A friend of mine in the last section questioned this article in which Commander Yang Chengwu of the 1st Sub-district personally arranged to send two army cadres to Changping in Pingbei to fetch more than 800 yuan of the ocean, and some insiders pointed out that the Pingbei Base Area in 1942 was very difficult, and it was only with the help of the Pingxi Base Area that it was able to get through the difficulties, so it was impossible to have the financial resources to give it to the 1st Sub-district at that time.

We all think it's credible. At that time, the Pingxi and Pingbei base areas were indeed so difficult. So the reason is very simple: eat what you have first, and then you can take it out and give it to others. You haven't eaten yet, what do you take out to give to others?

Some people will say: This is the people's anti-Japanese donation, and they will give it to whomever they like, and the local anti-Japanese regime has no right to interfere.

It is unreasonable and illogical to give money to the anti-Japanese regime and anti-Japanese army that directly leads the local people around him, but to the anti-Japanese regime and the anti-Japanese army that are far away from his own region but have no affiliation, and both regimes and armies have the same superior, the government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

Taking a step back, I am a landlord and an old man, and this is all my money, and it has nothing to do with people's donations. I'm in charge alone. I just took a fancy to the Eighth Route Army of the First Division, which fought well and had a far-reaching reputation, which was much stronger than the advance armies in Pingxi and Pingbei, which were active around me. I just want to give a division, not to the advance army or Jinchaji, what can you do?

Well, the anti-Japanese regime and the anti-Japanese army in Pingbei advanced to Gaofeng Liangjie, despite the fact that they were also very short of money, and took out money to give money to a district that was richer than themselves. You don't want to think that you give money. Could it be that a partition is a person who sees money? All 1942 year. The first sub-district is squeezing out its own money and food to help the people around him, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region and other military sub-districts. Can they ask for money from the Pingxi and Pingbei base areas and the advance army, which are even more difficult than their own?

Taking a step back, the anti-Japanese government in Pingbei stood on the side of the rich old wealth, and it had to give this money, and the first district also agreed to accept it. The department that received the money should not be the army, but the finance section of the branch office that manages the income and expenditure of the army in the first division. It is a principle that the military must not be directly involved in local financial matters, and it must be done through local governments. Yang Chengwu will not be ignorant of this provision. Nor will they knowingly send two military cadres to do what the government should do without knowing it.

These two military cadres, because their homes are local, were sent to carry out the task of receiving money in addition to their own work. How did the news of the money from the hometown get to the first district? Even they didn't know the way, and the two of them only learned about the way after listening to Yang Chengwu's introduction. Was it notified by the local government? Or is it a letter from someone who sent it? They don't know anything.

If it is a notice from the local government department, then there is an anti-Japanese regime and an anti-Japanese army in Pingbei, and there are quite a few of them, why can't you send a few people or a team to send this money to Pingxi? The first division will send people to Pingxi to receive it, and it will be delivered in stages. The entire route was carried out in the base area, which was both fast and secure. Why bother to work in a division, disguise, and go long distances, and sacrifice people?

In addition, this is a more crucial point, which is related to the administrative division of the government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border region and the issue of territorial jurisdiction to be decided. This jurisdiction includes the management of the financial revenue and money of the government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region, the circulation and management of currency in the anti-Japanese base areas, and the management and supervision of cadres by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Party, government, and military departments.

First of all, it is necessary to understand that the ocean, or the silver dollar, no matter how tempting, could not be directly circulated in the market at that time. Not only did the anti-Japanese base areas not work, but also the areas ruled by the Kuomintang and the Japanese puppet areas. It must be converted into currency before it can be used. From 1928 to 1933, North China was already fully promoting the fiat currency issued by several major banks of the Nationalist Government.

The initial exchange rate was 1 to 1, and although the fiat currency has depreciated since then, it is still a widely used currency in circulation. The ban on the use of silver dollars in the market is not only a government policy, but also a conscious act of everyone. Because even if you use it, because you don't have a good grasp of the value of the market, both buyers and sellers are afraid of losses and cannot settle, and eventually they have to exchange it into fiat currency or other circulating currencies (such as customs bonds) for settlement.

Later, North China fell, but the fiat currency was still in circulation. The Japanese puppet regime used more pseudo-union coins or North China reserve coins. There is a regular exchange rate between the currencies of these puppet regimes and fiat currencies. It is also very convenient to redeem. In addition to fiat currency and Japanese counterfeit currency, there are also a small range of customs bonds and Japanese currency in North China.

