Chapter 42 Chapter Forty-Two

However, according to the original intention, it is no longer possible for Taizheng to be the exclusive agent for international investment promotion.Faced with the fact that 72 Chinese and foreign companies have entered the park, Shu Huaru, on behalf of Pingchuan, proposed that the Pingchuan Municipal Government and the Taisho Foundation jointly conduct international investment promotion.In China, Hirakawa is completely in charge; in Japan, Taisho is in charge.For the rest of the third country, the two parties will either jointly carry out or carry out separately according to the actual situation.After consulting the Tokyo headquarters, Mr. Nakamura and Ms. Yoshiko Taisho agreed to this new plan.

In the fax sent to the headquarters in Tokyo, Mr. Nakamura concluded: For investors from all over the world, this park is full of hope and has considerable development potential. rare.We have every reason to believe that the possibility of successfully attracting international investment is here.Although compared with Thailand, Malaysia in Southeast Asia, and the international investment zones along the coast of China, this place has the disadvantage of being far away from the sea, but the first-class modern road network and the direct railway to the sea here are enough to make up for its disadvantages.In particular, it should be pointed out that the creativity of the Chinese people here is astonishing.If we hadn't seen it with our own eyes, we would never have believed that the place we inspected three years ago and the place we inspect today would be the same place in inland China.The sixty-fourth old governor did not come to Pingchuan with a delegation organized by the provincial party committee, but came by himself.When the provincial party committee inspection team went to Pingchuan, the old governor originally said that he would go, but he fell ill when he was about to leave, so he didn't go.This made the old governor very regretful, and also Wu Mingxiong.So Wu Mingxiong asked the old governor to invite a group of old comrades to come again.

When he came back, the old governor was still not feeling well, and he was exhausted at the reception banquet that night. He barely drank two glasses of white wine and didn't eat any food, so he left the table early and had an early rest with the old lady. .Wu Mingxiong was therefore worried that the next day's visit could not be carried out, so he made a second-hand arrangement. He was going to let Shu Huaru take other old comrades to visit first, and he would accompany the old governor to chat and rest in the Pingchuan Hotel room. Report on work. Unexpectedly, when he got up early the next morning, the old governor was surprisingly in good spirits. Before seven o'clock, he asked his secretary to hang up the phone at Wu Mingxiong's house and asked Wu Mingxiong to come to the hotel, saying that he was desperately going to Pingchuan for a while. Come on, not to sleep in the room.

Wu Mingxiong was very happy, so he ran over to have breakfast with the old governor and the seven old comrades who came with him, and then he got into a big car, let the police car clear the way in front, the medical car was postponed, and three cars formed A small convoy went out to see the city.After looking at the commercial area in the city, the small convoy got on the Huancheng Road and ran around the whole line.The old comrades were full of enthusiasm, asked to stop from time to time, and took a lot of pictures in front of the nine art sculptures around the island. At noon, we had dinner on the cruise ship of Xinxi Lake. In the afternoon, we visited Xinxihu Scenic Area.

Walking on the forest-lined path of the new West Lake, the old governor was full of emotions, and said to Zou Ziyun, the retired head of the Provincial Party Committee, "Ziyun, it seems that our old guys have good eyesight. Use it right. People, we have revitalized a city, and our consultant is quite competent.” Zou Ziyun said with a smile: "Old man, I've got two points in my opinion. Our old guys have good eyesight, and the current provincial party committee team is also able to lead well. If Secretary Qian Xianghui doesn't buy our old guys' account, I'm afraid it won't be in the same situation as it is today."

The old governor nodded and said with emotion: "Yes, yes, Comrade Qian Xianghui has made a lot of contributions. When employing people at the beginning, it was a credit to make a quick decision; later, with so many conflicts and pressure, Comrade Xianghui It is another achievement to bite the bullet and support silently; when the matter in Pingchuan is done, he immediately makes use of the situation and writes an article. The contribution is even greater. Comrade Xiang Hui is both calm and pioneering, and he is very good at Do your work, catch my old man's concern for the poverty alleviation of the 1 million poor people in Pingchuan, and send me an errand."

Zou Ziyun jokingly said: "I think Qian Xianghui didn't send this job. In all likelihood, you snatched it. We don't have the good spirit of your old man?" At this time, the old governor found that Chen Qiming, the former deputy secretary of the provincial party committee who had been walking in front, got off the station facing the clear lake, so he paused on the ground with his crutches and turned around and shouted: "Chen political commissar, keep up, keep up, don't go!" Fall behind." Chen Qiming was still standing facing the lake, without moving, as if he didn't hear it.

Wu Mingxiong caught up from behind and said to Chen Qiming, "Old Chen, let's go and rest at the tea house in front." When Chen Qiming turned around, Wu Mingxiong and the old governor realized at the same time that Chen Qiming's face was full of tears. The old governor said, "This political commissar Chen, why are you crying?" Chen Qiming took Wu Mingxiong's hand and said: "Comrade Mingxiong, it's not easy for you, it's not easy? When I was the secretary of the prefectural committee here in the late 1950s, I thought about building an artificial lake to give Pingchuan this shortcoming. Add some water spirit to the place where the water spirit is. But I thought about it for five years, and when I left Pingchuan, the idea was just an idea. What era was it, one movement after another, who asked you to do things? Just because I disbanded the big cafeteria, On the contrary, I am leaning to the right."

