Chapter 227 Economic Cooperatives

Regarding the matter of the bra wrap, Dai Xixi did respond in the letter, but it was all warnings and threats.

In the letter, Dai Qianqian asked Luo Cheng to be more careful and that there were some things that could be done no matter what happened after marriage. But when you're with your partner, don't discuss those useless and astringent things. You can discuss your future life, dreams, ambitions, etc., even if it's about literature.

Looking at the letter, Luo Cheng was a little disappointed. It wasn't that Luo Cheng didn't have dreams in life, but the dreams he once had could never be realized in this era. In this era, you don’t have anywhere to spend money, and you don’t even have access to the Internet if you want to play. His dreams are inherently secular, such as making contributions to society, which is not his style.

After getting married, it is best to get married as early as possible. After getting married, Luo Cheng will not believe that she will not accept Dai Qianqian in bed. The letter was neatly folded and put into the envelope. Looking at the collected letter, I actually thought so. These letters symbolize the love of this era. When you have children or grandchildren in the future, you can take them out to show them the simple love of this era.

But if you are really like Luo Cheng, when you are dating and writing letters, the contents are all about bras, briefs, etc., and the back is more explicit, and it is full of pornography. Anyone who sees it will be killed.

Father Rowan left with another 400 kilograms of whole grains around two o'clock. It rained, the weather turned cold again, and the egg production decreased again. Now I can still give away three hundred kilograms, but that's because I have stock. If I give it away a few times, it will be gone, and then it may be chickens and ducks.

Hezhen, Longjin Town, has been like this for many days, and it has no impact on the villagers. They can still live their lives how they want. The town's finances, thanks to the profit share from the wooden pallets, were used to buy some grain through other channels, and have been providing subsidies to another brigade.

The new mayor has arrived and has said nothing about this kind of subsidy. The villagers have no money or food to support nearly a hundred old and weak beggars. Except for one family who donated half a catty of food at the beginning, they will not do anything more. If the town helps beggars who are fleeing famine, why should they force the people in their own town to beg?

The mental outlook of the beggars taken in by the first brigade and the second brigade is completely different. The first brigade was inhabited by young people. When they first arrived, they built wooden houses and unified the shelter and management. After arriving, they went to open up wasteland. The food they were given was crushed rice bran and soybean meal, mixed together and boiled before eating.

As we all know, when there is usually a good harvest of food, people who have a large family and the elderly and the weak will only eat this if they don’t have enough food. Otherwise this would be used as feed, but it would be nice to have this to eat now.

In the past few days, the First Brigade has not treated them badly. At least they have decent whole grains to eat, and they will not be bloated. There are also Chinese cabbage and radishes as vegetables. Although the people being accommodated here are refugees, at least the life is enjoyable and everyone's hearts are alive.

But in the second brigade, the people being taken in are all old and weak, and their policy is that they don't need these people to work. Just lie down every day, move less and eat less, as long as you don't starve to death. I drank very little every day and hung on for dear life. But if someone got a headache or fever, my body was so weak that I couldn't bear it. In just a few days, two old people who had been taken in were already dead.

Many of the people taken in by the second brigade actually had family members or relatives who had escaped together. After the inmates of the first brigade learned about the situation of the second brigade, many people begged the first brigade to take over their children. There is nothing we can do about the old man, but children are the future.

What is a home? A home is only when you have a family, especially a family with children. Many people who have escaped from famine may not be willing to return to their hometowns if they can be resettled in other places. But it can’t be accommodated anymore, if people can survive. By next spring, local organizations will basically send these people back to their hometowns in the countryside to continue farming.

Of course, the organization will go back home, and the local government will pay for it. When these people return to their hometowns, they still need to distribute grain crops and resettlement grain. If you are able to settle down in other places and are unwilling to return to your hometown, you will also follow the opinions of these people.

Therefore, when there is such a shock, whether it is famine or other disasters, people are forced to leave their homes. Then there will be a situation where some people have relatives in other provinces. When things are going well, some of their family members will go to other provinces to join their relatives.

Luo Baotian had discussed this matter with Luo Wen about taking in children. Now that it is not busy in farming, many people are coming to Luo Wen's side. Because Rowan is the deputy captain and manages a side business. Raising pigs, logging, lumber, and making pallets all require people. But what will happen next spring? Farming is the farmer's job, and ensuring food production is the farmer's first task.

