NFBE Chapter 1035: Sending Electricity to Rural Areas (1)
Chapter 1035: Sending Electricity to Rural Areas (1)
At the end of June, the Red Star Production Team welcomed a staff member who came to report the news, and brought two pieces of news.
First, ask Liu Jingxue to go to Secretary Yan’s office at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon to answer the phone.
Another thing is to notify the team leader and secretary of the Red Star Production Team to go to the commune for a meeting tomorrow morning.
Of course, the notice of the meeting was not only sent to the Red Star Production Team. All production teams under the Qianjin Commune had to attend the meeting tomorrow morning.
Before two o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, Liu Jingxue went to the commune as scheduled and came to Secretary Yan's office.
At two o'clock, the phone rang on time.
The call was from Grandpa Zhang. He didn't say anything else, just that Grandpa Zou had already taken up his post and everything was going well.
Also, the health-preserving pills she was asked to bring over had been tested by someone and confirmed to have special effects, so they had been given to the right people.
Because he had to pass on messages, Grandpa Zhang also got some.
However, because he knew that Liu Jingxue would send him more later, the quantity was not large.
After hearing this, Liu Jingxue quickly said that she would send the things prepared for Grandma Zhang to him after a while.
Grandpa Zhang also said on the phone that someone would probably come to pick up Liu Weihua and Wang Xiu Lan in the next few days to rehabilitate their names.
Liu Jingxue was very happy to receive some good news at once.
When Liu Jingxue returned to the Red Star Production Team and passed by the brigade headquarters, she found that the door was open and she could faintly hear the sound of an argument from inside.
You have to know that this is working time. Unless there are special circumstances, the brigade cadres usually work in the fields.
Out of curiosity, Liu Jingxue used her spiritual sense to go in and investigate, and found that except for a few exceptions, almost all the cadres of the production team were there.
They were arguing with each other until their faces turned red and their necks became thick, and no one knew what they were discussing.
After listening for a while, Liu Jingxue finally understood that they were talking about sending electricity to the countryside.
In the morning, the team leader and Secretary Xu went to the commune for a meeting to discuss this matter.
The cadres of the production team were divided into two factions. One faction agreed to have electricity provided to the production team, while the other faction was unwilling to spend the money and provide electricity because the team would have to bear part of the expenses.
After knowing the whole story, Liu Jingxue was no longer interested in their argument, so she withdrew her consciousness and stopped eavesdropping.
No matter what the results of their meeting are, they will eventually be informed to all villagers and their opinions will be sought.
She just needs to wait for the notice of the general meeting.
Grandpa Wu and uncle had told her that before the production team made a decision, the three of them were not going to get involved in the matter, so she pretended not to know and chose not to join in the fun.
Liu Jingxue did not have to wait too long. The next morning, when everyone gathered at the drying dam to prepare for work, the team leader announced to the villagers the content of the meeting held at the commune yesterday.
Upon learning that the commune had already had electricity, the next step was to provide electricity to the production teams below. The villagers immediately began to talk, drowning out the voice of the team leader who was speaking on the stage.
The team leader was not in a hurry. He let everyone talk for a while and let them vent their excitement before asking everyone to stop and listen to him.
“The government has allocated a special fund for the electricity supply to rural areas.
But there was only so much money, and there were so many communes in the town, and under each communes there were many production teams.
That amount of money is far from enough to provide electricity to all places.
The above decision is that wherever electricity is planned to be provided, the special fund will be borne partly, and they will bear part of it themselves.
I know that each commune and production team has its own considerations, and there is no coercion from above.”
A villager immediately asked, "Captain, should our production team have electricity or not?"
“Several of us cadres discussed it yesterday and we could not agree.
I want to talk to you guys and ask for your opinions." The captain replied.
As soon as the captain finished speaking, Secretary Xu beside him quickly took over.
"The team leader and I thought that our production team should take advantage of this favorable situation to get electricity.
After all, there are policies from above that will cover part of our expenses.
After all, if you miss this one, there will be no next one.
Without this policy, if our production team wants to have electricity, we will have to bear all the expenses ourselves.”
The captain nodded, "That's what I meant.
Moreover, this time it was a unified action from above. Several production teams in our Qianjin Commune were all drawn from the commune.
We all know the locations of several production teams nearby.
If several of our production teams are planning to provide electricity, some sections of the road are public areas, and this part of the money can be shared by several production teams. "
“Another point is that during the last epidemic, our production team was the first to discover and report it to the commune, which then reported it to the town, contributing to the fight against the epidemic.
As mentioned above, the funds allocated to us this time will be larger than those for other production teams, which can be regarded as a reward for us.
But as mentioned above, this money is earmarked and can only be used to provide electricity.
If our production team didn’t have electricity, the money wouldn’t be given to us, but would be distributed to other production teams.”
"That won't work. Why shouldn't we be given the reward for our production team, but instead distribute it to other production teams?
We won’t do this.” A villager protested.
Other villagers echoed.
“Yes, we disagree with this.
The money given as reward to us must be given to us.
Even if we don’t give money directly, we have to use it on our production team.”
"Even if it's just for the bonus money, our production team must have electricity."
"Yes, it needs electricity."
“But if electricity is available, our production team will have to pay extra money.
I don’t know how much it will cost.”
"Yeah, if it costs a lot of money, we can't afford it."
“I heard from my relatives in town that if you have electricity at home, you still have to pay for it every month.
How much does this cost!
Otherwise we still won’t have electricity.
The reward money won't go into our pockets anyway, so if it's gone, it's gone."
“What? We still have to pay the electricity bill every month, so we’d better not turn on the electricity.
I don’t want to waste that money.”
The villagers below were expressing their opinions one after another, some agreed and some disagreed with the electrification.
Hearing that many people in the audience were against the electricity supply because of the high monthly electricity bills, the team leader quickly reached out to suppress them, signaling everyone to stop the discussion and listen to him.
After the noise died down, the captain quickly explained,
“Someone just said that after the electricity is connected, you have to pay the electricity bill every month, but you don’t have to worry about it.
This time, the electricity will only be brought to the village. As for each household, whether or not to run electric wires into the home is up to you.
Even if you have electricity lines in your home, you don’t have to pay for electricity every month unless you use them.”
“What we are discussing now is whether the production team should have electricity.
As for whether each household wants to have electricity, wait until the production team confirms that electricity is available, and then each household can discuss it among themselves.”