Rebirth 1975: Tore up the call-back order at the beginning

Li's old house!

Zhou Yang frowned when he heard the commune's plan.

Although the taste of yam eggs and beet pimples is not good, but in this era of extreme scarcity of supplies, they are very life-saving food.

Since it is grain, it cannot be compared with grass.

Last year, the village also exchanged grain with members of other villages for firewood, but the price was not cheap. Good-quality green naked oats needed 50 catties to exchange for 1 catty of grain.

If it is ordinary wheat straw or something, it will take 80 catties.

Now the commune wants to exchange five catties of grass for one catty of grain, how about playing?

Even though yam eggs and beet lumps are not as good as real wheat and naked oats, they are not the "soil" on the side of the road.

For a while, Zhou Yang couldn't help being silent!

Although he also wanted to help those affected by the disaster, it was not based on the premise of harming the interests of the people in Babaoliang Village.

More importantly, for those members of the disaster-stricken commune, they could not even support themselves in food rations after a year of hard work. This is certainly due to natural disasters, but more importantly, it is man-made disasters.

If they strictly followed the county's requirements to adjust the planting structure, no matter how bad it was, they wouldn't even be able to solve the problem of a few hundred catties of rations.

I am disobedient, and now I am suffering from a disaster, but I have to give them the food harvested so hard in the village, which is always uncomfortable.

What's more, this is not three hundred catties or five hundred catties, but one hundred thousand catties. Even with Zhou Yang's current prestige, he dare not easily agree to this matter.

Zhou Yang didn't speak, but Li Jianjun on the side couldn't hold back anymore, he just heard him staring and said: "Father, that bastard came up with this unscrupulous idea, is it because he is jealous of our village's good harvest or wants to grab it openly? Is it true that there is no one in our Babaoliang Village?"

Hearing this, Zhou Yang knew that the third brother was going to be in trouble.

If he guessed correctly, this plan should have been proposed by his father-in-law, and even if it wasn't proposed by him, it was approved by him.

The third brother said this in front of his father, isn't this a joke?

Sure enough, Li Fengnian knocked the tobacco pot down the edge of the kang, and then suddenly said: "Shut up, I'm a black-hearted bastard in your mouth, what are you going to do?"

Li Jianjun was stunned for a moment, and then stammered, "Father...how can you come up with such an idea? Isn't this defrauding the people in our village?"

Li Fengnian also fell silent immediately!

He is well aware of how excessive the commune's request is. As a person who has experienced three years of natural disasters, he is well aware of what food means to the common people.

Needless to say, in famine years, even in better years, every household gets very little food.

Any point is very precious and cannot be wasted.

Now the commune requires the village to provide 170 million catties of grain all at once, but only gives a few million catties of firewood. Isn’t this bullying people!

It is also because of this that the commune did not force the villagers with administrative orders, but let Li Fengnian come back to find out.

"Father, since it's an exchange, we must follow the principle of equivalence. An exchange of unequal value is bullying. I don't think the cadres of the commune are clear about this. What are they thinking?" Zhou Yang said in a deep voice. .

Li Fengnian immediately said: "We just don't want the Fugou and Xuejiawa brigades to starve to death, and we also hope that they can stand up as soon as possible!"

"Starve to death? Can't it be?" Zhou Yang frowned.

"Hey, the brigades in the north are mainly based on dry land and mountains, and they completely depend on the sky for their food. Counting this year, they have suffered disasters for three consecutive years!"

Then Li Fengnian continued: "A few days ago I personally went to the two brigades to understand the situation. Almost all the commune members were pale and emaciated, severely malnourished, and many people were swaying when they walked. If the commune does not intervene, this winter may really be a disaster. There were tragedies of people starving to death.”

"But the commune has too many people affected by the disaster this year, and it can't afford so much food at once, so it asks our village for help!"

Zhou Yang frowned and said, "It's okay to help, but there is no such kind of help. This is 170 million catties of grain!"

"If according to our standard last year, these grains are exchanged at a ratio of 1:80, do you know how much firewood our village can get back?"

Li Jianjun also said: "Yes, five catties of grass for one catty of grain is bullying!"

