Although Lao Chiang was not very active in the peace talks proposed by the Japanese side, it does not mean that Lao Chiang was not moved; on the contrary, Lao Chiang had already had ideas about the peace talks, but the Japanese side has not been able to do so. Lao Chiang and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang consortium that supported him cared about the legitimacy of his regime in China, and most importantly, the acceptance and support of the West.

So what? As long as the Japanese side does not undermine this point, everything else can be discussed, including national sovereignty. Before the "77 Incident," Japan occupied part of Shandong, northeast China, and violated the sovereignty of Shanghai and other places, and the old Chiang regime not only did not "turn its face" with Japan, but also continued to be "friendly" with Japan, allowing the proportion of its investment and trade volume in China to rise, and even suppressed domestic anti-Japanese words and deeds, allowing Japanese spies to run rampant in China, and allowing Japan to invest in and even control China's iron ore and other strategic industries. After the incident, he never took the initiative to launch an offensive with the purpose of "returning my rivers and mountains".

The threat of the Japanese is certainly not small now, but in Lao Chiang's view, the domestic threat is equally huge, not to mention that the number of regular troops of the Turkish Communist Party, which has already been beaten and dying, has reached four or five hundred thousand after several years of development.

Although that little guy is young, his ambition is not small, and the army of hundreds of thousands of people is not an opponent, even the Japanese army is a cut below the boss. The most important thing is that the little guy has the support of the United States and the Soviet Union, which even he cannot compare with as the chairman of the committee. After a few fights, Lao Jiang could see that he had no way to take that place in Saibei.

Although it is said that his people are now in charge of one-third of the power in northern Cyprus. But both he and Chen Feng knew that a regime without the support of the military was nothing more than a castle in the air, and that Chen Feng could destroy it at any time if he wanted to, let alone a third of the regime.

Now Lao Jiang can't help but regret a little, it is precisely because of his support that Saibei Province will become the largest and strongest province in northern China in just a few years, if he had not sent so many political officials to Saibei, presumably Chen Feng would not have developed so rapidly.

In addition, the relationship between Saibei Province and the Second War Zone is extremely close, Yan Laoxi and Chen Feng are Weng sons-in-law, and Chen Feng has rescued the Second War Zone from danger many times. He even took Taiyuan City back twice and sent it to Yan Laoxi. If the Chen Yan family joins forces. Even he, the chairman, is not necessarily an opponent.

It is precisely because of these concerns that Lao Jiang actually hopes for peace talks the most. The main reason why he was not enthusiastic this time was that the two peace talks on the Japanese side made Lao Chiang extremely ugly, and not only did not reach any effective agreement. Instead, he admitted to being angry. In addition, the person sent by the Japanese side this time is only a small army lieutenant. The Chinese military rank is nothing more than a lieutenant colonel. Can a small infantry battalion commander decide the war and peace between the two countries? The answer is obviously no, which is why Lao Jiang behaves so negatively.

Even so, Lao Chiang still did not completely reject the Japanese side. Instead, he ordered Dai Li to deal with the matter and asked him to send agents to pretend to replace Song Ziliang to negotiate with the Japanese side.

At the same time, Lao Jiang quietly released the news, wanting to test Chen Feng's attitude, after all, most of the north is now decided by Chen Feng, and his Jiang someone's order in northern China is not comparable to a military order in the Eighth War Zone.

After getting the news quietly released by Lao Jiang, Chen Feng was very conflicted. It was not until after the outbreak of the Pacific War that both China and Japan knew that there was no longer any need for peace talks between them, and the peace talks came to an abrupt end.

However, unlike in the past, the fact that China and Japan have not succeeded in peace talks in history does not mean that China and Japan will be like in history in this time and space. It is important to know that Japan's national strength in the past was significantly stronger than that of Japan today, and even if it did not hold peace talks with China, Japan would be able to hold on.

But now? As a result of Chen Feng's military, foreign trade, and financial and monetary attacks, Japan's economic strength has declined very seriously, and it is a big cut behind history, so the Japanese side does have the expectation of peace talks. As for Lao Chiang, Chen Feng didn't think that the bald head was a staunch anti-Japanese element at all, which can be clearly seen from Lao Chiang's anti-Japanese strategy.

There are many people who think that the Nationalist Government did not formulate an anti-Japanese strategy at all, but in fact this is a wrong idea, and the Nationalist Government formulated a corresponding strategy as early as when the Japanese army forcibly occupied the four eastern provinces, and we can completely analyze this from Chiang Kai-shek's Lushan speech.

Chiang Kai-shek's Lushan speech is still worthy of affirmation, although it is subtle, but after all, he recognized the legal status of Yan'an and sent a signal that he would resist Japan or that he would no longer suppress it, which is worthy of recognition. But it's certainly the same thing, and some people tout it as "loud and sound", so you don't have to.

It can be seen from Chiang Kai-shek's speech at Lushan that the Lao Chiang regime must have an overall strategy of resisting Japan: First, Lao Chiang and his staff unanimously insisted that if they could, they would not fight if they could, and to put it mildly, they would vigorously pursue peace. This was made very clear in his speech. In the first part, it emphasized that "the Chinese nation is deeply interested in peace" and reiterated that "peace will never give up until it reaches a period of fundamental despair, and sacrifice will never be made lightly until it reaches the last moment". The third part once again states that "if it really comes to the inevitable last moment, of course we only have sacrifices, only the war of resistance"; The fourth part once again emphasizes that "we still hope for peace one second before it is fundamentally hopeless"; Later, he once again proposed that "we hope for peace, not for Gou An" -- the so-called "Gou An" should have been done by Wang Jingwei later, and this point is worthy of affirmation.

