On the occasion of a major disaster in Sichuan, the Nanjing government not only failed to provide disaster relief, but instead sought compensation from the Sichuan provincial government.
The cause is the Chengdu incident!
In early August, Foreign Minister Zhang Qun informed Liu Xiang that the Japanese would resume their consulate in Chengdu. At the end of that month, four Japanese diplomats arrived in Chengdu. After hearing this, citizens began to demonstrate and more than 10,000 people blocked the four Japanese diplomats in a hotel.
Inside.
Chengdu Police Chief Fan Chongshi failed to stop him, and the angry crowd beat two of the four Japanese diplomats to death and injured two more.
Chang Kaishen, a cadre of the Fuxing Society and CC in Chengdu, sent a telegraph report saying that Liu Xiang secretly sent people to kill the Japanese in order to increase the difficulties of the central government's diplomacy with Japan. He suggested that Liu Xiang be removed from the post of provincial chairman as a comfort.
Japan, and recommended Kang Ze, the leader of the Fuxing Society, to succeed Liu Xiang.
Liu Xiang's statement was completely different. He sent a telegram to complain to Chiang Kai-shek, saying that in order to seize classes and seize power in Sichuan, Kang Ze instructed patriotic students to kill Japanese people. All this was a conspiracy by the Fuxing Society and the CC Department.
The demonstration of more than 10,000 people must have been secretly organized by someone, but it was difficult to tell who was behind it.
Logically speaking, Liu Xiang had already agreed with Chiang Kai-shek to send people to Sichuan, and Kang Ze's Rangers were stationed at traffic arteries throughout Sichuan. There was absolutely no need for him to provoke the Japanese anymore. After all, they were just setting up a local consulate. Although Liu Xiang
Nicknamed Liu Mangzi, but he is not really Mangzi.
On the other hand, Kang Ze and the CC clique were more suspicious. They were assigned by Chang Kaishen to go to Sichuan, and their ultimate goal was to encroach on Sichuan's local political power.
When Zhou Hexuan and Liu Xiang discussed the disaster relief plan, the Nanjing government also made a decision on the Chengdu incident: first, to remove the Chengdu garrison commander and police chief from their posts for investigation; second, to compensate the deceased with 30,000 taels of silver each as pensions, and the injured with 30,000 taels of silver each.
3,100 taels, to be advanced by the Nanjing government and ordering the Sichuan provincial treasury to immediately remit the money to Nanjing; third, the Nanjing government and the Sichuan provincial government apologized to the Japanese government and ensured that similar incidents would not happen again; fourth, the Sichuan provincial government was required to ban Qiu
Japanese publications and boycotts of Japanese goods are prohibited.
When Liu Xiang received the results from the Nanjing government, he was so angry that he yelled again: "Mama sells the batch."
The total compensation for Japanese pensions was 66,200 taels of silver, equivalent to 100,000 oceans. However, the Sichuan Civil Affairs Bureau only managed to get 100,000 oceans for disaster relief. The rest could only be borrowed from local banks.
Are the Japanese so valuable? They actually have to pay 100,000 yuan for two deaths and two injuries. How many victims can be saved with this money to buy food?
What's the most annoying thing?
The Nanjing government has just held the 288th meeting of the Executive Yuan to discuss relief for floods, droughts and banditry in eight provinces. These eight provinces are Gansu, Henan, Qingkang, Guizhou, Hebei and Jinning. Even the territory of Song Zheyuan is included in the relief targets. Only Sichuan, which suffered the most serious disaster, was deliberately targeted.
Missing.
Not only that, the Kuomintang-affiliated newspapers across the country avoided mentioning the drought in Sichuan. Private charities such as the Red Cross and the Red Swastika Society were also misled by the central government’s information (it was rumored that there was no famine in Sichuan), causing the private sector in various provinces to
The total charitable donations to Sichuan were less than 2,000 yuan.
It was not until 1937, when millions of people in Sichuan starved to death and the lid could no longer be kept closed, that the Nanjing government began to discuss the issue of disaster relief in Sichuan.
Why does this situation occur?
Caused by the power struggle between the central and local governments.
After Chiang Kai-shek conquered Guangdong and subdued Guangxi, he set his sights on Sichuan. He first set up party headquarters in various cities and counties in Sichuan, and then sent the Blue Clothes Society to Sichuan for surveillance. The Blue Clothing Society's special forces still control the main roads into Sichuan and bribed
Some small Sichuan warlords, including Fan Haer.
Chang Kaishen's intention was very clear, which was to ask Liu Xiang to hand over local military and political power. Facing the disaster in Sichuan, Chiang Kai-shek's original words were as follows: "Floods and droughts require the central government to use money for relief. How can the central government use its limited financial resources?"
, how can I make up for you Sichuan people?"
