The capital city, the sea of sha.
On the high-grade rosewood table, there were eight exquisite dishes and one soup, which was a good omen for "long-lasting love". Yao Chunyu opened a bottle of Maotai special liquor and poured it for his parents.
The clear wine and rich aroma will make people recall the prosperous days in the past.
Yao Chunyu's parents enjoyed it very much and looked at her with admiration.
My daughter is a person with vision. She asked us to donate our property at first. Although we had a hard time, the military investigated and punished a group of class enemies this year. If we keep these hot things, wouldn’t we be the ones who will suffer? On the surface, what we donated was a big house and precious ancestral property, but in fact it was not worth much. The truly valuable things should be kept well.
Now we have finally come to the end of our hardships and are living a good life. Although it cannot be completely compared with the past, it is better than before.
The food in front of me, including squirrel mandarin fish, steamed sea bass, Buddha jumps over the wall, and bear paws... are all exquisite and delicious. How many families can eat such delicious meals these days
In the autumn, Yao Chunyu borrowed 10,000 yuan from her parents and relatives, and with her own 10,000 yuan, she bought fine grains and fresh meat at high prices, then sold them in various places, taking advantage of the information gap and making a lot of money.
People from other places have no idea that the capital often sells high-quality and low-priced grain, and the local people in the capital will not leak this to outsiders.
Today, Yao Chunyu has bought several luxury houses in Xishahai, which are several times better than the courtyard house of the Li family in Houhai. They are more spacious and more beautiful, with expensive antiques, ceramics, paintings, and jades that dazzle the eyes.
So sometimes people really can't stick to the alleys and get stuck in a dead end. If she had always been staring at the courtyard of the Li family, how could she live in such a nice house
Of course, these houses were not registered under Yao Chunyu's name. She carefully fabricated an "identity" and recorded all the lucrative gray income under this fictitious identity.
She successfully seized the last opportunity to make money in 60 years. The victory in the grain harvest in the autumn made her earn more wealth than she could earn in several lifetimes. She sipped the wine in the glass, enjoying the taste that she had not seen for a long time and was about to forget.
At the New Year's Eve dinner, Yao's father and mother were discussing her life's major events, and Yao Chunyu couldn't help but look back.
Gu chose that girl from the countryside, so it might be difficult to have a meat dish for the New Year's Eve dinner this year. When we lived in the compound, he shot a wild boar and was very happy for several days. His high spirits made many female comrades envious. At that time, many female comrades were there, and they thought that if his wife was me, how happy I would be!
Yao Chunyu no longer envied them, because she now owned more than a few hundred kilograms of pork. If you knew all this, you might regret your original choice
Father Yao gave his daughter some advice, "You have grasped this path, it is your own ability, but don't forget to thank your uncle and uncle, because without them you would not be where you are today."
Mother Yao put a piece of meat into her daughter's bowl and said angrily, "Don't talk about business while eating. This is delicious. The chef from the imperial kitchen is really good at cooking. He is much better than the chef in our place."
"You should hurry up and stay here for the most important event in your life. If you delay any longer, you will become a young girl! Mom tells you that it is enough to make enough money, and you don't need to earn too much. There are many young talents in your uncle's army, you can choose any one, and go back quickly after the Spring Festival!"
Yao Chunyu had previously thought of stopping after making a profit, but after tasting the sweetness of success, he was no longer willing to give it up.
If there is such a way to make money quickly in front of you, ordinary people may find it difficult to give it up.
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Su family.
Su Yu wrote countless letters to Su Ye to complain that someone was buying grain at a high price and selling it to other places.
"Speculating is really abominable!" Su Xiaomeng put his hands behind his back and kept walking. "If I take it back at six yuan a pound, someone will buy it at twenty yuan a pound the next time. How can ordinary people afford it!"
It was already after the New Year that Su Ye received the letter of accusation. She felt a little amused and helpless. How could she support so many profiteers
What a headache.
This Su Ye loves to write letters of complaint to her. Every time, he would nag and list a bunch of names of grain resellers, and scold them for only selling grain and not caring about the follow-up matters. Su Ye, how could she have the time to come and take care of it
After reading the letter, she crossed out the names of the people reported by Su Yutou one by one, and stopped supplying them with food in the future. She also wrote a short essay to reprimand the remaining "contact persons".
