At the beginning of the year, Zhao Sixi was sent to the Administration College in Yangzhou for three months of further study.
This study allowed him to understand Huai Haijun's management model and management philosophy.
This model and concept completely overturned his previous understanding of officials. After further training, he was promoted to the division's propaganda director. He was in charge of the refugee ideology and propaganda work of the entire engineer division.
As a Huaihai Navy cadre who grew up among refugees, superior leaders attached great importance to Zhao Sixi and trained him as a model.
Zhao Sixi is also very up to date. He works very hard and does not stay in the office assigned to him by the division all day long. Instead, he shuttles between various work sections.
He knew that in order to do a good job in propaganda and ideological work, he had to go deep into the refugees. He was a refugee himself, and he knew that refugees like to communicate privately among familiar people about their matters.
Everyone distrusts the government from the bottom of their hearts. Therefore, if you want to understand their true thoughts, you have to work with them, enter their lives, and listen to their nagging.
When the project was almost completed, Huai Haijun's senior officials conducted a public opinion survey on the issue of future resettlement of the refugees.
As the division's propaganda director, Zhao Sixi visited more than 7,000 families and more than 50,000 people in the division. He understood everyone's thoughts and fully reflected everyone's views on the collective farms to higher-level units.
Most refugees can accept collective farms. As long as everyone can have heirloom land, it will be fine.
As for the fact that these lands cannot be resold at will, many people applaud. After all, no one wants to sell the land they have earned through hard work if a prodigal descendant appears.
Because of his hard work, his dedication to serving the refugees, and his incomparable loyalty to Huai Haijun, Zhao Sixi was recommended as an outstanding representative of refugee cadres to participate in this commendation conference.
Hearing that this time it was the president of Huaihai Navy who personally presented awards to people like himself, Sixi was very excited. During the training in Yangzhou, the story he heard most was the president's story.
The entire Huaihai Navy was built from scratch by the president. Without the president’s order to take in the refugees in Henan, we don’t know how many people would have starved to death! The president is the great benefactor of all the refugees in Henan.
There were quite a few representatives coming to participate in the commendation this time, and the auditorium, which could accommodate four to five hundred people, was full. In order to highlight the grandeur of the award ceremony, the military government even sent a band here.
Dong Shuheng had experienced this kind of ceremony before and was familiar with the process.
He first gave a very inflammatory speech to everyone, titled "The Great Era".
He told everyone that this is a great era in history, and every Chinese born in this era has his or her own historical mission - to revive China.
When Dong Shuheng issued his inner call, he didn't know who started it, and slogans rang out one after another - "Rejuvenate China! Revive China!"
Regardless of whether the people in the auditorium understood the meaning of this sentence or not, they were all deeply affected by this atmosphere.
Dong Shuheng didn't like shouting slogans very much before. He preferred to practice it and guide the people around him with real benefits. But now he discovered that slogans contain huge spiritual power.
This kind of power is invisible, but it has a very strong contagion. The more people there are, the stronger the contagion becomes.
When he went to present awards to the rows of advanced individuals who took the stage, he could clearly see the enthusiasm in their eyes.
He believed that if he asked them to run to the battlefield with guns in hand, they would do it without hesitation.
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After the conference, Dong Shuheng went to visit a collective farm below the town.
This is the easternmost collective farm in Linhai Town. Further east is the seawall. Outside the seawall are the fishing team and duck farm belonging to the Bureau of Agricultural Reclamation.
Because it is closer to the sea, the land is more saline and alkaline. So their land has not been repaired yet.
After the land is filled with water, farmers have nothing to do and they will go back to building their farms.
Dong Shuheng entered the farm under the leadership of the mayor. Follow Dong Shuheng's instructions to the people in the farm and do what they should do. Don't waste time on greeting him at the entrance of the village.
So when Dong Shuheng arrived in the village, some of the villagers were using thatch to strengthen the roofs of their houses, and some were repairing the paths in the village under the leadership of the village chief. Some were irrigating and releasing water to the repaired saline-alkali land.
When he saw Dong Shuheng and his entourage coming, the village chief knew that a big shot was here.
He quickly dropped what he was doing and came over.
As he walked up to him, the village chief bowed to Dong Shuheng repeatedly.
"Old village chief, you can't help it. We just came to see how the villagers are doing. We should apologize for delaying your work." Dong Shuheng hurriedly supported the old village chief, not caring about the old village chief's body.
It's all muddy water.
"Old Qian, this is the President of our Huaihai Navy." The mayor accompanying him hurriedly introduced.
"Oh, it turns out that everyone's savior has arrived. Mr. President, I'm going to call the big guys over." Village Chief Qian is the village chief after all. He has seen the world and knows that Huai Haijun doesn't like to kneel down and worship.
As he said this, he was about to call the villagers to come over and see the President. However, before he could start, he was stopped by Dong Shuheng?
"Village Chief Qian, there's no need to shout, let everyone go about their business." Dong Shuheng said, "Village Chief, please take us for a walk in the village."
"Yes, sir."
