During World War II, Chinese people all over the world actively donated money and materials to the motherland, playing an immeasurable role in our country's struggle against Japanese aggression.
Among them, the Nanyang Chinese donated the most!
This was something Xu Nanxing had no idea about before!
This time, I wanted to know why my second uncle and his family ended up in the United States, rather than in Malaysia as my grandfather had said, so I did in-depth research.
However, when it comes to the donations from overseas Chinese during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, as well as the U.S. aid to China at that time, most of them were embezzled by the four major families of Chiang, Song, Kong and Chen.
There is a saying: "The Chiang family rules the country, the Chen family is the party, the Soong sisters own the wealth, and the Kong family owns the wealth." This fully illustrates how greedy these four major families were during the Republic of China period!
Especially the Kong family, which was arguably the largest family of corrupt officials during the Republic of China period.
Especially the eldest sister of the Song family, who made a fortune from national disasters during the war, will be seriously short of money.
To this end, she also used her husband Kong Xiangxi's power as Minister of Finance to rush to transport large quantities of domestic strategic materials such as department stores, medicines and daily necessities to Chongqing and stockpile them.
After the price skyrocketed in the later stage, you can make dozens of times the profit.
It is not enough to just hoard goods and profit from national disasters. The biggest fortune Song Ailing earned was probably from the "dollar bond case" that shocked the whole country in 1942.
At that time, the eldest sister of the Song family used the inside information she knew in advance to secretly manipulate the bond stock price, and finally made a huge profit of 11.5 billion French francs.
Afterwards, the eldest sister of the Song family promptly transferred these huge assets to the United States, becoming the most profitable family among the four major families at that time.
This was the largest corruption case in the history of the Republic of China, and it directly led to Kong Xiangxi's resignation.
Of course, the case of swallowing up US dollar bonds in 1943 was just a drop in the ocean of corruption cases during the Kuomintang’s more than 20 years in power. In addition, there was the gold fraud case in 1945 and the gold yuan leak case in 1948, in which the Kong and Song families were all involved.
Just imagine how wealthy the Kong and Song families were at that time?
Let’s list a set of data for a brief understanding.
According to FBI data from 1943, "Song Ailing had deposits of about 80 million US dollars in Citibank in the United States, Song Ziwen had about 70 million US dollars, and Song Meiling had as much as 150 million US dollars." However, the fiscal deficit of the Nationalist government that year was as high as 2 billion US dollars.
How ironic!
Unfortunately, in 1973, the eldest sister of the Soong family died of cancer at New York Presbyterian Hospital at the age of 85.
This guy who did so many bad things actually died of old age!
It's so unfair!
What made Xu Nanxing speechless the most was that Chiang Kai-shek back then really had no courage at all. He knew very well that his aunt's family had embezzled so much money from the National Government, but he let them go so easily, allowing the family to slip away to the United States with hundreds of billions of French francs.
The Nationalist government at the time had such a huge hole to fill, and the Kong and Song families of the same period made huge profits by manipulating the domestic industrial and financial sectors, engaging in speculation and profiteering, and then depositing them in overseas banks to "preserve their value." With this inflow and outflow, the economic foundation of the Kuomintang regime became increasingly weak, and the people became increasingly poor.
The economy of the Nationalist government was suddenly brought down, which eventually forced Chiang Kai-shek to evacuate the mainland and flee to Taiwan in disgrace. Chiang Kai-shek's lifelong dream was to return to the mainland.
If Xu Nanxing were Chiang Kai-shek, he would have directly raided the homes of these corrupt officials and not let them get away with it!
In the end, he ended up in complete failure.
Haha, since Xu Nanxing has found out all this, maybe she will get some unexpected gains when she comes to the United States this time!
These corrupt elements living in the United States must not be let off!
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