Chapter 55: The Aftermath of the Division
The Changgang Township Government has reservations about the division of land in Huanggang Village. After all, a few months ago, the province had discussed the implementation of the policy of guaranteeing production to households throughout the province, but due to the opposition of some leaders, Jiangxi Province is still waiting to see the situation of the neighboring province of Hui, which is the first to eat crabs.
Because of this incident, Chen Dongbao was called by the township government to a meeting, at which some township leaders complained about Huanggang Village's radical approach. However, the general direction of the central authorities is not very clear, and the relevant leaders in the township only beat Chen Dongbao and did not forcefully stop Huanggang Village's practice.
Chen Dongbao has been the village party secretary in Huanggang Village for more than 20 years, and now he is in his 60s, he doesn't take the beating in the township too seriously. Moreover, after the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, the pilot project in Hui Province was vigorous, and the central government did not stop it, which shows that the above also acquiesced in its success.
However, although Chen Dongbao did not take the beating of the township to heart, some murmurs in the village still existed, that is, those who were used to eating big pots of rice before. In the past, when they were working in the village, they were lazy, and the accountant gave them a few fewer jobs to register, and they didn't care. Anyway, when the village distributes grain, they will not withhold food because they don't have enough work.
But now that the fields have been given to the families to grow for themselves, if they don't take care of the crops, then there will be no place to borrow food and they will go hungry. What's more, one acre of land has to pay 240 catties of summer grain and 200 catties of autumn grain.
This grain delivery ratio is the amount of grain paid by the village accountant according to the total tasks set by the state for the village collectives in the past. For example, the two brothers, Chen Huahan and Chen Huatang, each family will pay 3,120 catties of summer grain and 2,600 catties of autumn grain every year in the future.
This is not a small number, at present, according to the village collective's yield per mu, the summer grain is only more than 600 catties, the autumn grain is more than 500 catties, and there is not much left after the public grain is paid.
A few lazy families in the village went to the cadres of the village committee and said that they did not want to divide the land, but still wanted to participate in the production and labor of the large collective, and continue to live a good life with the care of the village collective. Their words and deeds were strongly suppressed by Chen Dongbao, who told them that the great man called on everyone to work hard and work their own self-reliance as early as Yan'an. Now that you have been liberated for so many years, why haven't you learned these words, these families are red-faced and speechless.
The aftermath of the village was temporarily suppressed by Chen Dongbao's strength, but he knew that if he wanted to completely solve the aftermath, he had to wait for the autumn grain harvest data to come out after the production was distributed to the households. Only when the output of autumn grain after the land is divided can be greatly increased, will those lazy people have nothing to say.
After dividing the land, Chen Chunhua's two brothers were even busier. They are reluctant not to plant the fields they have been allocated, and now they are busy in the field and in the store every day. For example, Chen Huatang and his wife Zhang Lan get up early every morning to steam steamed buns, steamed buns, fried fritters, and make soy milk, and they are busy until 9 o'clock in the morning every day. After a little rest, I have to work in the fields and take care of the crops.
Chen Huahan is slightly better, after all, he runs a bamboo products store, and his daily leisure time is constantly weaving bamboo products. Now his wife Lu Xiulan is also learning the craft of weaving under his leadership. In order to have a stable bamboo source, he also contracted a small bamboo forest to the village, and in addition to being busy with things in the field, he also had to take time to take care of the bamboo forest every day. His eldest son, Chen Bin, is now also liberated from the field and is currently learning to take care of business in the store with his mother.
Mr. Chen and his family watched the children work so hard, and they did all the chores at home by themselves, not to make trouble for the children, and the family was happy, although they were busy, but the attitude of positive life infected many people. The surrounding neighbors watched the increasingly prosperous days of the Chen family, and they also held back their energy, and for a while, they felt a little like you were chasing me.
However, the biggest change brought to the village by the division of land to households is actually the improvement of living environmental hygiene, which no one expected. In the past, when everyone participated in the collective production and labor in the village, they would pick up a load of dung, and when they set off, they would fill it with a load, and when they arrived in the field, there was often only half a bucket left, and the rest of the weeds on the roadside were fertilized.
And now, there is no more spilled feces on the roadside. Not only did people no longer spill feces, but they also built toilets and pits in every house. Few people go to the public toilet in the village again, but the cat solves the problem in the toilet of their own home.
Not only that, but now people see weeds on the roadside, water hyacinth in the water, cow dung on the road, and black soil in dry ponds, all of which glow red. Because fertilizer is difficult to buy with money, not to mention that most people don't have money, these things that no one paid attention to before have become good things for manure in their own toilets.
People poured cow dung, weeds, water hyacinths, rotten vegetable leaves and other things into their toilets one by one, and after a few days of fattening, they pulled them into the ground one by one.
There used to be a lot of weeds in the crops, and there were more on the ridges, but now you don't want to find a single weed in the field, and even the weeds on the ridges are cleared. Every family is reluctant to leave weeds for fertilizer, eager for the crops to absorb all the nutrients.
The whole Huanggang Village has a new look, and there used to be lazy people who often gathered together to play cards and play, but now everyone wants to serve their crops well, and they don't have the heart to put it on it.
Chen Dongbao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although everyone no longer attaches as much importance to the village committee as before, as long as everyone's life is prosperous and hopeful, he is happy.
The changes in Huanggang Village spread like a plague in the surrounding villages. In the surrounding villages, who doesn't have a few relatives in Huanggang Village, when everyone goes to relatives and friends, they all deeply feel the great changes in Huanggang Village.
As a result, a wave of urgent land division has unfolded vigorously. In some villages, the village cadres did not agree to divide the land and were scolded by the villagers. In some villages, the land is not divided fairly, and the good land is not divided into dependent areas, and the people who are allocated the dependent land are very resentful. For a while, Li Liang's initial suggestion of opening a small restaurant was like a butterfly's small wings, and after a few turns of a fan, a storm blew in the village under the jurisdiction of Changgang Township.
Of course, these things have little to do with Li Liang, because the new semester is about to start in September. In the second half of the year, he and Chenchen will be in the third year of junior high school, which will be an important moment to decide the fate of some people.
In this era, students who graduated from junior high school, first-class students go to technical secondary school, and second-class students go to secondary school teachers (middle school teachers are schools that train primary school teachers, and they are also technical secondary schools, and now there are no more). If a student can't do any of these things, go to high school. Because going to high school not only has to bear three more years of tuition and fees, but also may have accommodation fees, repeat fees, etc., which is not a big burden for families who are not wealthy.