On December 19, 1936, heavy snow stopped, and the northwest and central plains were breeze.

In the fresh sunshine in the morning, the air forces in various places preparing to bomb Xi'an were ready to go. At this moment, a plane from Xi'an first arrived in Luoyang and landed in Nanjing a few hours later. The captured Nanjing senior official Jiang Dingwen brought Jiang Ruiyuan to Luoyang Airport and Ding Jiaqiao's handwritten letter back to Nanjing.

The warrant was worded in a gentle manner, but he was irresistible to order He Yingqin and He Zhonghan, "Never conflict, and stop bombing immediately." The warrant caused a shock in Dingjiaqiao, and a large number of veteran officials of the ** Army, bureaucrats from the political and academic departments and figures in the CC regiment rose to support Soong Mei-ling and Kong Xiangxi.

The battle faction was over, but at this time, He Zhonghan and Deng Wenyi found a life-saving straw that was extremely far-fetched. That was the four words "Shun Song Rong Zhi" at the end of Jiang Ruiyuan's handwriting.

This ridiculous explanation was used seriously by He Zhonghan and Deng Wenyi to mobilize everywhere. The next day, under their secret order, the war finally broke out in the Wei River Basin.

At dawn on that day, Gui Yongqing's troops launched their first attack on the small Feng army in Huaxian. The battle ended quickly. After disarming the two battalions, the teaching corps advanced westward along the south bank of the Wei River. At the same time, more than a dozen planes bombed Weinan, Huayin, Sanyuan and other counties, and the Wei River Station immediately turned into a pile of rubble.

At night on the 20th, Gui Yongqing's troops arrived at the Chishui line. After a brief rest, they launched a main attack at dawn the next day. 18 light armored vehicles quickly tore open the Fengtian Army's positions. The two armies were in a stalemate. Then, a large number of cavalry and infantry quickly cut under the cover of artillery fire and surrounded most of the Fengtian Army.

By 4:00 p.m., the Fengtian army was defeated. The service was extremely glorious. The teaching corps wiped out nearly 3,000 enemies, lost only 34 people and injured 28 people.

Within 36 hours, Gui Yongqing connected Xiahua County, the four cities of East and West Chishui, Weinan, and the Xi'an gateway had already opened. In front of him was a fertile field of hundreds of miles, and the Feng army had no danger to defend.

Until this time, He Yingqin's armistice warrant finally arrived.

It was also this day that in Xi'an, a strange feeling occupied Soong Mei-ling's heart. It was a premonition that only people familiar with religion had. It seemed like a dream, history was in creation, and characters were in activities.

On this day, Soong Mei-ling ignored dissuasion and walked into the landline on a hopeful Tuesday morning. Among her group, a special person, Dai Li.

Dai Li presented a text message from Zhang Hanqing, hoping that Dai Li could "represent the power of Huangpu" under this difficult and dangerous situation, and "hope to find a final guarantee."

So Dai Li also boarded the plane and flew north. After arriving in Xi'an, they finally saw the young commander Zhang Hanqing who was "very haggard and cramped and ashamed".

And the anxious Soong Mei-ling also met her husband Kang Ruiyuan whom she longed for day and night. Kang Ruiyuan told her that he was studying to "Jehovah is doing something new now, and he will let a woman protect a man."

During the past 10 days of captivity, the once ambitious leader of the party and state had a expressionless face, either reading the Bible or resting in bed. His tight lips seemed to reveal a kind of stubbornness and some disdain.

He rarely spoke during this period, even if he said it, it was a tough word like "You kill me" and "I am your leader". He was like an ancient well, deep and arrogant.

But in these short days, there were huge waves in his heart. In this room where he might die at any time, he could sense the sunrise and sunset, and the snow fell and the snow stopped. However, a gray wall isolated the vast desert land under his rule. This made him begin to recall his twists and turns and long life with a nearly religious emotion.

As one of the most complex and inexplicable great figures in Chinese history, since 1927, the outside world, including the West, has had various comments about him. Some people say he is a "devoted Christian", some people say he is a "typical Confucian", and some people say he is a soldier, a "only husband" and a conspirator.

