Chapter 3 Chapter One

I went to Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, for an interview, and saw a document at the Deputy Director Baishi of the Provincial Civilization Office. The title was "Hebei Province's Spiritual Civilization Construction Work 1981-1999 Memorabilia", and I saw the opening front page read: In November 1981, the 112th Division of the 51034 troops stationed in Baoding learned from the experience of the North China exercise and started a military-civilian joint construction civilized village pilot project in Cuizhongwang Village, Xincheng County, Baoding Prefecture... Cui Zhongwang Village has been in my heart for some time.Now, it lies in the blazing August sun, flowing into my vision like a puddle of green liquid.

Cuizhongwang Village is located 5 kilometers west of Gaobeidian Town at the northern end of the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway. There are more than 250 households with a population of more than 1,000.There is a man-made grain canal river in the north of the village. If there is enough rain, you can hold a small boat and flow eastward to a place called Baigou, where you can listen to the singing of frogs and water birds gathered along the water. Chirp.Baigou is now a famous wholesale market for small commodities. Especially in the 1980s, it once stirred up the capital and made the city extremely cold.And walking south or southeast along Baigou is the famous Baoding City and Baiyangdian. All the rage.If culture is also an industry, the reputation of these two places is a classic example.Baoding is the place in the south of Beijing, and it has been guarded by heavy troops in all dynasties.

During the Cultural Revolution, factionalism was serious here, and the army and the local government developed from cultural fighting to armed fighting, and there were many encounters between soldiers. Although the Cultural Revolution ended, the feud between the military and the local government still remained unsolved.So, it continued until the eve of reform and opening up.The garrison is distributed in a fan-shaped manner in Baoding area. The barracks are fortified and well-organized. Although the local people can do nothing, they can use the methods they used to deal with the devils to deal with the troops to develop agricultural production. In other places, they rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water, but here there are people Shout: rely on the barracks to eat troops!As a result, harassment and theft of troops often occurred.The night raiders climbed over the wall and entered the hospital, taking everything from small horse stools to large fat pig planks, and even some military facilities.The troops built a high wall, and they dug the hole horizontally. The troops blocked it during the day, and they dug it at night. The contradictions were very sharp, and fights and fights happened from time to time.During the day, there is also the large basket team of the sisters-in-law and aunts. Each of them carries a large basket and wanders around the barracks all day long. melons, fruits and vegetables), and put them into baskets without paying attention.Once they are discovered, they run as fast as they can; some of them can't take off their pants, and squatting down, which soldier would dare to step forward?The military-civilian relationship between fish and water was destroyed here.

The situation in Cui Zhongwang Village is even worse.Unit 51034 is stationed near Cui Zhongwang Village.This is an army of heroes.During the War of Resistance Against Japan, they participated in the Pingxingguan victory that shocked China and the world. During the War of Liberation, they fought from the northeast to the southwestern border. During the Korean War, they made a surprise attack on Feihu Mountain and demonstrated national and military prestige. Commander Peng Dehuai called it the Long Live Army .But it was this prestigious army that was besieged and humiliated by the local people, and fell into the vast ocean of the people's war.The whole story was caused by a slip of the tongue: one night, when a film was being shown in the army barracks, youths from the neighboring Cuizhongwang village and other villages flooded into the barracks, making the screening room noisy and chaotic.The head of the army couldn't see such chaos, so he said casually: The reconnaissance platoon must maintain order.Probably the mandarin of the chief was not very standard, and the already impatient soldiers misunderstood it as getting them out, so they mixed the usually practiced capture fist into the pushing and shoving, and the fighting between the two sides escalated. More than a dozen farmers were injured.As soon as the incident happened, the villagers packed their bags and began to file a complaint, from Baoding to Shijiazhuang, and then from Shijiazhuang to Beijing.

The North China Plain has special significance for the Chinese revolution.The famous poet Guo Xiaochuan once wrote it in his poems and named it after the green gauze tent, which interprets the unique affection of this region for the Chinese revolution.Qingshazhang has covered the Eighth Route Army Military Workers Team, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region Government, Lu Zhengcao, Nie Rongzhen, and Xu Qianqian, and countless people with lofty ideals such as Zhu Laozhong, Jinhuan, Yinhuan, Xiao Fei, etc. in the novel or in reality. For those who read it, the green gauze tent is actually an impassioned Yanzhao swan song, it is the howling of a strong man who never returns to the wind, and it is the heartbroken place where the righteousness is thin and the sky is broken.It is the externalized expression of the folk customs and the people's heart and character.

