Chapter 231: The Chaotic Government of the Republic of China
When the intelligence circles of various countries were still trying their best to analyze Li Tie, the Nanjing government of China at this time, Sun Ke, who had just received a donation of 10 million yuan from Li Tie, cried with joy.
"Great, we finally have money, quickly divide this 10 million yuan, and see how long our provisional government can last?" Sun Ke, President of the Executive Yuan of the Nanjing National Government, asked the Minister of Finance in front of him impatiently.
The Minister of Finance replied with difficulty: "I'm afraid it won't last long, the salaries of civil servants across the country have not yet been opened last month, and the expenditure of civil servants in our Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces alone is several million yuan."
In addition, the special funds for education reported by various localities, the special funds for road maintenance, the reconstruction funds after last year's floods, and the resettlement funds for the Northeast Army sent by Zhang Shaoshuai.
Together, we urgently need to pay nearly 30 million yuan this month, and Li Tie's donation was donated to the military department.
"Fuck it, you can't use it, our government is about to be able to open the pot, if our government is disbanded because it can't pay salaries, what's the use of keeping only their military department.
Without us providing them with money and food, and their clothes were ringing, why would they fight with the Japanese.
Now they can't even eat enough food and clothing, who cares about their life or death. Listen to me, spend this 10 million first, but use it most urgently, and I'll find a way to find other holes. ”
In the month since Sun Ke took office as the premier, he has almost made the empty treasury cry. There were telegrams asking for money everywhere, but when Commander Chiang stepped down, he took all the money from the treasury with him.
And the Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebols don't support him, they are all watching his jokes. He's been crazy about money lately, and now he looks at everything like money, and even when he comes home to see his wife's face, it looks more and more like ingots.
"However, Dean, according to international practice, this war donation is to be earmarked, and we have misappropriated it, and once the news spreads, it will greatly discourage the patriotic enthusiasm of the masses.
If we let Jiang's faction seize the hands and feet, I am afraid that they will take this opportunity to make a big fuss, and then we will be even more passive. "The Minister of Finance looked worried about the country.
"You are stupid, you don't say it, I don't say it, and my colleagues here don't say it, who knows that we have misappropriated it without authorization.
Maybe outsiders still think that this is our normal tax? Don't worry, the minister in charge of supervision is my father Sun Yat-sen's old subordinate, and he will turn a blind eye. Sun Ke insisted on using the war donations raised by the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The Minister of Finance also has no way to refute it. Seeing that the matter of dividing the money had been decided, the minister in charge of construction immediately said that he urgently needed 3 million yuan to pay the wages of migrant workers for the post-disaster construction fund he presided over.
The minister in charge of civil affairs said that there are now several million victims in various places, and I don't want more, but also three million, so let's let the millions of victims eat a few full meals.
The Minister of Education also said that no one can be poor in education, and teachers all over the country have pledged a month's salary, so give him 2 million and let him pay last month's salary first.
The remaining two million have not yet waited for the Minister of Finance to open his mouth, and several other ministers such as the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Culture have already pinched each other for the last two million.
As a result, a few people almost didn't fight because of the last two million yuan, and in the end, Sun Ke made the final decision: "Okay, don't rob it, look at your current appearance, you are also from a cultural background, can you be more elegant?"
The remaining two million dollars will be divided equally among your ministers, including the Minister of Finance. After speaking, Sun Ke angrily drove all the ministers in front of him out of the office of the Executive Yuan.
Seeing that these deans were gone, Sun Xing leaned back on the chair in the dean's room with a headache and said to himself: "This dean is too difficult to do, I knew it was like this, and I didn't say anything and Wang Jingwei to squeeze out Jiang someone."
If the financial situation does not improve for a few more days, I would rather bow my head to Jiang and admit my mistake, or ask him to clean up this mess.
I'd better find a job to rest for a few years, and if I continue like this, I will grow old sooner or later. ”
Several ministers left the office of the Executive Chief, and everyone discussed how to distribute the huge amount of money, and each took the approval slip to receive the money.
The Minister of Finance also began to make his small calculations with the hundreds of thousands of yuan at his disposal, and he had already thought about it, and first took out 100,000 yuan to pay the project money owed by his Ministry of Finance to his cousin.
In the past, there was no way to have money, but now that you have money, of course, you have to pay the money first by someone close to you.
Anyway, Sun Ke didn't care so much, and now he made a mess left by Jiang someone. Where do you have the heart to pay attention to these details?
Anyway, something went wrong, and with him Sun Ke on top, he just had to do a good job of managing money. It is estimated that he, the premier, will not be able to work for a few days, and sooner or later Commander Jiang will have to come back to take charge.
Forget it, when you turn around, you will show your loyalty to Commander Jiang and support him to return to take charge. As for this money, there are hundreds of thousands of dollars anyway, and it has been given to Commander Jiang.
How good is that? He showed his loyalty again, and he didn't have to spend his own money, anyway, he Li Tie had money, and helping him spend flowers could be regarded as accumulating yin virtue.
In this way, the 10 million yuan war donation that Li Tie worked hard to get was not hot in Sun Ke's hands at all, so he let his subordinates clean up in a few clicks.
