During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the eighth route army troops were poor in materials, not only lacked clothing and food, but even guns and ammunition were insufficient, and the soldiers paid an extremely heavy price in order to defend their families and defend the country, because the conditions for the eighth route army soldiers to resist the war were really too difficult, so the masses of the people would take the initiative to send some grain and money in order to thank the soldiers for resisting Japan, but the eighth route army units were strictly disciplined and stipulated that they could not take a needle and a thread from the masses.
In order to overcome difficulties, the soldiers would borrow some grain from some rich and noble families when they had no choice but to pay money, and if they really had no money, they would lay down an IOU, promising that they would return it to the masses after the war, even if it was the grain and property sent by the villagers on their own initiative, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army would also lay down an IOU, and after the war, the relevant departments have been looking for the owner of the IOU, hoping to pay back the money owed.
There was an old man in Shanxi named Guo Jianying, he found a yellowed IOU in the drawer of his home, it turned out that his ancestors in order to help the Eighth Route Army to resist Japan, lent the Eighth Route Army eleven million French coins, so the soldiers gave the old man an IOU, Guo Jianying saw this IOU and went to the relevant departments to reflect the situation, because after funding the Eighth Route Army that year, his family was almost "ruined".
The staff saw the IOU of the elderly Guo Jianying was very moved, after identification is indeed the real IOU, because the original eleven million French currency because of inflation so the purchasing power is limited, after professional accounting of these money equivalent to eighty thousand yuan, so the relevant departments to the elderly exchanged eighty thousand yuan, to know that at that time it was the eighties and nineties of the last century, these money for the elderly Guo Jianying is already a huge amount of money, the old man is also very satisfied.