When he arrived in Guangzhou, Zhou Hexuan did not alarm anyone, let alone visit Wu Tiecheng, the provincial chairman.

Wu Tiecheng has a good relationship with Zhou Hexuan, and when he was the mayor of Shanghai in the past, he personally washed the dust for Zhou Hexuan many times. This gentleman now wears many hats, and is also the chairman of Guangdong Province, the director of the Guangdong Civil Affairs Department, and the commander of Guangdong Security. He also wanted to make a difference, but it was difficult to restrain the generals of the Cantonese army - even Yu Hanmou could not do anything about it.

In terms of weapons and equipment, the Guangdong army was very strong during the Republic of China, almost comparable to the elite of the Central Army. Because there is a tungsten mine in Guangdong, Chen Jitang made several German and Czech full-weavers at that time.

But now it can't be done, the main force of the Cantonese army has been transferred to the front one after another, and the central government has collected the taxes in Guangdong. As a result, Wu Tiecheng had no money for the development of civil affairs and security regiments, and Chen Jitang had no money to rectify the defense affairs, and many troops could not even pay their salaries, so the officers could only find ways to make money by themselves, such as smuggling tungsten ore.

When he first started smuggling tungsten ore, it was also known as raising military salaries. But people's greed is unlimited, smuggling is too profitable, once it starts, it is impossible to stop, so that the army has no heart to fight, and only wants to take advantage of the gap between the central government and the localities to make more money as soon as possible.

The officers had more and more money, and their will was gradually corroded, and they began to spend all kinds of money and drink. Even the civil officials were also pulled in, and the government of Guangzhou was completely smoky, and Wu Tiecheng and Yu Hanmou were powerless about it.

Historically, after the fall of Guangzhou, the classic headline of the newspaper was "Yu Han has no plan, Wu Tie has lost the city, Zeng Yang has no spectrum", which satirizes Yu Hanmou, Wu Tiecheng and Zeng Yangfu.

But to be honest, Zeng Yangfu was really wronged, as the mayor of Guangzhou and the director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, he actually did a good job. In 1936, he had a premonition that the situation was critical, so he founded the South Hunan Coal Mining Bureau, and during the Anti-Japanese War, the Guangdong-Hanzhou, Hunan-Guizhou, Guizhou-Guizhou railways and the industrial coal of the rear provinces depended on its supply. He also set up a Chinese automobile manufacturing company, which was able to build its own diesel engines in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, but later gasoline could not be imported, and made tung oil engines, making great contributions to the transportation of anti-Japanese war materials.

The only thing that Zeng Yangfu is criticized for is that before the Japanese invaded Guangzhou, he carried out the reform of land and material control, which caused great harm to the people in Guangzhou and the surrounding areas. But this was also forced by Yu Hanmou and Wu Tiecheng, because he had to raise money, food and materials for the army, and he could only peel the skin of the bitter people.

Of course, Zeng Yangfu is definitely not a clean official, he can be called a cadre at best, and he is also dressed in the skin of a bureaucratic capitalist. His ability to develop industry and economy is not bad, but he can't care about the life and death of the common people, and he himself is full of fat from it.

Of the three bigwigs in Guangzhou officialdom, Zhou Hexuan didn't see any of them, but he met four other people, namely: Chen Yansheng, leader of the Zhi Gong Party, Chen Qiyou, head of the Zhi Gong Party Executive Committee, and Hongmen bigwigs Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen and his wife.

The well-known Situ Meitang is just the head of the American branch of the Zhi Gong Party.

The first leader of the Zhi Gong Party was Chen Jiongming, and the second leader was Chen Yansheng. Chen Yan usually lived in Hong Kong and had his own factory, and he came to Guangzhou and Shantou this time to contact the head of the Zhi Gong Party branch to transfer overseas Chinese aid materials for the Southeast Asian branches of the Zhi Gong Party.

Although Chen Qiyou is a senior member of the Zhi Gong Party, he also has a layer of identity as Chang Kaishen and the contact person of the Zhi Gong Party - Lao Chiang's personal representative in Hong Kong.

It's nonsense to say, before the July 7 Incident, the Zhi Gong Party had always been anti-Chiang, and even anti-Sun Yat-sen. The five-color flag is hung inside the Zhi Gong Party, not the blue sky and white sun flag, and the flag alone speaks for itself.

When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party cooperated for the first time, the Hongmen Zhi Gong Party had already fallen out with Sun Yat-sen, and deliberately nominated Chen Jiongming, who betrayed Sun Yat-sen, as the party leader.

And the other two Hongmen bigwigs at this moment, Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen and his wife, are Sun Yat-sen's diehards. They hated Chen Jiongming so much that even their eldest son and adopted son died in Chen Jiongming's rebellion, and they resolutely resisted the Zhi Gong Party. But while boycotting the Zhi Gong Party, Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen also hated Chang Kaishen, they felt that Chang Kaishen was also a traitor and completely turned his back on Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Doctrine.

If Japan does not fully invade China, these people will still be fighting each other. But the national crisis is at hand, all grievances can be put down, and the three parties who are not used to each other finally shake hands and make peace.

The meeting took place at Huang Mingtang's home, and Zhou Hexuan brought two bodyguards and a female secretary to the meeting.

