Send me to the countryside? Turn around and make you homeless!

Tan Yuan doesn't plan to have the factory produce only dried tofu, it also produces canned fish.

Adding new products naturally requires space. The land of Huaiyin Brigade is small, so the factory building to be built this time is planned to be two-story.

The factory building in the brigade was built by a professional construction team from the county. They had built multi-story factory buildings and dormitories in the county before, so building a two-story factory building was naturally not a difficult task.

Leave professional matters to professionals. When it comes to building a house, Tan Yuan has no habit of giving them instructions. However, she still needs to communicate with the foreman about the layout of the house.

Li Ze is worthy of being someone who has worked as a secretary for a leader. He is much better than Tan Yuan in grasping the key points and understanding people's hearts. Now he is Tan Yuan's secretary and understands Tan Yuan's thoughts thoroughly.

Knowing that what Tan Yuan cared about most was the brigade's newly built factory building, Li Ze would come over to take a look whenever he was free. As expected, Tan Yuan saw him as soon as she came over.

"Come with me to the county."

When Tan Yuan said she wanted to go to the city, Li Ze didn't hesitate at all and immediately went back to the brigade headquarters with Tan Yuan to ride bicycles.

Li Ze and Tan Yuan go in and out together, which is not uncommon in Huaiyin Brigade. It can be seen almost every few days.

During this period, potatoes have been planted in the fields, and the rapeseed seeds that the team leader Lin Guoan had found with great effort have also been planted in the fields. In addition, it rains a lot in Shu in winter, so there is nothing to do every day except pulling weeds in the fields.

Except for the workers in the tofu factory who still go to work as usual every day and are even busier than usual, the other people in the team are not busy at all.

When people have some free time, they like to get together and gossip about other people's affairs. A grown-up girl like Tan Yuan, the most popular person in the brigade, is naturally the focus of everyone's attention. How could there be no one talking about her being so "close" to Secretary Li from the commune?

However, such discussions were not malicious, they were just people chatting together. Besides, Secretary Li Ze was not bad either. He was better than the young men in Huaiyin Brigade in terms of appearance, education and height. He also had a good job and was a public servant, which was beyond the reach of the young men in the brigade.

The only drawback is that Secretary Li is a little older than Tan Yuan, but this is not a big problem. After all, men are more caring when they are older.

All the onlookers in the Huaiyin Brigade thought so, but there were always some exceptions. Whenever they saw such a scene, they secretly cursed the couple in their hearts for being shameless and unfaithful to their husbands, and never thought about whether they could live up to the image of a good person in their minds.

People are all double-standard, and no one is an exception.

Even if Tan Yuan heard these rumors, she would just laugh them off. It was impossible for her to think about her lifelong affairs so early. Besides, Li Ze was not her type at all.

Compared to the image of a gentle scholar, Tan Yuan still prefers handsome guys with eight-pack abs.

But none of this matters. The most important thing now is that Tan Yuan has to go to the county for a meeting.

Not only Tan Yuan, but also Party Secretary Zhou, Secretary Qian, the directors of several large factories in the county, and various leaders of the county government.

If Tan Yuan had not been the first person to bring up the topic of discussion at this meeting, she would not have been qualified to sit in this conference room. Neither Zhou Zhigang nor Secretary Qian were qualified.

"No matter how poor we are, we must not be poor in education. Our Changyun County lags behind the entire city in both economy and education. I'm so anxious..."

The first thing he said was this, he was crying poor, and this was not the first time.

The directors of the best-developed factories in the county are all helpless. Everyone is a screw in socialism, and they are no exception. It’s just that everyone holds a different position.

The factory is state-owned property, and they can only be considered managers at best. The factory is not theirs personally, so they can't come up with money even if they cry poor.

Besides, the person presiding over this meeting wasn't the leader in charge of the economy. Why would a leader in charge of education call them here?

Even if they don't want to attend, he is a leader after all, and they can't ignore him. They just regret that they were not on a business trip at that time.

What they didn't know was that the road they wanted to take had already been blocked, leaving no room for them at all.

The idea was proposed by Tan Yuan, and Secretary Qian reported it to the county, which led to this meeting.

The college entrance examination has been cancelled for many years. Since then, the status of the Education Bureau has not been high. People say that studying is useless and that getting a technical secondary school degree is enough to be able to work in a factory.

Not many students study seriously in school, and many even rarely go to school. They just go to get their diplomas when they graduate, and it becomes normal for them to play around during class time.

The leaders of the Education Bureau gathered several large factories here for a meeting, asking for money to support the county's children in their education and buying books. How could these factory directors possibly take this to heart?

No matter how hard the leader tried to persuade them, they all remained silent. Only after the leader finished speaking did Director An of the steel plant speak with a bitter face.

"Well, I'll take the lead and express my opinion. I can't make this decision for the factory, but I personally value children's education. For the children in the county, I am willing to donate two months' salary."

An ordinary worker in a steel plant earns 20 yuan a month, and a skilled worker earns 30 yuan a month. Even at the level of Director An, the salary is not much higher. The nominal monthly salary is 80 yuan, which is already a high salary.

He donated two months' salary, which is a total of 120 yuan. If he used it to buy books, as long as he didn't buy new books or particularly expensive books, he could still buy a lot of ordinary books.

As soon as Director An expressed his opinion, the remaining factory managers followed suit.

“I will also donate two months’ salary.”

"That's two months' salary."

"..."

In addition to Tan Yuan, several factory managers came forward and said they would donate two months' salary.

The total amount is about a thousand yuan. More than a thousand yuan, and it is such a waste of time and effort. The leaders of the Education Bureau are almost as angry as the bottom of a pot.

He looked at Secretary Qian, who glanced at Tan Yuan.

Tan Yuan understood immediately and stopped being a quail: "Leaders, factory managers, I have a few words to say but I'm not sure if I should say them or not."

As soon as she spoke, everyone's attention was drawn to her.

They didn't know the only female comrade present, but they felt that she looked a little familiar. They originally thought that she was a secretary or accountant brought by someone, or even a meeting recorder, but they didn't expect that she would interrupt.

In such an occasion, she took the initiative to speak again. No matter whether she should say it or not, she had to say it. Regardless of the expressions of the factory directors, the expression of the leaders of the Education Bureau was much better.