1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

"It was a disastrous situation only for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. For China as a whole, the situation might not be considered a disastrous one."

"How do you say that?"

"I'll show you some documents later, and you'll understand."

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As they were talking, another middle-aged man with very little hair rushed into the room: "Boss Wen! Boss Wang! They're all here!"

"Ah! Mr. Mo! You're here?"

Mr. Mo, also known as Mo Xiong, was born in Yingde, Guangdong. He graduated from the Army Military Academy and was a member of the Tongmenghui. He participated in the famous Huanghuagang Uprising, the National Protection Movement against Yuan Shikai, the campaign against Chen Jiongming, and the Northern Expedition.

He was the third chief of the Tax Police Corps, having taken over temporarily after Wang Geng was captured by the Japanese. However, because he was not an "American student," he was unable to gain public support. Furthermore, at T.V. Soong's request, he handed the post back to Wen Yingxing within a few months.

Even so, this person's character, qualifications and abilities have earned him the respect of the Tax Police Corps. They are willing to call him "General Mo" and allow him to participate in the affairs of the Tax Police Corps.

At this point, all three former or current chiefs of the Tax Police Corps were present. "Haha, everyone roar!"

Mo Xiong walked in with a sharp-eyed young man, smiling broadly. Without even a word of extraneous greeting, he immediately got down to business.

"Everyone is here. Let's discuss the next steps for our Tax Police Corps."

"Ah."

Yes, although T.V. Soong just didn't want the General Tax Police Corps to get involved in the war between Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Ching-ling, the people below him obviously had their own ideas.

It's not that we won't listen to T.V. Soong, but at least we can first discuss a suitable strategy, and then when T.V. Soong arrives, we can give him "advice"!

Wen Yingxing spoke first:

"You two, do you not agree that we should continue to send troops to Shanghai to fight Madame Sun?"

The other two nodded.

This is a very natural thing. The first is that the fighting spirit has been crushed and there should be no more fighting; the second is that attacking the mother of the nation is unworthy of being a son; the third is that the United States is involved and is too powerful to be defeated; the fourth is that the Soong family has given orders and they are loyal to their old masters.

From any perspective, the Tax Police Corps, as a "police force", should not and has no reason to get involved in the "counterinsurgency cause".

If Sun Liren could have defeated the enemy and captured Soong Ching Ling in one fell swoop, it would have been fine, but it ended up like this. Only idiots continue to get involved.

Moreover, it is hard to say who is the "central government" and who is the "rebel" in the future...

The question of "staying out of it" is easy to say, as T.V. Soong's telegram also ordered this. But the question is, does staying out of it mean doing nothing at all, or does it mean doing something else to gain more benefits for the General Administration of Customs and Excise?

On this issue, the opinions of several parties are inconsistent.

Logically speaking, older people are more stable and younger people are more radical, but in the case of Wen Yingxing and Wang Geng, the opinions are just the opposite.

Wang Geng believed that the Tax Police Corps should remain stationed in Jiaxing and wait and see. No matter who won or lost between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Yu, they would be won over by both sides.

Wen Yingxing believed that the General Tax Police Corps should immediately march north according to Song Ziwen's previous plan, pass through Henan, and station in North China or Shandong.

What they both said makes sense.

Wang Geng had just returned and was not familiar with the situation, so his policy tended to be conservative. He also felt that given Chiang Kai-shek's current situation, he would not dare to go to war with his tax police corps in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

This is quite consistent with Wang Geng's "naive literary character" - he feels that what kind of person he is and what he thinks are likely what others think too.

At that time, because he had to go to Northeast China to serve as an official, he entrusted his wife Lu Xiaoman to his good friend Xu Zhimo, saying, "I don't have time to take care of (Lu Xiaoman), you can just help me solve the loneliness and emptiness my wife is feeling."

As a result, Xu Zhimo not only solved Lu Xiaoman's spiritual loneliness and emptiness, but also her physical ones (the pure love warrior was furious).

But Wen Yingxing is not as naive as Wang Geng.

He had known Chiang Kai-shek for a long time and knew very well what a cruel and dishonest person he was. He knew that Chiang Kai-shek was capable of doing something like "secretly mobilizing troops to massacre the Tax Police Corps".

Moreover, even if they chose not to clash directly, considering the combat effectiveness and equipment of the Tax Police Corps, if Song Ziwen lost the political struggle and Chiang Kai-shek issued an order, would they obey or not?

