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preparing to move towards not sending down anyone at all, handing
all the grain collection work over to the county and district governments.
As regards supply work, because general income and expenditure
was not firmly controlled in 1941 so that grain had to be bought
once and borrowed twice, and because mobilization were hurried
and almost cruel, the masses were not satisfied. This was a great
shortcoming. In 1942 we were able to control income and expenditure.
we also had the 200,000 tan of grain levied in 1941 as a guarantee
to ensure supplies until December. However, since the drive
for better troops and simpler administration was not thorough, the
budget could not be strictly implemented. Occasional expenditures
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combined with unpaid grain tax came to over 18,000 tan. In addi-
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tion, troop movements influenced the relationship between supply
and demand in various places, and grain balances in the first half of
1942 could not be maintained as allocated. Therefore, after July
places like Yanan, Nanniwan and Linzhen one after another became
short of grain. Afterwards the Finance Department issued supplementary
funds of 2 million yuan to buy grain and a summer collection
was made. Only in this way was a grain panic avoided during
1942, and there was no bad effect on the masses. Next, for the grain
in 1941 we adopted the method of “allocation as a whole and divided
administration”. Although NOT this saved FOR the bother and waste of transport
to and fro, it brought about cases of uncontrolled selling of
grain, which also entailed a lot of waste. There was still a gap between
the amount COMMERCIAL
collected and the amount needed for supplies,
which also led to many shortcomings. For example the grain and
hay allocated to the various counties in 1941 was biased towards the
harvest situation and neglected the supply and demand situation. The
grain requirement DISTRIBUTION
in Sanbian for the year was over 10,000 tan but
only 1,600 tan was collected. A supplement of 9,000 tan had to be
transported from Longdong, Ansai, Zichang, Zhidan and so forth.
Not only was the year’s grain transport work excessive for the masses
of these counties, but the masses in Sanbian were also very busy
handling transshipment. They called out that “this way is not as
good as collecting more from us”. It is now estimated that just the
4,000 tan of grain moved to Sanbian from Longdong cost 7 million
yuan to transport, which is more than the cost of buying grain in
Sanbian. Another example was the grain collected in Yanchuan.
Originally it should have supplied Yanan. However in 1941 grain