Although the old branch secretary is temporarily living in seclusion in Xiaolaojun Mountain.

But actually.

He has not lost contact with the cadres of Zhengxing Brigade.

The old party secretary has been directing the agricultural production of Zhengxing Brigade remotely through letters.

The situation is quite serious now.

Other aspects of work, such as personnel transfers, going to communes for meetings, etc.

Or to resolve conflicts between members, coordinate between production teams, or conflicts, etc.

The old branch secretary will not care about all these trivial matters for the time being.

I just focus on two things: how to work hard to promote agricultural production and prepare for disaster relief.

Therefore, under Luo Xuan's suggestion.

The old party secretary immediately wrote a long letter and ordered Zhou Laoer to make a special trip to send the letter to Zhengxing Brigade urgently.

Leave it to Captain Liao and the recently promoted Deputy Captain Peng Zhikun.

So far,

All members of the Zhengxing brigade were mobilized urgently.

Among them, all the young and strong laborers went to build ditches, striving to connect a more than 20 kilometers of diversion canal to the auxiliary weir of Yongxing Reservoir within 2 months.

This auxiliary weir is an auxiliary facility built because of the need to build Yongxing Reservoir.

It stores millions of cubic meters of water for irrigation.

All the young and strong labor force of Zhengxing Brigade are busy repairing new canals.

According to the requirements of the old branch secretary, this water diversion channel does not need to be very strong, let alone how beautiful.

In the letter from the old branch secretary, there was only one request: the aqueduct must be built quickly.

This diversion channel must be repaired as soon as possible at all costs.

The old, weak, women and children among the members of the Zhengxing Brigade were busy hatching chickens and ducks, or going around to buy chicks and ducks.

At this time, Yongxing Reservoir has not yet been completed.

Therefore, only 7 or 8 kilometers of main channels leading to various production brigades have been built.

As for the branch canals leading to various brigades, many brigades have not yet taken them seriously, so they have not organized members to build new canals.

to be honest,

Under the current conditions, other production brigades do not have the conditions to organize members to build aqueducts.

People are iron rice is steel.

If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it grass.

In the same way, if each brigade wants to organize members to build water canals.

To do such hard work, if there is not enough food, the members will be fed.

Who can do it?

The Zhengxing Brigade purchased 50,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, 10,000 kilograms of rice, and 25,000 kilograms of corn from Luo Xuan.

This batch of grain is specially used as rations for the members participating in labor this time.

This enabled the Zhengxing Brigade to launch this large-scale construction of basic farmland water conservancy facilities.

But other production teams don't have this strength...

"Luo Xuan, how many sweet potatoes and corn do these grain dealers you have contacted have in their hands?"

Sitting on the top of Xiaolaojun Mountain.

The old party secretary turned to Luo Xuan and asked: "If they still have a lot of grain on hand, can we first get another 23,000 kilograms of grain from them on credit?"

"Uncle, what are you thinking about?"

Luo Xuan said: "It's not like you don't know what's going on now. It's pretty good that they can sell you so many sweet potatoes at this price!

Are you still thinking of taking it on credit?

I can't help but be curious, so I just want to ask you, uncle: Do you feel guilty when you say this?"

I have sold tens of thousands of kilograms of grain to the old party secretary at a huge discount.

Now, he actually wants to get the grain dealer to give him credit?!

Who is that mysterious grain dealer?

Isn’t it just me, sitting in front of you, old branch secretary, this handsome and outstanding young member of the club... myself?

I've already given you a huge discount on the price. Do you still want to play on credit with me?

How in the world can anyone do business like this?

Lao Zishu sighed: "I know better than you how much money the brigade has on its books. If I can come up with so much money at once, do you think I want to pay it on credit?"

Luo Xuan chuckled: "Everyone in the world can use all the money in the world. We don't have any money in the accounts of our brigade, but others have money in their pockets. Uncle, won't you borrow it?"

previously.

The price of sweet potatoes agreed upon by Luo Xuan and the old party secretary was 7 cents per catty.

This price is more than double that of previous years, when sweet potatoes could only be sold for 2 to 3 cents per catty.

But if we calculate based on the current market prices in the frog market, 1 pound of sweet potatoes can actually be sold for 1.2 cents, or even 1.4 cents.

The reason why their prices vary is related to the quality of sweet potatoes.

If it is the kind of sweet potato that has not been stored particularly well and has sprouted very long.

The starch content and sugar content in this kind of sweet potato will drop sharply.

If you use it as food, the nutrition and satiety it can bring will be much worse.

Luo Xuan sold the first batch of 50,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes to the old branch secretary at a price of 7 cents per kilogram.

The total value is 3500 yuan.

Add in 10,000 kilograms of rice, and each kilogram is 9 cents.

25,000 kilograms of corn, each kilogram is 7 cents and 9 cents.

This time, Zhengxing Brigade needs to pay Luo Xuan 32,450 yuan.

The brigade headquarters cannot afford so much money at once.

This huge sum of money also requires the eight production teams belonging to the Zhengxing Brigade to use the reserves of their production teams.

Everyone pieced it together, barely able to get it together.

After the Zhengxing Brigade handed over this huge sum of money to Luo Xuan.

This time, the production team was planning to purchase chickens and ducks on a large scale and raise them back, but they did not have the funds to implement them.

In addition, when building aqueducts, you also need to buy steel drills, chisels, hammers... and other tools.

Therefore, the finances of the Zhengxing Brigade suddenly became extremely tight!

The old branch secretary heard that this kid Luo Xuan actually encouraged him to borrow money?

The old branch secretary was so angry that he wanted to hit someone. He picked up a small dead branch from the ground and was about to throw it towards Luo Xuan.

"Hit, uncle, if you hit us with this stick, our fate will be over."

Luo Xuan didn't want to be accustomed to being beaten and scolded by the old branch secretary!

Seeing this, Luo Xuan chuckled: "I have clearly shown you a broad road, why do you insist on crossing the single-plank bridge?"

"What kind of bullshit road is this?"

The old party secretary was furious, "We have no foreign debts and no domestic debts, we are self-reliant and have enough food and clothing.

This is the spirit of struggle that superiors are vigorously promoting.

Look at the members of our production team, how they live their lives, which family is willing to go into debt?

Hey, who doesn't owe a little money, but is eager to tighten his belt and try every means to pay back the money?"

"Being debt-free and light, not owing anyone money will keep your back straight."

As the old party secretary spoke, he straightened his back.

He patted his chest and said, "Look at our production team. We would rather live a hard life than spend half a cent lavishly.

Otherwise, if you buy so much food this time, look at other brigades, can they get so much money at once?"

"Luo Xuan, it's not my uncle who is talking about you."

"I also know that you are capable and can make money. But this young man has to learn from us elders in his life.

You must learn to plan your life. Spend the money you have on hand sparingly..."
To be continued...