Hongqi Commune's "rice and fish farming" harvest was abundant, but there were also many problems.

At that time, all production resources were owned by the government, either state-run or collective, and the production resources belonging to the peasants themselves were very few, almost none. The paddy fields of "rice and fish farming" are collective resources, and the purchase of fish fry is also invested by the brigade, and the work of taking care of the paddy fields, changing water and draining water is recorded in the production team. Therefore, there is no doubt that the ownership of all the fish caught belongs to the brigade.

The problem is in the allocation.

For the first time in history, the members of the Hongqi Commune had fished so many fish in the paddy fields, and it didn't take much effort, and it was almost as good as pie in the sky. Each brigade has more than 2,5600 catties of fish, and the less is nearly 2,000 catties, which is not a small amount. Everyone is counting on the public to divide the fish.

The decision to release the fry was an order from Secretary Yan of the commune, and all the brigades complied with it without any doubt. After the harvest, because it belonged to the collective property of the brigade, the commune did not interfere with the distribution, and there was not even a guiding surname. The twenty-one brigades went their own way, and some of them were assigned to people according to the number of jobs at one time; Some are divided evenly according to the head; Some of them were divided into half, the other half was disposed of by the brigade, and the sale of part of it was counted as the accumulation of the brigade, and the other part was given favors by the cadres of the brigade, and even more by individual cadres; There are still a few brigades that do not catch all of them, only a part of the fish is distributed to the members, and the rest is transplanted to the pond to wait for a greater harvest during the New Year.

It is also normal for collectively owned property to be distributed collectively by a collective decision.

However, when the early rice harvest was in Hongqi Commune, so many fresh carp and crucian carp suddenly appeared, and the entire aquatic product supply and marketing system in Xiangyang County was greatly impacted. The brigade will be sold to the county supply and marketing cooperatives, and the supply and marketing cooperatives will arrange for the sale. Some of the members who were allocated fresh fish were used to being thrifty and would never eat it in one meal, and they also sold it secretly, and even the families of some cadres who were living a little better in the nearby commune and county town ran to the Hongqi Commune to buy fish.

If it is placed a few years later, at the beginning of reform and opening up, this kind of scene will be written in the book of achievements of the person in charge of the Hongqi Commune. It's a pity that it was a few years earlier. This is not a political achievement, but a crime.

There is more than one count.

The first is the breeding of corruption. The so-called corruption [***], as mentioned earlier, a small number of cadres of the brigade ate more and occupied more when they divided the fish, and some people even sent fish to the cadres of the commune and even the county cadres. It has aroused strong dissatisfaction among the broad masses of members.

When he first heard about this, Yoo Joon was terribly dizzy.

Deliver fish? Embezzlement [***]?

In the eyes of Liu Jun, a time-traveler in the 21st century, it is really difficult to have anything to do with the two. It's understandable to be dizzy.

The second is to disrupt the normal supply and marketing channels and breed the phenomenon of speculation. Xiangyang County is located in the inland mountainous area, to be precise, a hilly area, and has never had abundant aquatic products, although carp and crucian carp are not rare, they are not often eaten. Previously, it was usually during the New Year's holidays that the supply and marketing system organized the supply of freshwater fish to urban residents. Nowadays, there are suddenly more than 20,000 catties of fish on the market for no reason, and there are still private buying and selling. Naturally, this debt will also be counted on the head of the person in charge of the Hongqi Commune.

Speculation, Liu Jun has heard of it, and it is not a derogatory term. As for what "upside down" means, I really don't know. In 1977, there was no Internet, and there was nowhere to check it if it wanted to.

The third is the theory of productive forces and the "rise of capitalist thought".

Raising a few more fish is the theory of productive forces, and eating a few more fish is the rise of capitalist thought, although Liu Jun understands this way of reasoning, he can't figure it out. It's probably because of the different times of life.

The fourth charge is private, and it cannot be put on the table.

The Hongqi Commune's "rice field fish farming" harvest soon spread throughout the county, and the other communes were very angry, and the cadres of the brigade asked the leaders of their respective communes one after another, whether they could follow the example and handle it accordingly, so that the members could also taste some meat? This is a sensitive issue, and many of the top leaders of the communes do not dare to be self-reliant, so they turn over the contradictions and ask for instructions from the districts and counties at all levels.

Wang Benqing, who had been in charge of the Guzhen Commune for many years, even wrote a special report requesting instructions and submitted it to the county revolutionary committee for approval.

It is said that Wang Benqing was greatly annoyed.

What is a planned economy? A planned economy means that everything has to be planned according to plan. Who made the plan? Superiors, of course. Could it be that you can make a plan with a little Red Flag Commune Revolutionary Committee?

If you just raise a few fish and eat them for a meal, forget it, no one cares about you. This guy made tens of thousands of catties, eating and selling, making the whole county boiling, which had to let the leaders of the Baozhou area know, and they didn't know how to decide on their surname.

Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai, the two bastards, really don't let people stop.

Director Wang is angry, and it is a big deal in Xiangyang County. Tang Haitian, who was the third deputy director of the county revolutionary committee and was in charge of agricultural production, personally organized an investigation team and rushed to the Hongqi Commune to investigate the "rice and fish farming" incident.

Deputy Director Tang had not yet arrived at the Hongqi Commune, and he and Yan Yu had a top cow in Taishan District.

When Yan Yucheng heard that Tang Haitian was so excited, he immediately became angry in order to investigate the so-called "fish farming incident".

"I explained this matter to Lao Cui last time when he came to Hongqi Commune. Why do you hold on to it? What is his intention? ”

Anyway, Cui Xiuhe has already been convicted, and Yan Yucheng will not save half of his face, and directly denounce his name, and even Minister Cui is too lazy to call it.

Tang Haitian's surname is relatively mild, and he used to work with Yan Yucheng in the county agricultural bureau, and he knows Yan Yucheng's temper very well.

"Lao Yan, don't be excited. Since someone has reported the problem, the organization must investigate clearly and make a fair conclusion. You have to trust the organization......"

"Okay, Director Tang, then tell me, what's wrong with the members of Hongqi Commune raising fish on their own initiative to increase their collective income? Need the county revolutionary committee to send a special investigation team to investigate? Do you still have to work for you, the third-ranked deputy director, to go out in person? ”

The specifications of this investigation team are also very particular. For general problems, the functional departments come forward. It was the turn of the third-in-command of the county revolutionary committee to go out in person, and it was clear that he wanted to investigate the problems of the main leaders of the Hongqi Commune, and to put it bluntly, it was aimed at Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai.

Yan Yucheng has been through wind and waves for a long time, and his eyes are bright, how can he not see the trick?

Tang Haitian couldn't help but be speechless.

Since joining the company, Tang Haitian has been dealing with agriculture and rural areas, and has a deep understanding of the situation of the vast number of peasants. When he first heard the news of the bumper harvest of Hongqi Commune's "rice and fish farming", he was very happy and felt that he had explored a feasible path of development. If the income of the grass-roots brigades can be increased, the work of purchasing public grain and making overall plans for the political axe at all levels will be much smoother. The burden on him, the deputy director in charge of agricultural production, is much easier.

He also communicated this idea with Wang Benqing, the number one leader, but Wang Benqing criticized him as "politically naïve", "vague in his stance on taking class struggle as the key link", and "inclined to be productive forces."

In Xiangyang County, only Wang Benqing and Zheng Xingyun are more obvious. As the third-in-command, Tang Haitian does not have his own faction, basically, he is more inclined to the Wang faction, but his relationship with Zheng Xingyun is still okay. This time, Wang Benqing appointed him as the head of the investigation team, and he also wanted to force him to express his attitude.

"I don't believe it, the members ate a few more fish, and they made a mistake. Director Tang, you are also from the countryside, the son of a farmer, don't you feel sorry for treating our fathers and fellow villagers like this? ”

The head of the investigation team was speechless to the subject of the investigation, and the investigation could not be investigated.

Tang Haitian let out a long sigh, shook hands with Yan Yucheng tightly, and didn't even go to the Hongqi Commune, and went back to the county directly.

Tang Haitian's attitude suddenly became clear, which surprised Wang Benqing and made the number one angry and embarrassed. A meeting of the directors of the Revolutionary Committee was held overnight, and all eight directors attended the meeting, except for one deputy director who was on a business trip and was unable to attend on time.

Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai, the two parties involved in the "rice field fish farming incident", slept very sweetly that night. It was only later that they learned that because of the tens of thousands of catties of fish in the Hongqi Commune, the eight directors and deputy directors of the county revolutionary committee had held a meeting all night and quarreled all night. The directors had a heated debate on the issue of the surname of the "rice and fish farming incident".

At the beginning, Wang Benqing and Zheng Xingyun were still self-respecting, and their respective followers fired first. Cui Xiuhe was Wang Benqing's urgent vanguard, and just after listening to Tang Haitian's investigation report, he immediately couldn't hold back and expressed his views fiercely. He proposed that Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai, two degenerate cadres who supported "speculation" and "the theory of productive forces," must be severely punished.

A deputy director of the Zheng faction immediately ridiculed each other, and implicitly pointed out that Cui Xiuhe was a personal vendetta in the communiqué and was suspected of retaliation. Cui Xiuhe was furious, if Wang Benqing hadn't stopped it in time, he would have almost started scolding.

Next, several deputy directors took turns to debate with each other, and the smell of fire became stronger and stronger. Seeing that no one could convince anyone, Wang Benqing and Zheng Xingyun had to go out in person and express their views.

