August 3, 1940

Day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Chongqing. The old Jiang Huangshan official residence.

A few days ago, a plane landed at Chongqing Coral Dam Airport. This plane is a flight from Hong Kong to Chongqing, the flight is not available every day, and due to the rain, the plane arrived in Chongqing several days after being late.

A very inconspicuous person came down from the airport, he only carried a small briefcase, and as soon as he got off the plane, he was picked up by a black car.

Soon, he arrives at a mysterious office building.

Two hours later, a document was placed on Mr. Jiang's desk, and Dai Yunong was sitting on the sofa opposite him.

It has been three days since Mr. Jiang got this memorandum, and today, he called Dai Yunong over.

Mr. Chiang was once again carefully reading the document. Here is the full text of the document:

"Memo

"In accordance with the wishes of the Chief of the General Staff of Itagaki and Chairman Chiang, and having confirmed each other's personal documents of their respective superiors regarding the holding of the armistice talks, the following matters have been agreed upon.

"1. Time: early August.

"2. Location: Changsha.

"3. Method: Seishiro Itagaki and Lao Chiang discussed the armistice between Japan and China.

"On behalf of Suzuki Zhuoji

"On behalf of Song Shijieyin

"Showa 15 (1940) July 23"

This is a memo that couldn't be simpler.

However, the process of producing this memorandum could not be more complicated.

The whole process was done under the control of Mr. Chiang and Seishiro Itagaki. The operator of the Chongqing side is Dai Yunong.

Dai Yunong speculated on Mr. Jiang's mind and arranged the whole process extremely cleverly. First of all, the identity of the person who sent it is fake. The person who talked to him was not Song Ziwen's younger brother Song Ziliang at all, he was a senior agent,

The person who pretended to be Song Ziliang was called Zeng Guang. Zeng Guang is just a pseudonym. His real name is Zeng Zhengzhong, and he is an agent of the military command. When Dai Yunong put the photo of this person on Mr. Jiang's desk, Jiang Zhen felt that he looked a little like Song Ziliang.

The Japanese did have some doubts about the authenticity of this Song Ziliang, and took pictures from the keyhole and handed them to Chen Gongbo and Zhou Fohai for identification, but the results were still unclear.

However, Mr. Jiang doesn't care much about these details now, and he thinks about big things.

The big thing is whether or not I want to talk to Seishiro Itagaki or not.

Calling Dai Yunong is to verify the origin of this memorandum and whether it can continue to operate. In addition, he has to arrange the details of the next meeting.

Dai Yunong gave Mr. Jiang the details and talked about them again.

Mr. Jiang suddenly asked, "Who is Zhang Zhiping?" Whether it is a reporter from a German news agency or a professor who teaches, is he from Nanjing? ”

Dai Yunong: "He used to be a member of the puppet government in Hebei, and he had no direct contact with Nanjing. The details are still under investigation. Since Zhang Zhiping took up his post at the central authorities in February this year, he has been quite enthusiastic about his work, and in the past few months, he has indeed not colluded with Wang Yi in any way. Because he is an intermediary, the investigation of him is not too public, and can only be carried out in private. ”

Mr. Jiang said: "Zhang Zhiping's identity is not what I am most concerned about, what I am most concerned about is how sincere the Japanese are. ”

Dai Yunong: "What does the principal mean, what should we do next?" ”

Mr. Jiang said: "If we want them to do a few things, we have to see their sincerity. At present, Japanese planes are still bombing Chongqing. In addition, they knew that Wang Yi was useless, so why didn't they abandon him? It's good to let him go abroad. ”

Dai Yunong was instructed and left immediately.

Mr. Jiang continued to ponder.

He felt that at present, China's military strength could still fight a war.

Although he could fight, he encountered several great difficulties.

The first is that after the establishment of Wang's puppet regime, he quickly gathered a large number of puppet troops. Several guerrilla units and miscellaneous armies in the occupied areas were all absorbed by Wang's puppet government. Mr. Jiang knew that Wang Wei was not useless to the Japanese, but useful, and very useful.

Second, in addition to reining in the rebels, Wang Rebellion also did several things, including quickly restoring normal order in the enemy-occupied areas, recognizing Manchukuo, and demanding that Japan return the leased land. Wang rebelled and restored order in the enemy-occupied areas. This gives some illusions to some people who want to engage in a peace movement.

Third, due to the deterioration of the European battlefield, the confidence in the war of resistance at home has rapidly declined. Although the bigwigs of the Chongqing Peace Faction did not follow Wang's rebellion, they began to actively engage in activities and demanded that the government make peace with the Japanese.

Mr. Jiang turned one eye open and one eye closed to the activities of these people. It is better for them to do enough public opinion, otherwise they will really make peace with the Japanese in the future, and there will be less resistance.

The fourth and biggest difficulty is that the Yunnan-Burma Highway has been closed.

The Yunnan-Burma Highway is a great miracle in human history, and although it is not technically remarkable, it is the result of the efforts of the whole people of Yunnan. This is education for all in Yunnan. Unfortunately, in June, the road was closed by the British, the suzerainty of Burma.

Chongqing learned the news and was in an uproar. A large amount of supplies stopped coming in, prices began to rise, the army was short of supplies, and the war was somewhat unstoppable.

