Reborn in 1977

Secretary Yang tapped his tobacco pipe, knocked off the ashes, refilled it with tobacco, picked up a red-hot piece of charcoal from the brazier next to him, lit it, took a puff, turned around and said, "So, there are three major things: one is the dike reinforcement and ditch renovation, one is the matter of the breeding farm, and the last is the addition of a feed factory."

He turned to look at An Quan, "Xiao An, you're the most familiar with these outside matters around here, even better than Xiao Chen. Why don't you take the lead and see where we can buy a feed machine?"

As soon as An Quan heard this, he immediately straightened his clothes and said proudly, "This kind of thing is definitely for me! It's okay, I'm going to be here for a while anyway, so I'll take care of this first."

After speaking, he deliberately gave Chen Fan a provocative look, just like a quisling in a movie.

Chen Fan suppressed a smile and gave him two thumbs up without hesitation.

Whoever wants to do this kind of troublesome thing can do it, just don't look for me!

Secretary Yang nodded in satisfaction, exhaled a puff of smoke, and turned to look at everyone, "Is there anything else?"

Team Leader Zhang shook his head, "Every year during the slack season, water conservancy is the main thing. Although there's an extra sideline this year, it's all related to the breeding farm. As for the others, there shouldn't be any."

Ye Shubao and Xiao Liewen also shook their heads, indicating that there was nothing else.

Although Xiao Liewen wanted to mention the militia's winter training, he also had to consider whether it would delay important matters. Otherwise, he could only find time for rotational training.

Moreover, this year, due to the addition of "Mountain Forest Warfare," the training time was much longer than in previous years. If there really wasn't time, not holding collective winter training wouldn't be a problem.

Seeing that everyone had nothing else to say, Secretary Yang nodded and said with a soft smile, "If you don't have any, then I'll talk about two things."

Hearing this, everyone looked at him.

Ye Shubao asked curiously, "Is there a new task coming down?"

Secretary Yang shook his head and said with a smile, "It's not from above, it's from below."

"From below?"

Xiao Liewen had just picked up his teacup. Hearing this, he couldn't help but turn to look at him, "What could be the matter with the teams below?"

Secretary Yang smiled and said, "Why wouldn't there be anything?"

He turned to look at everyone again, "This year, not only has our production team made a lot of money, but every household has also earned a lot. Not to mention the money from breeding, all the sideline companies have to take out a certain percentage of their profits to distribute as dividends to the members of the entire production team.

Yesterday, I asked the accountant to calculate it. A strong laborer can get almost 200 yuan in dividends, and each household can get about 500 yuan from breeding.

Assuming that a family has 3 strong laborers, adding the two together, that's more than a thousand yuan."

He chuckled and looked at everyone, saying, "If your family earns more than a thousand yuan a year, what do you want to do?"

Ye Shubao blurted out immediately, "Build a house! Replace the earthen walls with brick houses!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized it, slapped his thigh, and said with excitement, "That's right, this year every household has made money, and there must be many who want to build houses."

A happy smile also appeared on Team Leader Zhang's face, but there was still some worry in his eyes, "Building houses is definitely a good thing, but burning bricks and buying materials takes time, and there are only so many master builders in the construction team. If everyone rushes at once, I'm afraid it will be chaotic, and in serious cases, it will even affect the water conservancy project."

Secretary Yang nodded and said to him, "That's what I think too."

He turned to look at Ye Shubao and Xiao Liewen, "So this year is different from the past. The matter of members building houses must be managed by the team. We can't let them do whatever they want like before. There must be a unified plan and arrangement, and it must not delay the dike reinforcement."

Team Leader Zhang nodded immediately, "I'll call a meeting of all the team leaders later to arrange the dike reinforcement work and mention this matter by the way."

Secretary Yang "hmm"ed and continued, "My idea is that although each household can burn their own bricks, the situations are different after all. I don't care if they stagger the time, but anyone who wants to build a house in the winter must go through the brigade headquarters to buy bricks and tiles from the brick factory. The brigade can also come forward to apply to the commune for steel and cement."

