Reborn to be rich

Chapter 45 Conflict Crisis
Beizhuang Village is located on the north side of Zhangjialing, with the desolate Xigou on the west, separated from the main road of Liujia Village on the east, a hillside on the north, and the hillside stretches for tens of miles, and further north is Yujia Village, which is really a mountain village , the roads that bicycles cannot walk on usually villagers seldom go out.

The location of Beizhuang Village restricts its development. Although the area is small, the population growth is very fast. There are two teams next to each other in the village, and each team has more than 20 households. The number of people employed is not much less than that of Zhangjialing. In Ganjing Township The western region is considered a large village.With the continuous growth of the population of their village, the attitude towards Zhangjialing has become more and more tough in recent years, especially on the issue of village boundaries.

"Are you here to fight? How do you solve the problem if you quarrel like this? If anyone wants to fight, come and fight with me. It's a personal grievance. We'll talk after the fight!" Zhang Guodong saw the villagers of Beizhuang rushing towards him, and motioned for the people of Zhangjialing Village Withdrew, he moved forward alone, and the noise on the court became smaller and smaller for a while.

At this time, two tractors came from the direction of Zhangjialing. It was Wang Manliang and Zhang Chengdong who drove the tractors and pulled the villagers. Beizhuang Village saw that the number of people on the other side was almost the same as their own. With Zhang Guodong's persuasion, finally calm down.

"Secretary, it's a good thing I didn't come late! When I heard the news, I drove everyone here immediately. Damn, this Beizhuang Village is like this every year. Are you afraid of bullying us?" Wang Mancang said and took it from the tractor compartment. With a pouted head, he was about to go up and fight Beizhuang Village.

"What are you impulsive about? Guodong is negotiating ahead! Don't do anything today unless it is absolutely necessary." Zhang Chengzhi held back the villagers who wanted to come forward, and asked them to go up to add fuel to the fire at this time, and maybe it would really start a fight. At that time, the two villages will not have a good time.

"You guys want to fight, let me make it clear first!" Zhang Guodong said when he saw the other party's noisy voice slowed down.

"Who does this place belong to? We have it in our village annals, and you also have it in your village annals. If you make trouble in the countryside, you will suffer if you go to the county. Today we fought this fight, and if something goes wrong, we will all be responsible." It’s no good, you have to fight who is more ruthless, you think Zhangjialing Village can be afraid? Except that it is closer to your village, you can’t find any reason to invade other people’s cultivated land.”

Zhang Guodong's words caused a commotion in Beizhuang Village, but at this time almost all the people from Zhangjialing had come, so how could they be afraid of you? No more, and no longer organize the two parties to approach.

"That's what I said. If you want to talk in Beizhuang Village, let the village cadres come out and talk about it together. If you have to fight, you can talk about it. It's not an option to spend it here all the time."

When Zhang Guodong said this, the villagers in Beizhuang Village began to look at the faces of the village cadres. They didn't want to fight.

"Guodong, what do you want to talk about?" Hu Weimin stepped forward and said.

"I don't think this is a place to talk. If you can trust me, I'll go and sit at your house, Uncle Weimin." Zhang Guodong wanted to go to Beizhuang alone to talk about something, and all the people in Zhangjialing Village shouted for him not to go.

"Uncle, Fourth Uncle and Uncle Mancang, take everyone back! I'll go to Beizhuang to sit for a while and I'll be back." After speaking, he walked directly to Beizhuang Village, and the villagers of Beizhuang Village stopped making trouble for a while. Hu Weimin scratched the back of his head with his hand, and in the end he could only follow behind Zhang Guodong. Seeing this situation, the others also slowly dispersed.

"Uncle, let's rush over and rescue Brother Guodong! What if they turn their backs and deny Zhang Guodong alone?" Zhang Wenbin watched his cousin leave with nearly a hundred people alone, and he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"What are you messing with? Guodong dares to go to their village alone to talk about things, he must have his own reliance, go... go..., everyone will go home."

The uncle still spoke very authoritatively, and everyone turned their heads and walked towards the village one by one.

At this moment, Zhang Guodong had a calm expression on his face. He had pulled stones for Hu Weimin several times, and knowing their location, he was not polite when he arrived at the door of Hu Weimin's house, and went straight into the yard.

"I think this place is good, just sit here and chat!" Zhang Guodong saw a stool in the yard, so he pulled it over and sat under his buttocks. Hu Weimin took two stools from the side, one for the young man behind him, and one for himself. Beizhuang Village Everyone else stopped outside the courtyard and waited.

