The investigators sent by He Yingqin to Henan had not yet returned the news, but Guo Zhongkai couldn't wait any longer.
This person joined the Tongmenghui in his early years and served as a secret official at the headquarters when the Kuomintang was first established. He also participated in the National Defense Movement and the Legal Protection Movement, and in 1927 he raised troops in Henan to respond to the Northern Expedition.
Judging from his resume, Guo Zhongkai has experienced every revolution since the late Qing Dynasty, so he should be in a high position in the National Government. But he is not a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek. He has not been able to enter the inner circle from the beginning, and now he has been reduced to
National suffragettes in name only.
The National Political Suffrage Association was established during the Anti-Japanese War. It is the country’s highest advisory body and includes representatives of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, the democratic parties and non-party personages. For example, Taizu, Zhou Gong’s wife, etc., have all been employed as National Political Suffragettes. But since
After the Wannan Incident broke out, the Communist Party refused to attend the meeting and helped middle-class people form another "Democratic League".
The National Political Suffrage Association holds several regular meetings every year, including one at the end of October.
When it was Guo Zhongkai's turn to speak, he took out Guanyin soil, tree bark, wild goose dung and other materials, and said in a thick Henan accent: "I am a political councilor entrusted by the 30 million people of Henan. The people of Henan live in a state of death.
Online, I am worried day and night, and my chest is full of anger. I should stand up and tell the truth whether it is public or private, and I am responsible for my duty! I have been in jail and jailed, and I am not afraid of anything. I can take responsibility for what I say now!
The disaster in Henan was so severe that countless people died of starvation. Young people fled to Shaanxi, but the government ordered to stop them! The old and weak first ate grass roots and then bark in their homes. Now they eat Guanyin soil. After eating, they can't get out and suffocate to death.
Could it be that the government’s eyes are blind and cannot see? Can’t its ears be deaf and cannot hear? I brought ten kinds of food for the people of Henan and asked the ministers of each department to come up and take a look!”
There was a buzz of discussion in the venue, but not a single dean left the table and stood up.
As a non-partisan representative, Zhou Hexuan also attended the meeting, and his seat was relatively close to the front. He walked to the rostrum and said, "I am a disaster relief expert. I can help you verify it for your friends."
Guo Zhongkai cast a grateful look, picked up the grass root bark and put it down, then picked up a black and green substance: "There is no need to identify the grass root bark. Does Mr. Zhou know what this is?"
Zhou Hexuan took it over and smelled it: "It should be the feces of some kind of animal."
"It's wild goose dung, the excrement of wild geese," Guo Zhongkai said. "After the grass roots and tree bark have been eaten, the people in Henan eat dung. This thing looks inconspicuous, but it is very popular in Henan and is a life-saving food for the common people!
Because the geese eat grain and grass seeds, there is a lot of undigested food in the excrement. People pick up the geese excrement and eat it, which can fill their stomachs and provide nutrition. Dear deans here, who would like to
Come up and have a taste?"
No one answered.
Guo Zhongkai stuffed the goose dung into his mouth and took a bite. He chewed it and swallowed it. He wiped his mouth and said: "It doesn't taste good, it doesn't taste very good!"
The whole place was silent.
"Poof!"
Guo Zhongkai slammed the table, startling Zhou Hexuan next to him. He said with a ferocious expression: "What kind of bullshit government is this! If I had known it would be like this, I should not have overthrown the Manchu and Qing government. The Manchu and Qing government also knew how to provide disaster relief."
What! Now the national government not only refuses to provide disaster relief, but also sets up barriers to block the fleeing victims. Do the people even have the right to flee? They are all bastards, eating their corpses without food, taking bribes and bending the law, and treating people's lives as nothing. If this continues, it will not work.
When the Japanese pirates occupy all of Henan, the people of Henan will rise up and rebel!"
Zhou Hexuan smacked his lips and silently returned to his seat, allowing Guo Zhongkai to continue his special performance.
Guo Zhongkai scanned the audience and said angrily: "This matter should be under the jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. Did Vice President Kong not attend the meeting?"
The President of the Executive Yuan is concurrently served by Chang Kaishen, and the Vice President is Kong Xiangxi. When Kong Xiangxi served as the Executive Yuan, he was criticized by all kinds and did not resign. As a result, he was wildly attacked by people inside and outside the party at the National Council. Therefore, Kong Xiangxi
Lost his position as dean.
The National Council belongs to Kong Xiangxi's heartbroken place. How could he come to attend the meeting?
But Guo Zhongkai did not dare to scold Chiang Kai-shek, so he had no choice but to target Kong Xiangxi. Anyway, there were many people scolding Kong Xiangxi, and there was no shortage of him. Kong Xiangxi was just like Chinese football, and scolding him was politically correct.
