Chapter 9 Chapter nine

Lu Tian, ​​member of the Central Committee, vice minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and director of the State Administration of Land Reclamation, and deputy leader of the State Council's Educated Youth Leading Group, is leading a five-member central investigation team to trek through the overlapping subtropical forests in the southern Yunnan border for more than half an hour. moon.In just over ten days, what I heard and saw, the backwardness and chaotic state of the frontier farms was really shocking.In Olive Dam, the birthplace of the general strike, the educated youths made a bowl of fresh fish soup to entertain the leaders from Beijing.Fresh fish soup only has soup, no fish, tastes bitter and fishy.It turned out that the educated youth took the moss-covered pebbles from the river ditch to make soup, and the company was short of vegetables for many years. People had to eat such "fresh fish soup" for at least half of the year.

In this farm, people also let the deputy minister visit the educated youth housing.They were some low, damp thatched houses with blackened roofs and many holes leaking out. Clusters of wild mushrooms grew in the corners of the walls and under the beds.Ask yourself, ten years have passed, have the basic living conditions of educated youth: clothing, food, housing, and transportation been properly guaranteed? In a farm in southern Yunnan, the investigation team was led into a row of huts, and they saw two or more pairs of educated youths living in each hut at the same time.Unmarried cohabitation and illegitimate pregnancy among the educated youth on this farm accounted for more than half of the total number of educated youth.But they are never willing to formally marry, because it will cut off the way back to the city.

No roads, no lights, no entertainment, no cultural life.Primitive life is like a mountain that encloses people, watching movies twice a year, and walking dozens of miles of mountain roads. At the Mengla farm, a group of educated youths took off their shirts, revealing the scars all over their bodies, which are lifelong commemorations of the barbaric tyranny of the Bingtuan period.Statistics show that the rate of slander and disease among educated youths is astonishingly high. Several figures have approached or reached 100%. Acute and chronic diseases such as stomach problems, enteritis, and rheumatoid arthritis have reached 100%. Female educated youths suffer from dysmenorrhea and irregular menstruation. hundred percent.

Educated youths of both sexes who have been starved and tired for a long time have exceeded their mental endurance, and they generally return to a state of abject poverty with nothing. Extremely absurd and psychopathic incidents emerge in endlessly. If youth is the future, the hope and sustenance of the Republic, then we have spent huge human, material and financial resources, and mobilized all the forces of the whole society. It lasted for ten years, affecting the fate of 200 million people and tens of millions of families in the city. Is it just to launch such a "re-education" campaign and create a whole generation of "hope" covered in bruises?

On January 25, an urgent telegram from Beijing was sent to the Central Investigation Team, ordering them to immediately go to Menggang Farm to deal with the educated youth's strike and hunger strike, and to report the situation at any time.So the investigation team immediately turned around and rushed to the unknown Menggang Farm hundreds of kilometers away.