The refreshing autumn wind blows across the land of Jiangnan, and the vegetation all over the mountains and fields begins to wither. The temperature difference between day and night slowly increases. Every morning, crystal dewdrops can be seen swaying and rolling on the trembling branches and leaves.
The city of Nanchang seems to be withering away with the advent of autumn. The originally clean and refreshing ancient streets are filled with unkempt and ragged northern refugees. Thousands of refugees are huddled under the eaves of residential houses with their families.
Piles of old, young and old whose true identities could not be identified were tightly wrapped under damp and tattered quilts. Refugees without quilts were crowded together in twos and threes, lying in a haphazard manner in the howling autumn wind. The little rice provided by the kind people was gone in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, it was swarmed up by hungry victims with green eyes, and everything was snatched away. The rice grains and residual soup scattered on the ground would attract a group of refugees to grab and lick it.
More than ten kilometers to the south, Old Nanchang is flooded with disaster victims, overcrowded, and all social order has been disrupted. In front of every disaster relief porridge shed built by Jiangnan Group, the Old Nanchang government, and the Chamber of Commerce, refugees are queuing up to receive rice porridge.
For several miles, the military police who maintained order and the people of Nanchang were frightened, but extremely sad.
Compared with other places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the more than 300,000 victims who were able to escape to Old Nanchang are extremely lucky. At least the Jiangnan Group under General An Yi and the philanthropic Old Nanchang Chamber of Commerce can ensure that every victim has two bowls of gruel every day.
The suffering folks who are sick are treated by the fraternity's roving medical team from Jiangnan Hospital.
Old Nanchang citizens, intellectuals, nearly one million workers, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army garrison generously donated cash, food, quilts, and clothes to feed and clothe hundreds of thousands of victims. The number of people who could survive and die every day
There were no more than fifty, and these people who died in a foreign country were buried in a thin coffin donated by the old Nanchang Chamber of Commerce.
Leaders at all levels of the Jiangnan Group, led by Zhou Chongan and Lao Shoudao, inspected each porridge shed every day and repeatedly ordered that a disaster-stricken villager living in Old Nanchang must not be allowed to starve and freeze to death. The kind-hearted Anjiajun guard
Officers and soldiers divided the victims into large groups according to their place of origin, and moved them into warehouses and covered goods yards vacated by major factories and firms affiliated to the Jiangnan Group. Hundreds of thousands of victims were finally able to survive, and their Anjia
The military officers, Mr. Lao, Boss Zhou of the Jiangnan Group, several benevolent presidents of the Old Nanchang Chamber of Commerce, and kind-hearted old Nanchang people shed tears of gratitude.
As the Huanghuai floods spread, more and more refugees left their homes and headed south.
Big cities such as Nanjing, Shanghai, Suzhou, and Hangzhou were overcrowded. The streets were filled with stench and corpses were lying dead on the roadside. There was even a vicious incident in Suzhou city in which grain stores and shops were violently robbed, killing and injuring more than 400 people.
All signs indicate that the autumn of the 22nd year of the Republic of China will be a troubled and troubled autumn for the Chinese nation.
In Meiluzhong in Guling, Lushan, Song Ziwen, Vice President of the Government Affairs Council and Minister of Finance, who had just returned from a trip to European and American countries, Kong Xiangxi, Minister of Industry, Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, important party and government officials, and Huang Yong, interim chairman of the Peking *** branch, who had just returned from Sichuan
He Yingqin, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, and Yang Yongtai, who became a scapegoat and was relegated to Wuhan Camp as Secretary-General because of his conflict with the Anyi Group, gathered together to discuss intensively how to face the complicated current situation, the refugee flow, the crisis in North China, and the
The Myanmar border crisis, the confrontation between Guangdong and Guangxi, and the changes in Fujian and other important military affairs.
On August 17, Feng Yuxiang was electrified and left the field, and once again went to Mount Tai to live and study in seclusion. The situation in North China stabilized slightly. Under the oppression from all sides by the Central Army, Shanxi-Sui Army, Song Zheyuan and the Communist Army, the anti-Japanese alliance government led by Feng Yuxiang finally collapsed.
Feng Yuxiang mustered up his remaining courage and tried his best to reunite the 60,000 old troops. They went their separate ways and defected to the Central Army, Shanxi-Sui Army and even the Northeast Army. They have been in northern China for more than ten years. The famous Northwest Army has since become a historical term.