But all the time, Jiang Ruiyuan's comments and opinions are all kinds of, and there is no consensus.

No one can tell him clearly, just as this man is broken and complicated like this strange and disorderly history.

After walking out of the "Fenghao House" in Xikou Town, the thin, young body was between Confucians and refugees. He grew up reading the Four Books and Five Classics, and had a deep, Chinese-style admiration for his mother, his deceased father and even his grandfather.

However, "I lost my father at the age of nine. The tragic situation at home was really hard to describe. My family was helpless and had no power, and soon became the object of insult and abuse by everyone..." This kind of bleak town life and harsh survival competition allowed him to face the hypocrisy and fragility of the clan.

Like many young people in this dull era, he is more of a refugee color.

When the bayonet decided on society, he was wrapped in trends and chose the path of joining the army. Then, in Baoding, Tokyo, and Shanghai, he was like a refugee, sleeping in flowers and willows, and on the other hand, he secretly restrained and repented because of the influence of Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism.

He is still a person who keeps wandering in the gap between refugees and Confucians. He is also looking for spiritual support in the paradise created by Buddhism and is born in a chaotic world. This is the choice of many people, and it has nothing to do with wealth, no matter the wealth, nobility and humbleness.

However, it is regrettable that the times created heroes, but he did not become a pure Confucian. He even changed his belief in Buddhism and converted to Christianity because of his marriage.

His dissident color was always stubbornly raised his head. But this turbulent chaotic era in the early Republic of China seemed to be the world of such a person.

Starting from Huangpu, he inherited part of Sun Yixian's legacy. He owned five provinces in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At the age of his early 40s, he became the largest warlord.

But the Nanjing government is the largest warlord government and the smallest "central government". Sun Yixian's legacy is so heavy that while he inherited thousands of young soldiers, he also inherited the most scattered, "big dyeing vat"-like ** party, a situation that made him weak.

It was these that made him step down twice in just four years, and finally forced him to make up his mind to sponsor the Blue Clothes Club.

From 1932 to 1933, the most meaningful period of his life. During these short and complicated two years, he gradually became interested in Japan, and focused on fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. He began the transition from a warlord to a single man.

The road from warlords to "only husband" has begun.

In the name of "The Second Period **", he pursued the "three major achievements", the unity of territory, the new life movement of culture, and the "New Jiangxi Model" as the prototype of future society.

What Jiang Ruiyuan wanted to create was actually a "new China", but by 1936, the wheel of unification came to an abrupt end in Xi'an. The new life movement and the "New Jiangxi model" also emerged in endless internal struggles with the large and small symbol of "fire merger", which was doomed to be a tiger and a tiger at the beginning.

The only thing that seemed to be magnificent "Second Period **" was achieved by him, who had just turned 50, on his birthday in October 1936, was the so-called "prestige" of the High Court on his birthday.

Prestige is so fragile. During the 10 days of being captured, through the mouths of Duanna, Song Ziwen and others, he already knew what this "prestige" was. This made him enter a complex mentality of shock, panic, and loneliness. The most important reflection on his life began, and the most important turning point in his life was completed in just a few days.

If Jiang Ruiyuan's life can be divided into four periods, namely the period of Confucians and refugees in his early years, the period of young soldiers, the period of "only husband" in his prime, and the period of corrupt "class chief" in his later years, then the stormy 14 days of the Xi'an Incident were the transition from a single husband to a patriarch.

This transition is so significant and so difficult to detect.

Since the Xi'an Incident, Jiang Ruiyuan's personality has changed a lot. He no longer demands on personnel and does not take self-proclaimed as an elder. This future patriarch was surprised to welcome his wife with the words of the Bible.

At this time, just one step away, in a dim basement in Zhang Hanqing's official residence, Dai Li was struggling to survive the most difficult time of his life.

