Siheyuan: I am a big capitalist after the founding of the People's Republic of China

(This book is purely fictional and any similarity is purely coincidental.)

(Brothers, to be honest, I don’t want to continue writing here. I’ve been looking up information about that period recently. It makes me extremely depressed.)

Riding a bicycle on the way home.

Li Zihang asked the secret guard who was riding a bicycle next to him.

"What's the matter? So urgent?"

The secret guard is just a messenger, how could he know so much?

So he told me everything he knew.

"Brother Gou, he suddenly came back today. It seems that he is talking about the three-year famine."

"Also, it seems about,"

The secret guard said this and pointed to the sky.

"I've stepped back into the background. I don't know anything else~"

Li Zihang was shocked.

Nothing about the one above your head is ever a small matter.

In ancient times, if an emperor sneezed, someone might lose his life.

Li Zihang rode his bike back home with a lot on his mind.

In the north room study, the long-lost dog, now Director Lu.

After seeing Li Zihang, everything was still the same as before.

He stood up and called "Young Master".

Li Zihang nodded, and after Gouzi sat down, he looked at him and asked him the purpose of his visit.

Gouzi understood the look in his eyes.

But she shook her head gently at him.

The old man handed the document he had just read directly to Li Zihang.

Indicated that we should discuss it after he finishes reading the document.

For a moment, the only sound in the old man's study was the sound of flipping pages.

Follow the documents and photos one by one.

The more Li Zihang looked at it, the more wrong his expression seemed.

The contents of the document also record detailed information about the Great Famine from 59 to 63.

Natural disasters have occurred frequently in the past three years.

Long-term heavy rains and other extreme weather conditions have caused serious reductions in grain production in some areas, leading to a sharp increase in demand for grain in these areas.

At the same time, other natural disasters such as drought, floods, and locust plagues have also caused great damage to agricultural production.

Policy mistakes. The policy environment at that time was also one of the important reasons for the famine.

For example, farmers lost their right to withdraw from the collective and were forced to join the people's commune and eat from the same pot.

This has led to a significant decline in farmers' enthusiasm for work, which in turn has affected grain production.

In addition, the policy of prioritizing food supply in cities at the time also exacerbated the food shortage problem in rural areas.

This policy orientation, to a certain extent, ignored the actual conditions and needs of rural areas, thus exacerbating the severity of the famine.

Human factors: Human factors such as war and political conflicts also contribute to famine to a certain extent.

These factors are often related to the uneven distribution of resources and social injustice.

In some cases, bad decisions by governments or rulers and poor human rights conditions are also the cause of famine.

For example, incorrect economic policies and compulsory agricultural collectivization measures had a negative impact on agricultural production.

This further exacerbated the problem of food shortage.

Li Zihang saw a photo showing a village where a group of farmers wanted to flee famine.

However, the villagers were blocked by government officials with guns and militia. Those who dared to resist or escape were tied to the beams and left to die.

Those officials who were not filial piety forced them to stay in their hometowns and not allow them to escape famine.

As a result, there are photos of more than 1,200 people from five brigades in the entire village starving to death in their homes.

When Li Zihang saw these contents, he could not hide the hatred and murderous intent in his heart.

There are a total of seventy-five photos like this in the folder.

All the inhumane photos made Li Zihang's face more and more ugly.

In the photo, a starving person is sitting on the threshing floor, skinny and with soulless eyes, waiting for death.

The information in the documents shows that in a certain place, more than 80% of the villagers in some villages died.

There are many people who survive by eating dead bodies.

The tragedy of eating one's own children actually happens in this world.

These people, whole families were about to starve to death. In order to survive, they had to kill their neighbors or people from other villages and eat their children.

Those people ate while crying.

Because in a sense, they were eating the flesh and blood of their own children.

All kinds of human tragedies appeared before his eyes.

The tragedy in the photo made Li Zihang extremely depressed. He was so angry that he wanted to kill someone.

I also want to tear into pieces those officials who, for the sake of their future, ignored the lives of the people and covered up the truth.

Every piece of data and every number in the information, in reality, represents the demise of every living life.

If you didn't see these things with your own eyes, but only looked at the data or heard others' accounts, you would not know how many people starved to death.

At most, he would feel a little emotional in his inner world.

But the bloody reality made Li Zihang feel like going crazy.

