Chapter 5 chapter Five

In a thriving situation, Wu Renbao unexpectedly handed over the leadership of Huaxi Village to the younger generation two years in advance - in the past, he has repeatedly stated that he will work until he is 80 years old.On the day of handing over power, he said affectionately to the villagers: "Without Wu Renbao, Huaxi's tomorrow will be better." The fact is also true. The party committee team of Xinhuaxi Village took the old secretary as an example and firmly grasped the principle of governing for the people and scientific development. Two themes, they put forward the new goal of "working hard for a thousand days and creating 100 billion" starting from this year, that is, in the next three years, the whole village will create an output value of 100 million every day, and 100 billion in three years!

What an amazing stat.And they are just a group of Chinese farmers!A group of Chinese farmers cultivated by veteran Communist Wu Renbao! There are blessings for the people, but there are difficulties for the officials.The advanced nature of the Communists is fully reflected and sublimated at this moment. When we were very young, we envied the communist society. At that time, adults told us: electric lights, telephones, upstairs and downstairs, that is communism; when we grow up, we have all these, but we find that communism is actually We are still far, far away.Even the primary stage of communism - socialism, we have only just entered.So we have a lot of doubts, but we still yearn for communism so much...Because we long for communism, we want to build socialism wholeheartedly.This is the common ideal and cause of all Communists.

But what exactly is socialism?We also have many doubts. After several generations of communists continue to explore and practice, we finally understand the most basic truth after eliminating many doubts: socialism must make the people rich, and only rich people can be happy.When the people are truly prosperous and happy, that is socialism worthy of the name. Walking into Huaxi Village, our strongest feeling is: the farmers here are really the happiest and wealthiest people in the world!They live in the most spacious and luxurious houses; there are one to three cars parked in each family; food is basically free; they wear brand-name clothing created by themselves such as "Compal" and "Huaxi Village"; the elderly have generous retirement pensions; Children go to school for free; every household must have millions or tens of millions of deposits... These days, guests from the United States and Europe all say with one voice: the farmers in Huaxi Village are the happiest people in the world.

"If allowed, I would rather come here and be a villager" - this was said by guests from Singapore, members of Congress from the United States, and government ministers from Germany. In 2004, the Chinese government announced that China's per capita income had reached 1,000 US dollars. The birth of this data will show that China has entered the historical stage of building a moderately prosperous society from a backward and poor country.When I came to Huaxi Village, I realized that the per capita income of farmers in Huaxi Village today has actually exceeded 8,000 US dollars. If you include various welfare subsidies in the village, their per capita income has actually exceeded 10,000 US dollars.Therefore, it is not surprising that we can hear the words of building "Zhongkang" and "Dakang" at any time in Huaxi Village.

The one who said this the most was the old secretary Wu Renbao. It can be considered this way: Today's Huaxi Village has basically been "Zhongkang" in an all-round way.But what will the "Dakang" of Huaxi Village be like tomorrow?Or to say what China will be like in fifty or one hundred years, I hope to get some feeling and experience in Huaxi Village, which has been ahead of others for decades, and I hope to get answers from Wu Renbao.However, this wise old man didn't answer directly, but brought me to a row of new buildings standing tall among the shaded flowers, small bridges and flowing water, and introduced with great interest: These 18 "presidential villas" completed before the end of the year "It will be enjoyed by the elderly over 80 years old in the village in turn.Let the villagers enjoy the "presidential villa"?I am a little puzzled.

Wu Renbao seemed to see what I was thinking, and explained with a smile: the purpose of building the "presidential" villa is to welcome more foreign dignitaries, and secondly, to let Huaxi villagers enjoy "the best place in the world we can imagine." material civilization". Listening to his words, a famous saying by Wu Renbao suddenly popped up in my mind: There are blessings for the people, but there are difficult officials. The farmers in Huaxi Village are so blessed that they can enjoy the "presidential" treatment with a swimming pool in the living room, which is difficult even for us who have been living in the metropolis!The real presidential life is not necessarily the enjoyer of a happy life-because they have no freedom; and the peasants who have the material treatment of the president are the real enjoyers-because they can freely control themselves.Wu Renbao has been pursuing a realm all his life, and this realm is to make his peasant brothers the happiest, wealthiest and freest people in the world.In order to achieve this realm, he dedicated all the ruling philosophy and wisdom of a Communist to his people...

