Lost and Spy

Chapter 2091 The truth of the famine
chongqing.

"Did you come from Henan to Chongqing on purpose just to tell me that the grain requisition work cannot be completed?"

The chairman asked with a cold face.

Standing in front of him was Li Peiji, Chairman of the HEN Provincial Government.

Facing the chairman of the committee, Li Peiji mustered the courage that he had never mustered in half his life:

"Chairman, the drought in Henan is so severe that it has almost reached the point where there is no harvest."

Unexpectedly, as soon as his words fell, Chairman Jiang slapped the table and cursed:

"I don't have any shame, I don't have any personality, I just spread rumors. I know that the whole province of Henan has a good harvest, but you just say that there is a drought!"

Cursed for an hour with no personality, no personality.

Li Peiji stood there, his back was covered in sweat, and his legs were trembling from being scolded.

At this time, at the national government's political participation meeting, another different scene was also being staged.

Guo Zhongkai, a political councilor from Hen Province, cursed: "Are you blind to see such a disaster in Henan? Are you deaf and can't hear?"

The chairman scolded Li Peiji for more than an hour, and Guo Zhongkai also scolded him for an hour in the Political Council.

That's not all, Guo Zhongkai also took more than a dozen things that Henan people ate and gave them to the ministers of various institutes.

This includes "Guanyin soil".

But whether it is Li Peiji or Guo Zhongkai, if they want the government to know the truth about the disaster in Henan, they must have the trust of the chairman.

And this is the most difficult.

……

"Commissioned seat, Meng Shaoyuan is back."

"Oh, really." The chairman raised his head: "Let him come to see me immediately."

……

"headmaster."

As soon as Meng Shaoyuan walked in, he straightened his back: "The students have just returned the 2000 taels of gold to the Ministry of Finance. All the procedures have been completed."

"good very good."

The chairman nodded in satisfaction: "You will never let me down when you do things. Before, your information has been confirmed, and Yan Guanyu is a repeated villain.

This time, although seven of our comrades were sacrificed, Yan Guanyu's plot did not succeed after all.It's just a pity for Tang Hewen and the others.Gao Yushan deserves to be killed.The officials of Wuhe deserve to die! "

The sentence "should be killed, damned", and this matter is here to understand.

Meng Shaoyuan had judged very clearly before that what the chairman wanted was to recover the gold, and he would not ask how the case was solved or where the gold came from.

The chairman then said: "Tell me about Henan."

It should come, it will come after all.

Yesterday, Li Peiji was scolded by the Chairman for more than an hour. Meng Shaoyuan knew about it when he got off the plane.

Now, whoever mentions the disaster in Henan is tantamount to being unhappy.

How to do?
"Principal, the students are bold." Meng Shaoyuan gritted his teeth: "Henan, there is a disaster, a catastrophe!"

Before coming, he had already thought about it.

This time I went all out.

Someone must report the truest side of Henan to the Chairman.

Even if he offended the chairman and lost his position because of this, he would not hesitate to do so!

Sure enough, the chairman frowned: "Even you say that?"

"Principal, the students saw it with their own eyes." Meng Shaoyuan ignored it: "The drought continued, the land was barren, and the people began to flee in batches, selling their children and daughters, eating geese dung, and something called Guanyin soil.

Originally, some fertile fields near rivers and wells could still yield a little bit of harvest, but just before the students left Henan, locusts arrived again. Once the plague of locusts came, there was no harvest! "

"You, are you serious about what you said?" The Chairman asked almost word for word.

"Even if the students have ten heads, they will never dare to lie to the principal." Meng Shaoyuan tried his best to calm down his tone: "Relief in Henan has reached the point of no delay."

As he said that, he took out a stack of photos from his pocket: "Principal, these photos were taken by students in Henan for the principal to read."

As he spoke, he emphasized one more point: "The students did not show these photos to anyone else."

The chairman showed an imperceptible smile of satisfaction.

But when he looked at these photos, the expression on his face gradually froze.

shocking.

If I had to use one word to describe it, it would be "shocking".

What kind of tragic scenes are shown in the photos?

"You took these pictures?"

"It was taken by the students themselves. Although the shooting skills are not good, the students can guarantee that it is absolutely true!"

"It's so serious, it's so serious." The chairman murmured, "I thought Li Peiji was just making a false report of the disaster in order to reduce the amount of food handed in. I didn't expect the disaster in Henan to have reached such a point."

He looked a little tired.

Meng Shaoyuan said what he knew he had to say.

Next, shutting up is your best choice.

"Shao Yuan, you are very good and told me the truth."

After a long time, the Chairman spoke.

This is also strange.

What Li Peiji reported was the truth, but the chairman just didn't believe it.

It was Meng Shaoyuan's turn to report the same thing, and what he got in exchange was the chairman's award.

The life of this person is really very different.

The chairman's voice was very low: "You have worked hard, go back and rest first."

……

The truth about Henan brought back by Meng Shaoyuan finally let the chairman know the severity of the disaster in Henan and the difficulty of collecting military rations.

In order to save the situation, he rushed to the Wangqu Military Academy near Xi'an and presided over an emergency "Front Military Food Conference".

HEN provincial officials haggled over military rations.

That night, the chairman ordered to "requisition all means of transportation, open the granary, and quickly transport the stored grain eastward to the south" to solve the food problem for the troops stationed in Henan.

At the same time, it was decided to reduce the amount of grain collected from farmers in Henan from 500 million shi to 250 million shi.

But when Xu Kan, Minister of Food, arrived, Henan's military food quota changed from 250 million shi to 250 million bales.

One stone equals 140 to 150 catties of wheat, and one bag equals 200 catties.The difference of one word increased Henan's military ration quota by one-third.

However, under the situation of such a catastrophe in Henan, Lu Yuwen, the director of Henan Food Administration, unexpectedly overfulfilled the task.

As for how this task was accomplished, how many families were ruined, and how many small rich families became destitute, only God knows.

Immediately, the national government announced that it would allocate 5 million French currency for disaster relief.

Among them, 2 million yuan was used to set up congee farms in various places in the disaster area for emergency response, and 3 million yuan was used to purchase relief food.

However, when the porridge market was opened, it was far from being able to supply the huge number of refugees, and it soon broke down due to lack of food.

However, the 3 million French currency used to buy grain was misappropriated for other purposes, and even corrupt officials misappropriated it for trafficking in private goods.

The real refugees did not see a grain of relief food.

1942 was the most difficult year of China's war of resistance.

This year was also a year of sorrow for the people of Henan.

Catastrophe and famine, starting from this year!
(End of this chapter)