Chapter 1023 1022 [The Ass Determines the Head]

Before the investigator He Yingqin sent to Henan sent back the news, Guo Zhongkai couldn't wait.

This person joined the Tongmenghui in his early years, served as the headquarters of the National Party at the beginning of its establishment, and participated in the National Protection Movement and the Law Protection Movement one after another. In 1927, he raised troops in Henan to respond to the Northern Expedition.

Judging from his resume, Guo Zhongkai has experienced all the revolutions since the late Qing Dynasty, so it stands to reason that he should be in a high position in the National Government. But he is not a direct descendant of Chiang Kai-shek, and he was unable to enter the inner circle from the very beginning, and now he has been reduced to a national suffragette with only a false name.

The National People's Political Council was established during the Anti-Japanese War. It is the highest advisory body in the country, including representatives of the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party, democratic parties and people without party affiliation. For example, Taizu, Zhou Gong's wife, etc., were all employed as national political representatives. However, since the Southern Anhui Incident broke out, the Communist Party once refused to attend the meeting and helped the middlemen to form another "Democratic League".

The National Political Council holds regular meetings several times a year, one at the end of October.

When it was Guo Zhongkai's turn to speak, he took out Guanyin soil, tree bark, goose dung, etc., and said in a strong Henan accent: "I am a member of the political council, entrusted by the thirty million people in Henan. The people of Henan live in death. Online, worrying day and night, full of anger. Whether public or private, I should stand up and tell the truth! I have been in prison, I have been sent to prison, and I am not afraid of anything. I can take responsibility for what I say now! The disaster in Henan was so serious that countless people starved to death. The young people fled to Shaanxi, but the government ordered to intercept them! The old and the weak first ate grass roots and then bark in their homes. Could it be that the government’s eyes are blind and they cannot see? Are their ears deaf and can’t hear? I have brought ten kinds of food that the people of Henan eat, and I invite the ministers of the various institutes to come and have a look!”

Buzzing and buzzing discussions suddenly sounded in the meeting hall, but none of the deans left the seat and got up.

Zhou Hexuan, as a representative of people without party affiliation, also attended the meeting, and his seat was relatively high. He walked to the rostrum and said: "I am an expert in disaster relief, and I can help you verify it."

Guo Zhongkai cast a grateful look, picked up the grass root bark and put it down, and then picked up a lump of black and green substance: "There is no need to identify the grass root bark, does Mr. Zhou know what it is?"

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

"It's goose dung, the droppings of wild geese," Guo Zhongkai said. "The grass roots and bark are all eaten up, and the people in Henan eat the dung. This thing looks inconspicuous, but it is very popular in Henan. It is the life-saving food of the people!" Because wild geese eat grain and grass seeds, there are a lot of undigested food in their excrement. People pick up goose dung to eat, which can fill their stomachs and provide nutrition. 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, chewed and swallowed it, wiped his mouth and said, "It's not good, very bad!"

There was silence.

"Hey!"

Guo Zhongkai slammed on the table, startling Zhou Hexuan next to him. He said grimly, "What kind of shit government is this! If I knew it would be like this, I shouldn't have overthrown the Manchu government back then, and the Manchu government knew about disaster relief. What! Now the government not only does not provide disaster relief, but also sets up a trap to block the fleeing victims back. Do the common people even have the right to flee? All the bastards, the corpses are vegetarians, corrupt and pervert the law, and regard people's lives as worthless. If this continues, no When the Japanese pirates occupy the entire territory of Henan, the people of Henan should revolt!"

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

Guo Zhongkai scanned the audience and said angrily: "This matter should be under the jurisdiction of the Executive Yuan. Didn't Vice President Kong attend the meeting?"

The dean of the Executive Yuan is concurrently served by Chang Kaishen himself, and the vice-president is Kong Xiangxi. When Kong Xiangxi was the president of the executive branch, he was criticized by all kinds of criticisms and did not resign. In the end, he was attacked by people inside and outside the party in the National Senate, so he lost his post as president.

