Chapter 32 first quarter

My soul flies in the sky, sometimes clear, sometimes confused.Fortunately, I was guided by the sound of the huqin intermittently, the tram line of "Klinkerai", the bells of Jing'an Temple and the music of Paramount, and the faint first furnace Incense, the second incense... My soul wandered along Jing'an Temple Road in Shanghai in the 1940s, passing blurry acquaintances beside me: Wang Jiaorui was walking on the road holding Tong Zhenbao's arm. They were going to watch a movie, but they met a familiar person on the way The British lady had to stand down and chat for a few words; Er Qiao and Si Mei passed by on bicycles, and kept talking about the dilapidated family background of their new sister-in-law Yu Qing; Wanting to add more money, she suddenly became impatient, and simply jumped out of the car and walked, looking boredly at the window while walking; Wang Jiazhi also got off the tricycle at the Moses intersection, and walked into the cafe to wait for Lao Yi. We made an appointment to buy a ring together; when the car bell rang suddenly, it was not Lao Yi, but Bai Liusu who had returned from a blind date with Miss Seven, with a guilty and complacent expression on his face, he ducked into the door with his head down, unable to die; A cat slipped out of the door opening, with its tail upright and swishing away. The door opening was so dark that it was hard to tell whether it was the "dragging gun in the snow" owned by Xiao Ai's fifth grandma, or the old man Kuang's grandfather. ...

My soul followed the cat and floated into the apartment. I saw the elevator with the carved iron door and the green mailbox. The soul didn’t know how to take the elevator, so I had to circle up and down. Someone had the radio on and was singing, Occasionally, I inserted a news editorial, and I took a look at the radio box. It was square and square. I saw it in "Long Live the Wife". , or Meng Yanli is not sure, she also likes to listen to the news with the radio on all day long, and wants to hear people's voices in the empty room; on the next floor, Auntie, Auntie of Suzhou, is in the kitchen calling her son Baishun to eat , Baishun said: "Mom, by the way, they eat roasted pork with dried vegetables today!" Before he finished speaking, Ah Xiao had a chopstick on his head; There is a marriage certificate in a frame, and a little angel with rose wings protruding from the upper corner, holding a lacquered ribbon. Ouyang Dunfeng sits under the frame and knits wool. Mi Jingyao accosts and walks over to get the coat, saying vaguely : "I'll go out for a while." Both Dunfeng and I know that he is going to his ex-wife's house...

My soul kept drifting up to the top floor, and I saw a man knocking on the door of Room 605—a man in a long gown, a top hat, with a slender appearance and a desolate figure. He asked politely, "Is Mr. Zhang Ailing there?" Then Insert a note through the door opening... That is Hu Lancheng! My soul hid in the corridor and wept, calling out to Aileen desperately, telling her not to open the door. ——She did not open the door, but she called again later, saying that she would like to see Hu Lancheng. There was also a newspaper stuffed in the crack of the door, and it was clearly written: February 4, 1944.

For Hu Lancheng, the most common definition is a "high-level cultural traitor". A scholar who has run magazines and published books, and has covered a wide range of subjects. He is well-deserved to be called "the number one genius in the Republic of China"; It's not because of Zhang Ailing, she would never be interested in a person like Hu Lancheng.And apart from his betrayal of Zhang Ailing, I can't say I have any ill feeling towards him.Although I hate traitors, especially traitors who help the Japanese to harm their compatriots, I have searched a lot of information about Hu Lancheng, but I have not found any clear examples to prove his traitorous behavior. "Waving the flag and shouting", "violating conscience", "shameless" and other conceptual words, his "Mountains and Rivers" and I skipped to read, and read only the words related to Zhang Ailing, as for the hidden between the lines Political inclination, but not very clear.

Li Hongzhang was also known as a "traitor" in the past, Zhou Zuoren was officially classified as a "traitor" in 1938, and Zhang Ailing was also called a "female traitor" in "The Ugly History of Female Traitors" published in 1945. Guan Lu, a female writer who was once as famous as Zhang Ailing, was wronged half a lifetime before she was rehabilitated. Even Ke Ling was fought as a "traitor" during the "Cultural Revolution"... Still the same sentence, the backlash of history has to be left to history to play.Let's just talk about Fengyue here.

