Chapter 628: Wang Jingwei ran away

Wang Jingwei has a very glorious history in history, and he has a very glorious history.

On May 4, 1893, firecrackers crackled in front of the house of Wang Jiao, a Zhejiang merchant living in Panyu County, Guangdong, and his house-filling Wu gave birth to a boy named Wang Zhaoming. The first Xiucai, who abandoned literature and entered business, has a little ink in his stomach, and is old again, and the joy in his heart can be imagined. Therefore, from the age of five, Wang Zhaoming began to read and write.

Wang Jiao likes Wang Yangming's philosophy and Lu You's poems, and his old age is dizzy, so he can only be recited by his son. Yang Ming's philosophy and Lu You's bold style of writing deeply influenced the young Wang Zhaoming.

Due to the death of his parents one after another, Wang Zhaoming began to teach private school when he was young, and he was admitted to Xiucai with the first place in the Guangdong Township Examination in the old age. can be called a beautiful young man and a beautiful son.

In 1904, Cen Chunxuan, the governor of Liangguang, selected 50 international students from the University of Political Science and Law, and the 21-year-old Wang Zhaoming passed the examination and took a boat to Japan, relying on a monthly public scholarship of 30 yen to start his study career.

At this time, it was the period of the Russo-Japanese War, and in order to win the war, the whole country was mobilized, and whenever there was a front-line battle report, the teacher would stop lecturing and organize students to study the news in the newspaper.

The patriotic spirit of unity and patriotism stimulated the students studying in China in Japan, and all kinds of grass life parties began to appear. There are not only the royalists represented by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao who advocate reform, but also the grass life party that advocates the elimination of the Tartars and the restoration of China through violence. For a time, the 10,000 international students gathered in Japan formed a base camp of grass.

Because Wang Zhaoming studied a crash course at the University of Political Science and Law, and was influenced by the Western "People's Democracy" advocated by Lu Ling's "Theory of the People's Covenant", Montesquieu's "Spirit of Ten Thousand Laws", and Spencer's "Theory of Political Evolution", he naturally regarded the Qing government as the source of all evil, and was bent on overthrowing the feudal dynasty and establishing a Western-style people's main republic.

At that time, the most powerful party was the "Xingzhonghui" of the Guangdong faction led by Sun Yat-sen, the "Xingzhonghui" of the Guangdong faction, the "Huaxinghui" of the Hunan faction of Song Renjiao, and the "Guangfuhui" of the Zhejiang faction of Zhang Binglin. Huang Xing has a strong appeal among international students, but Sun Yat-sen, who is short in stature, put forward a set of "three people" doctrines, Wang Zhaoming is a native of Guangdong, and he likes Sun Yat-sen's "three people" doctrine naturally wants to join the "Xingzhong Society", and with his own talent and good speech, he soon stood out. When Sun Yat-sen, together with Huang Xing and Song Renjiao's Hunan faction "Huaxing Society" and Zhang Binglin's Zhejiang faction "Guangfu Society", established the "China Alliance Association", "Wang Zhaoming was elected as one of the main initiators" of the League Council. At this time, there were only three ministries in the League.

Wang Zhaoming, who was the head of the evaluation department of the Alliance, took the meaning of Jingwei reclamation and changed his name to Wang Jingwei.

By the winter of 1906, the League had launched six armed uprisings, all of which failed, at the expense of many young mortals. At this time, Liang Qichao and other royalists took the opportunity to criticize the violent grass life of the grass party.

When modern people evaluate the characters of the Republic of China, they often feel that their thoughts and behaviors are sometimes confused. This is mainly because they are all explorers, pioneers, "many problems they don't understand themselves, they just move forward step by step." Liang Qichao is very complicated, he is a giant in modern Chinese thought, and Kang Youwei launched the Kangliang Reform together with Kang Youwei, and he has written a lot in his life, constantly exploring ways to save the country and the people. After the failure of the 100-day Restoration, Liang Qichao crossed to the east and still advocated reform and improvement. Of course, Liang Qichao gave up reformism in his later years.

Liang Qichao is a great writer and a great thinker, and his critics are also particularly harsh, saying that the leaders of the Grass Life Party themselves are hiding overseas, "but instigating young people to send them to death is a long-distance grass life." This statement has caused great repercussions among overseas Chinese, and has set off a wave of criticism of the leaders of the Grass Life Party. There were also people within the League who began to oppose Sun Yat-sen, mainly on two points: one criticized Sun Yat-sen's dictatorial style and the other criticized Sun Yat-sen's misappropriation of grass funds. As a result, there was a split within the alliance, and Zhang Binglin announced his withdrawal.

