There were long queues at the gates of several grain depots in Nanchang City, and the Jianghuai soldiers wearing grass green camouflage uniforms and steel helmets maintained law and order with solemn expressions. Ordinary people wore tattered clothes, carried patches and patched noodle pockets, dragged rice jars on the edges, and waited for the distribution of life-saving rations. Officials from Jiangxi Province distribute relief food. According to the household registration book, the people of Nanchang City received 20 catties of rice and 100 catties of miscellaneous grains per person, while the displaced people were placed in more than 10 shelters in the city, and each person received 50 catties of miscellaneous grains after registering and making a register. Not only Nanchang, but the whole of Jiangxi distributed grain under the supervision of the Jianghuai Army and the provincial and county bureaus in Jiangxi.

On the official road from Anhui to Jiangxi, the carts lined up in a long snake formation, and the mules and horses pulled the loaded carts with difficulty, and the whips rang non-stop. On the Yangtze River, small steamers went upstream, and each ship was also full of grain.

In this year of great calamity, the most powerful weapon to clean up people's hearts is food. Providing relief to the 16 million people of Jiangxi Province is also a heavy burden for Anhui, which has good economic conditions. Chai Dongliang held fund-raising in Anhui and Shanghai, calling on wealthy businessmen to buy grain to help the people of Jiangxi, and at the same time calling on the people to donate their old clothes to the victims in Jiangxi.

The newspaper reporter dragged a heavy camera to film the scene of the relief of the whole province, and the people who choked on the smell of burning magnesium powder coughed. Lu Kai and Fang Qingyu organized a number of articulate staff officers to form a propaganda body, dealing with reporters every day while continuing to smear Li Liejun, who was already a dead tiger, and at the same time insinuating disgust to the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department of the Kuomintang. Lu Kegong, the acting governor of Jiangxi, wanted to die, and he planned to resign from the governor several times and go home to farm.

Jiangxi was starving everywhere, but Li Liejun and the Kuomintang refused to open a warehouse to release grain, allowing the mountains of grain to become moldy and spoiled??? If a rumor is spread a thousand times, it will be taken as the truth, not to mention that it is not a rumor. There are pictures and truths, and the photos in the newspapers show that the grain in the grain depot is piled up like a hill, and the hungry people are standing on their bones, and the corpses in Jiangxi Province are all over the field. The people sell their sons and daughters, and the teenage girl sells it for three or five silver dollars, and the boy is even less valuable, and two buckets of sorghum can go with people. The tragic situation of breaking bones and cooking and changing children and eating in the history books abounds in Jiangxi.

As photos and reports were published in the newspapers, anger spread throughout the country, and if it was really because the treasury was empty in the year of the catastrophe, the common people could still forgive Li Liejun, hoarding countless grains and allowing the hungry people to starve to death, which has exceeded the limit of people's tolerance. The cries of "killing Li Liejun to thank the people of the country" have been rising wave after wave, and many veterans of the League who have retired to their homes after the successful anti-Qing Dynasty have also sent telegrams to the whole country, demanding that the culprits be severely punished.

Through a lot of publicity, Chai Dongliang's march into Jiangxi gave the meaning of hanging the people and killing the people, coupled with his initiative to advocate the volunteers to go out of Mongolia to recover the country, which made him a national hero. Chai Dongliang promoted free education and built industry in Anhui, while Jiangxi, a neighboring province, almost cleaned the last copper plate of the common people. With Li Liejun as a foil, Chai Dongliang's image is unprecedentedly tall. Young students regarded him as an idol, and his prestige was unparalleled for a while.

It is true that Li Liejun hoarded a large amount of grain, but it was definitely not as much as the reporters and victims of the disaster had seen, and it was impossible for the people of the whole province to eat it for three or five years, as rumored to say. Fang Qingyu is three points true and seven points false, the grain hoard is straw under it, and the grain is on top, and outsiders don't know how to think that the grain is piled up.

Jiangxi was not short of grain, and the Manchu treasury left a large amount of grain, but because the grain harvest was out of harvest this autumn and there was no new grain in the warehouse, Li Liejun ordered the grain depot to be sealed and not allowed to open the warehouse to release grain, which caused a huge tragedy. Sun Wen gave up the position of provisional president to Yuan Shikai, Li Liejun and others were very unconvinced, and they also had a premonition that sooner or later there would be a big war between the north and the south.

How can you fight a war without food and grass? Li Liejun's purpose of refusing to release grain was also because of the need to secretly prepare for war. But this move became his biggest mistake, and Fang Qingyu grabbed the handle and destroyed his image unsightly. Li Liejun, who is poor and honest like water, self-denial and public service, and whose life is comparable to that of an ascetic, is also like the famous Yangmei governor Chen Qimei, whose political life is over.

