The original modern China was full of various wars, from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the Xinhai Revolution, from the Northern Expedition to the War of Resistance against Japan, and then to the War of Liberation. The war not only brought direct bloodshed and killing, but also had a huge impact on the lives of the workers. In short, after years of war, life was difficult, and the people were overwhelmed by the soldiers, especially after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the entire Chinese nation was pushed into the abyss of misery, and the predicament faced by the workers who mainly paid wages can be imagined.

Although the living conditions of workers in various industries in old China were different, the economic foundation of the Republic of China was weak, and factories in various places often closed down and stopped production, and unemployment became a major problem at that time. Once the unemployed workers are cut off from their income, it becomes difficult to survive, and if there is also a famine, it is unspeakably miserable. Although the Republic of China has relatively advanced labor legislation, it is impossible to protect the interests of workers with a piece of paper. The people of the time commented: "When a disaster occurs, all of them migrate and disperse, cry hunger and cold, mourn and cry, and the state is miserable. "At that time, China did not have a perfect social assistance system, let alone a perfect social security system, so relief could only treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.

The most immediate consequences of natural disasters are crop failures and famine, and epidemics of plague are caused by widespread starvation. In the fifth year of the Republic, a major drought occurred in Sichuan, and the grain harvest failed, resulting in a soaring grain price, and "road deaths" occurred one after another on the streets of Chongqing, and the workers on the streets who were "killed by the road" every day accounted for eight or nine out of ten, most of them were coolie workers, and due to the famine, the price of rice rose, and many workers had to wait for death even if they had a minor illness, because they had no money for medical treatment.

However, the general strike in Guangdong and Hong Kong was not because of these problems, and it was still a mess caused by the treasures of the two revolutionary parties, Xie Zhi, Zou and Lu. When the revolutionary party* retreated to Guangdong, they were even more powerless to prevent the army from turning around, and even the three-way revolutionary army of Cheng Dequan, Cheng Fu, and Chen Jiongming could hardly provide full military salaries. Zou Lu and others in Guangzhou and the old people of the Thirteen Banks engaged in the export of Chinese labor services to France were originally intended to sell piglets to earn some francs, but they were unexpectedly promoted by the northerners in the newspapers as human trafficking, so frightened that Zou Lu Xie Zhi and others immediately shut down and went to Hong Kong to avoid the limelight.

In Hong Kong, these two did not stop, and after hiding for two months, they came out again to resume their old business, registered a developed labor service company with the British government in Hong Kong, and continued to sell Chinese laborers to France to work as laborers, and this time they colluded with the Hongmen scum in Hong Kong, and simply abducted and kidnapped laborers from all over Guangdong to go to Hong Kong, and then sent them to France. The British authorities in Hong Kong naturally turned a blind eye to this kind of trade for the Entente countries, and they operated it for more than half a year.

Hearing that a textile factory in Guangzhou had closed down and that a large number of workers were unemployed at home, Zou Lu's subordinates repeated their old tricks and set up recruitment points in the shantytowns of the factory's workers, saying that there was a textile factory in Hong Kong that was expanding and recruiting skilled workers, but in fact it was intended to lure people to Hong Kong.

However, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, it happened that a worker who was deceived into boarding the ship half a year ago escaped in France, and returned to China with the ship of the second batch of troops of the expeditionary force, and just returned to Guangzhou to see the gang of rotten boys who had abducted him before, this Chaozhou man didn't say a word, greeted a group of fellow villagers and surrounded the rotten boys, a meal of bricks, and then took it to the police station in Guangzhou to report the case.

However, at this time, the Guangzhou government was still under the control of the revolutionary party, and the developed companies of Zou Lu and others in Hong Kong did not pay tribute to these revolutionary parties, and of course they could not breathe out with the poor workers, so these people entered the police station with the front foot and were released with the back foot. The Teochew man who was abducted back then also learned to be shrewd, he sent people to the police station, but led people to squat at the back door, and the result was just right, and now the gang among the Teochew workers stopped working, and the revolutionary party was clearly bullying the Teochew people.

As a result, the riots caused by the Chaozhou workers simply turned into strikes and demonstrations by the workers against the revolutionary government, and the merchants who had been exploited by the revolutionary party also started to make a boycott. Originally, this was not a big deal, and if the revolutionary government had made up its mind to introduce a few scapegoats, it would not necessarily exacerbate the contradictions. However, at this time, the revolutionary party was only in Guangdong Province, and the relationship between relatives and friends in the government was intertwined, which hurt anyone's feelings, so Hu Chuanru's government dispersed the workers and merchants.

In the northern autonomous government areas, most of them have implemented the policy of valuing industry and commerce and emphasizing civil rights, not only supporting national industry and commerce, but also promulgating many modern social security system bills such as the "Minimum Wage Security System", "Employment Promotion Law", "Employer and Employee Rights and Obligations Law", etc., as well as the vigorous assistance of the Tzu Chi Association. Rarely, there have been few tragedies in which workers in the autonomous government areas have lost their jobs or died of starvation due to unemployment or illness. Guangdong was originally the most developed region of national industry and commerce, but unexpectedly, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang have far surpassed them, and even Hunan and Jiangxi (central and northern), which have just been incorporated into the autonomous region, are now a prosperous scene, and the senses of Guangdong businessmen for the revolutionary party can be imagined. At the suggestion of well-meaning people, the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce organized an organization of a Guangzhou Industrial and Commercial Strike Petition Committee, which not only regrouped the scattered striking workers, but also spread to Hong Kong, another important industrial and commercial town.

