After the founding of New China in 1949, it was stipulated that Premier Zhou's monthly salary was 404.80 yuan, and his wife Deng Yingchao's monthly salary was 342.70 yuan, but in 1997, when the head office of the Bank of China conducted an internal audit of the party, government and army, it actually found a huge deposit of 12,000 pounds in the name of Premier Zhou, and the most shocking thing is that this huge deposit has been deposited under premier Zhou for 30 years.
From 1958 until 1976, the total salary income of Premier Zhou and his wife Deng Yingchao was 161442 yuan, and according to the exchange rate at that time, 82,000 yuan was needed to be converted into 12,000 pounds, so was this money a personal deposit of Premier Zhou? If so, then why has it been deposited in the Bank of China for 30 years without anyone asking?
After the head office of the Bank of China found out the 12,000 pounds, it immediately sorted out the written materials and reported upwards, and the superior leaders attached great importance to it after learning the news, and immediately conducted a detailed and cautious investigation of the huge deposits deposited in the name of Premier Zhou.
It all started in 1940, during World War II, when Hitler ordered German Nazi troops to bomb London for a decade.
In this bombing, a 22-year-old British girl named Dolly was forced to lose her job because of the unexpected bankruptcy of the company, and in order to survive the war, Dolly searched for jobs everywhere, and finally only the Bank of China in London was willing to offer her a job as a bank teller.
Bank of China's London branch is a very important financial hub in Europe, not only responsible for the business in the United Kingdom, but also responsible for connecting branches throughout Europe and even multiple Africa.
Because of his previous experience in international trading companies, Dolly was smart and clever, and after passing the interview, he quickly became a foreign employee of the Bank of China in London.
In addition to making payments and handling daily credit business at the counter, Dolly also paid salaries to Kuomintang government workers and seafarers who stayed overseas.
After dealing with these Chinese who were forced to stay abroad for a period of time, Dolly slowly became acquainted, but he was horrified to find that these people were infected with the same stinky disease as the British, and as soon as they received their salary every month, they coveted pleasure, ate, drank, gambled and squandered wildly, until they were squandered.
Although Dolly is an Englishman, she does not have aggressive arrogance, and she knows that China, like Britain, is in a critical period of national crisis and national survival, suffering from fascist aggression, she has personally experienced the cruelty of war and the pain of losing relatives, so she does not want to see these Chinese disregard the safety of their own country, but only willing to enjoy themselves.
Therefore, when paying monthly salaries, Dolly often persuaded them that they should save all their money and then donate it to the motherland to support the War of Resistance, and to drive the invaders out and return home a day earlier.
Dolly's kind actions have also made the government workers and seafarers of the Nationalist army stationed abroad wake up like dreams, and they have let Dolly handle cross-border remittance business for themselves, and Dolly is also happy to win the lowest handling fee for them within his own term of reference.
Therefore, Dolly, who has excellent performance, beauty and kindness, has also gained the love of leaders and colleagues, and one of the Chinese employees named Liu Benkun also developed a love for Dolly, but on the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in the winter of 1944, Dolly was suddenly targeted by villains.
At that time, during the critical period of the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in order to help the Chinese people drive out the Japanese invaders as soon as possible, the London branch of the Bank of China set up two collection boxes on the counter, one of which was set up in the name of Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Soong Mei Ling, and in order to donate to the Chinese government, the other was set up by the Red Cross.
However, the donation box to the Chinese government is often embezzled and enriched by the Kuomintang government officials who manipulate the fundraising, and the people responsible for checking the donation box at the end of each month will secretly take out the money in Mrs. Song Meiling's fundraising box and then put it in their own pockets and go away.
Filled with indignation, Dolly hid Song Meiling's donation box under the counter, and then placed the Red Cross donation box in a conspicuous place on the counter, so that well-wishers from all walks of life would donate money to the Red Cross donation box.
But unexpectedly, Dolly's move was looked at squarely by the Kuomintang government officials who came to check on him, which made him very angry, because Dolly blocked his financial path, so this Kuomintang official simply did not stop doing two things, the evil man first sued, first found the president of the bank, in the name of Dolly's private government fundraising box, demanding that Dolly must be immediately expelled.
Although the president of the bank knew that Dolly was a good heart and a party of justice, he was not willing to offend the Kuomintang government officials for the sake of a foreigner, and was forced to submit to these corrupt officials under pressure.
Just when the president was preparing to dismiss Dolly, Liu Benkun, a Chinese employee who had always liked Dolly very much, suddenly stepped forward and personally ran to the bank president to argue with reason, and finally successfully persuaded the president to resist the pressure and keep Dolly's job.
The mental journey from hell to heaven moved Dolly to tears, and he also had a strange emotion for Liu Benkun, who protected himself.
In order to thank Liu Benkun's help, Dolly often takes him to some networking parties, two young people with a sense of justice in the matchmaking of their respective friends, the feelings quickly warmed up, slowly came together, and finally in the witness of many parties, in 1949 officially married, and Dolly also gave himself a nice Chinese name after marriage - Liu Daorui.
After the founding of New China on October 1, 1949, the people's government officially took over the original Bank of China, and Premier Zhou personally issued an important instruction: all overseas branches immediately froze all assets and waited for the state to send special commissioners to audit and receive.
