1978: Female educated youth, don’t want an illiterate husband

Chapter 287 The time at home is finally short, return to Beijing (please order the whole book)
I heard Cheng Xuemin say that as long as the team has electricity, there will be flour mills, oil presses, maltose machines, flower-making machines, etc.

moment!

Not to mention that the secretary's face turned red and he was extremely excited after hearing this, other people like Cheng Xuemin's uncles, cousins, and uncles should not be too excited after hearing this.

Flour grinder!

Oil press!

Just as Cheng Xuemin said, if their brigade had these machines, they could build their own flour mill and oil press in Chengjiawan Brigade.

By then, all the young and strong people in Chengjiawan will be able to work in the factory, just as Cheng Xuemin said.

Right at your doorstep, you can work in a factory and do the most glorious work, just like people in the city.

Everyone was as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they couldn't wait to harvest the busy farming season so that they could pull electricity back from the commune and bring it to their village.

"Xuemin, why do you suddenly think of these things?"

"These all cost money. A lot of money, right?"

They were enjoying the cool breeze and chatting, but they didn't expect that they would come up with such big news. When Cheng Xuemin and his son returned home.

The first thing Mr. Cheng asked his older son was, this is not the way to brag!
In addition to providing electricity to the brigade, we also have to pay out of our own pockets to buy flour mills and oil presses for the brigade?

He is old enough to write some articles. How much royalties does he earn?
This kind of bragging didn't even come out to say hello in advance, and he just talked nonsense in front of his uncle and uncle.

it's good now!

Take it seriously!

They are all waiting for their grown-up son to give them money to get electricity so they can buy flour mills and oil presses.

"Dad, actually I had already thought about it on the train back here!"

"Respond to the country's call for reform and opening up!"

"As a pioneer in reform and opening up, I must act as a pioneer, lead our team forward and set an example!"

In fact, this was not a whim of Cheng Xuemin, but a well-thought-out decision.

The curtain has been raised on reform and opening up.

Now it is the second half of 79, and the Ministry of Agriculture may have already matured on the household contract responsibility system of allocating land to households.

After the beginning of next spring, the big pot meals will be gradually dismantled and the land will be distributed to each household.

Cheng Xuemin had to plan ahead for his father.

After the land was distributed to each household, Cheng Xuemin's family probably didn't get much land.

After all, his parents only have two children, his sister and his brother. His sister Cheng Wenxiu is already married and her household registration is not in Chengjiawan.

Not to mention Cheng Xuemin, his household registration and ticket information were all transferred to Yanjing.

According to the household registration book, there are only Cheng Xuemin's parents.

When the time comes, the land will not be distributed according to households, but according to household registration. The amount of land allocated will depend on the number of people registered in a household.

No matter young or old, as long as you are born and your birth record is recorded in the household registration book, you can get a share of the land.

and so!
If the policy really comes down next spring, Cheng Xuemin's family may be the one with the least land in the entire brigade or the entire commune.

By then, I really don’t know whether his parents will regret transferring Cheng Xuemin’s household registration.

If you don’t transfer it out!

Cheng Xuemin’s household registration is in Chengjiawan, so he will be able to get some land in due time.

As for the household registration of his wife Feng Jiayou, she must follow her husband wherever he goes. She can stay in Chengjiawan and become another member of the population.

In addition, they now have an eldest grandson, who is also registered as a resident of the Cheng family and can also get a share of the land.

If you calculate it this way!
There was a difference of two years, and the amount of land allocated was less than half.

By then, Cheng Xuemin's parents will surely shed tears and be unable to understand the situation.

After all, for the old farmers in northern Shaanxi, the field is the sky, the land is life, and the field is everything.

and so!
Cheng Xuemin had to help his father plan a way out before the policy came down.

You definitely can't get rich by relying on the few acres of land you were allocated.

We have to open a factory!
He had to help his father divert his attention and get the first wave of dividends from reform and opening up in the countryside, which is also the easiest wave of dividends to get.

Open the factory!
When the time comes, I will open a factory for his father, any factory will do.

Like canning factories, breweries, soda factories, popsicle factories, etc., in the 1980s when the reform and opening up just started, any factory you opened could make a lot of money, basically you were picking up money.

The prerequisite is that you have the capital and connections to open a factory.

This is what Cheng Xuemin thought. When the direction of reform and opening up is further determined next year and individuals can start registering to build factories, he will help his father build a factory in Chengjiawan Brigade.

Now, we are just trying out the flour mill and oil press to run the test.

We must try to get the county and the commune to provide electricity to our doorsteps as soon as possible, otherwise everything else will be in vain.

"Dad, by this time next year, I will invest in a winery or a canning factory for you!"

