Chapter 83 Shougang - "At the beginning of the 1970s, I made a fortune by buying goods for zero yuan"

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On June 1, 1971, it was time to open the school again.

This time I went to Shougang.In accordance with the open-door policy, Beijing Medical College arranged for all 34 workers, peasants, and soldiers from Class 7 of the Medical Department to go to the factory to study as workers.Wang Jianxin led the original team - Liu Xiaodong, Li Jianguo, Guo Qiang, Zhang Shuqing, Sun Changhe, Zhou Xiaomei, Chen Xiuying, plus himself, a total of eight people, as a medical team stationed in Shougang, and jointly carried out medical work with the factory clinic.

Steel plants are a typical high-risk industry, and there are many fatal accidents every year.Work-related accidents such as gas poisoning, burns, and bruises are common.However, factory clinics are generally short of doctors and medicines, and their technical level is limited.Therefore, Wang Jianxin's medical team was assigned to Shougang, which was a rare technical foreign aid for the factory.

This time the school sent them to the train station.A group of eight people sat on a green train and headed west along the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Line.The scenery outside the car window gradually changes from the gray brick buildings in the city to the fields in the suburbs, and the skyline in the distance becomes wider and wider.Occasionally, you can see several tall chimneys, emitting white steam.

"Captain, look!" Liu Xiaodong leaned against the car window and pointed into the distance, "Isn't that Shi Jingshan?"

Wang Jianxin looked out the window.In the morning light, several blast furnaces stood majestically, and thick smoke billowed from their chimneys, dyeing half of the sky in the east gray-yellow.Even from a few miles away, you can still feel the industrial atmosphere.It was a smell unique to steel plants—not one smell, but several smells mixed together: the burnt smell of coke, the earthy smell of iron ore, and some inexplicable chemical smell.

More than an hour later, the train stopped at Shijingshan Station.Eight people got out of the car carrying canvas satchels and luggage.A heat wave rushed towards me with the smell of rust, like an invisible hand covering my mouth and nose.Liu Xiaodong sneezed twice in a row, rubbed his nose, wrinkled his face and said, "My dear, what does this smell like? Rust, coke, and -"

"Soot." Guo Qiang took a deep breath, as if recollecting something, "It's exactly the same as the smell of burning a kang in my hometown, but it's dozens of times stronger."

"That's because you haven't been to the steel-making workshop." Li Jianguo pushed up his glasses with an expression like someone who had been there before, "If you stay there for half an hour, your nostrils will be black when you come out."

The eight people left the station, but no one came to pick them up.Wang Jianxin stood in front of the station and looked around. There was nothing except a few waiting passengers and a bus that was about to leave.He said: "Let's go, it's not far away anyway." He thought to himself that it seems that these workers, peasants and soldiers are not welcome wherever they go.

Several people walked along the dusty road.The road is asphalt, but it is covered with a fine layer of black powder, which makes a rustling sound when you step on it.The closer we get to the factory, the louder the sound becomes - rumbles, clangs, and sharp metal collisions intertwined together, like a giant machine that never stops roaring.The ground was also shaking slightly, as if something was turning over under the ground.

The gate to the factory is a tall iron gate, with a red flag hung above the iron gate. The red flag was blown by the wind.There is a sign hanging at the door with red letters on a white background - "Capital Steel Company".There were two security officers standing at the door, wearing blue uniforms and red armbands on their arms.Seeing them approaching, one of them stepped forward and stretched out his hand to stop them.

"Comrade, who are you?"

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