"Then that's our last and most important question!"

"How to integrate the canteen into the existing work division system of our Maixiang Brigade, to be more accurate, it is the detailed rules and regulations of our canteen, how to get it, do you have any good ideas?" Wang Chong's gaze swept towards everyone. ”

"This canteen is not easy to run!" Niu Daring is a straight person, especially when discussing serious matters, he has always been straightforward, what to say, and he doesn't like to beat around the bush.

"I also know that it's not easy to do, but it's not easy to do, but it's not easy to do, it's different from the last rush, the last time I grabbed it, even if it really lost, we can also bear it ourselves, but this time it's ······" Niu boldly lowered his head and pursed his lips, he naturally knew what Wang Chong meant.

"The conditions of every household are different, the situation is not the same, the food is not the same, some are diligent, the family is a little richer, the white flour eats more, the dry is more, some are lazy, and some are difficult, they can only eat yellow noodles, eat buckwheat, eat thin, if you run a canteen, some people are happy, some people are afraid that they are not happy." Niu Daring said.

Although Niu Daring is a little rough, he is not the blind man who knows how to live in the lake.

"That's why we exist!" Wang Chongdao: "Take care of the difficult households, keep an eye on those who are lazy, transform them, let them become diligent, and everyone will contribute to the development of our Maixiang Village!" ”

"The big worm is right." Ma Renlian said with deep thought. Wang pointed to Ma Renli's name: "Renli, what do you think?" Ma Renli said: "I think the canteen must be done, this time it is different from the last rush, this is the policy." The rest of the crowd was convinced.

Wang Chongdao: "Let's set up a people's commune, build a production brigade, and run a canteen, in fact, in the final analysis, it is to realize communism and collective things, in fact, in the final analysis, it is everyone's, our village collective is equivalent to a big family, and every member of our brigade is a part of this big family, but the scale of this family is a little larger." ”

"Since everyone doesn't have a good idea, then I have a proposal, let's discuss it together and see how it goes."

"I said big worm, if you have a way, you should say it earlier!" Niu Daring unconsciously showed a little smile on his face.

"Big worm, what do you do?" Everyone looked at Wang Zhong curiously. Wang Chongzheng said: "First of all, let's make it clear, the canteen will be run, and the stoves in the villagers' homes will not stop, and in the future, we will harvest every summer and autumn, and in addition to the public grain handed over to the country, we will leave enough rations for the villagers for a year, and the rest will be sold to the grain warehouse of the brigade in three transactions, and the rest will be sent to each villager according to the surplus of the work as before." ”

"What if there is no surplus of work?" Niu boldly asked. Wang Chongdao: "If you don't have it, you won't send it, you can take as much as you do, this is our principle, and it is also the bottom line, and this cannot be changed." ”

"What about those poor households?" Ma Renlian asked. Wang Chongdao: "It's still the same as before, just take care of what you should take care of, and just control it." ”

"When will our reserve grain be 100,000 catties, and the extra grain every year in the future will be disposed of, or sold, or replaced with peanuts and soybeans, which can be used to extract oil."

"Let's take the part of the work occupied by the rations left in the canteen, and convert it into a meal ticket for the villagers, how many white noodles and how many stick noodles are converted into a few centimeters, and we will make adjustments according to the actual situation every year, and if the villagers want to go to the canteen to eat, they have to get a meal ticket, and if they don't have a meal ticket, they will start a group at home."

"Sounds pretty good!" Niu said boldly. Ma Renli also nodded and said, "It seems to be possible." Ma Renlian and Zhao Youtian also nodded.

Wang Chong has not finished speaking: "This is the first method, and there is a second method, our food is still distributed to the villagers according to the work points, and then we let the villagers pay food to the canteen every month, and how much food they pay, they will issue as many meal tickets, or exchange the meal tickets for meals, and the villagers will go to the canteen to eat if they are willing to eat in the canteen, and if they are not happy to go to the canteen to eat, they will start a group at home." ”

"But no matter which method it is, it will require a certain amount of manpower and a lot of energy to implement it."

"Let's do it for a few days, and when Secretary Wang and the others leave, if we really can't do it, we will close the canteen again, and we will eat our own food as before." Niu boldly turned his heart sideways, and simply said everything in his heart directly.

