The film and television city starts from the courtyard

Chapter 2183 Yes, Yes

With sufficient raw materials, the prefabricated board factory resumed production. And because Xiao Lei's family sells to the outside world, although the price is slightly higher than that of the state-owned factory, it is still in short supply.

Xiao Lei's family is thriving. Ever since the brick factory developed hollow bricks, they can no longer continue their price war with other brick factories. They simply cannot compete with Xiao Lei's family.

Although some brick factories realized that hollow bricks could save costs, the hollow bricks produced using the original materials were of poor quality and they ended up losing a lot of money.

For this reason, some villages tried every means to find out the material ratio of hollow bricks, but they had no way to get close to Xiao Lei's brick kiln, and were even stopped at the entrance of the village.

Xiao Lei's other industries are also developing steadily. Because of the birth of nests of little rabbits, the farm has not only supplied the personal breeding needs of the villagers, but also rebuilt a large factory building specifically for breeding rabbits.

After the construction team had no shortage of cement, they received projects one after another. Often, before one project was completed, there would be a new one waiting.

On the contrary, the bamboo weaving factory did not have many new orders, but they could not take care of new orders because all previous orders had not been delivered. Even after all the orders were delivered, Zhao Shucheng and the old branch secretary did not think about accepting domestic orders. Instead, they prepared to stockpile a batch of products and wait for the Canton Fair in April next year to close another big order.

The old Party secretary raised a new problem. Because of the development of Xiao Lei's family in recent years, most people in the village went to work in the village-run enterprises of Xiao Lei's family, and fewer people were farming. Now the last crop of rice is about to be harvested, but there are no workers. He hopes that Zhao Shucheng will give the strong laborers in the village a holiday so that they can rush to harvest the crops.

Zhao Shucheng frowned after hearing this. This question really caught Zhao Shucheng off guard.

"Uncle, except for the bamboo weaving factory, which can take time off because it doesn't have many orders, the other factories in this village can't take holidays at all. Otherwise, the brick kiln will have to reduce production or stop working. The same goes for the prefabricated board factory and the construction team. Even the breeding farm can't leave people at all and needs to recruit talents."

"Then what do you think we should do? We can't let the grain rot in the fields, can we? Otherwise, you, Lei Dongbao, have to harvest all the rice in the brigade by yourself? This year is over, so let's not talk about it, but what about next year? There is only a month for transplanting early rice. Don't you have a holiday by then and let you do it alone? No matter how prosperous the Lei family's business is, we are farmers and we can't forget our roots. Farmers have to farm, we can't forget this."

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Of course not. Anyone who dares to do this will be struck by lightning for wasting food. But we all know what is more important than what is less important. Here's what I think. Before, the land in our village was contracted to the group, so I thought about it and decided that there is no other way this year, so we can hire people from the surrounding villages to help us harvest the rice."

"What about next year? It's impossible for Xiao Lei's family to stop farming and give the land to outsiders, right?"

Seeing the anxious old secretary, Zhao Shucheng comforted him and said, "Uncle, no, don't worry, it definitely won't happen. This is what I think. Most of the strong laborers in the village now work in factories and don't care about the income from farming. They just don't want to starve. So during the winter farming off-season, we will directly re-level the land in our village and build it into a large farmland, and start mechanized planting next year."

"Everyone in the village will re-invest in the land according to the previously grouped fields to establish the Xiao Lei family's collective farm. We will pay the farmers wages in the current corporate form. When the time comes, the grain from the farmland will be handed over to the state, and the remaining grain will be distributed according to the population of our Xiao Lei family."

"Wouldn't that mean we would have to eat from the same pot again? Have you forgotten what happened to Xiao Lei's family back then?"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Uncle, of course I haven't forgotten, but before we had a big pot of rice, the villagers were not active, so the grain output was low. But this time it's a farm, only a few people are farming, and we also use the current grain output of the land as the bottom line. If the output is low, their year-end dividends will be less. If the output is high, the excess grain will belong to these agricultural workers..."

Zhao Shucheng had thought that after Xiao Lei's business developed, agriculture would also be mechanized and planted on a large scale in the same way as the enterprise. However, Zhao Shucheng did not expect that in just over a year, Xiao Lei's family had already gone through the same path that many villages had gone through in several years.

