"...... ** does not mean poverty!

We pursue **, which is the highest ideal of human beings. But what is it? Putting aside all kinds of jerky and difficult words, it can be summed up in two aspects: no oppression, and social justice. And these two highest ideals are still a means, and as a human social system, its ultimate goal is still to serve people, not metaphysical empty ideas.

So what do we pursue as a human being under a social system of social justice and no oppression?

Historically, we can learn that there is a great abundance of material things, which can satisfy as much of our material needs as possible! Only on top of this can we devote more energy to the creation of spiritual civilization and sublimate our thinking......

The ancients often said that Cangli knew etiquette and knew honor and disgrace when he had enough food and clothing. Although the ancient sages did not use scientific Marxism as a weapon to analyze and criticize the world, they were able to summarize this simple truth based on the social phenomena they observed, which shows that the construction of material civilization is a common demand of human society, and it is a universal truth that is universal and universal in ancient and modern times......

Zou Yongdong sat on a small stool, leaning on his knees, and carefully recorded the words of Miao Wei, the instructor in front of him, with a pen. He could see through the two rows of people that the company commander and deputy company commander sitting in the front row were also listening attentively, and from time to time they were recording what they thought was important.

He knew that the company commander and instructor were veterans.

The veteran soldiers here do not refer to the long military years, of course, they are also the first to join the KPA, but in the 291 Brigade, the veteran soldiers usually refer to those who followed the brigade commander first. For example, the deputy company commander joined the People's Army very early in terms of seniority, but in other units, he cannot be called a veteran.

As far as he knows, the vast majority of the middle and high-level commanders of the 291 Brigade are held by these veterans. Not to mention the brigade commander, deputy brigade commander, and political commissar, the company commanders and instructors of the 12 field companies are also veterans.

Even in his engineering battalion, more than half of the engineering companies are made up of these veterans as military and political officers.

Zou Yongdong himself is not a veteran, he was recruited from Meng Hai not long ago, but he is very satisfied with his current situation. Although the work in the engineering battalion is hard, he can eat enough, and the army can buy a pig from China every week to let everyone fight for the tooth sacrifice, and he thinks this kind of life is very good.

“…… The social system of human beings is not eternal. Especially when multiple systems coexist and compete with each other, for the sake of their own survival and development, under external pressure, they usually absorb the advantages of other systems and improve their own systems......"

When his thoughts drifted a little, he heard the further elaboration of the instructor Miao Wei on the stage. The engineering battalion was originally composed mainly of captured soldiers of the Vicious Army, plus a small number of guards, and was only about 400 people when it was established. Later, it gradually expanded to more than 800 people, and the soldiers of the former Weiding Army were also relieved of their captive status, and they could return home after only three years of service, and they were paid according to their work conditions, and many soldiers settled down.

It was not until not long ago that the brigade commander decided to accept all the personnel who were still staying in Menghai, and the engineering battalion suddenly exaggerated to more than 3,100 people, becoming the largest battalion-level unit in the whole brigade.

Miao Wei used to hear that he was only a small class deputy, and he had not been an instructor for a few days, and he had no experience in political work at all, so he would only read according to the manuscript distributed above in his daily study.

If he weren't a veteran, he wouldn't have been able to become this instructor!

Listening to what Miao Wei said just now, Zou Yongdong muttered secretly in his heart, the subtext in these words is to change the previous guiding ideology.

Isn't this revisionism?

Thinking so in his heart, Zou Yongdong did not refute it. After two years of revolution, he endured a lot of hardships, and his understanding of the world is no longer as fanatical as when he first came out, and he is more mature in looking at things and thinking about problems.

In addition to their pursuit of height, he no longer believes that there is any eternal absolute truth. If things are developing in a super-good direction, and are good for the country, for the people, and for himself, he will not be as hot-headed as he was when he was young.

Judging from what he learned, Brigade Commander Guan Fei was a principled and capable person. So far, the changes he has led can all lead the troops in a brighter direction, and at the same time, as a grassroots soldier, he has also enjoyed the benefits of this change.

Perhaps, revisionism that appropriately adapts to the times and makes some changes on the basis of a firm stance is not so terrible......

It is also not without people in the troops who oppose this point of view, but there are very few of them. The overwhelming majority of the fighters believed that the current direction of development was correct and resolutely supported the decision of the brigade commander. The troops are also not allowed to engage in tandem, but there is no special criticism of these people, and those who find them are punished for violating military discipline: running with weights, frog jumping, pull-ups, etc.

The magnanimity of the troops won over more people, and the voices of the troops gradually became unified.

As time passed, everyone felt more and more that under the leadership of the brigade commander, their life was getting better and better. Especially yesterday, after the power was turned on, the whole brigade was like crazy, cheering as if it was a holiday.

