The film and television city starts from the courtyard

Chapter 2178 Xiao Yang Xun

Seeing little Yang Xun carrying a load on his shoulder to exchange for steamed buns, Zhao Shucheng couldn't help but think of the chicken feather in the movie Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky, Chen Jianghe.

They all started with small businesses, developed step by step, and eventually became big entrepreneurs. However, Xiao Yangxun is still just doing small business, relying on his mother's steamed buns at home and going out to exchange them to earn a little profit.

However, Zhao Shucheng knew that this way of doing business was only the most basic, and Xiao Yangxun could not do it for too long. Because in the era when there were no self-employed people, such behavior was considered speculation and profiteering, and sooner or later people would drive him away or arrest him.

"Your steamed buns are made of flour. Doesn't flour require food coupons?"

Xiao Yangxun smiled and said, "Yes, I will exchange the steamed buns for eggs, and then use the eggs to exchange for food coupons in the city, because people in the city eat less. People in the city really eat less, even less than us country women. If I go to the city to exchange for food coupons, they have more."

Zhao Shucheng frowned and said, "It's not that your method is not okay, but it can also be considered speculation. It would be bad if you were caught."

Yang Xun nodded and said, "I know, so I always go there secretly and trade with people on the black market. It's not a big problem. But there's nothing we can do about it. Our place is not as good as Xiao Lei's. Your Xiao Lei's family is better. Whether it's a brick factory or a breeding farm, I heard that Xiao Lei's family has money to spend every day, meat to eat, and fish to eat. Your place is too far away, otherwise I would go there to exchange eggs."

Zhao Shucheng was amused when he heard this. In fact, Xiao Yangxun's business philosophy was not difficult to understand. He just made a profit from the price difference. The reason why he praised Xiao Lei's family was nothing more than sweet talk, asking Zhao Shucheng not to hold on to his own affairs.

However, Zhao Shucheng was too lazy to care about these things. After saying a few words to Yang Xun, he turned around and left with Song Yunping.

"This little Yang Xun was very smart since he was young, but it's a pity that he couldn't continue his studies."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "In fact, it is not necessarily that one will have a promising future just by studying hard. As the saying goes, heroes are made by the times. Since he was able to discover this business opportunity, he will definitely have a promising future."

After Zhao Shucheng returned to Xiao Lei's home, he discussed the matter of opening a new brick kiln in the brick factory with the old branch secretary and others at the brigade headquarters.

Last time, Zhao Shucheng only mentioned it briefly. These past two days, the old branch secretary led people to calculate the funds needed to open a new brick kiln. After the cost of the new brick kiln and the roof was calculated, they suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

This new brick kiln is different from the old one. The old one didn't cost much at the time, and was basically built by villagers together. But this time it's different. The brick kiln is considered a village enterprise, and costs must be calculated for everything it does.

When they knew that in addition to the money from the brick kiln factory and the brigade, they would need tens of thousands of yuan, everyone hesitated. After all, even if the brick kiln factory worked every day, it would take more than a year to make such a profit. Moreover, the profit was not only for the brick kiln factory, but also for the brigade. In this way, the brick factory would basically work for nothing in the next few years.

Zhao Shucheng had a different idea. The current production scale of the brick kiln was limited, and even if it was running at full capacity, it could not meet the needs of customers. Only if Xiao Lei's family expanded the production scale earlier could they meet customer needs faster and make more money. Moreover, Zhao Shucheng knew very well that the brick and tile factory business could not last long. After the clay near Xiao Lei's family was almost dug up, unless they went out to purchase it, they would have to stop working sooner or later. However, the cost of purchasing clay from outside was much higher, which was not cost-effective at all.

"My idea is that we should start the new brick kiln right away while the market is good. The sooner we start production, the sooner we can get our investment back. As for the funding gap, we can go to the credit union and ask Director Dan for help. After all, our Xiao Lei family has always had their money in the credit union, so they should give us something back."

Lei Shigen asked hesitantly, "But with such a large loan, when can our brick factory pay it off? Who can sleep peacefully when they owe such a large sum of money?"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "This is not a problem. The brick and tile factory is still a collective industry of the village, so it is impossible to let the brick and tile factory alone repay the loan. The village has abundant funds and can also help repay the loan. Besides, we will go to the Canton Fair in October. As long as this can be successful, not only will the bamboo weaving factory not have to worry about future orders, but it can even make the village develop faster."

