Chapter 7 Chapter Six
"Boom——" This is a thunder in the sky.
Holding an umbrella, Yu Qiuli listened to a call from Ouyang Qin, Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, from Harbin in a cowshed in Sartu: "It's so bad! It's never rained so hard before! And it's falling so early!" On the other side of the phone, Secretary Ouyang Qin sounded extremely apologetic as if he hadn't blocked the rain from the sky.
"Thank you, Secretary Ouyang. You and the people of Heilongjiang have paid a lot. I and all the staff in the battle are very grateful from the bottom of my heart. Please rest assured that we will follow your selfless communist spirit as an example, and we will never waver in battle! We have great ambitions to find and develop big oil fields! Secretary Ouyang, please rest assured about this!" Yu Qiuli said loudly into the phone, but his eyes were looking at God outside the cowshed.
"Mr. Yu, I have some news for you: There is also thunder in the sky over Big Brother! A few days ago, a U-2 spy reconnaissance plane from the United States was shot down when it invaded!"
"Oh? Good! This 'thunder' sounds interesting! Hey, what's the reaction from Beijing?" Yu Qiuli put his protruding head back into the cowshed, and asked the other party on the phone with a low voice.
"The General Office of the Central Committee has issued a notice. On the 20th, Beijing will hold a large-scale solidarity meeting to protest the US imperialist invasion of Big Brother..."
"Well! The chairman is farsighted. Although his big brother is not mean to us, but we are doing our best, secretary, right? Well, I am also going to show some momentum here and give big brother some support!" Yu Qiuli said Finished, laughed loudly.
When he put down the phone, Yu Qiuli poked his head out of the cowshed again, and a heavy splash of rain hit his outstretched right arm. "It seems that God wants to compete with me on purpose! Let's wait and see!" Yu Qiuli turned around and said to the staff beside him, "Prepare the car!"
On this day, the weather in Beijing was cloudy.More than two million people gathered in Tiananmen Square. When Mao Zedong appeared on the tower, the slogan "Down with imperialism" resounded through the sky.Mao Zedong looked down on the north with a dignified expression, appearing preoccupied.The quarrel between China and the Soviet Union is already very fierce, and Mao Zedong is still looking forward to bridging the rift that has emerged. The massive solidarity in front of Tiananmen Square is a gesture, but can it be exchanged for Khrushchev's change of heart? Mao Zedong Doesn't seem that confident.
On this day, Yu Qiuli was not able to go to the Tiananmen Gate Tower.The jeep he was riding in was stuck in the rainy wasteland, neither forward nor backward.The driver standing in the muddy water anxiously wiped the rainwater off his face and shouted, "Why does it keep raining in this damn place every day!"
Yu Qiuli opened the car door helplessly, picked up the raincoat cap covering his head with one hand, squinted his rain-drenched eyes, and looked around: What's around?There is nothing, only a vast expanse of white water that can't be seen beyond the horizon... Those weeds that have just sprouted green buds are falling in a crooked manner in the vast ocean, as if they are asking passers-by for help in pain.But the result they get is even more painful-almost invariably people who pass by them turn to these weeds for help. Uprooted, used as skids, pads under the wheels of tractors or cars...
GAZ Jeep without exception also adopted the method of weed pads to block the wheels.The driver and the secretary almost soaked their trousers and shorts, but due to the deep sinking, the car not only couldn't move forward half a step after starting, but sank even deeper.At this moment, the minister has also become a "mud monkey", and only the empty sleeve that is stuck together can make people recognize who he is.
"Hey Minister Yu, why are you here? Hurry up, get on our tractor!" God helped Yu Qiuli!When the driver and secretary were at a loss, Xue Guobang, an old model worker, jumped off a passing tractor.
"It's Xue Guobang! We've broken down! We've broken down!" Yu Qiuli happily held Xue Guobang's hand and asked him how the team was doing.
Xue Guobang shook his head: "Everyone can't use their strength, Minister! Look at this day, since the day of the swearing-in meeting, it has been raining non-stop. We want to grab the task, but the supplies are not available. No, our batch of materials We have been waiting for three or four days, but the headquarters still can’t deliver it. We had no choice but to borrow a tractor from a farm tens of miles away to pull it by ourselves. This is not a job that could have been done in a week, but now we have to I don't know when it will be late!"
Yu Qiuli frowned: "How are the workers doing?"
"Not to mention. We are all from the northwest, and we have never seen so much rain in our life. The team lives in a cellar. Look at the watery cellar where everyone lives. The bed has become a boat that can float and row on the water..."
"Lead me to take a look!" Before Xue Guobang finished speaking, Yu Qiuli jumped into the jeep that had just been dragged out of the mud, and went straight to the well team.
The scene in front of him was something that Yu Qiuli had never imagined: the oil well was almost completely submerged in water, half of the oil production workers at work were operating, and the other half were standing in the rain with various cloths, tents, ladles, and basins that could withstand the rain. Guarding the christmas tree... What made Yu Qiuli even more disturbed was that when he walked into the cellar where the workers lived, the cellar that was half above ground and half underground was full of water. Without exception, the wooden beds floated in the water, and the quilts and items were wet together... The off-duty workers had no dry clothes to change and wash, so they could only keep warm by a brazier naked...
"Minister?! Why are you here, Minister? It's raining so hard, why do you still come to our place?" The workers who were warming up the fire were very surprised to see Yu Qiuli, who was dripping wet, coming to them.
Yu Qiuli took off his raincoat and wrapped it around a shivering little worker, and said distressedly, "Why can't I come? Look at you frozen like this! Living in such a place again... I am not a minister. Okay!" Yu Qiuli couldn't continue.He casually picked up a wet cotton coat that a worker put on the bed, and felt that it was very heavy, so he asked someone to bring it on a scale.
One scale: a full 18 catties!
Yu Qiuli's expression changed in shock.
Xue Guobang murmured embarrassingly: Since the day of the swearing-in meeting, God has been "tearful", and everyone can only wear greasy and damp cotton clothes to work. On the side of the meat, the rest of the time is full of wet clothes.After these three days and five days, they will become "iron clothes".
"I... I didn't make a good job as this minister! I didn't make a good job!" Yu Qiuli blamed himself as he listened.
"Minister, don't say that! You have to blame God! It wants to compete with our army on purpose! We are not afraid of it! Comrades said: We came to the Great Northern Wilderness from the Northwest, and now the big oil field has been found , we will fight to get rid of imported kerosene completely. Its God wants to compete with us, well, we will declare war on it: when there is no rain, we will do it! When it rains, we will do it! When it rains, we will do it! God does not bow his head!" Xue Guobang clenched his fists in front of Yu Qiuli, his ambition soaring.
