Chapter 181: Chen Baosheng Enters the City 1
86_86695 "There is nothing to shake in the fact that we are in the service of the people. However, there are times when some of the policies pursued by our revival association are not approved by the masses of the people. Quite a few times, we even have to listen to the masses complain and say some strange things. At this time, some comrades were confused. They will think, 'Our revival will serve the people, should we just listen to the people and stop implementing these policies?' ’”
"Before answering this question, I want you to take out the three disciplines and eight points of attention, and memorize them. I remember very clearly, the first one above was, 'A qiē action is under command.'" However, at this time, some comrades were even more confused. They will think, 'Serving the people is not in conflict with the discipline of the party?' ’”
"In the face of the doubts of some comrades, I still didn't speak. I want them to take out the "Party Constitution" and review it. Is it clearly written, 'Revival will be the vanguard of the people'? Just forget this sentence, what does the 'three represents' on the "Party Constitution" mean? Have you forgotten about jì too? ”
"I say this to tell you that when the people are right, of course, we, the party members and cadres of the Revival Association, must listen to the opinions of the people. But the masses of the people are not always right. For example, we often encounter people fighting for relief food, resulting in casualties. This is where the masses of the people lag behind. At this time, we have to use a qiē method to maintain order. Because fundamentally speaking, we still do the good of the people and do not want the people to suffer casualties. ”
"Another example is the sanitation campaign we are running in various regions. A few comrades in the party have a lot of opinions about me and the masses of the people, and they have said a lot of strange things like 'I want to control the heavens and the earth, and I still want to care about Lao Tzu's shit and fart.'" Carrying out this campaign requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it also brings a lot of inconvenience to the people. ”
"At that time, I asked him that we were engaged in a sanitation campaign, although we used some strong methods, such as fines, such as parading the streets, such as squatting in a dark house, and so on. However, after we carried out the sanitation campaign, the disease rate of the people dropped on a large scale? ”
"What do you mean by the 'three represents'? What is the advanced nature of the members of the Revival Society? That's it. ”
"We are all materialists, and we all have to admit that at this stage, because the cultural popularization is far from enough, because the standard of living has not improved in an all-round way. Therefore, the people's su zhì is relatively low. It's not that I dislike the masses here, but from a materialist point of view, that's the truth. ”
Therefore, as a society that has been systematically educated, has advanced knowledge, and has the mission of educating and leading the people, it is inevitable that it will formulate some policies that may seem troublesome at present, but will be beneficial to the people in the long run. Yes, these policies are not yet understood by the masses of the people. However, from a long-term perspective, it is the masses of the people who will ultimately benefit. In the final analysis, we are better serving the people by formulating and implementing these policies. ”
"The reason why we want to carry out education on the 'advanced nature of party members' this time is to rectify the thinking of some comrades in the party who are confused and comprehensively improve the understanding and knowledge of party members and cadres on the party's constitution, party program, and party policies. Because in the final analysis, if we want to better serve the people, we not only need to maintain the advanced nature of the party, but also need us to correctly understand the mission of our revival association."
——1624, Wang Shuhui, "Maintaining the Advanced Nature of Party Members and Serving the People", "Collection of Essays of the Fourth Rectification Movement of the Revival Society"
Chen Baosheng is 50 years old this year. In the peasant night school in the village, he learned a phrase called "Fifty Knowing the Destiny of Heaven". According to the little revival gentleman, this means that when people live to be fifty years old, they have accumulated enough experience to be able to summarize the laws of the world and judge the development of things according to these laws.
He didn't understand these explanations very well. But he understood what the little gentleman said later. Because the little gentleman gave an example. He said that for example, when a person lives to be 50 years old, he will generally have a lot of physical problems. It either hurts here or there. However, this person can judge when it rains and when it is windy according to the quality of his own health.
