"Then let's talk together when Youcai comes over. My dear, let's cook two dishes. Man Yin and Youcai are drinking at home today."
Wang Manyin followed Wang Mancang to Zhongyao, got on the kang and took the cigarette from Wang Mancang. The two began to smoke and chat about village affairs.
Drinking in the village is common, and the food and wine are very simple. You can just have stir-fried cabbage or stir-fried potatoes. If conditions are good, you can grab a handful of peanuts or scrambled eggs, which is considered a luxury.
Wang Mancang is not a stingy person, so he usually eats the highest grade noodles, a plate of spicy and sour potato shreds and a scrambled egg with green onions. This is the village party secretary's noodle dish.
After Wang Youcai also rushed over, Wang Manyin poured a glass of wine for each of the three people. The party secretary was very particular about it. Ordinary villagers would drink white wine or rice wine out of bowls.
"Brother Mancang, captain, the contract responsibility system has been discussed a lot in the village. What do you two think about the contract responsibility system?"
"Manyin, you should come with me to think about this. This is what I want you to advise on. It is certainly a good thing to really implement a contract responsibility system, but have you read the Huangyuan Daily these days?"
Wang Manyin is considered a "capable person" in Guigun Village, so it's not surprising that Wang Mancang seeks out Wang Manyin for discussion.
If he didn't have this kind of influence, Wang Manyin wouldn't want to take the initiative to find two people to implement household responsibility system in Guigun Village. It would be done in one step.
"I've also read the newspaper. Don't you just want to say that the leader said it should be promoted, but the newspaper opposed it, so now you are wavering, right?"
"Come on, Man Yin, you have spoken to my brother's heart.
"Brother Mancang, this is a very simple multiple-choice question. Should you listen to the regional document office or the Huangyuan newspaper? Isn't the answer obvious?"
The promotion of documents in the region is a decision made by the regional commissioner Tian Fujun.
Huangyuan Daily adheres to large collectives, which is the opinion of secretary Miao Kai and Gao Fengge, the district's propaganda officer.
From Tian Fujun's ability to advance to three levels in a row, we can know which side the province supports.
"Our village listens to documents and implements a production responsibility system?"
"Yes, I asked Uncle Youcai to come over so that you can listen to the voices of the masses."
"Secretary, the members are all looking forward to implementing the production responsibility system, and no one wants to live without enough to eat."
What Wang Youcai said was the opinion of most villagers. The production team of Gugan Village was doing well. They could eat enough sorghum and settled a lot of money.
There are still a few lazy, greedy people who like to hang out with the production team, but these people do not represent the majority.
"If you have money, can the production team develop well in recent years? Do the members still support the contract responsibility system?"
"The income is more, but the commune members still eat sorghum rice and substitute melons and vegetables. If the food problem is not solved, the villagers will have more income, but their living standards will not improve much."
When farmers earn some money, they are reluctant to buy fine grains to eat. They save up to buy large items, build cave dwellings, and hold weddings for their children.
"Your production team has tentatively implemented a production responsibility system, but the production responsibility system is also divided into group-based production and household-based production quotas. Which one do you think is suitable for Can Can Village?"
"Production is guaranteed to the group."
"Household production guarantee."
"If you have money, tell me first."
"Secretary, from a political point of view, it is considered a small collective after all. A production team can only have so many large animals, and there are only so many production tools, such as plows and rakes. It is not easy to divide these among the villagers."
"Man Yin, tell me what you think."
"Let me say that it must be a household-based responsibility system. Both household-based and group-based responsibility systems are contract responsibility systems. There is no need to consider the political aspect. Uncle Cai, let's have a group-based system. Those who like to be lazy and slippery, who are you?
Are you willing to team up with them?"
"You can put them in a group with me and I will supervise them."
"Uncle Cai, I know you have good intentions, but it's not appropriate to handle things this way. If you can help one household, how can you help everyone? It's better to directly guarantee the output to each household, and let them have a better life and not work in the fields.
There is no food at home, and there are several mouths for the wife and children to wait for, so naturally we can no longer be lazy and playful."
"How to divide the animals and production tools in the team?"
"After the animals are priced, they are divided equally according to the labor ratio, and the difference in price is compensated by each other. Production tools are purely sold to individuals according to the price. If the members' families are short, they can just borrow each other, and the farming season will not be delayed."
"Where are the sheep?"
"It's divided. If you don't want to raise it, you can sell it to others. Whether it's a big sheep or a lamb, you don't have to worry about selling it."
"Then there's nothing left in the team?"
"Every household has been contracted, and the team doesn't need it anymore. Villagers can't afford the tractors now, so we can keep them in the team and sell them at a discount when someone wants them."
"This...this..." As a production captain for so many years, Wang Youcai is inevitably a little reluctant to part with the collective.
"If you have Uncle Cai, you will get something if you give up. If you think about it, if you think about dividing it into production groups, the villagers still don't have complete freedom. With the household quota, the villagers can finish their own work at home and can arrange the rest of their time freely.
Whether you start a small business or go to the city to find a job, you can add a lot of income to your family. Now that you have freedom and independence, the most important thing is for the villagers."
"Then I'll discuss it with the team members and if we don't agree, we'll guarantee household production."
Hard-working villagers, of course, like to work alone and hope that they will gain as much as they work.
Not to mention those who like to be lazy, they cannot hope that the production team will end and there will still be a production team to restrain themselves.
"Brother Mancang, now we have to wait for the village's support."
"Whether it remains a collective, or whether it is divided into households or groups, I have no objection. Whatever the members want, our Gugang Village will be like that."
In order to make the villagers better, Wang Mancang was willing to give up his hand. The power of the village party secretary was greatly weakened. Wang Manyin still admired him very much.
In fact, the collective model is also very good. If the village party secretary is capable enough, he can unite the villagers, develop village-run enterprises, engage in industry, and develop enough side businesses.
The village can develop better and faster than if the villagers work alone.
It was basically decided that the production team of Gugan Village would implement the household responsibility system, and the three of them began to drink to their heart's content. After drinking, they became very excited. Wang Manyin told the two of them a lot about the development path of Gugan Village in the future.
After the three people chatted, the village leaders became busy. The village committee held a meeting, the production team leaders held a meeting, and all members met to unify the thoughts of all members of Gugan Village.
After the wheat harvest, the commune also issued a notice, arranging for the commune's deputy director, Shao'an's good friend, Liu Genmin to come and help Gugan Village implement household-based production quotas.
The main changes in the leadership of the Shige Festival Commune are that Bai Mingchuan, the former director of the Shige Festival, was transferred to the county as deputy director at the beginning of last year. After Tian Futang became the district commissioner this year, he was transferred to the district as deputy party secretary.
The Shigejie Commune became Xu Zhigong as the director, Liu Genmin, the original secretary, as the deputy director, and Yang Gaohu, the armed specialist, remained unchanged, forming the new three giants of the Shigejie Commune.