, the remaining two teams of Ji Hongchang and Fang Zhenwu fought tenaciously with the strong support of the Japanese, but they were also surrounded by armies ten times their own and were exhausted and precarious.
At this point, Chiang Kai-shek finally completely removed the big rock in the hot-challenged area of North China, and once again defeated his political opponent Feng Yuxiang cleanly, and the situation in North China gradually stabilized.
However, the sudden conflict between China and Britain and the ensuing "military confrontation on the Sino-Myanmar border and ethnic minority massacres" prompted the ambitious and eyeing Japanese to become restless again.
The abnormal mobilization of the Japanese troops made the situation turbulent, and there was a strong possibility that a storm was about to come.
At this time, as Song Ziwen and his entourage returned from their trip, the largest opposition group, the Hu Hanmin Group and the Guangdong and Guangxi warlords, concentrated their firepower, verbally and writtenly criticized Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Jingwei, and strongly demanded that the central government announce the full contents of the "Cotton Grain Loan" and the "Sino-British Loan Agreement"
, repeatedly appealed to the whole society: request the central government and Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin to publish the full text of the "Songhu Agreement" and the "Hemei Agreement" in North China, which were humiliating and humiliating the country. Otherwise, the two sides will quickly convene the "National Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China" to review
And by establishing the Guangzhou central government.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was gathering dozens of divisions to encircle and suppress the Red Army, was exhausted and exhausted. Every day was spent in lengthy meetings, "news wars of words" for China and foreign countries, and frequent declarations of communism.
The main force of the Red Army in the Jiangxi-Fujian Central Soviet Area took this opportunity to make a sudden attack, beating Liu Heding's division of the Central Army of the Communist Party of China in the direction of Fujian. Within half a day, they successively abandoned Lianping County and eight important towns; in the direction of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan, they were defeated
The He Long tribe of Liu Xiang's fourth division quickly went north and successively attacked Changyang, Yidu, Songzi and other places in western Hubei. After collecting all the loot, they disappeared again. The Huang Han tribe entrenched in the Sichuan-Hunan border area first fought with the He Long tribe.
Joining hands, they successfully defeated the Fourth Division of the Sichuan Army, and then attacked Fengdu with surprising speed and courage. They completely annihilated Liu Xiang's Fengdu garrison in just three and a half hours, looted all the supplies in the city, and quickly escaped.
In the high mountains of the Enshi area, in just one month, the tribe has rapidly grown to more than 13,000 people.
It happened that the house leaked and it rained all night. At this time, refugees from the Central Plains and Huaibei fled south to make a living. By the end of August, the number had reached more than six million.
Because Lao Nanchang has become world-famous for its disaster relief efforts over the past few years, millions of desperate refugees, with the last hope of survival, poured into the Nanchang area like a swarm of locusts. Relatively speaking, Lao Nanchang, who is experienced and well prepared,
The situation in Nanchang is better. The city of Nanchang is already overcrowded and full of dangers. Bodies and feces are all over the streets. There is no time to clean up. The once prosperous city is now filled with smoke and mourning.
What is even more frightening is that the intelligence department has discovered that pervasive terrorists have appeared among the refugee ranks. If the propaganda and instigation of the Communist Party leads to large-scale public outrage and riots, not only the extremely important strategic city of Nanchang will not be protected, but also the extremely important strategic city of Nanchang will not be protected.
The great cause of suppressing communism, which invested dozens of divisions and tens of millions of military expenditures and took several years to achieve the current great situation, will be seriously damaged, and it is very likely that the success will be undone due to the insurrection of refugees.
Chiang Kai-shek's emergency military and political core meeting lasted for four and a half hours. The meeting temporarily made two decisions: He Yingqin and Huang Qi rushed to North China again to deal with the Japanese skillfully and make sure that the Japanese stopped their petty actions.
, to maintain the stability of the situation in North China; order Xu Yuanquan, Liu Zhenhua, and Chen Jijie, commanders-in-chief of Henan, Hubei, and Anhui to suppress bandits, to take charge of clearing out the Helong and Huanghan tribes in western Hubei, Ye Jinbo tribe in eastern Hubei, and the Red Army in Shenyang in southern Hubei.