"Besides, firewood should be of no use to them. Can't we give us more, even if we suffer a little bit, a catty of grain can be exchanged for 50 catties of grass!"

However, Li Fengnian shook his head and said, "It's useful. During this time, the county has successively brought back more than 30 piglets from the provincial capital. Fugou, Xuejiawa and other brigades have allocated more than 300 piglets in total. So they also need firewood as feed to feed these piggies, and this is their only hope of turning around!"

"Would our village have to suffer a lot if they want to turn around, Dad, that's 170 million catties of grain..."

Seeing the excited Li Jianjun, Zhou Yang immediately said, "Third Brother, don't get excited, sit down!"

Hearing Zhou Yang's words, Li Jianjun frowned, and then sat down on the pony, but he was still a little bit annoyed.

Li Fengnian saw that even his own son was so strongly opposed, so he knew that this matter was basically useless.

If he persisted like this again, he would be embarrassing his son-in-law.

Immediately, he sighed and said, "Oh, I also know that this matter is difficult. If it doesn't work, I will talk to Director Qiao tomorrow, and I will say that our village also has difficulties..."

Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yang said: "Father, five catties of grass and one catty of grain is definitely not suitable. Whether it is yam eggs or beet lumps, they are all grown by the educated youths of the commune. It is the result of hard work. harvested food."

"We can't harm the interests of the educated youths in the village just because we sympathize with other people. This is going to hurt people's spines!"

But then Zhou Yang changed his voice and said again: "But we can change the way of cooperation, which can help the people affected by the disaster without too much damage to the interests of the village!"

"Why cooperate?"

"Isn't our village tasked with 20 catties of love food? We can use yam eggs and beet lumps to fulfill the task!" Zhou Yang said.

"This is food for love. It's going to be handed over to the grain depot. What's the matter?"

"It's simple. Doesn't the commune have its own overall grain and emergency granary? Take 20 catties of grain and send it to the grain depot. The village immediately sends 60 catties of yam eggs and 60 catties of beet lumps to the commune!" Zhou Yang said.

"1 catty of fine grains for 6 catties of coarse grains?"

"Yes, the commune is not losing money, and our village is suffering a small loss, but it is still within the acceptable range!"

"But it's only 120 million catties, what about the remaining 50 catties?" Li Fengnian said.

"Our village did not grow flax, beans and other miscellaneous grains this year. The commune can also exchange miscellaneous grains for our village's coarse grains. We can offer a higher price."

Then Zhou Yang continued: "As long as the commune raises 8 catties of miscellaneous grains, we can give them another 50 catties of yam eggs and beet lumps. In this way, the commune only uses 28 catties of fine grains and miscellaneous grains in exchange for 170 million yuan." Jin yam eggs and beet lumps."

"In addition, I can persuade other people in the village to donate another 10 catties of beet pimples to the commune, making up 180 million catties!"

Li Fengnian thought for a while and said: "That's okay, but I don't know if there are so many miscellaneous grains here in the commune!"

"This is the business of Director Qiao and you, and that's all we can do!" Zhou Yang said.

"it is good!"

At this time, Zhou Yang changed his voice, looked at the old man and said again: "Father, are there any bad voices from the commune against our village?"

Hearing Zhou Yang's words, Li Fengnian was slightly shocked, but still nodded.

"How did you see it?"

"You are not the kind of person who turns your elbows outward. Director Qiao should also know about my relationship with Lao Li, An Lao and others. If there is no special reason, you should not propose such an outrageous plan!"

Then Zhou Yang said again: "Looking at the current situation, there should be external pressure that makes you have to do this, and what makes you succumb should not only be the disaster, it should be that our village tree is so popular that some people's red-eyed disease commits crimes." Already!"

"In addition to the pressure of the disaster, you made such a decision, and more importantly, you want to protect our Babaoliang Village!"

Hearing Zhou Yang's analysis, Li Fengnian was even more surprised. He really didn't expect his son-in-law to be so insightful.

Afterwards, after he sighed, he talked to Zhou Yang about some things that happened in the commune during this period.

PS: I updated late yesterday, so I wrote it early today!