Chapter 37 Chapter Eighteen

On June 1, 1960, when the first train loaded with crude oil from the Daqing Oilfield left the land of Songliao from Saertu Station, announcing that the newly discovered world-class oilfield in China began to contribute to the take-off of the Republic, Huang Ji Qing, the discoverer of the oil field, dragged his emaciated and sick body, carrying a small bag of flour from a nearby small grain store, preparing to send it to his son who was starving in the ravine... Son, Dad is very sorry for you.Ever since you were young, your father has never cared about your studies and life, but you never imagined that your father would bring you the right thoughts... Huang Jiqing felt sorry for the only thing he had done in his life until his deathbed. The son and daughter's matter is that I intentionally or unintentionally infect my eldest son with my right thoughts, so that the eldest son can't go to college and has been staying in the depression for decades.

When his own soul was severely damaged, the master wrote a letter of conviction to his eldest son Haosheng with such a sense of guilt more than once, complaining about himself. When writing this article, I really want to know the later situation of the eldest son of the master.Huang Jiqing's family told me that the eldest son of their family has a bit of a temper. He lived in his father's house after returning from Changping mountain village a few years ago, and later moved out to live alone due to congestion. One Friday afternoon, I came to the far left ear room of a dilapidated courtyard house in Nanchizi, only 100 meters away from the Forbidden City, and found Huang Haosheng.If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed that this was the home of a generation of famous Chinese academicians. Outside the desk where the son is doing his homework, there is a narrow passage in the middle where people walk across the street and need to turn sideways.Huang Haosheng is now a high school mathematics teacher in a middle school in Beijing.His right leg is disabled and he can only walk with a cane.I asked him how he got the disease.He also couldn't tell clearly, saying that he developed it slowly when he was teaching in a valley in Changping more than 20 years ago, and it got worse in recent years. In 1983, when the policy was implemented and he returned to the city, this middle school became his only choice because he could not go to buildings, because this middle school was the only middle school in Beijing that was all bungalows, and his crutches could not support those classrooms with buildings.

Teacher Huang Haosheng told me that he stayed in a mountain village middle school in Changping, a suburb of Beijing, for 24 years.At that time, he was only 18 years old, naive, romantic, and full of fantasy about the future. This was the golden age for a person to study and study, but he was deprived of this right, and was suddenly thrown everywhere from the high-rise courtyard in the metropolis. In a valley of stones, dirt roads, and weeds.Is this where I will live and work forever?When he first went there, he was pessimistic and disappointed. He often cried silently under a big tree outside the village in the dark of night, facing the sunset and sunset... He complained why fate was so unfair?During the interview, he raised a hand to show me that there was a deep scar on it.At that time, Huang Haosheng's school was not connected to electricity, and he could only use kerosene lamps to prepare lessons every night.The scar on his palm was scratched when he wiped the lampshade.

Perhaps because of the blood relationship with his father and the influence of his father's optimism in the face of difficulties, Huang Haosheng did not sink under the huge blow of fate.When he stood in front of the podium and faced the innocent eyes of hundreds of peasant children who were dressed in tatters but full of childishness and eager for knowledge, he felt that his heart was sublimating, and he felt the responsibility to teach them scientific knowledge and lead them in Eucalyptus. Reed's mathematical universe, when he rediscovered the meaning of life, although sometimes painful, but also very precious.

In 1978, the spring of intellectuals came.The party branch of the Fourth Middle School corrected Huang Haosheng's political conclusions when he graduated.At this time, and only at this time, he had the opportunity to continue his studies. He was admitted to Beijing TV University's mathematics major with a score of 100 in mathematics. In 1985, at the age of 44, he was admitted to the undergraduate correspondence class of Beijing Normal University through self-study.Every Sunday, he rode an old bicycle early in the morning, with a schoolbag on his shoulders, which contained books, handouts and an enamel cup printed with the words Follow Chairman Mao in the wind and waves. The enamel cup is very useful. It is used for drinking water, and can be eaten with instant noodles at noon. He and some young people of the same age as his son attended lectures, did homework, and took exams... At the age of 47, he finally realized his dream of becoming a college student.For him, this dream was thirty years late.Maybe it's the blood of the scholarly family that flows in the veins.He said that he was eager to learn. If he hadn't reached the age of 47 at the time and had a heavy burden from his family, he would still want to take the postgraduate and doctoral exams.Today, Huang Jiqing's eldest son still drags his broken legs to go to school every day. He is already the backbone of teaching in this middle school, and he is as dedicated to his career as his father.

