Speaking of the War of Resistance Against Japan, we will inevitably think of Liu Hulan, Dong Cunrui, Yang Jingyu, these great anti-Japanese heroes, who struggled hard and sacrificed their lives for the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan. However, we must not forget the traitorous lackeys such as Wang Jingwei, Cao Rulin, and Zhou Fohai, nor can we forget their shameless acts of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country; after all, without their mainland, these heroic anti-Japanese heroes would not have been lost, and victory in the war would have come ahead of schedule. Today we are going to talk about the most shameful and hateful of these traitors, Wang Jingwei.
Wang Jingwei can be said to be the first traitor in China, and after Wang Jingwei failed to fight for power with Chiang Kai-shek, he chose to defect to the Japanese camp during the difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japan. He held a very high position among the Japanese and held a high position in the revolutionary government, but Wang Jingwei chose to work for the Japanese, and even in order to please the Japanese, he gained temporary glory and wealth, became a lackey of the Japanese, mutilated the anti-Japanese compatriots, and established a puppet government to rule the occupied areas.
However, Wang Jingwei was not without the heart to participate in the revolution at the beginning, and everyone knows that he met Sun Yat-sen in the early days and was deeply valued by Sun Yat-sen. Sun Yat-sen was also imprisoned for his early assassination of Zaifeng, leaving behind the revolutionary confidence and will displayed by his brilliant pen to regard him as his successor and entrust him with heavy responsibilities. Even Sun's famous phrase "The revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard" as we know it, was summed up from Sun Yat-sen's last words, and later circulated widely as a famous saying to encourage the broad masses to struggle hard for the revolution.
However, after the death of President Sun, although Wang Jingwei took over the post of Kuomintang Revolutionary Military Commissar, he was forced to resign because of the incident of the Zhongshan Ship, at this time Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the void and seized the Kuomintang power, and Wang Jingwei completely lost power in the Kuomintang.
As for why Wang Jingwei finally became a lackey of the Japanese, it was also blamed on the instigation of his wife, Chen Bijun. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, at the instigation of Chen and his desire to regain the Kuomintang regime, he defected to the Japanese and wanted to save the country, but in the end he lost his heart, and instead of saving the country, he became a person who mutilated his compatriots in his own country.
Later, after Wang Jingwei's death, Chen Bijun was afraid that his tomb would be destroyed, so he ordered someone to water and seal his grave with reinforced cement slurry water. However, after the victory of the War of Resistance, because his crimes were too bad, the Kuomintang still ordered people to blow up his grave.