Chapter 182
After hearing what Xia Juhua said, Captain Niu shook his head and said, "I'm really not trying to be brave. I've been taking care of the production team these years, and I don't think I've let you down. Even if I'm no longer the production team leader, no one will poke my spine. In the future, I don't want anyone to poke my spine either."
Xia Juhua felt that he had some hidden meaning in his words, so she asked, "Do you have any plans?"
Captain Niu nodded and said, "I do have some ideas. If you have nothing else to do, I'll talk to you about it and you can help me make a decision."
Xia Juhua naturally wanted to hear what he was going to do, so she followed Captain Niu to his home. The yard was made of ordinary adobe walls, and inside the yard was an adobe house that had been weathered by wind and rain. Xia Juhua couldn't help but say, "Ordinarily, you should build a brick house."
The two sons and one daughter all work in the factory, and the two daughters-in-law also work in the fields to earn work points. Their family income should be top-notch in the production team, and they are not a family that cannot afford to build a brick house.
Captain Niu looked at her and smiled: "You still live in an adobe house, why should I build a brick house so early? Don't you see that Li Daniu hasn't built one either? And Captain Li Da and his family all live in the old courtyard too."
Xia Juhua was slightly moved, and smiled at Captain Niu's wife who was pouring water for her: "I'm sorry to have made you and I suffer."
"It's not torture." Captain Niu's wife said quickly, "It just looks a little old, but it's not cold in the winter and doesn't leak in the summer, so it's pretty good. In the past, living in this house, I was worried about food, clothes, and money, which was torture. Now I can eat whatever I want, and I can buy whatever I want with money. I'm enjoying my life."
That's exactly what happened. Xia Juhua felt that Captain Niu had a high reputation in the third team, and his wife must have played a significant role. After pouring the water, his wife did not leave, but sat and talked with Xia Juhua.
The first to speak was Captain Niu. He told Xia Juhua that he saw that the Ping'anzhuang team had too much work to do and wanted to form his own team after the land was divided up - he didn't dare to think too far ahead, but if he could get half of the new houses that the Ping'anzhuang team wanted to build, it would be enough for him to work for a year or two.
"Establishing a house-building team is a good thing, but it won't work without enough people. Why don't you go and discuss it with the house-building team in Ping'an Village? It would be best if the two places work together." Xia Juhua felt that Captain Niu lacked experience and should be led by the team from Ping'an Village.
Captain Niu said somewhat embarrassedly: "They are all experienced in building houses. We are just starting out and we are afraid that we will be held back. It is obvious that we want to take advantage of them."
"Haven't you taken advantage of Ping'an Village enough in these years?" Xia Juhua joked with him, "It doesn't matter if you do it this time. I want you to work together for another reason. Building a house cannot be done without enough people. If the construction period is delayed, people will not come to you next time. Besides, if you build a building in the city in the future without enough people, you will be bullied."
Want to build a building in the city? Captain Niu thought he was very bold, but Xia Juhua was even more bold than him, so he couldn't help asking out loud.
Xia Juhua nodded at him and said, "What's wrong with building a building? Aren't the buildings in the city built by people? If you think you have no experience, I'll ask Xiao Qi to find two people to teach you how to read blueprints."
When thinking of reading blueprints, I have to say another thing: "When you are leading a construction team, you can't just look at who is stronger and who works harder. You also have to find two educated people who can do the math for you or help you read blueprints."
It takes time to learn to read drawings, and they are not needed at this stage, but Xia Juhua thinks that people should learn it now, so that when they need it in the future, they won’t be unable to find it.
Captain Niu felt that Xia Juhua's joke was actually the truth - in recent years, the third team had been following Ping'an Village closely, and the members' lives were much better than those of the other three production teams, so they had indeed taken advantage of Ping'an Village.
As Xia Juhua said, they had been taking advantage of the situation for so long, so this time was no big deal. The only difference was that he had taken advantage of the situation with the entire production team before, but now it was just him. So Captain Niu and Xia Juhua returned to Ping'an Village and found that the streets were still quiet and not as panicked as Team 3. There were still people coming in and out of the production team yard, and none of the Team 3 members had angry or excited expressions on their faces. Almost everyone was smiling as before.
