the world is at stake

If so, that would be a great thing, and many places could benefit.I don't have to leave home thousands of miles to find a job, and it's easier to take care of my parents. "

Zhou Qingfeng nodded slightly. This carriage is a small market place, and the status quo of the conversation is that he is behind the scenes.Including forcibly "merging villages and towns", developing rail transit, expanding the size of the army, and controlling the population of megacities.

The bottom of the society actually reflects the direction of the country's development, and public opinion is more reliable than official articles.At present, China controlled by 'Holy Light' is still very dynamic.

Chapter 81 On the Train

Starting from Chaoyangmen Railway Station, take the narrow-gauge intercity railway at a speed of 130 kilometers per hour to the south, passing through Zhuozhou and Gaobeidian, and it takes seven hours to reach Baoding, which is more than [-] kilometers away.

This was Zhou Qingfeng's first route to inspect the grassroots near the imperial capital.

The carriages are always crowded, the noise of adults and children is louder than that of the vegetable market, and the environment is even worse-you can walk around in the vegetable market, and you are lucky to have a seat in the carriage.

There are travelers who are visiting relatives in the car, and there are also traders who travel north and south. They can always tell some strange things in their conversations, which make others surprised and sigh.

There is a small station every five or six kilometers along the way, and the train stops for a few minutes.There are always hundreds of passengers going up and down with their luggage, shouting endlessly.

The station facilities must be simple, often just a brick and wood structure house next to the railway tracks, without even walls.There are only five or six people in the operation of the small station. The station master part-time sells tickets and dispatches, and a few more people are responsible for maintaining order, filling coal and water for the train.

Every time a train stops, there are always people on the station carrying baskets to sell goods, most of which are food, and there are also newspapers and magazines.The more advanced ones can even get a small cart with a small coal stove to steam the steaming steamer.

In the train, those who have money can buy smoked chicken and goose, and those who have no money can buy steamed buns.

There are also poor farmers carrying poles, with chickens and ducks in one basket and children in the other.He can squat in the aisle of the carriage without moving for a long time, ask the conductor for some boiled water when he is hungry, and fill his stomach with the black steamed buns he made at home.

The construction of narrow-gauge railways requires less earthwork and less money; it has good adaptability to the terrain, and the radius of the curve is small.

The size of the station is small, which still saves money; the purchase, maintenance and operation of vehicles are cheaper, which still saves money.But a train can pull two to three hundred tons at least, which is several orders of magnitude more efficient than human and animal power.

The Beijing-Baobao Intercity Railway was built five years ago. The earliest used steam locomotives and rails were imported from the UK at the price of scrap iron. The total construction cost was less than 1000 million RMB, which is very cheap.

Road construction is convenient in the North China Plain, and there are few bridges and tunnels.Under multi-point construction, the entire line from Imperial Capital to Baoding was designed and constructed, and it took only ten months.

In the past five years, similar intercity railways have blossomed all over the North China Plain.From Baoding to Tianjin, to Cangzhou, to Hengshui, to Shijiazhuang, extending from the north to the south, gradually covering the whole country, the speed of road network construction is extremely fast.

The carriages of narrow-gauge trains are not large, only two meters wide.Each car (hard seat) has only more than 60 seats, four people in each row, and two people on each side.

The power of small trains is generally only [-] to [-] horsepower. Behind the front of the car are two luggage carts, six passenger cars, and four or five open flatbed freight cars behind.

The carts and wheelbarrows of the villagers along the line, as well as pigs, cattle, sheep and other livestock are all on the flat carriages.The fare for vehicles is calculated by person, and the fare for livestock is calculated by size.

In the past, ordinary villagers could only spend a lifetime in a few villages near their birthplace, but now they only need to spend a few cents to travel more than a dozen stops.

Cheap narrow-gauge railways have greatly expanded the circulation range of people and goods.The fate of many people has been changed inadvertently, and they have embarked on a completely different path.

