Author: Kong Li (Editor-in-Chief of **Shulin Zhai).
Bring hundreds of couples to travel, reminiscing about the past eventful years.
This sentence is nostalgia, nostalgia for the past 30 years. This sentence is also a farewell, a farewell to all existing paths in the past. If he had not made up his mind to take a new path, he would not have written such sad words in 1925, when the revolutionary situation seemed to be very good.
Dense. This year is the 130th anniversary of the birth of Comrade ***, and "Ask the Boundless" is very good as a tribute drama. We have watched too many relevant films and television before the founding of the party, and we have also watched more relevant films and television after going to Jinggangshan, but if we can't understand what he encountered in the six years from 1921 to 1927, we can't really understand how an intellectual resolutely walked to Jinggangshan.
Asking the Boundless Shows this little-noticed history with an extremely grand perspective and extremely accurate details, and its positioning is: (*With the posture of a pathfinder and an early walker, he grew from a follower to a pioneer and a pioneer, and explored the historical story of the correct path of the Chinese revolution.
From early walker to trailblazer.
Let me translate: the process of gradually growing from an intellectual and a columnist to a strategist and revolutionary.
What is a Zonghengjia intellectual?
Before answering this question, we might as well think about a question: why *** Li Li.
Third, the Anyuan coal miners' strike launched by ** was successful, while the Jinghan railway workers' strike ended in failure on 27**
The answer to this question forms the main core thread of the first six episodes of the show.
Let me start with a side character.
Zhao Hengti. Zhao Hengti can be said to be the best villain portrayed in this show so far, his appearances add up to less than 20 minutes, but he shows a very multifaceted image. The multifaceted nature here is not what many small intellectuals crave, and the pale portrayal of personal characteristics such as the villain's love and hatred, character formation (such as some attitudes towards family and friends, these are very minor details that are not important), especially when portraying a historical figure.
Yes, this drama expresses very bluntly that he is the villain, but this villain is not a tendon in many previous films and televisions, but directly portrays Zhao Hengti's personal interests in this series of events.
Let's take a look at two scenes about Zhao Hengti.
The scene where Zhao Hengti appeared was like this: the manager of the first yarn factory came to Zhao Hengti, the commander-in-chief of the Hunan Army and the governor of Hunan Province, with the accounts, and informed Zhao Hengti that because of the general strike carried out by Huang Ai and Pang Renquan, Zhao Hengti's dividends were also much less, so he hoped to get Zhao Hengti's support and suppress Huang Pang.
The scene may seem unremarkable, but several of its details point to a very clear conclusion.
The first detail is that the manager said that Huang Ai and the two have been ** for most of the year. Keywords, most of the year. This point in time is an accurate indication of the recovery time of the first mill.
Don't look at the heavy industry in Hunan now, more than 100 years ago, Hunan was actually a large province of light industry, in which the textile industry dominated, and the first yarn factory in Hunan is the first modern machine cotton spinning enterprise in Hunan.
The first yarn factory in Hunan was originally a factory run by the government and the governor in 1912, and later with the change of the political situation in Hunan, it was impossible to start work for a time, and after Zhang Jingyao was driven away in 1920, Tan Yanmin and Zhao Hengti took over the yarn factory, and decided to hand over the yarn factory to a private company, and planned to officially open in early 1921.
Pay attention to the timeline, this scene took place in the autumn of 1921, exactly half a year from the beginning of 1921. It can be seen from this that the time direction in this scene is very clear. Although the temporary governor at that time was Lin Zhiyu, and the first yarn factory was behind the regional conflict of workers in Hubei and Jiangsu, this did not prevent the play from being adapted to a certain extent and retaining the most important clues:
The biggest dark stock of Hunan No. 1 Yarn Factory must be in the hands of Zhao Hengti's family. Because Zhao Hengti himself only really grasped the military power of Hunan in 1920.
And the second detail is that what the manager said is that Madame is very dissatisfied.
The manager did not directly explain the reason, but first emphasized a lady who did not appear.
