After the end of the Long March, the three main forces successfully joined forces, but the problem that followed in front of our army was the shortage of military supplies.
Along the way, the Red Army trekked through mountains and rivers, suffered heavy losses, and all departments were in a period of lack of success, coupled with Chiang Kai-shek's economic blockade, the army had a difficult time.
At this time, **'s second brother Mao** actually transported $800,000 from Shanghai to northern Shaanxi under the nose of Chiang Kai-shek, and then the $800,000 swelled to $1 million after arriving in northern Shaanxi!
Chiang Kai-shek was shocked when he found out, he couldn't figure out how Mao ** did it, even if Chiang Kai-shek was defeated and retreated to Taiwan, he was still haunted by this matter.
So, how did Mao ** steal the sky in the first place? How did the $800,000 come from?
During the Long March, the troops were seriously damaged, and the soldiers were exhausted, and they urgently needed fresh blood and material and military support, but Chiang Kai-shek saw that the encirclement and suppression were unsuccessful, so he hit the idea of blocking the road and cutting off supplies.
After the Red Army arrived in northern Shaanxi, it lacked the most basic materials, and it was difficult for the soldiers to solve the problem of food and clothing.
In order to solve this big problem, an emergency meeting was held to allow everyone to express their opinions and make suggestions for breaking through Chiang Kai-shek's economic blockade.
Everyone talked and worked together to analyze the matter from all angles and give their own solutions. In the end, based on everyone's opinions, two constructive suggestions were drawn: the first is to borrow money; The second is fundraising!
First of all, the people of northern Shaanxi have a very welcoming attitude towards the Red Army, and they have also given everything they have to help the soldiers in difficulty.
It's just that northern Shaanxi is neither an economic center nor a major grain producing area, so even if the people want to donate food and money for the Red Army soldiers, they can't afford it because of the long-term consumption.
The wealthy and wealthy families were monitored by Chiang Kai-shek early on, and they were severely cracked down, so under heavy pressure, they no longer dared to provide financial support to the Red Army.
However, there are still some patriotic democrats, such as Zhang Xueliang and so on, who, after knowing the difficult situation of the Red Army, spontaneously raised some supplies and sent them to northern Shaanxi to help the Red Army soldiers solve the supply problem and help them temporarily overcome the current difficulties.
But these are all a drop in the bucket, and with the season just around the corner, if they can't raise enough money, it will be a problem for the fighters to survive the winter.
At this time, the organization suddenly received exciting good news: the Soviet Comintern was going to fund the Red Army with $800,000!
It turned out that after getting in touch with the Comintern, the organization told them about our situation, and they were willing to give us $800,000 to help the Red Army through the immediate difficulties.
800,000 US dollars, this is not a small number, after the Red Army gets so much money, it can not only solve the problem of food and clothing for the soldiers, but also solve some military supplies, which is simply a relief for the Red Army!
However, the problems posed by the $800,000 were also obvious, and Chiang Kai-shek blocked the roads, cut off the Red Army's access to foreign relations, and imposed an economic blockade on us, and how to smoothly transport the $800,000 back from Shanghai became a headache.
According to the original plan, the $800,000 would be shipped from France to Shanghai and then to northern Shaanxi by other routes.
Everyone knows that this operation is not easy, so the organization is ready to reduce the loss of funds, ** also said:"As long as it is not less than 400,000, it is considered a success. ”
Chiang Kai-shek, through his intelligence organization, also learned about the Comintern's financial support for the Chinese Red Army, and he gave orders to strengthen the blockade, to keep an eye on the passing vehicles, that is, not to let even a mosquito fly over!
Chiang Kai-shek was 100 percent confident in the interception of funds, believing that the Communists would never have been able to accomplish this task under such a tight blockade.
Later, however, the course of events became more and more confusing, because Chiang Kai-shek did not know anything except the news of the Comintern's support for the Red Army, and the Kuomintang did not know what transportation routes, transportation times, and transportation methods were unknown.
The Red Army made a trick directly under his nose, and by the time Chiang Kai-shek found out, the Red Army had already sent the money safely to northern Shaanxi.
The successful completion of the task this time is inseparable from the careful deployment of Mao ** and others.
Mao, the second brother of ***, was born in 1896 and showed an amazing talent in business from an early age, and when he grew up, he also joined the Chinese Communist Party.
At the end of 1931, when the Provisional Chinese Soviet Republic decided to establish a national bank, Mao was elected president of the national bank because of his outstanding financial management ability.
