Chapter 1292

"Originally, I came to Beijing to ask the leaders for talent, but the leaders insisted that I go on stage to give a speech, saying I was the most suitable to talk about Jin Ling. The leaders even gave me topics and listed outlines, wanting me to talk about three points: talk about the past, talk about the present, and talk about the future. They also specially urged me to be realistic and not to brag.

To tell the truth, standing here, my heart is very uneasy. Everyone sitting here is a leader; what virtue or ability does my small Jin Ling County factory director have to dare to give a speech to all the leaders? Reporting is more appropriate. Then I will start by talking about the past.

Jin Ling County has a history of 1,300 years, spanning multiple dynasties. It has a population of more than 240,000, and a town population of more than 30,000. Its terrain is half mountain and half plain, and in terms of grain planting, it is half water and half drought. In terms of people's living standards, a small half of the population has enough food and clothing, and the large half of the population is still in poverty.

Those with enough food and clothing are the town population, as well as a portion of rich farmers with good land and high output. Those in poverty are in areas with large populations but little land and dry land. However, the county also has adjustments, allowing poor people to undertake more of the county's public construction and giving them more work points.

Coupled with the city's coordination and subsidies, overall, Jin Ling's situation is relatively stable. The people cannot eat their fill, but they never go hungry. There are no new clothes, but there are always clothes that can be worn, unlike before when a whole family had only one set. Eating meat every day is not achieved, but during festivals, they can also eat meat.

Although they haven't escaped poverty, the spirit of Jin Ling people is not bad, their faith is firm, and they support the Party. As the saying goes, the people have faith, and the country has strength.

In 1954, the Four Modernizations were proposed, becoming the country's highest instruction and the goal for the whole country's people to strive for. Jin Ling County has also made efforts in this regard. But because of the concentration of power and resources, and because development has an order, the things that fell to Jin Ling were relatively few.

But even so, since the founding of New China, Jin Ling has also formed a perfect basic industrial system. The development is indeed not good, and the technical content is indeed not high, but it basically meets the production and living needs of our county, and at the same time, it can also hand over a portion of production income to the city.

The quota for worker-peasant-soldier university students is relatively small, and the quota that fell to our county was even smaller, but there were always more than ten quotas a year, but no one returned to Jin Ling; they all left.

I am not belittling them, because everyone is a revolutionary comrade, and they are also contributing strength and realizing value in various positions. But I am a Jin Ling person, I grew up eating food from a hundred families, and I fought and brawled since I was a child, but the county government did not give up on me and gave me care. Old Factory Director Qi of the textile factory saw that I was a seedling for learning and fought for a university quota for me.

So I went back to Jin Ling.

In university, I was thinking about Jin Ling's way to get rich, consulted many teachers, and even when provincial leaders inspected the university, I communicated with them, and I also read many books from home and abroad, and finally returned to the highest instruction of the Four Modernizations. At that time, I understood.

We are a large agricultural country, and our people still haven't eaten their fill. Agricultural modernization is to liberate labor and increase productivity. The basic condition for implementing agricultural modernization is the construction of water conservancy projects. In this regard, we have been investing and developing for the past few decades.

And the first step of agricultural modernization is to progress from traditional men farming and women weaving, using livestock, etc., to mechanization. Large-scale use of agricultural machinery, plowing, sowing, fertilizing, harvesting, every link must have machinery. And for agriculture to be mechanized, industrial modernization becomes necessary.

One is to research high-efficiency, sturdy, and durable agricultural machinery; on the other hand, industrial development requires a large amount of labor. At this time, the labor liberated by agricultural modernization has a place to work, and everyone's life will be better.

National defense modernization is also based on industrial modernization. Our atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, our fighter jets, our various cannons, shells, and the mechanization of our army are all like this.

At the same time, national defense is the foundation for safeguarding our country's sovereignty and protecting the safety of people's lives and property. Only when national defense is strong can we develop agricultural and industrial modernization and allow our people to live and work in peace and contentment.

