Niu DaDa is indeed stubborn, but now his prestige in the village is far inferior to Wang Zhong, and even slightly inferior to Ma Renli.
Ma Renli's background is indeed not good, but that was in the past. Now Ma Renli is a hero who resisted the war and saved the country. He was imprisoned and persecuted for this, and even his studies were delayed. This alone is enough to convince the folks. Their views on Ma Renli changed.
What's more, he also participated in the design of the water conservancy and irrigation project in Maixiang Village. Ma Renli also contributed to matters such as crop rotation, intercropping and oil pressing workshops.
Although Niu DaDang persisted, he could not win over most people, and the free market of Maixiang Brigade still failed to take off.
The oil pressing workshop has been running steadily, and the oil extracted is still the same as before. Some of it is used by myself, and some of it is purchased by the buyers of the county supply and marketing cooperative.
Almost another three or four months passed, and it was almost the end of the new year. With more and more free markets in surrounding counties and cities, the spirit of the superiors became clearer, and the county finally officially announced plans to open them in various communes. The free market allows ordinary people to sell small agricultural and sideline products that are not on the list of unified purchasing and marketing materials.
The yellow cigarettes that Niu DaDang wanted to sell happened to be the materials for unified purchasing and marketing.
In the beginning, only three categories of commodities, cotton, grain, and oil, were included in the unified purchasing and marketing materials. Nowadays, cotton, peanuts, pigs, eggs, sugar, mulberry silk, silk cocoons, flue-cured tobacco, aquatic products and other commodities have been added. Private sales are not allowed. Trafficking.
Although to some extent, the measures of unified purchasing and marketing may seem a bit unreasonable, and even affect the circulation of goods to a certain extent and limit the economic development, when he is really in this special historical stage, Wang Zhong has great regard for the country. I support the strategic decision of unified purchasing and marketing from the bottom of my heart.
In fact, unified purchasing and marketing has many benefits, especially during the past three years of famine. The unified purchasing and marketing of grain also prevented unscrupulous businessmen from hoarding food and making a huge fortune out of the country.
In 1953, the Yangtze River Basin flooded, causing widespread famine in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. At this time, merchants purchased grains in large quantities on the market, hoarded them, and then sold them at prices much higher than the market price. Some even went to the countryside to purchase grains. Qingmiao's intentions are not unscrupulous.
At that time, the world was in the early stages of settling down. The founding of the country was only a few years away. Hundreds of wastes were waiting to be revitalized. The national power was still weak. Moreover, it was at the critical moment of land reform. If we did not strike hard, the achievements of several years would be lost in one day.
The country adopts a planned economic system to prevent these unscrupulous businessmen from exploiting the people and taking away their wealth and wealth.
Now that we have just passed through three years of difficult times, the above-mentioned encouragement to open up the free market is also to quickly revitalize the economy and stimulate productivity, so that people can resume production and improve their lives as soon as possible.
Naturally, Wang Zhong was too lazy to do something like go to the free market, but Jiang Hongguo and his two sons were very interested in it. With Jiang Hongguo and his two sons gone, Wang Zhong could only take care of his daughter at home. .
Wang Zhong was leaning against the wall and next to the window on the big kang in the room, wearing a wolf-skin coat and a colorful raccoon-skin hat on his head.
"father!"
"father!"
"look!"
The little girl was very active. Because she was still young and could not walk very steadily, she crawled around on the kang. She stood up unsteadily while holding on to the wall. She walked up to Wang Zhong and put her white and tender little fists in her hands. Stretched out in front of Wang Zhong.
"What are you reading?" Wang Zhong put down the book in his hand and asked his daughter with a smile.
The little girl smiled and opened her palms, which were empty as usual.
"My Douding's hands are so beautiful!" Wang Zhong grabbed his daughter's hand and looked at it seriously.
Xiaodouding is Wang Zijin’s nickname.
"Book!"
"Book!"
Little Douding is restless and full of curiosity about everything, especially what he likes in other people's hands.
Naturally, Wang Zhong would not give her the book. If this book were to be in Xiao Douding's hands, she might be torn into pieces. This was an ancient book that Wang Zhong entrusted with great difficulty to collect. Not only was it the content of the book, the book was also It also has a certain value in itself.
Although Wang Zhong has read a lot of books, he is only limited to those that have been passed down. Now in this special era, it is inevitable to be interested in some books that have disappeared in the long river of history.
Wang Zhong refused to give it to him, so Little Douding fought for it for a while, but couldn't get it anyway, so he simply climbed on Wang Zhong's body, grabbing whatever he could with his small hands, completely ignoring his father's feelings, and even tangled a lot of his hair.
After a while of commotion, Wang Zhong quickly used his trump card when he saw Xiao Douding curling up his mouth.
"Daddy, can you please make something delicious for little Douding!"
"delicious!"
"delicious!"
Little Douding's eyes lit up instantly.
