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Along the way, Han Ming's feelings can only be described in two words: strange.
If the changes in Changzhi City had already made him feel unfamiliar, then the villages he passed along the way made this feeling of unfamiliarity even stronger.
Looking around, there was almost nothing familiar to him. The dirt roads he used to walk on were gone, replaced by a modern two-lane asphalt road.
The desolate plain like the surface of the moon in my memory is now beautifully decorated with lush trees on both sides of the road, and looks full of vitality.
He looked up at the trees beside the road. The slender trunks grew upwards, and the lush green leaves intertwined in the air, as if they had set up a green tent above their heads. The sun shone through the gaps between the leaves, and the mottled shadows swayed gently with their footsteps, as if welcoming his return.
Some new buildings can also be seen. On the left side of the road, several huge factory chimneys stand tall, spewing out thick smoke. On the right side, a teaching building of a regional teachers' college stands tall.
Going further, on the right is the Changzhi Airport. You can see several small planes taking off and circling in the air, then landing smoothly, and taking off again soon after. It seems that the pilots are training.
Walking past a large irrigation canal, Han Ming couldn't help but recall the days when he was worried about the water supply problem in this land. But now, this irrigation canal is well managed, the water flows fast, and the fields in the distance are full of vitality.
Then, Han Ming crossed a well-maintained railway. A branch line of that railway led to the freight station. Han Ming saw several six-wheeled trucks busy loading coal, and the workers were busy and determined.
When he was in a foreign country, Han Ming had thought many times about what Su Yan would be like after the Agrarian Revolution.
He thought that he would see new buildings, new factories, a railway, or even an airport in Su Yan's city, but he never imagined that on the road to Zhangjia Village that he was familiar with, there was already such a modern scene.
What Han Ming didn't expect was that more than half of the people in the nearby villages along the way were waiting on the roadside to welcome them.
As soon as we left Changzhi City, the news that Han Ming was going to pass by seemed to spread like the wind in every village. Groups of people would appear in the fields beside the road from time to time, carrying hoes or baskets, hurrying over and standing by the roadside looking up. Some people in some villages even walked seven or eight miles to come just to see him from afar.
In the crowd, there were often a few people who suddenly recognized him. Their eyes lit up, and then they shouted loudly to the people next to them:
"Look, Old Han!"
“Isn’t that Old Han?”
"It was him. I talked to him at the stall."
Han Ming listened to these familiar local accents, and those simple and sincere voices made him smile.
He whispered to himself: Yes, I'm back.
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It took Han Ming a lot of effort to adapt to the changes in this area.
In the years since he left, especially when he was writing books, he always relied on his memory and imagination to reconstruct the Zhangjia Village in his mind. Gradually, the Zhangjia Village in his mind became more real to him than the real Zhangjia Village.
He walked along with strong expectations in his heart, hoping that the scene he was about to see would match the memories buried deep in his heart.
The Zhangjia Village he had imagined was like a map extending across a plain, with the towering Catholic tower in the center particularly eye-catching. It was a symbol of foreign intervention, still standing proudly in the center of the village. The main street running through the village divided the entire village into two halves, east and west.
The class divisions were clearly reflected in the village architecture. The poor peasants lived in dilapidated mud-roofed houses with thatched roofs, in stark contrast to the landlords’ tile-roofed brick-walled houses. The landlords’ courtyards were spacious and imposing, with high walls, while the poor could only live in the broken beams and walls they could find, and their paths often passed through several collapsed walls, violating the Confucian orthodoxy of the north and south.
In 1922, despite the redistribution of the land revolution, Han Ming could still see these scenes in the village.
However, when he walked up the hill, everything he saw had nothing to do with the scene in his memory.
The clock tower he was familiar with had long since disappeared, replaced by a lush forest that covered the entire village, like a green curtain woven by nature and time, completely separating him from the past.
The transformation towards social equality is particularly evident in this land.
