Chapter 46 media competition

Contesting with the "CC" faction for control of the printing industry's new facilities moved the Blue Shirts away from Chiang Kai-shek's directive to have them operate primarily in the sphere of public safety and policing, since the printing industry was considered to fall under the sphere of civil politics.Therefore, at the beginning, there were no other formal activities other than the establishment of newspapers and magazines controlled by the Fuxing Society.The "official" newspaper of Fuxingshe is "China Daily", which was formerly known as "Huahua Daily".Its editor-in-chief is Kang Ze, former military assistant to Chiang Kai-shek and leader of the "Southwest faction" in the Blue Shirts Club.Later, Kang Ze was transferred to be in charge of forming a special task force to "suppress the Communists" in the "suppression of bandits" area.At this time he was tasked with propaganda work, perhaps in part to prevent him from extending the influence of his faction through participation in the Blue Shirts training program.

Regardless of the reason for Kang Ze's appointment, Kang Ze has become an outstanding newspaper publisher of the Blue Shirts Club. After the outbreak of the Shanghai War on January 28, 1932, there was a serious newspaper printing crisis, but Kang Ze had already prepared for it, and he had a large amount of printing paper in reserve.Because of this, and because his war news came directly from the front, China Daily had a very high circulation. There are other newspapers controlled by Lixingshe.In addition to "Future" published in Shanghai and "Sweeping" printed in Nanchang and Hankou, Fuxingshe also had an influence on the following publications:

"Northern Daily" - edited by Yu Sadu, published in Beiping. "Honest" - edited by Liu Jianqun, published in Beiping in August 1933.More a bulletin than a regular newspaper, it featured lurid anecdotes about party figures and slander against Communists. "People's Weekly" - edited by Jiang Jianren, Hangzhou. "Youth and War" - Xiao Zuolin was founded in Nanchang.He began to publish articles on "Suppressing the Communist Party" and devoted himself to motivating young people, and later merged with "Chinese Revolution" in July 1934.

There are other publications edited by members of the Renaissance Society intellectuals, but apart from conforming to the two slogans mentioned above: "to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down at home" and "absolutely support the party leader", there is no commonality among them. theoretical basis.These newspapers include Nanfang Daily (Fuzhou), Henan Evening News (Kaifeng), National News (Hangzhou), New Qingdao News (Qingdao), New China Daily (Hankou), China Weekly "(Nanjing), "International Translation News" (Nanjing), "New Society" (Shanghai), "Thoughts" (Shanghai), "National Literature and Art" (Shanghai), "Modern Society" (Tianjin) and "Northwest Review" ( Xi'an).

Some of these newspapers are considered to belong to the extreme right of the Kuomintang because of their own characteristics.Others, such as World Journal (Peking), edited by Zeng Kuoqing, are considered by readers to be independent of any faction and have a neutral viewpoint.This lack of apparent orientation in the publications of the Renaissance Society is more common than the ambiguity of the Blue Shirts' own policies and political theory.So in order to balance this ambiguity, and to provide the Blue Shirts with a frontier organization to penetrate into the cultural world, a "Chinese Cultural Society" was formed by Chiang Kai-shek's cronies, including Deng Wenyi, Chiang's personal secretary, on December 1933. It was established on the 25th.

Deng Wenyi, who had long had a commercial interest in cultural affairs, had borrowed money from friends to start the "Promotion Bookstore," which published Chiang Kai-shek's collection of speeches and a series of military handbooks.The combined bookstore and editorial office is a prototype for a small publishing house that has been so successful in attracting customers eager to improve themselves by learning quotes from the country's leader that it has sparked bitter disputes between Deng Wenyi and his leader, Almost made him unlucky. First, those deeply jealous political-commercial competitors reported maliciously to Chiang Kai-shek that Deng Wenyi used the leader's name and popularity to make a lot of money.Then, when Chiang's New Year's speech to Whampoa students in 1930 was misinterpreted by a publication in the promotion bookstore (suggesting that the Nationalist army would march northeast, which would be tantamount to affirming a conflict with Zhang Xueliang's army), Chiang Kai-shek sent his secretary Zhaolai scolded him severely and said that he would close his bookstore.At first, Deng Wenyi was dissatisfied, and spent more than an hour arguing that his bookstore could not be closed without due legal procedures, and that the shareholders of the bookstore had to be consulted.This was tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for Jiang. As a result, Deng finally shrank back under Jiang's scolding, returned to his home, and cried in frustration all day and night.

For the next few weeks, Deng Wenyi was so depressed that he shut himself up at home, not even bothering to ask his superiors in the headquarters for sick leave.Chiang himself pretended not to notice his absence.Finally, a month later, when Chiang was at the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum addressing a group of personnel responsible for mobilizing propaganda for the Jiangxi "suppression of bandits," Deng Wenyi was there herself.After speaking, Jiang took the initiative to greet Deng, asking about his health and whether he was going to work.Then the "principal" said to him gently: "Your problem is laziness. If you work hard, you will be able to do things well. From now on, you must remember to correct your mistakes and work hard. From tomorrow, you will go to the headquarters to work. "Deng Wenyi went to work the next day.