Rebirth 1979: Marrying a poor girl at the beginning

"What kind of ideological work is there to do?"

Gong Lijuan said angrily: "He has become stupid from reading too much and confused from listening to slogans!"

"We told you to settle down in the countryside, and the slogans were shouted loudly, but which of the children of high-ranking officials did not return to the city in advance? They were well-arranged for work, and had plenty of free time and money!"

"Workers, peasants and soldiers are recommended for college based on their family background and performance, but not all of them are children of people with connections who go to college!"

"You've missed so many opportunities. Now you finally have a chance to go back to the city, but you still don't go back. I think you're out of your mind!"

"Mom, I'm not stupid."

Xiao Wenhua raised his head and choked up, saying: "Our collective cooperative is different. We are actually changing the backward appearance of Hewan Brigade!"

"Moreover, Zhengjun has given me a lot of responsibilities. I feel that only here can I feel a sense of accomplishment, a meaningful life, and spiritual happiness and satisfaction!"

"Zhengjun and the villagers are all very kind to me, just like family members. I can't live without them!"

When he said this, tears welled up in his eyes.

Seeing this, Lin Zhengjun felt moved but also a little ashamed.

He really didn't think he was that good to the educated youth!

It's simply because we think they are educated and capable, so when we set up a cooperative, we give them priority in hiring them.

Many times when he saw them working so hard, Lin Zhengjun silently said in his heart, "What a great cow and horse."

It can even be said that he originally thought that these educated youth would return to the city sooner or later, and that they would be his connections, so he treated them well.

But I didn't expect Xiao Wenhua to value gratitude so much...

Tang Xiaofu, Cheng Huiru and other educated youth standing at the door couldn't help but shed tears when they heard this, and their feelings were very complicated and conflicted.

Emotionally, they cannot do without Xiao Wenhua.

But rationally, they knew that Xiao Wenhua should seize the opportunity and return to the city as soon as possible, as his future might be brighter!

"Are they as close as you are to your parents? Are you planning on not kissing your parents anymore?"

Gong Lijuan got even angrier when she heard this. She pointed at Xiao Wenhua's nose and cursed, "You are so unfilial. I have raised you into an ungrateful person! I want to break off all ties with you!"

"Mom, I'm not being filial, I just want to pursue my own dream..." Xiao Wenhua could no longer control her tears and burst into tears.

"Come out with me, let's go for a walk to the river bend!" Lin Zhengjun stood up and said.

"it is good!"

Xiao Wenhua immediately followed.

Walking up the embankment of the river bend, Lin Zhengjun gave Xiao Wenhua a cigarette and lit it for him.

Xiao Wenhua glanced at the silhouette of the towering green mountains in the direction of the back mountain, then at the clear river water, then at the asphalt road on the wide platform, and the twinkling stars of the village, and said: "Zhengjun, look at how beautiful our Hewan Brigade is..."

Lin Zhengjun said: "Wenhua, I want to ask you, what is your dream?"

Xiao Wenhua thought for a moment and said, "I want to work with you to build a collective cooperative, make the Hewan Brigade rich and beautiful, and let everyone live a good life!"

Lin Zhengjun said: "If returning to the city is more conducive to realizing this dream, are you willing to return to the city?"

"How is that possible? I want to go back to the city. The provincial capital is hundreds of miles away from here. How can I help you?" Xiao Wenhua shook his head.

"Your mind is too rigid."

Lin Zhengjun asked: "Do you know what the biggest reality of the country is right now?"

Xiao Wenhua was a little confused and said, "Your topic is too big. I can't follow it."

"It is the planned economy and the unified purchase and marketing system that led to the urban-rural divide."

Lin Zhengjun said: "The prices of agricultural products are suppressed by the plan, and the prices of industrial products are also abnormally raised by the plan!"

"Under the premise of a planned economy that dominated the country, the urban economy was dominated by modern large-scale industrial production, with a relatively complete industrial system and service industry;"

"The rural economy mainly relies on agricultural production. Under the barrier of household registration, farmers are also firmly bound to the land, and are not allowed to engage in local industrialization or move to the city to engage in the service industry."

“As a result, the city’s science, education, culture, health and infrastructure are well developed, providing urban residents with good living conditions and convenient public services;”

"Rural infrastructure is relatively backward, transportation is inconvenient, information is blocked, and education and medical resources are scarce..."

Xiao Wenhua was enlightened, his eyes sparkling with admiration, and he said excitedly: "This is brilliant! Zhengjun, you think about problems so deeply, like a university professor."

Plucking the feathers of a chicken, middle school students in the future will all understand this... Lin Zhengjun smiled and said, "Reform and opening up means breaking down the barriers between urban and rural areas. For example, we are allowed to develop the commune economy, engage in handicrafts, collective sideline businesses, and even light industry. In the distant future, we will even achieve the development of urban and rural integration, a unified national market, and full flow of various factors!"

Xiao Wenhua was deeply shocked and dumbfounded!

After all, the market economy hasn’t even been proposed yet, and the idea of ​​a unified national market is so advanced and simply shocking!

But he had to admit that what Lin Zhengjun said might come true.

We can see the clues from some policy shifts!

Lin Zhengjun didn't continue pretending, and said, "Why can we make a lot of money by canning yellow peaches and canned fish? It's because we have torn a small hole in the barrier between the urban and rural dual economy, extended our tentacles into the city, and taken advantage of a part of the dual economy!"

"Yes, that's the truth." Xiao Wenhua said, "We are just like the small street collective enterprises in the city, and we also enjoy the premium of industrial products."

"Producing products is important, but tentacles are more important. Yanjing Department Store is one of our tentacles, and I want you to be the second tentacle!" Lin Zhengjun said.

"How can I be one?"

"I have an idea..." Lin Zhengjun immediately told the production plan of the peripheral clothing for "Lush Mountain Love".

Xiao Wenhua rubbed his hands excitedly: "Oh, this is a good idea, I can't leave, I want to make clothes and sell them for money!"

"How can you be so rude, man?"

Lin Zhengjun sighed helplessly and said, "I told you that I won't let you manage production, but I want you to be a tentacle!"

"First, the tentacles of raw materials! Aren't you going to work at the National Cotton Mill No. 4? If there is unplanned production, it would be best if you could help me contact the fabric. If not, you can encourage the factory director to help us produce a batch!"

Xiao Wenhua said: "I don't think it's a big problem. My second aunt is the leader of the National Cotton Mill No. 4. If it doesn't violate the policy, she will definitely be willing to do it!"

You see, it’s all nepotism!

Otherwise, how could Xiao Wenhua return to the city and work in a big factory?

The public economic system is wonderful, yes, it is wonderful, but the prerequisite is that you have to have the opportunity to get in and get a piece of the pie.

Now the channels for rural children to enter large state-owned factories through recruitment have been basically cut off. There are very few recruits, and there are still a large number of unemployed people in the cities!

If there were opportunities to recruit workers into the city, they were divided up among the commune leaders and ordinary people had no chance at all.

There is no mechanism for publicly releasing information now. Everything is done by uploading and downloading files. Often, when it reaches the commune level, the files are intercepted and never passed on to the brigade.

Without the approval of the brigade and the commune, rural people who go to the city to work are considered blind migrants and should just work hard to earn a living.

Silently complaining, Lin Zhengjun continued: "Second, sales tentacles! We will sell the clothes to the provincial capital and even the capital. When the time comes, you will be the pioneer!"