Chapter 847 846 [Lao Ji Fulu]
When he arrived in Guangzhou, Zhou Hexuan did not alert anyone, let alone pay a visit to the provincial chairman Wu Tiecheng.
Wu Tiecheng has a pretty good relationship with Zhou Hexuan. When he was the mayor of Shanghai, he personally helped Zhou Hexuan many times. This gentleman now holds many positions, including the chairman of Guangdong Province, the director of the Guangdong Civil Affairs Department, and the security commander of Guangdong. He also wanted to make a difference, but it was difficult to restrain the Cantonese generals - even Yu Hanmou was unable to do anything about it.
In terms of pure weapons and equipment, the Cantonese army was very strong during the Republic of China, almost rivaling the elite of the Central Army. Because there are tungsten mines in Guangdong, Chen Jitang created several Manchu editors for German and Czech weapons at that time.
But now it doesn't work anymore. The main force of the Guangdong army has been gradually transferred to the front line, and the central government has collected taxes from Guangdong. Therefore, Wu Tiecheng had no money to develop civil affairs and security corps, and Chen Jitang had no money to reorganize the defense. Many troops could not even pay military salaries, so the officers had to find ways to make money on their own, such as smuggling tungsten ore.
When I first started smuggling tungsten ore, I used it as a way to raise military pay. Keren's greed is boundless. Smuggling is so profitable that once it starts, it can't be stopped. As a result, the army now has no desire to fight and just wants to make more money while the central government has no time to care about the local area.
The officers had more and more money, and their will was gradually corroded, and they began to live and drink in all kinds of ways. Even civil servants were involved in the gang. The officialdom in Guangzhou was completely messy, and Wu Tiecheng and Yu Hanmou were helpless.
Historically, after the fall of Guangzhou, the classic newspaper headline was "Yu Han has no plan, Wu Tie has lost the city, and Zeng Yang has no knowledge." The irony is that Yu Hanmou, Wu Tiecheng and Zeng Yangfu were the three.
But to be honest, Zeng Yangfu was really wronged. As the mayor of Guangzhou and the director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, he actually did a good job in his job. He had a premonition of the critical situation in 1936, so he founded the Southern Hunan Coal Mine Bureau. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Guangdong-Han, Hunan-Guangxi, and Guizhou-Guizhou Railways and the industrial coal in the rear provinces all relied on its supply. He also established a Chinese automobile manufacturing company, which was able to manufacture its own diesel engines in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. Later, when gasoline could not be imported, it developed a tung oil engine, which made a huge contribution to the transportation of anti-war supplies.
The only criticism of Zeng Yangfu was that before the Japanese invaded Guangzhou, he carried out land tax reform and material control, which caused great harm to the people in Guangzhou and surrounding areas. But this was also forced by Yu Hanmou and Wu Tiecheng, because he had to raise money, food and supplies for the army, and he could only skin the suffering common people.
Of course, Zeng Yangfu is definitely not an honest official. At most, he can be called an official, and he still wears the skin of a bureaucratic capitalist. His ability to develop industry and economy was impressive, but he didn't care about the lives and lives of the people, and he was very fattened by it.
Zhou Hexuan did not meet any of the three bigwigs in the Guangzhou officialdom, but he met four others, namely: Chen Yansheng, leader of the Zhigong Party, Chen Qiyou, head of the Zhigong Party's executive committee, and Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Li, the Hongmen bigwigs. Mr. and Mrs. Wen.
The famous Situ Meitang is just the head of the American branch of the Zhi Gong Party.
The first leader of the Zhi Gong Party was Chen Jiongming, and the second leader was Chen Yansheng. Chen Yansheng usually lives in Hong Kong and has his own factory. This time he came to Guangzhou and Shantou to contact the heads of the Zhi Gong Party branches to transport overseas Chinese war aid supplies to the Southeast Asian branches of the Zhi Gong Party.
Although Chen Qiyou is a high-level official of the Zhi Gong Party, he also serves as the liaison between Chang Kaishen and the Zhi Gong Party - Chiang Kai-shek's personal representative in Hong Kong.
It sounds ridiculous. Before the July 7th Incident, the Zhi Gong Party had always been anti-Chiang, and even anti-Sun Yat-sen. The Zhi Gong Party hangs five-color flags instead of the Blue Sky and White Sun flag. The flag alone can speak for itself.
When the Kuomintang and the Communist Party first cooperated, the Hongmen Zhi Gong Party had already fallen out with Sun Yat-sen, and specifically elected Chen Jiongming, who betrayed Sun Yat-sen, as the party leader.
At this moment, the other two Hongmen bosses, Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen, were die-hard Sun Yat-sen. They hated Chen Jiongming so much that even their eldest son and adopted son died in Chen Jiongming's rebellion, and they also firmly resisted the Zhigong Party. But while boycotting the Zhi Gong Party, Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen also hated Chang Kaishen. They felt that Chang Kaishen was also a traitor and had completely abandoned Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles.
If Japan had not fully invaded China, these people would still be fighting each other. But when the national crisis hit, all grudges could be put aside, and the three parties who couldn't stand each other finally shook hands and made peace.
The meeting was held at Huang Mingtang's home. Zhou Hexuan attended the meeting with two bodyguards and a female secretary.
"President Chen, Director Chen, Mr. Huang, Mrs. Huang, you are polite!" Zhou Hexuan greeted with cupped fists.
