Chapter 601: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Shanghai and the War of Resistance in Songhu

The Japanese consul general in Shanghai and the commander of the First Foreign Fleet threatened one after another, and even fools knew that this matter would never be good -- the Japanese sent a note to the Shanghai Municipal Government, but the people were all staring at Nanjing, and the city government had to listen to the central authorities.

After the September 18 Incident, Zhang Qun believed that China was in a situation of poverty and civil war, and that it was unable to fight Japan alone. Zhang Qun's words and deeds aroused the dissatisfaction of the anti-Japanese national salvation group in Shanghai, accusing Zhang Qun of being a pro-Japanese faction, so he resigned as mayor of Shanghai. He went to Wuhan to serve as a standing member of the Party and Government Committee of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui "Bandits" General Headquarters and a standing member of the Government Affairs Guidance Committee, and presided over the Wuhan Camp Political Office. The mayor of Shanghai was changed to Wu Tiecheng.

At this time, the Nanjing government is now in a mess, with no decision-making power, no executive power, and no financial resources, which can be called the three-no government.

The current head of the Nanjing government is Sun Ke, who became the premier of the Executive Yuan after Chiang Kai-shek stepped down.

forced Chiang Kai-shek to go into the wilderness, and such an outcome satisfied the bigwigs of all factions in Guangdong. But now that Chiang Kai-shek has gone into the wilderness, someone has to come and take over this stall. Who's coming?

Originally, the most qualified and most wanted to succeed Chiang Kai-shek were Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, and they spent so much effort, isn't it just for this position. However, these two superbosses of the Cantonese faction have their own factions, and whoever comes forward to take power will be opposed by the other faction, and it is very likely that they will fight first before a new government is formed, and if they don't do it, it is very likely that Chiang Kai-shek, who they hate, will pick up another bargain.

Even if Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin have this consciousness and are willing to give up this position, they can't do it, they have to think about their faction, otherwise it will be self-destruction of the Great Wall, who will follow them in the future and work for themselves.

But it's not the two of them who take over, so who has the qualifications, and who can give this position to transition first?

After repeated consultations, the two sides reached an agreement.

Except for Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, there is really no third person to take over Chiang Kai-shek's position, and this position can be put aside for the time being, which needs to be elected together, including all the members of the Central Committee who support Chiang Kai-shek. Candidates who can be appointed as the head of the Executive Executive, that is, the President of the Executive Yuan, can be nominated first.

Regarding this candidate, the first thing to do is to send his own people from Guangdong. Second, it is best to take a relatively neutral position between the Wang and Hu factions. Third, the person himself should also have a certain appeal.

After election, the Cantonese faction finally selected Sun Ke, the eldest son of Sun Yat-sen, the "father of the nation," the president, and the founder and premier of the Kuomintang......

If you look at the political resume of this second generation of officials, you will know how big the advantages of the "second generation of officials" are.

Party members are to talk about the age of the party, Sun Ke joined the League in 1907, and his qualifications look very old. But look at when they were born, 1895. In other words, Sun Ke is a member of the Alliance at the age of 12, and a 12-year-old child is still in middle school in Honolulu, but he is older than many people who shed their blood.

Looking at Sun Ke's revolutionary resume, Xinhai, the Second Revolution, and protecting the country and fighting Yuan, when Chiang Kai-shek and others, who were one year younger than Sun Ke, braved the rain of bullets and bullets to survive, Sun Ke was still studying in the United States peacefully.

But that didn't stop Sun from rising through the party at rocket-like speed. In 1917, when Sun Ke was 22 years old, he returned from the United States to Guangdong, where he became the secretary of the Generalissimo's Office, and only four years later, at the age of 26, Sun Ke became the mayor of Guangzhou. In 1923, Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang, and there were only 9 members of the Central Committee, all of whom were appointed by Sun Yat-sen. His son, 28-year-old Sun Ke, became one of the nine members of the Central Committee and the youngest member of the Central Committee. …,

Sun Yat-sen is really "virtuous and does not avoid relatives".