Closer to home——Hu Lancheng was born in Sheng County, Zhejiang Province in 1906, dropped out of Yenching University in 1927, and was hired by Liao Lei, commander of the Seventh Army, in 1936 to run Liuzhou Daily, In May, the Guangdong-Guangzhou mutiny failed, and Hu was imprisoned by the Fourth Army General Headquarters for thirty-three days.In 1937, he wrote two articles on the "China Daily", one on Chinese handicraft industry and one on the analysis of the tariff figures of the year, which were translated and carried by the Japanese "Mainland Shinbo", and he was hired by the "China Daily". As the main writer, go to Shanghai.At the beginning of 1938, he was transferred to Hong Kong's "South China Daily" as the chief editor, and wrote editorials under the pseudonym Liusha. In 1939, he left Hong Kong and returned to Shanghai to serve as the chief editor of "China Daily". Political Undersecretary—that's how he got the name "traitor".

It is said that when Hu Lan became a writer, he never drafted a draft, and it was done in one go, relying on a horse to wait.After the manuscript was completed, it was rarely changed, so it has the reputation of "big pen like rafters".When running the newspaper, at least two editorials per week were written by himself. Because of his sharp writing, he often said that others dare not speak, and every time there was a blank window in the original editorial page of the newspaper—he was pulled out because of the intense editorial views If it is not published, and there is no substitute for the preliminary draft, it has to be left blank, which is called "empty window".

Some of his colleagues advised him to keep a secret to avoid violating the taboos of the ruling party. He replied: "There are 'empty windows' in the newspaper page, which is the characteristic of Hu's newspaper." Luo Junqiang, the Puppet Minister of Justice and Administration of Wang, mentioned the section about Hu Lancheng in his memoir "The Puppet Court's Shadow Record" and said: "After Wang Jingwei published "Yan Dian" (Author's Note: A telegram in response to Prime Minister Konoe's surrender statement, published in the "South China Daily" on December 29, 1938), Hu Lancheng suddenly talked about the theory of traitors and published articles continuously. Lin Bosheng (Wang Puppet Propaganda Department Director) used his articles as editorials. Among them, the article "War is Hard and Not Easy" was very appreciated by Chen Bijun (Wang Jingwei's wife), who thought he was a talent. After inquiring, I found out that he was still a month old. A small editor with a salary of 60 yuan, the life of the family is very difficult to maintain, and his eye disease is very serious, so he cannot be called to see the "Madam". Chen Bijun severely reprimanded Lin Bosheng, thinking that he buried his real talent. Lin was very frightened by this reprimand Immediately promoted Hu Lan to become the chief editor, increased his salary, and sent him to the hospital for eye disease treatment. Because of Chen Bijun's recommendation, Wang Jingwei also favored him. Later, he went to Shanghai and was awarded the title of "Central Committee Member" and served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Wang Puppet Executive Yuan. .”

Luo Junqiang and Hu Lancheng were both members of the Wang puppet regime, and later worked all the way to the governor of Anhui.From his writings, we can clearly see the complete process of Hu Lancheng's defection to Wang Jingwei. However, Hu Lancheng didn't seem to be very grateful for Wang Jingwei's promotion.Lin Bosheng then cried to Wang Jingwei, Wang Jingwei was also very annoyed, and said to Lin Bosheng: "Let's do it."Later, Zhou Fohai, Chen Gongbo and others persuaded and intervened, so Hu Lancheng was asked to write a letter of repentance. The Wang puppet government was established on March 30, 1940. Hu Lancheng was appointed as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department after that. On February 28, 1941, he published the "National News Release Speech", completely separated from "China Daily", and turned to run "National News", served as the vice president and chief editor, and was immediately dismissed from the Propaganda Department The position of deputy chief - even the head and the tail, Hu Lancheng's position as deputy chief has been sitting for less than half a year, but this title has followed him all his life.

