Although he was not free for the time being, Zhang Xueliang was in a good mood.
He couldn't help but sigh: "I wrongly blamed the Chairman.
I have never understood him.
Only after reading his diary did I understand his pain.
Signing the Tanggu Agreement Later, he wrote this sentence in his diary: "If I bend, my country will grow, and if I stretch, my country will bend.
I will humiliate and bear the burden, and strive to strive for self-improvement.
I only seek to benefit China and have a clear conscience."
Song Ziwen said: "The anti-Japanese attitude is the same regardless of left or right, but the dispute is about time.
The gap in strength between China and Japan is too big.
Japan can build aircraft carriers, but we even have to import barbed wire materials.
This war will come sooner or later, and the later it is, the better it is for us.”
Chen Zikun said: "Ziwen, haven't you always had a tough attitude?
Why did you end up like this?"
Song Ziwen said: "Everything has a degree.
I don't have as much tolerance as the envoy.
The three eastern provinces have been occupied, which can be tolerated.
Rehe has been occupied, which can be tolerated.
The twenty-two counties in eastern Hebei have also been excluded.
Next is Pingjin.
Do you know what the Japanese say?
A reporter from the New York Times once interviewed The commander of the Kwantung Army, Honjo Shige, said: If Pingjin is not controlled, Japan will never have peace.
If the area north of the Yellow River is not controlled, it will be difficult to gain security in the Pingjin area.
Listen, can the appetite of the Japanese be satisfied?
The committee has been holding back for a long time, but it has lost the support of the people."
Chen Zikun said: "Yes, this is the same view among academic circles.
Even Hu Shi said that the cession of Manchuria could bring thirty years of peace to China.
The whole of China is pessimistic, except for the Communist Party in northern Shaanxi.
Their ideas and slogans are, in a sentence, "Every sentence speaks to people's hearts, but when looking back at the committee members, what they think in their hearts is only written in their diaries.
In terms of propaganda, the Kuomintang is far behind the Communist Party.
How can it be said that Han Qing was not inspired by the Communist Party when he launched military remonstrances."
Zhang Xueliang said: "The Communist Party not only does a good job in propaganda work, but their actual work is also different from what the outside world imagines.
Mr.
Soong Ching Ling once asked me to send an American reporter to the Soviet Area in northern Shaanxi.
After he came back, I read his notes and photos. , This has greatly changed my impression of the Communist Party.”
Chen Zikun's heart moved: "This person's surname is Snow."
"Edgar Snow, that's him."
Zhang Xueliang said.
Song Ziwen said: "Why are you getting further and further away?
Come on, let's have tea instead of wine and wish Han Qing an early freedom."
Zhang Xueliang finally failed to go back.
A few days later, he was placed under house arrest by the secret service headquarters.
Even Song Ziwen did not know the specific place of detention.
The Northeastern Army was leaderless.
Some of the young officers expressed their anger at the senior generals because the marshal could not return.
They killed Wang Yizhe, commander of the 67th Army, Xu Fang, director of the Northwest Headquarters Staff Division, Song Xueli, deputy director, and Jiang Bin, director of the Communications Division.
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Internal strife broke out.
One after another, the city of Xi'an became a river of blood.
Yang Hucheng was unable to survive alone, so he went abroad to avoid disaster.
The Northwest Army surrendered to Nanjing, and the Central Army marched into Xi'an.
After coordination, the Northeast Army was transferred to western Henan and northern Anhui for rest and reorganization.
From then on, it became a piece of cake on Chiang Kai-shek's chopping board.
While actively preparing for war, the Northern Shaanxi Red Army sent a congratulatory message to Nanjing, celebrating the peaceful resolution of the Xi'an Incident.
It hoped that the central government would allow freedom of speech, release all political prisoners, concentrate its strength, and unify its foreign policies.
It would also ensure that it would no longer overthrow the government as its main purpose.
The Soviet government changed its name.
As a special zone of the Republic of China, the Red Army was renamed the National Revolutionary Army and accepted the leadership of the Nanjing Government and Military Commission.
The Japanese Kwantung Army immediately issued a statement that if the Chinese government tolerates communism and adopts a hostile attitude towards Japan, the Kwantung Army will take all necessary means to defend Manchukuo and maintain peace in East Asia.
This time, the threat of strong internal violence did not work as before.
The Kuomintang responded positively.
Chiang Kai-shek announced an opening of speech, concentrated talents, pardoned political prisoners, and sent personnel to Xi'an to continue negotiations with Zhou Enlai.
At the same time, he reorganized the government and dismissed the pro-Japanese Foreign Minister Zhang group.
For a time, the dawn of peace suddenly appeared, and everyone on the left and right in the country was full of confidence, and the relationship between the government and the Soviet Union was strengthened.
Only Japan was angry because the Kuomintang's actions directly violated the "Three Principles of Hirota", that is, mutual defense against communism.
Japan, which had originally planned to take action slowly, couldn't wait any longer.
In April, the Japanese army increased its troops to Pingjin and conducted exercises in North China.
In May, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Shida Kenkichi, held a military meeting in Jehol to intensify the oppression of Suiyuan.
The tax police group incident broke out in Qingdao, and an armed conflict almost broke out between the Japanese Navy and the Qingdao authorities over the tax police group's stationing.
In early June, Konoe Fumimaro formed the cabinet, and Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo threatened that in order to fight Russia, the Nanjing government should be attacked first to eliminate threats from the rear.
The Japanese ambassador to China said in a speech that China must respect Japan's right to survival and development.
Half a year later, Chen Zikun, who played a great role in the Xi'an Incident, did not receive any reward.
He could keep his composure, and so did Chiang Kai-shek, but Soong Meiling couldn't help it: "In both public and private matters, Zikun was right.
