allonlinenovel Chapter 301 Mining
Chapter 301 Mining
More than 300 people were transferred to Zhoujiawan to work in mining and steelmaking. The peanuts, sweet potatoes and vegetables in the fields are currently being harvested and taken care of by the people who stayed behind.
When Zhou Rong arrived at Zhoujiawan, Grandma Zou and a group of elderly people were picking peanuts under a big tree at the entrance of the village.
When she saw Zhou Rong, Grandma Zou quickly greeted him: "Da Rong, why are you back?"
Zhou Rong: "I have something to ask Uncle Chuan Jing and Uncle Chuan Yi. Are they in the village?"
Grandma Zou: "No, the team leader is taking people to the mountains to cut trees and mine. The team leader is digging sweet potatoes. He is in the field in front. You can go find him."
"Okay, thank you!"
Zhou Rong followed Grandma Zou's instructions and found Zhou Chuanjing.
He was directing everyone to dig sweet potatoes quickly, and he joined in, swinging the hoe vigorously.
"Call Uncle Jing!"
When Zhou Chuanjing saw Zhou Rong, he quickly put down his hoe, pulled her aside, and whispered, "You are amazing. You said that steelmaking would start in the countryside, and then you really made steel.
Fortunately, you told us about this in advance. The rice in the village was harvested a few days ago. Otherwise, the strong laborers would be withdrawn, and relying on the people we have now, it would probably take until November to finish the work. If we encounter frost, we will be finished!
Do you see those old people at the entrance of the village? In the past, they would not have to work at all, but now there is a shortage of labor, so they have to be mobilized.
Fortunately, everyone is thinking about the village and has no complaints. They just do what they are told to do. Otherwise, crops like peanuts and sweet potatoes would just rot in the fields.”
Zhou Rong smiled and said, "Our fellow villagers in Zhoujiawan are as united and friendly as ever, so we are willing to serve them!
Zhou Chuanjing: "Who says it's not true? Every time I see everyone working together to accomplish something, I feel indescribably happy and proud."
Zhou Rong: "Uncle, the rice you harvested hasn't been sold yet, right?"
Zhou Chuanjing: "No! We are so busy now that we have no time to sell. We haven't even paid the public grain. When you go back to the village, you should pass by the commune. The threshing ground has become like that. There is no place to store the grain. We plan to store it in the warehouse after drying it and wait for notice from above."
Zhou Rong: "Well, after paying the public grain tax, don't sell the remaining grain or sell less. I heard from an agricultural expert that there may be natural disasters next year, first floods, then droughts. You should take the villagers to properly store all the grain to avoid disasters in the fields and leave everyone with nothing to eat."
Zhou Chuanjing was shocked: "Is this true? Why didn't the newspaper mention this?"
Zhou Rong: "As you know, the truth cannot be spoken casually in the current situation, especially at the critical moment of steelmaking. If that expert had announced his prediction, wouldn't everyone rush to stock up on food? Who would go to make steel?
Wouldn't that shake the morale of the army? What do you think will happen to him?"
Zhou Chuanjing sighed, "I guess he will be like Teacher Dong, who was wrongly accused of being a member of the Y faction and taken to meetings every day."
Zhou Rong: "Yes, so after you know about this, don't tell anyone casually. Just discuss with Uncle Chuan Yi, Uncle Chuan Yu, and Teacher Zhang about how to take precautions. Don't tell anyone else, lest you get yourself into trouble."
Zhou Chuanjing: "I understand. When your uncle Chuanyi comes back, I will discuss this with him and ask him to find some time to go to the commune to find Chuanyu and try to save the entire commune from disaster. Otherwise, if other production teams have no food and we have food, someone will definitely come to rob us."
Zhou Rong: "Uncle is worthy of being a cadre elected by the organization and fellow villagers. You have a different perspective and can consider important things that we have overlooked. Under your leadership, Zhoujiawan will surely overcome many difficulties and prosper!"