In 1938, the Bank of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region issued border currency, and initially, the legal tender of the Nationalist Government, the anti-currency of the Communist Party of China, and the counterfeit currency of the Wang puppet government all entered the circulation of the base area. After the base area was consolidated, the anti-Japanese democratic regime strictly prohibited counterfeit currency, restricted the use of legal tender, and established the status of the standard currency of anti-currency. In the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area, the most commonly used is the "border currency" issued by the government bank of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region. The money settlement of the governments and armies of the local sub-districts in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei was carried out in their own currency, the "border currency".

During the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, the legal tender, border currency, negotiable bills, and southern Hebei banknotes in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region were all currency in circulation, and all taxes and fiscal revenues were settled and spent by the government of the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region at that time.

Everyone knows that the existence and development of the anti-Japanese regime and the anti-Japanese army are inseparable from financial support. In 1937, Yang Chengwu led the Independent Regiment from the barren Yanbei area to Laiyuan County, and the wealthy families in Laiyuan County donated money to the Independent League. Wang Kai, a wealthy businessman, donated 50,000 yuan to Yang Chengwu Dayang in person, which was only the first batch of donations. Several donations from the county totaled no less than 200,000 yuan. These local donations, does Yang Chengwu dare to "monopolize" all of them into one division? Don't dare, he reported exactly how the money was distributed and used by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

Later, the first division came to Yi County, Hebei Province, which is adjacent to Laiyuan County, and the wealth and prosperity of Yi County are far better than that of the impoverished Laiyuan County, which also opened the eyes of the Eighth Route Army who had just arrived in Yi County. Deng Hua and Luo Wenfang hurriedly greeted Zhu Zunbin, who was the county magistrate of Laiyuan County, to organize mules, horses, and camels to come to the county seat of Yi County to pull the spoils. Later, the troops of the 1st Division went on an expedition to the central Hebei region, which was a real eye-opener. I know what it means to be "rich" and "rich".

Early 1939. The first division eliminated Meng Gechen in the Langya Mountain area. This made a fortune out of thin air, and no less than one million gold, silver, treasures, and oceans alone were seized, and they were loaded with carts and camels and sent to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. The government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region built a sandwich wall in a monastery on Wutai Mountain and set up a secret vault in order to use this huge treasure as a reserve for the border banks to issue their own currency.

In January 1942, Jin-Cha-Ji needed to be funded by the government of the border region to raise 95,000 soldiers. Based on the calculation of 5 stone of millet per person per year, the military expenditure of the entire border region alone is 475,000 stone. In 1942, the annual tax revenue of the entire border district government was only 356,000 stones, a gap of one-quarter. In addition, there are preferential pensions, famine relief, and loan expenditures. It's a huge expense.

Therefore, the government of the border region has repeatedly stressed the need to unify its fiscal policy, and that the government of the border region should make unified plans for revenue, and in particular, it has emphasized that fines and confiscations and war seizures are all revenues of the border region, and it is forbidden to collect and spend on their own. In other words, the government of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region urgently needs the governments of all sub-districts and counties to support the government of the border region in terms of financial revenue, and must not conceal money income from below, so how can the sub-district army be allowed to carry out money transactions underneath?

Yang Chengwu has seen tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of gold and silver treasures in the ocean, and he is not a small businessman who sees money, will he be tempted by more than 800 oceans? Specially send an instructor and staff officer to pick it up remotely? What to do with the retrieval of it? For your own use? Or hand it over to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region? So why don't you notify the donors and hand them over directly to Jinchaji through the Pingbei sub-district government? I also took off my pants and farted. One more hand and foot, and send someone to fetch it yourself. also took the life of a staff officer. Until now, I still don't know where this "yellow staff officer" is.

During the Anti-Japanese War, it was not difficult to build thousands of oceans around him. Also in February 1942, Ma Hui was transferred from the deputy head of the 25th Regiment of the 1st Division to the captain of the 2nd District Team. The predecessor of the Second District Team was the Longhua Detachment, which was stationed in the Nancheng Division area close to the Juma River and Laishui County, which was not a wealthy area.

