OBS Chapter 312 Tractor Driver (2)
Chapter 312 Tractor Driver (2)
But the team leader and Secretary Xu also knew that giving all the places to the villagers was unlikely and would cause a strong backlash from the educated youth.
Although the villagers cannot get all the places, they have to ensure that most of the places go to the villagers.
Therefore, after hearing Fang Dong's inquiry, the team leader said calmly, "The educated youth are naturally eligible to sign up."
"That's good.
Captain, I'll sign up for myself, I also want to learn how to drive a tractor." Fang Dong said.
The captain said calmly, "Okay."
He looked at the place where the educated youths gathered and said, "If there are any educated youths who want to sign up, please speak up."
The villagers in the audience were not happy about this.
"Captain, this is our production team's business. How can we allow educated youth to sign up?"
"Yes, Captain.
We had prepared the money for the tractor several years ago, and it has nothing to do with the educated youth, so why should we ask them to sign up?"
Fang Dong raised his eyebrows, but he didn't say anything, intending to see how the captain would respond.
The captain stretched out his hand and pressed it down, signaling everyone to be quiet.
“Since the educated youth came to our production team and their household registration was registered in our production team, they are now members of our production team.
Since they are members of our production team, we should treat them equally, so they are naturally qualified to learn how to drive a tractor."
Secretary Xu also said, "Since we are one family, there is no need to talk about different things. The educated youth are naturally qualified to learn how to drive a tractor."
Seeing what the team leader and Secretary Xu said, the villagers were dissatisfied but did not continue to dwell on the issue.
However, many villagers stared at the educated youth with unfriendly eyes, trying to scare them away with their eyes.
"Besides Fang Dongfang, is there anyone else among the educated youth who wants to sign up?" the team leader spoke again.
Seeing the team leader asking again, Tang Qiangjun, who had raised this topic among the educated youth, also signed up.
"Captain, I'm signing up too."
At this time, Chen Guoqing nudged his cousin with his elbow and said, "Ping An, how about you sign up too?
You have always been smart, so learning to drive and repair a tractor is a piece of cake for you.
Your small body is really not suitable for working in the fields."
Zhang Pingan shook his head and said, "Cousin, there are only three spots in total, and it's not like you will be selected just by signing up, so I won't join in the fun.
Besides, as you have just seen, the villagers are not happy about the educated youth getting involved in this matter.
We don’t know how many years we will have to stay in the village, so we should not go against the villagers.”
Chen Guoqing thought about it and agreed with his cousin's decision, "Okay then."
Zheng Jianmin pushed Zhou Wenbing and said, "Would you like to sign up as well?"
“Can I?
I’m worried that I won’t be able to learn it.” Zhou Wenbing hesitated.
Zheng Jianmin urged, "You are at least a junior high school graduate.
Those people in the village who graduated from primary school were confident that they could learn it, so why can’t you learn it?”
Seeing that Zhou Wenbing was still a little hesitant, Zheng Jianmin continued, "Generally, tractor drivers have higher work points.
If you can be selected, you can earn more work points, and it won’t be as tiring as before.”
After hearing what Zheng Jianmin said, Zhou Wenbing was somewhat tempted, "Then I will sign up too."
Zhou Wenbing immediately raised his hand and signed up to the team leader.
After signing up, seeing that Zheng Jianmin himself did not move, Zhou Wenbing asked curiously, "Why don't you sign up yourself?"
"I can't stand the jolt of the tractor and the noise.
I sat on it once before, and after getting off it for a long time, my head was still buzzing.
So I didn’t sign up.”
"Three educated youth have signed up. Are there any more?"
The team leader confirmed it several times and only gave up after making sure that no one else had signed up for the educated youth site.
"Our plan is to select at least three members to go to the agricultural machinery station for study. Now that the number exceeds the limit, we naturally have to vote to decide," said the captain.
At this time, Secretary Xu said, "I think we should not select three, but select four to send for study.
If four are selected, even if only half of them pass the test, there will still be two who can obtain tractor driver's licenses and meet the requirements for purchasing a tractor.
If you only choose three, if two of them fail, you will have to choose more people to learn, which is a waste of time.
Anyway, they don’t charge tuition, and one more person just means we can bring more food, and one less person will have to work in the fields.”
When the villagers heard this, they also agreed with Secretary Xu's words.
"The secretary is right, Captain, let's choose four."
The captain also nodded in agreement, "Four is fine.
There are too many people now, so let's decide by voting.
Each person has only one vote, and can vote for four people. "
Fang Dong shouted from below, "Captain, this is not fair.
There are many villagers but few educated youth. If we vote like this, none of us educated youth will be elected.”
"So according to you, what should we do now?" the captain asked.
Fang Dong said, "At least we should split it in half, two places for villagers and two places for educated youth."
The team leader laughed and said, "You just said that there are more villagers than educated youth. Do you think it would be fair to the villagers if we split the money in half?
According to your logic, what is beneficial to you is fair, and what is not beneficial to you is unfair."
There was a lot of booing from the audience.
No matter how thick-skinned Fang Dong was, he didn't dare to shamelessly agree to the captain's words.
“How about this: three places for villagers and one for educated youth.
Judging from the ratio of villagers to educated youth in our village, the educated youth occupying one quota is already taking advantage.
You educated youth, don't you have any objections?" Secretary Xu at the side made the decision.
The educated youth below, except Fang Dong, immediately said that they had no objection.
"Fang Zhiqing, what about you?" Secretary Xu asked when Fang Dong didn't speak.
Fang Dong could only stiffen his neck and say, "No opinion."
“Since there is no objection, then it is settled.
Each person has 4 votes and can vote for 3 villagers and 1 educated youth.
Those who have been recommended or registered are not eligible to vote.
After Accountant Li prepared the list, voting began." said the captain.
"While Accountant Li is preparing, let's talk about the third thing.
Because we are going to expand the educated youth site this year, and some educated youth need to build their own houses, so many people have been busy building houses recently and cannot go to the fields.
In order to avoid delaying the subsequent sowing, we have to prepare the land earlier this year.
We will start land preparation the day after tomorrow.”
"Tomorrow, everyone should quickly repair the farm tools at home, and the day after tomorrow morning, we will gather here and start work when the whistle blows.
Of course, the person responsible for building the house should continue building the house and make sure it is completed before sowing.
Did everyone hear that clearly? "
There was a chorus of voices from below, “I heard it clearly.”
"Now that we have finished talking about this, everyone please line up to vote. Each person can only vote once, so don't vote twice."
The production team often did things like voting, and had long since formed a set of procedures.
Liu Jingxue and several other female educated youth except Wang Lihua were also called over to help with the registration.
With so many people helping, the voting results came out quickly.
On the villagers' side, those elected with high votes were the team leader's second son Zhang Jianguo, Secretary Xu's youngest son Xu Shengli, and a villager named Li Quangui.
On the educated youth side, Zhou Wenbing was successfully elected with an absolute lead.
What’s even more ridiculous is Fang Dong. He said so much before, but in the end he got nothing.
Not only did the villagers not vote for him, even the educated youth did not choose him.
It seems that the power of what he did before was indeed quite great.
No matter how hard it was for Fang Dong to accept this situation, he had no choice but to admit defeat.