jdhmnovel Chapter 291: Public canteens do not breed termites!
Chapter 291: Public canteens do not breed termites!
Zhou Rong stayed at Zhou Chuang's home for one night. He told them about the recent situation of Zhou's father and mother, invited them to attend Zhou Cai's wedding, and returned to Jiangcheng the next day.
Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing felt that if they just told everyone there would be no money to be distributed this year, someone would definitely cause trouble.
After the two of them discussed it, they hung a board in front of the cafeteria and wrote the amount of food consumed in the cafeteria every day with charcoal.
For example, today the kitchen team received 2300 kilograms of rice, 80 kilograms of oil, 200 eggs, 50 chickens, 1500 kilograms of cucumbers, and 1400 kilograms of eggplants.
Everyone was a little shocked when they saw these amounts, as they didn't expect the daily consumption to be so large. But when they thought that they were all distributed by the state and were free of charge, they put away their guilt.
In response to the requirements of superiors, each brigade must build its own primary school to train more talents for the country and make it convenient for children to go to school nearby.
Three days later, after Zhou Chuanyi finished his work with the brigade and took a visit to the school construction site, he returned to Zhoujiawan and presided over the meeting with Zhou Chuanjing.
At about 10:30, the gong sounded to signal the end of work. Everyone thought that the person who struck the gong had misread the time. In any case, everyone was happy that they didn't have to work. They happily went home, took their bowls and chopsticks, and went to the cafeteria to wait for dinner...
Seeing that most people had arrived, Zhou Chuanjing said loudly, "I'm letting you go home early. I'm not here to have a meal. I have something to tell you."
A villager asked: "Captain, has the country introduced any new good policies?"
Another villager started to make a fuss: "Isn't the food not enough? Are we still being given new clothes and money?"
Everyone burst into laughter when they heard this.
Zhou Chuanjing smiled and said, “I hope this beautiful dream is real, but unfortunately, I can only see it in my dreams.
September is almost here. According to our original plan, after selling the early rice, we will distribute the money from selling vegetables to everyone.
But you also know that in our production team's public canteen, more than 1000 people in the village ate to their heart's content. Every day they ate more than 2000 kilograms of rice, dozens of kilograms of oil, and thousands of kilograms of vegetables.
There is no extra grain and vegetables to sell, and whether new grain can be produced is another matter.
The money in the public account needs to be used to buy oil and purchase farm tools.
I called you here to tell you that the village will not distribute money anymore, because there is no money to distribute!"
Everyone was shocked and immediately went into an uproar.
A man stood up and angrily questioned: "I have seven or eight strong laborers in my family. Every day, we do the work worth ten work points. We do this just to make more money and build a few more houses for our family. Now you say you don't want to share the money. Why? I don't accept it!"
Another man said, "I don't accept it either! My family has worked hard for half a year, hoping to get some money from the sale of the harvest so that we can marry our son. If we don't get any money, how can we marry our son?!"
Did you officials embezzle the money from the public account and deliberately make up an excuse to fool us? "
Zhou Chuanjing took the account book handed over by the accountant and said, "Every penny of the village's money has been clearly recorded here. If you are dissatisfied, come and check the account!
I just told you that the food, vegetables, pigs and chickens from the farms, etc., should be left for the canteen to cook, and the money should be used to buy oil and farm tools, there should be no leftovers!"
A young man asked: "Isn't the food we eat distributed by the government? Why do we have to use our own money?"
Another young man said, "That's right! We are now a communist society, the country has plenty of money and grain. You cadres read newspapers every day, don't you know that our grain yield per mu has exceeded 10,000?
The Ministry of Agriculture also said that our grain reserves are 40 billion catties more than that of the damned United States. The last thing our country lacks is food. Even if we eat ten bowls of rice per meal, we will not eat the country into bankruptcy!"
Zhou Chuanyi stood up and said loudly: "Who told you that food is distributed by the state? Don't use hearsay to distort the organization's policies.
The document we received stated that each production team was responsible for all expenses of the public canteen.
Every grain of food, every vegetable, and every drop of oil you eat are all grown by yourself and bought from the village. There is no such thing as a free lunch!
Only some production teams in other provinces can produce 800 catties per mu, but this does not happen in Zhoujiawan. Our early rice yield is only about catties per mu.
Even if the country has money and food, there are more than 6 million people in the country. If they eat and drink without restraint, even mountains of gold and silver will be eaten up. "
An auntie said, "Then what is the point of setting up this canteen? We just eat our own food. It would be better to divide the food and money and let everyone go home to cook.
My family has more than ten strong laborers, and we have saved a lot of money and food in previous years. If we work together, I will be using my own food and money to support those lazy people. Why? I want to disband!"
After those families with more labor force realized what was happening, they all clamored for Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing to divide the money and grain. They did not want to eat in the public canteen as it was not cost-effective.
Some people also said that the public canteen is good and cannot be disbanded, otherwise it would violate the organization's policy and it can be brought to the meeting.
Their remarks were immediately attacked by those who wanted to disband the cafeteria, who said they just wanted to take advantage of everyone, and that if they really wanted to eat in the cafeteria, they should pay for their own food.
For a while, everyone was arguing fiercely.
When everyone was tired of arguing, Zhou Chuanyi said: "The public canteen is a new policy of the organization, which was announced not long ago. We must not disband it. Otherwise, if the higher-ups blame us, everyone will suffer.
But let's discuss how to keep the canteen running and we can think of a compromise.
Our country's laws emphasize fairness, justice and democracy. We will vote on the final solution, and the minority will obey the majority."
Since it involves their own vital interests, no one wants to be careless and they start discussing it immediately.
Most villagers feel that the canteen can no longer provide unbridled eating and drinking as before, and that the amount of food for each meal must be strictly controlled, and it would be best if it were distributed according to demand based on labor, work points, age, and other criteria.
Only two dishes can be fried for each meal, and meat is not allowed except during festivals. If anyone complains about the food, they can go back home and cook for themselves.
Public canteens should not breed termites!
The money in the public account will be distributed in due time, just like before. They would rather eat food without oil than waste the money.
In a communist society, without money or a wife, without a dowry or a house, you will have to be single for the rest of your life.
They don't want to end up alone, as their families are waiting for money to build houses, marry wives and raise children!
Zhou Chuanjing asked people to write down everyone's demands one by one in a notebook and read them out loud, asking everyone if there were any missed ones, and then asked everyone to raise their hands to vote.
Those who demanded that money be shared and that each meal in the cafeteria be distributed according to demand were clearly in the majority.
Zhou Chuanyi and Zhou Chuanjing both smiled with satisfaction, and couldn't help but sigh that Zhou Rong's brain was really good, and he helped to resolve the canteen crisis in the village so quickly...