Speaking of Wang Jingwei, most of the Chinese people gritted their teeth in hatred and spit on this traitor. Who would have thought that Wang Jingwei, who finally threw himself into the arms of the Japanese aggressors, was also a hot-blooded young man at the beginning, who followed Sun Yat-sen in his vigorous revolution, who was quite capable, and who was a good assistant in Sun Yat-sen's work and a close friend in his life. What is even more unbelievable is that this Wang Jingwei was still greatly powered because he advocated the anti-Japanese resistance, and as a result, he finally became a traitor that everyone shouted and beat, and ended up being infamous for eternity.
The enthusiastic youth of the forerunners of the revolution
When it comes to Wang Jingwei, everyone often thinks that this is his real name. In fact, this is not the case, the word "Jingwei" is just the pen name he used to publish articles in the "Minbao", and his original name was Wang Zhaoming. I don't know if he took the word "Jingwei" as a pen name, whether it was effective to imitate the spirit of the Jingwei Bird, working day and day, just to keep the clouds open and see the moon. Unfortunately, from his later life experience, Wang Jingwei's personality is a bit paranoid, like a Jingwei bird, he only knows how to bury his head in work, does not pay attention to the opinions of others, and always makes some moves that are different from ordinary people.
Wang Jingwei's twisted personality is related to the fact that he lost his parents when he was thirteen or fourteen years old. Fortunately, the half-brother accepted him and taught him carefully. The eldest brother of Jackie Chan was extremely strict with him, and Wang Jingwei could only obediently do so in the situation of such a person under the fence. The eldest brother's high-pressure education has enabled Wang Jingwei to develop a superficially obedient and innerly resistant character, indecisive but obstinate, ignoring the criticism of others, which is a bit of the meaning of an ancient ranger.
Outsiders can't see Wang Jingwei's twisted nature, but only envy him at a young age, he has already emerged and has his own followers. Although the young Wang Jingwei was born in the Confucian culture-steeped Shuxiang Mendi, he was initially a revolutionary party with firm goals.
In 1903, Wang Jingwei studied in Japan at the official expense. Here, he met Sun Yat-sen, who had taken him on the revolutionary road, and in 1905 he participated in the formation of the League and once edited the Minbao. At this time, he is still a good young man who is positive and uplifting. In order to propagate revolutionary ideas, he used his pen as a raft to attack the Qing government.
Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary ideas were well praised, but the uprisings led by Sun Yat-sen's organizations often suffered heavy casualties. Sun Yat-sen, aware of the problem, decided to take a break, stop the immature uprising, and make plans until he made a comeback.
In order to practice his own revolutionary ideas, Wang Jingwei, who was eager to take revenge, did not hesitate and directly put them into action. In 1910, at the age of 27, Wang Jingwei did something big and ventured to assassinate the father of the then young emperor Puyi, the regent Zaifeng. The assassination was unsuccessful, and he was also imprisoned. Wang Jingwei, who ate in prison, gained widespread sympathy.
At that time, the Qing court was synonymous with feudal decay, and the traitorous act of losing power and humiliating the country had long aroused great dissatisfaction among progressives. Wang Jingwei, who should have been sentenced to death immediately, was sentenced to life imprisonment only with all kinds of solidarity. If Wang Jingwei spent the rest of his life in prison, he might still be able to leave a good name.
Things quickly took a turn for the better, and Wang Jingwei didn't stay in prison for long. After the Wuchang Uprising, the revolutionary party demanded that the Qing government release the political prisoners, and Wang Jingwei was successfully released.
After his release from prison, Wang Jingwei was regarded as a revolutionary idol, and he himself escaped because of the assassination incident, at this time he was already confused about the future of the revolution with Sun Yat-sen, and fell into the quagmire of right-leaning capitulationism.
After his release from prison, Wang Jingwei organized the "National Affairs Advancement Association" to advocate mediation with the Qing government; later, he avoided talking about politics and went to France to devote himself to literary and artistic creation. Perhaps, at this time, it can be seen that Wang Jingwei is not suitable for politics, his revolutionary will is not firm enough, he often takes extreme assassinations, and at the slightest passive escape from politics, he simply does not have the determination of Sun Yat-sen to persevere in the struggle for the prosperity and strength of the country. If he can now withdraw from the political stage and devote himself to creation, he will certainly have a good performance in the literary world.
