It is precisely because they can't stand the ugly behavior of these warlords that Chen Ze and the others are even more angry. Since they began to master their own economic interests, as the national bourgeoisie of this era, they naturally have the pursuit and yearning for political ideas. Business and worrying about being an official is one of their urgent hopes now.

Zhong Yang, who owns a smart factory, is naturally their primary choice. After all, he is a member of the same interest group and has a relatively close and reliable relationship. However, Zhong Yang has always clearly expressed the concept of not forming a political party and participating in politics. Even if he joined the Chinese Revolutionary Party, he was just seeking an open protection.

Previously, the Yunnan-Guangxi coalition forces were quite harmonious in Guangzhou, so Chen Ze and others were optimistic about the situation in the entire Guangzhou city and even in southern China. Even if they transported a large amount of arms to Chen Jiongming at extremely low prices, it was just a long-term political investment in the eyes of everyone. However, the openness of the contradiction between Mo Rongxin and Li Liejun made them see the unstable situation in the entire southern China.

At a secret meeting inside the underground palace, Liu Jinyang was worried about this issue and laughed at Zhong Yang in an inquiring tone: "Zhong Yang, are you really letting them continue to mess around like this?" Recently, the conflict between the two armies of Yunnan and Guangxi has seriously affected the traffic situation, and the businesses in Guangzhou City have been difficult to operate normally and have fallen into a stagnation. Among them, Liu Jinyang's Xinghua Chamber of Commerce was the most affected. The bulk transactions originally sent to Foshan were difficult to achieve, and the squeeze of goods would inevitably lead to huge economic losses.

Zhong Yang naturally knew Liu Jinyang's anxious mentality, but he could only smile bitterly: "Otherwise, what else can I do? Chen Jiongming has not done a good job in military mobilization yet, so the chaos here will definitely last for a while."

Not only Liu Jinyang, because of the chaotic situation, the operating conditions of Tianyu Technology Company were also adversely affected. Chen Ze had to tell Zhong Yang: "Can't we send a security team to clear them? Our company has encountered four waves of rioters and bandits who are planning to rob them this week. It's not a solution to continue like this."

The village corps has been officially reorganized during the Chinese New Year, and the elite soldiers have been upgraded to professional soldiers in the security regiment, while the village corps has become a militia training center for training and reserve talents for the security regiment. Compared with the militia of the village corps, the security regiment is more stringent in training and more well-equipped because it is a purely professional military route. The entire security regiment has only 230 people in total, and the village corps has now grown to a scale of 1,200 people.

Because Zhong Yang kept establishing good relations with the surrounding villages and towns, and with good treatment, it gradually attracted many middle-aged men to surrender. Relying on the care of Hu Hanmin and Li Liejun, this kind of private army building did not cause much response. Anyway, there is no precedent. Many militia and gangsters did significantly more than Zhong Yang and others.

The security team's weapons and equipment are extremely well equipped, and the firepower output is extremely powerful. The new assault rifle developed by Zhong Yanggang and the Germans have begun to be equipped for the security team, mainly to see the specific use effect of this assault rifle. The melon-shaped fragmented high-explosive grenade and bulletproof vest, coupled with the steel helmet and dark combat uniforms, set off the members of the security team with majestic appearance.

If the security team had not provided protection for the past few days, Chen Ze and the others would have been unable to resist the invasion of the chaotic soldiers. Everyone had seen the tragic situation of small and medium-sized merchants who were looted and looted, and they also understood the importance of mastering force in troubled times. Not only that, because of the internal strife and incompetence of the military government, Chen Ze and the others began to have new political demands.

"Zhong Yang, with our strength, we can form a political party and army by ourselves, so we don't have to be angry with these people. Moreover, I am confident that I can do better than those incompetent people in the military government to manage the local government!"

Although only Liu Jinyang said this, Zhong Yang also saw the same earnestness and hope from the eyes of others. Regarding this situation, Zhong Yang could only shake his head and sigh: "I agree to form a private armed force, and we have been doing this all the time. But I will not agree with the formation of political parties and military forces, at least I will not participate."

