The days passed slowly and leisurely. After the beginning of spring, other members of Hongxing Commune, because they enjoyed the benefits of selling sweet potatoes and pumpkins last year, cleared more wasteland where they could, and then planted sweet potato vines between their private plots and fields.
In addition, they planted sweet potato vines or pumpkin vine seedlings wherever they could grow these things.
For a time, growing crops became popular throughout Hongxing Commune.
After the beginning of spring, everyone watched the members of the Red Star Commune working vigorously and non-stop. The surrounding commune members were jealous.
In this era, everyone's life and money are similar, and the days of every household are also similar.
But Hongxing Commune has become an anomaly in this general environment. Not only can they make money by selling some sweet potatoes and pumpkins from time to time, but they can also work part-time on farms from time to time to earn money to support their families, but they can't get any benefits.
We are all members of the commune, and there are many people who are relatives between the communes. Everyone knows everything by just talking.
This has caused many members of nearby communes to have objections. Spring has just begun and the rice planting season has not yet come. Everyone has little work in the fields and is idle.
But Hongxing Commune is different. People are clearing up wasteland and going to farms to pick up pig manure. Duck manure also fertilizes the land. There are also farms in southern Jiangsu that have raised a new batch of ducks and want to build duck sheds. The village has provided a lot of labor force.
Help build the duck shed, and the money can be paid when the ducks are sold.
Seeing everything in Hongxing Commune prospering, everyone couldn't help but feel unbalanced.
Because they are not from the Red Star Commune, they can only stay at home and live on their own laurels, or go to the mountains to collect some dry firewood for firewood. They have no chance to make money at all. Can this be balanced?
The commune members below were full of complaints, and the commune cadres were also having a hard time.
During the day, those commune members who had strong opinions stayed in their own communes, and from time to time they asked the cadres of their own communes whether they could open a breeding farm in which village. Although everyone was asking the cadres for their opinions, it was obvious that they were asking for their opinions.
Red Star Commune is doing so well, it’s time for you to catch up.
Then there was the matter of Sunan’s massive purchase of agricultural products from the commune. Since a batch was harvested two years ago, it has never been harvested again. So everyone encouraged the commune to find a way, saying that they failed to catch up last time and asked Sunan to purchase it again.
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Putting these things together, as long as it is a commune near Red Star Commune, the cadres of every commune have been complained by the members without stopping.
But they can't have an attack, after all, what everyone said is true.
The cadres of the commune got together to discuss. Everyone felt that the trouble was caused by the breeding farms in southern Jiangsu. Ever since the land was nationalized and everyone had a big pot of rice, for so many years, everyone had been farming together honestly and peacefully.
It's been decades.
But suddenly a Red Star Commune breeding farm appeared, which made other nearby communes very passive and difficult to behave inside and outside.
The first person to lose his temper was Ding Chongshan, the party secretary of the Zhangu Commune. He was so angry with the commune members that day that he rode another bicycle to the Qingxian County Government.
Ding Chongshan knocked on the door and shouted to Jia Shixin, "Jia Party Secretary, this Red Star Commune simply doesn't intend to leave a way for our Zhangu Commune to survive. After the beginning of spring, they started to reclaim wasteland, saying that the breeding farm wants to harvest sweet potatoes and pumpkins. How much more attention should they pay?
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I'm not saying, in this era when everyone earns work points to support a large family, they can just follow us and earn work points, so why bother? It has made our commune's life uneasy now."
Jia Shixin had also heard about the unrest in several communes in Qingxian County. Last week, Jia Shixin organized a meeting. The party secretaries of several communes did not like Party Secretary Wang of Hongxing Commune and gave him a hard time.
For such things, Jia Shixin simply shouldn't be too familiar with it. If he can't deal with the family members of high-level people in Beijing like Zhang Guilan, why can't he deal with these people below?
Jia Shixin asked his secretary Liu Yan to pour tea for Ding Chongshan, and looked at him with a smile, "Old Ding, look at you, what are you saying when you come here early in the morning? Let's drink a cup of tea first to calm down the anger.