Why emphasize Madame?Zhao Hengti's wife is Tong Xihan, and Tong Xihan's elder brother is Tong Xiliang. Tong Xiliang graduated from the Artillery Department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and had a deep friendship with warlords in various places at that time, and more importantly, he was a bridge between Zhao Hengti and Tan Yanmin (a former Hunan talker who was forced away by Zhao Hengti), although Tan Yanmin was forced away, but a large number of the teams left by Tan Yanmin are still in the Hunan military and political circles, and Tong Xiliang himself is the military minister of Hunan Province. In this case, if Zhao Hengti wants to stabilize his rule in Hunan, he must have a good relationship with this group of Tan Yanmin's old team, and then slowly figure it out.
So in such a stake, Zhao Hengti turned from impatience at the beginning to attention, and finally made the decision to suppress.
The short one-and-a-half-minute play is actually very informative. Although the film and television drama pays attention to an easy-to-understand one, the threshold of this drama is indeed not low, and it actually reveals Zhao Hengti's interest network in Hunan.
You must know that although Zhao Hengti is a native of Hunan, he has never been in charge of Hunan before this, he went to Guangxi after returning to China, and then participated in the Xinhai Revolution, and his foundation in Hunan is far inferior to that of Tan Yanmin, Cheng Qian and others.
Another highlight of Zhao Hengti occurred in the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Workers' Strike launched by Guo Liang and others.
The 1922 Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Workers' Strike took place on September 9, and Guo Liang, a member of the Changsha Branch, was sent to serve as the secretary of the Yuezhou Workers' Club on Yuehan Road, and soon established the All-Road Workers' Club Federation.
On September 9, the general strike began, although Yuezhou (today's Yueyang) was in Hunan, but in fact, Yuezhou and Hubei were also very closely connected (during the Song Dynasty, it belonged to Jinghu North Road, and the relationship between Yueyang and Hubei is very close), so although the strike was in Hunan, it was not Zhao Hengti in Hunan who was most affected, but Xiao Yaonan in Hubei.
Xiao Yaonan is Wu Peifu's person and is a direct descendant of the Northern Army. Although Zhao Hengti and the Northern Army were in a state of cooperation, the purpose of cooperation was to prevent the Northern Army from entering Hunan, not to rescue the Northern Army. Zhao Hengti's real henchmen are in the south, in Tan Yanhong, in Hengyang, and in the Guangdong army.
Therefore, the strike of the workers in Yuezhou actually gave Zhao Hengti the opportunity to negotiate with the Northern Army, especially when our party took advantage of this contradiction, it emphasized that it was not aimed at the Hunan military, and all military supplies would pass as usual, in fact, it was to send a message to Zhao Hengti: In this matter, our well water does not interfere with river water.
Sure enough, in the end, the general strike of the Cantonese and Hanzhou railway workers was concentrated on the Hubei section of the road bureau and the Hubei warlord Xiao Yaonan, who was isolated and helpless, so he could only surrender and agree to all conditions. The general strike of the Cantonese and Hankou railway workers was victorious.
Let's compare them and we can intuitively find that Zhao Hengti's attitude towards the workers' movement is not a very direct single reaction, but a very specific and targeted response. Some strikes are not good for themselves, while others are good for themselves. And our party has also made full use of this point in its specific work.
Here we need to popularize the history of Zhao Hengti.
As mentioned above, before Zhao Hengti, the local speakers in Hunan were Tan Yanmin and Cheng Qian, and Zhang Jingyao, as an Anhui warlord, was an outsider, so he was quickly driven away by all walks of life (including Wu Peifu in Hengyang at that time) (** also played a major role in the expulsion movement). At this time, Zhao Hengti entered Hunan, and naturally there was fierce friction between the two factions of Tan Yanmin and Cheng Qian. In such friction, although nominally Zhao Hengti swayed back and forth between the two factions, he finally drove both of them away.
But as mentioned above, the old team left by the two people is still in Hunan, such as the directors of the Hunan ** divisions (Tan Yanmin) and the garrisons of the Hunan Army (Tan Yanmin and Cheng Qian), and there are a large number of people left.
So in the anxious situation of direct family watching outside and factions inside, Zhao Hengti came up with a big killer weapon: the Hunan Autonomy Movement.
Yes, this is the real background of the Hunan autonomy movement.
What is the core of the Hunan autonomy movement?It's about finding your own true supporters. Under the banner of **, Zhao Hengti won a lot of money, and his autonomy movement found a large number of county councilors to conduct gubernatorial elections (yes, by everyone, not by appointment), at this time his core concern is actually the interests of county councilors.
