After Chen Zhongning sat down on the sofa, Zhang Qitai was about to pour water for Chen Zhongning, but Chen Qingdong said: "Mayor Zhang, you can sit too, I'll pour water." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Zhang Qitai was embarrassed to rush to pour water with Chen Qingdong, and he was embarrassed to sit down, so he stood aside and waited. It wasn't until Chen Qingdong poured the water, brought it to Chen Zhongning, and then sat opposite Chen Zhongning, that Zhang Qitai sat on the chair in front of Chen Qingdong's desk.

Chen Zhongning is a very nostalgic person, and when he meets someone with the same surname, he can't help but pull the family origin, so he asked: "Secretary Chen, which branch of your 'Chen' surname is you?" ”

Chen Qingdong knew that his father had a collection of their family's genealogy, which was locked in a large wooden box, but Chen Qingdong had no interest in this matter, so he never looked through it. Therefore, Chen Zhongning's question really stumped him.

Chen Qingdong thought about it, and said honestly: "Professor Chen, I'm ashamed to say that I really don't know much about the origin and development of our surname, but I know that our ancestors seem to have migrated here from Anhui during the Ming Dynasty. However, at that time, there was no name 'Anhui', but together with today's Jiangsu Province and Shanghai, it became Jiangnan Province. ”

Chen Zhongning raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Really? Secretary Chen, speaking of which, we may really have some family origins! ”

"Oh? Professor Chen, can you also have a relationship with the Chen family in Anhui? ”

"That's right! There is a clear record in our family that the ancestor of our branch was in the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, and due to the rebellion of the eunuch party, our ancestor led a group of people from Huizhou Mansion in Jiangnan Province to take refuge here, and passed on this branch. A few years ago, I also went to Anhui, and with the help of some friends, I learned that the Chen clan of Huaining Sanqiao in Anhui Province seems to be the same clan as ours. My current generation 'middle' echoes the 'middle' of Huaining Sanqiao Chen's generation's 'only heirloom, and the 'middle' generation of the vast business! Secretary Chen, since you said that your ancestors also migrated from Anhui during the Ming Dynasty, then we are very likely to have a great relationship! ”

Chen Qingdong said with a smile: "It turns out that I still have a family relationship with Professor Chen, what an honor!" ”

Chen Zhongning also smiled: "Secretary Chen is also polite, I am also honored to have the same relationship with a young talent like Secretary Chen!" ”

"I'm really flattered by what Professor Chen said!" Chen Qingdong smiled, "Professor Chen, you should be in your sixties by now, right?" ”

"Yes! I'm sixty-seven years old this year, and I'm about to be seventy! Chen Zhongning may have been used to being a teacher, so he involuntarily taught: "Haha, when I look back at my age, I realize that time flies too fast!" Secretary Chen, you are in your prime now, you must seize the time to do a good job, so as not to live in vain! ”

Chen Qingdong smiled: "I must always keep Professor Chen's words in my heart!" However, Professor Chen, I see that you are in good spirits now, and you don't look like an old man who is about to turn 70 years old at all! If I were to say you're just 60 years old, I'm sure a lot of people would believe you! Mayor Zhang, don't you say? ”

Zhang Qitai, who had been sitting next to them quietly listening to their chat, heard Chen Qingdong call his name, and immediately said, "Yes!" Be! Secretary Chen's yes! Professor Chen, you really don't look old at all! I think you look younger than all the people in our town who are in their fifties! ”

Chen Zhongning sighed and said: "The years are not forgiving, if you want to say that I don't show my age, it must be fake." But you say I'm younger than the fifty-somethings in our town, and that's true. However, this is not because I maintain it well, but those fellow villagers have been facing the loess with their backs to the sky all their lives, and they have suffered too much every day, how can they not look old! Bai Juyi, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, said in "Guanjiamai": The Tian family has few idle months, and people are busy in May. The south wind rose at night, and the wheat was covered with yellow. The woman and aunt are eating lotus, and the child is carrying the pot pulp, and goes with the field, and Ding Zhuang is in Nangang. Enough to steam the summer and rustic, the back burns the sky, and I don't know the heat, but I regret the long summer...... What merit do I have today? I didn't do anything about farming. There are 300 stones, and there is surplus food in the year, and I am ashamed to read this, and I can't forget it. Although it has been more than a thousand years since Bai Letian lived, his poem is still deafening when he reads it now! ”

"Yes, although it is now the new century, the lives of the common people are still miserable!" Chen Qingdong also said with emotion, but he was thinking in his heart that this Chen Zhongning's character was not said, but his personality seemed to be a little detoured.