If you want to make a comeback, it's just hard.

The "Hongbin Building" in Nanchang City is a century-old restaurant, Fang Qingyu and Lu Kai sat opposite each other in the private room, happily drinking wine. The dishes are very simple, boiled peanuts, cold eggplant, old vinegar wild vegetables??? The only meat dish is a plate of pig's ears, and there is really no delicacies to be found in Jiangxi now. Besides, there are almost more newspaper reporters in Nanchang than dogs, and the common people can't even eat chaff.

As the saying goes, drinking cold water in a good mood is sweet, Lu Kaibing took Jiangxi without blood, Fang Qingyu also completed the task of discrediting Li Liejun and the Kuomintang, eating coarse tea and light rice and drinking turbid village brew also felt extremely sweet.

"Mu Chen, this time your errand is done beautifully, I am afraid that the throne of the governor of Jiangxi Province belongs to you, right?" Lu Kai said with a grin.

Fang Qingyu "slack", put a glass of wine into his stomach, and said with a smile: "You are going to spoil me?" Look at me, I look like a governor from head to toe? We said that after I finished this errand, I went to Shanghai with Lao He to take care of the family care home of Guanghua Group Company. It's you, maybe it's the governor of Jiangxi! ”

Lu Kai's head shook like a rattle: "I'm even more useless, not to mention that I'm not interested in civil affairs, so it's more enjoyable to lead troops to fight??? I envy Kuang Haishan the most now, he led his troops out of the north to recover the territory, which was done by the big husband. ”

"Who can compare to him? Mongolian reclamation envoy, spanning 30,000 miles of Mongolian territory, he is the emperor! However, his errand is difficult enough, 6,000 people control an area as large as Manmeng, and it is enough for Kuang Haishan to drink a pot! Fang Qingyu shook his head and said.

"Mu Chen, you tell me the truth, who is the governor of Jiangxi most likely to fall on? Secretary-General Gao? He is a predecessor of the anti-Qing revolution, a figure who has friends with Jiao Dafeng, Zhang Binglin, and Tao Chengzhang, and is in his early fifties, both qualifications and merits are qualified, could it be him? Lu Kai asked while eating.

Fang Qingyu glanced at him, and unceremoniously knocked his chopsticks: "Leave me a piece of pig ear, and you will eat it all!"

The two of them are used to laughing, Lu Kai and Fang Qingyu are both bold surnames, and they are particularly close to each other.

Fang Qingyu stuffed the last piece of pig ear into his mouth before he smiled and said, "You guessed what I was doing?" Just now, I pretended to say that I was the best choice, and you had a good time playing cymbals with me? ”

Lu Kai laughed twice: "Sure enough, it's Secretary General Gao, he is convinced by this, when people oppose the Qing Revolution, our brothers are still playing with pee!" ”

Fang Qingyu pouted and said: "That's what our Chai Dudu means, but it has to be approved by the Jiangxi Provincial Council, and this matter is not so easy." ”

"They eat the food of our governor, and they dare to oppose us? Let's all supervise thousands of good things, but this one is not good, these guys who eat people and don't do things are too tolerant, or Lao He's set works, take a few soldiers to the council bureau and put two shots, and they will be honest! Lu Kai took a sip of wine, shook his head and said, "I'm used to drinking the good wine of the Military Advisory Mansion, this wine is too boring to drink!" ”

Fang Qingyu opened the curtain of the private room and said to the guards outside: "Go, show me something, if there is a reporter coming, block Lao Tzu first!" Don't just put people into the 'Hongbin Building'! ”

When the guards went downstairs, Fang Qingyu mysteriously took out a flat silver cigarette case from his arms: "Come, smoke a good one first!" Lu Kai said in surprise: "Oleik? Nine cents a tube of good things, Lao Tzu's monthly salary is not enough to let go of the pumping. With that, he took two of them for himself, one on the spot, and the other on his ear.

