The Rise of the Writers of the Republic of China - Chapter 1023

   The investigator He Yingqin sent to Henan had not yet returned the news, and Guo Zhonghui could not wait.

   This person joined the Tongmenghui in his early years, and served as a confidential member of the headquarters at the beginning of the establishment of the Kuomintang Party. He also participated in the National Protection Movement and the Law Protection Movement. In 1927, he raised troops in Henan to respond to the Northern Expedition.

   Judging from his resume, Guo Zhongxuan has experienced all the revolutions since the late Qing Dynasty, and it stands to reason that he should be in a high position in the National Government. But he is not a direct descendant of Lao Jiang, he has been unable to enter the inner circle from the beginning, and now he has become a national suffragette with only a false name.

  The National Council for Political Participation was established during the Anti-Japanese War. It is the highest advisory body in the country, including representatives of the National Party, the Communist Party, the democratic parties and people without party affiliation. For example, Taizu, Zhou Gong’s wife, etc., have all been employed as national suffragettes. But since the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident, the Communist Party once refused to attend the meeting and helped the middlemen form a “NLD”.

   The National Council for Political Affairs holds several regular meetings every year, once at the end of October.

When it was Guo Zhongwei’s turn to speak, he took out Guanyin soil, tree bark, wild goose manure, etc., and said in a strong Henan accent: “I am a political suffragette, entrusted by the 30 million people of Henan. The people of Henan live in death. Online, day and night, I am worried and filled with anger. I have to stand up for the public and private, and I have a conscientious responsibility. I should stand up and say a few truths! I have been in prison, I have been in prison, 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 starved to death. The young people escaped to Shaanxi, but the government ordered them to stop them! The old and the weak eat grass roots and then bark in their homes. Could it be that the government’s eyes are blind and can’t see? Are its ears deaf and can’t hear? I brought ten kinds of things that the people of Henan eat, and I invite the ministers of each hospital to come and have a look!”

   There was a buzzing sound of discussion in the venue, but none of the deans left the table and got up.

   Zhou Hexuan, as a representative of non-partisan persons, also attended the meeting, and his seat was relatively high. He walked to the rostrum and said, “I am a disaster relief expert. I can help you to verify it.”

  Guo Zhongxuan cast a grateful look, picked up the grass-roots bark and put it down, and then picked up a lump of black and green substance: “The grass-roots bark doesn’t need to be identified, does Mr. Zhou know what this is?”

   Zhou Hexuan took it and smelled it: “It should be some kind of animal feces.”

“It’s goose manure, the excrement of geese,” Guo Zhonghui said. “The grass roots and bark are eaten, and the people in Henan eat the excrement. This thing looks inconspicuous, but it is very popular in Henan, and it is the life-saving food for the common people! Because the geese eat grain and grass seeds, there is a lot of undigested food in the feces. People pick up the geese and eat it, which can fill their stomachs and provide nutrition. Deans here, who would like to Come and try it?”

   No one answered.

  Guo Zhongxuan put the goose dung in his mouth and took a bite, chewed it and swallowed it, wiped his mouth and said, “It’s not delicious, it’s very bad!”

  The whole place was silent.

   “Ow!”

Guo Zhongwei slammed on the table, startling Zhou Hexuan next to him, and he said with a ferocious expression: “What kind of **** government is this! If I had known this, I should not have overthrown the Manchu Qing government, and the Manchu Qing government also knew about disaster relief. What! Now the government not only does not provide disaster relief, but also sets up cards to block the fleeing victims back. Don’t the people even have the right to flee? Every **** bastard eats corpses, greed and bends the law, and treats people’s lives like a must. When the Japanese pirates occupy the whole of Henan, the people of Henan should revolt!”

   Zhou Hexuan smacked his lips, silently returned to his seat, and let Guo Zhonghui continue his special performance.

  Guo Zhongxuan glanced at the audience and said angrily, “This matter should be managed by the Executive Yuan, didn’t Vice President Kong attend the meeting?”

  The President of the Executive Yuan is held concurrently by Chang Kaishen, and the Vice President is Kong Xiangxi. When Kong Xiangxi was the President of the Executive, he was criticized by all kinds of critics and did not quit his post. As a result, he was madly attacked by people inside and outside the Party in the National Senate, so he lost his position as President.

  The National Senate belongs to Kong Xiangxi’s sad place. How could he come to the meeting?