On the afternoon of the 22nd, the plane had just landed in Xi'an, and a team of soldiers from Yang Hucheng's army raised their guns and pointed them at Dai Li's head. Zhang Hanqing, who had a good personal relationship with him, hurriedly winked and asked his guards to "arrest" Dai Li first.

For more than a day, this man seemed to have been forgotten. No one sent a message, no one visited or delivered food. In the darkness, the boundless fear of death, which was even more gloomy than the darkness, squeezed into the spy leader who had achieved amazing achievements in just four years.

At this moment, what would he think of?

Is it his debauchery and miserable boy?

For ten years, he had married and had children and was still ignorant of the sinister hearts and snobbish in the market. He was a naughty boy, both naive and evil, like a gambler with billions of gambling money. He squandered all his encounters and squandered the good reputation his mother had accumulated in the countryside throughout her life.

Flying, scamming, fighting, and being arrogant, almost everyone regards him as a "descendant" with no future, a little bastard.

The hidden heart of this "descending house" has always regarded himself as a lurking big man. He has boasted to others, and has also treated those fellow villagers who made a small fortune and sought a small fame in troubled times with a disdainful tone. This boast, even if he was even disdainful, was naturally mercilessly ridiculed.

In this sinister era, no one was willing to abide by his squandering. But what is unbelievable is that no matter how ridiculed he was desperate, when Han Xin and Liu Bowen's "ambition" were never abraded.

Although the inertia of refugees continued to reach Huangpu, he had gambling and lost all the food companies in the company while serving as the chief officer of Huangpu Soldiers and then fled. But he finally had a day of great enlightenment.

It's just that day came so late.

He is in his early 30s and his son's height is already at his chest. Many people who are a few years younger than him are already generals, but he is still a lieutenant like a mustard of grass.

Zhejiang native, purely self-taught spy skills, and a body that is not afraid of fatigue are all his poor capital. How miserable he is and how difficult it is to manage these capitals.

"The good wind is with the power to send me to Qingyun." The Blue-Yi Society is his "good wind". On one hand, the head of Hunan has accumulated a lot of money and made a lot of money, while on the other hand, he is a playboy who is not familiar with the depth of the officialdom and is so arrogant and childish that he is almost "no grains to distinguish", which is even more of his "good wind".

Carrying on the large ship of the Blue-Clothing Society, with an equally pitiful 145 people, he assassinated Yang Quan, silencing the liberal thoughts. He disintegrated the "Fujian Incident" and allowed Nanjing to survive the crisis for the first time. He made the move to calm the "airport fire case" in one fell swoop...

Perseverance, not being arrogant, but being bold and decisive, this is Dai Li after enlightenment.

He finally merged with the investigation class and finally had the "Dai Li Organization" that was terrified. However, the incident forced him to put life and death aside and follow Soong Mei-ling to Xi'an.

After the incident, the officers of Lixing Society held meetings every night, and there were people who criticized the secret service for not fulfilling their duties in the Northeast Army. If he did not pay attention to such criticism from Chaotian Palace, then he could not ignore this kind of official "public opinion".

No matter who will be in the future, such dereliction of duty will be pursued. Those who plagiarize the world will only deprive him of his power in a more just and more natural way.

He could only follow Jiang Ruiyuan. If the Blue-Clothing Society was once the cornerstone of his power, then Jiang Ruiyuan was his foundation. Without any background, he could only rely on Jiang Ruiyuan, the big tree.

On the afternoon of December 23, Dai Li, who was hungry and ashamed, finally left a suicide note of his own in a ray of light barely penetrated into the room, using clumsy handwriting: "Since I arrived here yesterday afternoon, I was monitored. I silently observed the situation and was not far from death. It is my wish to come here to die, but I did not accept it. Dai Li wrote the last letter."

On this day, like Dai Li, Hu Zongnan also felt almost despair.

When Nanjing was in chaos, Hu Zongnan, three thousand miles away, ordered tens of thousands of troops to approach Xi'an on one hand, and on the other hand, he quietly summoned the Henan secretary Xiao Sa. In the secret room, he "did not touch a single stroke, and was full of romanticism" on the huge map, using blue pencils to draw a cross-shaped area for Xiao Sa circle.