We are kind, Darling, should you show it?"
Chiang Kai-shek snorted coldly: "Everyone else was detained, but Chen Zikun escaped alone.
Xi'an was heavily surrounded, and the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army rebelled together.
I don't believe he can escape."
Song Meiling said: "Why, you suspect that Zikun and Han Qing are conspiring?"
"It's not impossible.
Before the incident, Chen Zikun and Zhang Xueliang advised me not to target the students.
You know, Han Qing was impulsive, but Chen Zikun was scheming.
It's hard to say that Han Qing decided to launch military revolt without his participation.
Flying back to Nanjing alone is also part of the plan.”
Song Meiling said: "Darling, are you thinking too much?
Even if what you say is true, their starting point is good.
In the end, it was not up to them that you were released."
Chiang Kai-shek said: "I am just guessing.
If there is real evidence, Chen Zikun will also want to be tried by military law.
But what you said makes sense.
If rewards and punishments are not clear, others will criticize him.
So, give Chen Zikun the big cloak I wore when I went to Xi'an." , which can also be considered as a warning to him.”
At Chen's Mansion in Nanjing, the staff of the Chairman's Attendant delivered a paper box containing a thick woolen cloak with a black face and red lining, and three gold stars on the collar.
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The staff said it was a gift from the Chairman.
Chen Zikun expressed his gratitude and asked Liu Ting to hang up the clothes.
"This dress doesn't seem to be new."
Liu Ting checked it carefully and found that although the cloak had been dry-cleaned, there were wear and tear in the details.
It must be second-hand.
"This was worn by Chiang Kai-shek.
He considers himself the emperor now and gives away the clothes he wore to show his favor."
Chen Zikun smiled and put the cloak on his shoulders to try on.
It was a bit short.
"Put it down and you can still wear it," Liu Ting said.
"Let's use it as a urine ring for children instead."
Chen Zikun disagreed.
All signs indicate that war is imminent, with Peiping and Tianjin bearing the brunt.
Lin Wenjing's siblings are still in Peiping, and Yao Yilei's parents and aunt's family are in Tianjin.
For safety reasons, they must be brought back as soon as possible.
Chen Zikun sent telegrams to urge him, but Lin Wenjing responded by saying that he could not delay his studies and had to go back during the summer vacation.
Ordinary people could not access high-level information and did not know that the situation was critical.
Chen Zikun had no choice but to take the flight in person, flying first to Peiping and then to Tianjin.
When flying over Pingjin, two Japanese fighter jets suddenly emerged from the clouds, circled around the DC3 for several times, and then left after clearly seeing the civil aviation logo on the fuselage, which shocked the pilots into a cold sweat.
Chen Zikun was also indignant.
From a close distance just now, he could see the beard of the Japanese pilot.
It was intolerable that the Chinese sky allowed enemy aircraft to run rampant.
The plane landed at Peking Nanyuan Airport.
Qin Dechun, deputy commander of the 29th Army and mayor of Peiping, came to pick him up.
As soon as they met, he poured out his bitterness, saying that it was extremely painful to be oppressed by the Japanese and that he wished a war would break out.
"This war will come sooner or later.
It is better to die fighting than to die in vain."
Forty-four-year-old Qin Dechun was Song Zheyuan's right-hand man.
He was also Feng Yuxiang's subordinate in his early years.
He had met Chen Zikun ten years ago.
The 29th Army was reorganized from the remnants of Feng Yuxiang after the Great War in the Central Plains.
If other warlord leaders had recruited such a combat-effective unit, they would have been too late to laugh, but the one who recruited them was Zhang Xue, the most prodigal son in the world.
Liang, his own Northeastern Army was too cumbersome, let alone someone else's soldier.
He paid half a million in resettlement fees and then gave up.
The 29th Army was living in poverty and had to march at night to avoid being regarded as bandits.
After the Ho-Mei Agreement was signed, the Nanjing Central Army and the military police withdrew from North China, and the Peiping Military Affairs Branch was abolished.
Song Zheyuan and the 29th Army were advantaged in the huge Pingjin area.
The Japanese had no objection to this.
After all, it would be too ugly to directly annex Pingjin.
"Autonomy" is more elegant if it is slowly eroded away.
As a result, the Pingjin area became a special area in China, giving birth to a freak like the Jicha Administrative Committee.
Song Zheyuan carefully maintained the situation in North China, for fear of losing the hard-won territory.
"What kind of territory is this?
It's clearly a hot potato."
Qin Dechun complained in front of Chen Zikun without any scruples.
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Suddenly the car stopped halfway, and the driver turned around and said, "Little Japan is blocking the road."
Standing in front of him was a Japanese soldier with a gun barrel figure and a Type 38 rifle that was taller than him.
He was blocking the intersection and blocking the entire convoy of the 29th Army.
After a while, a squadron of Japanese soldiers passed by in formation, singing loudly and neatly.
They wore dark brown Zhaowu summer military uniforms, big-brimmed hats, and woolen leggings.
Their young faces were full of energy, and their long 38-type rifles were The bayonet gleamed coldly.
The team was led by a lieutenant officer, riding on a tall horse, with polished ocher red riding boots, and a lieutenant's sword with a blue belt hanging on his waist.
He glanced at the convoy of Chinese officials with contempt, and stood proudly.
Got his head up.
Amidst the sound of neatly knitted boots, the Japanese soldiers walked away without squinting.
The faces of Qin Dechun's convoy escorts were gray with anger, and they stared wordlessly at the distant smoke and dust.
Their teeth were itching with hatred, and the handles of their rifles were peeling off their shells.
Crushed.
"Drive."
Qin Dechun said calmly
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