In the reception hotel, Zhou Tiecheng and guard Xiao Zhang, as well as Wang Qiang and his secretary Li Zhengying, were each wearing ordinary suits and top hats.
Zhou Tiecheng's thick eyebrows looked even brighter against the backdrop of his suit. He smiled and said to everyone, "Let's go. You should take a good look at other people's fields when you go there. Otherwise, wouldn't your trip be in vain?"
Xiao Zhang said anxiously: "Chief, this is not our base. It will be dangerous for you to go out."
Li Zhengying also advised: "Yes, Chief, I heard that this place is very chaotic. People here can hold guns freely and legally. Can such a place be safe? You are still in the hotel. What's the matter?
Xiao Zhang and I can just go and do it."
Zhou Tiecheng shook his head and said seriously: "You people, don't listen to the wind. What's wrong with having guns? Are they going to kill all day long just because everyone has a gun? You have to remember that it doesn't necessarily mean someone has a gun."
Places with guns are the most dangerous places, and sometimes places without guns are the most dangerous."
Xiao Zhang scratched his head and said in confusion: "I don't quite understand what the chief said, but as the chief's bodyguard, I promise to protect the chief's safety with my life."
Wang Qiang hesitated for a while and then suggested: "Chief, how about I notify the guards outside and ask them to send someone to protect them?"
Zhou Tiecheng shook his head, "No need, the things you discover by yourself are the most real things."
Although Zhou Tiecheng chatted with Su Tong very well and had a good impression of him, this did not become a reason not to investigate. He still preferred to believe what he had personally observed. Everything they saw and heard here was hearsay and they had not seen it with their own eyes.
However, only seeing with your own eyes what kind of life the people live can best reflect their ability to manage the land and water of a place.
When Zhou Tiecheng and others went out, the guard at the door did not look away when he saw them coming out and did not interfere with their freedom of entry and exit. After leaving the door, Xiao Zhang muttered to the side: "What are you doing? We didn't even check when we came out. It's really
Irresponsible. Let’s see what they will say if we run away.”
Zhou Tiecheng laughed at the side, "You little brat, how do you know they don't care? I can guarantee that there will be dozens of plainclothes people around us following us."
"Hmph, these spies are everywhere." Li Zhengying, who was behind him, sneered disdainfully, "These people only do these things, they are no different from the National Congress Party."
"That's not the case." Zhou Tiecheng shook his head and said, "General Su already had a word with me when I met him. They will not interfere with our freedom of movement here, but for our safety, it is still necessary to take some necessary protective measures.
Necessary. Just like if he wants to come to our place, shouldn't we just let them come in without taking any measures against them?"
Zhou Tiecheng's words left Li Zhengying speechless.
Everyone came to the crowded street. As Zhou Tiecheng walked, he asked a few people next to him, "Do you see any difference between other people's cities and ours?"
Xiao Zhang behind him said: "There are more people here than there, the streets are very clean, and there are many foreigners. Look at them all with blue eyes and yellow hair."
Zhou Tiecheng nodded slightly: "That's because the economy is doing well. Foreigners will come here only when the economy is developed."
"There are also dense high-voltage telephone poles everywhere on the roadsides here. The products in their stores are richer than ours, and people's living and consumption standards are higher than ours," Wang Qiang added.
"Yeah" Zhou Tiecheng nodded and remained silent.
When everyone came to an intersection, they saw a disabled soldier with a broken leg wearing a Chahar Army uniform without a rank, walking slowly on the sidewalk on crutches. The wounded soldier was about
He is twenty-seven or eighty years old, with two shiny medals hanging on his left chest. Although the weather in July is very hot, the button on his collar is still tightly buttoned, and his clothes are meticulously dressed.
Pedestrians on the road saw him and gently stepped aside to let him pass first. Two policemen in black police uniforms patrolled the road. When they saw the disabled soldier, they immediately took the lead in saluting the wounded soldier on the roadside.
I bowed and waited for him to pass behind me before continuing my patrol.
After seeing this, Zhou Tiecheng sighed and said to the three people around him: "Do you know why the combat effectiveness of other people's troops is so strong? The mental outlook and combat effectiveness of an army are not only reflected in their well-equipped or well-trained training.
This is inseparable from the concern of the entire society and the government for the military. What is the fish-water situation between the military and the people? This is the fish-water situation between the military and the people."
The three people next to him just listened silently and said nothing.
