While the commune cadres were discussing with Li Fengnian the candidate for captain of the Fourth Production Team, in another classroom, Zhou Yang was chatting with his two uncles.
"Brother, I heard that you beat Hu Zi again?"
Li Jianguo frowned and said, "Beat me, brother-in-law, you don't even know how annoying that little brat is. He took a bunch of brats from home to catch fish in the river in the afternoon. It's really too dangerous!"
Zhou Yang knew about Li Hu's boldness!
In his previous life, this little guy ventured to the reservoir to catch fish because several of his family members were very hungry. As a result, he drowned at the age of only 12 years old.
Although the child has a good heart, his reckless and reckless character is obviously inherited from Li Jianguo, a stupid, arrogant and rough father.
"Then he must be beaten. He must remember this lesson and stay away from the dangerous area!" Zhou Yang said.
Li Guoqing on the side couldn't stand listening anymore, frowned and said: "Brother-in-law, weren't you the most opposed to spanking children before?"
Zhou Yang smiled and said: "Now I think that for some disobedient naughty children, it might be more effective to give them a beating..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard his father-in-law standing at the door of the classroom and shouting to him: "Zhou Yang, come here!"
When Zhou Yang heard his father-in-law calling him, he immediately stood up and walked over without thinking too much.
"Dad, please call me!"
"Well, come in, some comrades from the commune represent the organization and want to talk to you!"
Zhou Yang was stunned when he heard this. He had heard this many times in his previous life.
Every time the superiors wanted to add a burden to him, they would talk to him, and the leader would always say this before every conversation.
Instantly, Zhou Yang felt an ominous premonition in his heart!
With an anxious mood, Zhou Yang walked into the classroom and sat down opposite the commune cadres.
Lu Zhenxun looked at the rather tender-faced young man in front of him and asked gently: "Comrade Zhou Yang, I am Lu Zhenxun. I am conducting a pre-election inspection on you on behalf of the organization. Please cooperate!"
"Wait... um... I don't seem to be participating in this election, why are you examining me?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"The situation is like this. Just now, three member groups of the Fourth Production Team conducted a nomination of candidates for captain. As a result, the three member groups unanimously decided to elect you as the only candidate for production captain!"
"Me, the only candidate?"
"Yeah! That's right, it's you!"
When he heard this answer, Zhou Yang was not happy at all. Instead, he felt like thunder was rolling from the sky!
He really didn't want to be the production captain. There were too many trivial things in the production team, which affected his energy too much.
And he really couldn't understand why everyone chose him!
"What, can I not be the production captain?" Zhou Yang immediately said what he meant with a firm attitude.
Lu Zhenxun and others were also confused. What did this young man mean?
Don’t want to be one?
Are there any people these days who are so indifferent to fame and wealth?
The good things that were delivered to their door were also extended to others, which made them all extremely curious.
"Comrade Zhou Yang, can you share your thoughts?"
Zhou Yang nodded and said: "Although I don't know exactly what the members of the team think and why they chose me, I personally feel that I am not suitable to be the production captain!"
"Well, tell me your reasons!" Lu Zhenxun said.
"First of all, I am relatively lazy, I am not very good at dealing with people, and my leadership skills are relatively weak. Secondly, I am not good at farm work. If I am given thousands of acres of land to take care of, it will easily affect the team. of production.”
Then Zhou Yang continued: "The more important point is that I still have the tasks assigned to me by the country. If I delay the above matters because I am the production captain, it will be even harder to explain!"
Hearing what Zhou Yang said was reasonable, Lu Zhenxun couldn't help but nodded.
"But now you have seen what the members think. Everyone has unanimously recommended you to be the captain, and there are no other candidates. What do you think should be done?"
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "Actually, I think the reason why the comrades in the team chose me is most likely because they are worried about the emergence of a second Chen Jianying. As long as the final person selected can make everyone eliminate this doubt, is it me, Zhou Yang?" It doesn’t actually matter!”
"Oh, why do you say that?"
The person speaking this time was Lin Yi, deputy director of the commune office!
Zhou Yang said immediately: "Every leader should also know that Chen Jianying's incident has had a big impact on the members. Think about it, a small production captain, who has only been in office for more than ten years, has embezzled so much money and food from the collective. This is The damage caused to everyone is really not small!"
"So, when the members choose a production captain, their first reaction is to choose someone who is neither greedy nor embezzling. As for me, I should be the least likely person in the entire production team to take advantage of everyone, so that's why they chose me!"
"Hey, why can't you usurp collective interests?" Lu Zhenxun asked in confusion.
"There are two reasons. The first is that I cannot be greedy because I have a father-in-law who is the village party secretary. If I am greedy, my father-in-law will not be able to pass this test!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "The second thing is that I don't need to be greedy. My wife and I earn work points on the team, which can completely cover the family's food rations and daily expenses."
"And now I work as a translator for the Translation and Translation Bureau. I earn dozens of yuan a month, and several hundred yuan a year. I can basically save all this money. I have to covet the three melons in the team. Two dates?"
Lu Zhenxun and others nodded. Indeed, if they could earn dozens of dollars a month in addition to work points, they would not care about the little money and food in the team.
"Well said, then besides you, who else in your fourth production team do you think is suitable to be the production captain?"
Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "Since the leaders are asking, let me tell you from the perspective of a club member. In fact, I think there are quite a few people in our team who are suitable for the position of team leader. For example, my uncle Li Jianguo, and another example Liang Feng, the accountant in the team, actually, as long as this person is not from the Chen family, it will be fine!"
Everyone immediately understood what Zhou Yang meant!
In fact, this matter involves an important criterion for the selection of production captains before, that is, the production captain cannot be appointed by someone with the surname Datou. The reason is to prevent the captain with the surname Datou from invading collective interests!
Therefore, when selecting the captain, everyone formed a tacit understanding that the younger surname will be the captain, and the older surname will have greater supervision. It will be difficult for the captain to engage in malpractice for personal gain, and fairness and justice can be basically guaranteed.
This approach is undoubtedly correct and has basically guaranteed the normal operation of this system for a long time in the past.
Therefore, before the 1970s, the appointment of production captains was basically based on this standard.
However, in the past few years, due to special circumstances, there were many people with big surnames, and they seized the leadership of the production team.
The result is that the political ecology of the production team is out of balance, injustice and unfairness appear, people's hearts begin to lose focus, and then there are bugs like Chen Jianying.
After a moment of silence, Lu Zhenxun looked at Zhou Yang again, and then said: "Comrade Zhou Yang, are you really unwilling to be the production captain?"
"I really don't want to!"
"What about the vice-captain?"
Zhou Yang was stunned. He didn't even want to be the captain. How could this person think that he was willing to be the vice-captain?
Just when he was about to refuse, he heard Lu Zhenxun say: "Large production teams usually have several deputy captains. The deputy captains don't need to coordinate the overall situation, they only need to take charge of a few things, and it won't waste much time. "
"More importantly, all the members have elected you to be the captain. If you really let go, it will really make everyone sad, and we will have no way to explain to everyone."
Li Fengnian also nodded and said: "I think this method is feasible. We will let the members choose a suitable captain, and you can help!"
"This not only accommodates you, but also satisfies the members. It kills two birds with one stone!"
Seeing that his father-in-law said this, what else could Zhou Yang say, he could only nod in agreement!
