Premier Zhou Enlai
preface
In 1997, during a routine internal audit, the Bank of China discovered a mysterious huge deposit from Premier Zhou!
According to the information, the money was deposited with the Bank of China on July 8, 1967, with a total amount of 12,000 pounds, which was converted into renminbi according to the exchange rate at the time.
Equivalent to a huge amount of property of 82309 yuan, in the new China at that time, this money was undoubtedly a huge deposit.
At that time, the information on the money deposited was deposited in the bank of China in the name of Premier Zhou Enlai.
It should be known that Premier Zhou's monthly salary at that time was only 400 yuan, and his wife Deng Ying's monthly salary did not exceed 350 yuan.
Zhou Enlai and Deng Yingchao
The husband and wife usually live an extremely frugal life, and the two have a fresh wind in their sleeves throughout their lives.
The money earned is either to help the people in need, or to be used as a party fee, everyone believes.
This is not a deposit of The Weekly Prime Minister!
So what is the truth of this? Where does this money come from?
Subsequently, the relevant staff urgently began to investigate, but as the truth surfaced, a story of touching tears slowly unfolded in front of everyone's eyes!
01. The background of the times under the truth
This happened during World War II.
In September 1940, when London was being bombed by Germany, the originally prosperous and lively city was instantly replaced by cries and screams.
It can be said that from the first day of the German bombing of London, London was shrouded in darkness.
At the same time, in the context of the war, britain's economic level also fell sharply, many companies collapsed, and more and more people lost their jobs.
At this time, an English girl named Dolly also worked on it because of the war.
Without a job, in order to survive in that war era, she could only interview and look for a job under the cover of shells.
One day, she took her resume with her to apply for a job at the London branch of the Bank of China in her original company building.
The London branch of the Bank of China during this period played a pivotal role in China's financial circles, because there were very few companies in charge of overseas business in China at that time, and the London branch of the Bank of China was one of them.
It is not only responsible for the UK itself, but also governs banking throughout Europe and the African continent.
Dolly was very keen to take up the job, and coincidentally, the London branch of the Bank of China was also very short of manpower at this time.
Because they are responsible for too wide a business, each business is also very cumbersome, so Dolly, who has relevant work experience, was successfully admitted.
Immediately after she joined the company, she took charge of counter cashiers and other financial operations, including payroll and remittances to Chinese seafarers.
But every time he saw these Chinese seafarers, Dolly always felt sympathy in his heart.
Why?
It turned out that most of these seafarers were people from the Kuomintang club, they were alone in Britain, they had not learned well, and some vices were all over the place.
Eating, drinking, prostituting, and gambling are not left behind, most people spend their hard-earned money on it, and Dolly watches as the Chinese seafarers squander their newly received wages.
Both angry and sympathetic, you must know that at this time China is also suffering from the pain of aggression, the family of these seafarers Dolly is completely empathetic, at this moment they need not only the care of their families, but also the support of money!
Therefore, when the kind Dolly pays his salary, he often persuades the Chinese crew not to squander money anymore and think of his family.
If they can send back the money they earn to their families, Dolly is willing to minimize the remittance fee within his authority.
Dolly's persuasion is often not exchanged for a good attitude, and the sentence she hears the most is:
“It's none of your business.” （关你屁事）
But there were also those who heeded Dolly's persuasion and gave up bad habits, except for the only living expenses, and remitted the rest to their families.
Dolly also fulfilled her duties, doing her best to help the Chinese crew members who were far away.
Whenever Dolly sees people who have lost their way because of her own persuasion, she will smile happily and feel a sense of accomplishment in her heart.
This continued until 1944, when China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression ushered in the most critical moment.
But Dolly caused a big disaster for China this year!
02. Love and justice
In terms of year, Dolly has been working at the London branch of bocculture for 4 years, during which time dolly has been well received by colleagues and leaders in both work and life.
But in the winter of 1944, she ran into a catastrophe because of justice.
As we said just now, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression at this time ushered in the most critical moment, but many years of war have left China's economy in ruins.
Therefore, the National Government and the Red Cross Society have set up fundraising boxes all over the world, and they want the Chinese and overseas Chinese to help peace and refugees at home within their own capabilities.
