Hong Shengtang's main source of income lies in brothels and opium, so the one who suffered the most losses in the Guangzhou anti-pornography campaign was Hong Shengtang. As the saying goes, if you are anxious, you have to jump over the wall, but the most regrettable thing is that they chose the wrong opponent.

In the eyes of the big guys in Hongshengtang, fat fish like Tangwei Town are just used to make up for the losses they have caused recently due to smoking bans and anti-pornography. However, they still don’t know what kind of opponent they have provoked by such a tentative action.

Zhong Yang clearly understood that these so-called people in the world bully the weak and fear the strong. They must not compromise or tolerate them at all, and must be shocked by thunder.

Zhong Yang, who had already decided to use tough measures to solve the problem, called Zhou Hua, who was in charge of intelligence work: "Zhou Hua, arrange all the arrested criminals of Hong Shengtang to have a proper job, and I don't want to see them anymore. Also, make a record of the investigation report about Hong Shengtang, and don't have to hand it over to me. Within two weeks, I don't want the characters in the report to live in this world. Do you understand?"

Zhou Hua naturally understood what Zhong Yang meant. Those poor gangsters were about to spend the rest of their lives in an unknown mine, and they would never see the light of day. However, if they had to attack Hong Shengtang, Zhou Hua's current strength was far from enough. So he had to ask Zhong Yang for help: "A week is too short, and the strength in my hands is not enough to complete this task. Can I mobilize the Marine Corps?"

The Marines mentioned by Zhou Hua are a combat squad composed purely of general-purpose marine soldiers. Although except for Chen Ze, Liu Jinyang and Yi Zhongming, the rest do not know the existence of smart factories. However, they also know some information, such as the existence of marine soldiers. They do not know what mechanical components are, but they understand the powerful combat capabilities of marine soldiers.

Understanding the difficulties of the intelligence department, Zhong Yang had to agree to Zhou Hua's request: "How many land soldiers are needed and specific weapons and equipment needs, and I will give me a report at that time."

After receiving the desired reply, Zhou Hua was also happy: "Yes, I understand."

After saying that, he bent back and left the office.

The intelligence department has created a new task, and it is no longer easy to be responsible for the collection and analysis of intelligence. Moreover, this large-scale assassination campaign naturally requires sufficient power to use force from Zhong Yang.

All of this may seem cruel and incompatible with the law in the eyes of ordinary people, but neither Zhong Yang nor Zhou Hua, they are policemen or judges, and there is no need to convict those people. As long as Zhong Yang feels it is necessary to eliminate them, it is enough. The stumbling block in front of them will always have the awareness of being crushed and crushed.

After receiving Zhong Yang's order, Zhou Hua also did the necessary preparations, and at least it was necessary to find out the basic situation of Hong Shengtang.

While Zhong Yang was working hard to eliminate obstacles and enhance his own strength, the new policy of Guangzhou was also in full swing. The New Culture Movement lasted for several years in the north, and was vigorous, but many people still don’t understand what the so-called “Mr. De” and “Mr. Sai” had to do with the common people who ran every day. But in the south, Chen Jiongming put his ideals into practice bit by bit.

He proved with facts that new culture is closely related to everyone's life. For this turbid society, it is a magical cleanser. Chen Jiongming is the only person who uses "new culture" to transform society, rather than staying in a lawsuit. What is even more exciting is that his transformation will have great results in the short term.

He banned smoking and gambling in Guangdong. As the first shot to build a "model province", he shot very beautifully, and people's audio-visual experience of the government has been completely renewed.

Chen Jiongming promoted autonomy in 92 counties in the province. He described his autonomy plan in newspapers: China's villages have been implementing republic since ancient times, and each village has made autonomy the purpose. Today, China's autonomy should be implemented from villages and developed in sequence, and throughout the county, province and the whole country. At this moment, Guangdong has implemented zoning in villages. In autonomous villages, police and taxes are managed by the people. In the future, county magistrates and provincial legislators will also be led by the people, and then the parliamentarians will be elected as governors. If other provinces can imitate it, they can achieve the goal of self-government in the province.

