From this time on, although Zhang Xueliang remained neutral on the surface, he did have a clear tilt toward Nanjing in his heart.
June 3 is Zhang Xueliang's thirtieth birthday, and all military and political leaders in the northeast gathered in Shenyang to celebrate his birthday. Zhang Xueliang took the opportunity to convene a meeting to discuss ways to deal with the situation. At the meeting, the opinions were divided into three factions, one was mainly Zhang Zuoxiang, who advocated protecting the border and the people, and did not cooperate with any party; the other faction, with Wang Shuhan as the mainstay, advocated cooperation with Nanjing; and the rest were the Shaozhuang faction, that is, Yu Xuezhong, who only followed Zhang Xueliang's orders.
Because of the internal disagreement, Zhang Xueliang felt quite uncertain. Just at this time, Li Shi had arrived in Shenyang as a special envoy for Zhu Shou to urge Zhang Xueliang to mediate.
After meeting with Li Shi, Zhang Xueliang immediately called Yan and Feng and proposed to designate the area around Zhengzhou and Kaifeng as a buffer zone and immediately cease hostilities. As for the political views called for by Yan and Feng to be made public, they could be "entrusted to the people to study together for adoption by the central authorities."
Chiang Kai-shek had already made concessions, but the anti-Chiang kai-shek camp was in a period of overall military superiority, and it was the so-called "pulling the mouth to see blood, and cutting the trees to see the roots", and no one was willing to let him go easily.
After an appeal, the hot face of the "Peace Movement" met with a cold ass. In this ancient and hard land, there has always been only one truth that reverberates, that is, winning or losing in the barrel of a gun, and everything else is in vain.
Li Shizeng's visit to Shenyang also had a purpose, that is, to ask Zhang Xueliang to send troops to help Jiang in the event that mediation failed.
After the meeting, the two sides reached a preliminary consensus. Under the premise that Zhang Zuoxiang and others did not approve of sending troops, Zhang Xueliang was ready to personally lead four concubines and Yu Xuezhong's troops into the customs. Jiang Fang agreed to first send two million yuan to the northeast as a cost to send troops, while helping to solve the financial problems of the ticket.
Since the "Middle East Road Incident", there has been inflation in the ticket, and although the northeast has issued a "current ocean ticket" to subsidize the ticket, there is still a risk of financial scarcity. If the northeast sends troops to enter the customs again, the finance outside the customs may immediately create a dangerous situation.
The day after the money was remitted, Li Shi went to Shanghai with Hu Ruoyu, Zhang Xueliang's representative. Hu Ruoyu went south and claimed to be thanking Zhang Xueliang for his birthday gifts and preparing to seek medical treatment in Shanghai, but in fact it was to solve the financial problems in northeast China.
Accompanied by Li Shizeng, Hu Ruoyu negotiated with Finance Minister Song Ziwen, who agreed to help stabilize Fengfeng. At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek also called Li Shizeng, asking him to relay to Zhang Xueliang that there was absolutely no problem with the stability of the ticket.
While asking Zhang Xueliang to send troops to help, Chiang Kai-shek himself was also rubbing his fists, even dreaming of hoping that his elite of the Central Army would perform well.
Zhang Xueliang (2) in the Central Plains War is serialized, and the drama ends.