However, in the face of the thorny China-Myanmar border crisis and the refugee crisis, the meeting has been unable to come up with an effective solution. The participants looked heavy, the pressure increased sharply, and they were all silent and helpless.
In the end, Yang Yongtai, Chiang Kai-shek's think tank, stood up and suggested sincerely: "Commissioner, it seems that only one person can share the worries of the party and the state and the committee. Although I don't want to mention his name, at this time, the rise and fall of the party and the country are related.
At this critical moment, I have to serve the party and the country with all my heart and put aside personal emotional grievances. This person is General An Yi, who is highly respected and popular among the people. I sincerely request the commission to summon General An Yi again. At present, only General An Yi can
With the trust and support of millions of refugees, only General An Yi has the strength to provide relief to all people, and... and a pure heart of caring about the country and the people."
Kong Xiangxi gave Yang Yongtai a roll of his eyes, thinking that you, Yang Yongtai, had such ulterior motives. At this time, you still did not forget to show your generosity to others to win the trust of the Chairman, and did not forget to use outright reasons to weaken the economic strength of Anyi Group again.
The Chen brothers looked at each other without saying a word. They both knew in their hearts that Yang Yongtai's opinion was the best policy at the moment, but they were unwilling to agree with the opinion of the head of the political science department, let alone help his political opponents carry the sedan in front of Chiang Kai-shek.
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He Yingqin pondered for a moment, his eyes brightened, and with an admiring smile, he nodded frequently to Yang Yongtai.
Chiang Kai-shek sighed secretly, glanced around, and finally landed on Song Ziwen's face: "Finance Minister Song, what do you think of Mr. Chang Qing's opinion?"
Song Ziwen didn't even think about it and immediately replied: "Very good! I suggest that Mr. Chang Qing be sent to the Xu Mansion. I happened to hear that Dean Wang and Chairman Lin Sen also had the same intention. Going together together may be more effective.
good."
Everyone was horrified when they heard this. They looked at Song Ziwen who didn't care and Yang Yongtai who was holding back his face and blushed. They wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. They thought that if Yang Yongtai went to southern Sichuan, if he was lucky, he wouldn't see An Yi, so he walked away dejectedly with his tail between his legs.
When I come back, if I'm unlucky, I might be beaten up by An Yi, who is still angry and unwilling to return to Nanjing to report on his work.
The veteran He Yingqin dared to offend anyone, even Song Ziwen, Chiang Kai-shek's uncle and the God of Wealth. However, seeing that Yang Yongtai was really pitiful and unwilling to give up the opportunity to make Yang Yongtai owe him a favor, he fought.
Haha, after everyone focused their attention on him, he said kindly:
"Commissioners, gentlemen, Mr. Chang Qing's suggestion is very correct. It is just that we need to further discuss who should be sent to southern Sichuan to eliminate the misunderstanding between the central government and southern Sichuan and successfully invite General An to take charge of the overall disaster relief.
"Ying Qin rushed to Sichuan on the order of the commissioner to mediate the civil war in central Sichuan, promote a truce between various factions, and basically complete the task of unanimously suppressing the Communists. During his stay in Sichuan, he also heard and witnessed many more positive things, such as General An Yi's
Public enterprises in southern Sichuan quickly entered the Artesian Well and Fushun areas that had just been placed under the Xufu Prefecture by the central government, and successfully established the Bashu Salt Industry Corporation with the eight traditional local salt merchants to jointly mine and produce salt mines in southern Sichuan on a joint-stock basis.
The Salt Industry Corporation claims to have 30 million in assets. Therefore, as long as General An raises his voice and uses his influence in all walks of life in southern Sichuan, it should not be a problem to raise 30 to 5 million for disaster relief. At the worst, it can be passed again.
The method of resettling the victims in the Central Plains and Northwest China over the past few years has been to organize the diversion of the victims in an orderly manner and relocate them to the vast and sparsely populated southern Sichuan, and even to the southern Yunnan reclamation area where General An is building a large-scale construction project. This has not only solved the problem of insufficient manpower to guard the border areas, but also
It solves a big trouble for the party and the country and achieves multiple things with one stone, so why not do it?"
Everyone considered He Yingqin's words carefully, and Chiang Kai-shek urged with satisfaction: "Very good! Jingzhi continues."