Chapter 393 Desire
Hu Xianxun stayed in Fengyang County for one night.

The next day, at about 8 o'clock in the morning, the group had breakfast and went out.

The car sped along, passing through Fengyang City, through the vast fields and towering mountains, through the lush green rapeseed fields and bright red peach trees, and gradually approached the legendary Yunxi Village.

Along the way, what Hu Xianxun felt most obviously was the change in the road surface. At first it was muddy land, and after passing an unknown hill, the mud road turned into a gravel road. When approaching Yunxi Village, it was already a clear cement road, leading directly to the depths of this village with a brand new look and full of human fireworks.

This was the first village cement road Hu Xianxun saw in southern Hunan, and he was deeply impressed.

After their car entered the village, no villagers looked at it strangely, as if cars coming and going in this village was already a very common thing.

This is Lin Shiyu's second time here.

She was familiar with the route and greeted a few farmers she knew. Then she took Hu Xianxun and his group directly to the home of Zhang Haijun, chairman of the Yunxi Village Shareholding Cooperative.

At that time, Zhang Haijun was smoking one cigarette after another and discussing matters with Wang Jingshan, a technical expert from Huafeng Agriculture, with a gloomy look on his face.

Lin Shiyu brought people over without prior notice, saying that they were agricultural experts from Xiangnan University who came to investigate the agricultural development of Yunxi Village in recent years. Zhang Haijun was still a little surprised.

Of course, although over the years, there have been media reporters and inspection teams from various places coming to Yunxi Village for research, Zhang Haijun has become numb to it. They are not particularly important and are usually just going through the motions. However, this reporter from a big newspaper from the provincial capital has a very good relationship with the chairman Zhang Yunqi, so naturally he has to receive him well.

However, he has been in a very bad mood in recent days.

He already knew what happened in Jiangchuan City, and now there were rumors that Zhang Yunqi had been arrested. For him and the entire Yunxi Village, this was a huge event, like the sky falling.

He just couldn't figure out what was wrong with the world. Was it true that good people didn't get rewarded? He watched Yunqi grow up little by little. He watched this poor kid earn a big career with his own hands. Not only did he make his poor family prosperous, but he also led the villagers in the valley to become rich.

What a great young talent!

As for those news reports that contained all sorts of obscene language against Zhang Yunqi and Liansheng Group, he was not willing to believe them, and he absolutely did not believe them!

Of course, he was even more unwilling to just sit there and wait for death.

The good life and development of Yunxi Village today are all due to Zhang Yunqi. Zhang Yunqi is the backbone of Liansheng Group and the backbone of Yunxi Village Cooperative! As the saying goes, if the nest is destroyed, the eggs will not be intact. To be realistic, if Zhang Yunqi really gets into trouble, Liansheng Group will not know how turbulent it will be. Now several core managements have been taken away. He personally went to the group headquarters in the city and felt that people were panicking. If this continues, the group's huge supply chain system will sooner or later fall apart. As the upper reaches of the entire group's supply chain system, Yunxi Village, Longwan Town, and even the farmers who have already radiated the entire Fengyang County, where should they go? !
Thinking of this, Zhang Haijun, the leader of the Yunxi Village Shareholding Cooperative, couldn't sleep all day and all night. He knew that he couldn't go on like this. These peasants didn't have any big opportunities, but they had their own ways.

These days, he has been planning something big.

He has called on villagers from Yunxi Village and several other villages, farmers in Longwan Town who planted and purchased crops in a unified manner, and workers in Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park to press their red fingerprints and prepare to go to the city to petition!
Naturally, these things cannot be known to others.

Zhang Haijun was thinking about all this and understood the purpose of Lin Shiyu and his group's visit, but he had no intention of entertaining them, so he asked Wang Jingshan to accompany Lin Shiyu and the old man on the inspection and research.

Seeing that Zhang Haijun was listless and dejected, without any of the enthusiasm she had when she first came, Lin Shiyu knew the crux of the problem, so she made an excuse to go to the bathroom, took out a pen and paper, wrote a few words, and crumpled up the paper into a small note.

