Chapter 44: The Great Harvest
Not only were the camphor trees on the river beach cut down, but the pines and cypresses on Yunshan Mountain in the western suburbs were also damaged, and some of the big cypress trees that had grown for a hundred years were also sawed off and dragged down the mountain to serve socialist construction.
The construction of earth blast furnace needs refractory bricks, several brick factories near Beitai can not supply overtime, so the masses use ordinary red bricks to build blast furnaces, after a few accidents, some people moved to other places to experience, said that more than 100 years of big green bricks have a fire-resistant effect, neighboring counties are demolishing old houses to build blast furnaces, but Beitai is a new city, there are no ancient buildings, this recruitment can not be used.
Facts have proved that nothing can stump the people, there is an ancient tower on Yunshan, whether it is the Yuan Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty has been unexaminable, when Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin and his wife came to investigate, and also drew a picture, the years must be long enough, just it!
The cadres and masses of the flour mill in the western suburbs came to Yunshan with hoes and sledgehammers and began to dismantle the ancient pagoda.
"Old man, your thinking is backward, let's not demolish it indiscriminately, there is a purpose, dismantle this ancient tower to build a blast furnace to make steel and make shells, maybe these two shells will be missing in the end to fight Taiwan, right, no matter how important the cultural relics are, can they be more important than the liberation of Taiwan?"
The old people were convinced and speechless.
As the sun set, a seven-story floating temple was quickly demolished, and the ancient bricks were transported away, leaving only the mess and rotten wood Buddha statues, which were desolate and infinite.
In the courtyard of the flour mill, the ancient green bricks were built into an earthen blast furnace and thrown into the vigorous steelmaking movement.
To say steelmaking, the first is naturally Jiangbei Iron and Steel Plant, people do this is professional, so it is not a result, other enterprises and institutions, Chenguang Machinery Factory is in the first place, Chenguang Factory is a large enterprise, solid foundation, technology and strength, they do their own work on the one hand, on the other hand, organize workers and young women and other full-time personnel to make steel, the commander is Ma Chunhua, deputy secretary of the party committee of the factory.
Although Ma Chunhua's cultural quality is not high, she understands the truth very well, and knows that if she wants to refine real good steel, she must ask a famous teacher to guide, so she invited Mu Yichen, the general manager of the steel plant, to be a teacher.
Chenguang Factory used its own advantages to organize a batch of high-quality iron ore and coke to smelt steel, Chen Bei was not to be outdone, personally went into battle, on duty in front of the furnace day and night, wearing a canvas overalls, wearing protective glasses, holding a steel drill, and the posture was no different from a real steelworker.
Under the order of the general headquarters of the prefectural committee, the whistle sounded, and another round of steelmaking began, the front stepped up production, the rear grain and grass support, and the whole city became a large construction site, up to the seventy or eighty-year-old old people, down to the red scarf primary school students, all put into production, young laborers made steel, female comrades cooked at home, the elderly and children pushed the cart, and transported the meals to the construction site with lunch boxes and thermos buckets, just like the three major battles of the People's Liberation Army in those years to support the pro-** steelmaking.
The female comrades in charge of entertainment performances and morale boosting stood on a high place in Allegro and sang their own Allegro book: "Clay blast furnace, tall, shoulders close to Chang'e's house. Chang'e was so shocked that she straightened her chest and splashed her with falling iron flowers."
In front of Martin's open hearth, Chen Bei held the red steel chisel that was burned in the first half of the furnace, and threw it back and forth in the furnace, the iron flowers splashed everywhere, burning his clothes were full of holes, and his skin was burned out of big bubbles, but he did not flinch, ignored it, and devoted himself to steelmaking.
The molten steel from the Chenguang factory came out, and the dark red molten steel flowed into a mold made of sand, casting a big five-pointed star, and five big steel characters, *** Long live.
The steel five stars and the big characters slowly cooled, from red to blue, which is the color of steel, knocked, when it rang, the soldiers cheered, lifted the steel five stars and went to the local committee to report the good news.
Mu Yichen, the chief director on the side, sighed secretly, this kind of steel is not clear about the quality and composition at all, it all depends on the hand bullet, it is really backward, it is still the most high-end product, some units have never seen a blast furnace in their lives, and the chemical formula is not at all, just come to study and observe for a few hours and think that they have mastered all the procedures, and they can be a mentor when they go back.
However, the Chenguang Factory has trained a furnace of good steel, and the leaders of the prefectural committee are quite satisfied, and the mobile red flag is awarded to the Chenguang Plant Iron and Steel Commando and named it a rocket unit.
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A few happy and a few worried, the Chenguang factory has a thick foundation and many talents, so it naturally strives to go upstream, but some collective units are not so lucky, and there is an accident in the western suburbs of the flour mill that demolished the ancient tower to build an earth blast furnace.
A middle-aged worker did not sleep for three days and three nights, and in a trance, he smashed a steel drill with water into the fiery hearth and caused an explosion, killing people on the spot, and more than 10 people were seriously injured by the surrounding workers, and the house also collapsed, and also caused a fire that burned several houses.
Rumors spread around, saying that it was the retribution for demolishing the ancient pagoda, and the Bodhisattva was guilty or something, and people were panicked for a while.
The party committee of the flour mill designated the deceased as a work-related death, and specially recruited the deceased's wife to work in the factory canteen.
