Under the leadership of the Party Secretary, everyone's confidence has greatly increased.
It was also because of the high quality of their canned goods that word of mouth gradually spread, and sales began to rise steadily.
The Party Secretary was true to his word; he arrogantly rejected department stores and factories that wanted to sell their canned goods to him.
Although they were eventually sold to them, the various harassments and difficulties they faced helped them vent their anger at the time.
In the end, many department stores proactively called to inquire when production would resume.
It can be said that the cannery was a great success this time.
With the successful trial in the first year, the entire commune mobilized in the second year.
The rise of the cannery not only boosted the local economy but also created numerous job opportunities for Xiliu Village and even nearby villages.
The village is filled with an atmosphere of joy and hope, and people's lives are moving forward in a better direction.
However, vegetable greenhouses alone were not enough to improve everyone's lives. At this time, Yu Yuehua, a promising candidate for cadre, stood out.
A few years ago, he went on an inspection tour with the Party Secretary and was surprised to find that the fruits and nuts from his hometown tasted better than those from other places.
After being brainwashed by Xie Yan, Yu Yuehua became obsessed with doing great things and climbing the social ladder, and she immediately seized this opportunity.
Upon returning to the village, he started with his own village, going door-to-door to mobilize the villagers to pay more attention to the fruit trees on the mountain and in the village, and to apply any extra fertilizer to the fruit trees.
These wild fruit trees seemed to sense the villagers' care, and with their tenacious vitality, they reaped a bumper harvest the following year.
The trees were laden with fruit, hanging heavily on the branches, bending them down, as if showing people that they were worth investing in.
Yu Yuehua originally planned to start a fruit business, but Xie Yan knew that the sales scope of these fresh fruits was limited, and they could only barely do business in their own county. Nuts were okay, but fresh fruits were not.
So he suggested making canned goods directly.
After hearing Xie Yan's description of the cannery's prospects, Yu Yuehua was immediately filled with enthusiasm and decided to take action.
He immediately set about preparations, working day and night to write a cannery plan (under Xie Yan's guidance, of course), and then went to the secretary for approval with great anticipation.
The secretary at this time was not the same one as before, but he was promoted by the former secretary and naturally knew Yu Yuehua's background and was also aware of his abilities.
After carefully reading the plan, he was deeply moved by the promising prospects it described and decisively decided to support the cannery project.
Running a cannery is no easy feat. There are countless canneries across the country, and the difficulty of standing out from the competition is unimaginable.
Yu Yuehua pulled Xie Yan into the research, and they tried many kinds of canned food, repeatedly pondering every step from ingredient selection to recipe.
During that time, Xie Yan felt as if he had fallen into a pile of sweets, with all kinds of sweet and cloying flavors filling his taste buds. In the end, he even felt dreaded whenever he saw sweets.
However, all the effort paid off.
After countless attempts, they finally created a canned food that was both the best in terms of taste and color.
In an era of relative scarcity of resources and a general lack of sugar in people's physical strength, people had an almost obsessive love for sweets, especially for very sweet canned goods.
But Xie Yan knew that if the cannery wanted to develop in the long term, it couldn't just cater to current tastes; overly sweet canned goods were not conducive to long-term operation.
But if we reduce the sweetness, we worry that we won't be able to capture people's tastes nowadays.
They tried more than a dozen times just to find the perfect balance of sweetness.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a friend of Yu Yuehua mentioned that his mother made very delicious desserts, and she didn't use much sugar.
This was like a ray of dawn, illuminating the path forward for everyone. The group quickly found the old woman and tasted her sweets; they were indeed unique. The perfect sweetness was exactly the kind of sweet but not cloying flavor Xie Yan had been searching for.
The old lady's preference for sweetness was met, but the color was not.
Inspired by this, Xie Yan and Yu Yuehua recognized the power of ordinary people. They decided to recruit helpers from the village, inviting everyone to try and solve problems together, with a reward of one yuan for the best solution.
Lured by the one yuan, the villagers were enthusiastic and eager to participate. Everyone chimed in with their ideas, and the various problems were indeed solved with remarkable speed and efficiency.
In just one month, all the problems were solved.
They immediately began production as soon as the last batch of fruit ripened, starting with canned apricots.
It was because of the cannery built in Xiliu Village that the commune received significant economic benefits. The following year, the originally winding and rugged road from the commune to Xiliu Village was finally repaired.
This road, once like a coiled serpent, stretched between the commune and Xiliu Village, causing much inconvenience to the villagers' travel.
Today, driven by the cannery, it has been transformed into a flat and wide road, like a solid link that connects the two places more closely.
Yu Yuehua received a promotion in her career thanks to the outstanding performance of the cannery.
From his initial position as a specialist, he rose through the ranks to become a clerk (equivalent to the position of office director). His efforts and abilities were fully recognized. The promotion was an affirmation of his hard work during this period and also meant that he had taken a big step towards a bright career path, enabling him to play a greater role in the development of Xiliu Village and even the entire commune.
As living conditions in Xiliu Village have improved day by day, the village's infrastructure has gradually become complete, and the villagers' lives have become prosperous and stable.
This made some of the educated youth feel good about the place and willing to marry villagers and settle down there.
However, no matter how wonderful Xiliu Village was, when the opportunity to return to the city was presented to them, many educated youth still felt a surge of emotion, longing to return to the city that held their memories and dreams.
However, some far-sighted educated youths keenly perceived the enormous development potential of Xiliu Village, believing that its future development would be no worse than that of the city.
Most importantly, it's very relaxing.
Here, apart from the busy farming season when things get tiring, people can work at the cannery the rest of the year to earn extra income.
In winter, you can stay at home and get through the season.
Of course, these are just some of the reasons.
More importantly, they had been in the countryside for many years, and they were not necessarily very serious when they were studying. They had forgotten most of what they learned and had almost forgotten everything they had learned from the books.
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