Chapter 114 Destiny - In Wartime, Morality Is False

During the Anti-Japanese War, Cao Juren worked as a war correspondent.Once, he passed through a small town in southern Anhui to catch up with the team.At that time, there were no hotels in the town, only restaurants.Cao Juren wanted to find a room, but the clerk said that there was a room upstairs, but he wanted to share with other tenants. Because of the shortage of housing, Cao Juren could only make do with it. "I don't know that there are two beds in the room. The bed on the right is occupied by a middle-aged woman with a 16-year-old girl.... In the middle of the night, the woman insisted that her daughter sleep on my bed. The girl I didn't make a sound, and really fell asleep by my side. It was a good thing to be foolish. Later, I found out that they owed the hotel six oceans, and they didn't have any money, so I had to listen to the shop assistant's arrangement. This is the way to go...The next morning, I paid for the room for them, ordered a wheelbarrow, took them on the road, and sent them ten yuan. They just thanked each other, Think of me as a benefactor." Cao recalled this incident in his later years, "I hope readers don't have to measure this kind of subject with the yardstick of a Taoist; in wartime, morality is on holiday.  … , the woman secretly gave me a handkerchief. I peeked at it, and it turned out to be a bloody white handkerchief. Of course I understood what it was. During the war, as Remarque wrote in "All Quiet on the Western Front" A German soldier crossing the river with two loaves of bread in his hand, the French girl on the other side threw himself into his arms. Therefore, it is too ridiculous for a moralist who is full to make sarcastic remarks on the sidelines Woolen cloth!"

Zhou Zuoren understands Japanese culture. A Japanese once came to Peking University to talk about Sino-Japanese cultural cooperation. Zhou said to the Japanese: "When it comes to Sino-Japanese cultural cooperation, I don't see Japanese culture. I see their martial arts. You all They came with guns, and there is culture there, only martial arts.” During the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou stayed in Beiping, Jiang Menglin signaled him, don’t leave, you have a deep relationship with the Japanese, if you don’t leave, you can save this school some books and equipment.Sure enough, Zhou did not leave, and was later imprisoned in Nanjing for the crime of traitor.Jiang often sent people to visit him, and often gave him some needed things and money.Once, Zhou Zuoren asked a friend to bring a letter, saying that the court wanted Jiang's evidence.He told the court that he didn't want to be a traitor when he stayed in Peiping, but the principal entrusted him to take care of the school there.The court asked Jiang if there was such a thing?Jiang wrote back to prove that it was true.

In early 1948, after Xu Shoushang, director of the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University, was assassinated, Wei Jiangong, Li Jiye, and Li Helin successively resigned and returned to the mainland.Tai Jingnong stayed alone. He said: "It's really because there are too many family members. The weather in the north is cold. Just one winter coat for each person can't afford it. Taiwan's weather is warm, and this expense can be saved." After the "September 18th" incident, China was in danger of subjugation.In troubled times, Yan Xishan, who takes survival as his first goal, is dealing with Japan and the Chinese government.He said: "Dancing on three eggs, you can't step on any one." It has almost become his principle not to leave Shanxi, where he has been operating for many years.When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party fought, before Taiyuan broke the city in 1949, American Chennault sent word that he was willing to take Yan Xishan out of danger. Yan said: "If Taiyuan is not dead, it is equivalent to a corpse. What use is it!" Yan Xishan finally abandoned Taiyuan, his lifeblood, but He said: "The land master in the east mountain will not work in the west mountain."

On the eve of the Yunnan Uprising, Lu Han sent Yang Wenqing to lobby Zhang Qun: "The uprising is the strong desire of the Yunnan people. We revolted in accordance with public opinion and turned to the light. I hope that Mr. Zhang will act with us." Zhang Qun replied: "Your uprising I am very sympathetic to the actions. I also know that this is the general trend and the will of the people. The Kuomintang is indeed irreversible. Even I am not satisfied with what Mr. Jiang has done in the past. But I have been a member of the Kuomintang all my life. You also know about your personal relationship with Mr. Jiang, and I cannot act in unison with you. If you want to treat me as a prisoner and hand me over to the Communist Party, I don’t think they will do anything to me. If you let me go, I am very grateful, I will not do anything in the future, and I will go overseas to be an apartment."