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Madame Chiang and the Grand Prince of Song arrived at Xi'an Airport in the evening, and on the plane, Soong Meiling prepared for the worst, handed the pistol to Donald, and said, "If the rebels do anything rude to me, you can use this gun to shoot me immediately."

Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng went to the airport to greet them, and after getting off the plane, Song Meiling and Zhang Xueliang said: "Hanqing, this is my thing, please check it by your soldiers?" Zhang Xueliang was a little afraid to look at each other, and Mrs. Jiang, who was good friends with him, immediately said: "Madam, how dare you!" How dare you! Talks were held between the two sides.

After the talks, Zhang Xueliang personally accompanied Song Meiling and Donald to see Jiang, Mrs. Jiang took a favorite hometown dish of Chairman Jiang, a box of dried plum vegetables to see her husband, and later according to Jiang's record in "Xi'an Half Moon Chronicle", Jiang saw Song, tears flowed, and sighed again and again: "Why are you here?" It's like a tiger's den! ”

Song Meiling persuaded: "Rather resist Japan than die the enemy!" (It is better to resist the Japanese, you are a hero in victory or defeat, than to die in the hands of the rebels because you refuse to resist Japan), it can be said that the words are serious, and Chiang was quite moved, and from then on, Chairman Chiang's attitude began to change, loosened somewhat, and no longer stubborn.

On 24 December, Chairman Chiang accepted the six agreements jointly proposed by the CPC and Zhang Yang, but was unwilling to sign any letter of agreement for his commitments. ”

Yang Hucheng strongly opposed the release of Jiang in this way, believing that things that did not fall on paper were unreliable, and Zhang Yang had a fierce quarrel for the first time on the issue of how to release Jiang, and the two sides had serious differences of opinion and could not hold each other, and finally it was under the persuasion of Zhou Enlai, the head of the delegation of the Nationalist Government, that Yang Hucheng agreed to Zhang Xueliang's proposal to "release Jiang without signing".

On the afternoon of 25 December, Chairman Chiang and his attaché left Xi'an by plane, accompanied by Zhang Xueliang, who arrived in Luoyang on the same day.

On December 26, Chairman Chiang arrived in Nanjing, the Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully, Zhang Xueliang was detained, and began a half-century life under house arrest, and Yang Hucheng was forced to leave the 17th Route Army and go to Europe to investigate.

After that, the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the land of China fell into the disaster of swords, soldiers, water and fire, and the protagonists of the Xi'an Incident began a different life.

The figure of the great man is far away, the history is full of thick dust, but it has not been buried, the Xi'an incident has an immeasurable and far-reaching impact on China, for the entire Chinese nation.

The six-point agreement reached during the Xi'an Incident was as follows: (1) Reorganize the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, expel the pro-Japanese faction, and accommodate anti-Japanese elements. (2) Release the patriotic leaders of Shanghai, release all political prisoners, and guarantee the people's freedom and rights. (3) Stop the policy of "suppressing the Communists" and unite the Red Army to resist Japan. (4) Convene a national salvation conference attended by all parties, factions, circles, and armies to decide on the policy of resisting Japan and saving the country. (5) Establish cooperative relations with countries that are sympathetic to China's resistance to Japan, and (6) other specific measures to save the country.

It brought about the second cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, laid a solid foundation for the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front, and brought all parties together for the goal of this nation.

The footsteps of history have long gone, the gunshots by the Huaqing Pond have disappeared in the long river of time, and the merits and crimes of the thousands of years have been commented by their own descendants, which is nothing more than a matter of opinion, who can restore the true face of history?

According to the evaluation of the Chinese Kuomintang, the Xi'an Incident was instigated and bewitched by the Chinese Communist Party when Zhang Xueliang was instigated and bewitched by the Chinese Communist Party after the September 18 Incident and was condemned by the people of the whole country, and then dissatisfied with the basic national policy of "suppressing the Communist Party first and then resisting Japan."

At the end of 1936, he staged a mutiny in Xi'an, held Jiang Zhongzheng, then chairman of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, hostage, and put forward eight proposals, including stopping the suppression of the Communist Party, reorganizing the government, and sending troops to resist Japan.

