"The Foolish Old Man Moves the Mountains" is a familiar fable. The Warring States thinker Liezi used the image of "The Foolish Old Man" to narrate the story of the Foolish Old Man who was not afraid of hardships and hardships, devoted himself to digging mountains and persevered, and praised The spirit of perseverance and overcoming difficulties.

But in contemporary times, there is such a person. He is called the "Foolish Old Man of Modern Times". Just like the Yugong in the story, he is not afraid of difficult conditions, embraces the spirit of Yugong, and leads the people. The whole village built a road on the cliff, which benefited the villagers. This person is Zhang Rongsuo.

.Isolated living situation

Zhang Rongsuo was born in Huilong Village in 1952, which is located deep in the Taihang Mountains. The terrain of Taihang Mountain is dangerous and rugged. Huilong Village only had 960 people at one time. However, because of the numerous mountain ridges in Taihang Mountain, this small village with a small population was divided into 17 natural villages.

In addition, there are no roads leading into and out of the village, which causes great trouble for local residents. The steep and dangerous terrain of the Taihang Mountains makes people risk their lives when traveling. Whenever they want to go to other places, they have to hang on the cliff, grab the rocks with their hands and feet, and slowly climb along the mountain. The thrills involved One can imagine.

Not only will people’s personal safety be threatened when they travel, the Taihang Mountains’ naturally isolated terrain has completely isolated the villagers living in Huilong Village from science and technology. Very little news reaches the ears of the villagers, and technologies such as electricity are difficult to apply in life because of lack of conditions, which makes the villagers' lives become more primitive and simple.

And because we live in high-altitude areas, most crops cannot survive in such an environment, let alone be productive. The barely planted plants can only feed the villagers. Such hardships The conditions forced the villagers to climb the mountain and carry the food and supplies they needed back home no matter how unwilling they were. This also resulted in villagers who unfortunately fell into mountain streams and died.

Returning to the village to benefit fellow villagers

Born in such a village, Zhang Rongsuo walked a full 6 hours on the mountain road when he graduated from high school. Only then did he leave the mountains where he lived and enlisted in the army. On the day of joining the army, when comrades in the army talked about their hometowns, they always described where they came from in a complimentary tone.

But when Zhang Rongsuo heard the narratives of his comrades, he could only lower his head and remain silent. This is because he remembered the harsh and thrilling environment in his hometown. That was completely different from the quiet and peaceful or prosperous hometown that the comrades expressed in their words. It was at this time that a seed was planted in Zhang Rongsuo's heart and his desire to help the village develop and prosper in the future.

For this purpose, during Zhang Rongsuo's military life, he consciously continued to hone himself. He worked as a driver and a cook. Zhang Rongsuo took all kinds of positions just for training. His own abilities also laid the foundation for Zhang Rongsuo's later successful entrepreneurial career.

After Zhang Rongsuo retired from the army, he used the driving skills he learned while in the army to start transportation work. Then slowly, Zhang Rongsuo started his own stone processing factory. With his business acumen, Zhang Rongsuo's stone factory grew bigger and bigger, and his business developed very smoothly, and Zhang Rongsuo also became a local rich man.

At this time, village cadres and people who heard about Zhang Rongsuo's development status came to the door, hoping that Zhang Rongsuo could help the villagers and help the village improve. Of course Zhang Rongsuo did not refuse. He always had the idea of ??giving back to the countryside. In this way, Zhang Rongsuo returned to Huilong Village and served as the Party Secretary of Huilong Village.

As the party secretary, Zhang Rongsuo is undoubtedly very competent. As soon as he became the party secretary, he was determined to manage science and technology first. He was convinced that with the power supply, the village would definitely be better than before. So he led the villagers and tied the high-voltage telephone poles to ropes, and worked together with the villagers to move the poles.

It took two and a half months to finally transport the 500-kilogram telegraph pole back to the village. On the day the electricity was turned on, the whole village cheered loudly to celebrate the arrival of the light.

Not only that, Zhang Rongsuo traveled all over the barren slopes of the mountains, selected local fruit trees suitable for planting, cooperated with outsiders to produce hawthorn tea, and took the lead in building a hundred hectares of terraces according to the terrain, bringing to the village something that had never been seen before. The huge economic income has enabled the village to escape poverty and embark on the road to prosperity.

Zhang Rongsuo was not satisfied with this. He knew that only by building roads on the mountains could the village truly develop. Therefore, he resolutely sold his stone factory, sold all his property, and even his real estate, and invested all the money from the sale of his property in road construction.

With this huge asset, a road construction team was soon established. It took several years, and finally in early 2002, a winding mountain road was opened. This road was connected to all the roads in Huilong Village. The plan was completed and it became a prosperous and developed village. Zhang Rongsuo was therefore elected as one of the top ten moving people in 2002.

. The current situation of Zhang Rongsuo, the "contemporary foolish old man"

Zhang Rongsuo sold all his family property, which helped the villagers of Huilong Village get out of poverty, opened a road to the outside world, and opened the door to Huilong Village. The road to village development and prosperity. This story is touching. It has been 18 years now, so how is Zhang Rongsuo doing now?

What is surprising is that this man who spent all his wealth to benefit the village was actually reported. In 2015, 17 people in the village jointly reported him for corruption and forgery of academic qualifications. It was surprising that Zhang Rongsuo was charged with various crimes.

Zhang Rongsuo was elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress twice in a row. Even his own deeds were used as a prototype for the film "Good Father, Good Mother". People all over the country followed his example and were called upon to imitate his style. However, he was reported by the villagers who benefited from him.

However, there is still no definite official statement on Zhang Rongsuo’s corruption case. No one is sure whether Zhang Rongsuo was really blinded by power, or whether the villagers were blinded by jealousy and repaid kindness with revenge.

The truth of this is no longer known, but what we can know is that Zhang Rongsuo still has his original intention and his kindness will last forever. On February 1st this year, people once again saw Zhang Rongsuo in the newspaper. The newspaper reported that Zhang Rongsuo, as an outstanding Communist Party member, voluntarily donated 20,000 yuan worth of epidemic prevention and control materials to support the epidemic. Control contributes its own power.

Seeing this report, it can be seen that Zhang Rongsuo has not lost his original intention. Even if he was reported by the villagers, he still cares about his compatriots and wants to do something for the harmed compatriots in the face of disasters and difficulties. Do what you can and prove yourself with actions.