Liu Yuanhu came in with his head lowered and called out first: "Chief." Then he stood still and said nothing.
Yun Suji said: "Why, you are mute? I think you are quite prestigious in the village."
Liu Yuanhu's face turned red and he said: "Chief, I..."
"You don't need to say it. You do have a bit too much authority in the village. However, if you have to do a good job, you won't be able to do it without a bit of authority." Yun Suji lit up the cigarette, "But you are so imposing." Most of them are just for work, so I don’t blame you. Everyone is doing it for the great cause of the Senate..."
Liu Yuanhu's eyes suddenly turned red after hearing this. He raised his head and said: "Chief, I dare not say that I don't have any selfish thoughts, but I am really loyal to the Senate. I just want to take it out and show it to the chief. also!"
Yun Suji waved his hand and said: "Don't get excited. Why are you such a good man with red eyes? When you are a cadre, you are not afraid of what others say. How can you do big things if you are so afraid after hearing a few rumors?"
"Yes! I remember it!"
"How do you want to deal with this matter, Mrs. Cao?"
"Give her the pension!"
Yun Suji shook his head: "It is right to return the pension to her. I am talking about the fact that she hanged herself in the village office."
Liu Yuanhu scratched his scalp and said: "Well...since she is fine, let this matter be over..."
Yun Suji said: "You are the militia captain, so naturally you are also the village security committee member."
"yes."
"How did you read the "Public Security Committee Work Manual"?" Yun Suji shook his head and said, "Is there one here? Give me a copy."
Liu Yuanhu hurriedly took it out from the bookshelf. Yun Suji took it and took a look. Except for the red official seal of "Borang Village Office" stamped on the cover, it was just like new. This method of issuing service manuals is to adapt to the low level of grassroots civil servants and provide "fool-style" guidance - it seems to be ineffective.
He opened the book, turned to one of the pages, pointed to the text and said, "Are you literate?"
"I have attended literacy classes and can read, but not very well at writing..."
"How do you say this?"
"Any behavior that interferes with the work and environment of the office premises in government agencies and public units will be punished as 'disrupting the government and public institutions' and will be punished accordingly depending on the severity of the case..."
"Do you understand?"
Liu Yuanhu read it several times. His eyes lit up, he nodded vigorously and said, "Yes! Chief. I understand."
“Where is the police stationed in charge of your village?”
"Our village has a small number of villagers, and we share a settlement with the nearby Boli Village." Liu Yuanhu said, "It's not far."
"Since a suicide case has occurred, it should be reported to the police as usual. Let him come over early tomorrow morning to take notes."
"Yes, Chief." Liu Yuanhu was about to go out when Yun Suji stopped him again, "I heard everyone said there is a labor reform team here. Who can run it?"
"The county can handle it," Liu Yuanhu said. "Each village captured people and sent them to work for a few days. Each township had a squadron."
Yun Suji nodded: "Okay, I understand."
Yun Suji talked to the village cadres one by one and gained a deeper understanding of the situation in the village. The three village officials spoke more clearly than they did yesterday.
He also had a rough understanding of the village's finances. Han Daoguo said that in recent years, a lot of road and water conservancy construction has been carried out in order to "striving to be a model" and "create advanced". Because the village has no real economy and no income, it can only "raise funds" from the villagers. However, the fund-raising was not smooth, and forced methods had to be used to collect it. Even so, the village still suffered a loss.
"...I still owe the Tiandihui project money. We have already levied the money once this year, and everyone has objections to the levy again. We just rely on this little money." Han Daoguo defended the matter of withholding the pension.
Yun Suji knew there was something in this statement, but he was not an auditor, so he couldn't figure it out for a while. I just listened to what he said and silently memorized the key points, preparing to write it down in my notes for reference during the Cheka's annual audit.
Han Daoguo complained again, saying that the village office had no office expenses. The county gave the village office thirty acres of "service land". These thirty acres of land are tax-free and are farmed by the village cadres themselves. The agricultural products are the expenses of the village office and the "official" subsidies given to the village cadres.
"The income from these 30 acres of land, let alone subsidies for us, is not enough to cover the village's expenses." Han Daoguo rambled, saying that although working in the village can require labor service. But if you are required to do labor service, you have to take care of the food, and you have to work every day. There are many projects in the village, and just feeding the laborers is an expense. "When the work is completed, we also have to eat a meal of white flour and pork. Where does the money come from? They are not all dug out of the soil. I am not afraid of your ridicule, chief. Last year The deficit I incurred is still not covered yet..."
Yun Suji smiled and said: "So you are all just obeying the public in vain."
Han Daoguo's face turned red and he said calmly: "This is not..."
