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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
All in, the total loss was over 1,500 yuan. This is a valuable
warning for district and township cadres.
(ii) The head of the village council of Jianjuntaicun in
Fourth Township did not obey Deputy District Head Lu
Zhongcai’s instructions. He did not bring good fodder for
the animals (oats [yumai] and broad beans [candou]) and instead
used kaoliang and other poor substitutes. As a result,
the animals from that township sometimes lay down when
travailing because of their poor fodder. We are preparing to
struggle against that village head and punish him.
(iii) The porter Yang Wanbao from Fourth Township was
a real troublemaker on the way. He pretended to be ill and
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skulked off home. He created wild rumours, “two people had
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died, Deputy District Head Lu and a man called Wang. . . .
There was nothing to eat along the way. . . . The donkeys’
backs had all been ruined under their loads. . . . The inns
could not sell grain . . .” so that many people back in the
town felt unhappy. The district head did not pay sufficient
attention to this. In future he should be alert.
(iv) Some families sent bad donkeys which carried less,
only about 110 jin. One family from Jianjuntaicun in the
Fourth District changed their donkey’s halter for a bad one
when they sent NOT it off. They FOR anticipated the donkey would
die and had made up their minds to write everything off. The
donkey from the head of Second Township was only 10 li from
home on the COMMERCIAL
way back when it lay down. He was unwilling
to send a good donkey to take over. He defaulted on his responsibility
as he thought the donkey would surely die and
could not return. So he did not come and take over.
(v) Twelve DISTRIBUTION
donkeys carried too much and 40 to 50 jin
were given to a donkey without a load. When we got to the
tax inspection office at Sunkeyaoxian they confiscated 50 jin
of salt and one sack (value 20 yuan) because we had no certificate.
(6) Costs, losses and gains:
(i) Average expenses per donkey were: 2 tou of beans,
value 60 yuan; each man had 1.5 tou of grain, and as each
man looked after two donkeys this equaled 0.75 tou per don-
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