Wang Zhong picked up the strap and hung the little Doudin in front of him skillfully. He took out two snow pears from the space like a magic trick and made a bowl of snow pear soup for the little Doudin. His belly was bulging after eating.
Not long after she was full, the little girl became sleepy. Wang Zhong hugged her and coaxed her a few times before she fell asleep.
Not long after, Ma Renli came to visit with his son in his arms.
"It's so cold today!" As soon as he entered the house, Ma Renli hurriedly hugged his son and got on the kang.
He looked around and asked, "Where are my siblings? Have you gone to the market?"
"Didn't my family save some leather in the past few years? She sold it at the market."
"His mother is also obsessed with exploring the free market!" Ma Renli looked at his son and shook his head. He was afraid of avoiding the free market.
"It is good to be cautious, but there is no need to be so turbulent. Isn't the policy now open? As long as it is not a unified purchase and sale of materials, just sell them. As long as the policies from above remain unchanged, there will be no trouble."
"Who knows when the wind will change again."
Ma Renli has also been afraid these years. Fortunately, Wang Zhong, Niu Daudao and the team members helped him cover.
"It doesn't matter if the wind direction changes. At worst, we'll just sell it. We're not responsible for the free market."
The two of them chatted a few words about home affairs, chatting here and there. Ma Renli looked up at Wang Zhong and said, "How long do you think this free market can last?"
Wang Chong smiled and said: "I'm not a god, how can I know what the higher-ups are thinking."
"Okay, you have this free time, why not think about how to coax your wife? I heard that your son often gets beaten when he is at home?" Wang Zhong said with a smile.
"It's nothing!" Ma Renli immediately retorted righteously: "I am the head of the family, how can I be beaten? Although you are the branch secretary, you can't talk nonsense."
"Come on, what are you pretending to do in front of me!" Wang Zhong said: "Although Deng'er is a bit more temperamental, it's still a good thing for you. Although after General Chang came, the county, commune and fellow villagers had a lot of trouble. Your attitude has changed, but your background is there, and you are a talker. Let Deng'er give you a good beating to prevent you from causing any trouble with your unrestrained talk. "
"I..." Ma Renli opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to refute.
After all, his mouth does cause a lot of trouble.
Time passed like this day by day. While Wang Zhong was teaching his two sons to read, he led the members of the Maixiang Brigade to start reclaiming wasteland and expanding the cultivated land area according to the established method.
The irrigation canal connected to the reservoir has been built long ago. The wasteland reclaimed by Wang Zhong and the villagers basically followed the route of the newly built irrigation canal. On both sides of the irrigation canal, in order to provide enough farmyard manure, in 1963, the village Two chicken farms were added, and the size of the pig pen was also expanded. Oil crops such as peanuts and soybeans were sown on a large scale in the newly reclaimed land, and the planting scale of sweet potatoes and corn was also increasing.
Sweet potato vines and pigweed alone cannot meet the needs of so many livestock. Corn and many oil crops have become the best choices for feed.
Especially the residue left after oil extraction has high nutritional value and is the best way to promote fat.
In just a few years, the Maixiang Brigade's fortune was slowly restored.
In 1965, Jiang Hongguo became pregnant again and gave birth to her and Wang Zhong's fourth child, who was still a girl. Wang Zhong named the little girl Wang Ziyu. Yu is a beautiful jade. This name is enough to explain Wang Zhong's love. I love this little daughter so much.
It had only been two years since the birth of little Tzuyu, and just as things started to improve, there were again twists and turns. First, the private plots were canceled and all plots were converted into collective plots, and then there were various movements.
Fortunately, after so many years of management, Wang Zhong has accumulated a high enough prestige in the Maixiang Brigade, and without the arrival of Han Meili, the life of the Maixiang Brigade is not as easy as before, but it is not as good as in the original plot. So hard.
But Han Meili is still the same as in the original plot, becoming the deputy director of the Maixiangling Commune Revolutionary Committee, collaborating with Zhang Defu, following Zhang Defu very firmly, and becoming a pawn in the charge for Zhang Defu. Even Wang Wanchun Director, in many matters, he can only turn a blind eye or close one eye and let Han Meili make the decision.
The Maixiang Brigade is under the control of Maixiang Ling, and naturally it is also under the control of Han Meili.
Fortunately, Han Meili was not familiar with the Maixiang Brigade. She had only visited and studied a few times before, and Han Meili's main attention was on the dozens of brigades throughout the commune. The members of the Maixiang Brigade responded to Wang Zhong's call Next, I just put my tail between my legs and live my own life, which is pretty smooth.
The oil-pressing workshop of the Maixiang Brigade, the fish ponds converted from water cellars, pig farms, and chicken farms have inevitably become lost to the public.
