Before the investigators sent by He Yingqin to Henan sent back the news, Guo Zhongkui couldn't wait.

This person joined the League in his early years, served as a confidential member of the headquarters at the beginning of the establishment of the Kuomintang, and successively participated in the National Defense Movement and the Law Protection Movement, and in 1927, he raised troops in Henan to respond to the Northern Expedition.

Judging from his resume, Guo Zhongkui has experienced all the revolutions since the late Qing Dynasty, and it stands to reason that he should be in a high position in the national government. But he was not a descendant of Lao Chiang, he was unable to enter the inner circle from the beginning, and now he has been reduced to a national political suffragette with only a name.

The National Council for Political Participation was established during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and was the nation's highest advisory body, which included representatives of the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, democratic parties, and personages without party affiliation. For example, Taizu and Duchess Zhou were all hired as national political participants. However, after the outbreak of the Southern Anhui Incident, the Communist Party refused to attend the meeting for a time and helped the middlemen to form another "Democratic League".

The National Suffrage Council meets several times a year, once at the end of October.

When it was Guo Zhongkui's turn to speak, he took out Guanyin soil, tree bark, goose dung and other things, and said in a thick Henan accent: "I am a member of the political council, entrusted by the 30 million people of Henan. The people of Henan live on the line of death, day and night with worry and anger. In public and private, I should stand up and say a few words of truth! I've been in jail, I've been in prison, I'm not afraid of anything, and I can take responsibility for what I say now! The disaster in Henan was so severe that countless people starved to death, and the young people fled to Shaanxi, and the government ordered to intercept them! The old and weak first eat grass roots and then tree bark in their homes, and now they eat Guanyin soil, and after eating, they can't come out, and they suffocate to death, is the government's eyes blind and can't see? Can't you hear if you're deaf? I brought ten kinds of things that the people of Henan eat and asked the ministers of each academy to come up and take a look! ”

There was a buzz of discussion in the hall, but not a single dean left the table and got up.

Zhou Hexuan, as a representative of non-party personages, also attended the meeting as an observer, and his seat was relatively high. He walked up to the podium and said, "I'm a disaster relief expert, and I can help you verify it." ”

Guo Zhongkui cast a grateful look, took the root bark and put it down, and then picked up a lump of black and green substance: "The grass root bark doesn't need to be recognized, does Mr. Zhou know what it is?" ”

Zhou Hexuan took it and sniffed it: "It should be some kind of animal feces." ”

"It's goose dung, the dung of wild geese," Mr. Guo said, "and when the bark of the grass roots and trees is gone, the people of Henan eat the dung." This thing looks inconspicuous, but it is in short supply in Henan, and it is a life-saving food for the people! Because geese eat grain, grass seeds, and there is a lot of undigested food in their dung. People pick up goose dung to eat, which can fill their stomachs and provide nutrition. Deans here, who would like to come up and have a taste? ”

No one answered.

Guo Zhongkui stuffed the goose dung into his mouth and took a bite, chewed it, swallowed it, wiped his mouth and said, "It's not delicious, it's very undelicious!" ”

There was silence.

"Poof!"

Guo Zhongkui slammed the table, startling Zhou Hexuan next to him, and he said with a hideous face: "What kind of bullshit government is this!" I had known that this would be the case, Lao Tzu should not have overthrown the Manchu government back then, and the Manchu government still knew about disaster relief! Now the government not only does not provide disaster relief, but also sets up cards to block the fleeing victims, and the people do not even have the right to flee? Bastards are bastards, corpses are vegetarians, corrupt and pervert the law, and treat people's lives like mustard. If this continues, before the Japanese invaders occupy the entire territory of Henan, the common people of Henan should revolt and rebel! ”

Zhou Hexuan smacked his lips and silently returned to his seat, letting Guo Zhongkui continue his special performance.

Guo Zhongkui glanced at the audience and said angrily: "This matter should be under the care of the Executive Yuan, didn't Vice President Kong attend the meeting?" ”

The president of the Executive Yuan is concurrently served by Chang Kaishen himself, and the vice president is Kong Xiangxi. When Kong Xiangxi was the premier of the Executive Yuan, he was criticized by all kinds and did not resign, but as a result, he was frantically attacked by people inside and outside the party at the National Senate, so he lost his position as president.

The National Senate belongs to Kong Xiangxi's sad place, how could he come to the meeting?

But Guo Zhongkui didn't dare to scold Lao Jiang, so he could only fire at Kong Xiangxi. Anyway, there are more people who scold Kong Xiangxi, and there is no shortage of him, Kong Xiangxi is similar to Chinese football, and scolding him is politically correct.

