Chapter 1232 Veteran Undead
1. "Do veterans not die?"
Wei Lan heard this phrase for the first time, and asked with some 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, the American society has been very stable for hundreds of years, and the welfare system is relatively complete, so their World War II veterans basically have relatively proper placements. , but our situation in China is quite special. After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, it was followed by several years of Liberation Wars. The alternation of the two regimes must have taken care of many issues. Among other things, household registration statistics alone are very difficult. It is difficult to perfect, and later there were various movements one after another. I don’t know how many veterans of the Anti-Japanese War returned to their hometowns after the war. These people are likely to be scattered in towns and villages all over the world. Those veterans who are still alive may not all live well. very good."
Wei Lan thought about it seriously for a moment, and said to Li Mu: "I understand what you mean, and it is true that there may be thousands of veterans of the Anti-Japanese War who are struggling to survive, but you want to find those who have no official records and no information across the country. Veterans who testify, this workload is too huge, if you want to work quickly and efficiently, you must have a huge team to support it.”
"That's right." Li Mu said with a sigh: "The biggest problem is the team, and the operation mode of this team must adopt the method of volunteers, otherwise, it will be difficult for this public welfare activity to continue."
As he spoke, Li Mu explained: "To do this kind of public welfare, we must involve those people who are truly charitable. Simply relying on salary to recruit employees to do public welfare can only be anticlimactic, so my preliminary plan is to formulate a The public welfare publicity plan includes the slogan, positioning, and implementation plan of this public welfare activity. Then we find an operation talent who understands publicity, and ask him to promote our public welfare plan to the whole society. Collecting information from the society, if we can have a volunteer team of at least ten people in each prefecture-level city, then our future work will be very easy to carry out.”
Wei Lan asked: "If there are volunteers, what will be the next specific implementation process? How to find veterans, how to confirm them after finding them, and how to rescue them after confirmation, have you thought about these?"
Li Mu nodded and said: "Think 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 get in touch with us, and then we send volunteers to To verify; the other is our active search from point to point. For example, we have identified a veteran, and then through him, we can learn the number of his army, the battle situation, and the information of his comrades, and then follow the clues Keep looking for more surviving veterans."
"As for how to help, what I think for the time being is that I, Muye Technology, Taobao Technology and Alipay will jointly invest in the establishment of a fund for caring for veterans of the Anti-Japanese War. Promote the publicity materials of people 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 make donations.”
Speaking of this, Li Mu smiled helplessly, and said: "Actually, you also know that the fundamental motive of many celebrities and entrepreneurs doing charity is to gain a good reputation. The premise for them to decide whether to donate is this event, or the recipient 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. Therefore, if you want them to donate willingly, you must first let them This public welfare project is on fire."
Li Mu's later generations have seen too many such things, especially on Weibo, where many people who encounter difficulties send messages for help. Among them, there are occasional people who are hyped by the media, and there will be a large number of big Vs immediately. In Li Mu's view, a considerable part of them came out to express their opinions and donate money just 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 charity funds. Because of the influence of celebrities themselves, they attracted a large number of celebrities, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to donate. They also infected a large number of ordinary people to donate. Li Mu felt that his current social influence exceeded No star, so if you initiate such a project yourself, you should be able to mobilize the enthusiasm for donations from the whole society.
So, Li Mu said again: "We can also open another public account to solicit donations from the whole society. Everyone can donate to this account. Ten or eight yuan, three or five yuan, or even one or two yuan is fine, as long as everyone If you are willing to donate, it will help this charity cause.”
"The operation of bank remittance is relatively troublesome." Wei Lan said: "Many people are actually unwilling to donate, or the donation process is a bit troublesome. When I was in school, I donated several times to the Hope Project. Going to the bank to queue up, fill out the remittance form, and go there for a few hours, it’s very troublesome.”
Li Mu patted his forehead and said, "Thanks for your reminder, I didn't even think of this problem."