"President Chen, Secretary Chen, Mr. Huang, Mrs. Huang, polite!" Zhou Hexuan hugged his fists and greeted.

"Mingcheng is polite." The four of them clasped their fists in return.

Ouyang Liwen beckoned everyone to sit down, personally served fragrant tea, glanced at Yu Peichen and said, "This is Mrs. Zhou, right?" ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled and said, "My secretary, Miss Yu Peichen." ”

Yu Peichen nodded and greeted: "Hello Grandpa Huang, hello Grandma Ouyang, I saw you when I was a child." ”

"Oh, that's weird." Huang Mingtang laughed.

Yu Peichen said: "My grandfather is Cen Chunxuan. ”

"It turned out to be after Cen Gong!" Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen suddenly became much more enthusiastic.

At the beginning, Sun Yat-sen launched the National Defense Movement, Cen Chunxuan was elected as the commander of the National Defense Army, and Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen were both honorary subordinates of Cen Chunxuan.

The couple were veteran revolutionaries and began to play armed uprising in 1907. Don't look at Ouyang Liwen is just a female stream now, she was known as the "Double-Gun Heroine" back then, and she participated in a series of battles such as anti-Qing, Yuan, Lu, and Chen, and even her son was born on the battlefield. When Chen Jiongming's army was defeated, Ouyang Liwen had already become a brigade commander.

"Mingcheng went to the United States this time, is he going to call on overseas Chinese to donate?" Chen Yansheng asked.

Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "Overseas donations are to the Gong Party, so I don't need to worry about it." I had a batch of military planes in the United States, which could not be shipped back due to contract reasons, and this time I went to Roosevelt to ask for planes. ”

"That's a big deal, China is short of planes right now." Huang Mingtang said.

Chen Qiyou slapped his thigh and said indignantly: "China lacks everything, but not just airplanes." How can there still be moths to make a fortune! ”

Huang Mingtang asked, "Who is Brother Dingsi referring to?" ”

Chen Qiyou said angrily: "Who else can there be? Lao Jiang's brother-in-law, Kong Xiangxi, who has just become the premier! Kong Xiangxi took advantage of his position to engage in the arms business in Hong Kong, and I don't know how much of the hard-earned money donated by the people was swallowed by him for public gain. ”

"This man really deserves to be killed! More than ten years ago, I would have personally led the troops to kill him. Ouyang Liwen suddenly spoke, this lady was about to kill as soon as she opened her mouth.

Chen Qiyou continued: "Lao Chiang asked me to be his personal representative, based in Hong Kong and responsible for liaising with the Zhi Gong Party. The overseas branches of our Zhi Gong Party enthusiastically donated, and the money was all the blood and sweat of overseas Chinese, and every cent was pulled out of their fingers. The result? I found that the donations of overseas Chinese were used by Kong Xiangxi's henchmen to buy strategic materials as shoddy and as less. When these arms and materials were transported to Hong Kong, the accounts were not matched at all, and the difference was outrageous. This time, I went back to the mainland to expose Kong Xiangxi's shameless act of making war money, and let him, the premier, step down immediately! ”

Zhou Hexuan persuaded: "Forget it, you can't move him." lice don't itch, Kong Xiangxi has been exposed many times for these things, isn't it still prosperous? ”

"If you can't move it, you have to work hard, I can't get used to it!" Chen Qiyou said angrily.

Zhou Hexuan didn't persuade anymore, and asked for benevolence.

Historically, Chen Qiyou exposed Kong Xiangxi's corruption and fraud this time, and was not only removed from his post by Lao Jiang, but also imprisoned in the Xifeng concentration camp, and was not released until three years later.

Unfortunately, during the Anti-Japanese War, overseas Chinese in Nanyang donated as much as 700 million yuan (legal currency) every year, overseas Chinese in the Americas donated 200 million to 300 million yuan (legal currency) every year, and the top leaders of the Zhi Gong Party headed by Situ Meitang donated a total of 54 million US dollars. How much of this money was used for the Anti-Japanese War, and how much was pocketed by the four major families? Difficult to count.

Feng Yuxiang called for donations in Sichuan, and the people of Sichuan tightened their belts and donated more than 700 million yuan in fiat currency that year. There are also two lakes, Yunnan-Guizhou, Liangguang, Shaanxi-Henan...... How much of the money donated by the people of the whole country has been embezzled by some people?

Thinking of this, Zhou Hexuan had no incentive to raise donations and seek loans. Those big rats even have to resell the military canned food supported by the United States and distribute "pig food" to the front-line soldiers, what else can't be done?

He deserves to be driven to Taiwan!

"If Ming Cheng is going to the United States, if he can persuade Roosevelt to sell the plane, then the donation I made to the court in the Americas will simply be exchanged for a plane and shipped back to China, so as not to be embezzled by Kong Xiangxi." ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "I'll try it." ”

Huang Mingtang sighed with emotion: "Alas, it's better to be young, and you can serve the country." I, an old man, am dying, so I can only stand by and cheer for you. ”

Zhou Hexuan comforted: "If you have a heart for the country, you are a hero." ”

Historically, Guangzhou would fall in half a year. At the age of 72, Huang Mingtang took his wife back to his hometown in Guangxi to recruit troops to resist the Japanese, but due to the fatigue of the journey, he fell ill halfway through and died with regrets.