Section 3 War Drums VII
The third part of the bloody and fire war of resistance, the tenth chapter, the third section of the war drums
Feng Yi's position in the North China Theater is very unique, he doesn't care about anything, he wanders around all day long, either holding a propaganda meeting here, or having a tea talk there, and no one who knows him dares to underestimate him, but there are very few such people, only Xu Zuyi and a few people around Zhuang Jihua. οΌ±bβΈγCOM\
Of course, Bai Chongxi belongs to the kind of people who don't know, after Feng Yi left his post in Yunnan, he went to the Fifth War Zone in a blink of an eye, this move from Chiang Kai-shek to Li Zongren Bai Chongxi thought that Zhuang Jihua remembered the old feelings, and arranged a position for him to provide for his old age. Feng Yi rarely interfered openly in the affairs of the theater, and never participated in military meetings, only attended meetings related to government affairs, so many people thought that he was Zhuang Jihua's staff officer in government affairs.
"Oh, okay, Mr. Impermanence has some time, let's go for a walk together." Bai Chongxi was very interested, got up and left.
Xu Zuyi didn't go out with them, and stopped when they arrived at the mΓ©n, and Bai Chongxi didn't care, to hold such a large-scale meeting, the pre-meeting preparations were enough for him to be busy.
Bai Chongxi and Feng Yi left the headquarters, and soon left the highway and walked along the canal embankment while chatting, starting from the Hebei human accident, talking about the history of Dexian County, and then to the current war.
"To be honest, at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, although I was the main battle, I thought that it would take at least ten years to defeat Japan, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War, I still thought that it would take five or six years to defeat Japan, but I didn't expect that it was only two years, and the Japanese would not be able to hold on, I think there will be one more year at most, and Japan will be over."
Thinking about the changes in the situation over the past year or so, Bai Chongxi felt a little emotional: Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the United States entered the war, thinking that the United States would act as the main force in the war, but in fact, it was China itself that really turned the course of the war around. Two victories in northern Burma, followed by northern victories in northern Hubei and the recovery of Henan and Shandong, the squadron recovered nearly half of the lost ground in a short period of time.
"Yes, the situation is changing too fast," Feng Yi also sighed a little, he looked at the quietly flowing canal, the willows on both sides of the river did not move at all, and there were several small boats floating south on the river: "One year, it should be about the same." β
"Six years ago, when the Japanese came in from there, they never imagined that they would only be in the limelight for six years." Bai Chongxi looked at the north and said.
"This is in response to the words of our Chinese, don't get carried away," Feng Wei's expression was leisurely, and he looked very relaxed: "I am often surprised, how the Japanese think, such a little land, such a small population, such a little national strength, actually want to challenge the world, I really can't understand." β
Bai Chongxi's face was expressionless, and he nodded approvingly, he had also thought about this question, he couldn't figure it out, the Japanese were already deep in the Chinese battlefield, why did they still challenge Soviet Russia and the United States, he could only attribute the reason to the arrogance of the Japanese in the end.
"Chongqing is now lively again." Bai Chongxi looked at the north, but Feng Yi looked at the southwest, and his tone seemed to be a little lonely.
Bai Chongxi was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Feng Yi, Feng Yi was looking at the southwest in a daze, a smile slipped across the corner of his mouth, Zhou Enlai made a statement in Chongqing, ending the political offensive provoked by the Kuomintang. Subsequently, the third party proposed at the political participation meeting to open up the party ban, and formally proposed to recognize all political parties in the country, including the GCD, release all political prisoners, and implement political reform.
The third party's proposal was supported by the democratic parties, and Xinhua Ribao and Lion Awakening Weekly published articles in succession, demanding that the Kuomintang accept and recognize the implementation of administrative reform by all parties.
After some resistance, the Kuomintang half-pushed and half-agreed that it could accept the third-party proposal, but demanded that once the Kuomintang recognized the parties and released political prisoners, the GCD must abandon the secret party membership system, publicly register party members throughout the country, and file a record; In terms of political reform, the Kuomintang was very firm and agreed to carry out political reform, but resolutely refused to carry out political reform now, citing the three stages of Sun Yat-sen's constitutional government, saying that it was still a period of political training, and after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, how to end the political training would be discussed.
Dong Bwu announced at the political participation meeting that GCD had been brutally killed by the Kuomintang for a long time, and could only adopt a secret party membership system, and once the list of party members was made public, the lives of these party members would be threatened. The KMT, for its part, fought back, arguing that once GCD was recognized, the KMT would also change its policy. In addition, now that it is a joint war of resistance, the GCD on the one hand accuses the Kuomintang of arresting the GCD, but in the GCD-ruled areas, it is also implementing anti-Kuomintang policies, citing the reports sent by Mei Youlan and other reporters from the border areas, pointing out that the GCD not only arbitrarily arrested the Kuomintang in the border areas, but also arrested and expelled the third party, which is that only the state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light lamps.
The GCD countered that those were spies sent by the Kuomintang to the border areas to engage in sabotage activities in the border areas, and the GCD only expelled them from the border areas; Chen Cheng retorted that if this view is followed, the KMT can also take the same reason to arrest dissidents, which is what you think is the .......
