amaotonovel Chapter 314 Grabbing water
Chapter 314 Grabbing water
Since July, there has been almost no rain in Qingping County.
Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing knew that the drought that the expert Zhou Rong knew mentioned was coming soon.
In order to ensure the yield of late rice, the two men took advantage of the water in nearby rivers and streams and organized people from Zhoujiawan and other production teams in Shengli Brigade to store water in the fields every day.
Some experienced team leaders and captains also realized that there would be a drought, and quickly organized their members to carry water trucks to pump water, and sent people to guard the fields day and night to prevent anyone from causing damage...
The Advance Brigade and the Victory Brigade pumped water from the same river.
When Xu Dayong saw the people from the Victory Brigade, he felt angry, but he couldn't beat them, so he left after taking a look around.
I thought that revenge doesn't need to be done openly, but using some means secretly might be more effective...
Zhou Chuanyi glanced at Xu Dayong's departing back, and fearing that this petty man would take revenge, he brought people to dig a gap in the middle of the night to drain the water from the fields.
Instruct several production team leaders to arrange people to take turns on duty to guard against villains.
When Xu Dayong sent people to dig a gap in the Zhoujiawan field, he was caught by the guards on duty.
The early rice harvest was not ideal. In order to achieve this year's leap forward goal, the county cadres in charge of agricultural production required all communes to work hard on late rice to make up for the food gap caused by the poor harvest of early rice.
When the production teams held the production meetings, all the team leaders and squad leaders made guarantees to the commune to ensure a certain yield per mu.
In order to get commendations and red flags, everyone boasts about achieving an output of 1000, 1500 or 2000 grains per mu.
Zhou Chuanjing was under pressure and asked for 1500 kilograms. He was worried that he would not be able to ask the commune to lower the quota, but Xu Dayong brought the opportunity to him.
After discussing with Zhou Chuanjing, they took a group of members and sent those people who had secretly dug the gap to the commune, saying that the Qianjin Brigade had drained the water from their fields and the late rice harvest this year could not be guaranteed.
Zhou Chuanyu knew what Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing were planning. The unrealistic per-acre yield made him feel uneasy, but other communes reported the same data, and county and provincial leaders also liked such beautiful data, so he could only follow suit.
Zhou Chuanyu asked his comrades in the Armed Forces Department to interrogate the people who had secretly dug the gap. After learning that it was Xu Dayong who had instructed them, he immediately sent people to arrest him. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for sabotaging the Leap Forward Plan and was sent to a quarry for reform...
For the farmland that had been drained of water, Zhou Chuanyu asked Zhou Chuanjing to lead people to try their best to save it. If it failed, the actual yield per mu would be used as the basis when the late rice was harvested.
Zhou Chuanjing was delighted and quickly assured Zhou Chuanyu that they would do their best to maximize the yield per mu...
It hadn't rained for two consecutive months, and the riverbeds of nearby rivers had been exposed, making it very difficult to pump water. Production teams often fought over water.
Zhou Chuanjing sent people out to grab water while releasing water from the newly dug pond to alleviate the water shortage in the fields and vegetable bases...
If the drought continues, locusts will inevitably multiply in large numbers.
Zhou Rong found some methods to control the locust plague on the Internet and told Zhou Chuanyi about them via letter as soon as possible.
For example, cut the straw into four or five inch lengths, put 50 kg of human urine into it, add some pesticides and soak it for 8 hours, and then scatter it in the morning in places where locusts are infested.
Chickens and ducks are experts at eating insects, which can not only eliminate locusts but also save food. Zhou Rong suggested that Zhou Chuanyi drive all the chickens and ducks of Shengli Brigade out to find food every day.
If possible, tell these methods to more people to prevent the crops that everyone has worked hard to grow from being destroyed by locusts.
Zhou Rong once sent these methods of controlling locust plagues to several newspapers in Kyoto in the form of anonymous letters, hoping that they could be promoted nationwide. However, for some reason, they were never published.
Zhou Rong was too lazy to delve into the reasons. Perhaps some things really could not be changed. She could only cooperate within her ability with those who were willing to believe in her and cooperate with her...
Zhou Chuanyi always believed in Zhou Rong and thought that the method she provided should be feasible. After cracks appeared on the ground, he asked Zhang Xiuying to help prepare the medicine, and at the same time, he asked the production teams that raised chickens and ducks to drive the chickens and ducks to places where locusts might appear every day.
Those locusts that had not yet grown into adult form ended up in the stomachs of chickens and ducks...
After Zhou Chuanyi found this method very useful, he told Zhou Chuanyu.
Zhou Chuanyu quickly reported back to the county and, through his connections, published methods for controlling locusts in major newspapers.
Qingping County and many places in the province have benefited from these locust control methods.
Zhou Chuanyu and Zhou Chuanyi were both commended for their contributions to locust control, and they both credited Zhou Rong with a great achievement in their hearts...
Based on the fact that some cadres criticized the Great Leap Forward and the people's communes, saying that the national steel-making campaign was "not worth the cost" and "a waste of money and labor", they only considered the political accounts and not the economic accounts.
Because of "hot-headedness", it led to "all-round tension", "serious imbalance in the proportions of the national economy", "manifested petty-bourgeois fanaticism" and "undermined the party's style of seeking truth from facts."
He also said that "the people's commune has no superiority", was a "man-made product", and was a "spur of the moment" statement. At the end of August, Jiangcheng launched an anti-Y tendency campaign.
Those who had made bad remarks, including those they had said when complaining to others, were singled out and held a meeting to determine their identities.
Tan Shaojun's youngest son, Tan Jianwu, worked at the Civil Affairs Bureau. During the Great Steel Production Campaign, he was unable to obtain scrap iron to complete his assignment, so he complained to his colleagues. This was remembered, and they took the opportunity to report him.
Tan Jianwu was assigned a crime and demoted to the countryside; Tan Shaojun was implicated and summoned by city leaders, and someone took advantage of the situation to report him for corruption and bribery.
After the facts were ascertained, Tan Shaojun was removed from his position as secretary and sent to a farm for reform.
As Tan Shaojun's secretary, Wu Xiang was affected and sent to the countryside for training. The time of his return to the city is yet to be determined.
Those who were promoted by Tan Shaojun were also affected to varying degrees, and either had to change positions or go to the countryside.
Zhou Rong was very fortunate that he did not board Tan Shaojun's "pirate ship" in the first place, otherwise he would not know where he would be "exiled" to now.
After experiencing these things, Zhou Rong became more careful in doing things. Every time she processed a file, she would check it again and again and make a copy in the system as a backup to prevent anyone from harming her.
In late September, the municipal government held a grand ceremony to celebrate the 9th anniversary of National Day.
The provincial leaders delivered a speech entitled "Oppose Y-inclination, encourage hard work, and continue to carry out the production increase and savings campaign in depth."
Afterwards, the Municipal Party Committee proposed to "hold high the red flag of the general line, advance on victory, vigorously oppose the Y tendency, boost enthusiasm, launch mass movements, fight a decisive battle in the fourth quarter, and strive to fully and ahead of schedule to exceed the leap forward plan."
Each district and unit challenged each other and responded to the challenge.
Young workers also held a rally to swear in, proposing to "run into 1960."
Zhou Rong's daily job is to help Director Liao Bowen write speeches, saying all kinds of inspiring words, and occasionally accompany him to attend some activities, witnessing the smiling but treacherous and capricious officials...