called "pies falling from the sky". Later this sentence was mostly used by everyone to mock others' wishful thinking. However, in the year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there really happened a "pie in the sky", but the pie was replaced with a more realistic and pleasing silver dollar.
(Silver dollar during the Nationalist government, also known as Yuan Datou)
On the eve of the liberation victory in 1949, farmers in Phoenix County, Hunan Province experienced such a thing once, hundreds of thousands of silver dollars were scattered in the fields At that time, the farmers near took a busy day to pick them up. Most people have never seen so much money in their lives. Where did this money come from? Did the farmers who picked up the money finally live a good life? If you are interested in this topic, please help "Long press the 2 second like button" to give a strong like. And "pay attention", come here often, don't get lost.
Hundreds of thousands of silver dollars fell from the sky, and farmers in Hunan went crazy.
One day in May 1949, In a small mountain village in Weixin Township, Fenghuang County, Hunan Province, farmers were toiling in the fields. Most of these peasants are in a dry appearance. They are malnourished when they have food. The clothes they wear are also worn out and full of patches. They are so poor. Being exploited by the local tyrants, evil gentry and bandits, living conditions are still just basic food and clothing, and it is difficult for more people to eat.
When everyone feels that the hard days can not see the side of the mechanical farming as usual, suddenly there is a loud noise from the sky, and from a distance, things are falling quickly with clouds of black smoke. The local villagers were a little scared, did they call it again? Seeing that the black smoke had a tendency to fall, he quickly hid and observed it not far away.
With a loud noise, the cloud of black smoke finally fell down, and even after a big fire ignited around, people could see that it was a crashed aircraft. The wreckage of the aircraft was burned. It took dozens of minutes to slowly go out. After the ruins burned out, a few bold villagers leaned over to see what was going on. The first thing they saw was the scorched stump of the arm, and the flames of the body were still doing it. The last struggle, however, there is nothing to burn.
Immediately afterwards, the farmers' eyes were attracted by the scattered boxes not far away. Under the sunlight, the ground nearby was dazzling, and everyone couldn't believe their eyes. This scattered place It turned out to be a silver dollar that I didn't see a few times a year! The farmer hurriedly opened the large wooden box with "Central Bank" written next to it. There were a few silver dollars full of white flowers in a row. The farmers present were very excited. Not far away shouted, "Come pick up silver dollars, a lot of silver dollars."
After hearing the news, farmers in the village came to scramble for silver dollars. They had all kinds of tools, including bamboo baskets and various utensils. Everyone was caught in a frenzied gathering of wealth, and some were too late. The one who went home to fetch tools unexpectedly took off his trousers on the spot and tied his trouser legs to a ready-made pocket. There are silver dollars everywhere. I have never seen so many in my life. For the villagers who are used to the poverty, the silver dollars picked up can’t be spent a lifetime. After hearing the news, more and more people came to pick up money. People fell into a madness. The clothes that could be taken off were covered with silver dollars. The first group of people had already sent the money to their homes, bringing the whole family and more. The equipment, how many can be picked up.
As night fell, the silver dollars around the crashed plane were finally picked up by the villagers, and everyone left contentedly. Presumably, that night, many people must have lighted oil lamps that they don’t want to use at all. A family gathered around the bed, counting these windfalls over and over again, thinking about buying a few cows? How many plots of land to buy? Or go to the county to buy a big house? Marry a beautiful wife?
For the local villagers, this day must be the most unforgettable day in their lives. Many people returned with a lot of loads. They picked up a few dozen, and hundreds of thousands, basically they can be prosperous and wealthy for a lifetime. However, what they don’t know is that many times in their lives are "blessed and misfortune", this huge wealth does not belong to them,It will eventually bring them countless troubles.
Greed triggers people’s most primitive desires, and it also brings unbearable disasters
"Wealth is touching", the news that the farmers of Weixin Township picked up silver dollars and made a fortune was quickly learned by village head Wu Youfeng He was very regretful for not being able to catch up with the first batch of silver dollars, so he quickly organized a few well-connected villagers and brought tools to the site to continue digging. Everyone knew that there must be silver dollars, but either To bury the soil, or be covered by the wreckage of the aircraft, it takes a little effort.
When Wu Youfeng rushed to the scene, he was immediately dumbfounded. It turned out that the news was leaked, and some people posted quickly. The person at who was digging at the site was called Ou Wenwen, the head of the armed forces in the county, . He also learned the news for the first time, so he organized his men and brought more advanced tools to organize the mining of silver dollars.
Money has been a good thing since ancient times, especially in troubled times. These "big yuan heads" are much stronger than banknotes that you can't even buy a box of matches. The European article relies on some people with guns. They are usually domineering and naturally look down on them. Wu Youfeng was a false "ground snake" that didn't even mention sesame oil. When Wu Youfeng saw Wu Youfeng, he also organized villagers to dig, and immediately asked his subordinates to step forward and drive them away. The two groups fought against this, and in the end it was Ou Wen who had a gun in his hand and was strong and strong, and got the silver dollar excavation authority.