However, this song is out of tune in peaceful times.Both the military and the land are distressed by this situation. Li Yunteng, the former secretary of the village party branch, said when recalling the past: No one expected to come to such a field. Thinking about it is really painful.During the war years, the common people had a cornbread in their hands, and they had to break half of it to give to our soldiers, but now they are all upside down. He sees a piece of meat in the soldier's mouth, and he wants to get half of it, even saying that he wants to eat it. Pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth... I and several village cadres calculated that if this continues, there will be big troubles, so we want to improve the relationship with the army. Just as the Spring Festival is here, we first invite the army to come to the village to have a party with the people...

The invitation was sent to the desk of the chief of the garrison.Like a stone stirring up a thousand waves. Perhaps there was a Hongmen Banquet in the village?A staff officer said. Thinking about it, the chief was quite suspicious.The village complained and petitioned twice in three days, why did it suddenly get better?So he became vigilant, and sent a group of people to the village to find out the truth. If there was any action in the village, the troops would know it well. When the scouts got the information, the head of the army was ashamed instead.When did the army become afraid of the people?

This unit is not only famous on the battlefield, but also has made outstanding achievements in mass work. 13 companies have been rated as model companies for loving the people.During the disaster relief in Tangshan, they rescued a 5-year-old girl who lost her parents from the ruins, and raised the girl until she was 13 years old before sending her back to her original place... It was such a troop that had been in harmony with the people, but suffered an unprecedented emotional trauma. After learning from the pain, the chief of the troop decided to seriously review himself and regain the lost world...

They regained their own world. The North China Exercise in 1981 provided an opportunity for this army to regain its confidence for the first time.Everything was in accordance with the wartime regulations. The troops scattered in the lonely frosty sky in the north of North China in order, or entered the villages, or the green gauze tents, or set up camps in the mountains. In fact, the troops were once again thrown into the huge embrace of society.Surrounded by powerful and cordial support, the soldiers, like the Hercules Antaeus in ancient Greek mythology, regained their lost strength and self-confidence from Mother Earth, and were inspired by this, creating a new situation with local villagers. It is a classic example of military-civilian relations, and thus opened the prelude to the development of socialist spiritual civilization across the country.

Twenty years later, when the author walked into Cui Zhongwang Village again, the noise and dynamism of the past had turned into tranquility and tranquility.The village is like a pool of autumn water lying in our field of vision, serene and deep.It's like going on an excursion, and now it's a weary thinker, having exhausted its stamina and heat from its relentless lead. However, when the trees of spiritual civilization are flourishing all over the country, no one will forget the earliest tree planters when they see the forests in the mountains and listen to the spring breeze on the branches.

