Era: I was a farmer at the foot of Yaoling Mountain

"Huzi, next year we're going to get serious. We're going to reduce the number of cadres in each production team who don't meet the standards, and we're going to strengthen the production force."

After returning, Fang Wei and Zheng Hu wrote a detailed research report and also prepared for the "operation".

If the accounting rights are returned to the brigade, the management function of the production team will be weakened.

Each team does not need to retain so many accountants. Those who are capable can come to the team to work, and those who are not capable enough can step down.

"Third brother, this is something that will offend people, you have to think it over carefully."

"If you're afraid of offending people, you won't be able to accomplish anything. If you don't disband your subordinates, what will you do if they pretend to obey you but actually disobey you? Don't overthink it, just do what needs to be done."

Zheng Hu was a little worried that Fang Wei had offended too many people, but how could Fang Wei care about such things?

He knew very well that although he was forced to do something, if he failed to achieve results, the outcome would definitely not be good.

On the contrary, if you can achieve results, you won’t have to worry about anything in the next ten years.

Next, Fang Wei sent team leaders to various production teams to supervise the autumn harvest.

It is not yet harvest time, but it is very close.

He required all production teams to make good preparations and to purchase new agricultural machinery if possible. While combining harvesters was unrealistic, each team should at least have a few threshers and transplanters.

In addition, by next year, Fang Wei also plans to purchase a batch of tractors for use by various production teams.

Now that all teams have escaped the category of being completely impoverished, their own accumulation should not be underestimated, so they should increase investment in means of production.

Fang Wei also planned to select some talented people from the educated youth and train them to serve as technicians for the brigade. He wanted to promote scientific farming in the Xiatang Brigade, so he needed the cooperation of grassroots technicians.

The brigade's work is complicated and can only be done one by one.

Time flies.

The second team welcomed the autumn harvest.

Before the autumn harvest, the new brigade headquarters of Xiatang Brigade was established, and Fang Wei and other brigade cadres moved there immediately.

The second team's harvest time is earlier than that of other production teams. Due to the use of a large number of agricultural machinery, including two harvesters and several rice threshers, the harvesting efficiency has been greatly increased.

The weather was good during this period, so everyone took the time to dry the rice and then store the threshed rice in the warehouse.

"Third brother, we first harvested the [YX-032] hybrid rice. After calculation, the yield per mu reached 960 kilograms. We also found that this variety of rice is very resistant."

The newly appointed leader of the breeding team is Xie Zhicheng, who was the first to report the good news to Fang Wei.

The team conducts various experiments every season. The YX-032 rice variety that stood out last season still performs very well this season.

"Go and have a look."

Fang Wei put down the pen in his hand, stood up and followed Xie Zhicheng to the barn.

Xie Zhicheng was one of Fang Wei's earliest companions, and now he was the backbone of the breeding team. In terms of professional ability, he was undoubtedly superior to Fang Ping, so when Fang Ping became director of public security, he naturally took over.

Fang Wei then checked the growth records of this rice variety, examined the quality of the rice, and even ate two bowls of ground [YX-032] rice at noon.

The taste is closer to that of the Nanguang series of hybrid rice, but the flavor is different and it tastes very fragrant.

It is a bit like the Siamese fragrant rice he had eaten in his previous life. Considering all aspects, the quality is not as good as the Nanguang series hybrid rice, but it is not far behind.

This is a brand new hybrid rice. Compared with the Nanguang series, both the sterile line and the recovery line are different.

The advantage of this hybrid rice is its strong resistance to adversity. It is very likely to be successfully cultivated outside the second team and become the first rice variety that can be fully promoted in the true sense.

Of course, it can only be considered a preliminary success now, and there is still a long way to go before it is finalized.

Fang Wei planned to ask Chang Wenyuan after a while to see how the verification was going on their side.

Time slipped away in the busyness, and all the statistics of Team 440 were in. Among them, 484000 mu of [Nanguang No. ] rice seeds had a total yield of kilograms, still within the yield limit of this variety.

[Harvesting crops, points +484000, total points: 1860112 points.]

There was definitely no surprise, but the entire second team was still very happy.

Such a harvest heralds good days for the coming year, but the brigade accounting will be implemented next, and many people are unsure about it.

Accountant Liu, Accountant Zhang and others from the brigade recorded the harvest of Team 2 and then submitted the data to the brigade.

This Accountant Liu was the accountant of the second team before, and now he works as an accountant in the big team.

After layers of selection, Yu Hao's partner Liang Meiqin was appointed as the accountant (statistician) of the second team.

The autumn harvest data of each production team also came out one after another. Fang Wei checked and found that the situation was better than expected.

"Third brother, you have no appetite and no desire for tea or food all day long. What are you thinking about?"

During lunch, Pan Lianhua saw the man was still in deep thought while eating, so she asked with a smile.