Lin Shiyu didn’t know whether what she did was right or wrong, but for the people here, this might be an opportunity that would never come again.

After coming out of the bathroom, when Lin Shiyu followed Hu Xianxun out of Zhang Haijun's house, she secretly slipped the note into Zhang Haijun's hand.

After Lin Shiyu accompanied the old man out, Zhang Haijun opened the crumpled piece of paper with a puzzled look, and Hu Xianxun's position was clearly written on it.

He was completely shocked at that time!

After a long while, Zhang Haijun raised his eyes and stared blankly at the thin old man who was gradually walking away in the drizzle.

After a long time, Zhang Haijun gritted his teeth, picked up the phone and called all members of the Yunxi Village Shareholding Cooperative Board of Directors one by one.

For Zhang Yunqi, for Yunxi Village, and for the millions of farmers, this middle-aged man is willing to risk his life!
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In recent years, Yunxi Village has become very famous.

Naturally, we have received countless inspection teams from various places here, and now the entire inspection process has become very mature.

The first stop was to lead the inspection team to visit the Huafeng Agricultural Breeding Base and Planting Base; the second stop was to visit the Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park; and the third stop was to hold an exchange meeting at the Yunxi Village Shareholding Cooperative.

The same went for Hu Xianxun and his group. Wang Jingshan took them directly to Jiangjunling.

Around the Qingming Festival, the mountains and fields of Jiangjunling have gradually become full of vitality. The Crescent River flows in waves, making bursts of rumbling sounds. On the gentle slopes on both sides, the fresh green grass buds have covered the large scars left by the scorching heat left by naughty children in winter. All the trees, shrubs and most of the weeds have leaves, and even the jujube trees, which are not very sensitive to the caress of spring, have begun to sprout.

In the thousand-acre planting base located at the foot of Jiangjunling, the endless terraces are covered with pink peas. The peppers are growing rapidly, and some sunny bays have even sprouted small branches. This season is the busy time for farming. Most of the Akita crops have begun to be planted, and it is the best time to apply urea to the crops before the spring rain. The farmers here seem to have a lot of unexplainable frustration. In the mountains and fields around the village, the sound of farmers shouting and whipping cattle can be heard everywhere.

Wang Jingshan, who accompanied the inspection, was in charge of explaining. He had been a little depressed recently, but he was calm and didn't show his emotions. While leading the way, he told Hu Xianxun: "Huafeng Agriculture in Yunxi Village has a breeding base and a planting base. It is divided into several large areas and has expanded to 6,000 acres. Several villages near Yunxi Village have been included. All land transfer agreements have been signed between the village collective economic organization and farmers. Now, thousands of farmers in this area, apart from growing some vegetables for their own consumption and raising some poultry in their own plots, basically do not grow cash crops themselves. Compared with farmers in other places, they are indeed much richer. At least there is no such thing as not having enough food here."

Hu Xianxun said with his hands behind his back: "Fengyang is a famous tobacco county in the country. Tobacco is the main cash crop here. How come we haven't seen any seedlings planted?"

Wang Jingshan explained: "The Yunxi area has completely given up on growing tobacco leaves for many reasons, mainly two points. First, growing tobacco leaves is expensive and very hard work. Second, there are dividends from the land, as well as dividends from the shares of the cooperative that were originally invested in. In addition, you can work and get a salary, which is much better than growing tobacco."

Hu Xianxun nodded: "Is the whole Longwan Town like this?"

Wang Jingshan said: "No, this model is currently only used in Yunxi Village and several nearby villages. The entire Longwan Town and nearby towns still follow the production and marketing contract system. Paddy fields are used to grow tobacco and rice, and the crops purchased by the cooperative are all grown on dry land and fields with sunny weather, which is considered to increase production and income. In this area, the Yunxi Village Joint-Stock Cooperative has developed very quickly. With the full support of the county government, it has radiated from Longwan Town to the surrounding areas and signed agreements with 18 towns on scattered planting, unified marketing of agricultural products, and unified purchase of agricultural materials, which has truly benefited tens of thousands of farmers."