From Chang Kaishen's point of view, his behavior seemed to be excusable. It was all due to Liu Xiang, a local warlord who was greedy for power. The local government did not pay taxes to the central government, and only thought of asking the central government for money after a disaster. Liu Xiang was indeed very unaccountable.
reason.
However, when the central government discussed relief for eight provinces in the north and south of Jinan, it only left out Sichuan, which was the most severely affected, and it also controlled public opinion and prevented private donations. This went too far!
Chiang Kai-shek simply wanted to make Sichuan more chaotic and chaotic, and it would be best to kill as many people as possible so that Liu Xiang, the king of Sichuan, would lose his prestige. When the time came and forced Liu Xiang to step down, the central government would be able to control Sichuan's military and political affairs without any bloodshed.
Faced with this situation, Zhou Hexuan must first let the people know that Sichuan was really hit by a disaster.
After returning to Chongqing, the first thing Zhou Hexuan did was to take the Sichuan disaster situation collected by "Libao", including the content about cannibalism, and send it to major newspapers in the north and south by air express. The Kuomintang newspapers would definitely not be able to publish it, but like "Li Bao"
Private newspapers and periodicals such as Shenbao, Xinwenbao and Yishibao are willing to help publish such news.
Not only that, some foreign newspaper reporters were even willing to raise their own travel expenses to come to Sichuan for interviews after learning about the tragic situation.
The "Fei Gong" magazine, whose headquarters has been relocated to Wuhan, devoted 12 pages of its latest issue to reporting on the disaster, and left the magazine's address to solicit donations from the public in the name of "Zhou Hexuan."
At the same time, Zhou Hexuan contacted the Red Cross Societies of Jiangxi, Hunan, and Hubei provinces in his own name, and set up Sichuan disaster relief points in the cities along the rivers in the three provinces. Zhou Hexuan made a personal donation of 500,000, and cooperated with private donations to purchase grain, and transported grain from other provinces to waterways.
Transportation into Sichuan.
After all, the journey to the United States is far away, and the Sichuan victims can't wait any longer.
Next, Zhou Hexuan began to travel to various counties and cities in eastern Sichuan to investigate and determine the purchase of land and construction of houses.
Due to the continuous wars and famines in Sichuan, more and more wasteland has been vacated. Even the local rich gentry are too lazy to reclaim the land without owners, because the warlords' tax collection is too damn horrible. One collection is tax for ten or twenty years, which is the most outrageous.
has been received 80 years later.
Under such circumstances, the rich peasants, small landlords, and even middle-level landlords in Sichuan had a very difficult time.
To paraphrase a line from "Party A and Party B": The landlord has no surplus food!
One very important reason why Liu Xiang emerged from among the many warlords in Sichuan was that his taxes were lower than others. Especially in the late 1920s, Liu Xiang used Chongqing as his home base, and Mayor Pan Wenhua deposed him in one fell swoop.
Dozens or hundreds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes were eliminated, making Liu Xiang's base camp quickly stabilized and prosperous.
By early October, Zhou Hexuan had selected more than 30 wastelands in counties around Chongqing, totaling more than 80,000 acres, and bought them all at cabbage prices.
Even when local people heard that Zhou Hexuan wanted to buy land, they came one by one and were willing to sell their farmland at a low price. Due to excessive drought, the farmland had all hardened and hardened, making it impossible to cultivate it. It was better to exchange it for some money.
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Naturally, I don’t dare to buy farmland, and there will be too many troubles in the future.
Just when Zhou Hexuan had determined the address and was about to invite the Zhang family's construction company to build a house, the first batch of 60 tons of disaster relief grain bought from the Lianghu area arrived in Chongqing. Although the Lianghu area encountered floods this year, it had no impact on the summer grain harvest. Hunan
It’s a bumper year in Hubei, and the price of freshly harvested rice is relatively cheap.
Zhou Hexuan was very happy when he got the news, but he soon became unhappy again.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Liang Xuzan, a cadre of the Sichuan Disaster Relief Association, hurriedly knocked on the door of Zhou's house and said, "Mr. Zhou, it's bad, our disaster relief food has been withheld!"
"In Sichuan, who would dare to deduct disaster relief food after eating a bear's heart?" Zhou Hexuan was shocked and angry.
Liang Xuzan said anxiously: "It's Kang Ze's son who said that there is opium in our disaster relief food. I have sent a telegram to Chairman Liu, and Chairman Liu is sending someone to solve it."
"Kangze!"
Zhou Hexuan gritted his teeth, went back to his room, took a flashlight imported from the United States, and ran to the home of Li Gengu, the Chongqing garrison commander next door. When they met, he said: "Brother Li, quickly bring someone with me to grab food! If you are a few minutes late, I don't know.