At noon, Zhou Qingfeng bought meat at the passing platform.

The smell of the fragrance made the child in the seat next to him cry, and the parents with the child scolded and scolded them angrily.Zhou Qingfeng laughed and bought all the cooked food sold on the platform, and distributed them to every passenger in the same compartment.

This boldness caused everyone to thank him repeatedly, and also made the old man who 'went to Beijing to sue' wake up from a dream, staring at Zhou Qingfeng in a daze for a long time, and after a while, he was sweating profusely, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

Zhou Qingfeng brought some white flour steamed buns and a roast chicken, and walked to the aisle of the carriage to pass them to the farmers who ate black buns.The other party was a man in his thirties, with rough hands and feet. When he saw someone bringing food, he was too scared to accept it, so he waved his hands repeatedly and said 'no'.

"Eat, brother. It's not easy for you to go out with chickens, ducks and children." Zhou Qingfeng stuffed the steamed buns and roast chicken.He didn't leave, but sat down on the spot, smiled and said, "I work for the government, and my job is to go down to the grassroots to find people to chat with."

The word 'government' made the farmer heave a sigh of relief, but he took the food with peace of mind, thanked him again, and asked, "Comrade, are you a cadre? What do you want to talk about?"

"Where are you from?"

"From Beihou Township."

"Where is this going?"

"The dozen or so chickens raised at home are going to be sold in Gaobeidian, which can earn five or six cents more than selling them in the countryside. My daughter-in-law passed away last year, and the child is too young, so I can only bring it with me."

The child was only four or five years old, thin, with withered hair, sitting in the basket without talking, holding the white flour steamed buns sent by Zhou Qingfeng with his dirty little hands, and eating slowly.

"Are there a lot of people raising chickens in your place?"

"Many." The farmer tore a chicken leg and gave it to the child.He opened up the chatter box and said with a smile: "Our town is famous for raising chickens, and it was even featured in newspapers a few years ago."

"Tell me, I don't know about it." Zhou Qingfeng was also very curious.

The farmer thought about it for a while, and said: "A few years ago, a new head came to our township, only in his twenties, and encouraged the whole town to raise chickens to make a fortune. We all laughed at him as the 'Chicken Head'.

In order to raise money to set up a chicken farm, the 'Chicken Township Chief' ran up and down, first to ask the county and city for funding, and second, to ask the villagers to raise funds.At that time, everyone was very unhappy and planned to watch a joke.

The "Chicken Township Chief" spent a lot of effort to set up the chicken farm, but the first batch of [-] chicks died in less than half a month.At that time, there was no one in the village who did not scold him.

Some people reported that the 'Chicken Township Chief' was corrupt, searched for people's fat and anointment, and forced him to hang himself in the township government.

The higher-ups sent people to investigate and said, "No corruption problem has been found, and the spirit of active development is worthy of praise, but it should be criticized for not acting in accordance with scientific laws."

Later, high officials came from the province, and they also brought people from the Institute of Agricultural Sciences to ask our township head to continue to invest in building a chicken farm.

Since then, the radio station in the village has raised chickens every day.We country bumpkins can't do it if we don't want to hear it. Over time, we also learn about 'chicken chicks', 'feed', 'disinfecting', 'epidemic prevention' and so on.

To be honest, who doesn’t raise a few chickens and ducks in the countryside, I really didn’t know that there are so many ways to raise chickens.After two or three years of hard work, there are two large chicken farms in the village.Small chicken farmers have eight hundred if not one thousand.

Most of the chickens eaten on the railway are raised by us, and the village has indeed made a fortune by raising chickens.My family can earn 80 yuan a year, and life is much better than in the past. "

Zhou Qingfeng was delighted to hear that, "The township chief is not bad, he should be promoted."

"Isn't that right? The fellow village head was promoted two years ago. I heard that he went to Baoding. But he went there and got into trouble again. I heard him being criticized on the radio, talking about dogmatism, but I don't know exactly what happened."

