The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

On September 19, the "League of Democratic Political Groups" was officially reorganized into the "National League", and Huang Yanpei was elected chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the Democratic League.

At this time, the "Democratic League" did not completely lean towards the Communist Party, and they still had unrealistic illusions about the National Government. Because Lao Jiang likes acting, he always slaps and gives sweet dates to democrats, which makes people feel that they have not completely lost hope while being angry.

Last September, at the First Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the KMT, Chiang put forward the slogan of "implementing constitutional government and returning power to the people". This allowed many democrats, including Huang Yanpei, to see the light of day. Huang Yanpei was even appointed as a standing member of the Constitutional Implementation Association of the Supreme Council of National Defense. It seems that Lao Jiang really intends to gradually realize (harmony) democracy (harmony) Constitutional (harmonious) government.

However, Huang Yanpei soon discovered that he had been deceived, and that Lao Jiang's so-called constitutionalism was another fake trick. It coincided with Taizu's proposal to "form a coalition government", Huang Yanpei and his democratic partners responded immediately, uniting the Communist Party and other democratic parties to put pressure on Chiang.

Even so, Huang Yanpei still believes that the national government is orthodox. He hoped that with Chang Kaishen as the leader, a coalition government with all parties in power would be formed, and he did not believe that the Communist Party could shoulder the important task of leading China.

Until 1945, Huang Yanpei could not see the slightest hope of democracy, so he was invited to Yan'an for a visit. After witnessing the completely different spiritual outlook of the liberated areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas, Huang Yanpei was immediately impressed by it, and has since become a loyal supporter of the Communist Party.

On the eve of the Kuomintang's defeat, Huang Jingwu, the second son of Huang Yanpei, was captured by the spies, and Taizu ordered to rescue him at all costs. It's a pity that he was a step too late. Huang Jingwu was tortured and did not reveal his secrets, and was buried alive with his legs broken by the spies.

Zhou Hexuan still did not join the "Democratic League" after all, the reason is very simple -

The "Democratic League" wanted Zhou Hexuan to be a member and vice-chairman of the Central Committee (the number of vice-chairmen of the Democratic League was variable, and there were more than a dozen at most), but Zhou Hexuan insisted on being only an ordinary member. This is purely disrespecting the "Democratic League". What does it mean that you, Zhou Hexuan, have such great influence and are only an ordinary member?

It doesn't matter, anyway, Zhou Hexuan still has a layer of identity as a member of the Zhigong Party, and they all belong to the Democratic Party.

Let's go back and talk about the war situation. When the national army was defeated in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, the Communist Party's army bucked the trend and launched a local counterattack.

Luo Shuai's troops in Shandong area recovered 118,000 square miles of land from March to September; Nie Shuai's troops in Shanxi area captured more than 30 county towns from January to October, recaptured more than 5,000 villages, and destroyed All the first-line blockhouses of the Japanese and puppet troops in the Beiyue Mountains; Liu Shuai's troops in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions recovered a total of more than 60,000 square miles of land from March to December; A total of 97,000 square miles of land was recovered in the month.

The above are the achievements of the Eighth Route Army. The New Fourth Army launched an offensive on its own initiative in March, and while recovering a large amount of lost ground, it also marched into the Central Plains with five regiments in mid-August.

The reasons why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army achieved so many victories in 1944 are nothing more than the following two points: first, the Japanese army mobilized a large number of elites to fight the national army head-on, and the puppet army filled the vacancy in military strength; second, the large-scale production movement launched by the Communist Party base It has been fruitful, and at this time it already has a relatively deep logistical self-sufficiency.

In any case, this big counterattack made the Japanese army overwhelmed, and the logistics supply lines were paralyzed in various ways. Even if they caused the defeat of the national army in Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, they would not be able to continue to advance, and must spend energy to adjust the rear.