When Wu Youfeng came home, he really wanted to get more and more angry. When he was on the ground in his own village, he was driven away by others, and he couldn't afford a penny. The more he thought about it, the less reconciled he became. If you can't get it yourself, don't even think about it, because everyone will die together. Wu Youfeng made up his mind, went to the county town immediately, and reported the news of the silver dollar to the local Kuomintang government agency.
Soon, the Kuomintang learned the news and immediately organized a large number of people to block the site and hired local villagers to excavate. On the other hand, they reported the news to the Nanjing government to confirm the source of the money. After seven or eight days of excavation, It was only about 10,000 silver dollars, and the figure sent by the Nanjing government was a full 100,000 silver dollars. In other words, almost all the remaining silver dollars were picked up by the local villagers.
In fact, the villagers understood the general origin of the money as early as the second day after the incident. This huge amount of money was at that time because the government had the financial resources, and it was absolutely impossible. Most people also know that these windfall wealth may be recovered, so many farmers moved overnight to avoid the recovery of the local government. Some people moved to the county town overnight, some went to relatives in other places, some hid their money in their ancestral graves, and some people moved into the caves of Lao Lin overnight based on their knowledge of the terrain, thinking about it. After a while, you can spend the money calmly.
It is said that this incident occurred in the last period of the Liberation War of . At that time, the Chiang Kai-shek government of the Kuomintang was about to fall. The troops lost one after another. Several ace regiments were successively destroyed by the PLA troops, and some confidants were also captured. The Chiang government is very sad. At this time, Northeast China and North China have been liberated, and the remaining inland provinces to the south are about to welcome the PLA's large forces.
Chiang Kai-shek In order to unite the local forces, as much as possible to raise a large amount of silver dollars to be transported to the northwest, as an integrated military payment, who would have thought that the plane crashed during the transportation. Chiang Kai-shek was very annoyed, and while telegraphing the local government of Hunan to get back the silver dollars, he raised military expenses again for the final arming.
The cause of the crash was quickly found out. It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek ordered several small Kuomintang leaders and two US military pilots to escort the silver dollars. The Kuomintang situation is already like a crumbling ship, which is bound to be overturned in the upcoming storm. Therefore, several Kuomintang responsible for the escort decided to hijack the plane and ran away with the money.
During the flight, several people began to implement the hijacking plan. Who would have thought of being resisted by the person in charge of the plane,There was an exchange of fire, a inadvertent bullet happened to hit a key part of the plane, and the plane was destroyed and killed . On the other hand, 's task of recovering the silver dollar was handed over to Yu Zikun, the captain of the city defense team of the Phoenix County. The origin of is very fierce. After Chiang Kai-shek recruited security, he was granted the status of a public office. But the cruelty and fierceness in his bones cannot be changed.
If you follow the usual scenery of the Kuomintang government, it is indeed the best choice to choose Yu Zikun to recover the silver dollar. After all, people are more fierce, and you can also bully the farmers. But at this time, the Kuomintang government itself is already a dangerous building. , There is no way to better control Yu Zikun, a bandit who is barely going ashore.
Yu Zikun was ordered by his superiors, but he did his best unexpectedly. He first organized the local armed forces to go to the village where the plane crashed to understand the situation. Whether it was lured or tortured, he finally got a lot of silver dollars. The whereabouts of the local villagers who ran the road were immediately arrested, and some of the silver dollars that were picked up were also robbed back, but even so, the figure of 90,000 silver dollars was also far from the figure, which is not easy to deal with.
Yu Zikun came up with an idea. Anyway, no matter what your local farmers are doing, I want this 90,000 silver dollars. Whether you pick it up at the time, or if you are timid, the money will be distributed to every local household. Not much. has 80 silver dollars each, and it will be paid back within a time limit, no? I'm sorry, I can only see the methods from official bandits.
For a time, the local peasants went bankrupt . Some people even sold their children and daughters to make money. The land and the house were sold, which basically meant the family was ruined. In the end, he collected more than one hundred thousand silver dollars, but the local area was full of sorrows.Public grievances have spread, and the Kuomintang government has further lost popular support.
Was the 100,000 silver dollars returned to the Nanjing government as scheduled? Of course not. The Kuomintang and the People’s Liberation Army are fighting fiercely. Yu Zikun also has his own thoughts. The time he has to return the silver dollar has been delayed. Whenever Chiang Kai-shek asked about it, he said that he hadn't recovered it as much. When the Kuomintang was defeated, there was no thought to urge him. It coincided with the liberation of the western Hunan region by the People's Liberation Army. Yu Zikun took this batch of silver dollars and fled to other provinces, disappearing into the sea of people without a trace.
The idea of getting something for nothing is unrealistic at any time. Even if it is obtained, it will be quickly lost. Windfall is not a gift from God, and sometimes ill-gotten wealth is accompanied by it. An unbearable disaster.
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