"You're sincerely polite." The four of them responded with fists clasped.
Ouyang Liwen invited everyone to sit down, served tea personally, glanced at Yu Peichen and said, "Is this Mrs. Zhou?"
Zhou Hexuan smiled and said: "My secretary, Miss Yu Peichen."
Yu Peichen nodded and greeted: "Hello, Grandpa Huang, hello Grandma Ouyang, I met you when I was a child."
"Oh, this is strange." Huang Mingtang laughed.
Yu Peichen said: "My grandfather is Cen Chunxuan."
"It turns out it's Empress Cen!" Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen suddenly became more enthusiastic.
When Sun Yat-sen launched the National Defense Movement, Cen Chunxuan was elected as the commander of the National Defense Army. Huang Mingtang and Ouyang Liwen were both Cen Chunxuan's honorary subordinates.
This couple were veteran revolutionaries, and they began an armed uprising in 1907. Although Ouyang Liwen is just a prostitute now, she was known as the "two-gun heroine" at that time. She participated in a series of battles against the Qing Dynasty, overthrowing Yuan Dynasty, conquering the mainland, and conquering Chen. Even her son was born on the battlefield. When Chen Jiongming was defeated, Ouyang Liwen had already become the brigade commander.
"Is Mingcheng going to the United States this time to call on overseas Chinese to donate money?" Chen Yansheng asked.
Zhou Hexuan shook his head and said: "Overseas donations are given to the public party, so I don't need to worry about it. I have a batch of military aircraft in the United States that cannot be shipped back due to contract reasons. This time I went to Roosevelt to ask for the aircraft."
"That's a big deal. China is short of planes now." Huang Mingtang said.
Chen Qiyou slapped his thigh fiercely and said angrily: "China lacks everything, not just airplanes. But there are also moths that are making a huge fortune for the country!"
Huang Mingtang asked: "Who is Dingsi referring to?"
Chen Qiyou said angrily: "Who else could it be? Chiang Kai-shek's brother-in-law, Kong Xiangxi, who had just become the Executive President! Kong Xiangxi took advantage of his position to do a big arms business in Hong Kong. I don't know how much of the hard-earned money donated by the people was embezzled by him at the expense of the public. .”
"This man really deserves to be killed! If it were more than ten years ago, I would have personally led the troops to kill him." Ouyang Liwen suddenly spoke up. This lady was going to kill someone as soon as she opened her mouth.
Chen Qiyou continued: "Lao Jiang asked me to be his personal representative, stationed in Hong Kong and responsible for liaising with the Zhi Gong Party. Our overseas branches of the Zhi Gong Party actively donate money. All the money is the hard work of the overseas Chinese. Every cent is passed through our fingers. I dug it out. The result? I found that the donations from overseas Chinese were manipulated by Kong Xiangxi's confidants, and they used shoddy goods and shoddy goods to purchase strategic materials. When these arms and supplies were shipped to Hong Kong, the accounts were not even accurate at all. It’s too outrageous. This time I returned to the mainland to expose Kong Xiangxi’s shameless behavior of making money from war, and to make him, the executive president, step down immediately!”
Zhou Hexuan advised: "Forget it, you can't move him. There are too many lice but it doesn't itch. Kong Xiangxi has been exposed many times for doing this, so he still has a prosperous official career?"
"I can't bear to have to use force even if it can't be moved!" Chen Qiyou said angrily.
Zhou Hexuan also stopped trying to persuade others, just ask for mercy and you will receive mercy.
Historically, Chen Qiyou exposed Kong Xiangxi's corruption and fraud this time. Not only was he dismissed by Chiang Kai-shek, but he was also imprisoned in Xifeng Concentration Camp and was not released until three years later.
Unfortunately, during the Anti-Japanese War, the overseas Chinese in Nanyang donated as much as 700 million yuan (legal currency) every year, and the overseas Chinese in America donated 200 million to 300 million yuan (legal currency) every year. The top leaders of the Zhi Gong Party headed by Situ Meitang donated a total of 54 million US dollars. How much of this money was used for the war of resistance, and how much was pocketed by the four major families? Hard to count.
Feng Yuxiang called for donations in Sichuan, and the people of Sichuan tightened their belts and donated more than 700 million legal tender that year. There are also Lianghu, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shaanxi and Henan... How much money donated by people across the country has been embezzled by certain people?
Thinking of this, Zhou Hexuan had no motivation to raise donations or seek loans. Those big rats even resell military cans supported by the United States and distribute "pig food" to frontline soldiers. What else can't they do?
You deserve to be driven to Taiwan!
"It would be a waste not to mention this kind of thing," Chen Yansheng said. "I am going to the United States now. If I can persuade Roosevelt to sell airplanes, then the American donation I sent to the court will be directly replaced by airplanes and transported back to China to avoid being criticized by Kong Xiangxi." Embezzlement."
Zhou Hexuan said: "Let me give it a try."
Huang Mingtang sighed: "Oh, it's better to be young and serve the country. As an old man, I am dying, so I can only stand by and wave the flag for you."
Zhou Hexuan consoled him: "You are a hero if you are determined to serve your country."
Historically, Guangzhou will fall in half a year. At the age of 72, Huang Mingtang took his wife back to his hometown in Guangxi to recruit soldiers to fight against Japan. However, due to the exhaustion of the journey, he fell ill halfway and died with regret.