On December 15, the Sino-US Tung Oil Loan was established with an amount of US$90 million, with the first batch of US$5 million due to expire in five years.
On December 16, the Sino-British Credit Loan was established, with the first batch of 450,000 pounds.
Two consecutive loans from Western powers have greatly boosted the morale of China's military and civilians. The relief of financial pressure is secondary. The most important thing is the change in the attitude of Britain and the United States towards China. This is a precursor to the West's active aid to China.
The reason why the United States and the United Kingdom agreed to borrow money from China was naturally because they were afraid that China would completely collapse. The successive fall of Guangzhou and Wuhan in October was very scary.
Our President Chiang will be called President from now on, and the Chairman of the Generalissimo has become history. He immediately made a public report in Chongqing, declaring that he was extremely optimistic about the future of China's war of resistance. The Chinese military and civilians and overseas Chinese worked together, and European and American powers began to provide economic aid to China. The winner
With more help and less help for the unjust, China's just war will surely win.
Less than two weeks after President Chiang's report was released, Wang Zhaoming ran away with his wife. He flew to Yunnan in the name of inspection, and then transferred to Vietnam. On the way, he sent a telegram to Zhang Qun, saying that he was going abroad to negotiate peace with Japan to save the country.
After arriving in Vietnam, Wang Zhaoming immediately sent out the famous "sexual e-mail", openly treason to the country and the Party, and became a traitor.
Wang Zhaoming spoke grandly in the telegram, believing that China's difficulty lies in persisting in the war, and Japan's difficulty lies in ending the war. Both governments hope for peace, and he is willing to be a peace envoy. Wang Zhaoming also mentioned Sino-British loans and Sino-US loans, believing that Britain and the United States
Changes in the attitudes of the two countries can promote peace between China and Japan. But it can only promote peace. It is impossible for Britain and the United States to intervene with force. China will definitely lose on the battlefield, and peace talks are China's only way out.
Well, Wang Zhaoming wants to be the great savior of the Chinese people.
The news of Wang Zhaoming's defection immediately caused an uproar among the people.
Chang Kaishen was inexplicably horrified and extremely angry. His shock and anger was not just that Wang Zhaoming had defected, but that Wang Zhaoming wanted to negotiate peace with Japan. As early as more than half a year ago, Japan publicly declared that it would not negotiate peace with the Nationalist Government. The hidden meaning of this sentence was
Japan is willing to negotiate peace with other "governments" in China.
Wang Zhaoming said in the telegram that he wanted to negotiate peace with Japan, which meant that he wanted to establish a new government. This was a challenge to the authority of Chang Kaishen and the National Government.
This is indeed the case. Originally, Wang Zhaoming was hesitant about leaving Chongqing and establishing a separate government. His wife Chen Bijun directly said: "Does a traitor also have to be in the second position?"
This sentence is enough to illustrate the essence, that is, Wang Zhaoming's defection has nothing to do with saving the country, but is eyeing the position of the country's top leader.
What is Wang Zhaoming's character?
Indecision, no opinion, capricious, impulsive and changeable!
To use the comment of Chen Gongbo, the second-ranking figure in the Wang puppet regime: "Mr. Wang cannot succeed without Bijun, and he will not fail without Bijun."
As the saying goes, success is a wife, failure is a wife.
Chen Bijun played a decisive role in the entire process of Wang Zhaoming's defection.
In October last year, Japan implemented a delaying strategy and entrusted Germany to mediate the war. China did not accept the conditions because they were too harsh. Chen Bijun deeply regretted this. She actually said: "It is enough to get back the south of the Yellow River from Japan. Even the Yellow River
The north and even the northeast want to take it back, but it's not easy... China didn't have the five eastern provinces before. Fengtian was originally a dowry brought by the Manchus. Now they just take their own dowry back. What reason do they have to object?
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Since the Japanese government issued a statement declaring that it would not treat the Nationalist Government as a negotiating opponent, and many government bureaucrats and local warlords had no confidence in the war of resistance. Wang Zhaoming, Chen Bijun and his wife, combined with the domestic and international situation, believed that they would definitely respond when they stood up for peace talks.
After the Japanese learned about Wang Zhaoming's attitude, they seduced Wang Zhaoming. Wang Zhaoming was extremely excited about this, but he was also afraid that the matter would not work out and would end badly. He was worried about it, and Mei Siping and others discussed it repeatedly, but could not make up their minds.
Chen Bijun actually took matters into his own hands and bypassed Wang Zhaoming and replied to the Japanese: "As long as Japan recognizes Wang's leadership of the 'peace movement' at the imperial meeting, Mr. Wang is willing to come forward."
Immediately afterwards, Chen Bijun went to Guangzhou to investigate in person, hoping to gain support from Yu Hanmou, Wu Tiecheng and others. He also secretly contacted within the Kuomintang to get more supporters.
