The Years of Blaze

In the winter of 1941, the Japanese puppet army launched a massive attack on our New Fourth Army's base in the Su, Yu, and Wan areas. To prevent the Jianghai Bank, the economic and financial lifeline of the base, from being hit and damaged, the headquarters of the New Fourth Army decided to relocate the Jianghai Bank. Just as another urgent relocation was about to begin, Lin Xiaotong, a graduate of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in Yancheng, arrived at the Jianghai Bank with an introduction letter from the army headquarters. In the critical situation, President Luo Yi did not have time to understand the situation and arranged for Lin Xiaotong to go along with the relocation. After settling down, Lin Xiaotong found that working all day on bookkeeping and counting cash was far from her desire to fight the Japanese on the front lines, which inevitably led to some negative and resistant feelings. In response to Lin Xiaotong's emotions, President Luo Yi and his wife Yu Ru patiently and thoroughly carried out ideological work. With their help, Lin Xiaotong quickly corrected her mindset and made rapid progress. At Jianghai Bank, Lin Xiaotong also encountered an acquaintance—her classmate Xiao Nan. In the effort to break the economic blockade imposed by the Japanese puppet army, Xiao Nan undertook a daunting task to design anti-counterfeit banknotes for the base to resist the harassment and destruction caused by counterfeit currency. The task of designing the anti-counterfeit currency was challenging, and the process of designing and issuing it was also very difficult. However, with the encouragement of the president and the help of Lin Xiaotong, Jianghai...