Chapter 1492

Zhong Yuemin finally left in December, leaving together with others from Lin County who were going to be soldiers.

Li Kuiyong gossiped with Wang Yan, saying that according to news from Tian Fang, Qin Ling's state wasn't very good; she was absent-minded every day and had no energy for anything. And for two days, she was unwell, walking unnaturally, and so on.

Wang Yan didn't care about what Zhong Yuemin did to make Qin Ling unnatural, but instead asked Li Kuiyong when he could make Tian Fang unnatural too?

Li Kuiyong had nothing to say, feeling quite embarrassed, and then packed his luggage and returned to the capital with Tian Fang. Just as Wang Yan said, if they could manage to get a position, they wouldn't come back; if they couldn't, it would just be like going home for the New Year.

Wang Yan didn't go anywhere; he was just handling orders for the Canton Fair, leading his apprentices to technical progress so they could stand on their own.

Now, the output value of Hecuan Commune was already very high, with furniture and home textile factories providing jobs for the young men and women of the commune and expanding sources of wealth.

At the same time, supported by the two factories, the commune was digging wells, repairing roads, and planting trees; although it had only just begun, it was already showing vitality.

By the time the saplings and shrubs planted next year grew up, Hecuan Commune would be a different world.

The furniture and home textile factories were enough for the commune to eat and drink their fill; once this complete set of industries developed, it would be a big business with an annual output value of several billion in the future.

So Wang Yan didn't set up any more factories for Hecuan Commune, but instead started supporting the county's industries in his spare time.

For example, the various tools he made earlier made the county's machinery factory earn a wave of money. But later, because factories in other places all explored and produced similar products, and even a considerable number of factories were stronger in materials, the county's machinery factory was squeezed out of business and returned to its previous half-dead state.

Wang Yan drove his car and took his camera to inspect various factories in the county, combined with the development model he once used in Jin Ling, integrated the resources of several factories, researched the production of new agricultural machinery, and adjusted the county's textile factory, creating a production line specifically for researching materials to supply Hecuan Commune's home textile factory.

By earning money from the machinery and textile factories and using that money for construction, it would naturally drive other cement factories, brick factories, and so on; the county's economy would improve, and the lives of the masses would get better.

And the premise of all this was technology.

In fact, Wang Yan didn't show much technology; he just proposed making small agricultural machinery to cope with the complex terrain, while optimizing the original agricultural machinery to make it more reasonable, convenient, and efficient.

And in the textile factory, Wang Yan didn't hand-weave looms like he did in Jin Ling, but instead proposed some ideas that seemed whimsical, letting the machinery factory set up a group specifically for research, while providing orders from the home textile factory to let the textile factory earn money.

Regarding new materials, Wang Yan didn't give any ready-made formulas, but proposed ideas for materials and listed a bunch of materials for technicians to test, and also got some money to support technicians in doing research.

None of these were too difficult; they could produce results in a year or two, and by then, when they earned more and the county's finances were ample, everything would be easy to talk about.

It could be an enlarged version of Hecuan Commune, absorbing workers here, actively digging wells, repairing roads, planting trees, and raising livestock there, transforming the environment, perfecting the industrial chain, forming an internal self-circulation, and using external financial resources to increase the speed of internal self-circulation and industrial upgrading and iteration.

Once such a virtuous cycle was running, Lin County would become a snowball that rolled bigger and bigger. As long as management and technology weren't too useless, ensuring the speed of progress and keeping up with the pace of the times, the people of Lin County could live comfortably for generations...

Time flowed like water, and in the blink of an eye, it was the 1972 Spring Festival.

"Brother Yan, I'm here." In the morning, Zheng Tong brought a girl to the house arranged for Wang Yan in Hecuan Commune.

Since the commune's furniture factory was established, Wang Yan mainly lived here, only returning to the Baidian Brigade to take a look in his spare time. Every time he returned to the Baidian Brigade, the fellow villagers were very enthusiastic, almost beating gongs and drums.

After all, the good life of the Baidian Brigade was brought about by Wang Yan; in these two years, it could be said that every household had built new kilns, all furniture had been replaced with new furniture from the factory, they could basically eat meat once a week, and every meal had oil and water. When other brigades mentioned the Baidian Brigade, it was "rich enough to flow with oil"...