To put it bluntly, we can stop fighting or not, if we can spend some money or kowtow a few heads to get things done, that's the best. It's really forced to have no choice, so let's fight, everyone is knocking on the door, and they still have this kind of thought, can this be a staunch anti-Japanese element?

The second is to adhere to the anti-Japanese bottom line of not surrendering. Since we are trying our best to "hope for peace", should we resist the war? His speech was also very clear. The first part emphasizes the "last moment"; The second part further explains the meaning of "the last moment": "If the Lugou Bridge can be oppressed and forcibly occupied, then we will be the capital for a hundred years." Beiping, the center of political culture and military town in the north, will become the second in Shenyang! Today's Beiping, if it becomes the former Shenyang, today's Jicha, will also become the former four eastern provinces. If Beiping can become Shenyang, Nanjing will not become Beiping! The meaning is very clear: not Pu Yi; And the last thing that says, "We hope for peace, not for peace" is also inappropriate for Puyi.

Of course, he could not be Pu Yi, because the basis of the old Chiang clique was the Anglo-American and the Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebol clique under their support, and once it surrendered, the basis for its regime's existence in the international community would be gone. It will also be abandoned by the people of the whole country. So why do you say that the bottom line of the old Chiang regime is not to surrender? This can be seen from the strategy and performance of the Lao Chiang regime to resist Japan later. The strategy is to "be ready for battle." and never seek war", the manifestation of which is that it only seeks peace in the form of regular political power, not to recover the country, and the bottom line is, of course, not to be Puyi!

The last thing is to adhere to the anti-Japanese strategy of "exchanging sovereignty for peace" and "never seeking war," since he has repeatedly expressed his "hope for peace" in his speech. Then, at the end of the speech, he emphasized, "Prepare for battle." And the strategy of "never seeking war" is very natural. its strategy. The words "sovereignty for peace" should be added. This can be illustrated from the previous treaties such as the "Tanggu Agreement" signed with Japan and the later performance of the Anti-Japanese War, and it can also be confirmed that the bottom line of its anti-Japanese resistance is "improper Puyi".

In the Tanggu Agreement, the Japanese proposed: all Chinese troops should quickly withdraw to the areas west and south of the line connected by Yanqing, Changping, Gaoliying, Shunyi, Tongzhou, Xianghe, Baodi, Lintingkou, Ninghe, and Lutai. Then. Do not cross the line, and do not do anything that challenges or disturbs it; In order to confirm the implementation of the first paragraph, the Japanese military shall use aircraft and other means to monitor it at any time, and the Chinese side shall protect this and provide various conveniences; If it is confirmed that the Chinese army has complied with the provisions of the first paragraph, the Japanese army will not cross the retreat line of the Chinese army as mentioned above and continue the pursuit, and will automatically return to the area of the line of Ayutthaya, south of the Great Wall line, and north and east of the line indicated in paragraph 1.

The content of this treaty is obvious to the trampling on China's sovereignty! But the old Chiang clique actually accepted it for the sake of "hoping for peace"! Therefore, the anti-Japanese strategy of the Lao Chiang regime was to "exchange sovereignty for peace" and "never seek war." Its purpose is to ensure the legitimacy of its regime in China, and most importantly, to be accepted and supported by the West.

So what? As long as the Japanese side does not undermine this point, sovereignty can be discussed or lost. Moreover, because he was afraid of pushing the Japanese side into a hurry and threatening his bottom line, he made every effort to compromise with the Japanese side. Judging from the situation after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese side did not seek to eliminate the Lao Chiang regime, nor did it seek to replace it with the Wang Jingwei regime, but forced it to surrender - because it was useful to stay!

After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese base camp tried to limit the scale of each attack, and later focused the offensive in the direction of Burma, which was more obvious: Didn't the old Chiang regime want to gain Western recognition and support? The Japanese side cut off the old Chiang regime from the West, so that the West could not support it, and the old Chiang regime might also surrender? It feels like there is still a tacit understanding between the two sides.

Lao Jiang's various performances made Chen Feng very worried, what if Lao Jiang really made peace with Japan? Anti-Chiang anti-Japanese?

If he resists Chiang Kai-shek's resistance against Japan, then the anti-Japanese front of the whole nation will come to naught, and the rope that the Chinese have managed to condense will become a scattered sand, and then he will not only face pressure from the Japanese side, but also from the threat of the national government, and in the end it will only be the Japanese who will benefit.

But it is not possible to let Lao Chiang come into contact with the Japanese, if they really reach an agreement between them, then the problem will be even more serious, Japan will get a lot of benefits and then get time to recuperate, but China, which has no external threat, will return to the situation of warlord melee ten years ago, and when China's various "heroes" are almost consumed, the rested Japanese will appear again, and there will really be a danger of extinction of the country and the species.

Therefore, they could neither be allowed to negotiate peace, nor be anti-Chiang, so they could only continue to force Chiang to resist Japan! (To be continued......)