1979: Literary Master, Starting from the Return of Educated Youth

Chapter 98: Directly Reaching Heaven
“As for the discipline of the event, I have five points to emphasize.”

Under the gaze of the students, Du Runsheng slowly said, "First, the research work should be detailed rather than rough, and all figures must be detailed. Take the survey of grain yield per mu as an example, it must be accurate to two."

"Second, the analysis must be rigorous. You are all trained professionals, so you must learn to use your professional knowledge to analyze phenomena, rather than just relying on your intuition and experience in daily life."

“Third, do not interfere in local work. No matter whether we think something is right or wrong, we cannot comment on it, let alone intervene. Just understand, record and analyze.”

"Fourth, pay attention to how you get along with the locals. The local government has already paid for everyone's board and lodging. You can help the locals with work when you are free, but avoid financial transactions to avoid disputes."

"Fifth, in the research report, we must express our opinions from the standpoint of the Party and the people. We can make bold suggestions, but our standpoint cannot deviate."

Du Runsheng clearly stated all the requirements in just a few sentences.

Xu Yuexin and others nodded, saying that they would comply with the requirements and actively participate in the investigation.

After two days and two nights of travel, the research team arrived in Huizhou.

At this time, Huizhou had not yet been renamed Huangshan and was still an agricultural area.

According to the local senior agricultural official who received them, Huizhou, like other areas in Anhui Province, has fully implemented the household contract responsibility system.

The biggest problem at present is some collective assets that are difficult to divide, such as mountains, forests and orchards.

During the People's Commune era, production teams would assign special personnel to look after these places, with part of the output going to the public and part equally divided among the members.

After the household contract responsibility system was implemented, the people's communes entered the countdown to their dissolution. The mountains, forests and orchards were left unattended and their output dropped sharply.

Local governments are troubled by how to deal with such assets, and what was once a popular commodity has become a hot potato.

After hearing this, Xu Yuexin, Du Runsheng and others already had a clear idea of ​​the key research directions ahead.

After having a meal at the Prefectural Party Committee Guesthouse, the research team went their separate ways according to their different destinations.

Xu Yuexin and Chen Qiaoqiao's team took a bus to Niubei Commune, and then took a ox cart to reach the final destination of this survey, Niuji Team.

The Niuji Squad is located at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. The terrain is rugged and the vegetation is lush, making it difficult even for ox carts to enter.

After getting off the ox cart, the research team crossed a forest path and finally arrived at the village.

The houses in the village are mainly thatched houses. Most of the members are ragged and have dull eyes. It can be seen that they lived in extreme poverty in the past.

The team had already received notice that the superiors were sending people to conduct research, so they cleaned the ancestral hall, team headquarters and other places in preparation for the team to move in.

After a brief meeting with the team leader, everyone decided that all male team members would live in the ancestral hall, and the female team members would live in the team headquarters.

Anyway, the two are not far away, so it is very convenient for the same team to discuss work.

Xu Yuexin first put down his luggage, then picked up some ginger and a can of brown sugar that he had prepared in advance and went to the team headquarters.

Inside the team headquarters, Chen Qiaoqiao was spreading the bedding on the bed, and a layer of moisture was condensed on the wet ground.

The characteristic of winter in the south is that it is damp and cold.

"Take a rest. I'll make the bed for you."

Xu Yuexin sat beside the bed and said, "Keep the ginger and brown sugar. I'll use them to make soup for everyone later. It can dispel cold and dampness."

"You've thought it through very carefully."

"I'll go cook it now."

Chen Qiaoqiao took out the ginger and brown sugar and said, feeling warm in her heart.

At this time, the girl on the bed next to her spoke up: "Qiaoqiao, your husband is so considerate."

Another girl followed suit and sighed: "Yes, it would be nice if my husband could be like this."

Many of the college students in the classes of 77 and 78 were married before entering college. Chen Qiaoqiao also told her team members in the car that she was married.

After Chen Qiaoqiao left, Xu Yuexin helped her pack her bedding and luggage. After a while, she came back with brown sugar ginger soup.

Everyone in the room sat around the table and shared the soup. After drinking it, they all felt warm and no longer felt cold and damp.

While the other girls went to wash the dishes, Xu Yuexin and Chen Qiaoqiao walked outside the team headquarters and talked about family matters.

"I haven't contacted my sister for several days."

Chen Qiaoqiao said with longing, "I don't know how she has been doing these past two days."

"It's not a big deal. I sent her a telegram while I was at the Commune."

"I'll go see if I have time in a couple of days when she calls me back."

Xu Yuexin cared about his sister-in-law more than Chen Qiaoqiao did, and he had already thought about how to contact her in the future while on the train.

"You are still thoughtful."

Chen Qiaoqiao took Xu Yuexin's arm and said, "Do you have any ideas about this survey?"

"Not yet, I have to wait and see."

Xu Yuexin said honestly that he kept in mind that without research he would have no right to speak.

Early the next morning, Xu Yuexin's research team went to the fields in groups of two to start work.

The economics team members are responsible for asking members about the latest grain production, economic revenue and expenditure and other indicators, and recording and conducting simple analysis of the data.

Most of the college students in these years have experience of working in the countryside, so the questions they ask are very simple and hit the nail on the head.

