The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China

The family dinner held by Zhu Shaoliang was a bit boring. Zhou Hexuan was flattered by him and his two sons-in-law throughout the whole process, while Wanrong was dragged along by Zhu Shaoliang's wife and five daughters to talk about cosmetics and the like.

Zhu Shaoliang's eldest son-in-law, named Zhang Xuanze, was still running a factory in Lanzhou at this time and would take charge of the Central Bank's power in Xinjiang in two years. When Mao Zmin and Wang Naizhong were falsely accused by Sheng Shicai and imprisoned, Zhang Xuanze would take over as chairman of the Dihua Municipal Committee.

Another son-in-law, Huang Maoxin, also opened a factory in Lanzhou. This person was born into a wealthy gentry family in southern Gansu. His grandfather was the major shareholder of Hanyeping Company during the Sheng Xuanhuai period, and he was also the boss of Anyuan Coal Mine. During the Republic of China, the representative figure of this family was Huang Xuyu, the author of "Customs General Chronicle" and "Chinese Economic History", and was a leading figure in the field of economics in the Republic of China.

Just looking at these two sons-in-law, you can see that Zhu Shaoliang is so wealthy that he has no worries about spending money and yet engages in massive corruption. This is shameful and hateful!

In addition, Zhu Shaoliang also had two sons-in-law who were soldiers. One was fighting on the front line and the other was assigned to work in the arsenal. Among them, the one named Deng Molin graduated from the ninth class of Huangpu. He later fled to the United States and lived well until he died of illness in 2008.

By the time Zhu Shaoliang's youngest daughter got married, the family was fully established in the party, government and military systems, and their influence was deeply entangled.

The entire Republic of China was like this, either relying on the kindness of teachers and students, or relying on nepotistic marriages. High-level government officials were controlled by families, and the Zhu Shaoliang family was just a microcosm of them.

Take the blind date between Hu Zongnan and Kong Lingwei as an example. It is nothing more than Chen Lifu's desire to marry the Kong family and Hu Zongnan to achieve cooperation between the CC family and the Huangpu family in the northwest. Dai Li interfered and called Hu Zongnan in advance to expose Kong Lingwei's evil deeds, which was a struggle between the military and the central government. In the end, Chiang Kai-shek saw that he could not suppress the CC clique, so he married a female military spy who had returned from studying abroad to Hu Zongnan. Through the marriage, the military command and the Huangpu clique cooperated to suppress the CC clique.

The Jiang family and the Chen family party are not joking. The CC faction's tentacles of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu were too deep and wide, and they had become so powerful that even Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to secretly suppress them while also relying on the power of the CC faction to rule China.

Zhu Shaoliang was from the Central Army and was not affiliated with any faction. He was only loyal to Chang Kaishen. He didn't dare to completely fall to one side, but at the same time he made good friends with all parties. If Zhou Hexuan had not been married long ago and his wife was by his side, it is estimated that Zhu Shaoliang's youngest daughter would have walked into Zhou Hexuan's room on the night of the family banquet - Zhou Hexuan was a leader in academia, and this kind of marriage was also very effective.

On the third day after arriving in Lanzhou, Zhou Hexuan met Ma Hongkui, one of the "Five Horses of the New Northwest".

This man is also used to flattering the central government. He is a dignified commander-in-chief of a group army. Some time ago, he actually abandoned the troops and personally led the guards to escort Yu Youren to inspect the northwest. An Qian and Ma Hou served for two or three months, and served Yu Youren properly. They used stones to smash the outer layer of Dunhuang murals. This was what Ma Hongkui's personal soldiers did.

When he heard that Zhou Hexuan had brought the "righteous people" to join the army and wanted to join the First Cavalry Division, Ma Hongkui immediately promised that he would do it and gave the "righteous people" 200 war horses free of charge. He also discussed with Zhu Shaoliang and decided to give Ma Yongkui a battalion establishment and appointed Ma Yongkui as the battalion commander of the new independent battalion of the 1st Cavalry Division.

Ma Yongkui was so happy that he regarded Ma Hongkui as a bole and vowed to serve the party and the country.

In fact, neither Zhou Hexuan nor Ma Yongkui knew that they had become tools for Chiang Kai-shek and Ma Bufang to fight for military power.

