Chapter Seventy-Eight: Forty-Eight Hours (Part II)

On the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing, south of the Aoyu Bridge, there is the former royal garden, where today's central power center of the Chinese People's Republic, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the President of the People's Republic of China, the State Council of the People's Republic of China, the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China are all located here. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

For ordinary people, Zhongnanhai has been an extremely mysterious existence since it was closed to the outside world 22 years ago, but for the party and state leaders in it, Zhongnanhai is just a relatively comfortable place to work and live.

When Yang Xiaoqian was listening to the pre-war report in Nandu, a conversation related to him took place in Zhongnanhai, and the two sides of the conversation were Wen Weiguo, chairman of the Chinese People's Republic, and Dang Zhengfeng, premier of the State Council of the Chinese People's Republic.

After meeting with important foreign guests in the Ziguang Pavilion, the two elders who shouldered the national fortune of China sat in a small room in the northwest corner.

Wen Weiguo and Dang Zhengfeng did not give in, they sat down separately, picked up the tea cup on the table, and savored it, looking like two ordinary old men, but their eyes were clear and wise, not like twilight years. After a long time, Dang Zhengfeng put down the cup in his hand and sighed: "It's still better than the big red robe." ”

Wen Weiguo nodded in agreement and replied: "There are also big red robes, if you want to drink it, you can get it." ”

"The annual output of the sea is only a few taels, and it is in short supply for foreign entertainment." Dang Zhengfeng shook his head with a smile, "I heard that the Tea Research Institute of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences is doing relevant research, maybe it will be able to increase the yield in a few years, but these are small things, and our personal enjoyment should not be put in front." The upward and downward effects, the lessons of the ancestors dare not be forgotten. ”

"Haha, that's right." Wen Weiguo put down the teacup.

"Chairman."

"Call the name, we're drinking tea now."

"Comrade Patriotic National." Dang Zhengfeng put away his smile and said softly, "The matter of Nandu, are you too arbitrary, no matter what stage it is, Yiyantang is always not a good phenomenon." Putting aside the ideas of others in the sea, it is not without precedent for the central government to directly intervene in local affairs, but none of them are positive examples. ”

"Zhengfeng, we set up a team twenty years ago."

"Yes, you were the mayor of Shanghai City at that time, and I was the secretary of the municipal party committee." Dang Zhengfeng raised his eyebrows slightly, this past is widely known, and there was a good story about the succession of the two of them when they first took office.

"Did you ever think that we would be here again and sit where we are now and face what we are facing?" Wen Weiguo squinted slightly, looking at the wafting tea gas, as if reminiscing about the past.

"To be honest, never thought about it." Dang Zhengfeng let go of the serious look on his face and said with a smile.

"Yes, I'm the same, even in my wildest dreams, I never dreamed of today. A crisis that has not been encountered in tens of thousands of years in human history, an extraterrestrial civilization that has been sought for many generations has suddenly broken in. ”

"I'm not talking about that." Dang Zhengfeng lowered his head to drink tea and hide his smile, "I mean, I thought that I should be the first leader and you should be the second in command in the future, but I didn't expect your comrade Weiguo to progress faster, hey." ”

Dang Zhengfeng's words made Wen Weiguo recall the era of seizing the day, and he couldn't help but smile.

"Zhengfeng, let me answer your question just now. I don't want to do it, and the party and the state don't allow me to do it, but this is not the same as in the past, the world is changing drastically, and the experience of the past can no longer be substituted into the present. Some comrades in the party always want to cover the lid and maintain stability. Speaking of this, Wen Weiguo sighed, "But the eyes of the people are bright, this cover will not be able to cover sooner or later, the affairs of the awakened, the people need to understand, it is better to be sparse." ”

"Even so, the work of showing the awakened must be strictly controlled, and it should be carried out under the leadership of the party and the state, how can it be handed over to a childish little man to do it, and the slightest negligence will make the country pay the price." Dang Zhengfeng frowned, and as soon as his emotions came up, he used the dialect of his hometown.

"Zhengfeng, have we ever been negligent since we took office?" Wen Weiguo suddenly turned his defense into offense, making the party fall silent.

"You have been calculated by the US Secretary of State, I have also made mistakes in the matter of Pakistan, and Liu's son took the money from the treasury to pay tuition on the New York Stock Exchange, which is billions of dollars, the Wang family's governance ideas are wrong, the investment in research and development is insufficient, and the smelting industry in China that should be developed is copied back and forth, and in the end, the level cannot be improved, and a decent alloy formula cannot be obtained...... Ask yourself, have we ever been negligent? Wen Weiguo stared into his old friend's eyes, his gaze was deep, "Because of our fault, is the price paid by the country less?" ”

Dang Zhengfeng was speechless, and could only sigh: "The characters are sages, who can do nothing." ”

"Yes, who can be without fault, but our faults, the debts borne by the country, in the end, are always repaid by the people, and we owe the people too much." Wen Weiguo said, "Therefore, when the drastic changes in the world come, it is time for us to stand up and shield the people from the wind and rain and repay the debts for the people, instead of letting the people block the wind and rain for us!" ”

"You have read the report handed in by the 19th Bureau, and we will face countless severe tests in the future, and if we do not have drastic actions and the courage to sacrifice, we will not be able to survive the difficulties. Therefore, I think that from today onwards, if the state is going to pay for our mistakes, it should be us communists who make the sacrifices. Up and down, you said. The eyes of the masses are bright, I said. Only when we dare to act, dare to believe, and dare to sacrifice can we let the people of the whole country unite and tide over the crisis together. ”

"One thing I want to tell you, Zhengfeng, on the day I got the nineteenth round report, I prepared seven coffins, but now in my opinion, this is far from enough, at least ninety-three more." Wen Weiguo took the case, "Ninety-eight coffins were left for them, and the remaining two were left for ourselves." ”

Dang Zhengfeng was silent for a long time, and then he brushed his dust-free sleeves, got up and said, "Okay!" Our party is upright, and it should be upright. ”

Wen Weiguo smiled with satisfaction, got up and shook hands with Dang Zhengfeng, just like the handshake when he first ascended to the throne two years ago, and the same as the handshake when they first met twenty years ago.

"Oh, by the way, Zhengfeng, when the demon tide is over, I am going to transfer the 19th Bureau out of the Ministry of State Security." Before leaving, Wen Weiguo suddenly said.

"Why?" Dang Zhengfeng asked.

"Didn't you just say that people are not saints and sages, and anyone who stands in our position will inevitably be negligent, but there may be a person who may not be negligent."

After saying this subtle mystery, Wen Weiguo turned around and left, he and Dang Zhengfeng had a lot of things to do, many, many things.