Chongzhen ten years, early September.

Anqing Mansion, Tongcheng County, No. 891 Collective Manor - Because the villagers of the manor are mainly surnamed Qian, Fang, and Sun, it is also called the Sanzu Manor.

The planning began in April, the land was enclosed and arranged in May, and the construction of the manor officially began in June.

The actual construction period of the manor was only three months.

During this period, I was also busy with farm work in the fields, I had to build a brick kiln factory to burn bricks in advance, and waited for the Xujiazhuang headquarters to distribute building materials such as reinforced cement, sand and gravel, and there were many miscellaneous things.

As a result, the construction progress of the manor is not very fast, so far, the overall progress has only reached 45%.

Fortunately, the busy farming season ended in August.

From this month onwards, more than 27,800 villagers of the 891st collective estate will be able to devote all their time and energy to the construction of the estate, and all men, women and children will have to work, so the progress has been accelerated a lot, and the daily changes are visible to the naked eye, which is very gratifying.

But......

Qian Chengzhi felt very dissatisfied and was very anxious.

On the one hand, winter is about to begin, and the temperature will drop, which is not suitable for work, and the efficiency will be reduced a lot.

Secondly, it is their collective manor, among the 1,100 newly built manors in Jiangnan, the construction progress is relatively slow, or even the bottom.

Because the statistics of Xujiazhuang headquarters show that the construction progress of most of the new manors has exceeded 60%, and a few have reached 70% or even 80%, but there are also more than a dozen collective manors, and the construction progress has exceeded 90%, and it will be fully completed within this month.

And this efficiency is simply terrifying, and it feels unbelievable.

It also means that in the same three or four months, the overall work efficiency of these fast-working estates is twice that of the 891 collective estate, which is equivalent to one person doing the work of two of them.

So when Qian Chengzhi saw these data, his first reaction was impossible, and he said he didn't believe it.

Because today's large-scale collective estates with an enclosure area of nearly 50,000 mu and the number of villagers generally reaching or approaching 30,000, there are too many infrastructure to be built for the comfort and convenience of life.

There are criss-crossing concrete roads.

There are thousands of three-and-a-half-storey villas.

There are irrigation reservoirs and tap water systems.

There are more than a dozen large warehouses.

There are biogas digesters, hospitals, schools, banks, police stations, factory workshops, public ancestral halls, cemeteries, orchards, and so on.

The whole amount of work is extremely huge, even the most professional workers, but also have to exceed 15 million labor (that is, a worker to work for eight hours) to complete the construction, of course, if a large number of tractors, excavators and other machinery, can greatly reduce labor, but at least will not be less than 5 million labor.

For the 891 collective manor, in the past few months, in order to build their new home, almost everyone has burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm, working hours of 13 or 4 hours a day is a common thing, people are like a perpetual motion machine, without a sense of tiredness, just want to build the manor quickly, and then live a happy and comfortable life.

Including Qian Chengzhi, a literati who rarely do physical work and have always worked hard, have also moved a lot of bricks, shoveled a lot of soil, and often made a gray face, and even the muscles on his arms bulged, and there is a trend of developing towards muscular men.

It can be said that Qian Chengzhi is willing to pat his chest and pack tickets, in the process of building his own manor, whether it is a scholar or an ordinary farmer, or even the elderly and children, no one is lazy, even if he lies down and rests for a while, he will be criticized and gossip, and he will feel ashamed and uneasy, and he has to get up and continue to work.

That is, everyone burst out with the best effort and energy.

The most fundamental reason is because everyone is building their own homes and working hard for their own happiness! If you have to be lazy and slack off in this kind of thing, then this person will never be productive, will be disliked by everyone, will lose the right to choose a mate in the blind date market, no one wants to marry this kind of lazy man, no matter how serious, it is possible to be expelled from the manor, because people can tolerate the waste of diligence, but they will never tolerate the smart lazy...... Of course, the Chinese people are hard-working by nature, and the proportion of lazy people is not high, and when they struggle for themselves, they will not exceed one in 100,000.

But that's it.

The construction efficiency of the 891st manor is still slower than that of most manors, and at least within this year, there is no possibility of completion.

But that doesn't work.

So at the request of the patriarchs of the Qian, Fang, and Sun clans, a discussion meeting was held with the members of the management team to find out the cause of the problem.

In other words, this is a meeting to express dissatisfaction with the management team, and the patriarchs of the Qian, Fang, and Sun clans all believe that the construction of the manor is so slow, and the main problem lies in the management team.

Qian Chengzhi also attended the meeting.

The patriarch of the Fang family fired first: "Captain Yang, I think the work of your team is not very good, although we are very hard to cooperate with each construction project, working from morning to night every day, but often at critical times, either lack of reinforced concrete, or red bricks are not enough, and we have to take people to the river to dig the sand, and the number of tractors is only twenty, and there are only three excavators, even the number is not enough, even the diesel fuel is not enough, only one day can be started every three days, if we can ensure that there is enough fuel every day, How is it possible to be so far behind. ”

The patriarch of the Sun family agreed: "Yes, the lack of red bricks, cement, diesel, water pipes, electricity, and even the tools used for work, and the guarantee is seriously ineffective. ”

The head of the Qian family said: "Captain Yang, Secretary Yuan, please hurry up and think of a way to solve the problem of serious shortage of all kinds of materials, more than 20,000 people of our three clans, and want to live in spacious and warm villas before the end of the year, and want to complete the construction of the manor before the spring ploughing next year, and then you can go to farming, breeding, running factories, making a lot of money, and achieving a well-off life as soon as possible. Can only be left behind? ”

The patriarch of the Fang family said: "Yes, Captain Yang, you guys are a little more powerful, help with more construction materials." ”

Hear these whining words.

