The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

Chang Kaishen is not in Nanjing, but in Lushan Mountain to escape the summer heat. He has been avoiding the heat for two months.

As the supreme leader of China, is Chang Kaishen really so stupid that he leaves the capital Nanjing alone and stays in the valley to enjoy the coolness for several months?

Of course it's impossible!

The summer vacation was just a nominal excuse. Chang Kaishen's real purpose of staying in Lushan was twofold: first, to personally control the training of the "Lushan Officer Training Corps"; second, to supervise the "bandit suppression" work in Jiangxi.

early morning.

Lushan Villa.

Chang Kaishen, who was in a good mood, was taking a walk with Soong Meiling and listening to the latest battle report from the front line of "bandit suppression". The battles in the past few months have been going smoothly, unprecedentedly smoothly. Chang Kaishen seems to have seen the hope of truly unifying the country.

After listening to the battle report, Chang Kaishen suddenly said to the adjutant: "Xue Bing, you have been with me for several years, have you ever thought about taking a post outside?"

Adjutant Deng Wenyi immediately panicked and said: "The commission is a clear warning. I am humble and willing to follow the commission and do my best!"

Chang Kaishen smiled and said: "You are a top student in the first phase of Huangpu, and you also served as an aide-de-camp to the former Prime Minister (Sun Yat-sen). Talents like you cannot stay dormant by my side forever. The Red Bandits are about to perish, and we must follow The Soviet Union eased relations and prepared for the future resistance of the Soviet Union against Japan. Let's do this, after the Spring Festival this year, you will go to Moscow to serve as the chief military attaché of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union."

"This humble position is so messed up, please give me instructions from the committee!" Deng Wenyi said excitedly. Starting in 1924, he first served as an adjutant to Sun Yat-sen, and then to Chang Kaishen. After ten years of service, he was finally able to express his ambitions.

By the way, Deng Wenyi was also one of the Thirteen Taibao of the Fuxing Society, responsible for the collection and organization of intelligence information.

Chang Kaishen warned: "You can temporarily put down your duties in the secret service system. When you get to Moscow, you must make more friends with Soviet diplomatic and military officials to promote Japan's ambitions towards the Soviet Union. Once China and Japan go to war, the Soviet Union will belong to China. A natural ally.”

Deng Wenyi shook her legs, stood at attention and saluted: "Remember this humble position!"

"Report!"

At this moment, another adjutant came to the garden: "Commissioner, Zhou Hexuan and Jiang Fangzhen would like to see you!"

Chang Kaishen was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand and said: "Let them come in."

Deng Wenyi resigned voluntarily and sensibly, while Song Meiling asked the servant to make two cups of good tea and said with a smile: "I have heard about Zhou Mingcheng's love story in Lushan. He is worthy of the name of a talented man."

Chang Kaishen said with some dissatisfaction: "The Central Daily News should not get involved."

Why does Chang Kaishen feel unhappy about this?

There are two main reasons: first, the Central Daily News, a publication of the Kuomintang Party, should not comment on the private lives of celebrities. It is too out of character; second, when the Central Daily News criticized Zhou Hexuan, it used the name "Central Daily News" to criticize Zhou Hexuan. The banner of Chang Kaishen's New Life Movement completely used Chang Kaishen as a gunman.

But Chang Kaishen still stood still and did not intervene. He wanted to find out who was listening to Wang Zhaoming. All those who acted as vanguards would be put on the political blacklist.

When Zhou Hexuan came to the villa garden, Chang Kaishen and Song Meiling were sitting on the stone bench chatting. After not seeing each other for a year, Chang Kaishen has lost a lot of weight, with bulging cheekbones, but he has the aura of a powerful dictator than before.

Once the fifth encirclement and suppression of the red zone is successful, Chang Kaishen will start to deal with Wang Zhaoming, step by step, completely ousting Wang Zhaoming and becoming a loner in the National Government. In the end, Wang Zhaoming, unwilling to be just a mascot, finally rebelled and became a traitor. At that time, Wang Zhaoming no longer had any real power in his hands.

Chang Kaishen suddenly smiled, acted like a polite and approachable corporal, stood up and greeted: "Brother Baili, Mr. Mingcheng, please sit down quickly!"

