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Chapter 57 Helpful Xie Hushan

Yang Liming was sitting on the kang with a pen in his hand, with a notebook spread out on the table in front of him. Xie Hushan had asked him to help write down some so-called superficial opinions and suggestions that he had made after his first visit to Production Team 3.

What insights and suggestions does he have?

In fact, Xie Hushan wanted to use the mouth of a small clerk in the county, a leader in the eyes of his team members, to speak out his own plan for developing a side business.

In this way, even if the production brigade or the commune was too conservative and used this as an excuse to cause trouble for Team 3, Xie Hushan could take out what he had written and defend himself to the commune with an innocent look:
"This is all the decision of the county leaders. We farmers are uneducated and we just do whatever the leaders say. I am a rough man and my family has been poor farmers for generations. I don't think the county leaders can be wrong."

Just as he cheated Ma Laowu, he cheated himself. The routine was the same. From the moment he asked out of curiosity, he had already fallen into the trap.

No matter how conservative the commune was, or how much it wanted to make an example of someone, it would not go to the county to bring back the mastermind behind the incident for a meeting.

Xie Hushan's entire plan was to use the income from the stew stall to ensure a stable supply of firewood, and then the sideline group would use the money to purchase strong labor from the team, that is, use money to buy work points to get some strong labor.

He mastered the ancient technique of firing blue bricks in a kiln. He would ask some strong laborers to work with him in the kiln to use firewood to fire blue bricks that are stronger than red bricks. He would then sell the blue bricks to the people who were in urgent need of high-quality bricks to build houses but could not buy red bricks from large factories.

Having just experienced an earthquake, rural people may not care about the color of the bricks, but they care about whether they are strong enough.

If he could make money from making bricks, then almost no one in Production Team 3 would deny or question whether he could succeed in setting up a formal team-run enterprise.

Even if Secretary Han of the brigade objects, the members of the entire third team will definitely jump out to defend the team's side jobs because of the significant increase in income, thus eliminating the pressure on Secretary Han.

Even if things became awkward and the two sides were deadlocked, the commune intervened and Team Three laid out the steps for developing its own sideline businesses. The commune was able to see that Team Three had developed its sideline businesses step by step, from wonton stalls and stewed pork stalls to brick kilns and small furniture factories, instead of rashly turning to vigorously developing sideline businesses. Even words like reckless and radical could not be used to describe them.

In order to appease the members' intense emotions, the commune could not deny all of Xie Hushan's achievements. At most, it would use the establishment of the team-run enterprise by the third team as a test point, indicating that it would not encourage its promotion for the time being, thereby blocking the other teams' ideas.

By then, Xie Hushan will be the person in charge of the enterprise run by this team. With his brain, once the third team relies on the factory's benefits, the team's income will change dramatically and the living standard will improve...

People's minds have changed. If Secretary Han does not change his mind and follow the voice of the masses, in order to pursue the same life as the members of the third team, the members of the brigade will at least be able to make him a team leader in the next election, even if they cannot elect Xie Hushan as secretary because he is not a party member.

By then, there would not just be one Production Team 3 for him to demonstrate his abilities, but an agricultural brigade of more than 2,800 people whose development direction he would decide.

It can be said that Xie Hushan gave the credit to himself.

But on the other hand, there are also great risks. His suggestion as a county cadre is indeed more likely to break through resistance at the brigade level than Xie Hushan's own suggestion. However, if his sideline business leads to a reduction in production in Zhongping Brigade, a well-known grain-harvesting brigade, he, Yang Liming, will be the first to be singled out and dealt with.

Xie Hushan's sideline business development plan for the braised pork sideline group, the third team's brick kiln, and the brigade's furniture factory was very stable. He always gave priority to expense control to avoid increasing the economic pressure within the team and at the same time avoiding withdrawing a large number of strong laborers from the team to affect production. Whether it was a brick kiln or a furniture factory, quality personnel were more important than quantity, unlike other brigades which drew strong laborers from each team to go to the West Mountain to sift ballast and smash stones to earn wages, affecting agricultural production.

According to this solid and steady plan, Yang Liming felt that the possibility of being punished was very low, unless the public opinion environment suddenly returned to at least three years ago.

