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It is so called Tangshan Incident that Chiang Kai-Shek had confined Hu Han-Min, who was the Chairperson of Legislative Yuan at that time, because of the reason that Hu's political opinion was different from his. The incident occurred around when the political situation was barely stabilized just in short period after the end of Central Plains War, which was the biggest civil war in Republic of China, was a critical incident that might have caused another full-scale civil war at any moment in some cases. After the Tangshan Incident, Chiang Kai-Shek and Central Nanjing regarded the series of situations as a political problem inside the Nationalist Party that could be solved by conversation and compromise, and tried to draw Chen Ji-Tang and Chen Ming-Shu round into his side, who were two biggest military wheels in Guangdong, in order to avoid expansion of the situation. This is another evidence showing the special situation of Republic of China that even political event must have been linked with military power after all. After the Tangshan Incident, the standpoint of anti-Chiang party was also to solve the situation in peaceful way. Chen Ji-Tang and Ko Yingfun , who played pivotal roles of anti-central movement with YangGuang at that time, had set the recovery of Hu's personal freedom as the first objective and processed the negotiation with the Nanjing side. As the strife triggered by Tangshan Incident could have not been solved smoothly, anti-Chang camp with the central figure of YangGuang established 'Emergency Council' and 'Guangzhou Republic Government' as central organizations of the ruling party and government to lead the anti-Chiang campaign. As of its consequence, the disruption reappeared in the end that two different parties and governments were quarreling with each other to take over the legitimacy in one territory of Republic of China. The political operation of Emergency Council was covering very wide range of ruling issues. The core issues of political operation that Emergency Council had faced were political decision making, political leading of the republic government, arrangement of the 4th National Congress, arrangement of the preliminary meeting for National Council, preparation of local autonomy. The various plans on the party affairs and political affairs that had been prepared by Emergency Council could not be carried out because of the outbreak of Sep 18th Incident. The leadership of Emergency Council could be evaluated to be accurate, nevertheless, in the point that the political claims of Emergency Council were complying with the request of party members and people at that time.