Jiang Baili was imprisoned for two years by Chang Kaishen for no reason, but there seemed to be no hatred between the two. He went straight to the point and said: "Chairman, I visited Japan some time ago. The situation is extremely critical. It will take up to three years to complete." There must be a war. This is a national defense policy that Mingcheng and I wrote together. I hope the Chairman can read it in person."

Chang Kaishen casually opened the "Theory on the Decisive Battle of the Three Yang Lines" and thought about it while reading it. After reading it, he praised: "This is a theory about the country. Thank you for your hard work."

Seeing that Chang Kaishen did not make any substantive statement, Jiang Baili said anxiously: "Chairman..."

Chang Kaishen interrupted: "No need to say more, I have already considered everything."

Chang Kaishen does have his own considerations. At the beginning of next year, he and Wang Zhaoming jointly issued the "Order to Prohibit Japan Exclusion Movement" and also vigorously promoted Sino-Japanese friendly remarks. But is he really so stupid that he thinks war can be avoided? Of course it's impossible!

As early as four months ago, Chang Kaishen told a group of senior political bureaucrats in the government: "There are less than 1,100 days (until the outbreak of war)."

One thousand one hundred days is exactly three years, which means that Chang Kaishen believed that the Sino-Japanese War would break out within three years. Counting from the day he spoke, Chang Kaishen's estimated three-year period was only 43 days away from the outbreak of the July 7th Incident, which was extremely accurate.

Chang Kaishen has actually been carrying out the industrial relocation plan proposed by Jiang Baili for a long time.

Since the signing of the Tanggu Agreement, Chang Kaishen has banned the construction of new factories (state-owned enterprises and heavy industries) in coastal areas and ordered plans to transfer heavy industry to inland provinces. Chang Kaishen also has his own views on demarcating Chahar and northern Hebei Province as a demilitarized zone, which is a traitorous act. He wants to "moderate the aggression", "preserve North China and give some relief", and prepare for the war of resistance. time.

There is an old saying that "meat-eaters are despicable." In fact, meat-eaters are not really despicable, but they are in high positions and think more, and they are not as cool as ordinary people like Zhou Hexuan.

Chang Kaishen was not only prepared economically and diplomatically, but also culturally and militarily.

In terms of culture, he did not dare to shout anti-Japanese slogans, but he launched the "New Life Movement" simply to improve the quality of the people and the quality of the soldiers. Unfortunately, the scriptures were misinterpreted by bureaucrats everywhere.

On the military front, Chang Kaishen actively sought cooperation with Germany and received a lot of military support from Germany, such as introducing arsenal production lines, inviting German instructors to train soldiers, etc. At the same time, Chang Kaishen knew that the Central Military Academy (Whampoa Military Academy) was rotten, so he started anew and opened the "Lushan Officer Training Corps".

The "Lushan Officer Training Corps" was ostensibly set up to "suppress bandits," but its ultimate goal was to train anti-Japanese officers, as can be seen from the training regiment's slogan. Originally, the "Lushan Officer Training Corps" had only three slogans, namely, never retreat even when injured, never give in when captured, and never be humiliated when ordered. However, Chang Kaishen specially added a slogan called "Never be strict in the face of difficulties."

The slogan "Be patient in the face of difficulties" was obviously added specifically to deal with the Japanese invaders. Because the Red Army always treats prisoners preferentially, there is no such thing as taking advantage of difficulties.

It's a pity that Chang Kaishen saw it clearly, but it was very bad in practice. He knew that it was impossible to hold on to Shanghai, but he was reluctant to give up. He worked hard to consolidate Shanghai's defenses, hoping to hold on until the day when the powers intervened.

Chang Kaishen's thoughts are easy to understand. More than 70% of the interests of European and American powers in China are concentrated in Shanghai. If we can hold on to Shanghai for two or three months, the great powers may use armed mediation, and a full-scale war between China and Japan may not be fought.

To put it bluntly, Chang Kaishen still has some illusions about the great powers.

However, the funny thing is that Chang Kaishen does not trust foreigners very much. In his eyes, foreigners are all bastards. This guy is an extreme nationalist.

Chang Kaishen is full of contradictions from beginning to end. In many cases, he saw the situation very clearly and anticipated various bad consequences, but he also had a gambler's mentality and believed that things would develop in a positive direction - such as brazenly provoking a war in the Central Plains. It was a big gamble by Chang Kaishen.