Fang Wei has been in this state for the past few days, and she feels anxious just watching him.

"Ah? I was thinking about the brigade's future work arrangements and got a little distracted. Okay, I won't dwell on it any more. We'll figure it out when the time comes."

Fang Wei was indeed thinking about the brigade's affairs. Xiatang Brigade had 12 production teams, with a total of 2000 people. The difficulty of management was naturally greatly increased.

All things are difficult at the beginning, so he decided to lead the brigade cadres and actively participate in the distribution of rations to various production teams.

The so-called participation actually means watching without interfering.

Fang Wei, Zheng Hu and others came to the first team, and Wei Guanghua was in charge of the team headquarters.

"Party Secretary Fang"

Zhang Chu, the captain of the first team, went to the village entrance to greet them warmly, especially Fang Wei who behaved very respectfully.

"I'm the team leader, not the branch secretary. Don't yell at me."

Fang Wei didn't buy his trick. In fact, it was taboo to randomly address people by their titles. He didn't know what was wrong with the other party today.

"Haha, Captain Fang, Captain Fang. But isn't it only a matter of time before you become the Party Secretary?"

Zhang Chu didn't feel embarrassed. He found a way out and took everyone to the team headquarters.

He had a point. Not long after becoming the second team leader, Fang Wei joined Organization D. Among all the production team leaders in the brigade, few were not Party members.

Now people are saying that Wei Guanghua is going to be transferred to the commune, and Fang Wei will naturally take over as the brigade secretary.

"This Zhang Chu used to look very smart, how could he not make such a low-level mistake today? Well, I understand, this guy did it on purpose, trying to make his position clear."

When Fang Wei arrived at the team headquarters, he understood Zhang Chu's intention.

As expected, those who can become production team leaders are all talented people, otherwise it is difficult to win the support of the people. Rural work is not simple, and without some skills, it is impossible to manage these members.

"Our team had 440 mu of paddy fields, 206 mu of dry fields and sloping land, 60 mu of which were vegetable plots. The entire production team, including members, educated youth, and other personnel, totaled 320 people.

This season, we planted the Nanguang No. 960 hybrid rice, achieving an average yield of 422400 kilograms per mu, for a total yield of 12400 kilograms. Excluding approximately 410000 kilograms of substandard rice, the remaining kilograms of substandard rice seeds will be sold (for exchange).

Everyone sat down in the team's meeting room, and Zhang Chu introduced the late rice harvest.

Fang Wei noticed that the other party hadn't read the manuscript and was just rattling off all sorts of data. He seemed quite intelligent. At a 1:5 exchange rate, a team's second-grade rice seeds could be exchanged for 205 million jin of regular rice, or 246000 yuan in cash.

The purchase price of second-grade rice seeds is 0.6 yuan per catty, which is much lower than the purchase price of mature rice seeds.

In the end, the team will leave behind 41 kilograms of rice and 196800 yuan in cash. This is the harvest of the team's late rice planting, which is actually quite good when you calculate it carefully.

"Captain Zhang, what is your ration distribution plan?"

Fang Wei nodded and gave a positive evaluation of the team's achievements.

Then he asked about the specific distribution plan.

"The ration standard approved by our team is an average of 500 kilograms of rice per person throughout the year, distributed in two seasons."

Not every production team was as arrogant as Team 2, where one person's annual food ration often exceeded a thousand kilograms of rice.

In those days, the food ration standards of many production teams did not even reach 350 kilograms per year, and in some places it was only 180 kilograms per year.

If it is not enough, you can add sweet potatoes, potatoes and other whole grains. City people cannot eat white rice for every meal.

Fang Wei calculated that a team could earn 82 kilograms of rice and nearly 40 yuan in cash a year just from growing rice.

After deducting 16 jin of food rations, 16 jin of public grain and 50 jin of requisitioned grain, there are still jin of rice left.

It costs 4 jin of rice to exchange for the specified rice seeds. After adding various levies, the team's inventory balance is about 25 to 30 jin of rice.

This part of rice is used for emergency purposes. For example, if there is a disaster year, the team will have to use the stockpile for emergency relief.

For example, if the team wants to carry out a project, it will also need to spend rice from the inventory.

In terms of food, the team was not only self-sufficient but also had a lot of surplus.

"But our side business isn't going well. There are less than 30 pigs in the pig pen. After we finish our work in a few days, the rest will have to be kept for the New Year pig slaughter.

The team has 40 mu of tobacco fields, and the remaining dry fields and slopes are used to grow some cash crops, but the overall returns are not high. We don't have any oil tea trees of our own, and our edible oil comes entirely from a single crop of rapeseed grown each year. The average annual consumption of edible oil per person is around 10 kilograms.

Zhang Chu then introduced the team's side business situation, which was indeed not very good.

