Chapter 1305

Jinzhou Chemical.

Wang Yan and Song Yunping returned to Jin Ling together, specifically taking a detour through Jinzhou to visit Song Yunhui.

"I still have to go to Beijing in a few days to look up some data; I didn't expect you two to come back first." Song Yunhui clinked glasses with Wang Yan and took a light sip.

"Going to look up data?" Song Yunping frowned, "That sounds like a bitter chore, doesn't it?"

"It's just running around, I'm willing to do it myself. The data in Beijing is more comprehensive, covering both domestic and international sources. I'm taking advantage of my work to learn more, which is also beneficial for my job. Besides, the factory is introducing a new plan that I feel is inappropriate, and I wouldn't be at ease if someone else went."

Song Yunping was so angry she laughed: "In your eyes, is it only you who is capable? Everyone else is mediocre?"

"Sister, both you and Brother-in-law are capable. You are a student at Peking University, which is much better than Anyun University. Brother-in-law is even more capable; he has managed Jin Ling so well and led our Jin Ling people to live a good life. At the end of last year, the Chief even came to inspect, affirmed the work, and agreed to merge the two counties to establish a county-level city, directly managed by the provincial government. He has also been to Beijing several times to participate in important meetings; he is truly too capable."

"Fine, you really have made progress." Song Yunping nodded with a smile.

"You're not asking me for a favor, are you?" Wang Yan asked.

"I'm being serious."

Wang Yan smiled and said: "When you go to Beijing, remember to visit Secretary Xu. When drinking water, don't forget those who dug the well. He helped you with this job, and it will be beneficial for you in the future."

"Is Secretary Xu's job being transferred?"

"In another two months, he will be transferred to a local post."

That's the one good thing about Secretary Xu's career; it has truly been smooth sailing all the way, with nothing but gentle slopes.

Especially since Jin Ling exploded into development during Secretary Xu's tenure, this is an absolute political achievement gift package. For Secretary Xu, who was already on a smooth path, it is naturally even more of a clear, unobstructed road.

Not to mention Secretary Xu, the success of Jin Ling has been a quite important factor in the transfers of provincial and municipal leaders over the past few years.

Even now, although Jin Ling is undergoing the slow work of merging and establishing a city, swallowing two counties from the city and one county from the neighboring city, the city can still reap the dividends of Jin Ling's development.

After all, the territory is right there. Just looking at construction materials alone—traffic roads, water conservancy, hospitals, etc. —Jin Ling's massive development is enough to keep them well-fed. By doing this, they both support the staff, and the money earned can be used for serious business, which is yet another political achievement.

Let's put it this way: in the next twenty years, as long as the relevant provincial and municipal leaders don't cause trouble, they are all coming here to act as trampolines and springs...

"I go by myself? Is that appropriate?" Song Yunhui was not very sure.

"What's inappropriate about it?" Wang Yan shook his head with amusement; Song Yunhui saying this was indeed a bit funny. "From the perspective of Jin Ling, he is the parent official of Jin Ling. From my perspective, you are my brother-in-law. From the perspective of Jinzhou, he worked here before, and you, this talent, were sent in by him. He is quite close to you.

Give him a call to make an appointment, buy some fruit, maybe some canned goods or candy for the children, and just say whatever needs to be said when you get there—speak the truth. Your flattery skills aren't up to par, so don't try to force it. He is much more capable than those leaders in your factory; their level cannot compare to his."

"I understand, I will definitely go when the time comes."

Song Yunhui toasted his good brother-in-law.

"Xiao Hui, your brother-in-law told me you have a girl you're interested in. Why didn't you bring her over? Haven't you started dating yet?" Song Yunping asked.

"No, he's just talking nonsense."

Wang Yan said: "Didn't you say you'd bring her home to see the family this year? What I conveyed was correct."

"I was just joking."

"Understood. The one you had a secret crush on before is completely out of the picture, you've given up, and now you're in the healing and recovery stage."

Song Yunhui looked like he wanted to die: "Fine, fine, everything you say is right. Brother-in-law, let's drink, let's drink."

After taking a sip of alcohol with the smiling Wang Yan, Song Yunhui hurriedly changed the subject: "Sister, what are you going back to do?"

"Nothing has changed, still going to the electronics factory to work on semiconductors."

"Speaking of which, Brother-in-law, it seems the sales of Jin Ling's electronic watches are quite good?"

"It's alright. We sold three million children's watches and over eight hundred thousand adult watches."

"The sales volume must have exceeded one hundred million, right?"

"After all, we sell them quite expensively; they aren't any worse than mechanical watches." Wang Yan nodded with a smile, "However, the profit isn't that high. On one hand, our costs aren't low, and on the other hand, the state-owned stores and such that distribute them have eaten up a lot of our profits. But from now on, the situation will be better; we are opening direct-sales stores, and our profits will be even greater in the future.

Currently, in every province and region, excluding Lhasa and Xinjiang, there are twenty-five cities. In our Anhui province, excluding Hefei, there are fifteen more. Counting Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, and the one in Jin Ling itself, there are a total of forty-five. This is the first batch, and we expect all of them to be open for business before the end of the year.