Village Chief Qian led the way, and everyone walked toward the village. From time to time, villagers who were busy stopped to look, but were driven back by the village chief to continue working.
Starting from the river construction site, everyone knows that there is no place for lazy people in Huaihaijun territory. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will definitely have food to eat.
"Village Chief Qian, we see that the houses you build here are all adobe houses. Are you unable to buy building materials?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"Yes, sir, everyone has to build houses all of a sudden, and there is not that much supply of bricks and tiles. Moreover, adobe houses save money. We in the village think it is better to spend the money on the fields first and finish the fields first.
, buy all the livestock for each household, and the houses can be built slowly."
Dong Shuheng nodded after hearing this. The people will make the best choice for themselves. In the eyes of farmers, land and the output from the land are the most fundamental.
"Mayor Wang, you can also set up some village and town enterprises like the villages and towns in Dongtai and Dafeng. For example, this brick and tile factory has low technical content. You can build it first. You can see what sells well later.
We can choose to set up some factories so that the people in the town can have more opportunities to make money."
Dong Shuheng remembered the last time he went to Hui'er's house. Hui'er funded a kiln factory in the village and it later became successful. It brought considerable income to the village, so he said this to Mayor Wang who was following him. Look,
Let’s see if we can also develop township and village enterprises in Linhai Town.
Speaking of this matter, he felt that it was necessary to remind Liu Mingyuan that the Ministry of Commerce should prepare a development plan for township enterprises, otherwise everyone would rush into some profitable businesses, which would inevitably lead to vicious competition.
"Okay, President, our town will consider this aspect later. The town has just been established, and there are so many things going on that we haven't fully figured out yet." Mayor Wang said helplessly.
Dong Shuheng was still a little impatient, and things had to be done step by step.
"Well, I'm just making a suggestion. You know the situation in your town best. You should do everything according to your ability and make sure that everything is done in place. You can't do one thing here or another."
"By the way, Village Chief Qian, whose family in your village is most in trouble, please take us to his home to have a look." Dong Shuheng said to Village Chief Qian again.
"President, why don't you go to Li Er's house and have a look? His wife is very good at giving birth. The four little babies in the house who can't work are all counting on Li Er to support the family by himself." Village Chief Qian said with some embarrassment.
After a while, the group arrived at Li Er's house. Li Er was called home by the village chief first.
Like most villagers' homes, Li's house also has three adobe houses, with a straw hut built diagonally against the sunny wall of the house, which serves as the kitchen.
There was little furniture in the house. There was a dining table made of wooden boards in the main hall, and Li Er's wife and four children were in the back room.
Dong Shuheng signaled to the people behind him, and a guard handed the snacks to Li Er.
Li Er seemed to be an honest farmer. His daughter-in-law looked a little thin and malnourished. Li Er did not dare to accept the things until the village chief Qian asked him to accept them.
Dong Shuheng went to the inner room to look at the four little babies. The oldest was only four or five years old, which was basically one year old. This second daughter-in-law Li was indeed capable of giving birth.
Regarding the population issue, Dong Shuheng has thought about it a lot in his life. He believes that population is the most precious wealth in the world, especially for Chinese people with yellow skin and dark eyes like himself. We all have the same roots and species, so we naturally feel close to each other.
So he always asked the military government to encourage people to have more children. Now that I think about it, this kind of encouragement actually doesn't mean much.
Nowadays, people generally do not have any contraceptive measures. If possible, they would like to have more children. However, children need to eat, and pregnant women's food intake will be much larger than that of ordinary people.
If there is not enough food and pregnant women cannot get nutrition, it will be difficult to give birth to a healthy baby. This is also an important reason for the high infant mortality rate in this era in addition to medical conditions.
"Village Chief Qian, are there many families in the village like Li Er's family who are poor because they have many children?" Dong Shuheng asked Village Chief Qian after coming out of Li Er's house.
"There are still some, but they are better. The Li family is actually holding on for five or six years. It will be much better when the older children can work." Village Chief Qian said.
"Village Chief Qian, how much food can a half-year-old child eat in a month?" Dong Shuheng asked again.
"About thirty kilograms of rice should be enough."
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"Minister Chen, you said that if we provide food subsidies to all children under five years old, will our food supply be sustainable?" On the way back, Dong Shuheng asked Agriculture Minister Chen Dongsheng who came over later.
"What, President, you want to give food subsidies to all the children. That would cost too much, and it would put too much financial pressure on our Huaihai Navy. You have to know that the school alone has to subsidize a lot of food every year. You have already
Let the school provide children with a free lunch every day." Chen Dongsheng said with a bitter face. His nephew is very good at making money, but he is even more powerful at spending money, and he is particularly philanthropic.
"Well, let's do this. For families with more than two children under the age of 5, 30 kilograms of rice will be subsidized every month, and for every additional child, 30 kilograms of rice will be added. Uncle, don't think these children will increase our burden now.
.But when they grow up, they will be the greatest wealth of our country and nation." Dong Shuheng said earnestly.