"Captain, hasn't Ping'an Village started to distribute the land yet?" Captain Niu felt that this was the only possibility.
Xia Juhua felt that there was nothing she couldn't say: "It's true that it hasn't been divided yet. Qiu Sheng said that everyone wants to do another collective autumn harvest. After the autumn harvest is over, the shares should be calculated and divided."
After taking a look at Xia Juhua, Captain Niu suppressed his thoughts. He had no choice but to suppress them. He was not Xia Juhua, and the members of Team 3 were not from Ping'an Village. They only cared about not getting any loss in the land and farm tools distribution.
"Captain, Captain Niu." Li Changman, who was in charge of the Ping'an Village building team, was called over by Xia Juhua. He greeted the two people and said nothing more, as if he was waiting for Xia Juhua's instructions.
Captain Niu was already accustomed to the fact that the people of the Ping'anzhuang production team only called Xia Juhua "captain" instead of "big captain". However, he still looked at Chen Qiu Sheng unconsciously and found that he was concentrating on counting the shares and didn't even glance in their direction.
But the matter must be discussed in front of Chen Qiusheng, because Xia Juhua hopes that Chen Qiusheng will be involved in anything related to the development of Ping An Village. And Chen Qiusheng never lets Xia Juhua down, and his ability to find loopholes and make up for deficiencies is extraordinary.
When he heard that Captain Niu also wanted to recruit a team to build houses after the land was divided, Changman Li rubbed his hands and said, "You can follow us. There are so many people who want to build houses that it's hard to keep up. Your people will be able to get started in a few days."
Xia Juhua looked at Chen Qiusheng, who was still counting his accounts, and asked, "Are they still going to hand over their profits to the team?"
Chen Qiusheng then raised his head, and the smile in Captain Niu's eyes was clearly calculating: "Of course it's better to pay some. The brigade can manage a lot of money, but there are even more people who want to ask the brigade for money. If our production team has some money, we don't have to rely on the brigade when encountering problems, and many things will be much easier to handle."
Xia Juhua also agreed with this, but asked worriedly: "But the brigade can be retained, but as for the production team, I'm afraid..." they can't stay.
Chen Qiusheng smiled and said, "The production team can't stay, but the people are still Pinganzhuang people. If not, we can change the name of the house-building team to the construction team, and run it like a weaving factory. Then the two factories will be combined to form the Pinganzhuang cooperative factory, and the profits will be handed over to everyone and divided into dividends as in the past, so the money will be settled."
It was easy for Xia Juhua to hear him say that. Her eyes widened. Chen Qiu Sheng was truly a talent. He had come up with the idea of an agricultural cooperative right now, something that had only emerged after the land transfer in the previous generation.
However, Xia Juhua did not think there was anything wrong with showing up early. At least in Ping'an Village, those who could not work in the three factories had another place to go, which could ensure that one person in each household could earn cash on a monthly basis.
Captain Niu looked at Chen Qiu Sheng with great admiration, and with just a few words, he made Xia Juhua agree that Ping An Village was an indivisible whole, and that it was a bit of a waste of Chen Qiu Sheng's talent to be just the director of a vermicelli factory.
"The cooperative factory also needs someone to manage it. Where else can we find such a person except you?" Xia Juhua also thought of this problem and said with some emotion: "But the vermicelli factory can't do without you. If someone else is the factory manager, I'm afraid they will mess up. It's okay to mess up somewhere else, but if they mess up the things that go into our stomachs, it will cause trouble."
Chen Qiusheng couldn't help but cough, reminding Xia Juhua that Captain Niu was still there. Captain Niu smiled indifferently: "I think what the captain said makes sense. If you don't become the factory director, Li Daniu doesn't have the brains, but Sun Qinglin does, can you trust him with that little plan?"
