Chapter 21: Homesickness
One day, the comrades of the county party committee office were immersed in their work, when a man came in from outside: a sturdy figure, wearing a pair of white shorts, leather sandals and a pair of knee-length white socks, and a pair of black glasses on the bridge of his nose. Everyone exchanged speculative glances: Who is this?
The visitor took off his glasses. "I'm Liang Shirong."
Ding Zhitai, deputy director of the Economic Commission, who happened to be present, said: Lao Liang, it turns out that you are still very young.
Liang Shirong smiled and said, "Still young? I'm fifty-three years old, old! ”。
Director Ding said: "I'm not talking about your physical age, I'm saying that your mental age is still very young. ”
There was a time when people liked to sing a song: "Revolutionaries are always young ......" and now there are fewer people singing it, but I still believe that this is the truth.
The falcon will not be tired of flying, the ship will not be tired of the waves, the revolutionary will not be tired of pioneering and starting a business, and those who continue to open up and start a business will always be young.
Since July 1983, Liang Shirong has organized the villagers to develop industry, raised funds to build 5 paper mills and 12 production lines, established Liang's Paper Products Group Co., Ltd., and opened 6 branches in Guangzhou Huadu, HN Yiyang, GZ Guiyang and other places, with a total output of 8.9 million tons, a total output value of 58 million yuan, a tax profit of more than 60 million yuan, and more than 5,000 farmers transferred to the secondary and tertiary industries.
He's satisfied, right?
A communist iron warrior once said, "All personal problems are less permanent than social causes...... Happiness lies in creating a new life. ”
Liang Shirong was not satisfied, he began to move towards a new field and a new life. He wants to set up nurseries, forest farms, and developmental agriculture.
Some people are puzzled: he is a worker, familiar with papermaking, and now he is engaged in agriculture, isn't it risky? In addition, the output value of agricultural and sideline products is low, the income is slow, and there are many factors of change.
And Liang Shirong recognized that this is the call of the party and the government, although the workload is larger and harder, but it will not be wrong to recognize this direction, agriculture needs the support of industry, and this can not only promote the development of the rural economy, but also enhance the vitality of industry itself, he is busy again.
He runs agriculture with a different business policy: high input, high output, small and short, and quick returns. He ran a nursery is tens of thousands of acres, the first year to sell more than 406 million citrus seedlings, grafted more than 3.03 million citrus orange seedlings, the result of the year's investment, that year's income, balance of payments, a slight surplus.
Then, he invested 5 million yuan to set up a forest farm with the village, spent more than 300,000 yuan to build a 6-kilometer-long mountain road to the car, planted 100,000 citrus oranges, 12,000 pineapples, 500 acres of green plums, 500 acres of bananas, 400 acres of Sanhua plums, and 20,000 wetland pines. He also planned to help the farmers in the village plant 6,000 acres of fruits, and gradually build Liantang Village into a civilized, wealthy and beautiful new socialist countryside.
Liang Shirong is always full of various ideals about life like young people, and Liang Shirong is different from some young people in that he has experienced the ups and downs of life, and understands that if he does not struggle, does not create, and does not struggle, the ideal will always be a phantom, so he always keeps opening up and attacking......
and then to SC to establish a paper mill; In response to the call of the party and the state, we should support the large-scale development of the western region with practical actions, and set up paper mills in Xishu and other places......
The eagle began to fight in the sky again, and the ship began to sail again......
In life, there are people who are very young but their hearts are old, and there are also people who are old but their hearts are still very young. Liang Shirong is such a person, he is using the vitality of young people and the energy of young people to develop the career of young people.
The miracle lies in creation. To dare to create miracles, you have to make a hundred times the effort, and you have to overcome countless difficulties!
Difficulties are the litmus test of success. No difficulty, not a challenge at all.
In the third golden autumn of the 90s, the clarion call of "building famous towns and villages" sounded throughout the land of southern Guangdong. Taking advantage of the east wind of "building a famous town and a famous village", Mr. Liang Shirong was elected as the chairman of the Township Sage Council of the Liantang Village Committee.
Some experts and scholars have pointed out that in the 90s of the 20th century, there will be many events in the annals of history in the world, either thunderous or understated. Some economists have insight into the situation and predict the two major keywords that will affect the world - high technology in the United States and urbanization in China.
