Development of productivity started in 1981

Chapter 167 Spring Festival
On New Year’s Eve, Wang Jiankun watched the Spring Festival Gala with his family until midnight, and then went to bed after eating the midnight snack cooked by his grandmother.

It had been snowing heavily outside, and in the second half of the night the north wind was howling, making the windows bang a little. Fortunately, I had moved into a new house this year, and the rooms were very airtight, so the cold wind couldn't get in. However, the temperature outside had dropped, and there was no heating or air conditioning in the house, so it was still quite cold.

Before going to bed, Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to accelerate the air molecules, which raised the temperature in the room a lot. Of course, he also heated the air in the cotton quilt. Then he took off his coat, put on his autumn clothes and lay down on the bed.

Before going to bed, Wang Jiankun thought about whether he should start working in the air-conditioning industry. Now a large number of new houses are being built in big cities, and many wealthy people are beginning to pay attention to living comfortably, so the air-conditioning industry should have a bright future.

Wang Jiankun has seen many air conditioners from Japan, the United States and Germany in Shanghai and Guangzhou. They are extremely expensive. Currently in China, perhaps only some bosses who have made a fortune through cooperation with old capitalists can afford them, or some government agencies and enterprises with sufficient funds can afford to use them.

In fact, the principle of air conditioning is not complicated. It mainly involves a continuously working compressor that compresses the refrigerant such as Freon, and then a cooling fan and a radiator are added.

The compressor is probably the most difficult to produce. With the current domestic processing capabilities, perhaps only some military industrial enterprises and large state-owned enterprises have the ability to manufacture it. However, the cost may be higher than importing it from abroad.

However, Wang Jiankun had previously used his super powers to disassemble compressors from many foreign companies, and had asked Zhizi to help design and simulate them, so it was very easy to come up with compressor technology that could significantly reduce costs.

Wang Jiankun slowly fell asleep while thinking about the follow-up plans for the air-conditioning industry.

In the early morning, the sun shone through the window and gently woke Wang Jiankun up. He looked at his watch sleepily and it was already 8 o'clock. When he slowly opened the curtains, the blue sky like a gem came into view. The dark clouds that covered the sky yesterday seemed to have been magically transformed into white snow, falling to the ground.

The mountaintops in the distance seemed to be wearing a thick white velvet hat, and the nearby roofs were also covered tightly with spring snow, just like a layer of flawless white quilt. As the sun slowly rose, the warm light poured down, and the spring snow began to melt gradually, and the drops of snow water dripped down from the eaves like pearls that had broken off the string.

In the production team, there were children who got up early. They happily ran to the grass and vegetable fields in front of and behind the houses to collect the remaining snow. Some children had snowball fights with great interest, with snowballs flying in the air, accompanied by bursts of laughter; others were concentrating on making snowmen, putting hats on the snowmen, adding noses, and giving them life. The whole scene was full of vitality and energy, like a winter painting full of childishness, slowly unfolding in this quiet morning.

My sister was very excited last night. After having supper, she stayed up with grandpa and father to celebrate the New Year and refused to go back to the house to sleep. So Wang Jiankun did not see her outside the house this morning. Otherwise, when she saw the snow outside, she would definitely have run out to play.

Wang Jiankun looked out the window for a long time. The production team was both quiet and lively at the moment. Because it was the first day of the Lunar New Year and it happened to be snowing heavily, no house was open. Only the anxious children outside the house took advantage of the time when the adults were not paying attention to come out and play in the snow.

Wang Jiankun used his superpowers to check the house and found that his grandmother and mother had already gotten up and were busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen.

Wang Jiankun had also slept enough, so he put on his down jacket and went downstairs to brush his teeth and wash his face.

"Grandma, Mom, you guys got up so early, what are you cooking?"

"Cook some porridge, steam some glutinous rice cakes and Qingming fruit, and stir-fry some pickled radish and pickled peppers. Come over and eat after you wash your face. Don't wait for your grandfather and the others."

Wang Jiankun knew that his grandfather and father probably went to bed almost at dawn last night, and might have gone out to patrol the team in the second half of the night, so they should get up late today.

However, the custom here is to stay at home as much as possible on the first day of the New Year and not visit other people's homes, so it doesn't matter how late you get up. On the second day of the New Year, people will start visiting graves and paying New Year's greetings.

"Okay, is the hot water ready?"

"Pour the hot water directly into the square pot on the stove. The stove is always burning and it is very hot. Be careful." Grandma said to Wang Jiankun while burning the fire.

