Chapter 164 Production Team Meeting (1)
Later, Taotao no longer paid any attention to Fang Ying and Zheng Yamei.
But she watched coldly and saw that Fang Ying was quite flattering towards Zheng Yamei, as if she was trying to please her on purpose.
As for Fang Ying...
She had been scolded by Taotao and Tang Liren last time, so this time she didn't dare to mention staying here overnight. She just said that she came here to have some fun with the water delivery team.
The lake water in Lingxi Oasis provides food for residents within a radius of 100 kilometers.
People drive to get water and need to queue up to wait for the water pump to pump water. The satellite town would send three vehicles to transport water each time. The time spent in the oasis queuing for water depended on how many vehicles were collecting water that day, and was approximately two to three hours.
So, in just over two hours, Fang Ying and Zheng Yamei became good friends.
Before leaving, Zheng Yamei even cut a blooming rose from a rose tree grown in Taotao's greenhouse and gave it to Fang Ying.
After Fang Ying left, Zheng Yamei hurried over to ask Taotao, "Sister Bai, can we pick those roses just now?"
Taotao chuckled, then took Fang Ying into the greenhouse, walked to the corner, pointed at a few shelves and said, "Look, only the things on this shelf and in the corner can be picked and eaten by ourselves. Apart from this corner, it's best not to touch the others."
Last year, Deng Gaoyun and Song Zhi built a few wooden frames here. Taotao piled soil on the frames and planted vegetables, fruits, and some beautiful flowers and plants.
Zheng Yamei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good! Fortunately, I often see you picking some vegetables here... Most of the plants grown in other places are plants that I don't recognize..."
Taotao started to tidy up the wooden shelf.
——Zheng Yamei and Yu Bai are also going to live here, and I don’t know how long they will stay, so I’d better grow more vegetables.
Zheng Yamei also helped to sort it out.
So she told Taotao what she and Fang Ying talked about today.
After that, she said to Tao Tao: "Sister Bai, don't be angry. My mission is... I can't avoid talking nonsense with Fang Ying. Don't mind it!"
Taotao smiled and said, "I don't mind!"
Why not have someone protect her from being disturbed by Fang Ying, the unlucky god?
Zheng Yamei continued, "My relationship with Fang Ying today is just the first step. I will gradually tell her about Mr. Song's situation and tell her that you told me all of this... At the same time, I will also tell you everything I told Fang Ying so that it won't be exposed in the future."
Taotao nodded with a smile.
Song Zhi held his youngest son and stood at the door of the greenhouse calling Taotao.
Zheng Yamei, "Sister, go ahead and do your work. Leave the things here to me! It's just loosening the soil, right?"
Taotao nodded. "Just loosen up the soil in these wooden boxes and sprinkle some water on them. You don't need to sprinkle too much, just a thin layer will be fine."
After giving the instructions, Taotao walked out of the greenhouse.
Song Zhi stood at the door and said to Tao Tao, "...the two production brigades in Lingxi Oasis are about to hold a meeting. Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu sent someone to ask you to go over and listen."
Taotao: "Then let's go!"
So the family of three went to the other side of Lingxi Lake.
There was a flat sloping ground with a few benches placed on a high position. The cadres of the two brigades sat on each side, while the villagers sat casually on the ground.
Xiao Feibai was running around here with Niu Niu and the children in the village. When he saw his parents and his younger brother coming, Xiao Feibai hurried over, hugged his parents, looked at his younger brother, and then continued to play with the children.
Tao Tao silently counted the children who were screaming and running wildly at the scene...
There are at least forty or fifty people, big and small!
It's time to put the construction of a rural primary school on the agenda.
The villagers in the second brigade were not very familiar with Taotao, but the villagers in the first brigade were particularly enthusiastic towards Taotao's family.
Qiao Yingniang yelled at the top of her lungs, "Comrade Bai! Comrade Song! Come... come sit over here with us. We have a good spot, sheltered from the wind and with plenty of sunshine!"
