We all know that marching to fight is not such a simple thing, not only will there be a lot of blood and sacrifice, but also a lot of manpower, material resources, and consumption of a lot of money. The soldiers in the front are selling their lives in the front, and the people in the rear are shoulder to shoulder and carry food and clothing for the soldiers. The ancients said that "the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass have gone first", which is the importance of grain and grass.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, ordinary people lived in deep water, especially the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who fought against foreign enemies, although they fought bravely to kill the enemy, they often fought with the enemy hungry, and some even wore straw shoes. But even in this case, the fighters still adhere to the principle of "not taking a needle and a thread from the masses", so they are deeply supported by the people.
But there are exceptions to everything, sometimes the people can't see it anymore and will take the initiative to send some food and clothes to the soldiers, although they can't go to the battlefield, they still want to do their part. The old man Guo Jianying is such an example, when the old man's family was relatively wealthy, he lent the Eighth Route Army 18 million yuan of French currency in one go in 1947, and the leader of the army who received the loan personally wrote an IOU to the old man and promised to pay it off after it was repaid.
Forty years later, the Guo family fell in the middle of the road, Guo Jianying's descendants thought of the IOU, he held the heart to try it out and found the relevant departments, the department leaders attached great importance to the authenticity of the IOU, a few days later sent Guo Jia 80,000 yuan, because it was borrowed at that time the legal tender issued by the Republic of China government, many years of war led to inflation, so it gave this number, but this money was not a small amount in that era.