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Chapter 2 Uncle Xinhua

These days, the three bureaus of finance, taxation, and industry and commerce are the most prosperous units in the county, while the statistics bureau is just a sideline. It only gets bustling every census year.

The car used by the Bureau of Industry and Commerce is a Santana, while the car used by the Bureau of Statistics is an old Mustang Jeep with holes in it.

In fact, it is impossible to say who is right or wrong about this matter. As someone who has studied "History of the Song Dynasty" in depth, Zhou Zhi now sees it very clearly. At most, it can only be said that each has their own position and position.

And the way to deal with this matter, under the current management system that has not yet been adjusted and standardized, can only be to say that the public is justified and the mother-in-law is justified.

If it had happened a few months later, it would have been nothing.

Because the national industrial and commercial system will soon undergo a major adjustment, county bureaus will be under the direct jurisdiction of municipal bureaus, and the influence of county committees on the industrial and commercial system will be greatly reduced.

However, this happened just now. Under today's dual-management system, it just happened to be such a sigh of relief, and there was just such a trace of "ignorance".

So, with the encouragement of some thoughtful people, my father ignored the organizational principles and reported to higher levels, causing the county to be passive.

Hence the "rumor" that Uncle Xinhua is hearing now.

And this rumor, in another time and space, finally became a fact.

The conversation between my mother and Uncle Xinhua gave Zhou Zhi a wake-up call.

If you want to realize your own values ​​and ideals in the future in the pile of old papers, you must take the first step now - transfer to liberal arts studies and enter the liberal arts major.

But if we bring it up now, it will definitely arouse strong opposition from my family, especially my mother.

Because what my mother often talks about is - learn mathematics, physics and chemistry, and you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world.

And now, I can't come up with sufficient reasons to convince them.

The political situation in the small county town had become extremely involution by 1991. This situation was just like the situation in Gujing Township, Shuangxi Town, where my mother lived.

If grandma hadn't gritted her teeth and sent all her daughters to school despite the strange looks and criticism from around them, the daughters of the Su family would not have had the opportunity to leave Gujing Township and would not have achieved what they have today.

Judging from my own experience in my previous life, certain decisions at certain stages of life are indeed very critical.

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but start to think about how to solve these two imminent things.

If we only talk about qualifications, whether in the Jiachuan political arena or in the Manzhou Industrial and Commercial Bureau line, Dad is very qualified.

The first job the educated youth had when they returned home was as secretary of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

The director at that time was a retired soldier, a tall man from Shandong who was 1.8 meters tall. He had served as a machine gunner from the War of Liberation to the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea.

It stands to reason that this is the target of the enemy's artillery fire, but until Lao Wang was discharged from the army and went to the Jiachuan Industrial and Commercial Bureau, he didn't even have a trachoma on his body, so he was called a lucky general.

At that time, in the small courtyard of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, what Xiao Zhouzhi was most afraid of was Lao Wang's Bureau.

He has a rough voice and moves like a soldier. His only way to express his love for children is to grab them and throw them like sandbags, which often scares little Zhou Zhiyi into screaming.

Although he is upright and heroic, as a retired military cadre who has been retired for more than seventy years, Director Wang cannot read a lot of Chinese characters. Even his own name is crooked.

So when the county was recruiting people from the educated youth who had returned to the city to strengthen its administrative team, my father's beautiful hard-pen calligraphy immediately caught the eye of Director Wang.

After listening to several articles and reports, Director Wang was even more convinced that he had definitely found a talent.

Dad’s articles and reports were especially good at quoting historical materials and allusions, combined with current affairs and political commentary. The so-called "quoting from classics and references" was very rare among the cadres of that era.

Later, every time the Industrial and Commercial Bureau held a meeting, Director Wang would basically start with a sample introduction, then pick up the tea cup and lean back on the wicker chair with a smile: "I'll just break up the pieces here, and Secretary Xiao Zhou will continue the chat with everyone!"

During that time, my father, the secretary, was basically in charge of the specific affairs of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, while Director Wang only listened to the reports and signed them.

That experience was a great training for my father. Later, with the changes of the times, my father was transferred to the County Finance Committee. Later, he went to Qiming District to serve as the district party secretary. When he came back, he was elected to the provincial party committee.

After training at the party school, he became the first group of cadres in Sichuan Province to enter the provincial party school and obtain a college diploma.

After returning from the party school training, I happened to encounter the division of the county's sugar, tobacco and alcohol company into a tobacco company and a sugar and alcohol company.

The organization wants my father to temporarily serve as the manager of the sugar and wine company to get the business back on track after the separation.

Dad works as a manager of a sugar and wine company, which actually affects his own progress.

Before taking office, my father pointed out to the organization that since both husband and wife worked in a sugar and wine company, they were prone to gossip.

Because after my educated youth returned to the city, my mother first went to the county cement factory, then from the cement factory to the supply and marketing cooperative, and finally from the supply and marketing cooperative to the sugar and wine company as an accountant.

