Chapter 567: Chapter 567: Secretary Quan
Chapter 567 Secretary Quan
Even Captain Ma felt a bit embarrassed when he ntioned the number. An acre of paddy field, after toiling for a year through two seasons, could at most yield 500 kg of dry grain.
Such 500 kg of dry grain, when sold to the state, would be priced at eleven yuan per 100 kg. After deducting labor and fertilizer costs, an acre of paddy could only net tens of yuan.
But now, he was asking Jiang ngyu for a hundred yuan per acre contract fee for mountain land.
ngyu looked at him without saying a word.
Captain Ma: “Think it’s too expensive? There can be—”
He thought, not all brigade cadres had to be on duty every day. If they were to take turns on duty, he could accept a bit less.
ngyu sighed. If he knew that just digging up a single ginseng in that valley could earn more than this lease fee, she wondered what he would think?
However, before ngyu, no one had ever obtained those things.
She sighed and said, “Okay, let’s go with one hundred yuan per acre as you said. However, I want to contract it for a hundred years!”
When Captain Ma heard ngyu agree to a hundred yuan per acre, he imdiately beca happy.
He said, “I can’t decide on this myself. I’ll call a eting with the brigade cadres right away and should be able to give you an answer by tomorrow.”
ngyu was a little displeased, but since they needed the secretary to call a eting for discussion and didn’t want to be autocratic, she couldn’t restrict them.
She had to agree, “Alright then.”
Captain Ma was a man of action, and indeed he imdiately made an announcent using the broadcasting system. At that ti, every household had a loudspeaker installed, and if you wanted to issue a notice, all you had to do was shout into the microphone in the brigade’s broadcasting room.
Before long, several brigade cadres had gathered.
Captain Ma told them about Jiang ngyu’s proposal to contract Ghost Valley.
“It’s like this. Everybody is welco to express their opinions.
Personally, I think, since everyone is afraid to go near Ghost Valley and those who go there never return, we might as well contract it out to her.
After the contracts are distributed to individual households next year, we, the brigade cadres, won’t have any land to earn work points from. It will definitely be tough to collect consolidated contributions from each household. But by contracting out Ghost Valley, we can get an inco of ten thousand yuan a year.
With this ten thousand yuan, we brigade cadres can get so subsidies for duty, the Five Guarantees households can also receive funds, and our school can make so repairs. A few days ago, Principal Chen ntioned to that the number of students in our school is growing and asked if we could build a few more classrooms.
What do you all think?”
The secretary, Civilian Camp Commander (also Director of Security), Won’s Representative Director, and Youth League secretary all looked at each other with disbelief.
The secretary asked, “Why would she want to contract that valley that everyone is afraid to visit?”
Captain Ma answered, “It’s said that she plans to grow dicinal herbs there.”
Upon hearing about dicinal herbs, the Won’s Representative Director’s eyes brightened: “Do you think that valley might be ho to many rare dicinal herbs? That’s why the girl is so generous, offering ten thousand a year?”
A stir touched everyone’s hearts. Yes, that valley hasn’t been ventured into for many years, it must have many rare dicinal herbs growing.
The secretary’s surna is Quan; he wasn’t as young as Captain Ma, being an older cadre in his fifties.
He pondered for a mont and said, “Director Wan is right. Inside the valley, there should be many dicinal herbs growing. It’s possible that the contract fee we get is not even one percent, maybe not even one-thousandth or one ten-thousandth, of what the valley produces.”
Everyone glanced at each other: If it’s as Captain Ma said, contracting it out for ten thousand a year, could it be too much of a loss?
Captain Ma: “Then what do you propose we do?”
Secretary Quan suggested, “Perhaps, we could first send people to investigate.”
What, go to Ghost Valley to investigate? Don’t they know it’s a place where those who enter never return?
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