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

With Wang Songlin taking the lead, the brothers and sisters in the village took turns to come forward and toast Fang Wei.

After everyone finished toasting, Fang Wei officially replaced Grandpa and became the leader of the Yao village. Of course, his identity would not be officially recognized, but neither would they interfere.

Yao Village is a very special existence in the local area. It belongs to a brigade of Yaoling Commune, but it is different from ordinary brigades.

If we really talk about the brigade accounting system, the Yao village has actually always done this.

By the time everyone had eaten and drunk their fill, it was already afternoon.

"Third brother, thank you for being willing to lead the village in development."

When we got home, the little guy fell asleep.

The couple went to the main room to sit and drink tea, and Pan Lianhua suddenly thanked Fang Wei.

She knew very well that Fang Wei was willing to be the leader only for her sake, otherwise he would not be bothered to do the job.

"Why are you so polite all of a sudden? You and I share weal and woe, and the village has helped me a lot. If it weren't for my sister helping take care of the children, how would you and I have so much time to do things?"

Fang Wei thought it was great. Grandpa once said that the Yao Village was his permanent retreat, so he didn't have so many concerns when considering many issues.

For example, when he overthrew Chen Mazi and others this time, he didn't care what Wu Yaoyang thought.

For example, when the county wanted to take over the bamboo factory, he firmly refused. He was confident, and someone else might not be able to withstand the pressure from all sides.

Also, the moment he officially became the head of the Yao village, he felt that the terraces, facilities and forests of the Yao village were tied to him and he could designate them at will.

Afterwards, Fang Wei went out for a walk alone.

The designation of terraces must be done with caution, as everyone is keeping a close eye on grain production, so we have to take it slow.

What he values most is the forestry resources of the Yao village. The entire Yao village has more than 27,000 acres of forest land, and a lot of things can be done with proper planning.

The area of the [Forestry and Picking Area] is 15 mu. Even if all the forest resources of the Yao village are included in the area, the area is still more than enough.

Therefore, Fang Wei designated all the mountains and forests in the Yao village as temporary [forest cultivation and picking areas].

night.

He called a meeting of the backbone members of the Yao village to re-plan the development of forest land and side businesses.

"We have abundant forestry resources, including eight species of high-quality bamboo, which should be put to good use. Next, the village needs to make good plans and actively plant trees, including tea trees, oil tea trees, and various other precious trees.

Regarding side businesses, we'll be rebuilding the pig farm and poultry house, and vigorously developing the forest economy. Wild mushrooms, bamboo shoots, Yaoshan bacon, and other dried goods are our signature products, and we also need a long-term development plan."

Fang Wei had to do some practical work after becoming the headman. He would make the appointments after the pig farm and poultry house were rebuilt.

In this way, the Yao village's side businesses will flourish, and he will be able to live up to his grandfather's trust.

Next, everyone began to discuss the new plan, and it was not until night that the new plan was basically finalized.

Grandpa sat quietly by the side, smoking his pipe, without commenting. He now served as a consultant, fading from the management of the Yao village.

Once the plan was in place, the execution was handed over to the backbone members of the village.

the next day.

Fang Wei returned home with his wife, children and Wang Zhuyun, carrying a lot of things.

His family has no shortage of bacon all year round, almost all of which is provided by the Yao village. They also have no shortage of various dried goods from the mountains. Their life is pretty good.

Since he came back, the mountains and forests of the Yao village have been undergoing fundamental changes under the blessing of the attributes.

Wang Songlin led the brothers and sisters to rebuild the [pig farm], [poultry house], and [compost yard], and began large-scale artificial afforestation on the mountain, cultivating wild tea trees, oil tea trees, silver fir, golden nanmu, yew, wild walnut trees, etc.

Fang Wei also began to arrange the autumn harvest work. Zheng Hu was responsible for the specific matters and other team cadres assisted.

"The twelve production teams still take turns harvesting. The agricultural machinery team provides mechanical operations services, and Captain Zheng coordinates the arrangements. The captains of each production team are both the executors and the primary responsible persons."

He is the branch secretary and team leader, and his main job is to take charge of the overall situation.

