Chapter 455: Talks (4)

In the guest house, Zhou Tiecheng and the guard Xiao Zhang, Wang Qiang and his secretary Li Zhengying were each wearing ordinary suits and top hats.

Zhou Tiecheng looked even brighter with a pair of thick eyebrows against the backdrop of a suit, and he smiled and said to everyone, "Let's go, we should take a good look at other people's land, otherwise wouldn't it be a trip in vain?" ”

Xiao Zhang said anxiously: "Chief, this is not our base, it will be dangerous for you to go out." ”

Li Zhengying also persuaded: "Yes, chief, I heard that it is very chaotic here, and the people here can freely and legally possess guns, can there be a safety guarantee in such a place?" You are still in the hospitality hotel, and Xiao Zhang and I can do anything. ”

Zhou Tiecheng shook his head and said earnestly: "You people, don't listen to the wind and rain. What's wrong with guns, are they going to kill all day long just because everyone has guns? You have to remember that it is not necessarily a place where there are guns that is dangerous, sometimes a place where there are no guns is the most dangerous. ”

Xiao Zhang scratched his head and said puzzledly: "I don't understand what the chief said, but as the chief's guard, I promise to protect the chief's safety with my life." ”

Wang Qiang hesitated for a moment and then suggested, "Chief, why don't I notify the guards outside and let them send someone to protect you?" ”

Zhou Tiecheng shook his head, "No need, what you found is the most real thing." ”

Although Zhou Tiecheng chatted with Su Tong very well and had a good impression, this did not become a reason not to investigate, he still preferred to believe what he had observed in person. What they see and hear when they come here is hearsay, and they have not seen it with their own eyes, and only what kind of life they have seen with their own eyes can best reflect their ability to govern a side of water and soil.

When Zhou Tiecheng and them went out, the guards at the door did not squint when they saw them coming out, and did not interfere with their freedom of entry and exit. After going out, Xiao Zhang muttered on the side: "What's the matter, we don't come out and ask, it's really irresponsible." If we run away, we'll see what they do! ”

Zhou Tiecheng smiled on the side, "You little ghost, how do you know that they don't care, I can guarantee that there will definitely be dozens of plainclothes people around us following us." ”

"Hmph, these spies are everywhere." Li Zhengying, who was behind him, sneered disdainfully, "These people will only engage in these things, and they are no different from the Congress Party." ”

"That's not true!" Zhou Tiecheng shook his head and said, "When I met with General Su, he already had a word with me first. They will not interfere with our freedom of movement here, but it is necessary to take some necessary protective measures for our safety. Like if he were to come to us, would we just let them run through without the slightest measure against them? ”

Zhou Tiecheng's words made Li Zhengying speechless.

Everyone came to the crowded street, and Zhou Tiecheng asked a few people next to him as he walked, "Do you see any difference between people's cities and ours?" ”

Xiao Zhang behind him said: "There are more people here than we are, the streets are very clean, and there are many foreigners, you see all of them with blue eyes and yellow hair." ”

Zhou Tiecheng bowed slightly: "That's because people's economy is doing well, and foreigners will come over when the economy is developed." ”

"And they have dense high-voltage power poles on the side of the road here, and the goods in the shops are more abundant than ours, and people's living standards are higher than ours." Wang Qiang added.

"Hmm!" Zhou Tiecheng nodded and said nothing.

When the group came to an intersection, they saw a disabled soldier with a broken leg and wearing a Chahar army uniform without military rank, walking slowly on the sidewalk on crutches. The wounded soldier was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, and he wore two shiny medals on his left chest, and although the weather was very hot in July, the collar of his shirt was tightly buttoned, and his clothes were meticulously dressed.

Two policemen in black police uniforms patrolled the road, and when they saw the disabled soldier, they immediately took the lead in saluting the wounded soldier on the side of the road, and waited for him to pass behind him before continuing to patrol.

After seeing this scene, Zhou Tiechengcai sighed and said to the three people around him: "Do you know why people's troops are so powerful? The strength of a unit's mental outlook and combat effectiveness is not only manifested in its well-equipped or well-trained troops, but is inseparable from the concern of the entire society and the government for the army. ”

The three people next to them just listened silently and didn't say anything.

Speaking of this, Zhou Tiecheng couldn't help but think of the funeral of the soldiers he attended when he first came to Chahar two years ago (see chapter 150 for details), and the inner shock caused to him, he couldn't help sighing, and felt more and more that some things Chahar had come far ahead of him.