The successive victories of the communist army also made Lao Jiang panic, so the national army on the battlefield behind the enemy once again set off an upsurge of "obedience to the enemy". In the battles between the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in 1944, many of them were fighting against the puppet troops who were "ordered to surrender to the enemy", and the puppet troops who did not want to help the Japanese fight the civil war often surrendered as an organization. For example, when Luo Shuai seized the Julin Highway, there were 30 squadrons of puppet troops anyway.

Let's look at the international battlefield again——

In January, the Soviet army completely lifted the threat of the German army to Leningrad and severely damaged the German Army North.

In June, the coalition forces of the United States, Britain, Canada and other countries began the Normandy landing, officially opening up the second European battlefield of World War II.

At the end of June, the Soviet army completely defeated the German Army Group Center, liberated the entire territory of Belarus and entered Poland.

In August, the US army captured Guam, the Japanese army failed to attack Imphal, and the Japanese 15th Army was wiped out.

In October, the U.S. Army landed in the Philippines, the Soviet Army liberated the capital of Yugoslavia, the Japanese Army suffered a disastrous defeat in the Wright Gulf naval battle, and the Japanese Navy basically lost its combat capability.

The international anti-fa (and) Sidney situation is very good, except for China...

What saddened Zhou Hexuan the most was that after the defeat of Henan, Hunan and Guangxi, Lao Jiang shouted the slogan of "one hundred thousand youths and one hundred thousand troops". Teachers and students from many colleges and universities, including Central University, Southwest Associated University, Jinling University, and Tongji University, signed up to join the army, and countless educated youths buried their bones in the anti-Japanese front line.

The good news is that the big traitor Wang Zhaoming is dead.

Back then, Wang Yaqiao sent someone to assassinate Chang Kaishen, but Chang Kaishen didn't show up, and the assassin shot Wang Zhaoming three times. A bullet hit the left arm, and it was easily removed; a bullet hit the lower cheekbone, and it took three operations to remove it; the last bullet injured the spine, and doctors dared not remove it, and it remained in Wang Zhaoming's body for nearly ten years.

This was a lead bullet, and the lead poison spread to the spinal nerves, tormenting Wang Zhaoming all the time. In the end, the main cause of Wang Zhaoming's death was also the spread of lead poison.

In fact, it is better for Wang Zhaoming not to die. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he will be punished for treason and thrown into prison to continue to enjoy the torture of lead poisoning. It is too cheap for him to die now. Four months before this bastard died, his puppet government forced Chinese women to serve as comfort women!

In general, although China experienced a major defeat on the frontal battlefield in 1944, everyone knew that the victory of the War of Resistance was in sight, because the Allied forces in the European battlefield were too strong, and the Japanese army in the Pacific battlefield was already a grasshopper after autumn.

That's why people of insight urgently think about the issue of nation building after the war, and try to avoid the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. No one wants to fight anymore!

The economic situation in the rear is terrible, not to mention the people at the bottom, even many businessmen complain that they can't eat enough. The number of factories in the entire rear area is only more than 500, which is directly halved compared to last year, and many big capitalists have declared bankruptcy.

Of Zhou Hexuan's factories in Sichuan, only one pharmaceutical factory, one acid-base factory, and three daily necessities factories are still operating, and they continue to lose money as the legal currency depreciates.

Zhou Weilie kept sending telegrams back from Kunming, hoping that his parents would donate more supplies to the school. Now the students of Southwest Associated University often cannot guarantee two meals a day. The students are generally hungry, and sometimes they even faint suddenly during class.

Zhou Hexuan also wanted to donate, but unfortunately he couldn't buy a large amount of food even if he had money. He used to buy a lot of wasteland in Sichuan and built many mutual aid farms, which have been gradually transferred to tenants.

However, the tenants who had obtained the land asked Zhou Hexuan to take back the land one after another. They are willing to share 20 to 30% of the food every year for renting and planting land, because the national government's expropriation and purchase policy is too horrible, they might as well honestly give Zhou Hexuan some rations to live as a tenant.

In desperation, Zhou Hexuan could only become a big landlord again...