Siheyuan: A Very Happy Era

Chapter 432 Conspiracy
"Yup!"

When Xu Yuchang, Ma Hongjun and Sun Jinda heard what Li Guoqiang said, their eyes lit up immediately, and they all praised him: "Qiangzi, you are smart. If you hadn't said it, we really wouldn't have thought of this!"

After that, they didn’t stay too long and quickly said goodbye and went back home to discuss things with their parents.

Then, early in the morning of the next day, Li Guoqiang drove a sleigh and took them and their wives to the county railway station, allowing them to embark on their journey back to the city.

Then, as soon as Li Guoqiang returned to Jinshanbao, he saw a group of women gathered in his yard.

Among them were not only women from the village, but also a female educated youth.

These people are all apiary representatives elected by each household and the educated youth sites, and are responsible for managing the affairs of the two apiaries.

Seeing Li Guoqiang coming back, Xu Yuping and Ma Hongying hurriedly walked out of the crowd and stood at the front.

Because the two of them were elected as apiary captains by so many representatives present, and they were responsible for managing and arranging the affairs of the first apiary and the second apiary respectively.

At first, when he found out that one of them was Ma Hongying, Li Guoqiang was a little surprised, but then he thought about it and felt that this result was quite normal.

After all, among the dozens of women in Jinshanbao, there are only seven or eight women who are relatively young, strong and eloquent. Then, according to the division of power among the three families, Ma Hongying, who was born in the Ma family and married into the Xu family, obviously has a greater advantage.

What's more, basically everyone in the village knew that Ma Hongying had always had a close relationship with Li Guoqiang, and her brother Ma Hongjun was a worker at Xiangmizhai and a trusted subordinate of Li Guoqiang.

Therefore, no matter how you consider it, it would be better to vote for Ma Hongying.

As for Ma Guifang and Li Xiuqin, who were originally the directors of the apiary, the reason they lost the election was, on the one hand, because they had previously taken the apiary workers into the mountains to dig up beehives, causing everyone a lot of suffering.

On the other hand, one of them is the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, and the other is the daughter-in-law of the Ma family. Compared with Xu Yuping and Ma Hongying, they are obviously more inappropriate.

If it weren't for the fact that Li Guoqiang was removed from his position at the apiary, they probably wouldn't have been able to become the director.

Soon, Li Guoqiang drove the red deer sled and slowly stopped in front of everyone. Then he glanced at everyone calmly and said loudly, "Everyone, don't just stand there. Those who are assigned to the first apiary, come up first. I'll send them over, and then come back to pick up those from the second apiary."

Hearing this, Xu Yuping hurriedly called those who were assigned to the first apiary, and asked them to get on the sled together. Then, after they were all seated, Li Guoqiang lightly flicked the whip and drove the sika deer directly towards the first apiary on the back mountain.

Since the First Bee Farm had suffered from a disease before and there were not many beehives left, relatively few people were assigned to the First Bee Farm. Including Xu Yuping, there were only twelve people in total.

The second apiary had more people, a total of twenty-one people.

Moreover, in order to facilitate management, the first apiary is basically populated by people from the Xu family, while the second apiary has people from the Sun family and the Ma family mixed together.

At this time, Li Xiuqin was sitting on the sled, looking at Xu Yuping who was sitting side by side with Li Guoqiang. Although she felt a little disappointed, she did not feel any resentment.

After all, nowadays bee farms have changed from brigade enterprises to contracted breeding. Even if you become the team leader, there are no extra work points bonuses, and there is no room for promotion.

In fact, if you cannot lead others to raise bees well and generate considerable profits, people will complain about you, and it will be a thankless job.

Having said that, if it weren’t for the relationship between Xu Yuping and Li Guoqiang, I’m afraid Xu Yuping wouldn’t want to be the captain.

Fortunately, the first apiary is basically run by people from the Xu family, so it is relatively easy to manage.

In addition, with Li Guoqiang supporting her, she can be said to have no pressure.

