Chapter 342 Light
A person's understanding of a thing is bound to be limited to his own understanding and experience. If we say that ordinary people's understanding of the Red Star Electronics Factory bankruptcy reorganization case is at the first level, Liu Dongsheng is at the second level, and Yang Jiarong is at the third level, then Zhang Yunqi must be at the fourth level.

This is not to say how awesome Zhang Yunqi is. He is just an ordinary adult. Due to fate, his vision has been extended forward by several decades. As a result, the countless painful experiences and lessons that have emerged in the grand process of China's reform and opening up over the past 40 years have enabled him to see the underlying logic and infinite harm of this bankruptcy reorganization case.

To put it bluntly, the bankruptcy and reorganization case of the Red Star Electronics Factory was to establish a real estate company by jointly establishing a foreign-funded enterprise. Holding the banner of attracting investment, it started from the restructuring of endangered bankrupt state-owned enterprises, and obtained "policy benefits" to acquire the factory land at a low price with certain capital compensation.

Such bankruptcy is a fact, but restructuring is just a cover. The fundamental purpose is not to reform the property rights and revitalize state-owned enterprises, but to sell land! Selling land is fine, the era of commercial housing will come sooner or later. Although there are great troubles, it must be admitted that it has promoted large-scale infrastructure and urbanization to a certain extent. The role is still huge.

However, the bankruptcy and reorganization case of the Red Star Electronics Factory bypassed the land bidding and auction, and its fairness and impartiality were seriously challenged. Once the operation was successful, state-owned assets worth tens of millions would be lost, causing endless harm!

Imagine that if that time comes, all major real estate developers will surely rush to imitate this model and make a fortune by taking advantage of the extremely poor quality of land. As for the city, there will be so much money that they will launch large-scale engineering projects all over the world, but the small and medium-sized state-owned enterprises in Jiangchuan will become meat on the chopping board. Then the wave of worker layoffs will intensify and the real economy will suffer a blow. After the urban land is sold out, the second round will be to purchase and store collective land in the suburbs, and all the farmers will "move into buildings."

At this time, although there were many hidden dangers, the city was still thriving. It was not until the late second decade of the new century that the harm gradually became apparent. First, the pace of urbanization slowed down, and the new generation of migrant workers who paid the "city entry tax" gave up their jobs. The city was burdened with a large amount of debt, many large projects began to be left unfinished, housing prices were high, and the real economy was hollowed out. Farmers who were "forced to move into buildings" had no land to farm and could not continue their livelihoods. Under the pressure of the "three red lines", the highly leveraged and suspended real estate companies began to explode...

At that time, what future can Jiangchuan talk about?

However, apart from Zhang Yunqi, who else could see all this clearly at the end of the lunar year 1994?
This is the only reason why he managed the Red Star bankruptcy reorganization case to stop Gao Shan!

In fact, Liu Dongsheng was wrong about one thing. The most proud person at this time was not Zhang Yunqi, but Gao Shan.

Gao Shan had been coveting Hongxing's 133 acres of land for more than two years, but had never been able to get it. Now, the city has taken action to solve the problem of laid-off redundant employees of Hongxing, removing the biggest obstacle in one fell swoop.

In Zhang Yunqi's imagination, Gao Shan must have thought that the 133 acres of Red Star land was already in his pocket. Because it seemed that there would be no obstacles in the subsequent operation, as long as the land transfer procedures of No. 24 Xiangshan Road were completed according to the agreement signed by Huangcheng Group and Senhai Group, the industrial land was changed to commercial residential land, and then transferred to the name of Huangcheng Group, the 133 acres of land as precious as gold would belong to Gao Shan.

Liu Dongsheng doesn't think so.

At this point, Liu Dongsheng felt that Zhang Yunqi, the manipulator behind the scenes, would be the final winner.

He, a Cheng Yaojin who suddenly appeared out of nowhere, has the capital and strength to compete with Gao Shan for the 133 acres of land of Hongxing!
Is Liu Dongsheng's view wrong?
That's right.

What he saw was perhaps just the fact that human nature should exist! That is endless greed. He felt that he, Zhang Yunqi, had no reason not to fight for the 133 acres of land in Hongxing!
Is it necessary for Zhang Yunqi to explain?

No, not interested.

In the past, he just wanted to live a good life, work harder, earn more money, and let the people around him live a good life. But now, since he has reached such a position, all he can do is to live up to his conscience, to this era, and to live a new life.

Look, look at Jiangchuan which is in disaster.

Since the collapse of the Jiangchuan transmission tower, which blocked transportation on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, the towers, poles and cables crossing the mountains have been covered with more than 20 mm of ice and have broken at a frequency far beyond people's ability to repair them.

At 1995:1 on January 13, 15, as the ice and snow broke the last of the seven power channels connecting Jiangchuan City to the outside world, the lifeline of the Jiangchuan power grid completely collapsed. Power outages, water outages, business closures, and production stoppages... However, ordinary people at that time did not know that as the power grid collapsed in all directions, the city's information network was completely torn apart!
The sound of diesel generators has become the main tone of Jiangchuan City at night, roaring in every corner of this isolated island and disturbing people's dreams in the cold nights. In fact, people probably have no intention of sleeping in this winter. Seeing the dots of light and warmth that do not belong to them, all that surges in their hearts is uneasiness and anxiety.

Darkness is swallowing the city inch by inch.

