Chapter 22 third chapter

It was 1957, the year of the first catastrophe for intellectuals in the history of New China.At that time, Huang Jiqing held two important positions: the chief engineer of the National Petroleum Geology Bureau and the first deputy director of the Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ministry of Geology (the director was concurrently held by a deputy minister). In April, after the first national regional geological survey meeting, Huang Jiqing took a group of young workers to Guangdong to conduct on-the-spot teaching.At that time, Soviet experts had penetrated into various industrial sectors, and the Ministry of Geology was no exception.However, Huang Jiqing, who had become a world-renowned geologist as early as the 1940s, discovered that the so-called Soviet experts who pointed fingers in front of him were actually those who praised his famous book on China's major geological tectonic units in the Soviet Union itself. Students who have just come out of college who study for the classics.Huang Jiqing had some opinions, and bluntly put forward his own opinions and suggestions to the leader of the expert group.In fact, as a master, he is also qualified to speak in front of these Russian dolls, but Huang Jiqing was wrong.

In early autumn, he returned to Beijing.The anti-rightist struggle of the Ministry of Geology has entered a highly concrete stage. He and three other senior engineers were named and criticized.In addition to Huang, the three critics included Xie Jiarong, then chief engineer of the Ministry of Geology, and Li Chunyu, a famous geologist.Like Huang Jiqing, he was the pillar of China's geological career at that time.Xie and Li's culpability cannot be escaped, especially Xie, who has two major culpability: one is an anti-Soviet expert.Xie's point of view is the same as Huang Jiqing's. He has a big problem with the Soviet Union's hairy kids dictating in front of him.What's more, Xie was the chief engineer of the Ministry of Geology of the dignified Republic at that time, and the highest technical authority in geology in the country. What's the point of listening to your Russian kid's blind instructions.The second is anti-Party.God knows what anti-Party is. If he had been more self-cultivated in the officialdom, he would not have been labeled as a rightist later on, and he would not have been forced to commit suicide not long after the Cultural Revolution began. His wife died a few days after his death. Suicide passed away.

Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong were the main organizers and leaders of the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield at that time. Their fate in the anti-rightist struggle has a direct and crucial relationship with the outcome of this biggest unsolved case in China’s scientific and technological circles until today. . Since then, the words in his mouth no longer belong to him. Coming out of He Changgong's house, Huang Jiqing returned to the National People's Congress meeting, where the representatives of the Sichuan Group had already been waiting to hear him tell the truth about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield.

After finding his seat, Huang Jiqing took off his glasses and wiped the sweat from his forehead, feeling extremely nervous.He knew that if he didn't make it right, he would stab someone, but he couldn't do it anymore if he didn't talk about it today.So he had no choice but to preach in this way: ... "Well, let's put it this way, like our Sichuan Great Basin, the Songliao region in Northeast China is now Daqing, and there is also a large basin. This large basin can contain oil, and the large basin of continental strata can contain oil even more. Large organic matter and rich gray-black shale are more capable of generating oil. In our Daqing oilfield, the government began to deploy the most manpower geological team and geophysical exploration team in 1955. After about five years, the Songji 3 Well No. 1 drilled a deep well, and when it was drilled down, the oil and gas spewed out, such a huge amount of oil and gas, this is our Daqing Oilfield!"

In this way, Huang Jiqing was carefully pondering each word, while speaking very bluntly.The deputies to the National People's Congress seemed to be hearing about the Three Kingdoms and the Water Margin, and all of them stared at Huang Jiqing intently, as if every word he uttered was the most exciting legendary story. "Mr. Huang, tell me, has anyone ever looked for oil in Daqing?" someone stood up and asked. Huang Jiqing said: "Yes, the Japanese have been looking for it for thirty years! But they haven't found it!" "I heard that the Japanese are much more advanced in finding oil than we are. Why didn't they discover it, while we discovered the Daqing Oilfield in only five years?"

When Huang Jiqing heard this, his eyes lit up immediately, his voice was raised, and his words slipped away: "Why didn't Little Japan find it? That's because they didn't understand that continental strata can generate oil. Before our discovery of Daqing Oilfield Well, major geologists in many countries in the world believe that only marine strata can generate oil, and regard continental strata as oil-poor areas. We Chinese geologists don’t believe that. As early as the 1940s, we Put forward the theory of continental oil generation. After the founding of New China, according to this theory, we found the Daqing Oilfield within a few years!"

"It's worth it! We Chinese are no worse than foreigners!" "The person who suggested that oil-generating continental formations are so amazing!" The more the representatives heard, the more excited they became. Someone stood up and asked loudly, "Mr. Huang, do you know who proposed that continental formations generate oil?" When Huang Jiqing heard it, his heart sank, and his forehead suddenly broke out in cold sweat.He knew that he had slipped his mouth because he was too involved in the topic, so he quickly changed his words: "This is a great victory led by Chairman Mao and the Communist Party. We Chinese people have found a Daqing, and we will find a second and third Daqing tomorrow." !"

