Chapter 258 257. Japanese warlords blow up Zhang Zuolin

In late May 2017, the Beiyang Army retreated every day, and the diplomatic envoys of various countries in China had predicted that the Beijing government would collapse, and this time the collapse was not like the warlord melee in the past 17 years, so they asked their governments for their views on China.Among the great powers, Japan has been determined to invade China immediately since the "Tanaka Memorial". Therefore, Shandong sent troops twice, and the Jinan tragedy happened one after another. After the Beiyang Army retreated from Shandong to Hebei, Japan's actions became more active. increasingly revealed.

On May 12, 2017, Jiang Tengsan, the Japanese representative of the Manchurian Railway, forced Feng Zhang to sign the five-way agreement. The Minister of Transportation, Chang Yinhuai, was unable to deal with it and avoided going to Tianjin.The Japanese side could not find the Ministry of Communications in charge, so they went to the Generalissimo's Mansion to "force the palace", threatening that if Japan was not given the right to complete the Jihui Road, Zhang Zuolin would not be allowed to pass through the Nanman Road when he left the customs in the future.Forced by the situation, Zhang Zuolin appointed Zhao Zhen, Director of Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Communications and Deputy Minister, and then acting as Minister, so that Zhao could negotiate with the Japanese side. On May 13, Zhao Zhen and Manchurian Railway representatives arrived at the ministry late at night, and stamped the contract with the Duntu and Dachang roads with the ministry's seal.However, Zhao Zhen and acting ministers were to take effect on May 15th, and the contract was sealed on the 13th, and it was on a Sunday. The Japanese side considered it invalid and ordered to change the contract date to the 15th.The content of this contract was kept secret by both parties. Later, Zhang Zuolin was bombed when he left the customs, and all the documents were destroyed in the special car. According to the Japanese side, the contract signed included Duntu, Dachang, Yanhai, and Taosuo. "Auspicious Five" all the way will be discussed after Zhang Zuolin's return.

The Japanese side not only forced the signing of the road agreement, but also planned to confiscate the firearms of the Fengjun in the customs and force the Fengjun to return them. On May 18, the Japanese government issued a "Notice to the Northern and Southern Chinese Governments and European and American Powers of Consciousness", briefly stating that if the turmoil spreads to Manchuria and Mongolia, Japan will take effective measures to maintain law and order there. On May 20th, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters ordered secret mobilization. The content of the order was as follows:

(1) The main force of the troops stationed in Manchuria moved to Fengtian. (2) The Outer Mountain Brigade evacuated from Jinan to Dalian was transferred to Fengtian. (3) The main force of the Japanese troops stationed in Manchuria was concentrated in Fengtian. (4) Send powerful troops to Jinzhou, Yizhou, Shanhaiguan, and Chaoyang Town to serve as Fengjun's guard. (5) Maintain law and order in Xinmin Village. The Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in the Northeast believed that this was the beginning of the occupation of the Northeast, and was extremely excited. However, this order changed again on May 23. Because the US State Department stated that "the administrative sovereignty of the three northeastern provinces belongs to China", the Japanese government made a statement. He hesitated, and sent Tashiro Kanichiro from Tokyo Trent to the northeast, verbally conveying the order of the Japanese government, and still retaining Zhang Zuolin's status and power, waiting for changes.This greatly disappointed the radicals of the Kwantung Army, and thus ruined Zhang Zuolin's life.

After Japan's "Letter of Consciousness" was issued, the United States expressed its opposition, and the positions of both sides in the war in China were also consistent. On May 25, Zhang Zuolin replied to the Japanese Jueshu, saying that it was absolutely difficult to admit the "appropriate and effective measures" that the Japanese Jueshu called.Declare that the three northeastern provinces and Beijing and Tianjin are Chinese territory, where sovereignty lies, and cannot be ignored.And responsible for the protection of aliens.I hope that Japan will not deal with it in violation of international practice in view of the Jinan tragedy.At the same time, a declaration was issued, saying that Japan's move violated the position of the Washington Conference.

