Since getting married, Zhang Zhifei has completely integrated into this prosperous era and lived a stable life, sitting in the workshop of the steel rolling mill and guiding the process flow.
He was used to living like this, and he didn't think about getting promoted and making a fortune.
I feel that just going home and hugging my wife every day is quite beautiful.
The younger brothers and sisters have also begun to grow up slowly. The younger sister will graduate from a technical secondary school in one year, and the younger brother will soon take the high school entrance examination. He can be considered worthy of his predecessor's parents.
He was very laid-back, but he didn't want his name to reach the ears of the Minister of Agriculture because of his initial impulse.
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Office of the Minister of Agriculture
"Changmin, how is the investigation on hybrid rice going?" Minister Liao, Minister of Agriculture, asked.
Minister Liao attaches great importance to this. In the past three years or so, he has received news of increased grain production in many places. There are also unknown high-yielding crops, but they are all fake works by people with ulterior motives.
In the past three years of the "Great Progress", many local officials deliberately exaggerated grain output in order to get promoted, causing him to lose confidence in such technical reports.
Just last year, he personally witnessed such a ridiculous thing, but it was a brigade secretary in the county where his hometown was located. In order to gain political achievements, he actually falsely reported 40% of his output.
According to national regulations, more is collected and more is paid. Because of the increase in grain production, the village secretary became a cadre.
(This is a real case. A brigade secretary in my hometown became a cadre for this reason, and was later promoted to deputy county magistrate.)
It was good for him, but he suffered a lot from the farmers, who had to hand over their grain, leaving them with nothing to eat.
They can only eat what they catch, and tree bark, elm money, bitter mold, sand king, etc. have all become their prey.
This incident happened to be discovered by Minister Liao who returned to his hometown. If it had been a little later, many of these villagers would have starved to death.
He estimated that situations like this are common, and the "Great Forward" has done a lot of harm to people.
This time, Zhou Weimin, the principal of Anjiang Agricultural School, personally brought the technology and reported it to the Ministry of Agriculture. Otherwise, he would not believe it. Even now, he is still doubtful.
"Minister, after investigation, it can be confirmed that this technology is real. Experts have verified that it can temporarily increase production by about 40%.
However, it is said that this technology also has shortcomings, that is, the seeds must be specially cultivated, and the yield after saving the seeds is not high.
And some professors suspect that these foods may cause harm to the human body, but it is still unknown. ” reported by Gaochang Minhui.
"There will be no time to worry about whether there are defects. As long as I increase the food production, my life will be lost. I have to worry about other hazards. This is a matter to be considered later."
Minister Liao doesn't care whether this is harmful or not. The most urgent thing now is to solve the problem of enough food, not health.
"Who are the people who developed this technology? What do they say?"
"The others are all studying agriculture. Only one is studying mechanics. He is a technical secondary school graduate and got his technical secondary degree after working for one year." Gao Changmin said.
"What's going on?" Minister Liao also became interested.
However, Yuan Sheng believed that this technology was originally proposed by Zhang Zhifei. At the same time, he also put forward many opinions and views, which inspired him.
Although the technological achievements were ultimately formed in the hands of himself and others, Zhang Zhifei also had merit and informed the Ministry of Agriculture of the situation during its investigation.
The Ministry of Agriculture was very curious when it was initially brought up by a steel rolling mill worker and investigated him.
"Minister, this man's name is Zhang Zhifei. He was born in 1940. In 1958, his father died in the line of duty and his mother died of illness. He dropped out of secondary school to work and take care of the family."
"Wait a minute, there are pensions for those who died in the line of duty, and the children of martyrs also receive preferential treatment. Why did he drop out of school? Who stole his pension?" Minister Liao interrupted Gao Changmin's report.
"No, no one embezzled his family's pension. After investigation, I guess it was because of his neighbor."
"Neighbor?" Minister Liao asked doubtfully.
"Well, his neighbor didn't know the law, and kept everything in the yard to resolve, and even wanted to seize Zhang Zhifei's work station. Finally, the matter was resolved with the intervention of the security department of the Red Star Rolling Mill.
We speculate that he chose to drop out of school because he was afraid that his younger brothers and sisters would be bullied by their neighbors. "Gao Changmin explained.
"Well, you go say hello and investigate the relevant leading cadres involved and how they work. Okay, you continue." Minister Liao was very angry. Such things can happen in the capital of the country, so what about other places? Woolen cloth?
"After Zhang Zhifei joined the work, he quickly submitted the safety production technical specifications of the steel rolling mill, but unfortunately he failed to attract attention.
