Tao Xisheng: My wife has made me

Tao Xi Sheng

In China's modern history, Tao Xisheng, a talented son of the Republic of China, can be described as famous, who once created the era of "Tao Xisheng", and became an authoritative theoretician of the Kuomintang because of his assistance to Chiang Kai-shek, and won the name of "Chiang Kai-shek's Royal Pen". And such a master figure who has attracted the attention of the world, he is most grateful for his wife Wan Bingru in his life.

In 1922, Tao Xisheng, who graduated from Peking University, received an offer from the Anhui Provincial Legislative And Political School, and the first thing he did after he established himself was to return to the countryside of Hubei to pick up his wife. In the past four years of marriage, because of the birth of two daughters in a row, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has been tense, and her husband has been away for many years, the virtuous Wan Bingru can only swallow her anger, plus the eldest daughter is sick and dies because she is not valued, Wan Bingru's life at home is not good. This time, Tao Xisheng wanted to take her with him and share the bitterness from then on.

There was a wife, there were children, the home was finally like a home, during the day he went to school, she would play with the vegetable garden at home, plant some vegetables he liked to eat; at night he came back, the family was happy. In the turbulent times, Tao Xisheng, who has the dream of ruling the country with a family, is inevitably confused and wandering, and pessimism often affects him. Whenever this happens, the optimistic and open-minded Wan Bingru will cook him hometown dishes and sing hometown songs, dispelling the haze in his heart like sunshine.

In 1925, commissioned by the Commercial Press, Tao Xisheng wrote an article attacking the atrocities of the British patrol in the May Thirtieth Massacre. In the face of the dual pressure of the government and the United Kingdom, Tao Xisheng is not humble and swears not to bow his head, and several court debates have refuted the judge's speechlessness, and overnight, Tao Xisheng is unknown to everyone in Shanghai Beach. After his fame grew, Tao Xisheng was successively hired as a law professor at Peking University, Tsinghua University and other universities, and edited the Independent Review together with Hu Shi. Behind these achievements, the virtuous Wan Bingru let him have no worries.

After the Northern Expedition began, Tao Xisheng was hired as a political instructor at the Wuhan branch of the Whampoa Military Academy, where he met Wang Jingwei and was deeply appreciated by him. After the fall of Wuhan, in the face of the Japanese army that drove straight in, Tao Xisheng had to send his wife and children to Hong Kong, where the war could not burn, and stayed in the position of propaganda minister of the Nationalist government alone, but Wang Jingwei's pro-Japanese actions made Tao Xisheng, who had seen more of the world and was already pessimistic, even more confused.

After Wang Jingwei's traitorous behavior was made public, the Japanese side put forward the "Outline for the Adjustment of The New Relations between Japan and China." Tao Xisheng knew that if he signed the treaty, he would inevitably become a traitor to the country. In the letter to his wife, his strokes were low and sad: "I have thrown myself into the situation of exhaustion of mountains and rivers, and I refuse to think of exhaustion." For example, a grain of yellow sand in the sludge, I don't want to be sludge, but I am already a member of the sludge. Wan Bingru's reply was only one sentence: "Wait for me, I will come." ”

In December 1939, Wan Bingru arrived in Shanghai from Hong Kong with her five children and rented a house in the French Concession, and Tao Xisheng was finally able to find an excuse to leave Wang Jingwei's surveillance and move in with his wife.

As an outsider, Wan Bingru calmly analyzed the current situation and asked Tao Xisheng to immediately find a way out of the danger: "If you dare to sign the peace treaty, I will kill you." ”

Her firmness was undoubtedly a sedative for him.

The next day, Wan Bingru went to visit Wang Jingwei's wife, Chen Bijun, and lied that "this time I came to Shanghai with my children, that is, to let my husband get rid of his worries and swear to follow Mr. Wang to the death", and also expressed his wish to take care of her husband. After receiving Chen Bijun's approval, she immediately sent Tao Xisheng out of Wang Jingwei's surveillance range.

