As we all know, China had a period of extremely arduous War of Resistance in the past, and due to the oppression of China by the great powers at that time, the Chinese people were once plunged into a deep and fierce situation. It was precisely a group of Eighth Route Army that rushed to the front line of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that saved the masses of the people from hardships and hardships. The Eighth Route Army, also known as the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, was the predecessor of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in that era of wars and chaos, the Eighth Route Army put itself in the shoes of the people, went deep into the hearts of the people, and was praised and loved by the hearts of the broad masses of the people.
The Eighth Route Army, during the arduous period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the training of an army was very difficult, and they came from the masses to the masses. Objectively speaking, in a difficult and abnormal period, it seems that it is not particularly excessive to take a little of the people's materials, but they will not take the people's needle and thread as the soul of the army, even if they are hungry, they will not rob the people's grain. The people's fears of grabbing grain, arresting Zhuangding, and so on did not happen, and after the Eighth Route Army entered the village, it did not live in the villagers' houses, and they all slept on the side of the road, completely without disturbing the people. They gathered the villagers together and told everyone that the Eighth Route Army would not buy and sell like other armies to rob the people of grain.
Even if the situation is difficult and compelling, when they use grain from the villagers, they will pay it back to the people. When the villagers saw such a strict army, they lent their families grain to the Eighth Route Army. At that time, the Eighth Route Army had not yet grown, and with the people's understanding of the Eighth Route Army, young people continued to join the Eighth Route Army, and their selfless dedication made the Eighth Route Army grow step by step. At that time, the Eighth Route Army was attacked by the Japanese army in the open, and there were ambushes in the shadows, and after the failure of the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign, they were forced to carry out a strategic transfer in order to get rid of the enemy's encirclement and blockade, so they began the Long March.
The Long March is a great miracle in human history, they have traveled about twenty-five thousand miles, passed through barren meadows, climbed over mountains, and stepped on countless rivers. When they are hungry and have no food to eat, they eat the grass that grows on the ground, even the bark of the trees, such a hard life is unimaginable to people in peacetime. They have demonstrated to the world the firm will of our military personnel. New China was founded on October 1, 1949. After the founding of New China, the Eighth Route Army was renamed the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Later, when an old farmer was cleaning up his house, he found an IOU written by the Eighth Route Army in a hidden wall crack. It turned out that seventy years ago, the person who signed the IOU was no longer alive, and the Eighth Route Army had become the People's Liberation Army, and this IOU also attracted widespread attention from experts. It is said that the Eighth Route Army at that time passed through the village where the old farmer was located, and because the conditions were very difficult at that time, the Eighth Route Army borrowed some materials from the old farmer's family, including 120 catties of cotton, 50 pairs of cloth shoes and 60 catties of cloth. At that time, the Eighth Route Army traveled a long distance and walked dozens of miles of rough roads every day, and shoes were indispensable, so there were many shoes borrowed from it. The person in charge of borrowing things at that time wrote him this IOU and promised that if he had an urgent use, he could go directly to the base area of Yan'an to collect it, and if he was not in a hurry, he could wait for the victory of the war and the liberation of the whole country to transport these materials.
Later, in the war, the person responsible for borrowing things died, and the family of the old farmer died, and the matter of this IOU was forgotten. Later, after the victory of the war and the founding of the country, the government specially organized an activity to repay the IOU in order to repay the help of the people at that time, and the people all took the IOU to exchange, because both people died, no one knew that there was still the existence of this IOU, until the old farmer cleaned up the house, only to find this IOU that has been preserved so far. After careful study by experts, it is said that this IOU is of great value.
Although this is just an ordinary IOU, it records the hardships of the Eighth Route Army at that time, and records the Eighth Route Army's strict discipline of not taking the masses of the people in vain, which reflects the high quality of our army, does not deceive the masses, reflects the righteous heart of the Eighth Route Army that was difficult and difficult in those years, and is a great witness to adhering to the right path. Therefore, this IOU can be said to be a priceless treasure, and now this IOU has been placed in the Anti-Japanese War History Museum for posterity to watch, to warn future generations.