"Huaxi No. 398" is the home of Wu Renbao.If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you would never believe that the "village owner" who created the myth of China's wealthy family still lives in the old building of Huaxi Village in the 1970s with his wife. Li——according to Huaxi villagers, most of these buildings are now rented to "migrant workers" from other places. Wu Renbao is "putting on a show"?A big question mark jumped into my mind, but it was quickly denied. "When Huaxi Village became the 'richest man in rural China' in the 1970s, the old secretary set himself the 'three nos' rules: don't get the highest salary in the village, don't live in the best house in the village, and don't get the highest bonus in the village. He has done all the "three nos" of the secretary, so the better our life is now, the more we feel sorry for the old secretary..." Villager Huang Yonggao, a disabled farmer, led the village without any scruples. He followed me to the new villa he was decorating, and told me about the old secretary while looking at it.Huang Yonggao said that he was not from Huaxi Village, but from the neighboring Huaming Village.He fell from a tree when he was two years old and broke his leg. Because his family was poor and had no money to treat him, he became permanently disabled. One winter day in 1982, Huang Yonggao, who made a living by repairing shoes, squatted at the gate of a factory in Huaxi Village to repair shoes. There are bloody mouths...

"Young man, what's your name? How old are you?" Huang Yonggao saw that it was Wu Renbao, the old secretary of Huaxi Village, and hurriedly replied truthfully. "Then would you like to work in Huaxi Village? We are building a hotel..." "Me? Can it work?" "I think it's okay, you can endure hardship." Huang Yonggao looked at Wu Renbao's kind and sincere eyes, and couldn't help crying... From then on, Huang Yonggao, a disabled young man, settled in Huaxi Village.A few years later, Huang Yonggao not only had a place for himself, but also fell in love with a Sichuan girl who was half his age and also worked in a hotel at the age of 38.He was about to get married, and when Huang Yonggao told Wu Renbao the good news, the old secretary was ecstatic and personally organized five banquets for Huang Yonggao.After that, Huang Yonggao was assigned a three-story building.

"The old secretary is very kind to the villagers! When I retired last year, he considered that my son is also going to middle school, so he transferred me this villa of more than 450 square meters..." Huang Yonggao wanted me to feel the old secretary gave him. Caring, I took a good look at the upstairs and downstairs areas: it's so grand!The floor is made of polished marble and imported wood floors, shiny aluminum alloy steel windows, a full set of mahogany furniture and all kinds of electrical appliances... You can never imagine that this is a disabled farmer with a relatively low-to-medium income in Huaxi Village. family.

