Chang Kaishen's New Life Movement was so vigorous that his speeches were even put on a record, demanding that broadcasts throughout the country must assist in propaganda.

No, not long after the Lantern Festival, Zhou Hexuan's Zhonghua Radio Station began to broadcast Chang Kaishen's new life speech every day: "We want to reform society and rejuvenate a country and nation, and we can't succeed by force." What does it take to succeed? To put it simply, the first is to equip the general public with national morality, and the second is to equip the general public with national knowledge...... In less than 15 years, Germany was able to recover. People have just been defeated, and in a few years they will not be able to pay compensation, and they will be able to rely on their debts. And our reparations for decades or centuries are still paid every year. In short, Germany is also a country, China is also a country, Germany has no force and can be equal to other countries, although China has force, it still cannot seek equality, what is the reason for this? There is no side, it is entirely due to the fact that the knowledge and morality of our ordinary people are inferior to others......"

Well, the general meaning of this statement is that the current generation of citizens is not good, not that the central government is not in control.

As a result, Chairman Chiang of the great Kongyi Grid set off a vigorous New Life Movement. First of all, start with the people's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and eat at the table in a regular manner, and you can't just find a place to squat and eat; You can't wear clothes with your chest and abdomen exposed, the buttons must be buttoned honestly, and your hair can't be made into a rotten chicken nest......

Chairman Chiang also said: "The spirit, thoughts, knowledge, and morality of a person or a citizen of a country can all be expressed in the basic way of life." He compared the appearance of Chinese and Japanese people eating and washing their faces, and came to a very wise conclusion that the Japanese are more disciplined and more nationally oriented than Chinese. He said: "We and the Japanese don't have to charge into battle under the rain of bullets, we just compare our daily lives to know the strength and weakness of the highs and lows." ”

Soon, the nation's major newspapers were reporting on the "New Life Movement," and the central government issued a directive designating the first week of April as the "New Life Movement Publicity Week."

The whole country was in a state of turmoil, and the Kuomintang action squad, wearing red armbands, walked the streets and alleys everywhere to arrest those who were disheveled, dressed in fancy clothes, and had messy hairstyles, and were fined at least and detained at worst. Streets and alleys are also divided into districts, and all businesses and residents in their areas who are found to be substandard in terms of hygiene are punished.

The rickshaw drivers were very depressed, sweating profusely with the guests, and they didn't dare to unbutton their clothes to cool off. Because once you are caught and do not deduct the button, you will immediately be fined, and your income from half a day's work will be directly lost.

Citizens of Tianjin used to like to sit in the alley and eat dinner while listening to radio programs. Now I don't dare to do it at all, because I have to sit around a table to eat, and eating on the side of the road is not in line with the instructions of the New Life Movement.

Fortunately, there was just such a gust of wind, and when the "New Life Movement Publicity Week" passed, the Kuomintang Action Team was not so strict in its investigation, and everyone should do what they should do. Only the kind of guy who is unlucky and happens to meet the inspectors will be fined, anyway, he thinks he is unlucky.

The "New Life Movement" of the Republic of China was a long-term activity that lasted for more than 10 years.

Anyway, every once in a while, we have to come up with new content, such as prohibiting the waste of weddings, funerals, and birthday banquets, prohibiting the wearing of fancy clothes, prohibiting men and women from sitting together in bathrooms, prohibiting primary and secondary school students from having long hair, prohibiting women from perming their hair and bare legs, prohibiting smoking in automobiles, theaters, meeting venues, and mountains and forests, advocating punctuality, persuading people and animals to live separately, advocating relief and comfort for wounded soldiers, and publicizing anti-drug and gambling.

Most of the content is good and very helpful in improving the social climate. But some of the content is too wide, such as the prohibition of perms and bare legs in some places, so that women don't even dare to wear skirts.

By the time the New Life Movement reached its peak in 1935, there were more than 60,000 labor service groups nationwide. The main work of these tens of thousands of people is to promote the New Life Movement, which has cost the state a large amount of financial expenditure.

Not only that, but due to the central government's ineffective control over local governments, many local officials have used chicken feathers as arrows. In the name of the "New Life Movement", they arrested people everywhere and fined them indiscriminately, and sometimes you walked down the street in a dignified manner, and you were arrested and forcibly fined because a shirt was not buttoned.

"Lao Jiang, is this taking the wrong medicine? I don't dare to do business all day long, and I specialize in these vain head and brain exercises. Hu Zhengzhi said speechlessly.

Zhou Hexuan said with a smile: "Lao Jiang is establishing his prestige." ”

In Zhou Hexuan's view, Chang Kaishen's original intention of engaging in the New Life Movement was to brush up his sense of existence and promote his Confucian concepts in the process of implementation. This is an ideological and ideological dictatorship movement, which opposes chaotic and various isms, and advocates the four dimensions (courtesy, righteousness, honesty, and shame) and the eight virtues (loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faith, righteousness, and peace), so as to unify the ideology and morality of the people.

Of course, another point is to carry out the militarization of the whole people, so as to facilitate the conscription of soldiers in the event of a full-scale war of resistance in the future.

Lao Chiang also knew that there would be a war between China and Japan, but he did not dare to shout anti-Japanese slogans directly, so he quietly mixed preparations for anti-Japanese resistance into the New Life Movement. In the words of Lao Chiang: "The ultimate goal of the New Life Movement is to make the lives of the people of the country uniform. What is the content of the neat four words? It is what is now commonly referred to as militarization...... The New Life Movement is a militarization movement. ”

However, there is no use for fart, the common people are strictly controlled, and the officials are still eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling, and smoking.

So Feng Yuxiang said: "The new life is deceiving. ”

Song Meiling's best friend Xiang Meili commented: "The New Life Movement is a national joke. ”

A foreign friend was more direct, commenting that the New Life Movement was "a national revival movement based on toothbrushes, mouse traps and fly swatters."

Anyway, Zhou Hexuan is too lazy to cater to the spiritual instructions of the great leader, he doesn't like buttons when he wears a suit, and he wears an open coat every time he goes out. I haven't seen a guy who doesn't have long eyes, and dares to run over and twist him to ask for a fine.

"The New Life Movement doesn't care about him," Hu Zhengzhi said in a low voice, "You have to take care of the editorial department of "Fei Offensive", there was a problem with the content of the last issue of the magazine, and a friend who was engaged in news censorship reminded me that the top was very dissatisfied with some of the magazine's remarks. ”

"It's okay, I agreed to the reports." Zhou Hexuan said with a smile.

"Anyway, don't go too far, otherwise even Ta Kung Pao will be implicated." Hu Zhengzhi reminded.

For the time being, the magazine is still under the banner of Ta Kung Pao, and the staff of Ta Kung Pao are in charge of finance, printing, proofreading, and distribution.

As for the "excessive" content of Hu Zhengzhi's statement, it is the new issue of "Non-offensive" that reported on the establishment of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation, and Yang Jingyu led the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation to win the first battle. The Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation was founded under the leadership of the Communist Party, and both the Nanjing government and the Kwantung Army hated it.

Zhou Hexuan even received a telegram from Secretary Chang Kaishen, asking him not to mention half a word of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation in the future, otherwise he would directly ban the magazine "Non-Offensive".

"Alas, it's been a lot of trouble with this magazine these days." Zhou Hexuan must intervene, and he can't let the Communists in the editorial department mess around.

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