If you are young and can really be promising, you can be regarded as Sun Yat-sen's wisdom!

Sun Yat-sen promoted his son Sun Ke like this, if he has the ability to surpass ordinary people, it is not impossible to say, then does this Sun Ke really have the ability to make people look at him?

When Sun Ke died, Chiang Kai-shek commented in public that he was "magnificent, talented", and "meritorious in the country, and his reputation in the world", but what is embarrassing is that a few years ago, Chiang Kai-shek's diary kept in the American library was gradually exposed, but Chiang Kai-shek scolded Sun Ke in the diary as "Adou".

In fact, to say that Sun Ke is Adou is probably not Chiang Kai-shek's original invention. Chen Mingshu, who served as Sun Ke's deputy, also said in his memoirs later, "Sun Ke has always had no shoulders, and as early as in Guangdong, some people called him Adouguan."

Everyone knows who Adou is. Since everyone on earth knows it, how can everyone get him to power?

After China's 2,000-year-old feudal dynasty, the death of the father and the succession of the son are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Just like our close neighbors Japan and South Korea, not to mention North Korea, political families abound.

However, Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin agreed to Sun Ke's coming to power, and there should be another reason that cannot be explained.

No matter how stupid Liu Adou is, he at least has one strength, that is, he is more obedient. Zhuge Liang is in charge of the military and politics, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the minister of power, but Adou has never given Zhuge Liang much restraint, or he has no ability at all. The two major factions, Hu Hanmin and Wang Jingwei, were willing to push Sun Ke, who was not their own faction, out to take over Chiang Kai-shek's class, and I am afraid that Sun Ke would not get out of their control.

At the juncture of national crisis, a "second generation official" was elected to power, and some members of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang scolded at that time, Sun Ke is the unscrupulous son of the prime minister, he is lustful and good, and he is irresponsible, how can he take on a major event in an extraordinary period? Isn't that child's play?

However, in order to balance the interests of factions within the party, child's play has also become true. Sun Ke took the stage amid praise and harmony. At this time, the storm is tightening, and war is already imminent.

On New Year's Day 1932, a new national government led by Sun Ke was established.

When the new official took office, Sun Ke naturally wanted to light three fires. But no matter which fire you burn, you have to have money first. It is said that money is not everything, but without money it is absolutely impossible, which is really true.

As soon as the new government opened, the first to become lively was the Ministry of Military Affairs. They are all here to urge the military to pay. What is the purpose of being a soldier, eating food? You have to owe a few months, and the troops are going to mutiny. talked about others, Chen Mingshu became the vice president of the Executive Yuan of the new government, but his descendant unit, Cai Tingkai, deputy commander-in-chief of the 19th Route Army, also went to Nanjing to urge military supplies.

As the saying goes, only when you are in charge knows that firewood and rice are expensive, and when Sun Ke finishes flipping through the account book, he suddenly has a big head. For the entire year of 1931, the Nanjing government spent 300 million silver dollars on military expenditures and 238 million yuan in debt and interest payments. In this way, the annual expenditure of the Nanjing government in 31 years will be 683 million yuan, but the annual revenue is only 553 million yuan, and the deficit will be more than 100 million yuan. Moreover, the Nanjing government has been losing money every year, and the deficit in 31 years is not the largest.

How to solve this shortfall? Only borrowing money. Sun Ke's finance minister before he came to power was Song Ziwen, and with him, there would always be a way to raise the money he needed for Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek didn't need to worry about this matter at all.

However, as soon as the Sun Ke government came to power, the situation was different.

You must know that Chiang Kai-shek was forced to step down, and where will he leave you any family funds. When I opened the treasury, I asked for money, but it was empty, and I wanted IOUs, but there were piles of them. There is nothing to say, to fill this deficit, you can only draw a scoop according to the gourd and borrow money.

It's just, borrow money, ask who to borrow, and who will come forward to help you borrow?