The National Senate is Kong Xiangxi's sad place, how could he come to attend the meeting?

But Guo Zhongkai 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 Zhongkai went all out today. After scolding Kong Xiangxi, he scolded the Henan Disaster Relief Committee, and then scolded the army in Shaanxi who set up a barrage to stop the victims. In the end, it was probably scolded vigorously. Even the Military Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Food were scolded, saying that they were not good at disaster relief and extorted money.

Sometimes the meeting hall was silent, and sometimes the crowd was excited, and the representatives of the newspaper industry even prepared their manuscripts one by one.

Things finally got serious, and the news of the famine in Henan appeared in the newspapers the next day. Because there were too many media reporting on the disaster, the central government could not block it. The huge pressure of public opinion made Lao Jiang a headache.

Immediately afterwards, Guo Zhongkai went to the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Food and other institutions, appealing for relief of military rations and all-out disaster relief.

In desperation, Lao Jiang could only allocate 120 million French currency for disaster relief and hand it over to the Henan provincial government to buy food. But what is funny is that this money is not a relief fund, but is handed over to the local government in the form of a loan, which theoretically needs to be repaid.

Then, Lao Jiang 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 Kuomintang Party and the Military Commission, and is currently the secretary general of the National Party Party and Government Work Evaluation Committee, with very large real power. Although Zhang Puquan is also a veteran of the Kuomintang, he is very Buddhist. He studies Jinshi calligraphy and painting all day long, and basically goes to Henan to support the scene. After all, his qualifications are there.

The two went directly by plane, and on the short journey from the airport to the city, they saw more than a dozen corpses lying on the road.

There is no need to investigate further, the famine in Henan is more serious than they imagined.

After seeing Li Peiji, Chairman of Henan Province, Zhang Puquan stood with his hands behind his back in a detached position, while Zhang Lisheng asked, "Why didn't you report the disaster!"

Li Peiji said: "At first I saw the two wheat (barley, wheat) seedlings in abundance, and it would not stop raining. Who would have thought that the bastard God would blow a gust of yellow wind and dry the seedlings overnight."

Zhang Lisheng was so angry that he asked again: "The wheat seedlings are all withered, why didn't you report the disaster?"

Li Peiji said: "I saw that the early autumn is growing well, who knows that this bastard in the sky will suffer another drought."

Zhang Lisheng was too lazy to talk nonsense with Li Peiji, 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 (the 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 special commissioners received a detailed disaster report. Only some cities and counties in Henan suffered major disasters, and other places had good harvests.

Zhang Lisheng and Zhang Puquan were still a little confused, so they called Lu Yuwen, director of the Henan Grain Bureau, to inquire. Lu Yuwen kept silent about the disaster situation, but only said that this year's grain collection mission was going smoothly, and he promised to live up to President Jiang's trust.

The two special commissioners returned to Chongqing in this way, and Lao Jiang felt relieved when he got the "definite news".

If Chang Kaishen was still deceived before, then from now on, it has become "willing to be deceived". His focus is not on the disaster situation, but on whether the food requisition task can be completed, because the military rations are seriously insufficient-this is just like the Sichuan catastrophe when Liu Xiang held his hands on the military rations and refused to do his best to relieve the disaster.

Is Henan Provincial Chairman Li Peiji a stupid official?

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

In Dai Jitao's original words: "There are only one and a half talents in China, half of which is Li Peiji, and the other is Zhu Jiahua."

Is Lu Yuwen, director of the Henan Grain Bureau, a stupid 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 discussing the economic situation in Henan.

Both of them kept their hands on the disaster and did not report it, precisely because they knew what Lao Jiang was thinking.

In fact, they were sent to Henan by Chiang Kai-shek because of the severe shortage of military rations. They must do their best to complete the grain requisition task, publically to ensure the overall stability of the War of Resistance, and privately for their 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.