Chapter 1284

"International friends are visiting; this is a major event for our county, and we cannot be slack. The city has given instructions that we must do a good job in reception and not affect the foreigners' view of us. I called you here today to hold a meeting to determine the specific reception affairs."

In the county's conference room, all members of the county committee were present. Secretary Gong drank tea and acted as a mascot, while County Magistrate Xu presided over the meeting. The participants included heads of relevant county units, leading cadres of the textile factory headed by Old Factory Director Qi and Wang Yan, and heads of the loom and shoe and clothing factories.

"Wang Yan, your level is the highest here, and you know foreign languages. You must accompany them as an interpreter. You are also the main person in charge, so why don't you talk about it."

Wang Yan didn't use any pleasantries and spoke directly.

"Regarding the reception of these foreign devils, we must first clarify one point. That is, foreign devils are not the fathers of us Chinese, but there is no need to be servile or obsequious. I see some comrades who put themselves in the position of subordinates as soon as they come up; this is not good, very not good!"

We don't talk about looking down from a high position, but at least we must look at them on an equal footing. Don't talk about how we are not as developed as foreign countries, and don't lose your conscience for the sake of some foreign exchange. They are developed, and sooner or later we will catch up with them.

Showing off in front of us is absolutely not allowed! No matter how awesome the foreign devils are, didn't we fight the 22-nation coalition in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea? We drew a line in the Vietnam War; did they dare to cross it? We Chinese stood up and fought, not knelt down and kowtowed; no one can ride on the heads of the Chinese people!"

After stating his attitude, he scanned the room, looked at everyone's expressions, and continued, "Of course, they are guests after all, and they are here to let us make money, so we have always been enthusiastic and hospitable. When friends come, we have good wine, so we must be polite. But we must grasp the degree well."

"Since they are here to inspect our factory and do business, we will bear the expenses, and the county just needs to send people to follow along. The rest doesn't need to be managed by the county; we can definitely entertain them well."

County Magistrate Xu was a bit skeptical: "Can it work?"

"It has to work. Who among us has experience in receiving foreign businessmen? I can tell from the fact that you are making such a big fuss that the county won't be able to receive them well. It will definitely be a meal of licking the foreign devils' stinky feet, and as a result, those foreign devils will still be disgusted."

"They are here to buy things, and they buy things to return to their country to increase prices and make money. What money are they earning? It's our low-priced labor, comrades. This is exploiting our labor value!"

"But who told us to be poor? There's no way around it. If we want to make money and develop, we have to accept it. But in the end, it's not that we are begging them to buy. I heard that there are quite a few people selling jeans at the Canton Fair. Why did our pants sell over 600,000 pairs? And they still want to come here to inspect? It's because they can make money! Comrades, you must grasp this relationship."

In these years, foreign exchange is in short supply, and some people's bones are indeed not hard, so foreign businessmen are pampered. People are realistic; if they really couldn't make money, even if the stinky feet were licked clean, the foreign devils wouldn't come.

County Magistrate Xu shook his head helplessly. He appreciated Wang Yan's spirit of not fearing anyone and being particularly confident. But little did he know that the province and city had already quarreled over this sum of foreign exchange. The deposit money had all been taken away, but how to distribute it was still being quarreled over.

He smiled: "Then are we making a mountain out of a molehill? Alright, this matter is left to you, and the county will send a few people to cooperate. Let me tell you, Wang Yan, if something happens, it's all on you."

"It's just doing business; it's nothing more than whether it's done or not. What could happen? Leaders, put your hearts in your stomachs; it's just a few foreign devils, no problem."

"Alright, then the meeting is adjourned." County Magistrate Xu waved his hand, feeling a bit unenthusiastic about the meeting.

"Don't, Leader. The people who make the decisions are all here, so we might as well continue to talk about other things."

As soon as Wang Yan's words came out, the leaders who were packing their pens and notebooks to leave stopped their actions and looked over.

County Magistrate Xu also sat down again: "You speak."

"Three things. First, the staff housing in our factory will be finished next month. We earned quite a bit from this Canton Fair, and the money in our hands is more abundant, so we are going to start the second phase of construction. Considering that we will absorb more workers into the factory in the future, we are going to build 40 buildings this time."