"Okay~"

Wang Jiankun used a long-handled aluminum spoon to scoop up half a basin of hot water, then scooped some cold water from the water tank in the kitchen, and then carried the basin to the washbasin rack beside him to brush his teeth and wash his face.

"Jiankun, your toothpaste is very easy to use. I found that my teeth became much whiter after using it a few times." The mother saw Wang Jiankun brushing his teeth and spoke.

"Really? This toothpaste is hard to get. Tell me when you're done using it. Keep using it and your teeth will get better and better. But it's only for our own use!" Wang Jiankun began to take precautions, fearing that his mother and grandmother would introduce it to other people, and he hadn't really developed the kind of toothpaste that could remove tartar with just one brush.

"Okay, then I won't go outside and talk about it."

After Wang Jiankun finished washing up, he took the bowl and chopsticks to eat some Qingming fruit and glutinous rice cake.

Lift the lid of the pot, white steam rises, and after the heat dissipates a little, you can see the Qingming fruits lying quietly in the celadon plate. They are emerald green, like jasper. That green is the natural color of wormwood, exuding a faint fragrance. The skin looks smooth and elastic, as if it can be blown away.

The plate of glutinous rice cakes on the side, which have been cut into pieces, is a light golden color, which is the color of glutinous rice after being steamed. There is a little oily luster on the surface of the cake, which is the oil brushed during the production process, making the glutinous rice cake look more tempting.

These two delicacies are the specialties of Wuyuan. Glutinous rice cake is only made during the Chinese New Year, and Qingming fruit is generally made around the Qingming Festival. However, this year the family conditions are much better, and spring came early. Grandma took the trouble to go to the sunny place to pick some early-growing mugwort to make hundreds of Qingming fruits.

Wang Jiankun first picked up four Qingming fruits and three slices of cake, and then covered the pot again.

"It's delicious, grandma. It has fat residue and smoked pork intestines, right?"

"It's delicious, isn't it? This year, we didn't sell any of the meat from the 200-pound pig. We kept it all. We boiled more than 10 pounds of lard, so there's a lot of fat residue. The small intestine was used to make sausages according to your mother's instructions, and the large intestine was smoked for ten days. Then some of it was cut and put into the Qingming fruit stuffing. Do you like it?"

"I like it, it's delicious, let's make this again next year."

"We'll also make it during the Qingming Festival. The smoked large intestines can be kept until then without going bad. Remember to go home and eat them then."

"Okay, I will definitely remember it. Grandma, you guys can eat with us."

"Eat first, eat more. You don't seem to have gained any weight. Eat some porridge later. The pickled radish and pickled peppers were pickled by your aunt and sent to you. They are very crispy. Use them with the porridge later."

"Okay, my aunt and her family should come over to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow, right?"

"Well, we should be there tomorrow morning, but I don't know if the road is easy to walk on. The snow has melted and the ground may be covered with mud."

"It should be fine. The roads are now paved with gravel and compacted. They are not the dirt roads of previous years. The melting of the snow should have no impact. And tomorrow our team's Wang Liping will drive a tractor to pick up passengers. If we see one, we can ask him to help bring it up."

"The road has been repaired so well. I thought it was still a dirt road like before. But you know what, Wang Liping is really hardworking. She went out to pick up passengers and make money on the second day of the New Year." Grandma hasn't been away from home for a long time, so she doesn't know what changes have taken place in the entire county in this year.

"There are many people on the second day of the first lunar month, and everyone has to go out to visit relatives. He should be able to make some money. He is not married yet, so it would be easier for him to find a wife if he can earn more."

"He is only 17 years old, it's not time yet. But there are quite a lot of people getting married in the team this year. Starting from the day after tomorrow, there will be people every day. We don't have to come back to cook. Several families are relatives, and we will go to those families to eat all day." When grandma talked about marriage, she told Wang Jiankun the arrangements starting from the third year of junior high school.

"That's not bad, Mom. What do you think about our team contributing some money to renovate the elementary school and then setting up a nursery in the team?"

"Ah? Setting up a nursery in the team? That's not necessary. We're not in a big city. Every family has elderly people at home who can take care of the children."

"I see that apart from those who are really too old, other elderly people are also busy. Children who are not yet in primary school are running around the team. In the past, there was not much work in the team and the adults could take care of them at home. Now everyone has a job and it seems that no one is looking after the children. This is not good. It would be better if the team paid to build a nursery and put all the children aged 2 to 5 in it, and then hire a few people to help take care of them. In this way, the adults can work without worry and the children can be well taken care of."

"That's a good thing you said, but it's up to the team to decide. When your grandfather gets up, talk to him about it."