"Yes. Minister, don't worry, we will definitely defeat the God of Heaven: dry without rain, dry with light rain, and dry with heavy rain!" The workers expressed their determination in front of the minister in high spirits.
Yu Qiuli was really moved: "Okay! Comrades, I want to learn from you. At the same time, I also want to spread your battle slogans to all theaters of the battle! Let's compete with God! Even in the Battle of Shangganling, we will also You have to rush up! Do you have the determination?"
"Yes—" There was a sound ten times louder than thunder in the cellar.
What kind of fighting passion was that?What kind of mental posture was that?Maybe today's people can't imagine it, but yesterday's republic building was like this - there is nothing in their minds, only the desire to work hard for the country's construction, even at the expense of heroic sacrifice.
When Yu Qiuli left Xue Guobang's oil production team, although he was moved by the spirit of the commanders and fighters who were not afraid of difficulties, as the supreme commander of an army of more than 50,000 battles, he was still worried: the discovery and development of the Daqing Oilfield located in the hinterland of Songliao , the entire battle army was completely launched in a barren prairie with no support.The frost period here lasts nearly four to five months.In May, the rainy season began just as the ground thawed, and it rained a lot in 1960.The location of the Songliao Oilfield is also the natural flood discharge area of the low-lying Songhua River and the Nenjiang River, which brought unimaginable difficulties to the five theaters of the oilfield battle.The original dirt roads have become difficult to move.When a car goes out, a tractor is required to escort it.Even when the tractor is on the road, it gets stuck in the quagmire from time to time.What is even more troublesome is that the weather temperature was very low at that time, generally no more than 4-5 degrees above zero.The battle team is faced with a watery construction site where they want to work, and they can't wait for supplies, so they can't do what they want to do; Being exposed to the rain and the cold... The enthusiasm and spirit of the workers are one thing, but a battle without material support will inevitably cause serious damage to combat effectiveness. Yu Qiuli, who has served as a commander and political commissar, knows this very well.Nothing matters, people come first.He wanted to order the logistics personnel to quickly send ginger and hot peppers to the workers in the well sites and units to warm up. The comrades in the logistics supply department told him that even if dozens of vehicles were sent out, it would not be possible to deliver several well sites in a day; The people in the department complained even more, saying that the empty car can still walk a few miles, but it can't even walk a few hundred meters when it is loaded with materials-the supply of materials on the whole line is out of stock.
"There is an oil construction team with 5 members trapped in a storm hundreds of miles away, and has lost contact for five days. I don't know whether it is dead or alive..." Someone reported.
"Minister, today we loaded and unloaded 30 demobilized soldiers from the No. 7 Detachment of the No. 1 Squadron. They worked from 3:00 am to 6:00 pm in order to grab a batch of materials soaked in more than one meter of stagnant water and send them to the front line of the well team. Fighting in the water for 15 hours, he insisted on loading 250 tons of drill pipes and oil pipes onto the truck..." Someone excitedly came to report a battle situation, but Yu Qiuli didn't know whether he was happy or sad, and his heart became heavier.
"Old Zhang, the top priority is to get all the cars moving, otherwise tens of thousands of people along our entire line will be trapped on the prairie!" Yu Qiuli called Zhang Wenbin to his cowshed office, and ordered anxiously: "You have to use The main energy is to solve this problem. The road is impassable, and the supplies cannot be delivered to the well site and the field team. Our whole battle is a game of dead chess. We must solve it within a deadline, and every second counts! Understand?"
"Understood! I'll execute it right away!" Zhang Wenbin received the "military order" and left without saying a word.
After Zhang Wenbin accepted the task, he knew the importance and urgency of the responsibility, but he had no experience at all.When working in Yumen and Xinjiang Oilfields in the past, the danger that the team may encounter is the whistling sandstorm anytime and anywhere.To put it bluntly, this sandstorm is frightening as it dances all over the sky, but as long as you hide from it for a while, it will lose its temper.However, the current rain on the northeast prairie left Zhang Wenbin a little helpless.
what to do?Zhang Wenbin knew Yu Qiuli's temper, and if he failed to handle the things he confessed to, he would be dealt with by "military law".At the least, there will be a burst of scolding from the sprayer, and at the most serious, they will be dismissed and punished.And this is one of the things that Zhang Wenbin especially appreciates about Yu Qiuli: A soldier has to be a soldier.Sticky, procrastinating, what else can I do?Back then on the battlefield, if you slowed down or froze for a moment, it was a life, and the result of a battle victory might be gone.The oil battle is a battlefield, a fierce battle between man and nature. It is vague, not Yu Qiuli's style, nor his Zhang Wenbin's style, and it is not the Chinese style that people all over the country are always looking forward to throwing away the oil-poor hat!
Go to the masses!This is the secret that Zhang Wenbin learned from Yu Qiuli and other conductors, and it is also a tradition he has cultivated over the years.If the car can't move, who can I turn to?Of course I'm looking for someone who can drive!
Sure enough, Zhang Wenbin found the transportation office working in the third war zone.The comrades in the transportation department mobilized all the staff to contribute their ideas and suggestions, and within two days, more than 40 schemes were designed and 59 drawings were drawn.After Zheng Xueshu, the driver of the second team of the first district team, heard the "military order" issued by Minister Yu to Zhang Wenbin, he volunteered to sign up for the innovative activity of "desire to compete with the God of Heaven".This master Zheng is really capable. He designed a set of "anti-skid shoes" on the wheels of the car - "iron shoes" made of steel plates that can be fixed on the wheel axle, and can be worn not only in rainy days, but also in sunny days. Remove without wearing tires and rims.The fitters and the comrades of the electrician company worked overtime and carried out technical processing of Master Zheng's "anti-skid shoes".The car is no longer afraid of turning over the mud and getting stuck in the mud, and it can run fast even when it is loaded with goods.
Zhang Wenbin asked the comrades in the transportation department to drive the car wearing "non-slip shoes" to the headquarters.Yu Qiuli was overjoyed when he saw it, and ordered the comrades of the Political Department to honor Master Zheng Xueshu and the comrades of the Transportation Department. At the same time, he immediately held a meeting of leading cadres of the Battle Command to mobilize for rush delivery of supplies and rain protection.
