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    Lao Jiang was a stubborn man.  At the beginning, he believed that Japan was the greatest threat to him, so he would rather watch the Japanese invade the three northeastern provinces, watch the Japanese send troops to Beijing and Tianjin, watch the Japanese encroach on North China step by step,  Watching the Chinese *** team being driven out of Songhu, he was still determined to wipe out the *** first. Even though the *** at that time had been driven to northern Shaanxi by him, they looked like they were lingering no matter what.  At that time, if he were to go by the poems he later wrote, he really would have said, "It is better to pursue the poor bandits bravely, and not to be a tyrant in name only."  In the future liberation war, the Communist Party was unwilling to let him recuperate on the south bank of the Yangtze River. I am afraid that he was "learning" from his "role model" at one or two points!  Of course, whether it was Chiang Kai-shek who pursued the Red Army, or the People¡¯s Liberation Army who pursued him in the future, the reasons must be extremely complicated, and there are more than just one or two.  But this shows that Lao Jiang's temperament is average.  In addition to being stubborn, Chiang Kai-shek also had another characteristic that was the same as that of many warlords of his time: they did not pay attention to the people, or in other words, they did not care about the lives and deaths of the people at all.  ¡°Some people may wonder, how can a leader not care about the life and death of the people in his country?  Even if Chiang Kai-shek is a reactionary, you can't talk such nonsense.  You know, Chiang Kai-shek even spared many of the warlord leaders who were against him at the beginning. Among them, the most ruthless ones almost knocked him off his position as the leader of the country.  These people were released and given high positions to support them. How could they not care about the common people?  Although there are indeed many corrupt officials under Lao Jiang, there are historical reasons for that.  After all, the Kuomintang has had few truly good people since the Tongmenghui era.  Chiang Kai-shek inherited such a political legacy and naturally had to bear the consequences.  Therefore, you must be kind and don't attribute all your mistakes to Chiang Kai-shek alone.  But the fact is that Chiang Kai-shek is really not a kind person.  Information about the Great Famine in Henan was tightly blocked from the beginning by the then Henan Provincial Government.  As a result, the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone, Jiang Dingwen, reported the disaster in Henan to the central government. Because the Henan Provincial Government did not report truthfully, his declaration was reprimanded.  According to Li Jingzhai, Henan's land minister at the time, he later recalled in the Spring and Autumn magazine that Jiang Dingwen once called on his soldiers to save two taels of food every day.  For a period of three months, the food is required to be used to relieve the victims.  Not only Jiang Dingwen, but also the various armies in Henan at that time also hoped that the government would quickly allocate food from other places.  Li Jiayu, the commander of the 36th Group Army, also reported the disaster in Henan, but was beaten back by He Yingqin because the disaster could not be reported casually.  If the local government fails to report it, the military report will be invalid.  later.  The facts can no longer be concealed.  In October 1942, when the central government sent two officials, Zhang Ji and Zhang Lisheng, to Henan to inspect the disaster, a disaster report meeting was held in Mi County. Provincial dignitaries and representatives from each county were required to attend.  Unexpectedly, Li Peiji, then chairman of Henan Province, sent a message to representatives from various places on his way to the meeting, telling them not to make the disaster too serious.  A participant recalled: "During the meeting, representatives from each county complained about the severe disaster, but the officials turned a blind eye to it, and people who starved to death were everywhere. Zhang Lisheng said at the meeting: 'Before we arrived in Henan, we only knew that there was a disaster in Henan.  . But I didn¡¯t know how serious the disaster was. It was only later that I learned that the disaster in Henan was so serious, Chairman Li, you can¡¯t take the blame!¡± Later, at a banquet hosted by the Henan military, Zhang Lisheng asked Li Peiji face to face why he did not report the disaster.  Li Peiji said: "When I first saw the beautiful wheat seedlings of the second wheat crop, it would not stop raining. Who knew that the bastard Huangtian would blow a gust of yellow wind and blow all the wheat seedlings dry overnight." Zhang Lisheng asked again: "With such a situation  "Why didn't you report the disaster?" Li Peiji said: "I saw that things were growing well in early autumn, but who would have thought that this bastard Huangtian would be pinching his neck again!" (The local dialect means pinching the neck)  According to Jin Handing's recollection, when the central government sent Zhang Puquan and Zhang Lisheng to Henan for investigation, "Chairman Li Peiji led relevant personnel on the way to the meeting and told Commissioner Li Xingcun to tell the delegates: 'Don't make the disaster too serious, the chairman has his own way.  . '" But Li Peiji didn't report it, and even suppressed lower-level officials from reporting it. How could he hide it from Chiang Kai-shek?  There are so many spies under him, including hundreds of thousands of military commanders, nearly a hundred thousand central commanders, and generals at all levels none of them have any conscience or a sense of the overall situation?  Millions of people have starved to death, and he still doesn¡¯t know?  Later, the situation in Henan could no longer be suppressed. The Henan Provincial Relief Society selected representatives to Chongqing to request the Kuomintang Central Committee to exempt the disaster-stricken areas from the amount of grain requisitions. However, Chiang Kai-shek not only did not see them, he also refused to allow these representatives to conduct public activities in Chongqing.  Later, at the Third National Political Consultative Conference held in Chongqing, National Political Consultant Guo Zhongkai from Henan also expressed sympathy for the suffering of the victims of the disaster in Henan and asked for measures to be taken, but Chiang Kai-shek still ignored him.  Before that, Zhang Ji and Zhang Lisheng, the two officials he sent to Henan for inspection, returned to Chongqing and told him about the disaster in Henan, hoping that he could take measures to provide disaster relief as soon as possible, but he also said nothing.  Calls from many parties,It seemed that Chiang Kai-shek could not pay the slightest attention to the disaster in Henan.  The only thing he did during this period was to hold an emergency "forward military grain meeting" after learning the news, and took some measures to reduce the amount of grain requisition in Henan and to transport Xi'an's grain reserves to  Henan was prepared for the army.  However, these extraordinary measures were only to solve the food problem of the Henan army and did not take effective disaster relief measures. As for the amount of grain tax exemptions, the Henan Provincial Chairman Li Peiji said this: "Only the rich have to pay all taxes.  For the poor, we will never collect more than what the land can produce" So in 1943, the climate in the disaster area was still dry, and the disaster worsened.  At this time, the situation in the disaster area finally began to spread despite the layers of blockade. In early February, the Chongqing version of "Ta Kung Pao" published a report on the Great Famine sent by a reporter from the disaster area in Henan, but it was blocked by the relevant departments of the National Government.  He was immediately ordered to suspend publication for three days and was severely punished.  The reporter of American "Time" magazine, Bai Xiude, went deep into the disaster area and found corpses everywhere on the roadside and in the fields. Wild dogs were everywhere gnawing on the dead bodies. Through interviews, he learned that cannibalism is very common. The difference is only  The question is whether to eat the dead or the living.  He was deeply shaken.  Decided to get these reports out.  But he had stayed in China for a long time and knew that if he just wanted to report the news in China, he might not even be able to pass the review, so he sent the news directly to the other side of the ocean through the telegraph office.  As a result, the news first spread in the "Time" magazine where Bai Xiude worked - as mentioned before, this magazine is the most sympathetic to the Chinese in the entire United States, and its publisher Henry Luce has always been a very firm supporter of China.  The cause of the war of resistance.  At that time, Chiang Kai-shek's wife Soong Meiling was visiting the United States. After hearing the news, she became furious and believed that it would damage the image of the Chinese government.  Since she was an old friend with Henry Luce, she strongly requested Luce to dismiss Bai Xiude.  As a result, this unreasonable request was naturally rejected by Luce.  As a result, the news about the Henan famine caused huge repercussions in the United States. The U.S. government and opposition parties were greatly dissatisfied and even very angry at the Chinese government's disregard for the lives of the people at that time.  It was under such circumstances that Bai Xiude returned to Chongqing.  He immediately asked to meet with Lao Jiang and asked him to report the disaster situation to him.  The results of it?  Lao Jiang refused to see him!     at last.  "Mother of the Nation" Soong Ching Ling couldn't help but come forward.  She found Lao Jiang.  He repeatedly told Chiang Kai-shek that this was a matter of millions of lives, and insisted on asking Chiang Kai-shek to meet with Bai Xiude.  Lao Jiang couldn't help it and finally agreed to meet.  But when they met, Lao Jiang did not hide his disgust for Bai Xiude at all, and firmly denied that there were people and wild dogs eating dead bodies.  