In mid-March, the spring scenery is bright and beautiful.
The car stopped at the door of Zhou's residence. Zhang Xueliang glanced out through the car window and said to his accompanying secretary Pan Wenyu: "Send the greeting card in for me."
Pan Wenyu walked quickly and rang the doorbell of Sanletang.
In less than a moment, the iron gate opened wide and the car drove Zhang Xueliang into the garden.
Butler Cui Huifu came out to greet him with a smile: "Han Gong, please come in quickly!"
When Zhang Xueliang saw Cui Huifu, he was suddenly surprised and said: "You are Pu Yi's chief steward, your name is... your name is..."
Cui Huifu smiled and said: "Han Gong has a very good memory. My name is Cui Huifu."
"Yes, yes," Zhang Xueliang suddenly remembered, "The last time I met Puyi, you sisters all lived in Zhangyuan."
Cui Huifu didn't want to mention the past events, so she just smiled and said: "Han Gong, please come in. Mr. Zhou will sweep the bed and wait for you."
"Alas." Zhang Xueliang sighed, he was really shameless to see Zhou Hexuan again.
The "September 18th Incident" has become a thing of the past, and now a new incident has been added, and the war of resistance in Rehe has been a mess.
The most irritating thing is Zhang Xueliang's father's brother-in-law, Tang Yulin, the local emperor of Rehe Province. In order to preserve his strength, this guy actually fled with 30,000 soldiers without fighting, so that the defense line established by Zhang Xueliang became a decoration.
Tang Yulin himself was chased by 128 Japanese cavalry, just like chasing rabbits all the way. Chengde, the provincial capital of Rehe, was lost in such a muddle.
More than a hundred Japanese cavalry captured the provincial capital of Jehol?
This kind of thing is simply unthinkable.
Therefore, Zhang Xueliang must step down, because he is the person in charge in the north, otherwise it will be difficult to bring peace to the world.
Zhang Xueliang suddenly had shortness of breath, and his opium addiction relapsed. Since the fall of the three eastern provinces, Zhang Xueliang had relapsed to opium addiction. Coupled with the devastation of alcohol and sex, the young marshal now looked haggard, like a walking corpse.
Slowly walking into the living room of the Zhou family, Zhang Xueliang saw Zhou Hexuan sitting on the sofa reading a book. He cheered up and clasped his fists and said, "Mingcheng, long time no see!"
"Why did Han Shuai come to my place when he was free?" Zhou Hexuan stood up and exchanged greetings, "Please sit down."
Zhang Xueliang said: "I still hope that Mingcheng can call me the Sixth Commander."
"Hanshuai" and "Sixth Marshal" are just one word different, but they represent closeness and distance. Only the confidants who have followed Zhang Xueliang for a long time can call them like this.
Zhou Hexuan didn't care about this. There was no point in venting his anger with Zhang Xueliang. He could just vent some of his dissatisfaction. He asked: "Why did the Sixth Commander come to me?"
"Just catching up on old times," Zhang Xueliang said, "I have resigned from all military and political positions. Now I am just an ordinary Chinese citizen, so I move around."
Zhou Hexuan sneered and said: "You are leaving a lot of mess alone just to be happy and free."
"What can I do," Zhang Xueliang said helplessly, "Rehe is Tang Yulin's territory. In order to preserve his strength, he even abandoned his own territory. Who would have thought?"
Many historians in later generations analyzed that Zhang Xueliang made another mistake in the Battle of Jehol and believed that the Kwantung Army's appetite was not that big, so he did not dispatch all the main forces to the front line.
This statement is biased. The procedure for mobilizing the army is very complicated. If Zhang Xueliang wanted to mobilize the entire army, first of all, his financial resources would not be able to support it, and he would also need sufficient time. Zhang Xueliang tried his best to mobilize more than 100,000 people to respond to the enemy.
This is already the limit in the short term. If the war situation reaches a stalemate, Zhang Xueliang should be able to continue to mobilize troops for support.