However, in addition to darkness, uneasiness, anxiety, and even despair, in this once-in-30-years heavy snow, Zhang Yunqi also saw power workers risking their lives to remove ice from power towers; the whole city relayed to urgently transfer high-risk newborns; bulldozers cleared the thick ice on National Highway 107, fully opened up the traffic lifeline, and distributed food, medicine, clothes and blankets to the trapped people for free. At the First People's Hospital, after a doctor performed a caesarean section on a pregnant woman, the only high-power generator used by the hospital in Jiangchuan suddenly lost power, and the newborn was blocked by amniotic fluid and faced the risk of suffocation. In the absence of a machine, the doctor sucked out the amniotic fluid artificially mouth-to-mouth.

Jiangchuan! This isolated island in the eye of the storm is playing out heart-breaking and heart-warming stories every day, every night, every moment!

These stories made Zhang Yunqi feel that he should live like a human being. He has always been confident that he can make money, but in addition to making money, he has always wondered if he can do something else to live up to the people of this era and this land.

I remember that summer of 2008, a group of junior high school students climbed out from the school wall. They were probably going to an Internet cafe to play games. When they were halfway there, suddenly all the cars on the street stopped, followed by the sound of car horns one after another, resounding over Jiangchuan City.

Zhang Yunqi's car was also among them at the time. When he honked the horn to mourn for his compatriots who had suffered from the earthquake, he saw those junior high school students at a loss for a moment. Suddenly, they all raised their hands high and stood on the side of the road to salute.

To be honest, he will never forget that scene in his life.

On January 1995, 1, Zhang Yunqi drove a car to deliver daily necessities.

As early as before New Year's Day, he asked Li Jilin to arrange for people to stock up some daily necessities such as rice, flour, oil, meat, etc. to ensure the lives of the workers of Longjingyuan Canning Factory, and all of them were free and delivered in fixed quantities every day. Of course, Zhang Yunqi did not forget his friends around him, such as Yang Wei, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Wang Xiaokai, who all received rice, flour, oil, pork and beef.

His last stop was the home of his class teacher Wang Mingzhen.

Wang Mingzhen lives in the campus of the No. 70 Middle School in the city. Zhang Yunqi had been there before. It is a house allocated by the school, a tube-shaped building built in the s and s. The house is not big, with three bedrooms of about square meters. It is rather simple. They have a daughter who works in another place, and usually teacher Wang Mingzhen and his wife live there.

When they drove to the gate of the No. 1 Middle School in the city, Zhang Yunqi and Chu Jian saw a large truck distributing vegetables to nearby residents on the side of the road.

As the disaster deepened, supplies were in short supply and prices soared. In many communities in Jiangchuan, there were already supply delivery vehicles organized by the city, mainly selling vegetables at affordable prices to the trapped people.

There were a lot of people buying vegetables, including family members of the school staff and nearby residents. His teacher's wife, Wang Mingzhen's wife, was also there, buying cabbage. It seemed that she didn't think buying two was enough and wanted to buy more.

This kind of Chinese cabbage is distributed in fixed quotas, two cabbages per household per day, and no more is allowed. Of course, there are cases where the whole family buys more together. The master's wife was alone, and she was so anxious that she jumped up and down. She was usually gentle, but she was like a shrew, nagging the delivery staff and insisting on taking two more cabbages.

At that time, Zhang Yunqi didn't quite understand this behavior, but he didn't ask. It was not until his teacher's wife took him home and saw eight students from Class 156 crowded in the narrow living room that he understood why his teacher's wife would argue with the delivery staff for buying two more cabbages.

Most of these students from remote rural areas came from poor families. Because the roads were blocked by heavy snow, they were homeless and had no water. They were all unkempt and poorly dressed. Two boys only wore a thin underwear and autumn school uniform.

When Zhang Yunqi walked in, the eight students were sitting on small benches, huddled around a coal stove, holding pens and exercise books in their hands, looking up at the wall opposite them. There was a small blackboard hanging on the wall, and next to them was their head teacher Wang Mingzhen.

Although it was daytime, the light in the room was dim and gloomy. There were no electric lights or candles, so only kerosene lamps were lit. The ceiling was blackened by smoke, and a pungent smell filled the living room. Wang Mingzhen had his hands behind his back. Perhaps he hadn't showered or washed his face for many days, so his face was waxy black, and his white hair seemed to have been soaked in vegetable oil and stuck to his scalp. However, his expression was still as passionate as when he was on the three-foot podium.

He knocked on the blackboard and said, "Students, if you strip away the flesh and blood of the novel Blood, the main idea is actually the same as what almost all human civilizations have said in various languages: 'Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs'; let's take another martial arts novel that you students all like, The Sentimental Swordsman, the first sentence of which is 'The cold wind is like a knife, and the earth is its chopping board, and all living things are its meat'; for another example, in a slightly more serious literary work, Han Yu once wrote to someone, saying 'I don't know what the Creator's intention is, is it that his likes and dislikes are different from others'?'"

Wang Mingzhen lit a cigarette and continued: "Have you noticed that no matter how these literary works are worded, they all want to express the same meaning, which is to explore the dark side of the world without mercy. Students, this should also be a challenge that we all cherish. For example, the current snowstorm. Why do I say this? Why do we have to face the cruelty and darkness of this snowstorm? Because when you have experienced the darkness and look back, you can take one step at a time towards light!"

(End of this chapter)