Reborn in 1977

Chapter 656: Let's Play Again Next Time

Hearing Captain Yang's question, Chen Fan silently took a puff of his cigarette, pondered for a few seconds, then turned to look at him and said softly, "Regarding this matter, the explanation is a bit complicated. To put it simply, it is necessary to consider how to promote coordinated regional economic development with specific points leading the way."

When the regional economy prospers, it will generate a siphon effect, attracting manpower and other resources from the surrounding areas, and continue to promote the development of the region. And in this development process, the biggest beneficiary is naturally the leading enterprise…"

Before he could finish speaking, Captain Yang raised his hand in surrender, "Stop, stop, stop, I don't understand any of the things you're talking about. It's giving me a headache."

What siphon effect, what regional coordination… what are all these things? Are you bullying me because I only have a primary school education?

Chen Fan shrugged innocently, "You were the one who asked first."

Captain Yang blinked, tilted his head and thought, "Do you mean that if we treat them better today, it will be more beneficial to us in the future?"

Chen Fan nodded, his face full of surprise, "Captain, you're getting the hang of summarizing things."

Captain Yang rolled his eyes and scolded with a smile, "You could have just said that directly, why did you have to spout so much nonsense?"

Chen Fan was a little speechless, "You asked for the reason, I naturally had to explain it clearly."

The things that could be explained were all generalities, and it wasn't appropriate to say anything more specific, so he could only muddle through like this.

The sideline businesses in Lujiawan were developing very well. Now, the other production teams don't have the capital or resources, so they can only follow Lujiawan's lead.

But when they complete their initial accumulation in the future, will they abandon Lujiawan and go it alone?

From the perspective of the laws of development, this outcome is almost inevitable. No one wants to be second to others, especially when there are a large number of people in a collective.

Even if most people want to "talk about morality," there will definitely be people with different ideas, after all, everyone wants to earn more.

And based on the social situation a few years later, as long as they dare to go it alone, they will definitely succeed!

Therefore, Chen Fan's plan at this stage is to tie potential "opponents" to Lujiawan's chariot, not only to be friends, but also to be comrades-in-arms, so as to resolve problems in advance.

The distributed job positions are the first step.

He had already talked with Secretary Yang and Captain Zhang. This year, they would not only continue to lead the four production teams of Ganjia Village and other communes to get rich, but also help them establish a preliminary sideline business company system, and lead other communes willing to join in to develop together.

As for Lujiawan itself, it needs to gradually break away from the agricultural system. In addition to the necessary grain production tasks, it will develop in depth in the industrial field in the future.

The "Luwan Industrial Zone" that has not yet been built is the starting point for Lujiawan's industrial development.

By that time, the grassroots management backbone that Lujiawan has cultivated for nearly two years, such as the manager of the cooked food workshop, the store manager of the cooked food store, the captain of the transportation team, the head of the breeding farm, the director of the No. 6 team's pottery factory, uh, isn't that Captain Yang?

Well, of course, it also includes the captains of each team, the militia squad leaders, and platoon leaders. These people will all be members of the leadership team of the future "Luwan Group Subsidiary".

If you want to "promote agriculture through industry," you must first have the talent to support industrial development. Where does this talent come from?

Isn't it only possible to choose from within Lujiawan?

Similarly, if the sewing workers in the garment factory have the same skills and abilities, who will be given priority when promoting a group leader?

Of course, it's the people from Lujiawan.

Then, if this person is promoted, who will replace his position?

Relying on Lujiawan alone, excluding the elderly and children, how many people can fill the position?

Moreover, most of these people will be trained as future talents, or they will be released to start their own businesses when the time is right, becoming Lujiawan's satellite companies.

In the end, the grassroots positions can only rely on people from other production teams, or even other places.

This kind of thing is not a problem at all more than ten years later. As long as you have money, you can directly recruit tens of thousands of people. But now it is a plan that can only be completed over many years.

Chen Fan is the planner, responsible for formulating the strategy, and Secretary Yang and the other leaders of the brigade headquarters are the executors.

As for the other store managers, captains, squad and platoon leaders, they are of course just tools.

Just wait and listen to the leaders' arrangements.

Want to know the reason for doing this now? Captain Yang is an example. Chen Fan explained the strategic development ideas to him, does he understand?

It's enough to know that it's beneficial to yourself. Anyway, promotions and salary increases are real in the future, don't think too much about other things.

…

Seeing that Captain Yang had finished his cigarette and obediently went down to the ditch to continue digging for turtles, Chen Fan didn't stay any longer.

He blew a breath at the cigarette holder, and the ashes scattered instantly, leaving the pipe completely clean.

