Chapter 40 Chapter 21

In 1952, the Ministry of Geology was established.A large number of Weng Wenhao's disciples and the geological survey institute founded by him, Zhang Hongzhao and Ding Wenjiang have become important leaders and major scientific research institutions of this department.For some reason, Li Siguang, who came back from the UK and became the head coach of this organization, was developed under the careful cultivation of the leaders and conductors Ding Wenjiang, Weng Wenhao, Huang Jiqing, etc. When the group of Central Geological Survey was recruited, the Chinese geoscience community often appeared to be out of tune, and even parted ways several times.

It is said that when someone asked Li Chunyu, who made outstanding contributions in the struggle to protect China's geological power, to go to the Northeast as the captain of the geological and mineral survey team, this famous scientist who could not allow others to mix sand in his eyes all his life, put him in front of the leader. The letter of appointment was thrown on the ground.Such people naturally have no good fruit when the political movement comes.When anti-rightist, Li Chunyu also wore a rightist hat.During the Cultural Revolution, he was dispatched to Bencongtu Commune, Baishui County, Shaanxi Province for labor reform.The old man was very naive, thinking that he was going to die in Tianchou, so he donated the 6,300 yuan reissued by the couple to the public.When someone asked him why he made such a righteous deed, he told the truth: What is the use of so much money to work in the fields.It's not safe to put it on your body!Look, a bookish old man.

Li Chunyu is not the only one who is full of bookishness.Huang Jiqing, the old master Zhang Hongzhao, Xie Jiarong and Meng Xianmin who were persecuted to death, and many other scientific masters I mentioned or did not mention in this article, almost none of them are full of the bookish atmosphere of the old era.Its concentrated expression lies in their frankness in dealing with people in the world, their persistence in pursuing their careers, their strict self-discipline, and their simplicity and integrity in life.If we have the opportunity to walk among these masters, it is not difficult for you to find the moral style and personality strength they embody in these aspects, there are too many tear-jerking stories, and too many places to make you respect.

The first time I stepped into the home of Master Huang Jiqing for an interview, his son led me to a room of more than ten square meters inside.There is a bunk bed in the room. On the left side of the bed is a reddish-yellow three-door cabinet popular in the 1970s, and on the right side is an ordinary three-drawer writing desk.In addition, there is an old chest of drawers popular in the 1950s placed on the wall at the lower end of the bed and a bookshelf with a lot of bookcases and materials placed obliquely in the corner.At first I thought it was an unused servant's bedroom in the master's house, but later the master told me that it was the master's living room.I was surprised at the time.I can't believe that this is the place where a great scientist, academician, and member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference lives with ministerial treatment.On weekdays, the rooms of ordinary workers and cadres I have seen will never have such crappy furniture!

