PS: The second day of the business trip

On the main plane, in a hotel in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia, after thinking for a whole night, Wang Fan, who basically didn't sleep much, knocked on the door of Shi Jinshan's room, and the first thing he said when he entered the house was: "I want to set up a fund, a self-improvement mutual aid fund to help families in real difficulty in the central and western regions!" ”

"Mr. Wang, don't be too impulsive, we were very angry, depressed, and uncomfortable when we heard these stories, but then we heard a lot and watched more, and we became numb, the number of people in this difficult group is too large, and it must be solved by zhèngfu, no matter how big our personal strength is, we can't support it or can't maintain it for a long time!" Feeling that Wang Fan was a little righteous, Shi Jinshan said comfortingly.

"No, I know what you mean, I've been thinking about it all night, it's not an impulsive decision!" Wang Fan shook his head and continued: "Let's not pursue speed, do bad things with good intentions, come little by little, start from the counties and cities where the hometowns of a few of you are located, and first find out how many poor families there are in the counties, towns, townships, and villages, and the standard will be temporarily according to what I said yesterday. Willing to endure hardships and be willing to contribute, the salary is the same as yours, I open 8,000 yuan a month, we raise Lian with a high salary, to solve their worries, but there is one thing to say to them before entering the job to make it clear, since I gave such a high salary, it is to let everyone do practical things in a down-to-earth manner, if there are crooked brains to make evil money, as long as I find out, I will send someone to take the roster from time to time, according to the address to check on the spot, if there is a false report, false report, or embezzlement of materials issued to difficult households,First I will immediately kick him out of the Foundation,Second, the person who introduced him to the Foundation will make a note,When a new employee introduced by a person reaches three people,Later he will lose the right to introduce new people,Finally,I put the words here,Since those people are determined to embezzle this life-saving money and conscience money,I think he is a beast that is not as good as a pig and a dog.,After kicking him out of the Foundation,Someone will take care of them,At least break your legs! Wang Fan said fiercely.

"Mr. Wang, you're still too excited! Such a big undertaking is definitely not a hole that can be filled by millions, tens of millions! Although Shi Jinshan admires Wang Fan's kindness, he knows that it is now a society that only recognizes money and eats people, and he is afraid that Wang Fan will put himself in.

"Don't worry, I'll solve the problem of money, I thought a lot last night, and I also calculated the account, let's only manage the central and western regions for the time being, the eastern region is more economically developed, much stronger than the central and western regions, so that there are more than 3,000 counties in the country, about 2,000 in the central and western regions, I plan to match each county with 5~10 people, with a salary of 8,000 a month, and each province and city with one or two general leaders, of course, these two people are to start from a county first, and then spread out the surrounding other districts and counties, and finally select the most balanced sense of responsibility and ability, His salary is 10,000, and the whole country is appointing three or four general leaders to be responsible for scheduling and coordination between provinces, with a salary of 12,000, there is not much difference in wages at such levels, but at this salary level, there should be no problem in maintaining a well-off life in the central and western regions, so I say this is a conscience project, Jinshan, when you choose people, even if you are comrades-in-arms, you should pay more attention, although we give them enough compensation, but we can't let a mouse poop spoil a pot full of soup! Wang Fan took a puff of cigarette and continued, "As for the financial guarantee, we will develop a few counties in advance, gradually expand to a province, and explore the experience, I think that at the beginning, tens of millions of dollars will be lived, and then it will be promoted, and it is estimated that twenty or thirty billion yuan will be enough in more than a dozen provinces, and I will find a way in the future, and there are many friends outside my country, so there should be no big problem." However, I have some ideas about how to help those families in need, I don't want to give alms directly, I want to do dignified charity with work! ”

"Cash-for-work?" When Shi Jinshan heard the end, he didn't understand a little, so he asked.

