Rebirth of science and technology to rejuvenate the country

In fact, it is not only the development of private enterprises that has entered a cold winter, but also state-owned enterprises.

Due to the soaring prices in the previous year, urban residents looted and hoarded supplies, and many state-owned enterprises followed suit and blindly expanded production.

When the country announced in August that it had failed to break through the price barrier, and began to implement price controls and limit purchases by ticket, people finally stopped looting supplies.As a result, the over-produced goods in those factories became unsalable and backlogged.

Commodities are unsalable, and manufacturers cannot collect funds, so they cannot pay for raw materials. This kind of triangular debt has become a common social phenomenon in society.

Many companies are in trouble because of the triangular debt problem, and they can't even operate normally and are facing bankruptcy.

Yuan Xia can directly feel it from the Spring Canton Fair. He has participated in the Canton Fair for several years, and every time he feels that it is more lively than the last time, and the transaction volume is also gradually increasing. Only this time, there are obviously fewer buyers than last year. .

The transaction volume of Xingyuan this year is also much less than last year, and even Feidie's factory director came to tell Yuanxia that he was losing money and shouldn't spend such a high price on technology.

Yuan Xia had no choice but to persuade him to look at the long-term, not just the immediate. As long as the national policy remains unchanged, the demand for electric sewing machines will only increase.

In fact, Fei Die said that, they took the initiative to buy technology because they received a big order, a company purchased [-] sewing machines from them, and they didn't want to share the money with Yuan Xia, so they simply proposed to buy directly.

After the Canton Fair ended, Yuan Xia returned to Yuecheng by train.This year's Guangzhou Railway Station is much more lively than in previous years. Every day, a large number of migrant workers from other provinces come to Guangzhou. They want to come here to try their luck and find a job that can support their families.

However, the economic winter is cold, and there are not so many factories and construction sites to accommodate these migrant workers, so these people are stranded in various cities in Guangdong, wandering around.

Looking at the anxious and helpless faces, Yuan Xia felt very uncomfortable, but he was too weak to help.

While waiting to enter the station, Yuan Xia saw a one-armed young man talking to people with a small red notebook, but no one in the hurrying people stopped to listen to him.

He licked his dry lips, looked around blankly, when he met Yuan Xia's eyes, he hesitated for a moment, then lowered his eyes again.

Yuan Xia noticed that although he was missing a right arm, his waist was standing straight, his body looked like he had been a soldier.

Yuan Xia took the initiative to walk towards him: "Is there anything I can help you with?"

The other party raised his eyes, with a shy expression on his face, he showed Yuan Xia the small notebook in his hand, and said with some embarrassment: "Hello, my name is Hong Weiguo, I am a retired soldier, here is my retired soldier's certificate and Work permit. I am from Jingzhou, Hubei, and I work in a textile factory. Our factory cooperates with a garment factory in Guangzhou. Last year we sent them a batch of fabrics, but they didn’t receive the payment. The factory sent me out to collect the bill. But The owner of the garment factory ran away, and the workers were also looking for him for wages. I couldn't find anyone, and the money I brought was spent, and I couldn't go home. I didn't want to cause trouble for the government, so I wanted to borrow it from kind people. Pay for the travel expenses home. Don’t worry, I’m definitely not a liar! I’ll pay back the money when I get back.”

Yuan Xia carefully read his two certificates, among which the service time was 1978-1984, Yuan Xia asked softly: "Your injury is a war injury, right?"

Hearing what he said, Hong Weiguo blinked his eyes hard, and gave a soft "hmm": "Self-defense counterattack against Vietnam."

Yuan Xia closed the small book and handed it back to the other party with both hands: "Please keep it." Then he took out a bill from his pocket, "This is one hundred yuan, you take it to buy a ticket and go home."

Hong Weiguo looked at the 100 yuan, but didn't answer it: "Thank you, comrade, I don't need this much, I only need 35 yuan, and I can get home. Please leave your address for me, and I will try to send you the money when I get home."

Yuan Xia said: "You don't have to pay it back. Just take it as a small thing I do for the people's soldiers." He stuffed the banknotes into the right pocket of the opponent's clothes.

He was about to turn around and leave, but was grabbed by Hong Weiguo. Even though it was his left hand, Yuan Xia still felt the strength of that hand: "Comrade, this is not acceptable. Our People's Liberation Army has strict discipline, and we cannot take the masses one by one. You today If you don’t leave me your address, I won’t be able to collect your money.”

Yuan Xia looked at the serious face of the other party and said: "Okay, let me go, I will write you the address." He decided to leave the address, because it is related to the dignity of a person and the image of a group.

Yuan Xia neatly wrote down her address and said, "If you need any help in the future, you can come to me. I opened a machinery factory in Yuecheng, and the economic conditions are not bad."

Hong Weiguo accepted the address, stood at attention, like a tall and straight poplar, and said to Yuanxia, ​​"Thank you for your trust in the people's soldiers!"

Yuan Xia gave him a thumbs up: "Come on!"

This is just a small episode that Yuan Xia encountered at the train station, but it is enough to show how serious the debt problem is.

Hong Weiguo's factory may not necessarily need him to collect debts, but because he is a disabled person, he may arouse the sympathy of the creditors, so he was allowed to come over, but the result was still in vain.

Last year's price breakthrough failed, which caused a series of economic problems, and the development of enterprises entered a cold winter. Even many foreign companies in China stopped working and closed down, and some even divested.