Wang Jingshan stood on the hillside, looking at the village changing with each passing day in the spring rain, and said to Hu Xianxun and his party: "The current Yunxi Village is like the heart of a cabbage in an economic zone, surrounded by the cabbage stalks that have developed along with it. It has the largest agricultural production base in the city, the largest agricultural industrial park, and is the leader of the industrial economy in the entire region. The administrative, consumer, medical, educational, and water and electricity resources of the entire county are all tilted towards this side. I will take you to Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park to have a look, and you will know that the area changes every day. In recent years, many houses have been built in the area outside the gate of the agricultural industrial park, forming an entertainment and leisure street and a market, with restaurants, hotels, and karaoke bars. The development momentum has completely covered Longwanwei in the center of Longwan Town. Now the county government has also made a great determination. In order to improve traffic and transportation capacity and boost industrial and economic development, it will invest in the regular widening and asphalt roads from Yunxi to the county. I heard that the Longwan Town Government is planning to move its office address to Yunxi Village."

After listening to Wang Jingshan's explanation, Hu Xianxun nodded with some emotion: "Your new models are well done."

Wang Jingshan said: "Now Yunxi Village's industrial development model has indeed been at the forefront of the country. The two industrial operation models of 'cooperative + company + production base' and 'cooperative + underwriting contract + farmers' scattered planting' are almost unique in the country and are running very well. Of course, we are doing well on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is the core of the entire industrial chain, Liansheng Group. As long as Liansheng Group develops well, Yunxi Village's joint-stock cooperative will have food to eat, and the farmers here will have food to eat. If Liansheng Group has problems, then these industries in Yunxi will suffer a devastating disaster."

When Wang Jingshan said this, his expression suddenly became a little worried.

He had naturally heard about the recent series of changes that had happened to Zhang Yunqi and Liansheng Group. However, he was just an agricultural technician, and like the farmers in Yunxi Village, he could only watch the big things happening in the group.

After coming down from the two large breeding bases, Wang Jingshan led Hu Xianxun and his party, who were still feeling a little emotional, to the parking lot of the village cultural center.

Their next stop is Longjingyuan Industrial Park.

On the way, they passed a large area of ​​farmland.

One day before the Qingming Festival, in the misty spring rain, farmers wearing straw hats were swinging their arms and spreading fertilizer in the fields. In the north, on a large flat piece of uncultivated farmland, Hu Xianxun saw many excavators digging mud and destroying farmland and shoveling ridges in the fertile farmland.

Hu Xianxun frowned and said, "What are you doing?"

At this time, a strong man wearing a straw hat and carrying a hoe happened to pass by. Hearing Hu Xianxun's question, he responded, "Old man, this is not innocent, right? Our Yunxi Village has given up the scattered planting method of three mu of land in the east and two mu of land in the west. We want to remove all the ridges, bring them all together, connect electricity, water and roads, and create 'square fields, shaped soil, canal network, interconnected roads, connected ditches, fertile soil, irrigation in drought, drainage in flood, and high yield' stable and high-yield farmland!"

Hu Xianxun smiled and said, "This idea is fresh."

Wang Jingshan next to him said, "Old man, this is the idea proposed by our chairman."

Hu Xianxun asked: "Which chairman? What's the idea?"

The young man sighed and said in a muffled voice: "Zhang Yunqi, a kid from our village."

Hu Xianxun asked: "What is his idea?"

Wang Jingshan held his eyes and said, "According to the chairman, in the 70s, Xiaogang Village proposed the rural household contract responsibility system of 'contracting production to households', which liberated the productivity of farmers across the country. However, from a long-term perspective, the system of contracting production to households has certain limitations. First, it is inevitable that some means of production will be privatized. Second, the fragmentation of land will become more and more serious, which may seriously hinder the high-quality development of agricultural modernization. At present, it is very obvious that agricultural production cannot be planned and arranged in a unified manner, some large-scale agricultural machinery and new production-increasing technical measures cannot be promoted, and the collective labor cooperation force is indeed greatly restricted."