In this case, "Wang Jingwei went north to Beijing and began his righteous act of assassinating the Manchu regent Zaifeng." Although the assassination was unsuccessful in the end, Wang Jingwei was also arrested and imprisoned, but Wang Jingwei became a world-renowned warrior because of this feat.

Another political capital of Wang Jingwei was to write Sun Yat-sen's "General Will". At that time, Sun Yat-sen was critically ill in Beijing, but Sun Yat-sen did not designate the heir of the Kuomintang, and did not leave a last word, Wang Jingwei and others were very anxious, so Wang Jingwei drafted the "General Will" and read it to Sun Yat-sen word by word. Sun Yat-sen did not change a word after hearing this, and was very satisfied. In other words, the "General Manager's Testament", which the Kuomintang hangs on the wall every day and keeps party members in their hearts, is actually Wang Jingwei's thing.

With abundant political capital, no greed, no prostitution, no gambling, no smoking, and no love for power, Wang Ching-wei has a very high prestige within the Kuomintang. However, from the success of Xinhai to the present, when has China really been peaceful? Everything has to be decided by the barrel of a gun. Wang Jingwei, who was good at speeches, met Chiang Kai-shek, who was good at military affairs, and the result can be imagined. After several battles, Chiang Kai-shek became the de facto leader of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China, and Wang Ching-wei became the number two person.

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei both advocated the War of Resistance. Chiang Kai-shek delivered the famous Lushan Speech, and Wang Ching-wei's speech was equally encouraging. He once said with emotion: "Over the past few years, the Nationalist Government has not shown the greatest patience and looks forward to the day when China and Japan will join hands in good faith. The sound of artillery at the Lugou Bridge brought the country to the verge of the last moment. After this step, the fate of the country and the nation will fall into the abyss of eternal calamity, so we cannot but die at this last moment with unanimous determination. "The situation is now at its last moment, so we need to have the utmost determination and courage to sacrifice...... If we don't sacrifice, we'll be puppets. ”

Chiang Kai-shek had a tenacious personality, did not give up lightly until the last moment, advocated exchanging space for time, and was mentally prepared for the fall of a large area of the country. Wang Jingwei has an impulsive personality and often goes to extremes. When encountering a problem, resign at every turn. From the later stage of the Battle of Songhu to the fall of Nanjing, Wang Jingwei's thinking took a sharp turn and he lost confidence in the future of the war. This loss of confidence is not only a loss of confidence in the war situation, but also a loss of confidence in the politics of the Kuomintang.

During the August 13 Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, Wang Jingwei was a resolute main battle faction, and as the premier, he wholeheartedly supported the 19th Route Army in the War of Resistance and took many measures. But he found that "whether it is the Central Army or the miscellaneous army, he can't even mobilize a single soldier, including Zhang Xueliang, who lost the Northeast, and he doesn't listen to his orders!" Wang Jingwei sent people three times to urge Zhang Xueliang to send troops to the north, contain the Japanese army, and reinforce the Shanghai battlefield, but Zhang Xueliang invited Wang Jingwei's envoy to Bada Hutong to drink every day. Zhang Taiyan, a veteran of the Republic of China, can't see "going to Zhang Xueliang on crutches", but Zhang Xueliang's mind is full of beautiful women, where is he willing to go to war. If he is willing to fight, he will not lose the three eastern provinces. In the end, Zhang Xueliang gave Wang Jingwei the condition that the troops could be dispatched, but they needed to allocate 5 million yuan in military salaries every day. Yan Xishan in Shanxi is good, but he only promised to support 100,000 grenades for the 19th Route Army, and he won't talk about anything else. Until the 19th Route Army was forced to retreat and the August 13 War of Resistance ended, Wang Jingwei failed to transfer a support army for the 19th Route Army. At this point, he has completely seen the faces of the warlords of all walks of life in China.

Zhou Fohai, Mei Siping, Gao Zongwu, Tao Xisheng, Hu Shi and others also kept bewitching, making Wang Jingwei think that Chiang Kai-shek's scorched earth war of resistance was just a high-pitched song. It is believed that China is too far behind Japan in terms of economy, military affairs, and weapons," and is more inclined to negotiate peace with Japan itself. The article "We All Have to Tell the Truth" is a true portrayal of Wang Jingwei's transformation of thought. Hu Shi also named their small group "Low-key Club". However, Hu Shih was politically good at speculation, and his participation in the low-key club to advocate peace was to elevate his political status, and after Chiang Kai-shek appointed him ambassador to the United States on 17 September in order to strengthen relations with the United States, he broke away from the low-key club.

"Whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, there will always be two factions: the main war, the main peace, and the war." Wang Jingwei began to advocate peace, which does not mean that he began to want to be a traitor at that time, Chiang Kai-shek did not close the door to peace talks with Japan at the beginning, and the German ambassador Todman once mediated the Sino-Japanese war, but the Japanese himself had too much appetite and did not succeed. If Japan had agreed to end the war at that time, "withdraw from North China and Central China, and only ask the Nationalist Government to recognize Manchukuo and some of their special rights and interests in China, Chiang Kai-shek would have agreed to an armistice and instead concentrated on dealing with the war." However, the Japanese himself was dizzy, and he relied on strong ships and cannons to completely destroy China, and peace talks would naturally not work. Wang Ching-wei's ideas had no market within the Kuomintang.

Gao Zongwu's trip to Japan made Chiang Kai-shek sever peace talks with Japan, coupled with the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and Liu Yimin's long talks with Chiang Kai-shek in Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence in the victory of the war. This completely shattered Wang Chingwei's desire for Chiang Kai-shek to come forward to preside over peace talks with Japan.

Wang Jingwei was different, he had been in Japan for a long time, and he had a deep understanding of the national conditions in Japan, and he believed that the reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to achieve some victories was because it had exploited the loopholes of the Japan itself, and as long as the Japanese army concentrated its forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army would be immediately defeated. Therefore, during Gao Zongwu's visit to Japan, when Chiang Kai-shek severed peace talks with Japan, he knew that the Japanese government intended to allow himself to come forward to organize a new government and negotiate peace with Japan on behalf of China, Wang Jingwei, completely fainted, forgot that he did not have a gun or a soldier, and was determined to abandon Chiang Kai-shek, change his own leadership in peace talks with Japan, and take the road of peace and national salvation.

As the situation deteriorated in the later stages of the Battle of Wuhan, Wang Jingwei began to jump out, frequently meeting with foreign reporters, and repeating the old tune. This annoyed the people who insisted on resisting the war to the end. At the second congress held in Chongqing, the "Telegram Proposal" sent by patriotic overseas Chinese Tan Kah Kee from Singapore was only 11 words: "Officials who talk about peace will be punished as traitors." Wang Jingwei was greatly stimulated and sophisified, saying, "President Sun often says that peace saves the country, if talking about peace is a traitor and a thief, then the president is also a traitor and a thief."

As soon as Wuhan and Guangzhou fell, Wang Jingwei sent Mei Siping and Gao Zongwu as his plenipotentiaries to negotiate secretly with Japan. After the signing of the "Chongguangtang Secret Treaty", Wang Jingwei convened Zhou Fohai, Mei Siping, Tao Xisheng and others to discuss, and some people were worried about it, such as Chen Gongbo, who proposed that once this matter was implemented, Wang Jingwei's 30-year history of grass life would be ruined.

At this time, Chen Bijun, the brave little girl who single-mindedly overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and married Wang Jingwei after the victory of Xinhai Grass Life, pushed Wang Jingwei by the hand.

Chen Bijun and Wang Jingwei have performed a legendary love experience, "But at this time, she is no longer the little girl who went north alone to rescue Wang Jingwei, but the leader's wife who is rolling in the power field." Over the years, Wang Jingwei has succumbed to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chen Bijun has long been impatient. It's just that Wang Jingwei is not Chiang Kai-shek's opponent, and Song Meiling has suppressed Chen Bijun's limelight again, and she can't help it. Now that the opportunity has appeared, Chen Bijun does not want to miss it.

According to Chen Bijun, Mr. Wang and Mr. Jiang will never come out when they are together, and they must open up new eyebrows.

Wang Jingwei is not only full of contradictions, but also soft-eared, and listens to Chen Bijun for many things. There are some things that Wang Jingwei disagrees with, and Chen Bijun has to admit it if he does it. What's more, Chen Bijun always thinks about him wholeheartedly?

The big plate is set, but the specific "what to do" plan is a bit ridiculous. Wang Ching-wei's idea was to go to Yunnan and "establish a government with the participation of powerful local factions from Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and other localities, to hold peace talks with Japan, and then force Chiang to accept the idea of peace talks with Japan."

If this kind of plan is made to normal people, they will burst out laughing, the reason is obvious, since Xue Yue entered Guizhou, it has been completely centralized. Since the death of Liu Xiang in Sichuan, there is no more handsome banner" and the main force of the Sichuan army has been scattered in various battlefields across the country and has been controlled by Chiang Kai-shek. Only one province in Yunnan is still under the control of Xi Longyun, not to mention that Long Yun may not necessarily support him, even if Long Yun supports him, the main force of the Guizhou army will go north to resist Japan, what can he do without capital?

