50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 168 Don’t Eat Free Food in the City
Time flies, and at the end of December, the big event finally came.

The headline of the daily on December 12nd: "We also have two hands and will not live off the city."

Then, the vigorous publicity began.

"The countryside is a vast world where you can achieve great things."

"It is very necessary for educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education from the poor and lower-middle peasants."

"We need to persuade city officials and others to send their children, who have graduated from middle school, high school, or college, to the countryside to mobilize them."

"Comrades in rural areas everywhere should welcome them."

We have to go. Six classes of graduates have gathered in the city, but where will all the jobs come from? It will be a problem if young people don’t have jobs.

Sun Zhiwei also breathed a sigh of relief as he was finally going to leave.

Why? Because he has accumulated two years of graduates here who are unable to continue their studies.

By this year, the oldest child in the kindergarten is already 8 years old, but the primary school is not recruiting students and they have nowhere to go.

Sun Zhiwei couldn't let them wander around in society at such a young age, so he had no choice but to open a "preschool class" and keep the two classes of children in the kindergarten.

Last year the kindergarten was overcrowded by 100 students, and this year it is already overcrowded by 200 students.

Fortunately, the materials allocated in recent years have always exceeded the quota. He worked hard to save and promoted the spirit of diligence and thrift. In addition, the output of the 12 acres of land on the city wall was enough to barely meet the needs.

But he can't hold on for another year. If he doesn't recruit any more students in the second half of the year, his school will be 1 students over capacity. No matter how much money he saves, he can't afford to support so many children.

Now that the six classes of graduates have left, the school's classrooms have been vacated to recruit new students, and the "preschool class" can finally be disbanded.

As soon as the news came out, he contacted Yuying School.

He has 200 graduates, many of whose parents are no longer in Beijing. He needs to find a boarding primary school to settle the children.

Therefore, it was impossible not to contact the school in advance. Among all the primary schools he knew, only Yuying was able to take in so many first-grade students at once.

Now Yuying has been placed under local jurisdiction. Many of the teachers there originally taught Sun Ailai, and Sun Zhiwei still knows them all.

Taking advantage of Sun Ailai's early reputation, he went directly to Principal Cao of Yuying.

As soon as he explained the situation, Principal Cao made a bitter face and shook his head repeatedly.

"Principal Sun, please don't make things difficult for me. How can our school accommodate 200 students? We also need to recruit students from Haiding."

"Don't worry, don't worry, look, I'm just giving you some advice."

"My students haven't really just graduated from kindergarten. In the past two years, I've run a 'preschool class' in the kindergarten, and they've all studied primary school courses."

"Look, when the children arrive, you can have them take the exam, and then distribute the highest-scoring students to the second and third grades. That will free up spots for the first grade, right?"

This statement left Principal Cao blank for a moment, and then he realized that this was a really good idea.

"Are you sure they have all studied the primary school curriculum?"

"Principal Cao, how could I lie to you? You still have to take the exam. Don't worry, I really learned it. I even taught them music lessons myself."

"Okay, then you can send someone over here next month. We also have three graduating classes about to enter middle school. Is it okay for me to take this idea and try it out at Yucai?"

"Use it as you like, I won't charge any copyright fees, hahahaha. Feel free to go find Principal Yuan of Yucai, he'll definitely buy it." "Yucai isn't run by Principal Yuan anymore."

"Oh? Then where is Principal Yuan now? Who is in charge of Yucai now?"

"I heard that Principal Yuan went to study, and now the person who took over seems to be a fat man. I didn't find out his specific name."

After hearing what he said, the image of a fat man wearing glasses emerged in Sun Zhiwei's mind. He was the comrade who registered him for school that year - the head teacher Pang Daniu.

Haha, he almost laughed at the other person's name at first.

"I think I know who you're talking about. He's the former director of Yucai School, Pang Daniu. He's a smooth-talking man with a cheerful face. I never thought he'd become the principal."

"You know him, it seems he is a capable person, no wonder he was able to take advantage of the situation."

"I don't know if he's capable, and I don't know if Principal Pang will fall for it. I only know that Principal Pang is very concerned about his reputation and doesn't like people calling him by his name."

After hearing what he said, Principal Cao had an idea in mind. Although Sun Zhiwei only provided one suggestion, it was always better to have a targeted approach than to guess blindly.

"Principal Sun, are there any particularly troublesome children among this group?"

Anyone who can become a principal at this time must be a smart person. Principal Cao is also worried that among the students he accepts, there will be family problems that will affect him.

"Principal Cao, if I say there isn't one, I'd be fooling people."

"However, since they've been able to keep their child with me for two years without anyone bothering me, it means the problem isn't serious."

"For the sake of the children, I've changed all the children who might have problems to their mother's surname. You can just accept them normally. If anything happens, the responsibility isn't yours because it's not registered in the file."

Sun Zhiwei answered Principal Cao's question with a smile. Principal Cao was stunned for a moment before he sighed and patted Sun Zhiwei on the shoulder.

"Principal Sun, I'm not as good as you."

"Okay, I'll take this batch of children. You can send them back in a month. I need to send my children to junior high school first so that there will be a bed available."

"Thank you, Principal Cao."

“It’s not easy for either of us, so we understand each other.”

After solving the student's academic problems, Sun Zhiwei felt much better.

In the following months, on the streets and in the train stations, busloads of graduates, draped in red and decorated with ribbons, rushed to all parts of the motherland amidst the sound of gongs and drums and the ringing of bells.

This kind of farewell ceremony in response to the call is always very lively on the streets.

They are actually quite lucky because it is still in the early stages of implementation and both the executors and the executed have no experience.

The higher-ups were also worried about problems, so they gave each student resettlement fees and food rations for the first year.

The resettlement fee is used to build houses for them down there, which is not a small amount, several hundred yuan, and the food rations are also distributed according to the standards of the city.

How can they accept so many students without some benefits? This money is also used to pave the way.

Once this becomes a common practice, various subsidies will be cancelled one by one for future graduates who have been settled down.

First, the resettlement fee was reduced to zero, then the food rations were reduced to zero. Now there are still people going to work on farms, but in the future they will have to go to the village.

(End of this chapter)