Chapter 38 Chapter Nineteen

December 26, 1993 was the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth.I have interviewed many staff who were with Mao Zedong because I wrote a record of security leaders.They told me that from 1964 until his death in 1976, Mao Zedong actually lived a secluded life.Except for some important foreign affairs activities, even Premier Zhou Enlai and Jiang Qing, a member of the Gang of Four, are not easily received by this political saint.As for figures in the intellectual and scientific circles who wanted to meet Mao Zedong, the opportunity was even rarer.However, Li Siguang was an exception.According to historical records, in 1964 alone, Mao Zedong met Li Siguang alone twice, and both of them were friends.Once, the two laughed about Tai Chi, and the other time they invited Li Siguang to watch Henan opera Chaoyanggou at Huairen Hall in Zhongnanhai.In the following years, when Mao Zedong saw Li Siguang, he would praise him for discovering the Daqing Oilfield. When talking about the Daqing Oilfield, Mao Zedong would always mention Li Siguang.History has made Li Siguang a red flag in the scientific and technological circles.

Before the start of the Cultural Revolution, Daqing had become a model for the whole country to learn from.After the Cultural Revolution, Daqing was a bright red battle flag. Drillers like Wang Jinxi also became the deputy director of the Daqing Oilfield Revolutionary Committee with a team of hundreds of thousands.Daqing is inseparable from Li Siguang, and Li Siguang heats up with the heat of Daqing's propaganda. When people arrive at the altar, they will become scary ghosts and gods. Science becomes absurd at its altar. In the field of geosciences, there is only one reason why a large number of honest scientists represented by Huang Jiqing and Xie Jiarong refuse to accept certain practices and formulations in the propaganda: science must respect objective facts, and science cannot be monolithic.

The two masters of science, Huang and Xie, have thousands of followers behind them. They are too naive. They think that they can treat the stormy political struggle with the same honest attitude as they do science.The masters got it all wrong.Before they had time to find out where their ideas were wrong, the revolutionary storm had pulled them from the seat of the revered master of science to the underground prison with rats.In the face of sticks and airplanes, the burly Xie Jiarong followed the ancient motto that soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, so he finally ended his glorious life by committing suicide.Huang Jiqing was too thin, so thin that he didn't even have the strength to hit his body against the concrete floor in that dark underground prison... This master who weighed less than 80 catties at the time, after Xie Jiarong's death, became a geologist. The status of the greatest reactionary academic authority suffered brutal soul and physical destruction.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Huang Jiqing was the executive vice president of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.In this temple of scientific research where intellectuals are the main body, a few rebels who enjoy smashing, smashing and looting have mastered the life and death power of the Academy of Sciences.Not long after the start of the Cultural Revolution, they killed Xie Jiarong and another famous geologist Meng Xianmin, who was the main pioneer and founder of Gejiu tin mine in Yunnan, the most famous tin capital in my country. He is also the discoverer of the world's first new mineral species, the Fragrant Flower Stone Mine.Under the coercion of a group of rebels who had lost their basic humanity in the Academy of Geological Sciences, Meng Xianmin jumped to his death from the window on the third floor of the office building.Witnesses still shudder when they tell of the master's death.His head was stuck upside down in the middle of his shoulders, and there was a big red spot on the ground... Witnesses told me that the white was brains, and the red was blood.When Meng Xianmin died, he was the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a representative of the third National People's Congress.At that time, Huang Jiqing did not have the idea of ​​ending this life like Xie Jiarong and Meng Xianmin, like two friends, and everything will be fine, but he did not have this opportunity.The rebels did not allow the geology community to lose one of the biggest targets of criticism and attack.Because in their view, only at the constantly upgrading aircraft and criticism conferences can one experience the joy and sense of victory of the revolution.If you lose the object of criticism and attack, this kind of struggle will be boring!It's not fun!

