Chapter 118 Border Region Finance (2)
Mao Zd and Lin Boqu both considered the candidates for fundraising in their hearts. This is not a matter of one person. This matter requires group efforts and motivating a large group of people who understand social interaction, some economic knowledge, and cleverness and ability to go outside the border areas to contact people who sympathize with people who are interested in society and have some financial resources to raise funds.
This matter cannot be widely used to attract Lao Chiang's attention. Once Lao Chiang notices this situation, it will not only be 100% necessary to stop it, but may also bring disaster to the donors.
To this end, Mao zd held a special meeting to discuss the matter. There were not many people in the meeting, all of which were senior cadres in Yan'an. At the meeting, Mao zd put forward two suggestions to solve financial difficulties. One is to increase income from public grain, but it depends on the progress of the second suggestion. The second suggestion is to mobilize the relatives and friends of all senior cadres and patriotic democratic people they have contacted to raise funds from them.
Participants tend to prefer the second solution. If there is no way, they can only apply the first method. Everyone knows that using the first method will have direct contact with the interests of the people in the border area. Most of the farmers in the border area are still poor.
At the meeting, Mao Zd also emphasized that other bases should not directly support the central border area. The financial situation of other bases is not much better than that of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. Moreover, they are on the front line of the anti-Japanese war and use more money, so they really can't get a lot of it.
This is a major event that concerns the life and death of the Party Central Committee of the Border Region. After the information, all participants who received the information took action immediately. The Eight Immortals crossed the sea and showed their ability. In the following ten days, six consecutive remittances were transferred to a small company account opened by Yan'an in Xi'an. This small company was a secret company, nominally a fur company legally established by a merchant in Xi'an, but was actually funded by Yan'an. The purpose of this was actually out of helplessness. Mao Zd had realized that after Chiang Kai-shek stopped military pay, he would strictly order the spies to monitor the financial transactions of the Eighth Route Army's office in Xi'an. As for why he did not directly remittance money to Yan'an, it was just because the banks of the National Government did not have branches in Yan'an, and Yan'an was isolated.
One day in early October, Lin Boqu came to Mao ZD's residence again to report on his recent donations. Now he is not as anxious as he was a dozen days ago, but he also has some hidden worries.
Mao Zd put down the case file in his hand, got up and brewed a cup of jasmine tea for Lin Boqu, and greeted Lin Boqu enthusiastically, "Sit down, Mr. Lin, is there any happy event today? I heard magpies chirping in the morning, which is a good omen."
Lin Boqu sat down and looked at Mao Zd with a smile with some expectant smiles. He also smiled knowingly, "Chairman, there is some good news, but it is not big enough to make the magpies on the branches yell."
"Tell me, whether it is a good or a bad thing, they always come uninvited, which makes people unable to guard against it." Mao Zd said with a smile, and at the same time he took out a cigarette from the table and handed it to Lin Boqu.
Lin Boqu took the cigarette in a embarrassed manner and said softly: "Thank you, Chairman. I have used up my dry tobacco for several days. It will take a few days before they can bring it to me from Xi'an. Today I will lend you my money and taste this Hard Gate."
Lin Boqu smoked dry tobacco. He planted the tobacco leaves himself when he was in Xi'an. When he left Xi'an, the tobacco leaves had not been roasted, so he didn't bring them back, so he said that the tobacco leaves were cut off.
Lin Boqu refused Mao Zd's move to light a cigarette for him personally, and even said that he didn't dare to take it. Mao Zd replied with a smile, "Good, how can we not be the chairman of our bank committee, the great god of wealth?"
Lin Boqu couldn't give up any more, so he had to bear Mao ZD's kindness. After taking a puff of cigarettes, he took out his famous big account book, spread it out and said, "Chairman, since the last meeting, these comrades of our comrades have been quite serious. Some of them have used their old relationships for many years to raise funds and borrow money. Now we have received hundreds of payments, totaling 1.47 million French dollars, and 13,652 yuan in cash, of which donations account for 68%, and the rest are loans for IOUs."
"Okay, okay, this money should be relieved for a while. You can buy more than 100,000 dan of grain. If you save some food, you can also add some wild vegetable bran bran to the whole border area for a month. The results are good, not bad." Mao Zd praised after listening intently, and then continued, "But those legal coins must be spent as soon as possible. I heard that Lao Jiang's legal coins have depreciated again, and it will become waste paper if it is not necessary to be lost for a while."
Lin Boqu praised casually: "Yes, the Chairman is still thoughtful. I think if the Chairman does not engage in a revolution and starts a company, he will make a lot of money in the future."
Mao zd laughed, "You Mr. Lin, you are also joking about me. If I don't do a revolutionary company, I will divide all the shares. Each person has one. I will be the manager and serve all shareholders. If I don't do well, I will fire anytime."
When the fiat currency was implemented in 1937, it was stipulated that a silver dollar against a fiat currency would have depreciated significantly by the end of 4O. The data shows that the purchasing power of a fiat currency at that time had dropped to about 0.1 silver dollar.
"Chairman, if there is really one day, I would rather be a accountant for you. At that time, the Chairman will not think that I am a veteran, is in trouble, right?" Lin Boqu followed up with the situation. He really admired Mao's intention to take the world as his responsibility.
The two looked at each other and laughed.
The two discussed the issue of how to use the money for a while. After half an hour, Lin Boqu stood up and prepared to say goodbye. Mao Zd suddenly became mysterious and smiled happily like a child.
"Old Lin, wait, I called the boss, Ren Huzi and Li Kegong, they will arrive in a while. Oh, look, Cao Cao is here, they are here."
Lin Boqu was confused and had to welcome a few people with Mao Zd. Zhu D's loud voice rang out, "Old Mao, do you still have to treat us to braised pork? It's only been more than a month, and it's really cost you a lot."
Zhu D and his friends saw that Lin Boqu was still there in the house, and they greeted him casually, all of them were old acquaintances.
Ren BS spoke, "Oh, isn't this our parents' official (Lin is the chairman of the border region government)? What fragrance has blown you?"
Lin Boqu smiled and pushed back, "My parents are still in charge of money. A Duwu is covered in stinking money, and it is the smelly wind blowing me."
"Welcome, the more powerful the revolutionary copper coins, the better. Although we will achieve what Marx said to use gold as a toilet in the future, and the material is extremely abundant, it will not work now. Now the more money, the better."
Zhu D waved his hand and interrupted the two of them. "Old Lin, Bishi, you always have money when you meet. Don't talk about it today. Can you listen to me tell you a battle story?"
Mao Zd looked at his comrades and smiled and climbed up his face again. He joked, "Boss, I'm asking you to come today. It's really a matter of money. If you don't want to listen, you have to listen."
When Zhu D heard this, he was confused, "Old Mao, this financial problem is not my responsibility, and I can't interfere and provide professional advice. Why do I ask me to do it?"
"Good news, please be happy. We are going to make a resolution today."
"What good news? Can the boss be happy? Let's listen to it." Ren BS's curiosity also raised.
"The good news is that Yang Jingyu from Northeast China has also been good news. This time they are going to give the Party Central Committee a big gift. With this big gift, the financial difficulties we face will be solved. The poor harvest and the suspension of military pay will no longer be a problem that bothers us. I didn't tell Mr. Lin this gift just now, for fear that he would faint happily. Now let's share it together."
Mao Zd's happiness was beyond words. Lin Boqu suddenly realized that no wonder the Chairman said that he had already had joy in his heart when he heard the magpies chirping.
Chapter completed!