In July, Yibin, Sichuan, has just experienced the baptism of the rainy season, the whole city seems very clean, refreshing air, benefiting from the rushing Minjiang River next to it, the emerging urban area is immersed in a humidity.

Yibin is one of the cities that began to focus on construction in the southwest period, this city is located in the embrace of the Minjiang River and the Jinsha River, one is the hometown of Zhang Shu in his previous life, and the other is one of the main roads connecting Sichuan and Yunnan.

During the Southwestern period, the city developed with great success. In addition to the modernization of the new urban area, the construction of new low-pollution industries, the establishment of scientific research centers, and the construction of several universities are all signs of its take-off.

The construction of Yibin will be based on water, land and air transportation and science and technology education. In the early stages of construction, the straight-line design of the Chengyi Railway was slowly extended to Kunming, similar to the later Inner Kunming Railway, but it became a larger turnaround station. The travel distance between Chengyi is also shorter, and the train only takes about six hours to complete the journey.

Corresponding to the Chengyi Railway is the Chengyi Highway, the second high-grade highway in the entire southwest. Like the highway from Kunming to Dongchuan District in Yunnan, although this Chengyi Highway is not yet a highway, the overall design has taken into account the straight line design as much as possible, and the asphalt road is one of the two best roads in the southwest at that time.

In terms of air transportation, there is a high-level first-class airport Xuzhou Airport in Zongchang Town, which is 10 minutes' drive from the main city, and this airport will be further expanded in the near future, and will become an important airport port in southwest Sichuan and northwest Yunnan for a long time.

As an ancient city, it was originally suggested that the name of Yibin should be changed to Rongzhou or Xuzhou, but Zhang Shusheng gave clear instructions that the name of Yibin could never be changed, but the traditional cultural image should be strengthened in other ways. As a result, in the long-term planning of decades, Xuzhou Airport will be built as Xuzhou International Airport, which will become a super-large airport in the entire southwest of the country, just like the planned Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport.

In terms of waterways, the dredging of waterways, the clearing of reefs and shoals, the establishment of the political axe ship company, and the subsidy of fishermen for the purchase of boats to enable them to carry out a considerable level of water transportation.

With a good transportation base, it is education that can be further followed.

In terms of military academies, there are the Chinese Army University and the First Army Reconnaissance Academy, and the existence of these two military schools will enable it to provide a considerable number of qualified military cadets for the army in the future.

In terms of ordinary universities, in addition to several middle and higher technical schools, there are the former Sichuan Agricultural College, Sichuan Institute of Technology, Sichuan Jiaotong University, Sichuan Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Yibin College, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the issue of changing the name of the school has been put on the agenda and has been approved by the Ministry of Education on a priority basis. After the reconstruction, it will become Southwest Agricultural University, Southwest University of Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Southwest University of Electronic Science and Technology, and Xuzhou University. In addition, under the special instructions of the Ministry of Education, several universities will be established here in a number of new universities after the founding of the People's Republic of China, so that it will eventually become the Minjiang University District, and the Chengdu-Chongqing University Circle will form the largest pan-southwest university center in China.

One of the most distinctive new schools should be the China University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which was spun off from Southwest University in Kunming. (The establishment of the University of Aeronautics and Astronautics is because during the southwest period, Xichang established an SS-level scientific research base.) Yibin's University of Aeronautics and Astronautics of China will become one of the colleges and universities in the vicinity of the base. The whole Minjiang high school area, the layout is reasonable, relying on the Minjiang River, the scenery is extremely beautiful, the climate is also suitable, and the campus construction is warm and atmospheric.

Education needs to be combined with industry and scientific research, which is a policy that has been well implemented in the southwest period, and in terms of scientific research, there are the largest scientific research centers after Kunming-Dongchuan and Chengdu-Yucheng. In particular, after the relocation of the New Deal to Hanjing, many scientific research units in the Dongchuan Industrial Zone will gradually move here, and the first to settle here will be the Southwest Supercomputing Center, which has one of the only two supercomputers in China. In the end, it will form a high-tech triangle with Chengdu and Chongqing, and jointly undertake the important task of laying the foundation for the entire southwest and even the northwest to take off again.

