Chapter 429: Revisiting the Old Place
On the morning of October 20, 1946, Zhang Shusheng and his two wives Lu Yunyan and He Ning boarded a plane to the southwest and flew straight to Yibin Zongchang International Airport in Yibin.
The flight time from Hanjing to Yibin was less than 3 hours at the speed of the spare special plane that Zhang Shusheng was on.
At about 11 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Shusheng took his two wives off the plane, because this was a private inspection, the airport even had only one central guard team to pick up the plane, local officials and even the person in charge of the airport did not know that the imperial head of state had come to Yibin, only when this rare passenger plane landed, the airport person in charge realized that it might be a high-ranking official who came to Yibin.
Subsequently, Zhang Shusheng, who had passed through the disguise, accompanied by plainclothes personnel, left the airport directly through the ordinary channel.
Along the way, he found that Soba Airport has been completely built into a large airport, shouldering about one-third of the air throughput of the entire southwest region, with a large flow of people, the number of planes on the apron is not less than that of ordinary international airports, and the tall and spacious terminal building is also quite imposing.
He couldn't help but secretly say in his heart that after all, the entire Yibin was taken care of by the golden sign of his hometown, and he got a lot of policy preferences. However, there is no way to do this, in the empire, if the chairman's hometown is more backward than most places, even if the high-ranking officials of the empire are worthy of the chairman, they will feel sorry for the people.
Out of the airport, the group took a light rail car, which led directly to Yibin City.
Along the way, Zhang Shusheng looked at the strange and slightly familiar scene outside the window, and his heart was full of flavors.
The Minjiang River in front of you, the bridge, and the steamer with a long whistle driving on the rough river. Wuliangye across the river, the towering Zhenwu Mountain and Cuiping Mountain in the city...... Everything was so familiar, and the memories before the time trip seemed clearer than anything else.
According to the plan, there were only Zhang Shusheng and his two wives on this trip, and several casual attendants, and the itinerary was also very simple, the first stop was Yibin.
Zhang Shusheng and his entourage first went to climb Cuiping Mountain, took the cable car up, and easily climbed up, overlooking the entire city and the huge Xuzhou People's Square, and then went to Zhang Shusheng's hometown, a certain town.
It was a little more than an hour's drive, and along the way, his two wives also asked him some questions from time to time, mostly about his hometown.
Soon it was his true homeland. The town where the three rivers meet and there is an ancient atmosphere everywhere is half an ancient town that has been strictly preserved according to the requirements, and half is a very developed modern town, and the development of the whole town is very good.
In the process of visiting the entire town, Lu Yunyan and He Ning both asked many questions, and with Zhang Shusheng's IQ and EQ, they were almost all easy to handle. Based on the memories before the crossing, with some modifications of the atmosphere of the times, it seems to be about Zhang Shusheng's life here thirty or forty years ago, but in fact, it is about Zhang Shusheng's growth story in the later era.
Ten minutes by car, a special highway leads to the village where Zhang Shusheng's former residence is located.
According to research, there is indeed a family surnamed Zhang in this village, and not only that, but there are many people surnamed Zhang and Tang in this village. The family was originally a family of three many years ago, but then suddenly moved away, and the villagers even remembered that the child's name was Zhang Shusheng.
This kind of strange thing, Zhang Shusheng secretly guessed that it might be the hands and feet of the dream machine, after all, with the ability of the dream machine, this little trick is too easy.
Fortunately, the dream machine didn't make up those 'relatives' for him, which saved a lot of trouble.
Back in the small village, Zhang Shusheng really felt familiar, as if a hundred years of time and space overlapped together.
It's just that he is calm in his heart, without any apprehension, and there is no fear that any secret may be discovered, and there is only one feeling in his heart, that is, nostalgia and the feeling of things being wrong.
The mountains, the cultivated fields, the paddy fields, and the peaks everywhere seem to be able to find contrasts in memory. It's a little different from the old memories decades later, but it's still pretty much the same.
Zhang Shusheng's family of three visited the village as tourists.
Since this is the location of the former residence of the head of state, it has received great policy care, and Zhang Shusheng even specially 'visited' the former residence of the so-called chairman of the National People's Congress.
He was surprised to find that the location of this former residence was actually the real old house of his previous life, and even the shape and layout were similar. There are also a lot of tourists.
The whole village, the more he looked at it, the more it looked like the original memory, for which he was quite grateful.
"Old man, you're fine."
Zhang Shusheng made a special trip to meet an old man surnamed Zhang in the village, who is also the village chief and patriarch surnamed Zhang. In fact, this old man was his great-grandfather.
"Good good ......"
