Chapter 49 Chapter 10 The Blue Shirts Clubs in the Provinces

The earliest layout of the Blue Clothes Club in various provinces was arranged by Kang Ze.Kang Ze was originally the deputy director of Chiang Kai-shek's attendant office. He was both keen on spies and security affairs and had special talents.When China Daily became the main organ of the fledgling Fuxingshe, Kang Ze was appointed editor, a position he used to strengthen his own Whampoa student body.The students of this regiment participated in the propaganda brigade that Kang Ze assisted and led during the Northern Expedition. Most of them came from Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, so this group was called "Southwest Society" accordingly.

The Propaganda Brigade belongs to the Military Political Department system.In Chiang's military coup on March 20, 1926, the political department's personnel establishment was downgraded from a political trainer system to an instructor system.In the early days of the Northern Expedition, the Propaganda Brigade was very successful in political training. It taught the officers and soldiers the principles of the party and the discipline of treating non-military personnel.However, with the deepening of the Northern Expedition, it was necessary to use political backbones to discipline war criminals captured from warlords, and the supply exceeded demand.So their success in political training began to be discounted.On August 22, 1927, in the process of suppressing the Autumn Harvest Uprising, Bai Chongxi simply abolished the Political Department system.Until January of the following year, Chiang Kai-shek restored it in the National Revolutionary Army in the form of the Political Training Department.The Ministry of Political Training dispatched commissioners to establish "special party departments" to each division of the National Army.Although the "Special Party Headquarters" was only responsible for political training, under the development of Dai Jitao, it became an important part of the counterintelligence system and an important tool for the National Revolutionary Army to fight against the Communist Party under the direct control of Chiang Kai-shek.

When Chiang Kai-shek first "suppressed the communists" in Jiangxi, he re-emphasized the importance of political training and transferred Kang Ze from an editor to a more active position. In 1932, the Lixingshe Research Institute in Nanjing formulated a special counter-insurgency plan to be implemented in Jiangxi.Teng Jie, Xiao Zanyu, and Kang Ze, members of the Lixing Society, personally reported the plan to Chiang Kai-shek who was directing the anti-communist mobilization in Linchuan County. Chiang approved it on the spot and ordered the three to discuss and implement it with Xiong Shihui, Chief of Staff of the Nanchang Camp and Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Government. The program matters.On the way back to Nanchang, Kang Ze told his two partners that running the newspaper was not much of a challenge for him, saying he wanted to be in charge of the new project.Otherwise, he threatened to resign and go abroad.What Teng Jie and Xiao Zanyu saw in Kang Ze was "a man who can bear hardships and stand hard work, is active and hard-working, and is ambitious", and they promised to support him.After arriving in Nanchang, they persuaded Xiong Shihui to let Kang Ze be the director of the "special training class", Yang Wen, a member of Lixingshe, was appointed as the deputy director, and Yuan Yongfu was appointed as the secretary. Secret Service Officer".

Xingzi County is adjacent to Panyang Lake, located on the right side of Wulaofeng Peak in Lushan Mountain, and was selected as the location of the first class.The first class has 600 students from the Central Military School.In addition to exercising and learning to climb mountains and cross rivers, they also received four months of special training in communist affairs, intelligence work, camouflage, ambushes, search and sabotage techniques, night raids, and the ability to "group and train the masses."They were then assigned to various squadrons, detachments, detachments, and subgroups, which together became the "Bandit Suppression Ranger Corps," led by Kang Ze and reporting directly to Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Military Commission.In this way, they were recognized as the GPU of the Commander-in-Chief (former USSR State Political Administration).