"Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~"

A few loud whistles resounded in the sky, echoing endlessly on the docks, on the river, and between Bashan. This may be just an ordinary whistle for ordinary people, but it has a different meaning for Minsheng Company and the entire Yichang rush, because this is the last batch of materials loaded on the ship to Chongqing.

Thousands of boatmen waved their hands and burst into tears on the riverbank, and no words could express their feelings at this time.

After nearly 40 days of fighting day and night, they finally completed the task assigned by their superiors. During this time, they had sadness, exhaustion, pain, and sacrifice, but they still persevered until the last moment, completed the task that everyone thought was impossible, and created a miracle of shipping in modern history.

On the stage, Lu Zuofu was very excited, with tears in his eyes, he lived up to the mission entrusted to him by history. His whole body relaxed, and he said with emotion: "It's finally over." ”

"yes."

After experiencing this epic feat, Zhao Hongfei, who was standing next to Lu Zuofu, also felt the same emotion.

"What about Shao Fei? Why didn't he come? ”

"He's a mummy now, and he's afraid to come out and scare people."

Lu Zuofu breathed a sigh of relief and felt pity, and asked, "Are you going to leave too?" ”

After Zhao Hongfei was immersed for a moment, he said, "Yes, it's time to go." It is the mission of a soldier to kill the enemy and serve the country. ”

Lu Zuofu turned around, patted Zhao Hongfei, and said vigorously: "Good job!" In China, it allows thieves to run rampant! Killing the enemy and serving the country shows the true colors of Chinese men! I, Lu Zuofu, admire you, I wish you more kills of the enemy, and Yang and my military might! ”

Zhao Hongfei said sincerely: "It's because I admire Mr. I have always been arrogant and have never admired anyone, but my husband is the one I admire the most, and you are the true patriot. I can say without exaggeration that this Yichang rush was transported, and Minsheng Company saved China. ”

Zhao Hongfei knew about the Yichang rush, but knowing it and experiencing it were completely different things. Lu Zuofu's wisdom and courage, and the efforts of the shipwrights of Minsheng Company day and night, Zhao Hongfei saw it in his eyes; Zhao Hongfei also had a deep understanding of how important the materials and personnel were to the subsequent War of Resistance.

Yichang in Hubei Province, the throat of Sichuan and Hubei, this time Yichang has also become the throat of China's destiny.

Since the fall of Nanjing, the Nationalist Government announced the relocation of the capital to Chongqing, and determined that Sichuan was the rear area during the war, the passage in and out of Sichuan became an important transportation route for the Anti-Japanese War. Institutions, schools, factories and enterprises in North China, East China, and Central China have relocated to Chongqing, Sichuan.

"It is difficult to go to Shu Road, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky." Into Sichuan, there are few roads, let alone railways, only take the Yangtze River waterway. The Three Gorges channel above Yichang is narrow, with complex bending, many rough beaches, and many dangers. It was under this vicious situation that Lu Zuofu's Minsheng Company and the thousands of employees of the terminal created an immortal miracle.

The materials rushed out of Yichang are: 22 Factory, 23 Factory, 24 Factory, 25 Factory of the Ordnance Industry Administration, Shaanxi Factory of the Ordnance Industry Administration, Henan Gongxian Branch of the Ordnance Industry Administration, Henan Bianzhou Factory of the Ordnance Industry Administration, Xianggui Arsenal, Nanchang Aircraft Factory, Yichang Air Station, Aviation Committee Radio Factory, Anqing Station of the Aviation Committee, Yangzhou Air Station, Iron and Steel Relocation Committee, Shanghai Steel Mill, Daxin Iron and Steel Factory, Zhou Hengshun Machinery Factory, Tianyuan Electrification Factory, Xinmin Machinery Factory, Zhongfu Coal Mine, Dacheng Textile Factory, Wuhan Quilt Factory, Wuchang Factory, Wuhan Yarn Factory, as well as national government agencies, scientific research institutions, school equipment, precious historical relics, etc.