At this time, the British government has not yet recognized the legitimate rights and interests of the new Chinese government, and they need to consider whether to continue to serve the National Government of Chiang Kai-shek in the areas of defeat and flight to Taiwan, or to take the initiative to understand the situation, completely fall to the people's government, and return to the embrace of the motherland.
After all, New China had just escaped from the quagmire of war at that time, the country was in ruins, and it urgently needed a large amount of funds to stimulate the revitalization and development of its own economy, while the Bank of China in London held a large amount of capital and foreign exchange, and at this time, the government of the people's Chinese was tantamount to sending charcoal in the snow, which could play a great role in promoting the country's economic construction.
However, the employees of the London branch each had their own ghost fetuses, especially the president of the bank, who was more inclined to the rule of the Kuomintang, and was unwilling to accept the moderation of the domestic general administration, and even gave birth to the idea of fleeing with money and transferring foreign exchange back to Taiwan.
After this plan was known to Liu Benkun, who had a heart for the motherland, he immediately contacted four other like-minded workers to form an uprising group, opened a special british pound account at HSBC in London in the name of the London branch of the Bank of China, deposited all the foreign exchange in it, and stipulated that the five of them must sign and confirm before the money in the account could be withdrawn.
After doing all this, Liu Benkun secretly sent a telegram to the General Administration Office of the Bank of China in Beijing, claiming that he was willing to accept the call of the state and stand with the people of the whole country and wait for the Beijing headquarters to receive it.
Under the unremitting efforts of Liu Benkun, the foreign exchange funds of the London branch were finally saved, and Liu Benkun himself was personally appointed by Premier Zhou as the new president and manager of the London branch, specifically responsible for the foreign exchange fund management business of New China in London.
In the next few years, because of the comprehensive economic recovery of London, England, the business of the London branch was also booming, and Liu Benkun's income also doubled, and he and his wife bought a villa and a car, and lived a rich life that everyone envied.
Although he has lived abroad for more than ten years and achieved fame, Liu Benkun has always had a wish in his heart that has not been realized - he wants to return to the arms of his mother in the motherland.
One day, Liu Benkun went to the New China office in London to handle business, where he saw a lot of video materials and news about New China, and finally learned that China is still in the stage of poverty and whiteness, so Liu Benkun made up his mind to go back to his hometown to build a new home.
After Liu Benkun returned home, he told his wife Dolly about his ideas, although he knew that China was now far behind Britain in all aspects of material conditions, but Dolly gave very positive support to her husband's idea.
What moved Liu Benkun the most was that in order to follow him back to China, Dolly took the initiative to give up his British citizenship and join the Chinese nationality.
Although Britain was the first country among the developed countries of the Western powers to recognize the legitimate sovereignty of New China, it was not until 1954 that the diplomatic relations at the chargé d'affaires level between China and Britain were formally established and trade friendly cooperation was carried out, so it was not until 1957 that Dolly's application for a change of nationality was finally approved.
It was also in this year that Liu Benkun formally submitted an application and wish to return to China, but because the London branch could not find a suitable person to take over Liu Benkun's work for the time being, the senior chief advised him to continue to work in London for a period of time and wait for the state to send someone to hand over.
In 1967, Liu Benkun's application to return to China was finally approved, he immediately discounted his property and cars in London, sold a total of 12,000 pounds, and sent an anonymous letter to Premier Zhou through the bank, the general content is: Dear Premier Zhou, our husband and wife sent you a foreign exchange special ticket of 12,000 pounds with the letter, which we saved from our salaries, and now donate it to the country free of charge, hoping that you can use all this money to support the construction of the country. But because the amount is huge, we don't know who to donate, so after consultation, we can only give this money to you to handle and arrange, because in our hearts you are the most trustworthy person.
However, after receiving this huge donation, Premier Zhou directly refused, and quickly issued a new instruction: This is a personal donation, our country can not collect it, we must immediately find the donor, give them all the money back.
Because it was a special period in the country, the work of finding donors could not be carried out effectively, and finally for the safety of this huge donation, the staff responsible for participating in the investigation temporarily deposited the money in the name of Premier Zhou into the Bank of China.
But no one expected that this money was deposited in the prime minister's account for a full 30 years, until 1997 was discovered by the bank of China audit team, and in this 30 years, the value of this money after appreciation plus interest, converted into rmb, was as high as 467,000 yuan.
The superior leader immediately ordered: Continue to carry out the instructions of The Premier Zhou 30 years ago, find the donor and return the money in full.
After repeated searches and confirmations, it was finally confirmed that Liu Benkun, who returned to China with his wife, was the donor of this huge amount of money, and the representative of the Bank of China immediately went to Liu Benkun and his wife with a check and asked them how to deal with this money.
But unexpectedly, they actually said that the money had been donated, there was no reason to take it back, resolutely refused to accept the money, and finally set up a fund to reward the excellent employees of the bank every year, so that the bank staff was extremely moved.
Because after Liu Benkun and his wife returned to China, although they were arranged to work at the headquarters, their salaries were not high, and their lives were very hard, and later Liu Benkun fell ill for a long time, and it was precisely when they were in urgent need of money, and they did not expect that they would rather suffer themselves than recover huge donations, which showed their revolutionary pride and love for the motherland.
By 1998, Liu Benkun died of illness, and his wife Dolly completed her life safely in March 2013.