Han Meili brought a group of militiamen to Maixiang Village in person and gave orders. Naturally, Wang Zhong would not confront her stupidly. He immediately had people catch all the big and small fish in the fish pond and sent them to the supply and marketing cooperative. The farm and chicken farm were closed, the breeding sows were taken away directly by Han Meili and others, and the rest were distributed to various households.
The oil mill was closed, as were the chicken farms and pig pens, leaving only a mess on the ground.
"Big Chong, what should we do now?"
Ma Renli acted like a coward, and Niu Dangdang was so angry that he gritted his teeth and his teeth became itchy.
"What to do? Salad!" Wang Zhong said: "Didn't you hear what Deputy Director Han said? From now on, only wheat and corn can be grown in the fields. Soybeans and peanuts are cash crops and are not allowed to be planted again."
"If we don't grow soybeans and peanuts, how can we extract oil?" Niu Dangdang was very angry.
Wang Zhong looked at Niu DaDang and said, "Da DaDang, I know you are not convinced, but you must not cause any trouble for me."
It's a pity that Wang Zhong's beatings had no effect at all. Niu Dada's stubborn temper was really a headache. Within a few days, he was demoted as the captain. Zhao Youtian was promoted to captain, and Ma Renli was the deputy captain. It was Wang Wanchun who helped Niu DaDa retain his position as squad leader.
Another year has passed in a blink of an eye.
On this day, Zhang Defu couldn't help frowning when he looked at the food in the bowl, and immediately called the canteen director over.
"What's going on in your canteen? Why is there less and less oil and water in the food recently?" Zhang Defu picked up the food: "Why is there less and less meat? I remember there used to be a fish meal every week, why? It’s gone now? How do you do this as the canteen director?”
The more Zhang Defu talked, the angrier he became, and he slapped the table hard with his fat, stubby palms.
The canteen director looked embarrassed and quickly explained: "Secretary Zhang, there's nothing I can do. There are only so many ingredients every day. I can't conjure oil and meat out of thin air, right?"
"You are still reasonable!" Zhang Defu suddenly changed his face: "Then why did food only have enough oil and water in the past? How come there was fish every week in the past?"
"Secretary Zhang, I'm not shirking responsibility. This matter really has nothing to do with me. Purchasing ingredients is a matter of the Purchasing Department. If you don't believe me, call Section Chief Zhang from the Purchasing Department over and ask."
Zhang Defu immediately called the chief of the purchasing department in front of him and questioned him head on.
"Secretary Zhang, the supply and marketing cooperative doesn't have that much inventory! This year the supply and marketing cooperative's pork is 20% less than last year, and the cooking oil is at least 50% less..."
After Zhang Defu investigated, his face turned pale and he said nothing.
The decrease in edible oil is due to the county not allowing farmers to grow oil crops such as soybeans and peanuts. The decrease in pork is due to the closure of several large farms. As for fish, it is almost the same as the previous ones.
These policies were formulated by the extremely wise Secretary Zhang himself, and several generals under him, such as Han Meili, implemented them to the end.
Wang Zhong seemed to have changed. Apart from leading the villagers to work in the fields, he stayed at home and took care of his children. He only occasionally went into the mountains to hunt and find food for his children.
The children are also growing up day by day. Wang Ziyu, whose nickname is Maiya, has become a treasure in the family's palms. To say that this little child's life is really comfortable, his parents love him, and his brothers and sisters take care of him. She is handsome and handsome, and her temperament is completely opposite to that of her sister Wang Zijin. She is quiet and gentle. In addition, she has been studying with Wang Zhong since she was a child, so she has a strong bookish air about her.
On the other hand, Wang Zijin was a demon king when he was a child. The older he got, the more out-of-touch he became. Only when he was in front of Wang Zhong did he behave well, but outside, he was just like a demon king.
Although she is a girl, she is surprisingly strong, has strong muscles and bones, and is quite talented. She has been fond of boxing since she was a child.
Ma Gongshe from Ma Renli's family, Yang Jianguo, Niu Aimin from Niu Dangda's family, and Niu Jianjun from Lao Ganbang's family were beaten to death by this girl. At first, this girl really couldn't beat Ma Gongshe and the others when she was young, but she I can't bear that she has two good brothers.
The brothers Wang Zi'an and Wang Ziping were well-known as powerful characters in the Maixiang Brigade. When they were young, they practiced martial arts with Wang Zhong and got into trouble a lot. Fortunately, Wang Zhong's discipline was strict, so they didn't cause any trouble. But from all over the country, There are few young people in the nearby brigade who don't know the names of the two brothers.
He earned his reputation with his fists. He practiced boxing and kicking at a young age, and later joined the militia. He was famous for his marksmanship. Later, he went to high school in the county and got excellent grades. After graduating from high school, he worked under Wang Wanchun. Under the arrangement, he joined the commune's armed forces department.
With such two powerful brothers, coupled with his talents, if Wang Zijin can't make it in the village, then he is said to be incompetent.
