Chapter 20 Chapter One

Premier Zhou Enlai solemnly announced to the world at the Fourth National People's Congress of the Second Session (1963): The era when the Chinese people used foreign oil will never return.Huang Jiqing, who was the main organizer and leader of the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, dared not even speak at this time, in fact he could not.In the history of Chinese science in the twentieth century, there were two major events that really made the Chinese nation proud.One is the successful development of "two bombs and one satellite", and the other is the discovery of Daqing Oilfield.For the heroes of the former, we can clearly list a series of famous names such as Nie Rongzhen, Qian Xuesen, Wang Tuchang, Deng Jiaxian, etc. These are all familiar and indisputable figures.But regarding the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, most people, including the author, knew only one Li Siguang in the past.In fact, this is a huge fallacy.Since September 26, 1959, geological team members and oil workers drilled the first self-spraying industrial oil well at Songji No. 3 in the Songliao Basin, Daqing Oilfield, which has provided a steady stream of blood to the lifeline of the Republic, has always been proud and loud. The name has been shining in the world for thirty-five years.However, the scientific master who really used his own scientific theory and personally set up the decisive survey and exploration drilling mission in the Songliao Basin was submerged by historical and human factors for thirty-five years until the eighty-year-old before his death. Only a few days ago, he was crowned as the father of China's oil by the Chinese and foreign press and science and technology circles.

On January 12, 1995, when he, together with Qian Xuesen, the father of the two bombs, Wang Ganchang, and Wang Daheng, the master of optics, received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Excellence Award certificate and one million Hong Kong dollars from Premier Li Peng, I was talking to the news I held a meeting with friends from the world and literary circles. At that time, several people heard that I was in the same department as the master. They were surprised and asked me what the skinny old man who was the first to accept the award was doing. I answered truthfully: "He is the main discoverer of the Daqing Oilfield."

"He? No way! Li Siguang discovered it!" My friends all said to me like this. I didn't refute at the time because there was so much to say about the matter.It is not easy to overthrow a monument that has been erected in people's minds for decades with one sentence or a simple conclusion.Perhaps it was at that moment that I vowed to reveal the inside story of the protracted and biggest fame and fortune dispute in the scientific history of New China, and let people know who is the real discoverer and the number one hero of Daqing Oilfield!History has been distorted for more than three decades, and it is time for it to return to its true colors.

It is said that the disputes in Vanity Fair are full of sinister and cruelty.So, is it absolutely thrilling to be at the highest level of China's scientific and technological circles? Through the master's assistant, I made an appointment with him in the spring season of 1995 to have a long talk on this topic. But just when I was embracing the spring breeze and looking forward to revealing the various life styles of a generation of scientific masters in the face of fame and fortune, the 91-year-old outstanding member of the Communist Party of my country, a generation of scientific masters in our country, and a famous geologist Academician Huang Jiqing, in 1995 Passed away suddenly at 21:55 on March 22.

The master left me with a regret that can never be made up. Now, saying goodbye to this lost master, I have no choice but to seek that heavy history and have a dialogue with it.