Later, the youngest son of the master surprised me even more by telling other family stories.He said that on his father's 90th birthday (1994), some relatives and friends came. The old man wanted to save face and wanted to find a roast duck restaurant for a meal.But my wife didn't say anything for a long time.Huang Jiqing became anxious and asked what's going on?His wife told him that he only had more than 200 yuan left on hand, and the last time the restaurant cost less than 1,000 yuan!Huang Jiqing didn't say anything anymore.Later, it was the daughter and the eldest son who came back to solve the problem: they did it themselves and made a table of meals at home.The master's youngest son told me that he is doing well in the United States, and the life of his sister and brother's family is not affluent.In addition to his wife, my father also has a grandson and a nanny, and there are many people coming and going at home, and all the expenses depend on the salary of the academician's father, which is about 1,200 yuan.In the early 1980s, my father's salary was around 600 yuan, and later it was around 800 yuan, which was still manageable at that time.After the 1990s, his job plus academician subsidy grew to 1,200 yuan, but the money was still empty.Huang Jiqing has many disciples. In the past few decades, as long as they came to his house, they would not be polite. They would sit down and eat every meal, and wipe their mouths when they ate.But later on, especially in recent years, his disciples felt more and more uncomfortable: staying for a meal is equivalent to adding to the sorrow of the mentor!Various judging meetings, seminars, etc. with various names have been popular in the society in recent years. Huang Jiqing is a well-known scientist at home and abroad, so many people ask him to be a judge or honorary chairman.Anyone who understands knows that these are not for nothing. Just go to the venue to sit down, show your face, or don't go at all, just answer on the phone, and others will give you at least two or three hundred yuan, or as many as several thousand yuan. !I heard that individual academicians are now making a fortune from this, so they are jokingly called reviewing academicians.Huang Jiqing quit, he found an assistant, and said: Send me a statement in the newspaper, I will not participate in anything like this!The assistant told him that such a statement would not be published in the newspaper.He said: Then you tell all the inviters who send letters and calls that I, Huang Jiqing, will never be a reviewing academician.The assistant complied.But the assistant who often goes to the master's house knows the life dilemma of the master's house, and sometimes wants to persuade him to participate in some judging meetings that are not foolish.The master shook his head and waved his hands as soon as he heard it, saying that I am not opposed to experts participating in the evaluation work, but once you take other people's money and things, you will be short-tempered. If it is untrue, it will confuse people, things, and the country!Since then, the assistant has never been mentioned again, and the life of the master is still so poor and embarrassing. In the 1980s, it was popular among university professors and famous experts to be a doctoral supervisor.This doctoral supervisor can not only improve your reputation, but also give treatment according to the number of people you bring!So some people brought a few, or even a dozen, at once.In terms of Huang Jiqing's qualifications, being a doctoral supervisor is not a problem.Originally, many of his students were already doctoral supervisors by this time.But the master just didn't want to take it. He said: In the past, the master and his apprentices were all single-handed, and at most two, so that the strict teacher can produce high-quality apprentices.It is irresponsible to let so many young people come to you at once, and you cannot attend two classes a week.I don't do it.Besides, I'm too old now, and I can't go out into the wild, so how can I teach students only with the things in the books?On January 12, 1995, more than two months before the master passed away, he was going to attend the award ceremony held in Zhongnanhai.This is the highest honor award in China's scientific and technological circles, and the award was presented by Premier Li Peng.Before leaving the house, the master was a little worried because he couldn't find a decent dress.Later, Huang Jiqing, who was the first person to see the podium on the TV news, was wearing an old down coat that was yellowish and whitish.This was bought for him by his daughter-in-law several years ago.When the prize of one million Hong Kong dollars was received, a lady among the funders of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Award quietly walked over and said to Huang Jiqing: This is not a lot of money, old man, take it and enjoy yourself!The master smiled at that time, but did not speak.Turning around and returning to the unit, he took out the one million yuan bonus and set up a Huang Jiqing Geology Award Fund.When I am a master, such a person who has made outstanding contributions to the country and the world's scientific cause is still living in poverty and amazement, I feel more sincere respect for the bookishness of him and his friends.Among our mortal beings today, this kind of bookishness, which is very cute and actually very precious, is too rare!When the relationship between people develops to the point where nothing can be exchanged except for money, does it also indicate that the basic human relations and national virtues of society are beginning to enter a dangerous situation of loss!

I did not read the Four Books and Five Classics like Huang Jiqing and other masters, nor did I create my own life along the morality and philosophy regulated by the Four Books and Five Classics like Huang Jiqing and other masters.However, I seem to have realized one thing from them: for those who are too bookish, with their upright and naive characters, once they encounter the era of villains and politics, they will suffer losses as an inescapable reality. With the desire and admiration for the new society and the Communist Party, a group of scientific intellectuals such as Huang Jiqing, who have devoted themselves to the new era of socialism, have shown unprecedented enthusiasm for some new things that they have never experienced before. The uneasiness and fear of the past, that is politics and class struggle.

Li Chunyu, Xie Jiarong...you can also list a group of well-known people. With their own characters, they dared to speak and act, and in the end they inevitably led to their unbearable fate.It seems to me that they are too ignorant of politics. What is politics?There are two explanations in the dictionary: one is the activities of the government, political parties, social groups and individuals in terms of internal affairs and international relations; the other is the concentrated expression of the economy.The politics of any class is aimed at protecting the interests of the class and gaining a dominant position.

I think that the masters are all people who have come under the reactionary political rule of Chiang Kai-shek, and they will not fail to understand the explanations of these two terms that can be easily found in the dictionary.However, it is clear that they lack a deep understanding of the statement that the politics of any class behind is to protect the interests of the class and gain a dominant position.Otherwise, it will not lead to what needs to be pointed out in the political struggle: sometimes it is not for political reasons, but the kind of reason between people that is much more obscure than politics to destroy oneself or destroy one's own academic thought.

