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Chapter 1084: Brutal infighting

The three-day nationwide wave of anti-Japanese demonstrations dealt a tremendous blow to the Japanese military and government, which were caught off guard, and all Japanese goods sold in all parts of China, except for Tianjin, Qingdao, Xiamen, and other cities where Japanese influence was deeply rooted, were left unattended, and the Chinese shops dealing in Japanese goods were solemnly warned by the indignant procession that if the Japanese goods were not removed, the shops would not be able to operate normally at all, and the Japanese ronin and Koreans, who had been rampant in the coastal cities, immediately disappeared under the warning of their masters. Countless national capitalists seized this opportunity to publicize domestic products, and even reduced prices and promotions, effectively curbing and cracking down on the economic aggression carried out by Japanese imperialism against China, and the tremendous pressure on national industry and commerce was relieved. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Central Political Conference was held as scheduled during this period, and surprisingly, Chiang Kai-shek stayed in Guizhou on the grounds that "the fighting on the front line of the suppression of bandits was tense" and did not attend this extremely important annual meeting, and the whole meeting was still played by Wang Jingwei, who held the power of the central government.

On 27 March, the Central Political Conference made a resolution to solemnly confer the titles of commander-in-chief and principal generals of the whole army, appointing Jiang Zhongzheng, chairman of the Military Commission, as a special-grade general, Yan Xishan, Feng Yuxiang, Zhang Xueliang, He Yingqin, Li Zongren, Zhu Peide, Tang Shengzhi, and Chen Jitang as first-class generals, Chen Tiaoyuan, Han Fuju, Song Zheyuan, Liu Xiang, Liu Zhi, Xu Yongchang, Yu Xuezhong, Shang Zhen, Fu Zuoyi, Long Yun, He Chengjun, Zhu Shaoliang, Bai Chongxi, Gu Zhutong, An Yi, Wan Fulin, He Jian, Yang Hucheng, Liu Zhenhua, Jiang Dingwen, Xu Yuanquan is a second-class general. Interestingly, more than half of the generals who received the title did not appear at the ceremony.

At noon at the end of the ceremony, An Yi, who had taken off his ribbon medal and the specially gilded general's sword, took leave from the secretariat of the conference under the pretext of "military emergency" and flew directly to the airport to return to Syria.

At yesterday afternoon's preparatory meeting and this morning's formal meeting, An Yi sensitively discovered that the irreconcilable contradictions between the military and political circles were tending to become public, and during the recess, he learned from the mouth of his "old subordinate" Liu Shoujiang that Wang Jingwei was plotting with Chairman Lin, He Yingqin, and others to set up a trap for An Yi, in an attempt to form a "special investigation team for the Baoding incident" proposed by Huang Ying on the last day of the meeting to put pressure on An Yi and pass the Central Political Conference. Raise An Yi to the position of deputy director of the Economic Development Committee of the Government Council in name only, and then organize representatives of the central government and all walks of life to give An Yi a grand award for his "disaster relief and major contributions" over the past few years, and then cut off a few pieces of meat on An Yi, who is rich but difficult to ride a tiger, for grandiose reasons such as "revitalizing the economy and reviving people's livelihood".

An Yi's sudden departure made Wang Jingwei very angry, and he scolded the secretariat of the conference for a bloody sprinkle and still did not relieve his anger, and convened his confidants and strategists late that night to discuss countermeasures.

After An Yi left without saying goodbye, Han Fuqu, Liu Zhi and more than a dozen generals in the army also went their separate ways for one reason or another, so that the meeting convened by Wang Jingwei did not become a meeting at all, and many topics that had been planned for a long time to weaken the power of the army could not be discussed, and the biggest financial crisis handling plan was completely destroyed due to An Yi's departure, how could Wang Jingwei swallow this bad breath?

Wang Jingwei and his henchmen quickly put the ultimate root cause of all the problems on Chiang Kai-shek, and they were convinced that Chiang Kai-shek must be stealthy behind the scenes to manipulate all this, if it were not for Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, how could An Yi, who was still politically immature, be the first to leave? How could other generals leave Nanjing after An Yi? As he spoke, Wang Jingwei stood up emotionally, paced high, raised his hands and shouted angrily:

"This is obviously Chiang Kai-shek, who has ill intentions, is demolishing my Wang Jingwei's platform!"

In fact, Chiang Kai-shek did not greet any generals, and this time he repeatedly instructed An Yi to attend the meeting in Nanjing, the purpose of which was to see how An Yi would deal with the problem of internal division at the top level of the central government, to see how An Yi would behave, whether he would compromise with Wang Jingwei and his party, and whether he could withstand the temptation of fame and fortune.

In a word, this is a severe test for An Yi.

The reason why Chiang Kai-shek did not say hello to anyone, received secret telegrams from some generals, and called back to "put the overall situation first" and let the generals choose the road ahead by themselves, was to see how the generals under his command performed and whether they were loyal to him, the president, and the chairman of the Military Commission, so as to test whether a certain person could take a firm stand and whether he could be trusted.

The result made Chiang Kai-shek very satisfied, especially for An Yi's keen insight and skillful response, Chiang Kai-shek felt extremely relieved and relieved, he completely understood that An Yi would never get together with his biggest political enemy Wang Jingwei, and An Yi was still loyal to him as the principal.

On the second day of the formal meeting, the Legislative Yuan under Wang Chingwei's control passed by a majority vote a resolution on the issuance of "100 million financial bonds." This 100 million financial bonds is tantamount to pumping Chiang Kai-shek's blood, and is tantamount to preventing the smooth implementation of Chiang Kai-shek's financial reform and monetary reform plans by Chiang Kai-shek, Soong Tzu-wen, and Kong Xiangxi. Anyway, this is a collective decision made through a rigorous legal process, you wait to pay off the debt with me, and you will pay this huge debt yourself if you remove me from power!