Chen Qiusheng was worried, but he had a better candidate: "If you want to manage the cooperative factory well, no one else can be the factory manager unless you are the team leader."
Why are you talking about me again? Xia Juhua was about to wave her hand, but Chen Qiu Sheng's words made her put her hand down again: "We set up a cooperative factory because we are going to expand the construction team soon, right? The construction team includes not only people from our production team, but also people from Team 3. If someone else becomes the director of the cooperative factory, how can we explain to the people in Team 3 if they think why Team Leader Niu should not be the director? Besides, if you don't become the director of the weaving factory, Zhang Cuiping won't understand."
Xia Juhua felt that Chen Qiu Sheng was even more talented because he made such a confident statement about being afraid of his wife. Thinking about the two years before the production team was disbanded, the team had nothing to do except family planning. As the team leader, it was not suitable for her to follow Qi Weidong to trade in seafood, so Xia Juhua acquiesced.
Chen Qiusheng's smile deepened, and he continued to calculate his own account, allowing Li Changman to ask Captain Niu how many people he could bring to join the construction team. Coming to the production team to discuss it was just to let Chen Qiusheng hear if it was feasible. Now that even the cooperative factory had been decided, Li Changman took Captain Niu to his home to discuss it in detail.
After the two men left, Chen Qiusheng raised his head again and said to Xia Juhua, "If our production team were to set up a cooperative factory, we would only have a weaving factory and a construction team, which would be a little insufficient."
Xia Juhua had watched TV all her life and knew that big companies were not just one or two businesses, they were all about diversification and doing whatever made money quickly. Naturally, she agreed with Chen Qiusheng's words: "It's a small number, but we are from the countryside, there are not many jobs we can do." Even if they wanted to do it, the current knowledge level of Ping An Village people was not enough.