I asked him what did he think of his father?Have you ever held grudges against your father because you stayed in the valley for decades because of your father?Huang Haosheng said bluntly: It would be true to say that I inherited my father's upright nature.When my father was 18 years old, he had a strong interest in politics when he was studying at Beiyang University.It's also really strange. If I hadn't been so sensitive and concerned about politics when I was in No. 4 Middle School at the age of 18, I wouldn't have suffered such bad luck later.But at that time, I just wanted to ask why, and it was inevitable to have later encounters in that era.For these, the father does not and should not have any responsibility.On the contrary, I am grateful to him. It is he who has influenced and inherited his strong character, the optimistic spirit of not yielding in the face of any difficulties, and the family tradition of seeking truth and being diligent and studious. Overwhelmed, and trying to be like my father, pursuing the cause he was obsessed with...

Yes, perhaps the son will never be able to compare with the father in this respect.Huang Jiqing is the sea and the mountains.When the sea and high mountains are ruthlessly filled and submerged, only the high mountains and the sea can understand the devastation of the soul and the torment of the body. They are born from the same root, so why rush each other? Just because class struggle is the key link, friends turned into enemies overnight... History has its own verdict: the monument of Chinese geology does not belong to one person. On April 20, 1964, the People's Daily published a long article entitled "Daqing Spirit Daqing People".This is the first time that China has disclosed the Daqing Oilfield to the outside world.Prior to this, Daqing Oilfield has always been classified as confidential.

Our highest authority has chosen such a year to reveal a great discovery to the world, which undoubtedly has great political significance.This meaning is just like what Mao Zedong said when he received an Algerian guest: The imperialists were clamoring for the collapse of the Chinese government not long ago, but now they are silent, because it has not yet collapsed, and they are even more stubborn. (See page 364 of Metril's Biography of Mao Zedong) In Mao Zedong's eyes, the most dangerous imperialist at that time was the neighboring Soviet Union. During the six or seven years from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, China, a newly born republic, faced unprecedented pressure under the cross attacks of man-made and natural factors.

Behind is the famine and poverty of 600 million people; in front is the all-round anti-China encirclement in the southeast and northwest.The discovery of the Daqing Oilfield was one of the most exciting events in Mao Zedong's life. In 1964, another event happened in China that made Mao Zedong happy, that is, the successful detonation of the first atomic bomb. The Daqing oil field and the atomic bomb relieved Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party of the heavy pressure from before and after, and the Republic began to appear on the international stage with a new image. If the atomic bomb is the weight used by Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China to compete with all anti-China and anti-communist forces represented by imperialism, then the Daqing Oilfield can be compared to the train track for the Socialist Republic to become a modern power.

Mao Zedong valued Chongqing Oilfield from the political point of view of a politician.He praised the ministers who made great contributions to the discovery and development of the Daqing Oilfield, no less than the founding fathers of the Republic who fought the world with him.In the oil system, Mao Zedong praised Yu Qiuli, Kang Shien, and Iron Man Wang Jinxi.In the geological system, Li Siguang became his celebrity.It should be said that Mao Zedong's praise to the two brothers, the Ministry of Petroleum and the Ministry of Geology, was fair.However, due to the subsequent historical trend, fierce political movements emerged, and this kind of fairness also exposed serious hidden dangers of unfairness.An important factor is the peak of Mao Zedong's prestige starting from the mid-1960s.A good word or a compliment from him is always heavily political.This kind of political color is the philosophy that his old man has always pursued, which is based on class struggle.In the end, it also led to the protracted fame and fortune dispute over the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield.

