What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
On July 7, 1937, Japan launched the Lugou Bridge Incident in Beiping that day, which began a comprehensive preparation for the war of aggression against China, and it was also in 1937 that the Chinese Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China reached an agreement to jointly resist Japan, reorganizing the three main forces of the former Red Army and the Shaanxi-Gansu Red Army into the "Eighth Route Army," and from then on began to go to the anti-Japanese front in North China.
In the short years since then, the situation of the eighth route army has developed faster and faster, from tens of thousands of people at the beginning to the last millions of people, but this has also brought great tests to the logistics departments, and the more people there are, the more grain is needed, but the Eighth Route Army is a well-disciplined contingent, and the three major disciplines and eight points of attention clearly stipulate that it is not possible to take a needle and a line from the masses, and it is precisely because of this spirit that countless people and the masses of the people have been touched in the anti-Japanese war, as long as there is a place for the Eighth Route Army. They can always be supported by the common people, and the common people often spontaneously take money and give grain to the Eighth Route Army, hoping that these can help the Eighth Route Army and achieve better results in the war against Japan.
However, with the changes in the battlefield situation, China and Japan have entered a state of stalemate, the eighth route army's logistical support problems have also encountered unprecedented difficulties, helpless, can only buy grain, horses and other materials from the qualified people, due to financial tension, many times the Eighth Route Army can only give the people an IOU, and pay it back after the generation, because the war at that time was very tight, resulting in a lot of IOUs have not yet been returned, and the people do not take it seriously, do not need the Eighth Route Army to exchange promises, but after the founding of the country, The fact that the government actually carried out the activity of organizing the repayment of the IOUs owed by the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is not a show, nor is it a fake; many ordinary people actually got the repayment when they took the IOUs to the government organs.
Mr. Zhou Wandan, located in Shanxi, once borrowed 100 kilograms of grain from the 385th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army in 1941, and at that time the Eighth Route Army also gave Mr. Zhou a note, because the relationship between the Eighth Route Army and the people was very good, so Mr. Zhou Touchan did not take it seriously, and then after his death, his children also burned his relics, but what they did not expect was that a few years later, when the local government was looking for revolutionary sites, it accidentally found an account book. Among them, one of the records of borrowing grain and materials from the people in detail was Zhou Wandan.
Subsequently, according to the information in the account book, the relevant local departments returned the 100 kilograms of grain borrowed from Zhou Taodan by the Eighth Route Army that year, and Zhou Xiangdan's grandson Zhou Chenggui was very excited, he never thought that the government could remember this matter 73 years later, and finally the government sent three bags of flour, and two bags of rice, a barrel of oil, and 2,000 yuan in cash to Zhou Tandan's descendants.