"Huzi, you Chongli people are good, they value feelings, and they are righteous, and the whole Chong is a big family, all of them are like brothers and sisters." Mengzi and Huzi touched the wine bowl, gave a thumbs up, and said drunkenly.

The fat man also praised, "The air in Chongli is good, the environment is good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the food is pollution-free food, no wonder all of you people in Chongli are popular." ”

Huzi sighed and said sarcastically: "You guys! It is a full man who does not know the suffering of a hungry man, and he does not know the blessing in the midst of happiness. Now that you are here to play and be guests, of course you will think that the countryside is so good and good, but if you are allowed to be farmers, stay in this isolated mountain chong for many years, and have to work tirelessly for three meals a day, you will not have these sighs. At that time, the mountains and rivers will all change, and those coarse rice and coarse vegetables will make you lose your appetite. ”

Mengzi and the others felt that Huzi's words made some sense, and they didn't know how to answer for a while, so everyone fell into a short silence.

"Haven't you ever thought about changing your situation?" The stick old man asked hesitantly.

"How can it be changed?" The monkey sitting next to the stick old man asked helplessly.

"For example, if you are engaged in farming and getting rich, don't newspapers and TV have such reports every day? Those 10,000 yuan households and wealthy experts seem to be stubble after stubble like spring shoots. The stick old man said with some excitement.

The monkey said with some disdain: "You scholars are really simple-minded, do you also believe what the newspapers and TV say?" ”

After a pause, he asked again, "Have you seen the news that Xiao Changgui, a professional chicken farmer, became rich and well-off?" ”

Mengzi immediately said: "I've seen it, I've seen it, this person seems to be from your township, my dad went to his chicken farm with the group to visit and study, and there is a complete information about him at home, so I know this matter better." In the last time, this incident was so popular that newspapers and television had front-page headlines for several days, and they also opened up special columns to track the report. This person has frequently appeared in the media and at many government meetings to promote his experience in raising chickens. The city government also issued a document calling on the city's farmers to learn from Xiao Changgui. ”

The fat man followed suit and said, "Who doesn't know this man?" I, someone who cares little about current affairs, have my ears cocooned with the name. The government and the media bombed him intensively, and they all praised him to the sky, and he was a professional chicken farmer, a leader in getting rich, a model worker, and a farmer pacesetter. However, this person looks honest and rustic, and he can't imagine that he has a lot of ability. According to the report, he now raises 10,000 chickens, and he earns 10 yuan for each chicken in half a year, so he can easily earn 100,000 yuan in half a year. In the second half of the year, he said that he would expand the scale, and his annual income would be hundreds of thousands of yuan. Good boy! That's okay, and soon he will be a millionaire! ”

The monkey smiled intriguingly and said, "I don't think you really believe this." After saying that, he shook his head with a look of disdain.

"Could it be that this thing is fake?" Mengzi and they all asked.

"You let Long Gu tell you about this, Xiao Changgui is a relative of his family." The monkey looked at Long Gu and said.

Long Gu immediately told the story of this in 1510. Since last year, the township leaders have been hot-headed in raising chickens to get rich, and they have demanded that at least one typical household in each village should raise at least 100 chickens. This incident caused an uproar in the whole township, and the opposition of the common people broke the sky.

"That's a good thing! Why aren't the folks happy? Loach asked, confused.

"There are some things you don't understand, this hundred chickens is said to be simple, but it's not easy to do! First of all, where does the money come from? Raising 100 chickens is still a lot of investment for ordinary people. The second is technology, do you dare to get started easily without technical support? A chicken plague can make people lose their money or even ruin their families. Long Gu patiently explained.

"Doesn't the government have agricultural technicians? Are there any other technical activities in the countryside? Mengzi asked curiously.

Long Gu said disdainfully, "Agricultural technician? What can be accomplished by those half-baked agricultural technicians in the township who can only read from the book? Besides, they're old men! Where can ordinary people be moved? Also, what are you talking about going to the countryside three times, it is purely a trick to fool people, and the slogans are shouted loudly, but in fact they are just a few manuals that are only stopped in the hands of village cadres, and how useful can this be for most peasants who don't know a few big characters? ”

After speaking, Long Gu pulled the topic to Xiao Changgui's chicken raising again. "Under the repeated persuasion of the village cadres, my relative was designated as a typical chicken farmer in the village, and raised 300 chickens with debt. In the countryside, this is not a big deal, and three chickens need a lot of money to eat feed and grain a day. The township government also attaches great importance to this matter, and promotes his matter as a model in the whole township. This push went back and forth to the county, attracting the attention of county officials and the media, and the 300 chickens became 3,000. Perhaps the township leaders saw that there was a lot to be done about this matter, and it was an opportunity to make political achievements. And they began to boast and scream, and the three thousand chickens became ten thousand. The impact of 10,000 chickens is great, and even the county leaders are alarmed. Hasn't the county been engaged in some strong agricultural counties in the past two years? The county leaders are worried that there is no typical way to get rich. The county leaders immediately decided to organize the city's rural cadres to inspect here, and took this matter as a typical example to promote it to the whole county. ”

"Isn't that what you do?" The fat man was surprised and Long Gu laughed twice and said, "What is this matter, leading cadres are used to fake things, and it is easy for them to make a fake scene." In the days before the county leaders came to inspect the village, all the township cadres gathered in my relative's village, the village school was suspended, the villagers stopped working, and the whole village, men, women, and children threw themselves into the work arranged on the spot. Roads were built, sanitation was carried out, garbage was removed, walls were painted with lime water, slogans were written, and billboards were put out. My relative's chicken farm expanded several times overnight, turning into more than 10,000 chickens.

