Chapter 244: Sinners and Heroes

Regarding the inside story of Huaxia University of Science and Technology's original preparation to be located in Zhongjiang Province, Bao Feiyang once listened to his father Bao Guosheng tell in detail.

In 1969, the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union, the world's second-largest country, had a border conflict, and the two sides were at loggerheads on the border. According to the shape of the time, the central government decided to carry out "war readiness evacuation", and Huaxia University of Science and Technology was included in the thirteen relocated universities in Beijing by the Science and Education Group of the State Council.

Huaxia University of Science and Technology originally planned to set the evacuation address of the school in Zhongjiang Province, and even wrote a personal letter to Comrade Liu Jiangong, who was then secretary of the Zhongjiang Provincial Party Committee and director of the Revolutionary Committee, through the head of the science and education group of the State Council. However, Liu Jiangong was opposed to the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology to Zhongjiang Province, believing that if Huaxia University of Science and Technology was relocated to Zhongjiang Province, tens of thousands of teachers, students, and teachers would inevitably occupy a large number of non-staple food rations in Zhongjiang Province. In desperation, Huaxia University of Science and Technology had to find the evacuation address again, and after several twists and turns, it finally moved to Wanjiang Province, a neighboring province of Zhongjiang Province, and Zhongjiang Province lost the opportunity to own the top university of Huaxia University of Science and Technology forever.

Although he knew this secret very clearly, Bao Feiyang didn't tell it*, just took Meng Shuang's hand and quietly listened to the story of the young man on the bunk.

It should be said that this young man still knows a lot of inside stories, although there are a lot of conjectures in some small details, but in general, it is basically consistent with the truth that Bao Feiyang has mastered, and does not deviate too much from the facts.

"If you want to blame Liu Jiangong, this old guy, you can't be a mouse!" said the young man on the bunk on the other side with resentment, "If he hadn't resolutely opposed it at the beginning, Huaxia University of Science and Technology, a national key university, would have been built in Zhongtian City, and we Zhongjiang people don't have to go out of Zhongjiang Province if we want to go to a key university, and I don't have to go all the way to Xijing City to study at Xijing Jiaotong University!"

"Ahem, cough, cough......" The old man in the lower bunk opposite covered his mouth and coughed again, his face flushed.

"Old man, are you okay?" Bao Feiyang and Meng Shuang hurriedly asked with concern, "Why don't we go and ask the conductor to help you find a doctor?"

"No, no!" the old man waved his hand. "Bang" closed the newspaper, "The air in the private room is a little stuffy, I'll just go and sit in the corridor outside!"

Saying that, the old man held the "Reference News" in his hand, walked out of the soft sleeper private room, closed the door of the private room with his backhand, and isolated the sound in the private room, then let out a long sigh and slowly sat on the small stool by the side of the aisle. Could it be that he is really old? How can he care more and more about what others think of him? If he goes back ten years, he will only smile indifferently when he hears what the young man in the upper bunk has just said. But now. Why can't he be as open-minded as he used to be? Could it be that this man is old? Has the Qi Cultivation Kung Fu regressed? Will you be angry at the remarks of a young man who can be your grandchildren, and will you laugh at yourself for being old and unsuccessful?

Bao Feiyang watched the old man walk steadily when he walked out of the private room, not like he was physically ailmented, and then he was relieved. I thought to myself, maybe this old man really felt that the air in the private room was stuffy. Go outside to breathe, and it will be fine.

He sat back next to Meng Shuang, smiled and refuted the point of view of the young man on the other side just now, and said: "Your statement is a bit too extreme, I think that Liu Jiangong had his own considerations when he opposed the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology to our Zhongjiang Province......

"Hehe!" the young man on the other side sneered, "Isn't it that I'm worried that the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology to Zhongjiang Province will increase the index of Zhongjiang Province to eat commercial grain?"

This time. No one noticed that the door of the sleeper room slipped open silently, and the words of the young man were clearly transmitted to the aisle, and fell to the ears of the old man word for word. The old man wanted to get up and close the door of the private room again. But in the end, it didn't move. In any case, he is an eighty-year-old veteran revolutionary and veteran member, and he doesn't even have the stomach to listen to a little criticism, so is he embarrassed to say that he is a soldier?

