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Chapter 333: People eat people in Henan

The "supernatural" American journalist Bai Xiude reported on China, which made Hu Zhiyong almost start to take action against the Nationalist army. There has been a famine in Henan, and it has reached the point of cannibalism!

From the summer of 1942 to the spring of 1943, a major drought occurred in Henan, and most of the crops in summer and autumn failed. Not only Henan, but also all over Hunan and Guangzhou.

"My notes tell me that I am only reporting what I have seen and confirmed, but I still find it difficult to believe that they are true: dogs gnawing at corpses on the road, peasants searching for human flesh after nightfall, deserted villages with no end in sight, beggars huddled together in the openings of the gates, abandoned babies crying and ......dying on every road"

Hu Zhiyong raised the newspaper in his hand and asked Hou Dashun: "We have sent more than 200,000 business troops, why don't we save them when we die?" ”

"Young master, the people of Henan are fierce and there are many bandits. Plus the garrison there is too unreasonable, and no one goes there to do business. Hou Dashun wiped his cold sweat, he was stunned by such a thing.

"The country is really dead. Not in the flesh, but in the human heart! Hu Zhiyong remembered the information he had seen in his previous life. In the winter of 1943, the Japanese army attacked Henan on a large scale. Traces of famine are still everywhere.

The Japanese army allocated part of the military rations to help the peasants who were dying of starvation. The people of Henan, who came to life, were disgusted with the war and the soldiers, and spontaneously organized themselves to collect the guns of the Chinese soldiers. At first, it was collected individually, by a few people, and then simply in rows. According to incomplete statistics, there were 60,000 national troops who were disarmed before and after.

The level of corruption is shocking. Li Zongren thought to himself on the side: "The leadership of Huaxia is only held by one person, Chiang Kai-shek, and his only weakness is his desire for power, and everything he does is to preserve and expand power." ”

"Chiang Kai-shek himself was never corrupt, he was happy with the corruption of his subordinates, because if a person becomes corrupt, then he is even more obedient to him." Hu Zhiyong summed up the reasons for the corruption of the Kuomintang and believed that they had entered the end of the world!

The laws of survival are not as complex and elaborate as the laws of society and war. When the grand propositions of national righteousness and the survival of the country are placed in front of the hungry people who are about to starve to death, the question becomes: Would you rather starve to death and become a Chinese ghost? Or don't starve to death and become a slave? The ignorant people chose the latter.

"Three divisions from Hong Kong and Shanghai were stationed in Henan, Hunan, and Guangzhou to search and rescue abandoned babies and children who were thrown away, and distribute relief food!" Hu Zhiyong felt humiliated, but lost face in front of foreigners!

"Young master, it's not that I don't know, but I didn't report you angrily! The national army is still enjoying the delicacies of the mountains and seas, a big bowl of meat, and a big bowl of wine, but let us be wronged! Hou Dashun was not unwilling to go for treatment, but he was extremely disgusted with the Kuomintang-occupied areas.

"Where to go tell them that if they want to emigrate, they can go to the Far East. If you don't want to immigrate, you can join forces with our business. Save people and talk about other things later! Hu Zhiyong solemnly admonished his subordinates and gave orders without question.

"Yes!"

With such a large area affected, Hu Zhiyong could not blindly provide disaster relief. After he sent the first group of men, he immediately transferred two divisions from the Far East and one division from the Ryukyus, and he personally led them to Henan.

In the small county town of western Henan, he saw what a famine was. There are vendors selling leaves on the side of the road, and you can only buy a handful for a dollar. The wild dogs digging the graves turned out the corpses of the hungry people, and ate them with round bodies and fat skin.

The convoy that was unloading grain was instantly surrounded by a large number of villagers. Hu Zhiyong rushed over and shouted: "I'm here for disaster relief, who dares to rob me and smash your head!" Now I order: the young and strong are organized to build roads, the women to cook, do laundry, and take care of the elderly, and the children to form another formation, and prepare me to go to school! ”

"First pay!"

"First pay, first pay!" Everyone raised their fists in the air, expressing their dissatisfaction with Hu Zhiyong's approach.

"If you're hungry, there are instant noodles and instant food here, if you don't work and want to eat, you still have to wait to starve to death!" Hu Zhiyong was uncompromising, standing on the car with his waist pinched and not moving.

"Get the tools!"

"Yes, we have food to eat, and we should work."

"He's building a road for us!" The victims chattered and finally scattered and went home to get their tools.

"Spread the experience here and mobilize 100 million people to take action!" Hu Zhiyong couldn't help but be surprised, these hungry people were borne by him alone, and they needed at least 10 billion catties of grain in a year!

Building roads, bridges, and reservoirs can occupy a part of it, and it is impossible to do it for a long time. It's almost winter, and there's really no way to do it!

Those who read and read were singled out, the young and strong were organized, and those who had done business were also selected. They were asked to learn how to do business and add to Hu Zhiyong's commercial army in various parts of China.