Taotao walked over with a smile.
Song Zhi followed with his youngest son in his arms.
Tao Tao asked casually, "What is the topic of today's meeting?"
"Refuse to eat!" said Qiao Yingniang.
Tao Tao was stunned, "What?"
Xiao Qingjuan, who was sitting with Qiao Yingniang, explained:
"Our place is too desolate. When the whole country was fighting the Liberation War, there were no Yellow Army or White Army here! It's too poor, you know? It's not worth it for them to station troops here! After liberation, our Red Army came... and fought against bandits here!"
"Oh, it was really tragic back then. I heard... no family was intact. Most of them had lost their parents. My grandparents died at the hands of bandits. My parents raised my uncles..."
"We didn't live here originally. It was only after liberation that the state asked us to gather here and set up a production brigade!"
"The country also sent the Construction Corps here to protect us and let us help plant trees to improve the environment here, hoping that we can be self-sufficient. But the environment here... Feifei's mom, you can see that even trees can't survive! So every year the country sends us relief food through the Construction Corps!"
"But this year, our Captain Jiang has decided not to accept the relief grain! Not only do we not accept it, we also want to encourage the people in the second brigade not to accept it... Today's meeting is for this!"
Qiao Yingniang expressed a different opinion. "In my opinion, why do we have to refuse food? Is there anyone who thinks they are too full? Besides, it is only this year that we have Comrade Bai's guidance, so we can barely have enough food. But who knows if God will give us food next year?"
"What if we don't accept the relief grain distributed by the state this year, and our harvest is not so good next year? The state says, 'You didn't want it last year, so we won't give it to you this year either'... What should we do then?" Qiao Yingniang said indignantly.
Taotao tilted her head and looked at Jiang Hongzhi who was not far away.
Jiang Hongzhi was discussing something with Lan Caizhu, the production team leader of the Second Brigade.
Around them, there were about a dozen brigade cadres standing in various postures, seemingly listening attentively to their conversation.
Honestly speaking, Taotao didn’t think highly of Jiang Hongzhi before - he was too utilitarian, a little short-sighted, and only paid attention to the surface when doing things.
But now…
He actually had the guts to refuse the state's grain subsidies and wanted to drag the Second Battalion into it?
If this matter fell into the eyes of the people in the first team with less ideological awareness, they would think that what Jiang Hongzhi did was thankless and ostentatious. In the eyes of the villagers of the Second Battalion, Jiang Hongzhi wanted to make things difficult for their Second Battalion, so he injured one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred of his own!
But Taotao felt that Jiang Hongzhi had really changed.
She really wanted to hear Jiang Hongzhi's thoughts and find out why he did this.
After a long while, Jiang Hongzhi looked at the villagers sitting on the hillside and thought that most of them should have arrived, so he signaled to the brigade cadres around him.
The brigade cadre held a loud speaker and began to shout, "Everyone, be quiet! Be quiet... Our Lingxi Oasis Village Committee, the First Production Brigade, and the Second Production Brigade Villagers' Meeting will begin now! Please be quiet! Be quiet!"
It makes no difference.
The villagers sitting on the ground were still chatting and laughing.
Someone took out a gong and banged it a few times, and then everyone gradually quieted down.
Jiang Hongzhi took the loudspeaker from the brigade cadre and began to speak——
"Fellow villagers, comrades! On behalf of the cadres of the Lingxi Oasis First Production Brigade, I would like to report to you our harvest this year! This year, I would like to thank all the villagers for their hard work, and thank the male comrades for going to work every day, creating an absolutely excellent attendance rate in the brigade where no one asked for leave, was absent from work, or left early!"
Wow, is this true?
In the first production brigade this year, not a single person asked for leave, was absent from work, or left early? ? ?
Everyone was stunned.
Taotao sat in the crowd and led the applause without hesitation!
