Before Liu Xiang opened the letter, Liu Yicheng wanted to avoid it.

Now let him take a look, but he never dared to take it seriously, in case Jiang Weizao and others thought that he had peeked in secret, wouldn't it be "yellow mud fell in the crotch of his pants, not is", so he desperately found an excuse to shirk, and even planned to run away from the desert for a while.

As if he knew someone's concerns, Chairman Liu didn't embarrass him anymore, so he had to put down the secret letter and gently rub his temples, looking very tired.

He sighed slightly, "You Principal Jiang have a lot of eyes, and if he does this, won't he force me to die?"

"Ah——, this can't be, right?"

Liu Yicheng was also a little hairy, if it was true, wouldn't he become the murderer who forced Liu Xiang to death, and this trouble would be big, so he couldn't care about any taboos anymore, and hurriedly dragged the secret letter on the desk over, and read it carefully and carefully.

There is nothing profound about the secret letter, it is full of greetings, family routines, as well as greetings and polite words, and I don't see a single thing related to the word "killing".

Major General Liu was also completely dumbfounded, looking at Chairman Liu Xiang dumbfounded, seriously doubting whether this guy was persecuted, and a very ordinary letter could be read as "forcing him to die".

Liu Xiang also knew that someone was simple-minded, and even began to suspect that he was sick.

He had no choice but to explain slightly, "Did this Jiang mention in the letter the drought and famine in Sichuan at the beginning of this year?" It is true that in April and May, Nanjing allocated a total of 13 million yuan in disaster relief funds."

"A few days before the appropriation of funds, that is, on May 19, 1937, the Japanese military attache stationed in China, Kita Seiichi, came from Yunnan to Chengdu to meet me."

"This person still reiterates the old words, hoping to deepen the cooperative relationship with Sichuan, and wants to set up a consulate in the city, hehe, although I am old, but I still understand some truths, so I didn't say much to him, and the next day I telegraphed to the whole country and explained to the Nanjing government."

"On May 25, the Nanjing Executive Yuan passed the Sichuan Provincial Disaster Relief Bill to issue 12 million yuan of public bonds, and this money was specifically used for disaster relief.

"But not long ago, that is, at the beginning of September, there were rumors that Brother Wenhui and I had withheld the disaster relief funds and misappropriated them for other purposes, and I was suspected of corruption, but I didn't pay much attention to it.

"So I also looked into it, and I realized that something was wrong."

The misappropriation of disaster relief funds is a fatal matter.

Major General Liu is also very puzzled, who dares to be greedy for this money, even if Chairman Liu is stupid and greedy, he does not dare to stretch out this hand, now it is in the early stage of the all-out war of resistance, once it is defined as "corruption", in order to appease the people's hearts and not affect the morale of the front, Nanjing will borrow the heads of corrupt officials.

Nanjing's Ministry of Industry and Ministry of Finance?

Liu Yicheng was suddenly shocked, isn't that the world of his father-in-law Kong Caishen, in this way, isn't it that Lao Jiang, Minister Kong and others are joining forces to suppress these two Chairman Liu in order to accept their territory, no wonder Liu Xiang will say, "This is to force him to death."

Why did you force him to death?

Needless to say, this is too clear.

The Sichuan army has been in civil war for several decades, and there are not only many small warlords, but also many factions, not only the Sichuan Express Department of Liu Xiang and Yang Sen, the Sichuan Baoding Department of Liu Wenhui, Deng Xihou, and Tian Songyao, the Military Department of Liu Cunhou, and the Officer Department of Li Jiayu, etc., which are intertwined with each other.

Even if his subordinates are a little petty thief, Chairman Liu has to help cover it up, because he is the leader of the Sichuan Army Alliance who was elected.

Regarding Liu Yicheng's worries, Liu Xiang didn't care much.

On the contrary, he took the initiative to excuse the God of Confucius, saying that Minister Kong had visited Europe and the United States some time ago, first, to establish diplomatic relations with the British royal family, and his main purpose was to sell treasury bonds, and second, to use the treasury bonds to import a batch of strategic materials into the United States, including medical facilities, weapons and equipment, aircraft engines, and overseas technicians who volunteered to aid China.

Major General Liu was also stunned, the time when Kong Caishen went to Europe and the United States was somewhat meaningful.

