"Do you want to listen to my drunken ramblings? Or do you not want to listen to my drunken ramblings? "Ruan Xihao didn't invent this phrase himself. Instead, he learned it from Vézé.
Vézé was everyone's boss. For decades, everyone knew that Vézé didn't like to drink. He could drink in small sips, but Vézé really couldn't do it in large cups. More than ten years ago, everyone was in a good mood. It wasn't intentional, but there were too many people toasting him. In the end, Vézé vomited after drinking. Later, when they were drinking again, a commander named Zhao Jingtu seemed to have taken the wrong medicine and shouted, "Commander-in-chief, you can't drink less than the last time!"
Hearing this, Vézé's expression changed. He sneered, "So I still have to listen to Commander Zhao's orders!"
This time, Commander Zhao Jingtu's face turned ashen. He stood rooted to the ground and didn't know how to respond. From then on, no one dared to persuade Vézé to drink more. Of course, when it was time to toast, they wouldn't forget about etiquette. Moreover, there were too many times when they saw that Vézé was a little drunk and wanted to "discuss things" with Vézé.
Looking at the group of soldiers in the Beijing military hearing this sentence, "Do you want to listen to my drunken ramblings? Or do you not want to listen to my drunken ramblings? " Ruan Xihao wondered if he had the same expression when he heard Vézé's words. At that time, Ruan Xihao's evaluation of Vézé's words was, "Commander-in-chief is too cunning." Actually, no one cared whether it was drunken ramblings or not. They just wanted to hear Vézé agree to their requests, or at least say what they wanted to hear.
Now that Ruan Xihao said the same thing, what he really wanted to say had nothing to do with drunken ramblings or whether he agreed to their requests. What Ruan Xihao really wanted to say was, "I don't care what you say, but you better know your limits!"
Ruan Xihao suspected that Vézé had the same idea back then. If he directly criticized everyone, it would be too merciless. However, if he didn't stop everyone's actions, Ruan Xihao wouldn't agree or agree with them. Instead, he would talk endlessly. Even if Zhang San didn't say anything, Li Si would have continued the conversation. This kind of thing would never end.
After drinking, Ruan Xihao went back to rest. The next day, when the train was about to continue north, Ruan Xihao refused to see the guys in Beijing, saying that he was "drunk and not feeling well". Although he knew it was inappropriate, Ruan Xihao was still unhappy and didn't want to see them. The work in Beijing wasn't part of Ruan Xihao's plan to go north. Not seeing these people wouldn't affect Ruan Xihao's purpose.
The train had been arranged a long time ago. The train to Shenyang had already stopped selling the sleeping compartment. They just needed to put Ruan Xihao's sleeping compartment on it. Five hours before boarding the train, Ruan Xihao drove around Beijing in a car borrowed from the Beijing Military Region. The former capital had changed a lot. As the transportation hub to the north and the coal production center in the north, Beijing was full of vitality. It was the vitality of the workers.
The high-ranking officials in long gowns were gone. The Eight Banners disciples who carried cages and birds were gone. The eunuchs who went out of the palace to do business and the helpers who bowed their heads were gone. The people in Beijing were coal miners, steel workers, transportation workers, and all kinds of facilities that had been built around this new mining city. The old arrogance and inferiority of this city had been swept away, replaced by the unique masculinity of an industrial and mining city.
Like Nanjing, Beijing had also undergone a comprehensive expansion and transformation. In addition to the famous landmark buildings, there was also a small area of alleys left as a city landscape. The other areas had all been transformed into the most common urban appearance. In other words, there were wide roads, neat electric poles on both sides of the road, and beautiful green belts. Squares, parks, libraries, schools, living communities, and some places even had fountains.
The canal in the south of the city, which had been in disrepair for many years and was almost completely silted, was also dredged. The shacks by the river were all demolished, and the green belt within two hundred meters on both sides of the river was well built. This was a project that Ruan Xihao had specifically instructed. Several rivers in Beijing had been carefully cleaned up. This was not only a flood channel in Beijing during rainy days, but also an important green belt in Beijing. After seeing Jiangnan, even if Ruan Xihao knew that Beijing was not Jiangnan, he still hoped to have better greening results.
After visiting the old place where he worked hard, Ruan Xihao got on the train. The content of these young people's discussion was different. There were rumors of Nanjing moving the capital. After the expansion, Beijing was no longer a target to be attacked. Everyone really couldn't see what Japan and Korea could do. Moreover, Beijing still had the word "Jing" on it. This meant that Beijing's treatment of the capital was not revoked.
Moreover, moving the capital to Beijing was also inherently reasonable. When the capital was moved from Guangdong to Nanjing, there were people who opposed it. Guangdong's industry once accounted for more than half of the entire China's. After the capital was moved to Nanjing, it took more than ten years for the industry in the Yangtze River Valley to develop at an extremely fast speed. If the capital could be moved to Beijing, the entire Yellow River Valley and the Northeast and Northwest could receive the support and guidance of the state.