Wu Mingxiong said with a smile: "Mr. Chen, have you forgotten? Didn't I also get unlucky with you? You left Pingchuan and went to the research office in the province. I went to the river with a backpack. It wasn't the old governor who protected me. Don't know what will happen to me?" The old governor confirmed: "It's not bad. When we got to the construction site, they still have to pay Wu Mingxiong? My old man scolded them and drove them away?" He turned and pointed to Zou Ziyun, the old organization director of the Provincial Party Committee. You bastard was enough back then, insisting on removing Wu Mingxiong's deputy county magistrate."

Zou Ziyun said aggrievedly: "Old man, don't you think about it. In those days, were you allowed to think independently? Do whatever the party says. The party said that Chen Qiming and Wu Mingxiong were wrong, so I really thought they were wrong. How could I Don’t deal with it? This kind of problem should be looked at from the perspective of historical materialism.” Wu Mingxiong hurriedly said: "Hey, what year is it now, why are you still talking about those old things?? Let's go, let's go to the Guanyu Tea House to drink tea. I asked them to prepare the best Biluochun."

After drinking tea in the tea house, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, when the old governor suddenly proposed to visit Damhe River. Wu Mingxiong said mildly: "Old governor, it's getting late and everyone is tired. In my opinion, don't go today, let's talk about it another day." The old governor insisted on going, and Chen Qiming also said to go, so Wu Mingxiong had to obey. On the way to Damohe, Wu Mingxiong reported to the old governor and a group of old comrades: "So far, we in Pingchuan can only say that we have just started, that is, we have set up a basic framework. Compared with cities, there is still a big gap, and if we really want to realize the comprehensive strength of the national economy, I am afraid that there will still be a process of hard work." The old governor said: "Yes, it is not a day's cold to be frozen three feet. You Wu Mingxiong can't imagine entering communism in the morning. The lessons of the past are very profound." Wu Mingxiong said: "In the next step, we have three basic ideas. First, comprehensively build the city-county highway from Pingchuan to the eight counties and cities, which is about 550 miles away. Give full play to the radiation effect of Pingchuan, a central city, and use the city to drive Township, to promote the city with the township, to achieve the common prosperity of urban and rural areas; 2. After solving the water conservancy problem and ensuring the production of grain and cotton, we will fully grasp the diversification of the eight counties and cities to achieve common prosperity. In two to three years, we will completely Solve the poverty alleviation problem of 1 million poor people; 3. Continue to deepen the reform experiment in the city, grasp the big and let go of the small, the big ones must be able to grasp, grasp the scale, and grasp the economic benefits, and the small ones must be truly released and truly invigorated. " The old governor was most concerned about the poverty alleviation of the 1 million poor people, so he asked: "Do you have any specific measures to solve poverty and become rich? Tell me and let me hear." Wu Mingxiong said: "There are many measures, such as linking the rich and the poor, delegating cadres, intellectual poverty alleviation, etc. This is just a formality. More importantly, it is also what our municipal party committee particularly emphasizes, that is, we must adapt measures to local conditions and work hard. At the city-wide rural work conference held at that time, it was said that after you go back, you need to investigate, study, and mobilize to see where the way to get rich is in your place? The objective conditions are less emphasized. There are few resources in Hetian, and only dried potatoes can be produced. The dried yams were developed very well, and they led the whole village to become rich. How do you do it there? Those who know how to raise pigs and sheep go to raise pigs and sheep; those who know how to transport go to transport; those who know how to do business Just go into business; do whatever you know how to do. You really don’t know anything, you can get a nest of chickens and raise them? Isn’t it money for the chickens to lay eggs? I also said, from now on, I not only look at your output value, but also the net income of your people, the private savings figures of the people in your place, what is in your houses and what is in their rice bowls. In this way, you can’t cheat me." The old governor clapped his hands and shouted: "Okay, adapt measures to local conditions and seek truth from facts. You comrade is not a bureaucrat." Talking about work all the way, half an hour later, the car drove to the bank of the Damo River and stopped on a bridge about 300 meters long.The old governor and a group of old comrades got out of the car and walked on the sidewalk of the bridge, watching with even more interest. The old governor said to Chen Qiming with a sigh: "After the end of the war years, there is nothing that can excite me like thousands of troops working on water conservancy?" Chen Qiming said: "That's why we said that your old man was born with a busy life?" Pointing to the wide river, the old governor said to Wu Mingxiong with affectionate memories: "It's very grand, better than what I did back then. Back then, I also thought about not building small ditches, but building ditches. Great water conservancy, but objective conditions do not allow it. There is a water conservancy expert in the Soviet Union named Malenkov. His name is easy to remember. It has the same name as Malenkov, then chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers. Peasant comrades can’t afford modern large-scale water conservancy, and your current financial resources in China can’t afford modern large-scale water conservancy. I was very upset when I heard this, and I had a quarrel with Comrade Ma Lin.” "However, to be honest, at that time, I, the director of water conservancy, did not realize that this