Chapter 40 Chiang Kai-shek's "direct line"

The word "禹" shows the level difference between the children born to wives and concubines in a family, and it is very illustrative when used here.Chiang Kai-shek's direct lineage was a power structure directly under the commander-in-chief himself, created during his struggle with Wang Jingwei and Hu Hanmin for control of legal state institutions such as the Executive Yuan and the Council of State Affairs.These groups compete to implement policy because that is the area in which the nation's resources are concentrated.Their struggle was accompanied by Chiang Kai-shek's rise to the top, if not kingship, in the Chinese system of government.Thus, the distinction between direct lineage and collateral lineage was not only an important administrative distinction, but was used to identify Chiang Kai-shek's army (direct line troops): 500,000 troops under the command of Chen Cheng, Hu Zongnan, and Tang Enbo were recognized as It is the Commander-in-Chief's "Jet Guards".In the eyes of those who considered themselves "born from the same line", people from other factions in Chiang's power structure were nothing more than outsiders pretending to be filial.For example, members of the CC faction were regarded as Jiang's "adopted sons" (bollworms), while Yang Yongtai and Zhang Qun, leaders of the "Department of Political Science" were regarded as "teachers" and "housekeepers."

Although the people in the Blue Shirts Club didn't hold too much hostility towards the people in the Department of Political Science, they saw the people in the Department of Political Science as similar to hired helpers, but they really regarded the "adopted son" CC faction as their real enemy.From 1933 onwards, they carried out many activities to suppress the influence of the Chen brothers, especially in the press, publishing and education circles.