After New Year’s Eve, Ruan Ruliang started working without stopping.
On the first day of the new year, the wife and daughter had lunch and then set off back to the city. When they left, everyone gave them two kilograms of eggs, five kilograms of bacon, and twenty kilograms of fine grain. The grain and meat were wrapped tightly, and it looked like they were carrying a bag of medicinal herbs into the city.
Mrs. Ruan was so moved that she wiped her tears repeatedly and looked back every step of the way. If she hadn't had to go back to the city to work and her daughter hadn't had to go to school, she would have almost been reluctant to leave Shanggou Village.
In spring, the earliest batch of camellia flowers in the mountains have begun to sprout and begin to produce buds.
Su Ye and several students expanded the pig pens, chicken pens, and duck pens on the mountain. The piglets had been raised for six months and were ready for breeding. It was neither too hot nor too cold, and the temperature was very mild, so the hens and ducks were ready to hatch eggs.
As Lin Yuan surrounded the pigsty, she muttered to herself, "Master Su, if we stay in the village for a few years, we will definitely be able to build a breeding farm. Then people in the whole county will be able to eat chicken and duck, and an egg every day!"
Su Ye praised Lin Yuan for her lofty ambitions.
This kid is definitely a good seedling for building a socialist rural area. She has grasped the core of the fight against poverty in rural areas, which is to develop local characteristic industries according to local conditions.
The only advantage of Shanggou Village is that it has many mountains and abundant water resources. Although it is not suitable for farming, it is very suitable for breeding and growing tea. There were a few small rains in the early spring this year, unlike the dry and rainless years in previous years. Su Ye guessed that there was a high possibility of a good harvest this year.
Su Ye and his students raised a total of 10 hens and a rooster. During the Chinese New Year, when the students went back home, they could hardly eat any eggs. The hens laid a lot of eggs. Lin Yuan couldn't pick them all up, so she let them hatch.
The temperature was just right in the spring, and the chicken coop suddenly had more than a hundred little yellow chickens. Su Ye still thought it was not enough, so he asked them to continue hatching the hens' eggs.
Liu Gang said that raising 100 chickens is enough for them, and adding 100 ducks is a considerable number. If we expand the scale, we will have enough food to feed them. Although we have been hydroponically cultivating forage grass, the space is limited and the growth rate of forage grass is not fast enough for them to consume.
Later, Liu Gang realized that these 100 chicks were not for them to hatch themselves.
After the Spring Festival, Su Ye took two chicks to find Ma Gensheng.
Ma Gensheng looked at the chirping chicks on the table and was so surprised that he almost couldn't sit still.
I couldn't help but stare at them. The chicks were so cute, with round eyes, two shell-like wings, and toothpick-like legs. The energy of their chirping in my palms was so full of vitality that I couldn't help but love them.
Ma Gensheng hasn't raised chickens for two years. Nowadays, people have enough food to eat, so how can they feed livestock? This time last year, Ma Gensheng's family was eating corn cobs, which even pigs wouldn't eat in the past.
Su Ye asked Ma Gensheng: "It's spring now, should we raise some chickens in our village?"
This year is different from previous years. Every household in the village has prepared a full year's worth of food. Su Ye's proposal makes Ma Gensheng uncontrollably excited. In the past, we couldn't raise chickens because the conditions were not good enough. Now our village has the conditions to raise chickens, so why not
"Raise him!" Ma Gensheng said gritting his teeth.
Ma Gensheng asked the village accountant to give Su Ye some money to buy chicks. There were already chicks for sale in the market, and although no one knew where Su Ye got the chicks, she had the ability to buy these rare toys.
Ma Gensheng was full of awe for Su Ye, there was nothing she couldn't do!
Soon, Su Ye brought back 100 chicks. The chicks bought were very small and fragile, so they had to be kept in a room with good insulation and looked after by special team members in turns.
Secretary Ma found a dilapidated earth house that had been washed away by heavy rain many years ago. He asked someone to carefully repair it, and only after it was repaired did he put the chicks in.