He stood up and walked a few steps and said: "Don't talk about this business land, let's talk about your own land. Which of you cultivated it yourself? Aren't they all recruited from the village to work for you white people? You should I don’t know? How else could you play chess in the village hall in broad daylight!"
Han Daoguo's face turned from red to white, and he couldn't say a word.
"I can figure out what you are doing with my eyes closed. You should stop being careless." Yun Suji said, "I don't care about these things now. You can first explain the true financial situation of the village!"
Han Daoguo became more honest now. He said that it was true that the village's accounts were in deficit, and the number was not small. The reason is the same as mentioned above: it was delayed by infrastructure construction. However, the village's fund-raising event has actually been held three times this year, and the villagers' opinions are very strong. Fan Twelve was afraid that he would offend the villagers and someone would go to the county to file a complaint, so he did not dare to come for the fourth time.
"Why are there so many losses? Doesn't the county provide subsidies for all these construction projects?" Yun Suji said in surprise.
"Chief, the subsidy is indeed provided, but there is also a self-funded part. We are a model village, and there is a constant stream of people who come to visit and learn from it all year round. The county, township, Tiandihui... and various inspections are also conducted. We only entertain visitors. Eating is a big expense..." Han Daoguo complained.
"Don't people who come to the village on business trips get meals and pay directly to the farmers? Your county doesn't provide meal subsidies when you go on business?"
"Chief, you are a saint like you! Can the cadres from the county and the countryside be given away with a bowl of sweet potato porridge and a few pancakes? They have to bake a pancake and a bowl of noodles. If not, they have to have rice and rice with some pickles and pickles. ." Han Daoguo said, "We sent it to the villagers, but the villagers found it troublesome, and the comrades who came on business trips couldn't eat well. That's why the village designated a family that specializes in cooking..."
"So the comrades who come to the countryside just pay for sweet potato porridge and pancakes and eat pancakes rolled with eggs?"
Han Daoguo said quickly: "Chief Mingjian! Our village office is too small to be in a small yamen. If we don't provide good hospitality, we won't be able to win many things. The model brand may not be preserved. There is nothing we can do about it... …”
"Okay, don't say it anymore!" Yun Suji became more and more angry as he listened. Unexpectedly, in less than two or three years, the grassroots level already had this kind of virtue!
County Magistrate Liu, you are the only model county! Yun Suji understood as soon as he heard this that this phenomenon was by no means an isolated phenomenon. Maybe someone was eating pancakes rolled with eggs without even paying for the sweet potato porridge.
After asking questions, Yun Suji rested in the village hall. There was a kerosene lamp in the village hall, and he wrote his experiences under the lamp. He went to the countryside many times, but he had never been so completely immersed in eating, living and working with farmers as he was today. He had never felt the pulse of rural life so clearly. Today I really benefited a lot.
This is still a model village. If we go to ordinary villages or backward villages, we still don’t know what the situation will be like. Yun Suji thought to himself that there were many problems in grassroots work, and there were also big problems with farmers' emotions. A sense of comfort in dawdling can be clearly felt among most villagers. However, a few grain households cannot develop due to various restrictions, and their enthusiasm has been dampened.
Judging from what I have seen today, farmers have not received proper management education and are very opportunistic: speculative and loose, have no sense of time (working hours are calculated by the day, and can only be accurate to morning and afternoon, and have no organizational discipline). Such farmers Useless to the cause of the Senate.
Too much labor is a problem, but it is obvious that labor does not affect normal production. What really affects production is those grain households with large planting areas and many side jobs. How to balance the relationship between the two is a question that needs to be discussed.
Yun Suji strongly disagrees with some people's proposal to replace the current "labor levy" with a "labor service payment" system. The Daming Dynasty in front of him is a typical negative example. The one-whip method has a good starting point and has had a certain effect for the time being. In the end, it became a rope in the noose that strangled the peasants in the late Ming Dynasty. Perfect interpretation of "Huang Zongxi's Law".
"The collection of labor must be scientific, quantitative, and standardized." He wrote this line in his notebook. "We must come up with a scientific standard to see where the limit of the burden is. Provide as much labor as possible without affecting production. A lot of hard work..."
He thought of the groups of women making shoes and needlework on the roadside at the entrance of the village, the men beating their wives every now and then, the elderly and children doing nothing at home... These all fully demonstrated that they still had too much free time. We must make full use of people, the most important resource, and bring them into full play.
He then thought that there were still too few side businesses in the village. Apart from raising cattle and a small number of chickens and ducks, almost no one was raising pigs. Many people responded that the homestead area was too small, and the breeding area was reserved during the original design. Just not enough. If you follow the traditional practice of building a pigsty next to the main house, the county health police disagree and say it is "illegal."
In addition, there is almost no business in the village. Logically speaking, a village with nearly 500 people should have a small oil and salt shop... (To be continued.)
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