"What do you think?" The king asked them again.

"What you boldly said is also reasonable, if you really can't do it, Secretary Wang can't force us to do it!" Zhao Youtian said.

It is not so easy to achieve a truly absolute communist average. Let's not talk about it far away, not to mention the several brigades next door to the Maixiang Brigade, even the Maixiang Brigade itself, there have been many signs of not being able to work in the past few years, after all, people are selfish and inert, why can he be lazy, I can't be lazy?

After the meeting, on the way home, the three of them chatted about family life. Ma Renlian asked: "By the way, Brother Daring, how is my sister-in-law doing, is she still messing with you?" ”

"She dares!" The bold voice of the cow suddenly rose a notch.

"That's the best!" Ma Renlian said: "Look at the recent posture, you can pay more attention and tell her more to tell her not to talk nonsense, so as not to cause any unnecessary trouble." ”

"Renlian, what did you hear?" Wang Zhong couldn't help asking. Ma Renlian shook his head, his face was quite solemn: "I don't know the specifics, it's always right to be careful." Niu nodded boldly, obviously listening: "No problem, I will definitely tell her." "There are only a few good cooks in the village, Ma Renlian, nicknamed Cai Bao, was also given the title of a canteen director, and the canteen of the Maixiang Brigade was officially opened.

Three days later, Wang Wanchun and several commune leaders came to the Maixiang Brigade, looked at the clean and tidy canteen of the brigade, and couldn't help but nod their heads, and after some praise, they said that they would have a good taste of the food in the canteen of the Maixiang Brigade.

Before long, everyone sat around the table.

"It's time to eat!" Yang Deng'er shouted, leading Jiang Hongguo, Jin Hua's sister-in-law and several other women comrades with good craftsmanship to the table with a grate of steaming yellow buns and plates of vegetables.

The staple food is yellow steamed buns, in addition to two seasonal vegetables, there is also an egg drop soup, a meat dish, the meat dish is naturally pork, cabbage fried meat, of course, there are more cabbage, less pork.

However, there is a lot of oil, and it is enough to look at the oil and water.

"Three dishes and one soup, the food is good!" Wang Wanchun said with a smile.

"Everyone! Eat, eat! As soon as Wang Wanchun spoke, everyone moved. Wang Chongdao: "Isn't this the first day that the canteen has opened, from tomorrow, it can only be yellow steamed buns with green vegetables." ”

"No, haven't you had a good harvest every year in the past few years?" Wang Wanchun just took a bite, and suddenly reacted,

"Why is it still stick noodles with green vegetables every day?"

"My secretary, you don't know the cost of firewood, rice, oil and salt, this life is about careful planning, besides, there are still a lot of old and weak women and children in our team, let's not talk about anything else, just the two boys in my family, don't look at their young age, they can't do the work in the field, but when they eat, they are more powerful than the other."

"There is an old saying, called food is not poor, clothing is not poor, will not plan to be poor for a lifetime, our Maixiang Village brigade is almost 200 people, like the second grandfather, the old donkey, they are more than ten or twenty in the village, the village has just married, and there are many who are ready to have children, when the time comes, to supplement the nutrition of pregnant women, to supplement the body of the doll, everything has to be considered, we want to live a good life, then we have to be careful! Do you think that's the case? Wang Wanchun nodded approvingly: "That's the truth!" ”

"Are you still very competent as a branch secretary, yes, seek progress in stability!"

"You taught you well, and we all learned from you." These thousands of clothes are worn, and the sycophants are not worn, Wang Wanchun is indeed a little fluttering now, and he loves to listen to this kind of fragrant sycophants the most.

sent Wang Wanchun and his entourage away happily. Regarding the canteen, Wang Chong, Ma Renlian and others discussed it several times, and finally unanimously decided that every year the farm is busy, double robbery, and when the New Year's festival is over, the canteen will be opened, and the villagers will gather together to eat in the canteen.

A few days after the canteen was opened, the autumn harvest came. The corn, peanuts, and soybeans in the field are all harvested.

