Meng Baifeng finally saw Manya, whom he had been thinking about for so many years!
Is this still the Manya I know?
He was as skinny as a stick and his face was pale.
A handkerchief lay aside, already stained red.
Is that the blood Manya coughed up?
"Manya."
Meng Baifeng felt sad for a while.
Manya recognized who this person was at a glance: "Dushan, Dushan, you are here, you are old."
The sound of "crossing the mountain" almost brought Meng Baifeng to tears.
"Manya, what's wrong with you?"
Manya didn't look too scared: "I got sick a few years ago, and I never thought about it. At the end of last year, I really couldn't do it anymore, so I went to Shanghai to see a doctor, but I'm afraid I won't be able to get out this time."
"No, no." Meng Baifeng said repeatedly: "I will take you to a better hospital, and I will definitely help you take care of it."
"Don't waste time, I'm not afraid." Manya said calmly: "After so many years, I should have died long ago."
After all these years, I should have been dead.
How desperate has Manya been in these years?
"I'm glad you came to see me."
Manya coughed violently again.
Meng Baifeng hurriedly took out a handkerchief and handed it over.
Manya vomited a mouthful of blood and asked Meng Baifeng to feed her a few sips of hot water. Then she felt better:
"Dushan, you came at the right time. There is something I must tell you."
"We'll talk about it after we've cultivated ourselves."
"No, it will be too late if you don't tell me."
Manya's expression was a little anxious: "In the sixth year of the Republic of China, Commander-in-Chief Zhang Xun came to Beijing to restore the country. The restoration only lasted for about ten days and failed casually.
When Zhang Xun was in Nanjing, he carried out troops and looted, and he himself received 20 million yuan. Germany supported his restoration plan and secretly loaned him 20 million yuan.
During the Thirteen Provinces Alliance, Zhang Xun made another 30 million yuan. Therefore, even if he failed in the restoration and fled to Tianjin to live in an apartment, his movable and immovable properties combined would be as much as 50 to 60 million yuan! "
Why did he suddenly mention Zhang Xun?
Meng Baifeng listened patiently as Manya continued:
"Not counting these, during the restoration, he requested funding from the Qing royal family on the grounds of military difficulties. The Qing royal family had no choice but to spend one million yuan."
When the Manchu emperor abdicated, one of the regulations on preferential treatment for the royal family was to give the royal family 4 million taels of silver every year, which would be allocated by the government of the Republic of China.
At that time, the items and cultural relics of the royal family and daily necessities such as silk tables and chairs in the palace were classified as private property of the royal family. At that time, the abdicated emperor still lived in the Forbidden City.
Therefore, all items in the Forbidden City are still owned by the royal family, but some of the money on the surface belongs to the Republic of China.
Therefore, rumors spread among the people that the royal family inherited hundreds of millions of properties.
The Republic of China government made a very big mistake, that is, it did not distinguish the cultural relics in the palace from the private property of the royal family. The collections in the Forbidden City are the most valuable cultural relics.
These things are very valuable. Most of these cultural relics are collected from private people, so in fact, the most valuable things are still left in the palace.
Soon the Republic of China government discovered this major problem.
In December 1912, officials pointed out that the reselling of various cultural relics in the palace was very serious. They hoped that President Yuan Da could sort out all the cultural relics, transport them to Beijing, and hand them over to the museum for collection.
President Yuan Da then approved this suggestion.
From 1913 to 1914, the Republic of China government transported many cultural relic collections from various palaces and handed them over to the museum.
What Manya said next was also related to these cultural relics:
"Zhang Xun was very dissatisfied when he saw that the royal family only provided one million yuan. In just ten days in Peking, Zhang Xun successively shipped out a large number of collections in the Forbidden City and some cultural relics in the museum, and mortgaged them To ABN AMRO.
The total mortgage amount for this batch of things was 10 million taels of silver. The Dutch Bank could not come up with that much money at the same time, so it had to work with other banks to jointly raise funds.
Zhang Xun failed in his restoration and hid in the Dutch embassy for a long time. It was during this period that the Dutch Bank sent him a check for 10 million taels of silver. The Dutch are pretty trustworthy. "
"What kind of credibility are you talking about?" Meng Baifeng sneered: "It's nothing more than the fantasy that Zhang Xun still has great influence and old subordinates at the request of the Dutch Embassy."
"You are always so unforgiving." Manya smiled: "Zhang Xun was preparing to escape from Peking. He was worried that the check would not be safe on his body, so he entrusted one of his fellow villagers to take it back to his hometown of Fengxin, Jiangxi. go.
This fellow countryman's surname was Li, and he had been with Zhang Xun for many years. Zhang Xun trusted him very much and treated him like his brother. As you probably know, Zhang Xun has always taken care of his fellow villagers. "
Meng Baifeng couldn't help but nodded.
Zhang Xun's hometown concept was very strong, which was well known at the time.
After he became successful, he missed his elders in his hometown. Zhang Xun would give a big tile-roofed house to every family in his hometown of Chitian Village. If they needed anything, Zhang Xun would take care of it.
Zhang Xun gave scholarships to all Jiangxi students studying in Beijing during the Republic of China.
As for the college students in Fengxin County, Zhang Xun pays for all their food and clothing.
He donated money to establish a guild hall in Peiping to support Jiangxi students and poor people in Beijing. The first high-ranking officials of Jiangxi Province, Shao Shiping and Xu Deheng, etc., all received funding.
In addition, he also used food money to help local victims, orphans and widows in Fengxin.
"But Zhang Xun made a mistake this time. This man named Li took the check and disappeared!"
Manya took a breath and then continued: "Zhang Xun was furious, but he had lost power by then, so he sent a group of people to search everywhere.
In the past few years, this huge sum of money in the Dutch Bank was transferred several times. Zhang Xun's people followed this clue and found the man named Li, but he was already dead at the time.
Continuing the investigation, I discovered that he had a son who disappeared two years ago, and the clues were completely lost. By chance, I met Li Mingda in Shanghai! "
"Is this Li Mingda that person's son?" Meng Baifeng blurted out: "And you are Zhang Xun's?"
"Yes, I was sent by Zhang Xun." Manya laughed miserably: "My mission is to find this wealth. I went all the way to Shanghai and met Li Mingda. I thought he looked like the son of a confidant named Li, but I Not sure."
"I introduced you to Li Mingda!"
Meng Baifeng had just finished speaking, and Manya had already smiled miserably: "Yes, I really should thank you. We pieced together the appearance of the son of a confidant named Li through various investigations, so I am not sure whether he is or not.
Zhang Xun was so kind to me, and I had to repay him, so after thinking about it, I gritted my teeth and simply married Li Mingda in order to find out the truth. Du Shan, I have never loved this person. "
When Meng Baifeng heard this, he no longer knew what to say!