At that time, the Soviet area was suffering from the military "encirclement and suppression" and economic blockade of the Kuomintang army, and the financial situation was very severe.
Under the leadership of Mao, the economy of the Soviet area has been greatly developed, and the financial position of the Soviet area has also been expanded. People call Mao ** the "big red butler".
** Once said: Politics comes out of the barrel of a gun. Practice has proved that the "barrel of the gun" is also inseparable from the support of the "money bag". And Mao ** is the important person who holds an abacus to settle accounts, grasps the "money bag", and earns survival and development capital for the Chinese revolution.
Faced with this huge sum of 800,000 US dollars, he also felt a dilemma in his heart. How do you get this money to Yan'an? One way is to send money directly, and the other is to send someone to send it over.
For the first method, it can be ruled out first, because the remittance needs to be reviewed, and once it is reviewed, it will inevitably alarm the people on the Kuomintang side, which is equivalent to directly telling the Kuomintang where the money is now, and the risk of exposure is too great, so it is not feasible.
For the second method, it is even more dangerous. If the comrades sent in Shanghai escort Qian Qian all the way to Yan'an, then there will certainly be all kinds of accidents along the way, which can easily arouse people's suspicions, and if they are found out again, then they will end up in a bad situation where their personal wealth is empty.
Mao ** thought to himself, it would be nice if he was a money bank! In this case, you can send the money out under the pretense of transporting money from the bank. But it didn't take long for his application to open a bank to be returned.
It turned out that the Kuomintang that he could think of also thought of it, and in order to prevent our party from transporting money back to Yan'an in this way, they stopped the approval of opening a money bank.
After knowing that this road would not work, Mao ** was very depressed, this is not good, it is also unfortunate, when will the $800,000 be transported?
Mao ** thought hard, and suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind:Since it is not possible to open a bank, is it okay to open a paper bank?
After inquiring again, sure enough, the Kuomintang has not set its sights on this! Just do it, he immediately went to the national ** to submit an application for the establishment of a paper bank, this time, without the instructions of the people above, the approval of the paper store soon came down.
In order to solicit business for his paper shop, Mao ** took his wife to major clubs from time to time, and they made a lot of business partners, and he introduced them to his family's business.
On the day the paper store opened, there were people coming and going, and everyone was carrying boxes. Our comrades also took the opportunity to mix in, and they took the lead in storing boxes of dollars in paper stores, and such a quiet move did not attract anyone's attention.
Later, in order to facilitate circulation, Mao ** exchanged all this money for fiat currency.
But it is definitely not possible to go directly to the bank to exchange, such a large-scale flow of funds will arouse the vigilance of the Kuomintang, so after careful thinking, Mao ** made another amazing move!
He used all this fiat currency to buy the treasury bonds sold by the Kuomintang! For these bonds, the Kuomintang only issues them, and it doesn't matter who the buyer is, as long as you have money, you can buy them, and there is no restriction on foreign currency.
Since no one spent a huge amount of money to buy treasury bonds before, and then resold them to earn the difference, Mao ** divided the money into several batches and bought treasury bonds in turn, which did not appear at all.
Why don't you say that Mao ** is the "big red butler"! He is really business-minded, and when he ran around the major clubs in order to run a paper store, he told many foreigners how to buy ** debt and earn the difference.
Those foreigners who are not bad for money have come to buy treasury bonds with money, and when there are more people who buy, the ** of treasury bonds has been raised, and after the treasury bonds have reached a peak, Mao ** has sold the bonds in his hand, and finally recovered millions of dollars worth of fiat currency!
Now that the money is in hand, the next step is to transport it to Yan'an. Mao ** disguised the money as a dark currency under the pretense of producing dark coins to deliver them to buyers.
When they arrived at the checkpoint, the Kuomintang soldiers were unlucky when they heard that it was a dark coin, and some of them were directly released without even checking it. For those officers and soldiers who were not good at talking, Mao ** used money to bribe, so that the two-pronged approach lasted four months, and finally the money was sent to Yan'an smoothly.
Write at the end:
Although Mao ** has been in charge of the financial power for a long time, during his work, he has always been honest and spotless, he said"We can't spend a copper plate indiscriminately, and leading cadres must take the lead in hard struggle. We are in charge of money for the workers and peasants, and we are managing money for the Red Army, and we must be diligent and thrifty! ”
It's just that God is jealous of the talent, but such an outstanding red financier was secretly killed in prison at the age of 46.