Gradually, a large group of people began to applaud sparsely.
Most of the time, it was the women cheering for the men.
Tao Tao shouted even louder: "Male comrades of the First Production Brigade, you are all great!"
The applause became louder.
Most of the men felt a little embarrassed and squatted on the ground scratching their heads.
Jiang Hongzhi looked at Taotao in the crowd, smiled, and continued: "We want to thank the female comrades in the team, you are all heroines! You hold up half the sky! You work no less than the men! You are the pearls of the desert! You are the most beautiful and kind people!"
He spoke again, and the applause died down.
In this era, people's emotions are very restrained.
When Jiang Hongzhi first started praising the male comrades, the atmosphere would have been impossible if Taotao hadn't taken the lead in applauding and cheering.
Now Jiang Hongzhi is praising female comrades in such a disgusting way...
——The women would be lying if they said they were unhappy or not touched, but they always felt a little embarrassed in their hearts and their faces were burning.
Oh my, every woman is like this!
Taotao smiled and began to clap again, "Ladies of Lingxi Oasis! I am proud of you! You are the most hardworking and kind-hearted women in the desert!"
Song Zhi let the child in his arms rest his head on his legs and clapped along with him.
Gradually, the men of the First Production Brigade also began to applaud the women.
Xiao Qingjuan's eyes were red. She sniffed and began to clap vigorously.
The warm applause shook the sky.
After a long time, the applause gradually died down.
Jiang Hongzhi also thanked the elderly for sharing most of the housework with their children at home, and thanked the children for being obedient and caring more about their parents...
Next, Jiang Hongzhi picked up the report he had prepared in advance and began to report to everyone.
It is mainly to report on this year's harvest of the Lingxi Oasis First Production Brigade.
Everyone, including those from the Second Production Brigade, listened attentively.
Potatoes, the total harvest from two seasons is more than 20,000 kilograms!
Five hundred ducks are ready for market, and another three hundred plus ducks will be ready for market in about two months. And before the end of the year, we should be able to harvest another batch of loaches from the duck pond...
In addition to nearly 3,000 kilograms of wheat, there are vegetables harvested from the greenhouse every month and shared with the people in the production team...
There are also several hundred kilograms of cotton, several hundred kilograms of green onions, several hundred kilograms of corn, and several hundred kilograms of sugarcane, which can also be shared among the production team...
The more everyone listened, the more excited they became.
sky! The First Production Brigade has such a good harvest this year? ? ?
The people in the First Production Brigade were extremely excited, and the people in the Second Production Brigade were extremely envious.
But then, Jiang Hongzhi changed the topic -
"Fellow villagers, have you heard about the snowstorm at the end of last year?"
Everyone nodded.
Jiang Hongzhi, "Although the heavy snow last year did not have much impact on us, in Tangquan Town, 200 miles away from us, houses collapsed and many people were killed and injured... They lost their food rations, and even the potato seeds they used for planting were all destroyed. The trees they worked so hard to grow also died... The indicators for these trees cannot be met, and their subsidy grain this year will not be too much, and many of their people were injured..."
"Fellow villagers, I want to ask, do you have any relatives in Tangquan Town?" Jiang Hongzhi asked again, "If so, please raise your hands."
At that moment, at least 30% of the villagers raised their hands.
Jiang Hongzhi: "Fellow villagers, you can put your hands down... So, I want to ask those villagers who have relatives living in Tangquan Town, will you help your relatives in Tangquan Town?"
The villagers spoke up.
"Of course! We can't just watch people starve to death!"
"We must get him treated! That's my mother's family! My uncle has a broken leg... He's a strong man, and life at home will be difficult!"
"My second uncle lives there. If he hadn't saved me when I was a kid, I would have died long ago!"
"I've made up my mind. As soon as the team distributes food, I'll send 20 kilograms of potatoes over!"
"If I get a share of ducks, I'll send them to my cousin's house. If they can lay one egg a day, that'll solve the problem!"
