Li's old house!
Zhou Yang frowned when he heard the commune's plan.
Although the taste of yam eggs and beet dumplings is not very good, they are a life-saving food in this era of extreme scarcity of supplies.
Since it is food, it cannot be compared to grass.
Last year, the village also exchanged grain for firewood with members of other villages, but the price was not cheap. It took 50 kilograms of good-quality green oats to exchange for 1 kilogram of grain.
If it is ordinary wheat straw or something, it would require 80 kilograms.
Now the commune wants to exchange five pounds of grass for one pound of grain. How about fun?
Even though yam eggs and beet dumplings are not as good as real wheat and oats, they are not the "trash" on the roadside.
For a moment, Zhou Yang couldn't help but be silent!
Although he also wanted to help the people who were affected by the disaster, he did not do so under the premise of harming the interests of the people in Babaoliang Village.
More importantly, for those members who were affected by the disaster, they have worked hard for a year and cannot even provide themselves with food rations. This is of course caused by natural disasters, but more importantly, it is man-made disasters.
If they adjust the planting structure strictly in accordance with the county's requirements, no matter how bad the situation is, they won't be unable to provide even a few hundred kilograms of rations.
I have been disobedient, and now I have to use the food that the village worked so hard to harvest to help them when they are hit by a disaster. This always makes people feel uncomfortable.
What's more, this is not three hundred or five hundred catties, but one or several hundred thousand catties. Even with Zhou Yang's current prestige, he would not dare to agree to this easily.
Zhou Yang didn't speak, but Li Jianjun on the side couldn't hold it in any longer. He just stared and said, "Dad, this evil idea was proposed by that bastard. Is he jealous of our village's good harvest or wants to rob it openly?" Do you really think that there is no one in our Babaoliang Village?"
Upon hearing this, Zhou Yang knew that the third brother was going to be in trouble.
If he guessed correctly, this plan should have been proposed by his father-in-law. Even if it was not proposed by him, it was approved by him.
The third brother said this in front of his father. Isn't this looking for trouble?
Sure enough, Li Fengnian knocked the dry smoke pot hard against the edge of the kang, and then suddenly said: "Shut up, I am the black-hearted bastard in your mouth, what do you want to do?"
Li Jianjun was stunned for a moment, and then stammered: "Dad...how could you come up with such an idea? Isn't this harming the people in our village?"
Li Fengnian also fell silent immediately!
He knew very well how excessive the commune's request was. As someone who had experienced three years of natural disasters, he knew very well what food meant to the people.
Needless to say, in famine years, even in better years, every household receives very little food.
Every bit is very precious and cannot be wasted.
Now the commune requires the village to provide 1.7 million jins of grain at once, but only gives a few million jins of firewood. Isn't this bullying!
Because of this, the commune did not force the villagers with administrative orders. Instead, it first asked Li Fengnian to come back to check on the situation.
"Dad, since it is an exchange, it must follow the principle of equivalence. An unequal exchange is bullying. I don't think the commune cadres are clear about this. What do they think?" Zhou Yang said in a deep voice. .
Li Fengnian said immediately: "We just don't want people in Fugou Brigade and Xuejiawa Brigade to starve to death, and we also hope they can turn around as soon as possible!"
"Starving to death? Isn't that the case?" Zhou Yang frowned.
"Well, those brigades in the north are mainly based on dry land and mountainous areas, and they are completely dependent on the weather. Counting this year, they have been hit by disasters for three consecutive years!"
Then Li Fengnian continued: "A few days ago, I personally went to the two brigades to understand the situation. Almost all the commune members were sallow and thin, severely malnourished, and many of them were swaying when they walked. If the commune had not intervened, there might have been a disaster this winter. Tragedy of starvation to death occurred.”
"But the commune has too many disaster-stricken people to help this year, and it can't afford so much food at once, so it asked our village for help!"
Zhou Yang frowned and said, "It's okay to help, but there's no way to help like this. This is 1.7 million kilograms of grain!"
"If these grains are exchanged at a ratio of 1:80 according to our standards last year, do you know how much firewood our village can get back?"
Li Jianjun also said: "Yes, exchanging five pounds of grass for one pound of grain is bullying!"