So all the agencies and logistics personnel on the front line were dispatched to help the supply department rush to transport the materials needed by the front line.In response to the lack of understanding and preparation for the rainy season in the early stage, various theaters have established rain control headquarters and rain commando teams.The commanding agency stayed on duty for seven days and seven nights, and the vehicles did not turn off, and sent more than 3,000 tons of materials to more than 40 well sites and construction sites deep in the wild, as well as to hundreds of small teams.In accordance with Yu Qiuli's unified deployment, the comrades in each war zone started digging drainage ditches and other plugging and preventing leaks in their own work areas and around the well site. A moving story of "nine days and nine nights without rest".The "nine-day work week" that has been insisted on since the battle was fully formed from this time, that is, the ten-week system of nine days of work and one day of rest.Ten days a week was invented by Yu Qiuli and the people of Daqing.At that time, there was no labor law, and it was the law of the whole country to build socialism more quickly, better and more economically.Mao Zedong also had a saying about the oil industry called "revolution plus desperation", and Yu Qiuli led his team to implement this law.
The content and meaning of "law" are also different in different historical stages.Now our respect for laborers is to ensure his labor rights and at the same time protect his rights including rest and welfare.In the 1950s and 1960s, giving all laborers the right to participate in the cause of building socialism was the greatest protection for him. This kind of protection carried a sense of honor and pride, and it was more political and spiritual.If a person does not have the right to participate in the cause of construction, then he is not a citizen and activist of socialism. He is probably an enemy of the people and a person who is useless to society.People at that time were absolutely unwilling to be such a person. They would rather die than be a parasite that people despise as not working.
The nine-day work system is a special product of the Daqing Battle.The battle team led by Yu Qiuli also invented many such products at that time, such as the "nine hot and one cold" system, that is, 90% of the time is spent on production practice in full swing, and 10% of the time is spent on calm research work. issues and raising awareness.At the end of each month, there are three days at the end of each month to hold a "five-level three-combination technology symposium", which is a good style that Daqing people have persisted in for decades under his suggestion.Among them is an activity called "Great Tour of the Underground Palace", which was proposed by Comrade Kang Shien at a "five-level and three-incorporation" meeting held at the beginning of the battle. It is a kind of activity that follows the mass line and allows the masses to consciously act to learn technical knowledge. Activity. "Great Tour of the Underground Palace" was a mass activity to learn geological science knowledge in response to the fact that most of the participants in the battle team at that time were from non-petroleum majors, ignorant of geological technology and underground conditions. The "Underground Palace" is still a proud landmark museum and popular science place in Daqing Oilfield.
After Yu Qiuli returned to Beijing, someone told him that the Songliao region of Heilongjiang Province in May had the highest rainfall in the same period in history, with 107 millimeters, which was higher than the recorded record of 83.2 millimeters in May 1919. nearly 24 mm higher.God gave Yu Qiuli and the army of the oil battle a "dismissal".But after a fierce battle, the loser is still God.No matter what God can't imagine, there is such an indestructible and indestructible construction army in the world:
In the torrential rain, they even changed the style of moving the drilling rig. On May 4th, the 1247 team used the lubrication produced by the rainwater to slip the muddy ground in the Sa 15 well, and relied on the power of the drilling rig itself to move the drilling rig as a whole out of the well. The bit moved 100 meters.A few days later, they tried it out for the fourth time. In just 18 minutes, they moved the drilling rig 250 meters and reached the new well position safely and accurately...making another pioneering work in the history of oil.The captain of this team is Duan Xingzhi, who is also one of the "Five Red Flags" in Daqing. This initiative led by him has played an unprecedented role in improving the labor efficiency of the production team in the battle; In order to recover the time lost due to the mud, in the icy creek, wading along the turbulent water for more than eight hours, completed the census route for two working days in a sunny day; During the laying of the pipelines, the officers and soldiers were digging with shovels and digging with their hands almost every day in the ditch more than one meter deep.
"Minister Yu, when I need it, I'm going to borrow a team from you, and I won't be afraid to fight Shangganling again!" A general said so excitedly after hearing Yu Qiuli's introduction of the battle.
Yu Qiuli smiled and said that I am now leading an oil search team, but one day I really need to let them go to war. I believe they are all good teams of the "hard-boned sixth company".Yu Qiuli thought to himself, I still have a lot of "Shangganling in the Rain" that I didn't tell you: that day, 65 comrades in the World War II area participated in the production technology symposium and reported the results of the battle to the battle headquarters at the same time. I bought two pancakes, walked for 22 hours in the pouring rain, and traveled more than 140 miles, and the 140 miles were all muddy roads!
Isn't this also "Shangganling"!It is not much different from the Red Army crossing the snow-capped mountains and grasslands back then, except for the pursuit and encirclement of the front and rear enemies.Yu Qiuli firmly believed that such a team would be invincible and invincible even if the enemy chased them back and forth.
On May 25, after Yu Qiuli saw that the battle team had gained a foothold in the rainy season and production was on track, he took Zhou Wenlong and Kang Shien to Harbin to report to the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee on the first battle of the battle.
"Amazing! The soaring energy of the oil fighters and their enthusiasm for building socialism are examples for the people of our province to learn from. I must let the cadres and the masses from all over the place visit and learn from you." Ouyang Secretary Qin held Yu Qiuli's right hand and stretched out his thumb.At the dinner table of the banquet, Secretary Ouyang Qin quietly asked Yu Qiuli: "The demonstration in support of Big Brother on the 20th in Beijing was unprecedented. Did you not read the newspaper?"
Yu Qiuli smiled apologetically: "I've been dizzy from the heavy rain these days, so I haven't had time to watch it."
Secretary Ouyang asked mysteriously again: "Did you say on the phone last time that you also wanted to cheer for Big Brother? How about it, are you almost ready?"
Yu Qiuli smiled after hearing this, and pointed at Kang Shien: "Ask him."
Kang Shien nodded heartily and said, "Strive for June 1st."
When Secretary Ouyang heard this, he stood up happily and served a glass of wine: "Come on, let me express my congratulations to you on behalf of the Provincial Party Committee!"
Yu Qiuli, Zhou Wenlong and others hurriedly stood up and toasted the leaders of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee frequently: "Without the full support of Secretary Ouyang, the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee, the provincial government, and the people of the whole province, our tens of thousands of fighting troops would have been unable to move a single step! Come, we respect you..."
When it was the turn of the senior cadres to get together for something happy, it was quite lively.There was no revelation on the wine table that day, but it exploded on the small train in Sartu a few days later: the first oil truck filled with 21 knots of Daqing crude oil slowly drove out amidst the sound of gongs and drums... ...The news spread throughout the Northeast, and reached Mao Zedong's ears.