This year coincided with the 2600th year of the Japanese Era, Wang Jingwei sent a huge delegation of more than a hundred people to Tokyo to participate in the grand ceremony, with Zhao Yusong as the head of the delegation.Hu Lancheng also accompanied the regiment.During his stay in Japan, Hu Lancheng attended the banquet held by Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka and the Japan-China Cultural Association when he first arrived, and then all the invitations from ministers of various provinces and even Prime Minister Konoe were rejected. The Japanese have heard for a long time that he has a good handwriting with iron strokes and silver hooks, and they have been begging for him.Hu Lancheng wrote a poem in cursive:

〖I visited Penglai Mountain, famous for the immortals; But seeing Xing Tianwu, doing relatives and enemies; If you want to pay a dowry gift, how can you have a guest without a host? My heart is really sullen, I brush my clothes and go ahead; The suburbs and cities I have passed, I still cherish their people; But I am afraid that another day will come, and Ao will turn lonely and Cang Ying; The post booth was full of intentions, and I didn't feel tears. 〗 He despised the Japanese for not knowing calligraphy or Chinese poetry, so he ridiculed them in his poems for only knowing how to go to war and expand their territory, but he did not care that his fertile land was becoming barren in the militarism.It is predicted that the Japanese war of aggression against China will be defeated, and the Penglai fairyland in the past will be devastated in the future, and it will be too late to repent at that time. Judging from this poem, he is quite virtuous.And after the celebration, he left the group alone and returned home first. When Wang Jingwei visited Japan in December of the following year, some Japanese took this poem and told Wang Jingwei that Hu Lancheng might be an anti-Japanese element. Although Wang Jingwei didn't believe it, he lost his trust in Hu Lancheng ever since.After returning to China, Hu Lancheng was summoned, and because Hu Lancheng disapproved of declaring war on Britain and the United States, the two had a gap. This was the last time they met alone. The backstage person of "National News" that Hu Lancheng defected to was Li Shiqun, the head of the spy headquarters of Wang Puppet "No. 76". However, Hu Lancheng's mad personality remained the same, and he was still not grateful to Li Shiqun.In the spring of 1943, Li Shiqun became governor of Jiangsu Province, and Hu Lancheng seized power with Zhou Fohai and his followers Luo Junqiang and Xiong Jiandong secret merchants.After Li Shiqun learned about it, he hurried back to Shanghai from Suzhou, and said to Hu Lancheng: "If you leave the "National News", I can give you some severance pay. "Going up" is born with an indifferent temper, so naturally he left as soon as he said it.However, Li Shiqun was poisoned to death a few months later. During this period, Hu Lancheng’s Japanese friends Shimizu Dongshan and Ikeda Atsuki (first-class clerk in charge of cultural affairs at the Japanese embassy in Nanjing) were ordered to hold a “Japan-China symposium” and invited him to attend the meeting.He was not polite, and boldly predicted in front of a full house of Japanese: "According to my prediction, Japan will be defeated in World War II, and Mr. Wang's regime will not survive. If it is to be saved, Japan must withdraw its troops from China and carry out the Showa Restoration. ..." This rhetoric was later formed into a text, which is the famous article "Japan Should Implement the Showa Restoration".Although the article predicted that the Japanese war of aggression against China would be defeated, the Japanese authorities appreciated it and thought it was unique; Wang Jingwei was not so generous, thinking that Hu Lancheng was ungrateful, and cursed him that "the Wang regime cannot exist", so he ordered the immediate detention of Hu Lancheng. On December 7, 1943, Hu Lancheng was imprisoned again in the cell of the Nanjing Politburo for 48 days. Hu Lancheng wrote in his memoirs: "Yingdi waited until nine o'clock that night and saw that I didn't come home, so she went to look for Ikeda... Yingdi was young and innocent, and she spoke confidently, and Ikeda jumped up and joined him overnight. Ambassador Shimizu Mitani..." Very vocal. However, many years later, Taiwanese writer Li Li interviewed Hu Qingyun, Hu Lancheng's niece, and found out that a wrong account had been recorded here. In fact, on the night Hu Lancheng was arrested, Lao Zha, the male servant of the Nanjing family, took the train to Shanghai Meili Garden overnight and reported to Qingyun—because Hu Lancheng had a premonition of his arrest before going out. Zha