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Chapter 283
"Then this is our last and most important question!"

"How to integrate the canteen into the existing work point system of our Maixiang Brigade? To be more precise, it is the detailed rules and regulations for our canteen. How to do it? Do you have any good ideas?" Wang Zhong glanced To everyone. "

"This cafeteria is not easy to manage!" Niu Bold is straightforward, especially when discussing serious matters, he always goes straight to the point, says what he has to say, and doesn't like to beat around the bush.

"I also know that it's difficult to handle, but I have to do it if it's difficult. This is different from the last rush to collect, even if it really lost, we can bear it ourselves, but this time..."

Niu boldly lowered his head and pursed his lips, he naturally knew what Wang Zhong meant.

"Every household has different conditions, different situations, and different food. Some are hardworking, and their families are a little better off. They eat more white flour and do more work. Some are lazy, and some have difficulties. We can only eat yellow noodles, buckwheat, and watery ones, and some people would be happy to set up a cafeteria, but some people might not be happy." Niu boldly said.

Although Niu Bold is a bit rough, he is not a blind man who knows how to live in a muddle.

"This is the need for our existence!" Wang Zhong said: "Take care of the needy households, keep an eye on those who are lazy, transform them, and make them work harder. Let's all contribute to the development of our Maixiang Village!"

"The big bug is right." Ma Renlian said with deep conviction.

Wang highlighted Ma Renli's name: "Renli, what do you think?"

Ma Renli said: "I think the cafeteria must be set up. This time is different from the last one. It's a policy."

The rest of the people are all convinced.

Wang Zhongdao: "We set up people's communes, set up production brigades, and run canteens. In the final analysis, we are to realize communism. Collective things, in the final analysis, are everyone's. Our village collective is equivalent to a big family. Every member of our brigade A team member is a member of this big family, but the scale of this family is a little bigger."

"Since everyone has no good idea, then I have a suggestion, let's discuss it together and see what we can do."

"I said Big Worm, you should have said it earlier if you had a way!" Niu Bold unconsciously showed a smile on his face.

"Big Worm, what can you do?" Everyone looked at Wang Zhong curiously.

Wang Zhong said sternly: "First of all, let's make it clear that the canteen will be run, and the stoves in the folks' homes will not stop. From now on, we will harvest every summer and autumn every year. In addition to the public rations handed over to the country, we will keep enough rations for the folks for a year. , and the rest will be handed over three times to the brigade’s grain depot, and the rest will be distributed to each villager according to the surplus of work points as before.”

"What if there are no surplus work points?" Niu boldly asked.

Wang Zhongdao: "If you don't have one, don't give it away, and get as much as you do. This is our principle and the bottom line. This cannot be changed."

"Then what about those needy households?" Ma Renlian asked.

Wang Zhong said: "It's still the same as before, just take care of what needs to be taken care of, and just control the speed."

"When will our grain reserve be full of [-] catties, and we will dispose of the extra grain every year in the future, or sell it, or replace it with peanuts and soybeans, which can be used for oil extraction."

"Let's convert the work points of the rations left in the cafeteria into meal tickets for the villagers. How much flour and stick noodles are converted into a few centimeters? We will make adjustments according to the actual situation each year. If the villagers want to go If you eat in the cafeteria, you have to get a meal ticket, and if you don’t have a meal ticket, you can start your own business at home.”

"It sounds pretty good!" Niu boldly said.

Ma Renli also nodded and said, "It seems to be possible."

Ma Renlian and Zhao Youtian also nodded.

But Wang Zhong didn't finish his sentence: "This is the first method, and there is a second method. The grain we collect will be distributed to the villagers according to the work points, and then we will send the villagers to the cafeteria every month. Pay the food, as much food as you pay, you will be given as many meal tickets, or use the meal tickets for meals, if the villagers are willing to eat in the cafeteria, they will go to the cafeteria to eat, and if they are not willing to go to the cafeteria to eat, they will cook at home."

"However, no matter which method it is, it will require a certain amount of manpower and a lot of energy to implement it."

"Let's do it for a few days first, and wait for Secretary Wang and the others to leave. If we really can't go on, we will close the cafeteria again, and it will be the same as before, and we will eat our own food." I have spoken my heart out.

