Chapter 35 Neosatellite

The relationship between the mysterious Lixing Society and the Fuxing Society and the Blue Clothes Society is strengthened by other satellite members.Many of them were the younger generation of Whampoa alumni, and they knew that at least some of these organizations had been established around March 1, 1932, by a group of Chiang's prominent cronies in propaganda, military training, and intelligence .They knew that there was a Lixing Society, and believed that this organization was based on three principles: Chiang Kai-shek was its long-term supreme leader; Whampoa graduates were its backbone; Cultivate the spirit of Bushido in Japan.

They believed that the actual responsibility for establishing and organizing the Lixing Society was assigned to five of the founders: He Zhonghan, Feng Ti, Teng Jie, Zhou Fu, and Kang Ze.They realized that the organization revolved entirely around a "core group" of about 55 people, including these five.Among them were Gui Yongqing, Yuan Shouqian, Deng Wenyi, Xiao Zanyu, Yi Deming, Li Yimin, Jiang Renjian and Dai Li.They heard that some members of the Lixing Society held weekly meetings at Chiang Kai-shek's official residence in Mingwalang, listening to the "Principal" lecture on "Lixing Philosophy" and studying fascist organizations in Germany and Italy.

After the Japanese were convinced of the existence of this organization, the connection between it and the Blue Shirts became closer.On the one hand, this comes from Liu Jianqun's press conference, and on the other hand, it comes from Fu Shenglan's text.Fu published a book called "The Inside Story of the Blue Shirts", in which he said that the Blue Shirts were a secret spy organization.Fu, a member of the Communist Party, joined a peripheral organization of the Lixingshe in 1933 after being persuaded by Kang Ze.Later, he turned his allegiance to Wang Jingwei's puppet government. During the Anti-Japanese War, he became the mayor of Hangzhou as a collaborator.His book on the Blue Shirts was used by the Japanese military police in Shanghai as a teaching material for the Chinese who served in their secret service.

Meanwhile, according to Liu Jianqun, the only known identity of the members of the Blue Shirts is absolute secrecy: In order to achieve the goal of immediately eradicating feudal influence, eradicating red bandits, and resisting foreign aggression, in addition to the work of the Kuomintang Central Headquarters and other political institutions that must be carried out in a formal manner, the members of the Blue Shirts Society have to work secretly in various provinces, counties, and cities. carry out their activities. Although the Blue Shirts were supposed to "launch a mass movement," they were ordered to prepare for the duties of "secret agents" and could never reveal to others that they were KMT members.

Indeed, as the Shanghai Municipal Police Rangers later put it, little was known about the details of the Blue Shirts during its seven years of existence, because those who took the oath were "prohibited from acknowledging membership in the Blue Shirts or disclosing their identity to outsiders." Secret, or the death penalty is the only punishment."Needless to say, Chiang Kai-shek never publicly acknowledged the existence of the Blue Shirts. While Liu Jianqun has always claimed that he proposed the founding of the Lixingshe, he had to tell the media that such an organization had never been established on formal occasions.When he was asked by a reporter from the Peking Morning Post whether the Blue Shirts Club had been established, Liu replied:

In the autumn of 1931, I suggested that the KMT be reorganized for the sole purpose of promoting general respect for the principles of the Three People's Principles.The establishment of the Blue Shirts Society is closely related to the Kuomintang.Now the Blue Shirts will have its own teachings that go beyond the KMT.We can immediately understand the purpose of this organization from its original name - the Blue Shirts, not the Blue Shirts.This plan of mine is just a suggestion to the Kuomintang.I don't actually play any kind of sport about this.I cannot answer any questions about the activities of this organization.

After the press conference in January 1933, the reporter concluded: "Judging from Mr. Liu's words, we still cannot be sure whether this society exists." But what is certain is that the press, foreign intelligence agencies, and the police From then on, the activities of the Fuxingshe (including the Lixingshe behind it) and the activities of the right-wing or fascist blue-clothes elements among them began to be regarded as one.For example, who was behind the formation of the Chinese Boy Scouts in April 1933?There has been a boy scout movement in China since 1917, when the Chinese Boy Scouts founded by Heng Yi participated in the post-war World Boy Scout Conference.However, in the 1930s, the Chinese Boy Scouts had many elements of militarism and were closely related to the National Military Education Group established in July 1932.Zhao Fansheng, who graduated from the military academy and became the leader of the education group, and Yang Kejing, who was the head of the educational affairs department of the National Military Education Group, both served as department heads in the National Boy Scouts Headquarters.

With the help of Lixingshe founder Qian Guoxun, Zhao and Kang drafted a plan with forms and a budget to train Boy Scout officers across the country.After Chiang Kai-shek approved the plan, 160 students were recruited for cadre training.A third of them were cadets, and the rest were scout officers already in the provinces.The purpose of the six-month training is to train officers and instructors "to reform the Chinese Boy Scouts for the purpose of strengthening and expanding the organization, improving intellectual and physical capabilities, raising awareness, strengthening patriotic and revolutionary will, and providing these young people with some military knowledge. ".At the same time, Lixingshe established a peripheral organization called "Lijinshe", which had the specific task of infiltrating the Boy Scouts.By April 1933, there were 300 members in the Lijin Society, all of whom were cadres of the New China Boy Scouts in various provinces and cities.

Other recently formed "satellite" organizations of the Lixingshe are aimed at controlling the activities of non-Han Chinese, including those involved in patriotic movements abroad.These activities are coordinated by the National Sports Committee.The committee was established by the founders of Lixingshe in April 1932 to assist the "Minority Independence Movement".This National Movement Committee secretly assisted the North Korean Righteous Regiment led by Chen Guobin, a North Korean graduate of the fourth class of Whampoa.This organization is different from Kim Koo's Korean Independence Party. It organized a top-secret "Korean Revolutionary Training Class" in a temple deep in Maoshan where Hu Hanmin was under house arrest. About 100 students enrolled in each semester. For six months to a year, they were led by officers and instructors in the column who were originally from North Korea.Later, in 1936, this department was headed by Kang Ze and transferred to Chongqing via Wuchang.Chen Guobin, the head teacher of the training class, hoped that the United States would support his North Korean Boxer Regiment after 1945, but he fell out with Rhee Syngman and eventually fell out of favor with the Americans, and then disappeared.

A training operation like this is undoubtedly another example in the eyes of the Japanese of the odious Blue Shirts getting involved in their colonial affairs.In fact, they belonged to the underground intelligence activities run by Dai Li's Secret Service, so the line between Lixingshe and the Secret Service was not always clear.