Qin Wu narrowed his eyes and looked him up and down, as if he had just met Gu Hanzi, "Okay."
He said calmly, "Tell me about it in detail."
"Here's what I think. We divide the work into small groups. After completing the designated tasks, such as weeding a certain amount of grass, plowing a certain amount of land, or picking a certain amount of cotton, we can go home and rest. People who work fast can finish their work in the morning and record their work points, so they don't have to come in the afternoon. Of course, they can continue to earn work points, and members can also increase their income through their own labor."
"The current maximum score for a young production team member is 10. Given their physical strength, 20 or 30 is not a problem. This way, their daily income can increase from 20 cents to 60 cents."
Gu Jin put his hands in his pockets and smiled innocently: "Mengzi, can you calculate how much a young worker earns in a month?"
While Gu Jin was talking, Qin Wu was already making plans in his mind.
Sixty cents a day, that's eighteen cents a month?!
He was shocked by the number he calculated. "Gu Hanzi, you really dare to think that 18 yuan can catch up with the salary of an apprentice in a steel factory. My son Hu Zi only makes 25 yuan a month!"
"Yeah, if they can make more money, don't you think the members won't be very motivated?"
"You are just daydreaming." Qin Wu sneered: "Where can we get so many economic crops to provide members with so much money to convert into work points?"
"Let's plant some crops." Gu Jin saw someone coming and pulled him aside and continued, "I asked Uncle Xu. Two years ago, a professor came to Datunzi Village and said he was doing some kind of agricultural planting..." He thought for a moment and scratched his head, "Professor! He said that the wasteland behind Datunzi Village and Dagouzi Village has good soil and is suitable for planting herbs such as Atractylodes macrocephala, Ginseng, and Chuanxiong. When the crops are planted, our production team can contact the pharmacy to sell them."
Qin Wu thought thoughtfully: "But we don't know these things and don't know how to use them." Although he and Gu Hanzi are not on good terms, it is not impossible to give it a try if it can bring real benefits to the members.
"Also, there is still some uncultivated wasteland in the team," Gu Jin glanced at the educated youth who were taking a break from digging, and said softly, "Let them all go and reclaim it, plant some vegetables, and renovate the abandoned ponds, raise some fish, and increase the food supply for the members."
"What's the matter?" Seeing Qin Wu's deep eyes and no words for a long time, Gu Jin felt uneasy.
He has never been a team leader. His ancestors for more than ten generations have never been officials. Being a team leader should be a stretch... Does it count as being an official?
"Did you come up with all this?" Qin Wu asked after a long while.
"...That's not the case. I don't have such an idea." Gu Jin laughed and said, "It was my daughter who gave me the idea."
"I don't think you can figure it out either." Qin Wu said unhappily. There was also a hint of jealousy in his expression: "I don't know what kind of shit luck you have, that your sons and daughters are so successful."
"Well." Qin Wu turned his face away, looking a little embarrassed: "How much is the monthly allowance for your Canyang and Qinglie?"
Gu Jin touched his nose, lifted his foot and kicked the stone on the roadside further away: "It should be more than your Hu Zi's salary."
Seeing Qin Wu's unfriendly look, he added with a smile: "You can't compare Hu Zi alone with my Can Yang and Qing Lie. I don't know how much they have. Their registered letters are sent directly to my Qing Qing, but they don't pass through my hands."
Shi Rushuang was in charge of the family's finances. Apart from giving Zhang Cuifen ten yuan and some grain coupons and cloth coupons every month to supplement the household expenses, and five yuan to her daughter, she never saw the rest of the money.
To be honest, he had no idea how much money the family had and had never thought of asking.
"Oh." Qin Wu did not ask any more questions, his eyes wandered: "We two cannot make the decision on what you said, let's have a meeting with Lao Yang tonight."
"Okay, he's the political instructor, we have to listen to his opinions."
"Come directly to the brigade headquarters after work. I won't say anything more. I get angry when I see these guys." Qin Wu almost got angry when he saw the male educated youth who put the hoe on the ground and sat on it as a stool just two minutes after turning the soil. He walked over and kicked the hoe away, and the male educated youth fell to the ground with a "bang".