Ah... this is the true reflection of the current domestic civil servants.

The "Holy Light" came, changed the world, and promoted a large number of young intellectuals to replace the old and old bureaucrats-young people are passionate and energetic but inexperienced, and their abilities are often not good.

The central government is always willing to support and promote cadres who are motivated, but the promoted cadres often have path dependence-someone raises chickens to gain political achievements, and they will think about continuing to raise chickens in another place.

So reform and education are going on all the time.

The farmer continued to talk about him, sighing: "Now that the chicken farms in the village are getting bigger and bigger, it's getting harder and harder for us small chicken farmers, and we can't fight the cost no matter what.

At the beginning of this year, the new head of the township will open a food processing factory to make chicken into cooked food and use the railway line to sell it to further distances to make more money.

I also wondered if I would stop running around here and there, and plan to join forces with several other farmers to raise more chickens and ducks and sell them directly to food factories.

But several nearby villages have learned our experience in raising chickens and want to set up factories.However, the investment in food factories is large, and one has already been opened in the county, saying that low-level redundant construction cannot be carried out. "

Zhou Qingfeng was very surprised when he heard it. It wasn't what the farmer said, but that the other party's thoughts and words were very clear, and he didn't look like a foolish countryman at all.

After being praised by Zhou Qingfeng, the farmer scratched his head and smiled wryly: "I used to seldom talk to people, and I couldn't make a fart with three sticks, so I was afraid of life. But when I came out to run and run, I saw a lot of the world, I don't know what to do." Land, the brain is bright.

Since the broadcasting and the railway were connected in the village, there are many people like me.

I don't know how many gourd-like people in the village suddenly became enlightened.Some went to join the army, some went to night school, and more traveled north and south to find a way out.

Sitting in this clattering car makes people feel comfortable. You can know new things that you couldn’t think of in the past, and you can go to places that you can’t go in your life before you know how big this country is. "

The farmer was leaning against the aisle of the carriage, sitting on the dirty floor with a smile on his face.He ate up all the roast chicken, and deliberately packed up the chicken bones and threw them into the trash can in the aisle.

"When I took the train for the first time, I didn't know anything. I didn't know how to find a seat, I didn't know how to use the toilet, and I couldn't clean up the garbage. The conductor scolded me half to death, and I was so ashamed that I wished I could never come again.

But for my livelihood, I had to come again.It depends on what other people do, and I also learned a little bit, only to find that things are not that difficult, and many rules are reasonable.

Now the money is getting more and more, and the life is getting better and better, but it's a pity that the child's mother has a sudden illness.It will be gone before I send him to the county hospital, and he will not be able to enjoy the blessings of this world. "

The child in the basket ate steamed buns and chicken legs, grabbed a gourd, drank some hot water, and fell asleep on a cushion.When the father's man lovingly reached out and touched the child's head, he smiled with relief and bitterness.

Zhou Qingfeng knows that domestic primary medical care has made tremendous progress compared with ten years ago, but it has not reached the point of covering every corner.People at the bottom often cannot persist for a few days when they are really seriously ill.

People in 'later generations' always say that getting older gets sicker and blames it on industrialization.In fact, industrialization prolongs the life span of human beings. If you feel a little unwell, you can go to the hospital. It seems that you are suffering a lot, otherwise...

It means that there are many dead people and short life spans.

This strengthens Zhou Qingfeng's attitude, "It is still necessary to promote industrialization and urbanization, and 'merging villages and towns' cannot be stopped. Only when the town is large enough can the supporting facilities be perfect and the productivity can be higher."

Chapter 82 Potential Explosion

The train wobbled and its wheels rattled.

The stale air in the carriage made people frown, but the passengers came and went, noisy and lively.

