Chapter 38 Important Notice
Wang Zhong immediately quoted a price of half a million yuan, which made Xu Qiang feel helpless.

"I understand your feelings, but you have to eat one bite at a time. No one can become fat in one bite." Wang Zhong smiled and continued, "Isn't your peat farm now thriving? If you produce more fertilizer, you can afford it."

"That's all we can do." Xu Qiang curled his lips and then asked, "By the way, Director Wang, do you have a crusher here? Give me a price."

Since he couldn't afford the generator, Xu Qiang could only ask about the prices of other equipment.

Regarding the crusher, Xu Qiang bought it mainly to crush the dried peat. In the current peat field, crushing peat is also a time-consuming job, and it is also difficult to grind it finely. If there is a crusher, the efficiency will definitely be greatly improved.

"We don't have it here. My suggestion is that you'd better go to the agricultural machinery station. They have all kinds of equipment. Ask them about the various equipment. This way, you won't buy the wrong thing." Wang Zhong suggested.

"Thank you, Director Wang." Xu Qiang said gratefully.

"You're welcome. Let's drink together sometime."

"okay!"

Xu Qiang smiled, then turned and left.

……

After finishing work at the peat field in the afternoon, Xu Qiang had just returned to the village when he received a notice: There will be a meeting for all members tomorrow morning. Everyone must attend and no one can be late or absent!
Upon hearing the news, Xu Qiang immediately realized that the production team was about to split up.

In the winter of 1978, 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Fengyang County, Anhui Province, with a daring spirit, pressed their bright red fingerprints on a "secret contract" to divide the land into households and implemented the "contract responsibility system" for agriculture, which marked the beginning of my country's rural reform.

The red fingerprints of these 18 leaders gave birth to the household contract responsibility system, which eventually became the basic management system in my country's rural areas. It completely broke the people's commune system of "one big and two public", liberated rural productivity, and the state quickly recognized this practice and issued relevant documents, thus launching the household contract responsibility system in rural areas across the country.

In fact, since the end of last year, many rural production teams in Jiangxi have begun to split up. Now, following the orders from higher authorities, Shangzhuang Village where Xu Qiang is located has officially started the reform of subcontracting to households.

"Qiangzi, tell the leader tomorrow that we need to go to the meeting early."

After returning home, mother Zhang Fenglan said to Xu Qiang.

It can be seen that Zhang Fenglan is very nervous about this family division meeting. After all, it is related to the family's livelihood.

When her husband was around, she didn't have to worry about such things at all. But after her husband passed away, the family immediately lost its backbone. As a cowardly housewife, Zhang Fenglan sometimes didn't know what to do.

"I got it. I'll ask for leave from my boss tonight and leave work early tomorrow." Xu Qiang replied casually.

"Talk to your boss nicely. This is really an important matter. Don't let him misunderstand you."

"What's the misunderstanding?" Xu Qiang said nonchalantly, "Don't worry, Mom. It's just a leave. Besides, many people in our workshop are from our village. The team leader's three sons also work there. The workshop leaders must know about this."

"That's good." Zhang Fenglan breathed a sigh of relief, and after a moment she said, "We must strive to get a good piece of land this time. If not, we can spend some money..." "Why does our family need land?" Xu Qiang frowned when he heard this.

"What do you want if you don't want land? Where will the food come from?"

"The question is, even if we take the land, will you farm it or will I?" Xu Qiang glanced at his mother and continued, "I'm already working in a factory and I'm busy with work every day. You're not in good health, so can you do the heavy work?"

"But……"

"If it were you, you would just have to get some livestock, like chickens, ducks, pigs, etc. You can raise them at home. When they grow up, you can exchange them for money and food. Besides, my salary is not low now, and the factory also gives me food coupons and oil coupons every month. Why do I have to plant those few plots of land?"

In fact, the villagers knew exactly how much wealth the brigade had.

As early as a year ago, there were rumors of the brigade splitting up, and all the villagers had talked about these things privately. As for how to divide the family, it had also been discussed privately a long time ago.

The most popular method is to draw lots, first distribute all the assets of the brigade equally according to the number of people in the production team. The so-called equality is only relative. For example, the livestock of those with good and nearby land will be inferior, and the livestock of those with poor and distant land will be inferior. In addition, villagers can also exchange with mutual consent. If there is really no way to divide it, just sell it for money and divide it equally...

In short, this matter concerns the future livelihood of the villagers. Even the team leader does not dare to act on his own.

As for Xu Qiang's family, there are only mother and son left. Xu Qiang still has to go to work, so even if he gets good land, there will be a serious shortage of labor, not to mention that his mother has not been in good health in recent years.

So Xu Qiang's meaning was very simple, that is, he only wanted livestock and not land. Xu Qiang's mother was also a person who could not sit still. Letting her raise chickens and ducks alone would be much easier than farming. Even if his mother did nothing, Xu Qiang would have no problem supporting her.

"But you haven't been hired yet..."

"Don't worry, Mom. I will try to get a permanent job as soon as possible. My boss has been very good to me recently. I think I will be able to get a permanent job in one or two years at most."

In order to comfort his mother, Xu Qiang could only lie with good intentions.

"That's good." Sure enough, hearing her son say this, Zhang Fenglan's expression suddenly changed, and she turned around to prepare dinner.

After returning to his room, Xu Qiang, who had been tired for the whole afternoon, half-lay down on the bed and began to think about this matter.

Just as he said just now, Xu Qiang had no interest in the land distribution in the village. The only thing that interested him was the two horse-drawn carriages of the brigade.

Because the peat field needs a horse-drawn carriage to transport fertilizer to the town, if there is no such thing, they can only rely on bicycles. However, bicycles can only transport a few bags at a time, which is labor-intensive and extremely inefficient. This is something Xu Qiang absolutely cannot accept.

Although Liu Jun has always been the team's coachman, it is not certain whether he can get this carriage when the family is divided.

Besides, as a farmer, Liu Jun still has a strong sense of dependence on the land, and maybe he doesn't want the carriage at all.

But for Xu Qiang, no matter what, even if he had to pay some money and exchange with the person who drew the lot, even if he had to buy it at a high price, he must get at least one carriage!
(End of this chapter)