amaotonovel Chapter 300: This kind of win-win cooperation, Zhou Rong likes to do it
Chapter 300: This kind of win-win cooperation, Zhou Rong likes to do it
On October 58, 10, a newspaper reported that a rice experimental field in one place had a yield of 1 kilograms per mu, and that people could sit on the rice in the field. If you don't believe it, you can visit at will.
Within two days, the newspaper reported that an experimental field in a certain place had a rice yield of 1.5 kilograms per mu, which caused a sensation across the country and became the most popular field.
Not wanting to be outdone, various places released their own high-yield satellites, with yam yielding 120 million jin per mu, lint cotton yielding 5000 jin per mu, sesame yielding 2000 jin per mu, corn yielding 3500 jin per mu, sorghum yielding jin per mu, and so on.
Well, the vegetable base in Zhoujiawan also launched a satellite, with an annual radish yield of 10,000 kilograms per mu.
In his letter to Zhou Rong, Zhou Chuanyi explained that this was a requirement of the county. If the entire Qingping County did not launch a single satellite, it would lose face to the outside world, and the name of Zhoujiawan Demonstration Base would also be ridiculed.
As for how he "hid the truth from the world", Zhou Chuanyi gave a simple explanation in the letter. He dug small holes in the radish field, and if someone came to visit, he would say that radishes had been planted there before.
If you don’t believe it, take you to see the “mountains” of radishes. If you still don’t believe it, you are a “conservative.”
No one wants to be labeled, so they can only accept this "reality".
If anyone wants radishes, they can take a few back. Fortunately, radishes are something that everyone is tired of eating, so no one takes them away.
Zhou Chuanyi also told Zhou Rong that people who brag are now glorious. He didn't know who came up with this "dirty trick", but the county issued a notice that if the per-acre yield reported is high, the commune will reward them with a red flag, and if the per-acre yield reported is low, a white flag will be given.
In order to save face, everyone had to report higher production figures.
Zhou Rong understood the difficulty of Zhou Chuanyi being in that position. The superiors liked beautiful data, so everyone had to "be a bit more cautious" to protect themselves. Otherwise, they would face criticism, dismissal, or being labeled a conservative...
The current slogan in the agricultural field is "taking grain as the key link and achieving comprehensive development." In addition to rice and wheat, corn, sorghum, broad beans and sweet potatoes, vegetables and fruits are also being "launched" one after another.
Some places say that their cucumber weighs 80 kilograms; one winter melon weighs four people; one pumpkin needs a cart to push; one pepper weighs one and a half kilograms; one apple tree can produce 5000 kilograms of apples; and some places say that their pear trees can produce kilograms of fruit.
The dazzling and inspiring reports made everyone feel that the country was becoming increasingly prosperous and that there was endless food.
In fact, some cities in the western region, the north, and the south have experienced varying degrees of drought since the beginning of the year, and grain production has dropped significantly, but everyone's minds were on the Leap Forward Plan, so no one reported it...
As of October, the annual steel production target of 10 million tons is still far from being achieved.
Three quarters of the time has passed. According to the current production capacity of various industrial enterprises, even if we work day and night, we cannot complete the task.
But the central government has set the goal and it must be achieved.
Each province was assigned a task, and in order to meet the target, local governments called on local people to participate in steelmaking.
The rural population is large, there is sufficient labor, and mining is possible nearby, so starting from the rural areas, all the farmers joined in the battle.
Under the guidance of the policy of "taking steel as the key link and driving everything else", people from all over the country took urgent action and worked hard to complete the steelmaking plan.
Soon, a large number of small earthen furnaces were built in the fields to smelt iron and steel using traditional methods.
Steelmaking requires materials such as iron ore, coke, and fuel.
Due to the shortage of iron ore, in many places, the party committee secretary personally led strong laborers to the mountains to search for and dig for ore in order to find ore.
Every household also "contributed" their pots, pans, plows, rakes, and anything else containing metal components, which were melted into the furnace and turned into "molten steel."
If there is no fuel, we have to go up the mountain to cut down trees.
