A policy of 2 million yuan, after 69 years, the amount of compensation has become 200 yuan! Like a drop of water dripping from the boiling oil, this matter quickly caused heated discussion among netizens. To know exactly how this matter should be resolved, it is better to look at how the government handled an IOU with a face value of 11 million French dollars in 1985. Does this IOU count? Can the old farmer with the IOU get his wish? Welcome to like the comment collection.
Old farmer with IOUs
The old farmer came to the door with an IOU
In 1985, a strange old farmer appeared outside the gates of the Shanxi government, who looked as if he had something to do, but he kept wandering at the door and did not dare to enter. The incident aroused the suspicion of government officials. Afraid of delaying the old farmer's work, the staff took the initiative to go outside the door to receive him and asked him what was the matter here?
The old farmer was startled at first, but seeing that the staff was so gentle with him, he really wanted to help him, so the old farmer took out a yellowed piece of paper from his arms and said to the staff, "Comrade, I have an IOU here, do you think this still counts?" "The staff muttered in their hearts, there is an IOU looking for money owed, why come to the government?"
Ious
However, the staff still opened the IOU, but when he saw the contents of it, he was very shocked, because on this yellowed piece of paper, there was a sentence like this:
"The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army now borrowed 11 million French tenders from Guo Yangming and returned it after the war." Underneath this sentence is a bright and dangling government seal. After all, 11 million legal tender is not a small amount, plus the person holding the IOU is an old man who looks very ordinary. The staff had to look at it, quickly invited the old man to the office, asked the old man to sit down, and carefully inquired about the origin of this IOU.
Eighth route army
Just when this IOU was sent to the appraisal expert for appraisal, the old man told the staff about the origin of the IOU. As written on the IOU, the money was borrowed by the Eighth Route Army, but the old man was not Guo Yangming himself, but guo Jianying, who was Guo Yangming's grandson. Guo Jianying has been treasured this IOU, and suddenly needs money urgently, in order to try his luck, he will take the IOU to see if it can be exchanged.
After the appraisal experts completed the appraisal, they also rushed over breathlessly, and he confirmed that the IOU was true, but it was also necessary to see whether the old man was a member of the IOU by combining other materials such as the history of the party. After all the work was confirmed, the Shanxi government began to calculate the money that should be returned to the Guo family according to the amount of exchange between the renminbi after the founding of the People's Republic of China and the legal tender at that time, counting the inflation interest rate and interest rate for so many years.
Large amounts of fiat currency
In the end, the 11 million French tender was converted into 80,000 yuan. In the 1980s, there were very few households with even 10,000 yuan, and this 80,000 yuan was undoubtedly a huge amount of money for Guo Jianying, equivalent to millions of modern times. For this reason, the old man is very grateful to the government, he really did not expect that the government would keep its promises to the events of 40 years ago, and gave him the corresponding amount of conversion.
The old farmer took the IOU to the door, and after the Shanxi government's appraisal was completed, he confirmed the authenticity of the IOU without saying a word, and exchanged it for the old man in equal amounts of 80,000 yuan. So, the old man's grandfather Guo Yangming, who is the person who can get 11 million Legal tender? Why did the Eighth Route Army owe money?
The Eighth Route Army owes money
First of all, I want to say a question, many people may wonder, obviously this money was borrowed by the Eighth Route Army from the masses at that time, which is equivalent to the flow of money between the continents, why is it spent in legal tender? What does France have to do with it? To be honest, this "legal tender" really has nothing to do with France, and this "legal tender" is a currency issued by the National Government in Nanjing at the end of 1935 to control inflation.
legal tender
But in any case, the number of 11 million is still very huge, and ordinary farmers at that time could not have so much money, so what is Guo Yangming's identity? In fact, Guo Yangming was not an ordinary person in those days, but should belong to the landlord class. Guo Yangming ran a coal mine and was good at business, so Guo Mingyang soon made a lot of money.
However, although Guo Yangming was a landlord, he was particularly kind to the people, never using his own money to oppress the people, but trying to give more help to the people who worked in his home. When the harvest is not good in which year, Guo Yangming will not only reduce the rent, but also distribute the grain stored in his family to the long-term workers, so the local farmers and Guo Yangming have a very good relationship.
Ancient landlords
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, although the Nationalist army made a great contribution to the frontal battlefield at that time, it also caused the people to complain. In contrast, the Eighth Route Army, which is strictly disciplined and never takes a needle from the people, has a high sense of favor.
