Chapter 807 806 [Afterword]

Shanghai, dock.

The special envoy, a group of more than 30 people, has assembled at the pier and is preparing to board the "Victoria" passenger ship.

Everyone stood on the pier and took photos, and then reporters started asking questions.

Kong Xiangxi said with a smile: "It is a great pleasure for me to go to the UK on behalf of the government to attend the coronation of the King of England. I hope that this trip can make the friendly relations between China and Britain more sincere. Of course, after attending the coronation of the King of England, I He will also visit various European countries to inspect their economic conditions and provide help to our country's economy."

A reporter from the "News" suddenly asked: "Mr. Zhou, I heard that the assassin who assassinated you in Nanjing was a senior official in Jiangning County. Everything happened because of the "war and peace" differences. What do you think about this? "

"You know the inside story so soon? It seems that the assassin is still under interrogation." Zhou Hexuan chuckled.

The reporter said: "We have special information channels."

Zhou Hexuan said: "The key to war or peace is not China, but Japan. Japan did not abide by international laws and invaded China brazenly. Taiwan fell, Northeast China was lost, and North China was in danger. Japan became more and more aggressive, and China wanted peace, but Can it be done? In the eyes of Japan, China is a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. We can only stand up to resist, rather than pray for mercy from the butcher's knife. Today, those calling for peace are nothing more than three types of people, one is a fool, and the other is a coward , and there is an ulterior motive."

At this point, Zhou Hexuan's tone suddenly became more serious: "In addition, I must correct the rumors. The murderer who assassinated me this time was by no means an ordinary official of the Zhuhe faction. On the third day after I arrived in Nanjing, I found someone following me. I was I have been under surveillance for half a month! Before I was shot at the train station, someone had already poisoned me at the Yangtze Hotel. There were watchers, poisoners, and shooters, which shows that the assassins were organized and not motivated by one thing. It is not possible for a single so-called patriotic peace activist to act out of righteous indignation and take temporary action! I hope that the central government can thoroughly investigate this matter!"

Many reporters were extremely excited and quickly wrote down Zhou Hexuan's words.

Suddenly a reporter raised his hand and said: "Mr. Zhou, there is another theory that the killer is a spy sent by the Kuomintang. What do you think of this?"

"Which newspaper do you work for?" Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile.

The reporter replied: "China Daily."

"Haha," Zhou Hexuan smiled and said with a sarcastic tone, "I have nothing to say to your newspaper, it is just a traitor newspaper. I just want to ask, I don't know when your newspaper embezzled the 200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways. Can I make it up?"

"China Daily" was Wang Zhaoming's mouthpiece, advocating "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "peace" all the year round. Until Wang Zhaoming later became a traitor, the newspaper even became an organ of Wang Zhaoming's puppet government.

The reporter suddenly became angry and asked: "Mr. Zhou, why do you say that we are a traitor newspaper?"

Zhou Hexuan did not answer directly and only repeated: "When will the 200,000 yuan in public funds of the Ministry of Railways misappropriated by China Daily be paid back?"

"We are not a traitor newspaper!" the reporter strongly stated.

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "I only know that your newspaper misappropriated 200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways."

The reporter blushed: "I didn't misappropriate it!"

Zhou Hexuan said: "But you received a salary from China Daily, so I would like to ask again, when will the 200,000 yuan in public funds of the Ministry of Railways misappropriated by your newspaper be paid back?"

The reporter was immediately overwhelmed and ashamed, so he covered his face and left.

"Hahahahaha!"

The reporters gloated and laughed happily.

200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways. That was the original sin of China Daily.

Wang Zhaoming originally wanted to run a newspaper for his faction, but his confidant Gu Mengyu happened to be the Minister of Railways, so he directly misappropriated 200,000 yuan of public funds from the Ministry of Railways to run the China Daily under the guise of public benefit. After this incident was revealed, China Daily immediately became a disgrace to the press and was the target of ridicule and contempt among its peers.

In the next few days, Zhou Hexuan had sailed to the UK on a ship, but there was a big fuss about his assassination, and there were various theories.

Some say it was a personal feud, some say it was a matter of war, some say it was a Japanese assassination, and some say it was the work of Kuomintang agents.

For example, "China Daily" was adding fuel to the flames, implying that Zhou Hexuan was assassinated by Kuomintang agents because Zhou Hexuan's patriotic remarks violated Chiang's dictatorship. From the perspective of progressives and the general public, this newspaper chanted the slogan of "democratic constitutionalism" and strongly demanded that the central government abolish the dictatorship system and conduct democratic public elections within and outside the party. The assassination case of Zhou Hexuan actually became the subject of a conspiracy led by Wang Zhaoming. An excuse and tool for the reorganization faction to attack Chang Kaishen.

Zhou Hexuan originally had countless fans, and at the same time, everyone also hated Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship. The superposition of the two immediately created sparks. Thousands of patriotic and progressive young people were beguiled by the China Daily and held demonstrations holding the banner of "democratic constitutionalism".

It can be said that although the Japanese assassination plan failed, it was not completely ineffective. At least it made Chiang Kai-shek miserable.