"Zhong Yang, I know you don't like politics, but look at what these people have ruined our country? It's a mess, there are frequent internal strife, but not many people care about the lives and deaths of the people. As for economic construction, I think they don't know how to do serious business except increase taxes and specialize in pornography, gambling and drugs."

In fact, the rest of the people have never understood Zhong Yang's idea and behavior that he did not want to get involved in the political arena. At least they still can't understand why Zhong Yang, who has always cared about China's current situation and people's livelihood, did not participate in the political action of transforming China. At least, with the strong productivity of smart factories, there is absolutely no problem in money, grain supply and arms production. In this era, as long as you have money and guns, are you afraid that you can't recruit soldiers?

"Yes, Zhong Yang. I know you don't like politics, but instead of handing over the country to their hands, it's better for us to save this country and this nation together. Only by quickly unifying the country can we reduce people's casualties and retain the vitality of our country."

Faced with the pleas and questions from his companions, Zhong Yang was still indifferent to Chen Sishui. He did not directly answer everyone's questions, but asked back: "What do you think should I do better?"

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Yi Zhongming once stayed in Germany, and he also had a rough understanding of the military power of Europe. As for Zhong Yang's current military strength, as long as these European and American powers do not attack, it is not an invincible existence. At least pay a little attention to not touching the bottom line of interests of the great powers in China, and generally ensure that the other party will not interfere too much.

"What should we do with political concepts? What do we use to attract followers?" Zhong Yang neither expressed his objection nor agreed to the proposal to expand the army. He just raised another key issue.

After raising this question, he did not wait for other people's answers, but continued to say it himself: "As a political group and a local force, we must have our own clear political philosophy. Only in this way can we attract enough followers and gain a firm foothold in the political arena."

In this closed secret conference room, Zhong Yang stood up and walked around the conference table, continuing his topic: "I know what you want, but you still don't understand what I want. The reason I have never wanted to say is that I have not thought about what path to take, or decided to take. But when I learned more about the situation in our country, I felt helpless and sad."

"Overall, basically the nation we call China no longer exists. Jiannu entered the pass and brought about a rule of barbarism and ignorance. Under hundreds of years of distortion and depression, the cultural concepts and beliefs that belonged to our China had long lost their original colors and became pale and powerless. Since Britain was the first to complete the industrial revolution, the West has begun to surpass the East in terms of material productivity and become the dominant player in this world."

"The land we occupy is still in a ignorant era because of the incompetence of the rulers. Of course, many enlightened patriots have also begun to pursue the political path of enriching the country and strengthening the army. Western learning has begun to spread to the east. In fact, no matter what kind of learning attitude is, it is nothing more than learning the political system and sustainable technology of hope. But the question is, is that the path to enriching China? Is it our future?"

"In my opinion, prosperity and strength are two problems. China regards itself as the orthodox Chinese. Although its cultural heritage is still distorted, its foundation and the seeds of civilization still remain. The so-called prosperity and strength are to continuously improve the productivity of our country to achieve better survival ability, but the future of our nation is definitely not just that. The existence and development of a nation is mainly a collection of material life and spiritual civilization, which is what I want to say."

"Chinese civilization is a precocious civilization. In a state of extreme lack of productivity, a profound and high-level culture such as the hundreds of schools of thought were born. This is not only our luck, but also our sorrow. Whether it is Confucianism, Taoism, or Mohism, these profound ideas and spiritual and cultural pursuits cannot be supported by low productivity. Because of this, in the past, these cultural concepts have been artificially distorted due to factual needs, and have become what they are today."

"Many Chinese people who study abroad have begun to complain about their ancestors because of their poor strength at home and abroad, and have lost confidence in the cultural heritage of the entire China, and even relegated the responsibility for the country's destruction to these traditional cultures, among which Confucianism was splashed with dirty water."

Speaking of this, Zhong Yang looked at Yi Zhongming because he had quarreled with the old sauerkraut who had studied eight-legged essays in school because of education issues. In Yi Zhongming's view, complete Western education is the most ideal and suitable one. He even believes that ancient Chinese education should be abolished.

