Early in the morning, there were people standing outside the president's office.
"President, I am the captain of the Linxiang Production Team. Our team is really out of food. Even dozens of five-guarantee households in the township have been without food for two or three days. If this continues, everyone will starve to death.
ah."
Zhao Wei, the president of the commune, said with a dark face, "What's the use of talking to me now?"
"President, didn't you get a large amount of compensation from the machinery factory before? Use that money to buy us some food first?"
"Yes, yes, President Zhao, we really can't hold on anymore. More than half of the more than 100 acres of corn have been eaten by the wild boar, and the wheat will also be eaten up by them. The wild boar is too big and we can't kill it. The village
The old hunter's leg was bitten off by that damn beast."
Everyone complained that wild boars were infested this year, gnawing at will and trampling crops, but the villagers were unable to do anything about them.
"Hey, I'm already trying my best to find a solution regarding the wild boar." Zhao Wei sighed.
He is very tall, has dark skin, and looks to be in his early forties.
To be able to become the president of the commune, he must have certain skills and courage, and everyone also trusts him.
However, this year's harvest was really bad because the machinery factory did not hand over hundreds of corn threshing machines and wheat threshing machines, so everyone could only continue to work by hand, which was inefficient and delayed the summer sowing time.
Now that the autumn harvest is almost here, everyone is hoping that the wheat will turn yellow and the sickles will be cut to harvest new grains. However, the wild boars come out again and make a fuss, and even the new grains will not be available.
"President, you can't just watch everyone starve to death, right?" one of the production team leaders said.
Zhao Wei frowned tightly, "This money is the commune's money. It is reserved to buy agricultural machinery and tractors. It is not money for you to buy grain. You are all captains. You should also know very well that farmers cannot spend money to buy them."
Rice, flour and food…”
"But, we really don't have any food."
"How did you get through the famine in the past three years? Don't you know how to pick wild vegetables?" Zhao Wei asked, "What? After a few good years, you can only eat rice and noodles, and no one can eat wild vegetables?"
"
A shorter production team leader said: "Where are there any wild vegetables in the mountains now? They have been dug up long ago."
"Yes, President, we will come to you together to show that there is no way out..."
Zhao Wei looked at the group of captains with anxious and helpless faces in front of him and felt that they really had no way out. He whispered to the assistant beside him: "Go and find Secretary Xie, hurry up.
Son."
"Yes, President." The assistant nodded.
Secretary Xie was in charge of relief. He rushed to the president's office. After learning about the situation, he told the president the total amount of grain left in the warehouse and told him how much grain could be used for temporary relief.
"Go and replace all this rice with feed corn." Zhao Wei whispered.
"Ah?" Secretary Xie was stunned for a moment, "This... President Zhao, the feed corn is for pigs."
Feed corn is a variant of corn with high yield, short cycle, and cheap price. However, it tastes very unpleasant and is very different from the corn that people usually eat. It is usually used to feed pigs.
"As long as you can eat enough," Zhao Wei said.
Secretary Xie struggled for a while and finally nodded, "Okay."
After he left, Zhao Wei said to a group of team captains who were still guarding the door: "I asked Secretary Xie to approve the corn for you. When I notify you, you can go to the grain station to pick up grain at the latest the day after tomorrow. These two days have passed.
Be patient and help each other.”
"Oh, thank you so much," everyone said, "Thank you, President Zhao."
"Okay, don't thank me and go back quickly."
Zhao Wei said something more, and after everyone left, he sighed helplessly.
Assistant Xiao Li standing next to him hesitated and asked: "President Zhao, why didn't you tell them it was feed corn?"
"If I tell them now, they will most likely ask me for money again," Zhao Wei sat back on his chair and took a sip of water from the cup. "Some things are unnecessary to say, and some things are useless to say."
Xiao Li said: "Aren't you afraid that they will make trouble again?"
"What's the fuss about? They also know what the situation will be like this year. They just need to have enough to eat."
Thinking about the wild boars, Zhao Wei felt a headache. How can we drive away those wild boars?
Just as he was thinking about a solution, the old man who was guarding the door outside the commune ran into the office out of breath and said: "President Zhao, it's not good, then, the director of the machinery factory is here again..."
"What?" Zhao Wei stood up, "Why is he here again?"
After asking the question, without waiting for the old man to reply, he said directly: "Lock the iron door and say I'm missing."
"No, he brought a lot of people here. There are dozens of people with two tractors, and many people are already climbing the iron gate."
Zhao Wei's eyes widened in shock, "What's going on with this man? Is he going to bring someone to fight?"
Shocked and angry, he slapped the table hard and walked out of the office.
Before he could reach the iron gate, someone had already climbed into the yard and opened the iron gate.
"Director Su, come in quickly." The person who opened the door was a worker in the factory.
Su Jianmin took Jinbao's hand and entered the Fuhe Commune compound.
As soon as Jinbao stepped through the door, he saw a few big characters on the wall, "The People's Commune is good."
"What are you doing?" Zhao Wei was furious, his eyebrows raised, "Tell me! Who is the director of the factory?"
Su Jianmin took a step forward and introduced himself: "I am the new director of the machinery factory. My surname is Su and my first name is Su Jianmin. Are you President Zhao? It is really difficult to meet you. We have met today."
"What do you mean by bringing such a group of people in?"
"It's not interesting," Su Jianmin said with a smile, "If you have to say it, it's just a good intention."
Zhao Wei sneered, "Good intention? Good intention is to let your people climb the door and break in without my consent?"
After saying that, he stared at Su Jianmin, looked him up and down for a while, and continued: "Don't think that I don't know what you are here for. Your factory has no money now. If you want to borrow money from me, let me tell you.
There are no children.”
"Uncle Zhao, my father is not here to borrow money from you, but to discuss cooperation with you, a mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation."
Unexpectedly, the little girl beside Su Jianmin would suddenly speak. The anger on Zhao Wei's face dissipated a little, and he looked at Jinbao, "Who are you, little girl? You are young, but you speak quite fluently.
Well."
"I just said 'my father', didn't Uncle Zhao hear?"
Seeing Jin Bao blinking his big eyes twice, with a smart and cute look on his face, Zhao Wei couldn't help but laugh and said to Su Jianmin: "You are very powerful. You brought all your daughters with you when you caused trouble."
"President Zhao, it seems you have misunderstood. I am not here to cause trouble," Su Jianmin said, "I am really here to help you. Of course, I also hope you can help me..."
"How can you help me in a machinery factory that can't even make a threshing machine?"
As soon as Zhao Wei finished speaking, several workers outside unloaded the two repaired machines from the car and pushed them into the compound.
One of the workers said: "President Zhao, this is the corn thresher and wheat threshing machine that our factory director has personally repaired. There will definitely be no problems like before. You can have someone try them."
As soon as he finished speaking, Su Jianmin said to Zhao Wei: "These two are simple. The goal of our machinery factory in the next two years is to produce tractors so that farmers can drive tractors to sow, shortening the sowing period by more than half a month."