Xiang Yimin replied to Qiu Feng with a quasi-letter, saying that when the Oriental Press would publish Jin Tong's poetry collection, "Pinbao" would publish "Notes on the Great Wilderness", which could probably be called joint marketing. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

A few days later, it was the Laba Festival, and he received a reply from Qiu Feng, saying that the Spring Festival was approaching, and many workers went home for the New Year, and the efficiency of the printing house could not be improved.

Xiang Yimin was not in a hurry about this, but was more concerned about the other thing mentioned in the letter.

The two exchanged letters, often chatting about current affairs and news in Dijing and Songjiang. Qiu Feng wrote in the letter: Recently, it has been inexplicably rumored in Beijing that the Department of Transportation has canceled the new tram route, and the rickshaw drivers' strike has been delayed. Now I hear that the so-called cancellation is just a rumor. The Coachmen's Guild was furious, but the New Year was approaching, and when it was time for the poor to return to their hometowns to reunite, the strike could not be organized, and a crisis was resolved.

Xiang Yimin immediately replied to him.

"Brother Jin Ying:

See the words like meeting.

I received your letter yesterday and read it urgently, and the publication of "Notes" is so decided.

Only the strike of rickshaw drivers in Beijing has not come to an end, and it is quite interesting to think about it.

First, there were unscrupulous businessmen who moved the trouble, and then the coachmen's union wanted to burn the tram, but the rumors came out and the strike stopped, delaying the time until the end of the year, and quietly making the Beijing division peaceful. The skillful use of skills is like the handwriting of the Military Intelligence Agency.

City trams and buses are the new profit source for the royal consortium, and it is not surprising that the Military Intelligence Agency escorts them. I'm afraid that after the New Year's Festival, the bosses of the "Human Leasing Association" will be unlucky.

Although the coachmen's strike did not come to fruition, it called the younger brother to remember the Luddite movement in England. The destruction of machines and the opposition to the productivity progress brought about by new science and technology are quite similar.

Last year, my brother wrote to me about the fight between the water master in Beijing and the employees of the water company, and my brother also met several times in Songjiang.

The water plant continued to expand, and the coolies who carried and transported water for the industry lost their livelihood day by day, and the contradictions were irreconcilable, so they had to fight.

Tap water is clean, two convenient, is a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people, although the water man is pitiful, the water plant can not be expanded.

Brother saw the newspaper said that the Jingcheng Water Plant eventually gave unemployed watermen a subsidy of 20 yuan per household, but Songjiang did not hear of any relief, and it is rumored that some watermen threatened to poison the waterworks, and were arrested by the police, but I don't know whether it is true or not.

In today's Daqi, everything must be based on the "second industrial revolution" as the unquestionable political correctness, and anyone who blocks machine production will naturally lose justice in technological progress.

In my opinion, there is no reason to ignore such protest movements. Because the power of the working class is hidden in the destruction of machines, in riots, in strikes.

The demands to hinder technological progress may be wrong, but the organizational and operational skills exercised in the movement are the real magic weapons for the workers to compete with the capitalists. Anyone who aspires to promote social progress should not ignore it, but do its utmost to guide it back to the correct line of struggle.

A little shallow, thoughtful, please brother axe.

Best wishes for a safe spring.

Yimin. ”

When Qiu Feng received the letter, he naturally pondered and wrote back to discuss it. Letters and letters exchanged for a while, chatting hotly, and soon it was Chinese New Year's Eve.

Qiu Feng sent money to his hometown and did not go back. Because of the "mistakenly arrested" by the Military Intelligence Bureau, a three-view conflict broke out between him and his father, and the father and son had serious differences, and they did not go home so that the family could celebrate the New Year quietly.

January 30 is the first day of the Xinhai year. In another world, a revolution broke out in this year that changed the fate of modern China, and the Great Qi Empire probably did not have the Xinhai Revolution.

The Spring Festival in the slums is a bit more deserted than usual. Qiu Feng paid for a lot of meat and fruits, and invited neighbors who did not return to their hometowns to spend the festival together, adding a bit of vitality to the dilapidated alley.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Dongfang Se sent people to look for him. Qiu Feng arrived at the Oriental Mansion in Nanluoguxiang, got a face-to-face lecture from the boss of Dongfang, got a backpack and a ticket, and stepped on the train to the north that night.

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Qiu Feng joined the seventh detachment of the Northeast Geological Survey under the Xingliao Group in Shengshan County.

The twenty-man prospecting team is about to enter the wasteland to explore a possible coal mine.

The New Year's Eve was not peaceful, and was called to work, and the seven detachments were holding back a fire from top to bottom.

Due to the inconvenience of transportation, they can only enter and exit in winter while the ice is thick, and the institute strictly ordered them to confirm the authenticity of the coal mine before the ice melts, find out the scope and reserves of the coal area, and return in time. If you drag it out for a long time, you will be trapped in the swamp!

But the director also said that this task was personally explained by the prince of Xu Guogong, and he knew that everyone was working hard. Therefore, after completing the task, the prince will give another generous bonus.