Wang Jingshan continued, "The solution our chairman gave us is to apply to the county to do a pilot project in Yunxi. I don't quite understand it either. The general idea is to divide the collective land into ownership, contracting rights and management rights. The ownership belongs to our village collective, the contracting rights belong to the farmers, and the management rights also belong to the farmers. However, the village collective cooperative has signed a contracting agreement with the farmers in the village to collect and store all the farmland in the village and nearby villages. The Longwan Town Government and the cooperative spent a lot of money to centrally renovate the farmland. The chairman proposed a new concept for the renovated farmland: high-standard farmland! The characteristics of this high-standard farmland are concentrated and contiguous, complete facilities, high and stable yields, and strong disaster resistance."

Hu Xianxun nodded: "That's a good idea."

Wang Jingshan added: "After the high-standard farmland is built, it will be given to Huafeng Agriculture, which is 100% controlled by the cooperative, for operation. The benefits of the high-standard farmland are obvious. The most important thing is that the output has increased dramatically, and there is no need to worry about floods and waterlogging disasters. This can further reduce the raw material costs of Liansheng Group, and the farmers' income will naturally be greater."

Hu Xianxun didn't show his emotions, but at this moment he couldn't help but admire: "Your young chairman really has some ideas about agriculture."

"That's right." The young man said while smoking a cigarette: "Yunqi said that the country is experiencing great development and agriculture must keep up. The family-run small-scale peasant economy will never be successful and farmers will never have enough food and clothing. We must find ways to scale up, industrialize, mechanize and modernize. The new method of our Yunxi Village is the way out. We have already walked ahead of history!" At this point, the young man seemed to have thought of something and suddenly said "Ah": "But good people don't get good rewards. I really don't understand what a damn world it is!"

The young man rolled the cigarette stick under his feet and put it out. Without saying goodbye, he left with his hoe on his shoulder. In the drizzling spring rain, his tall body seemed to be filled with an unspeakable anger.

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Hu Xianxun and his group walked around and soon arrived at the parking lot outside the village cultural center. They got in a car and headed directly to the Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park.

The general manager of Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park is Niu Fen, but he is not here and has not been here for a long time. The person in charge of the reception is Tang Daihua, deputy general manager of the Industrial Park Management Department of Liansheng Group.

Amid the bustling atmosphere, Tang Daihua led Hu Xianxun and his party to visit the production workshop, canning workshop, food workshop and freezing workshop, and also tasted a variety of newly developed specialty products.

Under Li Jilin's planning, Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park now produces more than just canned products. Their product line has covered dozens of products in four major categories: noodle products, bean products, marinated products, konjac products, and vegetable products. Hu Xianxun and his party were dazzled by the sight, and it took them more than three hours to tour the entire park.

It was almost four o'clock in the afternoon when they returned to Yunxi.

Sitting in the car, Hu Xianxun, who had been busy with official duties all day and all night, closed his eyes tiredly, but his gray-haired brain was always awake and running at high speed.

He couldn't help but recall the scenes he had witnessed in Jiangchuan over the past two days. The overgrown Times Commercial Lane and the extremely polluted Jinping Mining Area made him feel heavy-hearted. The Red Star Electronics Factory that was reduced to ruins by an inexplicable fire and the tearful accusations of the scavenger old lady whose face was burned beyond recognition by the fire made him even more shocked and heartbroken!

The brand new rural landscape and the agricultural industry management methods full of new ideas in this small mountain valley of Yunxi made him feel relieved and excited, and he couldn't help but connect it with the vast rural areas in southern Hunan under his management.

In the past, the old man always pondered such a question. In theory, the household contract responsibility system was implemented in the late 70s, and farmers had their own land and managed their own crops. Few farmers would be lazy as in the old days. However, in the vast rural areas of southern Hunan, tens of millions of farmers worked hard in the mountains all year round and never lost their land. But in the end, they often ended up with nothing and were still very poor. Why was this? Would the lives of farmers be poor forever? Couldn't things in this world change?

Hu Xianxun certainly knew that the reasons behind this were complicated and could not be explained in a few words, but what he wanted to think about was how to overcome these reasons so that tens of millions of farmers in the rural areas of southern Hunan could at least have enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear!

In this small village in the mountains, the old man seemed to see new hope.

