Siheyuan: Rebirth in a prosperous era, great doctors are sincere

At the beginning of the 22nd year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded North China on a large scale, and the national crisis became increasingly serious. However, Chiang Kai-shek ignored the national danger and still insisted on pursuing the reactionary policy of "reconciling the internal situation before resisting foreign aggression" and determined to eliminate our party and the Red Army led by it.

In May, he established the Nanchang Camp in Nanchang with full authority to handle military and political affairs in the five provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and Hubei.

In September, he personally organized and directed the mobilization of one million troops to carry out the fifth larger-scale "encirclement and suppression" campaign against the Soviet areas. He decided to adopt a new strategy of protracted war and "fortress doctrine" and at the same time implement economic and transportation measures in the Soviet areas. blockade in an attempt to gradually compress and destroy the Soviet area.

At this time, due to the continuous development and growth of the Red Army troops in the Soviet area, the Red Army's food supply encountered great difficulties, and the economy fell into a very difficult predicament.

In this extremely critical situation, the Zhongyang Soviet District issued temporary grain loan certificates.

When Mrs. Xu opened the wooden box, Li Ping'an and Qin Huairu also saw the true face of the grain borrowing certificate.

The full name of the Temporary Grain Borrowing Permit for the Soviet Area is the "Temporary Grain Borrowing Permit for the Chinese Soviet Temporary Central Government and Rich Government".

Temporary grain loan certificates are printed on rough-edged paper commonly used in the Soviet area, with two-color single-sided printing.

The design of the ticket is as follows: from right to left in the upper part are 19 words including "Zhongyang Zhengfu Temporary Borrowing Valley";

Below the title there is a pattern consisting of a hammer and sickle crossed;

There is a lace decorative line below the pattern, and below it is the denomination of the grain loan certificate. From right to left, it reads "Ten jins of dried grains can be converted into seven jins and four taels of rice" or "Two ten jins of dried grains can be converted into ten and a half jins of rice."

The lower half of the grain loan certificate contains three instructions for use and a signature.

The content is: "1. In order to lend emergency military rations during the war, the Chinese government temporarily borrows grain from the masses. This certificate is issued as proof. 2. Those who borrow oil and salt can be converted into rice at the current price and issued with this certificate. 3. Holders of this certificate can claim the full amount of new grain from the local government after the early harvest of the same year."

The signature is "Finance Committee Member Deng Zihui".

A red circular seal is stamped in the center of the ticket, and Deng Zihui's square seal is stamped in the lower left corner.

Temporary grain borrowing certificates are divided into two types: ten catties and twenty catties.

Temporary grain borrowing certificates were only issued for one year, but they were circulated for a while. For more than ten years and even after the founding of the People's Republic of China, temporary grain borrowing certificates have always been recognized. As long as you hold the temporary grain borrowing certificate, you can go to The local government officials exchanged the same amount of grain or RMB with the same value of the grain.

There are several grain borrowing certificates in the wooden box, some for ten kilograms and some for twenty kilograms.

According to current prices.

Coarse rice in the south costs 1,600 or 1,800 yuan per catty, and even polished rice only costs over 2,000 yuan per catty.

Three pieces of ten kilograms and two pieces of twenty kilograms are equivalent to fifty-one kilograms and two taels in rice, which is just over one hundred thousand yuan.

All Zeng Jia wanted to redeem were these grain loan certificates.

He directly took out ten bills worth fifty thousand yuan and handed them to Xu.

In fact.

Although there is no interest stated on the grain loan certificate, when the grain loan certificate is withdrawn that year or later, more will always be given. The longer the time interval, the more things will be given.

When the grain loan certificate was taken back after the prescription was solved, the grain loan certificate was even given to someone who was worth more than ten times the value at that time.

Zeng Jia gave five times the price, which was considered good.

