Chapter 3 3. The Republic of China

Life: During the Republic of China, Shaanxi warlord Chen Shufan said: "To be an official under others, you must first have the spirit of a cow and a horse, second, you must have a bandit heart, and third, you must have an attitude of a prostitute." Media commented: We worked hard and finally defeated He overthrew the warlords, and also completely overthrew the bull-horse attitude of being a person and doing things.In the end, the only thing left is a bandit heart towards the people and a prostitute attitude towards the superiors. Country thief: Zhang Zongxiang, graduated from Tokyo Imperial University.Served as Attorney General.During the May 4th Movement, students rushed into Cao Rulin's house, recognized Zhang Zongxiang, rushed forward and beat him violently.Zhang Zongxiang's Japanese friend Nakae Choukichi hurried forward to stop him, but when he found out that the person blocking him was a Japanese, the students rushed away.But Zhang Zongxiang was seriously injured and admitted to the hospital. After hearing the news that the student who caused the accident was arrested, he entrusted his wife to bail the student on his behalf, and he will not be held accountable.

Chiang Kai-shek believes that belief alone is not enough, and monetary rewards are also necessary.When attacking Huizhou, he raised his arms and shouted: The first soldier to climb the city wall will be rewarded with 500 yuan for Dayang, and the company commander will be rewarded with 1,000 yuan... Note that the company commander will be rewarded twice as much as the soldiers, and the company commander will definitely be particularly active. Stability: China's population was 60 million in the early Qing Dynasty, and it had grown to more than 400 million in the late Qing Dynasty, an increase of almost six times.Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, shipbuilding, shipping, and overseas trade have been China's strengths.But in the Qing Dynasty, because of the large population, these industries were restricted and suppressed for the sake of stability.British envoy Macartney said: "While we are advancing every day in the fields of art and science, they are actually becoming semi-savages.

Land reform: In the early years, Yan Xishan, Shanxi Province, set up several villages in his hometown of Wutai County as pilot projects to carry out land reform.He went out in person, earnestly persuading the local wealthy households to give up the small profits in front of them, focus on the big profits in the long run, and take out the excess land.But the wealthy households refused to obey, so Yan Xishan's reform failed. Military advice: Zhang Zuolin entrusts counselor Wang Yongjiang to manage the Northeast's finances, and promises to give full power to let him go for three years.But in less than three years, the Northeast Army became noisy, thinking that Wang Yongjiang was conspiring to usurp power and wanted to get rid of him, and even launched a military remonstrance for this.Zhang Zuolin raised his gun and cursed loudly, suppressing the bullets.Three years later, Wang Yongjiang's financial management was effective, and he had enough money and food, so he entered the customs with the army-reasonable reasoning, but anyone who is unreasonable and engages in military remonstrance must be nonsense.

Vulgar: Sun Chuanfang, an old soldier, asked his subordinates: What is a model?The answer: It is a naked woman.Sun Chuanfang was shocked: It's too vulgar!Worried that the vulgar style would affect the social atmosphere, he asked to ban models and forbid women to wear cheongsam.On the day the ban was issued, his concubine insisted on wearing a beautiful cheongsam to go shopping. Sun Chuanfang was depressed, and the matter was left alone—history tells us that the most vulgar thing is to force others to be elegant. Achievements: He is from Ningbo. His father was a shoe seller. Later, he saved money to open a bank, and he also started to study finance. In 1949, his family moved to Hong Kong. His family decided to enter the real estate industry, but he suggested to engage in shipping. In the end, he successfully persuaded his family and established a world-famous global shipping group.When the world learned of his name, he abandoned the ship and went ashore and returned to the financial industry - he was the former world shipping tycoon, Bao Yugang.

Reporter: In 1948, Sun Ke led the Guangdong delegation to run for vice president. Hunan reporter Gong Debo hated Sun Ke, so he forged letters from readers, accused Sun Ke of playing with women, and was beaten in the head by his father Sun Yat-sen.The military Zhang Fakui and Xue Yue were extremely angry and led the crowd to rush into the newspaper office, throwing and smashing.Not to be outdone, the newspaper fought back with a stick.Gong Debo took out two pistols on the spot, Zhang Fakui and Xue Yue turned around in shock, fled to a distance, jumped and cursed.In the end, the newspaper sued, and Sun Ke lost the money.