Guo Zhongkui went out today, scolded Kong Xiangxi, scolded the Henan Disaster Relief Committee, and then scolded the army in Shaanxi that set up a card to block the victims. In the end, it is estimated that they were scolded vigorously, and even the Military Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Food were scolded by the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Food, saying that they were not good at disaster relief and were extorting money arbitrarily.

The venue was sometimes silent, sometimes excited, and the representatives of the press attended the conference one by one.

Things finally got bigger, and the news of the great famine in Henan appeared in the newspapers the next day. Due to the fact that there were too many media reporting on the disaster, the central government could not close it, and the huge pressure of public opinion gave Lao Jiang a headache.

Immediately afterwards, Guo Zhongkui went to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Food, and other institutions, calling for the reduction and reduction of military rations and all-out disaster relief.

Lao Jiang had no choice but to allocate 120 million legal currency for disaster relief and hand it over to the Henan Provincial Government to purchase grain. But the funny thing is that this money is not actually a relief payment, but is given to the local government in the form of a loan, which theoretically needs to be repaid.

Then, Lao Jiang sent two more investigators to Henan, one was Zhang Puquan and the other was Zhang Lisheng.

Zhang Lisheng previously served as the secretary general of the Kuomintang ***** and the Military Commission, and is now the secretary general of the Kuomintang Party and Government Work Assessment Committee, with very large real power. And although Zhang Puquan is also a veteran of the Kuomintang, this person is very Buddhist, studying Jinshi calligraphy and painting all day long, and basically went to Henan to support the scene, after all, his qualifications are there.

The two flew directly over, and on the short journey from the airport to the city, they saw more than a dozen bodies lying on the road.

There is no need to investigate at all, the Henan famine is more serious than they imagined.

After meeting Li Peiji, chairman of Henan Province, Zhang Puquan stood with a detached position, and Zhang Lisheng asked with a broken face: "Why don't you report the disaster!" ”

Li Peiji said: "At first, I saw that the wheat seedlings of Ermai (barley and wheat) were abundant, and it would not rain without raining, but who knew that God, this bastard, blew a gust of yellow wind and blew the wheat seedlings dry overnight. ”

Zhang Lisheng was so angry that he couldn't do it, and asked again: "The wheat seedlings are all dry, why don't you report the disaster?" ”

Li Peiji said: "I saw that the early autumn was growing well, but who knew that God, this bastard had another neck drought." ”

Zhang Lisheng rarely talked nonsense with Li Peiji again, and said: "Call the heads of all counties, I want to know the detailed disaster situation!" ”

Li Peiji immediately arranged for county officials to come to the provincial capital, and asked Li Xingcun (Luoyang Administrative Inspector and Security Commander) to quietly warn the county representatives: "Don't talk too seriously about the disaster, the chairman has his own way." ”

As a result, the two central commissioners received a detailed report on the disaster situation, and only some cities and counties in Henan were hit by major disasters, while other places had good harvests.

Zhang Lisheng and Zhang Puquan were still a little confused, so they called Lu Yuwen, director of the Henan Food Bureau, to inquire. Lu Yuwen kept silent about the disaster, only saying that this year's grain requisition task is proceeding smoothly and that he will not fail to live up to President Jiang's trust.

The two commissioners returned to Chongqing in this way, and Lao Jiang was relieved to get the "exact news."

If Chang Kaishen was still deceived before, then from this time on, it has become "willing to be deceived". His focus is not on the disaster, but on whether the task of requisitioning food can be completed, because the military rations are already seriously insufficient - just like the Sichuan disaster in the past, Liu Xiang covered the military rations and refused to go all out to provide disaster relief.

Is Li Peiji, chairman of Henan Province, a dumb official?

Of course not, this person is extremely capable, and he can rank among the top three government officials at that time.

In Dai Jitao's original words: "There is only one and a half talents in China, half is Li Peiji, and the other is Zhu Jiahua." ”

Is Lu Yuwen, director of the Henan Food Bureau, a dumb official?

Of course not, this man is a well-known economist, and he has long seen that the situation is wrong, and he has also written an article on the economic situation in Henan.

Both of them covered the disaster and did not report it, precisely because they knew Lao Jiang's thoughts.

In fact, it was because of the shortage of military rations that they were sent to Henan by Lao Jiang, which belonged to Lao Jiang's attention and trust in them. They must make every effort to complete the task of requisitioning grain, Yu Gong is to ensure the overall stability of the Anti-Japanese War, and Yu is private to ensure the cultivation of Lao Jiang for their own black yarn hat and repaying Lao Jiang.

As for the life and death of the people of Henan, it can only be left behind.