Mao Zedong is in Shanghai these days.He came from Hangzhou to the Huangpu River specially to meet with British Marshal Montgomery.Montgomery was a famous general in World War II. He commanded the North African campaign and participated in the Normandy landing campaign.Mao Zedong attached great importance to this famous World War II general's visit to China, and had a long and friendly talk with the general without restraint.One of the central concerns of Mao Zedong, who was caught between the Soviet Union and the United States, was to hope that the four countries of Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China could get closer.He put forward the concept of "cold war coexistence".Montgomery was intrigued and offered to do work that would bring the four nations together.But the general asked Mao Zedong another important question:
"What is the fate of China fifty years from now? I mean, by that time, will China be the largest country in the world?"
After Mao Zedong said "hmm", he was immediately sensitive to what the other party was thinking, and replied: "Your opinion is that we will invade at that time, isn't it?" Mao Zedong laughed first, and then said frankly: "Five Ten years later, China's fate is still 9.6 million square kilometers... If we occupy an inch of other people's land, we are the invaders. In fact, we are the invaded, and the United States still occupies our Taiwan." (see " Collected Works of Mao Zedong, Volume 8, pages 181, 188, 189).
General Montgomery wrote an article after returning to China, which was published in the British "Sunday Times". He said: Mao Zedong is a remarkable figure. He built a unified country where everyone is dedicated and has a sense of purpose.His people are engaged in a great endeavor of socialist construction.Among them, some achievements can already shock the whole world.
The incident of the first column of crude oil leaving the Daqing Oilfield on June 1 has attracted the attention of many people around the world.Although even the name of Daqing was kept secret at that time, no matter how secret it was, it was impossible for it to be kept secret.What's more, the expert group of the Soviet "Big Brother" has been involved in the search for oil in Songliao. They don't know that China's discovery of a large oil field is a big joke. The Soviets who have begun to turn against China know that the Americans It is not ignorant, what the Americans know, his little brothers in the European allies will not be ignorant.
It is very interesting that when the first column of crude oil on June 1 drove out of Sartu Station, a battle hero who was in charge of loading oil did not know that the oil truck he was filling was "rumbling" while he was asleep. and drove away from him.When he woke up and heard that the oil truck had passed Harbin, he was so angry that he yelled at his teammates that they were "wicked".
This person is Xue Guobang. Forty years later I heard this old hero tell an anecdote at his home:
As mentioned above, after Xue Guobang led him and the oil production team to Songliao, he accepted the oil production task of Well Sa 66.This is the first high-yield well in the test area of Daqing Oilfield.When the Battle Command decided to transport the first column of crude oil before the "June 1st", the task of loading oil was naturally assigned to Xue Guobang's team again.At that time, outsiders did not know that the crude oil in Daqing had a very high degree of solidification, and it solidified as soon as it hit the ground after being sprayed out of the well. Especially when the weather was cold, the degree of solidification became even higher, and it could not become a flowing liquid.When Xue Guobang accepted the task of loading oil for Sinotrans trains, it was only one week before "June 1". During this week, they first had to heat and melt the crude oil of 21 tanks.But in the first three days before loading the truck, the temperature was lower than the solidification of crude oil, the crude oil in the soil oil pool became thicker and thicker, and the steam coil could not enter the middle of the oil pool. The soil pumping unit - cement From time to time, the pump of the car made a strange sound of "humming humming". "I can't do it! I can't pump oil!" The driver of the cement truck poked his head out of the cab again and again, shouting very anxiously, and finally shut down the pumping unit altogether.
This is how to do?Xue Guobang, who was covered in greasy mud, looked at the oil pool that seemed to have frozen into ice, and scratched his scalp.The teammates watched their captain helplessly, waiting for him to make a decision.
"The headquarters has already confirmed the departure time of the first foreign crude oil train. If we delay loading oil, what do we need?" Xue Guobang took off his clothes, raised his legs, and jumped into the oil tank. Then, he opened his arms and swiped left and right... The crude oil that was frozen like ice started to move, and gradually turned into a flowing liquid, surging and rushing.
The pumps of the cement trucks rumbled again. "All right, all right!" the driver in charge of oil pumping shouted happily.
The black crude oil continued to flow into the tank truck again...
"Captain, your leg joints are bad, come up quickly!" The teammates shouted over and over again, but no one called Xue Guobang in the pool.For four days and four nights, Xue Guobang fought fiercely with his comrades in the oil pool, melting the crude oil with his body, until he was forced out of the oil pool by several leaders of the party branch after filling the first 20 fuel tank trucks.
"After a few days and nights, I was too tired. I was carried to the dormitory by everyone, and I didn't wake up when I lay down..." The old hero still remembers the heroic scene back then. "I woke up at noon on June 1st. I went out to see why the tank truck was gone? I asked the people in the team, and they told me with a smile, the train is almost arriving at the Dalian refinery now. What do you want to watch? I asked them angrily why they didn’t wake me up while driving? The teammates said, we didn’t know how many times we called you, and once you woke up, you fell asleep again. I just can’t wake up! I was also happy after hearing this, thinking, anyway, the oil trucks have already left, and Chairman Mao also knows that our oil in Daqing will come in handy. Isn’t this my wish? At that time, people I don’t know what it means to be tired, I just work when I open my eyes, and I think about work when I close my eyes...” Xue Guobang was later one of the “Five Red Flags” in Daqing, and he was listed in the history of China’s petroleum industry with Wang Jinxi, the iron man.Before retiring, he was the director of the Daqing Municipal People's Congress.
There are many battles in Chinese and foreign history that can be described as arduous and extraordinary.The Long March of 25,000 miles was like this, the Great Patriotic War commanded by Stalin was like this, and the Normandy landing battle was like this.There are many battles during the period of peace and construction, and there are many who can use these four words. For example, when the Americans built a large railway project that traverses the north and the south, more than a dozen people died every kilometer. Thousands of bones were buried along the California railroad during the construction of the railroad.In the history of New China, the Battle of Daqing can be said to be the most heroic and arduous battle in the history of the founding of the country in fifty-five years.
After a team of more than 50,000 people came to the wasteland from all directions, they almost didn't care about building a decent nest and preparing an extra coat to relieve the cold, so they went into intense and intense construction.It can also be said that before the heel was firmly established, it was hit by a continuous storm.Therefore, whether it was the thousands of employees of the Songliao Exploration Bureau who conducted a census in Songliao earlier, or the more than 10,000 veteran oil workers from Sichuan, Yumen, Xinjiang, and Qinghai, and the more than 30,000 demobilized officers and soldiers of the army, they They all came here at the fastest speed and with light clothes in accordance with the orders of the general headquarters of the battle.The rain soaked and soaked the only belongings they had, and they were subjected to the toughest test of their lives.
