Why did Commander-in-Chief Zhu De borrow money and not repay it?

On September 5, 1937, Zhu De, then commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, wrote a letter to his ex-wife Chen Yuzhen, who was far away in Nanxi County, Sichuan, and urgently asked: "Are my two mothers (birth mother and adoptive mother) in the human world?" "The news is mixed with sorrow and joy. At that time, Sichuan was plagued by disasters and famines, thousands of miles of red land, mourning and wilderness, and the birth and adoptive mothers who were over 80 years old were starving of food and feared that they would not be able to survive this year.

At that time, although Commander-in-Chief Zhu De was in a high position, he was no different from ordinary soldiers, serving as a public servant with two sleeves of fresh wind, and only a salary of five oceans per month, and he did not even have the ability to send money to fulfill filial piety. Because the party's economy was not rich at that time, Zhu Desi did not make demands on the organization after thinking about it, but chose to write a letter to his old friend Dai Youling for help.

With the elder brother:

Although the Japanese Kou occupied many of our places, we went to recover many famous cities, and went deep into the Beiping area behind the enemy to fight with the Japanese Kou day and night, and we won victories large and small every day. Yesterday, Deng Huilin, Xu Mingyang, Liu Wanfang, and others came to Jin with the Forty-first Army, and they came to us to talk about their hometown friends, and from this, they knew the whereabouts of their friends, and they thought it was very fast, and they also described the recent situation in my family, which was quite rare, and the common affairs of the bankruptcy era, and I could no longer take care of them. But there are two mothers in the family, and all of them who gave birth to me and raised me are eighty years old, and they are still healthy. However, due to the famine of the year, this year is short of food, I am afraid that I will not be able to spend this year, and I will not be able to give a loan. I haven't had any money in ten years, and I will do the same in the future. I raise two hundred yuan from you as a good friend to send Zhu Lishu to your home. I can't repay you this money, please donate it. I hope you will do it against me.

This waits

Near Ann

Jude

November 29

In the Jinhongdong battlefield

"I have not had any money for more than ten years, and the future will be the same", so I hope to raise 200 yuan from Dai and Ling with a friendship relationship. The commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army could not even come up with this little money, and he could not come up with it in the future, reflecting the glorious image of communists who were bent on seeking the people and not seeking private interests. In fact, this is also the fundamental reason why communists can develop from small and large, from weak to strong, from a small party of dozens of people to a party of more than 90 million people.

"I can't repay you for this money, please donate it", reading it makes people burst into tears.