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Chapter 289 The bald man is heartless and treats the common people as straw dogs!

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    Li Hui and the others stood on a mound, all pursed their lips and looked sad when they saw the scene in front of them.

    Not far from them, there is a large group of refugees fleeing famine. These people are dressed in rags, the tattered clothes are covered with dirt, and the original color cannot be seen clearly.  It's sweating, and it looks like I haven't had a full meal for a long time.  While walking, some people will fall on the side of the road, some can get up with difficulty with the support of their family members and continue to move forward, while others simply can't afford it. When people around see this, they will rush up and grab  Light things, throw people to the side of the road, no longer care about his life or death.

    Like their clothes, the faces of these disaster victims also had a thick layer of dirt, no one wanted to wash it off, or in such a situation, no one cared about their faces anymore, these people's eyes were full of confusion  And helpless, their chapped lips are tightly pursed, no one can see what they are thinking in their hearts, maybe even they themselves don't know, they just move their legs numbly and mechanically, following the crowd  Forward.

    It was not the first time for Li Hui and the others to see such a scene. Since they passed through Liaocheng, they had encountered countless waves of such refugees.  Although there are more or less people, the general situation is the same. They are all victims who have to leave their homes and flee everywhere because of the drought in their hometowns.

    Seeing these refugees, Li Hui knew that the Great Famine in 1942, which was hailed as the largest natural disaster during the Anti-Japanese War, still occurred.

    The Great Famine in 1942 was also called the Great Drought in Henan or the Great Famine in Henan. Although the scope of this drought included Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Anhui, Henan was the main disaster area and the number of victims died the most.  Therefore, later generations are named after Henan. This severe drought that lasted for nearly two years and spread across five provinces caused a total of more than 6 million victims of the disaster, and nearly tens of millions of people fled their homes. Among them, the number of deaths and refugees in Henan is different.  accounted for half of it.

    This famine was a natural disaster, but it was even more man-made. In fact, as early as the summer of 1941, there was a drought in some areas in southern Henan, which led to a reduction in autumn grain production and poor harvests, but it did not attract the attention of local officials.  In the spring and summer of 1942, drought swept across Henan. Due to lack of water, the winter wheat planted last winter had a complete failure. In May and June, the drought became more severe. The extreme high temperature and continuous lack of precipitation killed the newly planted sorghum  Seedlings of food crops such as , millet, corn, black beans and sweet potatoes.  Local media in Henan began to issue famine warnings, and county and township heads and other local officials also began to report upwards, hoping that the provincial government could take early preventive measures.

    However, Li Peiji, who was the governor of Henan Province at that time, actually concealed such a big disaster for his own official title. When the bald man formulated the military grain collection quota, he asked the governors of each province about the grain production this year. Not only did Li Peiji not  Reported the disaster situation, but replied to Chongqing: "Henan has a good grain harvest this year, and it is guaranteed that the collection work will be completed."

    Afterwards, he even included the situation of food collection in the performance appraisal of the county magistrates, so in order to keep the black hat on top of their heads, they began to collect food desperately.  The rations are not spared, as for the disaster victims I'm going to leave, who can care about your life and death.

    As a result, under the pressure of officials at all levels, the disaster situation was further exacerbated.  The so-called blessings never come singly, and misfortunes never come singly. In September, the months-long drought triggered a plague of locusts. The locusts that covered the sky devoured the few acres, tens of acres, or even hundreds of acres of crops left in the field.  Wherever it goes, not a blade of grass is left.

    But even so, the officials in Henan did not stop the collection work, but how could the people have food to pay, so those local officials took the security team members down to the villages and towns, and began to rob food from house to house.  Although the landlord has no food, he can bribe them with money, and those ordinary people will suffer. Not only the rations are taken away, but also the valuable things in the house are taken away by the bastards to replace the food. As the saying goes, clay figurines are still angry  Well, how can ordinary people do this open and honest robbery? Those security guards are all licensed hooligans.  In just a dozen days, thousands of people were killed and injured by those regiments under the pretext of obstructing grain collection.  If you don't have the ability to beat devils, you know how to bully your own compatriots. You are really a bastard!

