Like a Flowing River (Da Jiang Da He / 大江大河)

Proletarian internationalism is built on the notion of seeking truth from facts.

Proletarian internationalism is built on the notion of seeking truth from facts.

Only when you stand firmly,

insisting on seeking the truth from facts

can socialist modernization

move forward.

We can now enter university!

What has been undergoing, as a practice, is the only discussion we will have to examine the truth.

What has been undergoing, as a practice, is the only discussion we will have to examine the truth.

More practically, the core argument is to emancipate the mind.

Like a Flowing River

~ Episode 26 ~

Dongbao.

Give out some salary to the construction team as well as the brick factory.

The brothers out there are all doing toilsome work.

It has been a couple of months since the workers has been paid and they are becoming unsettled.

How much money do we have left?

Over 60,000.

This money can't be moved.

Those are for the electric cable factory to buy coal and copper.

But everyone one is getting anxious.

Hongwei and the Old Secretary said that

if you continue on like this, it won't be good.

Tonight, have everyone come to my house.

And we will discuss this later.

Hey,

you're all here.

I thought we'd be drinking since we're gathering here tonight.

I even ran over here without eating dinner.

And there's not even water or tea.

You're the only one who's complaining.

You can get water yourself if you want it.

Did I step on your tail?

I see your tempers have gone up now that you have became a leader.

Hurry up and sit down. All this bullshit talk.

We don't have enough money in the village

and I know it has been difficult for all of you.

The reason why I called every one over

is so we can have a discussion about this.

Dongbao,

I heard from Four-eyed

- there's still money left. - We can't use that money.

Dongbao,

I know your heart is in the electrical cable plant.

But the brick factory,

the prefabrication factory, and the construction team

is where we make the most money within the village.

You can't just care about the new people and disregard the old people.

There's not much money,

but take this for now.

This amount will be enough to last a couple days for emergencies.

Secretary Dongbao,

this doesn't seem appropriate with the regulations.

- For you to use your own money... -I'm the Secretary.

If there's a lack of funding within the village,

who will be responsible if not me?

Four-eyed,

collect it.

This is ¥5,000.

¥3,172.

Then, counting both together,

it's ¥8,172.

I've recorded it, Secretary.

My intention is to...

...ask the cadres of our brigade

to each give out some.

At least we will be able to give those...

...who has worked hard and is having a difficult situation at home

a bit of wages.

After the village has gone through this difficult time, we will have enough to give back to you all.

Secretary Dongbao,

for you being able to do this,

I admire you.

But...

...everyone's current situation at home isn't the same.

For example, me.

My wife just gave birth recently.

As for my parents,

their old house is still under renovation.

I really don't have much money.

I really, I . . .I . . . I . . .

I'm not trying to make an excuse to get out of this.

I am the one who is noting down the financial records in our house so I know.

We only have a total of a little over a thousand dollars.

Why don't I...

...round it up and give out some.

¥1,500.

Okay.

I'll give ¥4,000.

- How much? - ¥4,000.

You're giving ¥4,000?

Does your wife know?

Whether she knows or not, in our house, I have the final say.

Moreover, all our salary is about the same,

so it's not like the secretary is making more than us.

Secretary was able to gave out over ¥8,000.

What's wrong if I give out ¥4,000?

Four-eyed, you're a great man.

I'll give out ¥2,000.

My situation is the same as Shigen's.

That's fine.

Same for me.

I'm the same as Shigen.

¥1,500.

Brother,

my wife handles the money in my family.

Wait till I get home and take a look.

Whatever I have, I'll bring it.

This being the case,

it's settled then.

Dongbao.

It's not like I don't want to contribute for the village, but

my son just got married

and my daughter will get married in the spring.

And I can't give less on the dowry

because I am afraid that her in-laws will have opinions after she's married.

I...

- I really won't be able to bring out much money. - Uncle,

your family situation,

we all know about it.

I know that you all look out for me.

But with this,

I have to do my share.

I must give.

I'll go gather the money when I get home.

This is after all

for Xiaoleijia Brigade.

I'll go home and gather what I have.

Secretary, goodbye.

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You made me jump. How did you know I was back?

Is there anything in Jinzhou that I don't know about?

Old Huang predicted it.

He said that Old Shui has been back for several days and that you should be back soon, too.

And there's only one train that go from Beijing to here so

every day around this time, Old Huang will tell me to come wait for you.

It's making me miss my morning shifts.

I never saw you being so excited like this in going to work.

Say thanks for Master Huang for me.

You're not thanking me?

There's no need.

Old Huang said that we'll drink up when you get back.

My situation is quite complicated right now.

Aren't you afraid of being too close to me—

Stop it with your nonsense.

I am Xun Jianxiang and there's no one that can scare me.

Not only am I not afraid of you offending Old Fei and Old Liu，

I will still be your friend even if you killed someone or set a house on fire.

Let's go freshen up and have a drink.

I have to report to the Secretary Shui's office first.

No.

He's about to retire. Why do you want to go see him?

Besides,

during the youth representative meeting,

in front of all those people,

you openly offended Old Liu and Old Fei.

The whole factory now knows about it.

The moment you came back, your feet hasn't even touched the ground yet, you're going to see Head Shui?

Is that appropriate?

I'v already told Secretary Shui

that I will report the research progress to him as soon as I get back.

Why don't you...

...go to Master Huang first?

I will go meet you guys after I see Secretary Shui.

That's good, too.

Get on.

I can walk myself.

You've gone to Beijing once and now you think you're all that?

You're looking down on my bike now?

Get on!

I didn't bring any goodies for you.

Then get off.

Nonsense.

Go, go!

We're off!

Come inside.

Secretary Shui.

You're back.

-Yes. -Have a seat.

Okay.

Come here, have some water.

Thank you, Secretary Shui.

Sit down.

If you're late a few days more,

you must visit me in my house already.

Secretary Shui,

how come you are afraid of going to Beijing once more?

Our thinking process this time is acknowledged by Old Xu.

It surely would get approved by the ministry too.

You have done a good job over there.

- Did you bring back all the information we need? - Yes, I have brought them.

Through Old Xu, I've met with a couple of people into foreign trades.

Through them, I finally understood why FRC is being eliminated internationally.

It seems that our ideas were too limited in the needs locally.

The current move to replace the FRC era

is actually

an overall technical upgrade of the world's chemical industry.

Good.

Share these information with Old Liu and the others.

Secretary Shui,