No matter what era, traitors who sell their country and seek honor are the targets of being scolded by thousands of people. Most of them are sluts who sell their souls for personal glory and wealth.
There is one person in it. He was once a revolutionary young man and an anti-Japanese patriot, but because of anger, he took the wrong path and defected to the pseudo-government of Wang Jingwei, committed the crime of treason and was finally executed according to law. It's a pity and hateful.
He is the most controversial traitor Ye Peng.
ye Peng (right)
young and vigorous, and was dismissed from his post against Japan
ye Peng is from Huangpi, Hubei. This is one of the earliest areas affected by revolutionary thoughts. The new army of Hubei grew up in this trend of thought.
1911, the famous Wuchang Uprising broke out. Ye Peng, who was just over teenager, joined the student army and was ready to go to the battlefield to fight at any time. After Yuan Shikai was re-launched, a peace talks were held with the Southern Revolutionary Party, which led to the abdication of the Qing emperor. The student army is the hope of the future, so Ye Peng was admitted to Hubei Army Primary School. After systematic study, he was admitted to Baoding Military School and graduated in 1918.
He was a talented man, and he wrote good words and articles. He was promoted by his superiors to the warden of the military court. However, this civilian job obviously could not satisfy his appetite, and he soon returned to his hometown to wait for an opportunity.
1923, the veteran Xia Douyin of Xinhai returned to Hubei and served as the commander of the Hubei army and organized local troops. Through the relationship between Chief of Staff Wan Yaohuang, Ye Peng joined the Hubei Army as battalion commander and spent eight ordinary years here.
Yuan Shikai
As the saying goes, the water rises, and only if the leader improves can he make progress. Xia Douyin took the team in Central Plains Battle . After Chiang Kai-shek won, he reciprocated and recommended Xia Douyin as the commander of Wuhan's security guard, commander of the 13th Army, chairman of the provincial government and other important positions.
Ye Peng also made his first fortune in his life and was promoted to Chief of Staff of the Security Command. Because he was still in the "military and political" stage at that time, the Security Command had very great power. In addition to being in charge of the Wuhan garrison, he also managed the lifeline departments such as railways, shipping, news, postal and telecommunications.
Xia Douyin has many positions and has no time to clone it. Ye Peng became the actual person in charge of the headquarters. In 1932, he spared no money to bribe the Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin. After the top and bottom management, he was officially transferred to the commander of the security commander. In just two years, he went from being an unknown person to becoming a military and political important member.
This person is easily carried away as soon as he develops. Starting from a strange case in Wuchang , Ye Peng made mistakes step by step, exposing the selfish and extreme flaws in his personality, and eventually embarked on the road of no return.
He Yingqin
Around the Dragon Boat Festival in 1934, it rained heavily. The rain washed down the slope behind a family's house, revealing several gold bars. This family is not simple. The head of the household is the Kuomintang veteran Kong Geng . Kong Geng followed Sun Yat-sen to establish the Marshal's Mansion base in Guangzhou. He served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Hubei Provincial Government. Although he is retired at home, his background is very strong.
The neighbor's surname is Peng. When he went to the backyard to get rid of his hands at night, he accidentally found a gold bar. He immediately saw money. The two brothers flipped into Kong's house and dug out more than twenty boxes of property.
I was worried about putting so many gold, silver and treasures at home, so the Peng brothers secretly transported these boxes to Hankou . Because they had to pass Yangtze River , they had to undergo investigation by the security forces. At that time, Li, an adjutant of the headquarters, happened to seize the treasures at the Hanyangmen Wharf and interrogated the Peng brothers.
Li was Kong Geng's old subordinate. He was suspicious and called the Kong family to inquire. The Peng brothers took advantage of the time difference and spent money to bribe the soldiers guarding Caibao. Unconsciously, they boarded the boat from another dock and left.
Kong Geng was shocked when he found out. When he went to his backyard, he found that he picked up several large baskets of silver ingots that he had not taken away. You can imagine how much treasure the Peng family stole.
