During the few days that An Yi was in Lushan, he appeased the people by issuing announcements and radio speeches, and advocated all walks of life across the country to raise funds for the disaster area. He also spent his own money to urgently purchase 100,000 tons of rice and 2,000 tons of dried fish and other materials from Nanyang, and also carried out the disaster-stricken areas.
A major proposal was made at a meeting of provincial military and political chiefs:
The garrison troops in each province immediately opened warehouses to provide relief to the victims. Governments at all levels in each province immediately began to organize the victims and build water conservancy and irrigation projects. Through the implementation of the "relief for work" policy, a large number of victims who were unable to engage in production were organized. According to the road construction plans of each province, the construction of water conservancy and irrigation projects was carried out in advance.
Road construction begins.
An Yi's opinion received strong support from party and state elders such as Chiang Kai-shek, Lin Sen, Wu Zhihui, Cai Yuanpei, etc. Wang Jingwei waited and watched again and again. During the adjournment of the meeting, he personally approached An Yi and learned that An Yi was responsible for an emergency loan of 50 million for the central government for the plan.
, ecstatic, immediately praised An Yi highly, but in the subsequent meeting, he singled out Han Fuqu, the chairman of Shandong Province, who had a negative attitude, and the whole atmosphere was shocked.
An Yi's senior officer, Liu Zhi, director of the Shandong-Henan-Anhui Appeasement Office, had a more positive attitude. He was originally worried that using the army's food reserves would involve the army in the famine. After Chiang Kai-shek's two words of enlightenment, he was like a enlightenment and stood up on his own initiative.
expressed firm support for the central government’s decision
The decision was made to support Vice Minister An’s far-sightedness. An Yi’s initiative was passed very smoothly and a resolution was formed. The Central Judicial Yuan and the Supervisory Yuan organized relevant inspection teams to go deep into the disaster area to carry out the implementation of this important resolution and disaster relief matters.
Implement full supervision.
Chiang Kai-shek's two words to Liu Zhi were: Have you ever seen An Yi do something he was unsure of? Don't worry about the little food in your warehouse. How many days will it take for the ships from Nanyang to come over?
After the huge pressure of disaster relief was lifted, Chiang Kai-shek sent away more than a hundred military and political officials, including the president of the Fifth Academy. After dinner, he happily informed An Yi to come and take a walk with him.
An Yi, who was issuing disaster relief orders to relevant departments, handed over the work at hand to Liu Qing and others. He quickly rushed to Meiling and saw Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Meiling strolling on the lawn in front of the villa. He had no time to talk to the attendants in the room.
The senior brothers said hello and quickly walked over to say hello to Soong Meiling.
"An Yi, what name will you and Yuner give the newborn baby?" Song Meiling asked happily.
Hearing this, An Yi missed his son who was just half a month old. He was ordered to come to Lushan on the third day after his son was born. Although he sent greetings and telegrams every day, he still felt that he could not spend more time with his wife, children and the Feng family.
Dozens of people in Xufu, old and young, are full of guilt:
"Going back to my wife, my son came here just three days after his son was born. I haven't had time to think about this issue. I think Yun'er and the old man's family are discussing this matter in Xufu. Especially the old man, he heard that a boy was born.
He hurriedly chartered four planes and took dozens of family members with him to see his great-grandson."
Song Meiling smiled knowingly after hearing this, and Chiang Kai-shek also showed a kind smile on his face. Song Meiling said: "Your principal and I have prepared gifts. In a few days, I will go to Xu Mansion to see my goddaughter. By the way,
Look at my little grandson, haha!"
"Teacher Madam has a lot of things to do. She just met with envoys from Europe and the United States in Shanghai. A few days after returning to Lushan, she had to go to Xufu again. It was really too tiring. The student thought that the principal needs you more. One more thing, a few of the students
After my son was born, I didn't even put out the full-moon wine. I didn't want to make too much noise, not only to attract criticism, but also to cause trouble to relatives and friends." An Yi truthfully told what he was thinking.
"It doesn't matter whether you serve wine or not, but I have to go and have a look... You are right to keep quiet. It is a virtue to be honest, frugal and low-key, but you men don't understand our women's thoughts at all. Forget it, no
I told you that this matter has nothing to do with you. You can go with the principal for a walk, I'm busy."