Zongyou, the current party secretary of Cui Zhongwang Village: The old party secretary of our village is called Li Yunteng. He joined the army in 1952 and has been a village cadre since he returned from the army. He was already an old party secretary for more than 20 years at that time.He saw that the night attack team and the big basket team in the village often harassed the garrison, so he often criticized and persuaded the villagers, but with little effect.The reason is that after the implementation of the land contract responsibility system in rural areas, the autonomy of farmers has increased, but the education of farmers' ideas and culture has been correspondingly weakened. The problem of food and clothing for farmers has been solved, but spiritual and cultural problems have emerged. head.In several villages around us, gambling superstition was rampant for a while.Some ordinary people said: running around.It’s better to move bricks (play mahjong?. I remember that Comrade Yang Shangkun and Comrade Yu Qiuli both came here before the General Political Department held an on-site meeting here, and let the gamblers in Dongyihezhuang show how to use gambling tools to deceive people, so as to educate Villagers. At the scene, dozens of gambling tables were lined up one after another. Gamblers fought against each other. Afterwards, many villagers woke up like a dream and were fooled. At that time, the villagers felt a collective weightlessness, as if they had just landed on this land from another planet, and their minds were blank... The past few days In the past ten years, the education of the Communist Party was blown away like a gust of wind, and the feudal and bourgeois things came back. Later we learned that this was the result of internal injuries caused by the Cultural Revolution. The great retrogression has also shaken people's thinking and beliefs. At that time, the party secretary Li Yunteng and the garrison engaged in military-civilian joint construction, which had profound social and ideological reasons... Cheng Zhiyong, deputy political commissar of a division of the garrison: At that time, both the army and the local government started to deal with the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, and it can be said that they took strong medicine.The aftermath of the Cultural Revolution not only hurt the local area, but also the army.The local people sneaked around, and some soldiers in the army broke the law and discipline, which was also shocking.At that time, Chengdu in Sichuan, Xuzhou in Jiangsu, and Baoding in Hebei were the worst-hit areas.Now that we realize that this is a sequela of the Cultural Revolution, and that not only one family suffers from the disease, we need both parties to work together to treat the disease, so the military-civilian joint construction has come into being... Zongyou: I remember that the political commissar of the garrison at that time was called Ge Qingchang. It is said that he had already transferred to the Shandong Provincial Finance Department.He speaks politics and is very verbal.I remember that when the troops came to the village to show a movie, Political Commissar Ge personally mobilized everyone and told everyone the significance of building a civilized village jointly by the military and the people. He said that our PLA entered Jiapigou again this time. The first time we entered Jiapigou was to eliminate the Kuomintang. Reactionaries, this time they entered Jiapigou to clean up the mess and create a new style of righteousness. Its meaning is extraordinary... Coincidentally, what Political Commissar Ge said about Jiapigou was not nonsense.Yang Zirong's platoon, which was used to suppress bandits in the Northeast and outwitted Weihu Mountain, was in the company directly under his division. The soldiers had long remembered the tradition of their company. They were happy to hear that the troops would enter Jiapigou again like they did back then. Jumping straight up, these fighters also want to learn more practical knowledge from the contact with the common people, which will come in handy when they return home. Thus, a moving picture appeared. The next day, when the sun had just risen from the east, groups of officers and soldiers marched into Cui Zhongwang Village valiantly and vigorously, singing battle songs and shouting chant.This small village with only one long street suddenly boiled.Troops separated in companies and rows to clear snow and level streets.They put the ice water and mud on the road on the loess; they made the piles of dung into squares; they made the piles of firewood beautiful.Then, they used white ash to paint the walls, brush the trees, and write slogans. After one day, the whole village completely changed!At first, some people stood at the door to watch, and later they all took out shovels and pickaxes and started working together with the officers and soldiers of the army.Some pulled out two-wheeled carts and drove their own tractors to transport soil and manure, and no one paid for it. The next day, the troops cleaned the courtyards and houses of each family in the form of a company subcontracting a production team.At the same time, the army also dispatched haircutting teams, shoe mending teams, and medical teams to voluntarily cut hair, repair shoes, and treat diseases for the masses.Zhang Fengxian, the daughter-in-law of villager Zonghe, was bedridden on the kang for many years and had two young children.No matter what Zhang Fengxian said, he wouldn't let the soldiers do anything. The soldiers didn't think it was dirty at all. Not only did they clean the house, but they even washed the clothes and bedding that were stained by the patients' sores.Zhang Fengxian looked at it sadly on the kang, and was so moved that she couldn't help crying... At first, the members of the big basket team saw a large number of People's Liberation Army entering the village and watched secretly through the cracks in the door and the wall, and were ashamed to show up.When the People's Liberation Army entered the house, they had nowhere to hide, so they could come out and greet the officers and soldiers to come in and sit down.After this, the people in Cuizhongwang Village met the people in the other villages and said proudly: Come to our village and have a look. The streets, courtyards, houses and houses all look like they have been washed with water, and there is no dirt on the edge of the mirror frame. Dust!A person who came to visit relatives in this village saw the enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians, and said happily: Isn't this the People's Liberation Army in "Lin Haixueyuan" that year entered Jiapigou? What Cui Zhongwang Village and a certain unit of the garrison did not expect was that the two sides of the army and the local army had just reached out and lightly shook their hands lightly, and they unexpectedly bloomed with dazzling splendor of the times. The deeds of Cui Zhongwang Village military and civilians jointly building a civilized village appeared in the newspapers soon.These news did not attract too many people's attention at the time, after all, there were too many good news that year.But it didn't take long for these news to be responded to at the highest level of the central government, which aroused the deep concern of a group of old revolutionaries. This seems to be a long wait and watch.Expectations and watchers are comrades. In December 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party was held in Beijing.This was a great turning point with far-reaching significance. The meeting not only formed the second-generation central leadership group with Deng Xiaoping as the core, but also decided that the work center of the party and the country would shift to economic construction. This is a very courageous and courageous decision. Among the top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party after Mao Zedong, there is no other person who can make such a decisive decision. China 20 years ago was suffering from internal and external troubles.First, there was the serious internal injury caused by the ten-year