Abstract: In the later period of the People's Liberation War in China, the purchase of horse feed by the Kuomintang Fu Zuoyi's department in Tianjin went through several stages: investigating the production and sales situation, establishing a committee for purchasing horse feed, paying the price difference and supplying horse feed. Due to the huge demand of the military, the prevalence of "commandism", the huge gap between the official procurement price and the market price, and the short procurement period, the Tianjin Municipal Government was in a state of exhaustion, and meanwhile unable to cope with the procurement of horse feed. During the period of purchasing horse feed, Fu Zuoyi and the Tianjin Municipal Government did not effectively mobilize the people to obtain support from all sectors of society. Instead, they had many unpopular behaviors, such as forced recruitment, forced purchases, apportionment, and fundraising, which accelerated the process of the Kuomintang's loss of support and the collapse of the regime's morality. An in-depth analysis of the procurement process of horse feed can provide a vivid case for people to know the true state of the Kuomintang army's logistics and its abuses; the analysis can also shed some light on the game between the Kuomintang military and the local government in the context of the Kuomintang-Communist civil war.

Key words: purchasing horse feed, Tianjin Municipal Government, supplying horse feed, Kuomintang army, Fu Zuoyi