Chapter 9 With my father and fellow villagers in my heart
Liang Shirong is rich, but he has not forgotten his hometown and the homeland where he was raised. In the face of the reality of difficult roads and driving in his hometown, Liang Shirong did not hesitate to donate funds to repair bridges and pave roads, and donated generously many times, successively donated more than 3 million yuan to build a cement road from heaven to Neizhong, and repaired the mountain road from Neizhong to the return of chickens, as well as roads in the countryside.
Every time he mentions all this, Liang Lin, who was the deputy director of the Paradise Paper Mill founded by Mr. Liang Shirong, has a deep understanding and a lot of feelings. He is not only a loyal practitioner, but also a faithful witness.
Every paper mill, every project, every road, every scene, every donation, every message, etc., all the time in his mind, all the time surging in his heart!
As the saying goes: the road leads to wealth. In the past, there was no good road here, and the entire Naedong mountain area was relatively poor.
The inner cave has been outstanding since ancient times, rich in products, but the economic development speed is not fast, one of the reasons is that the "dragon vein" (highway) is not passable. At that time, there was no flat road in the inner cave, and some were just narrow and bumpy "cattle plank roads".
"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads", which can be described as an eternal mantra. Only by opening up the "dragon vein", ending the situation of no road, realizing the "traffic breakthrough", and forming a convenient and efficient link with the transportation network of Paradise, Yangchun and other places, can the inner cave achieve rapid economic development.
The inner cave outside the Heavenly Hall is like a narrow basin valley, like a barrier that traps the inner cave outside the Heavenly Hall. In ancient times, most of the people in the inner cave were transported by cattle and horses, and the people in the inner cave traveled by a pair of legs.
In order to communicate with the outside world, during the Republic of China, there was a Zhao army commander Li Huaqiu (a native of Zhusuo Village in Neidong, Li Yaohan's third uncle) funded the construction of a five-kilometer-long passage from Tiantianwei to Neidong Dawu.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the people of Neidong were self-reliant, opening mountains and splitting stones, transporting soil and filling gullies, and building roads. During that famine era when the production conditions were extremely poor and the logistics were extremely difficult, the people of Neidong closely connected their lives and dreams with the connection with the outside world.
In the second spring of the fifties, when the first bus from Guangzhou (the provincial capital) drove into heaven and drove into the inner cave, the long sound of the "horn" shook the whole inner cave land, and the people of the inner cave ran and shouted, ecstatic.
With the repair and opening of the first sand road in Neidong, several sand roads leading to Liantang and other village committees were built in Neidong. These highways connect the traffic between the villages and other places in the inner cave, and carry the passenger and freight traffic in the inner cave area.
With the passage of time, there are more and more large and small vehicles shuttling on the sand road in Naedong, and those vehicles of all kinds travel from south to north on the sand road day and night. Especially with the development of the commodity economy, those sandy roads that were surveyed and designed in the 50s and 60s were really overwhelmed, and there were often traffic "intestinal obstructions" and "temporary parking lots".
It's unbelievable to say, the Naedong Highway in the 70s and 80s was narrow and bending, dusty on sunny days, and potholes on rainy days. At that time, there were often long snakes of cars parked on the roads in the inner cave area. At that time, a foreign businessman once half-jokingly said to the ruler of Paradise Town: "Heaven is good for everything, but your 'socialist' road is too difficult to follow!"
So, Mr. Liang Shirong decided to build a road to prosperity for the people of Heaven and Neidong.
The construction of the highway from Heaven to Neidong, with a total length of 6 kilometers, lasted more than a year and more than 360 days, and every day was a flash; Every day is a glory; Every day is wonderful!
As the people of Paradise Inner Cave enthusiastically eulogized: potholes, deep ravines and dangerous ravines can't stop the pace of construction of Paradise Inner Cave Highway; The scorching sun, wind, rain, thunder and lightning can't stop the spirit of the people in the inner cave! The inner cave highway carries prayers, high hopes, and trust! What is shown is ambition, it is a dream, it is a reality! Once, the closed and backward Neidong Mountain Area held up a heavy hope and ushered in the dawn of redness!
