Chapter 60 Advantages: The "Lion King" is old; who will succeed him...?
Zhong Ying wasn't just talking; she seriously included "becoming the next captain of the Tonggan Production Team" in her life plan.
The significance and impact of a female leader are self-evident, just as Zhong Ying could foresee the many benefits of having a female barefoot doctor in the production team.
Even if the impact is limited, and may only affect the people in one village, with Zhong Ying in the Tonggan production team, other women in other production teams will eventually stand up. Only when one ant after another contributes its own strength can the tree be shaken.
Breaking down gender barriers is never a triumph of individual heroism, but rather a result of "them" working together to create half of the blue sky.
Zhong Ying was carefully considering becoming the next team leader of the Tonggan production team.
First of all, the current production team leader, Li Ming, is fifty-four years old this year. Modern people of this age would jokingly say that they are halfway to the grave, but in today's context, his sixty-nine-year-old aunt is the longest-lived person in the Tonggan production team. To put it bluntly, Li Ming could actually be said to be two-thirds of the way to the grave.
Therefore, Li Ming can be considered to have entered old age. Just like Fan Wu declined the position of scorekeeper at the previous commune member election meeting because he was willing but unable to continue, Li Ming will also step down from the position of production team leader sooner or later. Aging is a natural law that humans cannot escape.
The Lion King is getting old, who will be his successor?
After considering each member of the production team in her mind, like sifting wheat, Zhong Ying finally only had one candidate left—Li Gang.
Although Zhong Ying thought Li Gangshi was arrogant (looking down on women), hypocritical (having two faces in public and private), and rigid (sticking to old rules and disliking change), if Li Ming stepped down, the members of the production team would most likely vote for Li Gangshi to become the new team leader.
Li Gang's strengths are just as obvious as his weaknesses.
He is Li Ming's son, and Li Ming has been a responsible and dedicated production team leader for many years, earning him a high level of trust from the people. Naturally, this goodwill will transfer to Li Gang.
The general level of education among the people in the production team was not high. Only the younger generation had attended the village primary school for a few days because Li Ming set up the village school. Li Gang, on the other hand, grew up in a family that valued education. He had completed junior high school and was considered one of the more educated people in the production team.
Third, he is a man.
The last point is brief, but if Zhong Ying puts herself in Li Gangshi's shoes, assuming that she and Li Gangshi had the exact same advantages in the first two aspects, if they were actually on a 1v1 election stage, the members would still most likely vote for Li Gangshi, simply because he is a man. This is an advantage that current social thinking gives him.
Of course, Li Gang didn't always have this advantage.
Just after Li Linshi returned as an educated youth returning to his hometown.
Li Ming's son, Li Linshi, is also educated and cultured; Li Linshi is also educated and has even completed university; and coincidentally, he is also male.
It's no wonder that during that period, the people in the production team all forgot about Li Gangshi and regarded Li Linshi as their new successor.
The successor placed his hand over Zhong Ying's eyes, and Li Linshi could clearly feel the pupils rolling under the thin eyelids. He sighed silently, "Aren't you going to sleep? It's so late. If you don't sleep now, how will you be able to get up early tomorrow morning to go to work?"
Li Linshi is in such a terrible state that he doesn't need to sleep, but Zhong Ying does, and she likes to stay in bed in the morning. Li Linshi can already foresee how difficult it will be to wake Zhong Ying up tomorrow morning.
Zhong Ying turned over, facing him directly, her eyes burning brighter than the moon.
Although it was a bit immoral to think that way, Zhong Ying felt the same way Li Gang did at that moment. She looked at Li Lin with the same affection she would give a dog, and said, "It's a good thing you're dead."
Li Linshi was even more helpless. Without Zhong Ying needing to emphasize it again, he now clearly understood what his advantages were.
He would no longer be anxious about comparing himself to the living, nor would he entertain any thoughts of possessing another's body or stealing someone else's. When Li Linshi saw young men on the street, he was now completely indifferent, because he had an advantage that no one else had—he was the only one who was dead.