Nowadays, everyone wants to work in factories to earn money, and they no longer care about the income from farming. Therefore, Zhao Shucheng must solve this problem, and solve it as soon as possible, so that the village’s labor force can be freed up and work more attentively.

The old Party secretary was still a little hesitant about this. After all, although the young people in the village all had jobs, some of the elderly did not work in factories and still lived on the village's fields. If the village took back the land, it was still a question whether they would be willing.

Zhao Shucheng had nothing to say about this, so he asked the old branch secretary to hold a members' meeting. Because each factory needed people, the meeting was held in two venues. The brick and tile factory and the prefabricated product factory were in one group, and the breeding farm, bamboo weaving factory, and other people in the village were in another group. They held a meeting to explain Zhao Shucheng's plan and then vote. If the villagers were not happy, Zhao Shucheng would find a way. If everyone agreed, they would recruit people to level the land and redistribute the responsibility fields starting in winter.

This time, Zhao Shucheng is not going to contract it to groups as he did before. Instead, he plans to contract it directly to households, and then set up a farm according to the shares each household contributes, so that every household can get a share of food and enjoy the dividends of Xiao Lei's family's development.

In fact, Zhao Shucheng has another idea, which is to replan the residence of Xiaolei's family. Before, the villagers of Xiaolei's family were scattered in the village, and every household had a large space, but it was also very messy, so it occupied a lot of arable land.

Now that Xiao Lei's family has money, they can only earn a little interest if they keep it in the bank. Zhao Shucheng's idea is to take advantage of this meeting to propose an overall plan for Xiao Lei's family. At that time, a whole two-story townhouse will be built in the village, and garbage will be centrally processed. It will also allow Xiao Lei's family to vacate part of the old homestead, thereby increasing some of Xiao Lei's family's arable land.

The old branch secretary was stunned when he heard Zhao Shucheng's idea. After all, it seemed a little unbelievable to him. But when he saw the planning drawings Zhao Shucheng took out, and even the Xiao Lei family depicted on them, he felt that if Xiao Lei's family could really be like this, it might not be bad.

Of course, it was impossible for him and Zhao Shucheng to decide such a big thing just like that. Instead, they had to hold a meeting with the brigade first, discuss it, and then have a meeting with the villagers to discuss it. It would take some time to decide.

However, Zhao Shucheng made up his mind that he must implement it as soon as possible. Only in this way can Xiao Lei's family be transformed and make other villages envious, thus realizing his annexation plan.

Because Zhao Shucheng has discovered that although the development of Xiao Lei's family seems to be booming, it has entered a bottleneck period. This bottleneck is not due to anything else, but because the population of Xiao Lei's family is no longer enough.

However, since most of the enterprises in the village are collective enterprises of the Xiao Lei family, they are very repellent to outsiders entering to work, thinking that this is stealing their jobs and taking their money. Zhao Shucheng knows that this idea is wrong, but when the individual economy has not been completely liberalized, collective enterprises like the Xiao Lei family cannot hire too many people from other villages to work, so now it is deadlocked.

But if Zhao Shucheng and his people develop Xiaolei's family very prosperously, sooner or later someone will be unable to resist and want to live in Xiaolei's family. Let's not talk about anything else, just say that the young father-in-law and mother-in-law of Xiaolei's family will definitely want to come over, and then they can gradually let Xiaolei's family accept outsiders, thereby increasing the population of Xiaolei's family and further expanding the scale of production.

Just when Zhao Shucheng was planning how to annex other villages to expand Xiao Lei's family's production scale, he didn't know that outsiders had already set their sights on Xiao Lei's family.

Xiao Lei's family's economy was developing very fast, and their business was booming, which had seriously threatened the development of some other county enterprises. Instead of thinking about how to compete with Xiao Lei's family, they directly sued the county, saying that Xiao Lei's family was reselling state-planned materials, hoping to close down Xiao Lei's family's business.

Because of vested interests, many people support this voice. County Magistrate Xu, who has always supported Xiao Lei's family, said that they cannot only listen to the one-sided statement of the suing enterprise, but also give Xiao Lei's family a chance to defend themselves.