Obey orders?

So why all the struggle?

Don't obey?

That gave Chiang Kai-shek a good reason to suppress them.

Therefore, the only solution now is to quickly use the dozens of trains that have been prepared in the Jianghuai region and leave this dangerous place as soon as possible.

The mountains are high and the emperor is far away!

The sea is wide enough for fish to leap, the sky is high enough for birds to fly! When a general is on the battlefield, he may not obey the king's orders!

In short, there are plenty of excuses and ways to fool people. That's what it means to "regardless of who wins or loses, there's always a way out."

As for whether transferring troops to Peking would arouse Zhang Xueliang's fear, Wen Yingxing was not worried.

After all, he was once the president of Tsinghua University, so naturally he had some understanding of the situation in Peking.

In a nutshell:

The threat from the north was severe, and the Northeast Army was internally unstable. Zhang Xueliang urgently needed a foreign army to help stabilize the situation, so far from being afraid of them, he would even take extra care of them.

Therefore, while Chiang Kai-shek and Song Yu have not yet completely torn their faces apart, and while the Nationalist government has not yet issued an order for a crackdown, the Tax Police Corps should immediately march north!

Prince Wen and the other argued for a while, but neither could convince the other. Then they suddenly realized that Mo Xiong had not said a word.

"Boss Mo, please tell me your opinion!"

"Hehe, I just have one question." "What?"

"You are only considering military and your own survival factors. Have you ever considered political factors?"

"We have already considered the political factors!"

"No, no, no. What I'm saying is that you should consider our own survival from two or more possible perspectives: 'Mr. Song still wants to follow Chairman Chiang's lead' and 'he doesn't want to'."

Prince Wen and the other man immediately fell into deep thought.

Indeed, they all subconsciously tied Chiang and Song together and considered the issue based on this.

But what if the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Song Dynasty is completely torn apart?

If Song Qingling could "rebel" so shamelessly, why should Song Ziwen be loyal to Chiang Kai-shek?

If T.V. Soong wanted to join his sister in opposing Chiang Kai-shek or "establish himself as king," what would the General Tax Police Corps do?

After all, it all depends on what T.V. Soong says! A day later, T.V. Soong rushed to Jiaxing from Nanjing.

The moment they saw each other, Wen, Wang, and Mo's hearts skipped a beat. The lingering anger on his face, the wounds still lingering on his cheeks, and Sun Liren blinking furiously...

Oh no! This gentleman was summoned to Nanjing this time and must have suffered considerable injustice. Could it be that he was beaten by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek?

Wen Yingxing asked carefully:

"President Song, our Tax Police Corps...what should we do next? It's all up to you." Although he was the one who commanded the most troops, everyone knew that all the supplies for the Tax Police Corps came from Song Ziwen, so everyone had to listen to him.

"Didn't the telegram say that?"

Song Ziwen sneered:

"Everyone, hold still. We are just a police force and will not get involved in the matter between Chairman Chiang and my second sister!"

Wen Yingxing and the others exchanged glances and tactfully told Song Ziwen about some of the things they had discussed earlier:

"...So, I'd like to know what your plans are going to be next?"

Song Ziwen was not from the military and did not realize how dangerous it was for senior generals to gather together to discuss the political direction of the army. Instead, he thought what they said made sense and fell into deep thought.

Yes, that man has never been a clean person. Who can guarantee that he won't do something ruthless to Song Ziwen or the General Administration of Customs?

But what should I do?

If the second sister really had the support of the Americans, would it really be the right choice to follow Chiang Kai-shek and continue on his path to the end?

No matter how close Chiang Kai-shek is, he can't be as close as my second sister!

Moreover, it is not known whether the second sister has the support of the Americans, but Chiang Kai-shek was hated by the Americans, as Ms. Field said publicly in an interview, and his power is now at its lowest point.

Therefore, no matter from which perspective, breaking away from Chiang Kai-shek is the wisest choice.

But where would I go after I escape? Would I seek refuge with my second sister?

Don't make trouble.

Shanghai is such a small place with a hollow government. It would be foolish to go there before the situation becomes clear.

Go north to fight against Japan?

According to Wen Yingxing and others, considering the complete deterioration of the relationship between Chiang and Song, this has also become a dead end.

