Since ancient times, it has been difficult to fight the world, and it is even more difficult to rationalize the world. The founding of New China is a matter worth celebrating for the people of the whole country, but difficulties are still to come. How difficult it was for the land of China, which had been destroyed for decades, to regain its former glory, and to this day we are still on the road to reviving the Chinese dream.
As for the newly established China, Chiang Kai-shek always wanted to find an opportunity to counterattack the mainland; externally, the capitalist countries tried to create trouble for this newly established country. New China has made a series of measures in response to these situations.
In 1954, after the armistice of the Korean War, Asian countries slowly began to ease relations, ending the war between countries. But the United States on the other side of Oceania did not give up, it still had attempts to split China, and the US Seventh Fleet was still entrenched in the Taiwan Strait.
Coupled with the fact that Chiang Kai-shek had already fled to Taiwan at that time, it put a lot of pressure on the national defense of China's southeast region. So Chairman Mao decided to continue military action on the coastal islands and build a railway to the southern and southeastern coasts. The matter was entrusted to Wang Zhen, who was the commander of the railway troops at the time, to direct the construction of the railway.
At the sound of an order, all the staff began to work
Wang Zhen, like many people born in that era, saw the fall of the motherland when he was young and had the idea of saving the motherland in his heart. At a young age, he followed the troops around the battlefield.
He had already joined the Communist Party of China in 1927. Along the way, he fought with the ranks of the Party, and in his resolute defense of Comrade Chairman Mao, he did his best to protect the Comrades and protect the Party, and resisted the influence of the "Left" military line. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he fought bravely in the Shanxi region, the northwest region, and the Jin-Cha-Ji region, and made great contributions to the fight against the Japanese army.
After the founding of New China, Wang Zhen served as a member of the Northwest Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and led the people of Xinjiang to begin to seek development. In 1954, in the southeast region, the US military repeatedly invaded China in the Taiwan Strait, and Wang Zhen, then commander of the railway corps and political commissar, was ordered to build a railway, the Yingxia Railway.
The construction of the Yingxia Railway is of landmark significance. It not only opened a new chapter in the history of railways in Fujian Province, but also enabled a large number of weapons and ammunition to reach the front line of coastal defense through the Yingxia Railway at that time, and played a major role in the defense of China's southeast region. But few people know that the construction of this railway was not so smooth.
At that time, receiving instructions from the central authorities, Wang Zhen quickly convened a party committee to discuss the construction of the railway. He gathered a national army of 100,000 people and immediately went to Xiamen to start construction.
The 100,000 construction brigades came from all over the country, where the environment was damp, the workers lived in a rudimentary place, and there was only one room. Many of the workers began to fall ill, and it did not take long for the originally vigorous construction brigade to cease to move.
Workers can no longer work due to physical factors and so on. As soon as Wang Zhen saw such a situation, he immediately asked a doctor to see the workers and contact them to provide a place for the workers to live.
Solve the problem but get caught
Wang Zhen approached the local county magistrate and wanted to solve the problem of land for the workers. Because the use of these plots requires the consent of the local farmers. Wang Zhen immediately contacted the local county magistrate.
On the first day, Wang Zhen called the county magistrate and asked about the borrowing of land, and the county government only said to ask the leader. After a few days, Wang Zhen really couldn't sit still, and asked the driver to drive directly to the local county government. When he arrived at the county government, Wang Zhen saw a man with a briefcase and asked, "Is the county magistrate here?" ”
The next day, when the man saw that Wang Zhen was dressed in rags, he thought he was an ordinary peasant, and he directly told him in a bad mood: "The county magistrate is not there" and then rode away on his bicycle. After hearing this conversation, the teacher in the communication room directly asked Wang Zhen if he was looking for the county magistrate.
On the third day, Wang Zhen replied: "Old comrade, do you know where the county magistrate has gone and when he will come back?" Teacher Fu replied directly: "Why don't you stop the person just now, that person is the county magistrate", which surprised Wang Zhen.
Speaking of the county magistrate, the teacher wanted to stop talking, not knowing whether to open his mouth. Wang Zhen talked directly with his teacher Fu about the county magistrate. Teacher Fu said that he had never seen such a county magistrate, and others were single-mindedly serving the people, while he was single-mindedly doing things for his own family.
As he spoke, the county magistrate came back on his bike again. Wang Zhen hurriedly called the county magistrate "County Taiye". Wang Zhen directly told him to solve the housing problem, and the county magistrate directly refused, asking him to solve it in their unit. The county magistrate listened to Wang Zhen's mouth and was not satisfied with a county grandfather for a long time, and kept driving Wang Zhen out, and even called him "old stuff."
The two argued, and the county magistrate called the police and handcuffed Wang Zhen. Wang Zhen was annoyed and shouted, "Open the handcuffs for me!" But those few people did not listen to Wang Zhen's words at all, and looked at the county magistrate, who waved his hand to let him take him away quickly, and those people hurriedly stuffed Wang Zhen in the police car.
At this time, Wang Zhen's driver hurriedly called out: "Let go of the chief", but no one paid any attention to him. Soon, Commissioner Xu Shunqing hurriedly stopped the police car, helped Wang Zhen out of the police car and shouted loudly. After Wang Zhen got out of the car, he stared at the county magistrate fiercely, suppressed the anger in his heart, and shouted at the county magistrate: "You didn't shoot me, count me Wang Zhen's life, thank you for the mercy of your county grandmaster's men!" ”
Wang Zhen then told Commissioner Xu about the workers' housing shortage and the need to grant land to provide shelter, and Xu Shunqing immediately agreed. Xu Shunqing loudly reprimanded the county magistrate in front of Wang Zhen and asked the county magistrate to write an inspection.
But Wang Zhen said that such a person was not worthy of being a county magistrate and must be removed. Immediately, he called the provincial leader Ye Fei, who quickly thanked Wang Zhen and said that he had done a great thing for Fujian Province.
Soon, the workers' housing was well solved, and the construction brigade began to work vigorously. The work that was expected to take four years to complete was completed in 26 months. At a time when the cross-strait situation is tense, the Yingxia Railway is also a passage for weapons transportation. It plays an important role.
brief summary:
The successful construction of the Yingxia Railway is inseparable from the far-sightedness of the Party Central Committee and the hard work of the workers day and night. And if Wang Zhen had not gone to ask for land, it would not have been possible to find that the local grassroots leaders had abused their powers and did not do things for the people.
Grassroots leaders are the ones who have the closest contact with the people, and they must always provide practical help to the people and make the people's lives comfortable, rather than seeking selfish interests and making their heads empty.