Chapter 1038 1037 [Stilwell and Peanuts]

Let’s go back to the incident of Chiang Kai-shek publishing a book. Why didn’t any scholars around him stop him?

It's very simple, because Chiang Kai-shek is a "lonely man".

Let's take a look at the diary written by Stilwell in 1943. The "peanut" in the diary represents Chang Kaishen. This is the unique nickname given by Stilwell to Chiang Kai-shek. In the United States, it generally refers to those who are ambitious but lacking in ability. people.

"A very simple meal, no ceremony, but God! The atmosphere. In front of this supreme being, no one dared to say a word or express an opinion... No arguments, no questions, just expressionless faces and Cold decorum.”

"Hua Mi was an hour and a half late, and he was a little restless during the ceremony... Everyone around Hua Mi turned to stone again, and He (Ying Qin) sat there like a sculpture, without opening his mouth at all."

"The Destiny of China" was ghostwritten by Tao Xisheng, and Chen Buley also wrote part of it.

Both of these two people are pen writers, how could they not know the clumsiness of this book? Even though they wrote brilliantly, all the ideas and viewpoints in them belonged to Chiang Kai-shek. They could only lie within the ideological framework proposed by Chiang Kai-shek. Those specious and inconsistent arguments are the limit of what Tao Xisheng and Chen Buile can do, and they can at least confuse some radical nationalist readers.

The sad thing about Lao Jiang was not that no one dared to speak to him, but that no one told him the truth.

Let's continue to look at Stilwell's diary: "He confirmed all my most pessimistic views. Peanut is not actually a dictator. He issues orders, everyone bows and says yes, but no one does anything. He understands China The whole situation of corruption and corruption, but he had no power to cure it... He also knew the whole situation of bad conditions, but he could not do anything... He wanted to be a moral monarch, a religious leader, a philosopher. But He is uneducated... He doesn't like to hear unpleasant things, so everyone only tells what he likes to hear, and it is impossible to reason with him... If anyone contradicts him, he will fly into a rage... He issues a large number of orders, like Like snowflakes, everyone was submissive and he never knew what he actually did. He was afraid of the people and what they would say, so he tried his best to stop them from talking. This was stupid... He had no reason to be afraid, let them talk. . He also didn’t have to be afraid of the Communists, he could have taken advantage of them.”

Stilwell was just a passing visitor to China. He had not lived in China for long, but he had already seen the situation clearly: "After the war, China will be in great trouble. Peanut only understands what is happening around him." , and this country is too big for him to completely control. Stubborn, stupid, ignorant, arbitrary, intolerant, unreasonable, unreasonable, ungrateful and greedy."

The Battle of Shipai we mentioned in the previous chapter, although Chiang Kai-shek declared to the outside world that it was "China's Battle of Stalingrad", he was quite generous and determined to live and die with the country and to die for the king and the country. But in fact, Chiang Kai-shek was so frightened that he thought the Japanese invaders were about to break through the Three Gorges and enter Chongqing. He was so nervous that he lost his temper with the personnel reporting military intelligence in front of the Americans.

Stilwell recorded in his diary: "During the Yichang Incident (that is, the Japanese attack on Shipai), he was so nervous that he even threw teapots and vases onto visitors."

What made Stilwell most speechless and angry was that Chang Kaishen did not discuss such a major matter as the expeditionary force's second entry into Myanmar with any important officials of the Military and Political Ministry. Stilwell met with He Yingqin, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, to discuss the battle plan. He Yingqin said he knew nothing. Stilwell was so angry that he wrote in his diary: "Obviously, if He (Yingqin) doesn't know, no one in the Military and Political Department knows. . So, who does Hua Mi negotiate with? With the chef, maybe, or his partner, God! Above all else, this arrogant little thing (referring to Lao Chiang) will decide the fate of several countries... This great A dictator who starved his troops and was the world's biggest fool... He thought he was the incarnation of the Lord, but in fact he was a stubborn little jackass."

Chang Kaishen is difficult to convince. He jumps to conclusions without any evidence and cannot change them. When facing good news and bad news, he must firmly believe in the good news. Even if all clues prove that the bad news is true, he still believes in the good news.

Stilwell also felt deeply about this.

Regarding the expeditionary force operations, many of Chang Kaishen's actions made Stilwell unbelievable. He could only ask Song Ailing and Song Meiling to help persuade: "Peanuts are becoming less and less like a dictator and more like a political fence-sitter." Pie. He has little power except to build his personal reputation, and his family knows this better... Peanut is more capricious and eccentric than I thought. Mei (Song Meiling) always said that he is difficult to grasp, He came to his conclusion without considering the evidence... They (the Song sisters responsible for persuasion) were close to a nervous breakdown and could not sleep. Mei (Song Meiling) said that she prayed to him last night. Mei told me that she made every effort , just about to kill him. Ella (Song Ailing) said that when he is annoyed, he pretends to be noble."

Therefore, any suggestions from Zhou Hexuan were invalid to Chiang Kai-shek.

Even Song Meiling and Song Ailing couldn't be convinced, let alone Zhou Hexuan. Regardless of the small things, Lao Jiang followed Soong Meiling in everything, and he would not give in at all when it came to big things.

Before Stilwell left Chongqing for the nth time, he made a special trip to the Zhou Mansion. He vomited his bitterness in front of Zhou Hexuan and complained, "Zhou, I am almost driven crazy by your leader. All his military orders are not discussed with the Chinese Military and Political Department, but are discussed in his own office. God. Ah, do his office assistants know more about war than the generals and staff officers of the Military and Administrative Department? It is so ridiculous that the fate of the United States and Britain may actually be in the hands of this fool!"

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "That is not his office, but the attendant's room. Our Mr. Jiang is very retro. In ancient China, if the emperor did not trust his generals and ministers, he would set up another private institution, such as the Qing Dynasty military aircraft department."

"Damn the attendant room, the Chinese generals and I are worse than peanut attendants!" Stilwell shouted wildly to vent.

Zhou Hexuan said: "This is one of China's traditional political methods. The monarch plans in the secret room and other officials can handle it according to the rules."

Stilwell said: "But the attendants around Peanut only flatter and conceal the truth. It's hard for you to imagine that Peanut's series of commands on the Burmese battlefield were all made without any understanding of the front line! He was murdering soldiers' lives! In the whole Chongqing, I was probably the only person who would tell the truth to Hua Mi. Many of the truths I told shocked him because he had never heard of them. I offended a lot because of this. I offended those who concealed the truth. They said bad things about me in front of peanuts. They also spread rumors that I conspired to seize military power and that I wanted to be the Supreme Emperor of China. It’s really ridiculous. How could I, an American with no roots in China, possibly How can you become the emperor of China by seizing military power? The Chinese people are not fools!"

"You are not the only one who tells the truth," Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly, "A few months ago, I also told the truth in front of Mr. Jiang, so now I can't step out of the house. The front door of my house is open 24 hours a day. There are soldiers guarding it.”

Stilwell shrugged and spread his hands: "I came to you this time because you are an expert on international issues and a great scholar in China. I wanted to ask you to persuade Hua Mi, but it seems that I was wrong. There is no one in this world. You can convince him."