once said: If I don’t come back at ten o’clock, you can go and find my niece. When Qing Yun got the news, she was the first to go to find Xiong Jiandong.Xiong Jiandong immediately guessed that the Nanjing government had arrested him. Except for Wang Jingwei, no one else would be so bold.He made a few phone calls, and it was confirmed that he was in the Nanjing government, so he said to Qingyun, "It's hard to save. It's easy for others to catch them. If Wang Jingwei catches them, no one will save them." Qingyun was helpless. So, the two old bombers had to take the train to Nanjing again, and went to ask Ikeda for help.Qingyun's impression of Ikeda is "Ikeda used to be a student from Japan who came to China, and he met (with Hu Lancheng) in Beijing school. " When I arrived at the embassy, ​​I said that Ikeda was not there, and I only needed to go to a home address, so I went to Ikeda's house according to the address, but he was still not there.Mrs. Ikeda said that she didn't know when she would come back.Qingyun cried anxiously, and said: "I have no other choice, I have to wait for him to come back at dawn." Mrs. Ikeda couldn't be bothered, so she called Lin Bosheng in front of Qingyun: "Hu Lancheng is with you, right?" You can guarantee his life safety, you have to be responsible to the end, if anything happens, I will not be polite to you.” Putting down the phone, he comforted Qingyun and said, “Don’t worry, go back, it’s fine. What's the matter, I'll bombard them with the gendarmerie." Only then did Qing Yun feel relieved and left. As for why Hu Lancheng thought it was Yingdi who saved him, Qingyun guessed that it was because Yingdi had visited in prison and sent clothes. Various materials later showed that Qingyun's version was credible, but it was not as easy as she said—or not as easy as Mrs. Ikeda's.Later, it was Ikeda and Shimizu who went to the rescue in many ways, and the Japanese ambassador and the military jointly put pressure on Wang Puppet to rescue Hu Lancheng. So far, Hu Lancheng and Wang Jingwei have completely fallen out, and even in a sense, he is still a warrior who blatantly scolds Wang for his hypocrisy and incompetence and predicts that Wang Zheng will be defeated. ——However, later generations have always interpreted this as "speculation", just like all capitalist young masters and ladies who participated in the revolution when the revolutionary team was purged were also "speculation", so it is difficult to comment. January 24, 1944, was New Year's Eve in the old calendar. Hu Lancheng had just been released from prison at that time, and was at home, bored, so he casually opened a magazine for entertainment, and a bad relationship began—— "I had nothing to do in Nanjing before, and I didn't read much about books, newspapers and magazines. On this day, Feng Heyi sent Tiandi Monthly. I thought Heyi's name was good, so I moved a wicker chair on the grass in the yard. Lie down in the sun and read a book. First look at the introductory words. It turns out that Feng Heyi is also called Su Qing. It’s hard for her to write so generously and neatly. Turning to the article, the author Zhang Ailing, I only read one or two sections, and I didn’t feel physically Sit up straight, and read it carefully over and over again. When I met Hu Jinren, I asked him to read it too. He liked it after reading it, but I was still not satisfied. I wrote to Su Qing and asked, who is this Ailinguo?She replied only women.I just feel that as long as there is one sentence or one thing about Zhang Ailing in the world, it will be good.And the second issue of "Heaven and Earth" was sent, and there was another article by Zhang Ailing, this is true.This issue also has a picture of her.When I see a good person or a good thing, I will be skeptical, as if I want to prove it is true again and again, so I am foolishly happy again and again, but I don't ask what it has to do with me... And after I was released, I went to Shanghai and went to look for Su Qing as soon as I got off the train.Su Qing was very happy, and accompanied me to the street from her office to eat fried rice with eggs.I asked about Zhang Ailing, and she said that Zhang Ailing was invisible.When I asked her for Zhang Ailing's address, she hesitated for a while before writing to me. It was Room 65, 6th Floor, Apartment No. 192, Hede Crossing, Jing'an Temple Road. I went to see Eileen Chang the next day, but I didn't see her. I just handed in a note through the door, because I didn't bring my business card.Another day later, after lunch, Zhang Ailing called and said to come and see me.My home in Shanghai is in Meiliyuan, Daxi Road, not far from her place, and she came right away. "(Hu Lancheng's "This Life and This Life——Women of the Republic of China")