Here I want to say a digression. I have been in Beijing for half a month and heard that some military industrial projects are to be cut. I would like to express my opposition on behalf of myself. Our country's status was fought for, and our people must strengthen national defense even if they eat chaff and go hungry. Our shells are not enough, they don't shoot far enough, we don't have aircraft carriers yet, and our fighter jets are not advanced enough.

I have always believed that in international exchanges, strength is the basis for China to speak, and national defense is the true backing of diplomacy. Dignity only lies on the edge of the sword, and truth only lies within the range of the cannon..."

Wang Yan paused and scanned the large group of leaders below. Everyone was smiling and expressing their views to the people around them, while the leaders in the front row were calmly crossing their legs and smoking.

After a while, the venue quieted down. Seeing that no one raised any objections, Wang Yan continued to speak.

"The foundation of agricultural and national defense modernization is industry, so the foundation of industrial modernization must be mentioned in the modernization of science and technology. From the Stone Age in the past, to the application of fire, to various inventions and creations, to today's industrial era. The weapons of war have gone from the original knives, spears, swords, and halberds to today's automatic rifles, airplanes, and cannons, all of which are breakthroughs and applications of science and technology.

And if we want to realize the modernization of science and technology, we must have talent to research. This involves our education route. As the saying goes, it takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Education is a hundred-year plan. We must understand what kind of talent we want and what kind of talent we need, so we must have a corresponding education system.

I am a worker-peasant-soldier university student, and I consider myself to have some small cleverness. After understanding the relationship between the Four Modernizations, I researched industry, starting from our textile factory.

Starting from chemical fiber, all the way to the wide application of products in various industries such as clothing, plastic, masks, etc., combined with domestic and foreign conditions and our factory's conditions, I decided to start with textile machinery.

Our water-jet looms sold well, and with funds, the county supported our development, which gave us policies. Centering on machinery production, we annexed the county's agricultural machinery factory...

Later, in order to extend the industrial chain and master the entire textile process from the source to the final product, maximizing profits as much as possible, we solved the source chemical fiber problem by annexing the chemical plant. To solve the material requirements for machinery production, we annexed steel plants, copper and aluminum, and other raw material processing factories. To solve the final product problem, we annexed footwear and clothing factories and paper mills.

With the entire chain developing in coordination, our chemical fiber research made some breakthroughs, and we researched new materials. Our steel, copper, and aluminum have made great progress in various parameters, and the performance of our textile machinery is narrowing the gap with foreign products.

We can produce various textiles we need. I can say with certainty that as long as it exists in the world, there are no textiles we cannot produce; there are only considerations in terms of cost and profit.

In fact, relying solely on the development of the textile chain, as long as it develops for ten or eight years, there is no problem in supporting our county's 260,000 population.

It's just that we are not foreign capitalists; we are a state-owned company in the county, and everything we do is for the people of the whole county. We cannot develop the textile industry alone while ignoring the people's other needs.

At the same time, it is also to be prepared for danger in times of peace. We must guard against the textile industry not making money, which would directly affect the livelihood of the whole county. So we must have a sense of crisis, walk on multiple legs, and develop the whole industry.

So the various factories in our county are not just serving the textile industry. Like steel plants, etc., we have improved the performance of materials, and the surplus capacity will be sold to earn more money. In order to solve the problem of people in the county eating meat, sugar, and fruit, we developed breeding farms, plantations, meat processing plants, and canning factories.

In order to solve medical care, we invited experts from the city and province to come to the county regularly for training and surgery. All the foreign exchange we earned was handed over in the first year. Last year, we retained some foreign exchange, but it was all used to introduce foreign medical equipment and medical instruments.

At the same time, in order to provide staff housing for the people, we vigorously developed construction...

And on the agricultural issue related to people's livelihood, our county already has the foundation for agricultural modernization. In the past two years, water conservancy has been the largest investment besides staff housing. We have built several water diversion projects, which have covered half of the drought areas in the county.

