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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
includes subsidiary undertakings such as animal husbandry, woodplank
sawing and so forth as well as planting grain. This was like
the method adopted by 359 Brigade. The other was to form partnerships
and involved going into partnership with the common folk on
stations that already had some foundation, and setting up another
new station oneself. In the first year the new station brings no profit
but in the second year it has some foundation and can also be changed
into a partnership. The Secretariat of the Border Region Government
provides an example. According to the comrades there:
We have two stations, one to the east, the other to the south.
Their size, method of operation and harvest are much the same. In
1942 the southern station planted 288 mou of river land, 324 mou of
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previously farmed hill land and 408 mou of newly opened land.
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Altogether the harvest was 244 tan of grain. Since beans and corn
formed the bulk, this was equivalent to 146.6 tan of hulled grain.
Taking each tan at 1,300 yuan this was worth 190,230 yuan. We also
harvested 14,000 jin of hay worth 14,000 yuan and 20,000 jin of
vegetables worth 20,000 yuan The total value for these three items
was 224,320 yuan Originally we had 128 sheep. In 1942 eighty-one
lambs were raised, worth 10,000 yuan. We bought pigs for 3,482
yuan, and we also had thirteen worth 400 yuan each. The total of
all the above items is 243,002 yuan.
As we have adopted NOT the method FOR of partnership operation all our
expenditures were taken from the amount harvested including all
expenses for the five men we assigned. We went into partnership
with twelve households, COMMERCIAL
totaling forty-five people. They had nineteen
whole-labour powers, thirteen half-labour powers and thirteen
children not able to work. Altogether their share was 68 tan of grain,
equivalent to 40.8 tan of hulled grain, with a total value of 53,040
yuan at 1,300 yuan DISTRIBUTION
per tan. They also received 7,000 jin of hay
worth 7,000 yuan. The two items came to 60,040 yuan. Our own
five men (one was crippled and looked after general running, two
cooked, planted vegetables and crops, and two looked after sheep
and did general work) four oxen, one mule and five dogs received
30 tan of grain for eating equivalent to 18 tan of hulled grain worth
23,400 yuan and 50 jin of edible oil worth 1,300 yuan at 26 yuan per
jin. In addition, repairs to implements, ploughs, clothing and supplementary
payments came to 20,000 yuan. The total of all the above
expenditures was 104,740 yuan, giving a surplus of 138,262 yuan.
Adding on the roughly 110,000 yuan from the eastern station, the
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