After the tone of the work was set, the entire team began to get busy.

The agricultural machinery team completed all maintenance work in advance. At Zheng Hu's command, they pulled various agricultural machinery to the fields.

The harvesters and threshers made a huge roar, and almost all the members of the team were mobilized. Members and educated youth with weaker working abilities also had to do a good job in logistics services.

A week later.

The autumn harvest was successfully completed, and all that remains are some finishing touches.

Everyone hurried to thresh and dry the rice, and the grains were stored in the warehouse, and the statistical data came out.

440 mu of land was planted with the Nanguang No. 48.4 rice variety, and the total yield remained stable, reaching 10 jin. Ten mu of sterile rice also yielded a good harvest, and although yield is not factored in, the estimated output is around 1 jin.

Team 1 planted [YX-10] rice seeds in its 032-mu experimental field, achieving an output of 832 kilograms per mu, which was another improvement.

He estimated that the yield of the conventionally cultivated rice variety [YX-032] would be between 800 and 850 kilograms. This rice variety has been finalized, and once the yield issues of the sterile line are resolved, it can be widely promoted.

Later, news came from Yao Village and Tian Bingyi Production Team that both the second and first phase trials had been a complete success.

With Fang Wei providing the original sterile strain, they have already cultivated two generations of their own sterile lines. Currently, the traits appear to be very stable, and they will be able to conduct phase III trials next year.

[YX-032] Conventional breeding of rice seeds has been successful. As long as the conventional breeding problem of sterile lines is solved, this rice seed will be the first high-yield hybrid rice that can be fully promoted.

Although the Nanguang series has better indicators in various aspects, it is limited by its production and can only cover this county and its surrounding areas at most.

There are simply no conditions for promoting it across the entire region, which is also the fundamental reason why [Qinghe No. 1] swept the entire region.

If we have enough [YX-032] rice seeds, the scope of promotion in the future will be extended to the entire province, and the significance will definitely be different.

Considering Wu Yaoyang's eagerness to achieve results, Fang Wei made a special trip to the commune to report to the commune on the progress of conventional breeding of [YX-032].

Zheng Xianfa then reported to Wu Yaoyang, who was overjoyed. He not only decided to commend the Xiatang Brigade, but also rewarded it with two large tractors.

On that day, Wu Yaoyang personally rode a tractor to the Xiatang Brigade. The tractor was decorated with red and colorful ribbons. Fang Wei organized people to stand in front of the brigade office to welcome him with drums and gongs. It was very lively.

Wu Yaoyang delivered a speech in front of the brigade cadres and all production team leaders, highly praising the achievements made in breeding work of Xiatang Brigade.

"The next step is to increase production. Only with stable, large-scale production can the new rice variety be widely promoted and make a greater contribution to grain production in the entire region."

Wu Yaoyang then called Fang Wei aside and talked to him alone.

"Secretary Fang, I plan to hand over the breeding of the [YX-32] rice variety to the county breeding base. Didn't you say the current bottleneck lies in the sterile line? This work can be handed over to your brigade.

As long as you can complete the task with guaranteed quality and quantity, the purchase price will be higher, and you will not be at a disadvantage. This is my personal opinion, and I hope you will carefully consider it.

Wu Yaoyang single-handedly built the [Xinlin County Agricultural Breeding Base], but it is still a long way from achieving results.

If we can master the breeding of [YX-032] rice seeds, the breeding base will immediately become famous and become the best breeding base in the entire region, without a doubt.

Although the breeding base in Qinghe County has produced [Qinghe No. 032], judging from various indicators, [Qinghe No. ] is still far inferior to [YX-].

"Yes! But the invention rights of [YX-032] belong to us, and we also have the right to freely cultivate this rice variety."

Fang Wei agreed to Wu Yaoyang without much hesitation. The original purpose of cultivating this rice variety was to promote it to the entire region, but the Xiatang Brigade did not have enough land, so it was appropriate to authorize the county to carry out large-scale breeding.

But the honor of inventing this rice variety cannot be transferred. The inventor is Shi Fangwei and the Xiatang Brigade, and this cannot be given up.

