Chapter 393 Big changes in the production team
Lu Tianlei was very happy and went into the kitchen with the mutton.
Huang Xinran hurriedly followed and offered to help burn the firewood. However, he discovered that the family did not use firewood to cook, but honeycomb coal.
Seeing Huang Xinran staring at the fire, Lu Tianlei smiled cheerfully: "This beehive coal is produced by a factory in which our village owns 100% of the shares. It is particularly durable and saves coal. If you only cook three meals a day, two coal balls a day will be enough."
Lu Tianlei is alone at home, and usually cooks at night. He cooks a whole day's worth of food at a time. In the morning and at noon, he eats the food warm in the pot. After eating, he continues to work. No wonder he saves coal briquettes.
"How much was the dividend from the coal briquette factory last year?"
"you guess?"
Lu Tianlei smiled mysteriously, and without waiting for Huang Xinran to reply, he gave another figure: "Let's not talk about other things. Just the income from coal briquettes alone can completely offset the public grain and other expenses that our village needs to hand in. Otherwise, where do you think the money I gave you before the New Year came from?"
Not only the briquette factory is profitable, but other businesses in their village are also very good. At least none of them lose money.
Therefore, there will be more dividends at the end of the year.
The dividends in the village are distributed based on the number of people. The villagers are very dissatisfied with this. Some people say that only the people in the hometown should be counted, and those who have gone to other places and are not working on the farm in the hometown should not be counted.
As soon as these words were spoken, other members naturally stood up to make a fuss, even before Lu Tianlei could object.
It would be more efficient to divide the profits directly according to the number of people in the factory rather than the number of people in the village. There are only a dozen people in the coal briquette factory. If the profits are divided among them, wouldn't they benefit more?
As soon as he finished speaking, he was bombarded with criticism again.
Everyone hopes to divide the money in a way that is beneficial to them, and everyone hopes that their family can get a larger share.
Unfortunately, the coal briquette factory was originally the village's industry, so no matter how they schemed and argued, the property would still be divided as it should be.
Therefore, Huang Xinran and others also received the dividends from the village.
"Dad, your idea is good. It has benefited all the members of our village. By the way, I heard from my aunt that you have also managed a lot of businesses in the commune. How is the performance now? Have you received any dividends?"
"It's all right. The main problem is that there are too many people and they are not on the same page. Some things are difficult to handle..."
It is like the communes uniting to raise fish in reservoirs. This was originally a good thing. The fish in the reservoirs were not caught with nets in the first year, but when they started to catch them in the second year, they caught tens of thousands of kilograms of fish, which naturally brought a lot of profit. But the little profit they made was not enough to pay the compensation.
The reason is simple. It's a reservoir, so every summer there are always some people who don't believe in superstition and want to go swimming in the water.
result……
If something goes wrong, it will cost money to settle the family.
Who will pay for it?
No one could afford it individually, so in the end it all came down to the fish in that reservoir.
The problem is that this kind of thing often happens more than once or twice in a summer.
That’s why I say that the money earned from selling fish is not enough to compensate for the loss.
Of course, it was also one of the rare businesses he led that made a loss.
Huang Xinran also understands that it is difficult to completely prevent such things and can only try to stop them.
"There are always accidents at the reservoir, and the residents around are very resentful. Now they are clamoring to open the reservoir to release water. Fortunately, those reservoirs are water conservancy projects built in the early years, otherwise, who knows what would happen. However, as a result, everyone's enthusiasm for fish farming in reservoirs has been very low. I don't know if we can catch fish from the reservoir this year, and how many fish we can catch."
There are too many unstable factors in fish farming. In addition to human factors, there are also many natural disaster factors.
For example, drought, extreme hypoxia in reservoirs in summer, or even floods can all turn the results of years of hard work back to the pre-liberation era overnight.
Huang Xinran also understood this.
After thinking for a while, she said, "Dad, how about I give you some slogans later and you can take them to the reservoir and put them up. Maybe they will work."
"Impossible! I've written so many slogans, but it's useless! It's completely useless. Those people simply don't believe it!" Lu Tianlei waved his hands, looking helpless.
"Really? Let's go back and try what I wrote. It's just a side job. What if it works? What if!"
"That's fine! Then you write it and I'll put it up tomorrow."
Huang Xinran has a lot of slogans in his mind, such as: "There is danger in the water, please think twice before going into the water." "Life is only once, water and fire are merciless." "Cherish life, stay away from reservoirs." and so on.
However, the intimidation of these slogans seems to be slightly insufficient.
Huang Xinran was not in a hurry. She waited until the food was ready and then started writing the slogans after she had eaten.
"If you make a mistake while playing in the water, you will regret it forever. Turn back and wait for the next life."
"In a place where water ghosts are rampant, the resentment is very heavy, so don't go into the water."
"Two people have drowned here. Swimming is strictly prohibited."
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When she showed these slogans to Lu Tianlei, the other party's expression was also confusing.
"If you write something like this, what if the higher-ups come to investigate the dregs of feudal superstition..."
"The water ghost I'm talking about is the water monkey. Its traces have been seen in many reservoirs. It moves very slowly on the shore, but once it is in the water, its arm strength is amazing. Once it finds a person in the water, it will regard the person as a hunting target. The person can't escape at all. So, which word I said is a lie?"
Huang Xinran looked innocent.
Lu Tianlei laughed cheerfully, agreeing with what she said.
"Okay, I'll take the signs and post them tomorrow. The weather is getting warmer, and it's the season when people around the reservoir like to go swimming. I hope these signs can serve as a warning."
Of course, a vertical slogan needs a support.
Lu Tianlei hurried out to find someone to do it, and finished the slogan before dark. Before dawn the next day, he carried the slogan to several nearby reservoirs and put it up in conspicuous and accident-prone locations.
As soon as this slogan was put up, it immediately attracted people's attention.
"This is a place where water ghosts run rampant, and the resentment is very heavy. Don't go into the water... Is it true? There are water ghosts here? It's not what I thought it was, right? It's too scary. No wonder this reservoir swallowed several people last year. It turned out that it was the water ghosts who were causing trouble..."
People were talking about it.
At first, people were just skeptical about the slogan, but the more they verified it with others, the more they felt that it was real, and people gradually stayed away from the waterfront.
Seeing that the slogan was effective, Lu Tianlei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as no one reports him for practicing feudal superstition, he is afraid of that.
In fact, he was really overthinking it. How could this rise to the level of feudal superstition?