Wang Yan nodded with a smile, looking at the girl and saying: "If I remember correctly, your name is Jiang Biyun, right?"

"Brother Yan has a really good memory; we only met once two years ago." Jiang Biyun smiled brightly.

"Are you two together?"

Zheng Tong laughed: "No choice, Brother Yan; although my charm isn't as good as yours, I have a fatal attraction for Comrade Jiang Biyun."

Jiang Biyun gave him a slap: "Shameless."

"Regardless of who chased whom, it's all good; this is a proper revolutionary love." Wang Yan laughed, put down the paintbrush in his hand, "Alright, let's tidy up the food and make a table full of dishes. Just the three of us, we have to eat and drink well; I even got a few bottles of Moutai."

"We'll help." Jiang Biyun took off her headscarf, took off her coat, and rolled up her sleeves, ready to do a big job.

Zheng Tong said "Hey" and asked: "Brother Yan, what are you painting again?"

"The Yan City Great Hall invited me to paint a picture of the old revolutionary base area to show the Yan City spirit." Wang Yan said with a smile, "Do you know what the Yan City spirit is?"

"I know, Brother Yan; you taught me before. It's the firm and correct political direction, the ideological line of emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and the entrepreneurial spirit of self-reliance and hard work."

Wang Yan nodded with satisfaction: "The one I'm painting is called 'In Yan City', depicting the scene of the early union of workers and peasants and the central government struggling here. The attached poem is 'Qilü: Having fields and land, I am the master'; what is the last sentence?"

"I know." Jiang Biyun said, "Everywhere there are mourning geese, the city is full of blood; it is nothing but a thought to save the common people!"

"You have a future." Wang Yan laughed, then waved his hand, "Let's go, let's go cook."

The three of them busied themselves, made a table full of sumptuous food, and started eating and drinking.

Zheng Tong toasted Wang Yan with a big glass of wine with great sentiment, inevitably bringing up the past, saying he didn't expect that one day he would be drinking, eating meat, and pouring out his heart with Wang Yan alone.

At the same time, he scolded Yuan Jun, saying Yuan Jun was no good, and that this kid actually didn't look up to him, Zheng Tong, either...

Jiang Biyun didn't have much to say; she just accompanied them on the side, listening to Wang Yan and Zheng Tong talking, occasionally interjecting a few words to liven up the atmosphere.

Truth be told, Jiang Biyun was a proper good woman in this drama, following Zheng Tong wholeheartedly, steady and pragmatic, without any vain pursuits, and she was a very good person; no one could pick any faults...

The three of them together could be considered to have spoken many words of heart-to-heart, and their relationship became closer.

In the past, Zheng Tong mainly followed Zhong Yuemin; this was the first time Zheng Tong had interacted with Wang Yan...

After the New Year, Wang Yan made another trip to the unit where Zhou Xiaobai was located; their marriage application was approved, and they agreed to marry. The two took photos at the Civil Affairs Bureau where Zhou Xiaobai's unit was located and received their marriage certificate.

Wang Yan also received the blessings of his father-in-law and mother-in-law; it was very smooth, without any other fuss.

In fact, let alone now, even decades later, what Wang Yan had shown was enough to marry Zhou Xiaobai.

If you put it in ancient times, a person like Wang Yan would belong to the category of wild talent, needing to be drawn in by a big family through marriage to ensure help and ensure the continuation of the family...

After handling these matters, Wang Yan went to report to the Northwestern Polytechnical University and got to know the school leaders and other government leaders.

Wang Yan had no actual status, but he had a reputation that spread throughout the country and was a nationally famous celebrity. He himself also had excellent abilities, was quite capable of doing things, had new ideas, and was a good hand at promoting development.

This was a well-known fact; Wang Yan had only been joining the production team for a little over two years, and he had already changed the whole of Lin County. Although the best was Hecuan Commune under Lin County, the achievements of the subordinate commune naturally had to be counted in the county's statistics.

And once Hecuan Commune developed, it naturally had a corresponding driving effect on the whole county. At the very least, the people of Hecuan Commune had money, so consumption in the county increased, and the driving effect on other various industries was real.

Compared to the growth of various data in the past two years and previous years, the growth in these two years was significantly higher. People all knew that this was Wang Yan's credit.