"How many people are there in Huaxia University of Science and Technology? Including the faculty, staff, and students, that's more than 10,000 people, right?" The young man continued, "How much commercial grain can these 10,000 people eat every year? In a huge Zhongjiang Province, can't even squeeze out the rations of more than 10,000 people? For the sake of a little food ration for more than 10,000 people every year, he turned down a top key university in the country. To put it more seriously, Liu Jiangong's refusal to relocate Huaxia University of Science and Technology to Zhongtian City is a crime! A crime against the educational cause of Zhongjiang Province! A crime against more than 90 million people in Zhongjiang Province!"

The old man sat in the aisle outside, listening to the young man's increasingly fierce words coming from the private room, and a bitter smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: It turns out that his original actions were regarded as a crime! After working diligently in Zhongjiang Province for so many years, he finally became a sinner in the eyes of the people of Zhongjiang Province?

"Hehe," Bao Feiyang also laughed, he interrupted the young man's words, and said, "I said that this old man, your opinion is a little too biased. In your opinion, the commercial grain of more than 10,000 people is a small problem, right? Therefore, Liu Jiangong's refusal to move Huaxia University of Science and Technology to Zhongjiang Province has become a heinous crime. However, have you seriously considered the actual situation at that time? There is an old saying in the ancients, 'Time changes', and when the time is different, the situation will be different, and you can't look at the problems of the past with today's eyes!"

"What's the difference? Although the past days were a little harder, such a big province as Zhongjiang Province can't even solve the problem of feeding more than 10,000 people, right?" the young man retorted unconvinced.

"Hehe, look at what you say!" Bao Feiyang said, "If Liu Jiangong is really the kind of leader who doesn't care about the lives of the people and is bent on making political achievements and gaining fame, then there is indeed a way to solve the problem of more than 10,000 teachers and students of Huaxia University of Science and Technology eating." However, I think Liu Jiangong attaches more importance to the livelihood of tens of millions of people in Zhongjiang Province than his reputation and political achievements, so he made the decision to refuse the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology to Zhongjiang Province!"

"Fallacy!" said the young man disdainfully, "If more than 10,000 people eat commercial grain, it will affect the livelihood of tens of millions of people in Zhongjiang Province?"

"Really?" Bao Feiyang smiled, not angry at all, and asked the young man, "Are you a native of Zhongjiang Province?"

"Yes?" the young man looked at Bao Feiyang and said, "What's wrong?"

"So have you heard your parents say that there used to be a very famous saying in Zhongjiang Province. "Sweet potato soup, sweet potato buns, you can't live without sweet potatoes?"

"And such a slip of the tongue?" said the young man, shaking his head, "I have not heard of it." ”

"Well, it's normal that you haven't heard of it. Bao Feiyang nodded, "At that time, we were all very young, and those days were too hard, and many old people were reluctant to recall those hard days, so they rarely talked about it with their children." ”

"Flying. I've heard about it. My father told me about that time. Meng Shuang interjected on the side. "It was almost a sweet potato, and his stomach was sour all day. So much so that sweet potatoes have become his most hated food by now, and even if my mother accidentally buys sweet potatoes at the vegetable market, he will turn his face on the spot!"

"Speaking of which. Your dad is very similar to my dad, and he hates sweet potatoes too!" When the young man heard Meng Shuang say this, he suddenly remembered and hurriedly agreed.

Bao Feiyang nodded, and said: "Don't look at our Zhongjiang Province is now a major grain-producing province, and a considerable amount of grain is transferred out every year to support other grain-deficient provinces. However, before the 80s, Zhongjiang Province was known as a large province with a shortage of grain, and it could not be self-sufficient in grain, even though the central government tried every means to transfer large quantities of grain from other provinces to Zhongjiang Province every year. The food gap in Zhongjiang Province is still very large, and even the food and clothing of the people cannot be solved, so that most of the people have to rely on sweet potatoes to satisfy their hunger, which is why there is a folk song of 'sweet potato soup, sweet potato buns, you can't live without sweet potatoes'. ”

"Isn't it?" the boy on the top bunk still couldn't believe it.

