Chapter 242 Spark
That day, Zou Qixian and Zhang Yunqi talked until the evening. After returning to Longwan Town, Zou Qixian lay in bed late at night, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Zhang Yunqi's words were like awls, and every word struck at the heart of this commoner mayor who was confused about his career.

This young man is indeed a rare young talent! His thoughts and concerns are truly for the benefit of the people. With the support of the Longjingyuan Canning Factory and the underwriting contract, the problem of agricultural product sales, which is the biggest headache for farmers, is no longer a problem. In the name of the Longwan Town Government, a pilot project of a shareholding crop planting professional cooperative was carried out in Yunxi Village. For him, this is undoubtedly a great political achievement.

After a whole night of careful consideration, he had firmly believed that this matter might be the most important turning point in his career.

Early the next morning, he found Liao Xiangming, director of the town credit union, to discuss providing special loans to the crop planting cooperative of Yunxi Village.

The mayor came forward for the sake of Longwan Town's economic development, so Liao Xiangming naturally had no reason to refuse. However, with such a large sum of money, and the recipients were all local farmers with nowhere to stay, he was a little reluctant to take the risk and lend the money directly. Finally, after several negotiations with Zou Qixian, he requested that the money be provided to the villagers of Yunxi Village in the form of a joint guarantee loan for farmers.

Zhang Haijun, the director of the Yunxi Village Committee, was the first to learn from Zou Qixian that the town credit union was willing to provide the village with this policy loan. After repeated consideration, he felt that this was a good thing, so he immediately set up a farmer guarantee group in Yunxi Village with the village party secretary Zhang Guorui and other village committee cadres, and convened a meeting of the villagers to discuss the loan and investment in the cooperative.

Who would have thought that as soon as this matter was disclosed, it would cause a commotion in Yunxi Village. In the memory of the older generation in the village, this kind of scene only appeared during the land reform and collectivization and the production responsibility system. As soon as it got dark, the farmers put down their rice bowls, clattered their shoes, and rushed to the shabby little auditorium, arguing for most of the night about the loan to buy shares in the cooperative.

Those villagers who had money and didn't need loans were naturally indifferent, but those who didn't have money had different opinions. Most of the women and old people in the village were against loans. They usually had trembling hands when borrowing 120 or 80 yuan, so how could they dare to borrow so much money? What made them even more anxious was that this was a joint guarantee loan. If the cooperative encountered any danger, they would not only have to pay back their share, but also bear joint and several liability!

However, their opinions are destined not to become mainstream.

This is not discrimination against women and the elderly, but a natural law of human society.

Among those young men who are truly in charge, the vast majority have a positive attitude towards this matter. They are not afraid of loans. This is a matter of borrowing money to make money. Although the loans from the credit union must be repaid within a certain period of time and interest must be paid, this cooperative is a long-term thing. After working for a year, these debts can make a lot of money. If it goes on for three to five years, every household will be rich!
Besides, if you want to do business but are unwilling to take any risks, how can this business ever take off?
After a few days of arguing, everything was quickly settled. The idea of ​​joining the cooperative with a loan finally prevailed. The reckless young man wanted to start a business. Not to mention the handful of village women with less knowledge than their hair, even nine mad bulls couldn't stop him! In the end, 79 of the 68 households in Yunxi Village signed the names of the heads of households in the registration form for the intention to cooperate in the crop planting cooperative.

Zhang Yunqi, who had been busy with this matter for many days, got the list from Zhang Haijun as soon as possible. When he saw the densely packed handwritten names on the list, which looked like centipedes crawling, he felt a heavy feeling in his heart.

He always believed that allowing farmers to join cooperatives through credit loans was the best option to resolve the current situation, even though this approach seemed a bit inhumane and forced the villagers into a situation where they had no other choice since ancient times.

But at this point, the establishment of the Yunxi Village Shareholding Crop Planting Professional Cooperative is no longer for the realization of his personal ambitions and aspirations. Every crooked and distorted name on this list carries the most simple and original desire of the villagers to get rich, and burns the prairie fire of the Chinese farmers in the 90s who were unwilling to be trapped in the quagmire of poverty forever!

Of course, anyone with a discerning eye can see the benefits of this joint-stock cooperative, but how could the village farmers not tremble when they took out such a large sum of money with the unknown and dangerous loans? How many sleepless nights did they spend on this matter? How many times did they quarrel or even fight with their wives at home?

You should know that the villagers of Yunxi Village had never encountered this form of shareholding cooperative before. The actual origin of China's professional farmers' cooperatives is not long ago, probably in the mid-80s. The main motivation was naturally the establishment of the household contract responsibility system, which stimulated the enthusiasm of the vast number of Chinese farmers to produce. It was born in response to the continuous deepening of China's agricultural production reforms towards specialization, commercialization, socialization and marketization.

It was not until the early and mid-90s that China's professional farmer cooperatives really took off, and their establishment methods, service content and organizational systems developed in a diversified, multi-form and multi-level manner.

Among them, Zhang Yunqi's impression is that the more famous ones are the Handan model that emerged in 1989, whose main feature is the combination of government and the people, and the Laiyang model established in 1994, which was independently established by farmers. In addition, there are other economic cooperation organization forms that were extremely famous in the 90s, such as the Ningjin model and the Jiangshan model.