Seeing Zhao Shucheng's confidence, others didn't know what to say, but the old branch secretary asked Zhao Shucheng to go to the credit union to negotiate the loan.

After Zhao Shucheng came to the credit union, he went to discuss the loan with Director Shan, but Director Shan avoided the topic and deliberately asked which bricks were better, Xiao Lei's bricks or the bricks in the county. He also complained that the credit union was going to build a house, but couldn't get the bricks from the county brick kiln factory. The county construction team also had other construction tasks, so the credit union had to wait in line. So now the credit union's plan to build a dormitory can only remain on paper.

After hearing what Director Shan said, Zhao Shucheng of course knew what he meant. He just wanted bricks and tiles, which was not a problem for Xiao Lei's family.

"Director Shan, if you're talking about this, I won't be sleepy anymore. You guys are building a house, so you definitely need bricks. We're a perfect match."

"You want to borrow money from me, right? I have one request. From today on, all the bricks from your kiln must be delivered to me."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Director Shan, you have to know how many bricks you want. Too many or too few will not be good. Just tell me how many you want and I will deliver them to you."

Director Shan said, "Give me 20,000 yuan first and leave it here. After we build the dormitory, if it's not enough, I'll ask you for more. But you have to promise that you'll pay me back the same day I need it!"

Zhao Shucheng thought for a moment and said, "I see, Director Shan, let me see the blueprints for your dormitory building so I can calculate how many bricks are needed so that we can calculate the cost when the time comes. When I was in the army, I was an engineer and led a platoon. I can do all the military engineering, let alone this dormitory building. Let's calculate it clearly, so that you don't ask me for it when the time comes and delay the progress of the project."

Director Shan was very happy when he heard this. He took the blueprint and handed it to Zhao Shucheng, saying, "Look, this is the blueprint. What we need are bricks and prefabricated cement panels. The quality of this project must be high, otherwise I would not have waited for the county construction team to do it. I would have found some masons to start the work long ago."

Zhao Shucheng looked at the blueprint and felt that the pattern on it was a bit annoying. After all, he had been engaged in architectural design and had been influenced by modern architectural design. Such a simple blueprint was hard to read. "Director Shan, this is just an exterior pattern. The internal structure inside cannot be seen at all. How about this, I will modify it for you so that the internal structure can be seen. Is our staff dormitory a single room or a room with multiple bedrooms and halls? This must be agreed in advance, otherwise it will be very troublesome to renovate it later."

Director Shan was stunned for a moment when he heard what Zhao Shucheng said, and said: "There are so many tricks here?"

Zhao Shucheng nodded, and then explained to Director Shan the differences between general single dormitories and two-bedroom-one-living-room, three-bedroom-one-living-room, etc., as well as some planning plans based on the existing drawings.

Director Shan listened to Zhao Shucheng's introduction and looked at the architectural design drawings Zhao Shucheng had drawn up temporarily, and he was immediately very satisfied. Originally, he thought that he would just build a tube building, but now every room has its own bathroom. Just thinking about this life is very beautiful.

Director Shan looked at Zhao Shucheng and said, "Dongbao, you said you can build a house, and your team has bricks, so why don't you think about setting up a construction team? How about this? I will lend you an extra 5,000 yuan, and use it for a specific purpose. How about buying the house-building equipment? I will give you the house, but I have a request. You have to build it within half a year. My son has to get married next year, and this daughter-in-law insists on living in a public housing unit before she is willing to get married."

Zhao Shucheng thought about it and nodded in agreement. In fact, Zhao Shucheng had planned to form a construction team before, but most of the bricks and tiles were purchased by farmers from all over the country. They had bricklayers in their own villages and could not hire a special construction team. Most of the construction projects in the county were contracted by the county's construction teams. If there was no suitable opportunity, Zhao Shucheng would not be able to participate even if he formed a team.

This time, the construction of the dormitory for Director Shan’s credit union is an opportunity. As long as the construction team formed by Zhao Shucheng can complete the project well, once other people in the county know about it, the construction team will not lack orders in the future.

"Director Shan, thank you so much. However, Director Shan, five thousand is not enough. Half of the construction equipment is fine, but some of the large equipment is very expensive."