Chen Baosheng had two thoughts at that time. One is that he thinks that this academic thing is to take off his pants and fart, and he is doing things twice. A truth that can be explained in just a few words is so strange that people can't understand it. His second thought was that his physical condition was really like what the little gentleman said, getting more and more inclusive. This year, I had to get a rabbit fur hat to survive the winter.
Originally, Chen Baosheng was already fifty years old, and no one forced him to go to night school. However, Chen Baosheng was still determined to attend the class. The reason is nothing else, because there are regulations in the working group.
As long as you can memorize five words a day, and when you can write one hundred and fifty words at the end of the month, you can receive 30 catties of rice. If you can write a hundred words, you will have twenty-five catties of white rice. If you can write 80 words, you can get 20 catties of rice. If you can write 60 words, you can take home 10 catties of rice.
It's not that no one in the village laughed at Chen Baosheng for being unproductive, and he took classes with young people for a few catties of white rice. However, Chen Bao lived at the age of fifty, and he didn't learn any other skills, but there was one skill he learned. That is, the poor cannot be faceless. In the entire Chen Jiawan, he was the only one who lived to be fifty "old", and the reason was that Chen Baosheng had the ability to be shameless.
When the landlord beat him, he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, crying and singing. As a tenant, he received the least number of whips.
When the family ran out of food, he ran to the landlord's house to borrow grain. Towards the steward, who was more than ten years younger than himself, he was an old man and did not blush at all. Living the same days, Chen Baosheng's wife and children did not starve to death no matter what year they were.
When encountering a ruffian who entered the village to collect taxes, Chen Baosheng was able to pull down his face, lie on the ground and hug someone's thigh and call grandpa. Others who can't pay the imperial grain and national taxes will be dragged away and put in a flail and stand alive. Because he Chen Baosheng recognized a few good grandfathers, he could go home with a few whips.
For Chen Baosheng, he didn't know that there was a sect named Li Zongwu in later generations who opened "Thick Black Studies". Chen Baosheng, who is uneducated, cannot take Houhei as his outlook on life and values. For him, it doesn't matter what kind of thing you do. As long as you can let your family eat an extra bite of food, take a breath of relief, and be able to cope with it and survive, it's fine. No matter what time it is, Chen Baosheng only has a simple consciousness of "living" in his heart.
However, even so, when the working group of the Fuxing Association went to the village to hold a criticism meeting to criticize the landlords, Chen Baosheng was the first to come to the stage and scold the landlords for exposing the landlords. After the landlord of the village, his own old lady Chen was hanged, he was the last to leave, and before leaving, he smashed the old lady Chen's head with a hoe to make sure that he was really dead.
At that time, under the sunset, Chen Baosheng, who was trying hard to pick up the hoe, had no intention of revenge at all. He just wanted to confirm the death of Old Lady Chen, so as to make sure that the usury he owed and could not be repaid in ten lifetimes was really gone.
In Chenjiawan, many people say that Chen Baosheng is a shameless wretch. There are also a few people who say that Chen Baosheng has a heart. However, Chen Baosheng didn't care at all about what outsiders said. Tenant farmer Chen Baosheng has the most simple belief, "To live is to win". Those who want face and ambition don't all die before him?
Of course, Chen Baosheng will not be complacent about his own approach at all, or feel that he is smarter than others. After all, the matter of surviving has already consumed all his physical and mental power. He didn't have the energy to think about anything else that wasn't useful.
When he lived to the age of forty-eight, Chen Baosheng's life was finally relaxed. For no other reason than that year, the Revival Society came.
Although his body was tired, although he was weak, and although he had no energy, Chen Baosheng was shocked for the first time in many years. It's just that the thirty-odd juniors just took muskets (rifles) and fire pots (grenades) to subdue the old lady Chen's family, who had dozens of family members at home.
At first, Chen Baosheng felt that Mrs. Chen's family was unlucky, which was not necessarily a good thing for him. When the harvest is scarce, if you want to borrow food. If you want to borrow money when you pay your taxes. Without Mrs. Chen, who should I borrow from?
