Chapter 378: The End of the Xi'an Incident

**After the three-member delegation arrived in Xi'an, they were warmly welcomed by Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, and that night, they held consultations in the Xi'an Zhang Xueliang Mansion on how to deal with the Xi'an incident.

At this time, although Zhang Yang got rid of the danger of fighting with the superior Central Army because of Tang Qiuli's efforts, he was uncertain about how to deal with the Xi'an Incident was the safest way.

Previously, Zhang Xueliang had met with Chairman Jiang many times, reiterated the eight-point proposal, and persuaded Jiang to agree, but at this time, Chairman Jiang was very resolute and refused to give in, and said to Zhang Xueliang: "You are killing me now, and I will not agree to your conditions under the condition of being detained." ”

Yang Hucheng also persuaded Chairman Jiang several times, but he was also refused, but his attitude towards Yang Hucheng was much more polite than that towards Zhang Xueliang, and it was obvious that Zhang and Yang were different in their proximity and status in Chairman Jiang's mind.

Things are deadlocked in this way, and at this time, Jiang must not be allowed to return to Nanjing, otherwise, the previous achievements will be wasted, and the Xi'an Incident can only end in an absurd situation and become the laughing stock of everyone.

They can't kill Jiang, otherwise, Zhang and Yang will become the target of the public, and they will be in an extremely unfavorable situation politically and militarily, and they can't be killed or let go, and Chairman Jiang's attitude is stubborn, and Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng are like holding a hot potato, and they are at a loss.

The arrival of the delegation is no less than bringing new hope to Zhang Yang in the middle of nowhere, and the mature political proposition has made Zhang Yang refreshed and opened.

**The delegation came prepared, Zhou Enlai proposed that Chiang Kai-shek could be released, but it must be conditionally released, and our three parties could come up with a formed agreement, that is, it could include the political propositions of our three parties, and it could represent or reflect the current public opinion of China, and it was also conducive to uniting various patriotic forces to jointly resist the Japanese invaders.

Zhou Gong's remarks were actually for how to solve the Xi'an Incident, and put forward a specific direction for the outline, and then the agreement drafting group attended by representatives of the **, the Northeast Army, and the 17th Route Army drafted the agreement in full accordance with this line of thought.

Subsequently, the draft agreement was publicly released to the whole country, which caused a huge repercussion, and the sympathy of the people gradually tended to Zhang Yang, and after absorbing the opinions of many parties, the final text of the six-point agreement on the peaceful settlement of the Xi'an incident was formed.

Now, as long as Chairman Chiang nods, the Xi'an incident can come to an end, and he can return to Nanjing safely and continue to be his chairman and party chairman.

Zhou Gong is worthy of being an outstanding master who is good at building momentum and has extremely rich experience in political struggles, and he immediately won the widest sympathy and echo when he made a move.

After extensively soliciting opinions from all walks of life, and on the basis of Zhang Yang's eight political proposals, the six agreements that were repeatedly revised included the opinions of all sides, and each political force had a sense of personal participation and was related to its own vital interests.

Chairman Jiang was pushed to the cusp, all eyes were on him, just waiting for his words, as soon as Zhou Gong's clever plan came out, Zhang Yang of Xi'an immediately changed from passive to active, and Chairman Jiang at this time carried the expectations and high hopes of the people.

Zhou Gong went to see Chairman Chiang, a former colleague of the Whampoa Military Academy, a political enemy who is not a party today, the world is changeable, and he is being chased and killed by the outlaw in the past, and the head is rewarded, but today he has become a guest of his subordinates, and he is a prisoner of the ranks.

When they met under such circumstances, I believe that Chairman Chiang and Zhou Gong both had all kinds of feelings, and Zhou Gong told Chairman Chiang about the six agreements and the reactions of the people of the whole country, and Jiang was silent.

I don't know how Chairman Jiang felt at this time, after Zhou Gong left, Chairman Jiang sat for a long time, looking at the colorful night of the ancient capital, and was silent for a long time.

At this time, Chairman Jiang's inner life was truly active, and outsiders had no way of knowing, even after he escaped safely, he did not mention anything about meeting Zhou Gong that night, and in his memoir "Xi'an Half Moon Chronicle", it was also mentioned in one stroke, until he lived on the isolated island of Taiwan in his later years, and never mentioned it.

At the same time as the introduction of the six agreements, Zhou Gong also carried out painstaking persuasion work within the Northeast Army and the Seventeenth Route Army on those internal forces who firmly advocated the killing of Chiang, and Zhou Gong's personal charm, sincere attitude, and reasonable analysis finally made these people give up the idea of killing Chiang and return to the road of conditional release of Chiang.

Because of Zhou Gong's efforts, ** and Xi'an's internal voices, advocating the killing of Jiang, disappeared, and Xi'an finally reached a consensus to promote the peaceful resolution of the Xi'an Incident.

The demeanor of a generation of great men, our younger generations, have no chance to see it, we can only imagine it out of thin air, and turn it into a few words that are pale and very superficial on paper.

On 22 December, 10 days after the Xi'an Incident, Song Meiling and Song Ziwen, members of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang and the Xi'an Incident Decision-making Committee, were finally able to make the trip and fly from Nanjing to Xi'an by plane.

Unexpectedly, Dai Li, director of the Military Control Bureau, also arrived on the same plane as one of the members of the delegation to Xi'an.