Everyone knows that the short-term production agreement signed with the automobile factory will be long-term as long as nothing unexpected happens. It can bring thousands of fiscal revenue to the town a month, and tens of thousands a year. Even if only 30% is turned over, the town will not give up this income, and the people in the brigade are equally reluctant to part with it.

So now, if those who want to settle down in Longjin Town promise to open up a certain amount of land, they can go to the Second Brigade to pick up a relative. If they don’t have relatives in the Second Brigade, they can be accommodated in other places.

Luo Cheng actually had some ideas after hearing the plans of the First Brigade. I want to further cooperate with the First Brigade early next year and process some simple items for them to do. The first brigade became the vegetable and meat supply base for the automobile factory. To put it simply, it was the establishment of an economic cooperative for mutual benefit. In fact, it was an inevitable process in the later development of the commune.

Luo Cheng asked his father Luo Wen to talk to the town about this matter when he returned. Of course, this economic cooperative must be established without affecting rural grain production. In fact, newly opened land is not suitable for growing grains in the first year, at least not for rice and wheat, and the yield is extremely low.

Especially in the fields opened up on the hillside, ditches and the like are needed to grow rice, and the terrain is high and it is difficult to get water. But it's different when it comes to growing vegetables. Rural people don't grow vegetables very much now, so if they grow too much, it won't be easy to sell, and individual sales are not allowed. At home, rural people eat vegetables very carefully, and a little vegetable is enough when eating. Therefore, despite the fact that there are fields everywhere in the countryside, there are actually very few vegetable fields.

If rural cooperatives can be established, automobile manufacturers can also contribute in terms of transportation. Every time we go to pull vegetables and other things, the car factory can be responsible for it. Moreover, as long as the brigade provides wooden buckets for things like waste in the factory toilets, we can also pull the vegetables there when we go to town.

And if there is a shortage of food in the fields in the future, through the economic cooperative, Luo Cheng can also get some food to sell to the villagers. Of course, the premise is that after the products of the automobile manufacturer are actually exported, extra food can be obtained.

When establishing an economic cooperative, grain cannot be included in the plan. This will affect the bottom line of the grain station. Farmers have to pay public grain.

Luo Cheng was at the automobile manufacturing plant in the afternoon, leading some assemblers to start assembling the forklift. Almost many parts of this motorized forklift are heavy-duty. Fortunately, the factory produced its own manual forklift, which saves time and effort in moving things.

Over in Longjin Town, his father Luo Wen told Luo Baotian about this matter when he returned. When the captain Luo Baotian heard the news, he naturally thought it was a good thing. But this matter has to be discussed with the commune leaders in the town. They have no power to agree to this matter. This is equivalent to setting up a department directly in the town and requiring dedicated personnel to work.

It is most appropriate for Luo Cheng's father to be the person in charge of the economic cooperative. So after dividing the food brought from the city to those who wanted to share it, Luo Baotian and Luo Wen went to the commune to talk to the new mayor about the matter.

The new mayor, at best, doesn't take sides, which is why the above person was chosen to be parachuted in as the mayor last time. But the town secretary is still a bit biased. After all, he was a recruiter of Changjin Town before he became the secretary. He is naturally familiar with the captain and some members of the second brigade.

Of course, now that they are all under the same jurisdiction after joining the town, it is impossible to be too partial.

But when I heard that a large brigade was planning to form an economic cooperative with the automobile factory in the city, it was considered to be of a collective nature. Under the condition of ensuring that next year's grain planting will not be affected, deeper cooperation will be carried out.

As for growing vegetables, raising chickens, ducks, and pigs to supply the automobile factory, that is a small matter for the town. When the secretary heard that there was a new project cooperation, his eyes lit up.

When making wooden pallets, you can sell them for one dollar and four per piece, and the town also knows about it through the report of the accountant in the brigade. The car factory earns 10 cents from the shipping fee, which was negotiated at the beginning. But in fact, it is now sent directly from the brigade to the steel rolling mill, which means that the automobile factory has not produced anything. At most, it has advanced the funds for the pallets.

Because the steel rolling mill has a monthly settlement with the automobile factory, while the brigade has a short-term cooperation with the automobile factory, and the goods are delivered and settled once. Moreover, the brigade is waiting for money and food, and the monthly payment cannot be afforded.

The town supplies vegetables to the automobile factory, so how much money can it make? Many vegetables only cost a penny a pound at farmers' markets in the city. In fact, Chinese cabbage costs less than a penny. If it is less, it is calculated as one penny. If it is more, it may cost only four cents for five kilograms. Therefore, if the town supplies vegetables to the automobile factory next year, the price cannot be higher than the market price.

