Chapter 919 918 [Traitor and Hero]

The news reported by Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" was the famous "Gaotao Incident" in history.

There were many traitors who followed Wang Zhaoming in treason, including Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu.

Tao Xisheng, as we mentioned earlier, also linked up with a group of "Zhuhe Sect" literati, and together with Zhou Fohai and others, wrote articles to smear Zhou Hexuan.

And Gao Zongwu is even worse. He is the bastard who contributed the most to Wang Zhaoming's surrender to the enemy, besides Chen Bijun. Wang Zhaoming had never had any contact with the Japanese, but it was Gao Zongwu who made the connection, and it was Gao Zongwu who took the initiative to contact the Japanese.

When Wang Zhaoming surrendered to the enemy, he exposed Chang Kaishen's superficial resistance to the war and secret peace negotiations, but in fact he was talking about a bunch of bad things done by Gao Zongwu.

After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, Chang Kaishen sent Gao Zongwu to Hong Kong to engage in 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 Sasakiaki without permission. He handed Yingzuo Zhenzhao's personal letter to Chang Kaishen, and 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. made in response.

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.

But Gao Zongwu, as a diplomat, once again took matters into his own hands. When sending messages to Japan, he constantly emphasized that there was a "peace faction" in China centered on Wang Zhaoming, and first proposed an idea for Sino-Japanese peace talks, that is: support Wang Zhaoming and make him the media for Sino-Japanese peace talks.

It can be said that Wang Zhaoming could actually surrender to the enemy and become a traitor, and Gao Zongwu was the real culprit.

Why is it said that Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao" has received shocking news?

Tao Xisheng and Gao Zongwu unexpectedly discovered that they had fled from Shanghai to Hong Kong, exposed all of 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 only two starting points:

First, "save the country and save the people." Saving the country and the people here must be in quotation marks. They know that peace talks will have to betray national interests, but they also believe that China will lose the war and only peace talks can make peace.

Second, political ambition. Since China can only maintain peace through peace talks, it might as well be for them to come forward to conduct peace talks. In this way, the country can be saved, political capital can be gained, and the image of a national hero can be promoted steadily.

However, the eight traitorous documents including the "Outline of 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 rule across the river, but never thought that these documents would actually sell off all aspects of China's territory, resources, military, 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 out in 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.

However, Wang Zhaoming was determined to be a traitor. Instead of listening to the advice, 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. When Wang Zhaoming forced Tao Xisheng to sign, 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 them to death." you!"

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 Qing Gang.

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 his 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 meet with the government officials. 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 copy back to the Chongqing headquarters. Zhou Hexuan knew about it 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.

Previously, Wang Zhaoming had been using the pretext of peace talks to save the country, and he had deceived some people. Many politicians and warlords, including Sun Ke and Long Yun, acquiesced, and they were still taking chances. Maybe Wang Zhaoming's peace talks could succeed.

There is no need to say anything now, because those eight "Wang-ri Secret Appointments" are too scary. Not only had the entire land from Heilongjiang to Hainan Island been sold, but even the ideology and culture had to be sold. From now on, there would be no Chinese nation, only slaves enslaved by the Japanese invaders.

This allowed countless people who were hesitant and lucky to fully understand the wolfish ambitions of the Japanese invaders, and also 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 brought the full text of Wang Zhaoming's treasonous conditions to Hong Kong - the culmination of many years of dreams among Japanese cliques, extremely Chinese and foreign The sin of historical betrayal is sold from the present to the future, from materials to ideas!"

After experiencing the "Gaotao Incident", the enthusiasm of the people across the country for the war of resistance was unprecedentedly high, and even 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 made the matchmaking 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 reviled by all the people.

In fact, Zheng Pingru was a secret agent of Zhongtong and was arrested for assassinating the traitor Ding Mocun. After being tortured, she insisted that the assassination of Ding Mo Village was just out of love and hatred, and she was brutally murdered by a traitor. Her last wish before her death was to put on powder and make up, and die beautifully and calmly.

A heroine on the secret front has become the protagonist of Shanghai gossip news.

Zhang Ailing wrote the novel "Lust, Caution" based on this model, portraying the patriotic heroine as an ignorant woman who lusts after the love between men and women. It is 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 died of grief and anger not long after his daughter died. Her brother Zheng Haicheng and her fiancé Wang Hanxun were both pilots of the Chinese Air Force. They died successively in the air battle in 1944. They can be said to be loyal and loyal. How can such a woman be slandered?