The machinery and equipment of the arsenal and private enterprises that were rushed out of the retreat from Yichang were quickly put into production. It was possible to produce 300,000 grenades, 70,000 mortar shells, 6,000 aircraft bombs, and 200,000 pickaxes every month, and a large number of iron and steel mills, arsenals, and textile factories were set up one after another in the rear area of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, continuing to make sustained contributions to resisting Japan and saving the country, and providing a powerful guarantee for the final victory of the war.

In addition to a large number of refugees and refugee children, more than 30,000 teachers, doctors, engineers, businessmen, and civil servants were evacuated from various places, bringing together elites from all walks of life in China.

At this time, General Zhang Zizhong led the 33rd Group Army and was blocking the Japanese army on the Hanshui defensive line. During the return of ships, Minsheng Company transported more than 100,000 Sichuan troops to the front line and rushed to the battlefield.

During the 40-day rush process, the dock was constantly bombed by Japanese aircraft. In the entire evacuation and transportation, 16 of the original 24 ships of Minsheng Company were lost, 116 employees of the company died heroically, and 61 were injured and disabled.

Until the fall of Yichang in 1940, Minsheng Company transported troops, wounded soldiers, refugees and other personnel, totaling more than 1.5 million yuan, and more than 100 tons of goods, including 20,000 tons of air force equipment and materials from the Guangdong Artillery Factory.

In order to save the country and the nation from peril, Minsheng Company has made great sacrifices and contributions in the battle to rush to transport materials and personnel.

History will not forget Lu Zuofu, and the "Great Retreat from Dunkirk in the East" is the embodiment of his high sense of mission, responsibility, and great wisdom and courage.

But who is Lu Zuofu?

Lu Zuofu is a well-known patriotic industrialist in modern China. Since the 20s of the 20th century, with the purpose of "industry to save the country", he started with a 70-ton small steamer and founded Minsheng Industrial Company.

Lu Zuofu is a theoretician and doer of the rural construction movement. It was China who was the first to propose "rural modernization" and had a profound impact on the whole world. In February 1927, he was appointed director of the Gorge Defense Regiment Bureau of Bei, Ba County, Bishan, and Hechuan Counties, and carried out the rural construction movement in the Three Gorges area of the Jialing River, and made great achievements, so that Beibei, a rural field that was poor and backward, with blocked transportation, and rampant bandits, was built into a beautiful small city with "modernization" that attracted attention from China and abroad. It can be said that without Lu Zuofu, there would be no Beibei today.

(PS: Beibei, now an important economic urban area in Chongqing, is the first economic development zone in China's history to achieve planning and gradually build according to plan)

Lu Zuofu is a well-known patriotic educator in China. He was the first to propose "popularization and popularization of education". Since his youth, he has embraced the idea of "education to save the country", worked hard for the cause of education, and insisted on carrying out formal education and popular education. He believes that talent is the foundation of social development. His advanced thinking and practice in revitalizing education, popularizing education, and reforming education have added a glorious chapter to the history of modern education in China.

Lu Zuofu was a national hero in the War of Resistance Against Japan. When the Anti-Japanese War broke out, he called on all employees of Minsheng Company to unconditionally devote themselves to the battle to defend the country. He pointed out that the country's foreign war began, and the task of Minsheng Company began. From the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, Minsheng Company was involved in the battle to rush to transport personnel and materials. In the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1940), Minsheng Company rushed 196,000 tons of ordnance equipment and aviation fuel bombs from Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhu, Wuhan and Yichang into Sichuan.

Lu Zuofu was the first person in China to put forward the idea of "taking economic construction as the center." Any construction, political and cultural, should be based on economic construction, and it is proposed that government agencies are used to manage economic construction; The law is used to guarantee economic construction; Education is used to cultivate talents needed for economic construction; Scientific research is used to overcome the difficulties encountered in economic construction.

Lu Zuofu's thoughts, as well as his writings, were completely ahead of his time. And his personality charm and patriotism are also admired by the world.

Lu Zuofu and his Minsheng Company have written a strong stroke in the history of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression with blood and fire. This feat is a tragic voyage in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a tragic epic of national salvation, and a triumphant song and heroic movement of unity.

(PS: I really doubt that Lu Zuofu is the traverser.) The more information I searched, the more I couldn't believe it. The modernization, new rural construction, and economic construction he proposed are exactly the same as modernization. ）

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