When the chicks came into the house, almost all the villagers came to see them, staring at them with burning eyes, as if they were looking at rare treasures, and their love for them was so strong that they wanted to hold them in their mouths.
Everyone knows that these chicks are the hope of their village. With them, everyone will have eggs and meat to eat in the future. People can't just eat grains. How can they survive without a little oil? Young people can still endure, but the elderly and children can't.
"You have so many chicks, you must take good care of them!" The man gave them careful instructions, looking at the chicks with eyes full of anticipation.
They chattered and discussed, "Look, that black long hair is so good!"
"They eat a lot of bran!"
"These chicks were brought by Chef Su. She is so amazing. She always wants us to live a good life!"
The construction of the chicken coop brought infinite hope to the villagers during the famine years, meaning that they were gradually struggling out of poverty and heading towards a good life with enough food and warm clothing.
As soon as the chicken coop was built, Su Ye began to persuade Secretary Ma to set aside a hill specifically for raising chickens.
In the past, every household in the village raised a few chickens, and there was a precedent that the entire brigade raised chickens. This time, the chicks were too young and each one was very precious. If they were raised separately, they would definitely die. That’s why Secretary Ma temporarily raised them together. When they grow up, they will be divided among the households.
If you raise chickens on the hilltop, wouldn't that make you a chicken farmer? The secretary looked at Su Ye steadily. Although his eyes were blurry, his mind was not confused. Ma Gensheng's heart was also in turmoil.
"Master Su, what are you thinking?"
The two were silent for a long time. Su Ye took a sip of tea and said slowly, "You're right, that's exactly what I think."
The cup in Ma Gensheng's hand fell to the ground unexpectedly with a "pop", and the tea splashed on Xi's face. Xi shook his body, wiped his face, and picked up the enamel cup from the ground.
Ma Gensheng said, "Master Su, this is impossible! We are honest peasants. Isn't this 'cutting off socialism'?"
To take a serious view, this is even a restoration of capitalism!
Secretary Ma was still sitting there calmly, glancing at his son, looking down on him for his lack of ambition. So Master Su came to see him today, not to see his stupid son.
Su Ye paused and said, "Commissioner Zhang once said that reforms must be carried out without any hesitation. If we don't, how can we make any progress? If our Shanggou Village has the ability to raise chickens, and it doesn't cost much, the eggs and chicken we raise can be sold cheaply, everyone can have enough food, and every child can go to school. Isn't that good?"
Ma Gensheng shook his head seriously.
Secretary Ma nodded and drank his tea slowly. "Master Su is right. What do you think is the best hill in our village for raising chickens?"
Su Ye decisively circled a mountain with his pen, "Let's go here. The slope is gentle and not steep, it's sunny and sheltered from the wind, and it's quiet."
Secretary Ma promised that he would have the first production team build a chicken coop on the mountain in a few days, and move the chickens up the mountain to be raised when they grew up a little. Su Ye left the Ma family with satisfaction.
As soon as she left, Ma Gensheng and his father had an argument.
He said seriously: "This is against national policy. The government will not allow us to raise chickens. We are farmers, not comrades from the animal husbandry station. Opening a breeding farm is the business of the state."
Of course, the son can't beat the father's son, and the ginger is still spicy.
Secretary Ma was silent for a while, then asked: "The state does not allow private land allocation, but has Master Su allocated land for you? I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice. She is a smart person, and you are wrong to listen to her. Follow smart people and you will have a good life."
"Do you still want to live a good life?"
After hearing this, Ma Gensheng didn't dare to say a word.
Secretary Ma glanced at his son with disdain. Besides, if the sky fell, there would still be tall people to hold it up.
That day, Commissioner Zhang went to the countryside to look at sweet potatoes. He was just looking at sweet potatoes, but who knew Su Ye would say those words in front of him. The county magistrate nodded immediately, which showed that he didn't know Su Ye at all. Zhang Ying listened for a long time before agreeing to her, which showed that he had heard her hidden meaning, but still acquiesced to her behavior.
Moreover, Zhang Ying recognized Su Ye as soon as they met and understood Su Ye's style of doing things. Secretary Ma analyzed it carefully to his son.