Song Meiling glanced at An Yi displeasedly, released her hand supporting Chiang Kai-shek, and said goodbye in a low voice.
"Come for a walk with me, don't look away, your wife is not angry with you, let's not get involved in women's affairs, just let them go." Chiang Kai-shek raised his steps and walked leisurely.
An Yi breathed a sigh of relief and strode to follow. He was not worried about Chiang Kai-shek's opinion of him, but he was very concerned about whether Soong Meiling was angry. For some reason, An Yi felt amiable and trustworthy from the day he met Soong Meiling.
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Over the years, Soong Meiling has taken great care of An Yi in her official career, and has repeatedly interceded for An Yi in front of Chiang Kai-shek. An Yi has always regarded Soong Meiling as her elder and a close figure like a sister, but An Yi regarded this as her elder sister.
This feeling is buried deep in my heart, I have never revealed it to anyone, and I will not tell anyone in the future.
Chiang Kai-shek took a few steps, looked at the beautiful scenery at the bottom of the mountain, and whispered: "Your wife has been busy running up and down for disaster relief for more than a month, and she has been worried a lot. She has been constantly communicating through personal relationships, wives of envoys from various countries, and friends.
We proposed loan assistance to European and American countries, but it took a month to get any results. Instead, the British Ambassador Jiadgan, who had a very stalemate in negotiations with us, helped us through HSBC.
The bank loaned us one million pounds, and it was for one year. Although the friendship is great, it is like a drop in the bucket in the face of such a drought! If you hadn't bravely shouldered the important task again this time, borrowing 50 million from the United States and Nanyang to use
In order to provide disaster relief and restore production, the 'relief for work' that was originally just empty talk was realized in one fell swoop, stabilizing the refugees and stabilizing the people's hearts in one step. We really don't know how to deal with it."
"This is a student's responsibility. We dare not forget it for a day." An Yi answered humbly.
Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction: "Didn't the disaster area in the two lakes consume a lot of your family property?"
An Yi said with a wry smile: "Hunan is a little better. General Zhang Hongluan of western Hunan gave all his money, and General Shizhen of western Guizhou helped Hunan a lot. Now most of the refugees are concentrated in the western Hunan area... Hunan Provincial Chairman He
In addition to worshiping ghosts and gods and praying for rain, Jian traveled around and delivered some speeches on how to overcome the difficulties. However, he was deprived of food and money. The victims who were desperate for food were displaced and all they could do was wait for the central government to distribute relief.
"In Hubei, General He Chengjun used the excuse of suppressing bandits to express his inability to cope with the famine. He sent a telegram a day asking students for help. The students could only send a steady stream of food by ship, and then talk about other things... Fortunately, he no longer mentions it now
Recover the military barracks, docks and airport on the south bank of Yichang
It's a bad idea, otherwise the students would really get into trouble with him. If the Yichang Military Station under the student's jurisdiction had not taken the lead in opening a warehouse to release grain to help the victims, General Cheng Guang rushed to Yichang early and convened representatives from surrounding counties to meet to tide over the difficulties. Hubei was full of victims.
I'm afraid Xi has already started to make a fuss."
Chiang Kai-shek nodded happily, and then said with great concern: "Your high integrity is obvious to all the military and political circles and even the military and civilians across the country. I believe that through this successful disaster relief, no one will dare to make irresponsible remarks to you. In recent years, our country has suffered many disasters."
Lian Lian, if you hadn't extended a helping hand in time, I and the leaders of the central ministries would have suffered a lot of infamy. Everyone is very grateful to you.
"However, your political consciousness needs to be strengthened. Don't always focus on external enemies. You must also be decisive and resolute against internal enemies. At present, the great cause of suppressing bandits is progressing smoothly, but at an extremely critical moment, the Japanese invaders took advantage of my inability to attack the enemy.
Gu, frequently amassed troops along the Great Wall and held provocative military exercises in the Shanhaiguan and Tangshan areas.
"Song Zheyuan, who originally accumulated fame and capital in the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War last year, became less and less courageous as his official position became more and more important. He threw all the headaches to He Jingzhi and Mr. Ying Bai (Huang Bai).
