The news reported by Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" is exactly the famous "Gaotao Incident" in history.
There were many traitors who followed Wang Zhaoming in treason, including Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu.
As we mentioned before, Tao Xisheng also linked up with a group of "Zhuhe Sect" literati to write articles to smear Zhou Hexuan together with Zhou Fohai and others.
And Gao Zongwu is even worse. He was the bastard who contributed the most to Wang Zhaoming's surrender to the enemy, other than Chen Bijun. Wang Zhaoming had never had any contact with the Japanese, but it was Gao Zongwu who was the matchmaker, and it was Gao Zongwu who took the initiative to contact the Japanese.
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When Wang Zhaoming surrendered to the enemy, he exposed Chang Kaishen's superficial resistance and secret peace talks by calling on the enemy. In fact, he was talking about a bunch of bad things done by Gao Zongwu.
After the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, Chang Kaishen sent Gao Zongwu to Hong Kong to conduct intelligence work.
Gao Zongwu was so capable that he contacted Konoe Fumima's personal representative in China, Matsumoto Shigeharu, and the head of the Special High School Section of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, Kage Sasaki Akira. He handed over Kage Sasaki's autographed letter to Chang Kaishen.
He also took Chang Kaishen's "peace negotiation conditions" to reply to the Japanese.
However, there have always been doubts about whether Chang Kaishen agreed to the peace talks. Even Nishi Yoshiaki, a Japanese who was in contact with Gao Zongwu, did not believe it. He believed that the terms of the peace talks were not like what Chang Kaishen said personally, but more like Gao Zongwu imitating the tone of Chiang Kai-shek and himself.
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Although the "peace talks" failed this time, they soon ushered in a new turning point: Japan's cabinet was reorganized, and Kazunari Ugaki, who did not advocate escalating the situation, became foreign minister.
Chang Kaishen recruited Gao Zongwu back from Hong Kong and asked him to be responsible for delivering the message: "The Central Army still has one million arms, which means it will not be imported for another two years. Even if Japan captures Wuhan, there will never be any changes within the government."
." This shows that Chiang Kai-shek also wanted to engage in peace talks, but his intention was to force Japan to proactively seek peace in order to obtain peace talks that were more beneficial to China.
However, as a diplomat, Gao Zongwu once again made his own decisions. When conveying messages to Japan, he constantly emphasized that China had a "peace faction" centered on Wang Zhaoming, and first proposed an idea for Sino-Japanese peace talks, that is: support Wang Zhaoming and make them
Become the medium for Sino-Japanese peace talks.
It can be said that Wang Zhaoming actually surrendered to the enemy and became a traitor, and Gao Zongwu was the real culprit.
Why is it said that Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" contains shocking news about the future?
Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu unexpectedly found out that they had fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong, exposed all Wang Zhaoming's treasonous behavior to Ta Kung Pao, and even stole a copy of the treasonous treaty signed by Wang Zhaoming.
Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu continued to support Wang and promote peace, and they had two starting points:
First, "save the country and save the people." The word "save the country and save the people" must be in quotation marks. They know very well that peace talks will require betraying national interests, but they also believe that China will lose in war and can only be at peace through peace talks.
Second, political ambition. Since China relies on peace talks to maintain peace, then they might as well come forward to conduct peace talks. In this way, they can not only protect the country, but also gain political capital, and can improve their image as a national hero.
However, the eight traitorous documents including the "Outline for the Adjustment of New Relations between Japan and China" just signed by Wang Zhaoming really frightened Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu. They always thought that China and Japan could divide the river and rule, but they never thought that these documents could actually
Sell all aspects of China's territory, resources, army, sovereignty, and culture.
Once these documents take effect, China can be directly declared to be destroyed, and they will become the eternal sinners of the Chinese nation.
Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu were startled and broke into a cold sweat. They advised Wang Zhaoming not to sign and to withdraw from the peace talks quickly. They might leave Shanghai and return to Chongqing, or go to Europe and the United States to live in seclusion. In short, they absolutely could not continue the talks.
But Wang Zhaoming was determined to be a traitor. Not only did he not listen to the advice, but he sent people to monitor Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu, and even conspired to get rid of them and pass the blame to the military commander.
