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Hong's The Red Monkey
During the reign of Hong in Chaozhou, 100 families were forced to move to the east of Weizhou Temple Lane, Zhongshan Road, and built their official residence, named Xiangyuan. At that time, Chaozhou widened Taiping Road, and a firm bribed Hong heavily to keep the new building from being demolished, but he also demolished the new building after accepting bribes. Therefore, the Chaozhou proverb, "An owl is not as good as a thief", is true, which means that it never rains but it pours, and people are cruel. Hong also wants to change West Lake into Xianghu Lake, which will be his back garden, and Zhongshan Road into West Lake Mountain. There are many graves, even triple and quadruple. As the Chaozhou proverb says, "mixed in Hulu Mountain" (meaning chaos). If there are people who don't want to move, they should spend a lot of money to "add construction fees to scenic spots", and this alone will enrich themselves. He had to move hotels, restaurants and brothels along the Yangtze River and Taiping Road to the lake, but these firms refused to move because they thought it was not the right direction for tourists, so they bribed him heavily.

1923 On the 15th night of the first month (March 5th, Gregorian calendar), Hong dressed up his 100 little wives and rode a hundred horses to the street lamp market to compete with the lanterns of ordinary people. There was a sea of people that night, and all the clubs were noisy. Hundreds of soldiers armed with torches and whips appeared in the bright light, and one hundred little wives really dressed up as Yang Guifei and da ji. Wearing heavy makeup and powder, I waddled across the street in the fierce soldiers. Because the soldiers have a bad attitude, they hit people casually. Many viewers called them shameless (because women were feudal at that time and asked boys to play female roles). When the soldiers get angry, they whip the masses with their whips and torches. As a result, they trampled to death and injured many people, looking for the old and the small in the street. Many years later, Hong still cried her eyes out.

Hong built the Hanbi Building by the West Lake as a banquet for soliciting prostitutes. He also wrote couplets upstairs, such as "Fighting for a cloud, lakes and mountains make wine" and "Tonight we are going to talk about romantic scenery, and there are no such good rivers and mountains in my hometown". He also built a bust for himself. Later, bird droppings on the tree fell on the mouth of the stone statue, and someone wrote a poem behind it: How much do you know about the general's lips and smell? Have pity on me, hipster, not as awake as a bird! When the Crusaders entered Chaozhou for the second time in 1925, Hong escaped. Before the stone statue was destroyed, hipsters compared it to the Qin Gui statue of West Lake in Hangzhou. There was a couplet in front of the stone statue: Castle Peak was unfortunately raped, white stone thief! I remember that the Yuewu Temple Union in Hangzhou West Lake is: Castle Peak has the honor to bury loyal bones, while white iron casts innocent courtiers. It can be seen that this "Hong Monkey" who jumped up and down and sucked up chaozhou people's blood was blamed by ten thousand people. Since then, Xiangyuan Road has been renamed Zhongshan Road, and Xiangyuan has also been renamed Yingyuan (known as Yingzhou in Chaozhou Southern and Northern Dynasties), because history is written by the people.