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Tang Hua also knows that after the end of the Korean War, the U.S. military will issue a summary at the end of this year, saying, "In the past two years, (), () proved that the original goal of the U.S. biological weapons program was too optimistic. ".
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Xiamen pointed forward.
"Pack up and ship all the documents and files of William Hodgson and his advisory group back to Xiamen as soon as possible," Su Yu said. "There won't be any bacterial samples in his files, right?"
Zhang Zhen: "No, it's all written records."
"That's good. When can it be shipped back at the earliest?"
"The Annan army has controlled an airport in Taoyuan. The fastest way is to transport it by air. Send a transport plane to take off from Xiamen and land directly in Taoyuan."
Su Yu: "Now that the Americans know that we have arrested William Hodgson, will they commit an assassination attempt?"
Zhang Zhen: "We have to beware of the Americans resorting to this trick."
"Our air force is here, and I will adjust this," Liu Yelou said. "I will air the MiG-15 of the third division. When the transport plane takes off, it must be over the northern part of Taiwan, and then escort the transport plane back to Xiamen with William Hodgson on board."
On the afternoon of April 1953, 4, William Hodgson was arrested and taken to Taoyuan Airport.
Marshall returned to Taipei with a sullen face and went straight to Songshan Airport. He was going back to Japan, and he didn't want to stay for a minute longer.
The Pseudo-National Assembly in Taipei held its (last) meeting. Under the cordial watch of soldiers with live ammunition, the National Assembly voted one by one to implement the content of the peace agreement, that is, to transfer its so-called nominal China's highest authority deprived.
When Li Zongren returned to Taipei, Taipei had been completely controlled by the [-]st Marine Division and the [-]st Regiment of the Annan Army.Seeing the situation like this, most of the soldiers of the [-]nd and [-]rd regiments of the Annan Army put down their weapons voluntarily. The soldiers in a small number of strongholds were still confronting each other, but there was no exchange of fire. The two sides were just negotiating conditions.
Bai Chongxi continued to lead troops to guard Keelung Port.
Guo Jiqiao and William Childs were detained separately.
The treasuries of the central bank and several major banks were jointly guarded by the guards led by Li Pinxian and the commanders and fighters of the 1st Marine Division.When Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he transferred about 70 tons of gold from the mainland, and then successively transferred from small treasuries in the mainland, plus looting and confiscating in Taiwan. At the time when the Republic of China had the largest treasury in Taiwan, there were more than 100 tons of gold, but in the past few years Because of the need to purchase materials from the United States, trade mortgages, etc., there are still about 60 tons of gold in the vault.
Sun Liren, the former Chief of Staff of the National Army, watched the people around him come and go, as if everyone was busy with something.Half an hour ago, a group of soldiers came to the headquarters and arrested a group of people. In the past half an hour, those who were not arrested left one after another in twos and threes or alone, and saluted him farewell. Only Sun Liren stood there stupidly.
The dignified commander-in-chief of the army is now a little transparent...
"He is neither Chiang Kai-shek's old party nor someone installed by the US military, so I don't need to arrest him. He is not from our side, so I have nothing to do for him." Li Zongren said to Tao Jun.
"Although this is the case, let's contact him." Tao Jun said, "General Sun seems to have nothing to do now."
A jeep carried seven trucks through the streets of Taipei before stopping in front of a warehouse on Zhishan Road in Shilin District.
Sun Liren jumped out of the jeep, and a company of soldiers jumped out of the truck behind him.
"Report to Officer Sun, here is the Inventory of Cultural Relics of the Palace Museum, please have a look."
This is what Li Zongren and Tao Jun found for Sun Liren - to take care of the cultural relics of the Palace Museum.And it should only take 48 hours at most, after which a large number of troops from the southern front of our army will enter Taipei to take over the city in an all-round way.
Now in this so-called museum, all the cultural relics are actually packed in boxes and have not been disassembled for display.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City have been continuously lost.It was not until Feng Yuxiang drove Puyi out of the Forbidden City in 1924 that the eunuchs and royals were objectively stopped from stealing and selling cultural relics.The Palace Museum was also established and opened to the outside world after Puyi was kicked out.
In 1933, after the Japanese army occupied the Northeast and then touched North China, the cultural relics of the Palace Museum began to move southward, first to Shanghai and Nanjing, and then to Sichuan after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in December 1947, all cultural relics were finally transported back from Sichuan Nanjing, before returning to Beijing to reset, Chiang Kai-shek couldn't stand it anymore, and pulled it directly from Nanjing to Taiwan.
These cultural relics were temporarily stored in Taichung, and were transferred to Taipei in July 1950, where they were stored in Zhishan Road, Shilin District.
As for the National Palace Museum in Taipei... Of course it was impossible to repair it when Chiang Kai-shek was still alive.He still wants to counterattack the mainland and restore the country. When the counterattack is successful, these thousands of boxes of cultural relics will have to be transported to the mainland.
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"When Chiang Kai-shek retreated from the mainland, he insisted on transporting the cultural relics from the Palace Museum to Taiwan despite the persuasion of scholars and experts." Sun Liren looked at the wooden crates piled up in the warehouse and said with emotion, "He talked about counterattacking the mainland all the time, but we all know that There is little hope, but he has to put on a show. He only sleeps on a folding camp bed, never a fixed bed. There are more than 20 provincial governments in a building in Taipei, and each provincial government has two or three office workers... No matter what the future holds, there will be no such ridiculous things in the future.”
Chapter 65, Changes Everywhere
"Is my private plane ready to take off?"
Marshall, who witnessed the negotiation and left early, barely spoke all the way, and even closed his eyes not wanting to look out of the car window.After a three-hour journey, Marshall suddenly opened his eyes and asked his assistant when he was approaching Taipei.
"Taipei...Some things happened in Taipei, but the order at the airport is normal. Your special plane has been overhauled this morning. Do you want to go to the airport now? Are you sure you won't wait for Mr. Special Envoy?"
"Yes, Mr. Special Envoy has his own way. There is no need for us to take him out of Taiwan. We will not stop in downtown Taipei. We will go to the airport now and take off when we arrive at the airport. Let them refuel the plane immediately."
The assistant nodded and told the car behind to contact the airport through the walkie-talkie.
"The small situation in Taipei is that the Chinese Communist army suddenly entered Taipei, right?" Marshall asked.
Assistant: ...nodding.
"The CCP has completed a task that can be recorded in the annals of history." Marshall sighed, "Instigating rebellion, strategic deception, coup d'etat, psychological hints, and the final showdown at the negotiating table, every link hits the nail on the head, step by step Led the United States into the trap. It should be Wuhao who planned and executed this mission. . . . It must be Wuhao."
Assistant: "U.S. diplomacy will be passive in the future."
"No, the worst thing we can do is to explain to Congress," Marshall said. "I, Bradley, and Ike must all explain why we fell into a trap. But the first thing we should do is control domestic public opinion, Try to play down the drama that happened in Taiwan today."
"I think the president has gotten the message and is starting to control domestic opinion."
"Next, the United States will expand the naval and air bases in Okinawa and the Philippines, build anti-air and anti-sea radar posts on Miyako Island and Ishigaki Island, and increase the size of the Seventh Fleet by at least one third," Marshall said. There is one thing that gives me a little bit of relief: the CCP will not allow the Soviet Pacific Fleet to use Kaohsiung as a naval base."
Marshall's convoy passed through the streets of Taipei City, and sure enough, he saw soldiers on the streets that he had never seen before.There is no need to guess, it must be that the CCP army appeared in the northern seas of Taiwan after the signing of the negotiation agreement, and quickly invaded Taipei.But for Marshall's convoy, no matter whether they were soldiers from the CCP or the Annan Army, after confirming the identity of the convoy, they did not stop it.
At 5:[-] p.m., Marshall's special plane took off from Taipei Songshan Airport and headed straight for Tokyo.
At the same time, the special envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General Svirk came to Chiayi City from near Taichung to inspect the civilian life in Chiayi City after the fighting.Svirk was quite satisfied with the inspection results, and in front of reporters in Chiayi City, he praised China's efforts in restoring local order and ensuring residents' lives after the war.Svirk still wants to continue to visit Kaohsiung south, but the commander-in-chief told Svirk that there are still some militants in Kaohsiung City who have not surrendered, and the city is not safe now.
After the request to go to Kaohsiung for inspection was fruitless, Svirk decided to take off from Chiayi City Airport to Xiamen first after careful consideration, and then fly to Hong Kong from Xiamen.He has successfully completed his truce mediation mission.
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"General Marshall, what shall we do now?"
After a four-hour flight, it was already dark when Marshall's plane landed in Tokyo.United Nations Commander Clark and intelligence chief Charles Willoughby were waiting for Marshall at the airport.
"Business as usual, as if China and the Republic of China had a peace agreement. No, they did have a peace agreement..." Marshall said, "They promised to keep the ports and airports open, and we immediately withdrew our advisory group. Of course , and also dispatch enough transport ships and cruise ships to pick up refugees from Taiwan. It is me and the president who have a headache about this, not you."
Charles Willoughby: "I have just received word that they have seized and arrested a member of our advisory board."
"What?" Marshall was very surprised, "Who?"
"Colonel William Hodgson, Air Force."
"This incident clearly violated the previous agreement, and also violated the terms of the peace agreement they reached at noon today. Immediately sent a telegram to the CCP in my name to protest." Marshall said to the assistant.
The assistant got into another car and left immediately.
Charles Willoughby hesitated for a while, feeling that there was no need to explain to Marshall the matter on his side, so he swallowed what he was going to say.
"I don't know how Washington will react to this." Clark said beside Marshall.