The Xi'an Incident caused the Nationalist Government to stop suppressing the Communist Party and join the Communist Party to resist Japan, which led to the government's anti-Japanese preparations being forced to interrupt and the outbreak of all-out anti-Japanese resistance ahead of schedule.

According to the evaluation of the Chinese National Government, due to the occurrence of the Xi'an Incident and its peaceful settlement, the 10-year civil war was finally ended, domestic peace was achieved, and the establishment of the anti-Japanese national united front based on the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was promoted, which greatly encouraged the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the Chinese people, launched the anti-Japanese war of the whole people, and persisted for eight years until victory.

And Zhou Enlai, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of China and then vice chairman of the National Government Committee of the Nationalist Government, evaluated Zhang Xueliang as "a national hero and a hero of the ages".

Zhang Xueliang self-evaluation, in the decades after the incident, Zhang Xueliang has always insisted: "As a soldier, I should be shot; But in my conscience, I did nothing wrong! Any Chinese, under the circumstances at that time, would have done that, but it was done by me, Zhang Xueliang. ”

As for why Zhang Xueliang was willing to take the risk and personally send Chairman Chiang back to Nanjing, there have always been different opinions, according to Zhang Xueliang himself: "The leader is a mud bodhisattva, and now that I have brought him down, I will personally help him up, and if he has a spirit, I will take his head and kowtow to him." He said so, and did so, using the freedom of the second half of his life to do the best of a man's bones.

Song Meiling's evaluation of Zhang Xueliang was very positive, and she publicly said that Zhang Xueliang's Xi'an incident, "Han Qing doesn't want territory, he doesn't want money, he wants to sacrifice." Based on her understanding of her husband Jiang Zhongzheng, with the degree of personal relationship between Song Meiling and Zhang Xueliang, she can completely understand Zhang Xueliang's mentality at that time.

It is for the public, not for one's own selfish interests, so in the years to come, Madame Chiang tried her best to protect Zhang Xueliang from harm, and the American minister to China, Jeffers, recorded in a memoir that Soong Meiling said to Chiang Kai-shek: "If you have anything unfavorable to that little guy (referring to Zhang Xueliang), I will leave Taiwan immediately and make all the things you do public." ”

The Song family and Zhang Xueliang have always had a close relationship, and the trial of Zhang Xueliang by the Kuomintang Nationalist Government led to great dissatisfaction with the Song family, and Song Ziwen wrote to Chiang Kai-shek many times to argue for Zhang Xueliang's rehabilitation, and was willing to guarantee his life in person, and even willing to resign from his part-time positions in exchange for Zhang Hanqing's personal freedom.

And Chairman Jiang, the party concerned, commented on Zhang Xueliang's initiation of the Xi'an Incident: "Han Qing is confused! "Just these four words, but the Jiang family, for this brother to worship the complex feelings, seems to regret, seems to hate iron does not become steel, like the eldest brother's reproach to the ignorant younger brother, as the so-called, everything is in one word.

Hu Shi, a celebrity of the Republic of China, commented: "It is not easy for China to form a leader, and if Jiang Zhongzheng is unlucky, China will go back 20 years," and clearly determined that Zhang Xueliang's initiation of the Xi'an Incident was "called resisting the enemy, but in fact it was self-defeating the Great Wall" and was "a sinner of the country and the nation", and "without the Xi'an Incident, the Nationalist Government would soon be able to eliminate it, and the loss of the Xi'an Incident to our country is irreparable." ”

Some people who are familiar with Chairman Chiang commented that Chairman Chiang's attitude toward Japan was not appeasement, but was really due to the huge disparity in national strength between China and Japan, and the first thing Chiang Kai-shek wanted to do was to eliminate the separatist forces of the Nationalist Government and local warlords, unify the Chinese region south of the Great Wall, and then devote all his national strength to maneuvering with the Japanese.

Although the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression had to be fought, it was a direct consequence of the Xi'an Incident when it began on July 7, 1937, and it cannot be ruled out that the Japanese army did not feel a real threat and did not invade the Central Plains region when the Chinese national united front was not rapidly formed, but turned directly north to the Soviet Union.

There are different opinions, mixed reviews, the Xi'an Incident did happen, it did change the course of China's history, and the merits and crimes of thousands of years can only be commented on by future generations.