Economy: Feng Yuxiang once banned public and educational personnel from taking rickshaws.Not long after, he made a private visit and asked the rickshaw driver: How is Dujun Feng?Coachman: Bah, he is nothing.Feng Yuxiang was surprised: what happened to him?The coachman replied: He doesn't allow other people to take rickshaws. Isn't this deliberately destroying my job?He only cares about his good reputation, how can my family eat?Feng Yuxiang abolished the ban when he came back. Foreign companies: At the beginning of 1927, Chinese employees of Wuhan Foreign Bank went on strike. Requirements: Resigned employees should be given subsidies, current employees should be given two sets of clothes and leather shoes throughout the year, employees should enjoy 40 days of vacation every year except holidays, and employees’ deposits in the bank , the bank will double the payment when withdrawing, and the interest will be charged.Married employees are required to have marriage compensation, and employees who get married and their parents die due to illness are required to take one month's leave, plus a subsidy of 200 yuan... The result: imperialism interfered.

Getting mad: In 1922, Ding Ling was trapped in Shanghai and had no way to find a living, so she wrote to Lu Xun for help.After Lu Xun received the letter, he didn't believe it. He asked people to read the handwriting on the letter and analyzed it: This letter was not written by Ding Ling, but by a man named Xiu Yunyun.In fact, Xiu Yunyun is Shen Congwen, so Lu Xun thought that Shen Congwen was joking with him and was very angry.But he never thought that Hu Yepin would come to visit at this time. Hu Yepin was pursuing Ding Ling. The business card said: Ding Ling's younger brother, Lu Xun lost his temper when he saw it, and refused to see Hu Yepin.

Li Yuanhong, the president of the Republic of China, complained: Alas, the president is really not made by humans. I lost more than 30,000 yuan this month!Calculated in this way, I have to lose 360,000 a year.If things go on like this, I really can't support it.Alas, you see, this month, I have almost lost all my coal mine stocks and interest on salt bills.The east also donated money, and the west also raised money, which made people unable to cope.One hundred and eighty thousand a month, just one donation is not enough for expenses... Duel: During the period of the Republic of China, Peking University collected lecture fees from students, and the students were dissatisfied, so the student Feng Shengsan led all sentient beings to rush into the accounting class, abusing and intimidating.The principal Cai Yuanpei rushed to the students, waved his fists at the students, and shouted: I will fight with you... After that, Feng Shengsan was expelled and transferred to Lu Xun's banner.

In 1938, when the Japanese army bombed Chongqing, more than a hundred teachers and students from the Chongqing Children's Nursery School fled in a hurry, and the fleeing crowd collided with each other on the road.Suddenly a black car drove up. After the car stopped, Soong Meiling got out of the car, stopped the children and asked: Where are you going?The children replied that they wanted to flee to the Geleshan Nursery.So Song Meiling turned around and stopped a truck, stroked the door, and said loudly to the driver: Please take my child to Geleshan. Liang Qichao once said: I want to live to be 78 years old.Professor Wu Mei was furious and said: What is life and death?Wang Pu'an said: "If you don't know life, how can you know death?"Liu Yimou said: Life is hard, but death is like that.Chen Peijun said: Life and death are important matters, and there is no room for nirvana... It's just that such a gossip has attracted so many objections, so you know how many objections you should have if you want to do something else serious.

Zhang Xueliang’s self-evaluation in his private diary: Consciously, he still has some advantages: 1. Conscience is upright, whenever major events happen, he always takes the interests of the country and the public as the main point of consideration, and ignores his own interests; 2. Wealthy and noble, mighty Unyielding, otherwise he would have become the emperor of Manchuria.Because he looks up to the heavens and does not look down on others... This evaluation comes from Zhang Xueliang's diary on May 9, 1948. Rights: During the period of the Republic of China, Cao Kun bribed the election of the president. All members who participated in the voting, regardless of whether they voted for Cao Kun or not, paid 5,000 yuan.Councilor Lu Fu took the money and chose not to vote for Cao Kun.Cao Kun leaned over and begged, "Why don't you choose me?"Lu Fu yelled: "What are you, I just don't choose you."After finishing speaking, he picked up the inkstone and beat Cao Kun, and the old Cao ran away with his head in his arms... beat away those who respected your right to vote, and finally got the right to no longer need to vote.