But the problem was that Tang Yulin's men surrendered to the enemy, and Tang Yulin himself fled without a fight, which disrupted all Zhang Xueliang's follow-up plans.
The entire Great Wall defense line is now a big sieve full of loopholes.
Zhou Hexuan didn't want to blame Zhang Xueliang anymore, because it wouldn't help. He asked: "Where will the Sixth Commander go after he leaves the field?"
Zhang Xueliang said: "The Central Party Committee has arranged for me to go to Europe for inspection, and I will leave in a few days. I came here today just to ask Mingcheng for help. Please don't shirk it."
"What can I help you with?" Zhou Hexuan asked.
"Help Feng Zhi and I quit smoking," Zhang Xueliang said with a wry smile, "Ever since Mingcheng helped me quit smoking last time, I don't want to touch that stuff again, but the three provinces in the east are in ruins, and I can't help but relapse.
Big Smoking. This time I and my wife are visiting various European countries. I can’t go there with my addiction to cigarettes and let foreigners think that we are all sick men of East Asia.”
Zhou Hexuan said: "This is easy, I'm afraid my wife won't be able to bear it."
Zhang Xueliang said: "You can bear it, Mingcheng, don't worry. No one else dares to help our couple quit smoking, so we can only leave it to Mingcheng."
The Zhang family is a family of smokers. Zhang Xueliang's parents, wife, and friends are all heavy smokers. Sometimes when guests come, instead of giving up their seats for tea, they offer cigarettes and take a few puffs.
Living in such an environment, it is strange that Zhang Xueliang no longer smokes opium.
Historically, Zhang Xueliang really made up his mind to quit smoking when he was preparing to visit Europe. The reason was very good. He did not want foreigners to think that the Chinese were all sick men of East Asia, and it was Du Yuesheng who helped him quit smoking. He tied him up directly and prevented him from smoking.
Zhang Xuehao was so angry that he wanted to shoot Du Yuesheng several times.
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "If the Sixth Commander can be trusted, I will move here with Sister Yu tomorrow."
"Thank you very much," Zhang Xueliang's body had already begun to sway, and he said with a pale face and a bitter smile, "Let's do it now, I brought the rope."
Zhou Hexuan nodded, called brothers Sun Yongzhen and Sun Yonghao in, and said, "Tie up the Sixth Commander and put a piece of cloth in his mouth."
"okay!"
Sun Yongzhen happily stepped forward to tie someone up. He felt so good that he could confidently tie up the largest warlord in the north.
Zhang Xueliang soon began to howl, but because his mouth was blocked, he could only make a "wuwuwu" sound. Even with the Sun brothers and two adjutants holding him down, the chair Zhang Xueliang was sitting on was still held by him.
He struggled to move a few inches, and the rope tore his clothes in many places.
Therefore, Zhang Xueliang must find someone like Zhou Hexuan or Du Yuesheng who is not afraid of trouble to truly implement the smoking cessation plan. If he had been at home, he would have been untied by the lieutenant, because his men were afraid of accidents.
There is a certain chance of death if you forcefully quit smoking!
After struggling for nearly two hours, Zhang Xueliang calmed down. He was too lazy to move even when he untied the rope. He was completely exhausted.
Zhou Hexuan immediately asked people to bring the cooked ginseng chicken soup and gave it to Zhang Xueliang to replenish his vitality. The Zhou family had a lot of ginseng, which was leftover from when Wanrong and Liao Yaquan were pregnant not long ago.
For a long time, Zhang Xueliang retreated, leaving only his secretary Pan Wenyu. He asked tentatively: "Which doctrine do you adhere to openly?"
Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Principles are not important, the key is people. No matter how good a political idea is, it needs people to put it into practice. Which party in China has the most execution ability, I will be optimistic about that party, and I will also be optimistic about their doctrine."
Zhang Xueliang asked in a low voice: "Mingcheng, what do you think of communism?"
"I have done some research." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.
Zhang Xueliang simply asked directly: "Do you think communism can save China?"
Zhou Hexuan was ambiguous: "Maybe."
