Volume 1 Chapter 0071 Affiliation
Putting a low stool on the ground and sitting on it, Nan Yi knocked the floor with a mallet. As he knocked, the yellow mud became more compacted and the surface became smooth.
Before life became better, most rural homes had their floors hammered out in this way. Cement floors were very rare, and even if they did exist, the floor would not be very smooth and would be prickly to the touch.
This saves a process and also saves costs.
These days, cement is really hard to get and it’s also expensive, so most people can’t afford it.
Snap, snap, snap!
Nan Yi was knocking there mechanically. Leveling the floor is a slow and painstaking process and there is no rush.
This floor is built outdoors and is exposed to the sun and rain. It will crack in no time and will inevitably need to be repaired frequently in the future.
Fortunately, Nan Yi doesn't need it to hold on for long.
Nan Yi spent the first day after returning home leveling the floor.
The next day, he invited a member of the Wenchangwei cooperative who was skilled in bamboo weaving to come home and ask him to make a drying mat for him.
Hiring a chef, smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, and taking care of three meals a day are all unavoidable.
For three consecutive days, at mealtime, Nan Yi boiled water and cooked for the bamboo craftsman. At other times, he stayed with Xian Yaodong, thinking over and over again what Xian Yaodong was going to say at the dividend distribution meeting.
After three days, the drying mat was ready. Nan Yi paid the bamboo craftsman for his hard work. It was also the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, the day of wailing for future men.
In the threshing ground next to the brigade headquarters, two tables were moved from the school to build a high platform. Xian Yaodong stood on it, holding a microphone taken from the radio station in his hand.
Nan Yi sat on the branch of a tung tree, smoking quietly.
"Hey, hey!"
Xian Yaodong tried the microphone first, and finding no problem, he got down to business.
"Ah, is everyone here?
It doesn't matter if you are not here, the meeting will start right away. Today is the day for our team to distribute dividends. The money has been prepared and will be distributed today. Don't worry.
Before I share the dividends, I would like to say a few things:
1. Basically, everyone is doing small business outside. It has been more than a year in the blink of an eye. I don’t need to tell you whether the business is good or not, you all know it.
Many of you may have thought about hiring a few people and expanding your business.
But hiring workers is a big problem.
The brigade held a meeting to discuss this and formulated a plan.
That is, you can register your business under the name of Wenchangwei Brigade, so that on the surface it appears that your business belongs to the Wenchangwei Brigade collectively.
For this affiliation, you have to pay a fee, which is not much, fifty yuan a year for just a name.
Once you are affiliated, there is one thing you should pay special attention to.
You can't just spend the money your company earns. You must understand one thing: the company's money is not your own money.
Regarding this issue, there will be booklets distributed to everyone later, which contain some legal provisions about enterprises.
How your company's money is spent is, of course, up to you.
However, an additional procedure is required, a procedure for early withdrawal of dividends. In this way, you are advance paying dividends from the enterprise instead of embezzling public funds.
Listen to me carefully, embezzlement of public funds is a crime and the offender will be sentenced.
By then, once they arrest you, it will be of no avail to argue that your company belongs to you personally and you are just affiliated with the team.
Therefore, this point must be remembered, remembered, and remembered again.
If you don't listen, and you get caught, don't blame me for not reminding you. Don't think that you can spend your own money however you like.
Of course, it is your freedom to affiliate or not, and you can also choose not to affiliate.
Don't rely on others. If something goes wrong, you can take responsibility for it yourself."
Xian Yaodong paused for a moment, waiting for the members of the brigade to digest the information before continuing, "Second, regarding the dividend distribution method, there is still a loophole in the plan formulated last year.
This is about new birth and marrying out. These two things were not explained very clearly, so I will add some information today.
We in Wenchangwei do not practice gender discrimination. Unmarried newborns, regardless of gender, enjoy equal dividend rights.
When the girl gets married, her right to dividend will not be taken away, but the dividend ratio will be only half of the original.
Why is this rule necessary?
Girls get married and help other families to have children, and they will no longer contribute to our Wenchangwei. We will keep half of the dividends for you. This is the brigade's care for you, not gender discrimination.
Of course, if a boy becomes a son-in-law, he will be treated the same way.
Having said that, I would like to mention one more point.
Don't think about finding loopholes and marry your child in Wenchangwei.
We in the Xian family have always had a rule - people with the same surname cannot marry each other.
This is the rule set by our ancestors, and it must be followed because it is a good rule.
Everyone in Wenchangwei, going back several generations, came from the same household.
All of them, including those who no longer have the surname Xian, were once from the same family. If close relatives marry, there is a high chance that the children they give birth to will have defects, and we cannot take that risk.
In Wenchangwei, except for Nan Yi and Liu Zhen, the spouses of other people are not allowed to be members of the brigade.
In addition, don't think about taking advantage of the situation by recruiting a live-in son-in-law.
If you want to recruit a live-in son-in-law, you can go ahead and recruit one. The girl's dividend rights will still be halved. If the man is not from Wenchangwei, he will not enjoy the dividend rights, including the offspring he has.
In addition, the right to dividends belongs to the individual and cannot be transferred or inherited. Once the individual passes away, he or she will no longer enjoy the dividends.
Uncles and aunts in the brigade, live well. One more day of life means more dividends for your children. "
Xian Yaodong's words made the members below burst into laughter, especially the elderly, who laughed brightly.
Of course you have to live well and live a few more years.
Now the elderly do not have to go to the fields, they can work at home if they want, and rest if they don't want to. They don't have to worry about food or clothing, as the brigade will take care of their food, drink, and toilet needs.
Even if you need medical treatment, the brigade will reimburse most of the expenses.
"Okay, stop laughing. Let me talk about newborns. Newborns get the full dividend from birth to eight years old, and half the dividend from eight to eighteen years old.
Listen carefully, what I am about to say is very important.
After the age of 18, if you are admitted to a university, you can get dividends ranging from 1.2 times to 2.5 times your salary, depending on the quality of the university, whether you are an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student.
In addition, all expenses required during the study period, including living expenses within the normal consumption range, will be borne by the brigade.
After graduating from university, talents who return to Wenchangwei to work will receive another talent subsidy, which will not be less than 0.5% of the dividend.
If you join the army, your dividends will start from 1.5 times during your service. As your service years increase, your dividends will continue to increase until they are capped at five times.
In other words, the longer you serve in the army, the higher the dividends you can get, and you can get the dividends of up to five people.
If you become a glorious martyr..."