Ye Shubao immediately smiled and said, "This is a good thing. In the past, members had to find their own ways to get materials for building houses. There were limits on wood, steel, and cement. If it's changed to public-to-public, it will be easier to negotiate the quantity. It's just that building brick houses will be more expensive.

Earthen bricks can be made by themselves. If you buy them, a red brick from the brick factory costs 3 cents. To build a house, about 10,000 bricks are enough, which will cost 300 yuan…"

As he spoke, he turned to look at Chen Fan, "If you want to build a building like Xiao Chen's, it will cost a total of more than 40,000 bricks, which will be even more expensive."

Secretary Yang smiled, "It's up to the members to choose what kind of house to build. We're only responsible for buying the materials in a unified manner. I've been considering this matter for the past few days. Yesterday, I went to the brick factory and asked about the price. They said that if the quantity is large, the price can be a little cheaper, and it can be calculated at 2.8 cents."

Ye Shubao smiled and said, "That's great, it can save a lot of money."

Secretary Yang nodded and continued, "Building houses is one thing, and the other is to provide running water to the remaining 10 teams."

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but nod.

Xiao Liewen, with his tobacco pipe in his mouth, said, "Before water was supplied to Teams 5 and 6, we promised the other teams that when the team had the conditions, we would definitely provide them with running water. Now there is a lot of money in the brigade's account, and it's time to fulfill that promise."

Secretary Yang smiled and said, "Yes, this matter must be done. Moreover…"

He turned to look at Team Leader Zhang and Ye Shubao, and said with a smile, "Filling the pipelines also requires digging ditches. I was thinking, can we combine it with the ditch renovation project, repairing the ditches and burying the pipelines at the same time, so that we can save a lot of time and labor."

Team Leader Zhang nodded immediately, "This is a good idea, I agree."

Secretary Yang smiled and said, "Then let's do it this way. Later, I'll go to the commune to report the water pipes and building materials, and this time I don't want their subsidies. All the expenses can be borne by our brigade itself, but all the materials must be supplied in place."

The others nodded repeatedly. Not wanting subsidies, just asking for a sufficient amount of approved materials, this request is not excessive, right?

Look, this is the performance of the wealthy leaders of the Lujiawan Brigade!

Chen Fan watched from the side, chuckling. After they finished talking, he raised his hand and said, "Uncle Yang, I have a suggestion."

Secretary Yang immediately turned to look at him, smiling with exceptional amiability, "Little Chen, what good idea do you have this time? Tell me quickly!"

Chen Fan stood up, walked to a desk, sat down, and said with a smile, "Here's what I was thinking: since we're already standardizing the purchase of building materials and arranging housing construction uniformly, why not take it a step further and provide the members with a unified housing design plan?"

Secretary Yang was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

Chen Fan picked up a piece of paper and began to draw a rough sketch on it, saying, "I've looked at the layout of the houses in our various teams. Although most of them are earthen-walled houses, the spacing and orientation between the houses make full use of the terrain conditions, which is quite reasonable. The only thing that's not very pleasing to the eye is that the styles of the houses are not very uniform. In architectural terms, the styles are not very consistent.

If we can provide each member with a unified style of design drawings, even if the styles are slightly different, it can still give people a very harmonious feeling overall.

In addition to this, we can also make a unified plan for the entire residential area, adjusting the location of the homesteads of some houses.

On the one hand, it is more beautiful, and on the other hand, it can also leave enough homestead area for future generations."

After he finished drawing, he pushed the paper towards Secretary Yang and continued, "I've observed carefully. Take our Team 6, for example. Apart from me, and excluding the educated youth spot, there are 46 households in the team, but the total population is 343 people. On average, there are 7 or 8 people per household.

A large proportion of them are minors, and some girls may marry out…"

At this moment, Zhang Wenliang suddenly interjected, saying, "I heard Xingxiu say a few days ago that the girls in our team don't want to marry out now. Besides, the girls from other production teams all want to marry into Lujiawan, so the population of the team will definitely only increase, not decrease."