Modernity is in the ascendant, the countryside is being erased from the horizon, and the idyllic is becoming a fairy tale forever.
Perhaps, the famous sentence of Chateaubriand, a representative writer of early French Romanticism, "I have just left my cradle, the world has changed beyond recognition" is a portrayal of the present.
Born on September 4, 1768, Chateaubriand was born into an old aristocratic family in Saint-Malo, in the department of Ill-les-Villene, Brittany, France. My father was a captain. Separated from his parents at an early age, at the age of three, his father bought back the family's former fidelity in Brittany, Châteaubriand, where Chateaubriand spent the rest of his childhood. Chateaubriand's father was gloomy and taciturn, so Chateaubriand's childhood was spent in an atmosphere of depression and dreness. He has a good relationship with his sister Lucier. When Chateaubriand returned to his native Brittany, he exclaimed: "I have just left my cradle, and the world has changed beyond recognition".
Why did Chateaubriand make such an emotion? It turned out that when Chateaubriand returned to his hometown, he could no longer find "Saint-Malo, the hometown of his childhood". When I was a child, I used to play in the funicular of the ship, but now there are no boats in the harbor, and the mansion where Chateaubriand was born has been turned into a hotel.
Chateaubriand once walked through Saint-Malo during a rainy season when a regatta was taking place, and the streets were full of people beating gongs and drums. At that time, especially for a person like Chateaubriand who loved to enjoy the scenery along the road, even if he was a little sad, it was difficult to understand the sadness of Chateaubriand's "unable to see childhood".
Obviously, this kind of sadness can only be unforgettable when you lose the beautiful scenery of your childhood homeland. Unlike Chateaubriand, in the sadness of modern people, there is not only the melancholy of losing the beautiful scenery of their homeland, but also the shame of losing the ecology of their homeland, and it is also in a peaceful era of warblers singing and dancing.
When Liang Shirong was looking for a site to build the Paradise Paper Group Company, he once lamented that the places of interest in some places had been demolished in the wave of urbanization, and the ancient trees in some villages had been uprooted by tree dealers.
In Liang Shirong's rural memory, the thing that touches his hometown the most is the old tree on the public drying ground in the village. It is tall and straight, tens of meters high, not only giving people high morale, but also running through the hundreds of years of history of this village; At the same time, it is also a kind of warmth, a homecoming for wanderers, just like the trees in Taole Manor in "Gone with the Wind", without trees, no matter how fertile the land is, there is no soul.
Liang Shirong often thinks that just as the obelisk is to the Place de la Concorde and the Eiffel Tower is to Paris, even for aesthetic reasons, the value of this tree to this village is incomparable.
The city comes from the countryside, and only when there is a reference to the countryside can it be described as a city. The wind in the field, fresh, moist, with the fragrance of wild grass, blows very vigorously...... "Chaimen smells the dog barking, and the wind and snow return to the people at night". "If you come from your hometown, you should know about your hometown. In front of the window in the coming day, the cold plum blossoms are not blooming?". "In the Huangmei season, it rains at home, and the grass pond is full of frogs. I don't come for the night and a half, and I knock on the chess pieces and drop the lights." "The small pond by the Wannian Bridge, red and white lotus flowers bloom all over the pond. Go up to the bridge and see the lotus flowers. A gust of wind comes with a gust of incense". "Little fireflies, light the lanterns. Fly to the west, fly to the east. Flying to the side of the river, the little fish is dreaming. Fly into the woods, and the birds are sleeping...... The countryside is a poetic symbol, the root and umbilical cord of our life. If we lose our roots, we will fall into a great confusion about who I am and where I come from.
The wind and clouds of the countryside and the tragedy of the countryside are the eternal source of nourishing the life of our generation. Now, when the anxiety, bitterness, sorrow and longing at that time galloped like lightning and whirlwind, and then quietly disappeared behind the dust of time, what really precipitated in the depths of Liang Shirong's memory was an unforgettable picture of extremely brilliant and gorgeous nature on the desolate and lonely wilderness.
A kind of real, natural and unpretentious nostalgia, often in his dreams and contemplation, completely enveloped and embraced him, and integrated with his body and mind, driving him back to his hometown of Liantang Village.