At that time, the London branch of the Bank of China also set up a collection box, and according to Dolly's recollection, they placed two in the most prominent positions.
One was set up by the Kuomintang government and the other by the Red Cross.
Originally, this was a good thing, but what everyone did not expect was that these money that saved the country from water and fire also dared someone to steal it!
When the donation box was set up, every day patriots extended their helping hand and contributed their own strength to the motherland.
The government and the people have also raised a lot of money, but what everyone did not expect was that the corrupt Kuomintang actually set its eyes on the donation box.
Dolly stumbled upon the fact that the national government official who managed the donation box had actually enriched himself.
He amassed wealth through the donation box, openly under the slogan of charity, but in fact often stole the money in the donation box.
The kind Dolly was very anxious after seeing this scene, and she could not bear that China's life-saving money would flow into the hands of this greedy person, so she made a decision without permission!
Whenever the bank opened, she secretly hid the Kuomintang government's fundraising box under the counter, so that all the money donors would put the money into the Red Cross box.
When the bank was about to close, Dolly took out the Kuomintang donation box under the counter.
This method was discovered by The Kuomintang officials not long after, and he was so angry that he directly charged Dolly with the charge of hiding the government's collection box.
Dolly
This corrupt Kuomintang official, in order not to be affected by the subsequent financial path, he insisted that the leaders of the bank expel Dolly!
Although the leaders and colleagues of the bank knew in their hearts that Dolly's intention was not this, they did not want to risk offending Kuomintang officials to retain Dolly, a foreign employee!
So the bank manager agreed to dismiss Dolly, but at this moment, a young Chinese employee stood up for justice!
He not only complained in front of many people about the various acts of corruption by Kuomintang officials, but also told everyone about Dolly's true intentions, which touched the people present.
Then one by one, the bank's employees stepped forward in turn, just to ensure that Dolly was not fired.
The clever bank manager, seeing this scene, retracted the decision to fire Dolly, but this incident also created a new couple!
The actor is the person who first spoke for Dolly, his name is Liu Benkun, he graduated from Tsinghua University, and he originally worked at the Bank of China in Shanghai.
Liu Benkun
Due to his excellent working ability, he was assigned to the London branch in 1943.
After coming here, he was concerned about the safety of the motherland every day, but Liu Benkun also knew that he had no ability, and could only work hard every day to contribute his own strength to the country.
It was also on the way to work that he discovered the kind-hearted Dolly, and every time he saw Dolly persuade the Chinese seafarers to send their salaries home, Liu Benkun's heart was touched once.
So when Dolly was wronged, Liu Benkun did not stand idly by, and it was this time that he stepped forward and let him and Dolly begin to know and love each other!
After this incident, Dolly was very grateful to Liu Benkun, and at the same time, the two like-minded people, coupled with the fact that they were both young people, naturally broke through the layer of window paper, and the two became lovers!
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, in 1949, on the eve of the founding of New China, Liu Benkun and Dolly held a wedding in London.
According to the customs of Liu Benkun's family at that time, women should follow their husbands' family names after marriage, so Dolly gave herself a Chinese name "Liu Daorui".
After marriage, the life of the two is very happy, although they have received different educations since childhood, come from different countries, and have different races, but Liu Daorui and Liu Benkun get along very well.
However, in addition to being a loving couple, the two are also like-minded warriors who love China!
03. Liu Benkun and his wife struggled to protect state-owned assets
On October 1, 1949, the new China was officially established, at this time the country was in ruins, and there were still many problems to be solved, one of the most important things was to let the new government take over the domestic financial institutions as soon as possible and stabilize the domestic economy.
The matter was presided over by Premier Zhou himself, and the headquarters of the Bank of China took the lead in setting up the General Management Office.
They then informed the overseas branches of the Bank of China, demanding that the relevant assets of the Kuomintang government be frozen immediately, pending the arrangements of the new government.
However, all this may seem simple, but the situation is extremely complicated.
Take the Bank of China branch in London, according to Tang Bingkun, an employee of the Bank of China, who recalled:
"At that time, there were two factions, one belonged to Beijing and the other belonged to Taiwan, many of which could not be decided directly, and the struggle was fierce."