civil strife during the Cultural Revolution; second, there was serious interference from the ultra-leftist line; there was also the severe test of domestic and international political turmoil.However, Ping Zhan judged the situation in the domestic and international background, and categorically put forward a strategic decision centered on economic construction, which showed his extraordinary strategist spirit. Time has proved the incomparable correctness of this decision. Over the past 20 years, my country's gross national product has continued to grow at a high speed in the past 20 years, with an average annual growth rate of 9.8%, reaching 11.8% in the first five years, and the annual total output of important products such as steel, coal, crude oil, electricity, grain, and cotton , leapt to the forefront of the world.The strategic goal of quadrupling the 1980 GNP by the end of the 20th century, which was proposed, was realized ahead of schedule in 1995.China has become an economic power in the Asia-Pacific region and the world. However, these grand goals of economic development have been clear to him as early as 20 years ago, and he has a well-thought-out plan.However, the rapid economic development is not just the patent of socialist countries. These speeds and ratios have appeared one after another in the heyday of capitalist countries. The key to the problem is not only to have a high speed of economic construction, but also to have A high degree of spiritual civilization superior to capitalists.This is the thinking point that has been lingering in the thoughts of comrades for thousands of times. In the summer of 1979, before drafting the speeches of party and state leaders for the forthcoming Fourth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, it was clearly instructed that the speeches should have some new content and be able to reach a new level.He followed this speech with great enthusiasm and put forward important revisions many times.In the autumn of this year, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party was held in Beijing. Ye Jianying, on behalf of the Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and the State Council, made a "Speech at the Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China". Put forward the concept of socialist spiritual civilization.He pointed out: The four modernizations we refer to are the four main aspects of modernization, not that the cause of modernization is limited to these four aspects.While reforming and improving the socialist economic system, we must reform and improve the socialist political system, develop a high degree of socialist democracy and a complete socialist legal system.While building a high-level material civilization, we must improve the educational, scientific, cultural and health levels of the entire nation, establish lofty revolutionary ideals and revolutionary moral customs, develop a noble and colorful cultural life, and build a high-level socialist spiritual civilization.These are the important goals of our socialist modernization and the necessary conditions for realizing the four modernizations. There is no doubt that the discovery of this concept will be recorded in the annals of world civilization.In the first period of time, its thoughts were only shining in the theoretical jungle, but in 1981, his expectations were answered, and Cui Zhongwang Village in Baoding, Hebei Province entered his field of vision. Please take a look at the Chronicle: In January 1982, the troops of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in Baoding held an on-site meeting in Cuizhongwang Village to jointly build a civilized village. On January 10, the Baoding Prefectural Party Committee held a teleconference attended by responsible comrades from all counties, requiring all counties to vigorously learn and promote the experience of military-civilian joint construction in Cuizhongwang Village.Since then, military and civilian joint construction of socialist spiritual civilization activities have been widely carried out in Baoding area. On November 24, 1982, Yu Qiuli, Qin Jiwei, and Fu Chongbi, leaders of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Beijing Military Region, went to Cuizhongwang Village, Xincheng County to inspect the military-civilian co-construction, listened to the report of the village party branch, saw the militia home, and visited Farmers highly praised the military-civilian joint construction activities and instructed to promote them throughout the army. From January 13th to 19th, 1983, the party committee of the 51034 troops stationed in Baoding and the Baoding prefectural committee jointly held an on-site meeting on military-civilian joint construction of spiritual civilization to exchange the experience of military-civilian joint construction of civilized villages in the whole region.All major military regions, services and arms, and division-level units of the Beijing Military Region were also invited to attend the meeting.Xing Chongzhi, deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, attended the meeting and made a report entitled "Conscientiously Studying and Promoting the Experience of Military and Civilian Joint Construction of Spiritual Civilization in Baoding Area".After the meeting, the Party Committee of the Beijing Military Region, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the Hebei Provincial People's Government wrote a report on the military-civilian joint construction of civilized villages in Baoding to the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission... On August 1, 1983, the General Political Department held an exhibition of Baoding military-civilian joint construction of spiritual civilization in the Beijing Military Museum. Leaders of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, Ye Jianying, Nie Rongzhen, Yang Shangkun, etc. watched the exhibition and wrote commemorative inscriptions... Cuizhongwang Village has entered the field of vision of many revolutionaries and attracted attention. It was an interesting topic at the end of the 20th century.For these proletarian revolutionaries who have been in the military all their lives, to be able to appear in the exhibition hall of the Military Museum like this in their later years is undoubtedly a last tour with their lives.The age of war has passed, and the age of construction has come.However, no matter how many winds and storms, how many times of frost and snow, the beautiful picture in their hearts is always graffitied by reality, so they can only look sideways.But all this finally passed, and they finally appeared together in the military museum hall to watch this extraordinary exhibition.They carefully recognized the faces of young soldiers in the photos as they did when they were inspecting troops back then, watching how the five-pointed stars on their military caps shone in the wheat waves in the field, and how the battle flags passed down from their hands were fighting against the torrent of floods. Turning around, they all smiled knowingly without exception.Although what they saw was just a swipe of morning glow, or a few petals, they all knew that the spring of the motherland was really coming... After watching the exhibition, he wrote with a brush: Carry forward our military's glorious tradition of supporting the government and loving the people, and build a socialist spiritual civilization with the military and the people. In the spring of 1983, after receiving a report on the military-civilian joint construction of civilized villages in Baoding area written by the Party Committee of the Beijing Military Region, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and the provincial government, the General Office of the Central Committee, the General Office of the State Council, and the General Office of the Central Military Commission took the Central Office (1983) on 28 The report was forwarded to the whole country with comments added to the No. 1 document. Since then, the military-civilian joint construction of spiritual civilization started in Baoding began to spread to the whole country.