In previous years, it was the practice of the Nanjing government to borrow money, and the Ministry of Finance of the Nanjing government issued public bonds, and the financial chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang subscribed to it in the Shanghai market. Because the actual subscription price is only five or six percent off the face price, the sale has always been okay. But this time the Sun Ke government came to power in a different situation, first, the loan must be collateral, whether you take the salt tax mortgage or the tariff mortgage, in short, there must be collateral. However, the Nanjing government has been borrowing money for several years, and there are not many things that can be used as collateral. Second, Sun Ke came to power this time because the Guangdong faction overwhelmed the Jiangsu and Zhejiang factions, but it was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols who controlled the Shanghai market, and they were in the same breath as Chiang Kai-shek and Song Ziwen, and they had nothing to do with the Guangdong little red guys. …,

Borrowing money is particular, and it is important for someone to come forward, and there must be connections.

What is networking? Finance Minister Song Ziwen is a connection. Whether it is to carry out salt tax reform or to negotiate tariff adjustment with foreigners, it is a good hand, and it is like a fish in water in the pile of chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. But Chiang Kai-shek was forced to leave the opposition, and Soong Ziwen immediately resigned and became the governor of the Central Bank. Moreover, Song Ziwen not only resigned himself, but also took away all the middle-level and above cadres of the Ministry of Finance, and even took away all the archives and documents of the Ministry of Finance.

Looking for Song Ziwen, you don't have to think about it, Sun Ke also knows that he won't do it for himself. Song Ziwen doesn't do it, so who to find?

Sun Ke thought about it and thought of Kong Xiangxi. Sun Ke knew that Kong Xiangxi was still very envious of his beautiful brother-in-law, and even jealous to be exact.

It's just that Sun Ke is still too naïve, Song Ziwen doesn't help him, and Kong Xiangxi, Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, won't help him either, although Kong Xiangxi, the Minister of Finance, likes it very much.

If you can't borrow money, it's just a trick. There is also a trick called drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle. Originally, your financial income was not enough to cover the expenditure, and now I will cut down your financial income again.

Before Chiang Kai-shek stepped down, he suddenly reorganized the four provincial governments, and the four provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Gansu were all replaced by their own cronies, and Hubei, Henan, and other provinces had long been the chairmen of Chiang's trusted provinces. When the Sun Ke government came to power, these princes suddenly became emboldened and blatantly withheld taxes.

Moreover, they are all justified. Don't you still owe me military money and don't pay it? Lao Tzu wants to suppress bandits, to provide disaster relief, and not to withhold taxes, can you give me money?

As a result, after Sun Ke came to power, he found that only Shanghai's tax revenue of 7 million yuan could be collected every month. But if you look at the expenditure, the monthly military expenditure is 18 million, and the government expenditure is 4 million. Isn't that too big?

In desperation, Sun Ke had to promote one of his cronies, Huang Hanliang, to act as Minister of Finance. This Minister Huang is indeed very hard-working, and he has worked hard to raise a sum of money, how much? 3 million yuan, Sun Ke almost fainted when he saw it.

3 million yuan, Sun Ke's government is not enough to maintain it for one day, and it is tens of thousands of yuan.

For the Sunko government, it's not just money that's a matter of worry. There is an even more fatal problem, that is, a problem that cannot be avoided, that is, the Sino-Japanese problem!

I think that at the beginning, when Sun Ke and the Guangdong faction were in the audience, they scolded Chiang Kai-shek more and more fiercely, and the most severe scolding was Chiang Kai-shek's foreign policy. For example, Chiang Kai-shek was scolded for adopting a policy toward Japan that had no means, no responsibility, and no resistance, and that he would inevitably destroy the country and his species, and so on.

It's very cool to stand and scold, and now that Chiang Kai-shek is in the wilderness, he really picks up this burden, and Sun Ke doesn't know what to do.

On January 1, on the day that Sun Ke's new government was sworn in, Zhang Xueliang sent a "generous gift" to Sun Ke's government, and the Northeast Army retreated without a fight, abandoning the entire Jinzhou army and retreating into the Guannei, completely abandoning the great rivers and mountains in the Northeast.

