Returning to Chongqing again, Zhou Hexuan only had one intuitive feeling - the traffic was too congested!

Especially the Chaotianmen Wharf, which is densely packed with black pressed heads. Countless government officials and ordinary people are planning to return to their hometowns, not to mention the passenger ships on the river are crowded, and even fishing boats have become a means of transportation. This has been going on for two months, and war refugees, including those from Chengdu, are converging in Chongqing, because the Yangtze River is the most convenient way to get out of Sichuan.

Many people from other cities and counties in Sichuan have been living at Chaotianmen Wharf for more than half a month. They ate and slept in the open air, got up before dawn every day to line up, and worked so hard just to get a ferry ticket.

Although life is hard, everyone has a little more joy and expectation on their faces, joy because of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and anticipation because they are about to return home.

The day Japan announced its unconditional surrender was undoubtedly the brightest moment in Chang Kaishen's life. When he went to the Victory Building to deliver the victory broadcast, the route was crowded with people celebrating the victory. When people saw Chang Kaishen appear, they immediately thundered with joy and rushed to shake hands with him.

At that moment, people supported Chang Kaishen from the bottom of their hearts, and his personal prestige reached its peak.

The common people are so happy, not only did the Anti-Japanese War win, but the prices in Chongqing plummeted by 50% in one day, as if they could usher in a happy life if they drove away little Japan. In fact, prices plummeted for one day, and they rose rapidly the next day, but on the whole, prices are still falling.

Chang Kaishen's glorious and majestic image did not last long, and the civil war made him quickly fall off the altar.

In particular, in the recent "121 Massacre," 30,000 students in Kunming went on strike to oppose the civil war, and as a result, four teachers were killed and more than 60 students were injured by the special agents of the military command. The news spread throughout the country, and students in Chongqing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Yan'an, Zunyi, and other places spontaneously organized themselves to support the students in Kunming through demonstrations, and the voices of all walks of life against the civil war also became even louder.

Now Chang Kaishen is taking Soong Meiling to inspect Beiping, and his portrait is still hanging on the tower of Tiananmen Square, and when Lao Jiang returns to Chongqing, he will accept the mediation of the US envoy.

Marshall had come to Chongqing himself, and his mission was to mediate the Kuomintang-Communist civil war and help China establish a democratic coalition government.

A few years later, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party scolded Marshall.

The Communist Party held that Marshall's military mediation was just a cover, and the real purpose was to help Chang Kaishen prepare for civil war, assist the Kuomintang troops in invading the liberated areas, actively train and equip the Kuomintang troops, and supply Chang Kaishen with a large amount of arms and strategic materials.

The Kuomintang believed that the Kuomintang had mistakenly believed Marshall's mediation and had sent the most elite Nationalist troops to the northeast, leaving the interior empty and weak in all battlefields, giving the communist army an opportunity to take advantage of.

(Marshall: Is it all my fault?) ）

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Zhou Hexuan did not take a boat home directly, but went to the city along Chaotianmen Wharf. He walked around and looked around, and when he came to a rice shop, he casually asked, "How much is a pound of rice you polish here?" “

The shopkeeper didn't recognize it as Zhou Shenxian, so he responded: "Four pieces of rice and two jiao and one catty, how much does Mr. want?" ”

"I'll just ask." Zhou Hexuan left the rice shop with a smile.

When Zhou Hexuan left Chongqing half a year ago, the price of rice had risen to more than five yuan a catty, and it fell by one-fifth in a few months. (By the way, during the Anti-Japanese War, when the requisition policy was at its most terrifying, the government bought rice from landlords and peasants at a price of 1 cent, and when it reached the market, it became 5 yuan a catty.) This is why the peasants have returned their land to Zhou Hexuan. ）

If the national government does not make a foolish move, fiat currency can slowly recover its purchasing power. At the beginning of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the government had 6 million ounces of gold, 900 million US dollars in legal currency, 10 trillion yuan in legal currency from the Japanese counterfeit industry, and about 2 billion US dollars in surplus aid to China.