…
Jiang Hongzhi waited patiently for a while.
Until the discussion among the crowd gradually died down -
He picked up the loud speaker and continued, "Fellow villagers, our individual strength is very limited! Can sending a duck or 20 kilograms of potatoes save the people who have been hit by the disaster and are unable to recover?"
The scene was silent.
Jiang Hongzhi said: "...I believe everyone already knows my proposal, but I have never explained it to everyone in person. Now, let me give you a brief introduction."
Jiang Hongzhi proposed, "We should give up this year's batch of relief grain issued by the state and donate it to the neighboring Tangquan Town. Do you agree?"
As soon as he proposed to refuse grain and donate grain to a specific area, the whole audience immediately became excited...
Mainly the 30% of villagers who have relatives in Tangquan Town are trying to persuade the 70% of villagers who are unwilling to donate grain.
"Donate your ass! I don't even have enough to eat!"
"This year, the food we grow is more than double what we produced last year. How can it not be enough to eat?"
"I won't donate even if I have enough to eat. I don't have any relatives living in Liquan Town!"
"Things change over time! What if we are hit by a disaster one day? Do you hope that the folks in Tangquan Town will come to help us?"
"We can't donate all of it! That's 100 kilograms of potatoes and 30 kilograms of flour for one family!"
"Stop talking, let's listen to what Captain Jiang has to say!"
Jiang Hongzhi waited until the scene gradually quieted down, then he continued with the loudspeaker: "Fellow villagers, we are only giving up this year's relief grain, and next year's relief grain will still come. We do this only out of sympathy to the villagers of Tangquan Town! And, this is also to reduce the burden on the country!"
"Fellow villagers, you must remember that severe drought four years ago. All the trees we planted died! Not a single tree survived, and most of the trees we planted two years ago also died... Even our oasis, our Lingxi Lake, the clear and delicious water is about to dry up, and it tastes bitter and alkaline!"
"Fellow villagers, we didn't meet the tree planting target that year, so the government shouldn't have given us enough grain subsidies... But the government still gave us grain! Not only did the government give us grain, but the three nearby towns also gave us some of their grain rations! If you have a good memory, you should still remember... how small the potatoes we got that year were!"
"They weren't rich at the time, and it was even harder for the country to feed so many people... But they didn't give up on us! Now it's our turn to be able to feed ourselves, but they've suffered a disaster. Tell me, should we repay this favor?"
The 30% of villagers who had relatives living in Tangquan Village were excited.
"should!"
"Flower-growing children are one family! When one is in trouble, all others will come to help!"
"Did you hear that? It's just donating this year's money! It doesn't say we don't need it for next year!"
"We should be kind to each other. They have helped us. Now that we have the ability, we should repay them!"
“We agree!”
"agree!"
Jiang Hongzhi picked up the loud speaker and said, "Now, please raise your hands and vote collectively, members of the Lingxi Oasis First Production Brigade! We... the minority obeys the majority! If more than 80% of people agree, then it will stand! As long as more than 20% of people oppose, this proposal will not stand! Did everyone hear clearly?"
The whole audience was silent.
After a pause, Jiang Hongzhi continued: "Now - let's start voting by raising our hands!"
Jiang Hongzhi was the first to raise his hand.
All the cadres in the First Production Brigade also raised their hands.
Xiao Qingjuan and Qiao Yingniang also raised their hands...
Taotao looked around and found that almost everyone in the First Production Brigade raised their hands?
Jiang Hongzhi, "Please put your hands down."
"Now - those who disagree with refusing or donating grain, please raise your hands," Jiang Hongzhi continued.
——No one raised their hand? ? ?
Qiao Yingniang asked a man in a low voice, "You were the one who was shouting so loudly just now! Didn't you say you didn't want to donate grain? Why are you willing to donate now?"