After that, he devoted himself to studying agriculture on his own, and specifically consulted Professor Wang Yanchang, Expert Yuan and others. This technology was developed through their correspondence. "
"Okay, they are all our heroes, I want to meet them in person." Minister Liao said happily.
Afterwards, the Ministry of Agriculture notified the Anjiang Agricultural School expert team to go to Beijing, and called Zhang Zhifei three days after Yuan Sheng's team arrived in Beijing.
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"Director, are you looking for me?" Zhang Zhifei asked respectfully. Could it be that he had noticed his fishing during this period.
"What on earth did you do? The Ministry of Agriculture office called and asked you specifically by name." Li Huaide asked confused. Logically speaking, their steel rolling mill should have nothing to do with the Ministry of Agriculture, and it is not a factory that produces agricultural machinery. .
When Zhang Zhifei heard about the Ministry of Agriculture, he probably guessed the reason.
What is supposed to come will eventually come, there is no way to avoid it.
He immediately explained: "Director, it should be a technology involved. I played a small role in it. However, I don't know whether this technology needs to be kept secret. Please forgive me."
Li Huaide's father-in-law is a high-ranking official, and his own position is not low. How could he not understand the importance of confidentiality.
Since Zhang Zhifei wasn't sure, he didn't ask himself. If something happened, he wouldn't be able to escape his involvement.
Anyway, if Zhang Zhifei has merit, he can get some credit.
"Okay, I'll arrange for a driver to take you there." Li Huaide nodded.
"Thank you, director."
After leaving Li Huaide's office, the driver took Zhang Zhifei outside the gate of the Ministry of Agriculture before driving away.
"Comrade, what's the matter?" The guard saw him getting out of the car and didn't dare to embarrass him. He only blocked his way out of duty.
Zhang Zhifei politely said to the security guard at the door: "Hello, I am Zhang Zhifei from the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. I am looking for you at the Ministry of Agriculture office."
"Okay, wait a moment and I'll ask."
About three minutes later, the soldier returned and said politely: "Show me your ID."
After confirming Zhang Zhifei's identity, he took Zhang Zhifei to a conference room in the Ministry of Agriculture. When Zhang Zhifei arrived, he saw a familiar figure, it was young Yuan Sheng.
After greeting each other, Zhang Zhifei asked Yuan Sheng next to him in a low voice what was going on.
The information he learned from his mouth and Zhang Zhifei's own guesses put the matter back to a close.
It turned out that Zhang Zhifei placed the 10 rice seedlings signed in the system near Anjiang Agricultural School.
Yuan Sheng and his team used these rice seedlings to achieve a breakthrough in hybrid rice technology. Through their efforts, the experiment was finally successful and small-scale planting can begin.
Initially, the school reported this technology to the local government, and after inspection, the local government reported to the higher-level government.
It's just that there were too many similar situations during the three-year "Great Progress". There are countless cases of boasting about high-yielding food crops, and there is no belief in the technology.
For this reason, the higher authorities also specifically criticized the An Giang government's behavior, believing that it was an exaggerated style and should be severely criticized.
In the end, the principal of Anjiang Agricultural School couldn't bear to be buried in technology, so he went directly to the Ministry of Agriculture in Yanjing with the information and handed the technical information to the Ministry of Agriculture office.
The Ministry of Agriculture office verified and finally confirmed the authenticity of this technology before meeting them.
"Teacher Yuan, with my level, there is no need to call me!" Zhang Zhifei said with a wry smile.
"How can this be possible? Without your inspiration, there is no telling when this technology will be discovered. Your contribution cannot be denied."
"Expert Yuan said that you are all meritorious. Although your skills are not as good as theirs, there is no doubt that this inspiration comes from you." Minister Liao, Gao Changmin and others entered the conference room and heard The conversation between the two began.
Minister Liao was very cordial and praised all personnel and encouraged them to continue their efforts and contribute to the country’s increased grain production.
Afterwards, he asked Zhang Zhifei if he had any plans to develop in agriculture. Zhang Zhifei declined the invitation because his skills were not solid.
Minister Liao also knew about his situation and did not force him, but he still had to reward his performance, and finally decided to award him the May 1st Labor Medal.
Zhang Zhifei is very satisfied. The technology has been promoted and applied, he has retired with success, and he has also obtained the amulet, which has added important weight to safely survive the special ten years.
As for hybrid technology, it has nothing to do with me from now on.
Perhaps after the advent of the new era, Mr. Yuan and others may be told as interesting things during interviews.
Zhang Zhifei left the Ministry of Agriculture happily, as if he had put down a heavy burden and felt relaxed all over.
