"Bold, have all our food reserves been transferred?" Wang Zhong asked.

Niu boldly said: "Everything has been moved to the cellar. What is in the warehouse above are reserved rations and seeds for the coming year."

"Okay!" Wang Zhongdao: "Recently, there has been a trend of exaggeration in newspapers and magazines. We are all farmers. No matter how the wind blows outside, we must know it in our hearts. Only by being down-to-earth can we live a good life."

"Don't worry about this, everyone knows it by heart." Niu boldly said.

"Also, be bold, Arita. You are the captain and deputy captain, in charge of production. I have to say something up front. We don't care about other villages, but in our village, the output is whatever it is, and no one can allow it.

Pay me more."

"One more thing. The county has decided to let our commune build a reservoir upstream of the Maixiang River."

"Really?" Ma Renli was surprised and happy.

"Is this a joke?" Wang Zhong glanced at Ma Renli angrily.

Ma Renli chuckled.

Niu Dadan also smiled and said: "This is a good thing. Once the reservoir is built and the irrigation canals are dug, more villages will be able to be watered with water from the Maixiang River."

"It's indeed a good thing!" Wang Zhong also nodded in agreement, and then looked at Ma Renli: "Originally, the county wanted to transfer me there, but I couldn't worry about the village, so I recommended you to the county.

The order from the army has also been issued. You will be transferred to the reservoir to help, and thirty young men from our village will be selected to go with you."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I will leave this matter to you, okay?" Wang Zhong asked loudly.

"No problem." Ma Renli patted his chest and promised, "I'll cover it."

At this moment, Ma Renli's eyes bloomed with a bright light that had not been revealed for several years.

"Once this reservoir is built, the irrigation canals and water trucks we used first will have to change accordingly. We must hurry up and fill all the weirs and ponds in the village with water now."

"Arita, for the time being, you can lead the villagers to take care of the winter wheat. Don't make any mistakes. Especially Xiaozhuan and the two of them who can't eat enough. Keep an eye on them with wide eyes. If you should deduct work points, you can deduct work points. If you can't,

Tolerate, don't break our rules, otherwise if everyone follows the same example, they will all follow suit and not work hard."

"No problem, I promise to complete the task." Zhao Youtian said loudly.

"Be brave, it is the peak period of oil extraction recently. You are fully responsible for the oil extraction workshop, and there must be no mistakes."

"no problem."

"Renlian, you are mainly responsible for paperwork and communicating with the commune. Besides, Ma Renli has gone to Bashang. You will take on his accounting work first. Is that okay?"

"I'm fine." Now that the busiest period has passed, the accountant is only responsible for counting work points every day, and there isn't much work.

Wang Zhong continued: "As for me, I will temporarily look at the oil pressing workshop, check our existing irrigation canals, and see if we can find a few more places and add a few more weirs and ponds."

Wang Zhong originally wanted to take advantage of the end of the autumn sowing to find time to go into the mountains to catch some prey and come back. Unfortunately, he immediately transferred thirty young and strong laborers to build the reservoir upstream. The remaining ones in the village were old and weak, but

There are nearly a thousand acres of winter wheat that need to be tended carefully, including weeding, top dressing, insect control, suppression and many other tasks.

It had only been a little over a month since Ma Renli led his people to the reservoir, but the weather was getting colder. On this day, Ma Renlian came back from a meeting in the commune and brought back a large drawing.

"Build a blast furnace to make steel?" Even though he had been prepared, Wang Zhong still couldn't help but twitching when he heard the news that Ma Renlian brought back.

Now half of the strong labor force in the village is at the reservoir. Three Monkeys, Erzhu, and the militiamen all went to the reservoir. Niu Dadan led the people to work quickly and slowly in the oil pressing workshop.

Other people in the village not only have to take care of the fields, but also have to go up the mountain to cut firewood from time to time and deliver it to the oil pressing workshop.

With no other choice, Wang Zhong led his people on the low land outside the village and spent more than half a month building four three-meter-high clay blast furnaces out of clay.

After the furnace was completed, Wang Wanchun led people down to inspect it.

"I said, Big Chong, why do I see that your stove is smaller than the ones in other brigade? Just like this, I can kick two of you!"

"Secretary Wanchun, I also want to build a big furnace, but we don't have iron ore, and we don't have coal as fuel. The firewood we burn in the blast furnace is all bundles of wood that the villagers have just chopped back from the mountains.

The iron smelted in the furnace is all pots, door bolts, iron buckets and the like from the folks' homes.

Nowadays, the only iron tools left in the village are rice cookers, hatchets, axes, and farm tools such as hoes and picks. We can’t let the villagers use these things to make iron!”

Wang Zhong said with a troubled expression.

Wang Wanchun's face froze, and he pulled Wang Zhong aside: "The difficulty is just a little more difficult, you can think of a solution."

"My Secretary, it's not that we are unwilling to contribute. Look around here. The villagers are busy all the time. Everyone is looking forward to contributing to the country and smelting steel.

But there is an old saying that a clever woman cannot make a meal without rice. We would like to practice more steel, but now our brigade can't even find a piece of scrap copper and iron. Many villagers have smashed the pots at home and thrown them into this stove.

Here, the folks and I can’t conjure steel out of thin air!”

Seeing the embarrassment on Wang Zhong's face, Wang Wanchun also knew what the problem was, "This..."

Wang Zhong suggested: "Secretary, why don't you apply with the superiors to get some iron ore and coal? Or anything that can be used to make iron. As long as there is any, our Maixiang Brigade will guarantee that we will make iron.

Hanhu."

"I'll go back and give it a try!" Wang Wanchun is not the Zhang Defu from the county. Although he tends to be accommodating to others, protects himself wisely, and is sometimes arrogant, he also knows that it is difficult for a clever woman to make a fool of herself.

Several more meetings were held one after another. The situation of the dozens of brigades in Maixiangling Commune was basically the same as that of Maixiang Brigade. The furnaces were built, but there were only a few iron-containing things on the brigades. It took a while to refine

The earthen blast furnace became a decoration.

Wang Wanchun was also worried about this matter. He called everyone over for meetings again and again, but nothing happened. He was reprimanded a lot by the county for this. In serious cases, he was almost dismissed as secretary.

For this reason, the county specially invited experts to come and carefully inspect the Maixiangling area for a while, and finally concluded that there is neither coal nor iron ore in the Maixiangling area, so the pots and farm tools used for cooking at home cannot be used.

It was melted, so Maixiangling Commune simply did not have the conditions for large-scale steel smelting.
Chapter completed!