The only ones who care are a few students, who should be devoting all their attention to study, but who are too disturbed by the situation to do so. Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood. Blood debts must be repaid in kind. The lonqer the delay, the greater the interest. All this is empty talk.
Bullets shed the blood of young people, true.
And this blood can neither be hidden by written lies, nor soothed by written dirges. Lies could not hide the violence, written words could not soothe the pain of the violence, and nothing, it seemed, could stop it. The violence continued as Chiang Kai-shek chose to end the 1st United Front with the communists in 1927 by attacking the communists in Shanghai. As a part of the Northern Expedition, whereby Chiang was attempting to re-unite all of China under the Guomindong, Chiang attempted to take control of Shanghai, which was controlled by a local warlord. Due to Chiang's lack of sufficient power to gain control of certain areas of China, he often made deals with various warlords and other important individuals.