Section 11 Northern Expedition
In the debate competition, the Huangpu elites appeared one after another, and the first team was led by Jiang Xianyun, composed of He Jinhan, Deng Wenyi, Zeng Kuoqing, and Song Xilian; The second team was led by Li Zhilong, with Yu Jishi, Huang Crab, Xu Jishen, and Gui Yongqing as team members; The third team was actually led by Cao Yuan, with Chen Geng, Du Yuming, Guan Linzheng, and Sun Yuanliang as team members; The four teams also made Zhuang Jihua a little surprised, the leader was Liu Yun, and the team members were Hu Zongnan, Fan Hanjie, Xuan Tiewu, and Leng Xin; The fifth team is led by Cai Shenxi, and the team members are Zuo Quan, Li Mo'an, Chen Mingren, and Huang Yong.
These five teams of people and horses are arguing on the field, quoting scriptures, you come and I can not distinguish between the husband, the cadets of the military academy are naturally inseparable from the military routine, what lure the enemy deep, chase and fight, thirty-six strategies in addition to the beauty of the other people have tried. Zhuang Jihua's hosting was also very funny, often causing the audience to laugh, and the three "experts" (Liao Zhongkai was too busy to attend) who turned out to be just emotion also became interested as the game progressed.
Chiang Kai-shek basically has to come to every game, at first I heard that Zhuang Jihua was not on the stage, but he was a little unhappy, as the debate progressed, he found that Zhuang Jihua was not needed, as Zhuang Jihua expected, the opposing classmates had found out all the reasons, and the Xuanxia father incident began to fade. He praised Zhuang Jihua in his heart, solved the "crisis" without blood, but quietly let everyone become his pawns, and all parties should not be offended, and all parties should buy his good. If Yunqiao only knew Zhuang Jihua preliminarily, then now Zhuang Jihua is the first person in his sleeve.
The success of the debate competition not only made the best debater Jiang Xianyun famous among his classmates, but also made Jiang Xianyun's mouth synonymous with being able to speak well. Zhuang Jihua is not without gains, his organizational skills have been recognized by everyone, so that going to Zhuang Jihua has become the best solution to solve the problem.
In addition to presiding over the debate competition, Zhuang Jihua also put considerable energy into forming a troupe, which was a test for him. The debate competition is good to say that he has participated in the later life, but the troupe...., he was not a person in the entertainment industry at the beginning, and finally decided to find an actor first. No experience is no experience, the most important thing for a troupe to open is the script, just like the director, the actor who first determines the actor and then looks for the script must be a graduate of Claydon University.
The selection of actors brought unexpected surprises to the organizing committee, and a small band was actually excavated, of course, mainly erhu, supplemented by Western musical instruments, and the first band of the Whampoa Military Academy was composed of a combination of Chinese and Western musical instruments. Accidents are accidents, surprises are surprises, what to play?
To say that there are a lot of talents in the Whampoa Military Academy, you can find a lot of masters in dance and writing, propaganda and agitation, there are also a lot of performance talents, and there are a lot of programs that can be used. All the students present laughed, and there was bitterness in the laughter. At this time, the Whampoa Military Academy was like Yang Bailao, typical of eating the last meal but not the next, and the money sent by Liao Zhongkai was a little late, and the teachers and students of the school had to starve. Liao Zhongkai was the governor but had no money, and Guangzhou's taxes were mainly controlled by the Dian Guijun, who begged everywhere every time, and was forced to take his wife He Xiangning's dowry as a dowry, which can be imagined as a hard school life.
However, Jiang Xianyun did not laugh, and after thinking about it, he made a suggestion not to perform these messy programs and rehearse a drama. His suggestion was immediately approved by Ho Jinhan, who then suggested a rehearsal of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Li Zhilong immediately objected and pointed out that this kind of aristocratic drama would affect the morale of the school, and everyone felt right. Then he put forward various suggestions, and Jiang Xianyun's proposal was virtually recognized.
Zhuang Jihua didn't speak, as if he was thinking silently, but in fact, he was reminiscing. Jiang Xianyun first noticed his silence and asked him what he was thinking. Zhuang Jihua said that he thought of a script, and then brought out the famous "plugging the gun hole", of course, with a makeover, and the background was placed in the Northern Expedition. He also thought of many other stories, such as Wang Cheng firing at me, Dong Cunrui blowing up the bunker, the five heroes of Langya Mountain, etc., compared to each other, this is still appropriate; Like a bombed bunker, it is not known whether the zha medicine kit appeared.