Although during this period of time, it has been merged into a brigade and a canteen, but all the guidelines of the Maixiang Brigade with production as the core have not changed, and even the oil mill has stopped in order to grab the autumn harvest.

In the past, regardless of the autumn harvest or the summer harvest, it was based on each group, but now the village has become a brigade, and each group has become a team, but in the final analysis, it is the same as before, changing the soup and not changing the medicine, that is, there is an additional canteen responsible for logistics, and during the double robbery period, three meals a day in the morning, noon and evening are provided by the canteen.

Breaking rice, pulling peanuts, and harvesting soybeans, all of a sudden, the entire Maixiang brigade was immersed in the joy of a bumper harvest.

After the autumn harvest, you have to rush to plough and top dressing, prepare for autumn sowing, now there is no chemical fertilizer, the villagers can only plough deeply, with traditional farm fertilizer, fortunately, in recent years, the village has built a pig farm, livestock shed, and also encircled several pieces of land for raising chickens, the manure of these livestock is collected every day, and it is stored in the pig farm, the large septic tank behind the livestock shed.

Wang Chong's two hunting dogs were also on the side of the pigsty and livestock shed, and they shouldered the duties of guards with the militia on duty in the village.

Surviving this rush is a month of effort. After the autumn sowing, it came to the most anticipated part of the settlement of work.

The tradition of the Maixiang Brigade is that each summer harvest and autumn harvest will count their respective work points, and after the end of the settlement, they will directly settle the settlement and convert the grain to the villagers according to the amount of grain harvested at that time.

"After the settlement is finished for the villagers, shall we still go to collect soybeans and peanuts from all over the country?" Ma Renli asked Wang Chongdao.

Wang Chongdao: "For the sake of insurance, I won't go for the time being, the reputation of our oil mill has also been beaten out in recent years, and now the autumn sowing is over, if you want to squeeze oil, you will bring peanuts and soybeans to our oil mill." ”

"It's better to be steady!" Ma Renlian said.

"Bold, have we transferred all our grain reserves?" Wang Zhong asked. Niu boldly said: "It has been transferred to the cellar, and now the upper warehouse is reserved for rations and seeds for the next year." ”

"Good!" Wang Chongdao: "Recently, there has been an exaggerated wind in newspapers and magazines, we are all croppers, no matter how the wind blows outside, we have to know in our hearts, only by being down-to-earth, can we live a good life." ”

"Don't worry, the big guys know it." Niu said boldly.

"Also, bold, Aritian, you are the captain and the deputy captain, the main focus on production, there are some words, I have to say that in front, we don't care about other villages, but in our village, the output should be as much as it should be, and no one is allowed to report more to me."

"There is another matter, the county has decided to let our commune build a reservoir in the upper reaches of the Maixiang River."

"Really?" Ma Renli was both surprised and delighted.

"Is this a joke?" Wang Zhong glanced at Ma Renli angrily. Ma Renli smiled.

Niu Daring also smiled and said: "This is a good thing, when the reservoir is repaired and the irrigation canal is dug up, there will be more villages that can be poured with water from the Maixiang River." ”

"A good thing indeed!" Wang Chong also nodded thoughtfully, and then looked at Ma Renli: "Originally, the county wanted to transfer me over, but I couldn't rest assured in the village, so I recommended you from above, and the county's order also came down, and you were sent to the reservoir to help, and then thirty young men from our village were selected to go with you." ”

"I'll leave this to you, okay?" Wang Zhong asked loudly.

"No problem." Ma Renli patted his chest and promised, "Wrap it up on me." At this moment, Ma Renli's eyes bloomed with a bright light that had not been revealed for several years.

"If this reservoir is built, the irrigation canals and waterwheels we used first will have to change, and we have to fill all the weirs and ponds in the village with water first."

"Youtian, you temporarily lead the villagers to be responsible for serving the winter wheat, don't go wrong, especially the small turn and the two of them who can't eat enough, staring at them with wide eyes, the work points should be deducted, the work points should be deducted, we can't tolerate it, we can't break our rules, otherwise everyone will follow the example, then they will all follow the work and not make any efforts."

"No problem, I'm sure to get the job done." Zhao Youtian said loudly.