irrigation canal would become unsuitable so quickly." Wu Mingxiong said: "There is also a reason for this. From the meteorological data, the drought in Pingchuan has been getting worse year by year since the mid-1960s, and the rainfall has been decreasing year by year. At the same time, the 'Cultural Revolution' was carried out throughout the 1970s, and the water conservancy was in serious disrepair. , which made the contradiction of water increasingly acute.” The old governor stared at the water surface reddened by the setting sun, still immersed in the memories of the past: "Malinkov is still a good comrade after all. Dali provided us with advanced technology at that time, and also helped us design the first large-scale control gate. This comrade has no airs, and often rolls with our migrant workers. On his beautiful beard Always covered in mud. If he was still alive, he would be in his 70s this year." Wu Mingxiong said: "Old Governor, if you can get in touch with Comrade Ma Lin, we can invite him to visit the Damo River again." The old governor shook his head and said: "Comrade Marin is a Russian, but his home was in Georgia at that time. Now that Georgia has become independent, who knows if he is still there?" He sighed and said: "Anyone of us Never forget those old friends who have helped our Chinese people!" Afterwards, the old governor never came out of the long memories of his life. At dinner in the evening, the old governor and a group of old comrades started arguing like children in front of Wu Mingxiong. The old governor called Zou Ziyun a hot-blooded young man, and asked Chen Qiming: "Chen Commissar, do you remember? What did you say when you brought this young man from Hetian to me in 1941? You said, this young man is a passionate young man. I ran from the enemy-occupied area of ​​the provincial capital, brushing slogans along the way. But when I met him, he didn’t look like he was boiling!” Chen Qiming said: "It's boiling, I can prove it. At that time, I wanted to keep him in our regiment as the editor-in-chief of "Battle News". Zou Ziyun said: "What editor? A camp of heroes." The old governor's face darkened and said: "Don't brag about your hero camp, you never thought of the three raids on Mohe County in 1945, you were so miserable, you knocked out more than 100 good brothers of Lao Tzu, and left dead bodies everywhere outside the gate of Laodongguan , Blood stains everywhere, you just didn't let me attack the city! If you were in front of me at that time, I was going to boil, and I had to shoot you." Zou Ziyun shouted: "Decades have passed, and your commander still puts this account on my head? The problem at that time was the third battalion of Political Commissar Chen! We started, but they didn't start at the same time." , when I was suffering, he went into the city. I will never be able to explain my injustice." The old governor stopped talking, and sighed: "How many of our good comrades have fallen in battle after battle like this. They fell on the plains of Pingchuan and turned into the soil under our feet. We are also going to hurry up. Let's meet them under the Nine Springs. I don't know if they still recognize me as the commander when they see me so old-fashioned?" A table of old comrades all said: "The commander is the commander, who can deny it?!" Later, the old governor and a group of old comrades, who were immersed in memories, sang the "Military Song of the Chinese People's Liberation Army" that they sang countless times on the smoky Pingchuan land - forward, forward, forward! Our team is facing the sun, our feet are on the land of the motherland, and we are carrying the hope of the nation. We are an invincible force... On the night of parting, the old governor talked with Wu Mingxiong again, feeling sad and not without relief Said: "Wu Mingxiong, there is no need to say anything, we old guys have seen it, you have repaid a lot of old debts for us, you have won an era! Thank you, thank you, Pingchuan City, for your hard work Comrades who are involved in the matter. Now it seems that the problem of lifting 1 million poor people out of poverty can be solved, and I can go to see my comrades in the underground with peace of mind." Wu Mingxiong took the old governor's hand and said: "Old governor, why are you saying this? After the problem of poverty alleviation for the 1 million poor people is really solved, we will pick you up and have a look! We will go to the desert Go to the county to see what the old Dongguan looked like back then." The old governor shook his head and said, "I can't see it. I am very satisfied to be able to visit Pingchuan this time." Wu Mingxiong had some ominous premonition at this moment, but he didn't dare to show it on his face. Sure enough, the old governor fell ill when he returned to the provincial capital. This time he fell ill and never got up again. After 43 days, he died of illness in the Provincial People's Hospital.Before dying, the old governor left his last words saying that his ashes were scattered in the Damo River in Pingchuan. The Damo River is connected to Damo County, the anti-Japanese base area in those days, and is also connected to the beautiful New West Lake today. October 1995 was a very important month for China Pingchuan Textile Machinery Group.In this breezy golden autumn season, the international joint venture contract between China Pingchuan Textile Machinery Group and the American KTBL company will be signed in the provincial capital, and the stock of "China Textile Machinery" with the stock code 0688 will also be officially listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. .For Pingchuan, which is economically underdeveloped, these are undoubtedly two major events of historical significance, and the whole city is persuaded by them.Zhang Datong, the group president and secretary of the party committee, became the most famous figure in Pingchuan City in one fell swoop.From Wu Mingxiong, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, Shu Huaru, Mayor, to the tens of thousands of Pingchuan citizens who hold the original stock of China Textile Machinery, they are all paying close attention to the dynamics of this super group.