Huang Jiqing was imprisoned in a special underground cell, and began a long-term interrogation that lasted more than 180 days... —Interrogation after interrogation and criticism again and again made Huang Jiqing, who had been stunned, become more and more sober: Why should he die?I am not wrong!What's wrong with my academics?No!Daqing Oilfield is an example!Didn't Chairman Mao advocate learning from Daqing?I believe that the party and the people will not regard heroes as sinners! It is a miracle that an old man who accepts forced confessions for several hours a day, cannot see the sun or light, and can only eat one slow head or two buns, is still alive after half a year and walks down dozens of steps!

When Huang Jiqing came out of the underground prison, his family weighed him once: 78 catties.In the forty years before this, Huang Jiqing said that his weight was no less than 130 catties. Isn't this the destruction of dehumanization?I don't know if the revolutionaries who participated in the persecution of the Master are still alive now.If they are alive, they should go to church and confess a thousand times in front of the cross of Jesus every day for doing such a thing, otherwise heaven and earth will not tolerate it!Now when some people talk about the Cultural Revolution, they attribute all the mistakes and crimes to Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four". I think it seems too simplistic!

"Don't cry, don't cry, just come out!" Huang Jiqing returned home, his wife Chen Chuanjun was stroking her husband who was as thin as a child, and wept bitterly all night.Huang Jiqing, who didn't even have the strength to raise his eyes, comforted his wife instead.How did he know how his wife came here in the past six months.I went to the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences for an interview, and when I asked the relevant people about that incident, their expressions suddenly turned serious: Ah, at that time, we were working upstairs, and we only had to look downstairs from the window every day from morning till night, You will see Mrs. Chen (Ms. Huang's note) figure.She was always walking back and forth downstairs, hoping to have a chance to see Mr. Huang who was locked in the basement. We told her that we would never see him, but she didn't believe it, and came every day as usual, no matter it was windy or rainy.It was so pitiful that we didn't dare to look out of the window afterwards for fear of seeing her...