"Okay, I understand," Li Linshi said, forcefully covering Zhong Ying's eyes with his hand, his tone filled with helpless coaxing, "Go to sleep."
Zhong Ying obediently closed her eyes, but her cerebral cortex remained active.
If Li Gangshi was a stumbling block on her path to becoming the production team leader, then Li Linshi was the real obstacle.
While he could move stones, Zhong Ying wasn't powerful enough to be a Wu Song (a legendary Chinese hero known for his strength and skill).
Li Linshi was hailed by everyone in the production team as a "golden phoenix that flew back." His personal brilliance was so overwhelming that it directly killed the game.
However, just as Li Gang was relieved, such a powerful opponent has already left the table. As for Zhong Ying, she still has a fighting chance against Li Gang.
Li Gangshi is Li Ming's son, so Zhong Ying is practically Li Ming's daughter. A son-in-law is practically a son, but a daughter-in-law isn't? So, roughly speaking, Zhong Ying is Li Gangshi's daughter.
In terms of education, Zhong Ying is a graduate student. She believes that her level of education ranks first in the entire production team, and no one can rank second. Although on the surface she only has a village primary school education, that still means she is educated.
Finally, Li Gangshi was a man, and Zhong Ying was... oh, she wasn't.
Zhong Ying began to rack her brains for a solution to the third point. The debate over whether or not one had a penis was very disadvantageous to her, and it might even be the decisive factor. There was no way around it; in this era, in such a small mountain village, a penis was a symbol of nobility.
After a long pause, Zhong Ying finally came up with a plan – “profit”.
As the ancients said, "The world is bustling with activity, all for the sake of profit."
To prevent the production team members from voting for Li Gangshi simply because he is a man, Zhong Ying needed to offer something more compelling. In most cases, tangible benefits could overcome anything, including the imbalance of gender roles.
For farmers, what is their most tangible benefit? It's the harvest from the land.
Zhong Ying flipped over and pinned Li Linshi down, her eyes sparkling. "I'll make your dream come true!"
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After the start of summer, the weather became increasingly hot. At noon when the sun was at its strongest, Li Ming called a halt to the work in the fields and asked the villagers to take a short break under the shade of a tree.
Even though she could only rest for about ten minutes, Zhong Ying still took out a notebook from the pocket of her short-sleeved, stand-up collar cardigan and started reading it as soon as possible.
Li Ming walked over and took a look. No wonder it looked familiar; it really was his youngest son's notebook.
"Studying?" Li Ming gave Zhong Ying a kind smile.
Zhong Ying looked up at the sound and nodded.
Li Ming felt gratified, his face showing an expression of "the child has grown up and finally knows how to be ambitious." His usually serious and stern face softened even more. "Can you understand it?"
Although he asked the question, Li Ming already had the answer in his heart. After his youngest son died, he, his eldest son, and his second eldest son had all read the books and notebooks he left behind. After all, his youngest son studied agricultural mechanization, and it would be good if it could help with production. However, they could only understand a little bit of what they read and their heads were spinning.
Zhong Ying nodded again.
In fact, if Zhong Ying were to look at it herself, all she could see from the notebook was that Li Linshi's handwriting was quite good and that his mechanical structure drawings had a unique industrial beauty... After all, she was an art student, and she chose the humanities stream when she had to choose between arts and sciences.
But Zhong Ying has an "extra advantage"—one-on-one meticulous tutoring from a professional teacher.
In Li Ming's eyes, Zhong Ying was quietly reading her notes;
In fact, Li Linshi was standing right next to Zhong Ying, explaining to her page by page, "A deep-plowing plow is a plow with different types of loosening shovels attached to the back of a seven-inch or eight-inch plow. When plowing, the front plow turns the soil, and the loosening shovels follow to deepen the furrows left by the front plow, only loosening the soil without turning it over. The advantage of this is that it can generally achieve a plowing depth of 33-50 centimeters..."
Zhong Ying tried hard to stay alert among the various nouns and numbers, even though she was already feeling a little dizzy from listening.
