Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

For three consecutive hours, all the young people took turns.

A total of 20,000 kilograms of fish were caught and all loaded onto trucks and taken away.

In the 17s, the retail price of fish was just over 25 cents, and the purchase price of the supply and marketing cooperative was - yuan per kilograms (I don’t know if this is correct, but I’ll just go with this).

The 0.25 kilograms of fish at the mine certainly cannot be sold at retail price. In view of the fact that it is a year of famine and the serious shortage of meat supply, the price is set at yuan per kilogram.

Twenty thousand kilograms of fish is five thousand yuan.

Accountant Chen Xiaolan, along with her "bodyguard" Chen Huwei, Lao San, and Zhang Long (a robot), followed Chen Weiguo to the mine.

Originally, we wanted them to bring the Equality Device for All Beings, but Chen Xiaolan said that it would be too conspicuous, so they didn't bring it.

Liu Guozheng was not worried either. With Zhang Long following him, there was no need to worry.

Before leaving, he gave a fish to the truck driver and several people who helped him.

When we arrived at the mine, we weighed the goods again, put them into storage, and issued a certificate. Then Chen Weiguo took us to the Finance Department to settle the bill.

Chen Weiguo borrowed the leader's jeep through his uncle and sent Chen Xiaolan and others back.

It was just the right time to get back to Hope Village.

Today's lunch was basically all fish.

Fried small crucian carp, braised fish pieces, sweet and sour fish, steamed fish, boiled fish, spicy fish head, fish bone soup.

It can be called a small fish banquet.

Every dish was delicious and unforgettable, leaving a unique memory on everyone's tongue.

In the afternoon, accompanied by the fully armed security personnel of the textile factory, the head of the purchasing department and the finance department of the textile factory, carrying cash, arrived safely at Hope New Village. Two vehicles arrived, as there were many people in their textile factory and one vehicle could not carry them all.

There was no excessive politeness.

We started working right away, hoping that the villagers in the new village would be full of energy. In just three hours in the morning, we earned 5,000 yuan, which was something we could never have imagined when we were farming at home.

There are quite a lot of people working in the textile factory, probably more than 4,000 people, but less than 5,000. We rounded it up and calculated it as 5,000.

There are five thousand people, and if each person catches one, that would be five thousand fish, and each fish weighs ten pounds, a total of fifty thousand pounds.

0.25 yuan per catty, that's yuan.

Catching fish, weighing, loading, and settling accounts.

Similarly, the people following the car each gave one.

Li Dabao also went back with the car, saying that he would come back after the factory was shut down.

The main purpose of this trip back was to attend a commendation meeting. As the outstanding worker of the year, Li Dabao naturally could not be absent.

"Brother Zheng, Brother Zheng, let's discuss something."

"Erlang, put away that disgusting expression of yours and tell me what you want to say."

"Hey, Brother Zheng, I'll sleep with this money tonight."

Wow, Erleng is a man with ideals.

"Erlang, it seems that money is still more attractive to you."

"Well... of course not. Money comes after my wife."

Erlang had a strong desire to survive. He felt the "death gaze" and quickly changed his words.

"Okay, Erlang, I agree to your request, as long as your wife has no objection."

"Brother Zheng, forget it. Just let me count them later and it will satisfy your craving."

"hehe."

"Hahaha."

Erlang blushed.

"Brother Zheng, where do you put so much money?"

Chen Xiaolan looked at these and became worried, mainly about how to keep them.

In the 1960s, whether it was individuals or businesses, everything was done in cash. It was better for individuals, as they didn’t have enough money to spend, and they didn’t have to think too much about hiding money.

The money of urban factories and enterprises should be kept in the People's Bank of Xiaguo. The financial departments of factories and enterprises also have their own lockers to store daily working capital.

In rural areas, it should be the rural credit cooperatives. At that time, every commune (township) had a credit cooperative.

"Brother Zheng, why don't we deposit it in a credit union as well?"

Li Xiujuan suggested that she had heard that all the money in their village was deposited in the commune credit union, but the amount was not much.

"No, it's just a small amount of money. I've already prepared a locker."

Liu Guozheng brought them to Xishan and opened a door next to the warehouse.

After passing through three doors in a row, they came to a half-person-high cabinet. This was the storage cabinet that Liu Guozheng had prepared, which was directly embedded in the mountain.

The locker is divided into three layers from the outside to the inside. Each layer has a key and password. Only the correct key and the correct password can open it.

There are three accountants in Hope New Village: Lou Xiao'e, Li Xiujuan, and Chen Xiaolan.

Each person has a key and sets their own password.

Without any one of the three people, the locker cannot be opened.

In the future, any expenditure of more than 5,000 yuan in the new village will need to be reviewed by three accountants. After all of them agree, the village chief will stamp it, and then the money can be collected here.

Of course, this amount is not fixed, but will be adjusted appropriately with the development of the times.

The village’s income from selling fish this time was 17,500 yuan.

Fifteen thousand dollars in the locker.

Two thousand five hundred yuan is used as the village's working capital for daily purchasing expenses, such as personal daily necessities, some medicines, etc.

Of course, all these expenditure accounts must be kept well, and they should be reviewed every month or every quarter.

Everything will slowly get back on track.

There is no way around this in the early stages. If you deposit this stuff in the commune credit union, someone will be jealous. Other villages don't have enough food and are in debt every year, but your village is good. You can save 10,000 or 20,000 yuan every month. This will easily attract people's attention. You should keep a low profile.

Of course, you can't save nothing. If you want to save, you have to wait until three years later, when you will need to pay your tax.

This is equivalent to newly reclaimed land. The Xia government stipulates that no fees will be charged in the first three years of reclamation, and some people even need state subsidies to survive.

In a few decades, after the reform and opening up, all industries and sectors will be back on track, and various rules and regulations will be established. At that time, you can deposit your money in the bank.

Not now anyway.

As for the villagers’ daily consumption, they will have to wait until after the Spring Festival.

We started to formulate wage standards. The term "wage" was just an internal term. In the 1960s, no village paid wages to villagers.

In the era of the people's commune, everything belonged to the collective, and members were paid according to their work. Men, women, old and young were divided into different labor forces according to their physical strength. A strong laborer was given 10 work points for a day's work, and women were given 5 to 7 work points depending on the severity of the farm work. Even children were given work points, but they were fewer.

At the end of the year, food, cloth and other supplies were distributed according to the work points earned by each member, and these supplies also determined the living standards of the members.

At that time, it was said that the value of work points ranged from a few cents to a few dimes, in other words, you could only earn a few cents a day. Fortunately, the price level was extremely low at that time, and although you didn't earn much, as long as it wasn't a disaster year and the village cadres didn't mess around, you wouldn't starve to death.

The three difficult years back then are another matter (I can’t say much about this issue).

In Liu Guozheng's vision, he hopes that the villagers in the new village will eat in a collective canteen, work collectively, and have basic living supplies distributed collectively. Things like going to school, getting sick, and being hospitalized will all be borne by the village.

However, if you smoke or drink, you need to buy it yourself.

Liu Guozheng plans to officially start after the Spring Festival, and give each person a portion of money every month to use for their other personal expenses.

This money is neither much nor little, and is definitely more than the work points earned in other villages.

At that time, the village collective will need to discuss and decide together.