During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a wealthy businessman in Shanxi surnamed Guo, who was very honest in his business and was willing to be charitable and charitable. In that poor era when there was not enough to eat, Mr. Guo often built a porridge shack to help the local people.
One day, a group of the Eighth Route Army passed by the town where Guo Laoye was located, and they had been marching day and night for many days, and the soldiers were already hungry.
"Man is iron, rice is steel, a meal is not hungry panic"
。 What's more, most of the Eighth Route Army are young men, and it is time to eat.
Some fighters are so hungry that they can't even walk steadily, and what do they talk about carrying guns to hit the enemy?
At that time, the troops of the Eighth Route Army often ran out of food, but our troops had regulations that they could not take a needle and a thread from the masses. In order to protect our revolutionary forces, the Eighth Route Army later formulated new regulations:
You can manage the people to borrow grain, but write a good IOU and return it on time.
The leader of this group was very distressed to see the soldiers hungry like this, so he planned to borrow food from the people. Old Master Guo's family has a strong foundation and is very famous in the local area, and after the chief heard about it, he found Old Master Guo's family and told him about borrowing grain.
Old Master Guo knew that the Eighth Route Army was very hard at fighting Japanese devils, and he agreed without even thinking about it. When the chief handed the written IOU to Old Master Guo, Old Master Guo said that he would not accept anything.
"You are fighting devils on the front line, I just give some food, why can I let you pay it back?" Mr. Guo waved his hand and pushed the IOU aside.
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Brother, we in the Eighth Route Army have a rule that if you don't receive a note, we can't take your grain.
The chief said emphatically.
Old Master Guo saw that he could not resign, so he accepted the IOU. The military discipline of the Eighth Route Army made him admire, and at the same time he secretly sighed:
With such a team fighting for the people, China has no future!
Although the Kuomintang stipulated that the people were not allowed to lend grain to the Eighth Route Army, the people had a scale in their hearts who were good and who were bad.
Mr. Guo sold several stores and fields, raised 11 million French dollars, and bought all the grain for the Eighth Route Army.
The warriors ate a full meal, and one by one they became majestic and energetic, and they continued to advance to the battlefield after resting.
Before leaving, the chief shook Old Master Guo's hand, thanked him repeatedly for solving the urgent needs of the Eighth Route Army, and instructed him not to forget to take the IOU to the organization to ask for repayment in the future.
After sending away the Eighth Route Army, Old Master Guo collected the IOU, and he did not want the Eighth Route Army to repay the loan, but just to leave a memorial, so that future generations would remember to do more good deeds for the motherland and the people.
Mr. Guo pays attention to the quality of goods, and the price sold is relatively low, so many people come to visit his shop. Seeing that Old Master Guo's business was getting better and better, some of the profiteers were red-eyed, and they jointly got a batch
Low price and inferior quality
of commodities, want to use the price war to bring down Guo Laoye.
The people who could not distinguish between authenticity and falsity went to buy cheap ones, and there were fewer and fewer customers on Mr. Guo's side. The guys in the shop advised Mr. Guo to also sell inferior goods, but Mr. Guo resolutely disagreed, in his opinion,
Credibility is far more important than making money.
Later, Mr. Guo's business plummeted, and in the end he could only close the store. Relying on the property accumulated before, Old Master Guo's life can still be lived. Before he died, he told his son,
Don't use that IOU until you have to.
Before his death, Mr. Guo's son said the same thing to his son Guo Jianying.
In this way, this IOU went through three generations.
At this time, the Guo family was not as good as before, and could only work as a farmer for a living, and life was very hard, but Guo Jianying always remembered the last words of his father and grandfather, and he never thought of going to the government to get the loan back.
Unfortunately, Guo Jianying's wife is seriously ill and urgently needs a large amount of money for surgery. Guo Jianying was impatient, and after he pieced it together, it was far from enough. Eventually, he put his only hope in that IOU.
But things have passed for so long, can we still find the Eighth Route Army that borrowed money that year? Will the government not recognize the account?
Guo Jianying started a drum in his heart, but at this time he had no other way but to try.
Guo Jianying came to the local government with an IOU, and when the staff saw that the loan amount was as high as 11 million French yuan, they immediately reported it to the leader. Because the amount of borrowing is too large, the leader cannot make a decision directly, so the IOU is transferred to the relevant department for true and false identification.
It turned out that this IOU was indeed written by the Eighth Route Army.
Although the head who wrote the IOU has died, the government did not hesitate, immediately converted according to the exchange rate, and finally the principal and interest totaled more than 80,000 yuan, which was handed over to Guo Jianying one cent at a time.
In the eighties, the money was a huge sum of money. Guo Jianying was very touched after receiving the money,
The Eighth Route Army did not lose faith in Grandpa, and the people's government did not lose faith in him.
Under the government's arrangement, Guo Jianying's wife was admitted to the hospital and finally recovered after treatment.
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, many people have come to the government with IOUs, and as long as it is true, the government will return the principal and interest to the creditors.
Behind these IOUs is the people's support for the revolution, the eighth route army's honesty to the people, and even more a symbol of the military and the people's family!