Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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He Yuzhu nodded and said, "How about we set up another technical school?"

"A vocational school?" Li Hongying's eyes lit up, then she smiled and said, "Tell me your thoughts."

He Yuzhu said, "You see, all factories train workers by having a master train an apprentice. There are relatively few technical schools."

"Yes, there are relatively few skilled workers right now, and training them is also slow."

Chapter 278 Arresting people

In the 1970s and 80s, technical schools were everywhere, but now it's only 1958. The country is vigorously carrying out construction and introducing technology, so it hasn't paid attention to the training of skilled workers.

There aren't many vocational secondary schools or technical schools.

After observing for some time, He Yuzhu felt that opening a technical school would be a good option.

After all, since their own machinery factory can produce machine tools, they can train machine tool workers in technical schools. This way, after learning the skills, they can go directly into the factory and start practicing as soon as possible.

After listening to He Yuzhu's explanation, Li Hongying nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, that's one way too."

He Yuzhu said, "I did the math, and it will actually cost quite a bit more to build the school."

"so much?"

He Yuzhu nodded and asked, "Could you get some farmland?"

"What do you want to do?"

He Yuzhu said, "Isn't the neighborhood also requiring people to learn agriculture and industry?"

Li Hongying nodded: "That's right, there is such an event."

Learning agriculture and industry means that workers need to go to the fields to work and learn how to farm. During the busy farming season, young and middle-aged people are organized to go to the countryside to help farmers with harvesting and planting.

"Studying for work" means organizing junior and senior high school students to visit and intern in factories. Of course, they will also be organized to go to the countryside to farm.

He Yuzhu said, "Could you give the machinery factory a piece of farmland, and then we can organize ourselves to cultivate it and build a small farm?"

It was already spring of 1958, and in less than two years life would become difficult, with not even enough food to eat.

He Yuzhu had always wanted to find an opportunity to acquire farmland, but there wasn't even a commune yet, and the farmers' land still belonged to the farmers; there were no production teams or large collectives.

Just as the 5th District was being abolished and the East District was being established, He Yuzhu from the West District wondered if he could take advantage of this opportunity to acquire farmland.

Li Hongying thought for a moment and said, "The district has a lot of land outside the city, most of which was obtained by confiscating land from large landlords. Since you have this request, it is possible to give some to the machinery factory."

He Yuzhu exclaimed happily, "That's great! Now we can farm our own land and raise livestock, which will solve our food supply problem."

"However, the specific land needs to be discussed at a meeting held by the neighborhood committee. How many acres do you plan to take?"

He Yuzhu said, "Of course, the more the better. We can use machinery for planting later."

"Okay, I'll try my best to get you as much as possible."

The machinery factory is the pride and joy of the neighborhood. It has solved the employment problem for young people in the neighborhood and has kept the neighborhood an advanced neighborhood in the district. Of course, it will receive strong support.

In the afternoon, Li Hongying, Tian Zao, and some street officials led He Yuzhu into the alley.

This is a group of several dilapidated courtyards put together, with broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and weeds growing rampant.

Li Hongying said, "This is the place I'm entrusting to you to run a primary and secondary school. The vocational school will be located elsewhere."

The area is large enough, but few of the houses are intact.

He Yuzhu didn't mind and said, "It's a nice place."

After visiting the place, we went to the next one, which was also a dilapidated courtyard. The houses were uninhabitable, otherwise they wouldn't have been left idle until now.

He Yuzhu didn't take it seriously. After confirming the address, he paid the money to the street office, and the construction team under the street office came to clear the site and carry out the house construction.

They built several factories before, and the quality was top-notch.

He Yuzhu has been busy with this matter for the past two days. After confirming the address, he began to take over the candle factory, printing factory, flour mill, garment factory and transportation team.

Some of the locations were in good locations, so He Yuzhu moved his factory out and rebuilt the site into a guesthouse.

This way, we can spend some more money.

After taking over these small factories, Li Hongying called He Yuzhu over and said:

"After a meeting and discussion, the neighborhood committee decided to transfer 1000 mu of farmland to the machinery factory."