So what are the interests of the county councilors?The county councilors are small and medium-sized landlords in various counties, and it can also be known from the topography of Hunan that it is difficult for the landlords here to own contiguous land, so their economic strength will not be particularly strong, so they will be more dependent on a stable external environment, which is what Zhao Hengti wants.
This is also why the play quickly shows that Zhao Hengti sent Shi Chengjin, the director of the Police Department under him, to participate in the solidarity meeting.
On this point, the interests of Zhao Hengti and the Yuezhou incident are actually the same, and the Yuezhou incident is actually a product of the contradiction between Hunan and Hubei.
So let's take a look at the timeline:
On September 9, 1922, the Canton-Hanzhou Railway workers went on strike.
On September 10, 1922, the election of the governor of the county councillor began, and ended on the 27th, and Zhao Hengti was elected (before that, he was only the provisional governor of **).
With this timeline, we can clearly understand why Zhao Hengti will not be shaken in this time period.
After we analyze these two scenes about Zhao Hengti, we will find that this is not actually a drama that tells the development process of our party from within our party, but a drama that tells how our party develops and grows from the perspective of the overall situation of China.
With such a cognition, let's look at how the Anyuan coal miners' strike is presented in the play, and we will gain more.
First of all, we must first understand the regional characteristics of Anyuan Coal Mine, these three characteristics constitute the main contradiction basis of Anyuan Coal Mine, and also lead to Anyuan Coal Mine becoming a natural powder keg.
Anyuan is in **?
Anyuan is in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province.
Anyuan's coal mine was transported to **?
Shipped to Hanyeping Company, in Wuhan City, Hubei Province.
The workers in Anyuan are mainly the best workers
Hunan. Mainly Xiangtan people and Liling people.
Okay, with this background, let's try to paint a picture of the Anyuan coal mine.
During the Qing Empire, Sheng Xuanhuai introduced foreign capital and advanced Western mining technology to develop the Anyuan coalfield in order to solve the fuel needs of the Hanyang Iron Works. In 1906, the road and mine were completed and put into operation, becoming the earliest coal mine in China to adopt machinery for production, transportation, coal washing and coking, and was one of the top ten factories and mines in China.
And when it came to the ** period, there were many warlords in various places, and we saw above that a conflict between Hunan and Hubei had something to do on the Yuezhou incident, so what about adding a Gan?
The answer is that the structure of interests here is unusually complex. At the top are Beijing's profits, followed by Hubei's coal demand, then Jiangxi's commissions (while managers only have salaries), and finally Hunan's workers' wages.
In other words, many groups from below demanded a change in the structure of interests, and this led to the emergence of the most dazzling workers' movement from 1921 to 1926.
It's the person who took advantage of this appeal.
The play directly shows how he went to An Yuan.
A few key points:
1, he came to Anyuan in the name of running a school through the relationship of his uncle Mao Ziyun (who was the head of Section A of Anyuan Coal Mine at that time).
2, he is An Yuan who came in a horse coat.
The former means that he did not arrive at Anyuan as the lowest level, but also did not arrive at Anyuan with a high profile like Li Lisan later wrote directly to the mine manager, but was equivalent to the relatives of middle-level speakers, and there would not be too violent impact on the local interest structure, and everyone would not have a very direct rejection, which was very conducive to his in-depth investigation.
The latter means that he came to Anyuan as an intellectual.
In the culture constructed by Confucianism, Shinong Industry and Commerce, although the imperial examination has disappeared, the attitude towards intellectuals in society is still the same, so when Mao Ziyun introduced *** to the local speakers in Anyuan, he only said that *** has written a lot of articles for "Ta Kung Pao", which can make *** gain a lot of respect.
What's more, in the later interactions with the miners, his image was even more prominent, so that a world-famous painting appeared.
And in the same scene introduced by Mao Ziyun, the undercurrent of An Yuan was also expressed.
There were a total of five people present, none of whom were wasted, except for *** and Mao Ziyun, there were three people.
The cattle mine manager (the prototype should be Li Shouquan, probably one of the few people in this play who does not directly use historical figures), his later attitude is to acquiesce to the strike, because, as mentioned above, they are also paid dead wages.