"Dad, you will be the factory director then, Director Cheng!"

Seeing that his father was still confused and didn't understand what this reform and opening up pioneer was and how to move forward first.

Cheng Xuemin went straight to the point and told his father what he was going to do.

"Isn't it a flour mill and an oil press? A flour mill and an oil press?"

“How did it suddenly become a winery and cannery?”

"Can you build a canning factory and produce it?"

After hearing what Cheng Xuemin said, Mr. Cheng became even more confused and kept shaking his head.

When it came to buying a flour mill and an oil press, Cheng's father could understand a little. After all, they went to the flour mill and oil press in the commune all year round, so they knew that it was actually nothing.

It is a flour mill. Just pour the wheat into it and press the start switch.

The flour mill is not complicated and is even easier to operate. Each flour mill has one flour mill, and the commune only has four workers to handle it.

When there is no one at the commune's flour mill factory, they can even start grinding flour by themselves.

So when the eldest son suggested buying a flour mill for the team, Cheng's father was only worried that the flour mill would be expensive, but he was not worried that the machine was too advanced and that they, the old farmers, would not be able to use it.

But now his grown-up son suddenly said, instead of a flour mill or an oil press, he wanted to open a winery or a canning factory?
That must be such an advanced machine. How could these farmers operate it?
"Dad, the flour mill and oil press were bought in the name of the brigade! Those machines will belong to the brigade as a whole!"

"Anyway, we must first find a way to bring electricity to our brigade and our village, so that our brigade can develop and become rich later!"

“I’ve told you before, if you want to get rich you need to get electricity first and then build roads!”

"In the future, our brigade will not only provide electricity, but also repair the loess road outside and pave it with asphalt!"

"Of course, these are what you should do for the village and the team in the future!"

"I am only responsible for building the factory for you, buying the equipment, and bringing you the technology!"

"I don't care about anything else. I can't do anything about it since I'm in Yanjing!"

As I said, let it go.

He also doesn't worry that his father won't be able to afford it and suffer huge losses.

At the beginning of the reform and opening up, it was a completely wild era. As long as the equipment was brought back, you could make money by just messing around with it.

Of course, this was only the first decade of the grassroots era. After the 1980s, in the early 1990s, the agricultural factories built in places, especially in rural areas, almost all died out.

This is something.

The family has Cheng Xuemin, a reborn person, at the helm, controlling the general direction. Even if people die in large numbers, it will not be his father's head.

Unless his father is stubborn and completely refuses to listen to Cheng Xuemin, that would be another matter.

Again!
Cheng Xuemin did not rely on his father to build a factory in the countryside to make money to support them in Yanjing and become a rich second generation.

Cheng Xuemin planned to invest in a factory for his father, purely for his own fun and to help him keep up with the changes of the times.

Don’t let everyone around you change their roles suddenly: this one is the factory director, that one is the boss, this one is the general manager, and that one is the manager!

But his father is still a lousy captain, and no one cares about him at all.

Cheng Xuemin did this to prevent things from happening that would seriously damage his self-esteem.

The first self-esteem that lies before them, father and son, is the distribution of land to each household in the early spring of next year.

Cheng Xuemin's family definitely won't be able to get much land, even if Cheng Xuemin is a reborn person, there is nothing he can do about it.

Unless he and his wife Feng Jiayou gave up their Yanjing household registration and transferred it back, just to get a few more acres of land.

But is this reality possible?

Therefore, Cheng Xuemin planned to connect electricity to the brigade first, and then ask his father to go to the county in the name of the brigade leader to buy a flour mill and an oil press for their brigade.

Cheng Xuemin paid for the purchase of the machines, and his father was in charge of the production team, so his father had the final say over the flour mill and oil press, right?
In this way, the land was divided a little less.

But the grain grown in everyone's fields must go through his father's hands before it can be ground into flour and pressed into edible oil.

It might be able to appease his father's little thoughts to some extent.

"That's all money! Where can we get so much money in our team?"

"Let Xuemin pay for it yourself, how much can you pay?"

"How much does a flour mill cost? I heard from the director of the commune's flour mill that it costs several thousand yuan!"

"Xuemin, you mentioned flour mills, oil presses, looms, maltose machines... How much will these cost you?"

Vanguard, vanguard, charge first!
It's true that you say it so nicely, but it all costs money!
As the team leader, Cheng's father knew how much money the team had. It was only in the past two years that God gave him face and no one starved to death.

If we go back five or six years, was there a year in their commune when people didn't starve to death?

The commune is like that, let alone their brigade!

not to mention!
Their brigade has not yet recovered from the disaster and still owes money to the commune!
So if you want to get money from the brigade to buy a flour mill or an oil press, forget it.

