The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Lou Xiao'e smiled and nodded: "So, we need to take advantage of the rainy season before it comes, and quickly send people over to grab the construction date."

“There used to be a small pond at this location, but now we need to expand its capacity.”

"After the people sent to Australia built the dormitories, the main thing they did was to dig deep and large ponds."

The pond is not dug casually. You need to choose a location where water seepage is not serious, otherwise the water in the pond will bottom out quickly.

Qin Huairu said enthusiastically: "It sounds like the project is not small. We need to send someone trustworthy there to look at it, right?"

Engineering projects are the hardest hit areas for kickbacks, and it is particularly easy to increase the amount of work. There are many force majeure factors such as geological reasons.

Lou Xiao'e has already made arrangements, "Consultant Huang Fuyi is responsible for the entire project, technical support will be sent by the real estate company in Hong Kong City, and finance will be sent by Xingchen Company."

Qin Huairu also knows who Huang Fuyi is, "Isn't he responsible for maintaining the relationship with the Hong Kong government in Hong Kong City?"

Lou Xiao'e smiled and said: "Today is different from the past. Our Xingchen Company is a big company in Hong Kong City."

"The food business has more than 500 employees in the instant noodle factory in Hong Kong City, and more than 200 ham sausages."

"The toy business of the gift business is outsourced to my dad's plastic toy factory, but we produce the clocks ourselves and have initially recruited more than 100 people."

"There are almost 200 people in the security business, dozens of people in the Cambrian Laboratory, and more than a dozen people in real estate and property management."

"There are also dozens of people at the headquarters of Mars Trading and Star Company."

"Our total employees in Hong Kong City are almost 1200. There are not many companies in Hong Kong City that have more employees than us."

Qin Huairu didn't count them in detail before, "It's not like I don't know, but I was shocked to see that so many people depend on Gangcheng Company for their livelihood."

While talking, Qin Huairu poked Li Ming twice who was looking at the map next to him, "How do you reward Xiao'e?"

Li Ming joked: "I have pledged myself to her, and she is in charge of the accounts. How do you want me to reward you?"

Lou Xiao'e chuckled and said, "His little treasury has no money left."

"For farm investment in Australia, the monthly labor wages and material consumption are not small. His monthly income from selling wheat is not enough to cover the expenses."

Qin Huairu smiled and said, "Who told him to mess around?"

"Find something that's so far away and keep you busy."

Lou Xiao'e helped explain: "Compared to the Philippines, Meizhou, and Ouzhou, Australia is relatively close."

"The farm we bought can provide raw materials for our food business from the source and reduce our production costs."

"Whether it's wheat, corn, pigs, cattle, or sheep, the company can digest it internally and form a synergy. Other companies don't have the strength to compete with us."

Starting from the 70s and 80s, Japan's food industry has been doing this, looking for upstream resources all over the world.

In Australia and South Magnesium, we invested in farms and pastures, acquired fishing companies in Beiou, and established various order-based planting cooperation in Magnesium Country.

Many bananas and pineapples in Southeast Asia are actually grown on land leased by Japanese companies.

In the 90s, Japan invested heavily in the mainland's agricultural product processing industry, fruit and vegetable industry, beverage production industry, etc.

Japanese companies also know that agriculture is an industry in which local snakes have the final say. There are few sole proprietorships, and most of them are jointly operated with powerful local companies in the form of joint investment.

It also proactively provides funds, agricultural machinery, and technical support to ensure the stability of the quality and supply quantity of upstream agricultural products.

To be able to do such a large-scale layout, it is basically only a large consortium that can do it.

Small agricultural companies are squeezed out of the market, thus forming a soft monopoly.

These are very normal business logic. As long as the company develops to a certain stage, it will try this. Some will succeed and some will fail.

Decades later, many people are bragging about the long-term corporate layout of Riben.
What a nonsense!
There is no such thing as a "long-term view". It's simply that you can do more things when you have money.

Just like the children of some celebrities, they can fly planes and dive deep sea, and they can do all kinds of things that ordinary people can't do. It's nothing special, they just have money to support them to do what they want to do.

Xingchen Company is not yet large enough to acquire upstream resources.

Li Ming used his own funds to make arrangements in advance, which was an extra boost for Xingchen Company.

"In the Nanyang market, if a rival instant noodle factory starts up, in addition to competing in terms of variety, taste, and production technology, our advantages in raw materials can overwhelm them."

"In the Japanese market, our competitors have superior resources. We are catching up. From now on, we will mainly compete on taste. However, when we attack the Japanese market, we still have two goals."

