 After that he went south and joined Sun Yat-sen until 1922, when he defected to Chen Jiongming, who made him military governor of Guangdong from 1924–25.He fled to Shanghai after Chen was defeated in 1925.Lin Hu became a member of the Legislative Yuan (parliament) after World War II and was elected vice-chairman of the Guangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference after the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War.