunari Ugaki, who did not advocate expanding the situation, became foreign minister.

Chang Kaishen recruited Gao Zongwu back from Hong Kong and put him in charge of delivering the message: "The Central Army still has one million arms, that is, it will not be imported for two years, and even if Japan captures Wuhan, there will be no changes within the national government." This shows that Chiang also wanted to hold peace talks, but his intention was to force Japan to take the initiative to sue for peace in order to strive for a more favorable outcome for China.

But Gao Zongwu, as a diplomat, once again made his own claims. When he sent messages to Japan, he constantly stressed that there is a "peace faction" centered on Wang Zhaoming in China, and first put forward an idea for Sino-Japanese peace talks, that is, to support Wang Zhaoming and make it a medium for Sino-Japanese peace talks.

It can be said that Wang Zhaoming was able to substantially defect to the enemy and be a traitor, and Gao Zongwu was the real culprit.

Why is Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" spreading earth-shattering news about the future?

Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu actually found out in conscience that they had absconded from Shanghai to Hong Kong, exposed all Wang Zhaoming's traitorous acts to Ta Kung Pao, and even stole out copies of the traitorous treaty signed by Wang Zhaoming.

Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu continue to support Wang and promote peace, and the starting point is nothing more than two:

First, "save the country and save the people". They know very well that peace talks will betray national interests, but they also believe that China will be defeated in the war, and only peace talks can make peace and stability.

Second, political ambitions. Since China can only survive peace talks by relying on peace talks, it is simply up to them to come forward to conduct peace talks. In this way, we can not only keep the country, but also make political capital, and we can rise higher and higher in the image of national heroes.

However, Wang Zhaoming's "Outline for the Adjustment of Japan-China New Relations" and other eight traitorous documents really frightened Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu. They always thought that China and Japan would be able to divide the river and rule the country, but they never thought that these documents would actually sell China's territory, resources, army, sovereignty, and culture cleanly.

Once these documents come into force, China can be directly declared extinct, and they will become the sinners of the Chinese nation through the ages.

Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu were shocked into a cold sweat and dissuaded Wang Zhaoming not to sign, to withdraw from the peace talks as soon as possible, or to leave Shanghai and return to Chongqing, or to go to Europe and the United States to live in seclusion.

But Wang Zhaoming was already determined to be a traitor, not only did he not listen to persuasion, but instead sent people to spy on Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu, and even plotted to get rid of them and throw the blame to the military commanders.

Here we have to mention Tao Xisheng's wife Wan Bingru, who received a letter of complaint from her husband and resolutely took her five children from Hong Kong to Shanghai, so that her husband had an excuse to leave Wang Zhaoming's lair to live with his family. When Wang Zhaoming forced Tao Xisheng to sign, Wan Bingru said to her husband again: "I will bring the life of the whole family to Shanghai for you, you go!" If we can't get out, my husband and I will die here. If you sign, I'll kill you! ”

Because Wan Bingru arrived with his five children, Wang Zhaoming temporarily let down his guard, and Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu took the opportunity to secretly leave Shanghai with the help of the Qing Gang.

In the face of Wang Zhaoming's anger, Wan Bingru boldly went to see Wang Zhaoming, and asked to take her two children to Hong Kong on the grounds of persuading her husband to return to Shanghai, and left the three children to study in Shanghai as hostages.

Wang Zhaoming naturally agreed, he didn't believe that Tao Xisheng and his wife would not care about the life or death of their children.

As a result, not long after Wan Bingru left with her two children, the remaining three children also fled Shanghai with the help of the Qing Gang.

After Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu arrived in Hong Kong, they did not go directly to meet the people of the national government, but took Wang Zhaoming's eight copies of the traitorous documents to the "Ta Kung Pao". Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" immediately sent the contents of the copy and the full text of the telegram back to the headquarters in Chongqing, and Zhou Hexuan knew about this earlier than Chang Kaishen.

The next day, the "Wang-Ri Secret Treaty" was revealed by the "Ta Kung Pao" in Hong Kong and Chongqing, which quickly triggered a public opinion earthquake across the country.

Wang Zhaoming had been playing the sign of peace talks to save the country, and he had deceived some people very much. Many warlords, including Sun Ke and Long Yun, acquiesced, and they still had a fluke mentality about this, so maybe Wang Zhaoming's peace talks would succeed.

There is no need to say anything now, because the eight "Wang Ri Secret Covenants" are too scary. Not only did they sell the entire territory from Heilongjiang to Hainan Island, but they also had to sell their ideology and culture, and in the future, there would be no Chinese nation, only slaves who were enslaved by the Japanese invaders.

This made countless people who were hesitant and lucky, completely recognize the wolf ambitions of the Japanese invaders, and also recognize the ugly face of Wang Zhaoming who betrayed the country to seek glory.

What is the content of the "Wang-Ri Secret Treaty" can be found by looking at the main headline and subheadline of Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao": "Gaozongwu Tao Xisheng and Hong Kong publish the full text of Wang Zhaoming's conditions for betraying the country -- the culmination of the dreams of the Japanese valve for many years, and the evil of betraying the country in Chinese and foreign history are sold from now to the future, from materials to ideas!" ”

After the "Gao Tao Incident", the enthusiasm of the people throughout the country for the war of resistance was unprecedentedly high, and even the local warlords who tried to preserve their strength lost their illusions.

From this point of view, it is really difficult to evaluate the merits and demerits of Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu - especially Gao Zongwu who caused Wang Zhaoming to defect to the enemy.

The "Gao Tao Incident" made a lot of trouble in the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, and at the same time, the peach-colored scandals were flying all over the Japanese-occupied areas, and Zheng Pingru became a shameless female traitor who was scolded by the people.

In fact, Zheng Pingru was a secret agent of the military commander, and was arrested for assassinating the traitor Ding Mocun. After she was tortured, she insisted that the assassination of Ding Mo Estate was just a matter of love and hatred, and she was brutally killed by traitors.

A heroine of a secret front has become the protagonist of Shanghai lace news.

Zhang Ailing wrote "Lust and Caution" based on this, portraying the patriotic heroine as an ignorant woman who covets the love of men and women, which is really a great insult to the Japanese martyrs.

Not only is Zheng Pingru patriotic, but her father Zheng Yingbo refused to be wooed by the Japanese several times, and died of grief soon after his daughter's death. Her brother Zheng Haicheng and fiancé Wang Hanxun are both pilots of the Chinese Air Force, who died in the air battle in 1944, and can be described as full of loyalty.