Spring Breeze 1991

"Really, I remember that the weight is written on the white note, which is good for us." Yao Yuan thought for a while, and smiled wryly, "My grandfather also has white notes, and there are quite a few of them."

Yao Hu was both surprised and pleasantly surprised, and said, "Last year, the purchase price was 192 yuan per ton. If you hired a car to take it to the sugar factory, it was 215 yuan, and the shipping cost was 5 yuan per ton. If you exclude the money for fertilizers, you won't make much money all year round. Money. It used to be cheaper, but it's better than nothing."

The peasants who received IOUs did so out of their trust in the government. This trust gradually weakened over time, and then turned into distrust, and then hatred.

The purchase price of sugarcane has always been an eternal pain in the hearts of farmers in Nangang area. From the early 90s to 2022, the purchase price of sugarcane rose from about 200 per ton to about 400. For 30 years, it only increased by 400 yuan per ton.

Before 2015, the yield per mu of sugarcane was generally 4-6 tons, and rarely 7-8 tons. The growth period of sugarcane was nearly ten months from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. After a year, the income per mu is 800-1200 yuan.

Stripping away the cost, the money in the hands of farmers is difficult to maintain food and clothing.

After 2015, the yield per mu increased to seven or eight tons, some high-yielding varieties exceeded ten tons, the price was around 400 yuan, and the income per mu yield was around 4000 yuan. Only then did sugarcane, an important economic crop, not disappear.

In a word, sugarcane farmers in the 90s were very miserable.

Oddly enough, the market for sugar prices is good, and the value of the raw material sugar cane does not match the value of the final table sugar.

Others need to study and analyze, but Yao Yuan doesn't need it, because he knows that this is due to the impact of foreign edible sugar, and domestic edible sugar technology and ingredients are far behind foreign ones.

For him, he has a package solution in his hands.

After thinking about it, Yao Yuan asked, "Ah Hu, for example, I mean to use an analogy, if the purchase price of sugarcane can reach 400 yuan per ton, can the whole village be driven to become rich by planting sugarcane on a large scale? I I remember that the per capita land in our village is more than two mu."

Yao Hu didn't even think about it, and said, "I'm sure I can make a fortune. Think about it, one mu of land can harvest four to five tons of sugar cane, which is almost 2000 yuan a year. We can grow sugar cane on the land in our village. Every household has about ten mu of land, and the least one has seven or eight mu of land, good guy, after a year, the income is a ten thousand yuan household."

"It's not like this. Have you considered the cost issue? As for the labor cost, there is also the time cost. Moreover, we have a lot of typhoons here. If there is a typhoon, the harvest will definitely be affected. All factors are involved. You have to consider it." Yao Yuan explained with a smile.

Yao Hu thought so, and smiled awkwardly, "I didn't think about the typhoon, yes, this is very serious, if there is a typhoon in the middle of the year, the sugar cane has just been pumped at that time, and there is not a ton of sugar cane per mu. "

In his eyes, labor costs and time costs are not costs, and only those that need to be paid for are called costs.

One of the reasons why the value of farmers' labor is seriously underestimated is because people think that farmers' time is worthless, and it can even be said that farmers' lives are worthless.

Yao Yuan knew it well, and said, "Ah Hu, you have to take the lead in this matter. If there is not enough land, open up wasteland. There are so many wastelands and mountains in the village. It's a pity to lose them."

"A Yuan, you have to discuss this matter with the old party secretary. We can only do it after he nods." Yao Hu said.

Yao Yuan said, "I asked my grandpa to talk to him."

"Yes, let the old man go. If you go, the old branch secretary may not talk to you." Yao Hu deeply agreed.

It is no exaggeration, there is a gap between seniority, and Yaojia Village is a village that attaches great importance to seniority, no matter how big an official or boss you have been outside, when you return to the village, you should kowtow to the elders. You should sit at the same table as the brat.

The scene of a 30-year-old guy sitting at a table with a group of kids is too common, because they are of the same generation!Of course, there are also seven or eight-year-old elementary school students and six or seventy-year-old elders sitting at the main table, holding drinks and chatting with each other, also because of their peers.

It is not at all new for a married man to be called a three- or four-year-old kid uncle.