The Zhangjia Village in his memory was fragmented, with the land divided into countless small pieces, like a torn stamp. The farmers in Su Yan have been cultivating such scattered small pieces of land since ancient times. The land reform emphasized that each family should be allocated a piece of land, which strengthened the scattered characteristics. The farmers were independent and planted a variety of crops on countless small pieces.
However, the scene before my eyes was completely different. Large fields of corn shone with golden luster in the sun, and in these large plots, bean crops grew quietly, lush and neat. On the other side, a large field of millet was interplanted with potatoes and sweet potatoes, and the neat and uniform arrangement looked like a work carefully carved by a craftsman, and every inch of land was used reasonably.
The agricultural science of reasonable close planting and intercropping has been applied to the agricultural practice of this village.
Seeing these things, Han Ming felt a complex emotion in his heart. The changes in this land were so great that his memory seemed to be completely overturned.
His gaze seemed to penetrate the land, cross time, and look down at history.
Collectivization, communes... This was an astonishing change that turned over more than 4,000 years of history. It was this change that brought land use to the level of Western agriculture and laid the foundation for future mechanization.
He had long anticipated these changes, and they were what he wanted to confirm and cheer for before he came.
But there were other changes that he had not expected and was not prepared for, changes that took up his entire field of vision and made everything around him, including the lush green woods and the neat and uniform large fields, seem less important in his eyes.
This is industrialization.
Industrialization, which starts with transportation, gradually penetrates into every household and every store. Like the Industrial Revolution that began in Europe and the United States in the 19th century, it is expanding to coal and factories in an extensive, reckless, vigorous and unstoppable manner.
"Can you give me some details about those?"
Along the way, Han Ming pointed at the buildings along the road and asked questions.
Officials from the Prefectural Party Committee introduced them to him one by one.
Not far from them there was a railway that stretched straight to the distant horizon. Next to the railway was Zhangjiazhuang, with buildings, chimneys, water towers, and fork roads.
A large cement factory was built not far away. To meet production needs, a large section of a mountain had been cut away, exposing bare rock. As the factory operated 24 hours a day, the ash from crushing and burning quicklime covered the leaves of nearby corn and bean crops, as if they were covered with a coat of stone dust.
Looking north along the railway, you can see a coal-fired power plant in the distance, with black smoke swirling in the air, like a restless dragon spewing thick breath into the sky.
To the northwest, looking across the swollen Zhangze Reservoir, you can see the blurry silhouette of the blast furnace of the Changzhi Steel Plant, emitting a faint red light, as if telling of the workers' hard work and struggle.
On the hill behind it, larger coal mine buildings and towering chimneys can be vaguely seen blocking the horizon. These are the sites of the Shijie Mine and the Wangjiacun Mine.
Industrialization, this shocking force, is like a prehistoric beast entrenched on this land. Its heavy and strong breath stirs the mountains and seas as it exhales!
Han Ming's heart was filled with excitement. He laughed and recited.
There is no Jade Emperor in heaven.
There is no dragon king on earth,
I am the Jade Emperor,
I am the Dragon King.
He ordered the three mountains and five peaks to make way,
I am coming!】
Dark Forest: Liberating the Three-Body Problem: Chapter 213 How to develop cooperatives? Beware of leaps forward
Han Ming strolled along the path in the field, his eyes fixed on every change. He used his camera to capture the new looks and the busy figures of the villagers, his heart filled with joy and nostalgia. For him, these were the most intuitive marks, enough for him to reproduce the style and history of Zhangjia Village on the pages of the book.
He Qing quietly observed and listened to Han Ming's conversation with his old friend, a thoughtful look on his face.
In fact, her purpose of coming here was not exactly the same as Han Ming's.
Han Ming's purpose of coming here is to record the changes in Zhangjia Village over the years. Perhaps in a few years, he will write another book to describe the changes in Zhangjia Village in the era of agricultural collectivization.
However, this record is ultimately only at the level of phenomenon, and is far from enough for Su Yan as a whole.