The county has set up an investigation team, preparing to move into Xiao Lei's home to investigate the economic operation order of Xiao Lei's family. However, during this period, Xiao Lei's family must suspend all external activities.

Zhao Shucheng received a call from Chen Pingyuan. When he heard the news, he frowned and said, "Does that mean all enterprises will be shut down, or will it be limited to brick and tile factories and prefabricated board factories?"

"It should be only the brick and tile factories and prefabricated panel factories. Other companies should be fine."

Zhao Shucheng nodded after hearing this and said, "I understand. Thank you Director Chen. They can come as they please. There is nothing we cannot investigate. I believe that the leaders will enforce the law impartially and will not slander us."

After Zhao Shucheng hung up the phone, he asked Lei Shigen and Siyan to sort out the village's accounts, especially the accounts of the brick and tile factory and the prefabricated board factory, and then provide them to the investigation team.

After hearing this, Lei Shigen said with some concern: "Dongbao, nothing will go wrong, right?"

Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "What could go wrong? Our brick and tile factory produces according to the standards, and everything is well documented. What could go wrong? As for the county brick and tile factory's complaint, they can't compete on their own, and even took the lead in lowering prices. We are just following suit. Just because they are a county-run enterprise, do we have to sell bricks at a high price? Then why don't they report other brick factories that are also competing at low prices?"

"I'm talking about steel bars and cement. After all, we bought materials outside the plan. But the prefabricated panels will go to the highest bidder. They won't..."

Zhao Shucheng waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about that. We are doing business legally. They have approval documents to resell unplanned materials. It doesn't make sense that we can't buy directly from the manufacturer. Besides, the approval document was originally signed by the factory director. We are also legal and compliant, and we are not reselling. What's the problem?"

Seeing Zhao Shucheng so confident, Lei Shigen felt relieved. He sorted the wood with Zhao Shucheng and waited for the investigation team to arrive in the village brigade.

Song Yunhui was on his way home for the holiday. When he just got off the car, he saw Xiao Yangxun being arrested as an illegal vendor because he was operating without a license.

Song Yunhui naturally couldn't just sit there and do nothing, so he went straight to find Director Li in the town.

"Director Li, you are too rude to Xiao Yangxun. I don't mean to meddle in other people's business, but the country has issued policies to encourage and support the proper development of the individual economy. All law-abiding individual workers should be respected."

Director Li said with some embarrassment: "Xiao Song, I know you like to recite the daily newspaper, but this time is different. The higher-ups are strictly controlling illegal vendors and unlicensed businesses. Xiao Yangxun is a typical unlicensed business, so we are not in charge of him and he has been sent to the county. But there is a way. Your brother-in-law has connections in the county. You can ask him to help beat Xiao Yangxun."

County Magistrate Xu was in his office, also worried about Xiao Lei's family. He found Chen Pingyuan, looked out the window, and asked, "Did Xiao Lei's family resell the planned materials?"

Chen Pingyuan said, "As far as I know, there are no planned materials in our county. After all, the Lei family did not have a quota for purchasing planned materials. They went to the county and the city before, but could not buy a pound of steel bars and cement. Later, Lei Dongbao went to the province, and then a lot of steel bars and cement came in every month. I can't say whether it is planned or not."

"Yes, yes. No, no. There is no gray area in this matter."

Chen Pingyuan said in embarrassment: "I really don't know where the Lei family got the materials from. But their prefabricated panels are indeed processed and sold to the outside world. According to the policy, it is not considered as reselling materials. But you also know that the policy environment has changed in recent months. If you insist on accusing them of speculation, it is not impossible. But I just called Lei Dongbao, and he seemed very confident."

"What about Lei Dongbao himself? Is there any financial problem?"

"I'm not sure about that either. We need to get Xiao Lei's account book to see his true intentions. But now Xiao Lei's family has the old branch secretary in charge, so there shouldn't be any problem, right?"

After hearing this, County Magistrate Xu was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered that the current branch secretary of Xiao Lei's family is still the original old secretary. This is not an ordinary person, and not someone that ordinary people can change.

"Okay, I get it. Keep a close eye on Xiao Lei's family. If there is, then there is. If there is not, then there is not. We cannot wrongly accuse a good person, nor can we let a bad person get away."