Chapter 205: The Great Famine in Sichuan
Isn't this the anti-Japanese hero in the Northeast who was ambushed and killed by our mainstay? Anyway, why didn't anyone talk about preferential treatment of prisoners at that time? captured the preferential treatment of the Japanese, captured his compatriots and killed his sister together, Yang Feng really felt a little emotional.
Zhao Tong didn't know that Lu Dao was lamenting his ending, and after listening to Yang Feng's words, he nodded and said, "Yes, I later voted for Commander-in-Chief Tang with Commander Deng." ”
"Where's your family?" Yang Feng asked, he suddenly remembered that Zhao Tong's mother was also an anti-Japanese hero, and the mother and son were the contemporary Yue Fei who was a bald guy, and the request he gave Tang Juwu was that his family died at the hands of the Japanese.
"Our family is in the Anti-Japanese Federation, and this time Commander-in-Chief Tang specially sent me to lead these brothers because of my high education." Zhao Tong said.
"Full of loyalty!" Yang Feng patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's play for a few days first, and we'll talk about it in a few days." ”
After saying this, he asked someone to bring a wad of banknotes and handed it to Zhao Tong, and then said: "This money will be divided among the brothers, first take it as pocket money, and then go to Jinyuan Company to report your name to Secretary Han, and find her as much as you want." ”
"Mr. Yang, can you tell us what to do first, otherwise we don't know what to do." Zhao Tong looked at the thick banknote in his hand and asked with some hesitation.
"Don't worry about what to do, anyway, let you kill the Japanese, as for why I won't tell you now, it's because I still have to do some tests, if it's not suitable, I can only let you do something else." Yang Feng said with a smile.
Of course, these people have to test whether they are suitable for playing submarines, first of all, they must have good psychological quality, otherwise how many days they will be stuffy underwater, and then they will be troubled by claustrophobia, and in addition, their bodies must be strong enough, and they must cooperate well with each other. These are all things that need to be tested, and those who fail to pass them are thrown directly into the reconnaissance camp, anyway, these guys are not bad.
Yang Feng looked at these future underwater wolves, jumped on the Wrangler one by one with great interest, and drove to the direction of the barracks under the leadership of the accompanying security division officer, and he also turned around and walked towards the Maybach. At this time, another Hercules flew from the south, and the sign on it was a flight to Chongqing.
He didn't care much, this is a regular flight, once a week round trip, from Beiping to Chongqing via Hankou, if necessary, it will also fly to Chengdu, after the completion of Baishiyi Airport, Yang Feng then opened Chengdu Shuangliu Airport, not only flights. Sometimes the liberators will fly over for training.
Just as he was about to get into the car, an airport ground attendant hurriedly ran over, shouting as he ran.
"Old, boss, Chairman Liu of Sichuan is here!" He ran to Yang Feng and said breathlessly.
Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, what did Liu Xiang do in Beiping?
After the plane came to a standstill, as soon as the cargo looked at the people who came out of the plane, they knew that something big was going on. It was not only Liu Xiang who came, but even a large group of Sichuan celebrities, including Zhang Lan.
What scared Yang Feng even more was that. These old guys, who had more than half of their beards longer than their own hair, actually bowed down when they came to them.
"Brother Fu Cheng, what are you doing here?" The creature jumped to the side in fright, then shouted dumbfounded.
"Brother Yang, brother, I am begging you on behalf of the people of Sichuan!" Liu Xiang said with a wry smile.
"What do you mean?" Yang Feng didn't understand it even more.
"There has been a severe drought in central Sichuan for many years, and this spring is still very serious. More than 100 counties were affected by the disaster, countless hungry people were waiting to be fed, the roots and bark of the herbivories were exhausted, the children and daughters were sold everywhere, and even the tragedy of cannibalism occurred. The land of abundance is starving! Zhang Lan said with tears in his eyes.
"So serious?" Yang Feng exclaimed.
