Chapter 12 1913~1926: years of maturity 1913~1926: years of maturity -1

"I'm in China again..." Jules Le Hogan May 1913 In May 1912, Jules ended his three-year "apprenticeship" in China and returned to France for the first time for vacation.The riots in Chengdu were like a final exam.He passed the test bravely and calmly, and he can return to his hometown without any regrets, and meet his correspondent: mother Maria, and cultivate well. Encouraged by the passion in his nature and the achievements he had made, Jules set foot on China, which had become his second hometown, after his vacation.Because of his bravery through the riots in Chengdu, he was appreciated by most of his superiors, and since then he has become one of the young and promising people, and his name often appears on the documents of the Asian Department.

The trip in May 1913, the route and the method were exactly the same as those he had come to China four years earlier.Along the way he stopped to call on some friends and, in unweary Jules style, jotted down his reflections on the landscape along the way.As he entered Manchuria, the former cradle of the Qing Dynasty, which had become a northern province of the republic a year earlier, he wrote: "Okay, China again." The busy atmosphere of Beijing quickly bored him, and Jules continued south, following the waterway he had traveled for the first time, and stopped at Hankou.Here is his new position.Hankou is in the lower reaches of Chengdu, in Hubei Province, and in the east of Sichuan where Jules once "battled".

In fact, during the year when Jules was far away from China, the spring of the Republic was burning with war, and the country was in its most depressed period.Puyi left the throne, and President Yuan Shikai took over the power of the country. His only wish was to be emperor himself.If the system looks republican, the reality is the opposite of this modernization. Realizing that the country could not be led to the road of republic, Sun Yat-sen's party once again launched a revolution in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Although it was quickly defeated, it showed that the country had once again entered a period of war.

When wars broke out frequently in China, France was also on the eve of "World War I".During this period of unrest between China and France, it was the most vigorous stage of Jules life development.For the next thirteen years, he kept pulling the strings until the general strike at Canton in 1925, and his performance cemented his reputation as a brilliant diplomat.In his personal life, he met Melcede, who became his wife and mother to his children. On June 7, 1913, Jules, who had just arrived in Anzha, Hankou, wrote to his mother: "I have started to function normally today, starting with writing you a letter to make you feel at ease. If necessary, a word That's enough, everything is moving in the direction of 'wonderful'".

Hankou, Sunday, June 29, 1913