Chapter 20: The beginning is difficult
It's hard to get started.
Yang Zaixin stood outside the village department, looking at the three groups of old houses opposite, and the verdant forest covered most of the earthen houses opposite. The houses are stacked on top of each other, from the lower river to the top, and from Yang Zaixin's angle, it seems that those houses are almost at the top of the mountain.
Shuanggou Village is surrounded by mountains, and between the mountains are narrow ditches and streams. There is a dam of farmland on this side of the village, and a lot of sloping land has been reclaimed from the hillside, and there is not much sloping land planted at present. Corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, etc. are the most common dry grains here, and the output is not much but enough to use.
The main reason is that the young and strong laborers are not at home, and the food consumption has also decreased a lot. If these crops were simply planted in the village, life would be tighter, and now the main expenses of the families in the village are to work and earn money from the young and strong.
Without a farmer's place to work, life is even tighter. Only in the mountains near the village, collect some herbs and specialties that can be sold for money, and take them to the town for a little money, and there are also days when there is a market in the town, and bring some vegetables to sell for money. In fact, such income is not enough to eat salt, oil, and electricity bills. During that period of time, there were a little more human contacts, and it was inevitable to find a neighbor to borrow money to pay off.
My own job is to go to the village to help the poor, but how can I carry out my own work? Although I have considered this question many times, I still have not found an idea that can produce results.
It seems that the previous self-confidence is still too blind. There have been many years of poverty alleviation work in mountain villages, but few villages have really achieved results in poverty alleviation. Yang Zaixin is in such a role in the county, so he naturally understands the details of the county's poverty alleviation work over the years. More results are all written things, and if a certain project is really profitable, publicity will flock to it.
There is no need to think about the road hardening project into Shuanggou Village for the time being, but what should I do when I go to the village? I can't be in the village every day and complete some forms every month. The materials in the village are placed in the cabinet in the data room on the second floor. Yang Zaixin thought about it, first familiarize himself with the situation, really prepare to do things, at least have a more detailed overall impression of Shuanggou Village.
Go back to the second floor, clean up your mood, and take out the materials in the cabinet.
Reading information is his strong point for Yang Zaixin, and he sits until noon.
Long Xiuguo, Long Chenghai and Zhang Bing came to the village together, and Yang Zaixin heard the movement downstairs and went downstairs. After meeting, Long Chenghai said, "Director Yang, I slept well last night." ”
"I'm so bad at drinking that it makes everyone laugh. ”
"What's so funny about being drunk, who hasn't been drunk? Like Director Yang, go to sleep after drinking, that's the best kind of wine." Zhang Bing said, "I was also drunk last night, and I only got up today." Director Yang, let's have breakfast. ”
"I woke up in the morning, ate and read the village information upstairs. A few people came, just to ask for some specific things. Yang Zaixin said with a smile, and then, he spread out the book and asked the three of them about the doubtful situations he recorded. At this time, I asked about the situation of each family in the village in a targeted manner, and Long Xiuguo and others were familiar with it and introduced it very smoothly.
This discussion continued into the afternoon, and Yang Zaixin had not finished reading the information in the village. "Director Long, I know the situation in the village, but you are definitely much more familiar than me, how can you change this situation?"
"Director Yang, it's not that I'm pessimistic. This is indeed difficult, not only because Shuanggou Village wants to get rich, but also in which village in Baozhai Town wants to get rich? Over the past few decades of reform and opening up, although our lives have undergone earth-shaking changes, there have been marked improvements and changes. But to keep up with the pace of the times, these remote areas are unconscious of an ideal situation.
The affairs of our village, everyone sat down to discuss not once or twice, and our village cadres were also pondering, but the actual difficulties really made the village have no feasible way.
However, this year, our village will definitely be able to complete the hardening project of the road into the village, and the summary of poverty alleviation work is excellent, and you don't have to worry too much about anything. Even if you usually report the materials every month, you can also make materials around other roads. ”
"When I came to the village, I really wanted to complete the county information, but I wanted to discuss and work together to make a substantial change in the situation in the village, not just the materials. Yang Zaixin said with a wry smile.
"I know what Director Yang means, and I don't misunderstand you, but this matter is really not urgent. Long Xiuguo shook his head and said.
"I also know that I can't come in a hurry, isn't this small talk. Let's follow a train of thought, maybe there will be a flash of inspiration. Yang Zaixin also laughed, if he wanted to say that he could live like this day by day in the village, he really couldn't do it.
"Yes, yes. Long Xiuguo didn't want to say the opposite, knowing that Yang Zaixin was different from those others, he was really anxious for the village and wanted to find a way out.
Although he was anxious, Yang Zaixin was still at a loss after a week in the village. It really answered the sentence: everything is difficult at the beginning. I discussed it a few times in the village and came up with a few ideas.
At present, Shuanggou Village can do nothing more than two aspects: one is planting, and the other is breeding. In the case of breeding, the village does have the conditions for poultry, livestock, and aquatic products, but the possibilities are also relatively large.
There are two rivers outside the village, although they are not large, but there are prerequisites for aquaculture, such as fish, and you can also choose more special species for breeding. Speaking of this, Long Xiuguo and Long Chenghai both shook their heads and said, "The village has done all these aspects, such as pig raising, sheep raising, cattle raising and other projects, as well as raising ducks, chickens, geese, etc., they have all tried." But they all lost money, and then no one would do it again. ”
"I've heard about these things too. Yang Zaixin said, "It's nothing more than a small investment, a small scale, and too little profit margin." ”
"Not being able to scale is the biggest weakness, but to make it large, the village does not have such conditions. Long Xiuguo said, "If there is no capital, there will be no large-scale investment, and there will be no millions or tens of millions, what scale can it become? Foreign investment is impossible, who will choose this ravine? There is also the technical problem, the county promised to provide technical support, and also sent people to help, but without the technology, it will not be able to do well in the end." Every failure, too, is lost.
There is also the problem of sales, the town can't digest it, the county is far away, and the foreign boss comes to the village, so it's even more impossible. ”
In fact, in poor and backward places, it is bitter blood and tears to say it casually.
"There was no road before, but this year the road is open, and some conditions will be changed a lot. Yang Zaixin said, "Each family raises dozens of chickens and ducks, and then the village contacts the outside to sell, and even the provincial poverty alleviation unit can be found to contact the provincial capital to contact sales, this road can't be walked?"
"We want to do that too, but few people in the village are willing to do it. When it comes to specific families, many families have insufficient labor, or more than fifty or sixty, and they can't bear much labor. Zhang Bing said.