In fact, the tragic situation of the drought in Sichuan has been much lighter than in the original history, the large-scale construction of Chongqing, the construction of Shuangliu Airport in Chengdu has fed hundreds of thousands of people, as well as the increase in the production of improved seeds provided by Yang Feng, coupled with the increase in Sichuan's financial revenue, so that Liu Xiang was also able to allocate a certain amount of funds for disaster relief, which greatly delayed the disaster that was already very serious in 1935, but in the spring famine season this year, Sichuan can no longer hold on.
"What about the Zhongyang side? Is there no disaster relief? When he said this, Yang Feng knew that he had asked a very stupid question, Sichuan is not the territory of the bald guy, why did he take money to Liu Xiang for disaster relief, he was so idle that he wouldn't do this job, besides, this guy has always performed badly in this regard, the former stock broker has always been sober in settling accounts, but he is a little too sober, just like Liu Xiang scolded him in the original history, just want to unify Sichuan, and he doesn't care if there is something in Sichuan, unification, unification of a hammer!
The same was true of the Yellow River flood in Henan last year, if it weren't for the fact that Pingjin had not paid a lot of money to purchase grain from abroad, he would also have to starve to death, and this was still on his own territory.
That time was initiated by Liu Haining himself, Yang Feng was not there at the time, this old man has already come to the initial stage of saving money, and he has already begun to save people's hearts.
"What else can Nanjing do? It's nothing more than sending people to investigate the disaster, and as for disaster relief, I'm afraid there is no hope. Liu Xiang said with a wry smile.
"Let's go, let's go back to the city first, rest assured that my brother will definitely not be able to watch the father and elder in Sichuan starve to death!" Yang Feng hurriedly said, saving is definitely to be saved, even if it is not to buy people's hearts, watching a large number of victims starve to death on the conscience can not pass, you must know that the great drought in the history of the road lasted until 1937, to the end of the year, even the robbery of Guanyin soil had a fight, and the tragedy of cannibalism drove a county magistrate crazy.
It's hard to imagine how the people of Sichuan supported half of the country for the bald guy without regrets less than a year later.
He and Liu Xiang and Zhang Lan went to Maybach together, and the others arranged a car from the airport to return to Beiping, and went to Liu Haining first, and then Yang Feng and Liu Haining convened a meeting of all the capitalists of the Jinyuan system in Pingjin, this was the first time that Boss Yang gave this kind of order, and almost all the people who could arrive arrived and sat in the conference hall of Jinyuan.
There is no problem with disaster relief, Boss Yang has spoken, no one can be left behind, and besides, none of these capitalists are taking advantage of a few million now, and one person will not blink an eyelid if he donates 100,000 or 80,000 yuan, and these guys donated nearly 10 million in a blink of an eye, which stunned Liu Xiang and his gang.
"Okay, let's add another 10 million." Yang Feng counted the pile of checks, and then wrote another 10 million by himself, and then stuffed them into Zhang Lan's hand.
"Cousin, this money is in your custody, this is all a check from Zhongyang Bank. You can go to Nanjing to withdraw money, anyway, you have to buy rice in Jiangsu and Zhejiang! Yang Feng said, this product is a bit too much fiat currency in his hand! I simply used it to give favors.
Those capitalists have a very tacit understanding with him on this point, and the foreign exchange and physical goods in the hands of these guys are deposited in the People's Bank of China, but all the fiat currency is deposited in the central bank, and no one saves it as property anyway.
Zhang Lan and a group of Sichuan gentry and celebrities. Shocked by the financial resources of these guys, they were also moved to tears, to be honest, they are holding the dead horse as a live horse doctor, after all, the two sides are thousands of miles apart, it is not an exaggeration to say that the eight poles can't be beaten.
Who knew that Lu Dao raised a huge amount of 20 million money at once, and Yin Zhong, chairman of the Disaster Relief Committee, knelt down directly.
"Mr. Yin, don't do this! Now we should think about rushing to disaster relief. Yang Feng hurriedly helped him up.
"Send a telegram to Shanghai in my name, and let Yu Maoren be in Shanghai to raise donations for the victims of the Sichuan disaster in my name. Tell him that I will also go to Shanghai in a few days, and publish a statement of mine in major newspapers across the country, calling on the whole country to raise funds for Sichuan. Yang Feng then said to Han Caiyi beside him.