In one afternoon, although Zhou Tiecheng and his family only visited a corner of Zhangjiakou's business district, the dazzling array of goods and the polite service attitude of the salesmen gave them a new understanding of the strength of the Chahar government.

The sky gradually darkened, Zhou Tiecheng and the others came to the military industrial zone located on the outskirts of the city, at this time, because the workers here had just gotten off work, countless workers poured out of the factory almost at the same time, and for a time the originally empty street was full of people.

Because it happened to be the meal, at the suggestion of Wang Qiang, they entered a small restaurant on the side of the road, and when Zhou Tiecheng and they walked up, there was already a seven-story attendance here, and it seemed that the business here was not bad.

"This little brother, I've heard people here say that your food is not very abundant, and you have also implemented a food monopoly, I don't know if this is the case? If not, how could so many people eat here? As soon as he sat down, a waiter came over, and before he could order, Zhou Tiecheng asked.

The waiter smiled after hearing this: "Listen to your old words, you must have just come to our Chahar, right?" If you want to say that there is a lack of food, that it is lacking, that it is not lacking, that it is not lacking, it depends on how you understand it! ”

"Oh! How do you say that? If you want to be lacking, you will be lacking, if you are not lacking, there is no shortage, how can you say that it is not right, and if you say it is right, it is right? Zhou Tiecheng's curiosity was immediately suspended.

How do you say that? Let me tell you this, we are not short of grain, Chairman Su attaches great importance to the development of agriculture, and as long as the methods of increasing grain production are used, we have had a good harvest here in the past two years, and it is more than enough for us to eat. Moreover, Ningxia Province carried out a large-scale development project of the Hetao two years ago, and naturally there is no shortage of this grain, so we say that we do not lack grain. ”

Wang Qiang couldn't help but say: "Then what do you say is the shortage?" ”

The waiter sighed, "In the early years, we immigrated, and within a year, tens of millions of people poured in from other places, so food naturally began to be tight. Later, the government carried out food control and supervision, and then we fought with the Russians in Siberia in the north and the Japanese in the east, so there was not so much food in the back-and-forth. By the end of the second phase of the Hetao project in Ningxia this year, the government had begun to advocate preparedness again, calling on everyone to start stockpiling grain, and if there was any surplus grain, they could also sell it to the government. ”

"Yes!" Zhou Tiecheng nodded and asked, "Aren't the Japanese about to be beaten back now and ready to withdraw to China?" Then why are you hoarding food? ”

The waiter pursed his lips and said angrily: "The Japanese have retreated, but the son is still staring at us from the side?" Two days ago, they had exchanged fire with our garrison brigade, and one of our patrol squads was poisoned by them, and all the more than 30 people in a platoon were honored. ”

Speaking of this, the waiter's voice unconsciously became louder. "Well, they didn't get a good deal with it, and they were blown up by our air force, and they fled into the desert after dropping a dozen tanks and hundreds of corpses. Our Chairman Su immediately sent a telegram to their government, claiming that if the Soviet Russian army did not withdraw from the territory of our country, they would bear the consequences, and the son would also be the master of bullying the weak and fearing the hard. Speaking of which, between countries and countries, you still have to rely on your fists to speak, as long as your fists are hard, people will be afraid of you. Do you think that's the case? ”

When the waiter said this, several workers in workers' uniforms at a table next to him shouted loudly: "Opponent, as our Chairman Su said, a weak country has no diplomacy!" Back then, when we didn't have the strength, those sons never looked at us squarely, and they beat people if they wanted to kill people on our border, and they killed people if they wanted to kill people, at that time, we were afraid when we saw foreigners, but our Chief Su was stunned and didn't believe in this evil, and took hundreds of thousands of troops to kill all the way to Siberia, snatched back our Hailan Pao and Vladivostok, and captured hundreds of thousands of sons to come back to build railways for us, and now I don't even dare to let go of a fart. Now, isn't Chairman Su's telegram honestly going back and forth from where it went? Haha, what a pleasure! ”

After listening to the words of the workers next to him, Wang Qiang and the others were also silent, and Zhou Tiecheng looked at the proud faces of the workers around him, and pondered in his heart: "The working class here is so powerful, but they are so supportive of the Chahar government, and the reasons for this are worth studying!" ”