nycdaug Chapter 307: He is the production team leader, and his job is both cowardly and aggrieved
Chapter 307: He is the production team leader, and his job is both cowardly and aggrieved
In order to complete the steelmaking task, all units have been busy for several months like a motor. The employees are already exhausted and tired, and during the few days of New Year holiday, they just want to have a good rest.
Zhou Chuanyi wrote a letter to Zhou Rong, wanting to invite her and her father to return to Zhoujiawan to celebrate the New Year.
As the New Year approaches, more people start shopping. Zhou Rong's cloth shop and clothing store are doing very good business. It's tiring to run around with the children, so Zhou Rong wants to rest for a few days.
Anyway, she already knew the situation in Zhoujiawan through Zhou Chuanyi's letter, so there was no need for her to go back.
After Zhou Chuanyu learned that Zhou Chuanyi wanted to dig a pond, he dispatched another thousand people to help in the name of "mining".
With more people, the work can be done faster, and the pond was dug in early December.
In order to prevent and control floods, Zhou Chuanyi said that when he asked everyone to dig a pond, he also dug many ditches nearby to facilitate drainage, which would also facilitate water diversion when irrigation was needed.
During the months of the Great Leap Forward, due to a lack of fuel, all the forests that could be cut down in the commune area were cut down. Every production team was trying to get firewood, and Zhoujiawan also had to complete its task.
Zhou Chuanyi said that it was fortunate that he listened to Zhou Rong's advice and kept a few forests, otherwise he would have nothing to hand over.
The few remaining forests have been cut down by half, and the cleared areas have been cleaned up, which will be used for transplanting fruit trees after the beginning of the year.
Zhou Chuanyi said that the areas that had not been cut down should be kept first, so that in case steelmaking was needed again in 59, at least there would be something to report.
Zhou Chuanyu also followed Zhou Chuanyi's advice and joined forces with several good friends to advise the county leaders to rush to harvest the grain in the fields. So far, there is no situation of grain rotting in the fields in Qingping County.
The road from the commune to Zhoujiawan is under construction again and is expected to be completed at the beginning of the year...
Everything is under control, Zhou Rong can spend the New Year in the city with peace of mind...
Zhou's mother once asked Zhou's father to ask Zhou Jiahua and Zhou Jiafu if they wanted to go back to Zhoujiawan for the New Year. The two brothers unanimously refused, saying that they didn't want to go anywhere and just wanted to lie in bed for three days.
Zhou's mother felt sorry for her two sons, so she asked Zhou Rong to write back to Zhou Chuanyi, saying that they would not go back home this year and would celebrate the New Year in the city.
Xie Cuilian sent some new clothes and preserved food to her parents and brothers early on. After receiving the packages, Old Man Xie and his family once again became the envy of the Xie Village...
Because Zhou Chuanguo and Zhou Chuantai lived in Zhoujiawan, their sons and daughters-in-law rushed back on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month to reunite with their family.
In the fourth quarter, everyone was busy making steel and eating in public canteens. Few people grew vegetables. The vegetables from Zhoujiawan Vegetable Base became in short supply. They were all ordered by major canteens in the county and could not be supplied to vegetable stores.
Therefore, Zhoujiawan’s four vegetable stores in Jiangcheng and the county seat have not yet resumed business.
Moreover, the situation in the city is not suitable for opening a store. Only a few people cook at home. After the store opens, it may not be able to sell the dishes quickly. If the dishes rot in the store, it will be a big loss.
Zhou Rong suggested that the base continue to supply vegetables to the county canteen, and it would not be too late to open the four vegetable stores once new policies were introduced in the city.
As long as the vegetables from the fields can be sold, the villagers don’t care where they are supplied.
When Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing took the approval document given by Zhou Chuanyu to negotiate the supply of vegetables with the major canteens, they flattered the person in charge and talked about the difficulties of the villagers. They set the settlement time of the payment to one week, and a few units settled the payment once a month.