"Old Huang, you are much more magnificent than the old secretary's house!" I said casually, which made Huang Yonggao burst into tears and choked up with tears: "Yes, the conditions of the old secretary's house are one-third of my level. Not bad, when I think about this, I feel very sorry..." Huang Yonggao is telling the truth.Just a few hours ago, I entered Wu Renbao's house. In that old two-story building, there were three things that impressed me the most: One is the house full of photos, which are the photos of the owner and the party and state leaders in various periods. , local leaders and foreign friends together; the second is the dilapidated walls around; the third is the old southern wooden bed that few people sleep on anymore.Without deliberate description, these three things summarize the basic living conditions of the owner Wu Renbao: unpretentious, outdated, ordinary, and three generations behind the current living standards of Huaxi villagers.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Wu Renbao is the "Emperor" of Huaxi, the "No. 1 Village in the World", with great power, unlimited wealth, and supreme prestige. A public servant who benefits the people. "What do people live for? When they live, they have to have some money and enjoy some blessings. But people can't just live for money and gain power only for the sake of enjoying blessings. Make more contributions to the country and the people, this is a Communist Party member My greatest happiness and satisfaction is to see the people’s lives get better and better.” During the week of Huaxi’s interview, Wu Renbao had three direct contacts with me, and two of them he said something like this, This made a particularly deep impression on me. When Huaxi people live a happy and rich life like heaven, we can ask any farmer at random, and they can tell you a touching story about how the old secretary cares about them when they talk about the old secretary. When it comes to emotions, they will always cry Eyes full.The villagers are so affectionate to Wu Renbao, so what are the common people in Wu Renbao's mind?This is something I very much want to know. "Let me tell you something." Wu Renbao, who was always smiling, became serious after I asked the question: I was not prepared to be the secretary of the Jiangyin County Party Committee in the organization that year, and I was not prepared ideologically, and I was unwilling to leave Huaxi Village emotionally .But this is an organizational decision, and I have to take up the post.In those few days, people in the village thought that after I left, I might never be with everyone like before. They said goodbye to me in various ways, and one of them, Wu Heying, sent me a pair. When she took the cloth shoes with her own hands, she said something that really moved me. The child said: Secretary Wu, it is your kindness that gave me a job and a family. Don't leave us, or we won't have a good life... At that time, I took the shoes she gave me and tasted her words, tears fell out of my eyes.I know the situation of this child very well. She suffered from polio when she was a child, and she can only walk with a cane. At the age of 15, she can only eat at home.In the countryside, if a girl of this age is handicapped, if she cannot stand on her own, she will have to live a life of hardship.The parents of the child were anxious, and I felt sad when I saw it, thinking that the child must have something to do.Later, I went to a belt factory in the town and asked the leader of the factory to help Wu Heying find a master cobbler.They agreed, so I rocked the boat and sent Xiao Heying away.A year later, I took Xiao Heying back to Huaxi, and let her join the village service team, specializing in making shoes, repairing shoes, nailing soles and mending seams for the villagers.Not only the people in the village liked her, but even a young man from the neighboring village also took a fancy to her, and they fell in love later.When Xiao Heying got married, Murakami gave her a new house, and I specially approved her groom Gong Xiangxing to settle in Huaxi.Now Wu Heying's family is living a happy life. One son and one daughter are very healthy. After finishing technical secondary school and university, they found a good job in Huaxi. The family is happy.The change of Xiao Heying and what she said when she gave me a pair of shoes touched me deeply, so sometimes I often think that ordinary people live at the bottom, and their happiness and hardships, if we Party members working at the grassroots level, If the cadres don't ask or help them, how can they have a good life!The ordinary people can't live a good life, so what use are we party members and cadres?Therefore, as a party member or a cadre, you have only one responsibility in the final analysis, and that is how to make your people and the people live a happy and fulfilling life. Wu Renbao's words are not profound, but they reflect the core and most essential content of the profound Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", namely: the entire responsibility of the Communists is to seek happiness for the people . From the 1950s of the last century to today's new century, Huaxi Village has always been at the forefront of China's rural development for half a century. The people here can live the happiest and richest life today. That is, the leader Wu Renbao has consistently shouldered the responsibility of being a communist and poured all his wisdom and emotion into this responsibility. At this point, I believe that readers, like me, finally understand why Wu Renbao still refuses to move out of the old house built in the 1970s even after the whole village has already