Of course, the soldiers actually didn't feel much about this. What made the soldiers feel strongly about it was something related to them. The Liberation Army used to be an army basically composed of people from Guangdong, Guangxi, and Anhui. Now, the Liberation Army included soldiers from all over the country. Southerners were not necessarily willing to be soldiers, but the number of soldiers from the north of the Huaihe River was increasing. The Huaihe River had always been the dividing line between the north and the south of China. Except for Guangxi, the overall performance of the soldiers from the north of the Huaihe River was significantly better than the soldiers from the south of the Huaihe River. From the perspective of the army, everyone also hoped that the north of the Huaihe River could receive the attention and support of the central government.
On this issue, Ruan Xihao discussed it with everyone. The sleeper compartment could be disassembled. The reason why Ruan Xihao and the others were given a special compartment was because the partition of the two sleeper compartments in the middle had been removed. Ruan Xihao and the others could have a meeting here. There was no need to consider whether the state should pay attention to the north. The north was vast and had a large population. Of course, the state had to pay attention to the north. The question now was to what extent to pay attention to it. At least from the perspective of military construction, this was also an important part of the future military construction. Engaging in military construction was also something that the higher-ups of the Military Commission were working hard to consider.
After the train left the customs, the scenery outside the train carriage attracted Ruan Xihao. He used to be the political commissar of the North Military Region. When he first arrived in the Northeast, it was practically uninhabited. Later, Ruan Xihao discovered that it was not that there were no people in the Northeast. It was just that a large number of the population were "recluses". Those recluses had left the rule of the Manchu Qing outside the borders. There were no millions of local "Manchus" who risked their lives to fight for the small Manchu Qing imperial court. These people were later incorporated.
Millions of people were not enough to fill up the Northeast. Now, Ruan Xihao could clearly see the farmlands and cottages on both sides of the railway. Cattle were moving around the fields, and cars were not rare. The entire Northeast region had become lively because of the large influx of people. This was already the largest commodity grain production base in China. It was also the first region in China to completely abolish the agricultural tax and adopt a unified purchase and sale system.
The train arrived at Shenyang Station. Shenyang Military Region Commander Zhao Jingtu and Political Commissar Wu Liao came to welcome them. Wu Liao smiled and said, "Political Commissar Ruan, you finally came. If you didn't come, we didn't know what to say to our comrades in the farm. The comrades in the farm are very emotional. They said that we should get lost, and now it's time to get lost! "
"I don't think that's appropriate. What does this have to do with getting lost? No one can deny everyone's contributions. "Ruan Xihao immediately said.
Zhao Jingtu's eyes lit up. He quickly asked, "Are we not going to abolish the military farms this time?"
Ruan Xihao looked around and said, "It's the military commission's decision whether to abolish it or not. The purpose of my visit this time is to express my condolences to the comrades. Thank you for your hard work. "
If it was a comrade in the military commission or a comrade who had served in the military commission before, they could clearly hear the answer from Ruan Xihao's words. The Liberation Army did not talk so much nonsense. Abolishing it was abolishing it, and not abolishing it was not abolishing it. Since Ruan Xihao did not deny it, it meant that this matter had to be done. It was just that in the process of doing this, the military commission hoped that the comrades could unify their thinking. To put it more clearly, the military commission hoped that the comrades would not be too antagonistic because of the abolition of the farms.
Wu Liao smiled and said, "The management of the military's industries is quite good. It would be a pity to abolish it. This is all our military's income, and it is completely enough to support the logistics of the military without any other supplies. "
"Are the people in the Northeast unreliable?" Ruan Xihao asked in a seemingly casual manner.
Wu Liao was slightly stunned by this question. He did not expect Ruan Xihao to think of this problem. After listening for a while, Wu Liao smiled and said, "Political Commissar Ruan, don't accuse me of something. I did not say that the local people are unreliable. I just want to say that after we have the farms, there are many things that we can do. When it comes to scientific farming and scientific breeding, our military and the research department work very well together. "
"Oh? If that's what you said, then we have to hurry to the farms to take a look. "Ruan Xihao smiled and said.
The railway in the Northeast was well built. Starting from the Pacific Ocean, through Mongolia, and directly to Central Asia, the main railway had also been completed. All that was left was to gradually finalize the internal railway network. Accompanied by Wu Liao and Zhao Jingtu, Ruan Xihao and his party went to the military farms on the Nenjiang plains.
When they arrived at their first destination, Red Planet Farm No. 3, the cadre who came to welcome them had a strange expression on his face. He looked like he wanted to say something but was hesitant. He did not have the excitement of being inspected at all.
"Where is the head of the farm?" Wu Liao asked.
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