Chapter 198 198
"I didn't go to Wucheng to receive supplies, but the Red Army and the soldiers went. There were seven or eight large cargo ships carrying supplies. I heard that most of them were donated by individuals. There was a large shipload of supplies sent to our Linhe Brigade alone. The brigade secretary and the accountant went to receive and distribute them personally. Every household received 100 to 200 kilograms of rice and clothes. The clothes were brand new, as well as shoes and school bags. These alone were worth a lot of money, not to mention the two ships of supplies. I heard that the Qianshui Brigade, Xiangqian Brigade, and Hongqi Brigade next door all donated supplies. Some capable guys in the village followed the volunteers from Beijing to supervise the fleet distributing supplies, and they traveled all over the disaster-stricken areas of Wujiang City!"
Uncle Jiang was more and more amazed as he spoke.
Because he didn't see the supplies, he heard about it from the kids in the village who went to help with the disaster relief work, especially the three kids in his family, who boasted so much after they came back that they almost had 20 or 30 large cargo ships' supplies. He knew about it, but he didn't have a deep feeling about the money, nor did he feel that the money Jiang Xi spent was money.
They were like listening to a story far away from them. The Jiang Xi in the story was not the Jiang Xi they had watched grow up together, but the protagonist of the legendary story in the storytelling they listened to, who was far away from them.
Uncle Jiang was so excited when he talked about this, just like his sons who came back to brag. Now in Jiangjia Village, Linhe Brigade, the story of the golden phoenix that flew out of the mountain nest and came back to help his hometown and bring back disaster relief materials for the villagers has spread to every corner of Wujiang City. Even people in neighboring cities, the next city, and even the provincial capital have heard about this. The people of Wujiang City are envious.
Who doesn't want their hometown to have such a person, benefiting the villagers and the villagers?
And this story is not fake.
Not only the Wucheng TV station, but also the Wujiang TV station and neighboring TV stations have been broadcasting news for several days, using this positive energy story and news to soothe the emotions of the disaster victims and give them hope. The provincial TV station also spent more than a minute on the 60-minute news every evening to report on this incident.
Therefore, people across the province know that there is such a female college student in Wujiang City. After being admitted to the university and flying abroad for a year, she has brought such changes to her hometown.
In fact, Jiang Liu has brought more changes to her hometown than these.
This year, due to the flood, all the fields were flooded. The people in Linhe Brigade who were affected by the disaster had nothing to do except to catch fish every day when the fish from the Shahe River flowed into their rice fields. When Jiang Zhenzhang and Jiang Guotai came back, they discussed with the people in Linhe Brigade about planting tea trees on the mountain.
The highest mountain behind Linhe Brigade is a huge tea mountain. The mountain is full of tea. In addition, the mountain has abundant water resources, two mountains and one water, and sufficient sunlight. After brewing, the tea leaves on the mountain are sweet and clear, and the tea soup is the first choice for local people to give as gifts when visiting relatives and friends.
However, the tea produced on Wugong Mountain is only famous among the locals. It is not well-known outside the city. Even many locals outside Wucheng County do not know much about it. Many people only know Wugong Mountain and the Wugong Temple on Wugong Mountain, but do not know Wugong tea.
The mountain behind them is actually not Wugong Mountain, but a branch very close to Wugong Mountain. There is a huge natural stone on the top of the mountain. The natural stone is staggered and formed in a similar shape to the "small stove" in "Green Ant New Fermented Wine, Red Clay Small Stove". When the locals look up at the mountain from a distance, they can see a small stove on the top of the mountain. No matter how far they are from home, they can see the eternal small stove between the clouds from a distance. Therefore, the locals call this mountain "Stove Mountain".
When I was young, many children didn’t understand. When they read Su Shi’s “I don’t know the true face of Lushan Mountain, but because I am in this mountain”, they all thought that this Lushan Mountain was that Lushan Mountain. Gradually, “Huolu Mountain” became “Lushan Mountain”.
Only the top of Huolu Mountain was planted with tea trees, but the surrounding mountains were all kinds of weeds and trees. When Jiang Zhenzhang and Jiang Guotai came back, they started with the first thing.
Planting tea!
If you want to plant tea trees on the mountain, you can’t just do it with a single word. First, the brigade must hold a meeting. If other villages are unwilling to join, then Jiangjia Village will start first. Anyway, a large area of mountains behind belong to Jiangjia Village, and other villages have their own mountains.
If the people of Jiangjia Village agreed, they would have to pay money, and the village brigade would go to the provincial agricultural university and the provincial agricultural bureau to invite experts back to find suitable tea varieties and plant tea trees scientifically under the guidance of experts.
This alone was opposed by many people in the village, because almost every household in Jiangjia Village, even in the neighboring Shijian Township, and all the nearby villages planted tea leaves, with as few as one or two plants and as many as five or six plants. Every year, they could not drink all the tea leaves from their own tea trees, and they could not sell them. The tea leaves were already too much to be wasted, so they were not happy to plant more tea leaves and spend money to plant tea leaves. Besides, do you need to learn how to plant tea? Do you need to invite experts? Isn't planting tea something that anyone can do with hands?
Tea leaves, won't they grow by themselves if you put them there?
Many families were unwilling to spend money to grow tea.
Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai originally wanted to lead the entire Linhe Brigade to grow tea, but other villages were unwilling to participate. Mayor Jiang went to talk to them several times, but even the brigade cadres who served as cadres in the brigade headquarters were not enthusiastic about this. Jiang Guotai didn't care. Anyway, he only had Jiangjia Village in his heart. As for other Xujia Village, Shijia Village, and Wujia Village, what did they have to do with him?
After confirming that there was only Jiangjia Village, the tea planting in Jiangjia Village was not so smooth.
Jiang Guotai didn't have the good temper and patience to reason with them, so he said directly: "This matter is led by Qing Qing. You know Qing Qing's ability. She is the Wenquxing from the sky, and she is the real golden phoenix in our village."
Such absurd and superstitious words, in Jiangjia Village, when Jiang Guotai said them, no one refuted them, and everyone dared to believe them.
Jiang Guotai was especially superstitious.
People in Jiangjia Village who didn't want to follow suit to plant tea trees, when they heard that it was Jiang Qing's suggestion, she was the leader, and the most promising Jiang Town Chief and Jiang Guotai in the village agreed to do this, they said they were not as powerful as Jiang Town Chief and Jiang Guotai, they said they could do it, so let's do it.
Town Chief Jiang and Jiang Guotai were both from the Third House, so they all agreed to the Third House's proposal and were eager to start immediately, especially the three Jiang Hongjun brothers, who were eager to start. People
from other houses were close to the Third House and trusted Town Chief Jiang and Jiang Guotai, especially the Village Chief of the Second House, who was superstitious about Jiang Liu. He was the first to make the decision to support the decision of Jiang Liu, Town Chief Jiang, and Jiang Guotai. He led his three sons to sign and agree to the matter. When the people from the Second House saw that the Village Chief's family had agreed, it must be a good thing, so they also signed and agreed to the matter. Only some people from the First House and the Fourth House were still hesitating.
The settlements of the second and third branches are the closest, so they have the best relationship and are the most familiar with each other. The first and fourth branches live at the two ends of the village, with the second and third branches in between. The people of the fourth branch have always been the little transparent ones in the village, not participating in anything, and whatever the village chief says is what they do, and whatever the brigade secretary says is what they do.
Seeing that the village chief of the second branch led the second branch, and the head of Jiang Town led the third branch, all agreed, the little transparent people of the fourth branch could not figure out whether the matter was good or bad. Those who had extra money at home followed the crowd, and those who were more tactful wanted to wait and see what they were up to.
Only the people of the eldest family have been united and wandering outside the village. They think they are the most powerful because they are the eldest family. They have never been convinced by the other families. After going back to discuss for a while, they feel that this thing is not going to work. They are unwilling to join and are unwilling to pay.
However, there are also smart families, such as the electrician's family who is in charge of the Linhe Brigade Hydropower Station, and Jia Zhong, a brigade cadre in the brigade headquarters, and his brothers, all joined in.
Mayor Jiang said, "Since you all agree, Guotai and I will take care of the rest. You just need to pay the amount you are required to pay, and we won't ask you for more. Since this is our Jiangjia Village's business, we won't entrust the brigade secretary to do it. We will do it ourselves." After all,
the brigade secretary is from Xujia Village. If the people of Xujia Village do not join the tea mountain planting plan, it will not be convenient for the brigade secretary to participate, as it involves a lot of money.
Mayor Jiang said, "Guotai, the village chief and I have discussed this matter. We will first divide it by the number of people, including those with children. Each household will have one mu of land per person, and we will draw lots to decide which plot of land will be the one we get. The tea varieties and planting will be unified in the future. If you have no objection, then let's do it this way." He looked at the people in Jiangjia Village. No one had any objection. A woman also raised her hand and said, "Then the mountains we have divided are not together. Can we exchange them?"
Mayor Jiang looked at her, then looked at the others and said, "Exchange them." Of course it is possible, but after the exchange, if anyone regrets it, we will not recognize it. "
After Mayor Jiang said this, some people who thought about exchanging the tea fields together for easier management also gave up their thoughts. After all, people who have planted tea trees know that the taste of tea is different if the tea field is facing the sun or the sun is not. Although the lottery has not been drawn yet, don't exchange your good tea field for a bad one. Even if the locals drink tea every day and can't live without tea for a day, they can't taste the difference, but they just feel there is a difference.
After this matter was decided, Jiangjia Village began to clean up the mountains and forests during the flood period, because August to November is the tea planting season, and they want to plant tea trees, this season is just right.
They did not clean up blindly, but went around the "Huolu Mountain" and cleaned up the surrounding areas. They first cleaned up the thorns. These old thorns that had grown for many years were all growing in patches and densely.
After cleaning up the thorns, they did not rush to deal with the trees, but removed all kinds of debris on the surface of the mountain.
On the other hand, Jiang Guotai also asked his son and daughter-in-law to go to the Agricultural Bureau and Agricultural University in the provincial capital to find experts to measure the soil here and see what kind of tea trees are suitable for planting.
The people in Jiangjia Village were actually very puzzled by this. On their tea mountain, there are so many tea trees, of course they can plant them. Why choose other varieties?
But this was Jiang Qing's opinion, and Jiang Guotai listened.