Gold bars
People are talking about it. Some say it was buried by the Taiping Army back then, and some say it was a burial in a nearby Ming Dynasty royal tomb. It was different from now on. The land was all private property, and all the things dug out of the ground belonged to their own homes.
Kong Geng exclaimed a painful pain and immediately reported the case to the Security Command. The Peng brothers were not simple either. They could use money to push the devil and take out some of their treasures to move around. Of course, the benefits of the Security Commander Ye Peng are indispensable.
has short manpower, and Ye Peng has been dragging the case and refused to handle it. The conflict with Kong Geng is getting bigger and bigger.
At this time, Chiang Kai-shek began to eliminate dissidents, dismissed Xia Douyin, and sent his confidant Zhang Qun to Hubei to preside over the overall situation. Kong Geng and Zhang Qun are old acquaintances. When they saw the opportunity came, they appealed at Zhang Qun's welcome banquet, accusing Ye Peng of being corrupt and abused the law. Ye Peng's blood was rising and he also scolded Kong Geng for being too old and was crazy about money, which made the scene lose control for a while.
The new official took office and made three fuses. Zhang Qun was about to establish his authority, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thorny person and drove Ye Peng out on the spot.
Zhangqun
Rayet was formed like this. In summer, the Yangtze River was flooded. Ye Peng had no choice but to go to the dike to direct flood control and rescue. He was irritable and saw a migrant worker slow movements and ordered the shooting. Zhang Qun was furious and denounced Ye Peng assassinated by lawlessness and asked him to go back to the headquarters to stay.
Ye Peng was so angry that he had nowhere to vent. At the end of 1935, the anti-Japanese national salvation movement represented by " 129 " emerged, and the public opinion trend quickly affected Wuhan three towns .
So Ye Peng carried out an air defense exercise exhibition in the name of the Security Command. On the scene, a picture of "returning my rivers and mountains" was very eye-catching. He also used the pattern of the Japanese flag as a target and carried out live-fire shooting, showing a large anti-Japanese reputation.
All this was discovered by the Japanese Consulate in Wuhan, and protested to the Chiang Kai-shek authorities and demanded serious handling.
Chiang Kai-shek insists on the fallacy of stabilizing the country before fighting foreign countries. He is concentrating on "chasing and suppressing" Red Army , and compromising and giving in to Japan step by step, but he doesn't want to come forward, so he just sent Zhang Qun to do it. Zhang Qunzheng was worried that he would not have the chance to deal with Ye Peng, so he ordered him to be removed from office and investigated and would never be hired.
Jiang Jieshi and others
Ghostly bewitched and embarked on the road of traitors
After several battles, Ye Peng and Zhang Qun had become like fire. He slipped back to Nanjing and joined the " Revival Society " that was established, trying to hold the young and strong ranks, use the contradictions in it to assassinate Zhang Qun and avenge a single arrow. After the failure of the plan, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to hold Ye Peng accountable, and he quickly changed the party and asked Wang Jingwei to come forward to make peace and show each other's face. Even if this matter is over, he will "get a connection" with Wang Jingwei because of this.
After a while, Ye Peng returned to Wuhan and started his old job as the Chief of Staff of the Security Command. However, things changed, and the old faces of the Command were gone. Now the person in charge is Chiang Kai-shek's direct descendants, so naturally no one bought his account anymore. He could only be an insignificant short chief of staff.
In October 1938, Wuhan fell, Ye Peng had nowhere to settle down, so he went to Hong Kong to do business, but how could such a proud person be able to withstand this loneliness? The following year, Wang Jingwei publicly treasoned the country and surrendered to the enemy and organized the pseudo-government of Nanjing, which needed to win over a large number of "talents", especially the so-called military talents.
With the help of the great traitor Zhou Fohai , Ye Pengquan was so eager that he chose to sell his soul and became one of the core members of the Wang puppet regime.