This money can be used to straighten out taxes, balance payments, and curb inflation.

But how did the Nationalist Government do it?

First of all, the government set the exchange ratio between the central reserve bonds issued by the Wang puppet regime and the fiat currency at 200:1, that is, 200 central reserve bonds can only be exchanged for 1 fiat currency, which seriously underestimated the purchasing power of the central reserve bonds and directly shrunk the assets of the people in the occupied areas by 200 times.

The people in the occupied areas looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and then suddenly found themselves in poverty.

As a result, the central reserve notes became waste paper, people lined up to exchange fiat currency, and the fiat currency in the rear of the Anti-Japanese War frantically flowed into the occupied area, resulting in a shortage of fiat currency in the rear.

When the national government found that the fiat currency was insufficient, it was overjoyed and worked overtime to print the fiat currency, filling the market with a large amount of fiat currency, causing prices to soar again. The fiat currency, which was not completely destroyed during the Anti-Japanese War, actually collapsed directly after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. Take the capital Nanjing, for example, the price of rice has skyrocketed by more than 500 times in eight months, and the fiat currency has become waste paper.

Later, Chen Lifu summed up the reasons for the defeat of the Kuomintang and threw the pot on Song Ziwen's head, saying: "After Japan's surrender, the people in the recovered areas naturally welcomed the use of legal tender, but the financial authority Song Ziwen actually stipulated that 200 yuan of counterfeit currency was exchanged for 1 yuan of legal currency...... Isn't it paving the way for a rich man who, after this war, has lost his fortune hundreds of times in value? We have turned the people into the proletariat for the Communist Party. ”

No one knows what Song Ziwen thought at the time.

Zhou Hexuan wandered around the streets of Chongqing, and returned to Zhou's mansion in the evening.

"Brother Mingcheng!" Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin lived in the Zhou Mansion.

The two came to Chongqing last autumn, and Liang Sicheng specially sent Lin Huiyin to the big hospital for treatment. Historically, doctors judged that Lin Huiyin's condition would live for a maximum of five years, and it was almost impossible to see the founding of New China.

As a result, two years later, Lin Huiyin took a special medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis, so he had the opportunity to participate in the design of the national emblem and the monument to the people's heroes.

Thanks to the sulfonamide help provided by Zhou Hexuan, Lin Huiyin's condition is better than in history, but it is not much better, she has lost too much weight.

Seeing the couple, Zhou Hexuan smiled and took out a box of medicines and said, "Streptomycin, the latest special drug developed in the UK." ”

"A cure for tuberculosis?" Liang Sicheng was surprised and delighted.

"That's right," Zhou Hexuan took out the syringe again and said, "Intramuscular injection, you can give Huiyin an injection first." ”

Streptomycin was discovered by Waxman and Satsi, who was a student of Waxman and was the main discoverer of streptomycin. Waxman tricked his student Sazi into giving the patent to the school, and then left Sazi to share the patent rights with the school, and then contacted a pharmaceutical company to develop a drug.

Historically, the new drug passed clinical trials in 1944 and was officially launched in 1945.

But now it is a little different, after knowing that he was deceived, Saci immediately contacted Zhou Hexuan's Royal Pharmaceutical Company, and authorized the Royal Pharmaceutical Factory to produce as long as he won the lawsuit. The lawsuit lasted for more than half a year, and due to the unclear ownership of the patent, streptomycin was also ordered by the court to temporarily prohibit production.

In desperation, they had to settle privately, and the two pharmaceutical companies jointly obtained the patent authorization, while Waxman and Satz each owned 20% of the patents, and the remaining 60% of the patents belonged to the university.

Until Zhou Hexuan left the UK, streptomycin had not yet passed the clinical trial, and after waiting in Hong Kong for more than two months, officials from the British military government in Hong Kong finally brought the medicine over.

Now streptomycin is not popular in the UK, and Chinese have never heard of it, and Lin Hui is estimated to live several years more because of the drug two years in advance.