Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 1693 Continuation of Notes of Going to the Countryside
I am very interested in these authentic "native texts".Seeing the activities of the Red and White Council, I remembered that this council was promoted jointly by the Catholic Church in Lingao and the New Taoism. I was very interested in it, so I asked about the work of this council.

Lao Huo said that the Red and White Council has indeed done a lot of things, especially the "Australian etiquette" in the village. Because the scene is grand and the cost is not much, it has become more and more popular among the villagers recently.When asked about the specific method, it turns out that the board of directors adopts a believer volunteer system. Catholics and New Taoist believers in each village will volunteer when the villagers have weddings and funerals. As for the materials and props needed for various ceremonies, the directors will be provided free of charge.The master of ceremonies and sutra chanting for the ceremony were also provided free of charge by the two religions, which were well received by the masses.

Turn to the records of the village team’s most recent democratic life meeting. On June 6 this year, the township randomly organized villagers’ representatives to vote by secret ballot on the village head and the deputy village head. Affirmative vote", which shows that the village team is trusted.

I turned a few more pages, and saw that there was a page about the democratic life meeting in the village. In addition to the village cadres, the leaders of the team members in the village participated.I noticed that a group leader named Guo Jin made a speech in it: "I am often borrowed by the village this year, and I rarely participate in the work of the village, let alone take the lead or help the masses. I hope everyone can give me valuable advice. , to help.” Next, a woman committee member named Huo Shouying was also recorded saying: “As a female cadre, I am also the contact person of Director Du of the Social Investigation Department, and I rarely participate in village work. The central tasks directly assigned by the superiors, especially Director Du, are enough, and they rarely ask about the affairs of their own villages, and must work hard in the future." Needless to say, the straightforward words of the two grassroots cadres objectively reflect that some local rural cadres are overwhelmed. current state of use.

I was a little surprised to see that there were women committee members in the village: I visited many villages, and except for some villages in Lingao old district that had women committee members, most of the villages did not.Tankou is neither a model village nor an old district village, so how could there be such a post?

I asked Lao Huo and found out that this village is the village where Du Wen, the director of the social investigation department, stayed directly. Therefore, the situation of foot binding, beating and scolding of women, and women's literacy in this village are better than those of surrounding villages, especially foot binding. After several campaigns of "concentrating troops to fight annihilation war" have been transferred, they have completely disappeared.

It seems that our women's work also includes many tasks that urgently need to clean up bad customs. It is not enough to engage in "three harmony and one less". For some key backward areas, we need to cook more "cooked rice" and make full use of the weapons of law and dictatorship .

I asked to see this woman committee member, and Lao Huo quickly called her.It turned out that Huo Shouying was Lao Huo's niece from a distant family, she was only in her early twenties but she was already a widow - the evil Kong Youde Mutiny killed her relatives, and now she has no relatives around her.

But from her face, you can't see a bit of decadent emotion.It can be seen that she is full of enthusiasm for life and work here.I noticed that she had cut her hair short—you must know that although most rural women here no longer wear overly complicated buns, few of them have short hair.

"In this way, the time for shampooing and combing can be much less." Huo Shouying said, "The extra time is just for studying and working."

During the conversation, I learned that she is a female cadre specially selected by Du Wen for training, a student of Ma Nong Nong Lecture Institute, and recently participated in a three-month "special training class for women cadres".After talking with her, I found that she not only speaks New Chinese well, but also has a strong grasp of the policies of the Senate. When talking about the work in the village, she is very clear, and she also has a feminine care.

Talking about women's work in the village, Huo Shouying said that after Chief Du brought people to "rectify" several times, the practice of beating wives has subsided.But most of the villagers do not understand and disagree with this work. Most people think that dogs are meddling with mice, including many women.

"...Some women themselves are often beaten and scolded by their husbands, but they make sarcastic remarks about our work." Huo Shouying showed a helpless expression when he described, "Some people even made jokes about me, saying that I dance happily now, and I will have a good dance in the future." Like my husband’s family, the man is pressed on the kang to pump out his buttocks..."

Although she spoke in a joking tone, it could be seen that the female cadre had a lot of trouble in her heart.It seems that it is not a simple matter to change customs in rural areas.

Afterwards, we talked about other things, and talked about the people's livelihood issues that were repeatedly mentioned in many villages I visited: bride price, broken shoes, and singles cleaning toilets... She also mentioned women's childbearing that male cadres seldom mentioned question.