"Yes, cash-for-work, I don't want to directly distribute relief materials, a while ago, I read a text message story, to the effect that our people go to Tibetan areas to see children on the pen, sugar, money, resulting in many Tibetan children today openly standing on the road to stop the car to ask for money, I have also seen a report, a Tibetan girl because she has been used to this way, after stopping a car and finding that the other party has no biscuits and candy, directly asked the female passenger to take off the sweater on her body and give it to her, which sounds very rude, But is it really just her fault? In Rwanda, Africa, where the poverty scene is even worse than ours, our country's volunteers got off the truck in Rwanda, and saw a skinny, unclothed black boy running towards them, immediately moved with pity, turned around and went to get the items on the car and walked towards the little boy. As a result, the volunteers of the Stars and Stripes Republic shouted, 'What are you going to do?' Put it down! The volunteers in our country were stunned. I don't know what's going on, aren't we here to do charity work? The Stars and Stripes Republic volunteers leaned down towards the little boy and said, 'Hello, we're coming from far away, there's a lot of stuff in the car, can you help us move it down?' We'll get paid. The little boy in Rwanda hesitated, but many other children came running and the Stars and Stripes volunteers said the same thing to them again. Finally, a daring kid tried to carry a bucket of biscuits down from the car. Immediately, the Stars and Stripes volunteers picked up a quilt and a bucket of biscuits and handed it to him, saying, 'Thank you very much, this is your reward, would anyone else be willing to help?' As a result, the other children rushed to the front, and it didn't take long for the unloading to be completed, and in the end each child received a handout. At this time, another child came, and he was very disappointed to see that there was no goods on the truck to help move. Or did the Stars and Stripes Republic volunteer say to him, 'Look, we're all tired, can you sing a song for us?' Your singing will make us happy! The child sang a local song, and the volunteer gave him a piece of the item and complimented him and said, 'Thank you, you have a wonderful singing voice.' That night, the volunteers of the Republic of the Stars and Stripes apologized to the volunteers in our country and explained why: 'It is not their fault that the children here are trapped in poverty, but if you give them things because you are so easy to make them think that poverty can be used as a means of earning a living for nothing, and therefore even poorer, it is your fault!' Reading this story made me understand that sometimes doing good in a simple and crude way can lead to worse consequences, and that true charity requires wisdom! Our wise men in history also summed up a few words, 'It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish!' ’”

"Then Mr. Wang, what do you mean by cash-for-work?" Shi Jinshan asked.

"We divide the aid recipients into two kinds, one is the old, weak, orphaned and disabled who have lost the ability to work and have no family members and state institutions to manage them, and the other is the poor families who have the ability to work. First, because the state has detailed regulations on the old, weak, orphaned and disabled, we must strictly control it, mainly to help those who are outside the scope of the national subsistence allowance for various reasons, and cannot enjoy the minimum living security, and we will distribute basic daily necessities according to the fixed amount. The second kind has the ability to work, I think we should learn the lessons of the children in Tibetan areas, not directly pay subsidies, but negotiate an oral OEM agreement with them, such as entrusting them to use a stone mill to press out 500 kilograms of millet (also known as millet) we provide them with a stone mill for a month, and we pay them 2 yuan processing fee per kilogram, or entrust them to make 500 handmade candles or soap, which is also a processing fee of 2 yuan per piece. Let them have a fixed labor income of about 1,000 yuan a month, and 12,000 yuan a year, which is much better in the central and western regions than a year of working in the field for a year, only a few thousand yuan of income? In this way, I roughly calculate, 5~10 people in each county, an average of 300~500 people living in the poorest people, it should be okay, you first find comrades-in-arms, set up a shelf, and then let's pilot in your and several other people's hometown districts and counties, find out the experience and shortcomings, and then roll it out one after another! ”

"Boss, if you make up your mind to do this kind of great goodness, I Shi Jinshan admires it from the bottom of my heart! I did it with you, you can rest assured, I will carefully screen people and try my best to ensure the character! When Shi Jinshan heard Wang Fan's plan, he was a little moved, some admired, and some emotional, and replied.

"Then I'll hand it over to a few of you, it's hard work, because I often go abroad, so I can only come back from time to time to see, as for the funds, don't worry, my company has earned enough from the Yanhuang Continent and the people of Yanhuang, and other countries in the world have enjoyed the low-cost dividends of Yanhuang for a long enough time, and they should take out a part to feed them!" Wang Fan thought of the living conditions of the Yanhuang people living at the bottom of the target plane and the main plane, and couldn't help but say with some emotion.