Now my father is asked to go, so he makes a request to avoid suspicion.

In the end, the organization adjusted my mother's job. My father still served as the manager of the sugar and wine company for one term, while my mother was transferred from the sugar and wine company to the environmental supervision station where the work was free and profitable.

Slowly, step by step, until now, those party school classmates who were in the same batch as my father started out as deputy county magistrates.

Because my father was delayed for these four years, although he later re-entered the industrial and commercial system, he only rose from deputy county director to director.

The key is that it also blocked other people's roads. Deputy Director Liu Changan was very dissatisfied with his father and kept making moves in private.

In another time and space, the current rumors in the county finally became a fact.

Dad used to work in the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and his work was very prosperous, with outstanding political achievements.

The first thing he did when he took office was to rectify the market.

The Yangtze River Fresh Market, which used to be prosperous but is now declining, is merged with the Bamboo and Wood Grain Market, which is also the fruit market during the peak lychee season.

The former bamboo and wood grain market was expanded, with a farmer's market on the ground floor, a small commodity market and a three-story shopping mall on the upper floor.

This market is very unique, because the place where the market is located is called Zhangjiagou, and the market is at the lower part of Zhangjiagou at the north entrance.

Although it looks like a three-story comprehensive market, there are roads leading to each floor on the hillside. Therefore, it is more appropriate to understand it as three independent markets with three overlapping spaces and internal staircases connected up and down.

This design is very successful and is of great benefit to people's shopping convenience and the dispersion of people in the market.

Even after many years, this market has been demolished with the changing times, but it is still talked about by older Jiachuan people.

The old farmer's market that was finally freed up was used by my father to build a family building.

In recent years, except for prosperous units such as the county party committee compound, finance bureau, sugar and wine companies, and tobacco companies, seven-story residential buildings like this are almost rare in the county. Being able to live in such a building is the envy of everyone in the county.

Because the funds prepared were limited, Dad adopted a partial fund-raising method, and because there was not enough housing, Dad used the housing qualifications that should have been allocated to himself to take care of the old employees who were about to retire that year.

Zhou Zhi's family still lives in the old dormitory of the sugar and wine company.

These measures have won my father a good reputation.

While I was still thinking about my father's bargaining chip, my mother and Lu Xinhua had already finished talking on the small balcony and came to the hospital bed again.

Uncle Xinhua said: "You boy, you have been naughty since you were a child. You can't even describe how worried you are. It makes your mother very worried!"

Zhou Zhi said: "Uncle Xinhua, you have wronged me. At least this time it has nothing to do with being naughty, right? This time it is pure bad luck!"

Just as Lu Xinhua was about to laugh, Zhou Zhi said, "Besides, it's not like I don't know about Uncle Xinhua's deeds when he was an educated youth. Where did I end up?"

"You bastard!" Lu Xinhua pretended to be angry, and then sighed: "You don't even know how miserable we were at that time, except for your father as a special case!"

"When we went to Qiming District, none of the educated youth dissatisfied with him."

"Oh, I really haven't heard my father say anything..." Zhou Zhi was very interested: "Uncle Xinhua, you have to tell me."

"Hahaha, I can't finish it in three days and three nights... To put it simply, we are all so hungry that we have consumptive bowels. Your dad, during the day, follows the villagers to learn how to grow rice, corn, and vegetables. He also collects excrement in his spare time.

Fat, and... he even raised two pigs!"

"Isn't it? My dad also raises pigs?"

"Why not?! We even organize literacy classes for fellow villagers in the evening! But he can get it!"

Speaking of these, Lu Xinhua was a little emotional: "Do you know what is the most delicious thing that I have ever eaten in my life? It was during the Chinese New Year that year, and all the educated youth in the township came to your dad's place, and we killed the New Year pig there!"

"There is no seasoning. We still eat the white water sausage with ginger and garlic seasoning..."

White...white water...fat intestines? Can you eat that stuff?

But then I thought about it, maybe it was true, what was missing most at that time?

Lack of oil.

As for the fat intestine thing...it's a lot of oil!

Uncle Xinhua actually swallowed a mouthful of saliva, as if recalling the delicious food from back then: "Because of your dad, our Qiming Township has always been the advanced educated youth group! When we return to the city, we are also the first group!"

"Compared to those three draws and one draw later...forget it, you don't understand these things..."

What is there to understand about this? The first batch of educated youths who returned to the city had relatively easy job arrangements. They were mainly in government departments, which was different from those who later came to the fertilizer and cement factories.

"So you keep your cleverness to yourself, and learn from your dad in the rest." Uncle Xinhua continued: "Later he went to Qiming District as branch secretary, and the villagers in the countryside were very happy, and they rushed to tell each other, saying

Our Zhou Zhiqing is back again!"

"Qiming Township... I haven't dared to go back and take a look anyway."

I guess this is because I often did bad things in the countryside at that time, and I was afraid that my fellow villagers would be embarrassed if they mentioned the old things.
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