In the late 1980s, even in the fertile northeastern region of my country, the maximum yield of wheat from one acre of land was only 600 kilograms if the annual yield was good. Calculated at the market price of 5 cents per kilogram, the annual income from one acre of land was only 300 kilograms. Yuan, plus the yield of autumn crops, one mu of land costs only 600 Yuan a year. If the cost of fertilizing and watering is deducted, a net profit of 400 yuan per acre is considered an absolute bumper harvest.
In fact, due to disorderly competition in the market and the influx of foreign goods after the reform and opening up, the prices of agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides are generally high, and almost half of the income from an acre of land is spent on these. To this end, the State Council issued the "Notice on Improving the Monopoly Measures for Chemical Fertilizers, Pesticides, and Agricultural Films" at the beginning of this year, and Northwest Province formulated specific regulations based on the actual situation of the province and city. The village radio also carried out publicity. The farmers thought that with the national, provincial and municipal regulations, the income from farming should be increased, so they were full of hope. Therefore, it is understandable that the villagers who were pushed into the fields reacted violently.
Taking this into consideration, the village head Shitou and Yang Liufang agreed to agree that the factory would pay the highest amount of compensation per mu of that year's harvest, that is, find the best experimental fields in the whole village, and in accordance with the "Concerning Chemical Fertilizers, Pesticides, Compensation will be made based on the net profit from input and output after the implementation of the "Specific Provisions on the Implementation of Monopoly on Agricultural Film". When Chief Shitou told the news to the villagers who had occupied the land, they changed from being anxious to smiling, but then came another problem.
Some people in the village whose land was not occupied approached the village chief Shitou and asked the factory to occupy their own land. Because without labor, you can get the highest profit from the field that year. Of course, you can't do this kind of good thing without yourself, and it also means sharing the benefits. The more impulsive villagers ran to the current field where the goods were unloaded to move the goods to their own fields. Looking at the chaotic villagers, Village Chief Shitou and Yang Liufang couldn't laugh or cry. The head of Shitou Village, no, he should be Secretary Shitou now. Faced with the chaos, he was so anxious that he held a trumpet in his hands and shouted to the villagers: "township parties, the land occupied by the factory is temporary! It is occupied because there is no place to unload the goods. The fields are also around the factory! It is illegal for everyone to move goods by force now! Compensation will also be paid after the harvest! I guarantee that in the future, when the villagers who have been occupied by land buy food, priority will be given to the villagers who have not been occupied by land."
After shouting and explaining over and over again, the villagers stopped moving. Yang Liufang and his party were temporarily relieved and hurriedly asked Qin Jiajun to take the guests from Yiwu to leave and return to Xizhou City. He and Li Tongfu followed the village chief Shitou to jointly deal with problems that occurred at any time on the scene.
After intense and busy unloading work, all the goods were finally unloaded and stacked before seven o'clock in the evening. Yang Liufang asked the workers involved in unloading to wash up in the new bathroom in the factory, and then invited them to the village committee for dinner. At the village committee, he thought about the safety of the goods and the need for people to be on duty at night. For the sake of fairness, Yang Liu suggested to Secretary Shitou that for the time being, the villagers who were not occupied would take turns to do duty, and the factory would give them a subsidy of 2 yuan for each night shift. .
For this reason, the head of Shitou Village once again turned on the radio to inform the villagers about the night shift to watch the goods, and asked the villagers whose fields were not occupied to have only one person from each family, and to come to the village committee to sign up now. Night watch requires lights. Although their supply and marketing cooperative has daily emergency lighting fixtures such as flashlights and miner's lamps, it is too late now. Liu Fang remembered the few lanterns he had when the factory was opened in the early days, and hurriedly asked Shi Fang to go to the warehouse of the factory. Find it out and send it to the village committee. After Shi Fang heard this, he put down his unfinished meal and went back to the factory to look for it, and found it quickly.
Village Chief Shitou put the four lanterns plus the one given to him by Yang Liufang, filled them with oil, asked the villagers who were on duty tonight to bring them with them, and set off.
After dinner, Li Tongfu and Yang Liufang returned to the factory to rest. On their way back, they saw dots of light moving in the fields where goods were stacked. Those were their lanterns, and they didn't expect that they would come in handy at this time.
"Brother, it's a fait accompli now. We're finally safe."
"Brother, we need to invite the president to come early, so that the township leaders will come to accompany us for inspection. I hope our current situation can attract the attention of the leaders, win the sympathy of the government, and secure land for the factory."
"Well, I will do this when I return to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. How about the canteen? Can it be completed tomorrow?"
"The construction and sanitation can be completed. The tables and chairs were originally synchronized, but now that there is no processing space, the tables and chairs may take two days."
"Well, since it's ruined, let's do it to the end and just do the furniture processing on the road in front of the factory." Li Tongfu suggested slyly.
"Okay, brother, when the tables and chairs in the cafeteria are finished, the processing of our office furniture is also on the way. If the leaders come to take a look at our new furniture, they might be able to give us free advertising."
The two brothers discussed excitedly, walked to the factory, and scheduled the invitation for the leader to have dinner in three days to avoid long nights and dreams. Early the next morning, while waiting for Secretary Shitou to deliver water, Yang Liufang told him the time when the president of the supply and marketing cooperative would come to inspect. Secretary Shitou also went to Hanwangchuan Township that morning. After the township secretary Lu and the president of the township supply and marketing cooperative learned about it, they promised to come to their village on time and asked about some reception matters before letting him leave.