For example, Yi Gang was concerned about the difference in growth rate between pigs raised by members eating bran and pig grass. If he wanted to raise two more pigs, would it be cost-effective to buy bran from a nearby grain station?
Tu Guangzhao focuses on financial inclusion at the grassroots level. He asked a villager who ran an iron forging workshop whether he would expand his current production scale if he could apply for a loan from a rural credit cooperative.

In addition, a team member majoring in agriculture is collecting soil samples, and a team majoring in water conservancy is checking the operation and maintenance of local small water conservancy projects.

As a student of Chinese Language and Literature, Xu Yuexin's main responsibility is to record written works, although he thinks that this job can also be done by people with other majors.

The students were responsible for collecting information, and Du Runsheng listened beside them, sometimes nodding, and sometimes correcting the way and angle of everyone's questions.

Xu Yuexin worked hard on writing, faithfully playing the role of recorder.

"How about it? What do you feel after listening to it?"

Du Runsheng stood beside him and asked with a smile, "The results are encouraging, but there is still room for further improvement."

"more specific."

"The household contract responsibility system has increased grain production and effectively solved the problem of food and clothing for everyone. In addition, if some other measures can be taken, perhaps farmers can become wealthy."

"Tell me what measures can be taken."

"We should do a good job in the work of grassroots agricultural technology stations, promote scientific farming, and guide farmers in planting. We can also make further progress in sideline businesses and break out of the current self-sufficient cycle."

"continue."

"Take the sideline business of raising pigs as an example. Currently, most members raise pigs using rice bran and pig grass they harvest themselves."

"Because of the shortage of feed, each household can only raise one pig, which is not enough for their own consumption."

"I wonder if the grain station can establish a special rice bran and wheat bran sales channel for rural areas, lower the price, and allow farmers to obtain a cheap source of feed and expand the scale of breeding?"

"The grain station is a big business. A little rice bran or wheat bran is nothing to them, but it can help farmers a lot, help them improve their lives and move towards prosperity."

"To put it in a broader sense, this is industry feeding back to agriculture and driving rural development."

Xu Yuexin said as he took notes.

"Well, that's a good point."

"There is a sense of learning from one example and applying it to other situations."

Du Runsheng nodded and said, "If you have any ideas later, tell me in time."

"The team's research report is now handed over to you."

Such an important task is left to me?

You know, this report can be heard by the emperor.

"Okay, I'll try to get some preliminary materials out here."

Xu Yuexin finished recording and closed his notebook, suppressing his excitement.

In the next few days, the team focused on investigating the production and life of farmers.

After finishing the individual work, everyone's work focus will shift to collective assets.

This is also the difficulty of rural work that everyone learned when they first arrived at the Prefectural Party Committee Guesthouse.

In the following ten days, Xu Yuexin and his teammates, led by Du Runsheng, climbed mountains and crossed rivers every day to investigate the operation of the production team's orchards and forests and understand the causes of the current situation.

Everyone gets up early and goes to bed late, goes out for research during the day, and comes back to write summaries at night. No one is idle.

In this regard, Xu Yuexin particularly admired Du Runsheng. He was nearly 70 years old, but he still led everyone to run up the mountain by example, vividly demonstrating what it meant to be a great man and what it meant to be a peerless talent.

On the evening before leaving, everyone sorted out all the research notes on collective assets and held an internal team meeting to discuss the matter.

The goal of the discussion was to form a final investigation report, which would be reviewed and revised by Du Runsheng and then sent to Haili for the leadership to make a decision.

"The contradiction was obvious. When the production team could no longer send people to hold meetings as before, the collective orchards and forests quickly fell into decline."

"The steep terrain of the mountains makes it difficult to divide them up like flat land, making it impossible to complete the confirmation of collective assets, let alone hand them over to individual farmers for management."

"It's difficult!"

Yi Gang frowned.

Everyone present looked serious, as they understood that this was not just a problem faced by one village or one area.

"If this problem can be solved, farmers' pockets will be filled with more money."

Du Runsheng groaned.

Xu Yuexin nodded in agreement and started thinking with everyone else.

As Mr. Du said, if the rural collective economy can be developed well, countless farmers will benefit from it.

This is definitely an important proposition worth thinking about!

In the ancestral hall, everyone was thinking hard, and from time to time someone would take a pen and write or draw on paper.

As time went by, a gradually mature plan emerged in Xu Yuexin's mind.

He looked around and saw that no one wanted to speak, so he spoke.

"Everyone, let me start with some ideas."

"Old Xu, do you have a solution? Tell me now."

Yi Gang urged, and everyone turned their eyes to Xu Yuexin.

"In my opinion, it is not necessary to divide the collective assets in kind, it is also OK to divide the equity only."

"According to the number of people in each family, a proportion of the total assets of the orchards and forests will be allocated to him."

"Then we pooled the collective assets of each village together and set up a collective company to operate it."

"The company's decision-making power belongs to the representatives of each township. In order to reduce operating costs, the company does not set up full-time positions dedicated to orchard and forest management. Instead, grassroots agricultural technology station personnel manage them part-time and pay them subsidies every year based on their income."

"Agricultural technicians have the skills and I believe they can do a good job."

"In addition, this can also solve the problem of insufficient operating funds for grassroots agricultural technology stations."

"This is just an immature idea of ​​mine. I hope Mr. Du and all the students will correct me."

Having said this, Xu Yuexin looked at everyone present.

He clearly felt that the atmosphere at the scene changed when he finished speaking.

(End of this chapter)