Normally, the number one leader has expressed his attitude, and even if the other team members have different opinions, they will choose to reserve and support the opinions of the first leader. This time it was different, because Tang Haitian, the head of the investigation team, had a different conclusion from the opinion of the top leader.

So Zheng Xingyun said: To deal with problems, it is still necessary to seek truth from facts.

This is tantamount to openly contradicting Wang Benqing. Relatively speaking, the strength of the Zheng faction is inferior to that of the Wang faction, so Zheng Xingyun is still relatively low-key, and only competes with Wang Benqing in secret. It is extremely rare to go head-to-head at a meeting of directors like this.

Encountering such resistance for the first time at a director's meeting, Wang Benqing felt that his authority had been greatly challenged. Now it is no longer a question of how to deal with Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai, but he must win, otherwise, his power base in Xiangyang County will be shaken.

Seeing that the quarrel had been fruitless all night, Wang Benqing was angry and put it to a vote.

This has made Wang Benqing lose face. In the past, in Xiangyang County, when did he not punish cadres? This time, he actually had to force him to vote for the last resort!

The strength of the Wang faction is stronger than that of the Zheng faction, and there are four deputy directors who follow him, plus Tang Haitian, the Wang faction holds six votes out of nine votes, so Wang Benqing is still full of confidence in the vote.

Who knew that as soon as the result came out, it turned out to be 4:4, which made Wang Benqing really crazy for a while. Only then did he remember that one of the deputy directors of the Wang faction was away on business and could not participate in the voting. And Tang Haitian fell to Zheng Xingyun again, so there was such a voting result that made Wang Benqing extremely depressed.

Alas, I blame myself for being impulsive and not considering the problem comprehensively, so I lifted a stone and shot myself in the foot.

"Adjournment!"

After saying these two words, Wang Benqing blushed, picked up the teacup, and walked out of the conference room without looking back.

As soon as the meeting ended, Tang Haitian didn't care about resting, and hurriedly called Taishan District, called Yan Yucheng up from the bed, and explained the meeting process and voting results to Yan Yucheng simply.

The result of the 4:4 vote seemed to be a tie, but in fact the royal faction was defeated and lost. Because Wang Benqing's decision to punish Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai failed to pass, it indicates that Wang Benqing's position in Xiangyang County is already in jeopardy.

Yan Yucheng immediately informed Liu Jincai of the matter.

Liu Jin was stunned for a while. He didn't know anything about the investigation team, and he didn't know anything about the chairman of the county revolutionary committee meeting overnight to vote. However, Liu Jincai was still very happy to learn the voting results.

If he wasn't his father, Liu Jun really wanted to say to him: Director Liu, don't be too happy, Wang Benqing is not so easy to mess with!

In fact, after the meeting, Wang Benqing did not rest, but immediately took a car to Baozhou City, where the Baozhou region is located! I hurriedly found a certain main leader in the area and reported this extremely abnormal situation in Xiangyang County.

Wang Benqing was determined to bring down Zheng Xingyun this time, and he would be squeezed out of Xiangyang County if he was not good. With the existence of such a deputy, he Director Wang will not have a good time in the future. As for how to deal with Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai, it is a secondary issue. Comparatively speaking, Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai have not yet been able to pose a direct threat to the status of Director Wang.

The content of Wang Benqing's conversation with the principal leader in the Baozhou area is unknown to outsiders.

Two days later, an investigation team sent by the Baozhou Regional Revolutionary Committee directly stationed in the Hongqi Commune and returned to the area seven days later, and the Baozhou Regional Revolutionary Committee immediately demanded that Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai be punished by the Xiangyang County Revolutionary Committee.

After receiving the regional notice, Wang Benqing was mixed. The good news is that the regional leaders clearly support themselves and prove that their work in Xiangyang County has been recognized by their superiors. What is worrying is that the region only said that Yan Liu and the two parties were punished, and did not mention Zheng Xingyun at all. Even if Yan Yucheng and Liu Jincai are punished, it is also specifically stated that they should "give priority to criticism and education" and cannot be beaten to death with a stick. Moreover, the region does not directly make punishment decisions, which indirectly points out that he should no longer be entangled with Zheng Xingyun in this matter.

It should be noted that the Xiangyang County Revolutionary Committee has no authority to punish members of the political organization team at the same level.

It seems that Zheng Xingyun's backers in the region are also very hard-rooted.

It's a long way to go!

Wang Benqing sighed secretly and remembered Qu Yuan's famous poem.

On July 24, 1977, the decision of the Xiangyang County Revolutionary Committee was issued to Taishan District and Hongqi Commune.

In view of the mistakes made by Comrade Yan Yucheng and Comrade Liu Jincai in the incident of "raising fish in rice fields", Comrade Yan Yucheng was given an administrative demerit punishment and Comrade Liu Jincai was given an intra-party warning. Hongqi Commune "Rice Field Fish Farming" was immediately stopped.;