Chapter 1603: Ready

Ali has an average altitude of 4,500 meters and is known as the roof of the roof of the world. It is sparsely populated, and the annual temperature is below zero degrees Celsius.

The lowest temperature reaches below minus 40 degrees Celsius, and there are more than 140 days of level 7 to level 8 strong winds every year.

Many people say that there are only two seasons here: winter and about winter.

Wearing cotton-padded jackets in all four seasons, never getting enough oxygen, it belongs to the forbidden zone of life.

The harsh natural environment and difficult living conditions make many people flinch.

In 1979, the country wanted to transfer a group of cadres from the inland to work in the Tibetan region.

Kong Fansen, then Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Prefectural Committee, took the initiative to sign up and wrote the banner: "If a seven-foot man can sacrifice himself, he will not return to his hometown as a hero for thousands of years."

Not to mention more than ten years ago, even in the 1990s, working in the Tibetan region faced many difficulties and dangers, and many party members and cadres regarded it as a dangerous path.

After entering Tibet, he left a heroic vow: "Green hills are buried with loyal bones everywhere, and a heart of hot blood is sprinkled on the plateau."

That year, a snow disaster occurred in Lhasa, and he had been on the front line of disaster relief, leaving behind a suicide note.

"Wherever I meet with misfortune, bury me there."

Last spring, he was transferred to be the Secretary of the Ali Prefectural Committee. In one year, he ran through more than 50 of the 106 townships in the entire region.

The journey reached more than 40,000 kilometers, and his deep footprints were left everywhere on the vast snowy plateau.

Shiquanhe Town is the county seat with the highest altitude in our country, one of the important towns for southwest border defense, and the location of the Ali Prefectural Administrative Office.

It is also the location of the Gar County and Shiquanhe Town governments, and the station of the Ali Military Sub-district, so there are many government agencies inside the town area.

But because Shiquanhe Town is located in a remote area with harsh conditions, even if it is the location of many government agencies, you can't see a trace of prosperity here.

The Prefectural Committee and Administrative Office are concentrated on the north bank of Shiquanhe, while the south bank is Gar County. A bridge spanning Shiquanhe connects the two banks together.

Prefectural Committee Administrative Office, Secretary Kong stood in front of the office window, scraping the frost on the window with his fingernails one by one.

Creak, creak, the frost flowers fell bit by bit, the glass became transparent, and then he looked at it with a face full of worry.

In the blizzard, the Gangdise Mountains stood on the horizon of Shiquanhe Town.

At this time, the office door was pulled open from the outside, the thick cotton door curtain was lifted, and Gangrinpoche walked in against the wind and snow.

Secretary Kong turned around, looked at Gangrinpoche covered in snow, and immediately poured him a cup of hot water.

"Drink some hot water first to warm up your body."

Gangrinpoche took off his cotton hat, patted the snow on his body, and then took the water cup.

"The snow is too heavy, the car can't be driven, we can't get out at all."

Secretary Kong frowned: "If the car can't be driven, then ride a horse. Such heavy snow has been falling for two days, and there is no sign of stopping. Now if we don't go to each village to check the situation, in two days even riding a horse might not be possible."

Gangrinpoche said worriedly: "Your health is not good, and it's snowing heavily outside. How can you stand riding a horse?"

"I know my own body, there's no problem." Secretary Kong waved his hand: "Prepare a few more horses and take a few more people, so there will be someone to take care of things."

Gangrinpoche sighed and could only agree helplessly.

"Is there any news from Beijing?"

Secretary Kong nodded, but his tightly furrowed brows did not relax at all.

"Distant water cannot quench near thirst. Organizing manpower, mobilizing supplies, plus the time on the road, it will take at least ten days."

Gangrinpoche also had a face full of worry: "The heavy snow has blocked the mountains, even if they arrive, they can't get in."

"Don't worry about this." Secretary Kong said: "I have already told Commander Wu of the Military Sub-district to send two crawler engineering vehicles to clear the snow and guide the disaster relief vehicles."

Gangrinpoche said happily: "If that's the case, the problem won't be big. As long as the supplies can get in, we won't be afraid."

"I hope everything goes smoothly." Secretary Kong sighed: "Go and prepare quickly. Before dark, we must reach Nanpu Village, otherwise it will be dangerous."

"I'll go prepare now." Gangrinpoche drank some water, then put down the cup and turned to leave.

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Jiangzhou!

Zhou Andong had just finished eating, and Li Xianghui, Duan Chunsheng, and Yin Jisheng came, each carrying a large bag in their hands.

Zhou Andong asked curiously: "Why did you all come together, what's in the bags?"

"Money!" Li Xianghui put the bag on the desk: "Ali had a snow disaster, I personally donate one hundred and fifty thousand."

"This is mine."

"And mine."

Duan Chunsheng and Yin Jisheng also put their bags on the desk.

Zhou Andong blinked: "One hundred and fifty thousand each?"

"Yes!" Li Xianghui said: "Because Yuxi Real Estate has already donated, if we donate in the name of the company again, it's equivalent to donating twice, which is not appropriate. So we discussed it and decided to donate in our personal names."

"Fine!" Zhou Andong nodded with a smile: "Since you've donated, and donated so much, send a representative to make the trip and show your face."

Yin Jisheng hurriedly said: "Let the eldest aunt's husband and the old aunt's husband go."

Li Xianghui shook his head: "It will take more than a week, being in the car every day is too much suffering, I'm not going."

"I'm not going either." Duan Chunsheng said to Yin Jisheng: "You are young and have a good body, you go represent us."

Actually, Yin Jisheng was only two years younger than Duan Chunsheng, but since he was given such an opportunity to show his face, he would go no matter how much suffering it involved.

Yin Jisheng said without hesitation: "Since the eldest aunt's husband and the old aunt's husband aren't going, then I'll make the trip."

Zhou Andong said to Yin Jisheng: "Go home and prepare, we'll set off around seven tomorrow."

The four chatted for a while, and then Li Xianghui, Duan Chunsheng, and Yin Jisheng left.

After seven in the evening, one after another, the donations from the employees of each factory were delivered to Zhou Andong's office.

What Zhou Andong didn't expect was that just the employee donations alone exceeded six hundred thousand yuan.

Of course, this included the branch factories, but this was genuinely quite a lot.

Zhou Andong handed the money to Xu Baowei of the Finance Department, who would also take two financial personnel to follow to Ali tomorrow.

By the time he finished busy with a pile of things, it was already nine in the evening.

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February 20, 1994, the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Sunday!

Before six o'clock, Zhou Andong got up, and the sky outside was just beginning to brighten.

After washing up, he packed two sets of clothes to change into, stuffed them into a backpack, and then went out.

Inside the winery courtyard, it was already bustling with noise. Besides those following to Ali for disaster relief, many employees also got up early to see them off.

Truck after truck formed a long dragon, and you couldn't see the end at a glance.

On the carriage of every truck, there was a banner hanging.

Things like "When one side is in trouble, all sides support," "Yugong Group expresses sympathy to the people in the Ali disaster area," and so on. ===== CHAPTER 1604 =====