Teacher Gao’s name is Encai. In the 1950s, after graduating from County No. 1 Middle School, he returned to his hometown, Xinmin Township, Jixiangsi Middle School to work as a teacher. He was mistakenly classified in the expanded struggle that everyone knew and was sent back to his hometown to supervise labor in the Fifth Brigade.
When I entered Kichijoji Middle School as a freshman, Teacher Gao had been rehabilitated, implemented the policy, and returned to the school to teach.
Teacher Gao’s appearance is very similar to that of the great mentor Comrade Lenin, but his demeanor is completely different from Comrade Lenin. In the movie "Lenin in 1918", the majesty of Lenin's wave was not seen at all in Teacher Gao. On the contrary, Teacher Gao has a kind face and a smiling face, just like the Maitreya Buddha enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Teacher Gao teaches high school chemistry. In my impression, he always appeared between the classroom and the laboratory with experimental utensils. He would nod and smile when he met colleagues on the way, and he would also nod and smile when he met students. Sometimes I worry that the vessel he is holding will fall to the floor.
Kichijoji is located on the boundary of our production team. Teacher Gao’s home is in the 5th Brigade, so he passes by our team every day when he goes to and from get off work. Everyone in the team, male, female, old or young, knows Teacher Gao. Teacher Gao rides a bicycle to and from get off work, and is still smiling after leaving the school gate. When farmers working in the fields saw him riding by, they would always stop what they were doing, stand upright, and respectfully shout: Teacher Gao!
Teacher Gao responded to every call and nodded to the farmer who greeted him with a smile. Those who greeted him responded with a smile happily, as if they had demonstrated their talents by chatting with Teacher Gao. When Teacher Gao sees older villagers or acquaintances, he will slowly get off his bicycle, stand on the side of the road holding the bicycle faucet, and say a few words to acquaintances in the fields across the river ditch, then get back on the bicycle and leave. go. My father has always been taciturn at home, but I remember that there were several times when he would come home after finishing work. He could not suppress his excitement and said with a bit of show-off, "Today I have another gantry formation with Teacher Gao."
The elders in the village said that the things in Teacher Gao’s belly were unmatched by the vast rivers.
I have never listened to Mr. Gao’s class, but I have seen him surrounded by students explaining problems more than once. After school, he rode out of school with several students in the class, discussing while walking. Perhaps he didn't answer the question clearly for the student in a few words, so he braked the car, stopped, leaned the bicycle to the side of the road, squatted on the ground, and randomly found a branch to scratch on the muddy ground. There are formulas and theorems, and they are deduced all the way, leaving a long and winding string on the ground, like a group of crawling earthworms. After a while, a circle of passing students gradually surrounded him. Sometimes, there is a circle of farmer uncles carrying hoes and sickles standing around the corner.
Around 1984, in order to implement the central government’s instructions focusing on economic development, counties and townships mobilized cadres and intellectuals from all over the country to take the lead in setting up township enterprises.
It was against this background that Teacher Gao left school again and moved to the main economic battlefield. He returned to his hometown, the 5th Brigade, and set up the first township enterprise in the history of Xinmin Township, the Qianjin Paint Factory, in an abandoned warehouse. At that time, there were many teachers who left school to set up businesses, and there were several in our Kichijoji Middle School alone, such as Teacher Wang Jingliang, who taught me first-grade mathematics, and her husband, Teacher Yang Kangfu, who taught high school physics.
Qianjin Paint Factory was born at the right time. In the early 1980s, my country's infrastructure construction started rapidly, and decoration and decoration emerged as an emerging industry. There was a serious shortage of technology, capital and human resources. When Qianjin Paint Factory was founded, Mr. Gao personally developed the paint formula and production technology and practiced it himself. Once these processes were installed in his mind, the factory was officially launched.
The products of Qianjin Paint Factory were sold all over the country as soon as they came out. At that time, there was a long queue of vehicles waiting to pull paint at Qianjin Paint Factory, which became a scenery on Tangtai Road. After the rapid start of the
Qianjin Paint Factory, Mr. Gao took precautions and quickly formulated a package of development plans such as relocating and building the factory, expanding and reproducing , recruiting talents, broadening sales channels, and reforming the management model. It is said that after the township government approved his plan, there was a continuous sound of firecrackers in the countryside.The blueprint he drew is: to build the Qianjin Paint Factory into the largest paint production base in China within five years, to solve the problem of 500 rural labor force in the township entering the factory to work, to train 50 technical, sales, and management talents, and to create 10 people with households worth 10,000 yuan. The subsequent development of
was carried out completely according to the plan formulated by Teacher Gao. The new factory was built and its site was chosen on the north bank of the Xuyan River in Xiangchang. At its peak, there were two to three hundred workers in the factory, and more than 10 small workshop-style paint factories were born in the entire township. In less than two years, the number of households with ten thousand yuan in the township far exceeded 10.