I don't know what kind of consideration Dai Li has, anyway, everyone is puzzled, Song Meiling is quite emotional, adversity sees people's hearts, Dai Li knows that this is going to be more auspicious and the future is unpredictable, and he resolutely went randomly, which is commendable, and compared with Chen Guofu, it is even more high-level judgment.

In Dai Li's own words: "My qiē was given by the chairman, and now, the chairman of the committee is in trouble, how can he stand idly by as his student?" Dai Li's inability to rescue the chairman of the committee is only to accompany him through the danger, and only in this way can the student's heart be at peace and not be condemned by his conscience."

However, Tang Qiuli guessed his true intentions, the Xi'an incident has happened to this day, judging from the shape, Chairman Jiang is sure that there is no danger of life, and at the meeting of the Central Standing Committee, Chen Guofu was in a daze, and he was not happy with the Song family brothers and sisters, and at that time, the Central Union and the military command competed, because of the Chen brothers' transcendent position in the party-state, the military command was repeatedly at a disadvantage, and there was a tendency to be overwhelmed.

Why not take this opportunity to give him a fight, and be the first to enter the eyes of Chairman Jiang, the person who is in distress, the most inexplicable, is the former subordinates, willing to take risks, thousands of miles to invest, Jun drove out of danger, friends in trouble, and are afraid that they will not fly in the future?

Dai Li's move seems to be risky, but in fact, it is mō who has the pulse of the current situation, and he is betting a lot on him, and if he wins, he will have a thousand times or ten thousand times the benefits waiting to be taken, but in fact, Dai Li's heart is also bottomless, which can be seen from his flickering eyes and his uncertain face.

Tang Qiuli secretly thought to himself, why not give Dai Li, he walked to the back of the plane, and hurriedly wrote a letter to Zhang and Yang in his personal name, the content of which was roughly, imploring them not to harm Dai Li's life, not to hope that there would be a chance for a peaceful settlement of the Xi'an incident, and there were innocent people to pay the price of their lives.

Tang Qiuli pulled Dai Li's sleeve, "Brother Yu Nong, this letter is well received, and it may be used at a critical moment." ”

Dai Li was slightly stunned, read the letter carefully, felt jī's feelings, and sincerely came from the heart, "Deputy Commander-in-Chief Tang, how can Dai Yunong repay him?" Tang Qiuli smiled slightly, and shook Dai Li's hand tightly, which had a great implication that it was all unspoken.

The plane landed first in Luoyang, Tang Qiu left the plane, and the plane continued to fly to Xi'an, Tang Qiu left this trip, not to go to Xi'an, but to rush to Shangluo and Lingbao, in order to temporarily lead the commander-in-chief of the army, navy, and air force of the whole country, to restrain the various units under the Northwest Suppression Command, and not to move.

On this important occasion when Madame Chiang and Grand Prince Song went to Xi'an for negotiations, the military must not make the slightest move, otherwise, Chairman Chiang was not rescued, and the first lady and Uncle Guo were still involved, wouldn't the world laugh off their big teeth?

In the evening, the plane arrived at Xi'an Airport, and on the plane, Song Meiling prepared for the worst, handed the pistol to Duan Na, and said: "If the rebels do anything rude to me, you can use this gun to shoot me immediately."

Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng went to the airport to greet them, and after getting off the plane, Song Meiling and Zhang Xueliang said: "Hanqing, this is my thing, please check it by your soldiers?" Zhang Xueliang was a little afraid to look at each other, and Mrs. Jiang, who was good friends with him, immediately said: "Madam, how dare you dare" and then the two sides held talks.

After the talks, Zhang Xueliang personally accompanied Song Meiling and Duan Na to see Jiang, Mrs. Jiang took a favorite hometown dish of Chairman Jiang, a box of dried plum vegetables to see her husband, and later according to Jiang's record in "Xi'an Half Moon Chronicle", after Jiang saw Song, tears flowed, and sighed again and again: "Why are you here?" It's like a tiger's den."

Song Meiling persuaded: "It is better to resist Japan than to die in the hands of the enemy" (it is better to resist Japan, you are a hero in victory or defeat, it is better than to die in the hands of the rebels because of refusal to resist Japan), it can be said that the words are serious, and Jiang was quite moved, and from then on, Chairman Chiang's attitude began to change, loosened somewhat, and no longer stubborn.

On 24 December, Chairman Chiang accepted the six agreements jointly proposed by ** and Zhang Yang, but was unwilling to sign any agreement for his promises, and verbally promised to call them "gentlemen's agreements." ”

Yang Hucheng strongly opposed the release of Jiang in this way, thinking that things that did not fall on paper were unreliable, Zhang Yang on the question of how to release Jiang, the first time there was a quarrel, the two sides had strict opinions, and they could not hold each other, and finally it was under the persuasion of Zhou Enlai, the head of the ** delegation, that Yang Hucheng agreed to Zhang Xueliang's "do not sign to release Jiang".

On the afternoon of 25 December, Chairman Chiang and his attaché left Xi'an by plane, accompanied by Zhang Xueliang, who arrived in Luoyang on the same day.

On December 26, Chairman Chiang arrived in Nanjing, the Xi'an Incident was resolved peacefully, Zhang Xueliang was detained, and began a half-century life under house arrest, and Yang Hucheng was forced to leave the 17th Route Army and go to Europe to investigate.

After that, the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the land of China fell into the disaster of swords, soldiers, water and fire, and the protagonists of the Xi'an Incident began a different life.

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