In terms of industry, compared with the Minjiang high school area that occupies a huge place, the Minjiang high-tech park located by the Minjiang River, if the most famous industry should be Wuliangye, which won the gold medal of the World Expo in the past few years, although the area is not as terrifying as that of later generations, but it still highlights the atmosphere of the king of national liquor, compared with the development of Kweichow Moutai liquor industry in the same period, Wuliangye's industry is more cutting-edge and more reasonable, and the product chain is richer. An improved version of Wuliangye was even sold to the West.

In addition, it also includes a high-precision industrial area, from high-precision spare parts, from electron tubes to automobile engine factories, from clocks to high-precision machine tool factories, from aircraft brake pads to aircraft engines. There are also a lot of military aspects, mainly producing some high-precision spare parts, and there is even a factory specializing in the production of individual rockets.

In addition to the high-precision industrial zone, there are also a number of low-pollution projects, and in the five-year plan, Yibin will be built as a preliminary high-tech city.

Generally speaking, in the political axe plan, Yibin and Chengdu-Chongqing are in the same position, regardless of Zhang Shusheng's personal factors, it will also be greatly built, and the three places will form a high-tech + higher education center, laying the foundation for the eventual take-off of the western region. After all, the New Deal was founded in the southwest, and it is impossible to re-enact the frighteningly large economic and educational gap between the east and the west in later generations. For the sake of long-term planning, the balance between the east and the west is conducive to the development of the nation.

Yibin, Sichuan Jiaotong University in Minjiang High School.

In the early morning, the campus was full of the sound of birds, Tang sneaked up early in the morning, dressed neatly and walked out of the dormitory, looking at the younger students who were reading in the morning in the riverside park of the college in the distance, he couldn't help but feel a little sigh about the past four years.

He is a fourth-year student majoring in hydraulic engineering at the School of Communications, and has just passed the graduation defense, and his graduation thesis is "Research on the Rapid Construction Scheme and Process of Concrete for Small and Medium-sized Hydropower Stations". The paper was written at a very high level, and after a two-month field trip to the Jinsha River Hydropower Station, many valuable opinions and suggestions were put forward. At the time of the defense, it was unanimously approved by the jury and passed with a score of S. An old professor who returned from Mashen University of Science and Technology in the United States even asserted that Tang Qian would make good achievements in the field of water conservancy engineering in the future.

"Tang Qian......"

Hearing a woman's voice calling out to him, Tang subconsciously turned around, only to see a female student in a bachelor's dress standing not far behind him, looking at him a little shyly.

"Wen Fang?"

The two are in the same class, to be precise, one is a hydraulic engineering major, and the other is a mechanical major. It's hard to imagine that Tang Qian, who is polite and courteous and wears glasses, is a water conservancy engineering student who will deal with mountains and rivers in the wild for a lifetime, and it is even more difficult to imagine that Wen Fang, who is beautiful and a little shy, will actually be a mechanical student.

"You guys should take your graduation photos in the morning, be careful not to delay the time." Tang Qian raised his wrist to look at his watch and found that the time was only 7:50, which was still early.

"It won't be delayed." Wen Fang smiled, stretched out his hand to brush the hair in front of his forehead, pinched the hat of the bachelor's gown in his hand, and was slightly nervous, "Tang Qian, I heard that you are going to sign up, right?" ”

"Yes. I'm going to sign up for a water conservancy project to go to the countryside. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the whole country, except for the southwest, has been in ruins, and a large number of technical personnel are needed for water conservancy construction. In response to the call of the Ministry of Education, the school is ready to organize some students to go to the countryside to cooperate with the water conservancy working group and cooperate with various localities to carry out water conservancy construction. ”

"Where do you want to go? How long will it take? Wen Fang was slightly disappointed in his heart, he was already ready to continue studying for a master's degree in mechanics, but Tang Qian was going to the countryside.