Chen Chuanjun is such a sincere and loving wife. Huang Jiqing said to his children more than once before his death that if he did not have the care and consideration of his beloved wife in his life, he might not have such achievements in his career, and he would not be able to live to the age of 91.I interviewed Huang Jiqing's children, and they said the same thing as me: Without a mother, there would be no father's brilliant life! If there is the happiest thing in the master's life, it should be finding Chen Chuanjun, a good wife. They met in 1936, when Huang Jiqing returned to China after receiving his doctorate from Switzerland.Huang Jiqing had just passed his thirties at that time, and he was in the age of showing his talents.Due to his outstanding talent and the love of his mentors Ding Wenjiang and Weng Wenhao, he was promoted to the geological director of the Central Geological Survey Institute of the Ministry of Industry of the Nationalist Government shortly after returning to China.Equivalent to the positions of chief engineer and acting director, such a bright new star of science, his marriage has naturally attracted the attention of many people.At that time, in ordinary families, it was very important to be well-matched, but in the high-level intellectual circles, the appearance of a man and a woman was more popular.The great talent Huang Jiqing naturally became the eye-catching object of the intellectual circles in the capital.In the old Beijing, the famous Beijing Women's Normal University was the most concentrated place for talented women. It can be said that the boudoir ladies of the most talented and dignified officials in China at that time were concentrated here.It is very interesting to say that there were two students at the Women's Normal University who were known as the campus beauty. One of them was Wu Jingnong and the other was Chen Chuanjun.The former is a few years older than the latter, both of them were born in famous noble families, and they are both cute and lovely ladies. In 1922, Wu Jingnong married Xie Jiarong, Huang Jiqing's lifelong friend.Ten years later, Chen Chuanjun married Huang Jiqing, Xie Jiarong's lifelong friend.Xie Jiarong and Wu Jingnong are a pair of loving couples, it is a pity that they did not grow old together.Huang Jiqing and Chen Chuanjun are a loving couple that go hand in hand and are hard to find in the world.Xie and Wu are both introverts, while Huang and Chen are extroverts who love to talk, laugh, and have a lively temperament.Their love is full of romance.When their children were also in their fifties or sixties, they told me about their parents' first date when they were young: Huang proposed to play in Xiangshan in the suburbs.OK, let's go tomorrow!Chen Chuanjun cheered.The next day, a pair of lovers went to Xiangshan by car.Along the way, Miss Chen Chuanjun was as happy as a bird, chattering non-stop.It's here.When the car arrived at the destination, the lady glanced down and looked back, but the man was gone.Looking left and right, there is still no one.Go back to the car and take a look, what do you think is going on?Hey, this talented man is fast asleep!Hey, what are you dreaming about?Chen Chuanjun pushed Huang Jiqing to wake him up, he was out of breath.Hey, I'm sorry, I happened to dream about dating my friend in the Black Forest of Germany just now.Huang Jiqing shyly pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose.Okay, Huang Jiqing, tell me, which foreign girl did you date when you were studying abroad?Say!Ms. Chen Chuanjun dragged Huang Jiqing out of the car panting, insisting on him explaining clearly.When Huang Jiqing saw this, he was also anxious.No, no, turtle sons are only dating!Didn't you just say that you dated in the Black Forest and White Forest in Germany, it must be very romantic, right?Huang Jiqing smiled: Hey, that's a date, but some of us geologists are dating!Chen Chuanjun raised his sunken face, put a slender hand into Huang Jiqing's arm, and said coquettishly: Then... tell me about that date.As soon as this was mentioned, Huang Jiqing became excited.The date was in the winter of 1934. Huang Jiqing, who was studying the regional geology and tectonics of the Alps at Nongzhentai University in Switzerland, received a letter from Li Chunyu, an old classmate who was studying in Germany, asking him to go to the Black Forest in southern Germany during the winter vacation. get together.Huang Jiqing, who loves to travel all his life, was ecstatic when he saw the letter. It is a lucky thing to meet a long-lost friend in a foreign country. In February 1935, on the occasion of the traditional Chinese New Year, Huang Jiqing attended the meeting as promised.After arriving there, I met another two senior students from the Geology Department of Peking University, Wang Hengsheng and Le Senyi, who were studying in Germany and Switzerland.The four young scholars met in the icy and snowy land in a foreign land. They were full of childlike innocence, and they couldn't help but grabbed snow cubes and threw them at each other.The snowball fight became more and more intense, and Le and Wang actually hugged each other and rolled in the thick snow.The scene was full of childishness and student interest. Huang Jiqing, who loves photography, hurriedly raised his camera, clicked several times, and recorded this unforgettable picture of the black forest snow battle.Do you still have that photo?Chen Chuanjun was deeply attracted by this interesting story.Huang Jiqing is very proud, yes, go to my dormitory as soon as you get back, I promise to show you!Fuck you, who will follow you to the dormitory!Chen Chuanjun blushed and said in embarrassment.Later, this pair of gifted scholars and beautiful ladies fell in love.At that time, the intellectual circles in Beijing wondered: How come all the beauties from the Women's Normal University were kidnapped by the poor boys from the Geological Survey Institute!

Huang Jiqing and Chen Chuanjun married in adversity. In June 1937, Huang Jiqing went to Moscow to attend the 17th International Geological Conference, and then conducted a geological survey and academic exchange in the Soviet Union for more than three months.When he returned to Nanjing in October of that year, the Japanese invaders had already reached Shanghai. As the director of the Central Geological Survey, Huang Jiqing led the staff of the institute to Changsha.In Changsha, he and Chen Chuanjun officially married.Chen Chuanjun, who married Geology Lang, has since lived a special life in a home of geology.From his marriage to the years before liberation in 1949, Huang Jiqing either went abroad or worked in the field all over the world.In addition to Chen Chuanjun's constant concern, he is carrying three young children, and he is moving endlessly with the changes of his husband's unit and job.In the first ten years of marriage, Chen Chuanjun took the children and moved back and forth around Nanjing-Chongqing-Beijing no less than ten times.As the saying goes, one move can shorten one's life.Chen Chuanjun with a child can no longer remember how he lived as a young woman.This lady from a famous family, on the way back to her hometown in Sichuan from Nanjing at the beginning of the liberation, in order to have a meal for her children and a shelter from the bombing of the sky, she repeatedly pulled her face like a beggar It seems that she is crying and begging others.