Chen Jiongming began to advance his plan step by step, first establishing the "Economic Investigation Bureau" to develop local industries; all counties set up forestry offices, and set up raw silk inspection offices and silkworm seed manufacturing institutes in Guangzhou to improve silk production; and then changed the industrial department of the provincial government to the Industrial Department, giving greater power and responsibilities to promote industry. In less than a year, the number of silk factories in Guangzhou increased to more than 50, and Hong Kong merchants invested in opening farms and canned factories; returned overseas Chinese in Nanyang were also negotiating to raise funds to develop Huangpu Port; Hong Kong, Guangdong and Shanghai merchants were preparing for a stock exchange with a capital of 10 million yuan; and Guangdong Provincial Chamber of Commerce was established.

After the establishment of the city hall in Guangzhou, the city halls (bureaus) in Haikou, Gaozhou, Beihai, Jiangmen, Huiyang, Shanwei and other places have also begun to prepare and set up one after another. The city walls were demolished, roads were built, parks were built, and municipal construction was carried out, and the economic construction was in full swing. The economic construction had initial results, and cultural construction was also developing simultaneously. Guangzhou began to prepare for the municipal memorial library, the first park, the establishment of public children's playgrounds, public stadiums, art schools, etc.; held art exhibitions

, Sports Games; Install road lights; Build new residential areas in Meihua Village and Zhusigang to become a model new district in Guangzhou; restaurants, hotels, theaters and other public places must strictly implement the sanitation rules promulgated by the government; set up new abortion sites, and the Health Bureau supervises and inspects meat hygiene; hires thousands of scavengers to clean the streets, clear ditches, and transform the drainage system every day; holds sanitation knowledge exhibitions, prints sanitation brochures, and distribute them from house to house.

The National Education Association held the 7th Federation in Guangzhou. Huang Yanpei, a representative of Jiangsu Province, later wrote a booklet titled "One Year of Guangzhou City", praising the new scene in Guangzhou under the new culture. He summarized the changes in Guangzhou in five aspects:

1. Respect humanity. For example, it is strictly forbidden for police to whip rickshaw drivers for no reason.

2. Free speech. There are as many as 33 daily newspapers in Guangzhou. Although some criticize the authorities and even tend toward the Beiyang government, they have never interfered.

3. Rectification law. For example, prostitutes are strictly prohibited from entering hotels privately, and opium is strictly prohibited.

Fourth, on the one hand, we advocate trade unions, on the other hand, we advise against strikes, and at the same time we actively promote workers' education and set up workers' cram schools.

5. In terms of health administration, special professionals are hired to reform with scientific methods. Such as the management of hospitals, laboratories, slaughterhouses, markets, bathhouses, as well as medicines, food, beverages, teahouses, taverns, milk houses, theaters, inspections and bans of brothels.[5]

What is a new culture that changes customs? That's it. Chen Jiongming's various measures have opened up an experimental field of new culture in Southern China. In the midst of bureaucrats, warlords and politicians across the country, the smoky air, the willows and flowers are bright and vibrant, attracting the attention of people all over the world. Without this experimental field, people might always think that the New Culture Movement is just an empty talk of scholars. But history is fair, it will not lock all doors and windows to death, and it will always leave a window, even a small gap that allows future generations to see, and it turns out that history has another possibility.

At this time, Guangdong was almost the last stronghold of the New Culture Movement, and the last hope was lies.

On February 14, 1921, the provincial government announced the "Organization Law of the Provincial Education Commission" drafted by Chen Duxiu, and implemented a collegial committee instead of the old system of the Provincial Department of Education. On March 8, the Education Commission was officially established. The first chairman was hired by the governor to serve as (and the principal of the university preparatory) and was later elected according to the Organizational Law.

Chen Jiongming also gave a final reply to choosing a municipal committee or a committee system.

In mid-March, Jiongming quoted the development of the United States as an example in his letter to the provincial parliament, pointing out that the result of the implementation of the municipal council system over the years: it is to make the city's careers a rogue politician and social villains take over, so that the municipal government is becoming increasingly powerful, public funds are abused, and the city debts are accumulated, and there is almost no hope of improvement. Large cities such as New York have gradually adopted the committee system, and there are also cities that tend to go further.