"it is good."

Wang Jiankun just thought of this matter today. In the morning, he saw several very small children playing in the snow outside with the older ones. He thought that now that the team has become semi-industrialized, they should learn from the practices in the city and set up a nursery to liberate the women so that they can work with peace of mind.

Moreover, the current family planning policy is becoming more and more stringent. In two years, families may not be allowed to have more children. If a child dies due to poor care at that time, the family will be desperate. Therefore, it is the right time to start a nursery this year.

Last year, the team’s factory was just established and there were not many people working there, so it was not very urgent. This year, the company has been operating at full capacity all year round and many children have no adults to take care of them.

After Wang Jiankun finished eating the glutinous rice cake and Qingming fruit, he scooped up half a bowl of porridge and picked up a few pieces of sour radish and chopped sour peppers with his chopsticks.

It’s true that the sauerkraut pickled by my aunt is very crisp and crunchy. She must have added some lard and MSG when frying it, so the fresh, sweet, sour and spicy flavors are released in the mouth. After eating it, he picked up several more pieces with his chopsticks before he stopped.

After finishing his meal, Wang Jiankun turned on the TV and turned down the volume. It was replaying yesterday's Spring Festival Gala, which he found very interesting.

Around 9 o'clock, grandpa and father got up to eat lunch, but my sister was still asleep. My mother didn't want her to oversleep, so she went to the room and pulled her out.

"You get up so late, the snow is about to melt, and the other kids have been playing all morning." Wang Jiankun said jokingly as he looked at his sister whose hair was messy and whose eyes could not be opened.

"Ah? The snow has melted. Let me go and take a look."

"Hurry up and put on your clothes, eat first and then go out." The mother grabbed the sister who wanted to run away and said.

Only then did my sister reluctantly get dressed and go to wash up.

But she was impatient, so she put the Qingming fruit and cake in her bowl and ran out of the house, eating as she walked.

Wang Jiankun also went out to check on her, fearing that she had been playing so much that she might have eaten something cold and gotten a stomachache.

At this time, the temperature rose rapidly and the snow on the ground had almost melted. Some places where snow was easy to store were collected by children who got up early.

My sister ate while calling her friends, and then all the children came out and gathered around her.

Wang Jiankun watched his sister finish eating, took the bowl and chopsticks from her hands before going home, and told her to be careful not to get her clothes dirty.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Jiankun stayed at home, watching TV and chatting with his family. He did not go anywhere. In the evening, he chatted with his uncle via text message.

At this time, the Southern Liberation Front in northern Myanmar was also celebrating the Spring Festival. Most of their people were Chinese, and the local ethnic groups had been influenced by Chinese culture, so they celebrated the Spring Festival together.

This year, the South Liberation Front held a New Year celebration as usual, gathering advanced representatives from all walks of life to the capital of the base, Langdao, to commend them. Photographers also took photos and videos, and the videotapes will be distributed to cinemas in several large towns for screening.

"Jiankun, what do you say about us building a radio and television system this year? Now that we are developing better and better, the territory and population under our jurisdiction are increasing, and we need a system for publicity and entertainment."

"Sure. The radio and television systems are not complicated nowadays. We should be able to purchase parts in Hong Kong. There are also some media professionals there. You can recruit some or send people there for training, right?"

"Okay, since you agree, I'll put the construction of the radio and television system on the agenda."

"In a few months, the Xingyao Electronics Factory in Guangshi should be able to produce color TVs. Once the system is built, we can use the color TVs we produce. This first batch will all be large 19-inch color TVs."

"So fast, the color TV production line will be operational in a few months?"

"It's not difficult for me to make color TVs, and the technology has been developed for a long time. I planned it when I developed Xingyao Electronics, and prepared the relevant equipment early. Now the workers of Xingyao Electronics have also produced a variety of electronic products. Now we have a group of experienced workers to make color TVs."

"That's great, Jiankun. The first batch of purchase funds from Persia has arrived, a full 1 million US dollars. Although it is the Spring Festival here, several factories have not closed for holiday and are all in full production."

"It seems that the Persians are in a hurry. They paid the first batch of money so quickly. Do you want me to go over and help use my super powers to make a batch of weapons and ammunition first?"

"No need for that. It's not good to rely on you to manufacture the products that are already in mass production. I also want to see how these factories are running at full capacity. There are still many products to be produced in the future, and we have to think about the future."

"Then can domestically manufactured parts keep up? China is also celebrating the Spring Festival."