Wang Jingwei and his family did not think so, their idea was that Chiang Kai-shek would engage in dictatorship and be unpopular, and as long as Wang Jingwei set up a big banner, he would inevitably gather many people, because Chiang Kai-shek's strategy of taking the southwest as the rear and the interests of the powerful local factions in the southwest conflicted.

For this reason, "Chen Bijun sent the child away, and Zhou Fohai and Tao Xisheng also found an excuse to go to Yunnan. Chen Bijun even flew to Kunming twice and had a long talk with Long Yun" Long Yun also said: "If Mr. Wang comes to Kunming, I am very welcome" If you are willing to go abroad, I will also be responsible for escorting, and there will be no problem. ”

Based on this, they agreed that Wang Jingwei would fly from Chongqing to Yunnan, then to Hanoi, and from Hanoi to Hong Kong, to start peace talks with Japan.

After Chiang Kai-shek made an appointment to meet Wang Jingwei, he ignored Wang Jingwei because he was busy urging all localities to implement the spirit of the Nanyue Military Conference, and because he did not expect that Wang Jingwei would have an accident.

After Wang Jingwei returned home, it was Wang Ba who was determined to flee Chongqing. His wife, Chen Bijun, has booked a British Airways ticket and is ready to flee on October 8. It's a pity that Chiang Kai-shek stayed in Chongqing, and Wang Jingwei and his gang didn't dare to act rashly, wasting 60 yuan of ocean tickets in vain.

Dai Li was very vigilant, and he also knew the situation of Gu Shoufu, Otaka Kamizo and others, but he also did not know that Wang Jingwei sent Gao Zongwu and Mei Siping to secretly negotiate with the Japanese army and sign the "Chongguangtang Secret Treaty". Besides, Wang Jingwei was the vice president of the Kuomintang, and his prestige within the party was very high, even surpassing Chiang Kai-shek, and he did not dare to make a mistake, but only strengthened the surveillance of Mei Siping, Zeng Zhongming and others. Early in the morning of October Q, Wang Jingwei's secretary Zeng Zhongming came to Wang Jingwei and said in a trembling manner that the two spies had gone to his house yesterday afternoon, and they had been sitting for a while, not knowing what they wanted to do.

In the afternoon, Mesping also reported that the residence was under surveillance.

Although Wang Jingwei is a politician, he has no army and no experience in operational command. But he has a lot of experience in covert struggle. After pondering for a while, he asked the secretary to inform Dai Li to come to see him.

After Dai Li came, Wang Jingwei reprimanded him severely. It is said that the Sino-Japanese war was fought at this time, and he lost his teacher and land, and he was ashamed of the country, the people, and the spirit of Mr. Nakayama, the general manager, in heaven. The reason for today's defeat is that the comrades in the party are not united and suspicious of each other. Like the Military Command Bureau in charge of Dai Li, they have spent so much money, and they have not made any achievements in fighting Japan, and they are not as good as the instructors of the Eighth Route Army, who do not pay a penny from the Nationalist Government, and they also arrested and shot a group of traitors. What about the Military Administration? Sanctions against Wang Kemin failed, sanctions against Yin Rugeng failed, Tang Shaoyi did not openly surrender to the enemy, and may even have made a false deal with the Japanese army, but was inexplicably killed by the military commander in his apartment. What else can the military commanders do except keep an eye on and monitor their comrades? It's purely a bunch of rice buckets.

Thinking about Dai Li, although he is a secret agent wizard, how can he be the opponent of Wang Jingwei, the first person in the Guangdong Township Examination in high school and the No. 2 person in the Kuomintang? Those who were trained to be obedient honestly reviewed and walked away. As for the surveillance of Wang Jingwei and his gang, they naturally slackened somewhat.

I finally waited for it. After the slogan of the month, Wang Jingwei learned that Chiang Kai-shek was going to give a special speech at Xingying tomorrow, and Wang Jingwei did not need to attend. Wang Jingwei didn't want to miss this opportunity anymore and decided to leave Chongqing.

Chen Bijun was worried that he would not be able to leave, so he suggested to Wang Jingwei that if necessary, let her brother Chen Changzu, the principal of Kunming Aviation School, fly to meet them and send them to Hanoi. Wang Jingwei laughed it off, thinking that it would be difficult for him to leave Chongqing in his dignified capacity as vice president of the Kuomintang. Just go, swaggering, Chiang Kai-shek can't help him.