Jiongming explained: "I really regard the municipal government as a purely business nature, and it is rare to achieve the best effect if it is not unified. This is to use the municipal committee system as a bad system in the past. Since there is no room for adoption, the municipal manager system is more dedicated to one person, but the committee system actually compromises between the two. Therefore, after several considerations, it was decided to adopt it. Since my country's reform, no matter the central province, all election affairs have been manipulated by evil forces, and the electoral organs have rarely been used by the powerful. The facts are obvious and there is nothing to be hidden."

As for why the mayor, the director is appointed by the governor, and only a portion of the counselors are elected by the people? Jiongming stated his intentions as follows:

"Because the mayor and director are appointed and are responsible to the governor, and the governor is responsible to the citizens, the governor has to appoint a part of the counselor to represent the governor as the supervision of the municipal administration. The other counselors are still elected by all walks of life and citizens, and are elected once a year. One is to implement the professional representative system, and the other is to enable all citizens to develop the election habit. After the five-year period, the mayor's election will not be in danger of disorder. This is to promote the people's governance."

In late March, the Provincial Assembly decided to submit the "Guangzhou Autonomous Regulations" to the governor for processing. Jiongming believed that the original "Interim Regulations" were only used within the administrative area of ​​Guangzhou, and could not be compared with a single law and did not have to be decided by the provincial assembly. Moreover, the regulations "apart from the promulgation of this governor, the military government affairs meeting has been decided and ordered to be approved, but the legal facts cannot be changed."

From this incident, we can see that Jiongming made decisions, doing things according to the matter, and having no different intentions about factions. He wanted to implement the municipal committee system and appointed Sun Ke (Sun Yat-sen's son) as mayor, and did not hesitate to give the Sun family, the military government, an important position in the Guangdong Provincial Powers, and refused to follow the suggestions of the Chen Provincial Council, who usually supported him.

It is urgent to transform Guangzhou and establish a modern municipal government. The Guangzhou Municipal Administration Committee was established on schedule on February 15 and began to actively implement the new policy. The election of the counselor will not be held until September 1.

Not to mention how bad Chen Jiongming's reputation in history textbooks is, he is a capable official in the governance of localities. And other personal qualities are not yet problematic and have always been praised. This is the revolutionary who cares about the people and the ambitious man who is truly committed to social reform.

The reason why Zhong Yang didn't like Sun Yat-sen was his vastness and emptiness. Without absolute strength, he just wanted to go to the Northern Expedition and unify the whole country. Regardless of whether such unification was meaningful or not, the revolutionary party failed to unify the entire China in fact, but instead consumed all the main military power in the country.

Chiang Kai-shek led the Whampoa army to fight north. Just as he completed the nominal unification, Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China. At that time, China was almost powerless. Is this just a coincidence?

What benefits does this unification have to do to the country and the nation besides achieving a person's reputation? If China can be saved by just being kind, then is Wang Jingwei still a traitor? In fact, harming the overall interests of the country for his own ideas is to treason. Active and passive are only morally different, but there is no difference in results.

If you want to strengthen a country, you must develop productivity down-to-earth and continuously improve the organizational system of the entire society. Instead of using public opinion and abuse of people's hearts, it is just for the sake of your own selfishness. If you have no strength, no matter how clever the plan is, it will have no meaning. Zhong Yang ignored whether Sun Yat-sen was a qualified "father of the nation". He just looked down on the other party's actions. He only knew that assassination and playing with conspiracies would not be on the table and was a pillar of the country.

As a leader, without the upright determination and strength, and constantly using some propaganda means to deceive and fool the people, it will not last long. The revolutionary party was short-lived in Chinese history and has a deep connection with the radicalism of the Sun clan. Don’t forget that both Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei are all from the Sun clan.

Chen Jiongming, who is down-to-earth, is also called a local warlord. But if even Guangdong is not well managed, what qualifications do you have to say that you can govern the entire China? Isn’t it still a problem for China’s economic development under the governance of the revolutionary party?

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