The grace of the dripping water, when the spring reciprocates. - "Augmenting the Xianwen Zhuzi Family Training"
In Shaanxi, China, such a thing happened. An old farmer took an IOU to the local government and asked for a debt from the local government. The IOU is not a small amount, but a staggering number, fifteen million.
This is not a small matter, the local government leaders attach great importance to this matter, they did not take this matter as a joke. Some leaders even carefully asked the old farmer whose father was. So, what's going on here? Why would the country owe such a debt to an old farmer?
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression a few decades ago, China was extremely scarce in materials, and in the face of foreign aggression, our Red Army soldiers often went to the battlefield with empty stomachs! Because, at that time, we made a vow never to take a needle and a thread from the masses, and firmly implemented it.
However, if you don't eat, you can't eat, you don't have strength, even if your willpower is strong, you are doing useless work. The combat effectiveness of the red army soldiers with empty stomachs was naturally inferior to that of the enemy, and for a time, the casualties were also extremely heavy.
Thus many masses of the people began to spontaneously bring food to our Soldiers of the Red Army, and of course, some borrowed grain from the Red Army.
The story takes place in Shaanxi, during the anti-Japanese period in Shaanxi, where wars broke out quite frequently. Many people with lofty ideals have thrown themselves into a tense war and resisted the enemy together. As the number of combatants increases, food resources become more and more scarce.
Originally, in that era, our country's crop yield was only barely enough to feed itself, not to mention the outbreak of war, and fewer and fewer farmers were able to work with peace of mind. Moreover, many cultivated land at that time was abandoned due to factors such as shell bombardment.
Therefore, in order to fight a better war, for the future of the country, our Red Army soldiers can only borrow food. Fortunately, in the face of the plight of the Red Army soldiers, the people at that time were very understanding and very enthusiastic to lend out the grain.
And the old peasant's father was one of those who lent grain to the soldiers of the Red Army. The soldiers of the Red Army received the grain of the common people, and naturally they would not take it for free, because there was nothing to give at that time, so they could only pay the IOU first and owe it. The old farmer's 15 million IOU came from this.
When the leader inquired about some basic information about the old farmer according to the IOU in the hands of the old farmer, he determined that this IOU belonged to the old farmer's father. So the local government immediately allocated funds and gave the old farmers 90,000 yuan.
However, if it is obviously a 15 million IOU, why only 90,000 yuan will be given? And 15 million grain, how much grain must there be? Where did the old peasant family get so much grain to lend to the soldiers of the Red Army? In fact, this was not unusual at all in those days.
At that time, the market was still circulating legal tender, and the production method of legal tender was stolen by the Japanese using some means that could not be put on the table. With the production of legal tender, the Japanese naturally printed money in a big way, which led to inflation.
Therefore, there are not many objects that can be purchased with a large amount of fiat money. At that time, even 15 million was just listening to scare people, in fact, not much.
And our Red Army soldiers, in order to facilitate calculations, used legal tender to lay down an IOU, so there was this "huge" IOU of 15 million.
In addition, because of the special attention paid by the local government, several experts were quickly invited to study the IOU, and the situation was indeed true. At that time, the 15 million French currency corresponded to 90,000 yuan, so he gave the old man 90,000 yuan.
After the old farmer received the arrears from the government, he was also in tears of excitement. He knew that our Communist Party, our great country, would not deceive the common people. After returning home, he told his descendants that these funds were the glory of the ancestors, and if they did not encounter a crisis of survival, then do not use it.
This money has great significance for their old Liu family. It can also be used to warn his descendants that our country is good to us, and we must always remember it.
This IOU, this arrears, is a testimony to that era! Now that our new China has been established, the country is rich and strong, and the people are rich, this is the scene that the father of the old peasant hopes to see!
epilogue:
A small IOU, but it connects the country and the people. This is the hope that the state gives to the people, and it is also the trust of the people in the country!
New China is the ideal country in the hearts of the people, and this incident also confirms the old saying that the grace of dripping water should be repaid by the spring. The country cares about us, and we must also have the trust that our country deserves!