On May 29, the Nationalist Government replied to Japan’s Jue Shu, and the Shanghai diplomatic negotiators handed it over to the Japanese Consul General in Shanghai, stating that the public security issues in the three eastern provinces and the safety of Chinese and foreign people were the Nationalist Government’s own responsibility. The so-called "taking appropriate and effective measures" is extremely difficult to admit. On the same day, the Japanese navy stationed in China announced that it was forbidden for the Chinese navies of the South and North to fight within 20 miles of the territorial waters of Qingdao, Yantai, Longkou, Dagu, and Qinhuangdao.Naval attachés from various countries expressed their opposition to the one-sided announcement of the Japanese Navy, which was not approved at the "National Naval Attachés Meeting".

At 1 a.m. on May 30, Zhang Xueliang, Yang Yuting, and Sun Chuanfang left Baoding and headed north, and arrived in Beijing at 7 a.m. Sun Jun abandoned Baoding and retreated to Liulihe. On May 31, Zhang Zuolin was about to withdraw from Beijing, and discussed with Wang Shizhen, a veteran of Beiyang, how to temporarily maintain Beijing's law and order.Every time there is a change in the regime in Beijing, Wang Shizhen, the "Dragon" of the Three Heroes of Beiyang, is always elected to maintain it.The meeting of foreign missions in Beijing responded. The Japanese envoys advocated that foreign troops take over the city gate of Beijing, but the American envoys objected. The meeting broke up without any results.

Shang Zhen of the Jin army released Yu Zhen, an important member of the Feng army who had been detained before, and sent him to Beijing to visit Zhang Zuolin to discuss the method of peaceful transfer to Beijing. On June 1, Zhang Zuolin entertained the diplomatic corps with a tea party to say goodbye.It is said that the Japanese Minister Fangze once secretly visited Zhang Zuolin and advised him to accept Japan's conditions, otherwise it would be bad for him. If he could accept it, the Japanese side would protect Zhang's return to Shenyang via Dalian.The meeting was very long, and the attendants standing outside the living room once heard Mrs. Zhang say loudly: "My surname Zhang will not betray the country, and I am not afraid of death."

On June 2, Zhang Zuolin sent a telegram in the name of Generalissimo of the Anguo Army, declaring that after withdrawing from Beijing, government affairs would be handed over to the State Council, and military affairs would be under the responsibility of the head of the army.After that, state affairs are subject to national referendum.Wang Shizhen and others formed the Beijing Security Committee, and special martial law was declared in the embassy area at night. At 1:00 am on June 3, Zhang Zuolin left Beijing's Shuncheng Prince's Mansion, arrived at Qianmen Station at 1:10, and departed by special car at 1:15, accompanied by Pan Fu, Mo Dehui, Liu Zhe, Yu Guohan, etc. There are also Japanese consultants Machino Takema and Saga Makoto.The special car passed Tianjin, Pan Fu and Machino got off, Chang Yinhuai joined, there were 18 special cars in total, Zhang Zuolin's car was originally the third, and Wu Junsheng's special car was added when the car passed Shanhaiguan, so Zhang's car was ranked fourth.

The situation in the north was turned upside down. On the day Zhang Zuolin left the customs, the outgoing president Li Yuanhong died of illness in Tianjin.His death went unnoticed because the situation in the North was changing drastically. At 5:30 am on June 4, 2017, Zhang Zuolin's special car entered Shenyang Huanggutun, under the bridge at the intersection of Nanman Road and Jingfeng Road, there was a loud bang, and the bridge slab of the suspension bridge collapsed, just on the third, fourth, and fifth on the carriage.The bridge deck of the suspension bridge is divided into three sections, supported by stone pillars, and the pillars are covered with steel bone cement with a thickness of six feet, so if it is not for special explosives, it is impossible to exert such a huge destructive force. It can't be that accurate either.