The two parties quarreled again, and the Kuomintang said that as long as ** gave up the secret party membership system, they would recognize the legal status of **; ** firmly disagreed, believing that this was a conspiracy of the Kuomintang, and if the Kuomintang promised to recognize all parties, it could show sincerity and release all the arrested GCDs first; The Kuomintang counterattacked again, announcing that all the arrested ** party members would be released at the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, and if ** thought that there were still them, they could put forward a list. Now GCD is stumped again, not because there is no list, but because most of the arrested party members use pseudonyms, and many of them have not yet been identified by the Kuomintang.
The two parties jiΔo feng, you come and go; The third party's motion dragged on like this, and Deng Yanda, Zhang Lan, Luo Longji and others ran to mediate, but neither side refused to budge. At this time, Yang Yongtai gave Chiang Kai-shek an idea, announcing the recognition of other political parties except GCD as legal political parties, the release of some political prisoners, and the announcement of a constitutional experiment in 16 counties in Chongqing, with universal suffrage for county magistrates.
Chiang Kai-shek did not fully adopt Yang Yongtai's suggestion, refused to release political prisoners, declared all political parties except GCD legal, and tried universal suffrage in 16 counties in Chongqing in order to accumulate experience for the whole country.
The decision greatly encouraged the democratic parties, but Chiang Kai-shek immediately announced that the Chongqing Municipal Government and the Chongqing Political Council would be responsible for studying the specific implementation measures, but explicitly announced that GCDs could not run for election.
Zhou Enlai summed up various circumstances and concluded that the Kuomintang was by no means sincere in pursuing universal suffrage, but was delaying time, and more importantly, the Kuomintang had an absolute advantage in the 16 counties of Chongqing, and even if the election was carried out, the vast majority of those elected would be Kuomintang members.
As Zhou Enlai expected, the Chongqing Municipal Government and the Political Council were not active in this matter, and after a meeting, there was no news, and at this meeting, there was a dispute over a candidacy.
"What? Brother Impermanence is moved? Bai Chongxi's news is also very smart, the affairs of Chongqing have long been known, he and Li Zongren secretly exchanged telegrams, and the conclusions reached are similar to Zhou Enlai. Both of them believed that Chiang Kai-shek would not really make concessions, and that Chiang Kai-shek did not say how long this experiment would take in Chongqing, and when it would begin.
"It's not tempting," Feng Yi smiled faintly, and saw an old man in front of him with a fishing basket pinned to his waist, casting nets along the shore to catch fish: "Politics is only interested in politicians, you look at them, they should row a boat; Catch when you should fish, what is the impact. β
Bai Chongxi felt a little hot, and saw that there were a few stones in front of him, which were relatively flat, so he sat on them, but Feng Yi cleaned up the stones and straightened his cotton robe before sitting opposite him.
"This shouldn't be said by Brother Impermanence," Bai Chongxi obviously thought that Feng Yi was too pessimistic, he laughed, and looked at the gurgling canal with high spirits: "Now is the time for my generation to show its ambitions, and it will take a year to defeat the Japanese,..."
"And then?" Feng Wei abruptly interrupted Bai Chongxi and looked at him coldly.
Bai Chongxi was stunned, he originally wanted to say that then we can practice the Three People's Principles, but looking at Feng Yi's gaze, he suddenly remembered what Li Zongren had said, the post-war is a big problem, he didn't care at that time, thinking that Li Zongren was talking about GCD, the Kuomintang after the War of Resistance, the military strength rose to an unprecedented height, and the social reform successfully alleviated social contradictions, although GCD has developed greatly, but no matter how it is calculated, the strength gap with the Kuomintang is more than 100 times.
After the war, if the GCD wanted to continue to be an enemy of the Kuomintang, it would wipe it out with a thunderbolt. Millions of Japanese troops can be wiped out, not to mention GCD?
But now Feng Yi obviously didn't mean GCD, Bai Chongxi's mind was racing, and before he could think clearly, Feng Yi said slowly: "Gong Jian, the chairman of the committee proposed to resist the war and build the country, and announce the fate of China; Yan'an proposed a coalition government, including the current turmoil in Chongqing, in fact, all settled after the war, I don't know, whether Duke De and Duke Jian have considered it, where to go after the war? β
Bai Chongxi's eyes suddenly sank, there is no doubt that the strength of the Kuomintang has skyrocketed, that is, Chiang Kai-shek's strength has skyrocketed, the Gui family is now holding on to Guangxi, and Li Pinxian is still in charge of Anhui, but Chiang Kai-shek's strength in Anhui is not weak. During the six-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the military strength of the Gui system also increased a lot, and the equipment of the main force of the 21st Group Army was completely comparable to that of the Central Army, and compared with Chiang Kai-shek, the gap was not narrowed, but expanded.
"What do you mean, sir?" Bai Chongxi didn't dare to speak easily, and looked at Feng Yi tentatively.
Feng Wei looked indifferently and smiled freely: "The outside world publicly recommends Jian Gong as Xiao Zhuge , but as everyone knows, Zhuge is not the most powerful thing in the military, but in politics, he has been in charge of the Shu regime for decades, even if he is abroad, the domestic power is still in his hands, why can he do this?" In fact, to put it bluntly, take one step and look at three steps. β
Bai Chongxi is not only mΓhuΓ² again, what is this Feng Wei talking about? What does it mean to look at three steps? Feng Yi took out a cigarette, took advantage of the cigarette to light a cigarette, peeked at Bai Chongxi, and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart.
This Bai Chongxi is a good hand in the military, but his political sense is too far behind, far inferior to Li Zongren.
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