A video that has been banned for 70 years, tells you the truth about the life of the people in 1942, when the great famine devastated the people. The tragedy is no longer enough to describe the situation at that time. At the worst time, the people of Henan were trying to survive. I am willing to eat anything. Let’s go back to 1942 today. How bad was the Henan famine? Interested friends like, follow and comment.
Henan drought
Henan drought
From 1942 to 1943, a severe drought occurred in Henan , resulting in severe famine, Nearly 12 million people were affected. 2.8 million of them starved to death, or even a lot more, and 3 million were displaced from their homes.
This is what the old man who survived the famine said: At that time, the drought was severe, the soil in the fields was no longer in a lump, and the land dried up at the beginning and finally became scattered sand, and since the spring, Henan has not been flooded again. After a little rain, the worst is Huaxian County, Henan Province. This place neither rains nor faces the river. Henan granary has no harvest for three consecutive seasons.
The most heart-wrenching thing is that Henan was also the main battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War at that time. Many people who escaped the war gathered here. Who would have thought? Natural and man-made disasters broke out in Henan at the same time. After the disaster broke out in Henan, the National Government chose not to report it, and continued to collect food for the troops in accordance with the previous standards, which increased the burden on the people of Henan.
The people are displaced
The National Government knows that the people of Henan have nothing to gain,They only survived the disaster by relying on the food stored at home, but the national government at that time had no sympathy at all. They sent people to sit directly in the homes of the common people and forcibly levied the food. In the end, the common people had no choice but to hand over all the food.
Sometimes it is even necessary to change the few properties in the seller to buy grain and turn it over, and this behavior has also caused the price of grain to rise all the way. The governor of Henan Province reported to the central government, but he never got any Reply, especially the worst disaster Huaxian, has reached the point where you can only survive by eating wild vegetables.
At that time, there was even selling farmland for grain . The common people would make steamed buns to sell the food they had exchanged, and continue to maintain their lives. When they got to the last piece of good farmland, they could only exchange them for food. A bucket of rice, and those who have no fields to sell are the worst, they can only sell their properties, but at that time millet could be sold for more than 100 yuan, which also caused many people to starve to death.
Children under drought
In the end, Originally three meals a day became one meal every two days. At the worst time, the people of Henan did not even have firewood for cooking. After all the food is eaten, we can only start to eat bark, leaves, and grass roots. At that time, there was no grass left for thousands of miles. As long as the common people could eat it, all the people could eat it, but not every kind of grass could be eaten, and even some grasses were It is highly toxic, and people even have a problem with defecation after eating it.
So, the real Henan famine is far more tragic than the movie. Many villages have no people after the famine, because the people in these villages either starved to death or fled to other places . So who is the cause of such a famine in Henan?
Old photos of the drought in Henan
Huayuankou dyke burst case
1935, Falkenhausen, chief advisor of the German Military Advisory Group, once put forward an opinion to Chiang Kai-shek: The combat power of the Japanese is much higher than that of the national army, so if you want to prevent the Japanese army from invading the Central Plains, you can only send the Yellow River_ span13span exploded? He delayed the enemy's attack and suggested that Chiang Kai-shek use the Yellow River as the last front, but at that time the Japanese had not launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, and Chiang Kai-shek did not take it to heart.
But since the battle of Xuzhou in 1938, the Japanese became more and more rampant. After the fall of Xuzhou, hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops could only retreat, but the Japanese did not want to stretch the front too long , they decided to directly attack Wuhan, where the Nationalist government is located. After Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram from the front line, he learned that the Japanese began to send troops to North China and attempted to attack the area of Zhengzhou. Once Zhengzhou fell, Wuhan would lose its best barrier, and the Japanese would threaten it. Xi'an, Luoyang and the rear of the Southwest.
Falkenhausen, chief advisor of the German Military Advisory Group, once put forward an opinion to Chiang Kai-shek: Blast the Yellow River
In this regard, Chiang Kai-shek demanded that the national army must do its best to stop the enemy and ensure the safety of Zhengzhou and other places, but Soon, the Kuomintang was no longer the opponent of the Japanese elite troops. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek thought of the opinion given by the German experts before, that is, "flooding the Japanese army". In June 1938, Japan was about to attack the Wuhan area. In order to stop the Japanese army from attacking, Chiang Kai-shek blew up the Huayuankou levee in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. In addition, it was during the flood season of the Yellow River and the river was swelled. Chiang Kai-shek's behavior It directly led to the flooding of Yellow River water.