Li Linshi pointed to the diagram in his notebook, "This is a curved-post double-layer deep tillage plow. It has a curved shovel made of flat iron attached to an eight-inch plow. The flat iron is 100 cm long, 5.5 cm wide, and 1.5 cm thick. A hoe-shaped blade, 15 cm wide, is installed at the lower end of the curved shovel and is secured to the adjusting tooth plate..."
As he spoke, his slender fingers moved across the diagram, meticulously pointing out the corresponding positions of each part to Zhong Ying. But as soon as he turned his head, Li Linshi stopped talking.
"Can you still learn?" Li Linshi asked, looking at Zhong Ying's listless eyes with some concern.
Zhong Ying calculated that the last time she attended a math class was in high school. She went to college to study art, and besides her major courses, she only had English and politics as her cultural courses. Who would have thought that after transmigrating, she would experience the fear of being dominated by science and engineering!
but……
Zhong Ying shook her head, trying to clear her mind. She took a deep breath and, as if summoning the courage to plunge into water, plunged headfirst into the sea of learning.
She can learn! Farmers' interests lie in the harvest from the fields, and improved farm tools can increase production efficiency, which determines whether she can win the hearts of the people and become a candidate for the next team leader!
She'll study until she dies, or even die trying! Nothing can stop her from becoming captain!
Seeing Zhong Ying working so hard, Li Ming quietly walked away without disturbing her. Like countless parents, he thought: "As long as the child knows how to study, that's enough. Don't worry about whether she can learn it or not. If she has this kind of enthusiasm, she should be encouraged and supported!"
And so, Zhong Ying began a life of "going to work - studying in her spare time - going to work - studying at home," engaging in both physical and mental labor, even more "busy" than she had been in modern times.
"If only I had chosen industrial design instead of game design, at least it would have been somewhat related..." Zhong Ying sighed, rubbing her head, which was heavy with knowledge.
In the past week or so, Zhong Ying felt that she had gotten to know Li Linshi again. He truly deserved to be the hope of the entire Tonggan production team. He returned home with the skills he had learned, but unfortunately, he met with the calamity of falling into the water before he could put his ambitions into practice.
Zhong Ying also deeply realized that words are easy to say but difficult to do.
Will she fulfill Li Linshi's ideal?
Although these were nice words she used to get herself the production team leader, they were really difficult to put into practice. Zhong Ying wanted to give up several times, but she persevered and studied only because of her willpower.
She's like Yang Zhiqing back then—not cut out for it, but she's doing it anyway, doing things she's not good at, and it's painful, incredibly painful!
Zhong Ying leaned back weakly in her chair, remaining motionless for several minutes before suddenly jerking up. "This won't do!"
She looked at Li Lin and said, "I'm going to set up a few reward mechanisms, dividing each part of the content into a level. Learning it is like passing a level, and there will be a reward for passing the level..."
What keeps players grinding daily tasks in games? It's the rewards!
Studying was too hard, so she wanted to find something sweet to enjoy.
Zhong Ying, being a former game developer, brought her game-related skills into her studies, instantly revitalizing her previously barren spirits.
Li Linshi nodded in agreement, thinking that was a good idea, and then listened to Zhong Ying continue.
"After I finish learning about animal-drawn tractors, I'll reward myself by sleeping with my head on your abs, wrapped in a bath towel."
"After learning how to improve the seed-planting plow, the reward was a chest muscle massage. I've been wondering for a long time whether it's soft or hard."
"After learning how to use the spiked roller and the active rake, the reward is to personally explore and study the muscle structure of the back muscles."
Zhong Ying rustled the pages of her notebook as she spoke, becoming more and more excited.
"Convert a double-wheeled plow into a harvester, and as a reward, enjoy a solo male panting segment..."
"What is all this nonsense?" Li Linshi, embarrassed and angry, covered Zhong Ying's mouth. If she continued like this, he would be stripped naked and turned over and over again by her!
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Author's Note: Zhong Dahuang Yatou Ying: I'm tired of studying, so I'm going to play around with a male ghost!
The professional content on agricultural implements comes from the book "The Creation, Improvement and Comprehensive Utilization of Agricultural Implements in my country".
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