After the train was bombed, the scene was horribly littered with corpses. Wu Junsheng died immediately, Zhang Zuolin was seriously injured, and the Japanese consultant Saga suffered only minor injuries to his ankle.The other compartments were all accompanying people. Seeing that Mr. Zhang had an accident, they quickly rescued him. The accident site at the intersection was guarded and no one was allowed to touch the scene.And sent Zhang Zuolin back to Shenyang by car.Zhang died of serious injuries at 10 a.m. at the age of 55.But this news was blocked, and the outside world didn't know it at all. According to various materials leaked after Japan surrendered, the assassination of Zhang Zuolin was indeed planned and organized by the Japanese Kwantung Army. At that time, the commander of the Kwantung Army was Lieutenant General Chotaro Muraoka. The important generals of the Kwantung Army believed that Zhang Zuolin was the biggest obstacle for Japan to control the Northeast. If Zhang Zuolin was not removed, Japan would have great resistance in the Northeast. Presided over the assassination of Zhang Zuolin.At first, Muraoka secretly dispatched Yoshiharu Takeshita, a Japanese military attache stationed in Harbin, to Beijing to carry out the execution. However, Daisaku Kawamoto's staff found out that Beijing had many eyes and ears, and it was difficult to conceal the assassination. As the general commander of the operation, the date of the conspiracy was decided after May 31. The assassination site was originally planned to be at the road bridge of Juliu River on Jingfeng Road. Later, because the Chinese military and police in this area were under strict surveillance, there was no opportunity to calmly arrange it, so He Ben chose it. The suspension bridge on Nanman Road in Huanggutun is the starting point.Lieutenants Kanda and Tomita were in charge of surveying the location, engineer captain Guan Ye was in charge of installing the electric current bomb, and independent defense captain Donggong was in charge of distributing the electric current; Araki Goro led the operatives to prepare for Zhang Zuolin's impending killing after the explosion.In addition, the Japanese military attaches in Peiping, Miji Takekawa and Takashi Tanaka, were in charge of investigating the train organization and the departure time of Zhang Zuolin, and at the same time sent a large number of spies to deploy defenses in Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Xinmintun and other places. There are also arrangements for cover-up responsibilities after an incident has occurred.First, Ronin Anda Longsheng found Liu Daiming, an unemployed Chinese soldier, and then found three fake murderers who were Chinese beggars who sold morphine. They took them to a bathhouse attached to Nanman Road in the middle of the night on June 3 to take a bath and change clothes, and were escorted by Japanese soldiers. Go to the Huanggutun Suspension Bridge and kill him with a bayonet.Among the three, one surnamed Wang took the opportunity to escape while taking a bath. After Zhang Zuolin was bombed, the beggar surnamed Wang reported to Fengjun, telling the Japanese that the two dead bodies of the murderers were the two Hua beggars. Looking at the corpse, it was also confirmed to the Shenyang Japanese Gendarmerie that it was a Chinese beggar who had bathed in his bathroom. Liu Daiming was originally from the old department of Meng Enyuan, Zhang Zuolin expelled Meng, Liu Daiming said that this time was to avenge the old master, but in reality it was a reward of 20,000 yen.Hemoto paid Liu a deposit of 1,000 yen beforehand, but he refused to accept the account afterwards.Anda Lusheng told his relative Kudo Tesaburo in Tokyo about the breach of trust. Kudo told the incident to the iron minister Ogawa Heiyoshi at the time, and Ogawa reported the incident to Prime Minister Tanaka and Senator Saizonoji.Xiyuan Temple was deeply afraid that Liu Daiming would be arrested by Zhang Xueliang and leak the scandal, so he urgently ordered Xiaochuan to pay the remuneration, and sent Liu Daiming to Dalian to help him open a smoke den. The culprit, Heben, said that the Kwantung Army at that time had two schools of thought, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting, about the successor after Zhang Zuolin was dealt with.On the day when the car was bombed, Kawamoto had prepared a group of soldiers to gather in the South Manchurian subsidiary area. Because he had not contacted Major General Saito, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Saito dismissed him.During the incident, the Kwantung