Era: I was a farmer at the foot of Yaoling Mountain

"Two villages in Qianjin Commune got into a fight over irrigation. It's gotten quite serious. Should we take some preventative measures?"

Zhao Jinsheng briefly explained the cause of the incident, and then discussed countermeasures with everyone.

This kind of thing would have been impossible before, as the three-tiered management system was very strict. But now that the brigades and production teams no longer exist, the management of administrative villages has become superficial, and clan-based concepts have risen in popularity.

Conflicts often arise between villages over mountains and water, and once things escalate, the consequences can be severe.

"This matter needs to be taken seriously. Lao Zhao, you are in charge of making overall arrangements. We need to send more people to key locations, ensure that there are people on duty 24 hours a day, and also prepare contingency plans for emergencies."

Fang Wei had experience and knew that this kind of thing had to be taken seriously from the very beginning, and there could be no carelessness or negligence.

After exchanging opinions with everyone, he began to assign tasks, and then put Zhao Jinsheng and Zheng Bao in charge of carrying them out.

After the meeting, Fang Wei inspected the condition of the wells in each brigade and demanded that the pumps and other equipment be well maintained so that they could be pumped for irrigation in critical moments.

It's clearly not a drought, but it's making things more tense than when there was a drought.

Fortunately, the matter was resolved in just a few days. Huang Zhigang personally led a team to Taoling Township and arrested all the lawbreakers in the two villages, quelling the situation with strong measures.

Fang Wei breathed a sigh of relief and secretly gave Huang Zhigang a thumbs up in her heart.

a few days later.

The cooperative has begun large-scale harvesting of herbs grown under the forest canopy. This time, the customers who came were not only Chenzhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, but also many units in the distribution sector.

The Chinese herbal medicines produced by Yaoling Cooperative are known for their high quality and are famous in medicinal material distribution units across the country.

Of course, cultivated herbs are not as valuable as wild herbs, but they are produced in much larger quantities. Nowadays, herbs are grown in the woodlands of all 17 production brigades in the commune, and the output is more than ten or twenty times that of the Xiatang brigade in the past.

A steady stream of medicinal herbs are harvested from the mountains, and other cash crops such as chestnuts, fruits, and rapeseed that were intended to be planted have also been harvested in succession.

Therefore, this period has been exceptionally lively, as the unified purchase and sales system has been broken, and the diversification of sales channels has created the current situation.

For example, in the past, chestnuts were mostly sold to purchasing stations after being harvested, but now many middlemen come directly to the community to buy them, and the price they offer is definitely higher than that of the purchasing stations.

"Secretary Fang, you're picking chestnuts a little later than usual this year. But that's normal, the weather hasn't been good this year, and many places are experiencing similar situations."

Section Chief Zhang came personally to purchase the herbs. He is very familiar with the cooperative's situation, which is why he said that.

In fact, Fang Wei deliberately staggered the harvesting times of wild chestnuts and cultivated chestnuts, harvesting them together with herbs, which actually improved labor efficiency.

“This kind of extreme weather is rare, only seen once every few decades. Section Chief Zhang, come on, let’s go to the office and have a seat. You will definitely get the goods you need; we’ll give them to you even if we don’t give them to others.”

Fang Wei didn't explain, and then pulled Section Chief Zhang to his office for tea.

In the afternoon, Section Chief Zhang checked the quality of various herbs, and the quality remained as stable as ever, which was excellent.

the next day.

Section Chief Zhang led his team back to Chenzhou, since the harvesting process takes time and he didn't need to stay there indefinitely.

After the herbs were harvested and processed, Fang Wei had the transport team load them onto a truck and deliver them to Chenzhou Central Hospital. Since the hospital had already paid in full in advance, they would naturally be given priority.

Section Chief Zhang inspected the goods at the hospital and was very satisfied. He then made a special call to Fang Wei to express his gratitude.

Once the cooperative calmed down, all the herbs, chestnuts, and fruits were sold out. Herbs alone brought in more than 2000 million yuan in revenue for the cooperative, and with chestnuts and fruits added, the total revenue exceeded 3600 million yuan.

The products produced by the company sell well, one important reason being their high quality and the fact that they have long enjoyed considerable popularity.

After finishing this task, the forestry brigade will start logging to use up all of this year's logging quota, and then continue with artificial afforestation, repeating the cycle.

All the forest land in the cooperative has trees that grow very quickly. Planted forests can be harvested in a few years, and the ecosystem has always maintained a healthy balance.