Bai Xiude had no choice but to take out the photos he had taken of wild dogs eating human corpses.  Lao Jiang saw these photos.  Finally gave in.  He awkwardly asked Bai Xiude where he took these photos and asked him to provide a complete report. He also thanked Bai Xiude, saying that Bai Xiude was a better investigator than any investigator he sent.     Then.  Disaster relief begins.  A large amount of grain stocks from Shaanxi entered Henan, and the disaster was quickly alleviated.  This is Chiang Kai-shek. He is so stubborn that he is almost cold-blooded. In other words, he does not care about the people at all.   And now, Lao Jiang is still dissatisfied with Qin Wei and Zhu Kezhen. He is very unhappy with the behavior of these two people "forcing" him, and he does not think that the famine that just started for a short time can last long even if there is  The so-called research information and results provided by Zhu Kezhen.  Therefore, he categorically decided not to provide disaster relief.  However, facing Zhu Kezhen, the president of the university, he did not act too coldly and did not want to be taken advantage of, so he found another reason.  "The famine in northern Shaanxi has lasted for two years, but the government has been at war with the Japanese army, which has consumed huge amounts of money. Moreover, northern Shaanxi has been occupied by communist bandits that, the Communist Party. The central government can only watch anxiously, but there is nothing they can do. But now,  Because the Communist Party couldn't bear the disaster, it found an excuse to go to Khalkha, leaving only northern Shaanxi, which was more and more seriously affected by the disaster, to the central government But the central government couldn't just leave the victims of the disaster in northern Shaanxi alone, right?  The disaster lasted longer. Principal Zhu, don¡¯t you think so?¡± Lao Jiang¡¯s tone was both kind and compassionate. If everyone present didn¡¯t know him very well, they might have been moved. But Zhu Kezhen was obviously  He is not among those who know Chiang Kai-shek. "Chairman, you are right. In recent years, natural disasters in northern Shaanxi have been very frequent, and they are indeed far more serious than the drought in Henan." Zhu Kezhen did not realize that Chiang Kai-shek was behind the scenes.  He meant that Lao Jiang was really in trouble, but his words still made everyone in the room, including Lao Jiang, feel numb: "Northern Shaanxi has a history of 'nine droughts in ten years' and '  There is a saying that there are droughts every three years and floods every year. According to our investigation, northern Shaanxi has experienced droughts, hailstorms, floods, frosts, sandstorms and other natural disasters in recent years.natural disasters, among which drought is the most serious.  I remember" Rubbing his forehead, Zhu Kezhen looked like he was trying to think about his memories. Seeing him like this, He Yingqin and others were about to stop him from continuing, but at this moment Zhu Kezhen suddenly clapped his hands.  : "I remember!  Based on relevant data sent from Shaanxi, we have calculated that in the past 100 years, Yulin alone has suffered 46 droughts, 25 hailstorms, 11 frosts, 28 floods, 12 wind disasters, and 10 pests and diseases.  times, earthquakes and landslides 10 times, a total of 242 times.  The disaster frequency is 0.45!The government should have provided relief long ago!  " "One, what happened more than a hundred years ago, this" Kong Xiangxi's face turned pale. He didn't remember anything Zhu Kezhen said, only the sentence "Yulin area suffered 242 disasters in the past one hundred years."  ! But this is enough. There have been 242 disasters in a hundred years, an average of two or three times a year How much evil must the people of Yulin have done to endure this kind of suffering? But that is not what Kong Xiangxi cares about most.  What concerns me is the reason that Chiang Kai-shek just gave to evade the request for relief to Henanrelieve Northern Shaanxi! Can you save this place that is hit by disasters two or three times a year? "A hundred years is indeed a long time."  But northern Shaanxi is really hard.  "Zhu Kezhen couldn't help but shook his head and sighed, "Especially in recent years, starting from the 17th year of the Republic of China (1928), northern Shaanxi has encountered a severe drought that has never happened in a century, lasting five years!  During this period, plague and other epidemic diseases were also prevalent.  Since the year before last, northern Shaanxi has once again suffered from drought, flood, snow, freeze, wind, frost, insects, plague and other disasters. We don¡¯t know the affected cultivated land area and food losses, but according to our calculations of the population in various places, even if  Many people were taken away by the Japanese, and the number of people affected by the disaster was at least one million!  Chairman, Henan needs to be saved, but if northern Shaanxi is not saved, there may not be many people left alive!  " "" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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