During the first few years of the discovery and development of the Daqing Oilfield, as mentioned above, the Ministry of Petroleum and the Ministry of Geology never had any public or secret frictions over who contributed more and who made less.This kind of fame and fortune struggle has never occurred among scientific and technological workers. At least a group of masters such as Huang Jiqing have never thought about personal fame and fortune.Contributing to socialist construction was the common wish and lofty sentiment of Chinese intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s.It's just that the development of the political situation later forced our scientific and technological workers to stand up and defend their due dignity. When people come to this world, everyone has the right to maintain and defend their dignity.However, in order to maintain and defend their dignity, Chinese intellectuals have paid an unbearable price. The Cultural Revolution was the longest and darkest period they experienced, when their most basic human dignity was not guaranteed.In those days, most intellectuals were pushed into the trash can as moldy garbage, or buried in a political pit dug on their knees. It is said that Mao Zedong's old age was a tragedy because he had too many enemies in his mind.He has extended the concept of imperialism indefinitely in international affairs, which has caused China's extreme isolation; domestically, the old man's enemies are those in power within the party who are taking the capitalist road and those intellectuals who are reactionary in nature. Huang Jiqing was classified as those intellectuals who were reactionary in nature. Reactionary intellectuals are classified as opposed to revolutionary intellectuals.In the field of geology, it goes without saying that Huang Jiqing is a reactionary intellectual who opposes Mao Zedong Thought and follows the bourgeois line of Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. In 1964, Huang Jiqing was 60 years old.When the Cultural Revolution began, Huang Jiqing was 62 years old.Huang Jiqing never imagined that at his rare age, history would oppose him to the person he had always respected. History is making fun of Huang Jiqing, and at the same time making fun of that era.All this can be attributed objectively to the Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong and his elders. In 1964, Mao Zedong issued a call to the national industry and transportation system to learn from Daqing in industry.Since then, Daqing has become a red flag of self-reliance and hard work.This red flag has been flying high for decades.Broadly speaking, there is nothing to blame for Mao Zedong's slogan.Behind this slogan there are two calls, that is, agriculture should learn from Dazhai, and the people of the whole country should learn from the Liberation Army.After the Cultural Revolution, the society raised many doubts about learning from Dazhai, the most fundamental of which was that Dazhai could not be used as a model for rural China, and that typical characters like Chen Yonggui and Guo Fenglian were taken too far.In fact, there was nothing wrong with Mao Zedong's basic starting point when he put forward this call.It's just that some of the later ones were typical due to being blown and pulled too high from the ground.As soon as it leaves the ground, it becomes false, and as soon as it is false, others will not believe it.The tragedy of Chen Yonggui in his later years was the same as that of Mao Zedong.Guo Fenglian is now learning the lessons of her predecessors, so she is respected by the people again. Mr. Li Siguang, a great scientist whom we have always respected, may not even realize that he fell into the same tragic fate as Chen Yonggui to some extent after the discovery of Daqing Oilfield, especially in the ten years after the start of the Cultural Revolution.However, in the public's memory and impression, Li Siguang's luck is much better than Chen Yonggui's group of historical figures. Not saying anything bad about him.Here is a plot: In the middle of writing this article, one day when the author and colleagues from the magazine passed the statue of Li Siguang, they suggested: Come on, let’s take a photo together in front of this outstanding master of science, so that the master will live forever. in our hearts.This photo has since been pressed under the glass plate of the author's desk.It’s just that history has pushed us into a new century, and before this new century is approaching, we have the responsibility and obligation to tell the world and our descendants the truth about some major events that happened in China in the 20th century. So as not to bring some misunderstandings and misunderstandings of this century to future generations.China suffered too much suffering in the 20th century, and every upright Chinese citizen hopes that there will be no suffering in the new century in their motherland, at least it is not caused by human beings. In order not to suffer tomorrow, sometimes I have to uncover the scars of yesterday.This, then, makes the individual feel miserable.If the temporary suffering of a few people can be exchanged for more people not suffering tomorrow, I think the suffering of others can be regarded as a kind of dedication.I sincerely hope that those individuals who regarded Li Siguang as a god in the past can show this kind of dedication and generosity.