At five o'clock in the afternoon, the members returned to the brigade headquarters one after another, waiting to hand in tasks and return production tools.
At this moment, Li Fengnian's voice suddenly came from the loudspeaker of the brigade headquarters: "Attention all members of the Fourth Production Team, we will gather at the primary school in Murakami after dinner today to discuss and elect the production team leader. Someone from every household must participate!”
The notification was broadcast three times in total before it ended!
Soon, all the members in the village knew that the fourth production team was going to change its captain that night.
Everyone is talking a lot, guessing who will be elected tonight.
Zhou Yang didn't pay attention to this matter. He didn't intend to run for the captaincy anyway.
And with Li Fengnian, the party secretary's father-in-law, whoever becomes the production captain will not embarrass him.
But regardless of whether he cared about it or not, Zhou Yang still had to rush to the elementary school after eating.
There is no way, the notice has made it very clear, every household must have someone.
Today, Bao'er followed several older brothers to fish for small fish in the river channel again, and once again turned herself into a mud monkey. Li Youwei could only give her a bath at home.
Therefore, this work that was not done by others naturally had to be left to him.
When Zhou Yang arrived at the primary school, he found that there were already many people here, most of them were members of the Fourth Production Team, but there were also some people from the Fifth Production Team.
They were called here to help and also to bear witness!
At eight o'clock in the evening, Li Fengnian walked in with a few strangers.
These people were both men and women, all around forty years old. Looking at their dressing, they did not look like ordinary commune members, but rather looked like commune cadres.
Sure enough, after counting the number of people and meeting the election requirements, Li Fengnian immediately stood up and said: "Dear members, let me introduce these commune cadres to you first. This Comrade Lu Zhenxun is allocated by the commune to our village. The cadres of the team, Comrade Lin Yi is the deputy director of the commune office, and Comrade Zhang Qingxia is from the Women's Federation of the commune. They will participate in the entire election process. Everyone applauds and welcomes us!"
“Bah bang bang!!!”
After a burst of warm applause, Lu Zhenxun spoke on behalf of the commune cadres!
"Members of the Babaoliang Brigade, today's election is sudden but of great significance. With the emergence of a big borer like Chen Jianying, you must re-elect a leader to ensure that your fourth production team The production tasks in the second half of the year will ensure a bumper grain harvest this year."
Then Lu Zhenxun continued: "Don't underestimate this little production team leader. Among the three levels of commune, brigade, and production team, the production team is the most basic and the most important."
"On the whole, whether the production team is doing well or not is related to the fate of the country. Specifically, whether a certain production team is doing well is related to the lives of hundreds of people. So I hope you can vote in tonight's election. Conduct elections conscientiously and ensure they are fair, just and open..."
After some beautiful official talk, the election officially began.
Different from the election of leading cadres, in the election of production captains, the production team generally proposes candidates, and then the brigade cooperates with the commune team cadres to examine the relevant candidates.
At the same time, feedback from the masses must be collected, and the candidate's clan status in the team, various interpersonal relationships, and his character and abilities must be collected to conduct a comprehensive evaluation and weigh repeatedly.
After the agreement was reached, the brigade sent someone to talk to the candidate.
After everything is passed, a member meeting will be held to discuss and approve it. As the new production team leader, you can start working.
Therefore, the first item on the agenda of today's election is for each commune member group to nominate candidates, and the commune team cadres to inspect these candidates.
Soon, the three member groups of the Fourth Production Team put forward their candidates.
Subsequently, the list of candidates was sent to the classroom next door for review and inspection by the commune's cadres, the village party secretary and others.
However, when they saw the candidates selected by each member group, Lu Zhenxun and others were immediately confused.
I saw that these three member groups actually selected the same person as the candidate-Zhou Yang!
This result made everyone including Li Fengnian feel a little surprised, even a little unbelievable.
There are many people in the Fourth Production Team who meet the qualifications as captain candidates. Even the original accountants and cashiers are also qualified to run for the production captain. But why did everyone choose Zhou Yang as the scorekeeper?
This time, Lu Zhenxun and others were stumped!
It is not uncommon for a foreign educated youth in his twenties to be the production team leader, but the conditions are very strict.
In fact, there are generally several criteria for the appointment of production captains:
First of all, politically, you must be a party member and an activist in the land reform and cooperative movements. You must be upright and selfless.
In addition, you must be proficient in agricultural production and have excellent agricultural skills. It is best to work as a long-term laborer or a laborer in a landlord's home.
Because the poor and lower-middle peasants are small farmers and have no experience in collective management of hundreds or even thousands of acres of land, it is difficult to grow crops well.
Furthermore, one must have leadership skills and must be able to balance the relationships among the surnames, clans, and family heads of the entire team in order to maintain harmony and stability in the production team.
Looking at the candidate selected by the members, it’s really hard to describe.
Apart from being a member of the Party, I don’t stick to anything else.
If there were other candidates after normal times, they would never consider Zhou Yang.
But now the members of the Fourth Production Team have collectively chosen him, and there are no other candidates. They will be left directly to Lu Zhenxun and others.
After a long silence, Lu Zhenxun coughed lightly and said: "Comrade Li Fengnian, you are the village party secretary of the Babaoliang Brigade. It is up to you to talk about Comrade Zhou Yang!"
Li Fengnian said with a slight embarrassment: "Well, I really can't say anything about this. Lao Lu, you should ask other people!"
"Li Fengnian, if it's good, it's good. If it's not, it's bad. What's wrong with you?" Lu Zhenxun asked with a smile.
"I have to avoid suspicion!" Li Fengnian said.
"Avoid suspicion? Who is this Comrade Zhou Yang to you?"
"Son-in-law, dear!"
"Didn't you say that your son-in-law is not a good person? Why did these members collectively choose him to be the production captain?"
Lu Zhenxun has been a Baocun cadre of the Babaoliang Brigade for three years. Since he often interacts with Li Fengnian, the village party secretary, he has some understanding of the situation in his family.
As far as he knew, Li Fengnian's daughter was a well-known good girl from all over the country, but it was a pity that she ended up marrying a low-income educated youth.
But he didn't expect that the Li family's educated youth son-in-law, who was rumored to be a soft-boiler, would be so well supported by the members that they collectively elected him as the production team leader. This really surprised him.
Li Fengnian took two puffs of dry cigarette and said: "My son-in-law was really lazy before, so he was misunderstood for several years, but he is indeed very capable!"
At the moment, Li Fengnian briefly told Lu Zhenxun and others some of the things Zhou Yang had done during this period.
Lu Zhenxun and others were also shocked when they learned that Zhou Yang was not only a staff member of the National Compilation and Translation Bureau, but also the hero who uncovered Chen Jianying, a big bug.
Later, Lu Zhenxun said to several others: "Since Comrade Zhou Yang is the choice of all members of the Fourth Production Team, we will talk to him according to organizational procedures and ask for his personal opinions. What do you think? ?”
"Well, I think it works!"
"I have no opinion!"
"That's it..."
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