More than a thousand years ago, the ancestors of the Yao family migrated all the way south from Henan. When they reached the current location of Yaojia Village and could no longer walk, they settled down and slowly formed Yaojia Village, which then evolved into more than a dozen villages.
The current Yaojia area was formed.
Yao is a popular local surname. According to statistics, one-quarter of the more than 80,000 people in Sanshan Town have the surname Yao, mainly concentrated in the area centered on Yaojia Village.
Today, except for the elderly, fewer and fewer people know about this period of history. It is only during the New Year and festivals that we discover that we and the people of Yaojia Village have the same ancestor.
Because the ancestral hall is in Yaojia Village.
What does not match such a large village is the dilapidated ancestral hall.
What does it mean to honor one's ancestors? When the descendants become prosperous, the ancestors will also be honored.
It is necessary to rebuild the ancestral hall.
The whole village, old and young, are busy with work and are even happier than during the New Year. There is no need to hire people to build the ancestral hall. There are many talents in the village. If Yao Yuan had not strongly opposed it, Yao Zhenhua would have hired people from the village to build the new house.
There is no problem in building the ancestral hall. There are many people engaged in construction in the village. As long as there are materials, every household will work according to their population, just like during the production team period.
Men were the main force in leveling the site and digging the foundation, while women took care of the logistics, cooking, and cleaning up the garbage. Boss Yao asked to build underground pipes to divert rainwater and sewage, and to build a row of residential buildings next to it.
Bungalow, including equipped kitchen and bathroom.
So we hired two technicians from the school to draw pictures and start construction on site.
According to the opinions of Mr. Yao and the old branch secretary, the ancestral hall should have three large rooms. The middle room is for the memorial tablets of ancestors, and the left and right are the memorial tablets of gods. The middle room is facing the theater, and there should be two rooms in between.
A small square that can accommodate the whole village, old and young, to watch a play.
There were more than a dozen young and middle-aged people gathered around to discuss, especially those who had been to other places and seen the world. They came up with ideas one after another, which made the two designers confused.
However, they are miserable and happy because this is the hometown of the big boss.
Yao Yuan has nothing to do, everyone only needs him to do one thing - get money.
For this reason, Yao Yuan specially asked Yu Tieli to return to the city to marry him with one million cash, and let everyone rebuild the ancestral hall in the highest standard and the most elegant way.
He simply took Yu Tieli and Jiang Yong to follow Yao Hu to inspect the crop planting situation in the village, and started investigating the fields.
The area where Yaojia Village is located is in the south, with abundant rainfall and fertile land, but few people grow rice because compared to rice, sugarcane has higher economic returns, which shows how low the economic attributes of current rice crops are.
As someone of the same age, Yao Hu seems to be a seasoned farmer, while Yao Yuan looks like a young man in the city, and many crops are even unrecognizable.
Yao Yuan has never farmed for a day in his two lifetimes, and his understanding of crops is limited to theory.
It's just him. Yu Tieli and Jiang Yong are very familiar with farm work and crops. They are both rural children. They have helped with farm work since they were young. They are both familiar with each other.
Seeing the rice, Yao Yuan thought of Mr. Yuan who passed away not long before his rebirth, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion. He knew very well that China's food security was no problem and would become stronger and stronger, all thanks to Mr. Yuan and other agricultural scientific researchers.
The dedication of personnel.
But when it comes to the commercialization of agricultural products, China has not done well enough, even thirty years later. The market is flooded with a large number of foreign products, or produced by domestic companies that have been acquired or controlled by foreign capital.
That is no longer a national capital enterprise.
"Compared with industry, the burden of agricultural modernization is heavier, and the road to commercialization of agricultural products is even more difficult. My main business is machinery development. If the equipment is not good, I will import advanced foreign equipment. If the technology cannot keep up, I will spend a lot of money.
If you can’t buy it, organize experts to study it and invest a lot of money.”
Yao Yuan followed Yao Hu and walked forward on the field ridge, "Theoretically speaking, as long as you invest enough money, it is not difficult to catch up. But agriculture is different. The growth of crops cannot violate the laws of nature.
It is a commodity with very low added value. I often think pessimistically that it may take twenty years before our agriculture can basically realize modernization."
In fact, modernization has not been fully realized even after thirty years.
Yu Tieli said, "Farms in the Northeast are highly mechanized. From the Songnen Plain to the North China Plain, and then to the Central Plains, they have done a good job."
"Mechanization is only one aspect." Yao Yuan said.
Yu Tieli said, "Before I took a leave of absence without pay, Xilin Farm issued a document striving to achieve 80% coverage of mechanized irrigation during the Eighth Five-Year Plan period. We have already gone abroad to inspect the introduction of relevant equipment."
The Eighth Five-Year Plan refers to the Eighth Five-Year Plan, from 1991 to 1995.
"The leaders of Xilin Farm are very courageous." Yao Yuan nodded and said, "Ahu, you can go to Xilin Farm to inspect and learn from their experience, and integrate all the fields in our village to form a scale advantage.
Planting should be planned in a unified manner.”