lived in the fourth and fifth generation villas. Why did the bonus of more than 50 million yuan that could be put into one's own pocket leave nothing to the collective. This is because, in his heart, he believes that the happy life of the common people will continue to improve. Even after "Zhongkang" and "Dakang", we still have an advanced stage of socialism and a communist society that we need to build and create; This is because, in his heart, he believes that the responsibility of communists and cadres to seek happiness for the people is endless, even after their own lives are over, there is still a question of what kind of spiritual legacy to leave to future generations; This is because, by doing so, he can set an example for the party members and cadres of Huaxi Village who will become well-off for the next generation, and let them understand that strict self-discipline, self-denial, and hard work are the true qualities of Communists that can never be lost. Just as Mao Zedong warned the Chinese communists not to forget the teachings of hard work and contact with the masses when they entered the city when they were in Xibaipo, Wu Renbao used his own actions when Huaxi Village just became the "richest man" in the country's rural areas. The cadres set up one "rule" after another. These "rules" are actually a solemn promise made in front of the villagers and the world by using the advanced nature of the Communists in popular words that the common people can understand and understand—— For example, the "three nos" he said in the early days: do not take the highest salary in the village, live in the best house in the village, and do not take the highest bonus in the village.These "three nos" were the "rules" that Wu Renbao set for himself back then, and he has followed them all for decades.And it is his intangible role model power that several children of Wu Renbao, who now hold important positions in the village, have also done it. In 2004, his second son received nearly 100 million yuan in personal benefit bonuses as stipulated in the Contract Responsibility Letter, but Wu Renbao’s second son only received a fraction in the end, and all tens of millions of yuan in bonuses went to the collective.Some people have made incomplete statistics, only Wu Renbao's family, in the past five years, the amount of their personal benefit bonuses that have been attributed to the collective is at least two to three hundred million yuan!Huaxi villagers know that with Wu Renbao's ability and popularity, he can completely move his entire family of three generations to "Shenzhen and Shanghai", or "cross the ocean". Even Wu Renbao's grandson-in-law returned to West China from studying in Japan. For example, Wu Renbao, in order to warn party members and cadres (including wealthy villagers) to establish a correct outlook on life, he engraved a sentence he often said on the most prominent place in the village.This sentence has not only become the motto of the party members and cadres in the village, but even ordinary villagers can memorize it by heart: "The family has several tons of gold, and they can only eat three meals a day; the luxury house is the best, and each person can only occupy one bed. .” For example, he requires party members to have "party heart", "public heart" and "conscience".This "party heart" is the party's advanced nature and principledness, and it is the wholehearted service of the people.In terms of "the way of being an official", Wu Renbao adhered to the principles of "doing things seriously, being fair, running a clean government, and being trusted by the people". Go to the dinner table of the masses. During an interview in Huaxi Village, a local leader once said to me such an intriguing sentence: Wu Renbao was able to bring Huaxi to what it is today, for two reasons. One is that he never left Huaxi Village. His heart is all for the people here. There is rich content behind this simple sentence: As a well-known village branch secretary across the country, in Wu Renbao's own words, he has served as a "big representative, a middle representative, and a small representative", "small model workers, middle model workers, and national representatives." He has also worked as a "big model worker", but he has always been the same, that is, he has never left Huaxi Village no matter what the situation is.Even during his five years as the county party secretary, in addition to continuing to serve as the village branch secretary, most of the 100 working days he set for himself each year were in Huaxi Village.As for the affairs in the village, it is "home cooking" to rush back to Huaxi early in the dark to deal with them.This is also the reason why he unexpectedly lost the party representative that year, and was able to return to Huaxi Village naturally from the post of county party secretary, and was willing to be a farmer. Wu Renbao is now nearly 80 years old, but many people in Huaxi Village told me that the old secretary's mental state and work enthusiasm have always been like a young man.He still gets up at four or five o'clock every day, and then starts to "walk around the village and the factory", and doesn't go home until nine or ten o'clock in the evening. It will be even later if something happens and you go home from a meeting.My wife was afraid that he would get into an accident when he got up early in the dark, so he always wanted to follow him and "watch" him, but in the end he couldn't even find him.Later, the village sent a young man to "watch" him, but it was that young man who was thrown away. "No one can catch up with the footsteps of the old secretary. Later we had to let him go..." The secretary