It was not too early or too late, it happened to be about a month before the "77 Incident", and it was not good that Minister Kong had just finished borrowing money from the British royal family, and just a few days after he visited North America, the all-out War of Resistance broke out, and he tossed in the United States for a few days, just to buy all kinds of strategic materials.

I don't know if such an itinerary is an accident or an inevitability.

Then Liu Xiang talked about the situation in Nanjing, the current Ministry of Industry is Wu Dingchang in charge, and Kong Caishen is going to Europe and the United States, so the Ministry of Finance has only one acting minister, it is the current mayor of Shanghai Yu Hongjun, but some people secretly say that it is the Minister of Taxation Song Ziwen's uncle is in charge.

But in any case, some of the lawless officers and soldiers of the Sichuan army did do their best to do something about this disaster relief fund, and Nanjing did have the intention of taking this opportunity to make a stink and bring down the two Chairman Liu, otherwise it would be difficult for Nanjing to completely control the city capital and Chongqing.

Of course, for now, it is mainly aimed at Chairman Liu Xiang.

Lao Jiang asked Liu Yicheng to send oolong tea, in addition to reminiscing about the past, in fact, he also accused Liu Xiang of messing around with oolong in Sichuan.

"Putting an oolong" in Sichuan is a far-reaching metaphor, that is, confused, messing around, and finally leading to things out of control.

At best, Lao Jiang did care for Liu Xiang and wanted to help him secretly, but at worst, Lao Jiang believed the report of his subordinates, thinking that Liu Xiang was indeed greedy for disaster relief funds, and asked people to send oolong tea, which was to let him make a fuss about himself and settle the matter.

On the face of it, this is not difficult.

As long as Liu Xiang himself makes a "unwarranted" oolong matter, Lao Jiang will just push the boat down the river, and come to a "real thing, but there is no evidence", the dignified Jiang Wei can not be the Republic of China version of Qin Hui, and convict people with trumped-up, and in the end it can only be stopped, and everyone is happy.

It's easy to say, but it's hard to do.

Liu Xiang is the chairman of Sichuan Province, and he also serves as the director of Sichuan Kangxingyuan, and he is also a person with a head and a face, how can he make this oolong incident?

The only way is that Chairman Liu dies suddenly, whether it is a real death or a fake death, no one else can be held accountable, because even if Liu Xiang is still alive, his reputation is dead, no matter how harsh the cool officials are, they will not say anything more, after all, killing people is not enough.

If it had happened on another plane, it would have been the only way to do it.

At that time, not only were some people in Nanjing secretly mischievous, but also the Sichuan army troops who went north to Shanxi to resist the Japanese also made a big oolong, they buried their weapons and equipment before leaving Sichuan, and after arriving in Shanxi, they also stole and robbed, which was really unusual, like a bandit army.

Therefore, the governors of various places did not like to see the Sichuan army, and even the common people regarded them as bandits.

When it comes to disaster relief and corruption, most people believe that the Sichuan army itself has really embezzled disaster funds.

In order to settle the matter, Chairman Liu had no choice but to "put an oolong".

Once it is investigated to the end, it will inevitably lead to suspicion from top to bottom of the Sichuan army, and even the grievances and grievances accumulated during the civil war in the past few decades will erupt overnight, and eventually the hearts of the people and the army will be lost overnight, resulting in 600,000 Sichuan troops, before they really went out of Sichuan to resist Japan, they were wiped out, which is really the sorrow of the Chinese War of Resistance.

Liu Xiang and Lao Jiang are both patriots, and they know that if they don't settle the matter as soon as possible, they will only get better for the Japanese devils in the end.

Personal gains and losses are nothing.

However, for Liu Yicheng, it is not a big deal, because this guy is a liberal arts student, and he likes to read history books the most, and many of the things that appear now have actually appeared in ancient times, and there are even more mature ways to deal with them.

He immediately told Liu Xiang three countermeasures.

First, the military and police of the Sichuan military system should be dispatched to take down the most arrogant and egregious corrupt elements with lightning speed and ask for their crimes.

However, we must not indulge in vain, because this is a political battle to win the hearts and minds of the people, and we must not be careless.

