Chapter 81 - 079 Discuss
Except for a few plots of private land, all the land was collective, and everyone was assigned different types of grains to plant and turn over to the commune. Everyone worked together, many slackening their efforts and not working as hard as they could.
Later, the leaders of several production teams learned to be cunning and simply divided everyone into groups, letting the group leaders manage people underneath them. Each person was allocated tasks and could leave once they finished early and the group leader had checked and recorded their work points.
The leaders conducted spot checks, which indeed sped up progress significantly, and the grain yield grew considerably, but it still couldn’t match the yield of the privately-owned land.
The land of the Li Family Village Production Team was barren, but luckily, it was close to a water source, so the yield was still quite good. After harvesting the grains for the year, several officials in the team office began to calculate the work points.
Of course, this wasn’t something they could finalize; they could only tally it up before handing it over to the officials sent by the commune.
Li Dafu, on the other hand, wasn’t worried; he felt very content. This year’s harvest was substantial, with lots of grain and livestock left over after what was turned over, and the money converted from the work points was considerable; he felt very pleased.
It was already late December when the commune staff came to verify the records.
Qin Xi was rolling up her sleeves, washing Chinese cabbage, while Li Xianglu was busily chopping and mincing on the cutting board.
Mr. Li sat beside the warm dining table, reading a newspaper.
This newspaper was brought back by Qin Xi from the county yesterday, delivered on behalf of Mr. Lan.
Mr. Li looked quite troubled as he read the newspaper; it was almost 1975, and yet things seemed to be becoming chaotic again.