Chapter 2332

One day in early March, the reconstruction project of the Yanglan Lake embankment in Chongjin County was fully completed. The area where farmland was returned to lakes in Chongjin County would simultaneously open the sluice gates to release water. Yanglan Lake water would surge into this area of hundreds of square kilometers, turning these places back into a land of marshes.

This was clearly a day of great commemorative significance. On this day, many people who moved from the area where farmland was returned to lakes to the new district came to the embankment to take one last look at their former homes and see them being submerged by Yanglan Lake water again.

And China Central Television also sent a film crew to come here to film this scene. This scene would become a permanent precious shot and be preserved.

Su Xinghui, Nie Xin, and other county leaders also came to the embankment of Jingbao Village to watch this historic scene.

When they arrived at the embankment, it was around 7:30 in the morning. The time for opening the sluice gates to release water was set for half an hour later. At this time, the embankment was already full of people, all of whom were villagers from the original Jingbao Village. They looked solemnly in the direction of Yanglan Lake, and the scene was silent.

The county sent a large number of armed police and police to the scene to maintain order. In the days before opening the sluice gates to release water, they conducted a dragnet-style search and shouted to the area to be submerged to ensure that there would be no one at the scene, and then maintained order on the embankment to avoid any accidents.

Seeing Su Xinghui and the county leaders come, the villagers of the original Jingbao Village hurriedly cleared a path to let them walk to the front. Many people shouted: "Secretary Su, you are here!"

Su Xinghui waved to them. Now his prestige among the masses was simply at its peak. In the homes of I don't know how many people in the whole county, his longevity tablet was placed.

Su Xinghui saw a familiar figure and shouted: "Old Uncle Wu, you are here too!"

Old Uncle Wu was Su Xinghui's old acquaintance. He said: "Yes, Secretary Su. Although we don't live here now, we have lived here for decades after all. Now it is going to be submerged, we still want to come back and take a look."

Su Xinghui nodded and said: "I understand this kind of feeling of yours very well. Thank you for the sacrifice you made for the country's policy of returning farmland to lakes!"

Old Uncle Wu shook his head and said: "What sacrifice do we have? We are now in the new district, living well and eating well. My son has a job and can receive a salary. We are enjoying happiness every day. The one who should say thank you should be us people. Everyone, am I right?"

Everyone responded with a roar. They were full of gratitude to Su Xinghui. Although they still had nostalgia for the place where they had lived for decades, they knew what was good and bad. They knew that Su Xinghui letting them move to the new district was for their own good.

Su Xinghui smiled and kept waving to everyone. Suddenly, in the crowd, he saw another acquaintance, that was Old Uncle Chen, the oldest in Jingbao Village. He was already over eighty years old and also came to the scene today, standing there tremblingly.

Su Xinghui said: "Old Uncle Chen, you are so old, why did you come today too?"

Old Uncle Chen walked out of the crowd, a young man supporting him. He said: "Secretary Su, today is the last time we see Jingbao Village. Can I not come?"

Old Uncle Chen's words made everyone silent. Yes, today was the last time to see Jingbao Village.

Looking around, the houses in Jingbao Village were still standing there. If it weren't for the terrifying silence, it would be exactly the same as all those ordinary villages. This village sometimes appeared in their dreams, but from today on, this village would disappear. It would disappear at the bottom of Yanglan Lake.

The nostalgia for the hometown and the happiness in the new district now intertwined into a complex emotion, making everyone not know what to say.

Su Xinghui said: "Old Uncle Chen, the people will not forget you, history will not forget you. Although Jingbao Village will no longer exist in the future, the name Jingbao Village will be forever engraved in history!"

Su Xinghui's words made everyone applaud together, and China Central Television's camera faithfully recorded this scene.

Time gradually reached eight o'clock sharp. Nie Xin said to Su Xinghui: "Secretary, you come to announce the opening of the sluice gates to release water."

Su Xinghui nodded and solemnly announced: "I announce, the Chongjin County returning farmland to lakes opening sluice gates to release water ceremony, now begins!"

A person next to him put the signal flare into the sky. With the rising of three signal flares, dozens of huge sluice gates on the Yanglan Lake embankment section of Chongjin County rose slowly at the same time. The white Yanglan Lake water suddenly surged in from the raised sluice gates.

This scene was also faithfully recorded by China Central Television's film crew.

Seeing the lake water rushing towards their former homes, many villagers of the original Jingbao Village had tears in their eyes. From then on, they would never see Jingbao Village again. Some women even cried out loud.

On the entire embankment, no one spoke. Everyone was looking solemnly at the surging lake water.

Yanglan Lake water slowly surged to the foot of the embankment where everyone was standing. Although the lake water was very surging, because the area of returning farmland to lakes this time was too large, reaching hundreds of square kilometers, the water level in the area where farmland was returned to lakes rose very slowly. To fill this area of hundreds of square kilometers and more than twenty meters deep, it would take at least ten days.

After watching on the embankment for about half an hour, Su Xinghui said to the villagers at the scene: "Everyone go back!"

With Su Xinghui's prestige, everyone still believed in what he said. Old Uncle Chen said to everyone: "Everyone listen to Secretary Su, go back!"

Everyone nodded and agreed, took one last look at Jingbao Village, which was slowly being submerged by the lake water, and then went down the embankment in twos and threes and went home.

Chongjin County was the first county in the country to complete the work of returning farmland to lakes. This was a great achievement. This area of returning farmland to lakes of hundreds of square kilometers would increase Yanglan Lake's flood storage capacity by billions of cubic meters. And on the banks of several major freshwater lakes in the Yangtze River Basin, many counties would successively complete the work of returning farmland to lakes, which would increase the flood storage capacity by tens of billions of cubic meters.

This would greatly reduce the probability of another major flood in the Yangtze River Basin. Although it could not be called once and for all, it had already been able to play a very important role.

Various work in Chongjin County was proceeding in an orderly manner. In late March, Chongjin County's early rice began to be transplanted. However, rice field fish farming could not be started yet because the rice seedlings were still relatively short. If fish fry were put into the rice field now, the fish fry would eat all the tender rice seedlings.

It was necessary to wait for a period of time, after the rice grew to a certain height, the rice seedlings were not so tender, and various weeds began to emerge. At this time, putting half-grown fish fry into the rice field, the fish fry would not eat the rice, but would eat the tender weeds.