Captain Li (the prototype should be Zhou Weinan and Li Hongcheng), the captain of the mine police team. As mentioned above, the local situation in Anyuan is complicated, so in the personnel arrangement of the mine police team, there is a conflict between the mine and the local administration of Pingxiang, so from the play, you can see the discord between the head of the mine Niu and Captain Li.
Daddy Hong, the speaker of the Hong Gang. The local area is a thriving place for the Elders' Association, which has been entrenched here since the great uprising at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the mine police team basically has a lot of cadres from the north, but the basic members are still members of the Hong Gang, so there has always been a struggle between the mine police team and the Hong Gang for the right to speak at the grassroots level, and the mine manager is obviously more supportive of the Hong Gang.
So in this scene, it seems that everyone is targeting ***, but in fact, several groups of people staged a secret fight in front of ***, and this secret fight was seen by him, so there was a later story.
The story is that Li Li later became the one.
3. ** are all Anyuan who came in horse coats or suits.
The story is that later during the strike, Li Lisan specially formed an alliance with Daddy Hong, which was equivalent to making a clear position and clarifying the interest structure (Li Lisan also used the same method after going to Shanghai).
The story is that because there are a large number of Hunan people in Anyuan, when the wages of these Hunan workers are raised, it will instead enhance their purchasing power in their hometown market towns, expand the economic interests of the landlords in Hunan, and strengthen Zhao Hengti's rule in Hunan, so the Hunan side will turn a blind eye to this matter.
The story is that Anyuan is located at the junction of Jiangxi and Hunan, and in the face of a strike, Hunan does not want to contribute, and Jiangxi cannot contribute. Jiangxi is also between Hubei and Guangdong, is an important front line of Sun Yat-sen's Northern Expedition, when Jiangxi overseer Cai Chengxun has just taken office for a few days, people have not yet sat down, at this time is not able to call the people below, not to mention that the strike will help to increase the strength of Hubei, so Jiangxi can be said not to send too many troops.
So in such a layered story, the Anyuan coal miners' strike achieved an unprecedented victory.
Well, there may have been friends who have forgotten our question above: why *** Li Li.
Third, the Anyuan coal miners' strike launched by ** was successful, while the Jinghan railway workers' strike ended in failure on 27**
We're going to start summarizing it now.
The answer is already written on the bright side.
The Jinghan Railway Workers' Strike took place in the north, when the Beiyang warlords were very strong, and it took place in Zhengzhou, the core area of an emerging railway city in a province, with a relatively single force and a more serious incident, so it would quickly cause a rapid response from a single warlord. So it caused a catastrophe, 27**.
Whether it is Yuezhou or Anyuan, which we mentioned above, they are actually at the junction of the two provinces, and Hunan, Hubei, and Jiangxi are located in the tug-of-war between the southern and northern armies, and the local warlords are weak and need to play games with various forces in many cases, which gives the basis for launching a successful strike.
In addition, there is another important detail that Zhang Guotao himself is from the Pingxiang clan, so guess why he doesn't go to Anyuan, but to Zhengzhou?
So what does that mean?
This means that although we will emphasize more on the early warlord melee today, the other side of the war is still a nominal republic, even if it is only nominal, it is also because the strength of the warlords of all walks of life is not enough to annex a larger territory, so they can only respect such a nominal consistency one by one. And in such a dislocation, there are large and small interest groups, and there are gaps in these interest groups, and when there are gaps, there are opportunities to increase leverage.
And once faced with a situation without gaps, such as Zhao Hengti and Hunan No. 1 Yarn Factory mentioned above, such as Erqi**, then there is only bloody **.
Yes, fully understand the interests of various forces, and then fight for growth space, this is the Zonghengjia.
For example, the conflict between the Department of Political Science and the Department of Anfu behind the May Fourth Movement, the figures of Liang Qichao and Lin Changmin.
For example, behind the general strike of railway workers in Changxindian, the game between the old and new transportation systems of Beiyang**.
For example, Li Dazhao, Feng Yuxiang (Northwest Army), Wu Peifu (direct Xiucai), Guo Songling (Feng Xinjun) come and go.
The list goes on and on, so I won't list them all.
In fact, in the social structure of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were countless small and medium-sized landlords, and if any local government wanted to stabilize the grassroots, it had to redeem the small and medium-sized landlords, and such transaction costs would increase with the redemption.
