“大时代的小插曲”:1945年重庆黄金提价泄密案

Leak of the 1945 Chongqing Gold Price Increase Incident

抗战中后期,国民政府为了应付日益严重的通货膨胀,决定从美国借款中拨出2亿美元购买黄金出售给大后方民众,用以收回过度发行的法币。然而由于战事危急,美金、黄金的黑市价格一路狂升,政府不得已多次提高黄金售价,没想到黄金提价消息提前泄露,重庆等地的银行职员和富商们趁机低价购买,牟取暴利。消息披露后导致大后方朝野哗然,乃至引起美国方面的震怒,为此蒋介石下令予以调查,但最终却不了了之。大量的事实表明,黄金提价泄密案不是一桩普通的舞弊案,它牵涉人员众多,官员的职务亦相当高,同时这桩弊案还具有官商勾结、集团犯罪等特点,这就说明此刻贪污腐败在大后方已成为系统化、体制性的严重问题,同时它也成为国民党战后失去政权的一个重要原因。

In the middle and late period of the Anti-Japanese War,in order to cope with the increasingly serious inflation,the National Government of China decided to allocate 200 million US dollars from the loan from the US to buy gold for sale to the people in the rear to recover excessively issued legal currency.However,due to the critical situation of the war,the black market price of the US dollar and gold increased significantly.The government had to raise the price of gold several times,however the information of gold price increase was leaked in advance.Bank staff and wealthy businessmen in Chongqing and other places took the opportunity to buy gold at low prices and profit through arbitrage.When the news broke,the whole country and the United States were stunned with anger.As a result,Chiang Kai-shek ordered an investigation,but the case did not go anywhere.Overwhelming facts suggested that the leak of gold price increase was not an ordinary fraud case,It involved a large number of people,and many of them were high ranking government officials.At the same time,this fraud case also had the characteristics of collusion between government and business,organized crime,etc.This showed that corruption had become systemized in the KMT government,which ultimately was an important reason that led to the loss of the subsequent civil war.