"Why not?" said Bao Feiyang. "Some time ago, Tianyuan City was reforming the grain purchase and marketing system, and I also checked the grain production statistics of Zhongjiang Province by the way. Since the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Zhongjiang Province is a strict grain-deficient province, the total grain output at that time was only 14 billion catties, to the late 60s and early 70s, that is, when Huaxia University of Science and Technology planned to relocate to Zhongjiang Province, Zhongjiang Province's grain output has just exceeded 20 billion catties, it sounds like a lot, but it was averaged by Zhongjiang Province's population of more than 60 million at that time, and the per capita share of grain was less than half of the national per capita level. The per capita level of rations, such as rice, is even more pitiful. At that time, the biggest task of the leaders of Truc Giang Province was to find ways to raise grain from outside the province and transfer it into the province in order to maintain the minimum food ration requirements of the more than 60 million people in Truc Giang Province. It is conceivable that at this time, the sudden migration of a key university, the supply of food rations and non-staple food for more than 10,000 teachers and students will cause much pressure on Zhongjiang Province. ”

Although the young man was still a little unconvinced, it was rare that he did not immediately refute Bao Feiyang.

"Let's calculate a detailed account," Bao Feiyang saw the young man's thoughts, and said: "More than 10,000 teachers and students, plus the families of faculty and staff, a total of 15,000 people." According to the supply standard at that time, a person was about 30 catties of rations a month, which required Zhongjiang Province to raise an additional 5.4 million catties of rations in a year. At that time, one pound of rations could be exchanged for five pounds of sweet potatoes, and a rural population could barely go over the fire with one pound of sweet potatoes and some wild vegetables and leaves a day. If we can save more than 5.4 million catties of staple food, then at least Zhongjiang Province can feed an additional 780,000 people. In addition, the various tickets such as oil stamps, meat stamps, egg stamps, and cloth stamps that need to be provided to each of these 15,000 people every month can be exchanged for coarse grains, and at least one or two hundred thousand more people can be fed. In this way, if Huaxia University of Science and Technology is refused to move to Zhongjiang Province, Zhongjiang Province can at least solve the problem of feeding 100,000 peasants......"

Speaking of this, Bao Feiyang looked at the young man, "This is still a rough estimate." In fact, adding the other costs of the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology, such as the construction of teaching buildings, dormitory buildings, family buildings, etc., the saved resources can feed the population far more than that. If you were the leader of Zhongjiang Province at that time, would you be willing to refuse the relocation of Huaxia University of Science and Technology and use the food rations saved to solve the problem of feeding the people of the province, or would you rather be willing to let more than 100,000 people in Zhongjiang Province go hungry and resolutely relocate Huaxia University of Science and Technology?"

The young man was dumbfounded, not knowing how to answer. If he really had to choose, he would definitely plan to let Huaxia University of Science and Technology relocate, and as for saying that more than 100,000 peasants were hungry, what did it matter to him? As long as he wasn't hungry, it would be fine! But in front of Meng Shuang and Bao Feiyang, he really couldn't say the answer in his heart. After all, such a choice is not a very glorious thing.

Bao Feiyang also knew that the young man did not necessarily agree with his views, but it was not important to him, the important thing was that he let the young man know that Liu Jiangong was not the short-sighted leader he thought he was.

"So, I don't think Liu Jiangong's original choice was short-sighted at all," Bao Feiyang said, "On the contrary, he came out completely from the position of the people of Zhongjiang Province." In my opinion, only a leader like him who puts himself in the shoes of the common people under his rule and considers the livelihood of the common people under his rule, instead of ignoring his conscience and ignoring the life and death of the common people under his rule to make political achievements and gain an old reputation, is a truly good leader! He is not a sinner to the people of Zhongjiang Province, on the contrary, he is a great meritorious hero of the people of Zhongjiang Province. It is precisely because of his wise choice that although Zhongjiang Province lacks a national key university, it has at least ensured that more than 100,000 people in Zhongjiang Province will not go hungry -- or even starve to death......

ps：

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