郛) cope with it. In order to preserve their rights and status, the left
Swinging to the right and submissive, I am very worried! If it were not for the four main divisions of Hu Jialin's 17th Army stationed on the front line of central and southern Hebei and holding tit-for-tat various military exercises, which greatly encouraged the morale of the North China army and the people, the Japanese invaders would have been
I no longer have any scruples to push myself further.”
An Yi was convinced. Thinking of the current situation of the China Eastern Railway in Northeast China, he asked Chiang Kai-shek for advice: "Principal, Russia and Japan have always been in conflict with each other. Since the Soviet Union came to power, it has announced to the world that it has given up all colonial rights, including generosity.
Promise to build the wealth that was plundered from the Chinese people during the Tsarist Russia period
The China Eastern Railway that was built was returned to the Chinese government in its entirety, free of charge, and promptly. However, when it came time to implement it, they acted the same way. Not only did they not return it to us, but they also demanded the right to use the railway and the rights to use it.
The Northeastern Army fought a fierce battle, invaded our territory brazenly, and has still not withdrawn from some of the occupied areas.
"Starting last year, Russia and Japan have launched close diplomacy and signed a series of secret agreements, including selling the Middle East Railway to Japan for 600 million yen. However, the Japanese have now given up on it due to their increased strength and have repeatedly challenged them through the puppet Manchukuo government.
The Soviet government was annoyed by the troubles and lowered the price again and again. When it reached 20 million yen, the Japanese were still not satisfied. The Russians were angry and suddenly showed their kindness to us. The student wanted to ask the principal how to define
What is the best relationship between China and Russia?”
Chiang Kai-shek stopped slowly, looked into An Yi's eyes quietly, and asked in a low voice: "Go on, just say what you want to say. You are talented in diplomacy. Looking back at the past few years, there are many things
Crisis and international conflict are unfortunately mentioned by you. To be honest, I am very surprised.
"As for the current recurring relations between Russia and Japan, I am also paying close attention to it. The Russians must have become angry, otherwise they would not suddenly step up efforts to improve relations with us. The Central Executive Committee has held a small-scale discussion on this, but there are different opinions.
, I also want to hear your opinion."
An Yi was no longer modest: "Principal, the students thought they should go with the flow. Since the Russians want to put pressure on Japan through close relations and cooperation with us, why don't we use each other? The military delegation led by General Yang Jie responded to Russia's
The visit was a success, and the Japanese government was definitely paying close attention and was worried. However, the Japanese were too arrogant and believed too much in their power and control over the Northeast, and continued to carry out extremely unfriendly demonstrations and exclusion against Soviet Russia.
"In the past few days, a large number of Russian expatriates who have been living in the Northeast for a long time have returned to Russia with their families. For this reason, the Russian government twice warned the Japanese government and the Kwantung Army, demanding that they not persecute Russian expatriates and rob the expatriates' property and industry. According to Article 1 of the Student Administration
The Fourth Hall Shanghai Station reported on the complaints of Russian expatriates living in Shanghai and found that the puppet Manchukuo government in Northeast China, under the instigation and guidance of the Japanese, was carrying out anti-Russian anti-Russian platoons in a planned and step-by-step manner under the pretext of eradicating Communist forces and secret organizations.
Russian action.
"The students made a comprehensive analysis and felt that the inner anger of the Russians this time was real and uncontrollable. Therefore, the students suggested that we should once again launch extensive cooperation with Russia in various fields except political ideology, and more
The most important thing is that we can take this opportunity to firmly control the Shengshicai Ministry of Xinjiang, which is supported by the Russians, and we must not let anything happen in Xinjiang that demands independence again. Students are very worried that Xinjiang will lose control!"
Chiang Kai-shek's heart was pounding, he thought for a long time, and nodded heavily: "Your opinion is very good! We are now in trouble internally and externally, with enemies everywhere but no friends. This time we must seize this opportunity, and at the same time, through cooperation with the Russians, we must stimulate
The European and American powers who stood by and watched, if they do well, it will be a win-win situation... Let's go! Come with me to the study, let's have a good talk, especially the dozen or so strategic materials that the Russians have repeatedly requested. I suddenly found that most of them
The control is in your hands."
An Yi was stunned, then he smiled and followed Chiang Kai-shek happily to the villa.