【9】Looking at the future

Fengzeyuan Juxiang Bookstore is famous in later generations. In fact, it is actually just an ordinary courtyard. The stone roads in the yard connect three long houses and courtyard doors in a cross shape. There are twelve long and tall pine trees planted beside the stone road. The living room is simple and elegant in the binding. The long bookshelf is more than two meters high against the wall and arranged from one end to the other. Under the bookshelf are three sofas, one for two persons and two single persons. There is a floor lamp next to the sofa, and a dark green lampshade is placed on the brass pole. In the top of the room, there is a small old office desk. After the sunlight filters through the plain sky blue cotton curtains, it falls softly and peacefully on the peacock blue carpet covering the room.

Cao Xiaoqiang's laptop was placed on the wooden coffee table in front of the sofa. The Chairman was watching the documentary "New China" being screened on the screen with concentration. It can be seen that the tea on the side of the coffee table had already cooled down at this time, but the Chairman did not move at all. Until four o'clock in the afternoon, Secretary Comrade Hu Qiaomu sent a document in. The Chairman just glanced and put it aside, indicating that Hu Qiaomu could go out.

"Comrade Cao Xiaoqiang, some people don't believe that you are traveling through time and think that you are a spy. After investigation, it is proved that you are telling the truth. Those cars and watches are indeed production levels and technology that have never been seen. I think they are doing this. I can tell from the laptop you mentioned that you are telling the truth."

Xiaoqiang replied nervously: "The Chairman can just call me Xiaoqiang in the future."

The chairman nodded, picked up the already cold teacup and took a big sip. Then he actually picked up the thermos on the side and filled the cup with water.

The Chairman's actions made Xiaoqiang almost faint:

"Cao Xiaoqiang, you are a bargain! Otherwise, if you were doing so miserable in the 21st century, you would have to commit suicide. You wouldn't even rush to do this job. You're so eyebrow-free!"

Xiaoqiang stood up and wanted to grab the thermos. The chairman glanced at him and waved his hand and said:

"Don't be reserved. You are a guest. It is natural for the host to pour tea for the guest." After that, he sat down again and gave Xiaoqiang a cigarette sitting beside him. Xiaoqiang quickly took it with both hands and quickly grabbed the matches on the table to light the chairman. Fortunately, this guy was not too stupid at all. He had not yet developed enough to have the chairman to light him cigarettes. In that case... the pig's feet in this book really had no lower IQ.

"I believe that there are heroic souls in the world. The blood of the heroes of the Chinese nation will not flow in vain. The life lost by the martyrs for the sacrifices made by the country and the nation will not be in vain. According to what you said, this blood soul will only appear once every ten million years. It seems that this is a once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity and a glorious mission given to you by countless Chinese revolutionary martyrs. You want to complete it well."

The chairman looked at the notebook on the coffee table and continued, "I haven't finished watching this documentary. Please stay here to have a meal with me. Thank you for your hard work. Let's continue watching it in the evening. I have something to ask you. We have to finish watching it today."

"Yes! Chairman, I'll be waiting for you to give me a task after you finish watching it." Xiaoqiang said.

Braised pork, Mapo tofu, shredded potatoes, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and green egg flower soup. The simple four dishes and one soup tasted amazing. Cao Xiaoqiang ate three big bowls of rice. This chairman's family banquet was so delicious.

After dinner, the Chairman instructed that no one was allowed to disturb tonight, so Xiaoqiang accompanied the Chairman to continue watching the documentary "New China". Xiaoqiang plugged in an external power supply to his notebook, accompanied the Chairman to smoke and continue watching, and answered some questions raised by the Chairman from time to time. The reception room was filled with smoke all night.

By the time I finished reading it all, it was almost dawn. The Chairman opened the door and said, "Xiaoqiang, are you tired? Come with me."

"Chairman, I'm not tired." Xiaoqiang responded in a hurry.

He did not dare to neglect and followed the chairman half a step behind. The two walked slowly around the yard three times, and then entered the living room and study room.

"These information from the future is of great significance to us to better carry out the work of building a new China. Socialism has no precedent and no ready-made history to learn from. We only know that the general direction is right and conforms to the laws of the development of human social civilization. However, in the specific practical exploration, there may be detours. You said that later generations have evaluated that the new cultural movement was a failed attempt to explore the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. I agree with this view that even if it is not used by a small group of people, its positive significance may not be greater than the negative benefits. People say that taking history as a lesson, I am considering the future as a lesson." At this point, the Chairman laughed.

Then he continued: "I feel sorry for letting you accompany me as a night owl tonight. Now you go to rest. Your work depends very much on your health. This is more important than any of us. Your significance for building a new China faster and better is better than anyone in China. Even I cannot compare with you."