Speaking of this, Zhou Tiecheng couldn't help but think of the military funeral he attended when he first came to Chahar two years ago (see Chapter 150 for details). The shock it caused to his heart made him sigh.
I felt more and more that Chahar was far ahead of me in some matters.
In one afternoon, Zhou Tiecheng and the others only visited a corner of Zhangjiakou's commercial district, but the dazzling array of products and the courteous service attitude of the salesperson gave them a new understanding of Chahar's political power.
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As the sky gradually darkened, Zhou Tiecheng and the others arrived at the military industrial zone on the outskirts of the city. At this time, because the workers here had just gotten off work, countless workers poured out of the factory almost at the same time. For a while, the originally empty streets were full of people.
It's people.
Since it was time for dinner, they went into a small restaurant on the roadside at Wang Qiang's suggestion. When Zhou Tiecheng and the others walked up, there was already an occupancy rate of seven floors, so it seemed that the business here was pretty good.
"Brother, I've heard people here say that you don't have enough food, and you have implemented special food management. I don't know if this is the case. If not, how could there be so many people here?
"Dinner." As soon as he sat down, a waiter came over. Before ordering, Zhou Tiecheng asked.
The waiter laughed after hearing this: "Listening to what you said, you must have just come to our Chahar, right? You don't know something. If you say there is a lack of food, it is also a shortage, and if you say it is not
Whether it’s lacking or not, it depends on how you understand it.”
"Oh, how can we talk about this? If there is a shortage, then there is a shortage. If there is no shortage, there will be a shortage. There is no such thing as saying that if something is wrong, it is wrong, and if something is right, it is right." Zhou Tiecheng and the others' curiosity was suddenly aroused.
"How do I put this? Let me tell you this, we have no shortage of food. Chairman Su attaches great importance to the development of agriculture, including land reclamation, machine farming, and water conservancy construction. All methods that can increase food production have been used. In the past two years, we have
The harvest here is pretty good, and there is more than enough for us to eat. Moreover, Ningxia Province carried out a large-scale development project in the Hetao two years ago, so there is no shortage of food, so we say that we are not short of food."
Wang Qiang couldn't help but said: "Then what are you talking about?"
The waiter sighed, "We carried out immigration in the early years, and the influx of people from other places reached tens of millions within a year, so food naturally began to become tight. Later, the government implemented food control and supervision, and then we
Siberia in the north is at war with the Soviets, and the Japanese in the east are at war. Food is not so abundant. By this year, the second phase of the Loop Project in Ningxia was completed, and the government began to advocate being prepared and called on everyone to start stocking up on food.
Any excess grain can be sold to the government."
"Yes." Zhou Tiecheng nodded and asked, "Aren't the Japanese about to be pushed back and prepare to withdraw to the country? Then why are you still hoarding food?"
The waiter curled his lips and said angrily: "The Japanese have retreated, but Lao Maozi is still watching us eagerly. Two days ago, they actually exchanged fire with our security brigade in Xinjiang Province. We have a patrol team.
After being brutally attacked by them, a platoon of more than 30 people was all honored."
At this point, the waiter's voice became louder unknowingly. "Huh, but they didn't get any better. They were immediately blown up by our air force and left behind more than a dozen tanks and hundreds of corpses."
Then he fled to the desert. Our Chairman Su immediately sent a telegram to their political axe, claiming that if the Soviet army did not withdraw from our country's territory, there would be consequences.
Didn't they retreat obediently the next day? Speaking of which, between countries, you still have to rely on your fists to speak. As long as your fists are strong, others will be afraid of you. Do you think this is true?"
When the waiter said this, several workers in workers' uniforms at the table next to him shouted loudly: "Opponent, as our Chairman Su said, a weak country has no diplomacy. When we had no strength, those old fools never
Look at us with a straight face, hit people if you want and kill if you want to kill at our border. At that time, we were afraid when we saw foreigners, but our Chief Su was stunned because he did not believe in this evil, and he was stunned with hundreds of thousands of troops.
They fought all the way to Siberia, soaked our Hailan, and snatched Vladivostok back. They also captured hundreds of thousands of old men and came back to build our railways. Now the old men dare not even fart. Now Chairman Su has sent a telegram
Didn’t you just go back and forth from where you came in the past? Haha, it’s so happy.”
After listening to the words of the workers next to them, Wang Qiang and the others were silent. Zhou Tiecheng looked at the proud faces of the workers around him and thought deeply: "The working class here is so powerful, but they support Chahar's politics so much."
, the reasons behind this are worthy of our careful study.”