Chen Zhongning continued: "In the past few years, in my spare time, I have also been invited by my school or friends to visit Europe and the United States and other countries. In the developed countries, I focused on their towns and villages, and their schools. Looking at it this way, I found that the gap between our country and those developed countries is really too big! First of all, let's talk about this kind of land, almost all developed countries have achieved mechanized planting, and it is very normal for four or five people to plant thousands of acres of land. Moreover, they don't need much effort, they have a seeding machine for sowing, an airplane for spraying pesticides, and a harvester for harvesting, so it is very easy for them to plant thousands of acres of land! In addition to the busy farming season, I think their days are more comfortable for the people of our state agencies. Due to such a large-scale planting, the income is naturally very considerable! ”

"Look at their education, alas, this one is even more incomparable! Let's not talk about their software power, let's talk about their schools and supporting facilities, we went to a small town in Texas, USA, visited their school, I have to say, the school in this town, whether it is the quality of the school building, or a variety of supporting facilities...... Not to mention our township, even our Liulin County No. 1 Middle School is several grades behind others! Let's talk about computers, our county No. 1 middle school does not have computer classes now, and the computer class in the township primary and secondary schools in the United States is a very important course, and basically everyone is equipped with a computer! ”

"Walking down this lap, I am really full of emotion! It's not that I look down on our country, I am full of enthusiasm and hope for our country in the world, but the gap between us and the United States is still all-round! There are historical reasons for this, of course! ”

"Now our country is making every effort to carry out economic construction, the core work of governments at all levels is also economic work, and GDP has also become an important criterion for assessing leading cadres at all levels. I think there is a positive attitude to this. However, I also want to emphasize one point, we always talk about economic development, economic development, but what is the driving force for economic development? It's innovation! And what is the basis of innovation! It's education! If education cannot be developed, then there will be no innovation, and without innovation, it will not be possible to achieve results in high-tech fields, and there will be no core competitiveness. ”

Chen Qingdong silently listened to Chen Zhongning's impassioned and emotional talk, in fact, what Chen Zhongning said was not something new at all, it was just a cliché, and anyone would say these words.

Therefore, although Chen Qingdong seemed to be listening very carefully, in fact, he didn't take Chen Zhongning's words too seriously at all, but silently thought about what happened to Chen Zhongning's arrival, of course he would not be naïve to think that Chen Zhongning was here to give him a lesson in the popularization of the idea of "education first".

If it weren't for the previous conversation with Wu Zhenshan, if Zhang Qitai hadn't been very close to Lu Shijing and others, if Chen Zhongning hadn't come with Zhang Qitai, Chen Qingdong might not have been so cautious, but now, he must be cautious and cautious to deal with any problems.

After all, there are a pack of wolves lurking around him!

After all, Chen Zhongning was old, he said so much in one breath, and he was still quite emotional, so he finally stopped a little out of breath, picked up the teacup, and drank it in a big gulp.

Chen Qingdong followed the theme of Chen Zhongning's words and said: "What Professor Chen said is yes, as the saying goes, 'no matter how hard you are, you can't be poor in education, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education', due to development reasons, compared with our country and the United States, on the basis of education, we do still have a lot of things that need to be improved, but this is a gradual process, we can't be in a hurry!" In fact, our country has also attached great importance to education in recent years, and the achievements in the field of education are quite obvious. Chenqiao No. 1 Middle School, which was founded by Professor Chen, now ranks among the top three in our county in terms of high school admission rate, second only to Liulin No. 1 Middle School and Liulin Experimental Middle School, two key middle schools. All of this, tracing back to the roots, is all due to you, Professor Chen! ”

This time, Chen Zhongning shook his head and said, "I did waste a lot of effort when I built Chenqiao Middle School, but over the years, as I get older and older, I have become less and less useful. ”

Chen Qingdong heard that Chen Zhongning had something to say, and he was quite complaining, so he said: "Professor Chen is wrong to say this, although Professor Chen is no longer the principal of Chenqiao Middle School, but the spirit that Professor Chen left behind is the most valuable spiritual wealth of Chenqiao Middle School!" ”

Chen Zhongning smiled bitterly and said: "No matter how good the spiritual wealth is, it is all empty, and it cannot be used as a classroom or eaten as a steamed bun!" After I came to Chenqiao today, I first went to Chenqiao Middle School, and saw that the main teaching building was built more than 20 years ago when I was the principal here, and now it is already dilapidated, and there are many cracks in the walls. If something goes wrong with this school building, once it collapses and hits the children, I really can't forgive! In addition to the school building, there are also those desks and chairs used by the children, alas, they are all in tatters, even the blackboard is in tatters! In such an environment, how much the children's studies must be affected! ”