Just as the Manchu court had found strong men (11) in the landed gentry of Central China to crush the Taiping Rebellion, the foreign powers and their agents, the compradors, now found a strong man in Chiang Kai-shek to subjugate the Chinese.

• 正像当年清廷从华中的豪绅中间找到了镇压太平天国起义的干将一样，列强及其代理人中国买办这时找到了蒋介石这员镇压中国人民的干将。