The sea is still tiltable, and the mouth promise will never move. - Chronicle of Tang Poetry
The sea can dry up and the mountains can collapse, but the promises made can never be changed. Keeping promises is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and a measure of whether a person is trustworthy. Throughout the ages, whether in life or at work, people who keep their promises have more opportunities to develop themselves and thus achieve themselves. The so-called "sincerity, the golden stone is open", integrity is the foundation of people, is the basis of foothold, and even the basis of competition.
Whether ancient or modern, domestic or foreign, the importance of integrity is self-evident. Those who are honest are praised by others, and even become examples for hundreds of generations, while those who are untrustworthy are ridiculed and reduced to sinners throughout the ages. People who know how to be honest also know gratitude, no matter how long time passes, they will keep their promises and say one thing and one thing. Just as the old farmers in Shanxi came to the state with an IOU of 11 million yuan to fulfill their promises, we did not rush to deny it, but realized the style of the country after finding out the truth.
The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the pirates. Since the beginning of the September 18 Incident, the Japanese invaders have gradually invaded our country forcefully, and the land of China has also opened a state of emergency for the whole people to resist the war. From the country to the small family, they all united and stubbornly resisted the aggressors. The state sounded the alarm, the country broke the mountains and rivers no longer existed, in the first time, the state organized the army to go to the front line to fight bloody battles, and the supply force was also continuously transported to the front line. However, the enemy we faced was really powerful, and in front of them, we only had millet plus rifles, and the disparity in armament strength also made the War of Resistance Against Japan last for more than ten years. It was a difficult period, the people's lives were miserable, the country was very poor, there was no sophisticated military equipment, even logistics and supplies became extremely difficult, the food in the whole country was very scarce, and the hot-blooded men who rushed to the front could not even eat.
But is the soul of the Chinese nation so easily overthrown? Eat fruits and vegetables without food to fill your hunger, chew tree roots when you have no fruits and vegetables, wear patched clothes, and casually use thatch to pad to fall asleep. Under such marching conditions, our soldiers persisted for more than ten years. In the face of a powerful enemy, hard gang is not the first choice, coupled with the vast geographical characteristics of our country, so one of the major combat strategies at that time was to conduct guerrilla warfare to strike at the other side. Guerrilla warfare is mostly carried out in the countryside, and both personnel and materials require the efforts of the local people. At that time, a major problem was the transportation of materials and grain and grass, and when the logistics supply could not be transported into the base area, the Eighth Route Army had to borrow grain from the local people.
Even if the majority of the people support the revolutionary cause, they are also poor people, there is no surplus of grain in the family, and their own food and clothing have become a problem. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army generally only borrowed grain from those who lived in plentiful lives, and it was precisely because of this that it barely guaranteed the Eighth Route Army's needs for resistance. At that time, when the Eighth Route Army marched to Shanxi, the commander of the Eighth Route Army at that time had to borrow grain from the people because the logistics supply road was cut off by the enemy. At that time, the ancestors of this old farmer in Shanxi were well-known large families in this area, and the family was rich in surplus grain. After the commander of the army explained his intentions, the ancestors of the old farmer were very happy, and he could also make a little contribution to the country, and even when he said that he wanted to donate grain to the country, he was rejected by the commander. The commander said that the Eighth Route Army marched with strict discipline and excellent work style, that defending the family and defending the country was the duty, that it was the criterion not to take a needle and a thread from the people, that borrowing grain from the people would definitely lay down an IOU, and that in the future they would be able to get back what belonged to them with the IOU.
The ancestors of the old peasants did not take it as a thing, but only as a gift to the Eighth Route Army. Later, after the victory of the War of Resistance, his ancestors did not mention this matter again, until the old peasant generation, the family's former wealthy situation was no longer there, but poor and destitute. In the 1980s, when the old man was desperate, he thought of this historical IOU, and he was not sure whether the IOU would still take effect, but he was still willing to try. The old farmer with the 11 million French tender IOU did not know where to find someone, so he went to the local authorities, so there was this matter. Although the staff at that time were surprised, they did not feel that the old farmers had come to deliberately blackmail money, but they carefully read the IOU, and asked experts to identify it, and after some investigation, they came to the truth, and this IOU was true. Subsequently, this money was combined with the exchange rate at that time to the old farmer, almost 80,000 yuan, and the old farmer was also grateful to zero, lamenting the motherland's promise.
epilogue
This incident caused a sensation in the local area, and people lamented the bravery and tenacity of the Eighth Route Army, thanked everyone for their efforts in that period, and also lamented the motherland's promise of gold, even if it was old, but it did not lose faith in people. The state has set a good example for the people of the whole country, and our country is based on integrity.