Hesitant and hesitant, he lost in the struggle against Chiang Kai-shek
Sun Yat-sen admired the talented Wang Jingwei, believing that he was only temporarily frustrated and demoralized, and would be able to return to the front line of the revolution after a while.
In October 1920, at the gracious invitation of Sun Yat-sen, Wang Jingwei returned to China to participate in the second Dharma protection movement led by Sun Yat-sen and returned to the political arena. After that, Wang Jingwei rose and fell in the political situation, trapped in politics, until the end of his life.
Sun Yat-sen urged Wang Jingwei to return to China, and after returning to China, Wang Jingwei also lived up to expectations. At this moment, Wang Jingwei accompanied Sun Yat-sen through the last five years of his life. In the past five years, Wang Jingwei has performed extremely well, like meeting with Zhang Xueliang, a young marshal in the northeast many times in the name of Sun Yat-sen's emissaries, and jointly opposing the warlords directly under his direct lineage, and is a firm implementer of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary policy.
Sun Yat-sen did not fail to treat Wang Jingwei, who had followed him in his early years to engage in revolution, Wang Jingwei's official position in the Kuomintang was not low, and he successively served as a senior adviser to the Guangdong revolutionary government, the president of the Education Association, and other positions, and was designated by Sun Yat-sen as one of the members of the presidium of the conference at the "First Congress" meeting of the Kuomintang in January 1924, and was elected as a member of the Central Executive Committee, and later served as the director of the Central Propaganda Department. Sun Yat-sen, who had great trust in Wang Jingwei, allowed Wang Jingwei to serve as Sun Yat-sen's secretary in November 1924, effectively becoming Sun Yat-sen's confidant. Even Sun Yat-sen's will was drafted by Wang Jingwei.
Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, and Wang Jingwei suddenly lost Bole. Wang Jingwei was too high-minded, never formed a party with others for personal gain, and was intercepted by Chiang Kai-shek, whose prestige and seniority were far inferior to his, and gradually disintegrated the power in his hands.
Chiang Kai-shek's professional military background and strong military background are simply unmatched by Wang Jingwei, who was born as a literati. Although Wang Jingwei was unanimously elected chairman of the Nationalist government in 1925, Chiang Kai-shek directly drew salaries from the bottom of the barrel, emulated Yuan Shikai, and established another central government. In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek directly established the Nanjing National Government, formally competing with the Wuhan National Government headed by Wang Jingwei.
Wang Jingwei did not think of rectifying the chaos, but his opponent Chiang Kai-shek was both powerful and cunning. Several actions were carried out in the open and in the dark, and the participating warlords were pregnant with ghosts, and finally they ended in failure.
Wang Jingwei's anti-Chiang Kai-shek's intentions, Chiang Kai-shek knew very well, he had long ago married the big bourgeois rich family Qianjin Song Meiling, as well as the identity of Sun Yat-sen's brother-in-law, secretly arranged, used the huangpu military academy as the principal's connections, and also formed good relations within the Kuomintang, beating Wang Jingwei again and again without the ability to fight back.
In 1932, the Japanese had already attacked Shanghai, and the flames of war would burn to Nanjing. The Nationalist government actually did not want to resist the enemy and chose to move the capital to Luoyang. Wang Jingwei was still thinking about how to keep Shanghai and Nanjing. But there was no one under him, Chiang Kai-shek, who had an army in his hands, was busy competing with the Communists, and Zhang Xueliang, a young marshal in the northeast, saw that there was no support and guarantee, and he refused to send troops. Only Cai Tingkai, a Defender of Shanghai who was closer to him, was willing to fight the Japanese to the death, and after 33 days of stalemate with the Japanese army, he was forced to retreat after heavy casualties.
What made Wang Jingwei even more embarrassed was still behind, and when the Japanese army invaded Rehe, Wang Jingwei ordered Zhang Xueliang to face the battle head-on. Zhang Xueliang asked him for a large amount of military expenses, Chiang Kai-shek did not express his position, and the generals in the north even expressed their intention to advance and retreat with Zhang Xueliang. Wang Jingwei was embattled, but the Kuomintang was still adding fuel to the fire, and his position as president of the Executive Yuan was replaced by Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, Song Ziwen.
