Back to the Republic of China as a commander

1918 is also an extremely important year in the history of Chinese sports. On April 1918, 4, a government jointly governed by the Kuomintang, the Chinese Progressive Party and the National Socialist Party was established.This is also the third reorganization of the national government in less than two years since its establishment in 10. Unlike the previous two times, the cabinet members of the Chinese Democratic Party who originally belonged to the Guangfu Association basically disappeared except for Cai Yuanpei.

The list of members of the Council is as follows:

Chairman of the National Government: Sun Wen; Executive Vice-Chairman:

Premier of the Government Council: Xiong Xiling

Vice Premiers of the Government Administration Council: Ye Zuwen (in charge of finance, transportation, and commerce), Zhou Zhiyun (in charge of industry, land resources, agriculture and forestry), Tang Shaoyi (in charge of foreign affairs, judiciary), Secretary-General Tan Yankai (in charge of education, public security)

List of members of the Political Committee: Xiong Xiling, Ye Zuwen, Zhou Zhiyun, Tang Shaoyi, Tan Yankai, Zhang Jingjiang, Li Zongren.

Composition department: Zhang Jingjiang, chairman of the Joint Reserve Management Committee of the Bank of China.

Minister of Finance: Liao Zhongkai, Minister of Foreign Affairs: Tang Shaoyi, Minister of National Defense: Li Zongren,

Minister of Commerce: Zhang Jian, Minister of Justice: Xu Qian, Minister of Public Security: Hao Bing,

Minister of Communications: Zhan Tianyou, Minister of Industry: Tan Kah Kee, Minister of Land and Resources: Tan Yankai

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry: Wang Jingwei, Minister of Labor: Zou Lu, Minister of Health: Xie Chi

Minister of Education: Cai Yuanpei.

Governor of Hunan Province Tan Renfeng Governor of Hubei Province Yang Yongtai Governor of Guangxi Province Wang Zhixiang Governor of Fujian Province Lin Sen

Governor of Jiangsu Province Juzheng Governor of Zhejiang Province Chen Yi Governor of Anhui Province Chen Shao Governor of Guangdong Province

Governor of Jiangxi Province Lin Xiumei Governor of Sichuan Province Zhang Lan Governor of Guizhou Province Liu Xianshi Governor of Yunnan Province Li Gengen

Changjing Wumu, Shaanxi Province, Mayor of Shanghai, Liu Hongsheng, Mayor of Nanjing, Yu You, Mayor of Wuhan, Cao Rulin

Yang Du, Governor of Henan Province

Except for Cao Rulin's succession of Wang Zhenyu's younger brother Wang Zhenbang as mayor of Wuhan, which sparked heated discussions, the only position that the Kuomintang lost in the list of the entire Third National Government Administration Council was the Minister of Foreign Affairs. According to Wang Zhenyu's intention, Tang Shaoyi was appointed as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs The minister, Wang Zhengting, the former minister of the Kuomintang faction, was sacked in this government reshuffle.

But it is a blessing in disguise, and Wang Zhengting's new position is actually the chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee.Frustrated in the officialdom, Wang Zhengting accepted the new appointment without saying anything. What he didn't expect was that this position would make him still be remembered by history many years later.

The headquarters of the Chinese Olympic Committee was established in Shanghai. It is said that this was requested by Wang Zhenyu. For this reason, Wang Zhenyu also summoned Wang Zhengting, the first chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, in Wuhan.Xiong Xiling, then Prime Minister of the Government Administration Council, even personally wrote an inscription for the Chinese Olympic Committee: "Develop sports, strengthen the national system."

Wang Zhengting originally thought that the Olympic Committee was just arranging for himself, but after he was personally interviewed by Wang Zhenyu and interviewed for more than three hours, his view changed, and when he came to the headquarters of the Chinese Olympic Committee in Shanghai, He was even more convinced of what Dashuai Wang said, that he would create a big scene.

The Olympic Committee Headquarters, which was rebuilt from a Sixing Warehouse by the Huangpu River, is almost the most luxurious office building of any Olympic Committee in this era. There are more than 400 staff members maintaining the daily operations of the entire organization.Wang Zhenyu allocated 20 million Chinese yuan from the precious military expenditure as the start-up fund of the Chinese Olympic Committee, and asked the Chinese Olympic Committee to come up with a [-]-year long-term plan immediately.

And Wang Zhengting did not live up to Wang Zhenyu's expectations, and immediately organized a group of sports enthusiasts from various college graduates to start working around the clock. On May 20th, a [-]-word planning report was placed on Wang Zhenyu desk.

Chen Bulei, who is familiar with Wang Zhenyu's habits, was extremely surprised that Wang Zhenyu voluntarily rejected the meeting plan with the British and French consuls on this day, and instead took a whole afternoon to talk to Wang Zhengting alone, while reading the plan and communicating.

Zhang Boling, Shen Siliang, Yuan Dunli, Hao Gengsheng, Gao Zi, Wu Yunrui, Ma Yuehan, and Jiang Xiangqing also participated in this meeting. According to Wang Zhenyu's opinion, the finally published constitution of the Chinese Olympic Committee was named "Republic of China Statutes of the National Sports Federation and the Chinese Olympic Committee".