"When I came from Sichuan, I brought two sets of coats, three sets of underwear, plus a set of work clothes and a cotton blanket issued after I arrived in Songliao. I had nothing to change in less than half a month. To tell you the truth At that time, my crotch was so rotten that I couldn't walk. I was not the only one with a rotten crotch. At that time, there were basically no lesbians on the drilling platform, so everyone didn't wear shorts when they went to work, which was more comfortable. Once back In the residence, everyone simply took off their clothes and went to the kang. A dozen or so men were lying on it naked, with their legs spread wide. After burning in pots and jars, the red, swollen and festering roots of the legs were roasted to keep warm..." an "old Sichuan" said to me.
"The girls of us all went to the front line of the battle right after graduating from the geological school. At that time, it was the most honorable thing to go to the front line of the battle and to the lowest unit of the front line of the battle. So our sisters rushed to the field survey team. Go to the field After detachment, they were covered in water and mud all day long, and they had to wade almost every day. The gay men took off their clothes, lifted them on top of their heads, and passed with bare buttocks. We women can’t do it! You have to wear underwear! So wading After one session of water, one has to get wet again. Over time, the body changes. A few girls on the team and I have a "period" that is not right for the first few months. It is common to not come for two or three months Something happened. A girl on the team saw that she hadn’t had her period for two months. She was so frightened that she thought she was pregnant, and she had a boyfriend. Later, she went to the hospital for an examination. She was so happy that she gave us a catty of candy. But later this comrade was unable to conceive when she wanted to have children. The doctor said that she had lost the ability to conceive due to long-term menstrual disease. Among the lesbians who participated in the battle, there were more than one or two people like this. But we So far there is no complaint, because we have been singing 'I donate oil to the motherland'..." A female geologist said to me.
In Daqing and on the oil front, I have heard countless such stories.Speaking of the battle that year, each of them can tell me about three days and three nights, and each of them is an immortal history book.
However, I know that Yu Qiuli is undoubtedly the most exciting and moving chapter in the battle army of more than 50,000 people.Because he is the supreme commander of this team, he has ten times, a hundred times the hardships and hardships experienced by ordinary combat cadres and employees to face.
Now he needs to face something more serious than the rainy season:
The 40,000 to 50,000 troops on the wasteland, how will they survive winter?
What is the winter like in Songliao?
There are a hundred sayings about the winter in Songliao:
A single snowfall can crush the grass that grows a year;
Freezing in one day can last for five months;
A cold snap can wipe out both autumn and summer warmth;
And some people say that if you poop on the Great Northern Wilderness in winter, you can sit on the pile of shit to ensure it won't collapse when you are tired, and you can turn into a popsicle in no time after urinating. This is definitely not a joke.Dripping water turns into ice, which can be seen everywhere.
Yu Qiuli believed it because he had experienced the harshness of winter in the northern country when he first visited Datong Town.At that time, there were only a few drilling rigs and a few field geological survey teams in the entire Songliao Plain. No matter what, the Ministry of Petroleum and the local government could do their best to ensure that these teams would not have any problems. Even so, the first time he went to Songji Mitsui When the drilling team saw the workers wearing armor-like ice mud suits, and the technicians who put in the cores, their hands and skins were torn off in pieces by a little carelessness, and the bloody scene was indelible. Such memories cannot be erased.
No matter how terrible the rainy season is, it is spring and summer with temperatures above zero; winter in Northeast China starts in October and will last until March and April of the following year.During these five months, the temperature was generally minus 10 or 20 degrees, and the lowest temperature was minus 30 or 40 degrees.What is the concept of minus thirty or forty degrees?It's definitely not just about taking a shit and being a stool and peeing into a popsicle - if you accidentally get lost in the open air for a few hours, you may freeze into a zombie, if you wear a wet suit in the You will lose consciousness due to freezing within a few minutes... In winter, there are often blizzards called "big smoke bubbles" by the locals.As for how much snow falls here in a winter, no one can tell.During the interview in Datong Town, the local people told me that they often encountered this kind of thing: they put the horse in the stable at night, but when they opened the door the next day, they saw the old horse on the roof.Why, it's snowing!Heavy snow fell and gradually piled up.The horse had nowhere to run, so he had to follow the snow up.One night, heavy snow covered the wall of the house, and the horse went on the roof...
"Qiuli, our Northeast is no better than Jiangxi, your hometown. If there are no good cold-proof facilities in winter, let alone people can't survive the winter, even machines and equipment with lumps of iron will turn into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron!" As early as the beginning of the battle, The "Steel King" Wang Heshou and other old comrades who used to open up revolutionary bases in the Northeast warned Yu Qiuli with concern, and said that if the battle team could not survive the winter, they would strive to bring people and equipment to Harbin, Changchun or Shenyang before October. The city, wait until the spring of the next year before pulling the team and equipment to Daqing Oilfield.
"It's safe." Wang Heshou especially reminded Yu Qiuli, the Minister of Petroleum and his friend who was still competing with him on "one ton of steel and one ton of oil".
