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Dedication to youth poetry inscription to change the chaos of thought

How steel is made

Sleeps for thousands of years

Once I woke up and saw it

It was the swarthy face and snow-white teeth

There is no need to lament that coal miners make black beautiful

Left the mine several hundred meters deep

Say goodbye to your brothers and sisters who are still sleeping

Bathing, slimming, and drying dark skin

Singing all the way to the palace of rebirth

If you are a pillar, you have to withstand the trials

Drying, pyrolysis, melting, bonding, curing, shrinking

Isolate the air from the heat baptism

contributed to that qualitative leap

It was a whole day

A long roar of seeing

It was the relief and sweat on his face

There is no need to sigh that coking workers take bitterness as pleasure

Left the coke oven of thousands of degrees

Say goodbye to brothers and sisters who are still grinding

Bathing, slimming, and drying silver-gray skin

All the way to the battlefield of realizing value

To be a pillar is to dedicate to the ideal

Combustion of carbon melt reduces support

Hand-to-hand combat in the blast furnace

Fulfilled that divine wish

Ling Feng looked at his own works on "Mujiao Culture", and his heart was sour.

In the past year, Ling Feng moved from the storage and distribution station to the coking workshop, and then dived into the basement from the top of the furnace, always consciously or unconsciously taking his parents as an example and focusing on his work, but his name was not seen on the list of honors at the end of the year. Ling Feng asked himself, did he sweat less, or did he not pay as much as others, and the answer he got could only be that he did not contribute enough to the coking workshop.

Once upon a time, what a sacred word a Communist Party member was, and there was always a bright light in the hearts of the fathers who worked hard to fight for the cause of the Party, and it was the lifelong belief and pursuit of a Communist Party member. Ling Feng has admired the Communist Party since he was a child, dreaming that he can become a Communist Party member like his father, but the reality is ruthless, and the activists who join the party don't count just because they are transferred out of the original workshop? Xiumin enlightened Ling Feng, why should he care too much about the matter that can be solved with a drink. But Ling Feng couldn't cross this threshold, did he just give up what he admired and pursued from his heart? In the end, it was his father's enlightenment that made Ling Feng suddenly open his mouth and face it calmly. My father said, "If you have the party in your heart, why should you care if you are a party member or not?"

Ling Feng can look down on fame and fortune, but after all, he has studied for many years and has his own thoughts. Since Ling Feng entered the tempering class, the personnel in the coking workshop who are familiar with the tempering work have all been impressed by him. However, with the passage of time and the accumulation of coking knowledge, Ling Feng became more and more confused, mainly reflected in all aspects around him.

In practical work, the temperature control that originally reflected the technical content has become a vision in my heart, and the naphthalene and tar in the refurnace gas exceed the standard, and keeping the combustion system smooth has become the main task; all kinds of account tables reflecting the real furnace temperature can not be defective, and the temperature of individual ones is lower or higher than the standard, and the large number of places will return to normal; the measurement and adjustment of iron parts of the coke oven body are maintained, and it is common to artificially extend the cycle and not operate properly.

In terms of ideology and attitude: the furnace roof, flue, and basement are all high-temperature work areas, so reducing the stay must be the first choice, and laziness and slippery gradually become the trend; the staff of the exchange room who regularly inspect and measure the temperature have become a consensus to do less work and more rest under the supervision of no one at night; there are many areas for fire control, and they complain before doing and invite credit after doing it, which has won the essence of being able to do what they can say.

In study and life: the accumulation of knowledge and experience depends on long-term study and practice, how can it be easily taught to others; progress and development need to accumulate extensive contacts and make breakthroughs in key areas; gangs and flattery have already emerged; flammable, explosive, and poisoning places are paralyzed and capricious, and sparks are splashed everywhere.

Looking at the workshop again, many equipment that costs and reduces pollution are abandoned, the dust is filled when the coke is released, the flames are flying when the coal is added, and the wild gas is rolling like a beast out of the cage. Looking at the scorching tower over there, a white mushroom cloud soared into the sky, turning into a large stream of clouds, and the brown drizzle under the flowing clouds was like tears and blood.