"Now everyone lives in a stable life. They have food and clothing. Many women give birth to babies. Even women who are almost out of monthly letters are pregnant. The town has come to the village several times to promote 'delivery in the hospital'. "Midwife must have a midwife license", but there are only three licensed midwives in the town here, and they can't handle it at all. Besides, it's not easy to go to the county. Most women give birth to their mothers at home. It's dangerous for women to give birth. In the past few years, several women in this village have passed away due to childbirth, and some of them died twice."

Speaking of this, the female cadre's eyes were red.I feel deeply that in the field of health care, we still have a lot to do.

During the conversation, I felt that this female cadre was very serious about her work, and she had the drive to get things done to the end.

Later, at my request, the accountant took out the land and household registration files of the village.There are not only detailed land registers, but also sketches.The cultivated land plots in the whole village are very neat, which is a typical work of our surveyors.The accountant said: "All these cultivated lands were measured by the 'chief's apprentice'. The area per mu is exactly the same. There is no difference between large and small mu."

Because the area of ​​each mu is exactly the same, the issue of good land and bad land has to be considered when allocating land. At that time, the principle of total income was "determined by production", which roughly means that those who get good land get less points, and those who get bad land get more points.Consider this to roughly equalize the total income of each household.

But the accountant said that in practice, there are big problems.Farmers allocated bad land have to put in more labor for production, which in turn increases their burden.

"Without large animals, it is difficult to plant 20 mu of good land. What's more, some people have poor land distribution and need to plant [-] to [-] mu!" said the accountant. Many people in the village have opinions on whether the land is good or bad. According to the habit of our hometown, the size of an acre of paddy fields and dry land is different for good and bad land, but it should be fairer."

Regarding this situation, I have heard the responses of village cadres and villagers more than once. It seems that there are still too many "head-slapping decisions" in our work, and we underestimate the complexity of the actual situation.

In addition to the problem of land allocation, the individual enthusiasm of farmers has not been fully mobilized. Many immigrants are not familiar with rice production, and Tiandihui will not organize the production of wheat, millet, and sorghum that they are familiar with, nor provide corresponding seeds and technical guidance. Many farmers adopt extensive planting, and the yield is very low.

The accountant said that the immigrants had weird words at the beginning: After planting the land all their lives, now they need a few southern barbarians to be their masters and teach them how to farm.There are fewer weird words now, but the villagers still want to grow wheat.

These vivid situations remind me that the education of immigrants does not happen overnight.Rural work should proceed from reality and give guidance by category, not one size fits all.In particular, the fact that the actual area of ​​each mu of land is not the same makes me realize that the concept of numbers in rural areas is relatively flexible, and can even be agreed upon by villagers.This is not standardized, but it does have some rationality in rural areas.How to take into account rationality and adhere to standardization seems to be a subject that tests our ability to govern.

Because no one checked the household registration file for half a year, many pages were glued together.I searched and searched, but I couldn't see the flow of the rural population. Excluding births and deaths, there has been no change since the establishment of the village.But after inquiring about the details, more than a dozen farmers have recruited workers to Lingao and Qiongshan, and they no longer live in the village.Because there is no migration registration, the household registration file cannot reflect it in a timely and accurate manner.

Next, I visited several households in the village. The first household was the village accountant. There were 5 people in his family, including 3 girls. The eldest daughter and the second daughter were brought over by his wife's remarriage, and only the youngest daughter was born locally.Such recombined families are common in immigrant villages.

His family allocated 30 mu of land, including paddy fields and dry land. The annual yield of sweet potatoes is more than 500 catties per mu, and the annual yield of rice is 300 catties per mu. With the allowance of being an accountant, it is considered good in the village.Therefore, there are more daily-use industrial products at home, and the proportion of fine grains in the food is also higher.

After leaving the accountant, I stopped by and randomly visited 3 farmers.One of them is a middle-aged couple with two sons. The eldest son is 20 years old. He injured his shoulder while working in Jiazi Coal Mine years ago and returned home due to illness. Now he is working as a farmer at home. His income has been greatly affected because he cannot do heavy work. Not daughter-in-law.The younger son was at home at first, and went to Sanya last year to recruit workers, but he couldn't save much money. He returned to the village before the Spring Festival and entered the house empty-handed.The greatest hope of the old couple now is that the two sons can find a wife-but because of the bride price issue, there is little hope.

The situation of this family is a small microcosm of the countryside.I have also investigated some rural households before. Most of the unmarried young people who go out to work have little financial support for their parents. It is considered good to be able to start a family.It goes without saying that the "accounts" for doubling farmers' income have to be recalculated. We must not be blindly optimistic, and we must take measures to increase income through multiple channels.

(End of this chapter)