Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 2 Uncle Xinhua

These years, the three bureaus of finance, taxation, and industry and commerce are the most nourishing units in the county, while the statistics bureau is a purely cold bench. Every time the census comes, it will be lively for a while.

The car used by the Bureau of Industry and Commerce is a Santana, and the car used by the Bureau of Statistics is an old Mustang Jeep with holes in it.

In fact, in this matter, it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong. As a person who has studied "Song History" in depth, Zhou Zhi can now see it very clearly.

And the way to deal with this matter, under the management system that has not yet been adjusted and standardized, can only be to say that the public is right and the woman is right.

If things can happen a few months later, then nothing will happen.

Because the national industrial and commercial system will soon usher in a major adjustment, the county bureau will be under the direct control of the city bureau, and the influence of the county party committee on the industrial and commercial system will be greatly reduced.

However, this happened just now, and under the current dual management system, there was just such a deviation, and there was just such a trace of "irrelevance".

So under the impetus of some caring people, my father ignored the organizational principles and reported to the higher level, causing passiveness in the county.

So there is the "wind" that Uncle Xinhua is hearing now.

And this rumor, in another time and space, finally became a fact.

The conversation between my mother and Uncle Xinhua was a wake-up call for Zhou Zhi.

If I want to realize my value and ideal in the pile of old papers in the future, I must take the first step now—transfer to the study of liberal arts and enter the major of liberal arts.

But if it is brought up now, it will definitely attract strong opposition from the family, especially the mother.

Because one of the words that my mother often hangs on her lips is - learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, and you will not be afraid to travel all over the world.

And now, I can't come up with sufficient reasons to convince them.

The political situation in the small county town had become very introverted in [-], just like Gujing Township, Shuangxi Town, where my mother lived.

If grandma hadn't gritted her teeth and let all her daughters go to school despite the strange gazes and criticisms around her, the Su family's daughters would not have had the chance to leave Gujing Township and have achieved their current achievements.

Judging from my previous life experience, certain decisions in certain stages of life are indeed very critical.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help thinking about how to solve these two imminent matters.

In terms of seniority, whether it is in Jiachuan politics or in the line of Manzhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Dad is enough.

The first job an educated youth returns to his hometown is the secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

At that time, the director was a demobilized soldier, a 1.8-meter Shandong man, a machine gunner who fought in the War of Liberation to resist US aggression and aid Korea.

It stands to reason that this is the target of the enemy's artillery fire, but Lao Wang didn't even have a trachoma all over his body until he was discharged from the army and went to the Jiachuan Industrial and Commercial Bureau, so he can be called a lucky general.

At that time, in the small courtyard of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, Xiao Zhouzhi was most afraid of this old Wang Bureau.

He has a rough voice, and behaves like a soldier. The only way to express his love for children is to grab them and throw them like sandbags, which often scares Xiao Zhou to Yiwa screaming.

Although straightforward and heroic, but as a demobilized military cadre for more than seven years, Director Wang can't read a lot of big characters, and even writes his own name crookedly.

So when the county recruited people from the educated youths who returned to the city, and was preparing to enrich the administrative team, my father's beautiful hard-tipped calligraphy immediately fell into the eyes of Director Wang.

After hearing several articles and reports, Director Wang was even more certain that he had definitely found a talent.

Dad's articles and reports are especially good at citing historical materials and allusions, combined with current affairs and political theories. The so-called "quoting scriptures and classics" was rare among the cadres of that era.

Later, every time the Industrial and Commercial Bureau held a meeting, Director Wang basically set an example for the beginning, and then he picked up his tea cup and smiled and leaned on the wicker chair: "There are so many broken pieces here, and Secretary Zhou will continue to chat with everyone!"

During that time, the Secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau was basically in charge of the specific affairs of the bureau, while Director Wang only listened to the report and signed it.

That experience greatly tempered my father. Later, with the changes of the times, my father was transferred to the county finance committee, and then went to Qiming District as a district secretary, and was elected to the provincial party committee when he came back. Party school training, became the first batch of cadres in Shuchuan Province to enter the provincial party school and get a college diploma.

After returning from training at the party school, it happened that the county sugar industry, tobacco and wine company split into a tobacco company and a sugar and wine company.

Organizationally, I want my father to be the manager of the sugar and wine company for a while, so that the business can be adjusted to the right track after the separation.

Dad's job as the manager of the sugar and wine company will actually affect his own progress.

Before taking office, Dad suggested to the organization that both husband and wife work in the sugar and wine company, which is easy to cause gossip.

Because my mother first went to the county cement factory after the educated youth returned to the city, then from the cement factory to the supply and marketing cooperative, and finally from the supply and marketing cooperative to the sugar and wine company as an accountant.

Now that Dad was asked to go, Dad made a request to avoid suspicion.