All kinds of social problems followed immediately, causing people to question and discuss the reform policy. Coupled with the infiltration of bourgeois liberalism, some lawbreakers simply took advantage of this background to start a color revolution.

Since spring, Yuan Xia has been communicating frequently with Yuan Dong and Yuan Chun, and also discussed these issues with Yu Xingyi and Yuan Qiu.

Yu Xingyi works in the school, he needs to guide the students.Yuan Qiu works in a newspaper office, and she needs to guide the people, so no one can be messed up.

Yu Xingyi is firmly on the same front as Yuan Xia. He has experienced far more things than young students, and he knows that the development of history is always a spiral, so no matter how chaotic the current situation is, it will not be chaotic for those ten years .

Yuanqiu was surrounded by a wave of free thoughts. The media people were the first group of people to get in touch with the outside world, and they were also the first group of people who were pro-Western. Naturally, they were also the group of people who criticized domestic issues the most.

Yuan Qiu was influenced by his elder brother since he was a child, so he knows more about Western countries and has a thorough understanding of their essence, so he can look at domestic problems more objectively.

Yuan Xia is more at ease with the people around her, but she is a little worried about Yuan Dong.

At the beginning of March, Yuan Dong received the admission letter from Stanford University and received a full scholarship.

Yuan Xia knew that if he wanted to go abroad smoothly, he would have to spend the last semester in peace, so he had the most frequent correspondence with Yuan Dong.

Yuandong's letters sometimes leave calmly, and sometimes are passionate.Yuan Xia discussed this with him calmly and objectively, and warned him that if he wanted to go abroad smoothly, then he should not participate in any student activities.

In late May, Yuan Xia simply went to Beijing to help Yuan Dong apply for a guarantee for going abroad.

Yuan Dong finished his graduation thesis and is preparing for his defense right now.Three of his roommates have already applied to go abroad, and one is a graduate student. The other two are from relatively remote areas and will work directly after graduation.

At this time the atmosphere is already very tense.A group of graduates have nothing to do, stay in the dormitory every day and brag about the mountains.

Yuan Xia lived in Yuan Dong's dormitory for two days, had countless heated debates with his classmates, and truly experienced what it means to fight with the Confucian scholars.

At the end, Yuan Xia said in a hoarse voice: "Empty talk harms the country, hard work rejuvenates the country. You are all engineering students and enjoy the best educational resources in the country for free. The most important thing to do is to learn the skills well and apply them to production and life. , create social value, and improve people’s production and living standards. Instead of talking here and criticizing me one by one. Yes, the country has many imperfections, but it has been receiving criticism and frequent corrections. You can’t give it all Beat to death. Don’t forget, it’s also this government that turned the Chinese into masters and allowed them to live with dignity. I advise you to think calmly, don’t be sold out and still count money, and be patriotic in a rational and scientific way .”

Seeing that his brother was almost at a loss for words, Yuandong was so distressed that he couldn't express it. He had never seen his brother get angry in such a hurry. Even when his mother remarried and his eldest sister fell ill and was hospitalized, he was very calm and rational: "Brother, Let me buy you some medicine, your throat is speechless."

Yuan Xia waved his hand feebly, he was thinking of some excuse to take Yan Dong away.

Just happened to receive a letter from Yuanchun, saying that he accidentally twisted his foot in physical education class, Yuanxia said: "Dongdong, you can go to Harbin with me."

Yuan Dong happened to be fine, thinking that he would go to the United States in the near future, and that he would not see his little sister many times in the next few years, so he agreed: "Okay, I'll go buy a ticket."

Originally, Yuanchun just reported a small injury like a sprained foot to his brother, and never thought that they would be alarmed and run to see her.

As a result, on June 6nd, she saw two familiar handsome men outside her dormitory building. She screamed, threw the crutches in her hand, opened her arms, and exclaimed: "Brother! Why are you here?" ?!"

Yuan Xia hurried over and supported Yuan Chun: "Slow down, slow down, your feet are still hurting, why are you still running!"

Yuan Chun hugged Yuan Xia, and went to catch Yuan Dong again, his mouth closed from ear to ear with excitement: "Big Brother, Second Brother, am I dreaming? I just twisted my feet. Why did you come to Harbin to see me? I didn't." So delicate! My feet are almost healed."

He said so in his mouth, but he was indescribably happy in his heart, and his nose couldn't help but sore.

Yuan Xia patted her head: "I happened to go to Beijing to look for your second brother, and when I saw your letter, I just came here. How are your feet?"

"It's almost done, nothing serious." Yuan Chun asked in surprise, "Why are you looking for my second brother?"

Yuan Xia said: "Give him a guarantee to go abroad."

Yuan Chun pouted and looked at Yuan Dong: "Second Brother, when are you leaving? How long will it take you to come back?"

Yuan Dong smiled and said: "I haven't left yet, you think I'm back. I'm not sure yet, let's go in July and August, and I should go home again to accompany Grandpa."

Yuan Xia said: "There will be a long vacation in the future, and you can come back to see grandpa. I will pay you for the air ticket."

Yuan Dong said: "I see if I can go to the United States to work. I heard that the wages there are very high. It is still possible to earn travel expenses."

Yuan Xia said lightly: "There are many restrictions on foreign students working part-time, you can figure it out. The most important thing is your studies."

"Ah."

Yuan Xia asked: "Are you going to class?"

Yuan Dong went to pick up his sister's crutches: "Let's go, we will accompany you to class."

Yuanchun joyfully put both hands on the arms of the two older brothers: "Okay, two handsome guys escorted me to class, I can't be too happy! Make them envious, hee hee!"