As for the "farmers + shareholding cooperatives + companies" model initiated by Zhang Yunqi in Yunxi Village, it was unprecedented in China at that time. The advancement of this model is mainly reflected in the fact that it not only uses the economic form of shareholding cooperatives to realize the labor union and capital union of workers, and combines the advantages of the two to form a new agricultural organizational system and management system, but also uses cooperatives as a link to unite farmers, cooperatives, processing companies, sales companies and other business entities to form a modern agricultural integrated management system.

There is no doubt that such an advanced and novel peasant economic organization will inevitably cause great repercussions at all levels of society after its emergence. However, Zhang Yunqi knows very well that for those peasants in Yunxi Village, their extremely limited knowledge prevents them from deeply realizing this aspect. They are all very poor and may worry about the high share capital, but they are not afraid of policy issues and some of them don't even consider the consequences much.

What they must know is that on the walls of the toilets at the entrance of the village there are slogans painted "Focus on economic development" and "Poverty is not socialism". By doing this, they can take care of their own crops while also earning extra money through planting cooperatives. Doesn't this conform to the country's policy of carrying out rural reforms and vigorously developing the agricultural economy?
Shit! In the next two days, Zhang Yunqi saw that the farmers in the village were already immersed in a chaotic excitement.

On the day of raising capital, the village party secretary Zhang Guorui presided over the meeting, and Liansheng deputy general manager Niu Fen, town mayor Zou Qixian and town credit union director Liao Xiangming, who he invited, were in attendance. The entire village crowded into the dilapidated rammed earth auditorium to witness this moment in Yunxi Village that was destined to be recorded in the history of China's rural reform and development.

According to the share capital allocation plan proposed by Zhang Yunqi, farmers contributed 12 yuan, accounting for 40% of the shares. Although the total share capital of 12 yuan was divided equally, each farmer in the village who joined the cooperative needed to pay more than 1700 yuan in share capital, but this was just a rough calculation. The actual payment was different because the share capital was not fixed, but was based on 300 yuan per share, and the farmers who joined the cooperative bought at least three shares, and there was no limit on the number of shares. When the meeting came to the payment of share capital, the rude farmers stung like wasps, crowding the long table for collecting and recording money, and excited voices rose and fell in the shabby little auditorium.

"Accountant Tian, ​​900 yuan! I want to buy 3 shares!"

"Don't push the people at the back! This is 1200 yuan, I want to buy 4 shares!"

"2100 yuan, I want to buy 7 shares!"

"1600 yuan, I want to buy 6 shares!"

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In the chaos of stock buying, the farmer who bought the largest number of shares soon emerged. He was the village director Zhang Haijun, who bought 15 shares for 4500 yuan!
Of course, most farmers who want to join the cooperative but have no money or insufficient money can register their names and apply for a credit loan at this time. At that time, the town credit union will directly lend the money to the passbook account opened by the Yunxi Village Committee responsible for setting up the cooperative.

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Zhang Yunqi did not see the scene of the village raising capital for shares.

At that time, he had already driven back to Jiangchuan City overnight.

For the villagers of Yunxi Village, the professional crop planting cooperative has carried all their hopes of embarking on the road to wealth, but this hope is built on the development of Liansheng, because it is a big back-end of the Liansheng system that Zhang Yunqi wants to build, and a baggage troop that transports artillery shells.

Now that Longjingyuan is about to resume work, as the actual controller of this cannery, Zhang Yunqi has too many other things to take care of. The personnel adjustments of Liansheng's middle-office executive team, the business restructuring of various business lines, the updating and iteration of new canned products, the formulation of large-scale front-end marketing strategies and the establishment of distribution channels all require Zhang Yunqi to set the tone. Tomorrow is Liansheng's executive meeting, and all section chief-level employees of Longjingyuan must attend, so Zhang Yunqi must rush back.

Niu Fen did not go back with Zhang Yunqi.

Zhang Yunqi has handed over all the follow-up matters of Yunxi Village's crop planting professional cooperative to him, including assisting the Yunxi Village Committee in handling the cooperative procedures, convening the cooperative member meeting to elect the chairman, the signing ceremony of the underwriting agreement between Longwan Town Government and Longjingyuan Canning Factory, and a series of other important matters. It can be said that Niu Fen is now the general manager of the back-end of the Liansheng system. Although this is a bit of a rush, he wants to start a business, and Zhang Yunqi also wants him to practice.

Ji Ling and Zhang Yunqi returned to Jiangchuan City together.

The New Year is approaching, and she can't stay in the countryside forever.

It was almost eight o'clock in the evening when the two set out. The dark mountain road was not easy to walk on. Ji Ling was in a good mood and kept talking to Zhang Yunqi, but the girl couldn't stay up late and fell asleep while chatting.

When passing through Fengyang County, there was a sharp whistle outside the car window. Zhang Yunqi turned his head to look out the window. There were scattered fireworks falling from the sky, splashing countless fragments of light. The girl beside him was already fast asleep at that time. There was tranquility on her delicate little face, and her long eyelashes left two shadows on it.

It was almost dawn when we arrived in Jiangchuan.

Zhang Yunqi drove the car to the downstairs of his residential complex, reached out and pulled Ji Ling's hand until she slowly woke up, then smiled and said: "It's too late, I can't take you home. How about staying here tonight and going home tomorrow?"

Ji Ling said in a daze: "Who am I sleeping with?"

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(End of this chapter)