Some of the felled trees will be stored, while the rest will be given to bamboo ware factories as raw materials.

There is an internal accounting mechanism that ensures the forestry team's hard work is not wasted and that their performance is credited to them.

The work before the autumn harvest was basically completed, and the commune returned to tranquility.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Large numbers of pigs were brought to the slaughterhouse, where they were slaughtered and the pork was distributed to everyone.

It's no wonder the council is so generous; the company has been doing very well this year, and giving out some benefits is just a drop in the ocean.

"Old Zhao, let's take this opportunity to distribute the tea oil to everyone."

After harvesting and processing the camellia seeds, all of them were pressed for camellia oil.

Fang Wei instructed Zhao Jinsheng to distribute tea oil to everyone during the holiday, with each person receiving approximately 50 jin (25 catties) on ​​average. The tea oil produced in the commune was of very high quality; it was impossible to buy it anywhere else.

"Okay, while you're at it, distribute the chickens and ducks to everyone as well."

Zhao Jinsheng immediately made arrangements, and the commune members received a large amount of supplies, including pork, tea oil, chickens, ducks, eggs, etc. The abundance of supplies was comparable to that of the Spring Festival.

Villagers in other towns were envious, but now that even the communes have been dissolved, they probably will never enjoy such benefits again.

On the day of the festival.

Fang Wei took his entire family to the Yao village.

There's a celebration in the village today, and Fang Wei is happy to enjoy the antiphonal singing, long drum dance, torch dance, and other performances, as well as the sweet rice wine.

Interestingly, some tourists also came to the village. These visitors came because they had heard about it and wanted to experience the unique festival atmosphere.

There's no charge to enter the Yao village, but there is a charge for food, drinks, and lodging in the evening.

The village has dedicated reception rooms, and all kinds of consumption have been priced uniformly in advance to prevent arbitrary pricing and damage to the reputation of the Yao village.

These were all Fang Wei's ideas, and Wang Songlin executed them very well.

The two little ones were the happiest, and even Master Sun was swaying his head and completely absorbed in the moment.

Grandpa and Pan Lianhua were undoubtedly the happiest. These things were already ingrained in their bones. Others were just watching the show, but they were the ones who truly felt it.

The revelry continued until late at night, when the two children finally couldn't stay awake any longer and went back to sleep.

Grandpa felt very gratified. Now everyone in the village is well-fed and clothed, and their morale is much better than before. With the constraints of the collective, everyone is not a disorganized bunch, and any bad behavior will be condemned by everyone.

Now the village has a clinic, a library, and has even bought a television, all in an effort to improve everyone's quality of life. The next day.

Fang Wei made two trips to send his family home, then took Binbin to the county town before going to his office.

"Secretary, the county has notified you to attend a meeting."

Not long after Fang Wei sat down, a staff member brought a meeting notice, calling out the names of the top leaders of each unit to attend a meeting in the county town at 2:30 pm.

He was a little puzzled because the meeting's content wasn't specified in the document.

When he arrived at the meeting in the afternoon, he realized it was a family planning work conference.

Some things are unavoidable. As a large collective enterprise, Fang Wei is the person primarily responsible for this work. If problems arise, he will bear joint liability, and this is no joke.

the next day.

Fang Weiyi had already convened a meeting of all the directors to convey the spirit of yesterday's meeting.

“Secretary, this is not a good idea. And the county is really something; this work should be the responsibility of the township and village, what does it have to do with our cooperative?”

As soon as he finished conveying the spirit of the meeting, a board member immediately raised a question.

"I know, but what can we do when all the villagers are our commune members? Enough with the nonsense, this is no laughing matter, we must take it seriously."

"Old Zhao, you're in charge of drafting a new management system that links bonuses and performance-based pay to this work. Any violations will be severely punished."

Fang Wei explained to everyone what "one vote or else" means. If there is a mistake in this work, no matter how well the other work is done, it will be useless, and they will definitely be criticized by name.

Cooperating with the county and township authorities to do this work is a responsibility that the cooperative cannot shirk.

Subsequently, Zhao Jinsheng and others sprang into action. They might try to outdo the villagers, but they would still carry out Fang Wei's decision without fail.

But in reality, things like this are not easy to handle.

The township and village have increased their publicity efforts, but there are still quite a few people who are cursing behind people's backs.