"Teacher Su was the provincial champion last year and was admitted to Tsinghua University. Think carefully about why she wanted to go to the countryside." Secretary Ma then trembled as he took out his treasured newspaper. On the newspaper was written her words in bold headlines -
"I will devote my entire life to building our motherland."
Secretary Ma said, "I heard that the big oil factory in City C relied on Master Su to get through the difficult times. Our village's grain was also circulated by her. You should be sincere and don't forget who helped you. There are many twists and turns in interpersonal communication. You need to see more, listen more, and think more."
Ruan Ruliang's sweet potatoes are still under research. If our village really grows 6,000 kilograms of high-yield sweet potatoes, wouldn't it be easy to use this batch of sweet potatoes to raise poultry and livestock
Secretary Ma sighed inaudibly. All the reasons for supporting Su Ye were no match for one. That was that Shanggou Village was surrounded by mountains and the roads were long. The villagers had been poor for generations and had no food to eat. This was the only chance for them to turn things around. As the saying goes, poverty breeds change. This means that things will change when they reach the end.
When people become extremely poor, they will also change.
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Liu Gang thought they would raise chickens secretly for the rest of their lives, but he never expected that Master Su would drag the entire village into this!
This really refreshed my view!
I don't understand how a socialist rural area can do this? Master Su is really amazing.
The team members of Shanggou Village began to build chicken pens and chicken coops on the mountain, and there were dedicated people raising chickens every day.
At this time, He Meimei, He Shi, Zhou Yi, and Niu Cuihua played a very important role. After the spring, they started to take "ideological and political courses" without stopping.
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Today we are going to explain the "Records of the Grand Historian: Biographies of Guan and Yan"... There is a sentence in it that I like very much, 'When the granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace.' The meaning of this sentence is that only when people have satisfied their basic needs of food, clothing, housing and transportation can they take into account etiquette and attach importance to honor, disgrace and shame. Do you think it makes sense?"
"I wonder if you have ever had similar feelings?" Zhou Yi asked gently.
Everyone nodded after hearing this. Isn't this exactly what this sentence describes the current situation
"For those who speak up actively, I will give you a small gift after class."
Someone stood up timidly and said hesitantly, "In the past, only the promising people in our village would go begging, but last year... our family ran out of food, so my mother went to the city to beg for ten kilograms of sweet potatoes. If it weren't for her, my grandma and grandpa would have starved to death. One sweet potato took people five days to chew."
What does dignity mean at this time
There shouldn't be too many people in Shanggou Village who have had this kind of experience. This sentence is tailor-made for us. For a bite of food, let alone giving up dignity, we are willing to risk our lives.
A young girl suddenly sobbed and said, "I have it too, Master. Last year, my father heard that there was cheap food to buy in other places, so he used all our family money to buy 10 kilograms of cornmeal. On the way back, he felt sorry for the two yuan fare, so he stayed on the train for the whole night. In the morning, when my whole family went to pick him up, he... had frozen to death. We have no idea... If..."
If there was a way out, she would not have skipped the fare out of regret. She had lived a life of honesty and was finally frozen to death because she wanted to save two dollars. She covered her face and cried bitterly.
When Su Ye went to listen to the class, he was shocked. Zhou Yi made an ordinary ideological and political class so touching.
Finally, Zhou Yi concluded his speech by saying: "Only when the problem of food and clothing is solved can people live with dignity. Without a material basis, it is false to talk about etiquette, dignity, honor and disgrace. In order to prevent such tragedies from happening again in the future, we must grow more food and work hard."
"Teachers Su and Ruan are excellent people. We should follow their steps and grow sweet potatoes with an output of 6,000 to 7,000 kilograms per mu as soon as possible."
Everyone responded enthusiastically, “Yes!”
"Follow the steps of Master Su and Master Ruan!"
After hearing this, Su Ye silently gave Zhou Yi a thumbs up.