Guo Zhongkai went all out today. After scolding Kong Xiangxi, he scolded the Henan Disaster Relief Committee, and then scolded the army in Shaanxi that set up barriers to stop the victims. In the end, he probably got more vigorous. Even the Military Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Food were scolded.
They said they were ineffective in disaster relief and imposed excessive taxes.
Sometimes there was silence in the venue, and sometimes the crowd was excited, and all the representatives from the press industry had prepared their drafts.
The matter finally got serious, and the news of the Henan famine appeared in the newspapers the next day. Since there were too many media reporting on the disaster, the central government could not block them. The huge pressure of public opinion gave Chiang Kai-shek a headache.
Immediately afterwards, Guo Zhongkai went to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Food and other agencies to appeal for reductions in military rations and to provide all-out disaster relief.
In desperation, Chiang Kai-shek could only allocate 120 million French currency for disaster relief and give it to the Henan Provincial Government to purchase grain. But the funny thing is that this money was not a relief fund, but was given to the local government in the form of a loan. In theory,
It needs to be repaid.
Then, Chiang Kai-shek sent two more investigators to Henan, one was Zhang Puquan and the other was Zhang Lisheng.
Zhang Lisheng previously served as the secretary-general of the Kuomintang Communist Party and the Military Commission, and is currently the secretary-general of the Kuomintang Party and Government Work Assessment Committee. He has very great real power. Although Zhang Puquan is also a veteran of the Kuomintang, he is very Buddhist.
, spent all day studying epigraphy, calligraphy and painting, and basically went to Henan to support the scene. After all, his qualifications are there.
The two of them took a plane there directly. On the short journey from the airport to the city, they saw more than ten corpses lying on the road.
There was no need to investigate further. The famine in Henan was more serious than they imagined.
After meeting Henan Provincial Chairman Li Peiji, Zhang Puquan stood aloof with his hands behind his back, while Zhang Lisheng covered his head and asked: "Why didn't you report the disaster?"
Li Peiji said: "At first, I saw the beautiful wheat seedlings of Ermai (barley and wheat), and it would not stop raining. Who knew that this bastard blew a gust of yellow wind and dried up the wheat seedlings overnight."
Zhang Lisheng was so angry that he asked again: "The wheat seedlings have dried up, why haven't you reported the disaster yet?"
Li Peiji said: "I saw that things were growing well in early autumn, but who would have thought that this bastard would have another drought?"
Zhang Lisheng rarely talked nonsense with Li Peiji again and said: "Call all the county leaders. I want to know the detailed disaster situation!"
Li Peiji immediately arranged for county officials to come to the provincial capital, and asked Li Xingcun (Luoyang Administrative Inspector and Security Commander) to quietly warn the county representatives: "Don't make the disaster too serious. The chairman has his own solutions."
As a result, the two central commissioners received detailed disaster reports. Only some cities and counties in Henan suffered major disasters, while other places had good harvests.
Zhang Lisheng and Zhang Puquan were still a little confused, so they called Henan grain director Lu Yuwen for questioning. Lu Yuwen kept silent about the disaster, only saying that this year's grain collection task was going smoothly and promised to live up to President Chiang's trust.
The two special commissioners returned to Chongqing, and Chiang Kai-shek felt relieved after receiving "accurate information."
If Chang Kaishen was deceived before, then from now on, he became "willing to be deceived." His focus was not on the disaster, but on whether the food collection task could be completed, because the military rations were already seriously insufficient. This is like
When there was a great disaster in Sichuan, Liu Xiang was holding on to military rations and refused to go all out to provide disaster relief.
Is Henan Provincial Chairman Li Peiji a coward?
Of course not, this man was extremely capable and ranked among the top three state officials at that time.
In Dai Jitao's original words: "China only has one and a half talents, half of whom are Li Peiji, and the other half is Zhu Jiahua."
Is Henan Food Director Lu Yuwen a coward?
Of course not. This person is a well-known economist. He has long seen that something is wrong and even wrote an article discussing the economic situation in Henan.
Both of them covered up the disaster and refused to report it, precisely because they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was thinking.
In fact, it was because of the severe shortage of military rations that they were sent to Henan by Chiang Kai-shek. This was due to Chiang Kai-shek's respect and trust in them. They must do their best to complete the task of collecting food. Yu Gong was to ensure the overall stability of the war of resistance, and Yu was for private purposes.
My own black gauze hat and repay Lao Chiang’s cultivation.
As for the life and death of the people in Henan, we can only forget about it.