We have also never given up on the research and production of agricultural machinery. After more than two years of breakthroughs in design and breakthroughs in materials, we can already produce small and large agricultural machinery with various functions, and have expanded the scale of production. It is expected that agricultural mechanization will be realized in the whole county within five years.

This also involves the route of our county's agricultural development model. The year before last, Xiaogang Village contracted to households, and last year, a village in our county called Little Lei Village also divided the land to the villagers.

We sent more agricultural machinery to Little Lei Village, and the labor force in the village participated in the county's public construction and our factory's staff housing construction. Although it was not as good as the wages and benefits of our factory staff, it was much better than before.

Other villages in the county saw it, and it can be said that people's hearts were moved. For a time, they were all clamoring to divide the land. They didn't think about anything else, just wanting the land to belong to their own family, which of course is a good thing. But the fact is that whoever has more people in the family has more land. Children born after the land is divided will have no land.

Perhaps the country's family planning is to consider this point. After fewer children are born, the land will be enough. At the same time, it can also leave enough time to develop industry and commerce.

But we cannot worry about the country's situation, but the county's situation is different. Because for the past three years, we have continuously absorbed the population from rural areas into the city to work as staff, and those who came out no longer participate in the village's distribution, so the per capita income of the rural population has greatly increased.

And our county's overall plan is to absorb the entire rural population, making all the people in the county staff.

So in November last year, our county specially held a meeting to discuss. Finally, it was decided that except for Little Lei Village, the contract to households would no longer be implemented, but instead, the agricultural company related to Jin Ling Group would be established, and the land of the whole county would be collected and owned by the state, and unified cultivation would be carried out.

At that time, the staff who cultivate will be transferred from the original farmers, teaching them fine cultivation. The company will establish relevant agricultural research project groups to carry out targeted research, prevent pests and diseases, etc. The company pays wages and subsidies to the staff and issues staff housing. When busy, they are in the fields; when idle, they are in the city...

Everything is borne by Jin Ling Group. They don't have to worry about the harvest, don't have to worry about old age, and will have rich entertainment activities. At present, our county town has three theaters, three cinemas...

In terms of welfare, we have also given care to the people, such as the lonely, disabled, work-related injuries, families of martyrs, families of meritorious service, etc., all have subsidies.

At present, our Jin Ling Group has nearly 40,000 staff members. After the water and thermal power plants are built and the grid is successfully connected, solving the electricity problem, our development will accelerate again..."

By that time, we will have initially achieved socialism..."

Wang Yan said a lot, much more than he said in the university. Jin Ling's situation was of course the main part, from beginning to end. He also interspersed predictions about future technological development, looked forward to Jin Ling's industrial upgrading and industrial transfer in the future, keeping high-profit ones in Jin Ling, moving low-profit ones to other places, vigorously developing new technologies, and actively participating in international competition...

He spoke for two hours, which ended this report.

This meeting was specially held for him, because they knew he was good at giving speeches and had unique views on today's world and domestic reform. His previous speeches had been organized into text and received affirmation from the leaders, and even many words had made it into internal reference.

So taking advantage of his opportunity to enter Beijing this time, the leaders took out some time and specially asked him to make a report and let him speak well.

Of course, speaking well is definitely not as good as doing well. It just so happened that at the time of the current national reform, searching the whole country, except for those large policy-monopolized state-owned enterprises, one by one, none could compare to the achievements Jin Ling had made so far.

With real achievements, speaking has credibility; this is called seeking truth from facts.

After finishing this report, Wang Yan found the relevant leader: "Leader, is my work report okay?"

"You, you are just bold," the leader said with a smile, "What you said today has quite a few rebellious words, and some of your views are still a bit extreme. After today, you will be criticized as being 'left'."

"Then the leader let me say whatever I have to say, so I just told the truth. I saw that the big leaders were all smiling very happily."

"That's laughing at you for being young and stupidly bold. Do you think you are the only smart person?"

"Then I don't care. If I have something to say, I have to say it. It's not like our Party doesn't let people speak, right? Besides, I'm just a small factory director, and there are so many high-level leaders; they can't be as knowledgeable as me, right? If it's useful, listen to it; if it's useless, just laugh it off. I'm not a big mouth, shouting everywhere and making people annoyed."

