Chapter 1232 Veterans Don't Die
1. "Veterans don't die?"
Wei Lan heard this phrase for the first time, and asked with a bit of surprise: "Are you going to make it a nationwide charity event?"
Li Mu nodded and said: "I told you when I was in the United States that the American society has been stable for hundreds of years, and the welfare system is relatively complete, so their veterans of World War II basically have more appropriate placements. , but our situation in China is quite special. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, followed by a few years of the war of liberation, the alternation of the two regimes, many problems must not be taken into account, not to mention the household registration statistics alone It is difficult to perfect, and then there were various movements one after another. I don’t know how many veterans of the Anti-Japanese War returned home after the war. These people are most likely scattered in towns and villages. Those veterans who are still alive may not be able to live. very good."
Wei Lan thought for a moment and said to Li Mu, "I understand what you mean, and there may indeed be thousands of veterans of the Anti-Japanese War who are struggling to live, but you want to search across the country for those who have no official records and no information. As evidenced by the veterans, this workload is too huge, and if you want to work quickly and efficiently, you must have a huge team to support.”
"That's right." Li Mu sighed: "The biggest problem is the team, and the team's operation model must be in the form of volunteers. Otherwise, it will be difficult for this public welfare activity to really go on."
After speaking, Li Mu explained: "To do this kind of public welfare, we must involve those people who really have a public interest. Simply relying on salary and recruiting employees to do public welfare can only be anticlimactic, so my initial plan is to develop a The public welfare publicity plan includes the slogan, positioning, and implementation plan of this public welfare activity. Then we will find an operation talent who understands publicity and let him promote our public welfare plan to the whole society. The society collects information, if we can have a volunteer team of at least ten people in every prefecture-level city, then our future work will be very good.”
Wei Lan asked: "If there are volunteers, what about the next specific execution process? How to find veterans, how to confirm after finding them, and how to help them after confirmation, have you thought about these?"
Li Mu nodded and said, "I thought about it, there are two ways to find veterans. One is that we release information to the whole society. Veterans and their families, friends, and neighbors can all get in touch with us, and then we send volunteers to To verify; the other is that we actively search from point to surface. For example, we determine the identity of a veteran, and then through him, we can learn about his troop number, battle situation, and comrade-in-arms information, and then follow the clues. Keep looking for more surviving veterans."
"As for how to help, what I'm thinking about for the time being is that myself, Muye Technology, Taobao Technology and Alipay will jointly invest to establish a fund for caring for war veterans. People's publicity materials will be promoted through various channels to attract social attention and build momentum. Then hold a charity dinner with the same theme,
Invite some entrepreneurs and celebrities to participate, and then call on them to donate. "
Having said this, Li Mu smiled helplessly and said, "Actually, you also know that many celebrities and entrepreneurs do charity, and their fundamental motivation is to gain a good reputation. The premise for them to decide whether to donate is this matter, or the beneficiary. Does it have a certain social influence? If there is influence, many people will flock to donate. If there is no influence, these people may not even bother to look at it, so if you want them to donate money willingly, you must first let it be This charity project is on fire.”
Li Mu has seen too many such things in later generations, especially on Weibo, where many people who encounter difficulties send help messages on Weibo. Some of them are occasionally hyped by the media, and there will be a large number of big V immediately. In Li Mu's opinion, a considerable part of them came to join in the heat.
Therefore, if you want them to pay, you must first make the project hot enough.
In later generations, some celebrities set up their own charitable funds. Because of the influence of the celebrities themselves, they attracted a large number of celebrities, celebrities and entrepreneurs to donate money, and also infected a large number of ordinary people to donate money. Li Mu feels that his current social influence is more than that. He has won any star, so if he initiates such a project by himself, he should be able to mobilize the donation enthusiasm of the whole society.
So, Li Mu added: "We can also open another public account to raise donations from the whole society. Everyone can donate to this account, ten yuan and eight yuan, three yuan and five yuan, or even one yuan and two yuan, as long as everyone If you are willing to donate, it will help this charity.”
"The operation of bank remittance is relatively troublesome." Wei Lan said: "Many people are not willing to donate, or the donation process is a little troublesome. When I was in school, I donated money to the Hope Project several times, and each time I have to do it myself It's very troublesome to queue up at the bank, fill out the remittance form, and it takes only a few hours to get off after a trip."
Li Mu patted his forehead and said, "Thanks to your reminder, I never thought of this issue."
