Chapter 22 7.1 Working while sick

After a serious illness at the end of 1957, Chen Yun's physical condition has been very bad. After presiding over the adjustment of steel indicators in 1959, Yun was actually in a state of recuperation.After nearly a year and a half of recuperation, at the end of 1960 and the beginning of 1961, his health improved slightly, and he returned to work. Chen Yun resumed work in a very severe economic situation. "Mainly due to the mistakes of the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Anti-Rightist Deviation', coupled with the natural disasters at that time and the Soviet government's treachery to tear up the contract, our national economy encountered serious difficulties from 1959 to 1961, and the country and people suffered heavy losses. "In June 1981, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China passed the "Resolution on Certain Historical Issues Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China", which described the tragic scene in the history of the Republic in this way.Heavy, but undeniable.For those who experienced that disaster, what an unbearable period of time it was!

Even though Chen Yun is recuperating, he has been investigating and investigating in various places to understand the real situation.After returning to work, he felt that some people spoke indifferently and were afraid of making mistakes. Chen Yun didn't take it seriously.Chen Yun himself was severely criticized for anti-rash advancement and other issues, and was even regarded by some people as a representative of the "rightist" line within the party. In 1959, the Lushan Conference revisited the danger of opposing right deviations, and the political life in the party was very abnormal. Chen Yun's situation has always been very difficult.However, in the face of the suffering of the people and the serious difficulties of the national economy, Chen Yun put his personal honor and disgrace behind him, faced the harsh reality, and together with other leaders of the central government, worked hard and tried every means to save the crisis.

He was sick and went to various places to investigate the actual situation. The severity of the disaster made Chen Yun restless. Knowing that the actual food situation was slightly better than expected, Chen Yun was so excited that he drank a glass of wine. The disasters caused by the "Great Leap Forward" and "Anti-Rightist Deviation" soon befall hundreds of millions of Chinese people on an unbelievable scale.Agriculture, the weakest link in the national economy, was the first to suffer major problems. The apocalypse began in 1959 and reached an extremely dangerous level in 1960 and 1961. In May 1960, the food problem began to intensify, and the national food stocks along the traffic line became more and more empty, and the dispatching was already ineffective.By the first ten days of June, the inventory in Beijing was only enough for 7 days of sales, and the inventory in Tianjin was only enough for 10 days of sales. The grain department in Shanghai had no rice inventory. It lived on rice exported from the foreign trade department. The industrial base Liaoning has 10 cities The grain in stock can only be sold for eight or nine days.Jiangxi, a major province in which grain is exported, is also in a dangerous situation of being sold as soon as it is distributed, and the four major cities of Nanchang, Jingdezhen, Ganzhou, and Jiujiang in the province.Sichuan, known as the Land of Abundance, and the three northeastern provinces with large tracts of fertile black land all appealed to the central government: please give us food!

The arrival of the harvest season did not bring much comfort to the food sector, but added to the tension. From July 1 to August 25, 1960, only 13.9 billion catties of purchased grain were put into storage, a decrease of 5.1 billion catties over the same period of the previous year, but the sales volume was as high as 15.2 billion catties, an increase of 1.3 billion catties over the same period of the previous year. Before the end of June last year, the inventory dropped sharply. During this period, the grain inventory decreased by 10 billion catties compared with the same period last year, and by the end of November, it further decreased by 30 billion catties!

There is no adjustment for grain adjustment, and the food shortage situation is even more serious.Wuhan, an important city in central China, is short of food. At the most critical time, the food can only be sold for 3 days.Under the shadow of hunger in Wuhan Iron and Steel Plant, large factories and small factories tossed "ultrasonic" to steam food, steaming several times to make the volume swell and appease the stomach.In this way, the food supply cannot be guaranteed.Governor Zhang Tixue called Li Xiannian in the name of the Provincial Party Committee. The tough man couldn't help but burst into tears at this time: "Please send us some food as soon as possible. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are starving! I didn't do my job well." , I have no objection to any punishment, I just ask the central government to support our food!"

Chen Yun has always attached great importance to food, and he regards the food issue as an important political issue.Food was in short supply, so he couldn't sit still, supported his weak body, and went to various places to investigate. In October 1960, Chen Yun went to the Huang-Huai-Hai area to investigate agriculture, water conservancy, and fertilizer production, and personally learned the seriousness of the problem. What is the global reality?Chen Yun was really worried.If it cannot be estimated accurately, it will have an illusion of the real situation and affect the accuracy of decision-making.However, in those years, food "satellites" were randomly placed, overestimated production, and high purchases made economic statistics unclear and inaccurate.

Chen Yun tried his best to squeeze out the moisture in the numbers. In 1958, the grain output was announced as 750 billion catties, which was later changed to 500 billion catties. After calculation and analysis, Chen Yun believed that it was only about 420 billion catties, and even a little more would be limited.Of course, Chen Yun knew how much, and no one dared to say, for fear of being said to doubt the "Great Leap Forward."However, the output in 1960 cannot be overestimated, it must be estimated in order to find the basis for solving the problem.Someone estimated 370 billion catties, but Chen Yun didn't believe it at all.He did the math, and estimated at most 310 billion catties. The gap of 60 billion catties is no small matter.Chen Yun believes that in order to alleviate the food shortage, in 1961 at least 40 to 50 billion catties of grain should be collected more than in the previous year.If the previous year was estimated at 370 billion catties, the new year's grain output will be 410 billion catties. Judging from the extent of agricultural damage, it is simply impossible.If it is only 310 billion catties, there is still great hope for increasing it to 350 billion catties.

After verification, relevant departments reported to Chen Yun that the actual output was indeed only 3,100 jin.If it is true that the output is so small, the performance of the difficulty of food and the large-scale digging of stocks are all justified.As long as there is a proper increase in production in the new year, the situation can be alleviated and food can be obtained, and things can be done very well.On the day Chen Yun heard the news, he was extremely excited and made an exception and drank a glass of wine.