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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2585569, member: 12789&quot;]One advantage that the Chinese communists had in recruiting soldiers for their campaigns was that they stuck to paying soldiers in silver coins, crude as they might have been silver will always trump paper money when afforded a choice.&nbsp; The Nationalists on the other hand paid their soldiers in paper money which quickly lost all value due to inflation.</p><p><br /></p><p>One minor correction in the timeline, the Long March was in 1934-5.&nbsp; It started in the Jiangxi province, Nanchang.&nbsp; There is a memorial in the centre of the city square where the march is alleged to have begun, I will have to find a picture of it sometime and share it here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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