"We can keep up. Originally, the Chinese New Year holiday was only four days. Those military factories have orders now, so they dare not relax for a moment. Since the samples were sent for inspection and passed, they have been producing at full capacity."

"That's good. Is there any problem with the maintenance of the nuclear reactors in the base?"

"No problem. The ones you built are easy to maintain, so they are all functioning normally. You don't have to worry."

Wang Jiankun talked with his uncle for a long time about the situation in northern Myanmar. He felt relieved to learn that everything was going well.

Now the development of northern Myanmar is on the right track. The steel and weapons industries have already found stable major customers, and several large domestic military factories have been found for OEM. Therefore, as long as we follow the plan and train talents while producing, the heavy industry in northern Myanmar can be gradually established.

Now the electricity problem has been preliminarily solved, and several hydropower stations will be built or renovated this year. Two large thermal power stations are under construction. The electricity bottleneck is gradually being alleviated.

This year, northern Myanmar will move south along the Chindwin River, expanding its territory while gathering population, and gradually bringing the mountainous areas of northern Myanmar under the control of the Southern Liberation Front.

At the same time, in the southern port city of Yangon, the Southern Liberation Front is gradually infiltrating through economic and political means, starting with multiple industries, striving to take control of this southernmost city in Myanmar within two years.

By then, the military junta will be compressed into central Myanmar. If the time is right, the South Liberation Front will launch a unified offensive and completely take control of the Myanmar regime.

Considering the world situation and the speed of development of the Southern Liberation Front under his intervention, Wang Jiankun estimated that this time was around 1987.

By that time, the Red Empire of the Soviet Union should have been crumbling, and Europe and the United States should have been preparing to launch the final attack on it. They should not have the time and energy to interfere in the internal affairs of this small country in South Asia.

China will not intervene, after all, it is not in line with the country's consistent foreign policy.
On the second day of the Chinese New Year, the sun was still shining brightly. The snow in the low places had almost melted away. Only on the Gaohu Mountain in the distance there was still white snow, reflecting the light in the sun.

The spring breeze was cool, and Wang Jiankun went to visit the grave early with his grandfather and father. When he returned home, his eldest aunt and her family had already arrived.

"Aunt, Uncle, Yueyue, you are here!"

"Kun Le, you've grown a lot taller, but not much flesh. Eat more during the New Year," said the eldest aunt.

My eldest aunt and her family probably didn't arrive long ago, and the New Year gifts they brought were still in the cloth bags that hadn't been unpacked.

Wang Jiankun went to wash the mud off his rain boots, and his aunt unpacked the bags one by one and handed the New Year gifts to grandma.

The lunch was very sumptuous. We had a big stewed pig's trotter with lots of mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots. My uncle accompanied my grandfather and father to drink.

During the meal, my uncle talked about his situation in the second half of the year. Since the team had almost finished repairing the house in the first half of the year, my uncle's construction team started to take on work in other places.

Thanks to the lighter factory of Wangjia Production Team, other production teams in Fengshan Commune were driven, so almost every team had several families preparing to repair their houses. Fengshan Commune also had a large spring manufacturing factory, so my uncle's construction team had a lot of work to do.

"Uncle, do you want to continue expanding your construction team?" Wang Jiankun asked.

"Think about it. We only received small projects for the cement road because we had too few people and no equipment. If we were strong enough, we could take on most of the projects."

"Then you, uncle, have to learn more about management and construction techniques, and purchase some machinery and equipment. I will then introduce some projects in the county to you. See if you can take them on."

"A county project? You can help? That would be great."

"My younger and older uncles own shares in those factories, and I know the people in charge well. But how many projects you can get depends on your manpower and construction capabilities, so you have to invest a lot."

"It doesn't matter. If you can help introduce someone and he's someone I know, I'll invest with confidence. We've made a lot of money this year, so we can buy some equipment. We can hire as many people as we can. Our young and strong people are all idle."

My uncle is also a daring and enterprising man. When he heard that Wang Jiankun offered this opportunity, of course he wanted to seize it.

Wang Jiankun wanted to help his uncle because he saw that he was very hardworking and responsible. The county will build several factories this year, and there will be a lot of projects. He will ask Chen Xingdong to take care of his uncle as much as possible.

My aunt's family stayed for two days before going back, but my cousin Yueyue stayed and slept with her sister. She should wait until school starts before going back.

Starting from the third day of the Chinese New Year, Wang Jiankun began to have banquets at every family, and this lasted until the seventh day.

On the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, he got up early, washed, ate the breakfast prepared by his mother, took the luggage prepared by his grandmother, and rode his motorcycle to Wuyuan County.

(End of this chapter)