It was almost the end of the year, and every household was busy cleaning the house, taking apart and washing quilts and mattresses, and tidying up the front and back yards in preparation for the New Year. The trio was also busy at Fifth Grandpa's house.
That day, the village chief's grandson came and asked Guan's father to go to the brigade office, saying that his grandfather wanted to ask him something.
Father Guan quickly put on his cotton-padded jacket and arrived at the brigade headquarters. He saw Secretary Xu from the commune and hurried over to shake his hand. Secretary Xu warmly returned Father Guan's handshake and repeatedly praised him as a good comrade.
Just now they listened to the report of the village chief and affirmed what Guan Dad has done. Now the grassroots construction needs good comrades like Guan Huashu who are smart, courageous and daring to work hard.
Guan's father replied: "This is what I should do, to serve the people!"
The Xiangyang Production Team's team leader was transferred last month, so we haven't had time to come and elect a team leader. Secretary Xu and his team are here to elect one. Today, the village head told us about this excellent comrade. The meeting unanimously decided to appoint Guan Dad as the new production team leader of the Xiangyang Team. We'll go to the commune tomorrow to handle the paperwork.
Guan's father agreed without hesitation and said he would do a good job: "Please rest assured, leaders, I will serve the people, take the honor of the commune and production team as my own responsibility, sacrifice my own family for the sake of everyone, and carry forward the revolutionary spirit of not fearing hardship or death!"
There was thunderous applause in the room.
By the afternoon, the whole village knew that Guan Laoer was the team leader of Xiangyang Production Team.
Old Lady Guan regretted it so much! She had been foolish enough to sell the girl from her family, otherwise she wouldn't have let the second son take advantage of her and split up the family business.
Look at how proud she is after leaving the Guan family. Before she even had time to ask Guan Laoer for food, she became the production team leader again.
When the Guan family members heard about this, they all scoffed. They said it was just Guan's father who came up with the idea to repair the house, and by some stroke of luck he got the job of team leader. A blind cat caught a dead mouse.
Originally, Guan Ming, the team leader of Team 2 of the production team, had a better chance of being elected. He also thought that he would definitely be elected this time. Every day he walked around the village with his neck held high and a proud demeanor like a rooster. Unexpectedly, he was intercepted by Guan Laoer, and he directly hated Guan's father.
The next day, Guan Huashu took Uncle Qi's ox cart to the village to complete the succession procedures.
After returning, he called the village head, brigade accountant, women's director and other brigade leaders to a meeting.
Guan Huashu is going to talk about a big plan this time to see where these people's bottom line is.
After everyone was seated, he directly put forward his plan: contract the land on a family basis.
Now the production team divides the production into groups, and each group has a certain amount of land and a certain yield.
However, Guan Huashu proposed a new idea, implementing the household contract responsibility system and the household contract responsibility system.
Even now, land is still collectively owned by brigades. Based on this ownership structure, it's contracted out to families, meaning they're based on households. You can't just contract out the land; if you just give them land, they won't be able to farm it. Contracting is divided into three parts: land, farm tools, and livestock.
After contracting, farmers would hand over a fixed amount of grain to the production team each year. The production team would hand over 80% of this grain to the commune, thus fulfilling the commune's mandate. The team would retain 20% for itself. Anything else was left for the farmers themselves.
If the output is not enough, the farmers themselves will compensate the commune for the task they have submitted, and the production team will not bear the loss.
After Guan Huashu finished telling them about his plan, the village chief and all the members of the production team's leadership team were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths.
This plan was not actually thought up by Guan Huashu, but was implemented in my country's rural economic plan of land distribution and individual farming from 1978 to 1980.
The reason I proposed this plan is to test everyone's bottom line. Actually, none of this is feasible right now, because in the coming decade, if we do it now, we'll be courting death.
We're talking about this now to see how they react. If they accept it, Guan Huashu will lead the entire village in finding ways to become wealthy over the next ten years. If they can't even accept this plan, then they can just stay put in the village and wait for the next seven or so years.
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