"Confucianism is not bad. Confucius advocated benevolence and etiquette in the past, in order to establish an order and help people handle interpersonal relationships more harmoniously. But the problem is that the rulers regarded Confucianism as a tool rather than an end, and also used power to tamper with the essence of Confucianism, so that they reached the level of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism. In the Qing Dynasty, there were even cynicism that claimed to be a slave. As for Taoism, it was considered feudal superstition and denounced as a sorcerer or a madman."

"But what is the problem? It's not because these ideas are bad, but because productivity is too backward and not enough to support it. The Confucian idea is to cultivate everyone into a gentleman. However, in the past and even in this era, the supply and demand of materials were so unbalanced, how many people could become gentlemen? Even if they don't continue, how many people can have the spare time to pursue moral cultivation?"

"As for Taoism, it was originally a group of monks who pursued their souls and self, but people in the world were greedy and greedy for money and materials, so there was a fact that they believed in ghosts and gods. Not to mention whether the world is materialistic, those who deceived people are not practitioners at all. How could they slander the entire Taoism because of them?"

"Whether it is Confucianism or Taoism, it is essentially a kind of concept of being a human being, and it is a knowledge used to govern people, and it is not suitable for governing the country. Therefore, in ancient China, there were all Confucian skin and legal bones, and Legalism was the concept of governing the country. However, in many cultural orientations, Confucianism left too many marks on the thoughts of all classes of the entire society. For example, everything is inferior, but only high school reading and denigrating the work of technical professions as strange and lewd skills, which is also the main reason why many people who admire foreigners and fascinate foreigners."

"But the problem is that our descendants did not improve and develop these academic ideas in a timely manner, but instead resented that the ancestors had not left enough property. This is our greatest sorrow. What I want to do is to prevent this kind of thing from happening. I must do my best to preserve the seeds for our cultural inheritance and wait for the future."

This time, Zhong Yang said a lot of words to everyone, hoping to get the understanding and support of his partners. Although they still find it difficult to understand for a while, they always understand their hard work.

After listening to Zhong Yang's words, Chen Ze was the first person to react and ask the question: "Zhong Yang, I understand your words. In fact, what you want to do is to strive to improve the productivity level of our country while retaining some seeds of traditional culture, right? But after establishing our own political party and army, can't we better carry forward this concept of governing the country?"

"Haha, right Chen Ze, but you're only half of it. I said that even now and foreseeable future in more than a hundred years, the traditional culture of our nation is still higher than the productivity level of the entire human race. Because of this, the ideas I adhere to are still not in line with the needs of the times, at least not fully in line with. Once a political party is established, I must formulate political ideas that meet the needs of this era in order to achieve better development. However, doing so completely goes against the original intention and principles I want to adhere to, because my eyes are not about looking at the present, but about these immediate interests."

"In the past, China was able to occupy the peak of the world for two thousand years with its distorted cultural concepts. But now, is it differently backward and the times? For one person or a generation, this kind of rise may be very happy. But for our nation, if we want to become the best country in the world, we must choose the same mercantilist line as in the West, which means we completely lose cultural dominance, which is what I am trying to avoid."

"Authentic, because of its innate characteristics, our traditional culture is naturally not suitable for the development and needs of this era, which does not mean that these cultures are not good. The progress of Western civilization in this era does not mean that we must become the same as them. As long as there is sufficient productivity as a guarantee, no matter how catastrophes and twists and turns our nation can still retain the spark of civilization without breaking it."

"I don't want to stand in front of the stage because I have to be committed to protecting the seeds of these cultures. Because if you participate in politics, I have to give up these pursuits for the sake of reality, so that I can't do such a job wholeheartedly. Don't underestimate power and politics. Once you participate, you will be involuntarily."

"I don't want to abandon the Chinese Taoist tradition for this short-term dream of prosperity and strength. Although things are not good, I still have hope. I am not as good as the sage Confucius, but I am willing to do the same thing as him. Confucius ran through his life, but Confucianism was still unfavorable. It was not until nearly four hundred years after his death that he had reached the honor of respecting Confucianism. This is my own persistence. I do not participate in politics, but I do not interfere with your choice. If anyone of you wants to form or join a political party, I will not object, as long as you can stick to your own beliefs."

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