Zhou Chuanjing felt relieved after hearing this flattery, and said happily: "It is my responsibility to do something practical for the villagers. Do you want to find Chuanyi? I will take you there."
Zhou Rong: "Okay, I'm going to talk to Uncle Chuanyi about the grain storage. I've already told you about this, so there's no need to repeat it.
I am mainly curious about why there are mines near Zhoujiawan and how people mine. I have never seen such a scene before and I want to broaden my horizons. "
When talking about mining, Zhou Chuanjing got angry and told Zhou Rong the whole story while walking...
After listening to Zhou Chuanyi's suggestion, Zhou Chuanyu concentrated all the earthen stoves for steelmaking in the area of the commune. When fuel was needed, he cut down the forests near the commune to prevent the fruit forest or vegetable base in Zhoujiawan from being destroyed.
Xu Dayong, the captain of the Qianjin Brigade, was jealous of the money Zhoujiawan made through the base, but none of their applications for a 10,000-head pig farm, a 10,000-chicken mountain, a vegetable base, and other indicators were approved.
They spread rumors that there were iron mines under the fruit forests and vegetable bases in Zhoujiawan, and suggested that all the people in the commune come to mine and make steel.
When Zhou Chuanyi learned about this, he was extremely angry. He thought it was useless to reason with a man like Xu Dayong, and that he would only behave himself after being beaten into submission. He immediately gathered the villagers of Zhoujiawan and went to the management office of the Qianjin Brigade together.
Xu Dayong had been on guard against Zhoujiawan for a long time. As soon as Zhou Chuanyi led his men to the territory of the Qianjin Brigade, he was stopped by Xu Dayong and a large group of people.
When Zhou Chuanyi saw that Xu Dayong brought more people than him, he felt that something was wrong, so he quickly signaled the people around him to go back and find help. He and the people who stayed behind engaged in a "verbal fight" with the other party in order to delay time.
People from other production teams in Shengli Brigade thanked Zhou Chuanyi for helping them get the quotas for the Wantou Pig Farm and Wanji Mountain. When they learned that there was a fight in Zhoujiawan, the production team leaders immediately called together their members and rushed to help with their weapons.
With helpers in place, Zhou Chuanyi stopped hesitating and, with a command, the Victory Brigade and the Advance Brigade engaged in battle, with the two sides fighting fiercely.
In the end, the Advance Brigade suffered a crushing defeat and Xu Dayong was almost beaten to death.
Zhou Chuanyi let Xu Dayong go only after he made him write a letter of guarantee that he would no longer oppose any production team in Shengli Brigade...
When talking about the fighting scenes, Zhou Chuanjing gestured excitedly and told Zhou Rong that Zhoujiawan had never lost a fight!
Zhou Rong nodded repeatedly and cooperated with the praise.
Zhou Chuanjing then went on to talk about what happened later.
Although the Qianjin Brigade was severely punished, the news of the mine in Zhoujiawan was still widely spread.
The task of steelmaking is now more important than anything else, and the commune is indeed short of iron ore. Even if Zhou Chuanyu wants to help Zhoujiawan get away with it, the commune party committee secretary and other cadres will not agree.
Zhou Chuanyu had no choice but to invite an expert to Zhoujiawan for a survey.
After surveying the fruit forest and vegetable base, no iron ore was found. The mountain next to the ancestral grave mountain behind the village was also the one Zhou Chuanyi wanted to reclaim and plant fruit trees, but he gave up after being stopped by Zhou Rong. A small amount of iron ore was found there.
The Party Secretary said that no matter how much iron ore there was in stock, it had to be used for steelmaking, so he issued an order to select a group of strong laborers from various production teams to come to Zhoujiawan to mine.
Zhou Chuanyi didn't want people to cut and dig randomly and destroy the ancestral tomb mountain, so he personally supervised it every day...