of the village office told me a very interesting thing: Huaxi Village managed by Wu Renbao is now a huge union of workers, peasants, culture and government. It is not an exaggeration to describe the work of being a family member with all kinds of opportunities, but this secretary told me that Wu Renbao has never had his own office. "The workshop of the factory, the field ridge in the countryside, the small bench in the nursery, and the farmer's home are his offices. The old secretary handles things on the spot for decades, so he has developed the habit of never having a fixed office. " "What about bodyguards and secretaries?" It seems that some of today's "bosses" cannot lack these.So I quietly asked. "Hush! That's even more impossible." The Huaxi man laughed at such a question. I still don't give up, hoping to find some "real" Wu Renbao.When the opportunity came, the host invited me to have dinner with several accompanying local leaders, and the old secretary agreed that he would come.The banquet was relatively rich, and the old secretary Wu Renbao was really present, but he came over to clink glasses with us one by one with a glass of white water in his hand, and said apologetically: I can’t break the rules.Seeing the old man fade out of the banquet, I was moved and still whispered to the waitress at the side: what does the old secretary eat next door? "A bowl of noodles in clear soup. His favorite food..." The waitress blurted out, and then motioned me to look in through the crack of the door over there.I leaned over and took a quick glance, but no, the old man was eating his "clear soup noodles" with relish, and there were no other bowls and bowls on the table... Wu Renbao's heart is all on the village and the villagers!His swift footsteps are the battle drum for Huaxi Village to catch up with the times; his undulating breathing is the movement of Huaxi villagers waking up in the morning and sleeping at night; his smiling expression is the happy prelude to a new day in Huaxi Village... Huaxi villagers sang their hearts to the Communist Party and the old secretary of the Communist Party in a self-edited cultural program: "Old Secretary, it is you who made us feel the great kindness of the Communist Party, and it is you who made us steadfast and walk out of society. Belief in the path of communism..." "Renbao Renbao is the treasure of the country. The red flag will not fall despite the ups and downs." "Nearly 80 years old, working day and night. Health and longevity are what the people need." A leader visited Huaxi Village and heard villagers tell about "the old secretary "After decades of stories about loving the people and serving the people, Wu Renbao wrote these words with great emotion. And when I was in Huaxi Village, the stories about the "old secretary" about the "old secretary" that I heard from the people's mouths were even more tear-jerking—— That was 30 years ago.The family of Sun Liangqing, a villager, was hit by a natural disaster, and his 12-year-old son unfortunately drowned and died.Sun Liangqing and his wife cried to death, no matter how much they tried to persuade them, they couldn't do anything.Seeing that the well-behaved Sun family was about to collapse, the villagers were anxious, and Wu Renbao was thinking hard.As the saying goes: Mountains of gold cannot exchange for a son.How to deal with the matter of the Sun family also made Wu Renbao feel awkward for a while.what to do?In those days, Wu Renbao tossed and turned for several nights... One morning, after sending his son who was about to go to school out of the house, he suddenly shouted: "Yes!" Said: "Water can't be taken back when it's gone, and people can't be resurrected after death. Don't be sad anymore, you are not short of sons! I will give you my son. You can choose whichever suits you!" Sun Liangqing and his wife were very surprised when they heard this. , Saying this is impossible!Wu Renbao took the hands of the Sun family couple and said affectionately: "Don't be polite. My Si is about the same age as your son, do you think it's okay?" "Are you going to give us Si?" This is the Sun family couple What was even more unexpected was that everyone in Huaxi Village knew that Wu Renbao's youngest son Ah Si was the one he loved the most. "That's it! From today on, Ah Si is the son of your grandson's family. I, Wu Renbao, are sincere, and Ah Si will treat you like my own sons until the end of my life..." "Ah Si" was named Wu Xie'en, and later he really became the son of the Sun family. After more than ten years, he married the youngest daughter of the Sun family and became the son-in-law of the Sun family.Wu Xie'en is now the "top leader" of Huaxi Village, and Wu Renbao handed over all the party and government seals of Huaxi Village to this son-in-law of the Sun family who "inverted the door" two years ago.The "new head" of Huaxi Village still remembers what happened back then: "As far as I can remember, my father always worked hard and sweated on the front line. One of the words he kept saying was 'When you are an official, you should think about the people'. Over the past few decades, I have only been by his side for ten years. When he gave me to the Sun family as a son, it was also the day my father spent the longest time with me in his life. I still remember that he told me repeatedly, saying that you From now on, there are two mothers and mothers, the first one you should respect and take good care of is the father and mother of the Sun family..." "Ah Si" Wu Xie'en did very well later, so when he was recommended to replace Wu Renbao When he became the "new head" of Huaxi Village, he got the unanimous approval of the villagers.