Only Fang Wei truly understood the extent of the higher-ups' determination to carry out this work, and that this work would continue for decades.

Time flies.

The cooperative and breeding center ushered in the autumn harvest, about 10 days earlier than in previous years.

Countless people envy the cooperative. They have a modern seedling base and the best hybrid rice breeding technology in the world. Even natural disasters cannot stop their bumper harvest.

The autumn harvest in the Yao village will take another half a month to twenty days, while other areas in the county will start even later, but it is still within a reasonable timeframe.

In other counties and cities, and in some severely affected areas, the autumn harvest will be delayed by a month or two.

Although this outcome was expected, many people still couldn't accept it and refused to buy the low-priced rice seeds anymore. Several hybrid rice varieties developed by the province became scapegoats and were abandoned by the public.

Some farmers even said that they would rather use the original rice varieties than these low-priced varieties.

The province originally planned to roll out the low-priced rice varieties as soon as possible, but unfortunately, they encountered the extreme weather at the beginning of this year. The low-priced rice varieties have poor resistance, while the Nanguang series of rice varieties have excellent resistance.

The advantages and disadvantages are obvious when comparing the two.

From this perspective, there are reasons why everyone has abandoned low-priced rice varieties.

As a result, some people hated the cooperative and Fang Wei, believing that the other party was deliberately going against the province.

Fang Wei was too lazy to pay attention to these people. When faced with doubts or even smears, he would pretend not to hear them and would not stand up to respond at all.

Meanwhile, customers who wanted to buy rice seeds arrived at the cooperative early, some even staying in the reception dormitory to wait, rather than going back to wait for news.

After a series of processes including harvesting, threshing, drying, weighing, and warehousing, the two rice varieties cultivated by the cooperative and the breeding center are sold simultaneously.

6万亩的【南光四号】稻种，总产量达到了9600万斤。另外6万亩的【农优76】稻种，总产量达到了6900万斤。

The selling price of rice seeds has increased slightly this season. Among them, the price of "Nanguang No. 4" is 3.08 yuan per jin, and the price of "Nongyou 76" is 3.18 yuan per jin.

This year, the total output value of the two rice varieties exceeded 5 million yuan for the first time. Of course, the breeding center also includes a portion of the county's revenue, so the total output value of the breeding that actually belongs to the cooperative is 4.2 million yuan.

It was another bumper harvest.

In fact, the rise in grain prices in the past two years has led to an increase in the prices of other crop seeds. The situation of rice seeds is quite special. Due to the low-price rice seed strategy promoted by the province, the price of rice seeds has become chaotic.

Fang Wei has always priced his products according to the principle of "high quality, high price". After experiencing extreme weather, his pricing has become more accepted by more people.

After the cooperative started selling rice seeds, the shipments were very fast.

As a result, many people worried about not being able to buy the goods and even contacted the cooperative to express their willingness to pay a higher price.

However, Fang Wei would not do that. Instead, he sold the rice at the pre-determined price, prioritizing old and large customers. In just ten days, he sold out both types of rice.

As for the Yao village, he didn't need to worry about it at all. The Yao village had its own fixed customers, and there was never a problem with the rice seeds not being sold.

But after finishing his autumn harvest work in the Yao village, he still went to visit the village.

"Third Brother, our output this year is basically the same as last year, with a slight decrease. However, the loss is negligible, so don't worry, everything is fine."

Wang Songlin reported the autumn harvest to Fang Wei and said that he would start construction on a low-end seedling raising base within a month.

The reason for adopting the low-end version is not because we are unwilling to spend money, but mainly because the land on the mountain is limited, and the farmland in the village is also limited, so it is not worth spending too much.

After considering it for a moment, Fang Wei agreed to the proposal put forward by Wang Songlin and others.

"Then let's hurry up and build a seedling nursery. Even a low-end version will do, as long as it's suitable for the village."

After some time, the entire county completed the autumn harvest. Farmers in other townships suffered some losses, with a grain reduction of about 5%, which was not a major problem.

Other counties and cities fared much worse, with an average production reduction of 36% this season, and some areas even experiencing a reduction of 5%.

This has nothing to do with the cooperative. Someone in the province will take responsibility for it, so it's not something Fang Wei needs to worry about.

Zhao Jinsheng personally led a team to purchase rice from various townships. He had already signed contracts with the farmers, and this was simply a matter of fulfilling those contracts. However, this time, they encountered trouble in Qianjin Township. (End of Chapter)