Lao Jiang is now thinking of swallowing up Ma Biao's First Cavalry Division, while Ma Hongkui not only wants to make good friends with the central government, but also wants to suppress the warlord Ma Bufang, and Zhu Shaoliang completely obeys Lao Jiang's orders. After the three people discussed over the phone, they immediately decided to mix Ma Yongkui's new independent battalion into the First Cavalry Division like sand. Ma Hongkui's confidants were also specially arranged to join the independent battalion as deputy battalion commander.

Unknowingly, Zhou Hexuan offended the great northwest warlord Ma Bufang.

But it doesn’t matter if you know it, because Zhou Hexuan and Ma Bufang have nothing to do with each other anyway. Even if Zhou Hexuan went to Ma Bufang's territory alone, this super silver demon would not dare to kill him rashly.

It makes people speechless to talk about it. Although Ma Bufang claimed that "everyone who gave birth to me and me was raped," he raped his own granddaughter. He didn't break his oath, he didn't rape "the one who gave birth to me", he just raped the daughter of "the one who gave birth to me".

As the saying goes, the son of a daughter's daughter is still my son - Ma Bufang strangled this son to death with her own hands.

The wives and daughters of his subordinates, as well as the sisters, nieces, brothers and sisters-in-law of the family, could not escape Ma Bufang's clutches. Later, overseas Chinese living in the Middle East complained to the Taiwan authorities that more than 5,000 women of all ethnic groups, including Han, Hui, Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakhstan, and Sahar, had been raped by Ma Bufang. This guy later went to Cairo and actually dared to attack Egyptian women, and even slept with all the female family members of his subordinates who followed him abroad.

When this guy went on a pilgrimage to Mecca with a large group of concubines, the local imam refused to allow him to enter the Kaaba, thinking it was blasphemy against God. Ma Bufang was also very capable. She immediately gave away her aunts and wives on the spot and even paid them for it. After the pilgrimage was over, he went to beg for it again and became a local joke.

When this bastard was the ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Taiwan authorities), he slept with his cousin's wife and three daughters and forced them to live together. The mother and daughter could not bear the torture, and with the help of the embassy counselor, they escalated the matter and were eventually rescued by the Saudi police.

After the exposure of this international scandal, the Taiwan authorities were completely embarrassed.

What's even more ridiculous is that the Taiwan authorities sent an investigation team to persuade Ma Bufang to put national affairs first. Ma Bufang actually quarreled with her niece from across the building, often in Arabic, which attracted nearly a thousand Saudi citizens to watch and even caused traffic jams.

When Ma Bufang learned that the 1st Cavalry Division was going to form a new independent brigade, he immediately came to Lanzhou to seek explanation from Zhu Shaoliang. By this time, Zhou Hexuan had already arrived in Xi'an with his entourage.

As for Ma Yongkui and the bandits, they will stay in the military depot for training for two months, and then take the special troop train to Kouchei. Master Pang You failed to find a position in the provincial government, but was taken to Xi'an by Zhou Hexuan to work as a civil servant.

Zhou Hexuan rushed back to Chongqing in a hurry because he received a telegram that Zhang Jiluan, the editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao, was critically ill.

As the Japanese invaders pressed harder on Hong Kong, Zhou Hexuan immediately ordered the dissolution of the Hong Kong branch of "Ta Kung Pao" and asked Hu Zhengzhi, who was in charge of Hong Kong affairs, to return to Chongqing to replace Zhang Jiluan.

Over the years, "Ta Kung Pao" has been scolding and helping, which made Chang Kaishen very satisfied. And because of the newspaper's great influence, Chang Kaishen personally ordered a special plane to be sent to take Hu Zhengzhi back to Chongqing.

However, an angry scene happened. When Wang Yunsheng, deputy editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao, picked him up at the airport, he saw no sign of Hu Zhengzhi. Coming off the plane were Song Ailing, Kong Lingwei, a large number of servants and luggage, plus more than a dozen Western pet dogs.

The special plane sent by Chiang Kai-shek to pick up Hu Zhengzhi was unexpectedly occupied by more than a dozen dogs, causing Hu Zhengzhi to be stranded in Hong Kong.

Newspaper masters are worse than dogs...

Wang Yunsheng was so angry that he immediately wrote an article in the newspaper to expose it.

The CC department somehow got into conflict with Kong Xiangxi again, and Chen Lifu immediately cooperated to promote it. Yu Youren stepped forward to add fuel to the fire and personally impeached Kong Xiangxi. People's resentment boiled over and there was heated discussion within the party.

Shopkeeper Kong is having a hard time.