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Chapter 132: Journey to Jieling

Chapter [-]: Journey to Jieling

During Liu Huinian's hospitalization, Zhu Youren, the deputy mayor, was temporarily in charge of the office work.

Zhu Youren was originally the deputy mayor who was promoted from the position of office director, so it's easy to go back to his old job now.

During this period of time, personnel changes in the town were relatively large, and the number of "outsiders" also increased further.In addition to Lu Yan, an outsider, and Wang Dagong, the two drivers who were picked up by the county party committee, there will soon be three cadres sent by the political research office of the county party committee to help Sidaogou town improve the development plan, and the Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources will come. survey team.With so many people together, accommodation and meals have become a big problem.

The problem of accommodation is easy to solve. The houses in the town government compound are all newly repaired for a few years, and the office itself is a bit rich. If you adjust it and squeeze it, you can use a lot of houses as dormitories.

And the problem of eating is a big problem. With so many people added at once, it is definitely not realistic to eat in the canteen of the education committee or the hospital.If these people are required to eat in restaurants on the street every day, the expenditure of so many people is not a small amount.

According to Lu Yan's intention, a canteen was to be built in the town. First, it could solve the food problem of government personnel. Second, the canteen was built to subsidize the food expenses appropriately, which can be regarded as a disguised benefit for everyone.

With the [-] yuan allocated by the county party committee as a base, building a canteen is naturally a no-brainer, and the cadres of the town government are also enthusiastic.

Actions are taken immediately when things are decided, and Zhu Youren is arranged here to keep an eye on cleaning up the dormitory and building a new cafeteria.On the other side, accompanied by Bai Shufeng and Li Changsheng, Lu Yan started to investigate various villages.

Sidaogou Town has a total of 17 natural villages with a population of more than 2. What is interesting is that the names of these [-] natural villages are all related to "gou" and "ridge" without exception.Upper Gou, Middle Gou, Lower Gou, Zonggou, Wugou, Jieling, Wenling, Beiling, Shaling, each village is inseparable from the mountains, which also shows how bad the geographical conditions of Sidaogou Town are.

The investigation started from the farthest village, Jieling Village, which is currently the only natural village in Sidaogou Town with three impassable water and electrical circuits.The distance from Sidaogou Town Government to Jieling is about [-] kilometers, but it would take a whole morning to walk one way.

The reason why it took so long was that Jieling Village was right on the tip of Daqingshan Mountain, and the way up was a short climb up the mountain, so of course it took a lot of trouble to walk up.

Cars are useless in this kind of place, so Lu Yan and his party put the car in Wugou Village at the bottom of the mountain, and rode up the mountain on three donkeys owned by the secretary of Wugou Village.

Jieling is not big, there are less than a hundred households, but the situation of each of these hundred households seems to be quite bad.

The first instinct is that it can be seen from the houses of the villagers in Jieling.

Now the conditions in the countryside are much better than before, and farmers pay more attention to building houses. Take Sidaogou Town as an impoverished place, and the streets of the town are now often built with courtyard-like large tile-roofed houses.

But when I first arrived in Jieling Village, when I looked around, there were all adobe houses in a row, and most of the houses didn't even have Parkway on the outer walls.

Village head Wu of Jieling Village received Lu Yan and Bai Shufeng at the entrance of the village.In fact, it was a reception, and there was no real content. I went to the canteen at the entrance of the village to buy three bottles of Coca-Cola. Lu Yan, Bai Shufeng, and Xiao Li from the town government office each had a bottle. Village Chief Wu himself was not willing to drink. a bottle.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lu Yan also learned about the price level of the commissary.There are more than 2000 households in Jieling Village. This canteen is the only place to buy some daily necessities. Therefore, the things inside are surprisingly expensive. A bottle of Coke costs [-] yuan, which is indeed reasonable in this village where the per capita annual income is less than [-] yuan. It's a luxury.

Moreover, the variety of goods in the canteen is very small, just some daily-use oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, and they are often out of stock. If you want to buy in large quantities, you have to make an appointment with the owner several months in advance. , when the goods are purchased, they will be given more points together.

More than 90 families live in a concentrated place, basically living on two small platforms on the top of the mountain.

Village head Wu introduced that Jieling Village used to be a forest land. At the beginning, there were only one or two families. It was in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China that the Hongchuan generation made a lot of trouble with bandits. This Jieling Village used to be a bandit of hills.

In fact, Jieling is said to be the mountain of bandits, that is the official name.It turned out that the people who lived in Jieling were all Orion families, and the folk customs themselves were relatively sturdy. After catching up with the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes in those years, and the exploitation by landlords and bullies, life was really hard, so they organized to resist oppression, and they were called bandits.

At that time, it was precisely because the roads in Jieling were too difficult to walk, easy to defend and difficult to attack, that the "bandits" in Jieling continued to exist.And after so many years, it is precisely because the road is too difficult that Jieling has not been able to develop.

At the peak of Jieling, there were more than 200 households. Over the years, due to the poor natural conditions, many people moved to the foot of the mountain and other places one after another. The remaining 90 households had no way to move out.

The Jieling people have been mainly hunting for so many years, and there is almost no arable land in the village.In fact, even if there is arable land, you can’t grow anything. Except for June, July and August, you have to light a stove, which is not suitable for the growth of crops at all.

In recent years, the state has strengthened the protection of wild animals, and hunting in Jieling Village has also been greatly restricted.

Therefore, the biggest problem for Jieling people in a year is to solve the food rations and fuel for life.

The problem of food rations basically depends on relief food, and the most important job of the village committee in a year is to organize the distribution of relief food.As for the fuel for the fire, as the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water. People in Jieling can't afford coal, so they have to use local materials and cut down trees on the mountains for fuel.

Lu Yan and the others listened to Village Chief Wu's introduction as they walked. Bai Shufeng naturally knew the situation in Jieling Village very clearly. Listening to Village Chief Wu's introduction, Lu Yan was still surprised by the backwardness of this place, and from time to time Asking about something.

"What about the children in the village going to school?"

"They were all delivered to my home." Village Chief Wu paused and continued: "My wife was an educated youth at the time. After she married me, she stayed in Jieling Village. Now she is the only substitute teacher in the village."

Bai Shufeng then added that there used to be a village primary school in Jieling Village. Later, many people in the village moved outside. There were not many school-age children, so the village primary school was cancelled. A child studies, and the town gives some subsidies for a year.

Listening to the introduction, Lu Yan couldn't help frowning. The backwardness of Jieling Village was beyond his imagination, and these children did not receive formal education, which would only lead to the continuation of poverty and backwardness.

But the natural conditions of this village are there, and Lu Yan has decided in his heart that he must strive upward during his tenure and move Jieling Village as a whole down the mountain.For nothing else but for the education of the next generation, he must do the same.