"Yes, yes, let's cheer for the second and third celebrations!" The delegates were completely immersed in their passion. Dangerous!Huang Jiqing dodged the wave of cheers, took out his handkerchief, and gently wiped the sweat from his forehead.He raised his eyes inadvertently, and was stunned for a moment: he saw another famous geologist, Hou Defeng, director of the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Mr. Hou is one of the eighteen arhats in the era of Chinese geology, and he and Xie Jiarong were classmates.Before liberation, when Huang Jiqing was the director of the National Government's Central Geological Survey, Hou served as a subordinate (Huang Jiqing's) who was a little younger than himself, but they were friends who had been friends for decades.When Huang Jiqing spoke just now, he did not expect that there was a great geologist who knew him by his side.Otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't even say the vague words about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield above.

Huang Jiqing secretly raised his eyelids, and glanced at the other party again, only to see Hou Defeng nod to him very comically, shook his head again, and then let out a long sigh. What, where did I say something wrong?Huang Jiqing suddenly became frightened, he wanted to go up to ask what happened, but there were a few representatives in the middle who couldn't move easily.The ups and downs made Huang Jiqing sigh, and a thought came to his mind: I will never talk about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield again! In fact, in the following ten years, not to mention the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, he was deprived of the most basic work and the right to engage in scientific research.The overwhelming propaganda about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield does not allow another diametrically opposed voice to appear.Especially Huang Jiqing's voice.

One thing that needs to be stated is that there is a particularly important detail in the untrue propaganda about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield later, that is, when Huang Jiqing vowed to keep his mouth shut, the Daqing fever was aroused inside and outside the National People's Congress, making the first The leader of the Ministry of Geology, who set foot in the Songliao Plain and was the first to discover oil sands and drill the first oil well there, felt more and more disappointed. The reason was that the credit for the Daqing Oilfield was almost overwhelmingly to the Ministry of Petroleum in the impression of the above and the public. and oil workers represented by Wang Tieren.