This is for sure. It is much safer to bring people and equipment to cities with thermal insulation facilities than the freezing North Great Wilderness.但余秋里却不甘心这么做：一年12个月，过冬就要花去6个月，搬进搬出两次折腾，队伍的消耗不说，光会战的时间就至少拉长一倍！这油田开发将拖到什么时候呀？
“不行！这么干我们耗不起！队伍耗不起！国家要油的时间耗不起！既然一屁股坐定了北大荒，那就不该随便动来动去。还是我说的老话：这次会战，只许上，不许下；只许前进，不许后退！无论遇到多大困难，也要硬着头皮顶住！”余秋里在领导小组会议上，那只有力的右拳，一连挥动了十几下。“就这么定了，天塌下来，也要把它顶回去！”
然而决心是决心，办法何在？
盖房子？在荒原上一下盖起几十万平方的房子和其它防寒设施，再让职工们住进去，让机器设备进暖库，吃的粮食蔬菜也能入窖，能做得到吗？肯定不能。一是既没有那么多钱，二也没那么多建筑材料和施工队伍，另外时间也来不及呀！北大荒的冬天不仅寒冷，还有风暴呢！房子不盖坚固，一阵风刮来伤亡不更严重吗？
挖地洞？到处水泡子、沼泽地，夏天雨季来了还像时下让职工们长年累月光着腚子、叉着双腿烤火盆？
No no no!余秋里和会战指挥部领导成员为此苦思冥想，一时不得要领。康世恩更是急得眉头直皱：“目前油田开发的注水试验正在关键时刻，要是注水的工作一停下来，问题可就更严重了……”
“别急别急。活人不会被尿憋死的。”余秋里嘴里安慰自己的亲密战友，心里其实比谁都着急。
关键时刻，还是黑龙江老书记欧阳钦同志出了个好主意。余秋里因此生前深怀感激地这样回忆道：“有一天，欧阳钦同志对我说，有一种办法可行，就是东北老乡搞的那种'干打垒'。这种房子一可以就地取材；二可以人人动手，来得快；三可以节省木材；四是冬暖夏冷。于是我们就立即派人到农村考察，了解当地居民的住房情况。又找民间泥瓦匠，调查当地居民住房的用材、设计和施工情况。经过调查，发现附近乡镇除主要公用建筑为砖木结构外，居民建筑主要是砖框土坯房和当地称之为'干打垒'的房子，它除了门窗和房檩需要少量木材外，几乎全用土垒筑成。墙壁是就地取土，装入活动木夹板内，用木锤、铁钎分层夯实而成。房顶不用瓦，把当地的羊草和芦苇等绺成草把子作垫层，上覆碱土泥巴抹光而成。取暖则用火墙或火炕。这种'干打垒'房子看起来很土气，但墙厚实，房顶密实，结构也严实，防寒性能比较好，夏天也不太热，适合居住。且施工简单，操作容易，随时可建，便于广大职工人人动手，能够很快地大面积地建设起来。我们一致认为搞'干打垒'这个办法可行！”
“干打垒”是大庆历史上第一批居住的建筑，也是永远留存在大庆人记忆中的那种不可抹去的一种象征，就像延安窑洞一样。虽然现在我们上大庆市看到的都是高楼耸立的现代化城市，但在二十多年前的漫长岁月里，这儿的人，无论是部长市长，还是司机炊事员，他们无一例外的都是居宿这些用泥、羊草和芦苇等垒起的原始式建筑内。
余秋里是将军，熟知中外战争史上曾经发生过多少因孤军深入雪域疆塞之后，面对茫茫冰雪旷野、奇寒骤至时将士不战而倒、坦克大炮如同一堆废铁，最终铁骑雄师溃不成军的悲剧。因此他在雨季尚未结束之际，就向全线提出“以建干打垒为中心的冬防保温工作是确保会战存亡的一个政治问题”。各单位必须“第一把手挂帅，建立必要的组织机构，制定长远规划和每月、每旬、每日的计划，抽调专人负责这项工作，定期检查规划执行情况。与此同时，开展一个轰轰烈烈的大搞冬防的群众运动。”而且他把这样的全体动员、人人动手的建屋战斗，形象生动地搞成了“七手八脚，七嘴八舌，人人动手，个个献策”的为自我生存而战的大比赛。
在进行生产实践和科学实践上的大搞“群众运动”，依靠群众的干劲和智慧战胜困难、争取胜利，是余秋里创造不朽业绩的秘诀。
石油大会战中的防寒之战，余秋里依然稳操胜券。为此，他亲自签署三条命令：一、不管西伯利亚的寒流如何凶猛，会战队伍一定要像解放军在战场上一样，坚守阵地。一个也不许撤走，一步也不准后退。钻井一刻也不能停，输油管线一寸也不能冻，人一个也不能冻伤。二、由油田建设指挥部迅速调查总结当地老百姓“干打垒”的施工方法，油田设计院提出“干打垒”的标准设计，供应指挥部负责木材、木房架、门窗、芦苇、油毛毡及砌火墙和炕口的红砖。三、各级领导干部分工负责，充分发动群众，在搞好油田生产建设的同时，抽出一切可以抽出的人员和时间，开展一个人人搞干打垒的群众运动。和老天爷争时间，为国家原油自给争速度。
真是军令如山倒。七月份开始，“干打垒”行动在不影响石油开发和勘探主业的前提下，全线开战。顿时，在轰鸣的钻机林中，一座座、一排排大营升帐而起。到9月，历时100天的为生存而战的“防冬保温”战斗胜利完成，全线建起30万平方米的干打垒，转眼间百里亘古的荒原上出现了众多村落，如同天上撒下的繁星……除了人居住的居室外，车库、机房、食堂，甚至干部办公室、职工学习室和卫生所等也沾了“干打垒”的光。一个个“铁人村”、“群英村”、“八一村”等地名也芸芸而生……
这年入冬时，会战全线基本做到了“人进屋，菜进窖，机器车子进库房”。但又一个更大的严峻考验降临——10月，会战的五万大军尚处在脚跟未稳、半饥半饱之中的激战时刻，黑龙江省委和省政府来了一个要命的电文：素有中国米粮仓的黑龙江省的储备粮已过“危险线”，大庆会战人员的粮食定量必须按国家规定全线下调。
“下调到多少？”此时正在北京的余秋里一听就大嚷起来。
北京——萨尔图的电话专线里，张文彬向他报告：“钻工从每月56斤减至45斤，采油工从45斤减至32斤，干部、专家和机关人员一律减到27斤。而且每人每月还要省下2斤爱国粮。部长你看怎么办？咱们会战的同志多数是干体力活的，原本的口粮也刚刚够大家填饱的，这一下要降这么多……”
“……”北京方面没有回答。
张文彬着急地：“余部长，你在听吗？”
片刻，电话线里终于有了声音：“我听着呢！”从来声如洪钟的余秋里第一次在电话里变得有气无力。
张文彬不敢大声了，小心翼翼地补问了一句：“余部长你看还有啥办法？”
这一头的余秋里长叹一声，无比沉重地：“知道吗？主席也从10月份开始不吃肉了，总理和中央领导现在都不吃肉了……”
张文彬不再说什么了，他想放下电话，又怎么也放不下。
“文彬同志啊！现在会战的同志情况怎么样？千万千万要稳住啊！有情况随时向我报告。部党组正在召开会议研究对应措施。”余秋里焦虑万分地叮咛着。
"Yes, Minister."
张文彬放下萨尔图——北京的专线，会战各战区求援的电话却早已四起，震耳欲聋：
——不好啦，张指挥，我们这边有工人因为没吃饱饭，结果从卡车上掉下去摔死了！
——了不得了不得呀，我们这儿也有因为几天没好好吃东西，今早上班一不小心掉在油池里淹了个半死……
——总指挥部吗？我是油建食堂呀，这儿有30个同志因为吃了发霉的豆饼中毒了，你们快来救救呀！
——哎呀你们领导快想想法子吧，我们队上已经有好多人得了浮肿病，现在连正常上班的人都排不出了。张指挥你说怎么办呀？
“我、我有啥办法呀？”张文彬冷汗淋淋，最后连电话都不敢接。How can this be good?
