Chapter 91 third quarter

Chen Fumu, deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications, and Chen Shuming, vice president of the Executive Yuan and Minister of Communications, are from Guangdong. In August 1932, Chen Shuming lost power and went abroad for "investigation". The minister of transportation was concurrently served by the Minister of the Interior Huang Shaohong.Chen Fumu felt that his future had come to an end, and he was always thinking about how to make a lot of money so that he would have a way out after resigning.As soon as Li Guojie got the letter of selling the wharf to foreign countries, he narrowed his eyes, feeling that a great opportunity had come.

Prior to this, Cai Pei, the secretary for aviation affairs, and Huang Jusu, the councilor, had already made a fortune in this business.Cai Pei saw that Li Guojie’s report from Huang Jusu stated that he could get 1 million taels of silver from the sale of the wharf, so he said to Huang Jusu: “Why say 1 million taels of silver? Isn’t 1 million yuan not enough?” The taels of silver are equivalent to 1.28 million yuan. If this is reported, there will be an extra 280,000 yuan, which is not included in the sales proceeds and can be divided privately.So Huang Jusu instructed Li Guojie to rewrite the report as "1 million yuan in cash".

Li Guojie of course agrees to what is beneficial to everyone, and immediately changes the report.The concealed money was shared equally among Chen Fumu, Cai Pei, Huang Jusu and Li Guojie.By October of that year, the sale of the wharf and warehouse was completed, and Huang Jusu first withdrew his 70,000 yuan. The appetite of Chen Fumu, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications, is not limited to this mere 70,000 yuan.He has always been noncommittal to Li Guojie's sale of the wharf, neither stopping nor agreeing to the transaction.Li Guojie has always understood his attitude as tacit approval.When the sale transaction was just completed, Chen Fumu called Li Guojie in his official capacity: remit 700,000 yuan to the Ministry for the purchase of transportation equipment, and return it in a week.Although Li Guojie felt that this amount was really too large, he thought about it again. When he just sold it for a large sum of money, Deputy Chief Chen came to borrow money for business. Isn't this just the approval of him and the Ministry of Communications for the sale of the terminal?Originally, he felt guilty about Chen Fumu's failure to express his position, but now he felt at ease, so he immediately remitted the money.

What no one could have imagined happened: Chen Fumu received a check of 700,000 yuan and immediately deposited the huge sum of money in a foreign bank under an alias. big boss! Li Guojie, who found out that he had been cheated, was dumbfounded.He could not appeal the matter, because the sale of the wharf was done only by bribing Chen Fumu.Now he can only suffer a dumb loss, cover up the matter, and then try to fill up the 700,000 yuan shortfall by himself. However, this leak has been widened.Du Yuesheng and Zhang Xiaolin, whom he had offended, immediately knew that Li Guojie had done such a thing, and they immediately went to Mount Lu to report to Chiang Kai-shek.

When Zhao Tieqiao was assassinated, Chiang Kai-shek and Dai Li knew that it was related to Li Guojie, but there was no evidence, so they had to let it go; now that they heard Du and Zhang's report on Li Guojie's collusion with the corrupt official Chen Fumu to steal and sell the state-owned wharf, it happened to settle the old and new accounts together. Immediately send Song Ziwen and Zhu Jiahua to Shanghai to investigate. Originally relying on selling the wharf, Li Guojie has basically recovered.When HSBC Bank was pressing for debts, he borrowed money everywhere like an ant on a hot pot. He once borrowed money from a former Qing Changlu salt transport envoy surnamed Wang. The wealthy Wang once lent Li Guojie 100,000 taels of silver, which made him very grateful .Now that he got a large sum of money from selling the wharf, Li Guojie was going to pay back Wang's account, but Wang said: I have received the kindness of Xian Zhongtang, and I can't repay it. This silver is a little compensation.Li Guojie was even more grateful, and wanted to form a brother with a different surname, but was politely declined by Wang.Wang knew very well the relationship between this Lord Hou and his grandfather Li Hongzhang, and privately said: Li Wenzhong has no descendants.

Before Li Guojie could warm up the money, Song Ziwen and Zhu Jiahua, who came to investigate him, arrived in Shanghai and called him to talk to Song Ziwen's private house.Li Guojie knew something was wrong, so he sent his secretary Yang Tianjuan to find out the facts.Seeing that it was Yang Tiancun who came, Song Ziwen immediately said, "What are you doing here? Invite General Manager Li to come. He has to come in person for this matter, and no one can represent him!" This was a bad omen, but this Yang Tian prisoner didn't know what was going on, and he returned to Li Guojie and said excitedly: "Nothing at all, Dean Song is very polite, but he said that this matter can't represent anyone. According to me In my opinion, neither Song nor Zhu has any malicious intentions, and I think the general manager can go."