"In the Chinese market, there is low-priced wheat, but it is far away from palm oil. At that time, we need to accurately calculate the feasibility of setting up factories in China or Canada or Mexico."

Such a man is so handsome, Qin Huairu's beautiful eyes turned around, "Have you thought of this earlier?"

Li Ming smiled playfully and stretched out his hand to take Qin Huairu into his arms, "I think you are a great man!"

Lou Xiao'e next to her rolled her eyes at him. She remembered that she couldn't bear to see such a large area of ​​empty land in Australia, so she wanted to trick someone into it, and then she thought of buying a farm to grow grain and export it to the port city.

She would not say such a disappointing thing.

The man and woman beside him were already chewing on it.

. . .

Bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah!
. . .

Two days later.

April 10st morning.

No. 95 Siheyuan.

The weather is sunny, and people in the yard are busier on weekends than at work.

There are countless things that are trivial and necessary to do, such as washing and scrubbing, sealing the cracks in the windows, cleaning the vegetable cellar.

Li Ming took a break from his busy schedule today, standing at the stone table in the front yard with his arms folded, watching Yan Bugui and Uncle Dong play chess.

There are many people in Yanbu Gui's family, and he has a lot of free time; Uncle Dong doesn't have to go to work at all; the two families have already done these chores.

There is no need for Section Chief Li. Qin Huairu can handle it for him with a stick.

Xu Damao from the backyard also came to the front yard to join in the fun, "Third uncle, don't think too much, I can only take the horse in your hand."

Yan Bugui squinted his eyes and said angrily: "If we leave, he will destroy my army, and I will have to come back and be eaten by him."

Xu Damao smiled and said: "Then you might as well admit defeat and make a comeback next time."

Uncle Dong smiled and said: "Xu Damao is right this time."

"Old Yan, hurry up, don't wait any longer."

Yan Bugui put the captured chess piece back on the chessboard, surrendered, and said, "My boss called me just now. I was distracted and made two wrong moves before I was exploited."

Uncle Dong is good at using sarcastic words during the game. He is playing chess and fighting psychological warfare. After winning, he will not add insult to injury and continue to ridicule.

"Then please pay more attention, I will go all out later."

Yan Bugui rearranged the chess pieces, "You should also take a closer look."

Just like two people playing chess in the park with a large group of military advisors standing around them, there will also be a circle of people around the chessboard at this time, making it lively.

Bangge, Dacheng, Xiaoxing, and the three children also ran to the front yard to watch the chess game.

Li Ming asked casually: "Banggan, don't you need to take your sister with you?"

Banggeng smiled and replied: "Uncle Ming, Xiaodang and Huaihua are visiting their younger brother at Uncle He's house." Xu Damao interjected: "You don't call me Uncle Shazhu anymore?"

Bangge raised his head and rolled his eyes, "I'm happy to call Uncle He what's in your way."

Xu Damao didn't expect to be criticized so directly, "Hey! This kid!"

Last year, Dacheng, one of the three team captains who paid Li Ming to ask the children in the courtyard to do good deeds, said with a smile: "Xu Damao, if you want to chat with Sha Zhu, you can go to the middle courtyard and talk to Sha Zhu slowly."

"We came here to watch Third Uncle and Uncle Dong play chess."

Dacheng's seniority is the same as that of Yan Jiekuang, one generation higher than Bangge. If he has money and benefits, he calls Xu Damao Brother Xu. If he doesn't have money and benefits, he just calls Xu Damao.

Xiaoxing is a bit like his adoptive father Yi Zhonghai, he talks less.

Banggeng echoed: "That's right."

Xu Damao ridiculed: "Can you understand? You don't even know the words on the other chess pieces."

Dacheng sneered: "We're not bragging, maybe you can't beat the three of us."

Xu Damao joked: "It seems that I didn't study the book well, but I am very proficient in playing."

Dacheng said unhappily: "Then you can't blame us. There are no classes in school and there are no textbooks, so we can't do anything."

"You 'go out all day and night and come to drink sour plum soup in the afternoon'. Aren't you also not working well at work!"

From the end of last year to now, two groups of people in many work units have been at loggerheads.

The Xiaoyao faction in the middle arrived at the work at seven o'clock. They had nothing to do or said they didn't want to get involved. They started getting off work at eight o'clock. By nine o'clock, everyone was gone. In the afternoon, they went back to the factory to take a look and then left.

The film screening team of the Publicity Department where Xu Damao works is of similar nature.