The president of the London branch is affiliated with the Taiwanese faction.
At that time, their bank had a lot of foreign exchange, but the president always looked at New China with colored glasses.
So when the head office ordered all funds to be frozen, the president of the London branch of the Bank of China was unwilling to accept this decision, but instead he wanted to secretly transfer all his foreign exchange deposits to Taiwan.
In order to hide his eyes, the president first found a reason to dismiss most of the bank employees home, leaving only 10 bank employees, and Liu Benkun was one of them at this time.
He was well aware of the importance of this matter, and once this happened, it would undoubtedly have a huge impact on New China, so at this moment of crisis, a struggle to defend state-owned assets began!
Among them, Liu Benkun united 4 patriotic and well-connected people, who secretly discussed if they could stop the president's plan, and they also consulted local lawyers.
As a result, a solution was negotiated, and the five of them opened a new bank account at HSBC in London in the name of bank of China.
If you want to use this account, you must have one of the 5 people sign it.
In this regard, their patriotic detachment successfully guarded the national assets, and Liu Benkun was also appointed as Xiangli by the head office.
That is, the deputy manager of the bank, belonging to the manager, plus the wife was also a bank clerk, and the London of that era developed very quickly, so the life of the two gradually became rich.
They bought a car and a house in London, and their days were very comfortable.
But in a chat with a domestic friend by chance, Liu Benkun learned that the current new China is in urgent need of talents.
After receiving this news, Liu Benkun, who was full of patriotism, immediately consulted with his wife and wanted to return to China to dedicate his part.
Then he told his wife Liu Daorui what he thought, and at the same time told his wife about the current environment of New China.
If it was before, Liu Benkun would definitely buy a ticket directly to return to China.
But now it's different, he's not alone, he's going to take responsibility for the whole family.
Judging from these things, Liu Benkun is not only a member of the love of the motherland, but also a good husband.
Fortunately, Liu Daorui is also an empathetic wife, and she knows very well what kind of living conditions they will face if they return to China with her husband.
But she respects her husband's choice, and Liu Daorui is also a person who loves China, so she wants to pay her part for the new China.
In this way, Liu Daorui agreed to her husband's request to return to China to work.
Seeing that his wife was so sensible, Liu Benkun couldn't help but kiss his wife's forehead, and then held her tightly in his arms.
It is the two of them who love each other deeply, can understand each other, can get along so harmoniously.
After that, Liu Benkun wrote a letter to the bank leaders in China, indicating that he wanted to return to China to dedicate his strength.
However, in the face of Liu Benkun's application, the head office leader has not approved it, why is this?
It turned out that the London branch lacked people like him at that time, and the assets of the state outside needed Liu Benkun to protect.
And after the last incident, the London branch needed to re-recruit people to get the job on track, so the headquarters did not want him to return to China for the time being.
But headquarters assured him that once the London side was stable, he could be arranged to return home immediately.
Liu Benkun thought the same thing, so he tried his best to get the London branch to resume normal work, and actively looked for someone to replace him.
However, during this period, Liu Daorui made a decision that everyone did not expect!
That is, he gave up his British citizenship and became a Chinese citizen.
The year was 1957.
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it came to 1967, a year in which the leaders of the Bank of China, who were far away in China, finally agreed to Liu Benkun's request to return to China to work.
After receiving the notice, Liu Benkun's hands kept shaking when he looked at the notice, he looked forward to this day for a very long time, in order to be able to return to China as soon as possible, Liu Benkun and his wife quickly disposed of all their fixed assets in britain.
One of them is a mansion that they have saved for a long time, and if they find the right buyer, this mansion will not only not lose money, but also make a profit.
But in order to return to China quickly, Liu Benkun finally disposed of the house at a low price, selling only 12,000 pounds.
And this sum of money is a huge deposit in Premier Zhou's account.
But this is obviously liu benkun's money, why did they inexplicably run into the account of Premier Zhou Enlai?
04. The return of the wanderer to China to support the country's economic construction
After Liu Benkun and his wife returned to China, they worked at the headquarters of the Bank of China, and although the salary was far less than that of the United Kingdom, it was relatively generous in the new China at that time.