According to the provisions of this charter, the nature of the National Sports Federation of the Republic of China belongs to non-governmental sports associations.The Chinese Olympic Committee is a subsidiary organization of the International Olympic Committee, and will submit an application to the International Olympic Committee in the future.

The National Sports Federation of the Republic of China, as a civil society, adopts a membership system and sets up branches in various provinces and cities across the country.The main work is to select members of the national team of relevant sports at various levels, organize various sports competitions, popularize and promote modern sports, enrich national cultural life and so on.

Its organizational structure is formed through indirect elections. First, at the county level, the national sports committees are elected to participate in the work of the provincial and municipal Olympic committees (which are also sports federations) with one indicator for each county.Secondly, the representatives elected according to the proportion of provinces, regions and population will form the members of the ROC Sports Federation and the Chinese Olympic Committee together with the heads of various sports.And this institution will exist as the highest authority of the National Sports Federation of the Republic of China and the Chinese Olympic Committee.According to regulations, elections are held every four years, and re-election is allowed, but the age of official staff members is not allowed to exceed 70 years old, and honors are not limited to this.Responsible for the daily work of the entire institution will be a 15-member executive committee led by a five-member bureau consisting of a chairman, three vice-chairmen, and a secretary-general. The term of office is also four years. . .

As for the focus and direction of the work of the entire organization at this stage, Wang Zhenyu clearly put forward three points:

The first is to coordinate and cooperate with local governments to formulate a level standard for sports venues.In the provincial capitals, a standard large-scale Olympic sports center with a scale of more than 5 people will be built within a ten-year period, and the scale outside the provincial capital is not allowed to exceed [-].At the same time, strive for land allocation from local governments for all public primary schools, middle schools and universities, and build sports venues.This should also be done in factories and mines. Provincial and municipal Olympic committees are required to establish relationships with local primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, and large factories and mines to promote sports enthusiasts in these places to form sports clubs.

Second, establish the Chinese Football Association, make football a national sport, and promote it on a large scale across the country.It is planned to hold the four-year China Cup football match (participated by teams from various provinces and cities) and the football club league within two years.

Third, establish coach training, athlete selection and other mechanisms, prepare well, participate in the 19 Antwerp Olympic Games, strive to achieve good results, and change the world's views on Chinese physique. . .

With money, people, and direction, if Wang Zhengting and the others can't do a good job, it will be a joke.It is worth mentioning that the International Olympic Committee at this time was not as rich as later generations. The Frenchman Coubertin, who was the chairman of the Olympic Committee at the time and the founder of the International Olympic Movement, even used his own money to promote the sport. , which directly led to the hardship of his later life.

However, history has changed here. When the report of China's application to join appeared on his desk, the father of sports who had suffered a lot of hardships was moved to tears.Because the Chinese sent not only an application for membership, but also a remittance of 50 US dollars and an invitation to invite Mr. Coubertin of the International Olympic Committee to lead a delegation of no more than 20 people to China to guide the Olympic work If you can come, the Chinese Olympic Committee will provide a sponsorship of [-] US dollars for the Antwerp Olympic Games. . .

In August 1918, Coubertin and his party of 8 people boarded the cruise ship of the China Ocean Shipping Company to transport the returning expeditionary force, and went to the mysterious East together with the Chinese people whose faces were full of homesickness. . .Coubertin visited and guided in China for a total of three months, including inspecting the first construction of the Shanghai Olympic Sports Center. This stadium, which can accommodate 20 seats, made Coubertin wish to directly relocate the Olympic Games to be held here.What the Chinese Olympic Committee showed in this inspection made Coubertin more satisfied, because he saw a mature and efficient organization in operation, which made him very envious.After inspecting the Wuhan Olympic Center and the first Wuhan Sports Games in Wuhan, Coubertin had dinner with Wang Zhenyu, an oriental dictatorial warlord. Coubertin praised Wang Zhenyu as a refined and polite person, while the chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee Wang Zhengting was directly appointed by Coubertin as the third vice-president of the International Olympic Committee. . .

Just as the Chinese people's sports are booming, in a basement in Germany, a secret meeting that will determine the fate of the world is going on intensely. . .

Yu Dawei never dreamed that he, an ordinary sponsored foreign student, would be assigned to such an important underground meeting, and what was going to be discussed in this meeting was so appalling that it made his blood boil as a Chinese.

After the outbreak of the February Revolution, the Germans failed without incident. This time it was a complete failure. The troops of the Allied Powers stepped into German territory unceremoniously. If it were not for the British mediation, the industrial area of ​​the Ruhr would have become became part of France.This damn war caused the Germans to lose their few colonies, further intensified domestic conflicts, and the society fell into unprecedented turmoil and uneasiness, but these are not important. What is important is that the Junker nobles and capitalists in Germany did not Willing that Germany will fail, they are busy suppressing the domestic workers' uprising while secretly planning. They must find a way to create conditions and opportunities for Germany to rise again. At this time, a Chinese diplomat named Wang Chonghui passed a 21-year-old Chinese Yu Dawei, an international student, hooked up with the most damned Germans.Although the Germans hated the squadrons in the European War, they were about to drown and had no better choice now. They had to grasp the last straw. . .