The money stimulus finally lifted the spirits of the players. The team set off from Heihe City, the capital of Aihui Prefecture, and brought an oil bottle in Shengshan on the seventh day of the first month, passed through the Xunhe River, crossed Xinlu Township, and arrived at the former site of the Fifth Pioneer Group.

Due to the abolition of the Pioneer Regiment, the prisoners were transferred to other prisons or reclamation regiments, and the abandoned camp where the people went to empty houses became the last recuperation point for the seven detachments before entering the wasteland.

The captain Ji Tianwei is a native of Qingdao, born in poverty, and signed a contract with Xingliao Group to enter Nanyang Technological University as a commissioned trainee; After graduating ten years ago, it was logical to enter the geological survey system of Xingliao Group. Later, because of his conscientiousness and responsibility, and his professional skills were exquisite, he became the backbone of the Northeast Institute and was promoted to the head of the detachment three years ago.

Captain Ji didn't have a good impression of this mission at all.

In general, confirming the open-pit coal mine reported by the exiles is not a good errand. There is no credit for digging out the mine; can't find out, don't talk about it in vain, and be scolded as an incompetent waste by the stupid director. This time it was said that there was another big bonus, and the ghost knows how many dollars it could give!

But after Xinlu Township called the pavilion chief Ashku to accompany him, Captain Ji felt a lot more relieved.

The rough deer man told him that the full range of exiles was a group of schoolchildren, young and capable. They say there is a coal mine, then there must be!

Captain Ji is not as superstitious as Ashku, but he also knows what kind of skills those exiles have.

Because Ashku told him that it was the "China Liberation Front" that reported the coal mines.

That's a group with professional knowledge and skills, and efficient execution! When the three major cases were the hottest, Captain Ji read every tracking report in the newspaper!

He remembered the names of those people, the schools they graduated from, the majors they studied, and one of them, Lin Qian, was also a member of the United Geographical Society. Now that she's there, the news is pretty reliable.

During the night when the Fifth Regiment was camping, Captain Ji couldn't sleep and pondered back and forth.

If the mine is confirmed, a road will be built that crosses the swamp and can be passed all year round. It doesn't matter how to determine the route, drainage and dredging, and to transport coal, you must use heavy vehicles, or at least muddy gravel roads.

The mountain road from Xunhe Town to Xinlu Township is too narrow and needs to be widened.

The bridges across the Xun River and the Rapids River must also be built!

This project is too big, and Xingliao Group will never bear the cost alone, and will definitely find the government to pay for it.

Building bridges and paving roads is the responsibility of the government, isn't it?

But Xunhe is a newly established agricultural county, and it cannot come up with such a large amount of money financially. To solve the traffic problem, unless the regional government or even the provincial government allocates funds. In this way, even with the energy of Xingliao Group, it is not easy to achieve the goal. After all, it is the era of constitutional democracy, and there is supervision.

I don't know how many parliamentarians will be bribed, and how many dirty political deals will be made in private......

The more he pondered, the more discouraged he became, and finally he fell asleep and simply put on his clothes and went out to see the stars. When I walked into the regiment headquarters, I saw that under the bare flagpole, there was already a person smoking a cigarette and looking around from time to time.

The young man's name is Qiu Feng, and he was forced into the team by the director, saying that he was a person from the Imperial Capital Printing House, and he went to the Northern Wilderness to collect style......

Pick the wind, hum ...... What about liars! Captain Ji would rather believe that he went hunting!

Along the way, Qiu Feng spoke cautiously, but intentionally or unintentionally, he still couldn't help but show a little favor for the exile. Captain Ji seriously doubts his identity and purpose!

The two looked at each other in the cold night and nodded.

Qiu Feng took out a pack of "Everyone's Cigarettes", took out one and handed it to Ji Tianwei. Captain Ji hesitated for a second before taking it.

Qiu Feng slid a match and wanted to light a fire for him, but was repeatedly blown out by the night wind.

Ji Tianwei hurriedly waved his hand, took out a square metal gadget from his pocket, shook off the one-piece top cover, rubbed the roller, and the flames rose instantly. The wind shook the flames, but could not extinguish it.

Qiu Fengqi said: "What is this?" ”

"Wick lighter! Xingliao Group's new gadgets have not yet been put on sale, and the trial products were sent to us as benefits. Better than matches! ”

The two smoked cigarettes, studied for a while why this miraculous technological product can prevent wind, discussed whether benzene fuel would affect the taste of tobacco, and finally argued which company's cigarette pictures are the most worthy of collection - Qiu Feng believes that it is a hundred sets of cards of everyone's "Fengshen List", with exquisite painting skills and exquisite printing; Ji Tianwei believes that it is a three-star brand of "Dream of Red Mansions" set of cards, it is said that there are more than 700 cards in total, and no one has collected them all yet.