During his narration, everyone was deeply attracted and immediately decided to let him write it and play this. So Zhuang Jihua immediately began to write, and Jiang Xianyun and He Jinhan began to select actors.
A few days later, Zhuang Jihua handed over the script, of course, this script is very rough, he is not a professional, fortunately, everyone doesn't care, and there is trouble when determining the actors, this is because everyone wants to "show" on stage, the competition is extremely fierce, each role has three to four people to compete, the only role that no one wants is the protagonist's fiancée, so this role was the first to be determined, and was forcibly assigned to Chen Geng by Zhuang Jihua, maybe he usually "offended" too many people, and Chen Geng accepted this role "generously" in the coaxing of everyone, Later, he assigned the protagonist to him on the grounds of Li Zhilong's image sunshine, and finally assigned the role to him. During the rehearsal, there were many jokes, and after everyone's efforts, various problems were finally solved.
On the day of the official performance, a stage was set up at the Whampoa Military Academy, and the political commissar Liao Zhongkai and President Chiang Kai-shek attended the premiere ceremony. However, when Zhuang Jihua and Jiang Xianyun came to invite them, they changed their minds, and at the same time planned to see how much of a role this troupe could play.
The curtain opens, the protagonist talks with his classmate's fiancée and others at home about China's dark warlord rule and imperialist oppression and plundering of China, at this time it is rumored that Mr. Sun Yat-sen formed the Northern Expeditionary Army and is about to carry out the Northern Expedition, the protagonist and others said that they want to participate in the Northern Expeditionary Army and fight to save China, but his move was blocked by his parents, and finally with the support and help of his fiancée, the protagonist and his classmates ran away from home to join the Northern Expeditionary Army. In the Northern Expedition battlefield, the protagonist is brave and good at fighting, and has established a lot of meritorious deeds, in an attack, a hidden fort of the enemy blocked the company's attack, he took the initiative to blow up the pillbox, and in the case of being wounded in three places and running out of ammunition, the protagonist shouted that the comrades would defeat the warlords, and fly to block the enemy's gun hole for the advance of New China, opening the way for the victory of the whole army. When the news of his death reached home, his fiancée left home in grief to join the Northern Expedition.
The plot of the whole play is simple, but the lines are very agitatory, Li Zhilong performed impassionedly, the atmosphere was tragic under the background of music, Zhuang Jihua added some elements of the later stage plays, all the audience was deeply attracted, after the performance, the audience gave a standing ovation, chanted slogans, and Liao Zhongkai wrote "The blood of martyrs, the flower of revolution" on the spot. The people around him were emotional, and Chiang Kai-shek was also infected, and proposed that the troupe be named the Blood Flower Troupe, and delivered an impassioned speech, claiming that the revolution is not afraid of sacrifice, the revolution is to die for the doctrine, the martyrs fell in front, and we, the latecomers, must march forward in the footsteps of the martyrs, and our responsibility is to save the country and the ......people.
"Northern Expedition" became the hottest topic on Huangpu Island in the following period, and the theme song "Northern Expeditionary Soldiers" (see Liangjian theme song "Zhong[***] People") became a popular song on Huangpu Island. Chiang Kai-shek was finally able to determine that the Xuanxiafu incident had completely disappeared, and since the debate and the troupe were all held under Chiang Kai-shek's direct instructions, Chiang Kai-shek's prestige rose among the students, and in the second executive committee election, he was elected with a high vote. The butterfly wings were instigated for the first time, but Zhuang Jihua's poor historical knowledge made him not realize that history quietly crossed an arc here.
The success of the performance made Zhuang Jihua fall into a kind of excitement, he didn't expect Li Zhilong to grasp the role so well, and in the end he also watched it with tears in his eyes. The huge success made Liao Zhongkai have the idea of letting the troupe go out, you must know that Whampoa is like a child they hide in the deep house, and now the child's growth is beyond the parents' surprise, and the parents are happy and want others to know the child's excellence. I think that when the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy was first discussed, not only the Yunnan Guijun but also many party elders did not support it, and Yang Ximin even said in front of Chiang Kai-shek that it was a group of dolls, and a platoon could be defeated. The military academy has not only embezzled all kinds of material expenses, but is also in danger from time to time, so it can be said that there are enemies all around the island, and now it can use this opportunity to expand the influence of Whampoa.