Chen Qiusheng smiled with a calculating look on his face: "Actually there is another job that we can do."
"The eggs produced by the chickens raised in Pingan Village are now in great demand. After we stopped selling to the Red Star Supply and Marketing Cooperative, the other two communes came to us and were willing to add a cent to the price of each egg and collect the eggs from the production team themselves. Now the Red Flag Supply and Marketing Cooperative comes to collect the eggs every five days and dares not deduct any money or give us IOUs."
對此夏菊花早就知道，一想也就想明白了陳秋生打的是啥主意，心裏卻有些為難：“現在家家戶戶上班的上班，種地的種地，家裏老人養五六十只雞已經挺吃力了，再多養的話得累壞了。”
陳秋生笑得更開懷了：“那咱們就再建一個養雞場，劃出一個地方來專門上養雞。有經驗的老人們集中在一起，派上三五個年輕人做飼料運輸、搬搬扛扛的工作就行。”
“要是這樣的話，豬也可以多養上些。路生那邊你跟他說說，就在豬圈邊上再劃塊地方。”剛剛恢複經濟的人們，最注重的就是吃好，把虧了十幾年的肚子補回來，夏菊花覺得光養雞并不夠，就算再養翻倍的豬，也不愁賣不出去。
紅玲擡頭說：“要是真把雞放一起養，收雞糞也方便不少。也省的有人家犯懶，好幾天除一次雞糞，鬧得隔壁都跟着臭哄哄的。”
平安莊的雞糞可是好東西，都被小心收集起來撒到地裏，兩三年養下來，哪怕一年各了小麥種紅薯，地還是黑油油的，種啥都高産。
這也是夏菊花有意引導的。有她在，平安莊想買到比配額多的化肥不是難事，可她協調各種物資卻很少協調化肥——上輩子大家為了追求高産，拼了命往地裏撒化肥，糧食不好吃了不說，地都快板結了。
這輩子她當然要吸取教訓，別的地方不敢保、保不住，可平安莊自己的土地少用化肥，将來多吃幾年綠色的食品，她還是能做做努力的。
所以聽到紅玲又說了一條統一建養雞場的好處，夏菊花當即就點頭了：“回頭問問大夥，要是都願意的話，就去拉點磚回來建雞舍。今年只是放在一起養，誰家的雞還歸誰。”
陳秋生卻搖頭說：“今年的也不能那麽算，賣了雞和雞蛋錢，都歸雞場——買磚、建雞舍、買飼料都得花錢。生産隊前期墊上可以，等賣了錢得還上，不能指望着編織廠先養活它。”
好的意見當然要采納，夏菊花點頭後，陳秋生接着說自己的主意，自然是打到了五爺身上：“五爺一個人孵小雞太辛苦，一次孵出來的也少，我覺得可以再成立一個孵化廠。五爺教會年輕人後，自己也不用天天盯着，只要咱們能保證孵出來的小雞，跟現在五爺孵出來的一樣好養活，十裏八鄉想養雞的還不都得上咱們平安莊來買？”
他說得太有道理，夏菊花竟沒有任何反對的餘地——想辦養雞場就需要大量的雞仔，靠五爺一炕一炕孵或是各家雞抱窩的确不現實。
那就再建一個孵化廠！
反正夏菊花的記憶裏，有種叫電子孵化器的機器，要是把那東西買回來，更不用五爺那麽大歲數還天天盯着雞蛋了。
紅翠聽他們讨論的起勁，一會工夫平安莊生産隊又會多出兩個廠子，不由感嘆道：“要是都建成了，得用多少人呀，咱們平安莊還有人種地嗎？”
“現在種地的機器多着呢，突突突往地裏一開，連收帶裝袋子，有兩人往倉庫裏扛就行。”夏菊花不經意的說了一句。
陳秋生等的可就是她這句：“可在把地都分到戶，一塊地大了三四畝、小了也就一畝來的，機器進去連個調頭的地方都沒有。到時候天天就聽着吧，少不了誰家把別人家的地壓了一根垅、誰家多割了別人兩把韭菜的事。”
他似乎很惬意的站起身伸了個懶腰：“反正分了地生産隊就取消了，我可算不用管這些東家長西家短的破事兒，只要管好粉條廠就行了。”
夏菊花心裏一驚，生産隊取消了，大隊可還保留着呢，她還是個大隊長，天天處理這些事兒的，很可能是她！
看着夏菊花出了門，紅玲小聲問陳秋生：“能行嗎？”
陳秋生還是個笑：“行不行的，得看五爺那頭大喜他們火加的夠不夠猛。”
有五爺在的劉家，一大家子都坐在那裏等着夏菊花。人家也不是幹等着，對于未來同樣有展望與期待，看到夏菊花進門，在廚房門口守着的六喜，跳出來跟她大聲打招呼：“嫂子，你來啦？咋看着不高興呢，遇到啥事兒了？”
在夏菊花眼裏，六喜自從當上電工之後穩當了不少，可以當成大人看待了，便說：“是有點事兒，想跟五爺說說。”