Army asked the Japanese Consulate in Shenyang by telephone all day long, hoping to allow it to send troops to maintain order outside the railway annex, but was rejected by the Morishima Consul.On that day, in the Japanese residential area of ​​Shenyang, ronin dropped bombs four times in a row, but the Chinese officials calmly dealt with it and no accidents occurred. The Shenyang Military Administration contacted the young marshal Zhang Xueliang in Beijing from the afternoon of the 4th, asking him to return to Shenyang as soon as possible, and Zhang Xueliang had also learned about the Huanggutun incident. He was only 28 years old at the time, and he had to deal with such a very difficult and complicated situation , it is really not easy.At that time, because they didn't know the real reason of the incident, although they suspected that the Japanese were behind the scenes, they didn't know the next step.Since the Japanese dared to murder Zhang Zuolin, they would not let Zhang Xueliang go, so Zhang Xueliang was determined to return to Shenyang, so he had to adopt extremely secret arrangements.He disguised himself as a cook and took the train from Beijing to Shenyang. When he passed the Nanman Road checkpoint, he bypassed it on foot, then changed to a car and drove straight to Shenyang and entered the Shuai Mansion.Before he returned to Shenyang, the important people in Fengfang did not announce Zhang Zuolin's death in secret. They only issued a communiqué announcing that Marshal Zhang was seriously injured, and did not announce the news of his death.Zhang's head was bandaged, with only his eyes, nose, and mouth exposed, and he lay on the bed, with the opium stove and fruit still placed.Japanese visitors asked him to look out of the bedroom to make the Japanese believe it was true. Zhang Zuolin's will was copied from the will of Liu Bei after his death, and the signature was signed by Zhang Xueliang, because the young marshal can imitate the signature of the old marshal, so it can be faked.Zhang Zuolin's will said: "Unfortunately, Yu was in danger on his way home. Now he is seriously ill, and he will die in the morning and evening. Yu joined the army from Beijing and vowed to serve the country with his own body. This year, he is fifty-six. He is not young, but his ambition to serve the country is unavoidable. .Today, I am entrusting you with the heavy responsibility of heaven. I hope that you will be good at cooking, recruiting virtuous people, and clarifying the internal affairs, so as to comfort the hanging hopes of the elders. Even though the body is dead, the eyes are still in peace." According to his order of "forging documents", Zhang Xueliang became the acting commander-in-chief of Fengjun, and then hurriedly transferred the troops of the direct line to return to Shen at Xingye. At the same time, Zhang Xueliang invited the older generation to discuss the aftermath of the generals of the Feng family.After Zhang Zuoxiang saw him, he was both sad and happy. He said: "Little Liuzi (Zhang Xueliang's nickname), don't worry, we will support you. If we don't obey your orders on the public side, you can just take the money." The military law is to deal with us. But in private, you are still my nephew. If I know that you are not doing well, I will slap you when there is no one." What he said is equivalent to determining Zhang Xueliang's inheritance rights. On June 19, Fengtian announced the death of Zhang Zuolin, and Zhang Xueliang succeeded Fengtian as the supervisor. He announced the cessation of the military and recuperated. Wan Fulin was assigned as the supervisor of Heilongjiang. On June 24, the Federation of the Three Northeast Provinces electrified Zhang Zuoxiang as the Security Commander of the Three Northeast Provinces and Jilin Commander, Zhang Xueliang as the Commander of Fengtian, and Wan Fulin as the Commander of Heilongjiang. Zhang Zuoxiang firmly refused to be the security commander of the three eastern provinces. On July 4, the Federation of the three eastern provinces replaced Zhang Xueliang, and Zhang announced his inauguration immediately.Although Zhang Zuolin was born in the green forest and had never read a book, he knew the righteousness of the country and the nation. His refusal to be a Japanese puppet was the biggest reason for his death. New Testament” section.Although the Japanese successfully blackmailed Yuan Shikai in Beijing, they had negotiated with Zhang Zuolin for many years in the Northeast, but failed to achieve what they wanted.Although the Jidun Road was built, the Northeast itself also built Shenhai Road, Sitao