"What are you doing?! Are you hitting anyone?!" Several other educated youths also gathered around: "We are here to help rural development, not to be beaten!" The other two male educated youths helped the lazy educated youth up from the left and right, their faces full of indignation.
"You guys are the only ones who want to help us develop?!" The sneer on Qin Wu's face was obvious. He stepped on the hoe head with his toes and the long stick bounced directly into his hand.
Qin Wu spat and rubbed his palms, then sneered while holding the hoe: "You should learn how to work well. You have just arrived for one day and you already owe the team 200 work points. It will take you forever to pay it back."
"Also, after work, ask the custodian for a few bags of vegetable seeds. There is a piece of wasteland in the backyard. Your educated youth camp has a stove and kitchen utensils left by previous educated youth. In the future, you can either be self-sufficient or exchange your work points for food."
Qin Wu's final words were calm, but the educated youths felt their faces burning with anger. Gu Jin rubbed his hands, picked up a hoe and started pulling weeds beside him.
"You have never worked in the fields before, so you may not be used to it at first." Gu Jin bent his waist and smiled: "Just learn more from the members. The villagers in our village are all very simple. If you don't know, just ask."
Qin Wu laughed secretly in his heart. This Gu Hanzi understood the essence of partnership as soon as he took office. One plays the good cop and the other plays the bad cop. He is not too foolish.
"Okay, Captain Gu, Secretary Qin, don't worry, we will learn it well!" The thinner female educated youth with two pigtails quietly pulled the sleeve of another stronger female educated youth and said in front of her.
Ye Zi knew that Sun Yuanyuan was an impulsive person and was afraid that she would say something else. They came to the countryside and could not conflict with the cadres of the production team, otherwise there would be no hope of returning to the city.
Sun Yuanyuan frowned but said nothing in the end.
All the grain had been harvested. Gu Qingqing got off work early today, and as she walked back from the storage room along the path, she could see the smoke rising from her chimney from a distance.
"Second aunt, second uncle."
Gu Qingqing pushed open the gate and saw Han Lianxin fetching water and cooking. Gu Yin took a small stool and sat in the yard weaving a bamboo basket, with cut bamboo strips by his legs.
There are many bamboos on the mountains in Datunzi Village and many camphor trees in Dagouzi Village. Her second uncle, a carpenter farmer, would help people weave bamboo baskets in his spare time or be invited by the owners to make furniture. He just had to say hello to the team instructor before going.
Gu Yin looked up and nodded slightly at her.
"Qingqing is back." Han Lianxin put down the water scoop, "Be good and help Second Aunt to pick out the eggs from the chicken coop. Yes, yes, yes, just take the small basket at your Second Uncle's feet."
"Okay," Gu Qingqing said readily, "I estimate there are about ten or twenty. I haven't picked any in half a month." They have been really busy recently. The entire production team has been working non-stop and almost forgot that their chickens have laid eggs.
The current slogan is: vigorously develop pig farming and support national construction.
Their team has a pig farm and professional breeders, and every year they pay the state 400 to 500 fat pigs weighing more than 130 to 150 kilograms.
Villagers just raise chickens and ducks, and there is no limit on the number of them.
I heard from Uncle Zhao that there are a lot of piglets born in the pig farm this year. I wonder if the surplus ones can be distributed to the villagers to raise.
Never mind. Probably not.
Gu Qingqing carried a basket and went to the vegetable patch in the backyard. Han Lianxin peeled the old vegetable leaves and threw them beside the fence for the chickens to peck at. She bent down and picked up a full twenty-seven eggs from the pile of firewood next to her.
"Oh, so many?" Han Lianxin was cutting vegetables in the kitchen. Seeing her bring back so many, she was happy but also a little worried: "Eggs tend to go bad in the summer. Darling, shake them to see if there are any bad ones. We'll eat the old eggs first, and Auntie will make you some egg pancakes."
"Take the fresher ones to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. Ten eggs are only 55 cents now!"
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