"You can go anywhere, and after signing up, you can wait for the school to allocate a place. I don't know exactly how long I will be, but I originally studied water conservancy, and it is possible to run projects in various places for the rest of my life. ”

Tang Qian shook his head, Wen Fang's thoughts, he understood, the two of them were childhood sweethearts, and she was originally ordered by her family to enroll in Southwest University, but she followed her to this school. “”

"Tang Qian, why don't you continue to study for a master's degree."

"Wen Fang, Wen Fang ......"

At this time, someone shouted Wen Fang in the distance, and Wen Fang saw that it was his classmate, so he called him to take pictures together. couldn't help but look at Tang Qian a little anxiously, waiting for his reply.

"Go ahead, we're not kids anymore, and some things don't just go the way they are."

"You ......"

After Tang Qian finished speaking, he strode away, he understood Wen Fang's thoughts, but in his heart, personal issues had been put on the back burner. In his opinion, he will dedicate his life to the water conservancy project of New China, there will be countless things waiting for him to do, if Wen Fang chose to major in water conservancy engineering, maybe the two of them still have fate, but now, he is destined to wander all over the world, it is impossible for him to stop in one place for a relationship.

In July 1933, the Ministry of Education ordered some fresh graduates of major colleges and universities across the country to go to the countryside to cooperate with local water conservancy and transportation departments to participate in the five-year grassroots work. The major universities represented by Southwest University responded positively, and even Tsinghua University and Tongji University, which are to be transformed, also actively supported them. In a short period of time, nearly 3,000 students were organized nationwide to go to all parts of the country, mainly in the southwest of the country, mainly in the southwest of the country, to combine with the local water conservancy, transportation and other working groups, adopt the practice of matching the old and the young, and began to form working groups one after another, sent to various towns and towns, and began to guide the local water conservancy and road construction.

Unlike most of the college students who entered the school for graduation in later generations, the students of this era are extremely motivated, especially in the southwest, the learning style of each school is very strong, everyone has an unprecedented thirst for knowledge, and the learning efficiency is extremely high, most of them have achieved very good results, especially the technical students, compared to the students who will not forget anything when they leave the school in later generations, it is not a little stronger.

Hubei, Enshi, Sangshuba Town.

Tanjiaao is an ancient village, which has been farming for generations, according to the memory of the old village chief, up to the Ming Dynasty, there seems to be a talent in the village. But that was hundreds of years ago, today's Tanjiaao is poor and poor, and after the liberation of New China, there was only a gust of wind here, and it didn't change much.

Of course, with the official founding of the People's Republic of China, the villagers began to experience the benefits brought by the New Deal.

First of all, the original town office on the only street in Sangshuba Town was canceled, and a group of bullying officials who originally oppressed the township were also handcuffed. The next day, Fan Sanming, the old village chief of Tanjiaao, who received the notice, went to the town government axe to hold a meeting, listened to the report made by the new political axe, and he didn't remember many things, but he knew that he was very excited at the whole meeting.

In the following days, the working group began to go down to the villages, and a young deputy mayor in his twenties personally sent a letter of appointment to the old village chief of Tanjiaao. It reads: Comrade Fan Sanming is hereby appointed as the head of Tanjiaao Village -- the people's political axe of Sangshuba Town.

After a period of time, the town government axe sent people to send enough food, oil and salt to several old, weak, sick and disabled families in the village to eat for a month.

The old village head, Fan Sanming, was very grateful to the political axe, especially when he heard that he would soon carry out paid collective construction through the political axe organization, he was full of expectations.

As soon as the news went, everyone was talking about how many strong laborers their families could produce, and how much food and wages they could exchange for when the time came. As for whether to build roads or dig dams, they don't care, as long as the political axe is in charge of the food, let alone doing some work collectively, they are not afraid of going down the mountain. As for wages, do you still need wages to work for the political axe? In the past, generations were either forced labor or coolies, and they could earn back some money for food, oil and salt.

