The city of Nanchang was brightly lit, porridge shacks were erected on almost every street, and soldiers from the Jianghuai Army made cameo appearances as police officers, using Han-style I-type rifles to maintain order. The soldiers from Anhui and Jiujiang suddenly saw the victims who were congesting the streets and alleys, and they were immediately dumbfounded, they had never seen a provincial capital that could be occupied by the unclothed Huazi. Many fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls can't hide their shame with the cloth on their bodies, their hair is knotted, their bodies are dirty, they can't see what they look like, they hold a broken bowl, their eyes are straight, and they can't wait to jump into the cauldron of cooking porridge. The child's belly is bigger than a balloon, his body is covered with skin and bones, and there is no child's aura in his eyes.

Under the guidance of the ground security guards, the health soldiers wearing masks led people to bury the corpses that could be seen everywhere, and pulled the dead bodies that had decomposed and emitted a foul smell outside the city for cremation. Then the streets and alleys were sprayed with potions and lime dumped, and the smell of lime water was choking in Nanchang City.

The flesh on many corpses has been cut off, and there is no need to ask to know that it was secretly cut off and eaten by the hungry people who took advantage of the night and no one paid attention.

When the Jianghuai army opened the grain depot, they were surprised to find that it was full, and the golden millet and white rice were piled up with grain hoards that were more than three zhang high and two zhang thick. One grain depot is like this, two grain depots are like this, and all grain depots are like this!

The hungry people were furious, and they rushed to the Jianghuai army's barracks in droves, demanding severe punishment for the culprit Li Liejun and officials from the whole province of Jiangxi, and the spearhead was directed at the provincial party headquarters of the Kuomintang. Jiangxi's acting governor Lu Kegong suddenly became a scapegoat, he was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and frequently ran to the governor's mansion and Lu Kai's headquarters, asking the Jianghuai army to help the victims who were willing to be suppressed, and Lu Kai said lightly: "Soldiers can't interfere in politics!" "And he sent it away. He had no choice but to send a telegram to Gao Chuguan for help, but there was no response.

The original Jiangxi army was incorporated into the sequence of the Jianghuai Army and was pulled to Anqing for closed training, Jiangxi Governor Lu Kegong had no soldiers available, and the police who originally maintained local law and order were also involved with the hungry people, and they also organized a willing group to prepare to go to Yanjing to ask the Yanjing Provisional Political Axe to severely punish Li Liejun who hoarded grain and looted the people. Fortunately, Li Liejun's legs and feet were fast and he carried out the orders of the Kuomintang to the letter, and after receiving the notice of his expulsion from the party, he immediately took a small steamer to Shanghai, and only then did he escape, otherwise it would be strange if the angry hungry people would not tear him into tens of millions of pieces and eat him raw.

Lu Kai set up a temporary military management committee to be responsible for public security and disaster relief work in Jiangxi, and these people opened warehouses to release grain, built porridge sheds, and cleaned up the dead bodies in the city to prevent and control the plague, and even did not forget to distribute the latest news every day, "how many 10,000 stones of grain are stored in a certain place", "a certain official was impeached by the Consultative Bureau, and how many 10,000 catties of grain were found in his home", "How much money was made by someone in the provincial party department who speculated and hoarded Juqi and robbed while the fire was hot"??? There is a lot of news. The Provisional Military Management Committee was busy kicking the back of the head, clamoring every day to increase the number of personnel.

Fang Qingyu was sent to Nanchang to personally take charge of the secret mission to discredit Li Liejun and the Kuomintang Jiangxi Provincial Party Department. Chai Dongliang and Fang Qingyu's ideas are very simple, where in the world is there a cat that does not eat fish, nine out of ten officials are greedy, and the most hated by the common people is corrupt officials, as long as they find out the conclusive evidence of corruption by Li Liejun and others, they will not be able to bring down the provincial party headquarters of the Kuomintang, and it will not be a problem to uproot the Kuomintang in the Jiangxi army and Jiangxi. But what disappointed him was that Li Liejun turned out to be a guy who couldn't be more honest, and he didn't have a word to add to the crime, he didn't have any corruption and bribery at all, on the contrary, he even distributed the money rewarded to him by the political axe to his subordinates. Not only is he impeccable in money, but he also has nothing to blame for his personal morality, he doesn't smoke a lot, he doesn't covet women, and his style of life is clean. Fang Qingyu was disappointed, originally thought that Jiangxi was plagued like this, Li Liejun must be a big corrupt official, but he didn't expect to check the accounts for a long time and found that this guy was more incorruptible than Hai Rui. Eating never serves two meat dishes at the same time, compared to Chai Dongliang's delicacies from the mountains and seas, the dance party and the cocktail party every once in a while, and there are two little beauties around him at any time, Li Liejun can be regarded as a saint. What's even worse is that not only Li Liejun himself, but almost all the officials of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang are clean officials. Li Liejun has always had no sand in his eyes, and he will not be soft on corrupt elements. Jiangxi Province does not dare to say that there are no corrupt officials, but these people in the provincial party department, who are often under Li Liejun's nose, do not dare to be corrupt with his two courages.

If you can't catch the provincial bigwigs, you will definitely not be able to get a few small fish and shrimps, Fang Qingyu was dumbfounded. At present, the courts and council bureaus in various places are not vegetarians, and they will definitely not be able to frame them without some real evidence. Chai Dongliang is also a person who cares most about the legal system, and he will never allow his subordinates to undermine the fairness of the judiciary, this is his bottom limit, and Fang Qingyu will not dare to touch it even if he is killed.