There's nothing wrong with him taking the lead in helping this guy, but he feels upset.

Xie Hushan went outside to check accounts with the people who were closing stalls at the market, so he was alone in the room, but Yang Limin didn't dare to get off the kang at all. Because that bastard whistled for some reason, and a big black dog that obeyed him ran to his house and now squatted on the floor of the west room, with his cloth shoes sitting on its butt, almost as high as the edge of the kang.

At this moment, the black dog was looking up at him with a serious expression, like an overseer.

When Cao Kun was running for president, you were not allowed to go home if you didn't vote for him. Now Xie Hushan's arrangement is that if you don't write out his plan and sign it, you won't be able to get off the bed at all.

He was not afraid of himself, a small clerk, nor was he afraid of the dog...

Just as Yang Liming was staring at the big black dog under the kang, helpless, he suddenly found that the big black dog's ears stood up, and then it lay on the ground and retreated!
There seemed to be someone outside running and shouting something loudly!
Xie Hushan, who was outside the courtyard gate, naturally had no way of knowing Yang Liming's inner thoughts in the house, but even if he didn't know Yang Liming's thoughts, he concluded that the other party's ideas were completely different from his own plan.

After you have the furniture factory and the official seal, there is no need to expand it. Just get a letter of introduction and go to Hong Kong Island under the pretext of going to other places to contact business or conduct a visit.

Anyway, there are so many educated young people returning to various cities to wait for jobs, and unemployed young people who cannot get into factories and have nothing to do. The public security is not very good, so it is normal for a person to go missing. No one would suspect that he went to Hong Kong Island, because he was born and raised in Bingyang County and had never left. There was no reason for him to go there. He shouldn't even know about that place.

At most, people would suspect that he died somewhere instead of running away. No one would be punished for disappearing.

As for grandma, she will be temporarily taken care of by grandpa, aunt, uncle and aunt. He will contact grandma after he gets settled in Hong Kong Island. There are plenty of ways to do it. He is familiar with Hong Kong Island!

At this moment, he was handing over the money with Han Hongzhen at the door. The young widow was carefully counting the money she earned from selling stewed meat at the market today. Lao Meng was sitting in the cart gnawing on a sweet corn stalk. This guy had been eating a big bowl of stewed meat every day recently, and he had obviously gained a lot of weight. His cheeks were sunken before, and he was tall, dark and thin, like a big monkey. Now he looks a little rounder, and it seems that he is much more comfortable going to the market than wandering around the village before.

"Fourth girl, has anyone been causing trouble at the market recently?" Xie Hushan asked Han Hongzhen:

"If you see any hooligans, just tell me and the team leader will help you settle the matter."

"Ah~" Han Hongzhen stopped what she was doing and looked up at Xie Hushan: "No, there's nothing going on at the market recently. The bun stalls are all run by women. What can go wrong with a group of women setting up stalls together? If there is any trouble, they'll just quarrel at best."

Then he lowered his head to count the money, rubbed the bills for a long time and looked up at Xie Hushan: "Where did I count just now?"

"I heard my grandma and the others chatting and they said that Wu Shuanzi has had some feelings for you recently and asked someone to ask Aunt Wu about it?" Xie Hushan asked with a smile.

Wu Shuanzi, whose real name is Wu Jinshuan, is the cousin of Han Hongzhen's husband Wu Jinzhu. When he heard that Aunt Wu was looking for a husband for Han Hongzhen, he became very interested and wanted to marry this widowed sister-in-law home. He played the emotional card and said that good things should be kept in the family and that he would be filial to Aunt Wu as if she were his own mother.

This bastard slapped Dahei twice. How could he remain indifferent to such a thing? He must help him and avenge Dahei.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Han Hongzhen glared at Xie Hushan and said.

Xie Hushan helpfully told the young widow about Shuanzi's advantages:

"Shuanzi is a nice guy, warm-hearted. When it's hot in the summer, he invites the young women in our team to go to the fish pond he looks after to take a bath. Afterwards, he even looks after the women's clothes and stands guard, saying that he will never let other male comrades peek at the women taking a bath."

(End of this chapter)