By the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the war was becoming more and more fierce, and many ordinary people took the initiative to send grain to the Eighth Route Army in order to increase their efforts for the Eighth Route Army. At that time, the Eighth Route Army was indeed more difficult and urgently needed these grains, but if it demanded the grain of the people for free, what was the difference between that and the Kuomintang army that was expropriating and violent? At that time, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army wrote IOU to the people, and promised that after the end of the war, the people with IOUs could take these IOUs to the Eighth Route Army to exchange money.
The Eighth Route Army gave the peasants an IOU
At that time, Guo Yangming saw the plight of the Eighth Route Army, so he gritted his teeth and sold all the family property, collected 11 million French dollars to the Eighth Route Army, and pulled 10 truckloads of grain. The commander of the Eighth Route Army couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw the grain, and turned around and prepared to write an IOU to Guo Yangming.
At this moment, Guo Yangming stopped the regimental commander and said angrily, "Sending grain to the people's army, but also wanting an IOU, who do you think I am?" But after all, the Eighth Route Army was strictly disciplined, and after the regimental commander explained it, he still forced Guo Yangming to give Guo Yangming an IOU. To put it mildly, Guo Yangming finally accepted this IOU, but he did not treat this IOU as an IOU that could be exchanged for money.
In Guo Yangming's mind, this note is a souvenir, which is the best proof that he once helped the Eighth Route Army. Guo Yangming hoped that this IOU could be passed down as an heirloom, and advised future generations that they must not come to the Eighth Route Army to ask for money. After listening to this story, the people working here were all in tears.
Guo Yangming also wanted to help the Eighth Route Army, although he got an IOU, he instructed his descendants not to come to the government for money, why would Guo Jianying still come to exchange the IOU after 40 years? How did Guo Yangming's descendants become ordinary farmers?
Choice of last resort
Although Guo Yangming sold his family's property that year, he still left a house and a small shop, planning to make a comeback. In fact, at that time, because Guo Yangming's feat of borrowing grain from the Eight-Nation Army spread throughout the township, it also led to the particular popularity of his shops, and many people were willing to come to his shops to buy things. Guo Yangming originally had a good business acumen and treated people well, so his business can be described as thriving.
Seeing that Guo Yangming was about to rise again, the owners of other shops looked at Guo Mingyang very unpleasantly. Because people go to Guo Yangming's store to buy things, no one in their store buys things. So these black-hearted bosses got together and came up with a solution: they united into a batch of flawed goods and sold them at very low prices to attract the people.
Republic of China store
Although the people at that time were grateful to Guo Yangming for their thin clouds, who would give up the lower price of the commodity? So the people went to these low-priced stores to buy inferior products. Guo Yangming knew at a glance what tricks these people were playing, but Guo Yangming was unwilling to reduce the quality of the goods and still sold them at the original price. After a long time, the capital chain in Guo Yangming's shop was broken, and the business could not be done.
Guo Yangming engaged in business for a lifetime, did not expect to be planted in the hands of these black-hearted villains, after the complete resale of the store, Guo Yangming has been depressed, and eventually seriously ill. Before Guo Yangming died, he called his child to the hospital bed, and passed on this IOU to him, asking him to pass on this thing as an heirloom, and instructed him not to go to our army for money.
Shops in the Republic of China
Guo Yangming's son, Guo Jianying's father, also abided by this agreement, although Guo's father changed from a young master of a rich family to a farmer, but he did not have any resentment, but worked conscientiously in the fields. Before Guo Jianying's father died, he passed this IOU to Guo Jianying.
Guo Jianying originally wanted to keep it well, but suddenly a tribulation occurred in his home. In early 1980, Guo Jianying's wife suddenly fell ill, and after being sent to the hospital, the doctor diagnosed that it was a relatively rare disease, and if you want to do surgery, you must make up a certain amount of surgery. But Guo Jianying was just an ordinary farmer at that time, and he couldn't come up with so much money at once, even if he borrowed it, most of the friends around him were farmers.
The Eighth Route Army OWE
At this time, Guo Jianying suddenly remembered the IOU given by his father, more than 40 years have passed, he did not know whether the government would exchange it, but in order for his wife to survive, Guo Jianying decided to try his luck. As a result, the staff of the Shanxi government immediately completed the exchange for him after confirming the truth, and Guo Jianying got 80,000 yuan in cash on the spot.
In fact, Guo Jianying has always felt guilty about coming to the door to ask the government for money, because he felt that he had violated his grandfather's will and failed the Eighth Route Army of the War of Resistance. However, in fact, at the beginning of the founding of New China, the government also issued a special notice saying that those who had IOUs at home came to the government to exchange them, and after the verification was completed, they could get cash. The people selflessly help the People's Army, and the government has borrowed and repaid, which reflects the deep bond between the military and the people on the mainland. Welcome to like the comment collection.