"Let's talk! What do you want to talk about?" Hu Weimin is the captain of Beizhuang Village, and the young man next to him is the captain of the second team. The two of them can basically replace the opinions of the entire Beizhuang Village.

"What do I think? I have some ideas, but now is not the time to talk about it, it depends on your attitude. Let me tell you about your occupation of Zhangjialing's land!" Zhang Guodong seemed not afraid at all, Erlang raised his legs Look at the environment of Hu Weimin's home.

"It's already at this time, just say what you have to say! You can make trouble in our village as much as you want. Besides, you gave our village the opportunity to dig stones to earn money. I don't think everyone will appreciate this kindness." Forget." Hu Weimin's tone began to soften, and the captain next to him was not as hot-tempered as he was at first, and looked down at Zhang Guodong without speaking.

"Uncle Weimin, if you say that, I'm going to nag you. Let's talk about what happened today. Who is not ashamed of our two villages when the trouble is so big, and how many disputes have arisen between our two villages over that point?" Well, let me put it bluntly, the bigger the incident, the worse it will be for your Beizhuang Village, don’t believe me, let me analyze it for you.” Zhang Guodong lowered his legs and made a good posture.

"There is trouble today, and the village must know about it. When someone from the village asks about the matter, he will say whose fault it is, and he will ask you to return all the land you occupied. Will you return it? If you want to fight, you can find People are desperate, but you said Zhangjialing Village can you be intimidated? Your village is full of heroes, and Zhangjialing Village will be gone? Even if the fight ends in the township and county, how will you solve it? Each fight 50 boards? No, you are Land occupation, the law is completely directed to Zhang Jialing. At that time, one person in Zhangjialing was sentenced to one year, but in the end it will be sentenced to three years. Come out, do you think you can afford it?" Zhang Guodong's words made the two of them fall silent, at this time Hu Weimin's wife brought over twice as much water, and there are very few people in the countryside who drink tea, only when there are weddings and weddings at home. buy some.

"Zhang Guodong, we don't really want to make trouble, but you may not understand the situation in Beizhuang Village. To put it bluntly, we are not afraid of being laughed at. Our entire Beizhuang Village will not have enough food for every family before the end of the year. Every year, the village pays public food. Beizhuang Village is also the one that has been shed for the longest time, and as village cadres we are also uncomfortable, we can’t hand over the life-saving corn left by the villagers’ homes!” Just as Hu Weimin finished speaking, the captain of the second team next to him couldn’t help but speak. up.

"Captain Zhang, thanks to you coming to our village to pull stones this year, everyone still has some money left. You just saw that there are not many families in our village who can build walls. Everyone works hard to reclaim new land by the ditch every year. I Dare to say that our village's "soil and water conservation" intensity is comparable to that of few villages in our township. Almost all the wheat we produce every year is paid to the public grain, and we eat corn all year round. Some families are so poor that they can't even eat sorghum rice. Let’s start, what can we do?” As he spoke, the captain of the second team’s eyes turned red.The first-class land in their village only has more than 300 mu of land around the village, which is not even as good as the first-class land in Zhangjialing, and they are next to the first-class land in Zhangjialing.

Zhang Guodong sat and listened for a while. He did not expect that the whole Beizhuang Village was so poor. Every year after the Chinese New Year, villagers would pair up and go to other villages to beg for food in order to survive. Corn is everyone's food for a year, and they can only eat it during the Chinese New Year. A few meals of white flour.

"Hey! It's not easy! I only know about your situation, but it's definitely not okay to invade the land of the first team of our village a little bit like this. In order to damage the relationship between the two villages a little bit, the gain outweighs the loss! "

"Zhang Guodong, people in our village say that you are a capable person, and you have become a household with ten thousand yuan in half a year. You have to help us!"

"Didn't I collect stones in your village? A few days ago, my second brother Leslie Cheung also came to your village to pull stones." Zhang Guodong asked.

"Digging stones can make money, but it will always come to an end. We rural people still have to rely on the land to live..." Hu Weimin said in a low voice, and the young captain next to him also bowed his head and remained silent. This land conflict is indeed difficult to resolve It's not that they can let Beizhuang Village make some money and let them go.

"Uncle Weimin, I have a way here, which can somewhat increase your harvest. I don't know if you'd like to listen." Zhang Guodong suddenly thought of an idea. Small profits can be made.

"What way?" Hu Weimin and the young captain both poked their heads over and asked hopefully.