Of course, there is another major event that happened at the same time, that is, the new policy axe set up Tanjiaao Primary School, which will be used by children from several nearby villages to go to school, and in order to allow students to smoothly integrate into the school after the official opening of the school in September, the school is ready to open early, and the students will be properly screened, and those who are not educated will enter the first grade from scratch, and those who are educated will be properly consolidated and reviewed, and prepare to enter the second grade or higher directly after the start of school. Of course, judging from the actual situation here, the school is estimated to be able to barely accept students in grades one to three, and no matter how high it is, there will be none.

However, something happened to the school staff that they didn't expect.

Yu Ting is a student who graduated from Guilin Normal University, and after being assigned to Enshi, she took the initiative to ask to work in a grassroots school, and she taught Chinese. As the school was preparing to enroll students in advance, the six teachers, including the principal, had a lot of workload, and even she sat in the admissions office at the school gate, ready to receive students.

"Headmaster."

Wang Daquan, the principal of the school, walked over to the admissions office, and just now the clerk of the town government axe came by bicycle to inform that the teaching materials had arrived at the town office, and they would be distributed through the actual number of students in each school, so that Tanjiaao Primary School could quickly enroll students.

"What's the situation, how many students are coming to sign up?"

Wang Daquan asked with some anxiety, the first batch of textbooks has arrived, which school can get the textbooks as soon as possible if they make preparations first, which is very important for the school to carry out teaching in advance.

Yu Ting's face turned slightly red, handed the registration book to Wang Daquan, and whispered: "That's it, it's just five ......."

Wang Daquan was slightly annoyed, how could it be only five for half a day, he had been busy arranging tables, chairs and benches in the classroom before, although the school was built by the town government axe, and the nearby villagers also made a lot of efforts, but some details still need to be taken by the principal himself. He didn't expect that there were only five students recruited outside for half a day.

When I took the list, there were only five people.

Wang Daquan said wholeheartedly, what's going on? Yu Ting's child is a high-achieving student who graduated from a regular normal college, so he will not have a poor work ability to drive away the students who come to sign up.

"What's going on? Five students, not quite right. ”

As soon as Yu Ting wanted to speak, her eyes turned a little red, she didn't expect to encounter this kind of setback when she first joined the work, but she heard some news, "Principal Wang, I heard from two parents of students that many parents of students do not let their children come to school, and it seems that they have great doubts about our policy. ”

"Is there such a thing? Didn't they see the propaganda in the early stage? No, that's for the village chief to take the lead and hold a meeting in the village. Wang Daquan was a little puzzled, according to the regulations of the Ministry of Education, to carry out compulsory education, especially in the newly liberated areas, we must explain the policy clearly to parents, so that parents can voluntarily send their children to school. The state would rather invest huge financial and material resources in education than to postpone the opportunity for universal education for more than 10 years because of the cost of saving.

"Let's go, you and I go into the village to have a look, and remember to bring the promotional materials." Wang Daquan felt that it was better to see the actual situation.

"Daddy, do you think you should let the child go to study for a few days? Didn't they all say that they didn't want money? ”

In the village, an honest woman wrapped in a turban begged her man, who was smoking with a cigarette stick in his mouth, but his mind was not on the child's education.

"What are you reading? In the past thousands of years, which dynasty and which generation have gone to school without money? I don't pay tuition, and I have a free lunch, I'm afraid that I will do something bad if I gather my children. Can you believe the words of the new deal? A few years ago, I deceived and coaxed, how many strong men and coolies were caught and left, and now they haven't come back. Coolie haha you have to know your fate, how good it is to live honestly for a lifetime, you have to go to school. The man just didn't let go, and in the morning the child wanted to follow the little gazi next door to sign up, but he was slapped hard. Privately, many men in the village have discussed that it is useless to go to school, so it is better to wait for the start of the big construction and go to the construction site to make some money.