Yao Hu turned around and said, "I'm just afraid that everyone won't agree."
There are private plots, responsible plots, and contract plots. Just look at the narrow ridges of the fields under your feet and you will know that everyone would love to have an extra inch of plots. If they were all integrated, you can imagine how great the resistance would be.
Not even the president of the country can control this kind of thing, let alone Yao Yuan.
He smiled and said, "Let the old branch secretary come forward and ask the town to coordinate. We have to give it a try."
Yu Tieli said, "Ahu, large-scale planting is not just a matter of quantity. After unified planning, it will also be beneficial to increasing the yield per mu."
"Let me give it a try. I have promised Ayuan that I will definitely work hard to accomplish this. If it weren't for Ayuan, our village would be the poorest among the dozen or so surrounding villages." Yao Hu said.
As they talked, they walked deeper into the field. There was an irrigation well inside, and they were surrounded by rice fields. Suddenly, a shout came from behind - A Yuan!
They stopped and looked back, and saw a fat figure chasing up the field ridge with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
It's Lin Wei.
"Maybe something happened." Yao Yuan said with a wry smile.
Jiang Yong suddenly became alert and took out his mobile phone, "I'll call Xiaohu."
"There's no signal, don't worry. I guess it's Fei Wei's fault, don't be nervous." Yao Yuan said.
Jiang Yong took a look and found that the signal grid was indeed empty.
Lin Wei chased after him, out of breath.
Yao Yuan said, "Why did you come to me if you weren't staying at home?"
"No, it's okay. What are you doing? Farming?" Lin Wei put his hands on his knees and asked.
Yao Yuan ignored Lin Wei and signaled Yao Hu to move forward and continue talking about Yaojiacun Agricultural Company. Here, land integration is the foundation and the biggest problem. People don't just need to see benefits, the most important thing is
The government must come forward to ensure that the ownership and use rights of the land will not change. This only refers to within the village. Nowadays, farmers do not understand land laws. They only know that every inch of land passed down from generation to generation
No less.
Yao Yuan had no better way to explain this to everyone. In desperation, he could only tell Yao Yuan, "It is impossible to achieve absolute fairness. From the population of each household and the farmland owned by each household,
Calculating shareholding and dividend ratios based on area is probably the most appropriate method at present."
Although Yao Hu's grades were not very good when he was in school, he went to junior high school after all, and he worked hard at farm work for several years. He often went to the county town to sell pigs, ducks, chickens and geese. He came into contact with many people and gained wider knowledge.
, I strongly agree with Yao Yuan’s views.
Rural routines are also deep, intrigues are staged every day, and the village intelligence center is never quiet every night. Today it is not your ox cart that runs over the corner of my house, but tomorrow it is my ox cart that runs over your farmland, or maybe
The sewage from your house flows to the back of my house...
Don't think it's a trivial matter. It's often because of these things that you use a knife or a gun.
It's such a trivial matter, let alone the issue of farmland integration and re-planning that involves the vital interests of the whole family.
"Ayuan, this matter is very difficult. I can only say that I will try my best. If the village cannot organize it, I will find a few like-minded people, such as our classmates in the same class, and we will do it together.
This matter." Yao Hu said seriously.
Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Don't be too stressed. You won't become fat if you eat one bite. Take it step by step. Many people think that farming does not require technology. In fact, on the contrary, agricultural technology is a serious high-end technology, and the most important thing is to use technology."
It's exactly agriculture. Ahu, you are still young, you can learn about it."
Yao Hu has an indescribable feeling. He is obviously the same age. Even when he was a child, Yao Yuan used to run behind him and was a very timid person. But now he feels like a person in his forties or fifties.
His tone of voice is more mature than the teacher's.
Maybe this is why people can do big business?
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Yao Hu said, "I'm afraid I won't be able to continue studying. I have three children, and the fines for the last two have not yet been paid. I treat one day as two days, and there is no extra time at all."
"You, you, you have three children?" Yao Yuan's eyes almost popped out.
According to rural folklore, the two of them are 21 years old, but in fact they have just turned 20. In other words, when Yao Hu gave birth to the baby, he had not yet reached the legal age for marriage...
Yao Hu felt strange about Yao Yuan's reaction, and said matter-of-factly, "Yes, all three of them are sons. I was unlucky to be caught, so I can only accept the punishment. But I am not the unluckiest, remember Yao Chong? We three
The one who studies best in the second grade class."
"Remember, study committee member, Yao Jia Shang Village." Yao Yuan said.
Yao Hu said, "He was unlucky. The first child was a girl. When the second child was almost eight months old, family planning officials came to the village to arrest her. His wife did not run away, but they were arrested and the child was aborted. Some time ago,
I even visited him."
Hearing this, Yao Yuan's face suddenly darkened, "Aborted an eight-month-old fetus?"
"Yeah." Yao Hu lowered his head and could vaguely see the veins on his neck trembling.
He said, "That happened the year before last. I heard that I was pregnant again."
Yao Yuan slowly raised his head and looked from a distance. The vast land was filled with crops, and the bright sun hung sideways. No matter how you looked at it, this was a beautiful world...