He stood up, carried the pipe behind his back, waved his hand in greeting, put his hands behind his back, and left on tiptoe like a little old man.

Captain Yang was here with his men digging for turtles, and in the farmland next to them, there were also people working busily.

In the rice fields, there were no longer the rice stubbles everywhere after the autumn harvest, but large patches of black, with only a few places retaining the yellow color that had not been burned.

It happened to be raining a little today, so some elderly farmers were waving bamboo whips, driving carts to bring over the fermented farm manure, scooping it up with long ladles, and scattering it into the rice fields.

Along with the moist soil, the fertilizer quickly mixed with the ashes and the soil.

Later, they will spread chemical fertilizer again, and then, after the fish in the irrigation canal are caught, they will pump water from the river to fill all the ditches and soak these rice fields.

After a winter passes, the fertilizer will soak into the soil, and when plowing deeply in the spring of the following year, and then planting, as long as there are no pests or diseases, a great harvest will definitely be ushered in the following year.

This is nourishing the land.

Chen Fan greeted people along the way and returned to Team 6, but he did not go home.

He first pushed open the gate of the educated youth point and went in to take a look.

Having been vacant for half a year, the yard seemed a bit dilapidated.

The newly built study room at the entrance was still normal. The team used this place as a place for children to study. After school, the children who were still in school would generally come here to do their homework before going home to help with work.

In Captain Yang's words, 20 college students had come out of here, and there was an air of culture. It was only good and not bad for students to study here.

Moreover, there were many study materials here, from elementary school to high school, as well as many extracurricular reading materials left by the recent batch of educated youths, and the children also liked to stay here.

Even just reading extracurricular books was more comfortable than going home to work.

While they were studying here, Captain Yang assigned them the task of cleaning, so the yard was still relatively clean.

However, houses deteriorate particularly quickly when no one lives in them.

What's more, this was a mud-walled house with a thatched roof.

Chen Fan looked up and saw that many of the thatch on the roof were already incomplete. Without anyone to repair it, the house looked desolate and miserable.

The doors and windows were intact, but a thick layer of dust had accumulated on the window lattices.

He walked over and gently pushed open the door, and a layer of dust fell down, so he had to quickly step back two steps.

After the dust settled, he looked at the room he had once lived in. The layout inside was still the same. The bamboo bed, cabinet, Eight Immortals table, and chairs were all there, and they were all neatly arranged. It could be seen that the person who left had cleaned up before leaving.

He didn't linger. He closed the door, then walked to the doorway of the room where Jiang Lili had lived, pushing it open to take a look. Hmm, similar to the previous room.

Raising his head, he saw a palm-sized mirror, dull and lifeless.

Chen Fan couldn't help but grin. He reached out, closed the door, stood there for a moment, then strolled around the backyard before turning to leave.

Closing the courtyard gate from the outside, Chen Fan began to self-reflect. 'Am I only 30 years old and already reminiscing about the past?'

No, in this life, I'm 18!

Chen Fan pulled out his long-stemmed pipe, packed it with tobacco, lit it, and held it in one hand while the other was behind his back. He hummed a little tune as he slowly walked toward the village.

“A young lad is always eighteen, ya, hee-ya, eighteen…”

In the village, every household had small Western-style buildings made of red bricks and blue tiles. Even the chicken coops, duck pens, and rabbit hutches that used to be haphazardly built were now semi-open breeding sheds made of bricks and tiles. In the late morning, they were filled with the sounds of chirping, quacking, and cackling, making it very lively.

Only the pigs were sleeping.

These breeding sheds were usually built next to the vegetable gardens in the backyard. In front of the houses was a kitchen, and on the open space in front of the houses, dogs curled up, sleeping at the door, but they would immediately raise their heads when passersby went by.

Chen Fan was now very familiar with the dogs. When they saw him, they didn't even bother to get up or bark; they just whined a couple of times and then lay back down.

If the dogs ignored him, at least there were people who acknowledged him.

Those who were home saw Chen Fan and waved to him from afar, "Teacher Chen, aren't you going to the job fair?"

Chen Fan also waved, "With Secretary Yang and the others there, why would I join the fun?"

If there were men at home, they would come out to offer him a cigarette. "Captain Yang and the others went to dig for soft-shelled turtles. They'll probably be dividing them up in the next couple of days. Are you free tomorrow to come to my house for a drink?"

Chen Fan took the cigarette and stuck it behind his ear. "How about the day after tomorrow? I have to go to Team 9 tomorrow."

Being invited to meals everywhere had become the norm for Chen Fan. As long as Secretary Yang and the others didn't come to his house to freeload, he didn't have to cook for himself. He could eat wherever he went, and there were so many invitations that he couldn't possibly accept them all.