Su Yan has more than 10 million square kilometers of land, tens of thousands of miles from north to south and from east to west, dozens of provinces, hundreds of cities, and hundreds of thousands of cooperatives.
The situation in each province, each city, and each cooperative is different.
Some cooperatives are doing very well, while others are not. There are reasons for the good things and reasons for the bad things.
Cooperatives in provinces such as western Shanxi and eastern Shanxi are generally doing better because they are geographically close to the capital and therefore receive more attention and support.
The cooperatives in the three northeastern provinces have done well mainly because the land in these areas is fertile and there are many plains, which are naturally suitable for cooperative production.
In several provinces in the southern region, such as Gan, Sha, and Guang, the situation of cooperatives is generally good because land reform was carried out early in these places and the cadres of the cooperatives are experienced.
However, in more places, cooperatives are not doing well, with dilapidated facilities, tired farmers, and fields with poor harvests... They need to rely on government subsidies to survive.
统计机关统计出了一个好中差2:6:2的比例,其中的水分或许还比较多,这些层层上报的数据或许有一些虚假的成分,或许实际上是2:4:4,甚至是1:5:4。
He Qing couldn't see the data clearly, but someone else could see it clearly.
Those instructions were the reason for her trip.
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"Regarding the slow and stagnant development of 40% of rural cooperatives across the country, we plan to compile "Three Thousand Questions on Cooperatives" to collect and summarize the problems, solutions and excellent cases of cooperatives across the country. Comrades He Qing and Chunjiang will be responsible for implementing this task."
The most important economic foundation of Su Yan is industry and agriculture. The Soviet Union and Su Yan have rich experience in industrial development. They support each other in personnel and resources and share technology. After one five-year plan, Su Yan has built more than 200 new industrial departments and initially established an independent and complete industrial system.
Unlike industry, socialist countries have relatively little experience in agricultural construction.
Historically, there were two paths for socialist agricultural construction, one was collective farms and the other was agricultural cooperatives. The latter was better, so in this time and space, the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union and the newly established Soviet Dynasty all chose the latter.
However, even so, the experience in socialist agricultural construction is still insufficient. Historically, the experience of cooperatives is only a short thirty years, which is less than one-tenth of the history of capitalist agricultural construction and can be described as a flash in the pan.
In the field of agriculture, the several Soviet regimes of this time and space were still at the forefront of development, advancing by trial and error, and the "seven-in-one" rural landscape was not clear.
Therefore, Mu Yuan put a lot of energy into this aspect.
His office is filled with weekly, monthly and annual reports from hundreds of cities across the country. Thick sheets of paper record the progress of cooperatives from all over the country. His desk is piled with thick reference materials, with dense handwriting that permeates every corner.
He sorted out the key issues that the cooperative might encounter now and in the future, and wrote a clear and logical outline.
Li Runshi finished reading the outline first, with a thoughtful gleam in his eyes. The sunlight shone on his face through the gaps in the curtains, outlining the depth between his brows.
"Lao Mu, this document is well written, but I don't recommend issuing it in your name," Li Runshi negotiated.
Some of the things here may not be understood by others for the time being, because many problems have not even shown any signs.
However, he also had historical experience from the future and could tell at a glance what Mu Yuan was wary of and worried about.
After all, economically, the soil for the survival of the bourgeoisie has been destroyed, but ideologically and culturally it is far from being destroyed.
The previous Anti-Rightist Movement had already eliminated some cadres with backward ideas, but this was far from enough.
Mu Yuan was worried that those cadres who were backward in thinking would have problems at the execution level and make the cooperative a mess.
In fact, this is the reason why a large number of cooperatives have stagnated and even regressed. No matter how good the policy is, problems will arise when it comes to implementation, such as corruption and arbitrary taking of the cooperative's assets, expansion and claiming an output of 10,000 catties per mu, or being left in form but right in substance and saying one thing and doing another.
