Chapter 47 new life

This emotional crisis reflected the complexity of the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and his men.After this, Deng Wenyi continued to run his publishing company.In fact, by the time Lixingshe's Blue Shirt Club was taking shape, Deng's "Promoting Bookstore" had grown into a chain of stores and published publications on the movement in Nanjing, Hankou, Nanchang, Changsha, Guiyang, and other cities.As a result, the Chinese Cultural Society has integrated into Deng Wenyi's already established simple and wide-ranging publicity network.Its appearance coincided with the beginning of the New Life Movement: the New Life Movement was launched in Jiangxi in February 1934 by Xiong Shihui, governor of Jiangxi Province. ideological hodgepodge".

Inside the Lixing Society, the New Culture Movement was regarded as one of the "Four Major Movements" of the Blue Shirts Society.All cadres and members of society are subject to it, especially with regard to their personal property and income.The regulations of the Lixingshe required that all members should register their private properties, and that all future increases and decreases in property would be regulated through their salaries, and these properties should be randomly checked by the accountants of the secretariat or the inspectors of the Lixingshe.Those who embezzle 200 yuan shall be sentenced to imprisonment; those who steal 500 yuan shall be sentenced to death.The local coordinating organizations of the Lixingshe thus created "a new atmosphere" to eliminate all kinds of "bad habits" such as profligacy, greed, laziness, deceit, rebellion, gambling, fornication, and the "love of leisure and work" of all "feudal scholar-bureaucrats."Under this new moral order of eradicating waste and appointing officials everywhere to make wishes, the masses of men and women will "rejuvenate my inherent national spirit of creation and innovation" to "restore the confidence in the survival and development of the nation after the defeat in the Opium War."

The corresponding main goal of the Chinese Culture Society is to "renew life" by diverting people's attention to the common good of the masses.At the heart of this effort was a "militarization" program, initially targeting only members of the Rehabilitation Society, which was later extended to the general public through the operations of the New Life Movement Promotion Association.It was this association that adopted many highly controversial and imposing measures of the movement, such as restrictions on smoking, dancing and wearing certain westernized clothes.The Blue Shirts were later criticized by foreigners, especially American missionaries, who said that they had reversed the original purpose of the New Culture Movement and turned it into a movement of fascist rule.

The Chinese Cultural Society was nominally presided over by Chiang Kai-shek, but its day-to-day leaders were Deng Wenyi, Xiao Zuolin, He Zhonghan, and Wu Shoupeng.Deng is the chairman of the board, while Xiao is the secretary-general of the Nanchang headquarters.At the same time, it was decided that Xiao Zuolin should go to Shanghai to establish a branch of the society with the help of Liu Bingli (editor of Qiantu), Ni Wenya, and other Blue Shirts. The Blue Shirts Club has secured its foothold in Shanghai. In January 1932, the Lixingshe Preparatory Office sent Ye Wei there to establish an organization to control the student movement.According to Japanese sources, two years later, the Blue Shirts Club held a meeting of its standing committee in Shanghai.The meeting decided a series of organizational principles, established the organizational structure and established rules and regulations on members.According to Japanese sources, the charter of the Blue Shirts stated: "Fascism should be used to achieve dictatorship." Their oath required them to devote themselves to promoting the spirit of national independence, to abolish all unequal treaties, and to centralize the entire country.While intensifying militarization among government officials, "bringing them to fascism", commerce, mining, and agriculture were developed by stimulating rural handicrafts in the provinces, suppressing the class struggle between capitalists and labourers, and generally establishing agricultural experiment stations.In addition, in order to "realize a new social order as soon as possible and establish a country based on fascism", the Blue Shirts began to get involved in intelligence, propaganda and execution activities according to the situation.

According to these fussy Japanese data, the organizational chart of the Blue Shirts Society in Shanghai shows that its local special regional branches are directly under the leadership of the Nanjing headquarters.It also shows: 1. Pingjin Station, including Tianjin Police Intelligence Bureau; 2. The Punishment Committee of Pingjin District; 3. Permanently established branches in Datong, Jinan, Qingdao, Shandong, Tangshan, Zhangjiakou and Suiyuan; 4. A northern special column, which has its own branches in Dalian, Shenyang, Xinjing, Harbin, Heilongjiang, Sitong, Yingkou, Chengde and other places;

5. Wuchang Branch; 6. Scattered in units at all levels in provinces and cities throughout China. Other foreign intelligence and police agencies have also amassed information on the Blue Shirts.By at least August 1933, the police in the French Concession had claimed to have discovered the Shanghai Blue Shirts Society under the leadership of Wu Xingya, director of the Kuomintang Social Bureau, who was believed to be Chiang Kai-shek's intelligence chief in Shanghai.The police in the International Settlement also mistakenly confused the Shanghai branch of the Blue Shirts Society with the CC faction and Chen Guofu, and believed that the organization was established to instill "a new spirit, fascism, as a measure to save the country in distress. "Obviously, they also mistook Wu Xingya as their leader.