The monthly salary of the two is completely enough for daily expenses, plus Liu Benkun and his wife usually do not spend much money.
So some of their savings in Britain have nowhere to spend.
At the same time, after returning to New China, Liu Benkun and his wife saw that China, which was developing rapidly at that time, needed funds in many fields.
After some discussion, the two decided to donate the £12,000 they had sold their house to the state so that the money could make the most of it!
So who is this money to give to to play its true value?
Then they thought of one person, and that was our great prime minister, Zhou Enlai!
In June 1967, Premier Zhou Enlai received an anonymous letter that read:
"Dear Premier Zhou, we are sending you £12,000 through the bank today, which we have saved from our salaries over the years.
We have long made up our minds to hand over this accumulated money to the state for socialist construction.
But because it is not yet clear who should hand this money over to the state, it is safe and secure.
We have only taken matters into your hands as a last resort because we believe in you. ”
The letter was also interspersed with a £12,000 bill of exchange, which was undoubtedly sent by Mr. and Mrs. Liu Benkun.
When the prime minister received the donation that week, he immediately gave instructions on it:
"The name of the personal deposit, the state can not collect, we must find the donor as soon as possible, the money will be returned."
But in the end, due to various reasons, the donor has not been found, because at the beginning of the letter sent by Liu Benkun and his wife, they did not leave their names, addresses and other information.
They are afraid that the government will not want the donation, so despite the best efforts of the relevant personnel to find it, they still have not found the sender.
At that time, 12,000 pounds was a huge amount of money, and if it were converted into rmb at the exchange rate at that time, it would be worth as much as 82,309 yuan.
So no one dares to decide where the money is placed.
In this case, Premier Zhou can only temporarily deposit the 12,000 pounds in the name of an individual in the bank, and then return it to them when the owner of the money is found.
What Premier Zhou did not expect was that until his death in 1976, the owner of the money was still not found.
During this period, Liu Benkun and his wife have been living a thrifty and frugal life.
It wasn't until 1997 that the Bank of China discovered a mysterious huge deposit from Premier Zhou during a routine internal audit!
After investigation, this money was sent by Liu Benkun and his wife.
By this time they had been retiring for almost 10 years, and from 1947 to 1997, the bank converted the 12,000 pounds into renminbi, plus 30 years of interest totaling 467,000 yuan.
According to Premier Zhou's previous instructions, the money was returned.
But when the Bank of China found Liu Benkun and his wife, they refused, and Liu Benkun said that since the money had been donated, there was no reason to take it back.
However, the staff tried to persuade Liu Benkun and his wife to recover the money, because at this time they were already full of gray hair, Liu Benkun was not in good health, and often needed hospitalization.
The two men barely survive on their pensions, and now is the time to use the money.
However, in the face of such a situation, Liu Benkun and his wife insisted on refusing to accept the money, while the bank staff resolutely obeyed premier Zhou's instructions before his death and must return the money to its owner.
The two sides were deadlocked on this, and they came and went to "fight" several times, but in the end, Liu Benkun and his wife still refused to recover the money.
In the end, Liu Daorui saw that this was not a solution, so he made a suggestion:
"I proposed to set up a foundation in my husband's name to honor the bank's outstanding employees. ”
In this regard, this mysterious deposit under the name of Premier Zhou Enlai has finally come to an end!
No one thought that behind this story, there was such a touching and tearful story.
end
Liu Benkun and Liu Daorui have long regarded China as their home, and they have witnessed china's rapid growth for decades.
In addition to them, in the long river of China's rapid development, there are countless patriotic people with high morals, who have all sacrificed their own strength for the perspective of national progress.
The development of New China from a poor agricultural country to a world power today is precisely the result of thousands of patriots like Liu Benkun and his wife, who have forged it with their hands!
We can't forget the day of Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the bright five-star red flag slowly rising, the majestic national anthem resounding throughout the land of Shenzhou, washing away the shame of a hundred years.
We can't forget the mushroom cloud rising up in the Gobi Desert, which belongs to China and floats over the motherland.
Now we are the future of the motherland, so we must inherit the legacy of the martyrs, carry forward China's fine traditions, and pass on the faith from generation to generation forever.
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