Soon, they arrived at the first apiary smoothly, then greeted the militia guarding the apiary, and walked into the apiary's office one after another.

When Li Guoqiang saw Xu Yuping and others got off the sled, he turned around and rushed home without saying a word.

Not long after, he brought the people from the second apiary back into the back mountain.

After arriving at the place, he did not leave, but asked Ma Hongying to take others to mark the beehives in the warehouse, indicating which person was responsible for which beehives, so as to avoid having to explain to the superiors later.

Afterwards, he gave a lesson to everyone in the warehouse, imparting some basic beekeeping knowledge.

Since a small number of the people present were former apiary workers, it would not be difficult to teach them.

With the help of the old teachers guiding the new ones, it didn't take long before everyone had learned a lot.

Then, he asked Ma Hongying to continue training everyone on his behalf, and then he turned around and left to go to the first apiary to repeat his previous work.

Since the apiary at this time had been changed from a brigade enterprise to a family contract, there were production tasks every year, so no one dared to be perfunctory. Everyone studied very seriously, for fear that they would not be able to complete the task in time, and not only would they not get dividends, but they would also owe the brigade honey.

Moreover, in order to motivate everyone's work enthusiasm, although they can no longer give work points, the team also said that the part of honey that exceeds the production task can be handed over to them for disposal.

This is just like the task of raising pigs. Except for the fat pigs that are handed over, the remaining fat pigs are theirs.

Although it is not easy to get this reward, in addition to careful care, you also have to rely on the weather for your food.

But no matter what, this is at least a goal, right?
If they can really exceed the production target, then even if it's just a few kilograms overproduction, based on the purchase price of the previous year, they can earn an additional hundred yuan, which is equivalent to the salary of the city workers who have worked hard for a quarter.

In the final analysis, this is all about luring people with benefits, and it is a complete conspiracy.

In this way, whether it is to get more money or to maintain their current good life, the villagers of Jinshanbao will spontaneously protect the interests of the apiary.

Anyone who wants to cause trouble will be their enemy.

In addition, doing so has another great benefit for Li Guoqiang.

That is, whether the income of the bee farm can increase year by year in the future no longer depends on him as a technician, but on the efforts of all the villagers.

Therefore, even if he does not get more dividends in the future, he does not have to worry about the villagers having opinions about him.

Otherwise, he would not have proposed such a solution to the team at the first time.

In the blink of an eye, more than a week has passed. After this period of training, all the village representatives who were selected to engage in complex beekeeping have fully mastered the most basic beekeeping techniques. They only need to wait until the spring and practice for a period of time to become qualified beekeepers.

As for how to solve pests and diseases, and advanced techniques such as going into the mountains to dig beehives, let’s not worry about that for now.

On the one hand, it is because there is not enough time, and on the other hand, it is impossible to learn these techniques just by word of mouth. You have to demonstrate it yourself and practice it in practice before you can learn it slowly, bit by bit.

However, even so, it is enough to deal with superiors.

After finishing the work at the apiary, the villagers of the apiary returned to their daily hibernation. Every day they either stayed at home eating, drinking and chatting, or went hunting.

That day, Li Guoqiang had just had dinner at home with Luo Huijuan and others when he saw Xu Guangfu running in hurriedly from outside with a solemn look on his face.

"Uncle Fu, when did you come back? And why do you look so unhappy? What happened?"

As he spoke, Li Guoqiang did not forget to give a look to Luo Huijuan and others, signaling them to vacate their seats quickly.

Seeing this, Luo Huijuan and others stood up and moved without saying a word, leaving the seat on Li Guoqiang's left vacant.

When Xu Guangfu heard what Li Guoqiang said, he didn't say anything. He just silently climbed up to the fire pit, then took out his pipe, lit the pipe bowl with a match, put it in his mouth and took a big puff.

Seeing this, Li Guoqiang frowned slightly, then asked softly, "Uncle Fu, what is going on? Why are you so worried?"