This made Sun Ke, who wanted to do a good job, stunned, and after relieving himself, he repeatedly ordered Zhang Xueliang not to enter the customs and to resist in Jinzhou, but Zhang Xueliang just ignored it.

The new government came to power under the banner of resisting Japan, but as soon as it came up, it lost Jinzhou, and the new government had nothing to do. The media couldn't help it first, and Shanghai's "Declaration" was the first to scold...... The new government was formed, and the new diplomatic authorities said that diplomatic means should be used to break through the national difficulties. What about the means? The people led the way, Jinzhou fell again, Rehe was in an emergency, and the means were still inaudible and invisible......

On January 4, the head of government met with reporters for the first time to talk about the major policies of the new government. ”…,

But none of the three superbosses gave Sun Ke face, not only did Chiang Kai-shek ignore Sun Ke at all, but even Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin, who recommended him to power, refused to come to Nanjing. It seems to all depend on the jokes of his former prince.

Sun Ke's foreign policy can't always be so hide-and-seek. President Sun was silent, and President Sun's foreign minister could not help it, and the minister said that the new foreign policy of this government should be to break diplomatic relations with Japan.

As soon as these words came out, the pot immediately exploded. Chiang Kai-shek changed his previous attitude of not talking about state affairs, and was the first to jump out at Xikou and openly scold the foreign minister's policy of "severing diplomatic relations with Japan," saying that the minister only cares about his own words, but does not weigh his own weight, does not know what is at stake, and is irresponsible.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had just been scolded for being irresponsible in diplomacy with Japan, learned to scold the people on stage for being irresponsible. However, who was the foreign minister who provoked Chiang Kai-shek's bitter reprimand? Why did Chiang Kai-shek scold so fiercely?

If you want to say that this person is really unusual, this person's name is Chen Youren, and he is the foreign minister of the Republic of China who can't even speak Chinese. This point has never been seen before, and I am afraid that there will be no one in the future.

However, don't think that this person is a foreigner, Chen Youren is a standard yellow-skinned and black-eyed, Minister Chen's ancestors are Hakka, Minister Chen himself was born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, Chinese is not good, but English is croaking. Chen Youren was not engaged in diplomacy back then, but as a lawyer, he did a good job as a lawyer abroad, had his own plantation, invested in oil, had his own villa, and went on vacation regularly. In today's terms, this lawyer Chen is definitely a successful person.

But the Xinhai Revolution overthrew the imperial system, lawyer Chen was full of enthusiasm, just like the meeting in 49, he returned to China with many overseas Chinese to serve, served as a legal adviser to the Beiyang government, ran his own newspaper, and later became Sun Yat-sen's English secretary, to the Northern Expedition, lawyer Chen was already the foreign minister of the national government, to say that this qualification is very old.

However, for this old Minister Chen, who is almost ten years older than himself, Lao Jiang really has a headache. When Sun Ke came to power, Chiang Kai-shek advised Sun Ke not to let Chen Youren become foreign minister. The reason why Lao Jiang was so worried was because Minister Chen practiced a unique stunt in the diplomatic circles of the Republic of China back then.

Chen Youren and his wife Zhang Liying, not only is the difference between the two nearly 30 years old, but Chen Youren is a well-known Kuomintang leftist, and Zhang Liying's father is Zhang Jingjiang, a veteran of the Kuomintang right. Chen Youren is a year older than this father-in-law.

Jin Yong's martial arts novels have been read by many people. If you want to compare diplomacy with martial arts, then the kung fu that the diplomatic circles of the Republic of China were best at back then can be said to be Taijiquan. Taijiquan pays attention to borrowing strength, to put it bluntly, that is, to control raze. This was a trick chosen according to the actual situation at that time, and it should be said that with the power of the Republic of China at this time, it was still more realistic.

The foreign policy advocated by Chen Youren is the path of seven wounds, which is extremely powerful and dangerous to himself.