“快向北京报告吧！赶紧给余部长他们求救呀！”会战指挥部里挤满了各战区的头头脑脑们，他们个个都在跺脚拍脑袋。
被吵昏的张文彬仿佛刚从噩梦中省悟过来似的，重新扑到萨尔图——北京专线电话上，操起话机，火急火燎地：“立即给我接北京！”
“文彬同志，慢慢说！到底发生了什么事？”那头，余秋里在询问。
“部长，我、我们工作没做好，今天已经发现356个职工出现了全身浮肿……”张文彬几乎是含着眼泪在说话。
“什么？356个？就一天之内倒下了这么多？”电话机里，余秋里的声音震得全指挥部的人都听得一清二楚。
“是。他们有的已经被送到医院，有的还在干打垒里躺着，有患病的同志还坚持要上班，结果半道上跌倒了又被人抬了回去……”张文彬的声音在哽咽。
“……”北京专线再度沉默。
“文彬同志，从现在开始，你每天向我和部里报一次。听清楚了没有？每天报一次！”余秋里终于说话了，声音是沙哑的。
第二天，张文彬在电话里报告说，会战前线患浮肿病的人已经超过600多，几乎是前一天的一倍。
余秋里听到这个数字硬忍着。
第三天，浮肿病的人数达到800多……
余秋里听后还是强忍着，但心已经在焚烧。
第四天，浮肿的数字过了千人。
“不行！这样下去还了得？”忧郁沉闷多日的秦老胡同，终于爆发出余秋里无法排泄的焦虑和痛苦疾号。此时，他正和康世恩等部领导在北京召开石油部厂矿长会议，会议还在半途，将军便对康世恩说：“老康，你赶紧过去！一定想法阻止和遏制浮肿病的蔓延，同时务必要稳定队伍！”
“行，我明天一早就走。”满脸忧云的康世恩猛地从沙发上站起，低头就往院子外面走，步子如箭一般。
余秋里抬头扫了一眼留下的几位副部长，异常沉重地说：今天有人告诉我，说机关也有同志出现浮肿。
“再怎么着，坐机关的人勒勒裤腰带，接电话、写文件时少花些力气能对付。可会战那边得把机器发动，得把钻杆提起来嘛！人要是都没了力气，机器就得瘫在那儿……”李人俊说。
一直沉默不语地周文龙瓮声瓮气地冲余秋里询问一句：“要不我给中央起草一份求援报告？”
余秋里摇摇头：“没用。主席和总理要管全国几亿人的饿肚皮问题，一些省的情况比我们还要困难……”
“河南、安徽等不仅出现了成批成批外出要饭的了，而且已经有不少死人……”
要饭？dead? !余秋里像触电似的身子一颤，两眼发直地看着天花板，站在那儿一动不动。那一刻，他的那只呼风唤雨的右胳膊，也像左袖子一样，无力地垂贴在裤缝上……
康世恩很快到了会战前线，又很快来了电话：今天一到这儿，我就上各处转了转，情况比我想象的还要严重。油田的临时医院和地方医院都已经住满了我们的人，多数患病的只能住在自己的原单位。要命的是患者还在成百成百的增加……
余秋里：再怎么着，也必须保证能让患者医治。发动各个战区建小医院和临时救护站。
康世恩：现在关键是要稳住还没有倒下的人和继续在战斗岗位上的同志，想法能让他们吃饱些。
余秋里：粮食情况到底怎么样了？
康世恩：短缺太厉害了。本来定粮就少，可不少职工们还要顾远道而来的家属，一份定量有的要给三四个人吃……
余秋里：家属？什么时候让来家属了嘛？
康世恩：没人说让家属来过。可她们都是因在家里过不下去了，才拖儿带女投奔到油田来的。她们以为这儿有吃有喝的，哪知……
余秋里打断康世恩的话：有多少家属？
康世恩：没有一万，也有七八千吧！
余秋里粗气直出：让所有的干部万万要注意，就是自己饿死，也不能让那些来队的家属和孩子饿死一人！那种情况一出现，军心可就全乱了！
康世恩：我已经布置各战区了。但我最担心的还是照这样下去，会战的队伍稳不住了。今天到工程指挥部食堂，听他们的党委书记季铁中说，前天他在食堂帮厨，看到一个青年工人端着饭盒，大口一张，人还没有离开卖饭的窗口，一大碗粥就没了。老季好心，又给那青工盛了一勺，结果后面一大帮人涌到窗口要加粥，食堂师傅急了，说哪有那么多粥嘛！上百个人差点大打出手。
余秋里长叹：都到这地步了！
康世恩：老季还说，有次食堂蒸了馒头，工人们敲着碗又叫又嚷，恨不得把食堂掀翻。老季问一个工人说你到底能吃多少个馒头。那工人说，你给多少我吃多少。老季想验证一下，便把自己的钱和粮票都掏了出来，一共给那工人买了八个馒头、半斤苞米子和两份菜，结果那工人没五分钟全部倒进了肚子，回头又咧着嘴冲老季笑笑，想还要点。老季不好意思地说他自己这个月的口粮也没了。那工人才朝他鞠了一躬，说：季书记，谢谢你这顿饭，我会保证拼命会战的，要不对不起领导……
余秋里感慨道：是我们对不起他们啊！
康世恩：余部长，我还是把到今天为止全线患浮肿病的人数报告一下：现在已经过了2000多人了……
余秋里无语。
康世恩：我还要报告另外一个情况：已经有几个队报告说，他们那儿已经有人擅自离队……
余秋里警惕地：干什么去了？
康世恩：逃回老家去了。
余秋里震惊：什么？当逃兵啦？他们怎么可以当逃兵呢？那会战还搞不搞了？ah?