Money is not a problem, food is not a problem, last year's bumper harvest in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the price of rice is not expensive, of course, if such a large amount of money pours into the rice market, the price will definitely be raised. However, Yang Feng has no choice but to do this, and he has great control over the industrial system. But there is a lack of control over the grain merchants, and this is certainly not the most important problem.
The most important thing is how to get food to the victims as soon as possible, because now a large number of people are starving to death every day, and people will never survive if they die.
"Which counties were the hardest hit?" Yang Feng asked Liu Xiang.
"Now it is the most serious in northern Sichuan." Liu Xiang pointed to several counties on the map and said.
In fact, these counties are not only caused by drought, Li Jiayu is fighting the Red Army in this area! One of the important reasons is that none of these guys can bring their own food to fight.
Yang Feng thought about it and turned back to Han Caiyi and said, "Order all the transport planes in Beiping." All the bombers were loaded with grain and transferred to Chongqing, and Singapore's Jinyuan Airlines was ordered to suspend passenger transportation and load grain in Singapore and fly directly to Chongqing. ”
"Fifteen Junkers, nine Hercules. Liberators of the Cross. Han Caiyi counted and said.
Yang Feng two special planes, Chongqing route one, Singapore route two, and four special cargo Hercules, all of these planes combined, can transport less than a hundred tons of cargo at a time, if the distance is far Aunt Junker will definitely not be able to fly over, just like to transport goods to northern Sichuan is enough, that is, Hercules and liberators can pass.
In this way, the capacity of the plane is definitely not enough, but it is enough to save lives, and now the victims can hang their lives if they have a mouthful of rice soup, and the disaster relief grain can be transported on a large scale for ten days and a half months.
Let Liu Haining be responsible for entertaining Zhang Lan and his gang, most of these people are coming to Beiping for the first time, so they have to let people see the new style of the old capital, and it is impossible for Zhang Lan to be so silent, this old guy is the elder of the Xinhai elders, and if he and Luo Lun and Pu Dianjun are not good, the Qing Dynasty may take a few more breaths.
And Yang Feng greeted Liu Xiang alone, and the conversation between the two of them was not so full of righteousness and awe.
"Brother Fu Cheng, there are no outsiders now, let's brothers say something from their hearts together, don't tell me you have no way!" Yang Feng said bluntly, he didn't believe that Liu Xiang didn't have any tricks at all! Their Dayi Liu family is the number one big landlord in Sichuan, and his third uncle Liu Wencai is in the textbook, so it is absolutely impossible to have no grain in his hands.
Now is a good time to hoard Juqi, and no one will miss this kind of life money.
Liu Xiang smiled awkwardly and said: "Brother Yang, you also know that it is difficult for me to do it, I have more than 100,000 soldiers to feed, and I have to guard the outside and watch the inside, and I don't have the ability to take care of it all." ”
He told the truth, he had to rely on the support of those landlords in order to be his provincial chairman in peace, and naturally he couldn't be too open in some things, after all, that was the foundation of his control.
"These brothers understand, and I understand, that you are indeed in your position with more concerns, but the question is when is it? Aren't you afraid that the hungry people will eat you? Don't say that you are not afraid of soldiers, and when there is no way to live, death is a ball. Yang Feng said.
Liu Xiang was silent, there were already hungry people grabbing food, and machine guns were really useless in the face of hunger.
"Let's not talk about these things, now I will solve the money for you, but I will send someone to supervise how it is used. And don't do anything that chills your brother.
Let's say something unpleasant, the disaster has reached this point, you dare to say that you guys are not responsible? What have you left behind to the people after 20 years of war? Decades after the land tax has been received in advance, how do you let the people live? The people's hearts are not towards you, can you, the provincial chairman, sit firmly? How many masters have changed in Sichuan in the past 20 years, and which one can give some benefits to the people?
Now is your chance to win the hearts and minds of the people. Turn yourself into a Buddha of all families for the people of Sichuan, then you, the chairman of the province, will not be able to move anyone.
So firstly, you can't keep any of this money for military expenses, and second, you are optimistic about your people, and no one should reach out to get it.
Although being an official in these years is for money, there are some places where you can make money, and some places where you can't, and this kind of money hurts heaven.