Road, and Dahushan Road to open up the Pingshen Road (called Jingfeng Road at that time) to deal with it.As for commercial renting and mixed living, it has always been an unsolved case.During the 15th and 16th years of the Republic of China, Shigeru Yoshida, the Japanese Consul General in Fengtian, was a famous Japanese diplomat. Once negotiating on behalf of China and Japan, he once said domineeringly to Zhang: "If you really don't accept it, the Japanese side should have another way. Zhang Nai retorted and replied: "How to say! What good way do you have? Just take it out, are you going to send troops again? My surname is Zhang and wait for you!" After speaking, he got up to see off the guests, Yoshida It was very embarrassing, so he resigned and left Shenyang. The Japanese side sent Hayashi Hisakujiro to succeed him. At the same time, he sent Mori Ke, the secretary general of the Political Friends Association and the same name as Ichiro Hatoyama, to Dalian and then to Peiping. Fangze Qianji came forward and negotiated with Zhang, because Zhang had already taken up the post of "Generalissimo of the Anguo Army" at this time. When the war was unfavorable and he was about to withdraw from the customs, Zhang Zuolin still refused to succumb to the threats and temptations of the Japanese warlords. In the end, the Kwantung Army had no choice but to meet him at a desperate time. After the Kwantung Army murdered Zhang Zuolin, then Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka was the most disappointed.Tanaka's diplomatic oppression has paid off. He forced Zhang Zuolin to sign the railway agreement.Tanaka believed that his strategy of separating Manchuria and Mongolia would be realized in time, but unexpectedly, Zhang Zuolin was killed with a thunderbolt, which affected the entire arrangement of Tanaka. Apart from occupying the Northeast by force, there is no other way to go.Therefore, Tanaka was deeply distressed, and his resentment was beyond words. He once told Ugaki Kassei and Okada Keisuke that he wanted to hand over the chief elements of the Kwantung Army and the planners of the assassination to military justice.Saizono Temple, a senior Japanese politician, also had a premonition that military ambitions would be rampant and domineering, and military discipline would be abolished.However, the mid-level officers of the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of the Army were extremely opposed. They believed that the Kwantung Army’s actions were for the sake of Japan. He should be punished and insisted not to publicize the national humiliation. At most, he should only be given administrative sanctions.The politicians in power are also afraid that the opposition party will have an opportunity to take advantage of the incident, so they also persuaded Prime Minister Tanaka to close the case vaguely. This public case aroused great controversy among the Japanese government. It dragged on for more than a year. The case was closed with the ambiguous sentence of "inside" and reported to Emperor Showa.What Tanaka reported at the time of the Zhang case was completely opposite to what Tanaka reported a year later. The former definitely believed that the Kwantung Army was the mastermind and the first offender should be court-martialed, while the latter said that the Kwantung Army was not involved, which was extremely inconsistent.Therefore, when I read the memorial, I was very angry, and even left my seat, which greatly embarrassed the Prime Minister. Even after leaving the seat, I was still angry and told the chief attendant that he would not see Tanaka again. He was so ashamed and indignant at the reprimand that he petitioned to resign, and died of depression a few months later. Although the Kwantung Army's assassination of Zhang Zuolin did not shake Japan's national policy of separating Manchuria and Mongolia, the target chosen by Tanaka to separate Manchuria and Mongolia needed to be rearranged because of the bombing of Huanggutun.At that time, Major General Matsui Nanao of the Japanese Army, who was Zhang Zuolin's adviser, advocated the support of Yang Yuting, while the head of the Japanese Secret Service in Fengtian advocated the support of Zhang Xueliang. .The Tokyo side had no positive proposition for Zhang Zuolin's successor, but the Tokyo side had a principle that anyone could, as long as they could block the political power of the Nanjing Nationalist Government from extending into the Northeast, making the Northeast a special zone and Japan's sphere of influence.In fact, this is very difficult, because after Zhang Zuolin