Jagged Changjin Lake: Kill the enemy and become stronger

After joking a few words, Brigadier Chen asked, pointing to the suitcase that had been put away again.

"No, anyway, there are only so many suitcases. I haven't counted how many gold bars and silver dollars there are."

Li Yunlong shook his head blankly.

From the moment he got these suitcases, he had decided to turn them in.

Anyway, I don’t keep it for myself, so why count it?

Besides, when so many things have to be counted, it is not troublesome enough.

"You didn't sneak a little?"

Brigadier Chen asked deliberately.

"Heaven and earth conscience, brigade commander, you have wronged me to death. I have never touched any of the things here. If you say a half lie, you will be struck by lightning!"

Li Yunlong hurriedly turned out all the pockets on his body, raised his hands and wailed.

"What's the name of the ghost? I didn't say you took it."

Brigadier Chen frowned and said.

A lot of things fell out of Li Yunlong's pocket.

Cigarette cases, matches, bullet casings, the epaulettes of a few little devil officers, crumpled straw paper, and half of the leftover cornbread...

Colorful and dazzling.

It's hard to imagine that a person, especially a man, can carry so much mess in his pocket.

Under the stunned gazes of Kong Jie and Xing Zhiguo, Brigadier Chen squatted down, reached out and rummaged through the mess.

Finally, a silver dollar was dug out from an object, whether it was a sock or a glove.

This silver dollar looks old, and the surface is a little black.

Brigadier Chen blew on the silver dollar, then raised it to his ear and listened, it was true.

"Li Yunlong, can you explain?"

Brigadier Chen stood up, waved the silver dollar in front of Li Yunlong's eyes and asked.

Compared to Brigadier Chen finding a silver dollar in his pocket, Li Yunlong was even more shocked why there was a silver dollar in his pocket.

He was stunned.

"Old Li, you are not really hiding, are you?"

Kong Jie asked subconsciously.

In this era, although a silver dollar is not a huge sum of money, its purchasing power should not be underestimated, and it is still very expensive.

According to the current prices, one silver dollar is enough to order three tables of good food and drink in big restaurants in the city.

For the impoverished Eighth Route Army, this is not a small amount of money, even for the head of the regiment.

Most importantly, Li Yunlong shouldn't have silver dollars.

Although the most valuable thing is gold, but if you want to buy something, you can’t use gold directly. You have to get it from a bank or go to the black market to exchange it for silver dollars, because silver dollars are the only accepted currency.

Although the Eighth Route Army also paid military salaries, it was not settled in silver dollars, but a kind of paper money printed by itself, also known as border tickets.

The purpose of printing border area tickets is to stabilize the economy of the base area, so that the silver dollar will not depreciate or appreciate due to the war, which will cause inflation.

However, the scope of use of the border ticket is limited, and it can only be circulated in the base area, and it is not recognized in other places.

Because the Eighth Route Army does not need to spend money on food, clothing and housing, and the defense areas of all troops are basically in the countryside. There are no shops or places to spend here. Even if you have a border ticket, you have no place to spend it.

Therefore, the method of distributing military salaries in the army is somewhat similar to the digital currency in modern society, that is, the frontier ticket will not be directly issued to the soldiers, but recorded in a digital way.

Unless there is a mission to go out and there is a place where money is needed, you can get the required amount of border tickets from your superiors. If you go to a place where border tickets are not circulated, you can also get silver dollars.

Of course, if a soldier wants to send his military salary home, he can also apply to his superiors for a border ticket or silver dollars. This is unlimited.

However, the military salaries of the vast majority of Eighth Route Army commanders and fighters are recorded in numbers, not to mention silver dollars, even border tickets are rare in the army.

Because there is really no place to spend money, if you want to smoke and drink, you basically rely on capturing the little devils, or simply bartering them from the local people.

So there was a silver dollar in Li Yunlong's pocket suddenly, it was indeed unimaginable and strange.

"Hide your head. I want to hide it with gold bars, which are not worth more than this? Besides, I can only hide one piece?"

Li Yunlong said angrily, and at the same time racked his brains to think about where the silver dollar came from.

Kong Jie was taken aback.

Makes sense.

If Li Yunlong really wanted to hide, he should get more valuable gold bars. Now a gold bar can be exchanged for hundreds of silver dollars.

Besides, since you want to take it, how can you only take one piece? Isn't that sick, and you still wear it on your body, afraid that others won't find it?

"You clean up your pile of junk first, and give me a reasonable explanation."

Brigadier Chen kicked a bullet casing on the ground, and said with a stern face.

In fact, he didn't believe that Li Yunlong could do such a thing, but the silver dollar had already appeared, so he had to clarify the matter. If he didn't care, it would be even more troublesome for Li Yunlong to let others know.

"Where did it come from? Old Kong, did you give it to me?"

Li Yunlong squatted down, muttered while stuffing things in his pocket, and suddenly raised his head to look at Xing Zhiguo and asked.

Brigadier Chen and Kong Jie turned their eyes to Xing Zhiguo's face again.