From now on, their amateur cultural life will no longer be so boring, and they will not have to train every day, and after the work is finished, it will be dark, and everyone can only go back to their rooms to sleep.

Due to the abundance of electricity, wires were tied and electric lights were lit in each barracks.

By the time the lights out went off at 10 o'clock, they could finally do their own thing under the lights. Washing clothes, reading books, writing letters, writing diaries, playing poker, playing chess, playing the harmonica, playing erhu ......, there are many versatile people among the educated youth, and under the enthusiasm, some people have made table tennis tables and rackets, ready to take a ride to China during the next vacation, and go to the county seat to buy table tennis.

Someone cleared a vacant lot and decided to build a night football field.

Electricity, what a good thing.

With it, everything is different, Longkang Town, which originally fell into a deep sleep at six or seven o'clock, was noisy until the lights out horn sounded last night. Many of the fighters were so excited that they were lying on their beds and talking, refusing to rest.

Zou Yongdong was also very excited, and this excitement lasted until the morning.

Perhaps because his thinking is too active, he can't concentrate now, and his mind has been neglected many times.

The engineering battalion is not a field unit, and its main work is to be responsible for various projects, so the schedule is different from that of a field company. After breakfast, it is half an hour of political study, mainly by Miao Wei, some of which are the study materials distributed above, some of which are domestic situations, and a few times there are major international events, generally in the areas of politics, economy, military, and science and technology.

The 291 Brigade is all educated youth, and the engineering battalion is no exception. Everyone has a certain level of knowledge, and they can also have their own analysis and judgment of the instructor's reasoning and things, and by listening to these often, their horizons have also broadened a lot, and they have more experience of the various decisions made by the brigade commander before, so that they can consciously and voluntarily support and defend these decisions.

Miao Wei is still reading according to the manuscript above, and the people below are still recording carefully.

Soon, half an hour passed, and Miao Wei finished reading the last paragraph, and then announced the end of today's study. At this time, he gave up his position to the company commander and deputy company commander, and they arranged today's work.

Zou Yongdong's company is numbered as the Ninth Engineering Company, and the company has a total of 200 cadres and soldiers, which is much larger than the field company in terms of establishment.

Today, the task of the Ninth Engineering Company is still to go up the mountain to cut wood.

Logging is hard work, and you have to climb mountains. Most of the places in the 291 Brigade Defense Area belong to the undeveloped primitive area, the mountains are lush with vegetation, there are many mosquitoes, and there are quite a few snakes swimming around, and the soldiers are easily bitten by insects and snakes when walking on the mountains.

However, there are a few people in the company who have worked in the forest farm before, and they have made suggestions, and since the establishment of the Ninth Company, there has not been a major casualty accident.

The logging site is on the western side of the mountain, which is about 500 meters high in absolute height, and there are many tall trees growing from the mountainside to the top.

Zou Yongdong and their exposed skin on their faces, hands, and other exposed skin were smeared with wind oil essence to repel mosquitoes and flies, and they walked along the road opened up to the mountain. The grass has been pulled out and salt has been sprinkled to prevent new seedlings from breaking through the soil, so it is safer to walk.

The road up the hill is steep and a groove washed out during the rainy season, which also makes it easy to send the felled timber down the mountain.

Halfway up the mountain, with a slight slope, this is their logging area.

It is a mixed forest zone, with a mix of subtropical and boreal tree species, and quite a few shrubs that cover the entire woodland.

According to the information distributed above, the main growth on this mountain is pear blossom wood, sour branch wood these precious tree species, among which sour branch wood is the most expensive, followed by pear blossom tree. The company commander said that the two types of timber cannot effectively play their economic value for the time being, so it is very difficult to cut them now.

Their target is the southwest birch.

This is a very widely distributed evergreen broad-leaved forest, and there are many such trees in the defense area, and Zou Yongdong also saw many of them in Yunnan. Judging from the data, the southwest birch not only has a straight trunk, but also is easy to process, which is very suitable as a furniture material. And it is a fast-growing forest, which can be replanted after cutting to avoid the depletion of forest resources due to long-term logging.

On the hillside, large patches of southwestern birch can be seen everywhere. Because it has not been cut down all year round, it has grown for an unknown number of years, with a diameter at breast height of more than 40 centimeters and a height of about 278 meters, which is much thicker than the same tree species he has seen in China.

Logging is done in pairs, with groups tens of meters apart from each other to avoid accidents. Zou Yongdong's partner was He Wei, who was in the same class, and the target they chose was a southwest birch more than 30 centimeters thick.

They determined the direction in which the trees would fall, sawing a third of the roots of the trees facing the hillside, and then using an axe to cut a triangular notch.

In the Northeast dialect, this is called a hawthorn, and local woodworkers call it a saw, which is to determine the direction in which the tree is falling.