Although the Guangzhou Chamber of Commerce is not as domineering as the top ten chambers of commerce, once they are also rich and have guns, once they give full play to their advantages, the momentum of the strike and strike will naturally not be suppressed by hundreds of policemen carrying batons. Seeing that the tide of the strike in Guangzhou had become a monstrous wave, Hu Chuanru, who did not have much prestige, was shocked, and even issued an order to the three-way revolutionary army to "conquer the Japanese and enter Guangzhou, and clean up the commercial chaos", while Chen Jiongming and Cheng Dequan did not take action in eastern Guangdong and Fujian, Chen Jiongming was because there were many Chaoshan locals among his subordinates, and he couldn't get along with his subordinates for his sake. And Cheng Dequan was originally a general, and after experiencing the Song case, he also really moved the mind of retreating, holding the attitude that more things are better than less, and he hibernated in southern Fujian. The real response was Cheng Fu Cheng Songyu outside Meiguan. Originally, Cheng Fu was a revolutionary veteran in Hunan, but he didn't get any benefits from raising troops too late, and he had been patrolling around Hunan and Jiangxi in the first few years of the republic, and he also pulled up a team of thousands of people, and he also got the errand of the Xiangdong Fu Army. However, what made him really the head of the army was because of his own in-law Huang Kedi, who was originally single-handedly formed by the founding of the Jiangxi Army, has always been a well-deserved leading brother among the several major overseers of the revolutionary party, and he is the boss in terms of seniority. Due to his long-term work for the revolutionary cause, Huang Xing was admitted to the hospital with gastric bleeding on October 10, and on October 31, he finally suffered from esophageal and gastric vein flexion rupture (caused by hepatic portal hypertension; According to his repeated vomiting of blood and hepatomegaly before his death, it is speculated that it was a common complication of liver cirrhosis) died at Shanghai Tzu Chi Hospital at the age of 42. Hu Chuanru, Liao Lizhong and others personally presided over the funeral activities. On April 15 of the following year, Huang Xing was buried in the small moon flat under the Yunlu Peak of Yuelu Mountain in Changsha. Before his death, Huang Kedi entrusted the remnants of the Jiangxi army to his in-law Cheng Fu, who had experienced Cai Songpo, Xiong Kewu and the remnants of the Jiangxi army that he had worked hard to build, and Cheng Fu recruited troops and horses in southern Jiangxi and northern Guangdong after his death, plus his own thousands of militia groups, and actually expanded to more than 20,000 guns, but this poor mountainous area could not feed these many soldiers and horses. It just so happened that a telegram from Chairman Hu Chuanru asked several generals to lead troops into King Qinwang in Guangzhou, and Cheng Fu naturally would not let go of this opportunity.

Left 3,000 Gan troops to defend Ganzhou City, and led 18,000 so-called Third Army of the Revolutionary Army to cross the Meiling Ancient Road and go straight to Yangcheng. Originally, it was a militia group and stragglers, plus Cheng Fu once promised to take Guangzhou City, everyone made a fortune, so that this team in the already loose ravine was completely beastly as soon as they entered Guangzhou City, and looted the shops along the road along the way. The team also changed from a regiment to a company, and even groups of three or five people with guns on their backs entered the alleys and began to rob their homes.

At noon on that day, people from all walks of life in Guangdong held a propaganda rally for the third strike in Dongjiaochang, and a demonstration was held after the meeting. At 2:15 p.m., the pre-procession arrived at the Haizhu Bridge, and met Cheng Fu's militia group unexpectedly. In order to avoid the situation from escalating, the guards of the merchant group participating in the parade all observed discipline and did not return fire.

On that day, the smoke in the city of Guangzhou was everywhere, wailing everywhere, Cheng Fu's Third Army changed from King Qin to washing the city, which shocked Hu Chuanru and other revolutionary party bigwigs, but the revolutionary party government with no soldiers and no generals in its hands had no choice but to flee, and even Cheng Fu could not control the primitive desire to rob his subordinates whose eyes were red, and Guangzhou completely became a violent paradise for bandits.

After receiving a report on the situation from the Guangzhou Station of the Intelligence Investigation Bureau, Wu Chenxuan immediately summoned important members of the army and the government to hold an emergency countermeasures meeting at the Ministry of National Defense; in less than an hour, an order was transmitted to Hong Kong, and a mechanized infantry division of the Fourth Expeditionary Force, which had just left for Europe, anchored in Hong Kong, immediately made preparations for landing on the ship, and ordered the ships to turn around and go to Huangpu Port to carry out the task of fighting the rebellion in Guangzhou.

As the saying goes, if you don't die, you won't die, and the last position of the revolutionary party has also been changed to Wu by themselves. As for the British, who were anxious to wait for reinforcements, they did not get much more explanation than the promise of the third expeditionary force to postpone the withdrawal from France and reissue equipment to the third expeditionary force as soon as possible, but they finally understood two famous Chinese sayings: "If you are in a hurry, you must first settle down in the interior" and "you must do your right in a hurry".