Mao Zemin's red finance started from Anyuan Road Mine Workers' Consumer Cooperative. 1922165438+10, Yi, Mao Zemin and others went to Anyuan to run a road and mine workers' consumption cooperative. Mao Zemin started as the stock manager of the exchange and later became the general manager. Mao Zemin, who has just entered the red financial stage, has demonstrated its outstanding economic ability and financial talent.
At the beginning of the cooperative operation, faced with the problem of insufficient funds, Mao Zemin thought of the way his father founded Yishuntang to raise funds by issuing shares, and decided to issue shares to members, expand capital, and let workers participate in dividends to gain benefits. Mao Zemin stipulates that the share capital is 50 cents, and the principle of voluntary participation by the masses is adopted. Although the workers were struggling, they actively responded to the call for shares, and soon the cooperative raised more than 7800 yuan of shares.
Mao Zemin believes that it is not enough to convince the party's working class only by ideological mobilization, and the practical difficulties of workers must be solved. In order to provide good service, Mao Zemin often goes deep into the investigation of workers and their families, and constantly expands the business scope according to their actual needs, from oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to daily necessities, and even sells progressive books. In order to improve the competitiveness of cooperatives, Mao Zemin made full use of the convenience that the members of cooperatives were composed of coal miners and railway workers, and went to Wuhan, Changsha, Zhuzhou and other big cities to purchase goods for workers to take back by rail. This not only expands the types and quantity of procurement, but also reduces intermediate links, reduces procurement costs and saves transportation and storage costs. The cooperative commodities are rich in variety and cheap, and many of them are cheaper than the neighboring firms 1/3 or more, which are deeply supported and welcomed by miners.
The rapid development of cooperatives seriously affected the interests of firms in the old society, and many firms began to form private alliances to jointly destroy cooperatives. They secretly raised funds, snapped up all the goods of the cooperative, prepared to hoard them, destroyed the cooperative and sold them at a high price. Soon, Mao Zemin found the catch in it somewhere, and a battle of wits began. On the one hand, Mao Zemin has increased the purchase of goods and ensured the normal supply of cooperative goods; On the other hand, they made a batch of wooden shopping cards overnight and distributed them to members, who used them to shop, creating the earliest limited shopping card in the history of our party, blocking the channels for other firms to snap up goods from cooperatives and resell them. These measures protect the operation of cooperatives and workers' interests, and make the firms involved in snapping up and hoarding lose their eyes and money, and never dare to compete with cooperatives again. In order to organize economic struggle between workers and capitalists, Mao Zemin also set up a savings office in the cooperative, and issued 654.38 million yuan of copper coupons and paper money with commodities as collateral.
Anyuan Road Mine Workers' Consumer Cooperative, an economic struggle led by Mao Zemin, is small in overall scale but far-reaching. Since then, the economic operation and management of the base areas in various periods, as well as the Shanghai financial defense war of 1949, have been deeply influenced by this struggle.