The old man had a sincere smile on his smiling face, He Ning and Lu Yunyan were even more surprised, this old man was very similar to her husband, but think about it, this was originally the Zhang family, and the old man in front of him was her husband's clan, so he was naturally a little similar.
"Who are you in the family?"
After talking from time to time, a teenage young man came back on a bicycle, Zhang Shusheng just glanced at it and was shocked, yes, that is his grandfather in his original history, of course, to be exact, that is his grandfather...... This body has traveled back, and has not been reincarnated, it is his grandfather who is still his grandfather, although he can't recognize each other on the surface, but it does not prevent Zhang Shusheng from taking care of him. In the past, it was because he didn't want to affect their lives, but now, he has a decision in his heart.
After living in this village for three days, Zhang Shusheng fabricated the identity of a family member surnamed Zhang who was a root-seeking wanderer, and finally left a strange equity transfer letter to the teenage young man Zhang Chengfu, who was studying at the town's national key high school.
Later, when Zhang Chengfu graduated from Huaxia University and entered the political axe department, the talent of Shusheng Company approached him, claiming that he held a 1% perpetual genetic stake in Shusheng Company that someone else had transferred to him. Suddenly, Zhang Chengfu became one of the richest people in the entire empire. However, Zhang Chengfu did not squander it when he was sitting on huge wealth, but actively engaged in politics, and his descendants even took advantage of this to establish an interstellar group, which was eventually attached to the Shusheng group and enjoyed wealth forever. It is worth mentioning that there are many people in politics and the army among the descendants of the Zhang family, and the Zhang family and the imperial family have also formed a lot of fate, but there is no descendant named Zhang Shusheng.
Going home this time, Zhang Shusheng finally let go of the complicated emotions in his heart, those 'relatives' let them enjoy the wealth forever, and they can't do more, fate is so strange.
The population situation here is also similar to his impression, a family has as few as one or two or two or three children, and as many as seven or eight children, which is a relatively normal situation, and can afford to raise children.
In the following days, Zhang Shusheng went to Chengdu, Yucheng and Kunming one after another.
In Kunming, Zhang Shusheng revisited the original southwest political axe site and the former residence of the head of state, which was listed as a protected area.
For Kunming's impression, he is actually not deep, at most it is only a passing scene. He lives in a simple place, and his memory of Kunming is not as deep as Yibin.
Subsequently, Zhang Shusheng and his entourage took a car and came to Huize County through the highway.
The old town of Huize County is very well preserved, and it has been built into a small city with the style of the Republic of China by quite wise officials, and the new city has developed on the other side of the old city.
"When I was poor and white, I used it as a watch here."
The entourage was staying far away, Zhang Shusheng pointed to the old pawnshop with the sign of 'Come to Qingdang' on the opposite side, turned to the two wives and said, there was also a staff member of the Special Intelligence Department who was responsible for the introduction.
"Yes, Chairman of the Committee, the boss here has always refused to transfer the shop, saying that it is a century-old pawnshop, and he also did your business back then, and he has always been talked about by the shopkeeper Wang Laiqing."
Zhang Shusheng took out two watches from his bag and walked into this antique old pawnshop.
"Yo, it's rare to see such a well-made old watch! How much money are you going to make? ”
Zhang Shusheng took out the goods from more than 30 years ago, and a master in the store immediately thought that this thing was good.
Zhang Shusheng waved the watch in his hand and said undoubtedly: "Sell two hundred alone, five hundred for three, and if you don't sell it, I'll go to the one in the west of the city." ”
"Five hundred !!" The master of the pawnshop couldn't help but exclaim, now the world is full of exquisite mechanical watches, except for particularly good Shusheng brand watches, few watches are sold at that high price, let alone used for it.
Zhang Shusheng smiled, just raised the two watches in his hand, sighed and put them away, this sentence was what he said back then, and his memory is still fresh, but the person in front of him is no longer the master of the year. At the moment, I didn't say much, I turned around and was about to leave, and I didn't forget to ridicule the words of the year, "Let's go, let's go to the Baolai Ju in the west of the city to try our luck, maybe there are thousands of people who buy it." ”
The pawnshop master was inexplicable by what he said, hasn't Baolaiju been acquired by Laiqingdang for more than 20 years? That's one of the two things that the old shopkeeper is most proud of. One thing was that he was in the chairman's business, and the other was that he defeated his lifelong enemy. The guest's strange words struck him as familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard them.
"Guest, stay here!!"
A loud old man's voice sounded in Zhang Shusheng.
Zhang Shusheng turned around and saw an old man walking from behind with his arms.
"Honorable guest, can your watch be old?"
The old man was in his seventies, and he was in good spirits, so he stared at Zhang Shusheng a few times rather strangely and said.