"What do you think?" Wang Zhong asked everyone.

"It's reasonable to say it boldly. If it really can't go on, Secretary Wang can't force us to do it!" Zhao Youtian said.

It is not so easy to suffer from inequality instead of scarcity, and to achieve a truly absolute communist average.

Let’s not talk about the far ones, not to mention the teams next door to the Maixiang brigade, and even the Maixiang brigade itself, there have been many signs of not working hard in the past few years. After all, people are selfish and lazy. Yes, why can't I be lazy if he can be lazy?
After the meeting, on the way home, the three of them chatted about homework.

Ma Renlian asked: "By the way, Brother Bold, how is sister-in-law doing recently, is she still fighting with you?"

"She dares!" Niu Bold's voice suddenly rose to a higher level.

"That's the best!" Ma Renlian said: "Look at the recent posture, you should pay more attention to her and tell her not to talk nonsense, so as not to cause any unnecessary trouble."

"Ren Lian, what did you hear?" Wang Zhong couldn't help asking.

Ma Renlian shook his head, with a serious expression on his face: "I don't know the details, it's always right to be careful."

Niu boldly nodded, obviously listening: "No problem, I will definitely tell her."

There are only a few good cooks in the village. Ma Renlian, who is nicknamed Cai Baozi, has also been crowned with the title of canteen director. The canteen of Maixiang Brigade has been officially opened in this way.

Three days later, Wang Wanchun and several leaders of the commune came to Maixiang Brigade. Looking at the clean and tidy cafeteria of the brigade, they couldn't help nodding their heads. meals.

Not long after, everyone sat around the table.

"dinner's ready!"

With a loud cry, Yang Deng'er brought Jiang Hongguo, Mrs. Jinhua and several other skilled women comrades to the table with steaming yellow steamed buns and plates of dishes.

The staple food is yellow steamed buns. In addition to two seasonal vegetables, there is also an egg drop soup and a meat dish. The meat dish is naturally pork, and the fried meat with cabbage is of course the kind with more cabbage and less pork.

However, there is a lot of oil, and it is enough to look at the oil and water.

"Three dishes and one soup, the food is not bad!" Wang Wanchun said with a smile.

"Everyone eat! Eat quickly, eat quickly!"

As soon as Wang Wanchun spoke, everyone moved their chopsticks.

Wang Zhongdao: "Isn't this the first day the cafeteria opens? From tomorrow onwards, there will only be yellow steamed buns with green vegetables."

"No, haven't you had good harvests every few years?" Wang Wanchun just took a bite, and suddenly realized, "Why do you still have stick noodles with vegetables every day?"

"My secretary, you don't know the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt if you are not in charge of the family. This life is about careful calculation. Besides, there are many old and weak women and children in our brigade. Let's not talk about anything else, just my two boys Even though they are young and can't do the work in the field, they are better than the other when it comes to eating."

"There is an old saying that you can't eat poorly and wear poorly. You don't plan to be poor all your life. There are about [-] people in our Maixiang village brigade, like the second grandfather, the old donkey and the others. There are more than ten or twenty in the village. , there are quite a few people in the village who just got married and are planning to have a baby. When the time comes, we have to consider nourishing the pregnant women and nourishing the body of the baby. We want to live a good life, so we have to be careful! Do you think that’s the truth? ?”

Wang Wanchun nodded approvingly: "That's the truth!"

"Are you still very competent as the branch secretary? Not bad, make progress steadily!"

"It's you who taught well, we all learn from you."

Wearing all kinds of clothes, but not wearing flattery, Wang Wanchun is indeed a bit fluffy now, and he loves hearing this kind of sweet flattery the most.

Send Wang Wanchun and his party away happily.

Regarding the cafeteria, Wang Zhong, Ma Renlian and others discussed it several times, and finally decided unanimously that the cafeteria will be opened every year during the busy farming season, and during festivals. The villagers gather together to eat in the cafeteria. Just go back to each house, find each mother, and the cafeteria will not open.

Just a few days after the canteen was opened, the autumn harvest came.