"Chairman, you are too rewarding! You unified China, gave the people a new set of moral values, improved the status of workers and peasants in history, and established an honest government. What's more great is that these great achievements were done under extremely unfavorable international and domestic conditions. You have increased the bloodiness of the Chinese, united the Chinese people, organized them, and formed cohesion and combat effectiveness. How could that movement that swept China be said to be your personal business? How could you later push the responsibility to you alone? Even if you were a sentence that was filled with emotion when you were old, you were very emotional.

, admit your mistakes. Some of us just follow the flow and push all the responsibility to you alone, especially after you die, bringing this place of responsibility into the grave of history? But I think your charm is that you have such a spirit of responsibility. At that time, only you have the courage to take on things. This mind and courage can only be explained by you who have truly fought for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. You are a god that will never be erased in the hearts of the Chinese people."

After a break, Xiaoqiang continued, "A Taiwanese man named Li Ao later said, "The great revolutionaries are in mainland China! After the victory of the revolution, they faced a problem. The new China stood up and we want to build a new China. But these experts who have the best skills in revolution may not be able to do the founding of the country, and sometimes they will not be able to keep up."

So, as you said, everyone is also exploring. It is not that we think we can do everything at the beginning, but we are also exploring. In the process of exploring, we will take the wrong path, and we will pay the price."

"When the Chinese Public Officials seized the rule of China in 1949, it was poor and deserted. The Kuomintang moved all the things that could be moved away, and all the things that could be blown up were left to mainland China. Two million local tyrants and evil gentry, exiled bandits wanted you to clear them. The Kuomintang moved the entire treasury of 920,000 taels of gold to Taiwan. How to solve such a mess?' Many people have a misunderstanding that you don't understand the economy, which led to the development of mainland China lag behind Japan and the "Four Little Dragons" during the same period. This is the biggest fallacy today.

First of all, the starting point between Japan and the "Four Little Dragons" is different from that of China. Japan began industrialization after the Meiji Restoration. By World War II, Japan could produce tens of thousands of aircraft per year, but China could not even manufacture one aircraft. Many people thought that Germany and Japan had become ruins after World War II. In fact, during the war, Germany and Japan's factories were hidden underground or scattered, and American aircraft could not do anything. Otherwise, the United States would not need to throw atomic bombs and win over the Soviet Union to send troops. Just use aircraft to blow up all Japanese factories. Will Japanese soldiers holding wooden sticks resist the Americans? By July 1945, Japan still had the ability to produce thousands of aircraft per month, which was higher than the monthly output of aircraft in 1942, indicating that its industry was basically intact and damaged, but the raw materials could no longer be supplied.

What's more, Japan has a large scientific and technological team and an army of skilled workers, which is simply incomparable to the old China. Therefore, by 1949, when the founding of the New China, Japan would actually lead China for 80 years. Even Taiwan and South Korea, because they once became part of Japan's territory (colonies), their overall level would be 50 years ahead of mainland China."

"After your era for just thirty years, China has achieved a historic leap from an agricultural country to a great industrial power. China has implemented a catch-up strategy, that is, aiming at the advanced industrial level of the West. We must have what others have, and we must have what others do not have. By the eve of your death, almost all the Western China has it. There are jets in the sky, cars, trains and ships, satellites, missiles, and atomic bombs all over the world. What can the "Four Little Dragons" build? They are typical colonial economies, and can only make clothing, shoes and hats. They caught up with the good times of the Cold War, when Western colonial countries were all over the West.

The anti-imperialist independence struggle was surging. For the West, only the "Four Little Dragons" protected by the US and British bayonets were safe. Therefore, investment was concentrated on them, causing their brief prosperity. However, they did not have developed manufacturing and core technologies, and prosperity could not last. In the early 20th century, Argentina was once rich by raising sheep, but what now? After the end of the Cold War, the economic development of the "Four Little Dragons" quickly fell into trouble, but China was still moving forward at a rapid pace because China had its own manufacturing industry and could produce almost anything. And China's industrialization foundation was what you laid for the Chinese people."

"Authentic, the living standards of the Chinese people did not improve very quickly in your era, but this was to raise funds for China's industrialization. The funds for Western industrialization came from colonial plunder (British and France), exploiting black slaves (US), and obtaining compensation for foreign wars (Germany and Japan). Socialist countries like the Soviet Union and China could only save money and accumulate industrial funds, develop their own industries, and then use the wealth created by the industry to enjoy a better life."

"In your time, the economic gap between China and Western powers is shrinking rapidly. Morris Meisner, a professor at Yale University in the United States, called your time "one of the greatest modern eras in world history, and is no less than the most intense periods of industrialization process in several major rising stars on modern industrial stages such as Germany, Japan and Russia." The United States believes in its book "Modernization of Japan and Russia" published in the 1970s that the New China has achieved achievements that no other country has achieved.

"Haha, this is also a summary of the knowledgeable people on the Internet. I think this is the fact."
Chapter completed!