Chen Youren's foreign policy has always been regarded as "revolutionary diplomacy", with a hard-line attitude and never bowing his head easily to the foreign powers. Chen Youren has tasted the sweetness of such hard-line diplomacy.

In 1927, when British sailors clashed with Wuhan protesters, Chen Youren ordered British sailors to quit the concession within 24 hours, and fought with British diplomatic representatives to successfully recover the two concessions of Hankou and Jiujiang by peaceful means.

can snatch food in the hands of the number one veteran power, the British Empire, Chen Youren is by no means a simple angry youth, he is definitely brave and strategic. However, after this incident, Britain and the United States and other countries at least clearly favored Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, and the external environment of the Wuhan government only became more difficult. …,

In the final analysis, the premise of practicing Seven Injuries Boxing is that you must have high internal strength. In the final analysis, if we want to fight revolutionary diplomacy, we must have our own strength. Otherwise, even if the enemy is seriously injured, the damage to oneself will not be small.

This time, Chen Youren's slogan of breaking off diplomatic relations with Japan attracted a large number of applause from the public, but it also attracted a lot of scolding from the party. In particular, as soon as Chiang Kai-shek opened his mouth, the Chiang faction within the Kuomintang openly scolded as if they had received an edict from the emperor.

Fortunately, at this time, Song Zhewu, who was far away in the northeast, sent a telegram expressing his firm support for the Foreign Ministry's proposal to sever diplomatic relations with Japan. With the support of Song Zhewu, a hero who can fight well and resist foreign enemies, not only Chen Youren is more confident, but also Sun Ke can't help but be overjoyed.

Song Zhewu believes that Chen Youren's proposition is not unreasonable, and that the Chinese are correct in principle to let all countries interfere and let the great powers impose tough sanctions on Japan to defeat Japan; in the final analysis, under the international environment at this time, it is indeed inappropriate for China and Japan to start a full-scale war, and China needs time to integrate internally.

It is not necessary to go to war in an all-out way, at least in words. Otherwise, the great powers will ask, you say that you have been bullied by the Japanese, but why are you still frowning at Japan? In fact, only a year later, many people in the Nanjing government also proposed to break off diplomatic relations with Japan, including the foreign minister at that time. For example, Wu Chaoshu said, "Breaking off diplomatic relations with Japan cannot show that our country respects its own personality and attracts the attention of the great powers." It can be seen that the severance of diplomatic relations with Japan is not a very stupid and naïve indignant idea. Moreover, Chen Youren himself made it very clear at the government meeting, "The severance of diplomatic relations with Japan is not a war with Japan, but a means to arouse international sympathy." ”

However, the same proposition, different people put forward it, the effect is different, and Chen Youren is definitely not his own person, this is the fundamental difference. Therefore, in Chiang Kai-shek's view, Chen Youren's severance of diplomatic relations with Japan was simply a "conspiracy" by Hu Hanmin to oppose Chiang Kai-shek under the pretext of foreign insults. Since it is a "conspiracy", it must be foiled.

But a month ago, Hu Hanmin and other Cantonese factions and party bigwigs forced Chiang Kai-shek to step down, what kind of power was that, and a month later, Chiang Kai-shek had already become a member of the lower field, and Chiang Kai-shek, who had no official position at all, after leaving the wilderness, how could he turn things around and thwart Hu Hanmin's "conspiracy"?

The strategy of diplomacy is like the tricks of martial arts, and the effect depends on the strength. Just like Zhang Wuji's Jiuyang Divine Skill, practicing Seven Injuries Boxing will not hurt the enemy and hurt himself first.

Song Zhewu belongs to a capable person who has miraculous skills to protect his body, and Song Zhewu's electrification has caused great resonance among the people. However, it did not reverse the advantage of the opposition in the Kuomintang, and these people, including Chiang Kai-shek, did not seem to have seen Song Zhewu's telegram, and aimed their firepower at Chen Youren and Sun Ke in unison, but did not mention Song Zhewu. made Song Zhewu very faceless, and wanted to send a telegram again, but after receiving Jia Jingde's dissuasion telegram, Song Zhewu had no choice but to give up.