"Of course. We can't possibly deprive you and the Xiatang Brigade of your honor by deceiving you. As for your desire to produce some [YX-032] rice seeds, that's certainly no problem. After all, our county's rice production still primarily relies on [Nanguang No. ]."

Wu Yaoyang had no intention of depriving Fang Wei and the Xiatang Brigade of their honor. He just wanted to carry out large-scale breeding at the breeding base, and nothing else.

The two hit it off immediately and couldn't help but smile at each other.

In terms of friendliness, Fang Wei still felt that Tang Ze was superior. However, when it came to work, he preferred dealing with Wu Yaoyang because he was flexible and understood the principle of sharing the benefits equally. Wu Yaoyang then returned to the county and summoned the person in charge of the breeding base to discuss the breeding work.

He asked the other party to contact Fang Wei directly and make sure to get this done.

Fang Wei couldn't take care of this matter right now, as it was time to exchange rice seeds. First, each production team would exchange for the next-level rice seeds, and finally it would be the turn of the second team to exchange for the finalized rice seeds.

This season, production teams other than Team 3800 planted a total of 3735400 mu of [Nanguang No. 983] rice seeds, harvesting jin of first-grade rice seeds, with an average yield of jin per mu.

[Harvest crops, points +484000]

[Harvest crops, points +3735400]

Total points: 5119695.

After the exchange was completed, the brigade harvested a total of 470.34 million kilograms of rice and 224.99 million yuan in cash.

Some of the previous inventory has been consumed, and there are still 270 million kilograms of rice, and the granary is already full.

Fang Wei discussed the matter with everyone and then asked Zheng Hu to contact the purchasing station to clear out the inventory. A total of 450 million catties of rice were sold, leaving 290.34 million catties of rice in stock.

The team once again received 49.5 yuan in cash.

This year's public grain tax has been paid, and the next step is to distribute food rations.

This distribution was calculated based on an average of 500 kilograms of rice per person, and then distributed according to the coefficient, for a total of nearly 100 million kilograms of rice.

Chu Linlin and Jiang Xia were given 420 kilograms of rice, which they could not finish.

Fang Wei and Pan Lianhua were both allocated the highest rations, and the two of them received 1400 kilograms of food rations, which they still could not finish.

The members of the brigade and the educated youth increasingly felt that brigade accounting was a good thing and supported it from the bottom of their hearts.

Every year, the pork, chicken, duck, eggs, cooking oil, vegetables, etc. distributed are enough to allow everyone to maintain a relatively high standard of living, which is quite good in those days.

After distributing the rations, the team still had 190.34 million kilograms of food in stock.

"This season, we earned 274.49 million yuan in cash from agricultural breeding alone, achieving another bumper harvest. Next, we'll reassess the grade coefficients of each production team based on this year's performance."

After finishing these things, Fang Wei convened a meeting of all members.

He informed everyone of the production situation for the year and then began to reassess the reputation of each team.

This year, the second team is still far ahead, with all data ranking among the best, and is undoubtedly rated as the first tier with a coefficient of "1".

The other production teams also performed well, so the remaining 11 production teams were rated as the second tier with a coefficient of "0.8".

Therefore, the second team has a significant advantage in terms of distribution, and everyone is convinced of this. The base number for future distribution will be determined according to the second tier to ensure the minimum income level.

Everyone was very satisfied with the result, and Zheng Hu took the opportunity to announce at the meeting that rapeseed would be planted starting tomorrow.

This year's economic crops include one season of peanuts, one season of soybeans and one season of flue-cured tobacco. Since the flue-cured tobacco has not been harvested yet, the final statistics are not available.

Anyway, there is still some time before the year-end settlement, so Fang Wei is not in a hurry.

That day he received another notice to go to the provincial capital for a meeting.

At dinner that night, he discussed with Pan Lianhua: "While I'm at the meeting, do you want to go to the provincial capital together for a few days?"

"Okay, you go to the meeting first. When you're almost done, my sister and I will take Xiaobao to the provincial capital. Do you think this arrangement is okay?"

"Okay! Just be careful along the way. I'll ask Director Wu to help you get on the train, and I'll pick you up at the station."

