Chapter 18 Chapter V: Varieties of Falsehood—1 A Rare Telegram

Witnessing the heavy burden of farmers, walking among villages that have not yet broken out of poverty, our conscience is often tormented. A story told by a friend haunts our eyes for a long time, and it makes us very disturbed inside. This friend said that once, he accompanied a district official to the county to inspect work, because they were classmates, so they lived in the same hotel and room together.One day, early in the morning, the waiter sent a telegram, which startled the two of them. It was like a long khata, three or four feet long.After a closer look, it was found that it was a call from a farmer who came from a remote village and wanted to see the district official.

With the hope of the whole village and his stomach full of bitterness, he wanted to talk to the "parents officer", but the hotel guard refused to let him in, and then tried to get into the hotel but was blocked by the secretary. In desperation, the old farmer poured After selling the pigs for hundreds of dollars, he went to the nearby post office and converted the text of the appeal letter he brought into a telegram, and then he "arrived" at the hotel. Holding the telegram of the old farmer's confession, the regional officials burst into tears and said in a trembling voice: "I am far away from them, too far away..."

We have seen and heard that the people who have gone down from the high-level leadership organs are all surrounded by lower-level cadres at different levels. According to the pre-determined "inspection" location and the pre-arranged personnel to understand and visit, we can have How much is true? We thought of Mao Zedong.During the war years, Mao Zedong was so strategizing, decisively fighting thousands of miles, with millions of soldiers in his chest, fighting all over the world, invincible, but how could he put forward the call of "realizing agricultural mechanization by 1980" after liberation?Looking back now, this call seems ridiculous.The reason, apart from the lack of experience in economic construction, most of this determination came from a wrong estimate of the real situation of Chinese agriculture at that time, and even the real situation of Chinese industry at that time. It deviated from the social reality, leaving only Can be a pity for a great man.

We have also noticed that at the end of the last century, the Chinese government made two commitments: one is to "make the water of the Huai River clear in 2000"; the other is to "not bring poverty to the next century." In order to clear the Huaihe River as scheduled, the Chinese government showed the spirit of Dayu Yu to control the water and the courage of a strong man who lost his arm. Before the early morning of July 1, 1996, thousands of small paper mills along the Huaihe River were resolutely closed down and shut down. In the days of the deadline, a massive "zero point operation" was launched.

In order to eradicate poverty and basically solve the problem of food and clothing for the 80 million impoverished people in rural areas, the Chinese government concentrated manpower, material and financial resources, and mobilized all sectors of society during the seven years from 1994 to 2000. Therefore, the "National Eight-Seven Poverty Alleviation Plan" was formulated and announced to the world: "In 2000, the goal of eliminating poverty will definitely be achieved." However, miracles and success cannot conceal the fact that still exists, that is, the water of the Huaihe River has not fundamentally changed since the end of an old century, and the status quo of the Huaihe River still makes us worry about it; Keeping poverty out of the threshold of the new century, it still plagues the peasant brothers in some areas.

The determination of our commitment undoubtedly lacks an accurate and reliable estimate of the seriousness and complexity of the real situation. This naturally reminds us of the "standard" acceptance of the nine-year compulsory education conducted by the relevant education committee on Fengmiao Town Middle School in Lingbi County.Before the inspectors arrived at Fengmiao, the town government had urgently ordered all the villages to "mobilize" all the teenagers who had been out of school for many years to go back to school, and the students at school would help them with their homework. , and at the same time sent people to Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province, a hundred miles away, to purchase famous cigarettes and wine.The inspectors are said to be very satisfied with the results of the inspection, but the inspection team left the town, and the poor out-of-school teenagers were "expelled" from the school.

If we all rely on Feng Miao's satisfactory judgment on the rural education situation, and formulate development plans based on it, wouldn't it be a small difference, a thousand miles away?