Green hills were cut down one after another, and some mature fruit trees were also cut down and thrown into the furnace during this catastrophe...
In some places, there was a shortage of materials for building blast furnaces, and they even demolished cultural relics buildings and used the bricks to build furnaces, saying that cultural relics should also serve steelmaking. Anyone who prevents this is a Y-faction member and an enemy of the people.
Because the adult male labor force has to go mining, logging and steelmaking, farmland everywhere is almost entirely managed by students and women, and there is no one to supervise. As a result, "there is only a line up the mountain, and a large area of land to sit on. You just get up to pull two weeds, and then the bell rings for dinner." The enthusiasm for work is very low.
In some places, agricultural production is ignored. Men, women, old and young go to the fields, carrying hoes and cooking pots, to dig coal, make steel and iron, leaving sweet potatoes, corn, sorghum and other crops to rot in the fields, with no one to harvest them...
Zhou Rong wrote a letter to Zhou Chuanyi every one or two weeks, telling him some new developments in the city, such as the organization's requirement for all units to produce steel at all costs, and it is estimated that the rural areas will soon be involved.
Zhou Rong suggested that Zhou Chuanyi lead the villagers of Shengli Brigade to harvest all the grain in the fields, and conveyed this proposal to Zhou Chuanyu, so as to avoid the entire Hong'an Commune not having enough time to harvest grain after the new policy was implemented, and having nothing to eat after the spring.
Communicating across levels is a taboo in the workplace, and Zhou Chuanyi is a person who cares a lot about his reputation. If Zhou Rong bypasses him and talks directly to Zhou Chuanyu, Zhou Chuanyi will feel that he, as the team leader, is not respected. Even if he doesn't say it, he will have thoughts in his mind, and it will be difficult to find him to implement anything in the future.
Power, to a certain extent, is gained by being isolated from information.
Zhou Rong had never thought of taking up a position in Hong'an Commune, so he didn't have to please Zhou Chuanyu and naturally wouldn't do anything to offend others.
Give this opportunity to Zhou Chuanyi. As long as he can grasp it well, he will be able to stand out in front of the leaders.
If he makes a profit, he, his family, and the entire Zhoujiawan will also benefit.
Zhou Rong likes to do this kind of win-win cooperation...
It has been more than a week since Zhou Rong received a reply from Zhou Chuanyi. He was not sure whether all the grain in Zhoujiawan had been harvested. He also wanted to see how the steelmaking work in Hong'an Commune was progressing.
When Zhou Rong drove his RV back to Zhoujiawan, he deliberately visited other places.
Small earthen stoves were scattered across the fields, with flames shooting up into the sky.
"I'm not afraid of not being able to do it, I'm just afraid of not being able to think of it!"
"How bold the people are, how productive the land will be!"
"Spend all your money on steel!"
Zhou Rong sighed repeatedly when seeing the various eye-catching slogans.
There were people in the fields composing poems: "Be bold and think boldly, a steel plant can be established without spending a penny. Pile up yellow mud as an open furnace and set up bamboo as steel beams. Smelt iron and steel at the same time, and the bellows are whirring loudly."
"Singing loudly on the top of a mountain, the song is louder than the ocean. The song makes molten iron rush down the mountain, and the song produces tens of thousands of tons of steel in the factory."
"The Iron Marshal has been put into operation, and small blast furnaces are blooming everywhere. We will always listen to the Party's words by smashing pots and offering iron."
There is a large threshing ground next to the Hong'an Commune Management Office. It was leveled to make it easier for everyone to pay their public grain taxes. It is now occupied by a number of small earthen stoves.
Zhou Rong roughly counted them while driving his RV and found that there are more than 100 that have been built and put into use, and some are under construction.
The area of the threshing ground was not large enough, so the nearby roads, open spaces, and fertile fields were all requisitioned to build the earthen furnace.
There used to be a forest next to the commune, but it was probably cut down to solve the fuel problem, leaving only some tree stumps standing there pitifully.
Zhou Rong walked around the entire Hong'an Commune. The forests near the commune all showed signs of being cut down. Fortunately, all the rice in the fields had been harvested, which was a blessing in disguise...