Faced with such injustice, the leaders of the Ministry of Geology at that time were naturally nervous at first, because if they did not explain this matter to the central government and the people of the whole country, the hundreds of thousands of geological troops below would not agree; Inevitably one day a central leader will stand up and say to the ministers of your Ministry of Geology: Hey, the Ministry of Petroleum has found a Daqing Oilfield. What’s wrong with your Ministry of Geology? Cub!No, we must not let the propaganda of the whole country be one-sided. The person who is most anxious about this matter should be He Changgong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice Minister of the Ministry of Geology.When Huang Jiqing came back to report that day, his heart began to fluctuate.When Mao Zedong asked him to come to the Ministry of Geology by name, he once said that although the Minister of Geology is Li Siguang, he is engaged in technology. You are the secretary of the party group and vice minister, and the daily work of the Ministry of Geology is mainly dependent on you.Yes, the Ministry of Geology is good or bad, others may stare at Minister Li Siguang, but Lao Mao stares at me, He Changgong!It would be a lie to say that there is no rush, but it would be a lie to say that He Changgong, who has lived and died for the Chinese revolution for decades and never cared about personal gain or loss, is not at all for fame and fortune at this time. Outsiders don't know, but He Changgong knows it in his heart.After Huang Jiqing and others proposed that the Songliao Plain be included in the oil survey plan in 1955, and since the Daqing Battle began in 1959, the cooperation between the Ministry of Geology and the Ministry of Petroleum has never been separated from each other. For major problems, He Changgong would issue a military order, and young generals from the Ministry of Petroleum, such as Yu Qiuli and Kang Shien, would immediately run to his house like visiting relatives. "Hey, ministers and generals, have you found the enemy's regiment commander or division commander in Songliao recently?" Every time, He Changgong set up a dragon gate array without waiting for the guests to sit down.He likes to call the newly discovered oil fields and mines according to their size, squad leader and platoon leader, and the larger ones are called company commanders, battalion commanders, and so on. "Report to the old general, this time we have captured a commander!" Yu Qiuli snapped to attention, solemnly raising his right hand (Yu Qiuli lost his left arm during the war). "Good job, I like to hear about catching big guys!" After hearing this, He Changgong limped over excitedly, hugged Yu Qiuli tightly with both hands, and said loudly: "Chairman Mao asked us two people with broken legs and little arms to chase after the rocket satellites of the US imperialists. Who said that?" No!" "Success!" At this moment, all the people in the room cheered excitedly, only one person hid aside, holding a bowl of noodles and gobbling it up. "Well, you Kang Shi'en, every time you come here you have to eliminate a catty of white flour. How about it, you should be punished for being the first to speak!" He Changgong yelled, holding the commander-in-chief of the Daqing Oilfield Battle by the ear.Kang Shien covered his ears with one hand like an urchin, and protested repeatedly: "You have no right to interfere in this matter. It is Sister Yin who takes special care of me!" "Is that so?" He Changgong turned his head and asked his wife. "You old man, put your hands down first!" His wife Yin Qingping stood up and spoke: "Shi En eats noodles in the ice and snow, and it's rare to come back. I always catch you as a tongue to confess, and I'm not allowed Let people have a full meal?" When Kang Shien heard this, he danced happily like a big child: "It's better to be the eldest sister, the eldest sister loves me!" At this time, there will be a burst of cheerful laughter in He Changgong's home. What an unforgettable time it was!He Changgong thought about the scenes where all the left and right worked together for the Daqing Oilfield in the past, and then looked at the current situation where everyone wanted to show their merits and flags in front of Chairman Mao and the people of the whole country after the oil was pumped out, and he felt really uncomfortable. The old general was born not to be moved by fame and fortune, but he couldn't take the issue of Daqing Oilfield lightly, because it was not his personal matter, it was a matter of the reputation of hundreds of thousands of people in the Ministry of Geology, and it also related to Mao Zedong and the Party Central Committee Views on the Ministry of Geology. He Changgong's views and opinions were endorsed by a group of people, and naturally also affirmed by Minister Li Siguang.Therefore, the initiative to write a report to the central government on the discovery of some problems in the Daqing Oilfield was collectively formed in the upper echelons of the Ministry of Geology. how to write?Write what?This is another problem. To state every detail of the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield in a realistic manner according to history, you must first write in the credit for Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong who were the first to formulate the proposal and plan for the oil survey in the Songliao Plain. .Or even further away, it has to be counted from Huang Jiqing, who was the first in the world to put forward the theory of continental oil generation and multi-stage oil generation when he was sent by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Kuomintang government to Xinjiang from the autumn of 1942 to the summer of 1943.The latter obviously cannot be mentioned, because that would risk singing the praises of the reactionary Kuomintang government.But the former seems to lack the brilliance of the Communists under the sunshine of New China.Why?No reason, because the general committee is called the National Mineral Census Committee of the Ministry of Geology, and the three executives in power, Huang Jiqing, Xie Jiarong, and Liu Yi, are all notorious big rightists or omission rightists.Li Siguang is the honorary director of the general committee, and the actual work is usually led and decided by Huang, Xie, and Liu.Liu Yi is the chief executive of the three-person leadership group and the secretary of the party committee of the general committee. After being labeled as a rightist, he was taken to a farm in the northeast.It is said that this party's ninth-level senior cadre died a tragic death.Daqing Oilfield, such a great achievement of socialist ministers under the light of Mao Zedong's brilliant thought, how can it be linked with the credit of these rightists? At that time, Li Ben, deputy director of the Petroleum Bureau, and the others represented the business department in the first draft drafted for the party group, listing the names of Huang Jiqing, Xie Jiarong and other technicians, but they were deleted.The reference in the report was later changed to Li Siguang's name, and changed to the words that Li Siguang first affirmed that there was oil in the Songliao Plain with his geomechanics and later confirmed it. Minister Li Siguang, a famous geologist, used Chairman Mao's philosophy and his world-renowned theory of geomechanics to realize a major discovery in the Daqing Oilfield... The Ministry of Geology reported this to the Party Central Committee to Mao Zedong.It should be said that this report has important historical significance, and it saved face for the Ministry of Geology and hundreds of thousands of geologists. A person who did not want to be named told me that this formulation was based on He Changgong's consideration: the central government was very appreciative of Yu Qiuli and the Ministry of Petroleum at that time.If it is generally said that the Ministry of Geology has contributed to the Daqing Oilfield, it is not enough to suppress others.And Li Siguang is a great geologist, the world recognized, said he used his theory to guide the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, no one has anything to refute.Admitting this point, the Ministry of Geology has made a major contribution to the Daqing issue, because Li Siguang is the head of the Ministry of Geology!Later, it really confirmed He Changgong's judgment.After that, when Mao Zedong and the central leaders talked about the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield in various public occasions, they no longer only praised the Ministry of Petroleum and the oil workers, but Li Siguang was added. Since then, Li Siguang's name has been resounded throughout the sky, and his name will go down in the annals of history, and it still shines brightly today. Mao Zedong said to Li Siguang: "Your Tai Chi is so good." Huang Jiqing was puzzled: Why was the Songliao Pingyuan oil census plan that he personally arranged was ruthlessly rejected?