The red star shines on China:
Along the way, they confiscated the property of the rich-landlords, officials and gentry-as their own materials. The poor are protected. Confiscation was carried out in a planned way according to Soviet laws, and only the confiscation departments of the Ministry of Finance and the People's Committee had the right to distribute confiscated materials. It distributes all the materials of the army in a unified way, all the confiscated materials are reported to it by radio, and the supply quantity of the marching troops is distributed. They often make detours in the mountains, and the distance from beginning to end is more than 50 miles.
"Surplus materials"-materials beyond the transportation capacity of the Red Army-were distributed to the local poor in large quantities. The Red Army confiscated thousands of hams from wealthy ham merchants in Yunnan, and farmers came from miles away to get one for free. This is a new thing in the history of ham. Tons of salt are distributed in this way. In Guizhou, many duck farms were confiscated from landlords and bureaucrats, and the Red Army ate ducks until it was "tired of eating" in their words.
As soon as the Red Army entered the Tibetan area, it met the people who were United and hostile to them for the first time. They suffered much more in this parade than before. They have money, but they can't buy food
Since there is no food if you don't grab it, the Red Army still has to fight for a few cattle and sheep. Mao Zedong told me that there is a popular saying that "a human life buys a sheep". They harvested highland barley and dug up vegetables such as beets and radishes in fields in Tibet. According to Mao Zedong, radish is enough for "15 people". They graze on the grassland with this insignificant supply.