"According to the current development speed, 40 buildings are still not enough. This is a long-term construction, until all of us live in buildings, with electric lights and telephones upstairs and downstairs. I think by that time, our Jin Ling will basically be out of poverty."

"Where is it out of poverty? If you keep doing this, by that time, our Jin Ling will be directly rich." A county leader said so.

"Yes, where have you heard that everyone lives in the city? Everyone has seen the photos you provided before, and the people in the capital don't live as comfortably as the people in our Jin Ling."

When these words were spoken, the conference room was filled with laughter in an instant, and everyone was laughing heartily.

Wang Yan didn't lie. He really did what he told County Magistrate Xu before. He really sent the factory's propaganda officer to Beijing, took a bunch of messy photos, and after returning, together with the current appearance of the county town, really printed black and white photos and distributed them. The textile factory paid to print a large pile and distributed them for free for all the people in the county to see.

Of course, not everyone had one; they just printed tens of thousands of copies, and everyone passed them around, so everyone had seen them. It let the people of Jin Ling know the state of the people in Beijing, and more importantly, let people know the changes in Jin Ling County.

After all, there are still many people who have not been to the city; they only heard it was good, but didn't know how good it was. This time, it was also to show the people of Jin Ling the style of the county town.

The better the county town is, the better the farmers think their children at home are in the city.

In fact, developing to this day, in every village below, there are people who have entered the factory, it's just a matter of how many.

This quota is set by the county.

In the original time, there were only two ways for rural population life. Either be a soldier or farm the land. At this time, they are all studying disarmament, so the difficulty of being a soldier can be imagined; the quota is really limited.

At the moment, the county takes the textile factory's staff quota to distribute, giving more to poor places, less or even none to rich places, which can be considered as rain and dew being distributed evenly.

Of course, in general, it is still executing Wang Yan's meaning, which is to solve the poorest places first. The quota there is also the largest, and agricultural machinery is also distributed the most. It is to liberate labor and share the pressure below. The children in the countryside eat in the textile factory and can also take care of their families in the countryside, so that those who enter the city and those who stay in the village can live well...

Wang Yan's action this time was undoubtedly successful. There was not a single person present who had such a mysterious veil over Beijing; everyone thought Beijing was just like that, and the people in the capital were not as comfortable as us.

Only County Magistrate Xu pulled the corners of his mouth, not knowing what to say...

After such a lively commotion, Wang Yan brought up the second thing.

"Currently, the conditions in the factory are good. We must also give preferential treatment to our old cadres. They are all old revolutionaries who have worked for half their lives, so we must let the old comrades enjoy themselves. So I propose that the textile factory pay to build an old cadre convalescent home. Find a good place in our county, where retirees and those recuperating can enjoy themselves; it can be considered retirement treatment."

Without waiting for others to agree, County Magistrate Xu first expressed a different opinion, "Wang Yan, now is not the time to enjoy. Our party's cadres must still fully carry forward the revolutionary spirit of arduous struggle. Building a cadre convalescent home could have been used to build a road."

As soon as his brain turned, he knew Wang Yan's idea, which was to unite the local leading cadres and form a local interest group in Jin Ling, so as to confront the city, or even the province.

Of course, this confrontation is not rebellion, but being a thorn in the side, being a rascal. When it is favorable, cooperate with the policies of the city and province; when it is unfavorable, roll like a rascal, making people helpless.

At the same time, Wang Yan was also buying hearts, effectively becoming the leader of the entire Jin Ling interest group, manipulating the entire Jin Ling political and economic ecology. In name, he was a factory director, but in reality, he was the number one person in Jin Ling.

County Magistrate Xu believed that this situation would not be too far away, right after he was transferred from Jin Ling...

"The leader is the leader, with long-term vision and crisis thinking." Wang Yan praised first and then suppressed, "But Leader, I think that the construction of our county will never end. The roads in the whole county are repaired, and then roads are broken again, and roads need to be improved in standards. The lives of the people are also the same; when they are good, they want to be better; when they are rich, they want to be richer. Where is the end?

Now that there are more surpluses and better conditions, but our factory currently does not have the strength to take care of everyone in the county, then pick the urgent ones first and improve the treatment for the old cadres. When we have more surplus in the future, we will build buildings, increase wages, and improve treatment for the people in the county. Even the office building we are currently in needs to be rebuilt into a bigger and better one."

"You can't become a fat man in one bite; everything has to be done step by step. Leaders, don't you think so?"