After speaking, Li Mu said: "Actually, this is easy to solve. I can cooperate with operators such as China Mobile and China Unicom to launch a SMS donation channel. As long as the mobile phone user sends the donation amount to the designated number, it can be directly deducted from the phone bill. This part of the fee can be settled with us on a regular basis by the operator at that time.”
"At the same time, my Alipay can also open this service, open a special Alipay account for the foundation, and all Alipay users can donate to this Alipay account. These two methods should be much more convenient than bank transfers."
Wei Lan exclaimed: "So many good ideas came up all at once, I think your public welfare project will be able to really do it."
After speaking, Wei Lan asked Li Mu again: "You haven't said yet, what kind of assistance are you going to give to the veterans who confirm their identity?"
Li Mu recalled the relevant information he had learned in his previous life. It seems that an authoritative organization made statistics in 2013. At that time, the number of surviving veterans in the country should be about 20,000. So there are still ten years before 2013. The number of veterans should be between 30,000 and 40,000.
Among the 30,000 to 40,000 people, not all of them need help. Based on what Li Mu has learned, the veterans of the People's Liberation Army who have never made political mistakes and have no component problems are basically taken care of by the state. Some veterans who have been persecuted by various sports in the early years may have difficulties now. In addition, there are some veterans of the National Army who remain in the mainland and may not have the opportunity to enjoy the same treatment as veterans of the People's Liberation Army.
However, looking at these veterans from a modern perspective, no matter which army they were from, they all shed blood for this nation in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. As long as such a veteran is still alive, as long as he is in difficulty, he must help.
Looking at it this way, it is estimated that there are about 20,000 people in need of assistance.
Li Mu didn't know whether there was a subsistence allowance policy or the standard, so he asked Wei Lan, "Do you know what the average annual income of farmers is now?"
Wei Lan thought about it and said, "I read the report before, it should be a little over 2,000, and a little over 5,000 in a town."
Li Mu nodded slightly, and said thoughtfully: "Assuming that there are 20,000 veterans we want to help for a long time, and each of them is subsidized according to the per capita annual income in the countryside, then it will cost about 40 to 50 million yuan per year, and if we take 100 million yuan out , can last for two years.”
Wei Lan said: "If it is 40 to 50 million yuan a year, this cost is indeed very large, and from the current point of view, the number of surviving veterans is gradually decreasing, but the entire aid cycle will be about 20 years from now, so you There must be restraint. When doing charity, you must leave a certain space for yourself. Don’t do it all. If you do it all, it’s not just this project that you have to carry to the end. If there are other charitable needs in the society in the future, the people will probably also respond to it. If you carry out moral kidnapping and let you carry it to the end, then the burden on you will become heavier and heavier.”
Saying that, Wei Lan sat cross-legged in front of Li Mu and counted with his fingers: "I'll give you an estimate of how much your project will cost. Look, let's roughly determine some data first, and temporarily set the cycle as Twenty years, assuming that 50 million is invested in the first year, 5 million is invested in A in the last year, and the 18 years in between are declining at a uniform rate, then the sum of the head and tail is equal to 55 million, and 55 million times 10. Rough calculation, In total, this project will require about 550 million in funding."
Li Mu looked at Wei Lan with a serious face and asked her, "How did you figure it out, I don't seem to understand..."
Wei Lan smiled slightly and said, "Everyone who does engineering will point to cost accounting, so math is not bad. I have a question for you. Do you know what is 1 plus 2 plus 3, until 100 is added?"
Li Mu shook his head: "Give me a calculator, or give me a computer, and I can run a code, or pull an Exel and do a sum, and I can figure it out, but I can't figure it out with mental arithmetic."
Wei Lan smiled and said: "Don't always use the programmer's thinking in everything you do, you see, from 1 to 100, there are a total of 100 numbers, and their increasing law is uniform, all add 1, Add 1, add 1, so we add the endings, 1+100 is equal to 101, 2+99 is also equal to 101, 3+97 is also equal to 101, until 50+51 is still equal to 101, then how many are there in total? What about the combination of the heads and tails that add up to 101?"
Li Mu's eyes lit up and blurted out: "50 groups! I know, so from 1 to 100, the final result is 101 times 50, which is 5050, right?"
Wei Lan leaned over and kissed Li Mu's face, and praised: "So smart!"
Li Mu smiled and said, "You are the smart one, not me! Your calculation method is too scientific! Please accept my knee!"