"Your village has little first-class land, but there are many second-class and third-class mountainous lands. These lands can only grow corn or sorghum, and the yield will not be very large. But if you grow rapeseed, the situation should be better. Rapeseed is not good. As wheat is so picky, even if one acre of land is planted in the mountains, the yield will not be much lower, and the benefits of rapeseed must be much better than corn and sorghum.”

Corn now costs seven cents a catty in the village, and no one wants sorghum for five cents, but a catty of rapeseed oil sells for one yuan and six in the county. The oil yield rate of a catty of rapeseed is calculated at 35%, and the cost of extracting oil is also worth [-] cents. More than twice that of wheat.

"Rapeseed? I've heard of this, but we can't eat the stuff we grow here, and if we don't have enough food, who will grow that stuff." The young captain said with a frown.

"You can take it to the county town and press it into rapeseed oil! Ordinary land yields more than 200 catties of rapeseed per mu, and at least 100 catties of harvest in mountainous areas. At that time, it will be squeezed into oil and sold for money and then exchanged for food." Zhang Guodong took it for granted, there are oil-pressing workshops in the county, but ordinary people can drag rapeseed so far for oil-pressing, and it would be embarrassing for them to sell oil.

Seeing Hu Weimin bow their heads and say nothing, Zhang Guodong had a new idea in his mind, what is the difference in the countryside?It is not the courage to go out, but this is an opportunity for Zhang Guodong himself.

"How about this, I will collect the rapeseed grown in your village next year, and as long as there is no problem with the rapeseed, I will exchange two catties of wheat for you, how about it?" Zhang Guodong asked.

"Is this true? Are you really willing to exchange one catty of rapeseed for two catties of wheat?" Hu Weimin asked with wide-eyed eyes. There are also people who grow rapeseed around Ganjing Township, but they don't grow many. Everyone goes to the county seat at once. Rapeseed is pressed into oil and eaten by oneself, and it lasts for several years.

"What's so deceitful about this? Can you say I'm willing to trade myself for a disadvantage? One catty of rapeseed can be exchanged for two catties of wheat, or if you want money, you can directly exchange it for money. The price will be calculated according to the price at the grain station in the village. How about it?" Zhang Guodong Echo said.

"If this is the case, I can mobilize our villagers to plant rapeseed in the third-class land in the ditch. At that time, at least there will be a harvest from the second-class field, and we won't have to be so hungry every year to eat sorghum noodles." Beizhuang Village The captain of the second team stood up happily. If Zhang Guodong was willing to exchange wheat for rapeseed, each household in his village would be able to produce nearly a thousand catties of wheat per year.

"Guodong! You are the most capable. If you can really sell the rapeseed, the nearby villages will be grateful to you." Hu Weimin thought that Zhang Guodong wanted to use a tractor to pull the rapeseed to the county town or further away to sell, but what Zhang Guodong was thinking about in his mind was how much rapeseed the villages along Xida Road could produce in a year if the news was released.

"Look, it's already noon, Guodong, why don't you stay and have a meal!" Hu Weimin got up and asked his wife to go to the burning noodles. A meal of burning noodles is the best meal for people in the Loess Plateau.

"No uncle, our villagers are still waiting for me to go back, so I won't stay for dinner! Another day, another day, Uncle Min, you come to our house, and I will make it for you." Zhang Guodong stood up with a smile.

"Alright, I'll go find your uncle this afternoon. It's our fault for occupying your village. We are so close to each other. We should get along well in the future."

He was desperate just now, but now he understands that, as the captain of Beizhuang Village, Hu Weimin's attitude changed very quickly.Zhang Guodong was sent out, and many villagers in Beizhuang Village at the gate hadn't dispersed yet. Seeing Zhang Guodong coming out, everyone stared at the captains of the two teams.

"That's Uncle Min, I'm leaving! If you have a chance, you have already come to our house! There will be food, drinks and surprises." Zhang Guodong laughed.

"I will go, you can come and play when you have time to walk slowly."

Zhang Guodong left under the gaze of dozens of villagers in Beizhuang Village. Zhang Guodong, who walked out of Beizhuang Village, did not have a sense of accomplishment in solving the problem. If it was not for himself, Zhangjialing should not be much better than Beizhuang Village.The situation of most farmers’ families in Ganjing Township is basically the same. Going back to this most unforgettable period, Zhang Guodong’s heart is actually grief at most, and it may be this grief that will make him unable to let go of it for the next 30 years.

(End of this chapter)