Chiang Kai-shek's counterattack and drizzle did not complain at all, but instead adopted a tacit attitude towards Wang Jingwei's malicious debt move.

On the third day of the meeting, Kong Xiangxi continued to concurrently serve as the governor of the central bank with the support of the majority vote, and Zhang Jiaxuan, president of the Bank of China, who was originally close to Wang, and Chen Xing, former vice president of the central bank, had to succumb to vice president; Zhang Jiazhang saw that the general trend had gone, and the struggle between the two departments of Jiang and Wang had become sharpened, and he was deeply afraid of harming his own interests and even his life, so he immediately submitted his resignation on the grounds of physical discomfort. Wang Jingwei's long-planned financial power is still out of reach.

Two days later, Song Ziwen, executive director of the Central Economic Commission, submitted a report requesting the central government to approve the Bank of China's capital increase plan.

Wang Jingwei, who is good at poetry and painting, and is good at lyrics, music and songs, knows nothing about the macro economy, and Zhang Jiaxuan resigned gloomily, and most of the strategists around him are from dance and writing, where do you know the mystery? Thinking that this was an effective means to consolidate the position of the central bank and strengthen the central government's financial control over the whole country, they adopted a strong attitude of support, and Soong Ziwen's proposal was unanimously approved within half an hour, and Chiang Kai-shek's grand financial reform plan was thus kicked off.

On the fourth day of the conference, Wu Zhihui, Zhang Jingjiang, and Li Yuying, the three veterans of the party-state, rushed to Chongqing by plane in the name of economic and educational construction research.

At the same time, An Yi, who received a secret telegram from Kong Xiangxi, immediately instructed Zhou Chongan, executive vice president of the Southwest Bank of China, to make a speech in Shanghai, saying that the southwest bank was no longer able to subscribe to any bonds issued by the central government, and then announced the closure of 13 loss-making county-level banks in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

As soon as Zhou Chong'an's speech was reported, it immediately triggered a mass response from the financial circles across the country, and the Shanghai Banking Association immediately announced the situation of more than a dozen banks that had collapsed this year, predicting that in the next three months, half of the banks would be in trouble; immediately after Du Yuesheng, Yu Qiaqing, Feng Jingyao, and other chaebols expressed their inability to buy state bonds, and the economic commentator of the "Oriental News" at the end of the analysis article jokingly suggested that Chairman Wang Jingwei should go overseas to issue public bonds, and the effect might be better.

Wang Jingwei and his faction only woke up from a dream until this time, and not only did no one buy the 100 million yuan of financial bonds, but instead ended up with the infamy of "not understanding the economy" and "taking advantage of the economy".

At that time, Chiang Kai-shek delivered an important speech in Guiyang, shouting "launching a national economic construction movement" and calling on the whole territory of Guizhou and even the whole of China to learn from southern Sichuan, western Hunan and Yunnan, make steady progress in accordance with local conditions, and develop the people's living standards in a down-to-earth manner.

Chiang Kai-shek's speech, which was published in newspapers across the country, was tantamount to a resounding slap in the face to Wang Ching-wei, who was boastful, and all walks of life throughout the country could not help but think of what Wang Ching-wei had promised over the past few years, and it seemed that none of them had been fulfilled, and all kinds of tabloids and public opinion ridiculed and ridiculed Wang Ching-wei one after another.

Wang Jingwei was furious, and immediately threw out the data of several years of suppressing bandits and exhausting the people's fat and national strength in the name of economic summarization, suggesting that you Chiang Kai-shek did not lead troops to fight well and even wanted to seek my position of power, and I would not let you be comfortable.

For a time, above the clamor of all kinds of remarks, the Wang Jingwei clique and the Chiang Kai-shek clique were fighting happily.

However, the main force of the Central Red Army suddenly exerted its strength at this time and forced towards Guiyang, which could not help but frighten Chiang Kai-shek into a pale, and did not remember to quarrel with Wang Jingwei, so he immediately adjusted his forces and moved closer to Guiyang to relieve the crisis.

An Yi saw everything in his eyes and listened to it in his ears, and he finally knew how selfish and dirty politics was, and he was amazed at the endless methods of fighting between the two major groups of Jiang and Wang.

An Yi was on the rise, Lao Jiang suddenly stopped talking, and when he turned his head strangely, it turned out that there was a danger in Guiyang, An Yi, who was still unsatisfied, thought about it, and decided to help Lao Jiang, anyway, he didn't like Wang Jingwei no matter how he looked at it.

Whenever An Yi thinks of Wang Jingwei's delicate girl-like hands that have been using royal jelly, milk, He Shou Wu and other treasures for beauty and hair care for a long time, he feels a chill in his heart, thinking that your grandson on dog days does not go to the grassroots level much, does not visit the poor people in the countryside all the year round, experiences the people's dire situation, and soaks in the mountains and seas every day. On the last day of the Central Political Conference, you announced Sino-Japanese friendship and strictly forbade major newspapers across the country to publish hateful remarks against Japan, and even took revenge on our Anjia Army on the grounds of the "Baoding Incident".

At 7 o'clock in the evening of 2 April, An Yi was a guest in the live broadcast room of the South Sichuan Radio Station to accept a special interview with reporters, angrily opposing the proposal of the central "special investigation team for the Baoding Incident" to hold Wu Liheng, commander of the independent division, accountable, and strongly opposing the decision passed by the Government Council to "suspend General Wu Liheng for review." For the first time, he openly shouted the cruel remark that "the pro-Japanese forces and the traitor capitulation faction have infiltrated the center of the country." This immediately ignited the long-suppressed public anger in the whole of China. The political crisis, which was shocked and stunned, suddenly came in An Yi's angry voice.