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Xu Guangfu shook his head, then sighed and said, "Actually, there's nothing wrong. It's just that the county-run bee farm is completely ruined?"

"Oh?"

Li Guoqiang raised his eyebrows, and then asked in a slightly surprised tone, "Didn't you tell me before that when spring comes, you'll let me go to the county to discuss how to set up the county-run bee farm? How come it's completely ruined now?"

"Humph!"

Xu Guangfu snorted, then said with some dissatisfaction: "It's all because of that shameless villain Zheng Kaitao. I don't know where he heard that everyone in our brigade received several hundred yuan last year, and then he told his brother-in-law who is a city leader about it. Then a few days later, he was transferred back to the Municipal Agriculture Bureau."

"so"

Li Guoqiang listened, his expression condensed, and then he said with some certainty: "The incorporation document that our brigade received before was written by Zheng Kaitao!"

"That's right!"

Xu Guangfu nodded, then said angrily, "I didn't think of him at first, but two days ago, when I learned that he was transferred back to the Municipal Agriculture Bureau, I guessed that he was behind it.

Then, I was planning to take some time to come back in the next few days to tell you about this, but early this morning, County Mayor Qian called me over and showed me a notice issued by the municipal government regarding the cancellation of the county-run apiary project.

Do you know what this means?

The leaders representing the municipal government have already taken a fancy to the apiary project and want the city to take the lead in establishing a municipal apiary.”

"Ok!"

After hearing what Xu Guangfu said, Li Guoqiang immediately nodded in agreement.

In fact, when he saw the document before, he had already guessed that this would be the case, so he made a prompt decision to break the apiary into smaller pieces and assign them to the villagers to be responsible for breeding.

Moreover, this matter now not only has the brigade’s meeting resolution, but also has the signatures and consent of all the villagers in Jinshanbao Village.

This means that no matter which level of leadership comes in the future, it will not be able to change the fact that the apiary is gone, let alone take over the apiary.

So, he quickly spoke to comfort her, "It's okay, Uncle Fu, you know that our brigade's apiary has been withdrawn. Even if the city wants to take it away, there is no chance."

"Ugh!"

Hearing this, Xu Guangfu sighed again, and then said with some melancholy: "I am not worried about this matter. I think that if the county-run bee farm can be established, it will definitely be a great thing that benefits the country and the people.

It’s such a pity that it has become like this now.”

"Ah!"

After listening to this, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but chuckle, then he reached out and patted Xu Guangfu on the shoulder and said, "Uncle Fu, you have lived to such an old age, and you know that most of the things in this world are not satisfactory, so don't think too much.

Moreover, I would say this is not a bad thing. At most you can go and report to the county leaders that our apiary has distributed the beehives to the villagers for contracting. Then I can suggest that the county agricultural bureau take the lead and let other brigades in the county that have the conditions use money, food and other supplies to exchange beehives with us, and take them back to distribute to the villagers for contracting breeding.

In this way, we can avoid blind expansion that leads to waste of manpower and materials, and slowly drive the farmers in the county to become rich, and ultimately form a characteristic industry in our county.

As for whether the county leaders will agree, I believe they will.

After all, what they want is nothing more than a result that they can show off. As long as everyone can live a good life, does it matter whether the bee farm is run by the county or not? "

"This"

After listening to what Li Guoqiang said, Xu Guangfu was stunned for a moment, as if he had not expected that things could be done this way.

After a while, he finally came back to his senses, then suddenly stretched out his hand, patted Li Guoqiang's thigh vigorously, laughed and praised: "Good job, Qiangzi, there are so many people in our team, but your brain is the best! Why didn't I think of it before?"

Li Guoqiang looked at Xu Guangfu's startled expression, then looked down at his thighs, and couldn't help feeling helpless.

Then he shook his head and poured a basin of cold water on Xu Guangfu.

"Uncle Fu, I think you should not be so happy so soon!"

(End of this chapter)