The road of history is not all smooth, and sometimes it comes to a difficult and dangerous realm. It is only by relying on the strong spirit to rush through. --Li Daozhao
I can all know that fighting a war is an extremely money-burning matter, and since ancient times, China has had a saying called "soldiers and horses do not move, grain and grass first", which is the importance of grain and grass, the soldiers in the front are fighting for the country, and the people in the rear are carrying grain for the soldiers with their hands on their shoulders. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, our troops fought very bravely and performed very well, but as we all know, the conditions of the Eighth Route Army at that time were very difficult, and it was common to lack food and drink, and our army often did not have enough to eat and clothe, and our enemies and soldiers in other armies would regularly distribute high-grade canned food, and there would be occasional meat to relieve their hunger, while our troops did not have such treatment, and often one grain was divided into two portions.
Red army
They never waste a single grain of food, live a very simple life, and their clothes are patched to patch, and this habit also accompanies them through many difficulties. And even if such frugality is sometimes difficult to sustain, but our troops have strict discipline and will never take a needle and a line from the people, so the difficulties that can be overcome are overcome as much as possible, and they really cannot be overcome. After the founding of New China, we called on people with IOU to take the IOU to the government to cash in, so in the following years, there were always "creditors" who came to the government to cash in, and one of them also caused a sensation.
He brought a "sky-high price IOU" This is a Farmer in Shanxi, and the amount of the IOU he brought was 11 million French yuan, which stunned everyone around him at that time! It is said that this is China's biggest "creditor". This incident occurred in the 1980s, this old farmer in Shanxi is called Guo Jianying, one day the old man Guo Jianying suddenly took a yellowed "IOU" and visited the local government, the experts were a little surprised, did not know what the origin of this "IOU", after the old man described that they understood the ins and outs, so they carefully studied the "IOU" under the payment, and found that it was the signature of a regiment leader of our army. The old man said slowly, "This is the IOU that my grandfather borrowed money, and the person who signed it was the person who borrowed money from my grandfather at that time, the commander of a military division, who said that after the battle, he could get back the money with this note, but this regiment commander has already come to the government now to see if this can be fulfilled." ”
It turned out that this old farmer's grandfather was very rich, in that era was a well-known local rich merchant, but also a righteous businessman, at that time one of our troops passed through this village in Shanxi, just met his grandfather, grandfather knew that our soldiers have not eaten for several days, not only took out grain to help them, out of patriotism, grandfather decided to lend all the family's savings to the army emergency, a total of 11 million French dollars. At that time, my grandfather's reason was that the Red Army soldiers were for the toiling masses of the whole of China, and he was very much in line with our ideas, and he still had the industry, and he could still live and support our troops in this way. Later, because of the war, the Guo family had fallen into the middle of Guo Jianying's generation, and when he was cleaning up again, he accidentally found this IOU, and he thought of coming to the government to try to see if he could take out the money.
The government carefully verified the IOU and determined the authenticity of the IOU, the government believed in what it said, the value of this 11 million is equivalent to 80,000 in the 1980s, so the government finally gave the old man 80,000 yuan and paid off the debt in one go. When the money was handed over to the old man in a lot of pieces, the old man left tears of excitement and cried: "I just tried it, after all these years have passed, I didn't expect to be so trustworthy."