Here I have to mention Tao Xisheng’s wife Wan Bingru. After receiving a letter of complaint from her husband, she resolutely took her five children from Hong Kong to Shanghai, giving her husband an excuse to leave Wang Zhaoming’s lair and live with his family. After Wang Zhaoming forced
When Tao Xisheng signed, Wan Bingru said to her husband: "I brought the lives of my whole family to Shanghai for you, you go! If you can't get out, my husband and I will die here together. If you sign, I will beat you to death!"
Because Wan Bingru arrived with his five children, Wang Zhaoming temporarily let down his guard. Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu took the opportunity to secretly leave Shanghai with the help of the Qinggang.
Faced with Wang Zhaoming's anger, Wan Bingru boldly went to see Wang Zhaoming and asked to take her two children to Hong Kong on the grounds of persuading her husband to return to Shanghai, while leaving her three children to study in Shanghai as hostages.
Wang Zhaoming naturally agreed. He did not believe that Tao Xisheng and his wife would ignore the life and death of their children.
As a result, not long after Wan Bingru left with her two children, the remaining three children also fled Shanghai with the help of the Qinggang.
After Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu arrived in Hong Kong, they did not go directly to see people from the government. Instead, they brought eight copies of Wang Zhaoming's traitorous documents to Ta Kung Pao. Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao immediately telegraphed the full text of the copies back to the Chongqing headquarters. Zhou Hexuan
He knew about this earlier than Chang Kaishen.
The next day, the "Wang-Japan Secret Appointment" was disclosed by Ta Kung Pao in Hong Kong and Chongqing, quickly triggering an earthquake of public opinion across the country.
In the past, Wang Zhaoming had been using the banner of peace talks to save the country, which deceived some people. Many warlords, including Sun Ke and Long Yun, acquiesced, and they were still taking chances. Maybe Wang Zhaoming's peace talks could succeed.
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There is no need to say anything now, because those eight copies of the "Wang-Japanese Secret Pact" were too scary. Not only did they betray the entire land from Heilongjiang to Hainan Island, they even sold out their ideology and culture. From now on, there will be no Chinese nation, only the Chinese nation.
The subjugated slaves enslaved by the Japanese invaders.
This allowed countless people who were hesitating and taking chances to fully understand the wolfish ambitions of the Japanese invaders and the ugly face of Wang Zhaoming's traitorous pursuit of glory.
Just look at the main headline and subtitle of the news in Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" to find out what the "Secret Appointment between Wang and Japan" contains: "Gao Zongwu Tao Xisheng and his colleagues in Hong Kong published the full text of Wang Zhaoming's treasonous conditions, the culmination of many years of dreams by Japanese cliques, and extremely treasonous in Chinese and foreign history."
The sins are sold from the present to the future, from materials to thoughts!"
After the "Gaotao Incident", the enthusiasm of the people across the country for the War of Resistance was unprecedentedly high, and even the local warlords who were trying to preserve their strength gave up their illusions.
From this point of view, it is really difficult to evaluate the merits and demerits of Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu, especially Gao Zongwu who was the matchmaker that led to Wang Zhaoming's defection to the enemy.
The "Gaotao Incident" caused a big fuss in the rear areas of the Anti-Japanese War. At the same time, scandals were flying all over the Japanese-occupied areas, and Zheng Pinggru became a shameless female traitor that was reviled by all the people.
In fact, Zheng Pingru was a secret agent of the military commander who was arrested for assassinating the traitor Ding Mocun. After being tortured, she insisted that the assassination of Dingmocun was just out of love and hatred. Beautiful and bright, die calmly.
A heroine on the secret front has become the protagonist of Shanghai gossip news.
Eileen Chang wrote "Lust, Caution" based on this model, and portrayed the patriotic heroine as an ignorant woman who lusted after the love between men and women. It was really a great insult to the anti-Japanese martyrs.
Not only was Zheng Pingru patriotic, but her father, Zheng Yingbo, refused to be courted by the Japanese invaders several times and passed away in grief and anger shortly after his daughter's death. Her brother Zheng Haicheng and her fiancé Wang Hanxun were both Chinese Air Force pilots and died successively in the air battle in 1944. They are full of loyalists. , how can such a woman be slandered?