One hundred kilograms of vegetables only cost about one yuan, not counting the cost. There is a way to make money by doing processing work. You can earn a dollar by making a wooden pallet.

This cooperation is okay, but a large team cannot eat alone. And everyone knows that a large team is still taking the initiative to take in some beggars who can work because they have a living and food. Everyone knows that this is preparation for next spring.

If there was only one wooden pallet project before, there wouldn’t be much to say. Because the agreement with the car factory also specified the quantity, supplying 1,500 units a month. Therefore, if the first team has the ability to accommodate some outsiders, or even take some children from the second team, the higher-ups are actually willing to see it.

But now that there may be a new business, it is impossible to always prefer to take in foreigners rather than take care of the second brigade in the same town.

Moreover, once this economic cooperative is established, let Luo Wen become a well-established president, and he can completely operate it according to the entire town. The vice-captain of the second brigade is also in charge of the sideline business of the brigade. At most, he will just obey Luo Wen's management. As long as it can bring extra income to the second brigade, it doesn't matter.

The superiors originally proposed to make Luo Wen the deputy mayor, but Luo Wen gave up on his own initiative because he could not supply the entire town's breeding stock at that time. If Luo Wen had dared to issue a military order at that time, he would have obtained the official position of deputy mayor long ago.

Now the secretary doesn't dare to push Luo Wen too harshly. As long as he can take care of the second brigade, Luo Wen will be the person in charge of the cooperative established. In terms of business, Rowan can favor the first team, but the second team always scores points in business. The secretary believes that this economic cooperative belongs to the entire town, not to a brigade.

After receiving the reply, Luo Baotian and Luo Wen went back to discuss. This is indeed a reality. Before there was no unified town, there were still several brigades in Longyang Town. If there were no conflicts later, the several brigades would actually help each other. You must know that all marriages in a town are mutual. It is indeed unreasonable to prefer to accept outsiders all the time instead of letting the second brigade take advantage.

In fact, there used to be people marrying each other in several villages on the border between the two towns, and they were all considered in-laws. Now the town secretary's conversation with Luo Wen can be regarded as giving him face, allowing him to favor a large group of people appropriately. And in order to make Luo Wen's delivery convenient, there were originally only two tractors in Longyang Town, and the other two tractors were from Changjin Town, and now they are used by a large team.

After much deliberation, both of them felt that it was better to agree to the secretary's offer, and the two cents for vegetables were something that people in the town looked down upon. For a big team, they can watch.

The calculation is correct. One hundred kilograms of vegetables may cost about one yuan, but seasonal vegetables grow fast. A winter melon weighs more than ten or twenty pounds. Some individual ones may grow very big. There are only a few people in the factory now, about 500 people, but workers are constantly being recruited into the factory. The people at the military factory are in place again, and it is expected that the number of workers will be in place, and there will be about 800 people.

And this is talking about next year. Now the factory is still developing and expanding. Next year there will be at least thousands of people. Even if a person eats two or three taels of food per meal, he or she can weigh two to three hundred kilograms a day, or tens of thousands of kilograms a month.

Anyway, I will go to the city in two days now, and then we will go to the city to discuss it.

Now this team that often goes to the city is very popular in the town. There are always people who want to bring something, so they all ask for help. The supply and marketing cooperative in town does not have a complete range of items, and some items that are available in the city are not available here. Moreover, many squad leaders also went to the city, and the squad leaders lived in the village. It's quite a long journey from the village to the town. Some people in the village want needlework, oil and salt, so this saves them a trip.

Ngee Ann City Automobile Factory could not assemble even half a forklift in one afternoon. The purpose of leading the assembly on his behalf was to teach the assemblers how to assemble. Many chassis and fixing points had to be recorded step by step. After you go through the process once and everyone has taken notes on the distance and size, it will be faster from now on.

Moreover, the placement location designed by Luo Cheng is correct, but how to connect and arrange the various pipes and lines also depends on the actual situation. And after installation, how to fix it will be done later. It’s just that these steps do not affect the overall design.

And the emissions from these lines can actually be optimized by engineers from the military factory. Therefore, many equipment and machinery cannot be assembled quickly when assembled for the first time without specific standards.

This time he didn't get off work early. Luo Cheng went to the farmer's market to sign in before returning home. After the forklift is built, Luo Cheng plans to build a transmission, and the sign-in function of this system will be used in it again.