Chapter 21 Chapter two

On December 3, 1963, Premier Zhou Enlai solemnly declared to the world at the 4th National People's Congress of the 2nd National People's Congress: The era of Chinese people's use of foreign oil will never return.As the main organizer and leader of the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, Huang Jiqing didn't even dare to speak at this time!In fact, it cannot be said! This is where the mistakes of history begin. Zhongnanhai.Fortress Garden. Mao Zedong strode out of Juxiang Bookstore with his coat open, and waved to the head guard who was on duty: "Yinqiao, make a bowl of braised pork tonight. I haven't eaten for a long time. I'm a bit hungry!"

The head guard jumped up.Ha, the chairman is going to eat meat!Over the past three years, in order to set an example for the whole party, the old man was the first among senior central cadres to propose not eating meat and reducing wages.That's because the country has encountered a year of natural and man-made disasters.Right now, if the elderly want to eat meat, it means that the country has come out of difficulties!This is great news!Thinking of this, the chief guard immediately saluted Mao Zedong excitedly and stood at attention: "Yes, I will do it right away!" Yes, we Chinese can finally walk by ourselves!Mao Zedong raised his head slightly proudly, and his eyes that swept across the ages turned to the cloudless sky.

Just now, in the government work report sent by Premier Zhou Enlai, he instructed that an important secret for the Chinese people to get out of the predicament can be announced to the world. Ten days later, the Fourth Session of the Second National People's Congress was held.Standing on the rostrum of the majestic Great Hall of the People, Premier Zhou Enlai revealed an exciting secret to people's representatives from all ethnic groups - we Chinese have discovered a world-class large oil field in the Songliao Plain in Northeast China by relying on our own efforts!At the same time, he proudly announced: China is now self-sufficient in the oil it needs, and the era when the Chinese people used foreign oil for more than a hundred years will never return!

What exciting news this is!The representatives who attended the National People's Congress at that time still clearly remember that when Zhou Enlai's words just fell, the entire Great Hall of the People erupted.Many people were so excited that they kept wiping their tears. From this day onwards, the Fourth National People's Congress of the Second National People's Congress has almost become a meeting to discuss the Daqing Oilfield.The representatives discussed at the meeting and discussed at the meeting. Many people kept shouting "Daqing, Daqing" even in their dreams.

The previous agenda had to be disrupted.At the request of the majority of representatives, the presidium of the conference specially invited the person in charge of the Ministry of Petroleum to make a special report on Daqing Oilfield. So, for the first time, people knew how Daqing Oilfield drilled oil out of the ground under the spirit of the oil workers who are not afraid of hardship or death; thus, the deeds of the iron man Wang Jinxi began to flood into the hearts of the leader Mao Zedong and every ordinary Chinese . As a result, the oil man and Wang Jinxi became the most anticipated heroes in the applause of Mao Zedong and the people's representatives.

Perhaps when Mao Zedong cast admiring glances at the person in charge of the Ministry of Petroleum again and again, none of our leaders and people's representatives noticed the other people in the audience, but their hearts were sour at the moment. They are deputies and officials from the geological front.Among them is the representative of the National People's Congress, Huang Jiqing, who was the vice president of the Academy of Geological Sciences of the Ministry of Geology at the time. portion?It's not fair! The people from the Ministry of Geology are in a hurry.But no one dared to go to the rostrum and say in front of Mao Zedong: We discovered the Daqing Oilfield!Isn't this taking credit in front of the party? No, no, no, this is absolutely unacceptable.Not to mention my heart is suffocating again!

Someone ran to Huang Jiqing's room and said angrily, "Old Huang, how did you discover the Daqing Oilfield? You are the organizer and leader. You know it best. You have to explain it. Let's do it." So much work and so much achievement, you can't even get a name! You have to say it!" Huang Jiqing, who had always regarded fame and fortune as insignificant, was very disapproving of what the visitor said, and was even a little surprised.He raised his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and wrote lightly: "No need, just explain that the Daqing Oilfield was discovered by our Chinese self-reliance, and I don't think anything else is important."

"Hmph, what an old right!" As soon as the visitor was obedient and not speculative, he left without saying a word that was neither serious nor serious. Huang Jiqing smiled lightly, thinking that this was the end of the matter.But he never expected that Liao Suhua, the team leader of his Sichuan team, would stare at him during lunch: "Old Huang, you are an oil geologist, and everyone wants to hear how you discovered the Daqing Oilfield. You can talk about it in a while. Guizi, we Chinese don’t have to be afraid of the US imperialist and Soviet revisionist blockade anymore!” Liao Suhua slapped his fellow villager Huang Jiqing heavily on the shoulder when he parted, his face full of tears. The Chinese people's sense of well-being.

What can I do?Huang Jiqing was in a panic.Let me tell you how the Daqing Oilfield was discovered?To put it bluntly, is it the census work arranged by our geological department?It is said that our geological team first found oil fields on the Songliao Plain and drilled oil wells?This talk, isn't it against the Ministry of Petroleum, isn't it taking credit from others in front of Chairman Mao?But if we don't talk about it, the hard work of so many scientific and technological workers in the Ministry of Geology for so many years has been for nothing? Huang Jiqing couldn't sit still.According to his character, he is a well-known person in the scientific community who dares to tell the truth, but after the anti-rightist struggle in 1957, he, an alternate rightist, has almost no right to speak, even though he is still a National People's Congress represent.Xie Jiarong Huang's friend, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Geology at that time was a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, so he was still labeled as a big rightist!Thinking of this, Huang Jiqing lost his mind even more.

