Xue Zhichang met Chang Kaishen and asked to carefully consider the means of solving the problem by force.

Xue Zhichang told Chang Kaishen: "If you can tolerate Japan, you will always try your best to tolerate it. As soon as the war begins, regardless of whether there are third countries joining, the best result is both sides suffer losses. However, Japan is an industrial country afterwards, and it is easy to recover. But I am the one who is in a state of decline, and I am in danger of collapse and uncontrollable."

Chang Kaishen said that he had been enduring it for a long time.

Xue Zhichang said, "Don't forget to endure is a difficult thing to deal with."

Chang Kaishen said, "I'll think about it again."

Then, Chang Kaishen gave Xue Zhichang a lecture on resolutely fighting against Japan.

After listening to the speech of Chairman of the Standing Committee, Xue Zhichang knew that he had politely rejected his temporary tolerance suggestion.

Seeing that Xue Zhichang's persuasion was ineffective, many people went to find Wang Baihai again.

When Wang Baihai saw so many people coming to him, he was overjoyed and thought that this was a good sign that his political policy was generally supported. He immediately found Chairman Chang Kaishen and insisted on peace talks with the Japanese side.

Chang Kaishenke was polite to Wang Baihai, but one word made Wang Baihai angry.

The Chairman of the Standing Committee said, "You don't understand military affairs."

Wang Baihai was furious.

He decided to bypass Chang Kaishen and contact the missions of various countries alone. If the war was successfully avoided, it would be an opportunity for his Wang family to replace Chang Kaishen and rise again.

So, Wang Baihai directly found Foreign Minister Wang Chonghao, "Within the situation that can be tolerated, the general approach to peace is the best."

Subsequently, many important officials of the government and celebrities found Chang Kaishen and asked to do their best to seek peace.

In fact, because of the huge difference in national strength and military strength between China and Japan, some people inside and outside the National Government are proactive, or try to postpone the war.

Within the National Government, Xue Zhichang, the Standing Committee Member of the Military Commission, believed that the ratio of China-Japan air force strength was less than one to three, and it would take at least six months to prepare for the War of Resistance.

In July, Xue Zhichang wrote to Minister of Military Affairs He Yingzhen, advocating that "peace still needs to be sought."

Xue Zhichang even called Yang Xishan in particular, "Please make the peace movement."

Among the intellectual class, Hu Zhi, Jiang Mengling and others advocated "bearing hard to seek peace", believing that "it is better to do it before the war occurs than to seek peace when defeated."

For this reason, Hu Zhi met with Chang Kaishen twice.

At the end of last month, he proposed to Chang Kaishen that "the diplomatic line cannot be broken."

A week ago, Hu Zhi met him again with Chang Kaishen. He suggested to the Chairman of the Standing Committee that he would give up the three eastern provinces and recognize the "Manchukuo" in order to resolve all "unanctuary" between China and Japan in exchange for long-term peace in East Asia.

Just this afternoon, Hu Zhi met Chang Kaishen again and asked Chang Kaishen to make the greatest peace effort before the war.

In his written proposal to interview Chiang Kai-shek in person:

The Guards Cabinet does not agree with the full invasion of China now, so everything can be discussed and opportunities cannot be missed.

In addition, Ho Chi pointed out that Japan has basic financial difficulties and the Japanese cabinet does not want to fight.

The third point is that the Central Army is the basis for maintaining national stability. Once the war begins, the Central Army will be consumed quickly, the National Government will lose its military foundation, and the country may disintegrate, making it even less likely to resist Japan.

Therefore, you must be patient and negotiate, so that you can lose some territory and interests and avoid war.

Whether it was Xue Zhichang, Wang Chonghao, or Hu Zhi, the peace talks proposed by them did not affect Chang Kaishen.

What really touched Chang Kaishen was the suggestion put forward by missions from various countries to establish Shanghai as an unguarded city.

Chang Kaishen may not necessarily agree with this suggestion, but the intervention of embassies from various countries made him see the hope of the League of Nations' intervention in the Sino-Japanese War, which is also the greatest expectation of the National Government.

So, when the thunderous attack on the Japanese army was about to be launched in less than ten hours, the Nanjing Command urgently pressed the pause button on the Shanghai front-line army.

Zhang Wenbai looked at the telegram in his hand, looked sad and angry, and finally sighed deeply.

"Order all departments to be on guard against the battlefield and not to slack off." Zhang Wenbai ordered.

"yes!"

...

Taulphes Road.

This is one of the secret strongholds arranged by Cheng Qianfan for the Shanghai Special Information Group.

Cheng Qianfan disguised himself as "Mr. Xiao" and appeared here:

Image of a middle-aged man with a beard and a hat.

"Report the situation of each department." Cheng Qianfan said in a deep voice.

"After meeting with Cheng Qianfan for the second time, this person did not go anywhere else, but still went to the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai." Haozai replied.

"Have you figured out the identity of this person?" Cheng Qianfan asked.

"This person is Lieutenant Hideya Eguchi, a third-class military officer at the Military Attendant Office of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai." Haozai replied.

When I first came to the stronghold on Taulphes Road, Ying Huaizhen, who "meeted" Mr. Xiao, was quite shocked:

The other colleagues in the Special Information Group are indeed very capable. In just a few hours, they found out the identity of the Japanese who met with Cheng Qianfan.

In comparison, she is a little bit stretched.

Thinking that he was taking advantage of that bastard Cheng Qianfan today, but he did not collect more information. Ying Huaizhen had a cold face and hated her teeth.

"General Affairs Ying, you have had direct contact with Cheng Qianfan today to talk about your views on this matter?" Cheng Qianfan looked at Ying Huaizhen and asked.
Chapter completed!