Zhang Xueliang introduced the secretary next to him and said: "This is Mr. Pan Wenyu Pan. He studied at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and has done some research on communism."
Only then did Zhou Hexuan look at the young man in surprise. Pan Wenyu was one of the three most famous traitors of the Communist Party among Zhang Xueliang's previous secretaries. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and served as Zhou Gong and his wife when the Sixth Congress of the Communist International was held.
After returning to China, he served as secretary of the Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China, member of the Central Action Committee, editor-in-chief of the party magazine "Red Flag", and director of the Propaganda Department of Shunzhi (Beiping, Tianjin, and Hebei).
Of course, Pan Wenyu's public identity at this time was that of a traitor to the Communist Party. He could not withstand the severe torture of the reactionaries and confessed. He was even hired by Zhang Xueliang as his secretary. However, he had secretly become an underground party member again. Wait until Zhang Xueliang next year.
When he returned to China to serve as deputy commander-in-chief of "bandit suppression", Pan Wenyu actually sent out the "Military Situation Map for Bandit Suppression in the Three Provinces of Henan, Hubei and Anhui", allowing the Communist Party to grasp the enemy's military deployment in advance.
After the incident was exposed, Chang Kaishen arrested Pan Wenyu and shot him in a rage.
Zhang Xueliang wanted to save his life but couldn't, so he could only ask: "What other matters do you have to deal with after your death?"
Pan Wenyu said calmly: "I hope to inform my wife."
Pan Wenyu's so-called "notification to his wife" was to forward a 30,000-word self-report letter to his wife. The letter described his pain after leaving the party, as well as the situation of contacting the party organization again, and
He regretted that the case had implicated Li Tiancai, and finally asked Zhang Xueliang to send his wife and children back to his hometown to make a living.
After Zhang Xueliang read Pan Wenyu's autobiography, he was deeply moved by Pan Wenyu's deeds and spirit. From then on, his political stance changed drastically, and he cheered up from his depression.
In the original words of Zhang Xueliang's close confidant Li Youwen: "When Zhang (Xueliang) was in Wuhan, he was a completely different person than before. His conversations showed his determination to innovate. At this time, he discarded all his former cronies and only replaced them with new ones.
Wu Jiaxiang has come to serve as the secretary-general of the camp."
To put it bluntly, Pan Wenyu's calm death next year shocked Zhang Xueliang from the depths of his spirit and made Zhang Xueliang, who had given up on himself after the "September 18th Incident", regain his energy. Since then, Zhang Xueliang has become more energetic and striving for success.
Only then did he risk his life to "force Chiang to resist Japan."
The Li Cai Cai mentioned in Pan Wenyu's autobiography was also Zhang Xueliang's secretary, and was also the secretary of the Peking Municipal Committee of the Communist Party a few years ago. After Li Cai Cai was arrested by Zhang Zuolin, he quickly confessed under torture, causing the Peking Party organization to be destroyed.
Once he does, he will be a super traitor.
Zhang Xueliang felt that Li Tiancai was very talented, so he recruited him as his secretary, and Li Tiancai recommended Pan Wenyu to Zhang Xueliang.
Li Cai Cai, a super traitor to the Communist Party, actually knew that Pan Wenyu had turned into an underground party again. Pan Wenyu was able to successfully deliver important military information next year, but he did so while Li Cai Cai turned a blind eye.
There are more than one or two Communist Party traitors around Zhang Xueliang. Can he not be affected?
Even during this visit to Europe, Zhang Xueliang quietly contacted the Soviet Foreign Minister and wanted to go to Moscow to inspect communism. Unfortunately, the Soviet Foreign Minister refused. The reason was very simple, because Stalin hated Zhang Xueliang very much.
Without the influence of communism, there would be no ideological transformation of Zhang Xueliang, let alone the subsequent Xi'an Incident.
Zhang Xueliang came to Zhou Hexuan's house this time not only to quit smoking, but also to discuss and study communist theory with Zhou Hexuan.