The corn, peanuts, and soybeans in the field are all ready for harvest.

Although during this period of time, it has been merged into a brigade and a canteen, but the production-oriented principles of the Maixiang Brigade have not changed. In order to double the harvest, even the oil-pressing workshop has stopped.

In the past, regardless of autumn harvest or summer harvest, each group was used as the unit. Now the village has become a brigade, and each group has become a small team, but in the final analysis, it is the same as before. , During the double rush period, three meals a day, morning, lunch and evening, are provided by the cafeteria.

Breaking corn, tearing peanuts, and harvesting soybeans, the entire Maixiang brigade was immersed in the joy of a good harvest.

After the autumn harvest, we have to rush to plow and topdress the fertilizer to prepare for autumn sowing. Now there is no chemical fertilizer, and the villagers can only cultivate intensively and use traditional farmyard manure. Fortunately, in recent years, pig farms have been built one after another in the village. There are several sheds, and several plots of land are used to raise chickens. The excrement of these livestock and livestock is collected every day and stored in the large septic tanks behind the pig farm and the barn.

The two hounds of Wang Zhong's family were also at the side of the pigsty barn, and followed the militiamen on duty in the village to shoulder the duty of guarding.

It took a little less than a month to survive this bustle.

After the autumn sowing ended, it came to the part of settlement of work points that the villagers were most looking forward to.

The tradition of the Maixiang Brigade is that each summer harvest and autumn harvest counts their respective work points. After the harvest is over, it is directly settled, and the grain is converted to the villagers according to the amount of grain harvested that time.

"When the villagers are settled, shall we go to collect soybeans and peanuts from all over the world?" Ma Renli asked Wang Zhongdao.

Wang Zhongdao: "Just to be on the safe side, we won't go for the time being. The reputation of our oil factory has been spread over the past few years. Now that the autumn sowing is over, if you want to extract oil, you will come to our oil factory with peanuts and soybeans."

"It's better to be safe!" Ma Renlian said.

"Bold, have all our food reserves been transferred?" Wang Zhong asked.

Niu boldly said: "It has all been transferred to the cellar, and now the storeroom above is reserved for rations and seeds for the coming year."

"Okay!" Wang Zhong said, "Recently, newspapers and magazines have been exaggerated. We are all farmers. No matter how the wind blows outside, we must know it in our hearts. Only by keeping our feet on the ground can we live a good life."

"Don't worry about this, everyone knows it well." Niu boldly said.

"Also, boldly, Arita, you two are the team leader and the deputy team leader, and you are in charge of production. I have to say some things first. We don't care about other villages, but in our village, we can produce as much as we want, and no one will allow it. Pay me more."

"One more thing. The county has decided to let our commune build a reservoir in the upper reaches of the Maixiang River."

"Really?" Ma Renli was both surprised and delighted.

"Is it okay to joke about this?" Wang Zhong gave Ma Renli a sideways look angrily.

Ma Renli chuckled.

Niu Bold also smiled and said: "This is a good thing. After the reservoir is built and the irrigation canals are dug, more villages will be able to water the Maixiang River."

"It's really a good thing!" Wang Zhong also nodded in agreement, and then looked at Ma Renli: "At first, the county wanted to transfer me there, but I was worried about the village, so I recommended you to the county. The order from the village has also come down, and you will be transferred to the reservoir to help, and then thirty young men from our village will be picked to go with you."

"I'll leave this matter to you, okay?" Wang Zhong asked loudly.

"No problem." Ma Renli assured, patting his chest, "Leave it on me."

At this moment, Ma Renli's eyes burst into a bright light that had not been shown for several years.

"As soon as this reservoir is built, the irrigation canals and waterwheels we started with will have to be changed accordingly. We have to fill all the weir ponds in the village with water as soon as possible."

"Arita, for the time being, you will lead the villagers to take care of the winter wheat. Don't make any mistakes, especially Xiao Zhuan and the couple who are not full. Keep your eyes open. If you have to deduct work points, you can't. Forgive me, we can't break our rules, otherwise everyone will follow suit, and they will all follow suit and do nothing."

"No problem, I promise to complete the task." Zhao Youtian said loudly.