Fortunately, Chen Baosheng's worries did not last long. Because the Revival Association announced that it would divide land to each family, according to the capitation, each person would be divided into five acres of land, and only three layers of grain would be collected. All the taxes of the Imperial Grain and the National Diet were borne by the people of the Renaissance Society.
Because there are a total of five people in the family, Chen Baosheng has a person with 25 acres of land. Seeing that the Fuxing Society really distributed land to everyone, the Fuxing Society really burned all the account books of the Chen family. Chen Baosheng must ensure the death of Old Lady Chen.
However, when the criticism meeting was held, Chen Baosheng was always very impatient. For him, the descendants of the Revival Society are very cool when they fight, but they are very abrasive when they kill.
Obviously, everyone has an enmity with Mrs. Chen's family. The people of the Revival Society are going to give everyone a rambling account. What's the point? Everyone who has divided the land is eager to finalize this matter. It's that Old Lady Chen used to be a living Bodhisattva, and now everyone has to let him go to the West Heaven in order to keep the land he has been allocated.
It was only later that Chen Baosheng figured out why the Revival Society liked to abolish the twice. Because the legal system of the Revival Society is different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The Fuxing Association told everyone that it was not because Mrs. Chen had a lot of land that he was going to be judged, but because Mrs. Chen's methods of getting these lands were all illegal, so they had to choose some inexplicable people's representative and send Mrs. Chen to the gallows.
For these things, Chen Baosheng didn't care at all. He just went to the lecture to earn more rice. These words were spoken by the little gentleman of the Revival Society in the evening class.
To tell you the truth, Chen Baosheng, who is 50 years old this year, feels that life is better from the bottom of his heart. He has no debts, he has land at home, and he has food in his hoard. Although the income from selling grain is decreasing year by year, selling grain to the Revival Association will always earn more than a dozen coppers and a half piece of steel hammer than selling it to others.
(The price of grain purchased by the Renaissance Society is always higher than the market price, but the market price of grain purchases decreases every year.) The Renaissance Society sells grain at a much lower price than the market price, even though the market price at which the grain is sold increases every year. )
(However, the Renaissance Society did not allow the free flow of food.) The Fuxing Association has adopted a policy of restricting the purchase of grain by residents in the Fuxing District, and each person may not purchase more than 500 catties of grain per year. Ordinary people can eat their stomachs to their full. But don't think about making money on food. )
In the past three years, Chen Baosheng has not only eaten and dressed warmly, but also seen that his waist has become straightened. He also saved dozens of silver dollars at home. After listening to the words of the little gentleman of the Revival Association, Chen Baosheng, who knew the destiny of heaven, had a strong idea of wanting to buy a hat. He had seen many people in the village in the past, wearing rabbit fur hats in winter. However, because of the habit of picking the door, he has not been willing to buy.
"It's just a piece of steel and ten coppers. I'm also going to buy a hat to wear in the winter, after all, I'm destined for the year. Chen Baosheng secretly decided.
The summer harvest is long over. Autumn grain has also been planted in the field. Now all that's left at home is watering the ground and weeding. This kind of thing can be done by his wife. Therefore, early the next morning, Chen Baosheng hid two steel hammers in his crotch and set off for the county seat.
For the people of Zhijiang County now, the county seat is no longer a place. In their hearts, Zhijiang County has three county seats, one is the old county seat. One is the new county seat (Fuxing City) and the other is the Shang County Town (Zhijiang Shangmeng Industrial Zone). For ordinary people like Chen Baosheng, the county seat in their mouths refers to Fuxing City.
July was a very hot day. However, Chen Baosheng walked on the road, but he was very relaxed. For modern people, Chen Baosheng's relaxation can be said to be a kind of relaxation from the inside out. The family has land, food, and money. Three children, the eldest son works as a worker in the Revival Society's factory, and the second son and the youngest daughter study in the Revival Society's school. I and my wife can easily plant twenty-five acres of land.
