The Red Army is an army that serves the interests of the workers and peasants. It strictly protects merchants, maintains ironclad discipline, and never infringes upon their rights. However, owing to a severe shortage of military rations, we hereby write to request your assistance in raising 5,000 silver dollars in military funds, together with 7,000 pairs of straw sandals and socks each, 300 bolts of white cloth, and 100 porters. All these supplies must be delivered to our headquarters before 8:00 p.m. this evening. We earnestly ask you to attend to this matter without delay; any further procrastination will be taken as clear evidence that the merchants of Ningdu are colluding with the reactionary forces there and deliberately seeking to obstruct the Red Army. In such a case, our army will have no choice but to set fire to the reactionary shops in Ningdu as a warning to evildoers—let it not be said that we did not give due notice. Before 8:00 p.m., the stewards of the reception committee were to bring the funds raised and the hired laborers to the Quartermaster’s Office of the Fourth Red Army Headquarters on time. This fundraising mission was successfully completed.