"I agree." It was Secretary Gong who expressed his position first, "Wang Yan, you finally thought of the difficulties of the county and took the initiative to propose a solution. Very good."

"Secretary Gong, don't worry. I will definitely make persistent efforts and create new heights." Wang Yan responded with a smile, as if he hadn't scolded Secretary Gong before.

The mascot took the lead, and others naturally agreed. Because among them, there was still a considerable number of people who could enjoy the treatment.

Including Secretary Gong himself, he was not a local, but he had worked here for many years. He didn't want to leave. If he stayed here, who could argue with him? Otherwise, why would he jump out and take the lead?

So, under the circumstances that County Magistrate Xu had already expressed his position, the matter of the county choosing a beautiful place to build a cadre convalescent home was passed by vote.

This can also be considered the initial confrontation between the local faction and the external leaders. County Magistrate Xu, who held the power of the county, was defeated, and the Jin Ling Group had already reached its peak with a small test of its strength...

County Magistrate Xu shook his head helplessly: "Alright, let's push this matter forward. Tell me your third thing."

"Currently, whether it is the manufacturing of looms or the manufacturing of agricultural machinery, we have bottlenecks, which makes us unable to manufacture better looms and agricultural machinery. The reason lies in materials!"

"The steel, aluminum, and other materials provided by our county can no longer meet the needs of the textile factory in various performances. It is also impossible to always produce these products now. We are not invincible; we are even backward, so materials must be changed and improved."

"If we purchase from the outside, then the good days of the relevant factories in the county will be over. If we don't purchase from the outside, they won't work. So I propose to merge the relevant steel mills, aluminum plants, and other material factories into the textile factory, manage them uniformly, and increase relevant research and development expenditures."

County Magistrate Xu smiled: "This is a situation that was thought of long ago. Everyone is prepared; let's raise our hands and vote."

Without any surprises, it was passed unanimously.

So after the meeting ended, all relevant units moved. Those who chose places went everywhere, those who built houses started to increase material procurement, the government started to distribute labor quotas to the communes below, and the industrial and commercial departments started to find steel mills and other factories to promote the merger...

After this meeting was held, it also marked that the number of workers in the textile factory increased by more than 3,000 at once, and the number of workers approached 10,000. Most of the labor force in the city basically entered the big family of the textile factory.

Various affairs were being pushed forward in an orderly manner, and Old Li, who participated in the Canton Fair, also led the team and led a group of 14 people back to Jin Ling.

Wang Yan went out in person and communicated in English.

"Welcome to our Jin Ling for inspection. I am... Presumably for you, making money is the first priority. Shall we go directly to visit the factory?"

"Wang, you are so right. Let's go to your factory and let us see the clothes you designed."

"Wang-san, please give me more advice."

Wang Yan raised his eyebrows and looked at the little Japanese who suddenly popped out.

"This is a representative of Toyota Machinery." Old Li said a sentence on the side, his tone a bit unfriendly.

Wang Yan smiled: "Here to spy on military intelligence?"

"Wang-san misunderstood. We just heard about your factory's water-jet loom, which was manufactured by you alone from scratch, and achieved mass production in a very short time, so we specially followed Mr. Jason to take a look."

Nodding noncommittally, Wang Yan greeted everyone with a smile and went to the shoe and clothing factory first.

As for the sighs of a group of foreign devils and some undisguised disgust, he ignored them. China is indeed backward, and people are disgusted; it's not good to force people to like it. If they don't say ugly words, he will pretend not to see it. After all, nowadays, out of ten foreigners who come to China, nine look down on it. If you really care about everything, you can't do business.

Just endure humiliation and bear the burden, and develop while gnashing your teeth... Everyone doesn't look favorably on it, but we have to strive for success ourselves...

The foreign devils were here to make money, and there were no other messy things. These were all people in the textile business. They stayed for three days, looked at the shoe and clothing factory, the textile factory, and the loom weaving factory. In addition, Wang Yan also took them to see the trial production of sanitary napkins, and they were recognized by the Japanese in many aspects.

In terms of manufacturing, Japan is very capable. Many machines in China came from Japan. At this time, it was the time when Japan was glorious. Post-war recovery was good, the economy took off, and the lost twenty years had not yet begun.