Shimono, in the eyes of many, is a sign of failure. Warlords are in a scuffle, and the defeated are forced to declare their resignation without asking about political affairs, which is a Chinese tradition. However, Chiang Kai-shek was different, and for him, the lower field was just a means of retreating.

Taking this time as an example, it seems that the Cantonese faction is violent, but Chiang Kai-shek can see very clearly that this group of people is intriguing with each other and full of contradictions in other aspects, except that anti-Chiang is the common goal.

For Chiang Kai-shek, as long as he kept his political and military groups intact, he could stay out of the conflict and pick up the mess at any time. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek urgently executed Deng Yanda, the leader of the Third Party who had just been arrested, before leaving the wilderness.

The reason is very simple, Deng Yanda used to be the chief of education of the Whampoa Military Academy, and he had a great influence among the Whampoa students. If this person took advantage of Chiang Kai-shek's descent to help Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin pull away the army, then Chiang Kai-shek's descent would make the fake come true. As long as the army is in hand, the power can be regained if it is lost. …,

Sure enough, Chiang Kai-shek turned around and went into the wilderness, handed over power, and threw out a piece of meat and bones, and the Cantonese faction was soon torn apart. Hu Hanmin wanted to control Nanjing remotely from the southwest, and he had a conflict with Sun Ke, who wanted to be the boss of the Nanjing government. Wang Jingwei suddenly elected 10 members of the Wang Ji Central Committee in Shanghai, which was obviously Wang Jingwei's development of power and preparation for the election of political leaders, which was naturally criticized by Hu Hanmin. In just one month, the Cantonese faction couldn't even look good and detached, and there were more things scolding each other.

The three major Standing Committee members of the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai-shek, Hu Hanmin, and Wang Ching-wei. The strongest, of course, was Chiang Kai-shek, who firmly controlled the country's largest military bloc and was supported by some party elders. The second most powerful is Hu Hanmin, his prestige in the party is naturally needless to say, and he also has the support of the Liangguang army, although there are fewer guns, but after all, he is also a powerful faction. And the worst strength is Wang Jingwei, the army that supported him before, whether it is Zhang Fakui, Feng Yuxiang, or Tang Shengzhi, they were all beaten by Chiang Kai-shek as a bare-bones commander, and he could only rely on a group of Central Committee members to wave the flag and shout for him.

None of the three Standing Committee members is capable of controlling the overall situation alone, and in order to break the situation, it is inevitable that the two of them will join forces to win the support of the majority of the party. And the one who is most eager to find a way, the lowest bid and the easiest to compromise is Wang Jingwei, because he has the smallest capital. Chiang Kai-shek saw all this clearly. Before Chiang Kai-shek went into the wilderness, the two sides had actually begun to explore cooperation.

However, Wang Jingwei and Chiang Kai-shek sang against each other for many years, scolding each other as a one-man thief and expelling the other party from the party. Suddenly, the two sides have to cooperate, and they can't say nothing without saying anything, and they will get back together without making a sound. Wasn't that a joke about the accusations made before? To re-cooperate, we must always find common ground and convince everyone that the two enemies are drinking and talking, not for the sake of power distribution to reach a compromise, but for the country and the people.

Chiang Kai-shek first came forward to scold Chen Youren and accuse Chen Youren, "If the severance of diplomatic relations is a declaration without war, the country will be in danger."

Wang Jingwei immediately followed suit, saying: "I will oppose a kind of argument, this argument is the so-called main battle faction, try to ask a China that has just plotted to become strong, come to make an enemy of an already strong Japan, isn't this a child's play with the country and the nation?"

However, the crux of Wang Jingwei's speech lies in the following sentence: I read a text written by Mr. Chiang after his resignation, that is, a speech entitled "The Northeast Question and the Policy Toward Japan," and I believe that Mr. Chiang and I are of the same heart and willing to cooperate sincerely with Mr. Chiang to go to the national crisis and save the building from collapse.