As he spoke, Li Mu said: "Actually, this is very easy to solve. I can cooperate with operators such as China Mobile and China Unicom to launch a text message donation channel. Mobile phone users only need to send the donation amount to the designated number, and it can be directly deducted from the phone bill." For this part of the fee, we can just let the operator settle with us on a regular basis."
"At the same time, my Alipay can also enable this service, and open a special Alipay account for the foundation. All Alipay users can donate to this Alipay account. These two methods should be much more convenient than bank transfers."
Wei Lan sighed in admiration: "I came up with so many good ideas at once, I think your public welfare project will definitely be able to be implemented."
After finishing 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 have confirmed their identities?"
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. Now 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 assistance. According to what Li Mu has learned, among the veterans of the People’s Liberation Army, those who have not made political mistakes and have no status problems are basically well taken care of by the state. Some veterans who were persecuted by various movements in the early years may have more difficulties now. In addition, there are still some veterans of the national army who have stayed in the mainland and may not have the opportunity to enjoy the same treatment as veterans of the People's Liberation Army.
But looking at these veterans from a modern perspective, no matter which unit they were from, they all shed blood for this nation in the War of Resistance Against Japan. As long as such veterans are still alive, as long as they have difficulties, they must be helped.
Looking at it this way, it is estimated that there are about 20,000 people in need of assistance.
Li Mu didn't know if there was a minimum living allowance policy or standard, so he asked Wei Lan, "Do you know what the average annual income of farmers is now?"
Wei Lan thought for a while and said, "I read the report before, it should be a little over two thousand, and the township is a little over five thousand."
Li Mu nodded slightly, and said thoughtfully: "Suppose we have 20,000 veterans to be rescued for a long time, and each of them is subsidized according to the per capita annual income of the rural people, then we need about 40 to 50 million yuan a year, and if we take out 100 million , can last for two years.”
Wei Lan said: "Forty to fifty million a year, the cost is really high, and as far as the current situation is concerned, the number of veterans is gradually decreasing, but the entire aid cycle will be about twenty years from now, so you You must be restrained, and you should leave a certain amount of space for yourself when doing charity. Don’t make a big deal. If you make a big deal, it’s not just this project that you have to carry through to the end. If the society has other charity needs in the future, the public may 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."
With that said, Wei Lan sat cross-legged in front of Li Mu, and counted with her fingers: "Let me first calculate for you how much money your project will cost. You see, let's roughly determine a few data first, and temporarily set the cycle as Twenty years, assuming that 50 million is invested in the first year, and 5 million is invested in A in the last year, and the middle 18 years are declining at a constant speed, then the sum of the head and the tail is equal to 55 million, and 55 million is multiplied by 10. Roughly, A total of about 550 million yuan is needed for this project.”
Li Mu looked at Wei Lan with a serious face in astonishment, and asked her: "How did you calculate it, I don't seem to understand..."
Wei Lan smiled slightly and said, "Engineers know how to do cost accounting, so they are not bad at math. Let me test you with a question. Do you know how much 1 plus 2 plus 3, until 100 equals?"
Li Mu shook his head: "Give me a calculator, or a computer, and I can run a code, or pull Excel and do a summation, and I can calculate it. Mental calculations can't be calculated."
Wei Lan smiled and said: "Don't always use the programmer's thinking to do everything, you see, from 1 to 100, there are 100 numbers in total, and their increment law is uniform, they are all plus 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 still equal to 101, until 50+51 is still equal to 101, so how many of these are there in total? What about the combination whose head and tail add up to 101?"
Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he blurted out, "50 groups! I know, so adding from 1 to 100, the final result is 101 multiplied by 50, which is 5050, right?"
Wei Lan leaned over and kissed Li Mu's face, and praised, "You're so smart!"
Li Mu smiled and said, "You are the smartest person, not me! Your method of calculation is too scientific! Please accept my knee!"