The day the president came, the wind was sunny and sunny. The village sent people to spray water and sweep the Yingbin Road early in the morning. On some trees, they even posted creative slogans such as "Reform and opening up create a new chapter for the countryside to change its look." , "Socialism is good", "The party leads farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich" and other slogans. At the end of the road, a red banner saying "Warmly welcome the municipal supply and marketing cooperative and township leaders to visit and guide the work" was hung on the wall of Yangliufang Factory. Village secretary Shitou, village accountant, women's director, furniture factory director Yang Liufang and others were waiting in front of the banner early.
What was untimely was that on the way from the banner to the factory gate, Shi Yong and Shi Fang were leading two workers to cut aluminum alloy profiles. Two skilled women in the village, led by Da Ga and Xiao Ga, were busy assembling office furniture. The entire road left only a narrow passage for the leaders to pass. The head of Shitou Village suggested that this would be too messy and that the processing should be done in the fields behind. Yang Liufang said that firstly, it was inconvenient to obtain electricity, and secondly, the equipment needed to be fixed. The soil in the field was soft and could not be fixed or balanced. At the same time, since the leader is here to inspect the work, of course he must see the working status of the workers.
Before nine o'clock, the township secretary Lu and the president of the supply and marketing cooperative arrived first on motorcycles, and the head of Shitou village greeted them and introduced them. In fact, we are all acquaintances. Yang Liufang’s first project of making desks and chairs for primary schools was initiated by Secretary Lu. It was his first inspection when he took office. Seeing that the desks and chairs in the middle school were so worn out, he issued an initiative that no matter how poor the education was, no matter how hard it was for the children, they worked hard to replace the desks and chairs at Hanwangchuan Middle School. all over. At the same time, the retired desks and chairs were improved by Yang Liufang and allocated to some upper grades of primary schools for use. It was at his reminder that Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu registered this furniture factory, which was also the first private factory in Hanwangchuan. It's just that today is Secretary Lu's first time to inspect the factory.
Before President Li came, Secretary Lu suggested taking a look at the factory's situation. Yang Liufang led them through the work area on the road in front of the door, along the outer wall of the factory gate, and through the narrow area specially reserved for stacking goods in the factory. In the pedestrian passage, I took a look at the newly renovated canteen, restrooms, and workers’ showers. Secretary Lu didn't say a word. When he walked out of the factory, he saw a large amount of goods stacked behind the factory, and staff in blue overalls patrolling in the distance. Secretary Lu still didn't say a word and frowned.
At ten o'clock in the morning, President Li's jeep from the Chengbei Supply and Marketing Cooperative arrived late. Since Li Tongfu informed President Li in advance, the township specially arranged the reception. He specially asked the driver from the supply and marketing cooperative to drive, and he, accompanied by Li Tongfu, came by car with Wang Yanhua. As soon as they entered Yingbin Road and saw that the road was very clean, they opened the car windows and smelled the fragrance of the soil released from the water-sprinkled road, which made them feel very comfortable.
Seeing the slogan posted on the tree, President Li asked the driver to drive slower and he had to look carefully. I found that although the symmetry of the sentences in these slogans is a bit nondescript, they are all from the hearts of farmers. He himself has worked in a supply and marketing cooperative for so many years, and he has seen and experienced it step by step from a grassroots salesperson to today. Under the leadership of the party, everyone went from being short of food and clothing to having abundant supplies step by step.
The jeep quickly approached the factory with a banner welcoming him. He asked the driver to stop the car and got out to show respect for the township leaders who greeted him. Li Tongfu and Yanhua followed behind, Secretary Lu stepped forward to greet them, and President Li also quickened his pace, holding hands, and the two leaders exchanged greetings.
"Oh, President Li, I look forward to having you here. Welcome to our Hanwangchuan to guide our work."
"Oh, I don't dare to do that. Secretary Lu took the trouble to walk down this road and found that under your management, this place has a completely new look. And this company in your jurisdiction is now the best in our supply and marketing cooperative. One of the suppliers is also a major leasing company. They responded to the country’s call and digested part of the fixed assets of the supply and marketing cooperative, ensuring that we continue to make profits for the city and the country. I can’t come and take a look." He introduced the people around him. .
"Secretary Lu, this is Wang Yanhua, the manager of the hardware sales department of our supply and marketing cooperative."
"Hello." Secretary Lu shook hands with Yanhua politely. When he was about to introduce Li Tongfu, Secretary Lu had already come over and held Li Tongfu's hand.
"Xiao Li."
"Hello, Secretary Lu."
"What? Secretary Lu, do you know each other?"
"Oh, it's a long story. I knew him when I was the chief of the Xizhou Station Police Station."
"What did he do?" President Li asked suspiciously.
"No, no, at that time he came all the way from Wenzhou to come to us to find his brother and start a leather shoe business. But when the country implemented ID card management, we checked and he didn't have an ID card, so we helped him sell the shoes. , repatriated.”
"Oh, you scared me to death. I thought there was a suspect in our club. Hahaha..." Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this. The atmosphere instantly became much more relaxed.
