In November 2022, Taiwan will soon usher in the election of local county and mayors. Judging from the current election situation, the situation of the Kuomintang is very good and it should be able to achieve good results. However, the core fortress that had been in operation in the Kuomintang for more than 70 years caught fire in the backyard, showing a split situation. First, the current secretary-general of the Kuomintang, Huang Jianting, insisted that Miaoli County Speaker Zhong Dongjin was suspected of murder and deliberately did not nominate him to participate in this year's county magistrate re-election. Zhong Dongjin was expelled from the Kuomintang after announcing his candidacy on his own, causing division of local forces. Xu Yaochang, the current Miaoli County Mayor, now openly cheers for Zhong Dongjin, directly challenging the authority of Zhu Lilun . The top leaders of the Kuomintang threatened Xu Yaochang by expulsion, but Xu Yaochang was criticized by "The top leaders of the Kuomintang do whatever they like, and it doesn't matter if they are expelled." I will tell you what the specific situation is.
Xu Yaochang
Xu Yaochang and Miaoli local forces development history
Xu Yaochang was born in Nanzhuang Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan Province in 1955. His early education was poor, but he graduated from the Department of Enterprise Management of , a civilian and business college in . In 2009, he went to , , Chinese University to study for a master's degree in management. He is the same classmate and the same mentor as Zhang Biqin, the former speaker of Hsinchu County Council. The papers between the two are also highly similar, and a paper plagiarism scandal was exposed in 2020. The "completely similar" part of the first three chapters of the two-person papers has as many as 61 pages, accounting for 51% of the total papers. Although Xu Yaochang is not glamorous in his education, he has been deeply rooted in the grassroots for many years and has a strong public opinion base and factional support. Since the county magistrate election was implemented in 1951, Miaoli County has been elected as county magistrates by people from the Kuomintang for 70 years. The local factions of the Kuomintang are deeply rooted in Miaoli. Overall, the local political arena is mainly divided into "Yellow faction" and "Liu faction", and the competition between the two sides has lasted for more than 70 years. "Liu Party" refers to a faction led by Liu Dingguo, who served as the mayor of Miaoli County in 1953 and Liu Kuocai, the former head of the legislative body, while the "Huang Party" is a faction founded by Huang Yunjin, a member of the Taiwan Provincial Assembly.
Miaoli County
From the perspective of the forces of both sides, Liu Dingguo participated in the War of Resistance Against Japan and served as the defense commander of Hsinchu County . He has a military background and has many family members in Hsinchu and Miaoli. Huang Yunjin has a large number of industries in Miaoli and is very rich. The battle between the two began in the first county magistrate election in 1951. At that time, Huang Yunjin bought people through ticket bribery, and there was also a nursery rhyme that "Yellow lucky gold, Huang Yunjin, give money to people to eat snacks." But Huang Yunjin eventually lost to Liu Dingguo, but because Liu Dingguo was still a soldier at that time, he could not participate in the election according to regulations, and the election result was invalid. After the by-election, the first Miaoli County Mayor fell to the relatively unpopular Lai Shunsheng. After this, every Miaoli County Magistrate is basically a character that emerged after these two factions of people fought and compromised. The current county magistrate Xu Yaochang is a person elected by the "Huang faction". He also wants to take over by the current speaker Zhong Dongjin, who is also the "Huang faction". The candidate for county magistrate elected by the Kuomintang is Xie Fuhong, supported by the "Liu faction", which is destined to be a dispute.
zhong Dongjin
Xu Yaochang has been in politics for decades. In 1994, he served as the mayor of toufen Town in Miaoli County and was successfully re-elected in 1998. In 2000, Song Chuyu ran away with a large number of Kuomintang confidants to form the People First Party. Xu Yaochang also joined the People First Party camp in 2001. In 2002, he was elected as a representative of the public opinion of the legislature, and he was re-elected for as many as four consecutive terms. The only defeat in his political resume was that he ran for the Miaoli County Mayor as the People First Party in 2005, but lost to Liu Zhenghong, the general of the Kuomintang's "Liu faction", and had to return to the legislative body. Liu Zhenghong and Xu Yaochang have also become "mortal enemies" with narrow roads. Liu Zhenghong is also a local Miaoli. Although he won the throne of Miaoli County Magistrate in 2005 and 2009, he had a bad reputation. During his tenure, he had many suspicions of dereliction of duty, embezzlement, and abuse of power.On October 20, 2010, 73-year-old Mrs. Zhu Fengmin was forced to collect more than 3,000 square meters of farmland she passed down by was forced to collect and commit suicide by drinking pesticides, causing public resentment. He borrowed more than 40 billion yuan in eight years in office, which also made Miaoli County one of the poorest areas in Taiwan, with great economic pressure.
Liu Zhenghong
In 2014, Xu Yaochang re-represented the Kuomintang to participate in the county magistrate election and was successfully elected as the county magistrate of Miaoli. However, Xu Yaochang still cannot fill the financial hole left by the former county magistrate Liu Zhenghong. In 2015, Miaoli County could not even pay the New Year's subsidy. According to Miaoli County's calculations, their debts are more than 500 million yuan in interest alone, which is really impossible to bear. Financial dilemma like is also consuming the people's support for them. Miaoli County is now completely maintaining it by the traditional inertia of village order and grassroots services of local factions, which also gives the DPP an opportunity to take advantage of it. , and Xu Yaochang's own experience also have a lot to criticize. For example, in 2013, Xu Yaochang was caught in a lawsuit for embezzlement and profit-making, and was sentenced to 9 years in imprisonment in the first instance. The second trial in which the appeal is under review has not been finalized until today, which has also laid hidden worries.