Jiangbei Daily came to the reporter for an interview and asked about some accidents, and the young reporter went back to write a press release, and finally wrote it after a long time, with the title "How can ironmaking ignore safety, a serious accident occurred in a flour mill in the western suburbs of our city." ”
I was about to go to the editor-in-chief's office to deliver the manuscript, when suddenly a voice came from behind: "It's not okay to write like this." ”
The little reporter looked back and saw that it was Ruan Mingchuan, a rightist who had been decentralised in the provincial capital, who used to be the editor-in-chief and president of the provincial newspaper, but he was a powerful character, so he asked very modestly: "Senior, how should you write it according to you?" ”
Ruan Mingchuan couldn't help but itch, took out a Parker pen from his pocket, crossed out the original title on the manuscript paper, and wrote a new paragraph: How can ironmaking be afraid of sacrifice, a group of singing and crying iron heroes have emerged in the flour mills in the western suburbs of our city!
The reporter was dumbfounded: "Can you still write like this?" ”
Ruan Mingchuan said: "Listen to me. ”
The young reporter was skeptical, rewrote the manuscript according to the instructions of the old-timers, and sent it to the editor-in-chief, who immediately signed it after reading it, patted the young man's shoulder and smiled: "Young people grow up quickly." ”
After seeing the newspaper, the Propaganda Department of the prefectural party committee intervened, and the scene was big, and reporters from all walks of life went to the flour mill in the western suburbs to interview the leaders of the mill and the family of the deceased.
The flour mill was a blessing in disguise, receiving technical support from the steel mill and a special supply of coke, and smelting iron in a hurry.
Ruan Mingchuan was voluntarily sent to the Beitai newspaper office to exert his residual heat, and he created a propaganda drama that could sing and cry with a little skill, and how could he not attract the attention of the propaganda department, but the leaders of the propaganda department of the prefectural party committee did not like Ruan Mingchuan as a person, saying that this person was not willing to be lonely after being branded as a rightist, and jumped up and down, and sent him to the Nantai County newspaper office with a piece of paper.
On the day of going to the countryside, the autumn was crisp and cloudless, Ruan Mingchuan was a little depressed, sitting on the mule cart and seeing the golden crops on both sides of the road, he suddenly brightened, and couldn't help but praise: "Golden autumn and October, the harvest season." ”
At the same time, the secretary of the Nantai County Party Committee also expressed the same emotion, Nantai County is mainly based on agriculture, and his energy is mainly focused on promoting agriculture and production.
This year is a bumper harvest year, which all depends on the people's commune, the people work more energetically, no harvest is strange, Secretary Yang stood on a small hill, dressed in a tunic suit, standing with a crossed waist, two cadres holding a map in front of him, for the county party secretary to guide the country.
"We have put satellites in the industry of our commune, and we must also put satellites in agriculture." Yang Shugen said to Li Huazi, secretary of the Kushuijing Commune.
Li Huazi pretended to record it with a small notebook, but in fact, he didn't know a lot of words, just pretending.
"Yes, Secretary Yang, I estimate that this year's yield per mu will be twice as much as in previous years." Li Huazi said.
"Double?" Yang Shugen shook his head, "I don't see it, the masses are so motivated, they eat in the big canteen, and they don't strive to go upstream, and they are several times over." ”
"Yes, yes, I'm conservative, at least between eight and ten times, with a yield of four thousand per mu, oh no, five thousand catties!" Li Huazi spat and Xingzi flew sideways.
Yang Shugen frowned and said: "As far as I know, our commune implements deep ploughing of the land, high-density planting, adopts excellent rice seeds, and the members of the commune cultivate intensively, and the yield of 5,000 catties per mu is really not worth boasting about." ”
Li Huazi was dumbfounded, Secretary Yang is making trouble, it is said that he has also worked at the grassroots level, how will the crops be harvested, can he not know? Five thousand catties is already the extent that the cowhide is blown up, why does Secretary Yang still think that the cowhide is not big enough?
"Secretary Yang, please give me a reminder, how much is the right yield per mu?" Li Huazi is a farmer in the end, and he actually asked such a non-level word directly.
Yang Shugen naturally wouldn't answer him, the secretary of the county party committee smiled, turned his head and left, the road was uneven, his shoulders were shaking, but the tunic he was wearing didn't fall off.
Li Huazi trotted closely behind: "Secretary Yang, please instruct." ”
Yang Shugen said: "Lao Li, your thinking is still conservative, let me tell you a word, how bold people are, how productive the land is." ”
After saying this, Secretary Yang got into the jeep and drove away, leaving Li Huazi in a daze.
Li Huazi once again convened the women's director, accountant, militia captain and others of the commune, discussed all night, and finally came up with a method, taking the best wheat seedlings from the best wheat fields in the commune, pulling them out with roots and soil, picking them to the experimental fields and planting them densely, leaving no gaps between the wheat seedlings, the denser the better.
The members of the club immediately took action, transplanted an acre of high-yield experimental field in the shortest possible time, the wheat ears were full, and the row was impermeable.
Yang Shugen came again, this time in a good mood, and walked around the wheat field with his hands behind his back, nodding from time to time, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Dog, are you going up and rolling?" Li Huazi observed the words and said to a little boy.
The little boy climbed up the wheat field and jumped and jumped on it, and the wheat field did not move.
"Good, good." Yang Shugen was very satisfied, and beckoned, and the secretary came over.
"Report the good news to the prefectural party committee and the provincial party committee, saying that our county has put an agricultural satellite, and the specific output is not clear, and we must ask the leaders of the prefectural party committee and provincial party committee to come together with the news unit to accept and supervise." Yang Shugen said in high spirits.