A large number of apprentices and clerks dispersed. Immediately afterwards, he organized young girls, and Hu Zhiyong told them: "Go to Jeju Island to study hard, and you will not have to worry about having no way to live when you come back in the future!" "Jeju's garment industry is on track, and four accommodation towers with more than 20 floors have been completed.

"Young master, this has only used more than three million, it seems to be a drop in the bucket!" Looking at the crowds of victims, Hou Dashun muttered with a headache.

"How many homeless children and babies were collected?" Hu Zhiyong asked suddenly.

"Young master, some families actually gave us their own children when they saw that we were rescuing the children. At present, more than a million have been sent away, I really don't know why they are so ruthless! ”

Hu Zhiyong sighed: "Life persecuted them, this is to let the children escape for their lives!" ”

"Report, a family living in the mountains was robbed by bandits in the mountains as soon as they received food last night!" A division commander came over to report.

"Bring the blood wolf over and go into the mountains to suppress the bandits!" In Henan, bandits have been rampant since the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, and since there are bandits who do evil, Hu Zhiyong will certainly not let them go. Carrying drones, helicopters and a small number of armored vehicles, the blood wolf called on satellites to Henan to suppress the bandits.

The squad entered the mountains, and they were more clever than the hounds. From the tiny clues, you can find the flaws left by the bandits. After the political offensive and the crackdown of the elite troops, Henan's public order quickly improved!

"How much grain did you collect?"

"Fifteen pounds per acre."

"How much is the tax charged?"

"Thirteen pounds per acre."

This is the record of Bai Xiude's interview, and the county he went to has a total population of 150,000, and there are already 110,000 who have nothing to eat. The relief issued by the government is only 10,000 catties of bran.

"Recruit soldiers, tell them that they can eat meat and five oceans!" Hu Zhiyong was furious and determined to recruit all the good soldiers, which might have done some unexpected good for the civil war.

"What? Hu Zhiyong expanded his troops by one million in the Central Plains, Guangdong, and Hunan? Chiang Kai-shek was taken aback.

"This is also a helpless move!" Li Zongren sighed: "If he doesn't recruit troops and don't let these work, new bandits will appear." I heard that he was transporting grain from Southeast Asia to the mainland day and night, and it was estimated that he could not hold on. ”

"A million troops, all trained in Henan, Guangdong and other places?" Lao Jiang glanced at Li Zongren with dissatisfaction and asked Dai Li.

"Yes."

The 1942-1943 Henan famine was an unprecedented famine in the history of the Henan famine and even in the entire history of modern and modern China. This famine was dominated by drought locusts, accompanied by floods, winds, hailstorms, frosts, earthquakes, epidemics and other disasters, and there was an imbalance in time and region.

From a regional point of view, the drought locust disaster is the most serious in western and northern Henan, while the flood disaster is the most severe in eastern and southern Henan. On the whole, it has the characteristics of wide range, concurrency, relevance and accumulation. The causes of this famine are both natural and social. Natural causes include precipitation, topography, climate, crops, and several other aspects.

The losses caused by this famine were very serious, with 3 million people dying of starvation, 3 million people fleeing the famine, and almost 30 million people in the province became victims. In the Kuomintang region, the Kuomintang government adopted a disaster relief model based on government relief.

Under this model, the provincial government relies on the central government, the county government depends on the provincial government, and the victims depend on the county government.

Such a mechanism can neither fully mobilize social resources nor give full play to the self-help ability of the disaster victims. In the practice of disaster relief, it has not achieved the effect of thorough disaster relief.

Lao Jiang thought about it, and remembered Hu Zhiyong's words in the Far East. He shook his head helplessly: "We didn't lose to our opponents, but to ourselves in vain!" The generals of the national army and high-ranking government officials were only interested in the five sons, and many middle- and high-ranking officers took advantage of their power to do business, buy real estate, were greedy for women, were arrogant and lascivious, corrupt and degenerate, and made the army centrifuge from top to bottom, and the army had no fighting spirit. This is the root of our military defeat. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's five sons are the strip (gold bar), the house, the woman, the car (car) and the guan (high-end restaurant). , the prestige of the Kuomintang has already fallen sharply and is out of control. Let's start with the situation in the military. Due to the corruption of the officers and the deduction of military salaries, the life of the Kuomintang soldiers was extremely miserable.

Another is the so-called "paper soldiers". A division was supposed to have 10,000 men, and the central government paid the commander according to this figure, but the actual number was probably only 7,000, or even less, so he put the extra money in his pocket.

Corruption was also very high within the Kuomintang administration. Instead of reining in some bad behaviors because of the country's difficulties, officials have intensified their corruption and bribery, trying to increase their weight for their later lives by amassing wealth.

Those who have the power, as always, abuse their coercion, plunder the people's fat and ointment, and take care of themselves without regard for the people; Those who have money still only know how to enjoy, speculate, and flee.

Chiang Kai-shek has made speeches on many occasions, asking his subordinates to consider the people more. However, because the system is not sound and there is corruption from top to bottom, no one can listen to his words, and it is impossible to put them into practice.

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