"Only 1000 mu? Isn't that too little?"

"You still think this is not enough? This is only 1000 mu, which was obtained by asking the district for a piece of land."

"Alright, that's quite a lot."

He Yuzhu then went to the countryside with Li Hongying to confirm the land boundary, which was in a place not far from the factory.

It is said to be 1000 mu of land, but it actually includes a large area, of which only 300 mu are high-quality paddy fields suitable for rice cultivation.

There is also rice cultivation around the capital, but the area is not very large.

Rice can only be grown in some areas with relatively good irrigation conditions.

This is 300 mu (approximately 20 hectares). The paddy fields are mainly distributed on both sides of a river, and can be directly irrigated with river water.

There are also several ponds connected to the river, of varying sizes, none of which have been developed and are considered wild ponds.

The remaining land is dry land, which can be used to grow cash crops such as corn.

Besides these fields, there are still many places that have not been cultivated.

There are reed beds, groves of trees, and some barren wastelands.

Li Hongying said, "This land is now yours, but the crops in the land will have to be handed over to our street office after the harvest so you can plant them in the fall. All the income from then on will belong to the machinery factory."

"Okay, no problem, this is the agricultural learning base of the machinery factory."

"Are you satisfied now?"

"Satisfied, extremely satisfied."

"Do a good job, the neighborhood is counting on you."

He Yuzhu asked, "Sister Hongying, after this major reshuffle, are you going to be transferred, or will you stay in the neighborhood?"

"It's not decided yet. We don't know where we'll be going; we can only wait for instructions from our superiors."

He Yuzhu didn't ask any more questions about it, but Li Hongying's abilities were obvious to all. She managed the streets in an orderly manner, and the residents were able to live and work in peace and contentment, with very few going hungry.

He Yuzhu offered a few words of comfort, which reassured her, and then they returned to the city together.

He Yuzhu has been very busy lately, and this is the only time he has had a moment to relax and have some tea in his office.

Then the phone rang, and He Yuzhu picked it up and asked, "Hello, who is this...?"

Xu Zhaodi's sobbing voice came through the phone: "It's me, Da Mao has been arrested."

"What? Da Mao was arrested? Who arrested him?"

"It was the police officers from our neighborhood who arrested Da Mao on the way."

Xu Zhaodi tearfully recounted what had happened.

The matter is actually very simple; Xu Damao left work as usual today.

Who knew that not far from the factory, several police officers came out, and after confirming that it was Xu Damao, they immediately took him away in custody.

A coworker who was leaving get off work with him told Liu Haizhong, and then Liu Haizhong told Xu Wude when he got back.

Da Mao's mother immediately fainted. Xu Wude and the neighbors carried his daughter-in-law into the house and revived her by pinching her philtrum.

Today, Xu Zhaodi took her child back to her parents' home and immediately called He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu asked, "Do you know why?"

I did have some guesses in my mind about Yi Wending being beaten, but it was better to pretend I didn't know.

Xu Zhaodi said, "It's probably because of the time that the Yi guy got beaten up. You and your younger sister should come back quickly, the yard is in complete chaos."

"Okay, I'll take her back right away."

He Yuzhu hung up the phone and went outside, then said to his younger sister:

"Hurry back, Da Mao has been taken away by the police."

"What? How could this happen?"

"Who knows? Your sister called and said your mom fainted."

"what!"

Xu Xiaomei was very surprised and flustered, even dropping the teacup. Without bothering to clean it up, she left the office.

He Yuzhu instructed the staff to tidy up the ground and lock the office door before riding his bicycle out of the factory.

They quickly caught up with Xu Xiaomei's bicycle. Xu Xiaomei used all her strength and sped all the way back to the courtyard house.

Xu Xiaomei threw her bicycle aside and rushed into the yard.

He Yuzhu had no choice but to lock his own bicycle, then help his younger sister lock hers, before entering the yard.

People in the front yard can hear crying and arguing coming from inside.

Passing through the main hall, one could see Xu Damao's mother and the widow arguing again.