"If you keep giving speeches in Beijing, then you really are a big mouth."

"Then the leader, hurry up and take care of this small factory director of mine. Approve two thousand college students to be allocated to Jin Ling next year, and I won't come out to fool college students anymore. Actually, I don't want to give speeches everywhere, like a monkey; the college students all make fun of me."

The leader laughed, then shook his head: "Wanting two thousand is a dream. Where in the country doesn't need people? How could they give you so many? Besides, you fooled such a big circle, can it really have no effect at all? It can still go to some. You kid's speech is too inflammatory; if I were fifty years younger, after hearing your words, I would want to go with you.

We discussed it before and will approve five hundred people for you, four hundred engineering, one hundred liberal arts, two hundred undergraduate, three hundred junior college. These five hundred are fixed, every batch is so many. Next year, the beginning and end of the year will graduate two batches, which can give you one thousand people. After all, your factory has achieved today's situation just by yourself; with five hundred every year, plus the college students who came out of your county, it's enough for you to use."

"The leader is right, I still have confidence in this point."

"You are now a recognized genius, can do machinery, can research steel materials, can also do chemical engineering, can also do construction, I heard you also built an electronics factory, you understand this too?"

"Don't understand, just learn as I go. I'm greedy that electronic watches sell well. Finally, I want to research computers; I think that is the future."

"You don't have to think; our country's investment in this area is also not small," the leader patted Wang Yan on the shoulder, "Work hard, we all want to see if you kid can really lead Jin Ling towards socialism. We old guys will also absorb your advanced experience."

Wang Yan shook his head and smiled: "The leader is teasing me. Jin Ling's situation, how can it compare with the country? The country has too many places to take care of. After all, we are a large country with a large population, which is not easy to handle. Jin Ling just relies on advanced technology to earn money from other regions or countries to subsidize the people's welfare expenses. The most typical one affected domestically is Jingwei; our looms have snatched their market."

"So our route is very clear, which is to continuously develop new technologies, continuously surpass other countries, so that no one can catch up with us, and we always maintain high profits, investing in our Jin Ling's public construction and welfare expenses. In this way, we have realized our Jin Ling's socialism."

"The money we earn is a big river for Jin Ling, a trickle for the province, and just a drop of water in the scope of the country; it's a drop in the bucket."

"What you said is very good, and your understanding is very clear. Why didn't you say it just now?"

"It's useless and dampens enthusiasm. Socialism is a long-term cause, and comrades still need to work hard..."

The leader laughed: "Alright, go back, hurry up and build the buildings. When the college students are allocated to you, and you can't do what you said yourself, then it will become a big joke."

"Alright, thank the leader for the support, I'm going now..."

Wang Yan greeted the leader, but watched the leader walk away before leaving...

"You are leaving again..." Song Yunping hugged Wang Yan reluctantly.

"Next year, our county will have one thousand college students, plus the ones I fooled in various universities, there will definitely be hundreds more. The task has been completed."

Wang Yan still played with the big treasure, "It's not a few months, aren't you going back during the New Year? After this New Year, there will be another year and a half, then you will graduate from university. Just persist, and you will soon see the dawn of victory. I have already thought about your work arrangement. You studied physics, and researching semiconductors is the right place. By then, you will be the factory director of the electronics factory."

"Go back and be a leader directly? Not to mention whether I can convince the public, I can't manage people."

"You are my wife, who would dare not listen to you?"

"Isn't this dictatorship?"

"It depends on the situation. You have to say useful things and do useful things. Whoever doesn't want to be useful will go to repair the water conservancy in our county..."

"Then whether it's useful or not is still up to you?"

"You understand what power is." Wang Yan smiled...

Thinking that it had been a long time since they met, Song Yunping insisted on fighting another round with Wang Yan and said a lot of things.

The next day, Wang Yan ate with Song Yunping, sent her back to school, and with the harvest of this trip, stepped on the train back to Jin Ling...