康世恩似乎没有发现对方电话的声变，继续汇报着：离队的人数大有急剧上升之势。
余秋里跳起来了，声音冲出房顶：你让他们听着：谁都不能当逃兵！cannot!谁还要当逃兵，我就扛着机枪，上萨尔图火车站把他们挡回去——听清楚了没有？你，老康，还有张文彬他们，都跟我上火车站，把那些逃兵统统挡回去——
“哐！”铁拳砸在办公桌，压的玻璃板粉碎，震落的电话耳机掉在桌边晃荡着……余秋里无法自控内心的焦虑与愤怒。他是将军，他绝不允许自己的将士在任何时候成为逃兵。时下他虽然已是石油部长，但他的骨子里依然把自己的会战队伍看成是当年打鬼子、推翻蒋家王朝的钢铁部队。
当晚，余秋里登上了北去的列车。最危急时刻，他知道自己必须在前线亲自督阵。
“呜——”列车在北风的呼啸中似乎非常吃力地行进着，仿佛也像没有吃饱的老牛。专列软卧里的余秋里无法入睡，干脆走出卧室，站在列车走道里大口大口地抽起烟来。一支接着一支……
“首长，您怎么还没有休息呀？”列车长走过来轻声问道。
“嗯？！噢，睡不着啊！”一闪一闪的烟火透亮着一副严峻的脸庞。“小同志啊，这趟车怎么这么慢哪？”余秋里有些烦躁地询问。
“对不起首长，刚才我们接到上级的通知，说是关外最近经常有人卧轨，所以要求我们减速行进，以免不测。”
“谁敢卧轨？是阶级敌人想破坏？”将军的眼睛瞪大了。
列车长的眼睛惊慌地左右扫了一眼，见没有人，便小声回答：“首长，可不是阶级敌人，是讨饭的老百姓……”
“老百姓？老百姓卧轨？怎么回事？”
“唉，都是关内逃难的呗！有人饿了，跑不动了，干脆就往轨道上一坐……险啊！我们上次走的一趟就差点轧了一堆人。您看，这不都是逃难的嘛！”列车长借着车内黯淡的星星光亮，指着窗外的铁道沿线，让余秋里看。
可不，成群结队的灾民。在列车的窗口外闪过，有人甚至举着双手在向火车窗内做着乞讨的动作。余秋里的眉睫顿时紧锁，不由忧心如焚地在软卧车厢内走动起来，想起前些日子的西北之行——
九月，余秋里奉周总理关于加强和提高西北石油运输能力之命而专程来到甘肃的敦煌。石油部的运输公司就在这儿。当时的运输公司在石油部占有特别重要的地位，因为大庆油田尚未开发之前，国家的天然原油主要在西北。余秋里任命了原石油师师长张复振任运输公司的党委书记兼公司经理。上运输公司后，余秋里本来是检查如何提高运输能力的问题，结果摆在他面前的竟然是职工们日益严重的生活问题。
“我这儿患浮肿的已经有2000多了！”年长于余秋里七岁的张复振像做错了事的孩子，颤颤巍巍地站在余秋里面前，低着头汇报道。
余秋里一听都快跳起来了：“2000人？你公司总共才有多少人嘛？”
“我们……”张复振知道余秋里的脾气，他本来想说“已经都到这个份上，你还让我们提高运力”，可后面的话他不敢说。
余秋里看着身穿补丁军装、一副憨厚相的张复振，便降低了嗓门：“你先带我去食堂看看。”要看职工们的日子过得怎么样，看食堂是余秋里的一大工作方法。
上运输公司的路上，给余秋里开车的司机是个典型的西北汉子，又是当过兵的老战士，遇上自己的部长也不拘紧，大大咧咧地跟余秋里攀上了话，头句话就是个顺口溜：“进了食堂门，稀饭一大盆，盆里照见碗，碗里照见人！”这苦涩的顺口溜让余秋里和随行人不知是笑还是哭。
“你觉得吃这样的食堂还能开得动车子吗？”余秋里关心的是这个。
司机立即腾出一只手，让余秋里看：“不瞒你余部长，我是很想开好车的，可您瞧，我这手捏不拢啊！”
“怎么啦？”余秋里握住司机的手，细看起来。问：“也是饿的？”
司机点点头，刚强的汉子竟然掉泪了。
余秋里转过头，再也没有说话，也没有再想对运输公司的张复振说什么“快马加鞭”之类的话了。现在他最关心的是队伍生存。这是最要命的事。
“走，上玉门去！”余秋里对随行人员说。
那会儿，虽然大庆油田已经初见端倪，但玉门油田仍在石油部领导们心目中占有不可替代的地位。不说别的，光松辽会战开始，他余秋里一声令下，时任玉门管理局局长的焦力人就前后带走了18000多人的队伍，其中干部就有6000多人，几乎能上前线的干部和职工都走了。当时玉门局一共才有49台钻机，上大庆会战去了48台，仅留下一台作为坚守后方阵地。自然不用说像王进喜和薛国邦这样的标杆队了。彭德怀派兵从国民党手里接过玉门油田时，就给康世恩和焦力人指示要把玉门矿搞成“中国石油的摇篮”。这一点上，玉门当之无愧。要不也不会留下诗人李季的著名诗篇：“苏联有巴库，中国有玉门。凡有石油处，就有玉门人”。
余秋里对玉门的感情就像对自己家的大孩子一样，既严厉又慈爱。此次他来玉门自然最想了解的是当下油田到底有多大困难。
双足未进油田，一路上的情景已经足够让将军吃惊的了：沿途，他接二连三地看到成批成批的讨饭大军在他车子的两旁闪过。更触目惊心的是，因饥饿而弃尸于于荒野的也不绝视野之中——叫余秋里甚感心痛的是，老百姓穷得连给死人穿衣服的钱都拿不出来了，能给死者身上涂点酒精擦擦干净、再卷上一块破布或者旧席子什么的往野地里一埋就已经算不错了……
“你到下面多转转。”一到玉门，余秋里就对自己的秘书说。这也是他经常采用的一种调查方法。
秘书李晔现今也是“古来稀”的人了，他亲口给我讲了将军让他在玉门进行“微服私访”的两件事：
一件事是“买粮”。
那天余秋里在走访了玉门大小十几个油田生活基地后，突然对李晔说：“你去执行一个任务。”
“什么任务？”李晔问。
“去买一次粮食。”余秋里说得很平静，然后一甩手：“我还要到食堂去。”
李晔笑笑，心里明白了：首长来这儿当了一个星期的炊事员，现在他要为油田职工出口气了！
刚出门的余秋里突然又从门外回过身，上下打量了一下自己的秘书，问：“你就这样去？”
李晔手拿借来的粮本，不知出了什么问题：“那你说怎么去？”
余秋里瞪了他一眼：“一看就知道你没当过侦察兵。你穿的一身机关模样，完得成任务吗？”
李晔恍然大悟，边笑边连忙脱下衣服。
当李晔再出现在大街上的那个粮店前时，谁也不会相信这个穿着油乎乎一身旧军服的人会是北京来的部长大秘书。queue.买粮。李晔一点没碰到与众不同的事。
当他拎着一小口袋买来的米回来时，将军早早等在那儿。不等李晔开口，他的手