Chapter 34 Chapter 1 "North Subei" in Southern Jiangsu is a blockbuster

In Suzhou, counties and cities such as Changshu, Wuxian, and Wujiang have been famous for their richness and prosperity in the past few centuries, and they are also places where talented scholars and beautiful women are produced.You don't need to praise them, they are also places that have long been familiar to outsiders.Suzhou has the reputation of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, which largely depends on the support of these small towns.Shazhou is different from Zhangjiagang before the 1990s. Not only does it not have the classic works of Wuyue culture that can be read in history books, but it also does not have Xiuniang in Wujiang, Huqin in Changshu, Huqiu and Hanshan Temple in Wuxian County. It's just the waves rolled up by the Yangtze River, the dilapidated thatched houses by the river, and the somewhat sad Heyang folk songs...

"At the beginning of the establishment of our Shazhou County, the county party committee wrote a report to the above. I still remember a sentence in it: 'We have nothing.' This is what the county party committee said in the report to the superior. You can imagine what it is It's called 'nothing'. In 1960, less than 50 years ago, there was not a single truck in our Shazhou County at that time, let alone a car. The county government held a meeting of more than 50 people, that is, everything came with it. .Official personnel eat in the cafeteria, sleep in the same bunk, husband and wife do not live together, the children are brought by the wife, several people share a desk, and the phone does not connect to the countryside; electricity is only used for power generation by a diesel engine; transportation is only carried out by a small motor sailboat——County Secretary There is only this highest treatment for meetings in Suzhou. Eighty percent of the farmers live in thatched houses, and the county’s annual output value is only 30 million yuan. This is too far away from "heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below". That’s why people in Suzhou call us Shazhou, the northern part of southern Jiangsu, which means that the poorest place in Suzhou is worse than the level of northern Jiangsu.” An old Zhangjiagang resident said to me.

I once asked my father, and he nodded and said, "Shazhou was really poor when the county was established, and the cadres didn't want to go." At that time, if a cadre of the production brigade like him wanted to go to Shazhou, the organization could arrange a meal. "But even so, we still don't want to go." My father said mockingly, "If I really go, I will at least be a Qin Zhenhua-level cadre now!" Qin Zhenhua is a pioneer and entrepreneur in Zhangjiagang City The founder of the Zhangjiagang spirit, he was the deputy director of the Suzhou Municipal People's Congress and a deputy department-level cadre before he retired.

Perhaps Suzhou people did not regard Shazhou (later changed to Zhangjiagang) as a rich and profound cultural place for a certain period of time, or because they believed that "Shazhou does not represent the true colors of Suzhou at all", Shazhou people (Zhangjiagang people) From the day they were born, they have a strong long-cherished wish to work hard. Literally, a sandbar is an accumulation of sand.The entire life of this land appeared in the world only 70 to 80 years, which is really incomparable with the counties of Suzhou, which were born as the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River as early as 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.As the "leftover material" of Suzhou, this also determines that although Shazhou people belong to Wu, their personality is very different from Suzhou people.Liu Yunshan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, once wrote such a passage: "In the midsummer of 1995, I went to Zhangjiagang for research... In my imagination, the Suzhou people in the Jiangnan water town should be Wu Nong, who is soft-spoken and delicate. Quiet. But Qin Zhenhua in front of him looks like a big man from Shandong. Behavior always makes people feel a kind of strength, a kind of energy, and a kind of spirit."

Comrade Yunshan is a northerner, and Zhangjiagang people gave him another character and bearing that is completely beyond imagination, which shows the uniqueness of Zhangjiagang people.As the saying goes: One side of water and soil nourishes one side of people.Zhangjiagang is located at the mouth of the throat of the Yangtze River immediately before it rushes into the sea. For thousands of years, it has stretched its arms to accept the surging Yangtze River water rushing down from the upper reaches, and at the same time, it has stood up its chest to resist the ebb and flow of the sea tide. Therefore, it is rough, Therefore, to be bold and unrestrained, you need to compare with the sound of the waves when you speak, and you need to be stronger than the waves when you do things.People in Zhangjiagang know from their ancestors that if you want to survive, you must dare to walk on the top of the waves at every step;

This is Zhangjiagang people.