Revenge: Pingjiang Buxiaosheng, a martial arts novelist, was a student studying in Japan in the late Qing Dynasty. He wrote the book "Liudongwaishi", which revealed the background of overseas students drinking and picking up girls in Japan, and offended everyone in the end.After the Republic of China, they worked together to squeeze him, leaving him without food and clothing.In desperation, I had no choice but to close the door and write novels... Some people drink foreign ink and foreign milk, but what comes out of their stomachs is always filthy and bad water. Cai E: A 13-year-old scholar, who later studied in Japan.After returning to China, Yuan Shikai asked him to be the successor of Beiyang, but Beiyang was depressed. Cai E lived in Beijing for three years and fled back to Yunnan. Under the cover of the famous prostitute Xiao Fengxian, who escaped from the capital, he treated Hualiu disease with strong medicine, and General Cai died as a result. Surveillance: At the beginning of the Republic of China, Feng Guozhang was forced to persuade the Imperial Forest Army who wanted to rebel.The imperial army was furious, and they wanted to rebel no matter what they said, Feng Guozhang was anxious, so he shouted: I will take my head as a guarantee for the life of the emperor, you can send two people to follow me with guns, if the emperor is in danger, you will kill me Kill me... The Yulin Army really sent two people to follow Feng Guozhang.Later, all the Imperial Forest Army lost their jobs, and only these two were paid. Introductory Citation: In January 1907, Qiu Jin founded "China Women's Daily". In the introductory essay, he said: There are two words, the most miserable and the most dangerous, in the world, which is called darkness... Tabloid: "Su Bao" was founded in 1896. The founder Hu Tiemei applied for registration at the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai in the name of his Japanese wife Etsushi Ikoma.But four years later, this yellow tabloid suddenly published Zou Rong's "Revolutionary Army"... When the situation was in dire straits, the yellow tabloid could only rely on the yellow tabloid to provoke the burden of saving the country. Colonization: During the 1898 period, Kang Youwei wrote a letter to the public car, demanding a strong country.Li Hongzhang saw him and asked: How to strengthen the country?Kang Youwei replied: I suggest colonizing Brazil... Li Hongzhang said: The Qing Dynasty is weak, how to colonize others?Kang Youwei replied: This is your business, you are the leader of the country.Li Hongzhang said: I can't do it, why don't you come.So the Kangliang reform failed before Brazil was colonized. Past events: Feng Yuxiang's self-report said: During the Republic of China, the Nanjing government expanded the road and asked the people to cooperate.The people were outraged, so Feng Yuxiang said: "The city government is going to demolish houses. It would be good if we can build houses for you first and ask you to move out again."It would be wrong to force you to move out if the house is not built properly.This is the "Republic of China", not the official state of China.The people are masters, and officials are servants. A servant should do things for his master and please his master... Lee Teng-hui: The Xianghui Hall in Fudan University is to commemorate the founders of this school, Ma Xiangbo and Lee Teng-hui.He raised funds to establish the Fudan campus and changed Fudan Public School to Fudan University. However, it was Mr. Li's wish to be forgotten, and he refused to allow himself to leave any records.And said: Those who are more capable than me have not left any records, why should I leave records?What people know now is that there is also a person with the same name and surname as him in Taiwan. Zhao Yuanren: A master of Chinese studies in the previous generation, he once produced phonograph films for the Commercial Press to promote Mandarin.Once when he was shopping for shoes, the clerk couldn't understand his Mandarin, so he scolded Zhao Yuanren, saying: "You speak Mandarin so badly that I can't even understand it. I suggest you buy a set of Mandarin recordings and learn it."Zhao Yuanren asked him: whose Mandarin recording should I buy?The clerk dismissed it: Of course it was Zhao Yuanren's.Zhao said: I am Zhao Yuanren.Clerk: Bah, are you worthy of being compared with Zhao Yuanren? Adding to the chaos: In June 1938, the Japanese army captured Kaifeng, and the Kuomintang Air Force organized three fleets to carry out bombings in turn, resulting in the destruction of more than half of the city and countless civilian casualties. On June 24, Defense Minister He Yingqin made a review report on the war situation in the Central Plains at a secret meeting of the Legislative Yuan. A temporary motion that is extremely unfavorable to the national army: "Bombing cities