was murdered by the Kwantung Army, the Northeast military and civilians hated the Japanese warlords more and more. They did not necessarily like Zhang Zuolin, but they were chilled by the Japanese warlords' despicable methods against Zhang Zuolin. During the period from June 15 to July 16, 2017, Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Saito Tsune and Japanese military attache Miji Tsunekawa in Beijing reported to the Japanese Army Ministry respectively that the time had come for the Northeast to separate from the Chinese headquarters.Arita, director of the Asia Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, is also drafting the "Counterpart Strategy". The strategy is divided into two parts: one is the general policy, emphasizing the use of coordination with the big powers as a means to recognize the national government as the destination; the other is to prevent the redness of Manchuria as a reason, The purpose is to separate the three eastern provinces from China's headquarters.The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has this "strategy", which shows that the attitude of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has changed. It turns out that the Japanese government's handling of the three eastern provinces is divided into two factions. Adopting treaties to control the three northeastern provinces step by step, the ultimate goal is to separate the three northeastern provinces from China, and achieve the same goal by different routes, but one is a positive line and the other is a negative line.Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' new "policy on branching" also adopts methods other than the treaty. It is obvious that after the bombing of Zhang Zuolin, the moderation faction of the Japanese government has changed. In fact, both diplomats and soldiers exerted pressure on Zhang Xueliang in various ways. The pressure focused on two points: one was to prevent Zhang Xueliang from changing his banner and not allowing Zhang Xueliang to vote for the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, so as to undermine the unity of China.The second is the extension of the rights and interests of the Manchurian-Mongolian Railway.Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka sent two secret telegrams to Japanese Consul General Hayashi Kujiro in Shenyang on June 26, warning Zhang Xueliang not to compromise with the South, and reiterated the previous order on July 18.Hayashi Kujiro had two audiences with Zhang Xueliang on June 29 and July 18, and on July 19 he gave Zhang Xueliang noodles with the intention of Tanaka. The contents were as follows: (1) The Nanjing Nationalist Government has a communist tinge, and its status has not yet stabilized. The Northeast is currently unable to establish contact with Nanjing. (2) If the National Government attacks the Northeast by force, Japan is willing to send troops to help. (3) If financial difficulties occur in Northeast China, the Japan Specie Bank is willing to provide full relief. Zhang Xueliang read Tanaka's three suggestions, and asked Hayashi Kujiro very calmly, he said: "Can I report Japan's unwillingness to unify China, or the fact that the Northeast cannot change flags because of Japanese interference? Seeing the young marshal's questioning, Lin Jiuzhilang was dumbfounded and avoided answering.Because from a purely diplomatic point of view, this is interference in China's internal affairs.Zhang Xueliang visited Commander Muraoka of the Kwantung Army the next day, and repeated what he said to Hayashi Kujiro to Muraoka, but Muraoka did not answer. When Zhang Xueliang took over the military and political power in Northeast China, Yan Xishan, Li Liejun and others used letters and telegrams or sent special personnel to persuade Zhang Xueliang to achieve the unification of China through political means.On the one hand, Zhang Xueliang was pressured by Japan, and on the other hand, he felt his father's feud was irreconcilable. In his heart, he was eager to vote for the central government, but due to the situation, he dared not act rashly. In June and July of the 17th year of the Republic of China, the whole of China was united. Except for the two counties of Jinan and Jimo in Shandong Province, which were not allowed to change flags due to the interference of the Japanese army. There are no exceptions for foreign embassies and consulates and Xinjiang, which is remote in the west. After Zhang Zuolin's death was officially announced, the Japanese government sent Ambassador Lin Quanzhu to France as a special envoy to Shenyang to mourn the