Shanghai, Wharf.

The special envoy group of more than 30 people has already assembled at the wharf to prepare to set off on the "Victoria" passenger ship.

Everyone stood on the pier and took a group photo, and then the reporter began to ask questions.

Kong Xiangxi smiled and said: "Yu went to the UK on behalf of the government this time to participate in the coronation of the British king, which is very pleasant. Yu hopes that this visit will strengthen the friendly relations between China and the UK. Of course, after attending the coronation of the British king, Yu will also visit European countries to inspect their economic conditions and provide assistance to our economy. ”

A reporter from the "News" suddenly asked: "Mr. Zhou, I heard that the killer who assassinated you in Nanjing was a high-ranking official in Jiangning County, and everything started because of the 'war peace' disagreement, how do you feel about this?" ”

"You know the inside story so quickly? It seems that the assassins are still being interrogated. Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

The journalist said: "We have special news channels. ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "The key to war or peace is not in China, but in Japan." Japan did not abide by international conventions and law, and brazenly invaded China, Taiwan fell, Northeast China was lost, and North China was in danger. Japan is getting more and more aggressive, China wants peace, but can it do it? In Japan's view, China is a lamb to the slaughter. We can only resist instead of begging the butcher to show mercy. There are no more than three kinds of people who call on the Lord and peace, one is a fool, the other is a coward, and the other has other intentions. ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Hexuan's tone suddenly became heavier: "In addition, I must correct the rumors." The murderer who assassinated me this time was by no means an ordinary official of the Lord and the faction. On the third day I arrived in Nanjing, I found that someone was following me, and I was under surveillance for half a month! Before I was shot at the train station, someone had poisoned me at the Yangtze Hotel. There were watchers, poisoners, and shooters, which showed that the assassins were organized, not impromptu out of righteous indignation, nor were they capable of being done by a single so-called patriot! I hope that the central government will investigate this matter thoroughly! ”

Many reporters were so excited that they hurriedly wrote down Zhou Hexuan's words.

Suddenly, a reporter raised his hand and said, "Mr. Zhou, there is also a theory that the killer is a spy sent by the Kuomintang." What are your thoughts on this? ”

"Which newspaper are you from?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.

The reporter replied, "China Daily." ”

"Hehe," Zhou Hexuan smiled and said in a sarcastic tone, "I have nothing to say to your newspaper, it's just a traitor newspaper." I just want to ask, the 200,000 yuan of public funds embezzled by the Ministry of Railways in your newspaper, I don't know when it will be made up? ”

"Zhonghua Daily" was Wang Zhaoming's eyes, ears and mouthpiece, and it preached "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "peace" all year round, until Wang Zhaoming became a traitor, and the newspaper even became an organ of Wang's puppet government.

The reporter was immediately angry and asked, "Mr. Zhou, why do you say that we are traitor newspapers?" ”

Zhou Hexuan did not answer positively, but only repeated: "When will the 200,000 yuan of public funds embezzled by the "China Daily" from the Ministry of Railways be returned? ”

"We are not traitor newspapers!" The journalist strongly affirmed.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "I only know that your newspaper embezzled 200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways. ”

The reporter's face was red: "I didn't embezzle it!" ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "But you received a salary from the "China Daily", so I ask again, when will the 200,000 yuan of public funds embezzled by your newspaper from the Ministry of Railways be repaid?" ”

The reporter was suddenly overwhelmed, ashamed, and walked away directly with his face covered.

"Hahaha!"

The reporters gloated and laughed.

200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways, that is the original sin of "China Daily".

Wang Zhaoming originally wanted to run a newspaper for his faction, but it happened that his henchman Gu Mengyu was also the Minister of Railways, so he directly embezzled 200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways and set up the "China Daily" under the guise of public welfare and private benefit. After this incident was revealed, "China Daily" immediately became a shame in the newspaper circles and was the object of ridicule and contempt by its peers.

In the following days, Zhou Hexuan had already traveled to England with the ship, but there was a lot of trouble about his assassination, and there were various theories.

Some say it was a personal vendetta, some say it was war and peace, some say it was an assassination by Japan, and some say it was a Kuomintang agent.

The China Daily, for example, added fuel to the fire, suggesting that Zhou Hexuan had been assassinated by Kuomintang agents because his patriotic remarks had offended Chiang's dictatorship. From the perspective of progressives and the general public, this newspaper shouted the slogan of "democratic constitutionalism" and strongly demanded that the central government abolish the dictatorship system and hold democratic public elections within and outside the party.

Zhou Hexuan already had countless fans, and at the same time, everyone hated Lao Jiang's dictatorship, and the superposition of the two phases suddenly collided with Mars. Tens of thousands of patriotic and progressive youths were bewitched by the "China Daily" and held demonstrations under the banner of "democratic constitutionalism."

It can be said that although the Japanese assassination plan failed, it was not completely ineffective, at least it made Lao Chiang anxious.

In conjunction with the imminent revision of the "Organic Law and Election Law of the National Assembly" by the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, Wang Zhaoming jumped out again, and the reorganization faction jumped up and down, hoping to return to the center of the political arena - during the Xi'an Incident, Wang Zhaoming had been invited back by He Yingqin to serve as the chairman of the Kuomintang Political and Political Committee.