Until more than half a month before he officially defected, Wang Zhaoming had not made up his mind to be a traitor. He convened Zhou Fohai and others for seven or eight meetings. It was not until Mei Siping was about to leave Chongqing to return to the Japanese that Chen Bijun stood up again and said:
"Mr. Mei is leaving tomorrow. You have to make up your mind this time and don't go back on your word!"
Wang Zhaoming gritted his teeth and nodded: "It's decided, it's decided!"
Chen Bijun was not just an instigator. Wang Zhaoming was able to defect from Yunnan because Chen Bijun personally went to Yunnan to persuade Long Yun. During the establishment of Wang's puppet regime, Chen Bijun arranged all his relatives and friends into various departments and even went to Hong Kong.
Chen Gongfu was mobilized to be a traitor, and there were many traitors who were recruited by Chen Bijun himself.
Wang Zhaoming was discovered on the third day after leaving Chongqing. Chang Kaishen also wanted to redeem himself, claiming that Wang Zhaoming had not defected, but had only gone to Vietnam to rest because Wang's old injury had relapsed.
Chang Kaishen quickly asked Wu Zhihui to write a letter to persuade him, because Wu had a close personal relationship with Wang Zhaoming and his wife.
Wu Zhihui knew Wang Zhaoming too well and knew that with Wang Zhaoming's courage, he would never be able to do such a big thing as defecting. He ignored Wang Zhaoming and wrote directly to Chen Bijun, knowing that the decision-making power rested with Chen Bijun.
As a result, before the letter was sent, Wang Zhaoming's "sexy email" was sent out. Wu Zhihui's first reaction was not to scold Wang Zhaoming, but to catch Chen Bijun and scold him, and even changed his nickname to "Chen Piqun"
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Even though Wang Zhaoming publicly announced his "sexual acts" of treason, he was still hesitant. Especially when the Japanese Konoe Cabinet collapsed, the newly appointed Hiranuma Cabinet was not enthusiastic about inducing Wang Zhaoming to surrender. As a result, Wang Zhaoming felt abandoned and even gave birth to a child.
The idea of a study trip to Europe.
Well, he openly betrayed the country and the party, received a cold reception from Japan, and actually wanted to run away and hide. Wang Zhaoming had no idea what he was thinking from the beginning to the end. He is a person who thinks very highly of himself, but has low abilities, is impulsive, changeable, and indecisive.
Once he encounters a setback, what he thinks about is not how to solve it, but how to escape.
It was only because of the obstruction of Chen Bijun and a group of traitors that Wang Zhaoming did not immediately travel to Europe and began to secretly contact the Japanese again. The Japanese were also afraid that Wang Zhaoming would give up his job, so they quickly sent traitors to stabilize him and also delivered Itagaki's incentive documents.
The content of Wang Zhaoming's reply to the Japanese at this time also fully demonstrated his wavering. There are three contents: first, if Japan comes into contact with veterans, Wang Zhaoming is willing to assist in mediation; second, if Japan comes into contact with people other than Chiang Kai-shek,
, then Wang Zhaoming is willing to mediate in the opposition; thirdly, if he is asked to take responsibility, Wang Zhaoming is willing to take action.
What does this mean?
This shows that after Wang Zhaoming openly betrayed the country, he suddenly felt regretful. He did not want to make the decision to be a traitor on his own, but left the decision-making power of being a traitor to the Japanese.
It's like playing mahjong and not knowing which card to play, so you say to your tablemate: "Come and help me play any card."
It happened that Wang Zhaoming's reply to the Japanese was known to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek was very angry because none of the three contents were acceptable to him. Firstly, he did not want peace talks, and secondly, he did not want others to negotiate peace with Japan, and he did not want Wang Zhaoming to be promoted to a high position by Japan.
Originally, Chiang Kai-shek planned to ease the matter. He sent people to instigate Wang Zhaoming to go to Europe for inspection. Now that Wang Zhaoming gave Japan a "clear" reply, Chiang Kai-shek immediately decided to take coercive measures to assassinate him!
As a result, Wang Zhaoming was lucky, and the assassin killed Zeng Zhongming who was next to him. Wang Zhaoming only injured his arm.
The hesitant Wang Zhaoming finally became angry. While he stood up and exposed the details of the "peace talks" between Chiang Kai-shek and Japan, hoping to arouse the sympathy of the Chinese people, he also accelerated the speed of negotiations with Japan, and finally embarked on the path of no return as a traitor.
Looking at the process of Wang Zhaoming's treason, he was treasonous but not courageous at the beginning, and was encouraged by his wife to take countless steps. After taking the crucial step, he wanted to look back, but he was reluctant to look back, and could not look back. He looked forward and backward without any decision.
Well, in the end Chiang Kai-shek's assassination helped him make the decision.