Chang Kaishen was not in Nanjing, but in Lushan Mountain to escape the summer heat. He had already avoided the heat for two months.
As the supreme leader of China, is Chang Kaishen really so stupid that he left the capital Nanjing alone and stayed in a ravine for several months to enjoy the cool weather?
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 "bandit suppression" front line. The battles in the past few months had been going smoothly, unprecedentedly smoothly. Chang Kaishen seemed to have seen the true unification of the country.
hope.
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 abroad?"
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 attache of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union."
"This is a shameful job, and I still ask for instructions from the commission!" Deng Wenyi said excitedly. Starting from 1924, he first served as an adjutant to Sun Yat-sen, and then to Chang Kaishen. After ten years of hard work, he was finally able to show his ambitions.
By the way, Deng Wenyi was also one of the Thirteen Taibos 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 and 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: "Committee, 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. 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 actually used the name
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 Soong Meiling were sitting on a stone bench chatting. After a year of not seeing each other, Chang Kaishen had lost a lot of weight, with bulging cheekbones, but he had a more powerful dictator aura than before.
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After the fifth siege of the red zone was successful, Chang Kaishen should 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, who was unwilling to be just a mascot, finally jumped into the trap.
After killing the traitors, Wang Zhaoming no longer had any real power in his hands at that time.
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
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 the Anti-Japanese Movement" and vigorously promoted Sino-Japanese friendship. But is he really stupid? Does he think that war can be avoided? Of course it is impossible.
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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 as good as Qiqi.
The incident occurred 43 days apart, so the prediction was extremely accurate.
Chang Kaishen had already been carrying out the industrial relocation plan proposed by Jiang Baili.
Since the signing of the Tanggu Agreement, Chang Kaishen has banned the construction of new (state-owned enterprises) factories in coastal areas and ordered the planning to transfer heavy industry to inland provinces. As for Chahar and northern Hebei Province being designated as demilitarized zones, this
Chang Kaishen also had his own views on treasonous behavior. He wanted to "moderate the aggression" and "preserve North China and give some relief" to buy preparation time for the war of resistance.
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 are not as chic 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", which was 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
He will not retreat even when he is injured, he will not give in when captured, and he will not be humiliated when ordered. However, Chang Kaishen specially added a slogan called "Be strict in the face of difficulties."
The slogan "Be cautious in the face of difficulties" was obviously added specifically to deal with the Japanese invaders. Because the Red Army always treated prisoners favorably, there was no such thing as being uncompromising in the face of difficulties.
It's a pity that Chang Kaishen saw clearly, but it was very bad in practice. He knew that Shanghai could not be defended, but he was reluctant to give up. He tried his best to consolidate Shanghai's defense, hoping to hold on until the day when the great powers intervened.
Chang Kaishen's thinking is easy to understand. More than 70% of the interests of European and American powers in China are concentrated in Shanghai. If they can hold on to Shanghai for two or three months, the powers may mediate with arms, and a full-scale war between China and Japan may not start.
To put it bluntly, Chang Kaishen still has some illusions about the great powers.
However, the funny thing is that Chang Kaishen is very distrustful of foreigners. In his eyes, foreigners are all bastards. This guy is an extreme nationalist.
Chang Kaishen is full of contradictions from beginning to end. On many occasions, he sees the situation very clearly and anticipates various bad consequences, but he also has a gambler's mentality and believes that things will turn out well.
That aspect of development, such as brazenly provoking a war in the Central Plains, was a huge gamble by Chang Kaishen.