Yang Junlin shook his head and said: "The construction materials provided by the headquarters are evenly distributed to 1,100 manors, without discrimination, there will be no situation where this manor gives more to that manor and less to give, you blame me for this matter, and those manors with fast construction efficiency, the reason why they are faster than us, one is that they have prepared materials in advance, and they are expected to face a shortage of situation, and the other is that they pay out of their own pockets, raise their own funds, and then go to those private brick kiln factories and cement factories to buy building materials. Finally, in terms of oil, all the estates are now facing the problem of diesel shortage, not only our shortage, but other estates are still building fast in the case of diesel shortage, and they are paying out of their own pockets, inviting a large number of laborers from other places, using more manpower, piling up faster efficiency. ”

He spread his hands and said: "You really can't blame the problem on our team, we have also tried our best, if you want to complete the manor faster, you can only think of your own way to further exert your subjective initiative." ”

These words silenced the crowd, and no one answered his words.

Because Yang Junlin's meaning is obvious, that is, let them raise their own money, go to those private brick kiln factories, cement factories, lime factories, buy building materials, and hire additional laborers to work, and with today's rising wages in the labor market, they must pay no less than 180 wen a day and two meals of meat to recruit laborers, otherwise it will be difficult to recruit people.

This means a lot more cost.

It's just that in the land acquisition process of the manor, the three major families have already donated all the land to the manor for free, and they have already paid a lot of costs, and it is really a bit difficult to let them pay for it.

"Elders, the sages have a famous saying that is good, I am born to be useful, and I will come back when my daughter is gone!"

At this time, Qian Chengyi patted the back of the chair, stood up and said: "I suggest that all families donate all the private money and coffin books at the bottom of the box, there are 300 donations, 300 donations, 500 donations, 500 donations, and 180,000 yuan, and all of them are used to build our manors. When the manor is completed, we will erect a stone monument of merit and engrave all the donors, and those who donate a lot can give priority to the selection of villas, priority in arranging work, and priority in obtaining all kinds of benefits and opportunities, as a reward for giving them, and others shall not raise objections. ”

"Elders, at this time, don't care about personal interests and gains and losses, the most important thing at the moment is to build our home, complete it as soon as possible, no matter how much it costs, we must at the end of the year before the New Year, the construction progress of the manor, to more than ninety percent, with basic living functions, allow everyone to move into a new home, use running water and electricity...... For a better life in the future, we need to look forward instead of clinging to the accumulation of the past. ”

"I Qian Chengzhi personally decided that the more than 23,000 silver dollars I have accumulated from my work in the past few years will be donated to give everyone a good start!"

In the end, Qian Chengzhi announced loudly, causing a shock.

The three patriarchs also applauded and supported:

"Good posterity, good posterity, this is wisdom, this is the pattern!"

"Forget it, the money is just a floating cloud, and I donated all the eight hundred silver dollars I saved for the coffin!"

"I'm ashamed, the old man has lived in vain for more than 70 years, it's better to live a later life, it's just that the coffin of the old man's five hundred silver dollars will be used to speed up the construction of the manor!"

"My family is poor, and I can only get more than a hundred silver dollars."

"I donate too!"

“……”

Subsequently, under the leadership of these patriarchs and elders, the 891 collective manor set off a frenzy of donations from everyone, and in a short period of time, more than 500,000 silver dollars were raised, which is quite considerable, and can completely increase the construction efficiency of the manor by more than 50%.

Captain Yang Junlin asked people to make a batch of inspiring red background banners and slogans, which were arranged all over the construction site, although they only played a spiritual encouragement role, but the effect was also very significant, such as-

Fight for 90 days, and it will be completed before the year!

Stay up all night to fight, victory is in sight!

If you suffer hard this year, you will enjoy happiness next year!

Strive for the first place, not the last place!

Dry dry, rush, rush to happiness unstoppable!

And so on and so forth.

After seeing these motivational slogans, the villagers seemed to have the effect of increasing work efficiency by 10%.

Qian Chengzhi regretted it a lot, because he was impulsive and donated all his savings, which caused his wife Fang Wanyi to be very angry, after all, there are many people in the family and there are many places to spend money, but Qian Chengzhi is so sincere that he really donated it all, so he punished him for kneeling on the washboard for several hours, and remembered it for a long time.

Fortunately, the concubine Su Ziyu was gentle and considerate, not only did she not scold him, but took out a thousand silver dollars from her private money and asked Qian Chengzhi to subsidize the family, which moved Qian Chengzhi and had to sigh: "A wife is not as good as a concubine, this is really reasonable, the Fang family is a Hedong lion, or Ziyu is the best for me." ”