AWB Chapter 1036: Sending Electricity to Rural Areas (2)
Chapter 1036: Sending Electricity to Rural Areas (2)
"Captain, are you sure you don't have to pay for electricity if you don't use it?"
"That's natural.
This is the same as if you go to a supply and marketing cooperative and don't pay if you don't buy anything." Secretary Xu answered first.
Accountant Li said, "I think we should take this opportunity to bring electricity to the production team.
At least now that the production team has electricity, even if everyone doesn’t want electricity at home now, it will be convenient if they want it in the future. They just need to pull a line from the production team.
But if the production team does not have electricity, then if you want electricity for your own home, you have to get help from the commune.
You have to pay for all the money along the way.
That would be a lot of sea.”
Secretary Xu immediately responded, "I think so too.
Anyway, the higher-ups are paying the biggest share this time and we'll only get a small share. If we don't take advantage of this opportunity, we'd be bastards.
If other production teams had access to electricity, our team would not have because we were reluctant to spend the money.
From now on, it will be difficult for the young guys in our team to get married.
Will people think that our production team is poor and doesn’t even have electricity and be unwilling to marry into our team?
Even the young girls in our production team would be looked down upon when they met other people. "
Knowing where the villagers' weaknesses were, Secretary Xu immediately attacked their weaknesses.
As expected, when some villagers heard that lack of electricity would affect their children’s marriage, they immediately refused to accept it.
"No, that won't work. It can't affect the marriages of the young people in our production team.
Our production team needs this electricity."
“Yes, the production team must have electricity.
I will get angry with anyone who opposes electricity.
If it makes my son unable to find a wife, I will not go to his house to make trouble."
"Secretary Xu has already said that the higher-ups will pay the lion's share and our production team will pay the smaller share. If you still don't do it, you're not a fool.
There will be no such good thing in the future."
Liu Jingxue stood below and just watched coldly without saying a word.
The villager standing next to her couldn't help but pull her sleeve and ask her,
"Liu Zhiqing, when you were at home before, there was electricity at home, right?"
Liu Jingxue nodded, "Of course there is."
"Is it really like what the captain said, that we don't have to spend money if we don't need it?"
"of course."
"Is electricity better than kerosene lamps?" A villager immediately interrupted the two people when they heard their conversation.
“How can kerosene lamps compare to electricity?
A kerosene lamp can only illuminate a small area, but electricity can illuminate the entire room, even the rooms next door.
When the wind blew on the kerosene lamp, the light flickered and was not stable at all.
Electricity cannot be extinguished by the wind."
Although Grandpa Wu and uncle didn't allow her to get involved, Liu Jingxue couldn't help but spread the benefits of electricity to the villagers around her, hoping to strengthen their determination to get electricity.
The situation was the same for other educated youth, and many villagers also asked them about the benefits of electricity.
For the educated youth, who came from cities with electricity to villages without electricity, now that the production team finally has the possibility of having electricity, they naturally have the same idea as Liu Jingxue and advocate the benefits of having electricity.
Someone asked loudly, "Team leader, Secretary Xu, have you ever asked how much money our production team will have to pay if we have electricity?
At least you have to give us a rough estimate so that we can have an idea.
It’s hard for us to make a decision without knowing what’s going on.”
"Yes, Captain, how much does it cost?"
The captain motioned for everyone to be quiet and said, "We have also asked about this matter, and the higher-ups only gave us a rough idea.
Based on the electricity supply situation in other places, the distance from the commune to our production team is such that if our production team has electricity alone, in addition to the above grant and rewards, our production team will have to pay another five or six hundred yuan.
If other production teams in our direction also have electricity, the public part can be shared by several production teams, and it will only cost more than 300 yuan. "
"So much?" some villagers were surprised.
"If you look at it individually, it's definitely a lot, but if you divide it among each household, it's not much.
It’s just that it would be better to involve other production teams, which would save a lot of money.”
"Yes, it would be best to bring other production teams together."
In order to make the villagers feel better, Secretary Xu quickly added,
"What our production team has to contribute is relatively small, after all, we have received additional rewards from above.
The reward is five hundred yuan.
This is equivalent to saying that if other production teams have electricity, even if they are closer to the commune than us, they will still have to spend 500 yuan more than us.
Tell me, our production team has gained a great advantage.”
“Five hundred dollars, this is a lot of reward, the higher-ups are really generous this time.
But this is all thanks to Liu Zhiqing and that person, otherwise we wouldn’t have received the reward.”
"Yes, I have to thank those two.
But if our production team doesn’t have electricity, it would be like losing five hundred yuan for nothing.
It would be great if the money could actually be distributed to people.”
"It's a free reward, it's good enough to have it, but you're still picky.
No, even for the sake of that 500 yuan, our production team must have electricity."
“Yes, it needs electricity.
Team leader, Secretary Xu, please try to persuade the production teams along the way to get electricity together with us.
In this way, our production team only needs to spend more than 300 yuan, which is not a lot of money when distributed to each household.
We have opened so many farms this year, and we will have to share the profits at the end of the year, so we don’t need this little money.”
"Yes, power on, power on."
After the team leader and Secretary Xu's speeches, the calls for power transmission gradually grew louder.
The captain and Secretary Xu looked at each other and were secretly delighted.
After waving his hand to signal everyone to stop, the captain said,
"In this way, we will not rush and give everyone a day to think about it.
Tomorrow morning, everyone please gather here early to vote.
Let’s have a one-man show and let everyone vote to decide whether the production team should have electricity or not.”
The captain looked at Accountant Li and ordered, "Accountant Li, prepare two wooden boxes tomorrow and put notes on them.
One is powered and the other is not. ”
"Each family in the production team sent a representative to vote, and each person had one vote.
As for the voting tools, let's use small stones."
At this time, Zhou Wenbing hurriedly shouted, "Captain, what about us educated youth?
Does each person represent himself, or does everyone have one vote? "
The team leader thought for a moment and said, "Over at your educated youth camp, the four men and three women are now living in two large bunk beds, right?"
Zhou Wenbing nodded, "Yes, Captain."
"Then you educated youth should count the two votes, one for the male educated youth and one for the female educated youth.
After all, if you want electricity in your educated youth center, it will also lead to the two rooms."
"As for the other educated youth who don't live in the educated youth sites, they will have one vote per site.
This way, you educated youth will have six votes.”
The team leader knew that these educated youth came from cities with electricity to the countryside without electricity, so they naturally hoped that the production team would also have electricity.
He made such arrangements in order to increase the number of votes cast by the production team, which can be regarded as a kind of secret operation.
The educated youth were overjoyed when they heard this.
After the matter was explained, the captain waved his hand and said, "It's over, everyone, hurry up and get to work.
Remember to come early to vote tomorrow and don’t waste time. ”