Let’s talk it over if we have anything to say. The Xiaosongzhuang Breeding Farm run by Red Star Commune is not for others, but to make the commune members live a better life. This is good and we must support it.”
Ding Chongshan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and said angrily, "But this is for the good of their own Red Star Commune, so that their members can live a better life. It does no good to our Zhangu Commune.
Moreover, our commune members are complaining. Although they have not stated it explicitly, it can be seen that they have strong opinions on us in private. This is all a good thing done by Red Star Commune. Secretary Jia, I came here this time just to ask why they are like this.
How long are you going to keep fussing about?"
Secretary Jia's expression remained unchanged and he said to Ding Chongshan, "There is nothing we can do about it. There are so many members of Hongxing Commune, and they are all waiting for the breeding farm to raise them and give them more money.
You can't just look at how prosperous they are at doing this, but you can't see their hard work. Comrade Sunan from the Red Star Commune is a model of working people. She is still a lesbian in her twenties.
She had to take care of her family, and she had to go through wind and rain. Not only did she have to come to the county town to attend meetings and report on her work, but she also had to complete the work of the Women's Federation. Most importantly, there were too many things going on at the breeding farm. She never had a day off throughout the year.
There are also employees at their Xiaosongzhuang breeding farm. They have made money, but they are not easy. The pigs have recently given birth and they are afraid that the pigs will have difficulty giving birth. They are guarding them day and night. Raising rabbits and ducks is also very hard. Even
I haven’t even had a day off during the Chinese New Year,
Not to mention leisurely going to the commune to complain every day like you do, you don't even have time to sleep every day, and live like a war every day, do you think it's easy for them now?"
Ding Chongshan os, "How about if they don't ask me for such hard work? I would rather work hard like this."
Ding Chongshan also knew that although he had a hot temper, he could not compete with Jia Shixin, an old leader. He could not compete with Jia Shixin in terms of words.
In desperation, he acted rogue, "Secretary Jia, if they are having such a hard time, why not give up the quota of the breeding farm to our Zhangu Commune?"
This sentence was a joke. After all, the breeding farm was now located in Xiaosongzhuang, Hongxing Commune. Although he was jealous, he could not move the breeding farm.
"Secretary Jia, I won't be verbose. In fact, I only have one request for coming here this time, which is that there are still some members of our commune who haven't caught up with the acquisition of Xiaosongzhuang last time. You can ask Comrade Sunan from Red Star Commune to come over.
Help us harvest these things, and also promise us to grow sweet potatoes and pumpkins, so that we can sell them for money when the harvest is good."
This was the reason why Ding Chongshan rode all the way to the county seat on such a cold day. He had benefited from Sunan last time, and this time he planned to discuss business directly with Sunan and include their commune in supplying breeding.
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Only in this way can the members of the Red Star Commune eat meat and they also taste the sweetness, so that they can give an explanation to the members of their commune.
Jia Shixin did not agree to Ding Chongshan's request, but spread his hands, "As you know, although I approve of this breeding farm, I have left all matters to Comrade Sunan, and I don't know their situation.
, I called her to ask her opinion."
So Jia Shixin called Sunan and asked her to come over.
After receiving the news, Su Nan also rushed to the county government on her bicycle. After hearing Ding Chongshan's request, she was a little confused.
She asked the members of the Red Star Commune to plant these things, mainly because the farm really needs so much, but the amount planted now is a bit too much, and the batch of grain harvested by the farm has not been used up yet. After a while,
If you don't eat it, it will go bad.
She couldn't stock up on food that couldn't be stored for a long time, no matter how cheap it was.
"Um... Secretary Ding, I can only tell you that I'm sorry for this. Our farm has purchased tens of thousands of kilograms of grain a year ago, which is enough to last for the past few months. We won't be able to hoard it any more."
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And you also know that these grains can’t be stored for too long, and they will definitely spoil a lot in two months. I really can’t collect this, but we can collect more rice bran and corn. If there are still more, you can send them to us.
If the commune comes, it can also encourage its members to plant more corn."
Although Sunan rejected Ding Chongshan, he still had some leeway.