Mr. Chiang ordered the opening of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, which was a great sense of accomplishment. This also validates Mr. Jiang's superb strategic vision. In late June 1940, France was quickly defeated by the German Blitzkrieg, and Japan took advantage of the fire to loot and threaten the French colonies in the Far East. Under Japanese pressure, the French capitulation faction sent Petain's government to sign an agreement with Japan to close the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway. And this time proves his strategic vision of Mr. Jiang.

Yunnan people, men, women, and children, hundreds of thousands of people entered the construction site together, and in order to resist Japan and save the country, they did everything they could, and even put the lives of many people into it.

Later, since the highway was built in 1938, a large number of donated material resources from Nanyang have been continuously brought in, and now the highway is blocked, how can this battle be fought?

Economically, the Yunnan-Burma Highway has opened up a major transportation artery, politically continued the process of China's resistance against Japan, strengthened the anti-Japanese force, and broke the Japanese economic embargo economically.

In 1937, Long Yun proposed the construction of the railway, which was quickly approved. In a modern society, the importance of transportation does not need to be emphasized, everyone knows it. This road is especially important at a time when the two corridors of Hong Kong and Vietnam are in jeopardy. From this point, Long Yun's vision should be admired.

To build this road, more than 200,000 people of all ethnic groups were mobilized, men, women, and children entered the construction site together, and used the most primitive methods to build the road, and thousands of people died. This is a lifeline, and this lifeline is even more important under the premise of the scarcity of materials in southwest China.

Now that it is closed, the vibration can be imagined.

On July 16, Hitler ordered preparations for the Battle of the Sea Lion to attack Britain. Britain came under tremendous pressure. At the same time, Japan exerted diplomatic pressure on the use and threatened to attack the British colonies in Asia. After negotiations under the table, the British colonial authorities compromised, and on July 18, Britain and Japan signed an agreement on the temporary closure of the Yunnan-Burma road.

This is one of the reasons why Mr. Chiang scolded the British chieftain. After a few more months of blockade, their own troops will not be able to hold up. At that time, there was no fuel, no ammunition, just waiting for the Japanese to fight. At that point, the only way to do this is to surrender.

Lao Chiang's government has always been a weak government, and before and after the Northern Expedition, it received support from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums and fought wars. In fact, the so-called Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium is a nominal consortium, and the substantive consortium is a British consortium. The Lao Chiang government accepted conglomerates, fought wars, and the production economy was basically controlled by foreign capital. If you don't have a strong productive force in your hands, you will naturally be controlled by others, and this is one of the reasons for a weak government.

Lao Jiang is very interesting, he started with a British consortium, and then scolded the British chieftain. The Soviet Union helped him fight against the Japanese, and he also scolded the Soviet Union, and later the Americans helped him to resist the war, and he and Stilwell had a lot of fun. Weak, but unwilling to remain in a weak position forever, against the great powers, this is worthy of recognition.

The second reason for a weak government is the presence of a large number of local warlords in China. Local warlords control local people, money, and the army, and do not pay taxes to the central government at all, but use them to support the local army. In this way, Lao Chiang had little control over these provinces.

Although weak, Mr. Jiang felt that his own strength still had the strength to fight, and he had to use negotiations to kill Wang Yi. Also, don't break this line, and if something happens in the future, you can get in touch with the Japanese.

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1, Yang Tianshi read Lao Jiang's diary, compared it with some literature, and closed the tenon, so he thought that he had found the real Lao Jiang and wrote a lot of research articles. He had an assumption, one, that Lao Jiang was telling the truth in his diary. Second, Lao Jiang recorded everything in his diary. Is this assumption valid?

2, Mr. Yang should analyze, there are many things in Lao Jiang's diary that have not been recorded? According to Lao Jiang's diary, is it certain that Lao Jiang has no intention of surrendering at all? What did Jiang think in his stomach, could it be written in his diary?

3. For the work of Tong, its authenticity cannot be doubted. There are many memoirs and documents in later generations that testify to the authenticity of this action. The results of the work of the Tong work have also been confirmed. The contents of the documents are authentic. Previously, the work of Tong was kept secret. Later, it became evidence to expose Chiang's collusion with Japan.

4. Yang Tianshi believes in his research results that Lao Chiang absolutely did not mean to surrender to Japan. Tong's work was instructed by Chiang Kai-shek "to be nothing more than a trick played by a few small spies of the military commander in Hong Kong against the Japanese side, with the purpose of assassinating intelligence." "The purpose of the early negotiations was to "block Japan's recognition of Wang's puppet regime, and the Chinese side did not immediately close the door to negotiations." "The identity certificate of the characters in Tong's work is fake, and Lao Jiang's opinion is fake.

5. Mr. Yang's speculation that Soong Meiling arrived in Hong Kong on March 5, 1940 purely for medical treatment and recuperation is also a speculation after reading the diary. Secret missions are not written in a diary. In addition, the three Song sisters are all in Hong Kong at this stage.

6. Personally, I think that even if the identities of the participants in the negotiation on the Lao Jiang side are all fake, and all the documents provided are fake, there is one thing that is true, that is, the negotiation itself. That is, if Chongqing deems the time right, they will actually carry out the final negotiations in August.