So these leaders met and held discussions with Wang Yan, besides because of Wang Yan's own influence, being a person who had been registered in the Haizi, a recognized people's artist, and an excellent representative of educated youth, it was also because of Wang Yan's own good ability to promote development.

They wanted to listen to Wang Yan's understanding of development at a higher dimension, whether he could provide them with some new ideas, or simply find a clear development route.

Wang Yan, of course, also provided ideas, combining geography, specialties, culture, and ideological theory, explaining what industries should be emphasized.

Actually, there was nothing special; in the final analysis, it was two points: infrastructure and technology. With more infrastructure, it naturally drives various related industries; with technology, it naturally improves industrial competitiveness and provides power for development.

First, do a good job and refine things that can make money, reducing the proportion of selling raw materials; even if it's providing coarsely processed materials, any extra processing steps are better than selling raw materials directly.

He talked about the general direction and the domestic and international environment, and the leaders still recognized it very much. Wang Yan also stated that he would organize it into text and send it out to give everyone some new thinking.

And he timely proposed carrying out industrial division of labor and cooperation. The industries of each county cannot be completely copied from the past. Various construction-related things don't matter; produce and use them nearby. But for others such as textile factories, chemical plants, cannery factories, machinery factories, etc., whether it is necessary for every county to have them is a question.

Of course, Wang Yan was clear that they were currently in a time of turbulent international situations, and they were vigorously carrying out Third-Front construction, in order to use the strategic depth of the western and southwestern regions to carry out strategic transfer after a war occurred on the local territory, leaving room for defense and attack.

The industrial construction of various cities and counties was also based on this, ensuring that they could produce various basic materials in wartime, explode with the greatest war potential, and defend and counterattack on the spot.

But what should be proposed still had to be proposed; only by concentrating resources could big things be done. The industries of some counties were half-dead, so they should be coordinated to ensure that each place had the ability to produce, without the need for excessive investment; it would be in time to expand the scale when it really reached wartime...

At the same time, he also proposed some development problems of urbanization, etc. In short, he had considerable foresight, but there were no extreme remarks that would be criticized.

Afterwards, Wang Yan studied steadily at the Northwestern Polytechnical University, delved into theory, and spent half a year writing a book "Thought and Development", arguing that the spiritual core of thought remains unchanged, but in terms of expression, it must change with the development of the times. At the same time, it also discussed the relationship between thought and development, clarifying the truth that practice produces true knowledge. It also discussed the relationship between thought, world pattern, and development.

From people's livelihood to politics, from ancient times to modern times, from domestic to foreign, from philosophy to facts, it was a comprehensive discussion.

He stated that theory is done, and international status is fought for, fully embodying his pragmatic hawkish thought.

This book was printed many times; some criticized it, some affirmed it, and after being affirmed, there was no criticism. Thus, Wang Yan's ideological theory was recognized, and he therefore became an accomplished theoretical scholar recognized by the absolute mainstream.

His book was still very popular; at first, it was spread in a small range, and later, after being recognized, many were printed, purchased by government, unit, and other personnel, as they had to actively study it.

After the newspaper reported Wang Yan's masterpiece, the masses actively purchased it; they read Wang Yan's reports like serialized stories. Since Wang Yan had achieved such a level, of course, they also wanted to buy it and take a look.

Wang Yan didn't write this book into such a boring professional book, and it wasn't so serious. Although it was inevitably difficult for the masses to understand, there was still some humor in many paragraphs.

So in such an era, Wang Yan, by virtue of such a book, also became a famous writer with verifiable achievements. That was when the manuscript fee stopped; otherwise, Wang Yan could have achieved wealth freedom by virtue of this book. Of course, he himself was already free.

Because after he published the book and graduated from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, the herbal tea factory that cooperated with the big family in the New Territories gave him his first dividend, amounting to one million Hong Kong dollars.

This was properly foreign exchange, especially since Wang Yan also let them exchange it for US dollars before remitting it.

Wang Yan didn't handle it himself, but directly transferred it to Lin County's account.

This sum of money had long been agreed upon, to be used for Lin County's tree planting and sand control project. Including digging wells, purchasing saplings, and providing subsidies to relevant personnel planting trees...

This behavior of Wang Yan was again praised and affirmed.

After the people of the whole country finished reading the report in the Daily, they were all numb...

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