    The common people ran out of food, and knowing that they would die if they stayed, they started fleeing famine with their families. At one time, nearly 5 million refugees from Henan flocked to Lin Province.  Due to road congestion and Li Peiji's intentional blocking, countless fleeing famine died of freezing, starvation, and beating to death.

    ?  The famine in Henan finally aroused Jiang Wending, the commander of the first war zone who was also stationed in Henan.people.

    Under Li Hui's preparations, the Luxi Military Region near Henan has accumulated thousands of tons of convenience food and individual rations. In addition to food, Li Hui prepared 300,000 sets of 87-style camouflage uniforms, 100,000 bedding and 2  There are tens of thousands of tents, and the Time Trading Company has already made preparations. As long as Li Hui needs it, Du Mingyang and the others will go to purchase it immediately.

    Originally, Li Hui wanted to take this opportunity to go to Yan'an to send some food and supplies to the military divisions and bases along the way.  Unexpectedly, the famine seemed to have broken out in advance, and it was only in mid-June that there were signs of a refugee wave.

    In fact, all of this is thanks to Baldy's "Battle of Henan and Lu". Hundreds of thousands of troops in the First War Zone gathered in the area north of Zhengzhou, deploying defenses and attacking again.  Huge, affected by the war, the railway traffic in northern Henan was basically paralyzed at that time, and the national army did not have so many transport vehicles, so they could only replenish on the spot.

    The same is true for the Japanese-occupied areas in northern Henan. After the "Battle of Henan and Shandong", Gangcun Ningci was worried that the national army would come to him again, so he also stockpiled nearly 200,000 Japanese puppet troops in the border area.  Naturally, the army rations were collected on the spot.  Such a quarrel between the two parties naturally accelerated the outbreak of the famine.

    Luxi is better. Only the two counties bordering Henan have experienced drought. Because this is not a confrontation zone between China and Japan, the local people have some surplus food in their hands. With the help of the Luxi Military Region, it has survived until now.  There should be no problem with the autumn harvest. Even if there are people fleeing famine, the scale is not too large.  And soon they were rescued.

    However, as soon as they entered the territory of Henan, the situation changed drastically. There were refugees fleeing with their families buckled everywhere. It can be seen from the clothes and surname Li that many of them were rich peasants or landlords.  These people either have been looted by hungry people and have no food, or the famine has become uncontrollable, and they want to escape from the disaster area before it completely erupts.

    The hustle and bustle of refugees has completely blocked the roads in many areas. In fact, most of the refugees have no idea where to flee, but simply want to find a place where they can eat.

    ?Because it was the early stage of the famine, most people still carried some rations with them. Even if they had no food, they could find wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. The things written in the history books like changing children and eating dead bodies had not happened yet.

    Because they were worried that hungry people would take a detour to enter Japan, the Japanese army had completely sealed off the border near Henan, so Li Hui and others could only change their plan, passing through the Central Plains from northern Henan, and then entering northern Shaanxi from Shanxi.

    In the beginning, Li Hui and others walked towards the refugees, and the number of refugees was not too large at this time, so there was no need to worry about the team being dispersed.  Qin Yan, a kind-hearted girl, doesn't want to see others suffer, and often takes out chocolate bars and dry food on her body to distribute to the hungry and emaciated children.

    Because he carried a lot of rations and could get supplements at any time, Li Hui did not stop Qin Yan's actions. Instead, in order to please her, he always gave her more food.

    But as they went deeper step by step, Qin Yan's actions finally caused trouble!

    This chapter is very uncomfortable to write. I can¡¯t calm down after reading those materials. I didn¡¯t want to be so ink-stained at first, but I always want to say a few more words for those innocent people who died. In addition, I don¡¯t have much opinion on the bald seat.  , is to discuss the matter as it stands!  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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