Rebirth in 1980, the rise of the golden age

"Here! There!"

Wang Jingui had just finished dinner and was about to go out for a walk when he heard Li Youcai's voice outside. He hurriedly responded and looked out the window.

Look at Li Youcai walking in with something in his hand.

"Oh, Youcai is here. Why are you so idle today? Isn't the bakery busy?"

Wang Jingui said this just to be polite. Now the whole brigade knows that Li Youcai is the director of the bakery, and many people are still thinking about whether they can find a job in the bakery.

It was just that last time Li Youcai's father-in-law and brother-in-law made a big fuss at his house, Li Youcai didn't say a word, which made these people give up the idea and no one went to talk to Li Youcai about this matter.

"No matter how busy you are, you have to get off work, haha..." Li Youcai said with a smile.

"Look at what I'm saying."

Li Youcai placed the two bottles of Moutai he brought on the kang.

"Last time, my family had a banquet, and I didn't have time to thank Uncle Wang for all his hard work. This time, I brought you two bottles of wine as a token of my appreciation."

"We all live in the same brigade. That little help is nothing. I'm sorry to have to make you spend money." Although Wang Jingui said this, his eyes never left the two bottles of Moutai.

The last time Li Youcai sent him wine, it was Red Star Erguotou, but this time it was Moutai.

As expected, his identity is different, and his approach is also different.

"What's the matter with you coming here?"

Wang Jingui is not stupid. Li Youcai is a man who does great things. Why would he send him wine for no reason? He must not come to him for no reason.

"There is something."

"Now everyone in the brigade knows I'm the factory director. I've made some progress. We're all from the same village, and I can't bear to see everyone living in poverty. But I really can't find anyone at the bakery, so I want to see if there are other ways to increase the actual income of the villagers."

"After thinking about it, I really came up with an idea, so I thought of coming over to tell you about it." Li Youcai said calmly.

Increase income for fellow villagers?

This is a good thing.

Dongsheng Brigade is a well-known poor village. If there is a way to increase everyone's income, it would be a great thing with immeasurable merit.

"What idea? Tell me quickly?" Wang Jingui asked hurriedly.

"My idea is simple: raising fish."

"fish culture?"

"Our brigade doesn't have a fish pond, so how can we raise fish?"

Wang Jingui felt that Li Youcai's idea was a bit nonsense. Their brigade had not raised fish for decades and had no natural resources in this regard. Raising fish to create income for the members was a joke.

"Our brigade doesn't have a ready-made fish pond, but there's a spring on the mountain behind us! We just need to dig a large fish pond along the stream at the foot of the mountain, and we'll have it."

"Other communes raise fish using stagnant water. If we dig along the stream or river, we'll be using fresh mountain spring water. The quality of the fish we raise will be completely different."

"I have some connections at the county aquatic product company. Uncle Wang, you know this. As long as we can raise the fish, I guarantee that selling them won't be a problem."

"Why are the brigades under the Red Flag Commune so prosperous?"

"It's because they have fish ponds."

"If our brigade had its own fish pond, we would definitely become prosperous."

The so-called people rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water.

Hongqi Commune has several natural fishing grounds, and the brigades under it have been living a comfortable life by raising fish over the years.

The Dongsheng Brigade is backward in every way. It relies solely on farming to survive and has no other income. The members rely solely on work points, but the land's output is limited. The same work point is cheaper than that of other brigades. How can they not be poor?

Ultimately, the way to make money is too simple.

Li Youcai’s words made Wang Jingui feel a little moved.

However, digging a fish pond is not a small project. Labor, material resources, and money are all needed.

With the little savings the brigade had, there was no need to even think about it.

"You have a point, but digging a fish pond is not like digging a vegetable cellar. It takes a lot more manpower and material resources. Who will pay for it? And if you dig a fish pond, you have to buy fish fry, and you have to feed the fish. All this costs money."

Wang Jingui felt that what Li Youcai said was a bit too idealistic. Unless he, Li Youcai, was willing to pay the money, this matter would definitely not be accomplished.

But Wang Jingui didn't think that Li Youcai would pay this money. After all, it was not a small amount of money. Even if Li Youcai was strong, he couldn't withstand such a loss, unless Li Youcai was crazy.

Li Youcai smiled and said, "I have considered all of this."

"My idea is this: the brigade will provide the land, all the members will provide the labor, and I will provide the funds. We will work together as a three-party partnership to do this."

"The fish ponds we dig belong to the collective ownership of the brigade. All members who participated in digging the fish ponds can receive dividends from the fish farming output every year. I advance the money to buy fish fry and feed, and they just pay me back after the harvest."

"Then you have worked in vain?" Wang Jingui's eyes widened. What Li Youcai did was like a living Bodhisattva in the team.

"I have a condition." Li Youcai said with a smile, raising the corners of his mouth.

Wang Jingui was stunned when he heard this.

I knew it!

Wang Jingui looked as if he had expected it: "Tell me what the conditions are."

"The brigade must contract the entire back mountain to me for seventy years."

"There's just a dry patch of mixed trees on the back mountain. There's nothing valuable in it. Why do you want to contract it?" Wang Jingui was very puzzled as to why Li Youcai put forward such a condition.

"I want to try raising toads." Li Youcai naturally couldn't tell Wang Jingui that he was going there for the coal underground in the back mountain, so he found this seemingly reasonable reason.

Wang Jingui knew that Li Youcai had collected frogs for the aquatic products company before. Now Li Youcai said that he wanted to raise frogs. Wang Jingui thought that Li Youcai might think that raising frogs could make money, so he didn't think too much about it.

The back mountain is a mixed forest with limited forest resources, so Wang Jingui did not value it.

"Are you serious? As long as the back mountain is contracted to you, will you pay this money to build a fish pond for the team?" Wang Jingui asked doubtfully.

"Really." Li Youcai nodded and replied with certainty.

Li Youcai then added, "But Uncle Wang, you have to promote me well. You have to make sure the brigade members all remember my kindness. Don't let me spend the money and then be blamed. I won't do that. You have to let everyone know that I haven't forgotten you even though I made money outside. That's the only way."

"That's easy! I promise to promote you well and let everyone in the team know your good points." Wang Jingui patted his chest and assured Li Youcai.

"Okay." Li Youcai nodded with satisfaction.