Li Chen suddenly opened his eyes wide, showing an expression of disbelief, "You mean?"
Liu Gang nodded helplessly.
Li Chen was a little dumbfounded and asked quickly, "Why did Uncle Liu do this?"
"He's just the leader. All the county leaders are involved. It's inconvenient to explain because there are so many people on the road. I'll tell you after we leave the city."
Hearing him say that, Li Chen had no choice but to suppress his doubts in his heart. He turned to look at Liu Yunqin, smiled apologetically and said, "Yunqin, I didn't know this matter was related to Uncle Liu, so I cursed him. Just pretend you didn't hear it, okay?"
Liu Yunqin bared his teeth and said, "If it were my fifth brother, it would definitely not work, but this is what you said, Brother Chen, so it has to work."
Liu Yunxiao's face darkened as he slapped him on the head, but he didn't say anything.
Li Chen breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his care for him over the past two years was not in vain.
The group quickly arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative. It happened to be office hours and the door was already open.
Liu Gang and a few others stayed outside, while Li Chen accompanied Liu Yunqin inside to buy a car.
After buying the car, I took him to register the license plate.
After everything was done, he went to the door of the supply and marketing cooperative to meet up with a few other people and drove towards Zhou County.
After leaving the city, Li Chen asked Liu Gang in the back seat while pedaling, "Uncle Liu, is it convenient to talk now?"
Liu Gang didn't answer, but instead asked a seemingly irrelevant question, "Xiaochen, have you noticed the changes in population in recent years?"
"Population?" Li Chen thought for a moment and answered hesitantly, "The population seems to have increased. It's much larger than when I was a child."
"That's right, that's the root of the problem." Liu Gang sighed, "Ever since the drought a few years ago, the population has exploded. Take your family for example. You only have five brothers and sisters in your generation, but the next generation will have more than ten. Although your eldest and second brothers don't plan to have more children, you and your sister will definitely have more. In the future, it will be normal to have more than fifteen children.
The number of people in the next generation is three times that of the previous generation. Think about it, how many people will there be in your family in the next generation?
Our county already has a large population, and there are also many people living in the city. Although the county has sent many people to the countryside in recent years, the actual population of the city is now larger than it was two years ago. Based on your family's ratio, and the standard of one generation every fifteen years, you can imagine how many people there will be in the city in more than ten years.
The most important thing is that this is not only the case in our county, but also in other areas;
The food that city dwellers eat is all supplied by the countryside. Although the rural population is also increasing, there is only so much land and only so much food can be produced. What will happen if one day the land cannot meet the city's consumption?
The higher-ups have also noticed this problem. Last year, a document was issued that, while not explicitly stating the need to control population growth, implicitly stated it. To find a suitable method, county leaders held meetings for two weeks before finally coming up with this idea.
Since we can't control the marriage age, let's add a threshold to eliminate a group of people and discourage them from having more children. Do you understand now?"
This passage contained a lot of information, and it took Li Chen a while to digest it.
To put it bluntly, the county has planted the idea in people's minds through propaganda that they cannot get married without the three turns and one ring, so as to eliminate men with poor family conditions.
And with this requirement, even families with better conditions have to control the number of sons they have.
Otherwise, if you have too many children, how will you find a wife?
After thinking it through, Li Chen secretly clicked his tongue. This plan was really cruel.
Then he nodded and said, "I understand, Uncle Liu, but this strategy only works against city dwellers, not farmers. According to what you said, the population in the countryside is also growing. What does the county plan to do?"
"The method is similar. The county requires seventy-two legs when promoting a wedding in the countryside. That's also a considerable number."
In the past, when people got married, they mostly prepared thirty-six legs, which were things like wardrobes, chests of drawers, beds, and stools.
Only a very small number of well-off families would buy seventy-two legs, and in comparison, they would have to buy additional items such as bedside tables and coffee tables.
But the problem is that these pieces of furniture are not fixed, but can be changed. That is to say, whether you use expensive large pieces of furniture or cheap chairs, as long as the legs are sufficient, it will be fine.
Thinking of this, Li Chen asked, "Uncle Liu, what if they use chairs to make up the numbers?"
"It's okay. The promotion also comes with a furniture list."
Li Chen: ...
The county's thinking is so comprehensive that it makes people cry...
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Liu Gang didn't continue the topic and changed the subject to talk about other things. Liu Yunxiao and others also interjected from time to time.
In this way, the group rode their bikes and chatted, and arrived in Zhou County without noticing the passage of time.
Led by Xiong Xue, everyone came to the street office.
The layout here is similar to that of the Tang County Street Office. The room is filled with tables, and there is a staff member in front of each table.
They chatted, laughed, drank water and slept, looking very relaxed.
As soon as she entered the door, Xiong Xue looked around. After a moment, her eyes lit up and she walked quickly towards the innermost part.
She came up to a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties and asked with a smile on her face, "Aunt Zhu, do you still remember me?"
The woman who was chatting with her colleague was stunned for a moment. Then she turned her head to look at Xiong Xue. With just one glance, she answered with certainty, "You are Xiong Xue."
After she finished speaking, she suddenly realized something and showed a look of astonishment on her face, "Didn't you go to the countryside? How did you come back?"
Seeing that she recognized him, Xiong Xue smiled even more happily. "My in-laws found me a job, so I came back. Aunt Zhu, I came here this time to thank you for helping me change my place of work to Zichang County. Secondly, I need to transfer my household registration, so I'd like to trouble you for your help."
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