In this way, if the policy of severing diplomatic relations with Japan is scolded as a crisis of "the country will perish," then Chiang Kai-shek's re-emergence from the wilderness will not be a struggle for power, but a force to turn the tide. And Wang Jingwei can also naturally use the reason of stopping the policy of severing diplomatic relations with Japan and expressing the country's difficulties with one heart to complete the magnificent transformation from Chiang Kai-shek's enemy to a partner.

On the 17th, two superbosses who had confronted each other since the beginning of the Northern Expedition and regarded each other as enemies met in Hangzhou. While talking and laughing, on the shore of the beautiful West Lake in Hangzhou, a power reorganization of the Kuomintang was finalized. Everything that follows is naturally just a formality.

However, what they didn't expect was that first the Japanese monk died, and then the Japanese burned down the Sanyou Industrial Society, and on the 21st, the Japanese Consul General Murai Somatsu made four unreasonable demands to Shanghai Mayor Wu Tiecheng for apology, punishment of the culprits, compensation, and dissolution of the anti-Japanese organization. On the 22nd, Koichi Shiozawa, commander of the 1st Japanese Foreign Fleet in Shanghai, issued a threatening statement to step up preparations for war on the pretext of protecting overseas Chinese and to transfer troops from Japan to Shanghai.

All this disrupted the steps agreed upon by Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei to seize power. This is really not a good time to do it, unless Sun Ke himself steps down. …,

On the same day that Shiozawa Koichi made his threatening statement, Foreign Minister Chen Youren abandoned his post in his own unique way and issued a statement bitterly scolding Chiang Kai-shek. However, he could not change anything other than his removal from office and disciplinary action within the party.

The foreign minister, who could barely help Sun Ke support the façade, resigned, the finances could not be maintained, and the foreign policy was vetoed by Jiang Wang, and the days of Sun Ke, the premier, came to an end, and he could only step down gloomily, and Wang Jingwei took over the golden position of the premier.

But when the struggle for power within the Kuomintang was heating up, the Japanese in Shanghai did not stop. Just as Chiang Kai-shek was about to return to Nanjing as a victor, the fuse of fire finally burned to the edge of the powder keg in Shanghai.

Although they did not yet know that the Japanese Government had drawn up a new policy toward China, when they saw this note, Chiang Kai-shek and the officials of the Nationalist Government realized that the Japanese, including the government, really wanted to make trouble this time.

The Shanghai Municipal Government also discovered that starting on the 25th, a large number of Japanese expatriates living in the Hongkou and Zhabei areas had moved to the French Concession, and some Japanese expatriates had also received guns and ammunition at the Marine Corps Headquarters, and the Japanese Marine Corps had set up barbed wire fences and stacked sandbags on the streets of the Concession.

All indications are that the Japanese don't just want to scare you, they really want to play for real.

However, in the eyes of Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, Shanghai Branch is not North Mongolia and Northeast China, but the economic center of the Republic of China. It's just that the Japanese were aggressive and deceived people too much, and they didn't give the Nationalist Government any face, which made Chiang Kai-shek really angry.

However, no matter how angry he is, he has to endure it, and as soon as Shanghai is beaten, the Japanese will have more excuses to invade and occupy the northeast, not to mention that he wants to fight now, and he can't muster his troops to fight with the Japanese.

If you can't fight, then you can only temporarily endure and retreat, so that the Japanese can't find an excuse.

At this time, it was the 19th Route Army of Chen Mingshu and Cai Tingkai stationed in Shanghai, and they had never had a good impression of these Guangdong soldiers Chiang Kai-shek, and it was difficult to guarantee that nothing would happen to them if they stayed in Shanghai.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had not officially returned to Nanjing to take up his duties for the time being, instructed He Yingqin to order the 19th Route Army to withdraw from Shanghai in the name of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and on the other hand, he urgently telegraphed Zhang Jingjiang, a veteran of the Kuomintang, to persuade Cai Tingkai to avoid conflict with the Japanese army and transfer the 16th Military Police Regiment to take over the defense of the 19th Route Army in Shanghai.

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