Life in the team has only improved in the past few years. Before, we couldn't even get enough to eat. Without good food production, there's no way to develop animal husbandry.

It is only in recent years that everyone's life has become better, and the number of pigs raised in the team has increased. In the past, they would only slaughter a pig during the Chinese New Year so that everyone could taste the meat.

The team doesn't raise any chickens or ducks, but members can raise three individually according to regulations.

"Okay then, you guys start distributing the rations, and we'll watch from the side."

in the afternoon.

One team began to distribute rations.

Fang Wei noticed that the educated youth in one group looked pale and the rations they received were only half of the average.

He immediately asked Gao Wenshu to record the situation and then go back to Zhang Chu to find out what exactly was causing the educated youth to not even have enough to eat.

Later he saw Shen Yu, who smiled at him from afar, then took the food and left.

Shen Yu's ration is very close to the average, so he shouldn't starve.

Seizing the opportunity, Fang Wei asked Zhang Chu about the situation of the educated youth.

"These devilish kids are not good at their work. Their work points are very low, so naturally they get less."

Zhang Chu was right. These students were indeed not worth one and a half laborers at the moment.

But he hadn't considered how to make the most of the educated youth's strengths. Coupled with the team's sideline business being stagnant, the educated youth naturally suffered enough.

Fang Wei felt that if this problem was solved, the subjective initiative of the educated youth could be mobilized and more wealth could definitely be created.

Therefore, Fang Wei’s choice of this node is very good, as it can discover many problems that cannot be discovered normally.

After inspecting one team, he went to other production teams.

This gave him a clearer understanding of the basic situation of the entire Xiatang brigade.

After the other production teams finished their work, it was the turn of Team 2 to purchase rice seeds.

The team kept 24000 kilograms of [Nanguang No. 40] rice seeds, and the remaining kilograms of rice seeds were put out for exchange to ensure that every production team in Yaoling Commune could exchange enough seeds.

Another 6 jin of [Nanguang No. ] mature rice seeds were sold to the purchasing station. Under Zeng Qing's coordination, all these rice seeds were transported to Qinghe County.

The second team harvested a total of 80 kilograms of rice and 44.84 yuan in cash.

There are currently 12 kilograms of rice in stock. Zhao Jinsheng decided to sell 30 kilograms of rice, leaving 62 kilograms of rice in stock.

A total of 30 kilograms of rice earned a total of 3 yuan in cash. It can be seen that the economic value of cultivating rice seeds and planting ordinary rice is huge.

This year, the second team planted one season of soybeans, one season of peanuts and one season of flue-cured tobacco.

Among them, the total output of soybeans was 104500 jin, the total output of peanuts was 123500 jin, and the total output of flue-cured tobacco was 95000 jin.

[Harvest crops, points +104500]

[Harvest crops, points +123500]

[Harvest crops, point +95000]

Total points: 2059612.

10 jin of soybean seeds were sold to Captain Yang and his group, and the remaining 4500 jin was stored in the warehouse. A total of 20 jin of ordinary soybeans and 45 yuan in cash were collected.

13500 kilograms of unqualified peanuts were stored in the warehouse, and 11 kilograms of high-quality peanut seeds were sold to the outside world. A total of 22 kilograms of ordinary peanuts and 28.6 yuan in cash were harvested.

The 95000 kilograms of flue-cured tobacco brought in a total of 23.75 yuan in cash.

The total income from these three sources is 97.35 yuan, almost reaching one million yuan. It can be seen that growing cash crops is more profitable than growing rice.

However, the team has the task of paying public grain, and everyone also needs to eat, so food production is the top priority.

Next, the team began distributing peanuts and soybeans. Most of the peanuts and soybeans were distributed, with a small portion remaining in the warehouse. There were so many peanuts and soybeans that they couldn't be eaten. Those who needed to give them away were given away, and those who needed to exchange them for money were exchanged.

Everyone has a satisfactory harvest.

Deng Yuanen's wife was about to give birth, so the couple went to the county hospital in advance. The members of the second team were not short of money, and after the lesson of Tie Yanhong last time, who would dare to give birth at home?
The newly arrived educated youth in the second team were extremely envious. They still received half of the average amount of supplies, but no one complained. After all, the base number was large, and half of the average was also considerable.

Jiang Xia and Yu Hao took the opportunity to do ideological work for everyone, telling the new educated youth that as long as they worked hard in the second team, they would have hope in life.

In fact, this is how Jiang Xia and other old educated youth came through.

Fang Wei and Pan Lianhua could get a little more, but it was limited. Compared to Fang Wei's contribution to the second team, it was a drop in the bucket.

However, the family has no shortage of food or money, and the couple are very content.

Contentment brings long-lasting happiness, and this is the foundation for Fang Wei's current life. If he only thought about personal gain, he would have been dealt with long ago. (End of this chapter)