should be strictly prohibited in the future." Advertisement: During the period of the Republic of China, civil servants were paid well, and society set off a vigorous enthusiasm for applying for civil servants.So the social service page of a newspaper published an advertisement for the recruitment of female employees in cultural institutions, located at No. 58, Shouxing Bridge, Nanjing.Many women flocked to it, but found that it was just a rice shop.The ladies who came for the interview returned angrily, cursing the advertisement for deceiving people.The owner of the rice store was secretly happy - it turned out that this was a creative advertisement for the rice store. Oolong: Actress Li Xianglan, nicknamed Doudou, was born in Shenyang.During the Japanese invasion of China, she starred in the invasion films "Night of China" and "Song of Bailan", which aroused the anger of her fans.Question: Are you still a Chinese?How can you act in a traitor movie?Where is your conscience?Li Xianglan apologized and said: I was young and ignorant at that time... After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, she was arrested as a traitor and tried in court, but she was found to be Japanese, so she had to be released. Knight: Zhang Zongchang, a warlord, is in love with his wife Yuan Shu'e.But his wife and sister Yuan Zhong'e pursued Zhang Zongchang, and the family was in chaos.Yuan Shu'e said angrily: It is easier for me to find wild men.So he found a wild man, Jia Laizi, and gave birth to a daughter.From then on, Jia Laizi's family ate and lived in Zhang Zongchang's house.Zhang Zongchang drew his gun angrily, scaring away the love rival.Later Zhang Zongchang died, Yuan Shu'e was in distress, and wept bitterly, saying: "Old Zhang, if you are here, who would dare to bully me... Tell a story about Duan Qirui.Braided commander Zhang Xun hated the Republic of China and marched into Beijing to restore the Qing Dynasty, but was defeated by Duan Qirui and Zhang Xun fled to the Dutch embassy.Zhang Xun fled, and his subordinates scattered in all directions, but they were all caught. Someone asked Duan Qirui to kill the braided soldiers to boost the army's prestige.Duan Qirui didn't agree, and his subordinates continued to ask. Duan Qirui became angry and cursed: Zhang Xun is guilty, what's the soldier's fault?You always think about killing people, and the murderers keep killing them, so what good results can there be? Talk about Zhang Xueliang, Zhang Xueliang lost the Northeast and Rehe, so he went to Shanghai to be happy.Unexpectedly, the king of assassination, Wang Yaqiao, came to his door and dropped a bomb, intending to kill Zhang Xueliang.Zhang Xueliang was afraid, so he asked Du Yuesheng to help him intercede.So Wang Yaqiao gave Zhang Xueliang three choices: either recapture the Northeast, commit suicide and apologize, or donate all property to save the country.The three conditions were too harsh, Du Yuesheng continued to work, and the final agreement was to expel Zhang Xueliang from the country to Europe... Some people say that the most resourceful person in the Republic of China was Chen Huan.Then why haven't I heard that Chen Huan has made a name for himself?Chen Huan once knelt down and begged Yuan Shikai to become emperor. When Yuan Shikai really became emperor, Chen Huan objected and broke up with Yuan Shikai, which depressed Yuan Shikai to death.Beiyang Duan Qirui also opposed Yuan proclaiming himself emperor.But what Lao Duan opposed was the imperial system, not Yuan Shikai.What Chen Huan opposed was Yuan Shikai.So Duan Qirui repaired Chen Huan, which made Chen Huan impoverished. Sovereignty: Cao Rulin recalled that during the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai wanted to restore the monarchy.The Japanese envoy Kohata Yukichi, the British envoy Zhu Erdian, and the Russian envoy Kubensky pulled the French envoy Conti and the Italian envoy Hua Lei to dissuade them, saying: China's status quo, the restoration of the imperial system may be dangerous, and it is recommended to maintain the status quo. Don't mess around.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China believed that this was a threat to China by the envoys of the five countries, so they warned the other party: Please respect China's sovereignty, and the Chinese people must not insult... To the bone: At the beginning of the founding of the Republic of China, the people were extremely resistant to braid cutting.Feng Yuxiang's soldiers refused to cut their braids, so Feng himself raised a gun to monitor.The soldiers wailed and finally cut off their braids.Not long after, Feng Yuxiang recruited troops, and the most critical condition was: no one with braids cut... Only those who refused to have their braids cut off were slavish to the bone, obedient to orders, and the most suitable for building a violent machine.