Chapter 43 The Village's Plan

Seeing that An Jianguo and the others were still confused, Jiang Wenlin quickly interrupted the accountant:

"The compensation for the demolition is indeed very reasonable."

"As for the scope, compensation will be provided for everything, including your house, yard, agritainment business, fields, vegetable garden, orchard, etc."

"In addition to these, there are also headcount fees, resettlement fees, and compensation for losses due to production and business interruption."

As he spoke, Jiang Wenlin lowered his voice again:

"This demolition we are facing is a government-led demolition."

"We definitely won't let the villagers suffer any losses."

"So, you should think about it carefully when you get back. When the demolition office staff come, give them your full support."

"I heard from Lin Village that the person who signs the fastest gets a reward!"

Jiang Wenlin's words are not something just anyone would say.

Besides the fact that An Songyu and his group knew to come and ask them questions when all the villagers were crowding out, which made him feel especially valued and respected,

Then there's An Songyu and his family; their businesses are among the most prominent in the village.

Speaking of which, I received the demolition notice this morning.

The feelings of the village committee members can be described as complicated.

After all, they had just been begging the villagers to lease out their orchards and mulberry-fish ponds, and then the demolition notice came down immediately.

Compared to the annual rent of a few dozen yuan per mu, the compensation for this demolition is likely to be much higher.

However, after talking carefully with the people who delivered the demolition notice and the village committee of the neighboring village, they couldn't help but feel relieved.

According to the regulations of the demolition office.

The compensation for demolishing unmanaged mulberry-dike-fishponds and orchards is completely different from that for managed ones.

This is one of the reasons why the village committee decided to invite everyone in the village to a meeting after discussing it.

Sure enough, after everyone had seen the demolition notice, they returned to the village committee building at the invitation of the village committee members.

This time, however, everyone's mental state was completely different.

"Alright, everyone has seen the demolition notice. We'll talk about the specific demolition details later." Jiang Wenlin raised his hand and pressed it down slightly.

He gestured for everyone to be quiet for a moment before continuing:

"There are some things I need to tell you all."

"First of all, as you have already seen, this is what I've already seen."

"Compensation for demolition includes all aspects."

"However, the nature of the operation is completely different from that of a well-managed mulberry-dike-fishpond orchard."

"As everyone should know, after the village contracted out the orchard last time..."

"I received part of the contract payment, and I've already spent it all on managing the orchard."

"Nowadays, the only thing that can be managed in the village in a short period of time is the mulberry-dike-fishpond system."

"So, everyone, tell me, should we spend this money?"

Mulberry-dike-fishpond farming is a distinctive agricultural practice that Jiangcun started developing long ago.

Many mulberry-dike-fishpond systems were built during difficult times.

They developed and utilized the village's puddles, ponds, and ditches that were completely unsuitable for planting.

Therefore, when the land was distributed to individual households in the first place...

The village reached a consensus that no distribution would be made.

The orchards behind were created on some of the village committee's reserved land and in areas unsuitable for planting.

These two developments lasted for a total of one or two decades.

For a long time, Jiangcun had almost no wasteland.

But the good times didn't last long.

After silkworm farming income failed to keep up with people's living needs, and orchard income also declined year by year.

The villagers saw the demand for flowers and trees from city dwellers and started cultivating them.

As a result, some of the farmland allocated to the villagers was gradually transformed into flower fields.

Unfortunately, Jiangcun lacks both geographical advantages and the ability to develop large-scale flower and plant cultivation.

Even the planting techniques were quite ordinary.

So, except for a few, everyone gave up cultivating flowers, plants and trees after the agritainment industry gradually took off.

Then, in order to run a farm stay business.

These locations, further away from the main road of the village, can be exchanged with other households in the village, or even with the remaining farmland of the village committee.

The flower field, which was originally located in the most open and suitable place for planting in the village, was gradually abandoned.

But nowadays, compared to messing around with these flower fields...

Naturally, mulberry-dike fishponds that originally had mulberry trees are easier to manage.

Each household in the village is naturally very familiar with the situation in the village.

After a buzz of discussion, someone asked directly, "Village chief, we would definitely be willing to clean up this mulberry-fishpond."

"Based on the demolition notice and the demolition experience in Lin Village, will the things we are doing now be excluded from the demolition compensation?"

"Well... we can't really guarantee that!" Jiang Wenlin, who had never experienced demolition either, even as the team leader, didn't have complete confidence at this moment.

But he still explained, "Our handling of mulberry-dike-fishpond systems is special; it's not about replanting or rebuilding."

"so……"

"So, village chief, do you mean we should clean up the weeds around the mulberry fields and fishponds now, just like we do around the orchard?"

"Yes, that's exactly what we think."

"At least from that perspective, our mulberry fields won't be classified as wasteland."

“We have mulberry trees planted here, and each one has been growing for at least twenty years. How can this be classified as wasteland?”

"Have you all taken a good look at the current state of the mulberry fields and trees?"

"As the demolition office that specializes in assessing these things, do you really not understand the difference between well-managed mulberry fields and abandoned mulberry fields?" the village accountant retorted irritably.

If we're talking about the person who cares most about the village's mulberry-fishpond system, he's definitely one of them.

After all, as the village accountant, he knows the village's collective income better than anyone else.

However, it must be said that even in recent years, when the village managed the mulberry-fishpond system well, that was when the collective income was at its highest.

Unfortunately, everyone started looking after their own homes after that.

How could they possibly care about the hard work of raising silkworms and the constant worry about silkworm diseases?

“The mulberry fields really should be taken care of as soon as possible. As for the fishponds… Uncle Lin, it’s up to your village committee to decide.” The villagers began to express their opinions one after another.

The village accountant then calmed down and took out the bill that the village committee had already discussed.

We have the experience from cleaning up the orchard last time.

The village committee had a clear idea of ​​how much it would cost to cultivate these mulberry fields.

As for cleaning up those fishponds of different sizes, we can only make an estimate for now.

In short, we need to take action immediately.

The amount wasn't that large.

Most villagers didn't mention going home to discuss it with others; they simply started paying the money without hesitation.

Seeing this result, the members of the village committee breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Whether they can earn more money for the village depends on whether what they did this time will be recognized during the demolition process.