Dong Fengshan left Dong Changhe's house with a pale face.
He was not beaten to death by Dong Changhe, but was driven out.
He knew very well that he was finished.
Although he was heartbroken when he was fired from the official position of brigade secretary, he was not sad because he knew that his authority did not come from his official position, but from the support of his clan.
Having been the brigade secretary for several years, although he has some prestige, compared with Dong Changhe, he is not on the same level at all.
Who is Dong Changhe? He was a soldier, went to the battlefield, and killed Japanese devils.
If Dong Changhe hadn't refused and asked to return to the countryside, he would be a state cadre now.
There are two major surnames in Jiahe Village. The Zhang family has always regarded itself as a scholarly family, although it has only produced one scholar.
The Dong family, on the other hand, has a family tradition of martial arts, which means they actually know some farming skills. The Dong family used to sell private salt, which was a life-threatening business.
During the warlords' melee and the Anti-Japanese War, the Dong family produced many soldiers, but the one with the highest official position was Dong Changhe. It is said that he served as a battalion commander in the army.
After driving away Dong Fengshan, Dong Changhe said to the remaining Dong family group leaders: "Don't imitate Dashanzi and engage in confrontation. We cannot succeed by attacking the other party.
It can only be like what Dashanzi said, I don’t have it, and you don’t have it either, we all suffer from poverty together.
We have been poor for more than a hundred years, haven't we been poor enough? What we have to do is not to drag the Zhang family to suffer poverty with us, but to try every means to make everyone rich together and live a good life."
"Fourth Uncle, I don't think we can just focus on the Zhang family's investment.
In fact, for us, the cooperative the Zhang family plans to establish is more promising.
If the Zhang family can run a clan cooperative, our Dong family can also run it, and we can make it bigger and better." Dong Fengming said.
Dong Fengshan was driven away, which meant that he lost the qualification to compete for the clan elders. Dong Fengming naturally hopes to perform well and become a replacement candidate.
"Oh, tell me what you plan to do?"
"The Zhang family can lend loans to help farmers, and we can also lend them.
The Zhang family used the loan to invest in Zhang Jia Pingzi's furniture factory.
We can take out loans to expand the scale of cooperatives, such as raising chickens, pigs, and sheep. We can do this on a larger scale than they do."
"Well, what you said is a good idea." Dong Changhe nodded and praised.
"Fourth uncle, if his Zhang family can run a furniture factory, we can also open a furniture factory. He is not the only one who knows the carpentry craftsmanship. There are also people in our Dong family who can do it. Zhijun also worked in Pingzi's furniture factory and has experience.
We can also go out and find skilled carpenters to do the work for us." Dong Fengqun expressed his thoughts not to be outdone.
"Well, this is your way too." Dong Changhe nodded again and praised.
Then several other people also expressed their opinions.
Dong Changhe also praised him, but he didn't say whose method he used. It wasn't until everyone finished expressing their opinions that he said, "Your methods are all very good, but they all have limitations.
The limitation is to work alone. As I said before, we need to cooperate!
Our Dong family, starting from our ancestors, has never lacked courage and has never been afraid of anything. But when it comes to using our brains, we are always worse than the Zhang family.
You tell me, how many times have I told my children to read more and study hard.
But, has our Dong family ever produced a high school student?
I suffered the disadvantage of being uneducated back then, so I asked you to study more, but you even forgot about it."
"Fourth uncle, we really haven't forgotten this. Those boys in my family are not the materials for reading. They have several discounted sticks, but they just can't read..."
"Yes, my boy refused to go to high school until he finished his studies. I tied him up with a rope and sent him to school. As soon as I walked away, he ran out of school on his back legs. He refused to go to school until he died.
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Several group leaders explained awkwardly.
"Okay, don't explain. They are not reading materials. It is useless to force them to death.
That's why I emphasize cooperation and not confrontation.
Of course, if we follow our example, we will do what others do, and this is also possible.
I think I can learn from the clan cooperative Feng Ming mentioned.
You guys should think about it carefully, we must not only learn, but also come up with new ideas and strive to surpass the Zhang family."
Dong Fengming and others secretly complained, just now you still have to cooperate and not fight, but this will require us to surpass the Zhang family.
Dong Changhe also had a resolute and resolute character, so he ran to the commune to find Secretary Sun that day.
Naturally, he would not complain so superficially, or ask Secretary Sun to use administrative means to force the Zhang family to agree to accept them as shareholders.
Dong Changhe didn't even mention the matter of taking a share, he just hoped that Secretary Sun would make peace with him and resolve the rift caused by Dong Fengshan.
When you go to Beijing next year, don’t exclude the Dong family.
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Zhang Junping didn't know what happened to the Dong family. He was very busy during the New Year.
His family members have never been separated, and some former classmates and childhood playmates come to play with him.
There were also aunts, uncles and uncles from my family who came to inquire about information and inquire about buying shares and receiving dividends.
Although Second Grandpa’s arrangements were very detailed, everyone still wants to hear Zhang Junping himself say it.
This wave of events has not yet passed, and a new job has come to Zhang Junping's head.
Write Spring Festival couplets.
Posting Spring Festival couplets during the New Year is a custom that has not changed for many years among Chinese people.
In later generations, many people began to buy mechanically printed Spring Festival couplets. In this era, there was no mechanical printing, so people had to handwrite them.
A few years ago, when Yang Mingde joined the queue in the village, he often wrote Spring Festival couplets to the villagers.
Not to mention that the entire village's Spring Festival couplets were written by Yang Mingde, or almost half of the village.
It's a pity that they are all old farmers who don't know how to appreciate art, let alone collect it.
The Spring Festival couplets of the great calligraphy master, like ordinary Spring Festival couplets, were posted on the door and were beaten by wind and rain until they were torn off and thrown into the fire at the end of the year.
Now that it's the annual time to write and post Spring Festival couplets, everyone naturally comes to see Zhang Junping with the red paper they bought.
Who told him to be a college student?
Everyone takes it for granted that what college students write should be better than what others write.
This idea may not be accurate when applied to other people, but when applied to Zhang Junping, what he wrote is really good!
It would be fine if just a few people think his writing is good, but everyone thinks so.
He is also the first college student in the Zhang family, and everyone wants to get involved in literature.
Therefore, starting from the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, Zhang Junping continued to write until the 30th of the twelfth lunar month, but he was not finished yet.
There were still a lot of people, and when I saw that there were no more entries, I had no choice but to find someone else to write.
Just like that, Zhang Junping's family became the last in the village to post Spring Festival couplets.