Kuomintang Zhu Lilun's political cleanliness
2022, the mayors of local counties and cities in Taiwan will be re-elected. Xu Yaochang supports Zhong Dongjin from the same camp to run for the Miaoli County Magistrate, while Liu Zhenghong, the "Liu Sect", believes that the "Huang Sect" has been the county magistrate for eight years and should be replaced by them. This caused conflicts, and the final ruling fell into the hands of senior Kuomintang leaders and party chairman Zhu Lilun. Zhu Lilun came from a prominent family, and his wife's family was also a famous political family in southern Taiwan. Therefore, Zhu Lilun himself has a strong arrogance and prejudice, and looked down on politicians who have struggled from the grassroots level. , and Miaoli County is another area with very strong grassroots forces in the local area, so Zhu Lilun is also embarrassed about the candidate for the county magistrate. Liu Zhenghong happened to meet his preferences and deliberately exaggerated to the top leaders of the Kuomintang that Xu Yaochang, Zhong Dongjin and others had a wild background, while he introduced that Xie Fuhong, the former president of the Miaoli Farmland Water Conservancy Association, had a relatively clean resume, ran for the Miaoli County Mayor. Zhu Lilun and his secretary-general Huang Jianting gradually believed this argument. Huang Jianting also said in public that Zhong Dongjin had a "murder case" and forced Xie Fuhong to run for election on behalf of the Kuomintang.
Xie Fuhong
Zhu Lilun and Huang Jianting's move is obviously a domineering act that covers the sky. Zhong Dongjin, Xu Yaochang and others are naturally not afraid of this routine at the grassroots level. Zhong Dongjin took the lead in announcing that he would run to the end, and also sued the Kuomintang Secretary-General Huang Jianting for slander. , and Zhu Lilun has been repeatedly criticized by Xu Yaochang. Zhu Lilun openly declared in the United States: "
Huang Jianting and Zhu Lilun
On October 2, 2022, Xu Yaochang officially appeared at Zhong Dongjin's campaign event site to cheer for Zhong Dongjin. Xu Yaochang said bluntly: "If the Kuomintang candidate Xie Fuhong is elected, Miaoli County will be finished" . This is equivalent to directly declaring war on the top leaders of the Kuomintang. On the one hand, the Kuomintang expressed regret, and at the same time threatened Xu Yaochang with the expulsion as a punishment measure. However, Xu Yaochang's tough attitude exceeded everyone's imagination, so he chose to curse him directly. Xu Yaochang said bluntly:
"Liu Zhenghong stood up for the green camp, but the Kuomintang did not punish him, and asked him to return in this election to serve as the chairman of the Kuomintang's party committee in Miaoli. Liu Zhenghong hollowed out Miaoli County, making Miaoli so kind. The Kuomintang has never taken me, the current county magistrate seriously. My efforts to the Kuomintang are full of kindness. I don't care whether to expel or not. I will do whatever the top leaders of the Kuomintang do, and I feel open-minded."
Xu Yaochang's words can be said to have vented all the resentment over the years, making it loud and heart-wrenching. contains personal grudges with Liu Zhenghong, his own political views, and anger at the injustice of the Kuomintang’s senior leaders. I believe that the Kuomintang and Zhu Lilun will not respond positively at all. It is precisely because of their political cleanliness that the Kuomintang is likely to lose the position of Miaoli County Magistrate this year, and even let Xu Dingzhen, a representative of the Miaoli local faction branch that the Democratic Progressive Party temporarily incorporated, benefit.
Xu Dingzhen
Currently, the Kuomintang has relatively large advantages in big cities such as Taipei, Taichung , New Taipei , but this does not mean that they will make any obvious improvement actions on cross-strait issues. Zhu Lilun’s statement in the United States that “the 1992 Consensus is a consensus without consensus” is still in his ears. He is an arrogant and conceited politician and will never change his words easily. The only official communication channel between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is Taipei - Shanghai's "Two Cities Forum", but the Kuomintang Taipei mayor candidate Jiang Wanan has long put forward the so-called "three principles" to continue the forum. means that the mainland will no longer send planes to patrol Taiwan Strait . The mainland has expressed the so-called "good intention" to Taiwan and "the status of both sides is equal." If these three principles are not realized, he will stop holding the "Two Cities Forum" after he becomes the mayor of Taipei. The two sides of the Taiwan Strait will fall into a state of complete isolation, which is also what the DPP wants to see. Once he is elected, such electoral political views will never be easily corrected. Since the Kuomintang has already made harsh words, we cannot ignore them.
Jiang Wan'an made a harsh talk
Many friends were also excited after seeing the Kuomintang's election situation, believing that the dawn between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait is coming soon. But what I want to say is that even if the Kuomintang holds power in Taiwan, peace will certainly come, but the road to unification between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more and more distant. What the mainland is looking forward to is "peaceful reunification", the Kuomintang is looking forward to "peaceful and peaceful", and the Democratic Progressive Party is looking forward to "peaceful and independent". Although all three are in a peaceful state, their goals are completely different, and the difference is a huge mistake. Unification is beneficial to the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and to the entire Chinese nation, but politicians who hope to take power on Taiwan may not think so. After the unification of , it means that these politicians will have constraints from the mainland. These people would rather be lords and abandoned sons overseas than be managed and restricted by the mainland. Zhu Lilun and Jiang Wanan are both good people all the way, and they just want to be in a corner and enjoy wealth. Abandoning fantasies and preparing for struggle is our top priority. Only when the five-star red flag rises slowly over Taipei City can it be considered a complete solution to the Taiwan issue.
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