Ta Kung Pao, Chongqing Headquarters.

Hu Zhengzhi walked into the editor-in-chief's office quickly and said to Wang Yunsheng: "Editor-in-chief Wang, I am afraid that this news cannot be reported, and it is very easy to have an adverse impact on the overall situation of the war. You take down the manuscript first, and I will go to meet Mr. Jiang immediately. ”

"Is it useful to see Chairman Chiang? Mr. Zhou has seen him several times. Wang Yunsheng said angrily.

Hu Zhengzhi said: "It's always useful. The central government not only lowered the grain requisition quota in Henan by 20 percent, but also brought the county magistrate of Xuchang to justice, and a few days ago he recovered 200 million yuan in disaster relief funds. ”

"What I'm going to expose is embezzlement of disaster relief funds!" Wang Yunsheng dropped the pen in his hand, "200 million disaster relief funds are not enough for the victims of Henan to buy one pound of rice per person, so they are still embezzled, and when they arrive in Henan, there are only 80 million left." There are still people who are greedy for these 80 million, Wang Rupan, as the deputy director of the Henan Disaster Investigation Committee and the director of the Henan branch of the Three Youth League, actually embezzled disaster relief funds and went back to his hometown to buy land! Is it tolerable, or is it intolerable? If this news cannot be reported, then I will resign as editor-in-chief of Ta Kung Pao! ”

"Alas," Hu Zhengzhi said, "I'll call Mr. Zhou." ”

"Please!" Wang Yunsheng sneered.

Hu Zhengzhi dialed the phone of the Zhou Mansion, explained the situation, and said: "Mingcheng, Editor-in-Chief Wang insists on publishing this news, but I can't persuade him. I will only mention two consequences: first, it will inevitably be detrimental to the overall situation of the war, and second, Ta Kung Pao will inevitably be suspended again. ”

"Then let's prepare to stop publishing." Zhou Hexuan said.

Hu Zhengzhi slowly put down the phone and said to Wang Yunsheng: "Hair!" ”

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"Bastard!"

Chang Kaishen angrily slammed the newspaper and yelled: "Check it for me, check it for me!" ”

Zhang Daofan stood aside with low eyebrows, and he didn't dare to come out. Waiting until Lao Jiang's breathing slowed down, he asked: "General seat, is Ta Kung Pao going to be banned?" ”

Chang Kaishen thought for a while and said, "Order the museum to be closed for a month for rectification." ”

Lao Jiang was really angry, and he chased 200 million disaster relief funds in order to calm public opinion. As a result, only 80 million were left before they reached Henan, and they continued to be embezzled when they arrived in Henan.

What's even more infuriating is that Wang Rupan is the director of the Henan branch of the Three Youth League, and he has won the trust of Lao Jiang, so he was specially appointed as the deputy director of the Henan Disaster Investigation Committee. He actually embezzled the disaster relief money to buy land in his hometown in Xuchang, buying a full 500 acres, and it is difficult to know how much he embezzled.

The reporter of "Ta Kung Pao" originally went to Xuchang to cover the disaster, after all, Xuchang County had the largest number of people starving to death. As a result, I accidentally found that someone bought land at a low price, and after a little investigation, I found that the person who came forward to buy the land was a person from the Henan branch of the Three Youth League.

At the end of the article, the reporter also asked: "The deputy director of the Henan Disaster Investigation Committee embezzled disaster relief funds to buy land, so does the director of the committee know?" If you don't know about it, you will cover it up, and if you don't know it, you will be mediocre! The deputy director is corrupt, so is the director also suspected of corruption? After that, the disaster relief funds were sent to the Henan Disaster Relief Committee, can the disaster relief committee disclose the whereabouts of the funds, and is there any corruption in the disaster relief committee? ”

As soon as the news came out, the whole country was in an uproar.

There have been calls for Wang Rupan to be punished and for all officials who handled the disaster relief funds to be investigated.

Following the shooting of Wang Hengwu, the magistrate of Xuchang County, Wang Rupan, who was also from Xuchang, was also escorted to the court. Wang Rupan died quickly, and before the central investigator could do anything, the Henan side directly dragged Wang Rupan to death, and at a glance it was clear that someone wanted to cover up more crimes - this thing can't be investigated, and a check is a big list.