In the end, it will be a systemic collapse.
Why did it crash?
Because the core of Zonghengjia is path dependence, through the social identity attributes of Zonghengjia itself, quickly find its own position in the existing interest structure (such as the social identity represented by the horse coat when *** was in Anyuan), and then exchange interests for such a social structure.
This is also why this drama does not start from the opening of a large university, but from the first Hunan self-study university.
After the first congress of the Communist Party of China, he returned to Changsha with the task of developing party members, and his path depended on running a self-study university, and finding true comrades through schools and students.
Even though there was no funding for running a self-study university, he quickly got the funding through He Minfan, the head of the Chuanshan Institute, got approval, and began recruitment. And the recruits, such as Xia Minghan, betrayed their own class and joined the revolutionary ranks, and his family background is also specially emphasized in the play: the grandson of the prime minister of the Liangjiang camp and the son of Zigui Zhizhou.
As for other interviewers, a lot of background information is also emphasized in the play: for example, the son of the manager of the yarn factory, for example, he saw Zhao Hengti want to become an official when he revised the regulations, which shows the general social class that can be recruited by self-study universities.
Considering that one of the key issues discussed by everyone at the first congress was whether they could be officials, it can be seen that when *** founded a self-study university through path dependence, it did find a group of like-minded people, but these are not fundamental.
So the first episode of this show is actually a particularly timeless farewell ceremony.
It is the last attempt to use his existing identity, in such an attempt, he founded the Xinmin Society, participated in the Youth China Society, and engaged in the Federation of Students, but when he tried to do it again, he found that he could not really find his colleagues quickly.
It can be seen that the *** at the end of the first episode is confused. This was his first step out of path dependence.
Yes, I changed my mind myself.
An important dark line in this play is the process of *** changing his mind, it seems that this is also trying and that is trying, but in fact, many of other people's behaviors will be observed by him and thus think.
When he tried to persuade Huang Ai and Pang Renquan, he was alerted by Huang Ai's words:
Have you ever been a worker?Mr. Zhongfu and Mr. Shouchang, I'm afraid they haven't been workers either, right?
This sentence is too important.
It can even be said to be one of the titles of this play.
Although this sentence is expressed in the play, ** went to Anyuan after thinking about it.
But another line in the play is even more interesting.
The first episode spends a lot of space portraying the drama of *** going to invite He Minfan out of the mountain, which will make the audience feel that this is a very important role in the drama.
But the man was soon gone.
His second scene appeared in the fourth episode, which was directly the conversation between *** and him, in which He Minfan directly said that he couldn't accept what they were doing now.
What's the matter?Yuezhou, Anyuan.
As a person dressed as an old man, although He Minfan has also joined the League, although he has also promoted "New Youth", and although he has also participated in the early founding of the party in Changsha, he has never let go of his origins.
So he chose another place to go.
In 1922, He Minfan left the party. However, the play is also a little more subtle, and it is directly written in "* Biography" that He Minfan was driven away by them.
The most critical part of this scene is that it is not only the departure of He Minfan, but also the identity of the unproductive intellectuals represented by He Minfan gradually leaving from the depths of his heart.
**The bow to He Minfan is also a farewell to his past. Of course, this is only the first goodbye.
He will say goodbye more and more next.
On the other hand?
On the other side, let's take a look at Chen Duxiu.
When Chen Duxiu appeared on the stage, he was listening to the play.
What are you listening to?
Huangmei Opera. Chen Duxiu is a native of Anqing, and Huangmei Opera developed and grew in Wangjiang, Anqing. And Anqing is not just so important to Chen Duxiu.
A very important reason why Chen Duxiu was able to go to Peking University as a dean of liberal arts was that he was from Anqing. Cai Yuanpei's previous Peking University was controlled by the Tongcheng faction (Tongcheng was subordinate to Anqing), and if Cai Yuanpei wanted to pry into this interest structure, the best way was to find an Anqing person and use the method of boiling frogs in warm water to carry out the new cultural movement step by step.
In September 1921, Chen Duxiu's first scene was still listening to the opera, and in addition to the dialogue between him and Ma Lin, the figurative reaction of Huangmei Opera was also portrayed on him: he was a person who could not get rid of the old structure.