As Liang Lin, the deputy director of the factory at that time, said: The completion and opening of the Inner Cave Highway has completely changed the status quo of the road, improved the appearance of the Inner Cave of Heaven, and enhanced the external image of the Inner Cave of Heaven. This not only meets the needs of economic and social development, but also promotes the better and faster development of the economy of the whole Neidong and even the whole town, which is of great significance...... The construction of the Paradise Inner Cave Highway has undoubtedly become the most beautiful scenery in the Inner Cave!
A wide and flat hard-bottomed road, a historical leap! A road connects the hubs of western Guangdong such as Heaven and Hetou, thus solemnly announcing to the world the majestic spirit of Paradise Inner Cave and the whole town of "having a great cause, connecting western Guangdong, going to the whole province, integrating into the whole country, and looking at the world", which has brought unlimited business opportunities for the development of Paradise Inner Cave, injected new vitality, and become the richest, most exquisite and thickest "golden business card" of Inner Cave.
That's the leap! That's development! What has changed the Paradise Inner Cave Highway is the status quo of digging wells in the depths of thirst, and it has benefited from investing for 30 years, 50 years, or even hundreds of years at a time! This is the real sense of infrastructure! Mr. Liang Shirong and the leadership of Paradise Town did it! It can be described as far-sighted and far-sighted!
If there is a traffic jam in a place, it is not a decision to rush to build a road! When the road is repaired, the repaired road is still congested as the number of vehicles increases. If you try to build another road, you will be mistaken. As a result, there are road repairs and blockages every year. Such a project is a toss at best. The more you toss, the poorer you get!
Only a one-time investment, a hundred years of benefit, is the true sense of saving money, effort, and time. That is to say, a one-way road can only run 30 kilometers per hour, a year later, even if a one-way road is repaired, designed to be 60 kilometers per hour, in fact, when the road is repaired, the number of cars has increased, and the driving is still 30 kilometers per hour, it is still congestion, it is still slow, especially with the increase in manpower, material resources and financial resources year by year, the cost will naturally become larger and larger, and the benefits will be less and less. If it is designed and planned according to 50 years or 100 years, the original one-way road will become a two-way street, or a four-lane road, or even an eight-lane road, and the speed, time, manpower, material resources, and financial resources will be greatly reduced. In this way, the people will naturally get benefits, the taste of the place can be improved, and the happiness index of the people can be climbed!
This is not only a transformative mindset, but also a completely new concept.
Mr. Liang Shirong and the leadership of Paradise Town have done it again!
At the beginning of the lanterns, driving on this wide and flat hard-bottomed road, looking at the entire Neidong Basin, shows a kind of atmosphere, a kind of intensity, a kind of nature and harmony. It not only has a historical atmosphere, a humanistic environment, and regional characteristics, but also a modern atmosphere.
The Paradise Naidong Highway not only achieved such a magnificent historical leap (at that time, many towns and even counties did not have standard hard-bottomed secondary pavement), but also created a miracle that attracted worldwide attention! It's a historic leap! A feat of swallowing mountains and rivers!
By the 90s, the roads in the Naedong Mountains were extending in all directions, the economy was becoming more and more active, and the farmers were getting richer and richer.
Every holiday or leisure time, even after a tiring day, Mr. Liang Shirong always drives on this rural hard-bottomed expressway, with the rustling wheels, with the gentle breeze outside the car window, let his thoughts fly, and let the wind blow his hair.
At that time, he and his family, drivers, and co-workers, silently, always silently, always silent, just drove slowly, watching, tears flashing in his eyes from time to time...... Occasionally, stop the car, come to the side of the road, gently, hold the roadside green tree trunk, or look into the distance, or look back behind you, there is always an indescribable feeling, a kind of inseparable attachment! "Why do I often have tears in my eyes, because I love this land so much!" Ai Qing's poems once again made him remember in his heart, and once again filled him with tears!
Liantang Village, the general's hometown! Beautiful because of the hard bottom of the road, because of the generous donation to the road builders and wonderful!