After hearing this, Director Shan looked at Zhao Shucheng in surprise and said, "No, Dongbao, what other equipment do you want? I have inquired about the equipment of this county construction team, and it's just this price."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Director Shan, I am also working to complete the dormitory of our credit union as soon as possible and to perfection. I think that although the equipment of the county construction team is good, most of it is still carried on shoulders and lifted by people, which is still less efficient than machines."

Director Shan looked at Zhao Shucheng hesitantly and said, "Dongbao, you are not asking for too much money from me for a tower crane, are you? I tell you, our credit union cannot afford such a large sum of money."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Director Shan, you are kidding. Even if you can approve such a large sum of money for us, we can't pay it back in a short time. Here's what I think. We can't use a large crane, but we can improve some small cranes ourselves. At least some bricks and tiles can be directly hoisted from the roof to avoid carrying them on shoulders or by hand, or they can be pushed in slowly with a cart. I have the specific plan and mechanical manufacturing technology, but I lack the money to purchase motors."

Director Shan hesitated for a long time, but finally approved a sum of money for Zhao Shucheng, asking him to set up the equipment as soon as possible and start building the dormitory building of the credit union.

Zhao Shucheng became even busier now. Not only did he have to lead the villagers to build a new brick kiln, but he also had to organize other strong laborers in the village to train in construction engineering skills.

After all the equipment was in place, Zhao Shucheng led the construction team to the land planned by the county for the credit union dormitory and started construction. At first, Xiao Lei's construction team attracted a lot of people, but after looking at it for a long time, there was nothing special. However, after the cement prefabricated panels on the second floor were put up, Zhao Shucheng and his team installed the small crane they had manufactured on the second floor, and the construction speed suddenly increased a lot.

Because this was the first business for Xiao Lei's construction team, Zhao Shucheng knew very well that only after the first success would he be able to attract more business, so he basically lived on the construction site. Only when Xiao Lei's family had something to ask him, would he come back to take a look and solve the problem.

However, there really isn't a lot happening in Xiao Lei's family. Apart from paying their monthly salaries, everyone is basically busy with their own things.

Although Lei's mother was anxious to have a grandson, her son was far away in the county construction team, and her daughter-in-law often went to the breeding farm and were not around her at all. Naturally, they could not listen to her nagging, so she could only complain to the gossips in the village.

Even if Zhao Shucheng and Song Yunping occasionally heard these news from Sibao, they would just laugh and not care about these gossips at all. Song Yunping was very busy at the breeding farm, especially when the new round of female rabbits were about to give birth, and she was so busy that she almost couldn't go to the TV University class.

It has to be said that Zhao Shucheng is really good at managing the construction team. The credit union’s dormitory was completed very quickly, much earlier than expected.

Director Shan was worried about the construction quality at first, but after asking someone to take a look, he found that the quality was no worse than that of the county construction team, and was even better.

The reputation of Xiao Lei's construction team has spread. Not only are the houses beautiful, but they are also faster than other construction teams. After hearing about it, many units in the county that are building dormitories took the initiative to invite Xiao Lei's construction team to build houses.

However, Xiao Lei's construction team has been trained after this incident, and there is no need for Zhao Shucheng to stay on the construction site every day.

When Sibao learned that Xiaolei's construction team earned more money than the brick and tile factory, he became jealous and hoped to be transferred from the transport team to the construction team.

Zhao Shucheng frowned and looked at Sibao. After thinking for a while, he felt that Sibao was indeed smart, so he should be given more responsibilities. However, the construction team needed to strictly control the quality, and he was not confident that Sibao would go. So he simply let Sibao set up a prefabricated board factory in the village, and he would go to other cement prefabricated boards to learn first. In the future, Xiaolei's family would sell cement prefabricated boards themselves, and the construction team would also purchase directly from the prefabricated board factory to avoid other people raising the price.

Sibao was naturally very happy to hear that he had become the factory director, so he told Zhao Shucheng the news he had heard in the village during this period. In fact, it was nothing more than Lei's mother's gossip about Zhao Shucheng and Song Yunping, and Lei's mother occasionally bullying Song Yunping.

Zhao Shucheng couldn't help but frowned after hearing this. In fact, he should have thought of this a long time ago. Conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are nothing new.