When Ma Hui took office, he first beat up a few wealthy people who were messing around in the puppet regime and the puppet army, and at once they got thousands of oceans. He used the money as capital to engage in "large-scale production", in fact, he sold grain, cotton, salt, and general necessities, and the watchtowers guarded by the puppet army along the way "dare not stop it" (in those days, it was called to carry out supply and marketing business, credit business, transportation and transportation business. Even Liang Zhengzhong, secretary of the county party committee, took the opportunity to engage in transportation when he went out for a meeting, and used the foot money he earned to buy bedding and daily necessities).

In 1938, the Jin-Cha-Ji Provincial Party Committee of our Party issued the "Regulations of the Jin-Cha-Ji Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Observance of Party Members Working in Political Power Organs", and in October 1942, the "Regulations on the Punishment of Corruption in the Jin-Cha-Ji Border Region" was promulgated. In the autumn of 1939, Yang Chengwu and Yuan Shengping held a meeting to severely deal with the issue of two Red Army battalion-level cadres privately sharing 500 yuan in legal currency, and in 1941 they dealt with the economic problem of Zhu Zunbin, the political commissar of the First Regiment. The first division of those who were shot for economic problems will not be mentioned here. Under this grim situation in full view, Yang Chengwu actually dared to "personally assign tasks" and "defy the law" for the small amount of money of 830 yuan for a district. How is this possible?

The Red Army, as well as the Eighth Route Army at that time, was a very strict military discipline. And it's so strict that it's better to kill by mistake than to let it go. The Zhu Zunbin incident is just one example, but a more typical example is that MZX's wife and brother were also shot dead for violating military discipline during the Long March.

An example of this is from the book "He Zzhen's Stormy Life". During the Long March, He's younger brother He Minren was falsely accused of entering the lama monastery without authorization and took more than 1,000 silver dollars, but the division headquarters did not listen to his own defense at all, and was shot without even reporting to his superiors. Afterwards, He Zizhen heard that she had more brains than those leading cadres of the division, she could think and analyze, and knew that her younger brother was an unjust case. Because "the strongest porter can only pick seven or eight hundred silver dollars, and he can't take more than a thousand silver dollars at all." And, "He had a small backpack and a small military blanket with him, and there was nowhere to put so many silver dollars." ”

Seeing this, readers will also know that the basis for denying that it is difficult for this person to walk with 800 silver dollars on his back also comes from the book "He Zzhen's Stormy Life".

Except for the difference in the amount of money between the Zhu Zunbin case and the He Minren case, there are similarities in other aspects. In Chen Zhengxiang's letter, we learned: "Zhu (Zhu Zunbin, political commissar of the regiment) replied several times that a total of more than 53,000 yuan was handed over to the sub-district, 40,000 yuan was handed over to the sub-district, and more than 13,000 yuan was left in the regiment, and 3,000 or 4,000 yuan was spent on entertaining and holding meetings in southeast Shanxi to comfort the wounded and sick, and the rest was handed over to the regimental supply office for safekeeping. ”

How many silver dollars is Zhu Zunbin's 53,000 fiat currency? According to the estimation of researcher Zheng Qidong, director of the Economic Office of the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in 1940 the legal tender had not yet depreciated, and one legal tender was equivalent to one silver dollar, and the price at that time was about 80 yuan per stone of rice (about 160 catties). In other words, this is a real amount of more than 50,000 silver dollars.

Zhu Zunbin said: This "more than 53,000 yuan, 40,000 yuan will be handed over to the district." According to the regulations of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Government on the unified financial revenue, and that "fines and confiscations, and war seizures are all revenues from the border areas," the "sub-districts" mentioned by Zhu Zunbin should be the financial management departments of the sub-district administrations. The rest "left more than 13,000 yuan in the regiment, spent 3,000 or 4,000 yuan on entertaining and holding meetings to comfort the wounded and sick in the southeast of Shanxi, and handed over the rest to the regimental supply office for safekeeping", that is, a regiment still had 8,000 or 9,000 yuan of legal currency or silver dollars in savings.

After the most reluctance, he returned to the topic of discussion: Yang Chengwu, the commander and political commissar of the most powerful military division in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, is it worth tossing around the small amount of a few hundred yuan of 830 yuan?

Conclusion: At present, the editors of websites and newspapers and periodicals themselves are ignorant of history, and the selected articles can only be regarded as "newly compiled revolutionary historical stories", but they cannot be taken seriously. As soon as it is real, it is full of flaws. (To be continued......)