The man was a little embarrassed. "I was thinking back to when we suffered a disaster four years ago... Didn't several people die here? Hua Tanzi's father died that year, and I was also injured. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to recover from my injuries and come back to life..."
"Forget it, forget it. Anyway, we can have enough to eat this year, so let's just donate. We'll work harder next year! Let Comrade Bai and Captain Jiang give us more ideas, even if it means letting us open up wasteland or build greenhouses... It doesn't matter how hard or tiring it is, as long as there is a reward! As long as we can have enough to eat!"
As soon as the man finished speaking, everyone started to question Tao Tao one after another -
"Comrade Bai, can we raise sheep next year?"
"We have a lake here, can we grow rice?"
"Comrade Bai, that sugarcane is so sweet. Can we plant it again next year?"
"Or you can raise pigs..."
Jiang Hongzhi's voice suddenly became excited——
"Fellow villagers! Comrades! Is there no one who objects? Ah, is there anyone who objects? Is there? No... So everyone voted unanimously in favor of this, right?"
The villagers responded to him——
"Donate, donate! Tangquan Town is not having an easy time either!"
"I agree to donate food!"
"Captain Jiang, we agreed that we would only donate this year's grain. The grain subsidy must be returned to us next year!"
"Donate it sooner rather than later. It's not easy for them. If they get the food a day earlier, they can have a full meal!"
Jiang Hongzhi looked at Lan Caizhu, the captain of the second production team.
Lan Caizhu said nothing.
Just as Xiao Qingjuan introduced to Taotao before - this large village of nearly 500 people was built in the early days of liberation when the state mobilized nearby people who had suffered from banditry to live by the water and survive together.
But half of the people are local tribes and half are outsiders, so the village is not peaceful.
Later, educated youth went to the countryside.
Jiang Hongzhi and other educated young people came here and felt the serious xenophobia. Finally, after reporting to the superiors, Lingxi Oasis was divided into two production teams.
Lan Caizhu was in charge of the second team. Most of the more than 200 team members were members of local tribes, and most of them had the surname Lan.
Jiang Hongzhi was the captain of the first production brigade, and most of the people in charge were local people who had moved here after liberation.
Since the teams are divided, competition between the two teams is inevitable.
In the first two years, the First Brigade led by Jiang Hongzhi was inferior to the Second Brigade in terms of cohesion and labor force.
But Jiang Hongzhi was a ruthless man. He set an example for the production team members and led them to work hard... In the next two or three years, the tree planting and potato planting performance gradually caught up with the second team.
Until last year——
Lan Caizhu is illiterate and her policy sense is not as sharp as Jiang Hongzhi's.
Jiang Hongzhi accidentally heard that his superior wanted to open an experimental field in the desert? He immediately remembered that it seemed that each of the nearby oases seemed to have an agricultural scientific research experimental field, and that the collective that took over the experimental field could receive more or less additional subsidies as long as they were willing to cooperate with the scientific research work.
Jiang Hongzhi quickly reported to his superiors and strongly recommended Lingxi Oasis.
Later, Bai Taotao's experimental greenhouse was built here.
It turns out that Bai Taotao is an old acquaintance of Jiang Hongzhi and his wife? And as soon as she arrived, she immediately arranged for the people of the First Production Brigade to get rid of illiteracy, and also gave them various agricultural breeding and planting courses?
The most important thing is that Bai Taotao also taught them how to build a greenhouse to grow vegetables, and asked them to reclaim land, plant an extra season of potatoes, and raise ducks and fish? ? ?
Lan Caizhu also looked at Jiang Hongzhi.
Just now, when Jiang Hongzhi was reporting this year's harvest to the villagers of the First Brigade, she listened very carefully.
Also particularly jealous.
To be honest, she and the villagers of Team 2 saw everything the people in Team 1 did throughout the year, but they didn't take it seriously.
——Because the winters in the desert are too cold and too long, raise ducks and fish?
Too unrealistic!