Third, you are optimistic about those landlord grain merchants in Sichuan, and I will set a price for them. According to the price of rice in Shanghai today, whoever dares to sell it is expensive will not give him a seed in the future, and whoever sells him grain in the future, I will not provide a seed to this person, and tell them that from now on, they will start to release grain for disaster relief, and the money will make up for them.
You put the local governments and garrisons in charge, and save people's lives first. Where you really can't get food, I'll use a plane to drop it to you. Yang Feng said.
"Brother Yang, don't worry. Brother, I'm not a fool, this kind of thing is still very important, whoever dares to make trouble in disaster relief, he will be killed! Liu Xiang said with some emotion.
"Yes, don't be afraid of offending people, you have soldiers. I have money, and I have the support of the people, who in Sichuan dares to have other thoughts! Yang Feng said, this is already very clear, you do this well. In the future, I will fully support you, who of the other princes will dare to move?
"20 million to buy a province, this deal is too worthwhile!" After sending Liu Xiang and the others to the hotel to rest, Liu Haining said to Yang Feng quite proudly.
"I really didn't think about it that much, I just didn't think I could watch so many people starve to death." Yang Feng said with a smile, he is not as dark as this old guy, although he is not a good person when he asks himself, but he really hasn't thought much about this kind of thing.
"You don't understand this, these Sichuan Yankees are good-looking, they like to talk about righteousness, there is this disaster relief, if there is really anything in the future, even if it is for face, they will definitely not look at it, our northern population is a little less after all, but with this tens of millions of people behind, this problem does not need to be considered, so this disaster relief must be more powerful, so that the whole country knows that our Pingjin fathers and elders are using their hard-earned money to save the lives of the people of Sichuan!" Liu Haining said.
Yang Feng is also quite emotional now, saying that at this time the Chinese have no national concept, but the Nima country has not taken care of them, where do you let them get the national concept?
As for making the momentum bigger, this is what he is good at, and there is no need to publicize this matter, and the wealthy businessmen of Pingjin donated 20 million yuan to Sichuan for disaster relief, which in itself is a huge news like the atomic bombing, and the next day all the headlines in the country's newspapers were almost all this.
This was followed by Yang Feng's call to the whole country, and in this article ghostwritten by a professor at Peking University, he repeatedly emphasized three words, Chinese.
"There is no distinction between north and south, people are not divided into old and young, all my descendants of Yan and Huang, the sons and daughters of China, when Sichuan is in danger, they should all give the help of brothers and sisters, 40,000 compatriots save a grain of rice, can live thousands of dying brothers, people donate a penny, you can live a county sisters.
Do you want me to be a poor and weak country in China, being bullied and poor for a hundred years? The reason for backwardness? Otherwise, people's hearts are not aligned! If we make our Chinese sons and daughters have a view of the region, the division between the north and the south, and work together, then there is no fear of famine, no fear of foreign invaders, and prosperity can be expected! ”
At the same time as the newspaper propaganda, under the lens of countless reporters, all the transport planes, passenger planes, and bombers on Nanyuan Airport were all loaded with food for disaster relief and took off.
Even four twin demons flew to Sichuan, where they would be tasked with dropping leaflets in the affected counties, telling them that food would arrive soon, and opening up routes for transport fleets.
Yang Feng flew to Shanghai with Zhang Lan on a Junker aunt, where he personally presided over the fundraising for Sichuan, while Liu Xiang led the others back to Chongqing to preside over the disaster relief.
At Shanghai Longhua Airport, Yang Feng and others were surrounded by a large number of reporters as soon as they got off the plane, causing the entourage to be like a great enemy.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't have time to answer your questions right now, countless hungry people in Sichuan are waiting for rescue, and dozens of lives may leave every minute of delay, please don't stand in the way!" Yang Feng looked anxious, and surrounded by all the bodyguards, he helped the elderly and frail Zhang Lan to the Maybach car to greet him.
A group of reporters would listen to him, just like those third-rate stars interviewed in modern times, one by one desperately crowded and tried to get closer, and no one noticed in the confusion that one of the female reporters suddenly had a very small Browning M1906 in her hand. (To be continued......)