Japan's famous citypop music style fully demonstrated the brilliance of Japan at this time. Relatively representative songs include cathy, staywithme...

The business was naturally concluded. Correspondingly, they purchased 600,000 denim jackets and 300,000 pairs of white canvas sneakers. This also pushed the subject of this business to the scale of 10 million US dollars, and also paid a 30% deposit.

Looms didn't sell as well as shoes and clothes, but they also sold over 1 million US dollars, and they all made money. Selling one unit for export, their factory could earn half more. Although it was not much compared to domestic sales, it was still good. After all, there is next year, and there are customers who will come to the door later.

As long as normal iteration is carried out and automation is researched in advance, the future is still very promising...

And having Japanese machinery companies come over made the leading cadres in the factory and county very worried. They were worried that the Japanese would dump goods, affect the sales business of Jin Ling's looms, and then affect the development of the entire Jin Ling.

Wang Yan still gave everyone a reassurance, saying that the current sales volume of Japanese machines had not been affected, and the domestic market demand was very large. Other machinery companies, including Japan, would not be so unwise. As long as there is steady growth, they will not take big actions.

He also said that the previous words were all to scare them, so that they would have a sense of crisis and be more motivated. So he received a pile of blessings from people who didn't show it but were definitely from the heart...

The city and province naturally quarreled again because of the foreign exchange problem, and even this time Beijing joined in. They locked onto Jin Ling at the first time, then learned about the trade volume in detail, and then it had nothing to do with Jin Ling; it was all gods fighting.

It was still because of the urgent shortage of foreign exchange, and the need to purchase various equipment, resources, etc. from abroad. This time, Jin Ling's trade volume was equivalent to 1% of the total foreign exchange reserves. This figure, compared to the small Jin Ling County relative to the whole country, reflected how much influence and importance it had, and how awesome Jin Ling County was, selling clothes for tens of millions of US dollars.

The inspection team from Beijing that came before went back, and the situation about Jin Ling also appeared in the newspapers and was commended nationwide. This commendation hadn't passed yet, and the news that Jin Ling County earned tens of millions of foreign exchange appeared in the newspapers again.

The people of Jin Ling were proud, and the employees of the textile factory were proud. The sense of honor in this era was beyond words.

But these were not enough to make the employees of the textile factory excited; they had more exciting things...

This was the end of December. The cold wind blew the fine little snowflakes, and they melted as soon as they fell to the ground.

However, although the cold wind was cold, it did not block the enthusiasm of the textile factory employees. Because today, the houses were handed over.

Workers in the factory, regardless of whether they were on the first batch list or not, all came to the construction site here, and they were all watching the excitement. The situation was completely uncontrollable. At this time, no matter how good the leadership art was, it wouldn't work. Unless the instructor stood here, otherwise no one's words would work; everyone wanted to see the house.

Although the workers had already looked inside and outside when it was still a construction site before. Even because of the workers' pointing and gesturing, they had fought several times with the farmers who were working. But it still didn't affect the enthusiasm of the workers.

Those who were assigned houses came to see their own houses, and those who were not assigned houses were also surrounding the periphery, and some even followed to see the situation in the completed houses.

"Oh, there's heating?"

"You just found out?"

"I'm from the steel mill."

"Oh, then wait. I heard that 40 buildings will be built in the second phase. There are no yours next year, but there should be the year after next. It's just a matter of these two years."

"What about you?"

"I'm one step earlier than you. I'm from the paper mill. The list came out a few days ago. Our factory is on it. It looks like we can live in it next year. It's all first come, first served, according to the order of entering the factory. Don't worry."

"Why isn't this heating hot?"

"It's said that our county is going to build a thermal power plant. At that time, the heat from there will be used to supply heating here. It will take two years. Be content. Our factory director is not bad. Originally, we didn't supply heating here. The factory director said that not supplying heating doesn't mean it's not cold. It just happens to solve the electricity problem in our factory, and the heat can be used, so heating was added, which cost a lot of money."

"Really good."

"Yes."

At this time, a woman walked over, akimbo and glared at the two.

"I said you two, are you finished? This is my house! Just look at it; otherwise, why don't you two live in it?"

"That would be too good."

"Yes, we are very willing."

"Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out..."

"Hahaha..."

The workers were happy, the people were happy, and the laughter was hearty...

Wang Yan was smoking, and together with the workers watching the excitement, he was gratified...