The heads of all the canteens are aware of Zhou Jiawan’s background and do not want to offend Zhou Chuanyu and the connections behind him, so they will settle the food bills within the specified time and there has been no arrears for the time being.
When dividends were distributed at the end of the year, each household in Zhoujiawan received between 30 and 80 yuan. This was a little less than last year, mainly because less grain was sold this year.
Every day Zhou Chuanjing would ask the accountant to write down the amount of food consumed by everyone on a small wooden board and make it public. He would also tell everyone at the meeting that the weather was uncertain during the early spring period and that if there was a drought or heavy rain, it would directly affect the early rice harvest.
In order to prevent everyone from going hungry, the food in the warehouse has to be kept and only sold in small quantities.
If Zhou Chuanjing didn't want to sell any grain, the people at the grain station would not agree. They said that Zhoujiawan announced "1200 kilograms per mu" at the autumn harvest report meeting. If he didn't sell the grain, it would be difficult to report to his superiors. Zhou Chuanjing really didn't want to sell the grain.
The villagers agreed with Zhou Chuanjing's explanation. As long as the grain was not given away as a gift, it would be fine to sell less, as they would all eat it anyway.
Moreover, compared with other production teams, they at least got a few dozen yuan. After paying the public grain, many production teams had no grain to sell and no way to share the money, including the consumption of the public canteen. This was the case with Yanglinpo next door.
Some families don’t even have money to buy New Year’s goods!
This year, each family did not receive any money, and the villagers complained, and Lin Dahe was also helpless.
He had long said that the way public canteens were run was not desirable, but no one listened!
The harvest in the fields was not good to begin with, and everyone was eating and drinking without restraint. Now that they had no food to sell and could not get any money, they came to complain to him, saying that other production teams produced thousands of catties per mu, or even hundreds of thousands of catties per mu, but why did Yanglinpo only produce two or three hundred catties per mu? !
He also said that the people in Zhoujiawan received a lot of money this year, but Yanglinpo got nothing, which must be caused by the incompetent production team leader.
What's even more outrageous is that a group of people led by Yang Kaigui secretly went to the team leader to report that their production team wanted to change a team leader.
When Lin Dahe learned this, he was almost angry to death.
The poor harvest was caused by God's unwillingness to give us food to eat. What does it have to do with him? !
It was not his request to open the public canteen, and he did not let everyone eat and drink to their heart's content. Now there is no food to sell and no money to share, so why should the responsibility be put on him?
Lin Dahe felt that his job as the production team leader was a shame and aggrieved.
Lin Dahe didn't want to step down. Once he lost his position as production team leader, one could imagine how hard it would be for him in Yanglinpo.
He secretly gave gifts to the team leader and the branch secretary, and only then was the squad leader saved.
Those who reported the crime were also firmly remembered by Lin Dahe...
Yang Kaiyun's family is now penniless. While others are happily buying New Year's goods, they can only sigh in front of their parents.
The work points their family earned were not even enough for food rations. If the public canteen had not contracted out their food and drink, they would have owed money to the production team.
They didn't care whether the production team distributed money or not, because they didn't get any share anyway.
They just hope that Daniu's injury can heal quickly, and that Yang Jinlin and Feng Qiaolan can send some money home...
During the Great Steel Production Campaign, Daniu was curious about how steel was made. When Yang Jinsen was arranged by Lin Dahe to go to the commune to participate in the steel production, he also went along.
Yang Jinsen was afraid that something might happen to him on the construction site and didn't want him to go with them, but he couldn't stand him rolling on the ground and insisting on going.
The family couldn't do anything about Da Niu, and Yang Kaiyun also thought that it would be fine if they just watched from a distance.
Yang Jinsen had no choice but to take Daniu to the steelmaking site and repeatedly warned him not to get close to the steel furnace.
Daniu agreed verbally, and when the adults were not paying attention, he quietly approached, wanting to see the steelmaking process with his own eyes...