Minister Zhang smiled and said to Wang Xiangjun: "It can only be said that a small number of people in the gold mine are very rich, such as the managers, bosses and foremen of the mining area, most of them have houses in the city, and most of the people who live here are part-time workers and small business people. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"The gold must be cheap here, right?" Wang Xiangjun then asked.

Before Minister Zhang could answer Wang Xiangjun's question, Zheng Shaowei glanced back at Wang Xiangjun, as if to blame him for not asking this question at this time.

On the mountainside above the living quarters of the mine, the mouths of several mines are clearly visible, like the mouths of a giant beast, eating the energetic workers and spitting out the exhausted ones.

There are many women here, most of them family members of migrant workers, who have nothing to do all day long, watching the red sun rise in the morning and the sunset in the evening, feeding the boring days with little hope. There are more children here, and some women have one in their arms, one in their hands, and one behind them, as if they want to add some chaos to the crowded world. Perhaps they don't think so, that the man produces ore at the top, the woman gives birth to the child at the bottom, and that the husband and wife are engaged in a normal labor competition.

Zheng Shaowei and his entourage walked through the alleys in the middle of the houses in the living quarters, and piles of women stared at them, pointing and pointing, all of them genius critics. A few half-grown children followed the buttocks of these plainclothes soldiers to watch the excitement. The children are supposed to be on summer vacation, their naked bodies are chocolate-colored by the sun, and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of water in this place, but the thick soil on their bodies seems to be able to sow seeds on them to grow crops.

Several off-duty workers with cigarettes in their mouths also stood by to watch the rarity, and one person speculated: "These people came in military vehicles, and they may all be officers." ”

"Of course, and it's still a senior official, I think at least they are all company commanders." The other man continued with a pretense of expertise.

Outside the crowded house, all kinds of clothes were swept and sunburned, like flags of all nations outside the venue of the United Nations General Assembly. On the doors and windows of the houses on the side of the road, the words "hairdressing" and "hair washing" keep appearing, and the red lips of the woman leaning on the door are smeared like chickens*** are happy with passers-by who know and don't know, and people have to sadly associate them with the word "selling laughter".

In the middle of this bungalow, there is a beautiful small courtyard with several neat buildings in the yard, which Minister Zhang said is the office of the gold mine management office. The strong smell of alcohol wafted from the small courtyard, and in the shadow of the gable of the house, several shirtless people were squatting on chairs to guess the order, and a few workers outside the courtyard were wielding shovels and filling the potholes on the side of the road with gravel. Sweating profusely on one side and sweating profusely on the other, the hot weather made them pay the same price.

Through the web woven by people with strange eyes, Zheng Shaowei and his party came to the hillside, where the unobstructed sunlight was baking everything on the earth like a flame.

Minister Zhang brought everyone to the bottom of an old mulberry tree, and the sunlight immediately shot countless golden arrows through the branches and leaves of the tree, and although it was in the shadows, the people under the tree did not feel much coolness.

Wang Xiangjun was the last to come over with his stomach up, Fan Jun looked at his disheveled and sweaty embarrassed appearance, put his mouth to his ear and whispered, "The cream popsicle is starting to melt!" ”

Wang Xiangjun glanced at Fan Jun unhappily, gasped, and said intermittently: "This sunshine is like a flame, why didn't you ------------ light this dry firewood on your body." ”

Zheng Shaowei felt that the terrain of the military region was well chosen, and although he did not go into the ditch to take a closer look, the place as far as his vision could already meet the needs of the planned area of the base. He looked back at the gold mines, and the uneasy emotions in his heart gently tugged at his brow.

"We haven't looked at this point in detail yet, so let's talk about your initial impression first." Zheng Shaowei said to several other people who came with him.

"I'm in business, and my views may be one-sided." Fan Jun spoke first, "The geographical location and natural environment are important conditions to be considered in the new construction project, and the comrades of the military region have chosen this point in these respects. However, the social situation is also a factor that cannot be ignored in the selection of new projects, and the existence of mining areas should become one of the main issues affecting our decision. ”

Wang Xiangjun had already relieved himself, and then Fan Jun said: "I don't deny that the influence of social conditions exists objectively, but we can't exaggerate its role too much. After the project was discontinued, the remaining personnel of the unit rented out their spare houses, but because of the lax management, it became a den for lawless elements in society to make and sell counterfeit goods. And on the flowery Nanjing Road in Shanghai, there is a 'good eight companies'. ”

"We are not deliberately testing the troops now, but we should minimize the impact of bad atmosphere on the troops, we cannot underestimate the role of the environment, some people may not be able to withstand the temptation, the same is true for the military, there was not a Meng Mu three migrations in ancient China! Overall, I don't think this is ideal. Fan Jun's emotions were a little excited, and the pace of his speech was a little faster than usual.

"The reason why we have prepared a second plan is also to take this problem into account, if the location of the new base is chosen here, it may be more difficult to manage the troops in the future." Minister Zhang agreed with what Fan Jun said.

Xiao Qian watched others speak, he didn't say anything, when he was studying military terrain at the military academy, he was able to accurately follow the azimuth, but in actual work, he had not learned how to bypass the obstacles on the way forward.

Zheng Shaowei and Minister Zhang agreed that the time was not too early, and that they would go to the troops for dinner first, and then go to the second point pre-selected by the military region in the afternoon.

On the way to the army barracks, Zheng Shaowei's thoughts fluctuated.

He remembered an incident more than 20 years ago when he was a company commander in a base service company.

His service company was responsible for seven posts at the time, one of which happened to be on the tuyere in the northwest of the work area, where several soldiers suffered frostbite every year.

One day, he approached the director of the base and asked that the post be moved fifteen meters down and set up in a slightly sheltered area.

"What?" The base director listened to his words, his eyes widened, and a megaphone seemed to be installed in his throat, "Move position?" You think you're asking for the people's lives, you think you're the only one who cares about the soldiers! ”

After the director yelled for a while, he looked at the frightened company commander, slowed down his voice and said: "When I was the commander of the service company at this base, there was a very likable communicator in the company headquarters, and on the second day after he went down to duty in the squad, he froze off one ear. Experienced veterans know that when they come down from the sentry post on a snowy day, they must first rub their frozen ears red with snow before entering the house, and the correspondent does not understand this, so after coming down from the sentry post, he goes directly into the dormitory with a coal stove, and the result is ------"

The director choked up when he said this.

"Therefore, I know better than you how many soldiers can frostbite that post every year." The director paused, then said, "I also know that moving this post a little further down can reduce a lot of frostbite, but I don't have the authority to do this, because only this position can avoid the blind spot in observation, which is a position that requires us to freeze to death and stand against the wind!" ”

So what now? Zheng Shaowei sat in the car, thinking in his heart that if it was needed in wartime, he could still let the cadres and soldiers blow up the bunkers, block the gun holes, and face the challenge of life and death; Of course, in peacetime, they can also live in the downtown area, wear incense, and accept the test of bright lights. If both of these situations can be avoided, they should be given more time and energy to devote to their normal training and cultural learning. Nowadays, there are indeed very few real fights, but there are indeed too many temptations and traps in society.

He was ready to deny the location of the base pre-selected by the military region that he had seen this morning, but instead pinned his hopes on the second point of their pre-selection.

(End of this article) (To be continued.) )