"Mr. Wang, I have a request, can you add the veterans who participated in the Anti-Japanese War? You can rest assured, the number of people is definitely not much, it is estimated that there are only 100 people in a province, and it will not cost a few more money. After all, it has been more than 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, and most of them are in their 90s~" Shi Jinshan said again.

"Anti-Japanese War veteran? Why doesn't the state care, they should all receive state allowances according to the retirement standard? Hearing Shi Jinshan's words, Wang Fan asked with some doubts.

"Most of the people are historical problems, mainly those who participated in the Bald Resistance War during the Anti-Japanese War, and those who were in the enemy camp during the War of Liberation are not within the scope of zhèngfu's protection, they...."Shi Jinshan's voice was a little small, and he said embarrassedly.

"Is there one around here, I remember your hometown is not far from here, right?" Wang Fan asked.

"There is one in my hometown, because I heard them talk about the scene of the Anti-Japanese War when I was a child, so I was deeply impressed, and now his life is more difficult!" Shi Jinshan said.

"Let's go, let's go to the county people's hospital first, then take a look at Zhao Yong, and then drive to your hometown, I want to see it for myself and find out!" Wang Fan decided.

"Okay, I'll go and prepare the car!"

A little after 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Fan and the four of them were in the People's Hospital of Kailu County, Inner Mongolia, and after staying for a while, they drove for more than one hour to Shi Jinshan's hometown, a small village near Huanggang Liangshan in Linxi County, Inner Mongolia.

This is an adobe house with yellow sè, the door is made of white stone bricks, inlaid with a dilapidated door panel, and the red sè couplet is pasted on it, but because of the time, the red sè paper has turned white, but fortunately, the black sè font is still very clear. The courtyard is not large, there is a dilapidated bamboo chair, and there is a stone platform next to it, and a white sè teapot with a missing handle is placed.

"Grandpa Lu, I'm here to see you!" After entering the hospital, Shi Jinshan greeted happily.

"Huh? Shi Wazi, it's you, come back, come, sit down! Grandpa Lu, who was full of white hair and was dressed in a dark blue sè tunic style, greeted loudly.

"Grandpa Lu, you are still so tough, hehe, this is my boss, Mr. Wang, these two are my colleagues, they heard that you are a veteran of the Anti-Japanese War, and they want to come over to meet and listen to you tell some stories about the Anti-Japanese War!" On the way to come, Shi Jinshan preached with a well-thought speech.

"Okay, okay, now there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to listen to my old man's nagging, and tell the story of the past!" Xu was touched by the heart, and Grandpa Lu said with some emotion.

After nearly 2 hours of conversation, Wang Fan generally knew about Grandpa Lu's life.

Grandpa Lu, born in 1920, a rural baby, was captured and joined the army, participated in the Great Wall War of Resistance, and later the battlefield was farther away from his hometown, and in 1937, the Songhu War of Resistance broke out, and the Japanese people soon hit Hangzhou. At this juncture, his unit was ordered to be transferred to the front line of Anhui and Xuancheng. Grandpa Lu, who was still a young man at the beginning, was very clever, and even if he joined the army, under the guidance of exiled students, he relied on self-study to complete basic literacy, arithmetic and other subjects. In the second half of 1937, the 17th phase of the Bald Party Zhongyāng Army Military Academy recruited students from his unit, and Grandpa Lu was admitted as soon as he took the exam. At that time, the invading Japanese army was killing people and setting fires in the land of Yanhuang, and the huge Yanhuang could no longer accommodate a quiet desk. In 1940, Grandpa Lu graduated and was assigned to the Engineer Section of the 63rd Division of the Third War Zone, and became a second lieutenant platoon commander and lieutenant deputy company commander in the army. Immediately, he was transferred to the engineer company of the division headquarters as a captain and company commander. With the transfer, he became a deputy battalion commander in an infantry regiment and a battalion commander at the age of 25. He has successively participated in the Battle of Lanxi in Zhejiang, the Battle of Zhejiang, the Battle of Changde, and the Battle of Changsha. In the past few years, Grandpa Lu has made many meritorious contributions and been injured many times. In the Battle of Changde, the Japanese army plane dived and swept shè, and the bullet pierced the foot of Grandpa Lu, who was lying next to the railway.

