From the very beginning, the Chinese Red regime attached great importance to financial and fiscal work, and even in the most difficult period, it did not lower its standards, which not only did not burden the masses of the people, but also enabled the Red regime to have the necessary financial support.
After the start of the Long March, there was a mysterious team that was protected by the highest level of the Red Army, unconditional protection, at the cost of life, they were not famous generals, not high-ranking officials, but they carried 150 pounds of gold and 840 pounds of silver.
These hard currencies are reserves for the Central Soviet Bank. In addition, there were several printing machines, which once carried the food, clothing, and ammunition of tens of thousands of Red Army and millions of people in the Soviet area.
The number of this team is
The Fifteenth Brigade of the Central Column
Captain Gao Jebsen was a financial expert in the Red Army. Before joining the Red Army, he raised more than 1.5 million silver dollars and materials for the Red Army, which was deeply trusted by the Party Central Committee.
A native of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, Gao Jiecheng received a progressive education from an early age, participated in the May Fourth Movement, served as a propagandist in the Northern Expeditionary Army, and went to Guangdong for training. After the Northern Expedition occupied Zhangzhou in 1926, Gao Jiecheng returned to his hometown to lead the revolution. Unexpectedly, Chiang Kai-shek betrayed the revolution, and Gao Jiecheng was arrested many times, but thanks to the rescue of the underground party and his family, he was not imprisoned and killed.
In order to avoid being hunted by the opposition, Gao Jiecheng went to a bank in Shanghai for two years as a buddy, and returned to Zhangzhou in 1929 to become a cashier at Baichuan Qianzhuang. Although the Great Revolution was at a low ebb, the communist-led guerrillas did not cease their activities, and there were also such guerrillas in the countryside of Zhangzhou.
After Gao Jiecheng and the guerrillas were connected, they found that they were short of clothing and medicine, and their weapons and ammunition were seriously insufficient. So he used his status as a cashier to embezzle more than 20,000 yuan from the money bank to let the guerrillas buy much-needed medicines and arms, solving their urgent needs. More than 20,000 silver dollars was a huge amount of money at that time, and the annual expenditure of ordinary people was only a few tens of yuan.
In April 1932, the Red Army conquered Zhangzhou, and with the assistance of Gao Jebsen, raised more than 1 million silver dollars and materials worth more than 400,000 yuan. Mao Zedong was very satisfied with Gao Jiecheng's work and invited him to join the Red Army in charge of financial work.
Gao Jie became the ideal of realizing the salvation of the country and the people, resolutely bid farewell to his wife and children at home, and embarked on the road of revolution. He created an accounting system for the banks of the Soviet Union and made it more formalized. The Bank of the Soviet Union was the money bag of the Central Soviet District, issuing its own red currency, which not only protected the Soviet Area from the plunder of the Kuomintang, but also improved the living standards of the people.
The gold and silver carried by the 15th Brigade during the Long March were the reserves of the red currency, the guarantee that the red currency maintained the stability of the currency and had strong purchasing power, and it was also the hard currency for the Red Army to purchase supplies and military supplies along the way.
The twenty-five-thousand-mile long march did not drag down the Red Army, but also sowed the seeds of revolution all the way, in large part because the Red Army set an example for the broad masses of the people with the practical actions of fair trade and love for the masses, and these were based on sufficient financial support.
From ancient times to the present, how many peasant rebels may have thought of doing nothing in autumn, but in the face of the grim reality that countless people want to eat and wear, they have finally become rogues who have gone all the way to grab all the way. Only the Red Army has truly achieved the goal of being free of charge, because the Red Army is not only an army that serves the people, but also has advanced financial means and financial experts like Gao Jiecheng.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Gao Jebsen was appointed as the governor of the Ji'nan Base Bank, and under his presidency, he successfully issued the Ji'nan currency, which became a sharp weapon for consolidating the base area and attacking the enemy. The 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army led by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping and the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Base Area will be developed into the famous Liu Deng Second Field Army.
In the early days of the establishment of the base areas, the Kuomintang's legal tender, Japanese and counterfeit currencies, and some local miscellaneous coins were all in circulation, causing economic chaos and a large number of materials were snapped up by the enemy and puppets. Gao Jebsen continuously improved the credibility and printing quality of the Ji'nan coin, gradually squeezed other currencies out of the base area, and basically completed the unification of the currency system.
The Ji'nan coin was not only well received by the masses in the base areas, but also used as a talisman by many puppet soldiers. They usually use it to buy things, and the value of the currency is stable, unlike counterfeit Japanese banknotes, which may fall at any time. On the other hand, when surrendering, it can be proved that he has long been interested in the base area, and even if he is caught by the Japanese devils and wants to kill his head, he will not give up the Ji'nan coin.
Gao Jebsen made a good summary of this: banknotes can play a role that real guns can't play. The reason why the anti-Japanese base areas can continue to develop and grow is that in addition to the victories on the battlefield, red currencies such as the Ji'nan coin are also indispensable.
Unfortunately, Gao Jebsen did not see the final victory of the revolution. In May 1943, during the Japanese army sweep, Gao Jie became an important document to protect the danger in time, and he was chased and killed by the Japanese army, at the age of 34. When cleaning up the relics, it was found that the financial expert who was in charge of hundreds of millions of assets had no personal property.
It was not until 1950, after liberation, that Gao Jebsen's wife learned of her husband's death. For so many years, Gao Jiecheng's letters to his family were handed over by trustees to prevent them from being discovered by the Kuomintang and affecting their families.