50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 175: Building Mountains from Flat Land
"Oh, that's right!" Qu Cheng praised on the phone.

"If you have supplies, you can use them. It's legal and reasonable, and we won't cause trouble for each other, right?"

"You're right, Uncle Qu, I didn't think it through."

"It's okay. You're not in this line of work, so you don't know the risks involved."

"It's okay to waste some supplies, but don't send yourself into trouble. That would be a huge loss."

After talking to Qu Cheng, Sun Zhiwei hung up the phone and thought about how to deal with the supplies in the warehouse.

The kindergarten's logistics warehouse definitely couldn't hold all the supplies. Finally, he remembered the underground air-raid shelter, which had quite a lot of space and was just right for storing these supplies.

The kindergarten has two trucks of its own, which are usually used to collect supplies.

He wasn't sure what model the truck was, nor did he know how many tons it could carry.

But he knew that the guard platoon's drivers had once loaded 10 tons of cargo, but they just drove a little slowly.

So he gave the task of transferring supplies to the guard platoon, asking them to load two trucks when they were free, and store them in the underground air-raid shelter after they were loaded.

This wasn't a rush anyway; it was a long-term mission, and they would stop when the transport was complete. He estimated that it should be completed within a year.

With his connections, it would be no problem for him to find a fleet to transport the goods all at once. However, that would be inconsistent with his usual cautious and low-key style, and it would really stand out.

It would be better to just do it this way, transporting a few trucks a day. People won’t be tired, and the trucks won’t be tired. The supplies can be transported back in a low-key manner, and there is no need to argue with anyone. How great is that.

By the time the kindergarten returned to its former tranquility, it was already after the New Year.

On the weekend, the family returned to their home on Wenjin Street for a rare visit. The last time they came back was before the emergency evacuation last year.

At that time, Sun Zhiwei was planning to ask his godmother and his elders to accompany him, but they disagreed and only said that if a fight really broke out, Sun Zhiwei would come to pick them up.

Sun Zhiwei thought about it and realized that there was no real fight going on, and the higher-ups were only arranging the transfer just in case.

The two old people are too lazy to move now that they are old, and they didn't want to cause any problems from moving, so they didn't insist on doing it.

Now all six people are registered in the same household registration book, and Sun Zhiwei and Tong Jiajia have officially changed their names to call them mom and dad.

When the neighbors knew that the two elders came to live with them, they praised him for being filial. Sun Zhiwei didn't explain and just smiled every time.

During lunch, my godmother mentioned something. Some time ago, Lao Zhang’s lover came to borrow money, saying that he wanted to go back to his hometown.

The godmother knew that Lao Zhang was kind to Sun Zhiwei and his sister, so she didn't say much and lent her 200 yuan on behalf of Sun Zhiwei.

"Mom, I haven't heard about Lao Zhang's situation for a while. Why did they go back to their hometown?"

"I heard her say that Xiao Zhang went to the north to build a mountain. Without Xiao Zhang, their family is having a hard time."

"His parents wanted to take their two grandchildren back to their hometown. They said there was a homestead and private plots of land there, and relatives to look after them."

"The son went back to his hometown with his parents, but Xiao Zhang's wife wanted to take their daughter to the north to find Xiao Zhang."

"what about now?"

"I don't know. This happened half a month ago."

Sun Zhiwei didn't know whether to call Lao Zhang's parents smart or miscalculated. Their thinking wasn't wrong. While cities were prone to unrest, the impact on rural areas was much smaller. Furthermore, driven by short-term gains, this choice made sense.

But they could not have anticipated the disparity between rural and urban areas in the future. If they gave up their urban hukou now, it would not be easy to return in the future.

There was nothing unexpected about Lao Zhang going down to work. With his kind of personality, going down during turbulent times was also a way for him to avoid the storm.

Thinking of what Lao Zhang's wife said about Lao Zhang going to the north to build mountains, he remembered that the "artificial mountain" project that was currently being carried out in the north was to transport earth and stones to pile up mountains on the flat wasteland in the north.

This is a key defense project that started a few years ago. There are a total of 19 artificial hills, 15 of which are located in the north.

These artificial mountains are all built in the water source areas of the arid northern region and are the necessary attack routes for the armored cluster.

Because tanks not only consume fuel but also water. In arid areas, they can only advance quickly if they are close to water sources, otherwise they will definitely have to stop halfway.

The purpose of the artificial mountain is precisely this: to curb the rapid advance of the armored group, wear down its main force, drag down its morale, and disperse its forces.

Each artificial mountain is about 400-600m long, about 200m wide, and has a height ranging from tens to hundreds of meters.

Building such a hill requires millions of tons of earth and rocks, and the cost of each artificial mountain is about 5000 million yuan.

Because the situation is more tense this year, the "artificial mountain project" is being accelerated, and Lao Zhang was transferred to the northern project at this time.

In fact, we have to build artificial mountains because we are really poor now and do not have a lot of financial resources to buy planes, artillery and tanks that can compete with the north.

If we want to avoid being bullied by the strong, we can only rely on our war wisdom, that is, the tactics of protracted warfare, guerrilla warfare, siege and attack on reinforcements accumulated in long-term wars.

After lunch, Sun Zhiwei rode his bike to the security compound. There were fewer people there now. When he arrived at Old Zhang's house, he found the door locked.

He asked his neighbors and found out that Lao Zhang's parents had returned to their hometown with their two grandsons last week, and Lao Zhang's wife also took their eldest daughter and set off for the north three days ago.

There is no one at home now.

If they hadn't left, he would have definitely taken care of them for Old Zhang's sake. But now that they had left Beijing, he had no choice but to wish them good luck.

In February, a notice was issued from above, stating that "adhering to diligence and thrift and opposing extravagance and waste" was a major issue.

We must mobilize the masses throughout the country to resolutely oppose the unhealthy trend of extravagance and waste; maintain and carry forward the fine proletarian traditions of diligence, thrift, hard work, and self-reliance.

At the same time, the black market and ghost market in the market must be severely investigated and dealt with.

Originally, Sun Zhiwei was thinking that if the things in the war preparation warehouse could not be used up, he should go to the ghost market to deal with some and exchange them for some fresh things.

Now that the notice has been sent, he knows he can't do it. Thinking that the four major ghost markets in the city must have been targeted recently, he regretted not shutting them down earlier.

In order to respond to the call, Sun Zhiwei convened a meeting of all faculty and staff in the park, read out the notice from the superiors, and called on everyone to practice strict economy and work hard.

He took the initiative to store the sofa in the office in the logistics warehouse and replaced it with a wooden bench.

Subsequently, organizational activities were carried out to study the spirit of the document, requiring organizational members to play a pioneering and exemplary role and take the lead in implementing the instructions of their superiors.

During the organizational life meeting, he remembered that the park had not yet sent anyone to serve as the organization's secretary.

(End of this chapter)