He had already fallen out with Chiang Kai-shek because of his unauthorized transfer of troops to the north. If he continued to do so, it would undoubtedly be seen as a provocation by the other side.

In this case, when the troops passed through Suzhou, Shanghai, Nantong, and Changzhou and headed north, how could they know whether they would be attacked?

Therefore, for the time being, the orthodoxy of the Nationalist government is still in Nanjing, and it is still unable to break away from it. The Tax Police Corps, which relies on the central government to collect taxes nationwide to ensure its own supplies, is also unable to break away.

I can't leave, and I can't stay away either... Why does it feel like a dead end all of a sudden?

After all, Song Ziwen was just a scholar, and he established the General Tax Police Corps only to consolidate and advance his own position. He had not thought so much about it before, and suddenly he had a headache.

E=('o`*))) Oh, if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have transferred the troops from Haizhou (Lianyungang) to Jiaxing...

At this moment, he looked at Mo Xiong, who he had previously not valued, but who had offered many useful insights today.

"Mo Shicha, what do you think we should do?"

"Dean Song, I want to confirm one thing first. No matter how the government changes, you will still be the Minister of Finance, right?"

"Ah."

T.V. Soong nodded.

Before Chiang Kai-shek dismissed him, he had to keep this skin and could not let it go easily.

"Then I have a way to survive from death." Mo Xiong pointed at the map and said:

"Going north, whether by land or sea, is impossible. Going east is also a dead end. There is only one choice - go south!"

"Go south? You mean, to Zhejiang?" "No, to Fujian! To wipe out the 19th Route Army!"

Everyone present was a sharp-witted person. After a brief pause, they immediately understood what Mo Xiong meant.

Going south under the banner of "not wanting to hurt the mother of the nation" and "suppressing the rebellion in Fujian" was, from a righteous point of view, completely capable of suppressing all opposition!

I can't bear to hurt the Queen Mother - this is a family matter;

Suppressing the Fujian rebellion—this is a matter of state; who can say it's wrong to take care of both national and family matters? Besides...

"...We don't necessarily have to fight the 19th Route Army! We can use this as an excuse to confront the 19th Route Army in Zhejiang!"

Mo Xiong had a cunning smile on his face:

"Unless Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek truly no longer wants to be a Zhejiang native, then he can just send his troops to wipe us out!"

This statement is both implicit and direct.

What I mean is, if you, Chairman Chiang, dare to do anything to us, we will dare to do anything to your hometown.

If you are not afraid of being stabbed in the back by your fellow villagers, and are not afraid of losing the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang financial groups, then go ahead and fight, and beat Fenghua and Zhejiang to pieces!

Oh, by the way, Madam Sun from Shanghai, if you have the guts, go ahead and fight me. We're in Zhejiang anyway, and if you go too far, hehehe...

After being highly praised by T.V. Soong and promised the position of "Deputy Chief of the Regiment", Mo Xiong left the room with his young follower.

The subsequent preparations were not something an "outsider" like him should be involved in. After getting on the car, the young man whispered:

"Comrade Mo Xiong, I'm afraid your suggestion today will cause great harm to the people of Zhejiang."

"Don't worry, T.V. Soong is a scholar. Unlike Chiang Kai-shek, he wouldn't do something like massacring a city."

Yes, these two gentlemen are both Communist Party members.

Mo Xiong—After following Zhang Fakui's failed anti-Chiang campaign in 1930, he lived in seclusion in Shanghai. Through introductions from young people, he made friends with a number of Communist Party members, established connections with the Central Special Branch and even Wu Hao, and officially joined the Party last year.

Historically, he did not do anything big. Apart from being arrested several times by Chiang Kai-shek on suspicion of being a communist, he only did some "whistle" things.

For example, leaking the top-secret plan of the fifth encirclement and suppression campaign to the Red Army; for example, rescuing Fang Zhimin and other revolutionary fighters;

For example, deliberately letting He Long go in Bijie, Guizhou; for example, participating in the "Guangdong-Guangxi Incident";

For example, sending supplies to the Eighth Route Army;

Etc., etc.

In addition, no matter where this person goes, whether he is the head of a regiment, a division commander, a county magistrate, a security commander or a certain commissioner, there will always be many Communists under his command who appear inexplicably. It is really strange.

In this worldline, the Communist Party is developing so well that he boldly applied to join the party last year.