"Besides, firewood should be of little use to them. Can't they give us more? Even if we suffer a little loss, just exchange one pound of grain for 50 pounds of grass!"
However, Li Fengnian shook his head and said: "It's useful. During this period, the county has successively brought back more than 300,000 piglets from the provincial capital. A total of more than 2,300 piglets have been allocated to Fugou, Xuejiawa and other brigades. Piglets, so they also need firewood as feed to feed these piglets, and this is their only hope of turning around!"
"If they want to turn around, our village will suffer a big loss, Dad, that's 1.7 million kilograms of grain..."
Seeing the excited Li Jianjun, Zhou Yang immediately said: "Third brother, don't be excited, sit down!"
Hearing Zhou Yang's words, Li Jianjun frowned and immediately sat down on the pony, but he was still a little angry.
When Li Fengnian saw that even his own son was so strongly opposed, he knew that this matter was basically a no-go.
If he persists like this, he will embarrass his son-in-law.
Then he sighed and said: "Oh, I also know that this matter is difficult. If it doesn't work, I will talk to Director Qiao tomorrow and say that our village also has difficulties..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yang said: "Dad, five pounds of grass and one pound of grain are definitely inappropriate. Whether it is yam eggs or beet knots, they are all grown with hard work by the educated youth members. Harvest food.”
"We can't harm the interests of the village members' educated youth just because we sympathize with other people. This is going to poke someone's spine!"
But then Zhou Yang changed his voice and said again: "But we can change the way of cooperation, which can not only help the people affected by the disaster, but also not cause too much damage to the interests of the village!"
"How to cooperate?"
"Don't our village have a mission of 200,000 kilograms of love food? We can use yam eggs and beet dumplings to fulfill the mission!" Zhou Yang said.
"This is food of love. It is to be handed over to the granary. How do you support it?"
"It's simple. Doesn't the commune have its own overall grain and emergency granary? It takes 200,000 kilograms of grain and sends it to the grain depot. The village immediately sends 600,000 kilograms of yam eggs and 600,000 kilograms of beetroot to the commune!" Zhou Yang said.
"Exchange 1 jin of fine grains for 6 jins of coarse grains?"
"Yes, the commune is not losing money, our village is suffering a small loss, but it is still within the tolerable range!"
"But this is only 1.2 million jins. What to do with the remaining 500,000 jins?" Li Fengnian said.
"Our village does not grow flax, beans and other coarse grains this year. The commune can also exchange the grains for our village's coarse grains, and we can give them a higher price."
Then Zhou Yang continued: "As long as the commune raises 80,000 kilograms of miscellaneous grains, we can give them another 500,000 kilograms of yam eggs and beet dumplings. In this way, the commune only used 280,000 kilograms of fine grains and miscellaneous grains in exchange for 1.7 million Pounds of yam eggs and beet knots.”
"In addition, I can persuade other people in the village to donate another 100,000 kilograms of beetroot to the commune, making up 1.8 million kilograms!"
Li Fengnian thought for a while and said, "That's okay, but I don't know if there are so many miscellaneous grains in the commune!"
"This is between Director Qiao and you, there's only so much we can do!" Zhou Yang said.
"good!"
At this time, Zhou Yang changed his voice, looked at his father-in-law and said again: "Dad, is there a bad voice in the commune that is against our village?"
Hearing Zhou Yang's words, Li Fengnian was slightly shocked, but still nodded.
"How did you see that?"
"You are not the kind of person who turns his elbows outward. Director Qiao should also know my relationship with Lao Li, Lao An and others. If there were no special reasons, you would not have proposed such an outrageous plan!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "Based on the current situation, there should be external pressure that forces you to do this, and it should not only be the disaster that makes you succumb. It should be that our village trees are attracting wind, causing some people to suffer from pink eye disease. Got it!"
"In addition to the pressure of the disaster, you made such a decision because, more importantly, you want to protect our Babaoliang Village!"
Hearing Zhou Yang's analysis, Li Fengnian was even more surprised. He really didn't expect his son-in-law to be so insightful.
Then, after he sighed, he talked to Zhou Yang about some of the things that happened within the commune during this period.
PS: The update was late yesterday, so I’ll write it early today!