When the weather gets cold, the ducks will freeze to death. It’s not that no one has ever raised fish in the lake, but the desert climate...if there is a drought, the water will evaporate quickly and the lake water will have a salty and alkaline smell, and the fish will not be able to withstand it and will all die.
This kind of thing has happened countless times in the past!
But because all these things were caused by Bai Taotao, Lan Caizhu... decided to wait and see.
After all, Bai Taotao is a researcher, she should understand the impact of climate and saline-alkali land on the yield of plants, crops and livestock.
Since Bai Taotao dared to guide the villagers to build greenhouses and raise ducks and fish, it proved that she must be confident.
Before the meeting today, Jiang Hongzhi had already discussed this with Lan Caizhu -
"...To be honest, I hope that the Second Brigade will join our First Brigade in refusing to accept this year's subsidized grain and donate the grain to the disaster-stricken Tangquan Town!"
Lan Caizhu slammed the table and shouted: "I respect you, Jiang Hongzhi, for being a real man! But our Second Brigade is not as good as your First Brigade. We have already grown more grain than the standard this year... If we don't accept the subsidy, do you want to watch us starve to death?"
Jiang Hongzhi frowned and said, "It's just a discussion. You don't have to get too excited. We are divided into the first and second teams by Han Wei in this oasis, but outside, people think we are a group."
Lan Caizhu was silent.
Jiang Hongzhi, "I don't want us to become two hostile groups. After all, we are from the same village. Even if we break bones, we are still connected!"
"We donated this time, but you didn't. During the snowstorm four years ago, you also ate the relief food sent by the three nearby towns... You want us to beat the gong and tell them, 'This is the food given to you by the First Production Brigade of Lingxi Oasis. Lan Caizhu and others from the Second Production Brigade didn't give you any'... Is this what you want to see?"
Lan Caizhu gradually calmed down. She looked at Jiang Hongzhi and asked, "So, you are doing this for our own good?"
Jiang Hongzhi, "It's okay if you don't want to talk. I'll do as we agreed just now - I'll tell them that the Lingxi Oasis Second Production Brigade won't even give you a potato! All of them were donated to you by me, Jiang Hongzhi!"
Lan Caizhu: ...
"I'll think about it." Her attitude softened a lot.
However, after she thought about it carefully, she still shook her head and said, "It won't work at all."
Jiang Hongzhi, "So you can put forward conditions... We can discuss anything!"
"Can we talk about everything?" Lan Caizhu asked.
Jiang Hongzhi, "We can talk about anything!"
Lan Caizhu boldly asked, "Didn't you plant potatoes for two seasons? Give us some! And the ducks that are about to be put into the market... give us some too? In addition, give us some of the various vegetables produced in your greenhouse! And, if Bai Taotao still has classes this winter, let us from the second team participate!"
"Sure!" Jiang Hongzhi agreed readily.
Lan Caizhu was stunned.
After a long while, she looked at Jiang Hongzhi in confusion, "You... agree now?"
Jiang Hongzhi said: "We are not giving it to you for free! We are lending it to you, and you have to pay it back with 3% interest next year!"
Lan Caizhu was stunned again.
Jiang Hongzhi explained: "If you don't know how to calculate, I'll calculate it for you! For example, if we give you 1,000 kilograms of potatoes this year and the profit is 3%, that means you have to return us 1,030 kilograms of potatoes next year! The same goes for other things!"
Lan Caizhu fell silent.
When Jiang Hongzhi was in the city, he discussed with Taotao the matter of building a small greenhouse for the Second Brigade, and he was confident about it.
So he said to Lan Caizhu: "Before it snows, you should reclaim the wasteland and ferment the fields. By the beginning of next spring, the land will have been fermented and you can plant potatoes directly! Also, before it snows, quickly get some people to build a greenhouse... Comrade Bai, please teach you how to do it. It's the end of October now. Once you build the greenhouse, plant vegetables right away. The fastest vegetable can be harvested in a month. And even if it's cold on New Year's Eve, it won't affect the greenhouse planting..."