Coinciding with the time when the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang was about to amend the "Organic Law of the National Congress and the Electoral Law", Wang Zhaoming popped up again and gathered the reorganization faction to jump up and down, hoping to return to the center of the political stage. During the Xi'an Incident, Wang Zhaoming had been replaced by He Yingqin. Please come back and serve as Chairman of the Political Committee of the National Party at this time.

If Wang Zhaoming does not turn to Japan and become a traitor in the future, many of Wang Zhaoming's actions at this moment will be beneficial to the development and progress of the country. In order to gain power, he strongly criticized the dictatorship and attracted various political parties and democrats to promote China's democratic political construction in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.

Of course, everything Wang Zhaoming does stems from his own political interests. What is unacceptable is that he advocates "China-Japan peace" from beginning to end, which is also for his own political interests.

Mr. Wang - politician and shit-trouble.

Chang Kaishen was extremely angry at all kinds of rumors. If he really sent someone to assassinate Zhou Hexuan, he would admit it no matter how scolded the newspapers were. But it really wasn't him who ordered it. His secret agents protected Zhou Hexuan, and now someone actually poured dirty water on him.

The bald man got angry and lost countless positions!

Jiangning County originally had many reorganized officials, and they all used to follow Wang Zhaoming. Now let's do a major blood change. Using the assassination as an excuse, Chiang Kai-shek removed one-third of Jiangning County's positions from county magistrate to section chief, and eight people were expelled from the party.

The assassin Zhang Wanteng stayed in the hospital for nearly a week. Before he recovered, he was dragged by Mao Renfeng to torture and extract a confession.

The Kuomintang agent was not good at anything, but he was very good at extorting confessions through torture. It only took half a day for Zhang Wanteng to vomit out everything he knew: He was of mixed Chinese and Japanese descent, had taken espionage courses at Shanghai Tongwen College, and had been lurking for nearly For 20 years, he went to Yisheng Song and Dance Troupe every month to deliver political and economic information to an actor named Meng Guanghua. The person who directed this assassination was nicknamed "Old Duck". He was about 40 years old and had a big mole on his forehead. The messenger during the assassination was a young man, about 25 years old, quite handsome...

The Kuomintang agents immediately dispatched and sealed the Yisheng Song and Dance Troupe, but the actor named "Meng Guanghua" was not found. As for the instigator and messenger of the assassination, sketches and portraits were drawn, and they were hunted down throughout the city based on the pictures.

The Kuomintang agents did not dare to touch the people in the special higher education course because they were all consular policemen of the Japanese Embassy. People from the Black Dragon Society and Kuomintang agents also dare not touch them, because if they are caught, they will cause diplomatic disputes.

However, the outer forces of the Extra High School and the Black Dragon Society in Nanjing were severely stripped off by Kuomintang agents. More than 500 Nanjing gangsters, hooligans, prostitutes, reporters, actors... were taken away by Kuomintang agents. After repeated interrogations, at least more than 40 traitors and lackeys were captured by following the clues - including some innocent people.

This caused the gangs in the Nanjing area to remain silent, and their expressions changed when they heard about Zhou Hexuan. When our Mr. Zhou came back from England and passed through Nanjing on the way, the local gangs spontaneously came to protect him, for fear that if something happened unexpectedly, he would be troubled by Kuomintang agents.

No matter what, Zhou Hexuan, who was assassinated again, was wildly touted and publicized by major media.

Even the reformist newspapers that once scolded Zhou Hexuan, under Wang Zhaoming's instruction, praised Zhou Hexuan as a model of patriotism who was not afraid of life and death, and pointed their guns at the autocratic Chang Kaishen.

A later scholar who specialized in studying Zhou Hexuan wrote this in his work:

"The Republic of China was a turbulent era. In the steaming land of China, wisps of murderous aura could not conceal the vitality of ideological enlightenment. In the bloody and bloody wind, there was also a flow of warmth and chivalry. Among them, As one of the tools of political strife, the assassin performed a different kind of wonderful performance..."

"There was a man who did not offend any party. On the contrary, he maintained good relations with all parties. However, he suffered several assassinations in his life..."

"Zhou Mingcheng's assassination experience was extremely unique during the Republic of China. It is difficult to imagine with common sense that Japanese militarists would deliberately kill a cultural figure and an internationally renowned Nobel Prize winner. But after in-depth research, we The answer can be found. The 'seven-man back' he invented became a sharp weapon in the anti-Japanese battlefield behind enemy lines. And his articles before the war and during the anti-Japanese war made the Japanese invaders frightened..."

"Three-quarters of the articles included in the "Collected Works of Mingcheng" (1941 supplementary edition) are related to Japan. Those articles are must-read materials for the study of Japan in today's historians. They are the best materials for studying Japan from World War I to World War II. It is an indispensable and precious material for economic, cultural and political affairs. Zhou Hexuan’s analysis and research on Japanese society was like a scalpel, bloodyly cutting open the country of Japan, which provided a valuable academic reference for China’s Anti-Japanese War at that time.”

"In early 1942, the Japanese Class-A war criminal Hideki Tojo read "The Collected Works of Meisei" (1941 supplementary edition), and specifically re-read "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", and then wrote in his diary: 'China's greatest known Japanese The leader was Zhou Mingcheng, and his analysis and research on Japan was worth an army...' So in the autumn of 1942, Zhou Mingcheng suffered another assassination, this time the planner was Kawashima Yoshiko, and the implementer was Li Xianglan..."