"How did this come about?" They all asked.

Before Long Gu could say anything, he laughed first. "These cadres are really some smart people, and this thing is really laughing and painful. Any idea where these chickens come from? rented, rented all the chickens raised by the villagers in several neighboring villages. It costs three yuan a day for rent, and the government is also responsible for chicken food. You say, who wouldn't want to do this? Nearby chicken farmers took the initiative to send their chickens over, and they also wished that the government would rent them for ten days and half a month. ”

"How can you tell who belongs when there are so many chickens?" The stick elder muttered.

"It's a funny thing, I heard that it almost made a joke. The chickens delivered by each household are hung with small signs and marked with corresponding numbers. A sharp-eyed county leader asked the township cadre next to him, why does each chicken have a small sign? This cadre didn't answer for a long time. Fortunately, a clever village cadre picked up and said that this card was used to write the model and growth of the chicken. That's when the matter was prevaricated. ”

Long Gu continued: "After this incident became a big problem, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit and study, and even people from other counties came. My relatives are busy receiving or reporting almost every day, and they don't even have time to take care of the chicken farm. In addition, these chickens come from thousands of households, and they are tossed and tossed from time to time, so there is definitely no guarantee for health and epidemic prevention. An unexpected plague struck, and within a few days, more than 10,000 chickens died. ”

"Wow! How so? "It's unbelievable!" "The common people will suffer!" Mengzi, they all let out their own exclamations.

"What is the government going to do about this?" The stick old man interjected.

The monkey snorted coldly and said, "Government? The matter of inviting merit and rewarding people to fight for face came one by one, and none of the ghosts and shadows came when something happened. With so much going on over the years, what hasn't been the case? They only know that starting from their own political achievements, they ask the common people to plant this and raise that, and when they do their work, in addition to administrative orders, they will talk about this matter in a fanciful manner, and the water will be lit. But later, if there is any natural or man-made disaster, and things are messed up and they lose money, they can just stand on the high shore with both hands and watch the excitement, where will they care about the life and death of the people? ”

The old man said dissatisfiedly, "It's too unreasonable for the government to ignore it, it's their own doing!" ”

"At present, this matter is still hanging here anyway, and the township first shirked the responsibility, saying that this matter has nothing to do with them, they are just renting chickens. Later, the common people made trouble with the township government, and they promised to compensate each chicken with 20 yuan, which was deducted from the commission. The common people did not agree to this condition, and the matter dragged on without a result. My relative wants to cry without tears, his money is all loans! After Long Gu finished speaking, he took a large sip of wine from the bowl, as if to melt the bitterness and anger in his heart into these spirits.

Finally, the monkey ended the conversation on this topic. "So, for ordinary people, it's a fantasy to get rich in agriculture, no money, no technology, and no risk. Besides, the demand and price of this agricultural product have changed too much, maybe when your investment is high, this thing is in great demand and profitable, but when your product comes out, the market has changed completely, and no one wants this thing, or even worthless. Let's just say that in the past few years, the government has asked us to plant calamus, the market has changed, and the customers have not closed their heads. ”

Huzi picked up the wine and shouted loudly, "Come! Drink, brothers! Don't worry about it. ”

"Hey! What about Brother Tao? Why hasn't he come here yet? Mao Mao asked strangely.

"I saw him come out of the house and go back to the mountain. I reckon he might be going to fight against the terraced poems he had cultivated and dreaming of making a fortune. The monkey quipped.

"What is he dreaming of making a fortune?" The fat man asked suspiciously.

"Hey, hey! Don't you know this, for a few years, Brother Tao was full of pride and high spirits, and he wanted to be a rich expert and a 10,000-yuan household. The monkey replied.

"Tell me, what's going on?" They urged.

"There is nothing to say about these things, it's not as you think, our brother Tao hopes to change the status quo and take the road of farming and breeding to get rich, but as a result, he hit a wall everywhere and achieved nothing, and finally realized a truth, this road is not passable, change to another road, and concentrate on accompanying you to study." The monkey said jokingly.

"No, it won't! Brother Tao would have such a fiasco! Mao Mao sighed a little incredulously.

"You can also talk about a few specific things, let us know more about Brother Tao, and follow Le and Lehe." The fat man begged.

The young men talked about it through the wine. They turned over Zhang Tao's confident engagement in the breeding and planting industries, as well as the courtyard economy and the mountain and forest economy. From time to time, bursts of laughter erupted on the grass floor, breaking the deep silence and silence of the village night. The laughter of the two gangs contains different things, and there is helplessness and sourness in the laughter of the countrymen like Huzi, as well as the joy and sweetness of past memories; In addition to being happy, the laughter of these people in the city was more emotional, I didn't expect Brother Tao to have such an experience, how different this is from the life of stretching out his hands for clothes and opening his mouth for food! Maybe Brother Tao's skills were honed in suffering.