Fortunately, Yao Yuan's seniority is not low, and his family's seniority is not low.The old branch secretary has been the branch secretary for half a century, but he is only of the same generation as old man Yao, and he wants to be called elder brother Yao.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, more guests arrived, greeted each other and walked in. The yard with more than 50 tables suddenly became lively, most of them were folks from the village.With the arrival of the bus taken by the colleagues of Yao Zhenhua and his wife, the atmosphere in the Yao family reached a climax.

It is very new in this era to hire a bus to pick up people from tens of kilometers away for dinner.

In the concept of rural people, how many billions are incomprehensible. It's not that they don't understand arithmetic, but they can't understand the concept at all.In the countryside in the early 90s, where a family of five could eat for five yuan, the most powerful impact was the neatly organized three buses.

In their eyes, this is more proof of Yao Yuan's future, Yao Zhenhua's future, and Mr. Yao's family's future, which can be called a glorious ancestor.

Look at the new house that is more magnificent than the county government building!

It's time to eat.

Different from the flowing water seats in the north, all the guests in Guangdong Province sit together and open the seats together, which is huge and has a strong sense of ceremony.If limited by the venue, etc., it will be divided into two batches, and the time will be diverged.The first batch in the village is ready, and the second batch of guests from outside eats. The yard of Yao Yuan's house is big enough to accommodate a thousand people without any difficulty.

At twelve o'clock in the noon, amidst the thousands of firecrackers surrounding the new house, the seat for thousands of people began.Yao Zhenhua was afraid that the number of guests coming would exceed his expectations, so he reserved ten tables, but they were all filled within half an hour.

He had to ask the village chief to figure out a way, and urgently brought over a team of banqueters, set up another ten tables and opened several new stoves.

However, it is still not enough. Continue to add tables. If the stove is not enough, use bricks directly on the ground to set up a simple stove.Fortunately, it is not far from the fishing port, and every household has vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese and so on. Willing to give money!

Yao Yuan had just greeted a group of guests, and when he saw another group of people riding bicycles together, he suddenly had a bitter look on his face.

He hurriedly found his father who was so busy but so happy, and said, "Dad, there is another group of people here, all riding bicycles, they look like people from the town."

"It should be a high school classmate in my town." Yao Zhenhua hurried out, followed by Yao Yuan.

After Yao Zhenhua saw it, he quickened his pace to meet him, and said loudly with a smile, "Hey! Old classmates, you are here!"

Really.

Yao Yuan was very helpless.

He had never known in his two lifetimes that his father had so many friends!

Yu Tieli, who was also dazed after being too busy, said enviously, "Ayuan, I just did a rough calculation, not counting people from your village, there are more than 300 guests from outside, all of them are Uncle Zhenhua Friends, classmates, colleagues. Your dad is amazing."

Yao Yuan shook his head slightly, and said, "No one cares about the poor living in the busy city, but the rich have distant relatives in the mountains."

Yu Tieli was taken aback for a moment, deeply convinced.

In Yao Yuan's memory, after his father was hospitalized in an accident in his last life, Yao Yuan has never met anyone here today, and he has never heard his father mention any one of them.

Should there be despair and anger about this?

It shouldn't be, because from another angle, we might be like them too!

Yao Yuan smiled and said, "Brother Tieli, when I was in high school, I read a book called If You Bloom and the Breeze Comes from You. The title is very big. I thought I understood it at the time, but now I suddenly remembered that the old Understanding is not deep enough."

He pointed to the magnificent new house, "This is in full bloom."

He then pointed to most of his high school classmates, even Yao Zhenhua himself, whom he had never met many times, "This is from me."

Yao Yuan smiled wryly, "So that book is about the real society..."

"I don't quite understand, but I understand what you mean. This is the situation in society. At the beginning, they laughed at me when I was suspended without pay. Later, when they found out that I was working in Yuanda Electric, their expressions were completely different. I had no contact with them before. Colleagues took the initiative to ask me to drink. It’s always like this.” Yu Tieli said.

Yao Yuan sighed, "The countryside is simple, but it may not be true, but relatively speaking, the rural society is simpler than the urban society."

"Yes." Yu Tieli was also deeply moved.

In other words, the portrayal of the reality of society lies in him, Yu Tieli.

He sighed and said, "After the people in the village knew that I was suspended without pay, my parents were poked in the back when they went out, saying that I would go to work for a private boss if I didn't have a good iron job. Say, even if my son is at school, he is also said by his classmates."

"Ayuan, I didn't realize it before, but now I realize it, but I can't understand it. Is the organization of the unit really so important?"