If there is no future traitor, Wang Zhaoming's many behaviors at this moment are beneficial to the country's development and progress. In order to be able to ascend to power, he strongly criticized the dictatorship, and co-opted various political parties and democrats to promote the construction of democratic politics in China in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

Of course, everything Wang Zhaoming did stemmed from his own political interests. What is unacceptable is that he has been advocating "Sino-Japanese peace" from beginning to end, which is also for his own political interests.

Mr. Wang - politician, and,-stirring stick.

Chang Kaishen was extremely angry at all kinds of rumors, if he really sent someone to assassinate Zhou Hexuan, then he would admit it no matter how he was scolded by the newspaper. But it really wasn't he who ordered it, his spy also protected Zhou Hexuan, and now someone actually splashed dirty water on him.

The bald head is angry, and there are countless official losses!

There were already many reorganization officials in Jiangning County, and they used to follow Wang Zhaoming. Now there is simply a big blood change, and Lao Jiang has used the reason of the assassination case to remove Jiangning County from the county magistrate to the section chief by one-third, and as many as eight people have been expelled from the party.

The assassin Zhang Wanteng stayed in the hospital for nearly a week, and before he could recover from his illness, he was dragged by Mao Renfeng to torture him to extract a confession.

Kuomintang spies can't do anything else, but torture is very good at extorting confessions, and it only took half a day for Zhang Wanteng to spit out everything he knew: he is of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, he once studied espionage courses at the Tongwen Academy in Shanghai, has been lurking for nearly 20 years, and will go to the Yisheng Song and Dance Troupe every month to deliver political and economic information to an actor named Meng Guanghua. The person who instructed the assassination was nicknamed "Old Duck", was about 40 years old and had a large mole on his forehead. The messenger during the assassination was a young man, about 25 years old, and quite handsome......

Kuomintang spies immediately dispatched and seized the Yisheng Song and Dance Troupe, but did not find the actor named "Meng Guanghua". As for the instructors and messengers of the assassination, they were drawn sketches and portraits, and they were hunted down throughout the city.

The people in the special high school did not dare to move, because they were all consular police officers of the Japanese Embassy. The people of the Black Dragon Society and the Kuomintang spies also did not dare to move, because if they were arrested, they would cause diplomatic disputes.

However, the peripheral forces of the Special High School and the Black Dragon Society in Nanjing were ruthlessly stripped off a layer of skin by the Kuomintang spies. More than 500 Nanjing ruffians, hooligans, prostitutes, journalists, actors...... was taken away by the Kuomintang agents, and under layers of interrogation, at least more than 40 traitors and lackeys were captured by Shunteng - among them there were also a few innocent people.

This made the gangs in Nanjing silent, and it had reached the point where Zhou Hexuan changed color. When our Mr. Zhou came back from England and passed through Nanjing, the local gang spontaneously came to protect his safety, for fear that he would be troubled by the Kuomintang agents in an accident.

In any case, Zhou Hexuan, who was assassinated again, was wildly touted and publicized by major media.

Even the reformist newspapers that once scolded Zhou Hexuan, under the instruction of Wang Zhaoming, praised Zhou Hexuan as a patriotic model who was not afraid of life and death, and pointed their guns directly at the dictatorial Chang Kaishen.

In later generations, a scholar specializing in the study of Zhou Hexuan wrote in his work:

"The Republic of China is a treacherous era, in the steaming land of China, wisps of murderous energy can not hide the vitality of ideological enlightenment, in the dark bloody rain, but also full of warmth flowing, chivalrous flow. Among them, the assassin, as one of the tools of political strife, performed a different kind of wonderful ......"

"There was a man who did not offend any party, on the contrary, he maintained good relations with all parties, but he was assassinated several times in his life......"

"Zhou Mingcheng's assassination experience is extremely unique during the Republic of China. It is hard to imagine with common sense that the Japanese militarists would be hell-bent on killing a man of culture who is also an internationally renowned Nobel laureate. But dig a little deeper and we'll find out. The 'seven-man back' he invented became a sharp weapon on the battlefield of resistance against Japan behind enemy lines. And his articles before and during the War of Resistance made the Japanese invaders tremble......"

Three-quarters of the essays included in the Ming Cheng Anthology (1941 Supplement) were related to Japan. These articles are indispensable and precious materials for the study of Japan's economy and culture and politics in the study of Japan from World War I to World War II. Zhou Hexuan's analysis and research of Japanese society was like a scalpel, dissecting the country of Japan in blood, and providing a valuable academic reference for China's War of Resistance at that time. ”

"At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese class-A war criminal Hideki Tojo read the "Mingcheng Anthology" (1941 supplemental edition), and specially re-read "The Chrysanthemum and the Knife", and then wrote in his diary: "China's largest Japanese-knowing faction is Zhou Mingcheng, and his analysis and research on Japan is enough to reach the ...... of a group army" So in the autumn of 1942, Zhou Mingcheng was assassinated again, this time the mastermind was Kawashima Yoshiko, and the implementer was Li Xianglan......"