Fang Qingyu walked outside with a smile, took out a bottle of wine from the counter and walked back: "Come, try this, the governor rewarded me with a box last time, and I haven't been willing to drink it yet, today is a celebration for you!" ”

"Axe brand three-star brandy? I've only drunk it once at the Governor's place, six dollars a bottle, and the Governor will reward a box at a time, he's eccentric! ”

Fang Qingyu grinned: "Lao Tzu has been imprisoned for more than half a month, and he has been beaten with twenty military sticks, otherwise, you will also be beaten twenty times, and our governor will definitely reward you with a box of foreign wine to drink." ”

The last time Chai Dongliang rode a bicycle on the street to lead people, he was stopped by the police, and Fang Qingyu pulled out a gun on the street and was sent to a military court, where he was imprisoned for half a month and beaten with a military stick. After being released from prison, Chai Dongliang put a drink on the table to shock him, and when he left, he gave him a box of axe brand three-star brandy and two bottles of eggplant brand cigarettes.

The salary of the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army is relatively high, the officers are even higher, the platoon commander is ten yuan a month, and the salary of a high-ranking officer at the division level like Lu Kai is eighty-five yuan a month, but he can't afford to smoke such expensive cigarettes and drink such good wine. Unlike Fang Qingyu, he can rub Chai Dongliang's good cigarettes and good wine every day.

Lu Kai likes to drink two glasses, but the amount of wine is not large, so is Fang Qingyu, a bottle of three-star brandy sent them away, Lu Kai burped and praised: "This wine is so good, it's too expensive, six yuan a bottle, and Lao Tzu's monthly salary is only a box of wine money." ”

Fang Qingyu said with a smile: "Another day, if you invite me to drink, I will tell you a way, so that you will drink good wine every day in the future without feeling distressed!" ”

Lu Kai's head shook like a rattle: "You don't know the temper of our governor, I am in charge of a division, and I have more money to go every day, but I still want to live a few more days, and it is not my turn to get rich." ”

Fang Qingyu said disdainfully: "When did I say that you were allowed to drink the blood of the soldiers?" Have you seen the eldest lady of the Wu family? His family has mountains of gold and silver, and some of them are rich???"

Lu Kai suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, and the strength of the wine suddenly disappeared: "You stop, you let me beat her idea?" Fang Qingyu, I haven't offended you, don't be so harmful! ”

Fang Qingyu said with a smile: "You listen to me, most of the Wuhu girls who go to school in the eldest lady of the Wu family are girls from rich families, I see a few who are good-looking, last time I went to visit our Jianghuai Army, there was a girl who has been secretly targeting you, have you noticed?" That girl has a long water spirit, two big eyes, shaved shoulders and a thin waist, beautiful! ”

Lu Kai shook his head: "I really didn't pay attention." Is it beautiful? Do you know what's going on at home? ”

Fang Qingyu smiled: "What am I eating?" Anyone who comes, I have to investigate secretly, do you know what that girl's house does? ”

Lu Kai scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously: "Tell me quickly!" ”

"His father, it's the salt merchant we brought back from Yangzhou last time, and the family has at least one million yuan, do you think, if you marry such a wife, you're afraid that you can't afford to drink the axe card and smoke the Oleik?"

"One hundred thousand? So rich! Lu Kai was dumbfounded: "Lao Tzu can't earn this fraction in his life!" ”

Fang Qingyu smiled slyly: "Tempted, right?" ”

Lu Kai smiled: "Are you kid playing cymbals with me?" Right? ”

Fang Qingyu laughed: "You just saw it?" Try it a little and you'll be able to figure out your mind, and you don't have big ambitions! ”

Lu Kai poured out the last bit of foreign wine in the bottle, and then drank it all: "Don't talk nonsense, let's be serious, last time I drank with Lao He, he was drunk and said, his sister-in-law is bent on marrying our governor, if this matter can't be taken care of quickly, he won't feel at ease when he goes to Shanghai." ”

Fang Qingyu sighed and said: "It's not, Lao He also told me that Wu Jintang also wanted to talk to Du Du about his sister's family affairs several times, but he couldn't open his mouth??? We all don't know what to think, the boss is not small, and it won't be a family anymore! ”

Lu Kai sighed: "Lao He's sister-in-law, that is one in a million beautiful girls, Wu Jintang's sister is not bad, this kind of girl, others can meet one can be regarded as the ancestral tomb is smoking, we have not yet given people a happy word, and it is indeed a little unreasonable??? If it drags on like this, can Lao He's heart have any ideas? Can Wu Jintang not mutter in his heart? ”

Fang Qingyu shook his head: "This is the governor's housework, and we can't interfere." He just doesn't spit out if he lives or dies, and it's useless for anyone to say. After that, he picked up the wine bottle, but found that it was empty, so he had to pick up the tin wine jug and pour a glass of turbid village wine, and spit it out after just taking a sip: "Damn, this wine is more sour than horse urine." ”

"People have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away, and we all don't know how to be blessed in the blessings!" Lu Kai let out a sigh.

(To be continued)