After receiving the order, the troupe quickly divided labor, and Zhuang Jihua became the actual person in charge of the troupe, and the work was assigned by him. Li Zhilong took people to contact the Naval Officer School, Jiang Xianyun took Yunnan classmates to contact the Yunnan Army Cadre School, He Jinhan contacted Guangzhou Normal School, Zhuang Jihua thought and He Zhenhan together, in his opinion, it was still appropriate to exchange feelings with mm in the normal school, but Jiang Xianyun thought that the script needed to be revised in several places, and suggested that he stay in the school to revise the script to ensure the success of the performance, and everyone else agreed, so Zhuang Jihua had no choice but to stay, temporarily giving up the idea of understanding the female surname in the twenties of the twentieth century.
According to Zhuang Jihua's estimate, he would perform in the military academy first, but he didn't expect that it was the Guangzhou Higher Normal School that first agreed to the performance of the Blood Flower Drama Society, but other military schools refused for various reasons.
Zhuang Jihua is no stranger to the Normal School, he was here when he signed up for the exam, and he also met Hu Zongnan, He Jinhan and others here. But now that most students are on summer vacation, the school is empty, and Zhuang Jihua is not sure whether to go or not, and after hesitation, he feels that the opportunity is rare and cannot be given up. On August 10th, all the members of the troupe gathered at the school gate and prepared to go to Guangzhou. The others also reacted immediately, but there was no action, Zhuang Jihua hurriedly shouted loudly: "The performance is canceled, return to the team immediately." After saying that, he immediately ran towards the field, and everyone understood it and quickly followed.
When he ran to the field, the students who stayed in the school also arrived from all directions, and within a few minutes all the students in the school stood neatly on the field, Deng Yanda stood at the front with full armor and nodded with satisfaction, after the officer reported loudly, he returned a standard military salute, and then walked to the front of the team and said loudly: "There are illegal traders smuggling ordnance, the Generalissimo's Office ordered the Changzhou Fortress and the Whampoa Military Academy to be responsible for the seizure, and now President Jiang has led the warship to investigate, and ordered all the students to go to the Changzhou Fortress to standby." One team is in front, and each team follows in order and sets off. ”
Zhuang Jihua felt that something big was going to happen, so he recalled what was going to happen in history while walking, whether there was a record, and he didn't think about it for a long time, so he had to secretly scold the book for hating less when it was used, and now he couldn't keep up with the situation, so he had no choice but to take one step at a time.
All the seizures were arms, and moving these boxes made everyone sweat profusely, but the classmates were very excited, and quietly discussed in a low voice whether these guns would stay in the military academy and whether everyone could send one, but Zhuang Jihua did not make a noise, he instinctively thought that things were not so simple.
Sure enough, the next day's newspaper reported that Chen Bolian, the leader of the trade group, protested to the Generalissimo's Office, saying that the seized ordnance had received an import license, and that it was completely illegal for the political axe to seize the firearms, and that if the political axe did not return the seized firearms, the Guangdong Chamber of Commerce would strike the market in the whole province. Soon martial law was declared on Huangpu Island, and all teachers and students were strictly forbidden to go out, and at the same time fortifications began to be laid in the school.
This series of orders caused the air on the island to suddenly become tense, and then the Choshu fortress was put under martial law, and the cadets began to dig trenches and field training, but it was strictly forbidden to shoot.
Then came the news that the incident of the merchant group intensified, and the chamber of commerce boycotted the market, and sent thousands of regiments to besiege the generalissimo's mansion in the name of petitioning. The generals of the Yunnan and Guizhou armies, who were heavily armed, hoped that Sun Yat-sen would agree to return the seized guns, while the generals of the Cantonese army did not agree to revoke their licenses, and the Hunan and Jiangxi armies stood idly by. Liao Zhongkai hurriedly dispatched the second and third teams of military academy students into Guangzhou City to maintain law and order, and at the same time preached the truth about the seizure of weapons; now the only army that Sun Yat-sen could rely on was the Whampoa students who were still being taught, but Yang Ximin, commander of the Yunnan army, had already claimed that he would send a company of people to Huangpu Island to hand over the weapons of the military academy.
Sun Yat-sen was angry and ordered the merchant group to resume the market within a time limit, otherwise it would bombard the most prosperous Xiguan in Guangzhou, this order not only caused the tension of the Yunnan army, but also caused the tension of the Hong Kong authorities, nine British [***] ships sailed into Baishuitan in Guangzhou, and the British consul general informed the Generalissimo that if the political axe was suppressed by force, then the British navy would intervene, Sun Yat-sen was even more angry, and sent a diplomatic note to the British political axe, asking the British political axe to explain whether it was related to the merchant group incident. The British political axe hurriedly came out to deny it, claiming that this was an ultra vires act by the British government in Hong Kong and that the British political axe would not interfere in China's internal affairs.
On September 5, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War broke out. Zhuang Jihua kicked off the great changes in Yunqiao's "prediction".