Chapter 76 pity

In the "March 18" tragedy, Peking University students such as Zhang Zhongchao, Huang Keren, and Li Jiazhen were killed.Jiang Menglin, who was the acting principal at the time, was filled with grief and indignation. On March 24, all staff of Peking University held a memorial meeting in the auditorium of the Third Academy, with Jiang Menglin as the officiant.Jiang said sadly at the meeting: "As the principal, I have caused the children of other people, the talents of the society and the country, and the friends of the classmates to sacrifice so much, and it cannot be avoided and saved. I really don't know how to grieve!" Jiang said here: " Wang Ran burst into tears."Then, Jiang Menglin said: "When human rights are neglected and wolves are in power, the people fighting with the government is like fighting with tigers and wolves, and they will eventually be eaten by tigers and wolves. The ancients said that tyranny is fiercer than tigers, and there is a lot of emotion in it!" Before he finished speaking, Jiang "couldn't help crying loudly, and there were also those who cried bitterly among those who offered sacrifices in the audience, and the whole audience suddenly became a bleak and sad scene."

In 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Nankai University moved south to Changsha to form Changsha Temporary University.The three principals Jiang Menglin, Zhang Boling, and Mei Yiqi inspected the student dormitory and saw the dilapidated house. Jiang thought it was not suitable for living; but Zhang believed that students should receive exercise, and they should be satisfied with such a dormitory.Jiang said: "If it is my child, I don't want him to live in the dormitory!" But Zhang said tit for tat: "If it is my child, I must let him live in this dormitory!" Mei Yiqi did not express his opinion .

In 1941, Jiang Menglin concurrently served as the president of the Red Cross Society of China.He and a student once went to Yunnan, Myanmar and other places to inspect the business of the Red Cross with medicines.During the several weeks of inspection, he witnessed the cruelty of the KMT's arrest of young men. According to Jiang's records, in a shelter for strong men in Guiyang, Jiang learned that of the 700 strong men arrested in Qujiang, Guangzhou, only 17 were left because of starvation and disease along the way.The strong men who were lucky enough to survive were trained in the barracks, and most of them were staggering and unable to stand steadily.

On the road in Xiangxi and Guangxi, Jiang Menglin repeatedly saw wild dogs vying for the bodies of young men who had been thrown away due to death.Because they snatch a fresh human leg, they often growl with red eyes and make extremely terrifying calls, which is creepy!In some places, you can still see a leg or a foot on the ground because the burial was too hasty, and some seem to be still twitching, maybe they were buried before they were all dead! One day, Jiang Menglin drove down the mountain in a car, and saw hundreds of strong men urinating collectively on the mountain, which was strung together by ropes. It was like water flowing down from the eaves on a rainy day;If you don't have a bowel movement, you must have a bowel movement.If this opportunity is missed, there will be no chance to defecate again.

Jiang Menglin estimated that during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, there were no less than 14 million young men who died without joining the army.When he shared his estimate with senior military chiefs, they all said in unison: "It's going to be more, no less." In July of that year, Jiang Menglin wrote an inspection report on the status of military service and reported it to the highest military authority.After reading Jiang Menglin's report, Chiang Kai-shek was deeply shocked, claiming: "I feel shameless, I feel sorry for our people", and admitted that "the poor handling of military service is really the biggest reason for the corruption of our army's discipline and the decline of combat power." .

When the Agricultural Rehabilitation Association carried out land reform, Jiang Menglin went to the countryside of Sichuan to investigate and asked the bearer: "Have you reduced the rent here?" The bearer said: "Ah! Sir, how can the government's words be trusted?" Jiang then asked: " Wouldn't it be great if the rent could be reduced?" The bearer replied: "Of course it would be great!" When Jiang Menglin arrived at the destination, Jiang Menglin's ears seemed to be filled with the weak voice of the bearer, "That's——very—— ".He made a wish to make the "Second Five" rent reduction a success.

After arriving in Taiwan, Jiang Menglin made a round-the-island investigation and found that the lives of the people in Taiwan were extremely difficult: lack of warm clothes, lack of food, lack of water to irrigate farmland, and rampant animal and plant diseases and insect pests. What's more, the infant mortality rate is higher.Jiang Sui made up his mind to promote the birth control policy.