Chapter 90: Treasure Suspicion
Hearing that Jiang Haoran lived in the Wuhan camp, the people and reporters flocked to the camp, only blocking the door and refusing to leave for a day and a night. The guards had to pull the cordon dozens of meters away for safety. Among these crowds, the young man with glasses who asserted that Jiang Haoran was still alive last time, and the young man with glasses who was called "Brother Kai" by the girl was also among them, holding a wooden box tightly in his hand, even if the crowd squeezed him around, his eyes were staring at the door of the camp, as if he was afraid of missing something.
Jiang Haoran finally woke up quietly, stretched his waist, and felt comfortable all over. A carp got up from the bed, and saw that it was still dark outside the window, but he hadn't slept for long, and he didn't know that it was already the next night. Shrugged his nose, as if he smelled a smell of chicken, relying on his eyes, he didn't turn on the light, searched everywhere, and finally found a porcelain basin with a lid on the desk, opened it, hehe! A whole chicken is still steaming, and I only sigh in my heart, this chairman's nephew is treated well! I touched my gurgling belly, picked up my chopsticks, and started to make.
When he first got up, he was just looking for food, and he didn't pay attention to the muttering sound outside, but now he was sitting at the desk, closer to the outside, and the sound came to his ears. It was as if the chairman was talking to a man about something. Jiang Haoran listened for a long time before he understood that this man was introducing a secret spy department he used to work in the Qing Dynasty government. "Ouchi guards?" Jiang Haoran let out a low snort, and immediately became interested, and pointed his ears to sound.
The man said: "The world's understanding of the Qing Dynasty's secret service is that it is something like 'Ouchi Guard' or 'Blood Droplet'. In fact, these are all based on some wild histories of literati to spread falsehoods. The real spy agency of the Qing Dynasty was an organ directly managed by the emperor, called the 'Sticky Pole Office'. The semantic meaning of this 'sticky pole' is a game that specializes in fishing, catching cicadas, catching dragonflies and other small animals on land and water. On the surface, this 'sticky pole' is a service agency that serves the emperor to play, but in fact it is a special secret agency. Its duty was to spy on the emperor, eradicate dissidents, carry out secret missions, and capture and slaughter political opponents like fish, cicadas, dragonflies and other small animals. The head of the 'sticky pole' is called the 'sticky pole guard', and the rest are called 'sticky pole Bai Ah Tang'. The 'Sticky Guard' is filled by a big spy with meritorious service, and the 'Sticky Pole Bai Ah Tang' is served by a small agent. These little spies are all covered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and each of them has great powers and skills, and with my talents, I can only serve as a deputy as a 'sticky guard' in it. ”
"That's right, Brother Wenxuan! You mentioned in your letter to me that you went to Xiangtan for the Qing Dynasty for some absurd thing, what is it? The chairman seemed to be more interested in these secrets, and directly interrupted the man's words.
His "Brother Wenxuan" shocked Jiang Haoran a lot, he remembered that his father, the original owner of the body, was called Wenxuan. "What is he doing here? Could it be that he heard that he was back, so he rushed over? It's not that fast, is it? There was no time for Jiang Haoran to be confused, because the next words surprised him even more.
The man smiled, and then said: "This matter is a long story, I can only tell you briefly, otherwise I won't be able to finish talking about it for three days and three nights." This matter has to start with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, when Zeng Guofan led his troops to attack Nanjing, and the last to break the city was his most powerful general - Guo Songlin. After the destruction of the city of Nanjing, it goes without saying that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was destroyed, but since the gold and silver treasures they have looted over the years have disappeared, according to later insiders, there are millions of taels of gold alone??????"
"Ah?????? A few million taels of gold? The chairman of the committee exclaimed, probably because he got up too suddenly, and then there was a "snap" sound of the chair falling to the ground.
In the more than a year after the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the Nationalist Government actively resisted the aggression of the Japanese army, due to the strength of the enemy and our weakness and various other reasons, the Japanese army occupied most of China, and now Wuhan has been lost, the economically developed coastal areas and almost all the important large and medium-sized cities have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and half of China's rivers and mountains have fallen under the iron heel of the Japanese army. Before the war, 90% of China's industry was concentrated in some large and medium-sized cities in northern, central, and southern China, and the Japanese army occupied these important areas and industrial cities, which dealt an unprecedentedly severe blow to the economy of the Nationalist Government. After the influx of large numbers of military and political personnel and refugees, government fiscal expenditures will expand rapidly, while revenues will drop sharply due to the fall of the coastal provinces. During the war, it needed about $5 or 6 million a day for war expenses, or about $2 billion a year, and the fiscal revenue after the outbreak of the War of Resistance was only about $400 million a year.
The man smiled: "Brother Jiezhong, don't worry, you won't be excited after listening." ”
A man dares to call the chairman "Brother Jiezhong", Jiang Haoran can be sure that he is Jiang Zhiwu who he should call "father".
Jiang Zhiwu continued: "At that time, many people suspected that this batch of treasures fell into the hands of Guo Songlin, but there was no evidence, and Guo Songlin was a fellow countryman and disciple of Zeng Guofan, who was in power back then, even the emperor did not dare to use force against him. After that, Guo Songlin went to Wuhan to serve as the governor of Hubei, and soon after said that he was sick and resigned, his family and his entourage, gold and silver were fine, and he loaded 24 boats, escorted by 3,000 sailors, and returned to his hometown in Xiangtan from the Yangtze River waterway. After Guo Songlin returned to his hometown, he built a luxury manor covering an area of more than 1,000 acres in Maiwan Village, Xiangtan, and its luxury was comparable to that of the royal family. He instructed the construction of a white marble archway, which was more than a foot higher than the palace wall. In front of the hall imitated the building of the Forbidden City, an oval-shaped artificial 'Xiaoyao Lake' was built, the lake was surrounded by white marble railings, and 14 sets of luxury rooms were built in a row according to the lake, and 13 wives and concubines were taken, except for one of them for his wife to live, the other 13 sets, one set of wives and concubines in each room. But this luxurious and erosive life did not last a few years, and one day in 1880, he died violently at home. There are different opinions about the cause of his death, including injuries, excessive indulgence, and even rumors that he was because he wore a yellow coat to greet the Qincha, so that the Qincha had to kneel to him, and offended the Qincha, after the Qincha returned to Beijing, he participated in his extravagant construction of the imperial palace, and the wives and concubines were crowded, and the emperor was angry and executed him. In fact, the real cause of his death was torture at the 'sticky pole' to extract a confession??????"