Wang Jingwei
Who would have thought that this patriotic general who was still shooting at the Japanese flag a few years ago turned into a hug of the Japanese puppet. In order to organize the puppet army, Wang Jingwei set up the Army General Training Corps. Ye Peng, who was a professional school student, served as the chief of education. In 1942, he was promoted to the position of Chief of Staff of the Wang Puppet Military Commission and Director of the Army's Training Correspondence.
Once on board the pirate ship, Ye Peng completely gave up the bottom line. 1943 was the most difficult stage of the Anti-Japanese War in . However, he led the Wang Puppet "Military Observation Team" to visit Japan, paid homage to the Emperor, and shamelessly delivered a speech loyal to Japan.
After returning to China, he became the chairman of Hubei Province and the director of the Wuhan Pacification Office. He was the local emperor of Hubei. Of course, he had to live a fucking job, monopolize the salt trade in Hubei, organize the smuggling of opium, and show off money from counties in various names. He was really insatiable.
By 1945, everyone could see that Japan could not grow up. Ye Peng was so anxious that he was fascinated by fortune telling. He often went to and from a fortune telling hall in Hankou to ask about his future. It turned out that he was also afraid of being liquidated.
Wang Jingwei and others
In fact, things still have a turnaround. On the eve of Japan's surrender, Chiang Kai-shek was eager to accept the country and win over a large number of senior officials of Wang and puppets. Through the Military Control Commission system, Ye Peng was appointed as the commander of the newly formed Seventh Route Army.
But at that time, Ye Peng was trapped in Nanjing and could not escape. Japan officially surrendered on August 15. He hurriedly took a plane to Wuhan. When he was about to arrive, he was worried that it was a trap. He hurriedly landed in Huanggang and hung up the sign of the Seventh Route Army Command to create a fait accompli.
However, at this critical moment, he was not the only one who was busy "anyway". The garrison in Wuhan has been incorporated by others. Without soldiers, there is no use value. Just while Ye Peng was still waiting, Chiang Kai-shek issued an arrest warrant for him.
Several gendarmes rushed into Ye’s mansion. Ye Peng’s wife hurriedly took out a few gold bars and wanted to be compatible, but no one dared to take it. Seeing that things had come to this point, Ye Peng did not resist and obediently followed the gendarmes into the car.
Japan surrendered
After he was sentenced to death, he repeatedly stated that he was not a traitor, and told reporters not to call him a traitor when reporting. He was very upright about this: After the Xi'an Incident, I followed Chairman Jiang to fight the war and was ready to die in Wuhan. Unfortunately, my mother had to leave. I was not afraid of death. I was forced to do it by the Japanese.
He also regarded his experience of being a mighty person in Wuhan as a "destiny", believing that he protected the people of Wuhan and the Japanese dared not do anything to him.
Where would the military court listen to Ye Peng's sophistry and uphold the verdict. He could not escape death, but pretended to say: "Since that's the case, I hope the country will be stable and the chairman will be healthy."
Next, he was taken to the execution ground, and a gunshot ended his sinister and absurd life, and the day was the anniversary of the "September 18th".
shooting
It is said that character determines destiny, and Ye Peng's perverse character is vividly expressed in his private life.
When he was young, his mother died of illness. His father wanted to re-string a maid in his family. When he heard about it, he was furious and actually pulled out his pistol and pointed it at his father. Fortunately, the bullet was not loaded, otherwise he would have to be charged with the crime of father killing.
But it was his turn, but he was not satisfied with the original wife who was in charge of the family. He married another wife in Wuhan with his family on his back.
The reason why Ye Peng became a traitor may be that the conflict with Zhang Qun was intensified, he was excluded by the ruling faction and defected to Japan, or that he was dismissed from his post and was angry and "save the country on the curve."
However, no matter what the reason is, it is basically caused by his distorted personality. When he chooses to surrender to the enemy and stands on the opposite side of the people, destruction is the destined ending. A mistake turns into eternal regret, and it has been a hundred years since I looked back.
Reference
"Wuchang gold nugget case and Ye Peng's traitor's road". CNKI 2019