Yao Yuan looked at Yu Tieli strangely, "Brother Tieli, you should know better than me."

Yu Tieli smiled wryly, took out a cigarette and handed Yao Yuan a cigarette, and said, "Yes, I know very well, but after meeting you, my mind has changed. A person's life is just so many decades spent in a fixed environment, It’s better to take some time to try other possibilities, I think the latter is more exciting. Unfortunately, I have a wife and children, and I don’t have the guts to try it.”

"You feel so deeply." Yao Yuan nodded in agreement, "There is a saying in the market, you have to get rich early, it says that you should work hard before getting married, and when you get married, in fact, a man's hands and feet are tied, the most important thing is to get rich. But the heart is bound."

"Yes."

When the two of them were chatting secretly, two brand new black Crown 133s came along the road. At first Yao Yuan thought it was Lin Wei, but after a closer look, the license plate was wrong.

This ninth-generation crown only entered the country the year before last, and it first appeared in the provincial capital. The black crown that Lin Wei drove was this car, which was bought back from the provincial capital at that time.

In the past two years, the Nangang area has also appeared, and this year it has gradually increased.

Almost all the ninth-generation Crowns entering the country are 3.0 models. This is also the model with the largest number of ninth-generation Crowns in China. It is very classic. After 30 years, this old car can be seen driving smoothly on the street. , the aura is not inferior to the luxury cars 30 years later.

This kind of car is not something that individuals can afford to buy.

Yu Tieli said, "The leaders of the city are here?"

"The mayor is sitting in a Pajero, which doesn't look like it." Yao Yuan felt strange.

It may be the leaders of other systems in the city, but what is certain is that there must be leaders of a certain level, otherwise, how can they be qualified to sit on the crown of more than 30 units.

The two black Crowns stopped directly at the roadside in front of the new house, and the people in the cars got off one after another.The people who got off from the co-pilot trotted to open the door for the people in the back row, and the people in the back row got out of the car with a smile on their faces.

The leader was in his 40s, with a big back, elegant trousers and a white shirt, with a belt around his belly, and walked over with his hands behind his back. The other seemed to be the second in command, a thinner middle-aged man, but he had the same style. One step behind the big belly followed.

Behind them are seven or eight people.

Those who didn't know thought it was a provincial high-ranking official who came to inspect the grassroots.

But Yao Yuan could tell that these two didn't have the aura of high-ranking provincial officials, which gave him a very strange feeling.

The leader saw Yao Yuan and Yu Tieli standing by the door, raised his chin slightly, looked at the new house, nodded and said, "This house is well built, young man, this is Boss Yao's house, right?"

He was asking Yu Tieli. In his eyes, Yao Yuan was just a young man.

Just as Yu Tieli was about to speak, Yao Yuan jumped ahead and said, "Which boss Yao are you talking about?"

"Mr. Yao Yuan, the biggest boss in your village." The secretary on the side explained like that, and then said, "Go in and let me know that the senior officials and the mayor of the town are here. Boss Yao, please come out and pick him up."

Yao Yuan was dumbfounded, senior officials and the mayor of the town?

It's the same as the leader of the country!

He subconsciously looked at the two brand new Crown sedans.You can’t buy it at a normal price. If you want to buy this kind of high-end car with a quota, you don’t know how many people you need to spend to get the quota. After you get the quota, you can buy it at the market price.

Generally speaking, a Crown sedan cannot be won without 50.

The town where Yaojia Village is located is a poor town in the province. The only factory is the Conch Cement Factory, but it has been sold to Tong Yongfu and is now a 100% private enterprise.When I visited Qigu last time, I talked with Tong Yongfu. According to Tong Yongfu, the annual financial income of the town is less than [-] million.

That is to say, they used the whole year's financial income of the town to purchase two Crown sedans as special vehicles.Now there are no detailed requirements for the special cars of leading cadres, and places with better finances are allowed to buy good cars. It is not surprising that the county magistrate's car is better than the mayor's car.

However, as a provincial poor town, the senior officials and the mayor of the town are sitting in a Crown sedan that costs more than 30 yuan, which is very difficult for Yao Yuan to accept.

Yao Yuan only felt as disgusted as eating a fly, and his heart was in a panic. Seeing the senior officials and the mayor standing here, waiting for Boss Yao to come out to greet him in person, he suddenly felt that although people like Zhou Liang were careful and thoughtful, Compared with these two in front of me, Zhou Liang can be called cute...