Chapter 78 Telegram to the Kuomintang and the National Government regarding the Xi'an Incident

(December 15, 1936) Medals from Mr. Nanjing Kuomintang and National Government: In the Xi'an Incident, it was shockingly rumored that Jiang's family was hidden, and the accident happened unexpectedly.However, this is the result of the three wrong policies of Jiang's foreign concessions, internal use of troops, and oppression of the people.Zhang Yang[1] is a member of the Central Committee of your party and a leader of the "communist suppression" army, but he also insisted on stopping the "communist suppression" and unitedly resisting Japan; the eight propositions he announced[2] are actually what the people of the whole country say , Don't take too much time to do it, why not blame it.Today's Xi'an Incident is nothing more than a tripartite incident following the Fujian Incident and the Guangdong and Guangxi Incident[3].All three are virtuous heroes in your party who resisted Japan and saved the country, and were dissatisfied with Jiang's deeds of surrendering the country and betraying the country, so they slammed the banner of justice.If you don't pay attention to it, go your own way, and see similar incidents, it will happen all over the country, and disasters will multiply, and you will have no way to deal with them.How can it be said that there are few patriotic and virtuous men in the Chinese Kuomintang, but they are controlled by the Jiang family and the pro-Japanese faction who flatter the outsiders and the remnants of the people. The people and you died together, embracing the grievances of heaven.Stealing the Xi'an Incident, the Nanjing authorities should urgently use it as a resource for self-reflection, and must not be arrogant, but instead launch an unprecedented civil war, as reported in recent telegrams.As the saying goes, the snipe and the clam are holding each other and the fisherman is at his side. The fisherman has now raised his net high.The Japanese, who heard that Nanjing had decided to attack Zhang Yang, were elated, with a strong armor and a sharp army, ready to go.Sincerely, in the area of ​​the princes of Nanjing, Zhang Yang's brave and righteous people are on the side of the flames of war in Jinsui[4], and when the whole country is in a state of turmoil, the number of winners and losers is really unknown. By ordering the victory and attack, they will be happy, and Japan will take advantage of the opportunity. Entering the bandits, attacking Shanghai and Nanjing [5] because of falsehood, and taking Qingji [6], North China is independent, Northwest China is also in danger, and the whole country is destroyed.The metaphor of the praying mantis and the oriole, the ridicule of love and hatred, will never be washed away forever.The so-called danger in my heart, I dare not not tell.China is also the China of the Chinese people. If the country does not exist, where will the people be?Therefore, I have been waiting for more than a year, and I have not been afraid to make repeated statements, seek cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, turn enemies into friends, and fight against the country's hatred together.If you want to distinguish yourself from the Chiang family, and if you want to distinguish yourself from the pro-Japanese faction again, it is advisable to make up your mind, accept the propositions of Zhang and Yang, stop the ongoing civil war, remove Chiang, hand over to the people of the country for judgment, and unite all parties and parties. Factions, all walks of life, and all armies, organize a united front government, abandon the boring bureaucratic airs of centralization, unification, and discipline that Chiang loved to put on, honestly reform with the people, open up freedom of speech, unseal patriotic publications, and release patriotic criminals. Take the whole army of the civil war, and immediately go to Jinsui to resist the Japanese invaders, turn the darkness into light, and turn the ominous into Daqing.If so, although I am not sensitive, I am willing to lead the 200,000 people of the People's Red Army to go hand in hand with your party's army, go to the battlefield of the national revolution, and fight bloody for the free and liberated motherland.Otherwise, the country will perish and the species will be destroyed. Not only will the people of the whole country and the patriots in your party not be able to sit idly by, but I will also not be able to stand idly by.Proceeding to Dianping camp, waiting for Mingjiao.

Mao Zedong Zhu De Zhou Enlai Zhang Guotao Lin Zuhan Xu Teli Wang Jiarong [7] Peng Dehuai He Long Ye Jianying Ren Bishi Lin Biao Xu Xiangqian Chen Changhao Xu Haidong delete Printed from transcripts kept at the Central Archives. -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ note [1] Zhang Yang, referring to Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, respectively see Note [10] and Note [13] on page 371 of this volume. [2] Refers to the eight propositions Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng announced nationwide on December 13, 1936 to resist Japan and save the country: (1) Reorganize the Nanjing government and allow all parties and factions to jointly be responsible for saving the country; (2) Stop all civil wars; (3) Immediately release the patriotic leaders arrested in Shanghai; (4) Release all political prisoners; (5) Open up the patriotic movement among the people; (6) Guarantee all political freedom of assembly and association of the people; Immediately convene a National Salvation Conference.

[3] The Fujian Incident refers to the incident launched in Fujian on November 20, 1933 by Cai Tingkai, Jiang Guangnai, generals of the 19th Route Army of the Kuomintang Army, and some anti-Chiang forces such as Li Jishen in the Kuomintang.After the incident, the "People's Revolutionary Government of the Republic of China" to resist Japan and Chiang Kai-shek was established in Fuzhou.In January 1934, the Fujian People's Government failed under Chiang Kai-shek's military pressure and division.For the Guangdong-Guangdong Incident, see note [2] on page 437 of this volume.

[4] Sui refers to Suiyuan Province, see note [16] on page 371 of this volume. [5] Huning refers to Shanghai and Nanjing. [6] Qingji refers to Qingdao and Jinan. [7] Wang Jiarong, that is, Wang Jiaxiang.