After the two of them discussed it, they told their elder sister.

Wang Zhuyun had never traveled far, and when she heard that she had the opportunity to go to the provincial capital, she was also very excited.

But considering the reality, she said, "I'd better not go. It costs too much money."

"Sister, just go if I tell you to. Don't worry about other things."

Pan Lianhua quickly comforted her, saying that her sister cooked and took care of the children at home, working hard and never complaining, and everyone had long regarded her as a family member.

Hearing the other party say this, Wang Zhuyun stopped talking.

The next day.

Fang Wei set off for Chenzhou.

Wu Di, who received the news, met with him. Fang Wei asked him to help take care of Pan Lianhua and the others, to book train tickets in advance, and to send them on the train.

These are all trivial matters, Wu Di agreed readily.

Fang Wei treated Wu Di to a meal and then boarded a train heading straight to the provincial capital.

After the meeting began, Fang Wei noticed a shift in tone: many people were demanding the restoration of private plots in rural areas and the permission for members to raise a small number of chickens and ducks.

Due to some special reasons in the past few years, there were problems with the guiding ideology and it seemed a bit extreme.

Therefore, the main spirit of this meeting is to correct the original intention and to clarify the root cause. First, we need to criticize some wrong practices, and second, we need to vigorously develop industrial and agricultural production.

On this basis, some requirements can be appropriately relaxed in view of the particularities of rural areas.

During the group discussion, Fang Wei remained silent. He looked at the passionate people who had just spoken out. They had been just as passionate when they had said they wanted to return the private plots to the team.

Some things are like reincarnations, like a private plot of land, harvested and released, released and harvested, over and over again, many times.

Seeing Fang Wei remained silent, the group meeting's sponsor smiled and said, "Representative Fang, you're the team leader and have extensive experience working in rural areas. Tell us what you think."

"Our brigade is currently piloting the [brigade accounting system] and won't be considering returning private plots for the time being. However, based on historical experience, focusing on large-scale land and letting go of small-scale land, and moderately relaxing policies, is beneficial to both the collective and individuals."

Fang Wei didn't say much, but just talked about it a few words based on the specific situation of the brigade.

For the time being, he has no plans to return the private plots to the members, because the collective economy of Xiatang Brigade has developed very well and has basically achieved large-scale breeding. What's the point of going back?
But the situation in Xiatang Brigade is very special. If it weren't for the high-yield rice seeds developed by Fang Wei, everyone's living standards would definitely not have reached the current level.

The collective has no money and no extra food, so why engage in large-scale breeding?

The same goes for vegetable supply. Due to the bonus effect of attributes, the vegetable output of Team 2 has almost reached the limit.

Their vegetable seeds are in great demand. All twelve production teams in the brigade now basically use the seeds provided by Team 2 to grow vegetables.

What does this mean? It means that the vast majority of production teams should return their private plots to their members and should also moderately develop individual animal husbandry.

"Representative Fang said it very well. Please allow the next representative to speak."

The moderator of the group meeting was unable to evaluate Fang Wei's speech. There was definitely nothing wrong with his speech, but he just felt something was not right.

Next, everyone spoke enthusiastically and the group discussion ended in a warm atmosphere.

The last day was a centralized meeting, which set the tone and supported localities to actively return private plots to members and provide conditional loans for individual farming.

Two days after the meeting, Fang Wei sent a telegram to Pan Lianhua.

Pan Lianhua contacted Wu Di through Jiang Xia, who bought tickets for them. After they arrived in Chenzhou, they were sent on a train to the provincial capital.

On the day the meeting ended, Fang Wei went to the train station to pick up Pan Lianhua and her son and Wang Zhuyun.

Afterwards, Fang Wei took them to a guesthouse to stay in, and then began to wander around the provincial capital.

Xiaobao felt that his eyes were not enough. For the first time, the little guy discovered how wonderful the outside world was. He was so happy just seeing the buses on the road, not to mention the dazzling array of goods in the news building.

This period is when the urban-rural gap is the greatest.

Due to factors such as poor information flow and inconvenient travel, many farmers have never even been to their local county seat, let alone the provincial capital. (End of this chapter)