Chapter 679: The Great Drought
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First of all, the great drought in 1942 came as scheduled, although the ecological environment in the Central Plains was much better than that in the same period in history because the Huayuankou embankment burst did not occur, and Henan's farmland water conservancy infrastructure has also made great achievements, and the Yanpanxia Reservoir built in the upper reaches of the Yellow River has released water in a timely manner, and at the same time, governments at all levels from the central government to Henan have put drought relief in the first place, and the losses caused by drought, especially the subsequent locust plague and other secondary disasters, have been minimized. And there was no war interference, so the drought was far less harmful than it was in history (it affected several provinces, and more than 3 million people died of starvation in Henan alone). At the same time, because of the priority of water supply to the agricultural sector, the industrial production and residents' lives in the Central Plains Industrial Zone, which accounted for more than 30% of the country's industrial output in 1941, were also greatly affected
In 1940, when there was a bumper grain harvest in the Central Plains, Taizu, Zhang Hao, and Hu Weidong unswervingly adhered to the principle of "preparing for war and preparing for famine" and "taking grain as the key link", and suppressed the opinions of many comrades on "eating with an open belly" and "increasing the planting area of cash crops". Once something happens, the consequences are unimaginable.
The great man took the opportunity to take the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty (this history he already knew, but the professional term Xiaoice River period was introduced by Hu Weidong in advance. Before preparing enough food for the people of the whole country to eat for three years (according to the standard of immortals), everyone still has to continue to live a hard life, and the fine style of hard work and simplicity needs to be maintained all the more, because once China, whose population accounts for a quarter of the whole Shijie, encounters problems with food, no country can help us.
The 1942 drought in Henan greatly stimulated the construction of reservoirs in Henan, and most of the new reservoirs were designed to store water rather than prevent flooding, but Zhu Kezhen, president of Zhongyuan University, relied on meteorological and hydrological data collected by himself and his students in various parts of Henan. It is believed that because of the special geographical location of Zhumadian and its surrounding areas in Henan, there is the possibility of concentrated precipitation in a short period of time. It is not impossible to even rain a super-heavy rain in a few days equivalent to the total precipitation of two or three years in normal times, and if the Henan reservoir is too heavy on water storage, then there may be a big Louzi, once any reservoir collapses. The masses in Zhumadian and even several surrounding cities will become fish and turtles in the ocean
But even the centenarians of Henan remember. I've never seen such a terrifying super heavy rainstorm. Therefore, most of the leaders of the central government and Henan Province generally believed that Zhu Kezhen was unfounded, but Hu Weidong remembered the historical Banqiao Reservoir dam failure incident and the reason for the disaster. Of course, there are human factors such as poor management of reservoirs, but the most critical decisive factor is the terrible rainstorm that rained for two years in 4 days, and more than a year's rainfall in 24 hours on one day.
Therefore, Hu Weidong understood that Zhu Kezhen was not alarmist, and immediately went to several cadres of the Henan Provincial Party Committee on crutches and dragged the injured leg of the plaster cast that had not been removed, and finally persuaded them to raise the design requirements for the reservoir, and then because of the increase in construction costs, he went to the central government to find someone to obtain funding for him, and Zuihou finally managed this matter. But this incident later became one of the "major mistakes" of Hu Weidong's attack, and some people even suspected that Hu Weidong did this to get orders for a certain "cement king". When they came to Zhumadian, everyone knew that Hu Weidong was indeed prescient
Speaking of the broken leg, Hu Weidong is also a little depressed, since he crossed, he has not been seriously injured on the battlefield with no eyes of guns and guns, who would have thought that he would not have to lead troops to fight anymore and have time to play football, but he was cut off by a young soldier who confiscated his foot, and he didn't know if this was considered a joy and sorrow
The perpetrator was so frightened that Hu Weidong, who was injured and fell to the ground, had to be comforted by gentle words, and he was depressed and immediately decided not to play football with rookies again.
After the military doctor who arrived in a hurry, the situation was not too bad, at least it was not a comminuted fracture, and it was only necessary to put a plaster cast on the broken bone and slowly recuperate, but as the so-called "100 days of injured muscles and bones", even if Hu Weidong was young and strong, he would not want to heal if he did not raise it for a month or two. At this time, Hu Weidong felt most sorry for his wife who had confirmed that he was pregnant, and it was not easy for him to have time to serve for a few days, but it turned out to be good, but he had to take care of his pregnant wife
Because there are very few senior cadres of the Red Party who like football, except for Hu Weidong, there is only Deng Gong left, so the football project is not very important, and after Hu Weidong's leg was broken, many central leaders think that football is too barbaric and easy to cause major harm to the body of the kicker, so they oppose the development of this sport in China
When Hu Weidong learned about Hou Deng, he was anxious, and pulled Deng Gong on crutches to find Taizu together. Taizu did not like football, because he was young because of his tallness, he could only be the most boring goalkeeper when he played, so Hu Weidong focused on the benefits of football to improve the mainstream values of Chinese, he pointed out that football is very physically confrontational, and at the same time attaches great importance to teamwork, while most Chinese are afraid of direct confrontation (Chinese society always advocates polite white-faced scholars), and is not good at cooperating with people, when these two points improved, It's time for China to return to the top of Shijie, and using football as a sport to guide is the most beneficial and cost-effective, and Taizu agreed with his argument after deep thought (to be continued......