Their saw-down edge faces the hillside, which means that the trees fall directly on the hillside.

After that, they went around the back of the tree and stuck to the trunk with a fixed fork. At the position of the lower saw, up to four centimeters, they begin to see vertically inward.

When sawing into a section, they use a wedge to hammer in the saw to ensure that the saw does not get stuck.

After a while, the sawing was more than halfway up the tree, when the trunk clicked to break.

The two of them were alert to the imminent fall of the tree, so they quickly pulled out their saws, looked in the direction of the falling tree, and quickly retreated.

The trunk shook a few times, and gravity crushed the last joint. When the fixed fork could not fall down the slope, it fell down the hawthorn gap, and the branches smashed the slope, and a large number of blades of grass were lifted up. With a hawthorn notch, and a correct sawing point on the ground, the end of the thick trunk did not jump, and the whole tree rolled a few times on the slope, crushing a bush and then stopping its movement.

The two waited until the tree was indeed no longer moving, and then leaned over and used an axe to chop off the unusable twig and threw it to the ground, leaving only a bare trunk.

They had already done this work very skillfully, and when they had finished doing it here, they chose a big tree with a diameter of more than forty centimeters at breast height next to it, and concocted it in the same way.

In one morning, they felled a total of five southwest birches.

At noon, the company commander checked the results of each group, and after registration, everyone began to have lunch. At this time, a soldier ran up from the bottom of the mountain, found the company commander, saluted him, and handed him an order.

After reading it, the company commander discussed a few words with the instructor and deputy company commander in a whisper, and said loudly: "That's all for today's work." Everyone hurried to eat, and then dragged the felled timber down the mountain. In the afternoon, our work was to build makeshift classrooms! Hurry up! ”

When the soldiers heard this, they quickly untied the bamboo tube they were carrying, which contained the rice and vegetables prepared by the cooking squad in the morning, and devoured them.

Instructor Miao Wei stood up with a smile and said to the soldiers who were eating: "Comrades, according to the instructions of the brigade headquarters, when the classroom is repaired, all comrades will go to class......"

"I still have to go to class! I'm most scared of going to class! Besides, I'm not too young, and I can't learn even if I sit in the classroom! Can you not go? Hearing the instructor's words, a warrior named Fang Xiaolin lamented loudly.

But the other warriors' eyes lit up, and they stopped talking and raised their heads.

Can you really go to school?

In the past, what they were most afraid of was going to school, and they were overjoyed to hear that classes were suspended and there was a revolution. But after all these years, they realized the value of knowledge. Even under such difficult fighting conditions, there are still people who find time to study tirelessly on their own, and now I didn't expect that the brigade invited so many teachers so that they could re-enter the classroom.

Many people's hearts were warmed up at once.

Miao Wei was not angry at Fang Xiaolin's words, he was actually a very kind person, as long as it was not a formal occasion, he was never angry when the soldiers were hip-hopping with him.

He smiled and said, "Okay, you are willing to be a big soldier for the rest of your life, and if you don't want to go to class, forget it." However, I listened to the brigade's plan, as long as everyone passes the high school diploma exam, they can be included in the plan, and in the future, they are guaranteed to be assigned jobs, become a worker, and go to work in the factory......"

"Really?"

Hula, everyone stood up and looked at the instructor excitedly.

Becoming a factory worker is the dream of almost everyone. Except for a few people who have decided to devote their lives to the military with the goal of becoming generals, who wants to be a soldier for the rest of their lives?

It can be said that being able to work in the factory is their greatest happiness!

"Of course it's true, when did the brigade lie to everyone?" The company commander also stood up, walked to the center of the crowd, waved his arms and said loudly, "The above has tried everything for everyone's future." The reason why the brigade commander went to Hong Kong without any effort was to allow us to live on our own, and more importantly, to let everyone have a better way out by setting up a factory here. You can't be a soldier for the rest of your life, you will always be old, you will always be discharged. What should I do after I leave the army? Going farming?

Therefore, the brigade commander decided to set up a factory, so that every soldier could get a better ending after being discharged from the army.

The brigade commander also said that if you can obtain a high school degree, you can continue to enter various technical schools for further study and obtain a college degree, and you can get the status of a cadre after you come out! If one of you has the ability to become a scientist, an engineer, or a teacher, the brigade will do its best to help you! ”

"Hooray!"

The soldiers were ecstatic, including Zou Yongdong, who were so excited that they threw the rice buckets in their hands into the sky, waved their arms, and shouted and jumped on the ground, unable to stop for a long time.

They couldn't wait to go to class immediately, and everyone didn't have the heart to eat, so they hurriedly packed up their things, and worked together to drag the timber cut down the mountain in the morning, load it into the car, and then line up in a neat queue, singing loud military songs, and marching towards the brigade headquarters.