Let's go back to the incident of Lao Jiang's book, why didn't any scholars around him stop him?

It's very simple, because Lao Jiang is a "loner".

Let's take a look at Stilwell's diary written in 1943, in which the "peanuts" in the diary represent Chang Kaishen, which is Stilwell's unique nickname for the elder Chiang, and in the United States it refers to those who are ambitious but incapacitated.

"Very simple meals, no rituals, but oh God! That atmosphere. In the presence of this supreme person, no one dares to say a word or express an opinion...... There were no arguments, no questions, just expressionless faces and cold dignified manners. ”

Peanut was an hour and a half late, and he was a little restless during the ceremony...... Everyone around Peanut Mi turned into stone again, and He (Ying Qin) sat there like a sculpture without opening his mouth at all. ”

"The Fate of China" was ghostwritten by Tao Xisheng, and Chen Bui also wrote part of it.

Both of them were born to play with pens, so how could they not know the clumsiness of this book? Even if they write brilliantly, all the ideas and views in them are Lao Chiang's, and they can only lie all kinds of lies within the ideological framework put forward by Lao Chiang, and those specious and contradictory arguments and arguments are already the limit of what Tao Xisheng and Chen Bui can do, and at least they can confuse some radical nationalist readers.

The sad thing about Lao Jiang is not that no one dares to speak to him, but that no one tells him the truth.

Let's move on to Stilwell's diary: "He confirms all my most pessimistic view that Peanuts is not a dictator. He gave orders, and everyone bowed and said yes, but no one did anything. He understands that corruption in China is completely emptied, but he does not have the power to cure the problem...... He also knew all the harsh conditions, but there was nothing he could do...... He wanted to be a moral monarch, a religious leader, a philosopher. But he was uneducated...... He doesn't like to listen to unpleasant things, so everyone only talks about what he likes to hear, and it is impossible to reason with him...... If anyone confronts him, he will be furious...... He issued orders in large numbers, like snowflakes, and everyone was submissive, and he never knew what he had actually done. He was afraid of the common people, of what people would say, so he tried to prevent them from speaking. It's stupid...... He had no reason to be afraid of anything, let them say it. He didn't have to be afraid of the Communists, he could have taken advantage of them. ”

Stilwell was just a passer-by in China, having not lived in China for long, but he saw the situation very clearly: "After the war, China will be in great trouble. Peanut only understands what is happening around him, and the country is so big that he can't control it completely. Stubborn, stupid, ignorant, tyrannical, intolerant, unreasonable, unreasonable, ungrateful, and greedy. ”

Although Lao Chiang claimed to be the "Battle of Stalingrad in China" mentioned in the previous chapter, he swore to live and die with the country and the death of the king. But in fact, Lao Chiang was frightened, he thought that the Japanese were about to break through the Three Gorges and enter Chongqing, and he was so nervous that he lost his temper with the military intelligence personnel in front of the Americans.

Stilwell wrote in his diary: "In the panic of the Yichang incident (i.e., the Japanese attack on Shipai), he was so nervous that he threw his teapot and vase on the visitor. ”

What made Stilwell most speechless and angry was that Chang Kaishen did not discuss such a major matter as the second expeditionary force's entry into Burma. Stilwell asked the Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin for a meeting to discuss the battle plan, and He Yingqin said that he knew nothing, so angry that Stilwell wrote in his diary: "Obviously, if He (Yingqin) does not know, no one in the Ministry of Military Affairs knows." So, who do you negotiate with Peanut? With the cook, perhaps, or his partner, God! This is above all else, and this arrogant little thing (referring to Lao Chiang) will decide the fate of several countries...... This great dictator, who starved his troops, was the biggest fool in the world...... He thought he was the embodiment of the Lord, but in fact he was a stubborn little foolish ass. ”

Chang Kaishen is difficult to be convinced, he is easy to draw conclusions without any evidence, and it cannot be changed. He must believe in the good news even when he is confronted with good news and bad news, and he still believes in the good news even if all the clues prove that the bad news is true.

Stilwell was equally impressed by this.

On the issue of the expeditionary force's operations, many of Chang Kaishen's practices made Stilwell unbelievable, and he could only ask Soong Ailing and Soong Meiling to help persuade him: "Peanut Mi is less and less like a dictator, but more like a political wall-rider." He has little power other than to build a personal reputation, and his family knows this better...... Peanuts are more capricious and grotesque than I thought. Mei (Soong Meiling) always said that he was difficult to grasp and that he did not consider the evidence when drawing conclusions...... They (the Song sisters, who were in charge of persuasion) were on the verge of a nervous breakdown and could not sleep. Mei (Song Meiling) said she prayed to him last night. May told me that she had done everything she could, and she had almost killed him. Ella (Song Ailing) said that he pretended to be noble when he was annoyed. ”

Therefore, any suggestion from Zhou Hexuan is invalid to Lao Jiang.

Even Song Meiling and Song Ailing couldn't convince them, let alone Zhou Hexuan. Don't look at small things, Lao Jiang follows Song Meiling everywhere, and he will not give in at all when he encounters big things.

Before Stilwell left Chongqing for the Nth time, he made a special trip to the Zhou Mansion. He vomited bitterness in front of Zhou Hexuan and complained, "Zhou, I'm almost driven crazy by your leader. All his military orders were not consulted with the Chinese Ministry of Military Affairs, but in his office. God, could it be that his office assistants would know more about war than the generals and staff officers of the Ministry of Military Affairs? It's ridiculous that the fate of the United States and Britain could be in the hands of this fool! ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "That's not his office, it's the attendant's room, our Mr. Jiang is very retro." In ancient China, if the emperor did not trust his generals and ministers, he would set up a private agency, such as the Qing Dynasty's Military Aircraft Department. ”

"Hell in the chamber, the Chinese general and I are not as good as the attendants of peanuts!" Stilwell shouted frantically.

Zhou Hexuan said: "This is one of China's traditional political methods, the monarch plans in a secret room, and other officials can handle it according to the regulations." ”

Stilwell said: "But the attendants around Peanut will only slap the horse and hide the truth. It's hard for you to imagine that Peanut's series of commands on the battlefield in Burma were made without any knowledge of the front line! He was murdering the lives of soldiers! In the whole of Chongqing, I guess I was the only one who would tell the truth about Peanuts, and he was shocked by a lot of the truths I said, because he had never heard of them. I offended a lot of people because of this, offended those who concealed the truth, they spoke ill of me in front of Peanuts, and spread rumors that I was plotting to seize military power, saying that I wanted to be the emperor of China. It's ridiculous, how can I, an American who has no roots in China, seize military power, how can I be the emperor of China? The Chinese are not fools! ”

"You're not the only one who tells the truth," Zhou Hexuan smiled wryly, "A few months ago, I also told the truth in front of Mr. Jiang, so I can't even step out of the house until now." The gate of my house is guarded by soldiers 24 hours a day. ”

Stilwell shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands: "I came to you this time because you are an expert on international issues and a university scholar in China. I want to ask you to persuade Peanut, but it seems that he is wrong, and no one in this world can convince him. ”