He didn't eat well this lunch.As soon as the job was put down, he slipped out of the meeting room alone, went straight to the Ministry, and found his old subordinate. At that time, Li Ben, the deputy director of the Petroleum Bureau of the Ministry of Geology, was the first-line organizer of the early discovery of the Daqing Oilfield. It's not easy.If it is not good to say it, it will not only affect the relationship between the two ministries, but also make the central government feel that our Geological Department is suspected of stealing credit!Li Ben, who had always been shrewd in his work, had no idea at this time.

"Make up your mind quickly, I won't be able to push you away at the People's Congress group meeting this afternoon!" Huang Jiqing rubbed his hands anxiously. Li Ben thought for a while and said, "Let's go find old man He. He has been in the central government for a long time, so he must have experience in dealing with matters above." Old man He was He Changgong, vice minister of the Ministry of Geology and secretary of the party group at that time. "This matter is none other than him. Let's go, let's go find him together." Huang Jiqing pulled Li Ben away politely. He Changgong, anyone who has read a little bit of Chinese revolutionary history knows that he is an old revolutionary.During the period of the Ruijin Soviet Central Government, he was the commander of the Red Army and the political commissar of the Military and Political University. Lin Biao, who later became the vice chairman of the Party Central Committee, was only a small battalion commander under He Changgong at that time.When the revolution of the Communist Party of China was at a low ebb, Zhu Mao's joining forces in Jinggangshan enabled the entire revolutionary struggle movement to find a way out from the death line.He Changgong was the linker of Zhu Mao's meeting in Jinggangshan.Based on this alone, He Changgong dared to call Mao Zedong "Old Mao" in the public, and he kept calling him "Old Mao" for decades. This is unique among all senior central cadres.However, this veteran of the Chinese revolution and a fellow countryman of Mao Zedong has not been reused since the Central Red Army arrived in Yan'an. Especially after liberation, Mao Zedong began to make him the Minister of Heavy Industry, and later changed to the Deputy Minister of Geology.It is said that people who don't know the inside story often complain about why the long-term worker is unfair, saying that you have been fighting for Mao Zedong for decades.He Changgong is suffering in his heart, so it's hard to tell!On the Long March that year, Zhang Guotao deceived a large number of people, and my old He was also deceived, and I voted for the surname Zhang.Afterwards, of course the matter passed, but Mao Zedong always remembered it in his heart!Well, He Changgong, I even changed your name back then (He Changgong’s original name was He Kunke). At the critical moment of the revolution, you wouldn’t go with Mao Zedong!He Changgong has regretted this matter all his life, but it is useless to regret what has already happened.Lao Mao never let him go! This is the reason for the old revolutionaries, so the official luck has not been good.Fortunately, everyone around Mao Zedong knew that he was a veteran and meritorious minister of the Chinese revolution, and many of them were his old subordinates. Therefore, although He Changgong was a deputy minister after he arrived at the Ministry of Geology, there were not many members of the Central Committee in terms of qualifications. comparable to him.The old man went to Zhongnanhai, and as long as he asked, even those vice prime ministers would buy him three cents.Many old comrades in the Ministry of Geology miss He Changgong very much. The important reason is that He Changgong's contribution to the early construction of the Ministry of Geology cannot be replaced by anyone.For example, the office of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources is located in Xisi, a busy city. If you pay attention, how many central ministries and commissions have offices that can be compared with the excellent location of the Ministry of Geology?Moreover, the site of the University of Geosciences in the north, such a large piece of land, was also decided by He Changgong with a poke of his finger. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Ministry of Geology had such a great reputation in society that it was inseparable from He Changgong's reign. Huang Jiqing took Li Ben to see He Changgong, with such a feeling in his arms: Old man He can do anything that others can't or are difficult to do in front of the central government.But they just overlooked one of He Changgong's weaknesses, that is, don't collide with Lao Mao in anything. What, Daqing Oilfield?Ouch!He Changgong was stunned when he heard this.The Daqing Oilfield is something that Lao Mao is also catching when he sleeps. Now that the oil field has been found, the leaders of the Ministry of Petroleum have become Mao Zedong’s favorites. You want me to tell Lao Mao that Daqing was found by our Geology Department. What do I, He Changgong, think? "Oh, Lao Huang, how do you think about it?" Huang Jiqing glanced at Li Ben, then looked at He Changgong, thinking that most of you don't know what to do, and I don't know what to do. At the time of parting, He Changgong came out with his crutches and dragged his lame legs to see off the guests (it was a lifelong commemoration for this old soldier during the guerrilla war in Jinggangshan). One day in August 1952, He Changgong, the Minister of Heavy Industry of the Republic, was summoned by Bo Yibo, the Vice Premier in charge of economic affairs.Bo said: "The organization has decided to transfer you to work in the soon-to-be-established Ministry of Geology." This happened so suddenly, He Changgong couldn't help patted the stumped legs left by the Revolutionary War, and shouted loudly: "Let me, a cripple Going to climb mountains? No way. Comrade Yibo, you know, I have never negotiated a price for organizational assignments in my life, can you negotiate a price this time, let me go to the mechanical department or something?" "It can't be changed. The Central People's Government Committee will discuss and pass it this afternoon." Bo Yibo said again: "Your transfer was proposed by Premier Zhou to Chairman Mao, and the Chairman has already nodded." The long-term worker stopped talking. Huang Jiqing and many people in the Geological Department heard about this matter later.Looking at the gloomy face of this lame old general, Huang Jiqing couldn't help feeling a little pity in his heart at this moment.However, he still has a special layer of reverence for this old revolutionary. There is one thing that Huang Jiqing has never forgotten in his life.