60s: I have a store

Chapter 260 Divide Money
In Shangshui Village, Village Chief Wang and others gathered together.

"This is all the money we've made from selling vegetables recently. Let's talk about it! What should we do with this money?" Village chief Wang did not make his own decisions, but asked for everyone's opinions.

You must set a plan for how to spend the money you earn.

"Divide it?" someone asked.

In fact, the villagers all hope to share the money. Isn't it for sharing the money that they are so active in growing vegetables? This is also the solution that can best increase everyone's enthusiasm for work.

If in the end no one gets a penny and everything belongs to the village collectively, everyone will definitely be lazy in the future.

Although the collective belongs to the whole village, they also have a share, but they cannot feel the things that are not in their hands, and their sense of identity is not strong.

"How will it be divided? By person? Or one portion per household?" the person next to him asked him.

This is another difficult question.

If the money is divided by headcount, the families with a small population will definitely not accept it! They think it is unfair. But if the money is divided by household, the families with a large population will not be happy either.

"Give it a part so as not to discourage everyone's enthusiasm for growing vegetables. With the rest, the village can do other things, such as buying more coarse grains for backup, whether for us to eat or to raise chickens in the future!" someone suggested.

Not distributing any money at all does dampen the enthusiasm of the villagers, after all, they are all looking forward to sharing the money!
But if it is all divided, it will be difficult for the village to develop. Once something happens, the village will have no resistance. Just like last time, people starved to death.

If the village had enough food reserves, would such a situation occur?

Obviously not.

The term "reserve grain" originated from Zhoujiazhuang. As expected, it was a concept proposed by Zhou Yimin.

That’s right! It was indeed Zhou Yimin who talked to the old Party secretary and others about preparing more grain reserves in Zhoujiazhuang, so that in the event of a major famine, the villagers’ basic food needs could be guaranteed.

The old branch secretary and his colleagues were very supportive of this and took out some money and asked Zhou Yimin to get food.

They are very aware of the importance of having reserve food, especially what they have experienced in the past two years, which have made them realize the importance of storing food.

As the saying goes, "If you have food in your hands, you won't panic in your heart"!
Zhou Yimin thought about future generations, when countries would frantically stockpile grain reserves in order to cope with major disasters. The central government did that, and local governments also had local grain reserves.

Someone has calculated that even if the country faces the dilemma of no grain harvest, China's grain reserves can at least feed 1.4 billion people for more than one year.

Moreover, this is just a conservative estimate.

It is conceivable that the grain reserves in later generations were an astronomical figure.

"Who is in favor and who is against?" Village Chief Wang asked those present.

He agreed with this idea in his heart. When he learned that Zhoujiazhuang was storing grain, he also wanted to do the same. However, since it involved spending money, he had to hold a meeting with everyone and seek everyone's consent.

It is not advisable for one person to have the final say.

OK! As soon as everyone heard it, they knew that this was what the village chief had in mind.

Anyway, this is not a bad idea. It will definitely not be a wrong idea to prepare more food.

Then everyone nodded in agreement without any objection.

"Okay! Since everyone agrees, we will divide the money from growing vegetables into three parts. One part will be distributed to everyone as dividends; one part will be used to buy food as reserve food for our Shangshui Village; and the last part will be kept as a backup in case we urgently need money." Obviously, Village Chief Wang had considered it more comprehensively.

Someone asked: "Village head, how do we divide the dividends?"

This is a headache.

However, Village Chief Wang had already thought about it.

He said calmly, "It will be divided according to the proportion of each family's contribution. For example, if your family provides two people to grow vegetables, you can get two shares."

Village chief Wang adopted the more work, more pay approach, but he didn't say it explicitly. After all, it was still the time to eat from the same pot! Collective production, collective eating, not the more work, more pay approach.

When everyone heard this, they had no objection.

This is good, there is no need to argue, it is very reasonable.

It's impossible to give a share to those who don't work, right? Wouldn't that be unfair to those who work honestly?
"Agree!"

"Agree!"

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During this period, Shangshui Village earned a total of 1018.5 yuan from selling vegetables, 300 yuan was used to buy reserve grain, 300 yuan was kept for the village's use, and the remaining 418.5 yuan was distributed to villagers.

There are only a little over a hundred households in their village, which means that each household can get about 4 yuan.

That’s not a small amount.

You know, the income from growing vegetables is continuous and has not been cut off!
How much money do they earn from work points in the village?

Generally speaking, a full-time worker gets 10 points for a day's work, while a woman should get 6-7 points a day.

The production team has a special person who records work points. He will accumulate your work points within a year and distribute dividends at the end of the year.

Therefore, in some rural areas, there is a popular saying: Why read books? What's the point of reading? It's enough to understand the work points.

And 10 centimeters is worth cents.

That is to say, even if you get full work points every day for a year, you can only get 3660 points, which is only or yuan in total. But it is obviously impossible to achieve such an income.

Even if you are capable and strong and can get 10 points every time you do a job, there will always be a day when you die, right?

There is also a surplus of labor in rural areas.

They have only been growing vegetables in Shangshui Village for a short time, and they can already get about 4 yuan. If we calculate conservatively, they only earn 4 yuan per month, which is 48 yuan per year, close to 50 yuan!

Isn’t this better than earning work points?
Therefore, these 4 yuan are enough to support the villagers.

"Okay! Since that's the case, let's call everyone to a meeting to divide the money!" said Village Chief Wang.

As soon as the words fell, some people rushed out impatiently to inform every household.

Soon, the villagers came in droves, all with smiles on their faces. They had learned that the village wanted to distribute money, so even if they were eating, they had to wait.

"Okay, everyone, be quiet and talk about the village's decision." Village Chief Wang said.

The scene suddenly became quiet. If a dog had barked at this time, I believe it would have been slapped a few times to shut it up.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, Village Chief Wang explained in detail the village's decision: the money from selling vegetables would be divided into three parts, 300 yuan would be used to buy reserve grain just in case; 300 yuan would be kept for emergency use; and the remaining 418.5 yuan would be regarded as dividends and distributed to everyone.

Then, Village Chief Wang began to ask representatives from each family to come up and collect their money, and those whose names were called came out.

4 yuan is indeed not a lot for city dwellers, but it is a lot in rural areas!
Everyone was very happy to think that the fields would continue to produce vegetables. While receiving their money, they discussed how to grow vegetables in the future.

As a farmer, naturally, conversations cannot be separated from farming.

What's more, it is at this time that everyone is very motivated.

As for the village's decision to take out 300 yuan to buy reserve grain, the villagers have no objection. They know best how important food is. No one wants to go hungry, which is too uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)