What if his son could pay for it out of his own pocket?

A flour mill costs several thousand yuan. Even if you manage to buy one, your daughter-in-law in Yanjing will still say that you are dead.

"Xuemin, have you discussed this with your wife?"

Thinking of his daughter-in-law and eldest grandson in Yanjing, Father Cheng asked again.

"Dad, it doesn't cost much!"

"I will use foreign currency to buy it, it won't cost much!"

As for funding, Cheng Xuemin was even less worried because he had already thought it through.

He didn't have much to spend from the foreign exchange coupons he earned from writing foreign manuscripts, but he had basically bought all the electrical appliances he needed for his home.

In addition, if Cheng Xuemin, who is currently writing a long foreign language novel, submits it for publication, the foreign exchange he receives will no longer be calculated in thousands, but in tens of thousands.

Even the foreign exchange royalties for the first draft and first edition are tens of thousands of yuan!
There will be nowhere to spend so many foreign exchange coupons, and they will depreciate quickly if kept in hand. It is better to use them to make some contribution to my hometown!
“Foreign exchange?!”

"It's foreign money, it's rice banknotes, you probably haven't heard of this dad!"

Seeing that his father was surprised and confused, Cheng Xuemin explained again.

"Yeah! I heard it on the radio. It's the foreign exchange that earns foreign exchange, right?"

"So foreign exchange is rice banknotes?!"

Father Cheng had heard of the term foreign exchange. After all, the government was calling on everyone to earn foreign exchange, and it was broadcast on the radio many times.

But it turned out that foreign exchange was actually rice notes. This was the first time that Cheng's father heard about it.

Got it!

We need to educate those illiterate people who pretend to know everything about foreign exchange, saying that foreign exchange is their meal ticket to the outside world is just nonsense.

His eldest son said that foreign exchange is rice banknotes and rice gold, it is Old Mi’s money!

"It's not all rice..."

Cheng Xuemin was too lazy to explain. The more he explained, the more confused his father became, even though the US dollar had already become the world's first settlement currency.

The foreign currency remitted by Cheng Xuemin to outsiders for his royalties was also in the form of rice.

But it is definitely wrong to say that foreign exchange is rice and gold.

However, there is no need to explain or emphasize this to his father again, otherwise it will only make things worse.

"Xuemin, where did you get the foreign exchange rice gold? I heard that even in our county, no one has ever seen foreign exchange rice gold."

"I write foreign-language manuscripts and earn foreign exchange!"

"What? Xuemin, you can write foreign language manuscripts and earn foreign currency and rice and gold manuscript fees?"

It would have been fine if Cheng Xuemin hadn't said anything, but when he said that, my father was so shocked that he got too upset.

"What?"

"What are you two talking about? What foreign exchange?"

When he got home, Cheng Xuemin's mother happened to hear what he said, and she looked over and asked.

"Gui Lan, Xue Min said he was writing foreign language manuscripts and earning foreign currency as royalties!"

"Xuemin also told Kai Kangbo and others that they also wanted to provide electricity to our brigade and buy flour mills, oil presses and flower-tying machines for our brigade!"

Inevitably, his mother was shocked again, and she also questioned Cheng Xuemin, asking where he got so much money?
Even if we have so much money, we can buy machines and equipment for the team. Don't we feel like we have so much money to burn?

Instead of spending that money, she might as well build a few new kilns for her eldest grandson!
……

It is said that listening to one word from a wise man is worth ten years of study. However, after hearing the big promise made by Cheng Xuemin, the young and strong people in Chengjiawan started to work with unprecedented enthusiasm.

There is no longer any need to eat from the same pot. It doesn't matter how much or how little you earn. It's better to just slack off and be lazy.

Everyone was working hard to show their enthusiasm in front of old man Cheng Kaikang, the brigade secretary, and especially in front of brigade leader Cheng Youben.

It is just to perform well so that in the future, when the brigade has electricity and flour mills, oil presses, and flower-tying machines are installed in their village, they can be given priority to work in the factory as workers!

This was something Cheng Xuemin had never expected. Just by casually spending a large sum of money, he actually stimulated the stagnant labor force of the brigade.

In previous years, it took more than 20 days to harvest the crops during the busy farming season. But this year, with this enthusiasm, we may be able to complete the harvest at least a week ahead of schedule.

It became the first brigade in the entire commune to harvest the busy farming season.

Of course, these don’t matter to Cheng Xuemin. He certainly won’t be able to wait until the busy farming season is harvested.

After staying at home for two days and running around the commune for a day, Cheng Xuemin had to prepare to leave and return to Yanjing!

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)