Speaking of this, Grandpa Lu said with a smile: "This is a small injury, in the war against the Japanese invaders, such a small injury is not considered an injury." ”

"What's a big injury?" Wang Fan saw the scars on the old man's feet and asked movingly.

"One battle of Zhejiang-Jiangxi hit the left leg during the battle of Lanxi, and the other was hit by an enemy shell in the right foot in Shaoyang, Hunan. I was in a coma for more than ten days, and I almost lost my life, but in retrospect, it can be regarded as a major injury! Grandpa Lu said calmly.

In 1949, in Xiamen, Grandpa Lu was already a regimental commander. He saw that his troops and his luggage had boarded the ship and were about to sail for Taiwan. At this juncture, he remembered his 18-year-old fiancée and the purpose of his life set by his hometown in the early years: "Yan Huang people don't fight Yan Huang people." So, he slipped away quietly. When the whole country was liberated, what Grandpa Lu was thinking about was not to rejoice in overthrowing an outdated society, but to eagerly fulfill his wish: "Returning to the fields, returning to the idyllic wife and children, and the warm life of the Li people." ”

After returning to his hometown, Grandpa Lu had just caught up with the "truthful registration" movement. A bicycle, 50 oceans, all his property, all handed over and truthfully confessed his resume.

Later, Grandpa Lu was sent to study in the school of the Red Party organization in Baotou, Inner Mongolia. Six months later, he returned to his hometown and married in 1950, and his fiancée was 19 years old.

In 1952, Grandpa Lu was still working in the Central South Highway Administration. In 1953, Grandpa Lu was escorted by the army to the farm for labor reform. It was not released until 1965.

In 1966, the New Culture Movement began. There are also four qing, parade streets, and batch dou...... Grandpa Lu said that all the movements in Yanhuang society are related to him. In those years, he very much wanted to go back to the Raugai farm, where there was a deep, walled courtyard covered with barbed wire, and soldiers with guns at the door. There are no casual beatings in labor camps. Moreover, the labor camp can later bring family members, and the wife makes clothes in the labor camp with a monthly salary of 29 yuan. He earns his work every day, and the work he earns can be pledged into cash.

Wang Fan listened to Grandpa Lu's meaning and tone, this labor camp has a bit of a communist society. In comparison, it is more comfortable to be criticized outside, sweep the streets, be insulted, and be beaten by the young general, and it is better to return to the prison of longing.

Grandpa Lu recalled that after the easing of cross-strait relations, several comrades-in-arms of the past returned to their hometowns to pay homage to their relatives. When they were in the army, they still called Grandpa Lu a chief. Now, several of them are retired with the rank of major general.

"Then you don't regret it now?" Wang Fan couldn't help but ask.

"It's false to say that I don't regret it at all, but now that I'm older, I want to open it, at least the Yanhuang people don't beat the Yanhuang people, and I have done it in my life!" Grandpa Lu seemed to think about this question carefully, and then replied very calmly, "I have the opportunity to have time to come and sit here more, I am alone at home, very lonely, and now there are too few young people who are willing to listen to the stories of the past, but if I live for a day, I will talk for a day, nag and nag, I am now speaking for those who have died." ”

A few hours later, Wang Fan put down the condolences he brought, and after coming out of the old man's house, Shi Jinshan said: "He only has 90 yuan of living expenses issued by zhèngfu every month, after you gave me a high salary, I asked my parents to send 500 yuan a month, the old man didn't accept it, and it took a long time to leave 200 yuan, saying that it was enough for his own use, alas~~"

"Jinshan, we have to take care of these people, and we have to manage them well, now there are not many of them still alive, they are also heroes of the country, when the rivers are dry, tears should not forget them. When the tears are dry, Qingshan will not forget them, at least we will provide for them to die! After seeing the living conditions of the Anti-Japanese War veterans with his own eyes, Wang Fan felt a little heavy on his shoulders and said loudly.

ps: I would like to dedicate this chapter to those unsung heroes who participated in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and died.