"You, aren't you just the food and wages...... Woo, poor boy, didn't go to school......"

"Smack!" With a slap, the man slapped the woman's face with his backhand, and reprimanded: "You shrew, what are you yelling about, is it important to study, or is it important to go to the construction site to change food and get paid?" The poor can't open the pot, and you know that oil and rice are expensive. ”

As soon as the whole martial arts came out here, someone knocked on the door outside, and the sound of the woman crying and crying provoked outsiders.

"Squeak!" The door opened.

"Village Chief, why are you here?" The man opened the door and saw the village chief standing at the door with two well-dressed people, and the polite young man was not the principal of the elementary school who had come to the village to hold a meeting some time ago.

"I said you Fan Donglin, did you beat your wife again? If Lao Tzu hadn't left a face back then, he would have been able to give you such a good daughter-in-law back? What's wrong with school? Can you read without going to school? If you don't go to school, I'll give you the village chief? If you don't go to school, your name is still taken by Lao Tzu, let you take one and try it, will you? ”

As soon as the old village chief Fan Sanming entered the house, he started scolding, spitting everywhere, and he couldn't lift the head of the scolder named Fan Donglin. Also, the old village chief is highly respected, not to mention, he is still the patriarch of the Fan family, how dare Fan Donglin contradict him.

"I, I ......"

"What are you, aren't you just the little wage? A few wages, a few catties of rice can still support you? Now it's New China, the new word, the political axe pities our people, not only runs schools and promotes education, but also provides seeds and fertilizers, helps build roads, not to mention, and also pays everyone to send food, just rush to this, if you dare to disagree with the policy, Lao Tzu will be the first to pump you. ”

"Three, third uncle, then, then you like it, can't you go up?"

"Come on, don't go up and whip you. Take the child to sign up for Lao Tzu immediately. The little brute who has no education doesn't even understand the truth of reading. ”

Fan Sanming scolded all the time, and Fan Donglin in front of him was stunned, and he didn't dare to say anything anymore.

"Go, go to the gong with Lao Tzu, who doesn't take their children to sign up today, Lao Tzu will smoke them one by one with a stick."

"Hey, hey, okay, just go, I'll go."

Soon, the sound of the gong sounded in the village, it was the sound of the gong, and the villagers put down whatever they wanted, and rushed to the sun-grain dam at the west end of the village as soon as possible.

"The one next to me, you all know him, he is the principal of our Sangshuba Primary School, he is not a mud leg like us haha, he is an intellectual who graduated from Guizhou Normal University, and he is a teacher in a big city. Why do people come here? I'm not here to run a school or teach a little calf.

The new policy is good, it has distributed food to extremely poor households, distributed seeds and fertilizers on credit, built roads and schools, and sent teachers. Let's think about it, for thousands of years, which dynasty and which generation didn't need money to study? But now the new China just doesn't want money. Invite your little calves to school for free and provide a lunch. Many people think that the New Deal Axe is bragging, and it has other plans, right? I don't want the small laborers at home to go to school, I want to tie them up in the field and work on the construction site to make money.

As the village chief, I am categorically opposed to this stupid idea. Everything is inferior, only reading is high, Lao Tzu finished studying in elementary school back then, what about you? I don't know a single word. Do you still want your juniors to continue this kind of nonsense............ Don't think about sending your child to the construction site, it's illegal to not let your child go to school now......"

In the afternoon of the same day, Sangshuba Primary School was surrounded by students from several villages in Fangyuan, and everyone rushed to sign up, and the school officially began to enroll.

The next day, the town government axe team led a technical team into the village of Sangshuba, not far from the village, on the Sangshu River, to build a small hydropower station, and the villagers will be organized to go to the construction site to dig earth and build the dam. At the same time, a simple road will also be built at Mulberry Dam, leading directly to the town government axe.

(To be continued)