Anticipating the mill's decline, Lin gathered his friends, who began putting together an oral history. They also formed a sugar-industry reading group, which Chiang naturally joined.
預視到糖廠衰微的命運，林敬堯召集朋友開始辦理口述歷史調查、組織糖業讀書會，蔣耀賢就成了當然會員之一。