Mrs. Xu shook her head and said: "I can't ask for your money. Our Li family didn't know the identity of your parents back then. The reason why we helped them was just because we were neighbors. Your parents left in a hurry when they left the courtyard. They gave us these grain borrowing certificates, and we knew their identities at that time. However, even so, even after we got to know each other, we never thought about what we would get with these grain borrowing certificates. Children, keep the money. Well, our Li family is living a very good life now, we don’t need these things, but we are just..."

Mrs. Xu was speechless.

Anyway.

She just wouldn't exchange the grain certificate for money.

If she doesn't want it, Li Lin naturally won't want it either.

Zeng Jia was at a loss with the money in his hand. He looked at Li Ping'an and said, "This..."

Although he couldn't remember what happened before, his parents still told him that Zeng Jia was very dependent on Li Pingan when he was a child in Beiping City, and he almost regarded Li Pingan as a biological brother.

just now.

He encountered something difficult and wanted to hear Li Ping'an's opinion.

Li Ping'an said: "I'll give you the grain loan certificate. It fulfills your parents' last wish and takes it back. As for you, you should keep the money. It's not easy for you to work here alone!"

Zeng Jia thought for a while and finally agreed and collected the money. Mrs. Xu gave him several grain loan certificates.

The matter settled, we all sat down to have lunch together.

The noodle soup has a little shredded pork in it, and Xu also specially added a little MSG, which makes it taste quite good.

Zeng Jia heard from his parents that when he was a child, he often went to Li's house to eat. Li Pingan also ate at their house. to taste.

Li Ping'an glanced at Zeng Jia and asked, "What's going on with these grain borrowing certificates? Can you tell me?"

"This." Zeng Jia asked in surprise, "Didn't uncle and aunt tell you?"

Li Ping'an shook his head and said, "No, we used to think that the wooden box contained the treasure my grandma left for my mother!"

Zeng Jia glanced at Li Lin and Xu, his eyes full of respect.

Mrs. Xu laughed and said, "I didn't dare to say it before. These grain loan certificates were the cause of trouble. If the news leaked out, it would bring trouble to the Li family. I forgot about it after solving it!"

Zeng Jia slowly told the reasons for several grain borrowing certificates.

Zeng Jia's parents were both underground party members. In the 23rd and 24th years of the Republic of China, they lurked in Peiping City and were responsible for transporting materials obtained from secret channels. They left Peiping during the Long March. At that time, the situation of the Zeng family was already very bad. When leaving, the deaf old lady forced them to pay the rent they owed. Zeng Jia's father, Zeng Jin, was very embarrassed at the time for two or three months' rent. He didn't have much money left of his own and it was difficult to get any more. Pay such a rent.

The reason why Zeng Jin and his wife left at that time was that life was difficult and they could no longer stay in Peiping and wanted to return to their hometown.

Mrs. Xu and Zeng Jia's mother had been together for two years and they really fell in love. She rented Zeng's house to the deaf old lady.

Before coming to Peiping, Zeng Jin worked in finance in the Soviet area, and he still had several grain borrowing certificates with him. He handed the grain borrowing certificates to Li Lin, saying that someone would redeem these grain borrowing certificates in the future. .

They have been gone for more than ten years.

Zeng Jia told the story of the incident.

Mrs. Xu said with some emotion: "Almost twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. Ping An is married and has children, and you are also working!"

She asked about Zeng Jia's situation.

Although Zeng Jia is older than Li Ping'an, he went to school later than Li Ping'an. In addition, he graduated from a five-year medical university. He just graduated this year and started working, and he hasn't had time to get married yet!

His parents died before the liberation, and he was raised by several of his parents' old comrades who sent him to college.

Xu sighed.

After the liberation of Fang, people from the Military Control Commission came to investigate the affairs of Zeng Jin's family. The man said that he was a comrade of Zeng Jin. He had worked with Zeng Jin before and had heard Zeng Jin talk about working in Peking. It seemed like there was some regret.