This area, from Huaisi to Si in the east, Longdong in the west, Dabie Mountains in the south, and Xi'an in the north, can attack and defend, "all the spirit of the emperor." If "Qin lost its deer and the heroes chased it together", then this "iron cross" can easily compete for the Central Plains and approach Nanjing. In the future, Ma Ziren and Zhu Daizhen's traverse thousands of miles was also started by managing the place.

Hu Zongnan implicitly ordered Xiao Sa to use the amazing power of Henan Blue-Clothing Society within March to expand the "100,000 Ministries" into "Million Ministries". He said calmly that this was "the merit of Zhang Zifang and Liu Bowen."

Xiao Sa understood it naturally. After returning to Kaifeng, he collected a large number of guns lost to the people and recruited soldiers. He asked every township to organize a militia. In a moment, Henan's "corporation commander" and "commander" flew everywhere. By the 23rd, the Henan civilian army had expanded to 300,000 to 400,000.

But "onlookers are clear", almost as soon as Soong Mei-ling arrived in Xi'an, Hu Zongnan realized that things might have a chance to turn around. Will Jiang Ruiyuan have any suspicion about such "abnormal movements" in Henan? If you investigate Xiao Sa, who can guarantee that Xiao Sa will not ask him to confess?

He could only pray that Dai Li would come back alive, and that Dai Li would be the inevitable investigation and cleaning after Jiang Ruiyuan was released. For the first time, he realized that Dai Li was no longer the "little brother" who relied on him and needed him to protect and take care of him.

A sinister idea passed by Hu Zongnan's mind. He planned to do so once Dai Li and Jiang Ruiyuan came back alive together, he would take the initiative to throw away Xiao Sa's "pier" to protect his "car".

On the 23rd, when each had their own thoughts, two people with extraordinary magnificence finally sat together. The man was Ji Shaoshan, the "beautiful bearded man", and the woman was Soong Mei-ling. Regarding this more than two-hour talks, Soong Mei-ling later wrote that she once said, "...If they have the sincerity to serve the country and the people, they must work together under the leadership of the government, and that is the right way."

This oral agreement to decide history was reached in this way. After this day passed, on the 24th, Soong Mei-ling said to Zhang Hanqing with a tough word that if they could not return to Nanjing on the 25th, they would be willing to "died together" with Xi'an.

This is the madness and determination of a woman before she is about to lose her husband. No one will doubt the wild power that such despair can burst out.

Then, a romantic little flower in the storm bloomed quietly.

This day was "Christmas Eve" in the Western calendar. On that night, the fake Christian Jiang Ruiyuan, her brother Song Ziwen, and Duan Na, who played Santa Claus, completely ignored the murderous intentions of flying in the snow and spent a peaceful night together.

In Jiang Ruiyuan's family life, there was a long agreement that when the Christmas bell rang, whoever called "Merry Christmas" first would arrange the family activities on this day. In 1936, Jiang Ruiyuan won the Christmas in Xi'an.

But even so, winning his life also means that he lost the entire empire. The impact of the Xi'an Incident was fatal. As the highest military commander in the country, the actual core of power of the Party and the country has now encountered such military advice, and its prestige has disappeared.

The accumulated grievances, resentment and blood will swarm until the already loose country is truly torn apart. However, the remnants of the Red Gate leftists have a chance to breathe at the critical moment when they are about to be destroyed, and they have established themselves in the northwest and leaned against the Soviet Union, becoming a major concern.

In Japan, the unstable political situation exposed by China has stimulated the arrogance of the pro-war faction within the Japanese army. The political community can no longer suppress these fanatical thugs, because China's weakness and civil strife have been clearly demonstrated in front of the whole world.

The culprit is Ma Ziren and Ji Shaoshan, the two conspirators of the conspiracy. No matter what the original intention is, the entire country and nation will have to pay a bloody price for it, sacrificing the lives of a generation and the national destiny for the next hundred years.

The traitor, this is the dark side of the traitor, buried in history.

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