Anquan lit a cigarette and chuckled, "It's normal. Lujiawan is now a famous wealthy village, even better than the Bailang Lake Brigade, which is specifically responsible for fish farming. They're even thinking about selling fish to us, but fish are difficult to transport and preserve, and the cooked food workshop doesn't know how to handle fresh fish, so Lao Ye has never agreed."

Chen Fan looked at him curiously, then looked at Ye Shubao, "Is there such a thing?"

Ye Shubao said "Ah" and smiled, "This is normal. The fish ponds in the Bailang Lake Brigade are very large, and they often go to the river to catch fish. Every year, they can overfulfill the supply and marketing cooperative's procurement tasks.

But just like our chicken farming, the supply and marketing cooperative also procures according to the tasks assigned by the higher authorities. If they can't finish so many fish, they can only keep them for their own disposal.

Now that they see us making money by opening a cooked food store, and they're also looking for their four brigades to purchase chickens, ducks, and geese together, they want to supply us with fish, but the price of fish is too low, and it's not easy to handle, so I didn't agree."

Chen Fan blinked, "Then let them directly supply dried fish. Bailang Lake's smoked fish and air-dried fish are the best in Guofeng County, and the sauce-plate fish is also very good, but they don't have a channel to sell them outside.

Now we have a channel, we can let them directly supply dried fish. This thing is also durable. At worst, we can buy less and sell it slowly.

We're just making a middleman's profit, anyway, it doesn't take any effort, we might as well earn it."

After all, it's a village that lives by raising fish, how could they not have a few unique skills in making fish? In fact, many so-called "specialties" in many places are spread from a small village.

And there are countless such villages, the key is who takes the first step.

Whoever can seize the opportunity first is the "specialty" representative of a certain place. If anyone asks how special these specialties really are, whether other places don't have them, it's really not necessarily!

After listening to Chen Fan's words, Ye Shubao blinked repeatedly, his eyes gradually brightening, "It turns out it can be like this?"

Then he grinned, "Okay, okay, I'll call their brigade leader later and settle this matter."

Seeing that they could make another easy profit, Secretary Yang and the others couldn't stop smiling.

At this time, he also finished reading the simple diagram drawn by Chen Fan, decisively threw it aside, and smiled at him, "I don't quite understand what you said, I only know two points, one is that housing construction must be planned, and the other is that the current houses are not enough, and many new houses will definitely be added, is that what you mean?"

Chen Fan nodded. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Secretary Yang wave his hand, "Okay, then do as you say, this matter will be entrusted to you."

Seeing such a big burden coming down, Chen Fan immediately raised his hand, "I object."

Anquan looked at him amusedly, "You brought it up, who else would we give it to if not you?"

Zhang Wenliang also said sternly, "I've long been displeased with you fishing and walking the dog every day. This matter must be managed by you."

Chen Fan curled his lips and couldn't help rolling his eyes.

You idiot, I finally managed to muddle through this matter just now, but you actually brought it back yourself. What's wrong, are you unhappy that the leader didn't punish you?

Anquan also covered his eyes and couldn't bear to look. He thought silently, should I slip away after the meeting? Anyway, Secretary Yang has also assigned me a task to inquire about buying a feed machine. This can also be considered an official business, right?

Zhang Wenliang hadn't noticed Secretary Yang's unkind gaze yet, and crossed his legs triumphantly.

Let you be idle, find something for you to do, see if you're still idle!

Seeing Secretary Yang's gaze turning to him, Chen Fan immediately said solemnly, "Secretary, Comrade, I can really only do design work. I have to take the postgraduate entrance exam in March next year, so I can't delay my studies."

Hearing this, Secretary Yang didn't pretend anymore, and immediately nodded and said, "Yes, yes, yes, the exam is the most important thing. You arrange your time well. If you don't have time, you can tell the construction team your ideas, and let them do the design and planning."

Chen Fan pursed his lips and smiled, giving Zhang Wenliang, who had a blank expression, a provocative look. He turned his face and said sincerely, "It's okay, I often go to various teams to draw this year, and I know all the living areas like the back of my hand. It won't take a few days to do the design."

Secretary Yang nodded with a smile, "Then thank you for your hard work."