Yes! This small village has been ahead of the times. It abandoned the rural household contract responsibility system that other regions still promote as a treasure, and on the basis of insisting on the village collective ownership, it has ingeniously created the land reform concept of "three rights separation" and the modern agricultural industrialization development path of high-standard farmland and industrial parks!
so amazing!

This new idea is truly admirable.

Hu Xianxun opened his eyes and looked at the drizzling spring rain outside the window. He suddenly wanted to meet the young man who created the "Jiangchuan Model" and the "Yunxi Experience".

While thinking about this, the car was still speeding on the country road.

Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park is not far from Yunxi Village, less than ten minutes' drive away. Hu Xianxun's heavy mood in the past few days has also improved a lot since he came to Yunxi Village. He quietly watched the beautiful spring scenery outside the window.

However, after the car turned a small hill and approached the village entrance, it suddenly saw a dense crowd of people blocking the village entrance under a big locust tree.

When the car approached, the crowd gathered around it, blocking the car so that it could not move forward an inch or retreat an inch.

The people in the car couldn't help but get nervous. There were probably thousands of people outside the car. They hadn't figured out the situation yet, but considering the identity of the old man in the car, everyone felt the seriousness of the situation! The plainclothes security guard, whose heart was already beating in his throat, took out his cell phone and was about to make a call, but Hu Xianxun stopped him.

The old man's dark and thin face had a calm expression, and his sharp eyes watched the actions of the crowd outside the car without any expression.

Outside the car, in the continuous spring rain, the dense crowd did not do anything extreme, but just surrounded the car.

Among this group of people were villagers from Yunxi Village and several nearby villages, as well as workers from Huafeng Agriculture and Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park who had come over while Hu Xianxun was having a meal.

They were called by Chairman Zhang Haijun.

Such a big thing happened in Jiangchuan, and it involved Liansheng Group, how could they not know? The fact that their chairman Zhang Yunqi was taken away had already caused a stir in Yunxi Village! These dirt-roots people didn't believe in gods or ghosts, and didn't like to listen to the leaders' big talk. They only knew who was sincerely doing practical things for them and seeking great fortune!
Everything that Yunqi has done for the village, the town and even the entire Fengyang County cannot be expressed with just a few words of thanks. That feeling of gratitude has already flowed in the simple blood of tens of thousands of farmers on this land.

Now, this kid is in big trouble, and these peasants don't know why, but they are not willing to stand by and watch! They don't have any connections or channels, but they are full of passion and the original spirit to risk their lives to seek justice for the kid!
However, Zhang Haijun, the most influential person in Yunxi Village, had his own plans. He had been suppressing them and not allowing them to do anything wrong. In this way, the farmers in Yunxi Village have been living in a depressing atmosphere until today.

While Hu Xianxun was visiting Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park, they suddenly received a call from Zhang Haijun, saying that the biggest leader in southern Hunan had come to the village! They could make the decision for their chairman, and all of them should gather under the old locust tree beside the Crescent River at the entrance of the village!

Without saying a word, the villagers hurriedly dropped their bowls and ran out of their homes.

The farmer dropped his hoe and walked out of the field.

The workers also stopped production and ran out of the factory.

These ordinary working people seemed to be taking part in the most extraordinary event of their lives!
Under the century-old locust tree beside the Crescent River at the entrance of the village is the only way for Hu Xianxun to return from the Longjingyuan Industrial Park. Under the arrangement of the members of the Yunxi Village Joint-Stock Cooperative, soon, the roadside at the entrance of the village, the ridges, the banks of the Crescent River and the hills were crowded with villagers and workers from the Longjingyuan Agricultural Industrial Park. These ordinary farmers and workers, full of eager expectations, were like ants, densely covering the entire mountain land.

Looking from afar, you can't see the end!
On this day, the northwest wind was blowing fiercely, the sky and earth were in a hazy green, and there was a drizzle of rain. Sparrows landed on the jujube trees in Miaoping, which had already sprouted green buds, and cried anxiously. At this moment, it seemed that one could smell a surging breath in the air that was surging from the depths of the earth.

At this time, Zhang Haijun, the "chief chef" who had called on the villagers and workers, finally appeared in front of the crowd of thousands. He was holding a loud speaker, his voice already hoarse, and he shouted at everyone to maintain order and not to mess around!