As for the 10 million yuan that was originally going to be used for the national economy and people's livelihood, only God knows how much of it can be used in the hands of the people.
At this time, Commander Jiang, who was living in seclusion in Fenghua, was also talking about Li Tie with one person, but they were not talking about Li Tie personally, they were talking about the information that Li Tie had just sent.
It turned out that Li Tie reported the news that Japan was going to attack Shanghai at the end of this month to Dai Li, and asked Dai Li to transfer to Commander Chiang.
Seeing that he had stepped down, Li Tie was still thinking about himself, and Commander Jiang was very happy and satisfied, but he was still skeptical of the message sent by Li Tie.
"Is this news accurate? Japan had just occupied Northeast China and dared to attack Shanghai before it had digested the three northeastern provinces? Does Japan have such a big appetite to swallow all of China? ”
"In terms of Li Tie's consistent accuracy of intelligence, I still believe in the secret report he sent, after all, he was the first to send the information on Japan's invasion of Northeast China last year." Dai Lian cautiously replied to the report.
But he was too exaggerated this time, he not only reported the approximate date of the Japanese attack, but also the deployment of Japanese troops, the attack batch, and even the number of the attacking force.
Is this possible? He couldn't have surrendered to the Japanese and deliberately set us a trap, right? "Commander Jiang became suspicious for no reason because Li Tie's information was too detailed.
"Headmaster, it is absolutely impossible for Li Tie to surrender to the Japanese, not to mention that he has an assassination vendetta with the Japanese, as we all know, he has attacked the Japanese industry many times.
In addition to the destruction of the Hongkou Dojo in Shanghai a few years ago, he has not been less troubled by the Japanese in recent years, and in the past few months it was his Huaxing flight cadets who blew up and killed thousands of Japanese soldiers.
Another aircraft carrier was sunk, and so much hatred was placed there, even if Li Tie wanted to surrender to the Japanese, the Japanese might not be able to agree. Dai Li explained for Li Tie again.
"That's true, I'm actually mainly worried, in case this news is true, I'm not the commander-in-chief now, even if I want to send troops to stop it in advance, it's not in accordance with the rules." Commander Chiang did not dare to start a war with the Japanese from the bottom of his heart, so he was looking for a reason to shirk it.
As Commander Jiang's cronie, Dai Li, of course, knew Commander Jiang's careful thoughts, but he couldn't point it out. Only a little bit of pretending to be confused to guide Commander Chiang.
"Headmaster, although you have announced that you have gone into the wilderness, the Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebol only recognizes your account. Hundreds of thousands of troops in the provinces of the Central Plains are also your descendants, and now countless local warlords have called you to express their allegiance.
The day of your comeback is just around the corner, and if you feel that the commander is unknown, you can call the troops around Shanghai in advance, so that these troops can also know what to expect.
If the Japanese army really attacks Shanghai at the end of this month as Li Tie said, Shanghai is the heart of our Nationalist Government, and there is no room for failure. ”
Dai Li's humble opinion, from the bottom of his heart he was a resolute supporter of the Anti-Japanese War, and now that his military statistics section has grown and grown, he urgently needs to behave well in front of Commander Chiang.
Didn't you see that Li Tie's food department has become a food bureau? Although no matter what level Li Tie climbs, he will not be jealous, but he is also a hot-blooded man, who doesn't want to rise step by step and glorify his ancestors?
What's more, Li Tie is now a colonel, and he is also the principal of Shanghai Huaxing Military Academy, although he knows that Principal Jiang wants Li Tie to help with money and efforts to plant trees, and finally the principal will send someone to pick peaches.
But now Li Tie's status is already very high, and he is only a major now. He didn't want to see Li Tie's little brother in the future, everyone was a general, and he was just a major.
Commander Jiang didn't know Dai Li's careful thinking, he liked a straightforward person like Dai Li. I prefer him to be a faithful person who thinks about himself everywhere.
"Yu Nong, you go and make a trip, convey my meaning to the various troops in Shanghai, pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese, and if the Japanese really attack at the end of the month, resist on the spot.
But don't be too intense, focus on defeating and repelling the Japanese attack, never expand the scope of the war at will, let alone attack the concession at will, once the Japanese army retreats to the concession, do not attack again, and then I will ask other countries to mediate.
The Japanese attack on Shanghai was nothing more than an attempt to divert the attention of the international community and draw everyone's attention from the northeast, and they would not really want to occupy Shanghai.
After all, Shanghai is an international metropolis, and all countries have direct interests in Shanghai, so I don't believe that the great powers of various countries will watch the Japanese occupy Shanghai. "Commander Chiang finally gave the order.
Dai Li immediately went to Shanghai to issue an order. It was just to the surprise of Commander Chiang that this time the Japanese were determined to occupy Shanghai. And the great powers really didn't think about stopping Japan.
This is because Japan is also privately promising the great powers that it will not only maintain the interests of various countries in China, but also increase their interests in China.
In this way, the big fat piece of China was privately divided up by the great powers of various countries, and the poor Commander Chiang and the dignitaries of the Nationalist Government were just maggots on this piece of fat without knowing it.
Now Japan's fast knife is about to cut this piece of fat. And these maggots are still busy fighting in their nests?