Jiang Hongzhi continued, "Three points of profit is already very fair! If you don't have enough manpower, we will arrange for you to work, and you will get work points! After this hardship, you will be able to catch up with our progress next year!"
"If you don't take this matter seriously, you will lag behind every year when we evaluate advanced people...it all depends on what you think as a leader!" Jiang Hongzhi said.
Lan Caizhu, "You haven't promised me yet, can we also attend the winter vacation classes? Can you arrange a course for us to learn how to read?"
Jiang Hongzhi, "That's no problem! Basic cultural courses don't need Bai Taotao to teach. I and other brigade cadres can teach them! You should go and listen to Bai Taotao's lessons on poultry breeding and crop diseases and pests. Those are the most important!"
After a pause, Jiang Hongzhi said, "Bai Taotao will agree to let you attend these professional courses. If you are worried that she will not agree or will hide it, I can be your guarantor."
Lan Caizhu hesitated for a moment, then said straightforwardly: "Okay! Then we will join you in donating grain this year! As for how much grain we should borrow from you this year, I will discuss it with them later, and then I will write a receipt to you and go to you to collect the grain."
Jiang Hongzhi gave Lan Caizhu a thumbs up.
——Lan Caizhu, the team leader, does things differently from him.
Most of the villagers in the first team are outsiders, including Jiang Hongzhi. Jiang Hongzhi was elected by them, so this kind of thing must be approved by the villagers, otherwise he cannot make the decision.
Most of the villagers in the second brigade are locals, including Lan Caizhu. Lan Caizhu became the captain based on her status as the eldest son and bloodline of the tribe, so she dared to slam the table and directly agree to Jiang Hongzhi's request.
In any case, the two production teams have now reached an agreement.
So Jiang Hongzhi picked up the loud speaker again and said to the production team members of the First Brigade: "Fellow villagers, comrades, let me ask you another question - what is the relationship between the Second Brigade and us?"
The members of the large team looked at each other.
Qiao Yingniang spoke carefully, "Our family is in the first brigade, and my parents and my brothers are all in the second brigade!"
——Qiao Yingniang’s surname was also Lan, and she married a foreign husband. When the team was divided into the first and second teams, they were divided directly according to where everyone lived. To the east of Lingxi Lake is the Second Battalion, and to the west of Lingxi Lake is the First Battalion.
Most people in the village are like this.
It’s just that the first brigade has more outsiders, of course there are also locals; the second brigade is mostly locals, but there are also some outsiders...
Jiang Hongzhi picked up the loud speaker——
"Fellow villagers, the captain of the Second Brigade, Caizhu, has also agreed to donate this year's subsidized grain with us! Because we are a family! We are a family that is connected even if our bones are broken! If our First Brigade donated grain and the Second Brigade did not, how would the people of Tangquan Town view us? We are a whole!"
"So fellow villagers, tell me, from the captain to the team leader, to the team leader, to the team members... are their ideological awareness higher than ours?"
The villagers of the First Production Brigade were stunned.
——Fuck! Their first team had a good harvest this year, but the second team did not... But the second team also joined them in donating grain? So are they eating farts this winter?
Jiang Hongzhi, "So fellow villagers, should we... help the Second Brigade?"
Some villagers in the group immediately refused to do this and pointed at Jiang Hongzhi's nose and cursed him:
"Jiang Hongzhi, you asked us to donate grain based on the premise that we had a good harvest this year! Now we have given up the subsidized grain and eat our own... Oh, and you come out and tell us that we have to lend the grain we grow ourselves to the Second Brigade? I won't do it!"
Jiang Hongzhi ignored the man and continued, "The Second Brigade will borrow as much grain from us this year, and they will return us three percent interest next year!"