In the end, the criminals were sent to the judicial department in Nanjing, and the negative impact of the incident was turned into a small incident as much as possible, and at the same time, the heroic deeds of the Sichuan army going out of Sichuan to resist Japan were publicized as much as possible.

Second, a list of the actual funds spent on disaster relief was drawn up and sent to the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, and at the same time it was published in the major newspapers, welcoming the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Finance to supervise them, and attributing all the money that could not be explained to the arms trade or the use of anti-Japanese conscription.

Third, they hired professional pens to write articles, created a favorable social opinion and atmosphere for the Sichuan army, and admitted to the outside world that the Sichuan army had indeed embezzled the disaster relief funds, but it was just following the disaster relief methods of the Song Dynasty, that is, the "method of recruiting soldiers in disaster years" and the "method of cash-for-work".

The above two methods were still the disaster relief methods advocated by Song Taizu at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, although they later caused the danger of "redundant soldiers" in the Northern Song Dynasty, but the effect was indeed immediate.

The "cash-for-work method", as many people may know, means that the government comes forward to provide some temporary employment opportunities to the disaster victims, such as building roads and bridges, or building city ditches, so that the disaster victims can earn money to make ends meet, and will not do evil in order to survive.

The biggest advantage of this law is that it can not only maintain the personal dignity of the victims, but also make the disaster relief work last for a long time, and the advocate of this law is the famous Fan Zhongyan of the Song Dynasty, that is, the one who wrote "the worries of the world first, and the joy of the world after the world".

As for the "method of recruiting troops in disaster years", it is more profound.

Whenever there is a famine in a certain place, the government officials are afraid that someone will be Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong, so they simply conscript the young and middle-aged people in the place to enlist in the army immediately, so as to avoid these young and middle-aged people from participating in the rebellion, but also increase the number of soldiers for the local army, and once these people become soldiers, the military salary is enough to support the family, and the name of the early Song Dynasty is rich and rich, is the advocate of this law.

Why is such a good method lost?

Of course, it has to do with the decline of the Song Dynasty.

Later, some people attributed the demise of the Two Song Dynasty to "redundant soldiers, redundant officials and redundant expenses", of which redundant soldiers originated from the "method of recruiting soldiers in disaster years".

In the Yuan Dynasty, there is no need to say more, this matter is too profound for them, and before they can really figure it out, there is "a stone man, one eye, provoking the Yellow River, and the world is opposed".

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, don't think about this beautiful thing, even the dignified Qipin county order, can not get a few taels of silver, when the soldier is called Huazi is almost the same, in the Kangqian prosperous era, the British envoy Magani, mentioned in the notes, "full of poverty and barbarism, the soldier is picking up garbage to eat."

When it comes to the Republic of China, it is different, and the people's wisdom has been civilized.

Moreover, it would take a certain amount of time for the funds allocated after May 25, 1937 to be distributed to the disaster areas, and more than a month later, the "77 Incident" broke out, so it makes sense to divert part of the disaster relief funds to the cause of resisting Japan and saving the country.

What's more, the actual price of arms in western Sichuan has always been a secret.

As long as Liu Xiang and Liu Yicheng don't say it themselves, outsiders really don't know the inside story, and all the money whose whereabouts are unknown will be included in the cost of weapons and equipment, and it will be seamless.

In addition, these two people also know a secret that is not a secret.

Eighty percent of the bonds issued for disaster relief in Sichuan Province were sold to the rich people in Shanxi through the Confucian God of Wealth, in other words, as long as the anti-Japanese battlefield in Shanxi was successfully fought, the matter would be settled.

As soon as Liu Xiang's big problem was solved, the mutiny of the Sichuan army disappeared.

The 600,000 Sichuan troops who are about to go to the battlefield can go out of Sichuan with peace of mind.

In order to thank Liu Yicheng for his support, Liu Xiang decided to personally write a separate letter to the officers of the 47th Army and above the division level, asking them to unite sincerely with Major General Liu and show the prestige of the Sichuan Army in the upcoming Battle of Shijiazhuang, so as not to let the people of the whole country be disappointed.

Army Commander Li Jiayu, Deputy Army Commander Luo Zezhou, Chief of Staff Wei Yuekui, as well as 104th Division Commander Li Qingting and 178th Division Commander Li Zongfang all had their share, and even all the officers and men had an open letter.