In a political struggle after liberation, the masters of geosciences truly tasted the cruelty of a political struggle based on class struggle. A large number of famous scientists such as Huang Jiqing, Xie Jiarong, and Li Chunyu were classified as the right category, and they fell from the political and scientific circles one after another. Afterwards, the dispute over who is the real discoverer of the Daqing Oilfield began.Immediately afterwards, the Cultural Revolution movement, in which the bourgeois reactionary camp and the proletarian revolutionary camp fought to the death, began.At that time, the revolutionary academic authority in the field of geosciences shone like the sun under the outstanding achievements of discovering the Daqing Oilfield.And the reactionary bourgeois academic authority, which is the opposite of the revolutionary academic authority, is getting old, dying, and defeated.At this moment, Huang Jiqing was honorably elected as the commander of this camp.His status, his reputation, and especially his theory of tectonics are just revisionist and bourgeois foreign goods imported from the Soviet Union.In the eyes of the revolutionaries, he couldn't be more suitable for this role.Huang Jiqing's luck came from here. Before he had time to raise his head from the cloud of doubts about who discovered the Daqing Oilfield, the huge thunderstorm struck him like a drumbeat...

He was knocked out, scolded, and thrown into an underground dungeon.Later, he was kicked out of Beijing and sent to a farm in Xiajiang, Jiangxi.Not only was he deprived of the right to work and scientific research, but he was also denied the basic dignity of being a human being. At that time, the master was 65 years old, and the severe mental and physical torture made him so thin that he was not human.In order to ensure that her husband has the courage to live, the wife who went to the farm together secretly bought a chicken from the farm once, and wanted to make up for everyone.Unexpectedly, it was discovered.The correctional cadres sent by the rebels pointed at the tip of the master's nose and scolded: You old bourgeoisie is rotten, what, you want to mend yourself - fight against us proletariat?Hmph, let me make it up for you.The man kicked a pot of cooked chicken to the ground, grabbed Huang Jiqing by the back, and dragged him to the criticism meeting...a dead tiger that could be toppled without any effort.A few months later, a rebel leader came to Beijing. He ran to the pig shed on the farm and saw Huang Jiqing, who was struggling to lift a bucket, and burst out laughing like a victor.

The bourgeois reactionary academic authorities and bourgeois technicians represented by Huang Jiqing were either defeated or cleared out of the geological team. Almost all the researchers at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences where Huang Jiqing works have been sent to work.A number of institutions such as his tectonic research laboratory were revoked. What's more serious is that the China Geological Education Unit, which has been painstakingly managed by generations, has been suspended, devolved, and revoked because it has set up and cultivated bourgeois-style professional courses by Huang Jiqing.The current China University of Geosciences has two campuses, one in Beijing and the other in Wuhan. During the Cultural Revolution, the higher-ups ordered all the teachers, equipment, and research institutions of the school to be expelled from Beijing, and first moved to Shimen, Hunan, and later. It moved to Jiangling, Hubei, and finally moved to Wuhan.It is truly a spectacle of the Cultural Revolution that a prestigious university with tens of thousands of people has withstood such hardships.This is what the people representing the red revolutionary forces want, otherwise Huang Jiqing's reactionary academic authority and the ghosts of his disciples and grandchildren will not be able to escape. The situation of the geological team is even more ridiculous.Regardless of what you were and are doing, you must study and relearn geomechanics.A technical cadre of a geophysical exploration team in Jiangxi said: Why am I doing electrical surveying and studying geomechanics?The people above answered him: Geomechanics is the embodiment of Mao Zedong’s philosophical thought in the field of geology. You don’t want to use Mao Zedong’s thought to guide your work, but you want to use Huang Jiqing’s set of bourgeois academic thoughts!What's even more ridiculous is that some people actually compiled the words of some geological engineer who drilled a hole, and the hole fell through; The sun and menstruation pass through the sky, and the rivers and rivers travel to the earth. Time has moved to 1971. This year, Mao Zedong, who waved his hand on the Tiananmen Gate tower and stirred up several kinds of anger in the world, seemed extremely tired.His closest comrade-in-arms, the careerist Lin Biao, has been figuring out how (resolving Lin Liguo's rebels' nickname for Mao Zedong, author's note) to ascend to the top seat of the country.A few months later, Lin Biao completely betrayed and fell to his death in the desert east of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Mao Zedong lowered his head in great frustration.Naturally, he didn't care about the red flags of Daqing and Dazhai that he personally set up. At this moment, what he cared most about was how to do a good job of the People's Liberation Army units that Lin Biao had always controlled.