During the more than 100-kilometer journey from the imperial capital to Baoding, Zhou Qingfeng chatted with travelers from different backgrounds, spent seven or eight yuan on food and drink, and savored the various conditions of the market and the heat and warmth of the people.

No member of the central government can stay close to the grassroots for such a long time.Zhou Qingfeng seems to be scurrying around, but in fact he has crossed many barriers, allowing the top leadership to have a smooth communication channel with the bottom.

Every time the Standing Committee meets, the investigation report written by Zhou Qingfeng's team is always the focus of the 'Holy Light' team's must-read.Many dark sides that others cannot discover are always revealed through him.

such as……

The 'Living King of Hades' caught a full six pickpockets during the seven-hour journey, but found it inconvenient to turn them over to the public security organs.

Large-scale population movement has brought great public security risks, and criminal activities have become more rampant with economic development.However, the railway police failed to enter the intercity narrow-gauge system, and the organization construction seemed to lag behind.

As for the six unlucky ones who were caught, when they learned that it was the 'Tianwang Zhou' who caught them, their distorted expressions were as if they were being bombarded—how could such a big fairy come to catch a kid like him?

also……

Someone was stealing coal and telegraph wire on the railway line, and more than half of the food sold at the station did not meet hygienic standards.A large number of rural population is pouring into the city, but the increase of urban jobs cannot keep up with the demand, and the contradiction between urban and rural areas looms.

All kinds of social problems are recorded in the notebook that Zhou Qingfeng carries with him. There are tens of thousands of inspectors and inspection teams like him across the country, who give feedback to the central government all the time.

This is an independent investigation system that will not be afraid of obstruction by any person or force.As long as it wants to reveal the secrets, it will definitely investigate to the end.The more resistance there is, the more vigorous it will be.

Zhou Qingfeng arrived in Baoding with the train and continued to Shijiazhuang.Rockefeller Jr., who has been in China recently, also took the narrow-gauge intercity train and wandered from one city to another.

The travel of the heir to the consortium is more ostentatious. He will charter two or three carriages, bring two No. 30 entourages and bodyguards, and eat, drink and live at the highest level along the way.

If not, bring your own.

Such a high-profile act is tacitly tolerated, because the Rockefeller family is an old friend of the Chinese people.The two sides began to approach step by step from the oil trade, and reached the stage of mutual benefit within a few years.

Rockefeller Jr. was really a good person, and he helped China a lot, including but not limited to accepting Chinese students, providing the latest technology and equipment in the United States, assisting in economic financing, and helping to evacuate overseas Chinese in the United States not long ago.

In return, the Rockefeller family's investment in China has been protected, the operation is very stable, and the profits are rising steadily.

Even under the background that Marcos ordered the prohibition of Sino-US technical exchanges and China reduced imports from the US, his family business will not be affected.

Rockefeller Jr. visited the completion ceremony of the city's steel plant in Shijiazhuang.

In the factory, the dark blast furnace and cooling tower are rough and atmospheric, dense scaffolding and conveyor belts set up a steel forest, and the small trains transporting lime and concentrate powder run day and night, which is a typical symbol of industrial civilization.

During the visit, workers and technicians from the United States took off their hats and paid tribute to Rockefeller Jr.The plant is fully equipped by U.S. Steel, and most of the workers were laid off after the U.S. economic crisis last year.

Britain, Germany and France will not need these, the United States is unlucky, and China is full.

Officials from the Ministry of Commerce also thanked Rockefeller Jr.

The latter waved his hands and took no credit, shaking his head and said, "It is the Chinese market that has attracted American products. I really didn't expect you to build so many steel plants."

"Later generations" China's annual steel output exceeds one billion tons, behind which is that basically every city with conditions has a steel factory.Some county-level iron and steel enterprises have piled up production capacity of several million tons, which is incredible.

"Holy Light" continues the industrial layout of "Later Generations", and also launches large-scale enterprises in major cities across the country.The domestic equipment manufacturing industry has insufficient production capacity, and the American consortium immediately received a large number of orders.