The harvest is getting better every year, and the grain is getting more and more every year. Such days really make Chen Baosheng very relaxed from psychology to physiology.
On the other hand, the rattan shoes on Chen Baosheng's feet and the Sanhe soil pavement under Chen Baosheng's feet also made Chen Baosheng walk very easily. The rattan shoes are made by his wife. Don't look at that woman's ugly appearance, but her hands are really clever. Take rattan and weave the sole and upper of the shoe, and then make the upper out of canvas. Finally use soft straw into the insole on the pad. When I walked, my feet were comfortable and brisk.
As for this road, when Chen Baosheng walked, he also felt a little emotion in his heart. At that time, the descendants of the working group took out food and hired everyone to build roads. Many people, including himself, still laughed at the head of the Revival in their hearts.
However, now when walking on this solid and flat road, Chen Baosheng has to praise the revival will be really good for the people.
Not to mention the division of land and land, he actually paid for everyone to repair the road, this Wang Shuhui is really a good old man!
Yes, for ordinary people like Chen Baosheng, they still only think that the members of the Revival Association are Wang Shuhui's good family members and good stewards, and Wang Shuhui is a good old man. I have to say that Wang Shuhui himself is quite sorry about this issue.
This is not the first time Chen Baosheng has been to Fuxing City. In the past, because he was worried about his youngest son being taken away, he once went to Fuxing City once to visit his youngest son in the school. Another time, it was because he wanted to share the land with his eldest son.
In that case, because his eldest son had changed from a temporary worker to a regular worker, the Revival Society wanted to take the land in his eldest son's name. Because Chen Baosheng learned some arithmetic in night school, and with the help of his eldest son, who was better at arithmetic, he calculated the amount between five acres of land and a worker's salary, and finally agreed to let his eldest son work as a worker in the city.
If you want to enter the city, you must first pass through a place called the Great Barracks. Chen Baosheng didn't know why this place was called the big barracks, because there were no soldiers here, but a large workers' dormitory. (It was originally a barracks for the Renaissance Army outside Fuxing City.) As a result of the expansion of the APA, new camps have now been built. The original camp was assigned to the Industrial Department as a workers' dormitory. His son, Chen Da, lives in this place.
Chenjiawan is only ten miles away from Fuxing City, so when he walked to the big barracks, Chen Baosheng's strength was still sufficient. Because he knew that his son and daughter-in-law must have been working in the factory at this time and were not at home. So he left the barracks and went straight into the city.
However, there was one thing that suddenly stopped Chen Baosheng. Because he suddenly had the urge to go and see the excitement.
What kind of excitement does Chen Baosheng want to see? He wanted to see the train at the train station outside the city. Because the last time Chen Baosheng entered the city, his eldest son led him to the train station to watch the excitement. The train made a deep impression on him and kept him in his mind.
Look at the sun, it's still early. Touching my stomach, I still have a lot of strength. Chen Baosheng decided that before going into the city to buy hats, he would go to the train station to see the train.
At present, there are very few people who take the train, so the Reconstruction Society implements a system of getting on the train and buying tickets. In this way, the management of Fuxing Huizhijiang Railway Station is relatively relaxed. There are really a lot of people like Chen Baosheng who go to the train station to see the excitement.
Wang Shuhui initially wanted to use the existing railway station management system to manage the station. However, considering the idea of using trains to open the eyes of industrialization to the common people, the Revival Society adopted an open railway station management system.
Chen Baosheng stood outside the white line, watching the train "fly" (to him) in front of him, keeping his mouth open. However, Chen Baosheng was sneered at the words of a person next to him, "This train runs so fast on its stomach, if it runs so fast while standing".
In Chen Baosheng's view, the reason why a train is a train is because the train is carried by a steamer. Naturally, the more steamers are on the ground, the faster the train can run. Chen Baosheng secretly laughed at this idea of comparing trains as people