Li Ming was amused by the vivid and playful jingle.

After being convinced, Xu Damao said angrily: "You kids, don't imitate the good ones and the bad ones."

Li Junyi, who had just come back from outside, smiled and said: "The new notice should come out soon. They will have to go back to school and study hard. They will suffer in the future."

Dacheng said disapprovingly: "We have long wanted to go back to class, and we don't have to read even if we want to."

Xu Damao found an opportunity to fight back, "Dacheng, stop talking nonsense."

"Why don't you all understand what you are thinking?"

"I don't want to go to school every day. Going to school is like suffering."

Bangge retorted: "You are talking about yourself."

"I think school is very interesting. I already knew it in the sixth grade, but it's a pity that there are no junior high school books for me to learn."

As someone who has been through this before, Xu Damao teased: "Banggen, it's not Uncle Xu that I'm talking about you."

"People who want to read books will read them wherever they go, even if they go to borrow them."

"You little brats just want to play all day long, so why don't you have books to read?"

They hurt each other, and were also criticized. Dacheng suggested: "Banggan, Xiaoxing, let's go to the corner of the door to watch chess. We don't want to get together with Xu Damao."

Banggeng agreed: "Let's go, Xiaoxing, let's go there and see."

The three children ran away in a flash.

Yan Bugui, who has remained silent, commented: "People who love reading can also study by themselves at home."

"Those who don't like reading will sleep and play around even if they are locked in the classroom."

While playing chess, Uncle Dong used verbal harassment to break Yan Bugui's mentality, "That's because you don't know how to teach me, Lao Yan."

Yan Bugui didn't want to be fooled, "What you said makes some sense. Maybe I'm not good at teaching."

"I have been attending study classes every day recently, and I am also reflecting on my teaching methods."

Having said this, Uncle Dong could not continue to attack, otherwise he would just be seeking revenge.

"There are not many people who teach better than you. This is not your personal problem. You still need to carry out teaching reforms."

Since the overall passing rate was very average, various teaching experiments and reforms were carried out starting in 1954.

The difficulty in improving student performance can be said to be a commonplace problem.

In addition to some problems with subjective teaching methods, there are also very limited objective conditions.

Finances are tight, a large number of students have reached school age, there are serious shortages of school buildings and teachers, and a large number of "two-part system" schools exist.

The two-part system, as the name suggests, divides students into two parts and attends classes in school in turn.

Students usually spend only half of their class time at school every day, and the other half of their time studying at home or participating in some activities outside.

Not to mention participating in activities.

Self-study, a completely conscious learning method, can barely be used in high schools and universities.

Most primary school students think about playing games all the time.

Without enough time investment, academic performance will naturally be very unsatisfactory.

Grades in middle school are also the source of many conflicts.

Some people are more likely to have good academic performance due to their family background.

As for those who are just starting out, either their parents are traveling across the country, or their parents are not around, so there are some disadvantages when it comes to learning, not only subjectively, but objectively.

When joining the league, those with poor grades will definitely suffer, while those with good grades will have some advantages in school.

If you don’t join the League, there will be no subsequent joining of the Party.

Taking away those various names, this was the biggest factor that caused them trouble with the school leaders last year.

I feel it’s unfair and very dissatisfied!
Elementary schools don't have this problem and are relatively peaceful.

Li Junyi praised: "The third uncle's Hongxing Primary School is considered a relatively good school in the east part of the city."

Xu Damao gave a thumbs up, "That's right, our third uncle is also a teaching expert in school."

Yan Bugui smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment. I still need to work harder and make progress."

Xu Damao said casually: "Third uncle, if the school has notified me about enrollment, please tell me."

"I'll tell you as soon as there's news." Yan Bugui knew why Xu Damao was so concerned. The little girl Ma Chunlian brought from the countryside was 7 years old and at school age.

Everyone present knew this well and did not say it in front of Xu Damao.

Li Junyi asked curiously: "Third uncle, there was no enrollment last year. This year we have to recruit students for two years at a time, right? Your school can't accommodate it, right?"

Yan Bugui raised his head and said, "I heard that the district's notice has not been issued because it is still studying this issue."

"Xiao Ming, you are relatively well-informed. Do you know about this?"

Yan Jiekuang, a member of the Yanbu Gui family, also wants to graduate from junior high school to high school. Compared with the trivial matter of primary school admission, this is more important.

In the past, the admission rates of different schools were very different. Now there are no specific rules on how to create a charter, and many parents are very concerned about it. (End of chapter)