   But Guo Zhongxuan didn’t dare to scold Lao Jiang, so he could only shoot at Kong Xiangxi. Anyway, there are many people who scold Kong Xiangxi, and there is no shortage of him. Kong Xiangxi is similar to Chinese football, and scolding him is politically correct.

  Guo Zhongxuan went out of his way today. After scolding Kong Xiangxi, he scolded the Henan Disaster Relief Committee, and then scolded Shaanxi Sheka for blocking the troops of the victims. In the end, it was estimated that the scolding was very strong. Even the Military Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Grain were scolded, saying that they were not good for disaster relief and were extorting money.

   The venue was sometimes silent, and sometimes the crowd was excited, and the representatives of the press circles even wrote their drafts one by one.

   Things finally got bigger, and the news of the Henan famine appeared in the newspapers the next day. Due to too many media covering the disaster, the central government was unable to seal it down, and the enormous pressure of public opinion gave Lao Jiang a headache.

   Immediately after, Guo Zhongwei went to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Grain and other institutions, calling for the reduction or exemption of military rations and all-out disaster relief.

   Lao Jiang had no choice but to allocate 120 million fiat for disaster relief and hand it over to the Henan provincial government to buy food. But the funny thing is that this money is not actually a relief fund, but is given to the local government in the form of a loan, which theoretically needs to be repaid.

  Lao Jiang then sent two investigators to Henan, one was Zhang Puquan and the other was Zhang Lisheng.

   Zhang Lisheng previously served as the secretary general of the National Party Committee and the Military Commission, and is currently the secretary general of the National Party Party and Government Work Evaluation Committee, with very great real power. Although Zhang Puquan is also a veteran of the Kuomintang, he is very Buddhist. He studies gold and stone calligraphy and painting all day long, and basically went to Henan to support the scene. After all, his qualifications are there.

  The two went directly by plane, and they saw more than a dozen dead bodies on the short way from the airport to the city.

   There is no need to investigate at all, the famine in Henan is more serious than they thought.

   After meeting the chairman of Henan Province, Li Peiji, Zhang Puquan stood with his hands behind his back, while Zhang Lisheng asked, “Why didn’t you report the disaster!”

  Li Peiji said: “At first, I saw the Ermai (barley, wheat) wheat seedlings are flourishing and it would not rain. Who would have guessed that a gust of yellow wind blew from this **** and wiped the wheat seedlings overnight.”

   Zhang Lisheng was so angry that he asked again: “The wheat seedlings have dried up, why haven’t they reported the disaster?”

  Li Peiji said: “I see that the early autumn is good. Who would have known that God, this bastard, will have another slap in the neck.”

   Zhang Lisheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li Peiji, and said, “Call all the county leaders, I want to know the details of the disaster!”

   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 way.”

   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 still had some doubts, so they called Lu Yuwen, director of Henan Grain Industry, to inquire. Lu Yuwen did not talk about the disaster, but said that this year’s grain collection task was going smoothly, ensuring that he would live up to President Jiang’s trust.

   The two special commissioners returned to Chongqing like this, and Lao Jiang was relieved to get the “exact news”.

   If Chang Kaishen was deceived before, then from now on, he became “willing to be deceived”. His focus is not on the disaster situation, but on whether the task of collecting grain can be completed, because the military ration is already seriously insufficient – just like the Sichuan disaster that year, Liu Xiang refused to go all out to relieve the disaster while holding the military ration.

   Is Li Peiji, Chairman of Henan Province, a fainted official?

   Of course not, this person is extremely capable, and he was able to rank among the top three officials of the government at that time.

   In Dai Jitao’s original words: “China has only one and a half talents, half is Li Peiji, and the other is Zhu Jiahua.”

  Is Henan Grain Director Lu Yuwen a fainted official?

   Of course not, this person is a well-known economist, he has long seen that the situation is wrong, and also wrote an article on the economic situation of Henan.

   The two of them did not report the disaster, precisely because they knew what Lao Jiang was thinking.

   In fact, they were sent to Henan by Lao Jiang because of the extreme shortage of rations. This is due to Lao Jiang’s attention and trust in them. They must do their best to complete the task of collecting grain. Yu Gong is to ensure the overall stability of the War of Resistance, and Yu private is for his own black hat and to repay Lao Jiang’s cultivation.

   As for the life and death of ordinary people in Henan, it can only be left behind.