Some of the villagers in the first group were impulsive and could not think straight, so they still disagreed and scolded Jiang Hongzhi. Others tried to persuade them quietly, and in the end... the cursing became less and less.
The villagers of the Second Brigade all hung their heads.
Jiang Hongzhi continued to speak through the loud speaker: "Fellow villagers, let me remind you one thing! Are the Second Brigade outsiders? No! They are your relatives, some of them are your closest relatives! They have no food to eat this winter... Can you be so cruel as to ignore it? But the food you lent them and gave them privately... they will not return it!"
The scene suddenly became quiet.
"But! If their Second Brigade borrowed grain from our First Brigade in the name of the public, they will have to pay it back next year! And they will pay 30% interest! Fellow villagers, if brothers and sisters are in need, we have to help, right? Because we are human beings, not animals! We have to be human! But even brothers have to settle accounts, right?"
Jiang Hongzhi then added, "Besides, the Second Brigade won't ask for too much! After all, we are their closest relatives! We can't just watch them starve, and they will definitely return the food they borrowed... Folks, do you agree to lend food to the Second Brigade?"
Taotao sat next to Song Zhi and tried hard to hold back her laughter.
——Jiang Hongzhi is getting more and more powerful! If he were to compete with his brother Dongsheng now for the workers, peasants and soldiers student position, it is hard to say who would be selected!
A group of villagers opened their mouths wide, wanting to refuse but unable to do so.
As Jiang Hongzhi said, could they not lend food to the Second Battalion?
Of course not. No one can watch people around them starve to death...
so?
No matter how unhappy a group of villagers were, they thought that at least it was the government that was helping them. If they borrowed grain this year, they could get it back next year! And you can also charge an additional three percent interest!
I had no choice but to accept it.
On the other side, Lan Caizhu had already conveyed the agreement between her and Jiang Hongzhi.
The villagers of the Second Brigade watched helplessly as the people of the First Brigade... worked like dogs and worked like oxen in the early spring, and also watched helplessly as they built greenhouses, duck ponds and fish ponds. Now that we know their annual output, everyone is trying their best to do something big.
Now, after hearing what Lan Caizhu said, everyone was eager to start clearing the land and building greenhouses...
Who would object?
As a result, the joint meeting of Lingxi Oasis Village Committee, the First Production Brigade and the Second Production Brigade was a complete success!
Later, Bai Taotao was also invited by Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu to work out a labor plan with the cadres of the two production teams. Starting from the next day, the second brigade also began the work of clearing wasteland and building small greenhouses.
Of course, the first team was not to be outdone, and they also started to build a second small greenhouse...
For a while, after the autumn harvest, the people in Lingxi Oasis were so busy that they had no time to rest!
For Song Zhi, the end of the year is the time to accept projects, and he is very busy. In addition, this year there was a troublesome person named Fang Ying also staying in the satellite city. The superiors paid special attention to Song Zhi and arranged two bodyguards for Song Zhi, telling outsiders that they were newly recruited apprentices.
But just like Yu Bai and Zheng Yamei from Taotao's unit, although the two bodyguards are from the Ministry of State Security, if they want to gain a foothold in the satellite city, they must pretend to be professional.
So Song Zhi needs to take some time out to teach those two some superficial professional knowledge...
In this way, Taotao and Song Zhi were busy with their own things, while Xiao Feibai and Xiao Chimo still followed Taotao.
In the blink of an eye, it was the twelfth lunar month and a heavy snowstorm began to fall in the desert.
This year's blizzard is even worse than last year's.
Fortunately, Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu attached great importance to the snow disaster. On the one hand, they organized the villagers to inspect and repair their own houses, production team warehouses and all buildings. Those that were not solid had to be repaired... On the other hand, they organized their own people to inspect each other's repair results, and if the acceptance was not qualified, they would be fined potatoes.
In this way, even if there was a snowstorm, the entire village was not affected.
Everyone stayed comfortably in their own rooms, wearing warm cotton clothes and
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