After the Yellow River burst its banks, some Japanese people did drown, but yes, the Japanese army did not cause much damage, but it had a huge impact on our people. Not only did it cause a major flood, the flood submerged an area of more than 400 kilometers, inundated nearly 20 million mu of arable land, and killed more than 890,000 people and displaced tens of millions of people.
Tens of millions of people have been displaced
Therefore, many areas in Henan did not have a good harvest in that year. When the flood receded, the fields were already flooded, and the people could only hope that the harvest in the coming year would be good. better. It never occurred to me that the harvest would not be much better in the next few years.
Has the impact of the flood finally passed? Henan ushered in another drought, and there has been no rain for a whole year, which has made the people in Henan, who are not optimistic, even worse. Even if the drought is over, there is a locust plague . When the locust plague is serious, all the people in the Henan villages are dispatched desperately to beat you. Just killed a few, and another group flew in immediately.
The whole of Henan has become a hell on earth. It is said that when passing through Henan, there are corpses everywhere, and even people cannibalize people. If they are not hungry to a certain extent, who would cannibalism What about ? In addition to Huayuankou Jedi, there are several other reasons, which are also inseparable from the actions of the Kuomintang government.
The inaction of the Kuomintang government
Chiang Kai-shek's government abandoned 30 million Henan people
In addition to the Huayuankou Jedi, there are several other reasons, which are also inseparable from the actions of the Kuomintang government .
The first point is that the Kuomintang government does not ask questions : Henan was the main force providing military rations at that time.However, after a large-scale drought occurred in Henan in 1941, the chairman of the Henan government Li Peiji went to Chongqing to explain the disaster in Henan to Chiang Kai-shek, hoping that Chiang Kai-shek could reduce the expropriation of grain.
But Chiang Kai-shek himself had a guilty conscience because of being a thief, because the Huayuankou burst dyke three years ago was caused by him. Therefore, he insisted that Henan Province had a good harvest in recent years, and thought that Li Peixin was lying about the disaster situation. This year, they still completed their designated rations in full, and there was no arrears.
Regardless of the National Government
Chiang Kai-shek was very happy that Henan was able to hand in the handover on time, and thought he had done a very wise thing. And Li Peiji, because he was reprimanded by Chiang Kai-shek, did not dare to mention the issue of military rations again. Therefore, he concealed the more serious disaster in 1942, and forced the common people to hand in the food. This is not the most hateful thing. The most hateful thing is that they changed the original 2.5 million dan to 2.5 million bales. Once wheat is almost 140 jin, but a bag of wheat has more than 200 jin. The difference, let the common people hand in an additional 150 million kilograms of grain.
In this regard, The director of the Henan Grain and Political Bureau was rewarded by Chiang Kai-shek. The people above were rewarded, but the people below were starved to death. Even so, the Nationalist government still forced grain from house to house. Even the common people who were discussing were not spared. Therefore, if the National Government had seized the time to control the disaster to a minimum, such serious consequences would not have occurred in Henan. In addition, the National Government also gave up 30 million of the disaster. people.
The life of the disaster-stricken people in Henan
The second point is the corruption of the Nationalist government : At that time,It is not that the National Government did not carry out disaster relief measures at all. They also opened a lot of porridge farms to let the refugees eat a bowl of porridge, but this effect is indeed very subtle, and when a famine occurs, all walks of life will come to the country. A batch of donations for disaster relief, but this batch of donations reached the hands of the refugees through layers of officials, and there was not much left, and even only a few taels of food were distributed to the refugees. disaster.
At that time, Runan County originally had some grain, which could save the lives of more than 15,000 people. For another example, the director of the Youth League Department of Henan Sanqing embezzled 2 million yuan and bought more than 500 mu of land in his hometown.
The donations reach the refugees through layers of officials, but there is not much left, and even a few taels of food are distributed to the refugees. In addition to corruption, there are too many bandits and wars in this area of Henan. For example, The 89th regiment under Tomborn once said that if he indulges his officers and soldiers to harass the people, then this kind of behavior is equivalent to bandits , At that time, Tang Burn not only levied additional food on the people, but also forced the people to sell their houses and land.
Under such circumstances, the life of the people in Henan is miserable, and as a result, a large number of people in Henan die. So what do you think was the cause of the Henan famine? Welcome to the comment area below, comment and leave a message, and finally don't forget to like and follow, we will see you in the next issue.
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