Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

With everyone working together, they came up with a lot of useful and useless methods and tried them one by one. There was always one that would work. Maybe they would succeed and produce the best steel!

Then they will become famous, and may even be praised by their superiors, or even be received by leaders, and their names will be recorded in history!

Work hard! The more difficult it is, the harder we must work! The revolutionary martyrs knew they would die, but they still bravely carried their explosives and blew up the bunkers!

They are just a little tired and a little hard. In peacetime, their lives are not in danger, they have enough food and clothes, so why shouldn't they work hard? The Chinese people have nothing but an indomitable spirit that never bows to difficulties and obstacles!

Leaders of various units took the lead in expressing their opinions, held encouragement meetings every day to cheer up the masses and call on everyone to race against time to burn the blast furnace.

The workers toiled day and night on the steelmaking front. Their faces were pale, their bodies were thin, their spirits were dazed, and they staggered as they walked, as if their energy had been sucked away by demons!

However, despite all efforts, steel production still did not increase. People began to feel confused and tired, and their hope gradually faded.

However, newspapers and radio broadcast exciting news every day: Good news, after a month of hard work, the Capital Machine Tool Factory has produced a total of 2,835 kilograms of gray cast iron!

Good news, the Beijing Automobile Factory produced 300 kilograms of iron today. It is expected that before the end of the year, it will not only complete the 400 tons of steel task assigned by superiors, but will also strive to double the quantity and vow to produce 1,000 tons of steel before the end of the year!

Good news: The Capital Machinery Factory has produced 3,150 kilograms of gray iron that can be directly used to make machine tools!

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In the sky of the capital, not only was there thick smoke billowing up into the sky, but there were also cows flying all over the sky!

On this day, a major safety accident occurred in a steelmaking furnace in a factory in Dongcheng. A worker, due to overwork and trance, accidentally fell into the blast furnace and was instantly burned to coke.

If this happened in the future, it would definitely cause an uproar in society.

But in this era, such major safety accidents are not uncommon. The factory gave the family a work target and paid two hundred yuan in compensation. The matter was resolved satisfactorily without causing any stir.

In fact, there have been several such accidents, but they only resulted in injuries and no deaths.

This incident happened at the height of the Great Steel Production Campaign and was privately spread by some people with ulterior motives, posing the possibility of undermining the morale of the troops.

This also poured some cold water on the leaders of various units, and they began to systematically transfer more workers to participate in shifts, shortening the workers' duty hours, and employing more workers in the earthen blast furnaces.

When the children went to school to hand in firewood, they found that the teachers had sunken eyes and looked sickly.

Teacher Li, the head teacher, spoke hoarsely in the classroom: "Students, our school has overcome many difficulties and finally forged iron. We must keep up the good work and continue to work hard to complete the tasks assigned by our superiors.

Due to the shortage of coal, the school decided at a meeting that each student should double the amount of firewood they submit every day.

"Ah? Double it? Teacher, there are so many, we can't carry them all!"

"Teacher, there is no firewood nearby. We have to walk a long way to collect firewood. The current amount is difficult to obtain. If we increase it, we will not be able to complete it!"

The teacher's sallow face flushed red, and he shouted excitedly as if he was on drugs: "Without awareness, the child is unteachable! If there are difficulties, find ways to overcome them. The task must be completed. This is the school's rule!"

Hey! This teacher is not good, is he a lunatic?

They are only in the first grade, just six or seven years old!

Some students even went home after school and still drank milk! Even so, they still ran to the mountains to collect firewood every day and handed in the tasks on time and in the required quantity. They were already very capable.

The teacher returned to the office and smiled bitterly at the account book recording the firewood collection. There was nothing they could do because they knew it was a huge joke to expect the children to collect firewood for making steel.

But the whole country is doing this, and what can the school do when it is put in this position? When the old principal went to the meeting to receive the task, he was dismissed and criticized as soon as he said politely that it might not be possible to make steel with firewood. Who dared to say no?

If the steelmaking task could not be completed, all the faculty and staff would be criticized by name. This was not the worst thing. If the attitude was not positive, the superiors would catch them as an example and they would be expelled.

If you lose your job, how can your family live?

"Beep, beep, beep!" The sharp and piercing whistle cut through the air, shocking the campus like a sharp sword. The whistle echoed in the air, crisp and loud, making people look sideways.

"What's going on? Where's the whistle?"

"Are there any troops training nearby?"

"No, it's the patrol team catching the bad guys!"

"Stop talking nonsense. Where did the bad guys come from in the school?"

Students of all grades ran out of the classroom, curiously looking for the source of the whistle.

There was a commotion on campus and the teachers came forward to explain. Everyone then realized that the school bell for classes and dismissal had turned into a whistle.

The half piece of steel rail that had been hanging at the door of the principal's office for many years and had been used as a bell was first replaced with an iron sheet, then put into the steelmaking furnace in just one month, and now replaced with a whistle.

The bell for class has changed! The deep, long and pleasant "clang clang" sound is gone, replaced by a sharp and piercing "beep".

The senior students felt very lost. They were used to the "ding ding" sound, and the "beep" sound confused them, and they often forgot that it was the class bell.

The teachers and students couldn't help but feel very confused. They all felt that the new ringtone was too strange and difficult to adapt to.

Reality tells them that all the iron that appears before their eyes will definitely not escape the fate of being melted into the steelmaking furnace. No one will care whether they can adapt to it or not!

As the task of collecting firewood became more demanding, Han Zhaozhao and his team also stopped going out of the city to pick corn in the middle of the night.

They were afraid of being discovered, so they moved from one place to another after each shot, and they visited all the large farmlands around the old city.

There were dangers everywhere, and I occasionally met my fellow travelers several times. As we walked further and further, it was inconvenient to transport food to the air-raid shelter on the mountain.

Several children worked together to block the entrance of the cave with stones and weeds and decided to stop.

They collected firewood during the day and finally had a good night's sleep at night. For more than a month, not only the adults were tired, but the children were also tired.

After just two days of rest, Niu Xiaomin and his sister took on another task.

Director Zhang also arranged for the older children to write slogans and draw posters!

The teenagers were divided into three teams, went to the neighborhood committee to get white, gray and red paint, and ran around the alleys.

Han Zhaozhao could draw simple strokes, which made him quite talented compared to other children. He was also dragged along by the Niu siblings, and ran after them happily.

After working for two days, the white lime splashed on the hair looked like the White-Haired Girl, and the paint smeared on the little face looked like Guan Gong on the stage.

It really affects her image as a good little beauty!

Han Zhaozhao decisively went on strike and quit. She grabbed a rope, locked the door and went out. She wanted to go out for some fresh air!

This year she has been staying with her friends, which not only delayed her martial arts training and medical studies, but also delayed her from digging herbs and selling them in the fall.

She has decided, and everyone has saved up a lot of food, so she wants to go solo in the future!

Collective life has a great impact on her performance.