Oh, right, he heard that back in the 60s and 70s, in some places, guests had to bring their own food when visiting.

This also happened in the South Lake Commune, but only in the town, and instead of bringing food, they gave grain coupons.

There was no other way. Everyone's grain was limited, and if a guest ate some, the host would have less. Of course, the grain coupons had to be replenished. As for the money to buy grain, the host would bear that cost. When people came to visit, it wasn't that they couldn't afford a few cents; what they lacked were grain coupons, not money.

But in Lujiawan, you didn't even need to bring grain coupons.

On the one hand, there were no grain coupons, and on the other hand, except for a few years, there was usually no shortage of grain.

And in years of grain shortage, people generally didn't visit others for meals; they usually just finished their business and left.

That's how it was in the past, let alone now.

Chen Fan didn't understand the customs here. When he went to the captain's or leaders' houses for meals, he naturally went empty-handed. The first time he went to a commune member's house for a meal, he even thought about giving grain coupons, but the captain, who was accompanying him, stopped him and quietly explained, and only then did he understand the local customs.

So, whenever someone invited him to a meal, he would at most bring a small gift, and he never did anything like giving grain coupons again.

He strolled from the end of the village to the beginning, accepted several invitations for meals, and finally walked to the livestock shed at the head of the village.

This used to be where Team 6 raised pigs. The only few oxen, horses, donkeys, and mules were also kept here, and the carter, Master Liu, also lived here. His work points were even higher than Captain Yang's and the others', with four or five thousand points a year.

Now, the livestock shed had been expanded into Team 6's small breeding farm.

Not only were there more cattle and horses in the livestock pens, but two new sheds had also been built next to the original livestock shed, raising many chickens, ducks, geese, and rabbits.

As a result, there were two more people guarding the breeding farm. Besides Master Liu, there was also a "Master Yang" and a "Master Huang."

Hmm, one from each of the three surnames, very reasonable.

And they were all elderly people, but they were still able to convince the masses in their work, so they got this benefit.

When Chen Fan arrived, the three old men were gathered at Master Liu's house, playing flower cards.

(Flower Cards)

The characters on the flower cards looked like chicken scratches. Chen Fan had studied them for a long time but still didn't recognize them.

It wasn't until he came back this time and stayed comfortably for a month, with a lot of free time, that he learned how to play from Master Liu.

Master Liu was facing the door. When he saw him coming, he quickly greeted him, "Come and play a couple of rounds."

Chen Fan didn't stand on ceremony, "If you insist, I'm going to dominate this time."

As he said this, he sat down on the other side of the Eight Immortals table.

This kind of flower card could be played by three or four people, so it didn't affect the other two.

Seeing Chen Fan sit down, Master Huang threw down his cards, "Redeal, redeal."

Master Liu's face visibly darkened, "That's cheating."

He spread out his cards, "If you had this hand, would you still want to redeal?"

Master Huang craned his neck to take a look, "Wow, this is a good hand."

Then he looked at Master Liu, "It's good, but how can you make Teacher Chen wait on the side?"

Master Liu wanted to say something, but seeing Old Huang grab the cards in his hand, almost ready to reshuffle, he could only shut up.

The Master Yang next to him looked at Chen Fan with a smile, "Teacher Chen, what have you been busy with these past few days?"

Chen Fan said while picking up his cards, "Just wandering around, giving Secretary Yang and the others some advice."

Master Liu's temper came and went quickly, and he immediately laughed, "Your advice isn't simple. It can earn a lot of money with a little nudge, so you have to nudge more."

Master Huang also joined in, "Yeah, the lesson you gave last time was very good. Young people nowadays need to work harder and not play cards and mahjong all day…"

As he said this, he looked at the flower cards in his hand, glanced inadvertently at both sides, and consciously shut his mouth.

Chen Fan had thick skin and wasn't moved at all. He leisurely said, "Young people can also enjoy themselves. The main thing is to work hard first, and then when you have the conditions, you can rest appropriately."

He looked left and right and smiled, "Take me, for example. Now that I'm in this position, how can I continue to climb higher? If I still work hard and risk my life, what would the leaders think, right?

So, I can rest appropriately, play cards, go fishing…"

The three Masters Liu looked at each other and didn't want to say anything.

A round of cards was about to end, and the three old men's faces were dark. Chen Fan proudly crossed his legs, "Play your cards."

Just then, a voice rang out outside, "Is Teacher Chen here? Secretary Yang and the others called and want you to go to the brigade headquarters."

Master Liu immediately threw down his cards, pulled Chen Fan up, and pushed him out, "If you have a task, go quickly. We'll play next time."