"No problem."
Zhang Shusheng smiled and handed him the watch.
From time to time, the boss raised his head tremblingly, looked at Zhang Shusheng, and said, "You, you... You're bullying me, I'm dizzy, this table we came to celebrate when we wanted, and the old price was 500!! ”
"Hahaha, old man, this watch is given to you this time!" Zhang Shusheng laughed and said, he already knew that this old man with extremely rich life experience recognized him.
The old man trembled and took out a small red bag from his arms, took out a watch, exactly the same as the one in Zhang Shusheng's hand, and the old man said with a smile, "Look, this one is here, and there are two more that were dedicated to the Hanjing Museum in the early years." ”
So, the old man kept Zhang Shusheng to drink an afternoon tea in the back hall, the pawnshop owner full of life wisdom did not expect that he could meet Zhang Shusheng before the end of his life, although he knew that this young man who was down-and-out to sell watches is now above hundreds of millions of people, but for the old man who is used to seeing life, the old feelings are in a cup of tea.
After leaving the poor old county town of Huize that was not much different from thirty years ago, Zhang Shusheng and his party finally returned to Lishuping. Today, the location of the political axe of the Dongchuan District Special Economic Zone is in the new town of Lishuping, and the development of Huize is also very good, and Lishuping has developed into a modern city.
Like Huize, the old town of Lishuping has also been quite protected, but those factories have become modern factories, and most of the garment factories, pharmaceutical factories, automobile factories, and military factories have disappeared, replaced by modern factories, neatly planned, roaring machines, and the workers are no longer farmers in the townships, but professional workers.
The entire Ishuping city has been established and is called Ishuping City. The city has a population of one million, more than half of whom are workers, and it can be called an industrial city. It's just that there is not much pollution here, and most of them are some high-tech industries, precision machining, etc.
Thirty years have passed, in addition to retaining high-tech industry, precision machining, heavy industry, there are some research institutes, but they are all affiliated with various factories or colleges and universities, most of the high-tech research institutes have moved away, a small number are still in Dongchuan, most of them have moved to the Chengdu-Chongqing area in the southwest, some have gone to Guangxi, and some have been in Kunming and other places.
Lishuping drove Huize, Huize drove Dongchuan District, Dongchuan District drove the southwest, and the southwest drove the whole country.
In the entire Lishuping New Town, Zhang Shusheng has no impression at all, but has only seen it on TV or pictures.
It was only in the old town of Lishuping that he found many memories. Thirty years ago, I stayed here for many years, and now I revisit the old place, and I am naturally very touched.
It's just a pity that even with Zhang Shusheng's memory, it is difficult to meet an acquaintance on the old street, you know, with his anti-heaven memory, as long as he has seen it once, even if it has changed in more than 20 years, he can vaguely recognize it.
However, after walking on the old streets of Lishuping for most of the day, he recognized a few familiar people from the past, and more people with a little impression, but much younger than the people in his memory, are either sons or grandchildren.
"At that time, we built a stage here...... The lawn dam over there was there when we first killed pigs and divided meat...... Over there is a training ground for the militias...... That's the shooting range over there...... That old house is a former textile mill......"
Along the way, Zhang Shusheng saw too many familiar buildings, which people were not familiar with, but the buildings could still be preserved.
"That was the former residence of the Sun family, and now it is also a protection unit!"
When Zhang Shusheng came to the former residence of Sun Changqing's family, he visited it very seriously, here, there is also a strong memory, although it has been classified as a cultural relics protection unit, but everything still has memories.
During this period, Zhang Shusheng carefully inspected the situation here and found that it was similar to other places, almost every household had more than one child, and the so-called problem of multiple children did not appear, and under the free medical care and education system, it was not a problem to raise these children to grow up, let alone eat and dress warmly, and there was no big problem.
On the third day, the Dongchuan Special Administrative Region Political Axe and the Lishuping Municipal Axe received a notice to know that His Majesty Zhang Shusheng had actually 'gone home'.
Knowing that Zhang Shusheng had returned to Dongchuan District and returned to Lishuping, there was an unprecedented carnival atmosphere in the entire Lishuping City, and everyone was running to tell each other, saying that His Majesty was back, and the head of the militia group of the year was back.
Red lanterns were hung high, new couplets were pasted, and even firecrackers were set off, and millions of people welcomed the chairman in various forms.
On the fourth day, Zhang Shusheng made an important speech at the original militia training ground in Lishuping, announcing that the empire would officially implement the population and fertility stimulus policy, among which the most important point was the population subsidy, if a family has more than a few children, how much additional land can be obtained, or the corresponding birth subsidy.
(To be continued)