No one will be able to remain calm when seeing these photos and contents.

The final data shows that the total number of patients who have been confirmed to have starved to death is 751.8 million.

After reading this content, Li Zihang's emotions fluctuated so much that his hands were shaking when he was lighting a cigarette.

The room fell into dead silence for a moment.

All three of them had read the thick stack of information.

Both understand each other's feelings, but things have to be done and words have to be said.

At this point, it was the old man who broke the silence.

"Some people want to use the content in the materials to make a fuss."

"I want to drive the one on the altar into the abyss completely."

"They are all active now, and our family is one of the forces being wooed."

"The reason I called you back so urgently this time is because of this matter."

"I want to hear your thoughts."

After the old man finished speaking, he looked at his eldest grandson with a complicated expression.

Li Zihang's eyes were a little empty. After he exhaled a puff of smoke, he came back to his senses.

He said after thinking for a moment.

"Emperors like Emperors Tang Zong and Han Wu, no matter how many mistakes they made."

"As long as you submit a confession of guilt, you will be forgiven by the whole society in an instant."

"The lower class people will also automatically exonerate those emperors."

"They will even think that there are treacherous officials in the court who are deceiving the emperor."

"When the time comes, those ambitious people will be the ones who suffer."

"Then again, having a gun in hand is the way to go."

"His majesty in the army is no less than that of ancient emperors."

"If there is a rebellion, then it will be just like in ancient times."

"As soon as the emperor appeared at the front, he shouted a few times and asked people to lay down their weapons and forgive the past."

"Grandpa, do you believe it or not? By then, those big soldiers will be able to take up their guns, tie up the ambitious person, and send him to him."

"Another point is that no matter success or failure, if the ambitious person does not change the dynasty, he will be the master of his own house."

"In the end, none of them will have a good ending."

“Even after success, the next person will be wary of these people.”

"In the end, we will try every possible way to clean them up."

"Because if there is one, there will be another. No one dares to bet on whether they will be the next one to be ousted."

“After the failure, those people will be even worse off.”

Li Zihang paused for a long time before speaking here.

"Grandpa, you said he looks a lot like Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty in his later years."

"But now, I feel that he is more like Emperor Taizu of Han."

"Didn't Liu Bang do the same in his later years? He retired behind the scenes, showed weakness to his ministers, and then let all the ambitious people surface, and then let his queen Lu Zhi clean up those people."

"The chaos in the harem is just a cover for Liu Bang."

Li Zihang, who had recovered, said after a deep sigh.

"Grandpa, our family must not get involved in this matter."

"Not only our family cannot get involved, other branches of the Li family cannot get involved either."

After hearing Li Zihang's analysis, the old man nodded and said.

"You are fully responsible for this matter."

"You make your own decision about the future."

"If there's anything you can't figure out, let's discuss it together."

After the old man finished speaking, he said to him.

"How are you going to handle this?"

Li Zihang smoked a cigarette and said after thinking for a while.

"I will. Please bring out the Eleventh Ancestor, take his jade pendant, and add the jade pendants of Ju Ye and me, and the one in your hand."

"Use four jade pendants to issue orders."

"No branch of the Li family is allowed to participate in this matter."

It was one week after the Li family issued the family order for the four jade pendants.

The various forces were also confused about this, and the Li family members who suddenly changed their minds were also confused.

Huizhou, the provincial capital.

By a wild river, two elderly men in their sixties were fishing and chatting.

"Brother Li, why did you suddenly change your mind about what we had agreed on before?"

"We have been friends for so many years, and we are old comrades. We have even served as bullets for each other. If you have any unspeakable secrets, please speak up."

"No matter what happens, it won't affect our relationship."

The man called Brother Li sighed and put down his fishing rod.

Looking at the river in the distance, he spoke slowly.

"The ancestors of our family have spoken to the young tigers in the clan and have forbidden the descendants of the Li family from participating in this matter."

"Brother, I really can't help you this time."

"And I advise you not to fall into this trap again."

"Ask yourself from the bottom of your heart whether what you are doing now runs counter to our original intention of fighting against the Japanese and liberating all of China."

The wind blows the grass low and you can see cattle and sheep, and the waves hit the bow of the ship.

The calmness on the sea surface does not mean that there are no undercurrents in the water.