Is there anything else about him here?

"I didn't give it to you, I spent all of that."

Xing Zhiguo shook his head and directly denied it.

"Old Xing, do you have silver dollars?"

Kong Jie asked puzzled.

The three of them stayed together all day, so it was unfair that they both had silver dollars, but he didn't.

"It's not my silver dollars. They were found by the soldiers from the little devils during the battle in Boyang City. After the battle, they were handed over to me. The total was 240 and five yuan. Later, they went to the people's homes to requisition carriages, and each carriage was given two yuan. Silver dollars, a total of 120 and three carriages, the last family only had one silver dollar left, so they only collected one silver dollar, and all 240 five dollars were spent, as all the soldiers who counted the silver dollars with me can testify to.”

Xing Zhiguo explained seriously.

He didn't dare to be careless about this matter. From the time the soldiers handed in the silver dollars, there were dozens of soldiers around him. Later, these soldiers were also the ones who went to requisition the carriage. There were people who could testify for him throughout the process.

The little devil soldiers are not like officers, there is no chance of making a fortune, and it is not bad to get one or two silver dollars, so after the whole battle, the soldiers only found more than 200 silver dollars, and all of them were used to buy carriages.

The Eighth Route Army suffered for itself, but it never suffered for the common people. At that time, the main means of transportation was horse-drawn carriages. A horse and a flatbed cart cost a little over one silver dollar.

But Xing Zhiguo gave two silver dollars, which can be said to be very generous.

There is no evidence to say it, but if there are people who testify, this matter must not be false, and Xing Zhiguo can't do such a thing.

Brigadier Chen didn't even become suspicious. Seeing that Li Yunlong had packed up all his things and was still squatting on the ground remembering, he couldn't help reminding, "Could it be captured on the battlefield?"

Chapter 820 Making a Mistake Because of the Silver Dollar

Soldiers can seize silver dollars on the battlefield, so can Li Yunlong. This reason makes sense.

Moreover, it was only one silver dollar, so no one would not believe it even if it was seized.

"No, all the captured ones are stored here. Where did this piece of silver come from?"

Li Yunlong shook his head, his stubbornness came up, he must think clearly about the origin of this silver dollar, he will not do foolish things.

Brigadier Chen, Kong Jie, and Xing Zhiguo were standing, and Li Yunlong was squatting, and the room fell into silence again, only the sound of breathing could be heard one after another, waiting for Li Yunlong to recall the truth.

"Ah!"

After an unknown amount of time, Kong Jie couldn't help but yawned. He felt like he was about to fall asleep after standing for a while.

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong slapped his thigh and jumped up.

The sudden sound startled the others, and after realizing it, they all looked at Li Yunlong expectantly: "Remember?"

"I remembered!"

Li Yunlong nodded, and said happily: "When I was still in Yimeng Mountain four years ago, Cheng Xiazi and Cheng Xiazi from the [-]nd Regiment and I were on a mission. Cheng Xiazi and I shot the bandits away and saved the life of the merchant, and he gave me this silver dollar to buy wine."

It happened four years ago, no wonder it took so long to think about it.

"You mean that Cheng Yuanzheng can testify for you?"

Brigadier Chen nodded and asked.

"Of course, the businessman did the same. He saved his life, and the two of them gave one silver dollar, not to mention an extra one. They couldn't break it apart. Cheng Xiazi and I couldn't tell each other apart. He wanted it and I wanted it too. , Later I gave him ten rounds of bullets, and promised him a bottle of wine after he bought it. Then I gave me the silver dollar. Later, when the army moved, there was no place to buy wine. This silver dollar was pretended to be forgotten, Cheng Xia Afraid that I would cheat, I even carved the word Cheng on it with a bayonet."

The past has a different flavor, Li Yunlong laughed as he spoke.

Brigadier Chen took the silver dollar and went to the window to have a look. Sure enough, there was a crooked character engraved on it.

With the truth, everyone relaxed a lot, and there were smiles on their faces.

However, Brigadier Chen quickly put on a serious face again: "Li Yunlong, I have figured out the origin of this silver dollar. There is Cheng Yuanzheng. You can't fake this. Do you know where your mistake is?"

wrong?

Li Yunlong was dumbfounded, he didn't steal or rob, what was wrong?Brigadier Chen is here to find fault, right?

"Is it wrong to think about it for so long?"

Li Yunlong asked cautiously.

Brigadier Chen shook his head.

Li Yunlong frowned and thought for a while, and finally spread his hands: "Brigade Commander, please give me a good time, I really can't think of anything wrong?"

"It's our duty to help the common people when they are in trouble. How dare you ask for benefits? This is the first mistake."

Brigadier Chen began to list.

"Huh? I didn't ask for it. The businessman forced it on me. He said that there is no repayment for saving your life, so you should invite us to drink and thank you."

Li Yunlong's jaw almost fell to the ground. He saved his life, and he forced him to give him a silver dollar to express his gratitude. How could it be a benefit?

And according to Brigadier Chen, this was the first mistake, how many more mistakes should I make?