Stealing chickens is not a matter of rice, and he will never do it.

Just when Fang Qingyu was at a loss, there was news that made him excited, and a large amount of military rations had been hoarded in several Jiangxi army grain depots in Nanchang. Then the same news came from all over the country, Jiangxi was not short of grain, Li Liejun just hoarded all this grain, which caused no grain to sell in the market, and the people who had lost their harvest because of the flood were starved to death in batches.

Li Liejun, you have finally been caught by Lao Tzu! Fang Qingyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the task of discrediting this "Li Shengren" could be successfully completed. Newspapers from all walks of life across the country were invited to Jiangxi, and they saw a scene that made them extremely indignant: on the one hand, the overwhelming number of victims, on the other hand, the piles of military rations, on the other hand, the whole village of starvation corpses unburied and gnawed by wild dogs, on the other hand, the grain in the grain depot was moldy because of the high pile. The hungry people are like evil spirits who have escaped from hell, and the rats in the granary are full of fat and fat, and no one knows how to be afraid.

Chinese and foreign newspapers overwhelmingly criticized Li Liejun and the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang, and Zhang Taiyan, the veteran of the Liberation Society, was even more angry and sent a telegram to the whole country: If you don't kill Li Thief, the country will not be a country! Yanjing's temporary political axe, happy to see the struggle within the Kuomintang, Yuan Shikai instructed several royal literati to publish articles in the newspaper to add fuel to the fire.

Yuan Shikai knew in his heart what Chai Dongliang wanted to do, but he would not expose it, but was willing to help him. The general election is imminent, and the blow to the Kuomintang and Song Jiaoren is far more important than Chai Dongliang's occupation of Jiangxi. Yuan Shikai was already frightened by the Senate, whether it was good or bad, Song Jiaoren and the Kuomintang-controlled Senate would definitely put obstacles in his way and make it difficult for him to move an inch. If the Republican Party led by Liang Qichao can win the Senate and House of Representatives elections, Yuan Shikai will be able to show his strength, and then Chai Dongliang, who has not yet faded his hair, will not be able to catch him?

Li Liejun's gloomy fall did not alleviate the crisis of the Kuomintang, and under the unprecedented pressure of Song Jiaoren in Yanjing, many deputies to the National Assembly who had already joined the Kuomintang quietly joined other parties. Tan Renfeng, a veteran of the League who lived in Shanghai, stomped his feet and scolded Song Jiaoren for being confused in front of Huang Xing, saying that he had destroyed the Great Wall, "Even if you gather the iron of Kyushu, you can't make this mistake!" ”。

"Bangbang Bangbang", there were three drums outside, it was already the third watch in the second half of the night, Nanchang City finally quieted down, and the air was still filled with the ubiquitous smell of lime water. The hungry people, who had finally eaten a full meal, also fell asleep against the wall with a hint of longing. The Jianghuai Patrol Envoy and the Jiangxi Governor's Office issued a joint circular to open large-scale warehouses and release grain in the province within three days. The illiterate hungry people have also heard that the grain depots in various parts of Jiangxi are piled up, and they will not be able to eat them all in three or five years, so that everyone has put their hearts in their stomachs, and this time not only the food for disaster relief will be distributed, but even the seed grain for the spring next year, the government has already prepared.

The northwest corner of Nanchang City is the grain depot of the Jiangxi army, the door of the grain depot is closed, the Jianghuai army with loaded guns and ammunition is standing guard with rifles, and the bright bayonets are shining with lanterns. There are more than 1,000 grain hoards three zhang high and more than two zhang thick in the grain depot, and hundreds of men wearing ordinary people's clothes are busy with their work.

"Fill me with porcelain! Put a little more straw underneath??? You're stupid, the straw is covered with reed mats, and the top is covered with millet and white flour, and from the top it looks like everyone is full, understand? A group of foodies, embarrassed to take a double salary of ten yuan? Fang Qingyu scolded and scolded.

Piles of straw were stuffed into the grain hoard, and then layers of reed mats were spread, and a layer of grain was stacked on the empty yard, and from the top, the golden millet and white rice were lovely. Hundreds of people climbed high and low and were busy working, their faces were covered with flour, all of them didn't need to dress up, they all looked like Bai Wuchang in the opera, if they walked on the street in the middle of the night, they could scare people out.

The 500 people who were busy working were a secret force under Fang Qingyu, and they were originally going to be arranged to go to Shanghai, because the commercial police corps was temporarily transferred to form an advance army for the conquest of Mongolia, He Tianshou had to retrain a commercial police corps, and Fang Qingyu's special team was idle.

Shanghai is a place where the forces of all parties are intertwined, foreigners, Beiyang, gangs, and the Kuomintang each have their own territory there, and Shanghai Guanghua Group is the lifeblood of Chai Dongliang, and now it has begun to carry out comprehensive cooperation with the Bethlehem Company of the United States on a large scale, and it will certainly not work without its own armed forces. It is not enough to have a commercial police corps, and they are not good at dealing with those gangs, so Chai Dongliang asked Fang Qingyu to select 500 soldiers who are loyal and physical, and form a special team, which is responsible for some secret work, in addition to protecting the Jianghuai Army's industry in Shanghai, it also has the purpose of collecting intelligence. Everyone gets a double salary of ten dollars.

Now this force has come in handy.

(To be continued)