Therefore, Mu Yuan wrote such a document, which was intended to be distributed to the cooperative level as a guiding document to restrain the behavior of cadres and guide the development of cooperatives.
However, Li Runshi believes that this is not appropriate under the current circumstances.
"Runshi, can you elaborate on this?"
Mu Yuan leaned forward slightly, showing an attitude of humbly seeking advice. This is his usual style. He never thinks that everything he does is absolutely correct and always maintains a learning attitude.
"Old Mu, are you a little anxious?"
Li Runshi's tone was gentle, but a little worried. He gently twisted the outline in his hand, as if he was weighing the weight of every word.
In this general outline, he saw a kind of urgency, an eagerness that made him want to create hundreds of thousands of clones to provide one-on-one guidance to hundreds of thousands of cooperatives and make all the cooperatives in the country prosperous.
However, only Sun Wukong has the ability to clone himself, while humans do not.
"Lao Mu, actually I can understand your feelings. After all..." Li Runshi sighed slightly.
After all, in its thirty-year history up to that point, the cooperative’s path had sometimes moved to the left and sometimes to the right, and such changes had never been due to the mistakes of one or two decision-makers, but rather the result of struggle.
Either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind; there is no third possibility in between.
Lessons bring experience. The person who was in that history did not see those things clearly at the beginning, so they were magnified when they were left-wing, and ended up becoming extreme left-wing.
When that person noticed this problem, he quickly corrected the left tendencies. However, the outcome of such a struggle has never been determined by one person, so the plan to correct the left tendencies was interfered with by some people and eventually evolved into the Anti-Rightist Movement, which was then expanded to lead to extreme leftism.
During these two important historical stages, the two expansions directly led to a very serious setback in the development of cooperatives, caused a food shortage disaster across the country, and gave rise to anti-cooperative thoughts, such as the four freedoms promoted by Jiang Daoli and others.
"I will learn from history and avoid repeating the same mistakes I have learned from the past." Li Runshi often reminded himself in his heart.
At this moment, after seeing this document, he found that Mu Yuan was a little anxious, and he was eager to get the cooperative on track and become a complete entity next year.
But that's not realistic.
He raised this question.
"Lao Mu, you wrote this document very well, but I have a concern.
If you issue this document in your name, provincial officials will think it is a hard requirement from above, and at the prefecture and county levels, these standards will become assessment tasks. With this layer of pressure, at the commune level, the cadres will regard the above content as a political task, and think it is a hard indicator that must be strictly followed. "
As he spoke, he paused, glanced at Mu Yuan, and saw that he was thinking about something and did not refute, so he continued: "You also know that this kind of increase is common, just like grain collection, the central government issued a task of 1 million tons, it became 1.2 million tons when it reached the province, and 1.4 million tons when it reached the city. When it came to the cooperative, all the grain that should have been reserved for accumulation was collected by the higher authorities, which caused great damage to the construction of the cooperative.
With your prestige, once the document is issued, who dares to object? Who dares not to implement it? This will inevitably lead to more layers of pressure, more pressure on grassroots cadres, and more implementation problems. The better the policy, the worse the implementation, and the greater the fluctuations in the progress of the cooperative. "
Li Runshi's words seemed to strike at Mu Yuan's mind, hitting the taut string deep in his heart.
Mu Yuan's brows gradually furrowed, and his fingers tapped unconsciously on the table, as if he was struggling with his inner anxiety.
He knew that what Li Runshi said was true, and the lessons of history were still fresh in his mind. Similar situations had occurred many times. The policy was passed down layer by layer, and at the bottom, it became a political task that had to be completed. The cadres blindly implemented it under pressure, which eventually led to the complete failure of the policy.
However, he was absolutely unwilling to let the document he wrote become the cause of the cooperative's setbacks.
After a moment's silence, Mu Yuan exhaled slowly, his eyes gradually changed from anxiety to calmness, and countless text data seemed to flow through his brown pupils, as if he was deducing countless possible directions of history.
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