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Before the spring ploughing, Ruan Ruliang often went to the laboratory of X University. For a period of time, he stayed in the laboratory almost non-stop. The electron microscope that Su Ye bought at a high price came in handy. Ruan Ruliang discovered the DNA of sweet potato under a lens that was 1,000 times larger than that of an optical microscope. Through chemical means, he decomposed these gene fragments into single nucleotides and decomposed several gene sequences of sweet potato DNA.
The sweet potatoes harvested in autumn were selected from those with more tubers and starch content, and used to cultivate sweet potato seedlings for spring planting. The cultivated sweet potatoes were named "Fengshi No. 1".
This time, one-tenth of the arable land in Shanggou Village was used to grow "Fengshi No. 1", with an arable land area of about 300 mu.
At the same time, the chicks were raised for a month before being moved to the mountains for free range. The students often taught farmers how to grow grass with water scientifically, how to allocate the proportion of feed and grains, and how to prevent diseases and pests. What Ruan Ruliang taught us in the past, we taught farmers this year, and the agricultural knowledge class was in full swing.
After experiencing a famine, the whole village was united and worked hard to keep themselves well fed and clothed. It was rare to have such a good opportunity to study and such an excellent "expert" to lead the fight. If you miss this opportunity, you will have another one.
Busy days always pass quickly, and soon, Shanggou Village welcomed the spring tea harvest.
The tea picked in early spring is the most refreshing and sweet, and it is the best quality tea of the year. In previous years, people could earn a considerable income from the spring tea, and the whole village relied on it to buy clothes, food, seeds and fertilizers.
Although the government had issued a clear order last year not to purchase spring tea, the tea farmers who had been farmers for a lifetime could not bear to cut down the tea trees on the mountain. In late January, they still habitually waited for the captain to give the order to harvest the morning tea.
Ma Gensheng was in a dilemma. It was very difficult to sell tea at this time of year. He was able to sell it last year thanks to Master Su's favor. Many factories in City C bought tea out of kindness. But this year they would not be taken advantage of again.
Harvesting tea leaves requires labor, including withering, rolling, and drying, which takes time and effort, but the tea leaves are marketable. However, people are reluctant to let them rot in the fields.
Thinking of his father's words, he went to Su Ye to clarify his doubts.
Su Ye smiled and moved a stool for Ma Gensheng. Master He watched this action calmly.
It's not easy when Master Su is proactive.
Ma Gensheng told Su Ye about Chuncha's troubles like pouring beans, "Master Su, I came to you because I had no other choice. 'Jin Xiang Yu' is the lifeblood of our village. Our ancestors have relied on it to support their families. Who would have thought that in the past two years..."
His face was miserable.
Su Ye said with a smile: "Captain Ma, don't worry. If you believe in me, I do have a solution, but—"
Ma Gensheng stood up excitedly after hearing this. He waited for a long time but Su Ye didn't say a word. He looked miserable and almost knelt down to her.
"How can I be Master Su? Master Su, please tell me that as long as I can do it, as long as it is not murder or arson, I am willing to do it! Please show me a clear way."
The word "you" was used, which showed that Zhou Yi and his team's literacy classes were very good during this period. In addition, Ma Gensheng was really anxious.
Su Ye coughed lightly, "Captain Ma, your words are too serious, but it's not serious at all."
"But I found that our Shanggou Village lacks a lot of basic equipment. We have no money to buy fertilizers, no money to buy farm tools, and the whole village only has two cows and a mule. How can we farm well? I mean, if this batch of tea is sold, how should the money be spent? Captain Ma wants to hear my opinion. Are you willing to listen?"
Ma Gensheng understood Su Ye's meaning in an instant, and even choked for a few seconds, and his words were not clear. She even thought about how to use the money from selling tea leaves, so there must be a way to sell tea leaves!
He immediately said happily: "As long as the tea money is spent on our village, we can give the money to Master Su to manage!"
Su Ye raised her eyebrows, and almost as soon as Ma Gensheng finished speaking, she responded without any hesitation, "Okay, leave it to me!"
He, who was drinking tea, choked on the water and started coughing violently. Master Su was really not polite at all!
I knew that Su Ye was not right today. He was unwilling to even move the chair for Ma Gensheng. I suspected that the tea leaves had not yet sprouted. I am afraid that this guy is already planning to make money from the tea.