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Chapter 55: Famine (2)

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    Things in this world are always interrelated with cause and effect. The storm of the Great Leap Forward swept across the country, and with it was a trend of exaggeration from bottom to top, from grassroots cadres to central cadres.  Departing from the principle of seeking truth from facts and playing tricks with numbers, it finally pushed the entire country and people into an unprecedented disaster!

    In July 1959, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held the Lushan Conference in Jiangxi. At this meeting, Defense Minister Peng Dehuai wrote a letter to Mao Zedong. In the letter, he bluntly stated the damage caused to the entire country's economy since the Great Leap Forward, and  Point out that exaggeration, small blast furnaces, etc. are just manifestations, and the lack of democracy and personality worship are the root causes of all these ills.  This letter quickly caused an uproar in the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong believed that this was Peng Dehuai's attempt to force him into the palace. Chairman Mao, who had experienced countless times and liked to fight with others, was naturally very angry. He immediately spoke at the conference and pointed out that Peng Dehuai  The letter shows the wavering nature of the bourgeoisie, is an attack on the party, and is a right-leaning opportunist program.  At this point, Peng Dehuai, Huang Kecheng, Zhang Wentian and others who dared to speak out were labeled as an anti-party group, and criticism spread across the country. As a result, Peng Dehuai's status plummeted, and his positions were wiped out, leaving only  The nominal status of a Central Committee member to see the consequences.

    This meeting silenced all those who dared to tell the truth!

    Starting in July, major floods occurred in the Yangtze River Basin and the Yellow River Basin. However, the floods were followed by drought in many areas. By autumn, the national grain production dropped by 15% compared with previous years.  However, due to the existence of exaggeration, cadres in many places still pursue a bureaucratic style and sing triumphant songs of harvest.  It is precisely because of these bureaucratic cadres that in bad years, grain collection continues, and more is collected according to the amount reported by those cadres, which means that the farmers' rations are also taken away  ; Coupled with the fact that the government is overjoyed and generous in continuing to provide free food gifts to so-called friendly countries, as well as the so-called conflict with the Soviet Union due to ideological disputes, it is forced to repay debts and export a large amount of supplies to neighboring countries in the north.  ; This series of so-called factors finally caused the hardship of the people in the country. An unprecedented famine has quietly struck this ancient and young country!

    Liu Xinghua has not slept well for several days. Ever since he was promoted from deputy governor to acting governor, he has not had a good night's sleep.  However, when it comes to his promotion to acting governor, there are some reasons that make him depressed. The original governor was criticized as a backbone of Peng Dehuai's anti-party group and was removed from all posts; the reason why Liu Xinghua was removed  I mention it because he was persecuted by Mr. Peng on the Korean battlefield. He must have been a pioneer in resolutely fighting against the anti-party group.  Of course, if the acting governor wants to become a real governor, he still needs to be appointed by the People's Congress.

    Now, there are a bunch of bottom-up reports on his desk, all of which say that there is an epidemic of edema in the local area. This disease starts with swelling in the ankles and gradually spreads to the whole body, including the organs.  Eventually it causes death from exhaustion.  At the beginning, Liu Xinghua didn't take it seriously when faced with such reports. He also asked the medical staff what caused the disease. Those doctors just told him that it was caused by insufficient heat in the human body. As long as he strengthened  The heat will take care of itself.  However, with a large number of reports from various places that a large number of patients with this kind of edema died, Liu Xinghua began to become suspicious.  The provincial party committee also held a special meeting to study the treatment of this epidemic, but to no avail.

    In desperation, Liu Xinghua decided to go to the countryside himself to check. In order to understand the cause of the disease more clearly, he thought of finding a doctor he trusted to accompany him, so he found Wang Jinna.  Although Wang Jinna is a well-known surgeon in the country, she is not an outsider in internal medicine. Currently, there is no second doctor in the military hospital who can match her level of general practice.

    Wang Jinna readily agreed to Liu Xinghua¡¯s request. She also heard some reports about edema and wanted to see what it was about.

    Liu Xinghua was accompanied by several provincial leaders. They came to Macheng County, which has the most reports of edema disease. This county was once the most advanced model in the entire province and the most famous in the country with a rice production of more than 30,000 kilograms per mu.  County, in Liu Xinghua's impression, this county must be a wealthy place with too much food to eat.

    Accompanied by the county leaders, Liu Xinghua and his party first came to the county hospital. This small hospital obviously knew that he was coming, so the hygiene was very clean. However, he did not see many patients in the ward, which made him feel uncomfortable.  He was a little surprised, because according to the report of the medical team sent by the Provincial Epidemic Prevention Station, there were at least 50,000 to 60,000 such patients in this county.  Hold ???  Why doesn't everyone tell the truth?  " Before Wang Jinna could speak, Liu Xinghua asked her first. Maybe just now, he had been troubled by this problem for a long time.

    Wang Jinna was stunned, but still answered: "Because no one wants to be criticized. Chairman Mao wants everyone to fight against the right, so who dares not to stand on the left? Haha, I have been labeled as a rightist, but I don't care if anyone criticizes me again.  Wear a hat! However, there are still many people who are frightened. Even if everyone knows the reason, they are still speechless. No one dares to say that this disease is caused by hunger. If according to those people  From a logical point of view, to say that there is malnutrition is to say that there is a lack of food; to say that there is a lack of food is to say that there is no bumper harvest; to say that there is no bumper harvest is to slander the Great Leap Forward and to be anti-Party!"

    Liu Xinghua was silent, perhaps thinking about Wang Jinna¡¯s words. Wang Jinna is a non-party person and a knowledgeable person. As a democrat, she may have the advantage of being a bystander.  He is an old Communist Party member. Perhaps because he lives in this mountain, he has never doubted the party's decision-making. But now it seems that the Party Central Committee and Chairman Mao will make mistakes sometimes. This famine has just arrived.  , rather than saying it is a natural disaster, it is better to say it is a man-made disaster!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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