The sword takes a side, surrenders to the enemy and treason, and eventually becomes a traitorous sinner
Wang Jingwei, who was embarrassed by the nest, held a grudge in his heart and advocated resisting Japan, and the Kuomintang generals shirked their responsibilities one after another, and basically no one was willing to obey his orders. Wang Jingwei is a literati, and the weakness of the literati is that they are easily depressed in the face of trouble, but it is a taboo for politicians to be sad in the spring and autumn.
Not long after, Wang Jingwei fell into the most criticized period of his life. He had always advocated the anti-Japanese resistance, and at the instigation of the people around him, he actually embarked on the pro-Japanese road step by step, and finally became a notorious traitor.
The Japanese side has always claimed that the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere was for the sake of the Asian people, and it is vigorously advocating pro-Japanese theory. Wang Jingwei felt that no one in the Kuomintang actively resisted Japan, and made a very wrong perception, believing that no one in China was willing to fight with the Japanese invaders to the death.
Wang Jingwei had followed Sun Yat-sen's revolution, did not learn the perseverance of Sun Yat-sen to not change his original intention and make a revolution after three ups and three downs, and he chose to break the jar and break it, directly contact the Japanese side, and seek a way out for the Japanese side.
Wang Jingwei was discouraged and chose to defect to Japan and flatter himself, but didn't the people around him oppose it? Unfortunately, there are not many people around Wang Jingwei who oppose him, and there are still people who are willing to negotiate with Japan on his behalf, only hoping that the Japanese side can withdraw its troops. With the help of all kinds of pushing, Wang Jingwei pushed things to an uncontrollable situation, and also pushed himself to a place where there was no return.
On December 29, 1938, Wang Jingwei went to Hanoi, where he issued the infamous "YanDian" in response to the Japanese government's December 22 statement to China, advocating surrender to Japan. It was also on this day that Wang Jingwei publicly surrendered to Japan.
It is worth noting that this "Yan Telegram," named after the telegram code of the 29th, was sent in the form of a telegram between Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang Central Committee, and the contents of the telegram were also publicly published in Hong Kong's "South China Daily." As soon as the telegram was sent, the Kuomintang led by Chiang Kai-shek became the target of public criticism. Wang Jingwei was previously a vice president of the Kuomintang and was the second most important person after Chiang Kai-shek.
After the publication of "YanDian", Wang Jingwei, a Kuomintang elder, was denounced by the people of the whole country. Senior Kuomintang officials and generals who had previously had good relations with Wang Jingwei expressed their insistence on resisting Japan.
The much-maligned Kuomintang could not resist the outrage of the crowd and permanently expelled Wang Jingwei from the party and revoked him from all his posts in the Kuomintang. At first, some people went to Rehe to persuade him to turn back to the shore, and Wang Jingwei, who was bent on going his own way, could listen to it. Fortunately, Wang Jingwei's defection to the enemy made Chinese's resistance to Japan more and more vigorous.
Wang Jingwei, who surrendered to the enemy, did not wait for Japan to fulfill its promise, and Japan's retreat was far away. There was no way, Wang Jingwei, who had surrendered to the enemy, could not turn back, and was afraid that he would not be able to live forever, and he also set up a Wang puppet government in Nanjing with the support of Japan, and completely degenerated into the most despised traitor when he was young.
The Heavenly Dao has reincarnation, and the heavens have spared no one. Wang Jingwei, who committed the feat of assassinating the regent in his youth, also assassinated young people in his later years because he surrendered to Japan and was not accustomed to his traitorous behavior. Although the assassination was unsuccessful, Wang Died in 1944, before Japan surrendered. He died before the surrender of Japan, and also did not escape the liquidation, his Meihuashan cemetery was bombed, and he was not cleaned after his death.
Looking back on Wang Jingwei's life, I am really sorry, obviously he was also a patriot when he was young, and he followed Sun Yat-sen to carry out revolution. However, after losing power with Chiang Kai-shek, he embarked on the road of no return to the enemy and Japan, and truly became a sinner for eternity.