"Bold, it's the peak period of oil extraction recently, and you are fully responsible for the oil extraction workshop, so there must be no mistakes."

"no problem."

"Ren Lian, you are mainly in charge of paperwork and communication with the commune. Besides, since Ma Renli has gone to Bashang, you can also do his accounting work first, is that okay?"

"I'm fine." Now that the busiest time has passed, the accountant is only responsible for counting the work points every day, and there is not much to do.

Wang Zhong continued: "As for me, for the time being, I will look at the oil press workshop, check our existing irrigation canals, and see if I can find a few more places and add some weir ponds."

Wang Zhong originally wanted to take advantage of the end of the autumn sowing and find time to go into the mountains to hunt some prey and come back. Unfortunately, he dispatched thirty young and strong laborers to build a reservoir upstream. There are also nearly a thousand acres of winter wheat that have to be carefully served, weeding, top dressing, insect removal, suppression and many other tasks.

Ma Renli had led the people to the reservoir for more than a month, and the day had gradually cooled down. On this day, Ma Renlian returned from a meeting at the commune and brought back a large sheet of blueprints.

"Build a blast furnace to make steel?" Even though he had prepared for it, Wang Zhong couldn't hold back his face twitching when he heard the news that Ma Renlian had brought back.

Now half of the strong laborers in the village are at the reservoir. Sanhou, Erzhuzi, and militiamen all went to the reservoir. Niu boldly led the people to work in a hurry at the oil press workshop. Others in the village have to take care of the fields, and from time to time they have to go up the mountain to cut firewood and send it to the oil mill.

There was no other way, Wang Zhong led the people to spend more than half a month in the depression outside the village, and built four three-meter-high blast furnaces with clay.

After the stove was built, Wang Wanchun led people down to inspect it.

"I said big bug, how can I see that your stove is smaller than the other brigades? That's it, I can kick two of them with one kick!"

"Secretary Wanchun, I also want to build a big furnace, but we have no iron ore, and we don't have coal as fuel. The firewood we burn in our blast furnace is all bundles of firewood that villagers have just cut back from the mountains. Well, the iron smelted in the furnace is all melted from the pots, door bolts, and iron buckets of the villagers' homes.

Now the only ironware in the village is cooking pots, hatchets, axes, and hoes and picks. The villagers can't let all these things be used for iron smelting! "

Wang Zhong said with a face of embarrassment.

Wang Wanchun's expression froze, and he pulled Wang Zhong aside: "The difficulty is a little bit more difficult, you should think of a way."

"My great secretary, it's not that we don't want to contribute. Look around, the villagers are busy all the time. Everyone is looking forward to contributing to the country and making steel.

But there is an old saying that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. We want to make more steel, but now our brigade can't even find a piece of scrap copper and iron. Many villagers smashed their pots and threw them into the stove. Here, the folks and I can't conjure steel out of thin air! "

Seeing the troubled look on Wang Zhong's face, Wang Wanchun also knew the problem, "This..."

Wang Zhong suggested: "Secretary, why don't you apply with the higher-ups to get some iron ore and coal? Or anything that can produce iron. As long as there is something, our Maixiang brigade will guarantee to produce iron. vague."

"I'll go back and try!" Wang Wanchun is not the Zhang Defu in the county, although he is a bit stalking, wise and self-conscious, sometimes confused, but he also knows the truth that a good woman can't cook without rice.

Several meetings were held one after another. There are dozens of brigades in Maixiangling Commune, and the situation is basically the same as that of Maixiang Brigade. The furnace has been built, but there is only a little bit of iron in the brigade, and it takes a while to refine them. Soil blast furnaces became decorations.

Wang Wanchun was also worried about this matter, and called everyone to go to the meeting again and again, but there was nothing to do, and he was reprimanded by the county for this. When it was serious, he was almost dismissed as the secretary.

For this reason, the county specially invited experts to come over and inspect the Maixiangling area carefully for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that the Maixiangling area has neither coal nor iron ore, and the pots and farm tools used for cooking at ordinary people's homes cannot be removed. It was melted, so Maixiangling Commune did not have the conditions for large-scale steelmaking at all.

(End of this chapter)