On the morning of the old day, Chen Bijun took his eldest daughter's fiancΓ© He Wenjie, nephew Chen Changshou and Wang Jingwei's secretary Zeng Zhongming to the airport in a jeep and waited for Wang Jingwei to come to the meeting.

Wang Jingwei didn't wait, but waited for Zhou Zhirou of the Air Force, who was responsible for the inspection of the Kunming Aviation School.

Seeing Zhou Zhirou, Chen Bijun thought that Chiang Kai-shek had sent them to spy on them. Or Zeng Zhongming is sophisticated, "saying that he wants to monitor is also Dai Li", he will not be a member of the Air Force. Chen Bijun put his mind at ease and chatted with Zhou Zhirou.

Wang Jingwei took his personal guard Gui Lianxuan in a black car.

The airport personnel were familiar with the license plate numbers of the Kuomintang officers, and they were not surprised to see Wang Jingwei arrive.

Zhou Zhirou hurriedly stepped forward to salute and report, Wang Jingwei stood on the airport and reprimanded Zhou Zhirou like Dai Li, saying that the air force of Japan is advanced, and the air force of China is backward, "I can't even build aerial bombs, how can this be done."

It was not until Liu Fengzhang, the director of the airport, came to meet and invited Wang Jingwei and his entourage to the office to drink tea and wait, that Wang Jingwei stopped reprimanding. Chen Bijun looked at his watch and saw that it was only ten minutes, "so he said that he would not go to the office and go directly to the machine."

Before boarding the plane, Wang Jingwei also told him that the driver would go to Kunming with him and would come back in three or five days, and that Liu Fengzhang would take good care of his car.

Liu Fengzhang, the director of the airport, immediately stood upright: "Vice President Wang can rest assured" that not a single gong or nail will be lost. ”

At nine o'clock, the plane took off on time. At this time, Chen Bijun told Zhou Zhirou that Vice President Wang was invited by Long Yun to give a speech in Kunming. But Zhou Zhirou was just reprimanded by Wang Jingwei, how could he care about the vice president's affairs, just two times.

Seeing Chongqing getting farther and farther away, Chen Bijun was a little sad, so he said to Wang Jingwei: "Fourth brother, we are leaving, but I don't know if the people who stay will be implicated." ”

Wang Jingwei was very calm and categorically replied no. His reason was that Chiang Kai-shek loved to read "Zeng Gongwen" the most in his life, and he admired Zeng Guofan's way of employing people the most. In order to show his generosity and isolation of Wang Jingwei, not only will he not crowd out the remaining Wang people, but he will also reuse them.

Chen Bijun nodded again and again.

After the plane climbed the altitude and began to fly smoothly, Zhou Zhirou stood up from his seat, saluted Wang Jingwei, and proposed to fly the plane for President Wang in person, which was regarded as a report performance by the Air Force to Vice President Wang.

Chen Bijun became vigilant all of a sudden, afraid that Zhou Zhirou would see the flaw and fly the plane back. Wang Jingwei still looked chic: "Okay, good, this is called taking the lead." ”

Zeng Zhongming took out his pistol, wrote a note to Wang Jingwei, and passed it to several people, meaning that if he found something abnormal, he would shoot Zhou Zhirou and force the pilot to fly to Kunming.

Wang Jingwei's personal guard Gui Lianxuan was a sharpshooter, and he nodded after finishing the note, ready to kill Zhou Zhirou.

When the plane flew over Luzhou, Chen Bijun looked down and saw the confluence of the two rivers, Mom, isn't this back to Chongqing? couldn't help but shout loudly: "Zhirou, why did you fly back to Chongqing again?" ”

Zhou Zhirou was immersed in the joy of flying, and replied casually: "It's not Chongqing, it's Luzhou." ”

Wang Jingwei's secretary Zeng Zhongming and guard Gui Lianxuan were vigilant, and the muzzle of the gun was immediately pointed at Zhou Zhirou's back. Wang Jingwei glanced under the wings, and said a little impatiently: "The course is right, the place I passed just now is Tuozhou." This is the confluence of the Tuojiang River and the Yangtze River, and I have flown through Kunming many times from Chongqing, and the route is very familiar. ”

Zeng Zhongming and Gui Lianxuan put away their guns at this time.

The plane finally landed safely at Kunming Airport. Seeing Xi Longyun, the lord of Yunnan Province, leading a large group of officials to greet him at the airport, Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun's hearts relaxed, and a dog couple smiled at each other and held hands tightly.

Wang Jingwei, vice president of the dignified Kuomintang, ran away!