In the end, the organization adjusted the mother's work again.Dad still served as the manager of the sugar and wine company for one session, while my mother was transferred from the sugar and wine company to the environmental monitoring station with a leisurely job and good benefits.

Step by step, step by step, until now, those party school classmates who were in the same batch as my father, all started as deputy county magistrates last time.

And because my father was delayed for the past four years, although he later re-entered the industrial and commercial system, he only became the director of the county from the deputy director.

The point is that it blocked people's way, and the deputy chief, Liu Chang'an, was very dissatisfied with his father, and kept acting out in private.

In another time and space, the current rumors in the county eventually became a fact.

Dad used to work in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and he did a great job with outstanding achievements.

The first thing he did when he took office was to rectify the market.

Merge the formerly thriving but now declining Yangtze River Fresh Market with the Bamboo Wood Grain Market, which is also the fruit market during the peak season of lychees.

The former bamboo and wood grain market will be expanded, the ground floor will be built into a farmer's market, the upper floor will be built into a small commodity market, and a three-story shopping mall.

This market is very characteristic, because the place where the market is located is called Zhangjiagou, and this market is at the lower part of Zhangjiagou at the north gate.

Although it looks like a three-story comprehensive market, there are roads leading to each floor on the hillside, so it is more appropriate to understand it as three separate markets with overlapping spaces and internal stairs.

This design is very successful, and it is of great benefit to the convenience of shopping for ordinary people and the dispersion of people in the market.

Even after many years, this market has been dismantled with the changes of the times, but it is still talked about by the older Jiachuan people.

The old farmer's market that was finally vacated was used by my father to build a family building.

In recent years, apart from the prosperous units such as the County Party Committee Compound, the Finance Bureau, the Sugar and Wine Company, and the Tobacco Company, such seven-storey residential buildings are almost rare in the county. Being able to live in such a building is something that everyone in the county envies.

Because of the limited funds for the preparation, my father adopted a partial fund-raising method, and because there was not enough housing, my father used the housing qualifications that should have been allocated to him to take care of the old employees who were about to retire that year.

Zhou Zhi and his family still live in the old dormitory of the sugar and wine company.

These measures have won a good reputation for his father.

He was still thinking about his father's bargaining chip in his heart, but his mother and Lu Xinhua had already finished talking on the small balcony and came back to the hospital bed again.

Uncle Xinhua said: "You boy, you have been naughty since you were young, and worrying is not enough to describe it. It makes your mother worry!"

Zhou Zhi said: "Uncle Xinhua, you have wronged me. At least this time it has nothing to do with being naughty, right? This time it's pure bad luck!"

Just as Lu Xinhua was about to laugh, Zhou Zhi said, "Besides, it's not like I don't know what Uncle Xinhua did when he was an educated youth. Where did I come from?"

"You bastard!" Lu Xinhua pretended to be angry, and then sighed again: "You don't even know how miserable we were at that time, except for your father as a special case!"

"The educated youths we went to Qiming District back then really didn't disobey him."

"Oh, I haven't heard anything from my father..." Zhou Zhi was very interested: "Uncle Xinhua, you have to tell me."

"Hehehe, I can't finish talking for three days and three nights... To put it simply, we are all so hungry that we are all hungry. It's just your dad who learns to grow rice, corn, and vegetables from the folks during the day, and collects manure when he finds time. Fat, and... even raised two pigs!"

"Isn't it? My dad also raises pigs?"

"Why not?! He even organizes literacy classes for fellow villagers at night! But he can get it!"

Speaking of these, Lu Xinhua was a little emotional: "Do you know what is the best food that Uncle has eaten in this life? It was the Chinese New Year that year, and all the educated youths in the town went to your father, and we killed the New Year pigs there!"

"There's no seasoning either. We still eat the white water fat sausage with ginger and garlic seasoning..."

White...white water...fat intestines?That thing can talk?

But after thinking about it, it might really be true. What was most lacking at that time?

Lack of oil.

And the fatty sausage...it's full of oil!

Uncle Xinhua actually swallowed his saliva, as if reminiscing about the delicious food back then: "Because of your father, our Qiming Township has always been a group of advanced educated youths! When we return to the city, we will also be the first batch!"

"Compared to the three draws and one later... Forget it, you don't understand these things..."

There is nothing to understand about this. The first batch of educated youths who returned to the city had better arrangements for work and so on. They were mainly government departments, which were different from those who came later in the fertilizer and cement factories.

"So you keep your cleverness for yourself, and learn more from your father." Uncle Xinhua continued: "Later, he went to Qiming District as a party secretary. Our educated youth Zhou is back!"

"Qiming Township... Anyway, I haven't dared to go back and have a look."

It is estimated that this is because he did a lot of bad things in the countryside at that time, and he was afraid that the villagers would be ashamed by bringing up old things.

Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Why don't you dare to go here. Uncle Xinhua, wouldn't you send medical care to the countryside?"

(End of this chapter)