Li Guojie breathed a sigh of relief, and went to Song Ziwen's office according to Yang Tiancun's words.As soon as he entered the door, Li Guojie was out of his wits, and what he saw was a scene waiting in full force: Song Ziwen, Zhu Jiahua, Cai Pei, Du Yuesheng, Zhang Xiaolin, representatives of Diners Club and the patrol team outside the door. Li Guojie refused to admit defeat. He claimed that the sale of the wharf was approved by Chen Fumu, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Communications. However, Chen Fumu and other officials from the Ministry of Communications did not sign any comments on his submission.

The accomplice, Cai Pei, Secretary of Aviation Administration, knew something was wrong when Chen Fumu fled to Macau with the money. He did not withdraw the 70,000 yuan that belonged to him at all, but now he participated in his interrogation.Song Ziwen asked the price of Pier No. 5. Li Guojie said 1 million taels of silver, and Cai Pei yelled, "You fart! It clearly says 1 million yuan in the document!" Li Guojie was dumbfounded and didn't know how to respond for a long time. After the trial, the Shanghai District Court pronounced: Li Guojie was sentenced to 8 years in prison and deprived of his citizenship rights for 10 years for the crimes of selling state land and warehouse rights without authorization, falsely quoting funds, and enlightening the government.

The lawyer once defended him: the sale of the wharf was written first, and it did get the consent of the superior, Chen Fumu, the deputy director of the Ministry of Communications (although there was no written approval), so it could not be regarded as "unauthorized"; He has the obligation to obey, and Li Guojie should not be responsible for this matter. These defenses were not considered in the judgment. Such a heavy sentence was actually because he colluded with Wang Yaqiao to assassinate Zhao Tieqiao. Li Hongzhang's eldest grandson, Hou Ye, who was once prominent in the former Qing Dynasty, and the chairman and general manager of Shanghai Shipping Merchants, a generation of famous enterprises, became a prisoner in prison in an instant.

After Li Guojie was imprisoned, Shanghai Shipping Merchants re-established the management organization, with Du Yuesheng as the chairman and his disciple Liu Hongsheng as the general manager. This giant shipping company fell into the hands of Du Yuesheng completely. Li Guojie, who has experienced the taste of being behind bars in prison, must be thinking about his prestige in the former Qing Dynasty again and again.If it was still the Qing Dynasty, who could bully him, Lord Hou?What will happen to those who dare to offend him?Compared with grandfather Li Hongzhang's infinite divine power that can cover the sky with one hand, how old is Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen, Dai Li and Du Yuesheng?

Times have changed, and honor and disgrace have become clear.In the Republic of China, those who can be under the Neng family and above the Wan family are not his turn, Li Guojie. Grandfather Li Hongzhang, a dead tree, still has dense roots. Although Chiang Kai-shek has never had anything to do with the Li family, and he can take care of Li Guojie as much as he can, there are still people who are grateful for Li Hongzhang's old love and can suppress Chiang Kai-shek with face. This person is Duan Qirui, the "Tiger of the North Sea". After Yuan Shikai's death, Prime Minister Duan Qirui gradually took control of all the military and political power of the Beiyang government.But in the first Zhifeng War in 1920, Duan Qirui's Anhui faction lost, Duan Qirui was expelled from Beijing, and avoided to Tianjin to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha, waiting for a comeback; in 1924, he formed a "triangular alliance" with Sun Yat-sen and Zhang Zuolin ", in the second Zhili-Feng war in September of that year, with the help of the sudden defection of the Zhili general Feng Yuxiang, the Zhili was defeated. On November 24, 1924, Duan Qirui took office as the interim chief executive of the Republic of China——the position of "general executive" was formed by combining the powers of the president and prime minister in light of the lessons of the "dispute between government and court". During the period when Duan Qirui was in power, on March 18, 1926, the famous "March 18" tragedy occurred. At the beginning of March 1926, the Japanese imperialists assembled envoys from seven countries, including Britain, the United States, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Spain, and jointly issued the "Eight-Nation Ultimatum" demanding that China withdraw the defense facilities at Dagukou. After the Ultimatum was issued, March 18 On the 1st, more than 2,000 angry people from all walks of life in Beijing, mainly students, came to the executive government to petition, demanding that the "eight-nation ultimatum" be rejected and the ministers of the eight countries be expelled. People in the ruling government said that Duan Qirui was sick and would go to work in the future. People were unwilling to return without results, so the petitioners confronted tensely with the ruling government guards surrounding the ruling government.Suddenly, the soldiers with sticks in the front row of the guards dodged to the two sides, and the soldiers with guns in the back row swarmed up and shot wildly at the unarmed crowd. In what Lu Xun called "the darkest day since the Republic of China", 47 petitioners died under the guns of the ruling government guards; with the help of Lu Xun's immortal writing, Liu Hezhen and Yang Dequn, students of Beijing Women's Normal University, are widely known in later generations.More than 150 others were wounded. There is no evidence that the shooting was ordered by Duan Qirui.After the tragedy happened, Duan Qirui rushed to the scene. Looking at the young body covered in pools of blood, Duan Qirui knelt down to the dead body with a bang as if he had been shocked by an electric shock.