Male Lead's Canon Fodder Wife novel Chapter 323

Comrade Jiang quickly filled out half of the form, then handed it to Li Chenmo and said, "Comrade Li, please fill in the information on this form."

Li Chenmo nodded and filled out the form. While he was filling out the form, Comrade Jiang said, "Comrade Li, under normal circumstances, the brigade will receive some fertilizer from the production teams every year. In exchange for the fertilizer, the quantity of food and meat they need to send to the capital will be reduced by 5% to 15% based on the fertilizer they transport."

Hearing his words, Li Chenmo nodded. Although the extra 15% of meat is not a large amount, it is a huge amount of food during the summer harvest.

Seeing how calm Li Chenmo was, Comrade Jiang added, "Comrade Li, normally, tax cuts are a reward for the production team. But the pig manure belongs to you. If you are willing, we can give you a personal tax cut instead."

This time, after hearing Comrade Jiang’s words, Li Chenmo stopped writing and raised his head. At first, he wanted to ask them to reduce his family’s house taxes. But after thinking about it, he changed his mind and said, "No need. Just give a tax cut for the production team. Last year’s harvest was not good and many elderly people and children did not have enough food."

Comrade Jiang was stunned for a moment before he understood what he meant. He looked at him with admiration in his eyes. Few people can refuse such benefits and choose to share them with others. No wonder the brigade secretary said he is a rare person with a generous and kind heart.

Comrade Jiang thinks he is being generous, but Li Chenmo is avoiding trouble. In this day and age, owning a home is prohibited. However due to Han Yuheng’s greed, he took advantage of his position as the team leader to let the villagers privately own the house. In return, they pay taxes every year.

While the villagers thought this was a government regulation, in fact, it was all Han Yuheng’s personal decision. The so-called tax was never given to the government, but he took it himself. If the higher-ups find out about this, Han Yuheng may face the death penalty, because accepting bribes is a serious crime.

But if he is punished, so will everyone involved including the Li family. According to his recollection, a severe drought occurred in 1978. To solve this problem, some villagers proposed an arrangement in which each household is responsible for its own production.

Farm tools and land were distributed equally to households in exchange for fixed output quotas. Each member has free will to decide which crops to grow and has the right to sell excess production on the free market. They also need to cope alone with any losses they suffer.

This is the prototype of the household responsibility system. This arrangement is completely contrary to the values ​​of the Communist Party and the villagers may be prosecuted due to this. Because of this, the arrangement has been kept secret and unknown to senior officials.

It was not until 1980 that Comrade Deng Xiaoping publicly announced his approval of this policy, and rural reform officially began.