Because the corruption incident is so wide-ranging, it is impossible to find out for a while. In order to appease the people's anger, Lao Jiang had no choice but to allocate another 300 million yuan for disaster relief.

The 300 million yuan disaster relief money was sent directly to the Henan Industrial and Agricultural Bank, which then transferred it to the Henan Provincial Government. Because Lao Jiang was too close, no one in the central government dared to be greedy, and the Henan Disaster Investigation Committee and the Disaster Relief Committee could not handle it.

It stands to reason that this time it should be safe, but Lao Jiang still underestimated the courage of the corrupt officials.

Li Guozhen, president of the Henan Industrial and Agricultural Bank, directly colluded with Ma Guolin, secretary general of the Henan Provincial Government, to embezzle more than half of the 300 million yuan in disaster relief funds to engage in speculation. In their words, 300 million fiat currency is too little to provide disaster relief, so it is better to use it for business to make more money. There is more money, and more people can be helped.

However, by the time they returned the funds and bought grain for disaster relief, millions of people in Henan had starved to death, and the new wheat harvest had already begun the following year.

This is the three disaster relief funds that Lao Jiang allocated to Henan in a row, the first one was loaned to the Henan Provincial Government, the second was embezzled by more than 70 percent, and the third was misappropriated for speculation.

After Ta Kung Pao was forced to suspend publication again, two foreigners came to the Zhou Mansion.

One is Bai Xiude, a special correspondent for Time magazine in the United States. The other is Harrison Forman, a special correspondent for The Times (photography).

"Hello Mr. Zhou!"

Bai Xiude's Chinese is very standard, while Forman speaks a little lame.

Zhou Hexuan shook hands with them separately and said, "Do you two have anything to do with me?" ”

Bai Xiude said: "Ta Kung Pao was forced to suspend publication, leaving Western journalists in Chongqing with a lot of backs, and now no newspaper dares to report on the famine in Henan." Harrison and I were going to Henan Province to conduct field investigations, and we heard that Ta Kung Pao reporters already had a lot of first-hand information, so we wanted to borrow them to read them and prepare for them. ”

Zhou Hexuan returned to the study, took a stack of written materials and said: "These are photocopies of the interview script, and the photos need to be picked up from the Ta Kung Pao newspaper." ”

"Thank you." Bai Xiude carefully put away the photocopy.

Zhou Hexuan said: "I should thank you, I hope you can report the disaster truthfully." ”

"Definitely," Bai Xiude did not mention the Henan famine again, but chatted about gossip, "Mr. Zhou, when I was in college, I often heard my tutor mention you. The mentor said that you are the most sober Chinese he has ever met, and his communication with you is always so pleasant. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled and asked, "Who is your mentor?" ”

"Mr. Fairbank." Bai Xiude said.

"Haha, it turned out to be Lao Fei. He was very strict when he was teaching at Tsinghua University, and you didn't suffer a lot under him, right? Zhou Hexuan laughed.

Bai Xiude said proudly: "Of course I have suffered. The tutor thought that Chinese was too difficult and was afraid that students would waste their energy, so he put forward the unwritten rule that 'undergraduates are not suitable for learning Chinese'. At that time, there were only two undergraduates studying Chinese, and the tutor always tried to make us retreat by making it difficult to get the test papers. So another student gave up, and I was the first undergraduate student in Harvard history to study Chinese and pass the exam. ”

"It seems that you have a good talent for languages." Zhou Hexuan said.

"Before I learned Chinese, I had mastered Hebrew, Latin, German, French, and Yiddish. The first time I became interested in Chinese was when I saw the Chinese calligraphy works on the wall in the library of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. It's so beautiful, it's out of the realm of words, and every brush word is a subtle work of art. By the way, Mr. Zhou, before I leave Chongqing, can I ask you for a pair of calligraphy works? ”

"Of course." Zhou Hexuan often asks others for words, and there are really not many people who ask him for words.

Zhou Hexuan wrote a short piece of "Friendship Lasts Forever", and the signature was sealed, and Bai Xiude took it to frame it and then set off for Henan.

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