This year's drought is severe.

However, for a while, the entire Red Star Commune and even the members of various production teams in Roewe County were actively extinguishing the locusts.

Because this locust plague came violently and although it did not last long, the damage caused by locusts to crops in the ground was very serious and rapid.

Moreover, the consequences of locusts on crops are very intuitive and shocking.

But drought is different.

The damage caused by the drought to the crops in the production team is a very slow process.

so,

Now the members who are busy extinguishing locusts, they are not considering the matter of diversion and drought resistance.

Luo Xuan always likes to be one step ahead of others when doing things, be good at preparing for the future and make arrangements in advance.

This time, Zhengxing Brigade drew a large amount of manpower and material resources to build a new canal with all its efforts.

When the construction just started, this action was ridiculed by members of other brigades: "The Yongxing Reservoir has not been repaired yet, so what are you doing to repair the canal?

And now the food on hand is so tight that the people in the revitalization team waste precious food on meaningless projects.”

"That's it! When the reservoir is completed in the second half of the year, the commune will naturally organize manpower to build the water diversion channel to various brigades.

At that time, everyone just needs to repair the small ditch of our brigade.

If you don’t need the resources of the commune, you just want to waste your brigade’s money and food to do these unfair things?

Is it really burned with too much money, or is it full of food?"

Generally speaking,

During this period, every winter, in the commune and county, members of the production team would be summoned on a large scale to volunteer work.

Then, these free laborers will carry out some basic agricultural infrastructure construction.

Except for Zhengxing Brigade, the other production brigades all hold a kind of idea of ​​waiting, damn, and wanting.

They think: Anyway, they all have to work volunteers.

Just wait until winter, and the commune comes to build the canal. Isn’t it enough?

If you rely solely on your own production brigade and organize manpower and material resources to build the canal, the cost will be much higher.

The construction results must be shared with others.

All the members of the production brigade felt that it was not cost-effective and thought they were losing too much.

When the drought becomes more and more serious later.

The newly built water diversion canal of Zhengxing Brigade and the members of the brigade who were passing by began to come to their senses.

They began to realize the importance of this agricultural bloodline.

only,

Later, because the locust plague broke out too suddenly and was fierce, the members of the brigade ignored this water diversion channel for the time being.

Luo Xuan took Tuo Haili, who was masked with a gauze scarf, and walked along the irrigation canal that had been initially formed toward Yongxing Reservoir.

Just after walking out, the two arrived at the construction site.

This canal was first newly built from the Yongxing Reservoir sub-weather, connecting the main canal there.

Now that you have gone out for more than a mile, you can reach the construction site.

That means that the canal is about to be completed.

On the construction site.

The black and strong men were busy there with bare shirts.

Among them are excavated land and responsible for earthwork projects.

Use hammers, chisels, where you can hardly dig gravel and shale.

There are also those who do heavy physical work, carrying stones, responsible for strengthening the edges of the drainage canal.

"Why are there so many people?"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Luo Xuan was not only a little surprised, "Didn't the members of the brigade return to the production team and are busy extinguishing the locusts? Where did these people come from?"

Now on the construction site, the person who is responsible for watching the progress of the project is the Women's Brigade of Zhengxing Brigade.

A while ago, they organized a group of "Iron Lady Commando" and also came to the construction site to support the construction of this project.

But now,

The locust plague in the production team was severe, so the iron ladies all returned to their production team and were busy eliminating the locusts.

Only the women's brigade leader was left here. He supervised the craftsmen hired to work on the construction site.

Hearing Luo Xuan's question,

The women's brigade leader pointed to the dark craftsmen on the construction site and explained, "According to the original plan, our team's main force in building the canals is the members of this brigade.

This is equivalent to labor-for-relief.

This also allows our brigade members to get some rations.

But there are some more physical tasks, and some more technical tasks, so I hired some craftsmen from outside."

The women's captain said, "Luo Xuan, you know that our members now have to go and extinguish the locusts.

But according to the order of the captain Peng Zhikun, the construction of this canal must not be stopped!

So now, there are a lot of craftsmen coming from outside on the construction site, helping us with work.”

Luo Xuan asked her: "It is right to speed up the construction of the canal. But in this way, can the originally planned share of grain be used?"

"enough!"

The women's team leader replied very affirmatively, "Now 90% of the craftsmen on the construction site only have one lunch.

Instead of giving them extra rations, no need to give them salt or Douban money.

In this way, we can save a lot of food and cash."

After hearing the explanation of the Women's Team Leader, Luo Xuan couldn't help but frown for a moment, and his heart was full of conflicts.

These strong men on the construction site are just willing to do such heavy physical work just by greedying for the lunch meal?

This shows that the food situation outside is probably to an incredible level.

Good roll!

Don't have wages, don't have compensation.

With a full meal, these strong men were willing to rush to help the Zhenxing Brigade build a new water diversion channel?!

Luo Xuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart: It's so curly.

Because according to the past,

The plan he and the team leader Peng Zhikun and others have put together: every member of the brigade comes to work on the construction site and takes care of a lunch every day.

Because the newly built canal is conducive to increasing production and income for one's own production team.

Therefore, the members of Zhengxing Brigade came to work on the construction site with some compulsory behavior.

They can't bargain.

But if it is a craftsman from outside, he will not be in charge of Zhengxing Brigade. If he doesn’t seek some benefits, who will come to help with the work?

so,

The Zhengxing Brigade not only had to take care of these craftsmen invited from outside.

And every day, he had to give him 1 kilogram of mixed grains mixed with corn and rice.

In order to let others take it back to support their families.

However, the newly built canal requires a lot of manpower, and the food reserves of Zhengxing Brigade are also extremely limited.

Therefore, during the process of building the canal, Zhengxing Brigade will strictly control the number of craftsmen invited from outside.

According to Luo Xuan's idea: Instead of hiring more people outside, it is better to use more members of this brigade as much as possible.

This is equivalent to disguised use of grain to subsidize the members of the production team.

To help them survive this difficult time.

At this time, it is very easy to hire someone, and the rewards are also very low.

But the problem is: it would be a bit difficult to take out so much food and serve as wages for others.

“Isn’t this a bit inappropriate?”

Luo Xuan pondered for a while, then asked the women's captain, "After all, they also need to support their families. If you don't give food to others, what will their families eat?"

The captain of the women's brigade smiled bitterly, "I heard from the captain Peng Zhikun that existence is reasonable.

At that time, I thought that Comrade Peng Zhikun had become the captain and his educational level was different?
To be continued...