After liberation, Huang Jiqing, who was transferred to the Beijing Central Geological Department, held several jobs at that time and was busy all day long.In order to let her husband concentrate on prospecting for the country, Chen Chuanjun resolutely gave up her beloved professorship and became a housewife, serving her husband and three young children.On weekdays, she was happy for her husband's happiness and worried about his sorrow.What's even more amazing is that whenever Huang Ji became fatter and fatter, she also became fatter.If her husband grows thinner and thinner, she also becomes thinner and thinner.The three sons and daughters all called their mother a great woman.

At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, after Huang Jiqing, who was the number one reactionary academic authority in the geological system and a special agent of the Kuomintang, was found out, Huang Jiqing, who has always paid attention to nutrition, and Huang Fatty's family cut off their high salaries.He has changed from a first-level professor salary of more than 300 yuan to a monster with only 15 yuan a month in living expenses.How can he and his wife support a family with 30 yuan of living expenses?Due to economic difficulties and mental blows, Chen Chuanjun suffered a serious devastation that was not much easier than that of the master.During the days when her husband was imprisoned in the basement, she, who was nearly sixty years old, supported her frail body and anxiously went to the place near the basement to wait for an hour, two hours, even half a day, or a day. Take a look at the old man who has depended on each other for decades, but she still fails to get what she wants... Before Chen Chuanjun had time to use his frail body to warm his thin, rib-protruding husband, after the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1969, Lin Biao's No. 1 order turned the capital upside down again, causing ghosts to cry and people to cry.The big scab Liu Shaoqi and other capitalist roaders were sent away, and the Kuomintang special agent Huang Jiqing did not escape the typhoon.It's called Liu's evacuation, but for those who were evacuated and their families, they all knew that this was a farewell.After Huang Jiqing's one daughter and two sons learned about it, they held their skinny father and cried miserably.The wife who always loved to cry was uncharacteristic this time. She did not cry or speak, but her eyes full of sorrow were in a daze for a long time.The children were terrified, discussing how to send their father away quietly without telling her.Unexpectedly, before boarding the train, Chen Chuanjun rolled up his luggage and said to his children: The family is in your hands. I will go to Jiangxi Cadre School with your father!In this way, she spent more than a thousand days feeding pigs with her husband with that great benevolence. In 1972, Huang Jiqing was 68 years old when he was returned to Beijing after the implementation of the policy.At that time, he became a real old man.The first thing Huang Jiqing said to his sons and daughters when he staggered home was: Without your mother, what you brought back today would be my urn. The wife is three years younger than Huang Jiqing.The first time I went to her home to interview, Master Huang Jiqing had passed away for more than half a month.The family members were afraid to tell her the sad news, knowing that telling her it would be tantamount to ending her life.I looked at this octogenarian who was already deaf and blind, and felt very sad.However, from the bottom of my heart, like her whole family, I hope to bring her laughter and the old man is still in the hospital, which is very good news. Women's greatness often shames men who think they are great.I sigh for a wife like Master! In China's academia and science and technology circles, perhaps you have not heard of a struggle between disciplines and sects that exceeds the field of geosciences. The struggle between disciplines and sects in the field of geosciences is not only about fame and fortune over the discovery of the Daqing Oilfield, but more of a fierce political struggle. Associate Professor Pan Yuntang from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and others told me many little-known things in the field of geosciences, and I was deeply shocked by the history of struggles unique to the field of geosciences.Because once the political struggle based on class struggle is penetrated into a scientific field, the cruelty of the result is no less painful than the destruction of a political party.Science is science, and it shouldn't have so much politics, but once politics enters the field of science, science will face disaster. In fact, there is nothing strange about the debate on scientific issues.The normal contention between disciplines and the discipline itself is the basic driving force to promote scientific progress.However, due to many factors such as the minds, motivations, and conduct of people engaged in various disciplines, some normal academic disputes have turned into narrow disputes between people, and even developed to the point where you are honored and I am ashamed, and you are alive and well. Door disputes, political disputes. History cannot be cut off.