The two chatted for a while, and the relationship became much closer. Captain Ji talked about the transportation of coal mines, worried about the country and the people. Qiu Feng laughed, saying that he was blinded by a leaf, and the authorities were fascinated.

"Why do you have to go to Xinlu Township? When I look at the map, the lake area to the northeast seems to be ......."

"There are swamps between the lakes!" Ji Tianwei interrupted, "Even the deer hunters said that few of the hunters who went in could come back. ”

"That's right! If few people can come back, it means that someone has returned. As long as you spend a little more money and hire more guides, you will definitely be able to get out of the way! ”

"So...... It's not unreasonable! ”

Qiu Feng squatted down, used a small wooden stick to draw a simple map on the snow, and pointed to the rivers and mountains: "Brother, you see, if you build a road from the Northeast Lake District, the work of swamp drainage can be reduced by half!" And it's all flat land, easy to build, unlike the section from Xunhe Town to Xinlu that leans against the mountain wall, and I don't know how much explosives are used to widen it! The best thing is that you don't need to cross the rapids, just build a bridge across the Sun, or don't have a bridge, just build the ferry and transport it by boat! ”

Captain Ji nodded again and again and took a few puffs.

Early the next morning, the team departed. Ten horse-drawn plows carried prospecting crews and a large amount of exploration equipment.

When the exiles entered Mangai, they got lost because they were unfamiliar with the geography and the bad weather, and they tossed for two or three days. This time, the prospecting team had a guide from Insight and Ashku, and found the exile very smoothly.

At sunset, the team members approaching the camp were shocked.

They originally thought that the Huajie people lived in a simple camp with only a few holes, but what they saw was a blue brick house and a stable granary!

The smoke curls around a low wall, like a mature small colony.

No one would have imagined that it would take more than 20 young people only one year to build.

There are no real doors in the rammed earth brick wall, and there are only two thick wooden panels at the gap. The planks were nailed by several thick iron nails, and the surface was covered with bark, and there were no deadbolts.

After all, as long as you prevent wild beasts from entering the wilderness, you don't need that thing.

Captain Ji just wanted to call the door, but Ashku had already taken the lead, moved the baffle, and shouted with a grin: "Jin Tong boy! Wu Rui! Look who's coming! ”

The exile Hula ran out of the cafeteria.

They were preparing for dinner when they heard that a guest was coming, and they were very excited. After all, most people haven't left Mangai for a year, and they haven't seen anyone alive.

Captain Ji didn't see it, and waved his hand directly, "Everyone enters the camp!" ”

A handful of men and horses poured into the camp in a mess.

Ashku hurriedly introduced Wu Rui to this group of uninvited guests. When Wu Rui learned that it was the prospecting team, he immediately knew in his heart.

It seems that Dongfang Se has colluded with Xu Guogong.

He instructed the exiles to unload the carts, feed the horses, and welcome them into the large dining hall.

Because of the lack of food preparation, the prospecting team opened the canned meat and cooked the field dry food into porridge and put them on the table one by one.

At the dinner, Wu Rui addressed the guests on behalf of the exiles, welcoming the prospecting team to stay in the camp during their stay in Mangai. But because there are not enough bedrooms, they can only lay on the floor in the canteen. However, the canteen is spacious enough and has floor heating, so it is still very comfortable to live in.

Captain Ji expressed his gratitude for this and said with relief: "We are engaged in exploration, and it is common to sleep in the open all year round, and live in tents in the wild. There is a house with a floor shop, which is an unexpected joy, and there is also floor heating! It's a heavenly treat! ”

He said it so open-mindedly and humorously that the people on both sides of the table laughed.

Dinner ended in a convivial atmosphere. The crowd cleaned up the utensils, and the exiles left the cafeteria. The prospecting team members moved the tables and chairs, cleaned the ground, and arranged the bedding to prepare for rest.

Qiu Feng grabbed his duffel bag at this time, sneaked out, and ran into the boys' dormitory. As soon as he entered the door, Wu Rui, who had been waiting for a long time, gave him a warm hug.

Qiu Feng slapped him the back a few times, and said emotionally: "Brother Shuangming, long time no see, long time no see!" ”

"yes, long time no see! Brother Kim Young! Wu Rui couldn't say a thousand words for a while.

Qiu Feng let go of him and hugged Lu Tianxi, Mao Zhigang, Chen Zhenxiu and others one by one, "Long time no see!" ”

"Long time no see!"

"Long time no see!"

……

The thick curtain was opened, and another person entered the house, but it was Lin Qian.

Ignoring Qiu Feng's stunned face, she also came to hug. But she quickly pushed the other party away, after all, it was just a moment of excitement, but it wasn't that the two had any old feelings.

"Tell me how Dongfang sent you." She gets straight to the point.

Qiu Feng looked at the only stranger in the room, "This is our great poet Jin Tong, right?" ”

"It's me." Jin Tong approached and shook hands with him.

Qiu Feng pulled him in front of him and gave Jin Tong, who was caught off guard, a powerful hug.

Everyone burst out laughing.

It's always so nice to be reunited.