Under Wan Bingru's arrangement, Tao Xisheng and the foreign minister who was also dedicated to serving the country secretly fled to Hong Kong, and on the cruise ship, they drafted an open letter to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao.

Unexpectedly, the disappearance of Tao Xisheng and Tao Xisheng aroused Wang Jingwei's suspicions, and Wan Bingru's mother and son stranded in Shanghai were closely monitored. She knew that Wang Jingwei could not let her leave with all the children, so she tactfully took the initiative to ask for the three children studying in Shanghai, and she only took two young sons back to Hong Kong, which was equivalent to leaving Wang Jingwei hostage.

After Wan Bingru returned to Hong Kong with his children, Tao Xisheng stepped up the disclosure of the details of Wang Jingwei's traitorous peace treaty on the one hand, and on the other hand, asked the Shanghai Anti-Japanese Salvation Organization to rescue the three children who were still under Wang Jingwei's control.

After careful planning, the three children finally successfully boarded the ship, and Tao Xisheng immediately published the original photo of the "Outline of the Adjustment of the New Relations between Japan and The New China" and its annexes on the front page of Hong Kong's "Ta Kung Pao". The next day, newspapers in Chongqing and Kunming reprinted them one after another, and for a while the whole country was in an uproar and the crowd was indignant. This news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which made Wang Jingwei panic, and Chen Bijun was even more angry and confessed that he was planted in the hands of a "country woman".

It was this "country woman" who gave Tao Xisheng the strongest backing with the calmness and determination of a bystander, pulling him back from the edge of the traitor's cliff. In a letter to his daughter, Tao Xisheng commented on Wan Bingru: "Although Ru's mother is not educated in school, she is by no means an old-fashioned woman in the countryside as Ru and others imagined. The source of knowledge is in society and not in textbooks. ”

After that, he ran a newspaper and a newspaper in Hong Kong, and she worked to make up for it; he was criticized and suppressed, and she gently advised: "Although I have never seen state affairs, I understand the fundamentals of the people." The only bottom line is to betray the country, deceive the people, and destroy the ancestors, and we cannot do it. ”

Tao Xisheng, who is known for his scholarship, has the weakness of traditional Chinese literati in his bones, he is a scholar, but he is by no means a far-sighted politician, but under the bitter heart of Wan Bingru, his newspaper has become "the good words of the people and the alarm bell of the country."

In December 1941, Hong Kong fell. Wan Bingru advised Tao Xisheng to return to the interior with the backbone of the newspaper, while he took his children and moved inland with the refugees, which took more than five months to arrive in Chongqing. Every time she went to a city, she would write a letter to the mailbox, some of which did not even have an address, and she only hoped that her husband would receive it.

At that time, Tao Xisheng had already found the Nationalist Government and served as the secretary of the Colonel of Chiang Kai-shek's Attendant Office, drafting important proclamations for the Nationalist Government.

In the chaotic world, the family was reunited, which made him feel refreshed and his enthusiasm for serving the motherland was once again high. He then served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, and in 1943 published "The Fate of China", written for Chiang Kai-shek, and soon rose to the rank of major general, becoming the last theoretical authority and state authority of the Nationalist government. And every time he spoke, he praised his own helpers.

In 1975, Wan Bingru died. Tao Xisheng seemed to have lost his main heart, and after that, he resigned from his official position and lived in seclusion, writing books and never asking about politics.

"If there is no red powder and more powerful, where there is a phoenix branch perched." Tao Xisheng used poetry to evaluate his wife in this way. From the talented and weak scholar to the law professor who was rewarded in the sea, from the "traitor" who lost his life to the "literary boldness" who was hot-blooded and heroic, his wife always accompanied him. It was the wife's suggestion at every critical moment that made Tao Xisheng. (Source| Hundred Forums Author| Liu Chuang)