Qianjin Paint Factory has survived for more than ten years. In the early 1990s, due to policy changes, Teacher Gao returned to his status as a teacher, and the factory was taken over by the township government enterprise office. It then continued to develop for three or four years. By the mid-1990s, it gradually declined and was later simply closed down.
However, the entrepreneurial passion and entrepreneurial dream left behind by Teacher Gao in Xinmin Township are like seeds that will blossom and bear fruit in the future of Xinmin’s children.
I remember one day the year before last, several old classmates from Kichijoji Middle School and I had a small gathering at Taihe Garden. During the dinner, when we looked back on Xinmin’s past, everyone raised their thumbs up when talking about Teacher Gao.
Some students counted with their fingers: Among the top 10 richest people in Xinminxiang today, more than half were born in the Qianjin Paint Factory and were disciples of Teacher Gao.
A classmate who is still engaged in the paint business authoritatively announced: the output value of Qianjin Paint Factory during its peak year ranked second in the same industry nationwide, and the cases of its birth are still in the textbooks of relevant majors in colleges and universities across the country.
Some students expressed their gratitude for Teacher Gao's hometown feelings: the workers recruited in the factory are all local farmer brothers in the hometown; most of the technical backbones and management-level talents recruited are high school graduates from Kichijoji Middle School who were admitted to the county's No. 3 Middle School. Young people who have graduated and returned to their hometown.
Some students admired Teacher Gao’s teaching wisdom: he always personally conducted pre-job training for migrant workers recruited into the factory, and his classes were humorous and lively. The farmers who did not have much cultural knowledge listened with great interest and said that they had mastered Teacher Gao's technology and learned like a dragon gate formation. Brother An and Brother De in
were both sales employees of Qianjin Paint Factory. They entered the factory after graduating from No. 3 Middle School. Two years later, they were appointed by Teacher Gao. One took root in Tibet and the other was stationed in Chongqing. Their subsequent personal development and fate are all related to being sent out to expand territories and explore the world when they were young.
At the dinner party the year before last, I finally asked my classmates for the details of a public case that caused a sensation in Xinminxiang that year, that is, the details of Teacher Gao sending two of his disciples to Sichuan University to study full-time at Sichuan University.
When Qianjin Paint Factory was on the right track, in order to cultivate high-end talents, Teacher Gao signed a cooperation agreement with the School of Chemical Engineering of Sichuan University and selected two employees to study full-time for four years as part-time undergraduates. All costs for the cooperation, including living expenses, were borne by the factory Inside and out. The two people who were lucky enough to be selected were also my junior high school classmates. They failed the college entrance examination. They were discouraged and were recruited by Teacher Gao to work in the paint factory. In less than two years, they were able to realize their dream of going to a prestigious university. At that time, the county TV station and the county weekly newspaper also made follow-up reports on this.
However, four years later, the situation changed: none of the students who had completed their studies in higher education institutions returned to the factory as per the contract. One classmate chose to start his own business, and another classmate found another job.
Although they all signed a talent training contract with the paint factory, which involved a compensation clause for breach of contract. Later, when Teacher Gao took the court staff to a classmate's home to collect liquidated damages, he saw the shameful expressions of his parents. He turned around and left silently...
It is said that one of the classmates who graduated from Sichuan University that year, after decades, After hard work, his personal assets now exceed 100 million. About five or six years ago, this wealthy classmate and I had a drinking contest at a farmhouse in my hometown. When talking about Teacher Gao, he expressed his feelings in two words: ashamed and grateful.
I think that if this classmate had returned to Teacher Gao's paint factory, he would have missed the wave of entrepreneurship in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Perhaps, he would probably be just an ordinary skilled worker today. Although there is nothing wrong with being a skilled worker, his happiness index is not necessarily lower than that of a billionaire. However, after all, they are two completely different fates.
Alas, Teacher Gao, who has been dead for many years, is still alive in heaven, so I should be relieved.
(picture from Toutiao recommended gallery)