Afterwards, he walked in the rain through the corridor where the crowd had automatically dispersed towards the direction of the car. Behind him, two strong young men followed, carrying a two-meter-long wooden board covered with a piece of plastic film.

Hu Xianxun, who witnessed all this, opened the car door and got out without hesitation.

The plainclothes security personnel quickly got out of the car and saw Zhang Haijun leading people over. He put his hands in his pockets and pressed close to Hu Xianxun. However, he was pushed away by the old man!

"Leader, since you are here today, we will look for you! If you hadn't come, we would also go to the city, the province, and the capital!"

Zhang Haijun has already walked in front of Hu Xianxun.

The clothes and hair of this middle-aged man were completely soaked, his eyes were red, and his voice was hoarse: "Nothing else, we, the peasants, don't know how to speak, we just want to seek justice for our chairman! Look here, this is the petition written by the farmers of Longwan Town, Guansha Town, including Yunxi Village, and the workers of Longjingyuan Industrial Park during this period. All of them have pressed their names and fingerprints, a total of 11,658 people! If you think it's not enough, I can take you to more places in the town and county to walk around and listen to more farmers' voices!"

As he spoke, Zhang Haijun lifted the film on the wooden board, revealing a thick stack of white paper. The white paper was very large, about one meter wide and one and a half meters long. When the dry and fierce northwest wind blew, the thick stack of white paper flew up.

The word "Petition" was written in capital letters on the first piece of white paper.

Below these three words, there was a petition for Zhang Yunqi, but it was flying in the air and could not be seen clearly. However, on the large white papers flying in the sky, the crooked handwritten names and the bright blood-red fingerprints fell clearly into Hu Xianxun's already moved eyes.

The old man didn't know what to say for a long time!
"Please ask the leaders to make the decision for us! Make the decision for Zhang Yunqi!" At this time, Zhang Haijun actually grabbed the petition, and under the gaze of thousands of people, he knelt down in front of Hu Xianxun with a plop, splashing a trail of mud and water.

He held the petition above his head.

A man's knees are made of gold. No one expected that the strongest man in Yunxi Village would actually kneel down!

However, after he knelt down, the thumping sounds became more and more frequent. Soon, countless people knelt down in front of the old man beside the road at the entrance of the village, on the ridges of the fields, on both sides of the Crescent River and on the hills, holding high up pieces of white paper covered with crooked names and bright red fingerprints.

In the continuous spring rain, Hu Xianxun watched the scene in front of him silently, his eyes already filled with tears.

He picked up the loudspeaker that Zhang Haijun had thrown on the ground, stood on the hill, and said earnestly: "Fellow villagers, workers, I am a public servant. How can the people kneel before the public servant? I, Hu Xianxun, am 59 years old this year, and my legs and feet are not good. I ask you to stand up first, okay?"

However, he was answered with silence.

In the drizzle of spring rain, farmers and workers are still kneeling on the muddy ground, still holding high the white paper with their names and fingerprints, hoping with earnest and expectant eyes that the old man will give them a clear path and a way to survive!
The thin old man raised the loudspeaker again and spoke affectionately: "I, Hu Xianxun, also came from a poor peasant family. Like you, I have experienced too many hard days of hunger. Now that young man named Zhang Yunqi has led you to become rich and created such a good situation today, so I can understand your feelings of pleading for him. Here today, I, Hu Xianxun, can only assure you of one sentence: the direction recognized by the working class and the peasant class is always the right direction! The direction determined by the working class and the peasant class is the direction that I, Hu Xianxun, will practice until my death!"

"The leader said it well!"

"Leader, we believe in you!"

"Leader, you must make the decision for our chairman! You don't know how poor his family used to be, and you don't know how poor our village used to be. It has been really hard for him over the years!"

The old man's affectionate words seemed to give hope to thousands of farmers and workers. The villages and mountains in late spring were suddenly filled with joy.

It will be Qingming Festival in one day.

The spring rain has fallen, and everything on earth is about to begin to grow!

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(End of this chapter)