The corridors in the factory pass through, the coal corridor is full of coal ash, and the belt runs with dust. Dambauene tower jar, pungent smell. Fan water pump, noisy and deafening.

Outside the factory, the mountains and wilderness wandered, and the exhaust gas from all over the factory was curling. Private culverts, gurgling. Is the water in the straight ditch outside the factory a failure of the filtration system or is it deliberate? The once beautiful bluestone dam has been covered by unloaded fly ash, and it is a season to strengthen the dam and wait for it to be displayed.

Ling Feng watched quietly, silently experienced, and thought bitterly. Is youth, sweat, and dedication ultimately just to spoil this landscape? Is it to sacrifice the small self to take care of the big self? But there are not many gas users in the city! The hazy scenery has not been reduced by the commissioning of the factory!

The coking plant has been in operation for half a year, and the remuneration of workers is still very low, and the phenomenon of wage arrears has not stopped. The original popular enterprises are now unattended, and those who have the ability and a way out have been transferred out, reaching a peak after the Spring Festival in 97. One day after the Spring Festival, the workers in the power workshop came to the exchange room to repair the heating, and Jiayi was among them. When the brothers met, they chatted a few more words, and Jiayi informed Ling Feng that the sixth and old pimple of the storage and distribution station had been transferred out of the coking plant. After learning the news, Ling Feng specially asked Xiumin, and the answer was that Xiuying had left Beijing.

Every year shortly after the Spring Festival, there will inevitably be a big change in the leadership of the coking plant and pipeline department under the jurisdiction of the gas company, and this is also the case in '97. Just after the Spring Festival, the leaders of each workshop have changed again. The director of the coking workshop was transferred to the head of the technical section of the plant, and Honghao was also taken away when he left, and Honghao's position was succeeded by the fire squad leader, and Xiumin became the fire squad leader.

After the change of leadership, the personnel of each workshop were also adjusted, and the storage and distribution station bore the brunt of the layoffs, laying off ten people, among which Ruiying was assigned to the coking workshop to manage shift dormitories.

At the beginning of this year, when personnel changes and people's hearts fluctuated, Ling Feng's heart was shaken.

"What should I do? Leave the coking plant? It's easy to talk about, but where should I go? The anguish in Ling Feng's heart turned into a carrier pigeon and flew into the distance, and the morning dew in the distance actively replied to Ling Feng's advice. Chenlu persuaded Ling Feng to go out of the house and go to the south to develop while he was young, but Ling Feng couldn't make the trip because of family reasons; Chenlu persuaded Ling Feng to find a project to do as an individual, but Ling Feng only sold popsicles with his parents, and he wouldn't and didn't dare to be self-employed; Chenlu finally persuaded Ling Feng to take the civil service exam, and Ling Feng calculated, this is really a way out, maybe it can change many of the current troubles.

Ling Feng graduated from the University of Electric Power in 93 years, although he was a supplementary student, but he got the graduation certificate that year, and he only needed to take a transfer examination held every year, and he could apply for the civil service examination after obtaining the cadre index. So, Ling Feng consulted, registered, bought textbooks, and then studied while working, preparing to take the autumn transfer exam.

The winter in Mudanjiang City is very long, and the snow and ice melt are full of gray, and even the evergreen pine trees look gray with dust on the dark green needles. It's only in May that the fresh greenery of the mountains changes the city's colours, and that's when the spring breeze is strong.

On a very ordinary afternoon, the fly ash was unscrupulous as in the past, and there was a loud "boom", and the square tower at the top of the more than 30-meter-high coke quenching tower in the coking workshop fell down in unison, smashing a section of the corridor of the coke corridor, but fortunately no one was injured. Standing in the crowd that rushed to hear the news, looking at the steel bars hanging down like noodles at the top of the tunnel of the Jiaojiao Tower, Ling Feng's heart was full of mixed feelings, it has been less than a year since the coking plant was put into operation! How can youth and sweat beat the greed of the resident insects......

The slump of the coke extinguishing tower strengthened Ling Feng's determination to leave the coking plant.