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

Just as Tan Yuan had expected, once the factory opening was announced, no one mentioned whether she was worthy of the position of youth team leader.

Everyone's attention was attracted by the word "opening a factory".

The taste of the brine in their mouths had not yet dissipated. It was delicious and they wanted to eat a second piece, but when they lowered their heads and looked around, there was no trace of dried tofu on the plate. It had all been eaten by people who were quick-eyed and quick-handed.

My thoughts were also led by the words from Tan Yuan.

I began to imagine that if the brigade could open a factory, wouldn't we be able to live on the food from the fields instead of relying on fate? What kind of life would that be?

If the brigade has extra money in its account, then wouldn't the brigade's work points be more valuable?

I believe it will be much easier for young people in the brigade to get married in the future.

As long as you have money, you won’t have to go hungry in the future, and you don’t have to endure illness. You can spend money on medical treatment and medicine.

Each of these things are good things, with no harm and only benefits. No one is a fool, so there is no reason not to support them.

"Tan Yuan, educated youth, if the brigade really opens a factory, will they also have to recruit people from within the brigade?"

When recruiting people from the brigade, those who go there are naturally factory workers. Being a worker is always easier than working as a factory worker.

These brigade cadres certainly can't bring themselves to work in the factory, but they all have families, so it shouldn't be a problem for their families to go to work...

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Tan Yuan with hope, expecting her to give a positive answer.

"If our brigade's factory can really be established, we will definitely need to recruit people. Since it's a brigade factory, the workers inside must also be recruited from the brigade. But let me make it clear first, this will be based on merit. As long as you are from the brigade, you should have a chance."

She didn't want to have an internal appointment. If all the people in the factory were the relatives of these cadres, then you would be a relative of the cadres, and I would be a relative of the cadres, and no one would obey the other. Then who would do the work?

Another thing that made making tofu not so easy was that the Huaiyin Brigade did not have enough cows. The cows were used to plow the fields, and the mill had to be pushed manually, and this position required strong men. And making tofu had to be taught by Wu Yuhua, and whoever could learn it well could use water.

Of course, this is a food factory, so although there will be men as well, there will definitely be relatively more women, so you have to be mentally prepared for this.

At that time, whether you are an educated youth in the brigade or a member of the commune, everyone will have a chance and there will be certain assessment standards.

But what is important now is not this, but where the brigade’s factory should be opened.

"Although the commune will give us some help, it doesn't mean we can do whatever we want. Our brigade has to figure out how to solve these problems ourselves."

She absolutely cannot say that the commune is now completely planning to be a hands-off boss. Apart from helping to handle various certificates for setting up a factory, all other matters must be handled by the Huaiyin Brigade itself. If she says this now, she believes that half of the people here will immediately stand up and oppose it.

Not everyone is as brave as the captain and dares to take a gamble with her and burn their boats.

Things happened too suddenly, one after another. Everyone was still immersed in the joy of the brigade's upcoming factory opening, as if production could begin tomorrow. Everyone was happy and full of expectations for the future. Now, in less than a minute, Tan Yuan poured a bucket of cold water on them.

"Where is the factory located? Captain Tan thinks it would be suitable?"

Even though he was just unhappy about Tan Yuan being the youth captain, at this moment he called out the three words "Captain Tan" as a matter of course...

Tan Yuan didn't care about this trivial detail. She had thought about this problem before. If she wanted to set up a factory, the site selection was an issue that she could not avoid.

"Money must be spent wisely. Building a new factory would be too much trouble. Not only would we have to wait for the materials, but we wouldn't be able to afford to wait that long. I think we should strike while the iron is hot and not waste so much manpower and resources on the first step. So I suggest we find a solution using the existing buildings in the brigade."

In the existing house?

Everyone was stumped by this. How could the brigade have such a big house?

Educated Youth Point?!

There are so many people living in the educated youth site. How can we let them move away? Even if they move away, where can they move to? To the homes of the commune members?

Even if the brigade did a good job of convincing the members, the educated youth might not necessarily agree, which would then be troublesome.

And even if we really move there, there will probably be a lot of trouble.

But where else can the brigade set up a factory?

"What I mean is, let's not consider other things right now. We just need a place big enough to put the mill, the tools for making tofu, and the pot for boiling the braising liquid. Once the brigade has funds in its account, we can choose a new location to build a factory."

As she spoke, Tan Yuan told him the place she had thought of.

That is the brigade’s threshing ground.

She had thought about setting up a youth cadre training center at the beginning, but it was too difficult to realize. There were too many people in the youth cadre training center, and if they were scattered, it would be difficult to manage and accidents would be likely to happen.

Moreover, although the area is large, it is full of houses, so it would be very difficult to modify it.

There are not so many concerns about the threshing ground. The threshing ground is used by the team to thresh and dry the grain, and it is all made of cement.

The mill was placed outside, and the houses next to it were originally used as warehouses.

The wheat, rice and sweet potatoes harvested by the brigade were placed there before the commune tractor came and took them to the commune and the grain collection station.

After it is taken away, the remaining items can be distributed to the brigade members according to their work points.

The warehouse is now filled with rice harvested from the fields and sweet potatoes dug from the mountains this year.

"What I mean is, we should use the threshing ground. According to past experience, the commune will come and take away this year's public grain in about a week. Then we can distribute this year's grain in advance. As for the sweet potatoes, I suggest putting them in the warehouse first."

The sweet potatoes were grown by her, Nianlin, Guan Jianguo and others in the mountains, and they were all just transported back to the team today.

I had thought that since the brigade was hit by locusts, all these sweet potatoes would be distributed to the members and educated youth based on the number of people.

But now Tan Yuan has a new idea. Instead of distributing them all for free to the brigade members and educated youth, why not include them in the brigade's unified property?

Anyway, they can't pay wages now, so they will let the people in the team work when the time comes. Whether they work in the fields or in the factory, they will all be given work points and then distributed sweet potatoes.

We will consider paying wages after the factory becomes profitable.

"Well... OK, your idea is good, I support it."