她遇事愛跟五爺磨叨磨叨，在平安莊不是啥秘密，六喜很理解的把人往屋裏領，嘴裏說着：“我們家人也都心裏沒底，都在我爺這商量呢。”
說話間，一屋子人已經都跟夏菊花打完招呼，劉大喜有些着急的問：“嫂子，我們幾家的地分到一起行不行？”
這話問得不算突兀：要分地的消息傳了這些天，不琢磨自己家可能分到哪塊地是不可能的。
夏菊花看着一屋子人，不解的問：“你們都想分到一起？”
劉大喜肯定的點頭：“就是想分到一起，哪怕地次一點兒都行，好伺候呀——地小了機器轉不開，我們家大部分人都在廠子裏上班，不用機器地就等着撂荒吧。”
夏菊花心裏一驚，這種可能太大了——平安莊只有一少半人沒在廠子上班，各家主要勞動力都在掙現錢，如果她剛才跟陳秋生商量的那兩個廠子建成，至少還得再用剩下的一半人才夠。
只剩下四分之一勞力，還不是壯勞力的人，耕種五百多畝土地，不充分利用機器根本不可能！
可想用機器，地塊太小機器施展不開是一方面，機器來回轉場消耗的時間同樣是問題。想要全面發揮機器作用，土地面積就得足夠才行。
看着若有所思的夏菊花，五爺給劉大喜使了個眼色，一屋子人不一會兒就散得只剩下六喜。夏菊花便把剛才跟陳秋生商量兩個廠子的事兒說了，又把自己的擔心說了一遍：“要說大家都進廠了，掙的錢買糧食肯定夠家裏人吃。可這麽老些地撂荒了，我總覺得心疼。”
當農民的，看着地裏只長荒草不長莊稼，誰不心疼。
五爺嘬了兩口煙袋說：“養雞養豬都能辦廠子，種地不能辦個廠子？”
夏菊花覺得眼前一亮。上輩子她喝藥前，已經有地方開始土地流轉，就是把大家沒精力耕種的土地，流轉到有意做大做強農業的人手裏，進行集約化、精細化、特色化管理。
好象效果不錯。
“要是種地辦個廠子，各家吃菜咋辦？”夏菊花自給自足慣了，覺得買來的菜，總不如自留地裏現吃現摘的味道。
五爺不在意的說：“誰家想吃自己種的菜，還跟原來自留地似的，分點房前屋後的地給他們，下了班十分八分钏就伺候完了。剩下的咱們也辦個廠子，統一種、統一收，都使機器用不着多少人。”
現在平安莊還種地的人都由劉三壯帶領，對播種機、聯合收割機用得明白着呢，總共八十多個人把地種得明明白白，再讓他們種的話人員都不用調整。
夏菊花想了想說：“那還是跟大夥商量一下吧。”說好了分地，結果沒兩天又不分了，總得讓大家知道原因。
五爺沖六喜笑了一下，六喜蹦起來往出跑：“我看看水開了沒，咋這麽長時間還沒開呢。”
夏菊花有些奇怪的看着跑得比兔子還快的六喜：“他又沒在廚房看着，還怪上水不開了。”
五爺微笑，對于六喜一去不複返毫不放在心上，跟夏菊花商量起如果有人不同意種地也建廠咋辦。最後的結果是，不管誰不同意，都可以不參加，大家不會因此對人有意見，還要把該分的地一點不少的分給他，并且分好地，把他該得的地都分到一起。
不是怕人鬧事，而是不想破壞成塊的土地。
平安莊的社員沒有人貪這個便宜，人人都表示自己家沒精力種地，那就都交給農業廠一起耕種吧——土地交給農業廠耕種，每年每口人分五百斤口糧外，剩下的利益歸入合作廠，與編織廠、建築隊、養雞場、孵化場的利潤一起，年終全體社員分紅。
直到陳秋生當着全體平安莊社員的面宣布，夏菊花是合作廠的廠長，一人獨占合作廠百分之十的股，夏菊花才知道大家商量好的股份竟然被他給改了。
她剛站起來，五爺、趙仙枝就一左一右的拉住她。五爺本已經駝了的背，微微挺直了些，向社員們說：“按上級政策，咱們的土地都在劃歸個人。可如果劃了，你們覺得自己能接着好好伺候地的，有幾個？”
沒有人回答。
“接下來要成立的建築隊、養雞場，需要人手得從社員裏挑選，誰選出來的人你們覺得放心，相信她是按照誰合适那個工作、不是因為誰跟她關系好才選的？”
“夏小夥！”
"I, the old man at the hatchery, taught you how to do it. Whether I was willing to teach or not, I didn't teach you with all my heart. Who do you think can persuade me?"
"Xia Xiaohuo!"
Listening to everyone's neat answers, Xia Juhua's eyes were filled with tears. She looked at Zhao Xianzhi, An Baoling, Chen Qiusheng, and Zhang Cuiping. She wanted to tell everyone that these people had a good relationship with her.
Zhao Xianzhi seemed to know what she was thinking, and whispered in her ear: "Think about it yourself, besides your mother-in-law, who in Ping'an Village has a bad relationship with you?"