Sino-US relations are approaching a freezing point, but contrary to the predictions of the US military government, the trade between the two sides has not only not shrunk, but has been expanding rapidly.

The more the U.S. domestic economy is hit, the more anxious the U.S. consortium is to deliver goods to China, and they will avoid U.S. customs inspections at the expense of forging the destination of goods, so as to withdraw funds as soon as possible.

Tianjin, Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou and other places are expanding ports and berths.Cargo ships from the United States accounted for half of the imports, and the Americans themselves were shocked.

The Chinese side also promised to the American Mellon and Morgan consortia that raised funds for themselves that no matter what happens to Sino-US relations, the credibility of China's national debt will not be affected.

This promise is like a reassurance, stabilizing the stock prices of several consortiums amidst the wailing market sentiment on Wall Street.

As a result, the U.S. State Department expressly prohibits U.S. financial institutions from selling Chinese treasury bonds on an agency basis, but there are still huge amounts of funds choosing to use Chinese treasury bonds as the best hedging product.

On the contrary, the sales of special treasury bonds and war bonds issued by the military government were not satisfactory-the British shallow-water heavy gunboats had already put their guns on the foreheads of the Great Lakes industrial areas, and the capitalists really couldn't figure out how not to be damaged in the war.

So the Fed can only print its own money to buy treasury bonds.But the United States is still on the gold standard, and the amount of money printed must be linked to its gold reserves—the more money it prints, the more people want to exchange it for gold, and the greater the pressure on currency depreciation.

In contrast, the oil currency developed by China, Britain, Germany and France is much more reliable.As long as the extraction and consumption of oil remains steady, each currency has a solid anchor.

All walks of life in the United States are already worried, very worried that the United States has not yet started a war, and the currency will experience a large-scale depreciation first.The consequences of this incident are more terrible than war, because the states of the United States live together as a group, and they can only share wealth and wealth, but cannot share adversity.

Rockefeller Jr. came to China to solve the mystery of the economic stability of this latecomer country, what makes it able to maintain ultra-high-speed development in the turbulent international environment.

Since five years ago, China has been building a lot.At present, there is news every week that a certain province has built an important factory.Everywhere Rockefeller Jr. was warmly welcomed and invited to visit.

Local governments like to invite an 'international celebrity' to witness their achievements, adding a bit of joy, as if to gain more recognition and political achievements.

There are iron and steel factories in Baoding, there are iron and steel factories in Jinan, there are iron and steel factories in Taiyuan, there are in Handan, there are in Anyang, there are in Zhengzhou, Luoyang and Xuzhou.Basically blooming everywhere.

In the past, Rockefeller Jr. only knew that China had a large population, but he had no specific concept, and his understanding of Chinese place names was limited to the imperial capitals of Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Now he wandered around North China, and found that this small place already has a population similar to that of the United States, and the industry is developing extremely rapidly.

It was the first time he knew about Shijiazhuang, and it was only after he was invited to be the mascot for the completion ceremony of the iron and steel plant that this unsurprising place had several industrial chains including petrochemicals, steel, medicine, food, building materials, and textiles.

And these enterprises did not exist at all ten years ago.It all depends on the Chinese government to use foreign capital to import equipment from abroad, export training for overseas students, recruit foreign technicians, and build it up bit by bit.

There are not one or two such cities in China, but tens or hundreds.Rockefeller Jr. asked the officials of the Ministry of Commerce who accompanied him. He didn't understand China's industrial development ideas, but he heard a word repeatedly-concentrate efforts to do big things.

This sentence is easy to understand. The central government has carefully calculated and planned the national industrial layout.But it's too scary for Americans who are used to small governments-the government takes care of everything, is the people still free?

Regarding this question, every Chinese person who was asked was even more panicked-if the official doesn't care about the matter, what's the matter?When an official does not make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes.