89 years ago today, on November 10, 1936 (September 27, 1936 in the lunar calendar), Pan Hannian held talks with Chen Lifu. On November 10, 1936, Pan Hannian held talks with Chen Lifu at the Cangzhou Hotel in Shanghai. Pan handed over a letter from Zhou Enlai to Chiang Kai-shek and the Chen brothers, verbally conveying the eight conditions of the "Draft Agreement between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to Resist Japanese Aggression and Save the Nation". Chen Lifu, on behalf of Chiang Kai-shek, replied to the conditions put forward by the Communist Party: if there is open cooperation, it is difficult to have any conditions; the opposing regime and the army must be abolished; the 3,000 Red Army is currently retained, and all leaders above the division commander will be dismissed to go abroad. Party and government cadres can be allocated Nanjing government services according to their talents. Pan Hannian pointed out that this was a condition for joining the Communist Party from the standpoint of suppressing the Communist Party, not a condition for negotiating anti-Japanese cooperation. Mr. Jiang currently has this idea, probably mistakenly believing that the Red Army has reached a point of powerlessness, or is trapped in Japan's proposal to prevent the Communist Party. Chen Lifu quickly changed the topic: You and I are not military authorities, can you ask Zhou Enlai to come out once, and Jiang is willing to talk with Zhou. He asked Pan Hannian not to report Jiang's conditions. Pan Hannian replied: If you don't report your party's conditions, but only say that Jiang is willing to see him, wouldn't I deceive him to come out? What's more, at a time of intense fighting, I don't think he can come out unless the issue of temporary armistice is resolved. On the 19th, Chen and Pan Zaining continued to negotiate. Chen said that Jiang adhered to the original points and there was no possibility of compromise, and asked Pan to transfer to the Central Chen also said that both Japan and Germany were pulling Chiang to join the anti-Soviet front. If things were to happen and Sino-Soviet relations deteriorated, wouldn't the Red Army be even worse? Pan retorted that if Chiang's government really did, we would not be negotiating here today. Chen had to say that we also do not want China to join the anti-Soviet front, and hope that the Red Army can remove stereotypes for the nation to donate to the state. The talks ended in vain.