"Bold, it's the peak of oil extraction recently, and you are solely responsible for the oil extraction workshop, so there must be no mistakes."

"No problem."

"Renlian, you are mainly responsible for paperwork, as well as docking with the commune, and besides, Ma Renli went to the dam, and you can take care of his accounting work first, no problem, right?"

"I'm fine." Now that the busiest time has passed, the accountant is responsible for counting the work every day, and there is not much work.

Wang Chong continued: "As for me, for the time being, I will look at the oil mill and check our existing irrigation canals to see if we can find a few more places and add a few weirs to come out." Wang Chong originally wanted to take advantage of the end of autumn sowing to find time to go into the mountains to hunt some prey and come back, but unfortunately he suddenly transferred thirty young and strong laborers to build a reservoir upstream, and the remaining old and weak in the village were weak, but there were nearly 1,000 acres of winter wheat to be carefully served, pulling weeds, top dressing, removing insects, suppressing and so on.

Ma Renli led people to the reservoir for more than a month, and the day slowly cooled down, and on this day, Ma Renlian came back from a meeting in the commune and brought back a large number of drawings.

"Build a blast furnace to make steel?" Even though he had been prepared, when he heard the news that Ma Renlian had brought back, Wang Chong still couldn't help but twitch his face.

Now half of the village's strong laborers are on the reservoir side, the three monkeys, the two pillars, and the militiamen, all go to the reservoir, Niu Daring and lead the people to work in a hurry at the oil mill, and the rest of the village has to take care of the fields, and from time to time they have to go up the mountain to cut firewood and send it to the oil mill.

In no way, Wang Chong led the people in the depression outside the village, and spent more than half a month to build four three-meter-high earthen blast furnaces out of clay.

After the furnace was built, Wang Wanchun led people down to inspect.

"I said big worm, why do I see that your furnace is smaller than that of other brigades? That's it, I can kick both of them with one kick! ”

"Secretary Wanchun, I also want to build a big furnace, but we don't have iron ore, and we don't have coal as fuel, so the firewood burned in our blast furnace is all just cut back from the mountain by the villagers, and the iron smelted in the furnace is melted by the villagers' pots, door bolts, iron barrels, etc. Nowadays, the iron tools in the village are left with rice pots, firewood knives and axes, as well as hoes and pickaxes, and other farm tools, so you can't let the villagers take these things to make iron! Wang Zhong said with a look of embarrassment.

Wang Wanchun's face stiffened, and he pulled Wang Chong aside: "The difficulty is a little more difficult, you have to think of a way." ”

"My big secretary, it's not that we don't want to contribute, you look around here, the villagers are not busy all the time, and the big guys are looking forward to contributing to the country and making steel. But there is an old saying that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, we want to practice more steel, but our brigade can not even find a piece of scrap copper and rotten iron now, many villagers smashed the pot at home and threw it into this furnace, I and the villagers can't conjure up steel out of thin air! Seeing Wang Chong's embarrassed face, Wang Wanchun also knew what the problem was.

"This ······" Wang Zhong suggested: "Secretary, why don't you apply with the above and get some iron ore and coal?" Or anything that can be refined into iron, as long as there is, our Maixiang Brigade guarantees to refine iron, and there is no lake. ”

"I'll go back and try!" Wang Wanchun is not the Zhang Defu in the county, although he is a little inflammatory, wise and self-protective, and sometimes he is also a lake, but he also knows the truth that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.

Several meetings were held one after another, and the situation of dozens of brigades in Maixiangling Commune was basically similar to that of Maixiang's brigade, and the furnace was built, but there was only a little bit of iron on the brigade, and the earthen blast furnace became a decoration after refining for a while.

Wang Wanchun was also worried about this matter, and asked everyone to go over to the meeting again and again, but it was still no way, and he was reprimanded a lot by the county for this, and when it was serious, he was almost removed as a secretary.

For this reason, the county specially invited experts to come over and carefully inspect the Maixiangling area for a while, and finally came to the conclusion that there was neither coal nor iron ore in the Maixiangling area, and it was impossible to melt the cooking pots and farm tools used by the common people at home, so the Maixiangling Commune did not have the conditions for large-scale steel smelting.