So Chen Duxiu was finally left behind.
Compared to *** debut, it's a completely different state. **Stripped naked, swimming in the water.
I took off my clothes and let go of my identity.
This is a real shot and a metaphor. is what this play wants to tell the most.
Such small details abound in this play.
For example, in the first episode, while saying that He Shuheng participated in the First National Congress, He Shuheng also asked *** about the funding, which inevitably makes people confused, in fact, because He Shuheng participated in the First National Congress but left halfway.
Another example is the appearance of the Anyuan firecracker family Dong Yanzi in the second episode, although it is not explicitly stated in the play, familiar friends can naturally find out that this is Wang Yaonan, one of the founders of our army's engineering corps.
There is also the sixth episode of Shuikoushan miner Geng Wazi, this is **.
**The title of the three brothers, starting with the third brother. Yes, although he is the eldest son, he is the third oldest in the family, because two of his older brothers died. Many years later, when I returned to my hometown and saw Wang Shulan, I would still call my fourth sister-in-law.
Such a title in this play is accurately expressed in many places.
It's not just the name, it's also the shape. Needless to say, Cai Hesen's hairstyle, when Mao Zejian and Yang Kaihui were together, one face was black and the other was white, and the class difference between the two was highlighted at once.
It is worth mentioning the state of Chiang Kai-shek, a child of the Green Gang who failed in speculation, very decadent, Chiang Kai-shek loved to play chess all his life and did not like to play Go, so the beginning of this play specially showed him a stinky chess basket who thought he had achieved nothing. And this game of chess is also very similar to the ending of Chiang Kai-shek.
Of course, there are some details in this play that could be a little more elegant. For example, Zhu Shaolian, a worker in Anyuan, is a train driver, educated, has read, and his status is not low, so if he can read *** articles, he can also become a worker, not a coal miner in the play. Of course, this flaw is not hidden, after all, the space is limited, and it is impossible to arrange the scenes of the internal situation of Anyuan workers.
Now we're going to wrap it up.
The drama "Ask the Boundless" is not only about what *** did in the six years from 1921 to 1927, but why he did certain things and why he failed in these six years.
So although the series has only aired a few episodes, we can see that in the end, whether he is in Changsha, he is in Anyuan, he is in Shanghai, or he is in Guangzhou, the result is a failure.
Because at this time he has always been a columnist.
At this time, Zhao Hengti did not break out the most fierce contradiction with him.
Until 1926.
As we said above, Zhao Hengti's core strength is the small and medium-sized landlords and county councilors in Hunan, so no matter how big the storm is, it is not fatal to Zhao Hengti, he can acquiesce while suppressing and wait and see.
But when he finally decided to carry out the agricultural movement in 1926, it really fundamentally shook Zhao Hengti's basic plate. That's why Zhao Hengti wanted to arrest him.
A comparison is Tang Shengzhi, who participated in the Northern Expedition, most of Tang Shengzhi's military cadres came from Baoding Jiangwutang, which was one of the important reasons why he was able to accept the peasant union at the beginning, and after the peasant union really grew, he also began to defect.
Yes, self-revolution is the most difficult.
What is Zonghengjia?It is not to transform social relations, but to use the existing social interest structure to redistribute interests.
Therefore, the core of Zonghengjia's needs is points. If you have a share, I will have room to operate, but it will not really change the situation, and the more you share, the greater the transaction cost, and the bigger the plate that the Zonghengjia needs to maintain.
Therefore, when there are enough interest entities and large enough differences, the ultimate fate of all columnists is failure.
The man figured out that instead of taking advantage of both sides of the contradiction, it was better to enter the game alone and let himself become a part of the contradiction, so when he arrived at Jinggangshan, he no longer paid more attention to the external environment, but the internal development of Jinggangshan. As for the contradiction on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi, it is very important, but it is an external cause, not an internal cause.
Experience is only available to those who are eligible to apply the experience. - This is a phrase that only those who have experienced it first-hand can understand.
So I am extremely convinced that the man who finally summed up the "Theory of Contradiction" is very related to his experience in the past six years. With these six years of choice, he can say goodbye to his classmates and youth, and bid farewell to his bookish spirit.
Only then can he no longer point to the country and inspire words.
Instead, go to the middle stream to hit the water, and the waves curb the flying boat.