funeral and to lobby Zhang Xueliang.Lin Quanzhu and Zhang Zuolin are good friends, so in terms of personal relationship, he came to visit Zhang Xueliang as a father.The Japanese government once gave Lin Quanzhu a secret instruction, which read: "From the point of view of Japan, in the current situation, it is very unfavorable for the three eastern provinces to seek compromise with the south. Fortunately, Zhang Xueliang has voluntarily refused to continue negotiations with the south, so the three eastern provinces should become the most progressive provinces in China. This is not just a province in China or Japan. This is the interests of one's own interests, as well as the interests of all the people of China. I firmly believe that Marshal Zhang would like to see this achievement if he is still alive. Zhang Xueliang's following this route is also enough to complete the legacy of his ancestors. In the unlikely event that the southern army invades the three northeastern provinces, Japan will make every sacrifice to carry out its current policy and maintain peace and order in the three northeastern provinces. " Lin Quanzhu arrived in Shenyang on August 3, and had four consecutive secret talks with Zhang Xueliang from the 4th to the 12th. The most explicit one was on August 9. In addition to Zhang and Lin, Zhang Xueliang's assistant was also present. Wang Jiazhen, Lin Quanzhu's assistant, Major General Sato.The conversation between the two sides was quite sharp. Lin said: "There are disputes within the Nationalist government, and the Communist Party is manipulating behind the scenes. If the three northeastern provinces compromise with the Nationalist government, Japan's rights and interests in Northeast China will be greatly damaged. Therefore, the Japanese government hopes that the military and political authorities in the three northeastern provinces will take a wait-and-see attitude and will not fight with Join hands with the national government. If the three northeastern provinces disregard Japan's warnings and change their flags, Japan will take free actions. The Japanese government is determined. I hope your commander-in-chief can understand, and at the same time, you can make up your mind to suppress bad elements. If necessary Where Japan is concerned, the Japanese government is willing to help with all its strength.” Zhang replied: "I am a Chinese, and of course I take the Chinese people's standpoint as my starting point. I do not want to see China divided, but I hope China will move towards unification and implement the politics of partition and cooperation. Of course, I will consider your country's advice, but The interests and aspirations of the people of the three eastern provinces must be the basis. If the general will of the people of the three eastern provinces requires unification, I can only follow the general will of the people. Your envoy mentioned that Japan should take free actions. I believe that based on international public law, Japan should not I am willing to take the big shame of interfering in China's internal affairs. What I deeply regret today is that the Japanese side has repeatedly threatened me with a tough attitude." Lin said: "In fact, the Japanese government has made up its mind to take free actions in the three northeastern provinces, even at the risk of interfering in China's internal affairs. I hope that your commander-in-chief will make a quick decision." Zhang replied: "My decision will not be subject to Japan's pressure, but will be determined by the public opinion of the three eastern provinces. Under no circumstances, I cannot violate the public opinion of the three eastern provinces." So Sato intervened and said: "Now is not the time to talk about right and wrong. Prime Minister Tanaka's decision is a choice between right and wrong. If your commander-in-chief rejects Prime Minister Tanaka's decision, major events will happen to the three eastern provinces." Lin said: "My father and I are good friends. Our government sent me to mourn the funeral because I have such a relationship with your commander-in-chief. In terms of personal friendship, I regard your commander-in-chief as my nephew, which is dangerous to me. I have to tell you." When Zhang Xueliang heard Lin Quanzhu's unreasonable words of relying on the old and selling the old, he immediately returned the color. He told Lin calmly: "I am the same age as the emperor of your country. Do you know it? Regarding what you just said, this is all I can answer." .” So Zhang Xueliang served tea to see off the guests, and the two parties broke up unhappy.