The second batch will be to open direct-sales stores in various provinces and regions, centered around these provincial capitals. We will spend three years building a direct-sales network, covering the whole country by the end of 1985."

At this time, the administrative divisions were not like they were later. Now, the number of prefecture-level cities is over one hundred and ten. It was in 1983 that the city-managing-county system reform was implemented, the number of prefecture-level cities further increased, and they gradually replaced regions as the main body of prefecture-level administrative districts, which is how it developed step by step to the later two hundred and ninety-three prefecture-level cities.

"The investment must be quite large, right?" Song Yunhui asked.

"We buy shops, renovate, hire employees, train them, plus the shipping costs for nationwide delivery—the amount is certainly not small. But compared to what is eaten up by various provinces, the gap is huge. We are always more suitable, the costs are lower, the quality is more guaranteed, and we can provide better services to the people. All in all, it's worth every penny."

"I don't understand these things, I wish Jin Ling success. I feel that the decisions you make won't be wrong. Brother-in-law, I toast you."

"Are you trying to drink me under the table?"

"No, it's just that my sister graduated from university, and I'm happy. My sister can't drink much, so let's drink more."

Song Yunping smiled gently: "Xiao Hui, you've really changed a lot now."

"Can't help it, Sister, one has to adapt. Come on, Brother-in-law, I've been holding this up for a while."

"Fine, little brother-in-law, today Brother-in-law will teach you a lesson. Come on, drink!"

Song Yunhui woke up in a daze, looking at the scorching sun outside. He jumped up, suddenly remembering, but his body had no strength at all, and his head was splitting with pain.

"Awake?"

Hearing the movement, Song Yunhui turned his head blankly, looking at his good roommate Xun Jianxiang: "What time is it?"

"Eleven o'clock. Come on, drink some water, it's boiled water that was cooled this morning, and I added honey." Xun Jianxiang handed over a cup and said, "I asked for leave for you, rest for a day today. There's porridge and pickles over there, your sister and brother-in-law sent them over this morning. They asked me to tell you they went home first.

You know, Xiao Song, your sister is truly beautiful, and your brother-in-law is no ordinary person either. He really has an imposing aura. I watched your brother-in-law smiling and chatting, but my heart was trembling; our leaders simply can't compare."

"Normal. If he weren't my brother-in-law, I'd be trembling too. He can even go to the Forbidden City to attend meetings; our factory still hasn't reached that height."

Song Yunhui drank the water in large gulps, "Besides, when my brother-in-law was young, all the big and small hoodlums in Jin Ling County were taught a lesson by him. I heard from my sister that he never locks his door when he goes out, and no one dares to go into his house to take things. You're just a small fish in a big pond, suppressed by my brother-in-law."

"Your brother-in-law has such a glorious history? Why haven't I heard you mention it before?"

"It's just how the conversation went. How much free time do I have to tell you these things for no reason?"

"But your brother-in-law is truly awesome. Who doesn't know that the people of Jin Ling are rich? I've lived for over twenty years, and the biggest person I've ever seen is your brother-in-law. Truly awesome..."

Xun Jianxiang lit a cigarette, "I just don't understand, with such a good brother-in-law covering for you, why are you suffering in Jinzhou? Wouldn't it be better if you stayed in Jin Ling?"

"I studied chemistry, and what I want to do is chemistry. I also don't want to add trouble for him."

"You're being so insincere." Xun Jianxiang reached out and grabbed a bottle of shampoo, "Isn't this produced by the Jin Ling Chemical Factory? Jin Ling's products are the most expensive, but they are also truly easy to use."

"What is it that we do? Can these daily chemicals compare?" Song Yunhui shook his head helplessly, "What we do relates to the lifeblood of the country; what's the point of these daily chemicals?"

He waved his hand, rubbing his head in pain, "Alright, stop annoying me. My head hurts terribly, let me recover properly. I've learned my lesson; I will never try to drink my brother-in-law under the table again."

"You're just bored. You can't even outdrink me, yet you challenged your brother-in-law? Which leader hasn't been through the wringer? They drink every day, every meal. How could we be their match? You're just asking for it. If you ask me, you deserve it."

"Get out, get out, let me have some peace."

"You're truly heartless, Song Yunhui, after I specifically asked for leave to take care of you."

"Wipe the grease off your mouth before you talk to me." Song Yunhui rolled his eyes at him.

Xun Jianxiang smiled embarrassedly: "Your sister is too enthusiastic, she stuffed me with a lot of food, I was just tasting it first."

Song Yunping returned home, not to mention the liveliness, and another deep exchange need not be stated. It was nothing more than Song Yunping feeling grateful for four years of persistence and companionship, saying she wanted to have a child for Wang Yan to continue the incense for the old Wang family, and having obtained what she sought, she received the injection of love.

The next day, Wang Yan personally took Song Yunping to handle her employment, and then sent her to the electronics factory, letting Song Yunping serve as the deputy factory director, in charge of research and development work.

Wang Yan had also seriously discussed professional issues with Song Yunping. Song Yunping's studies were very solid; she truly grasped the opportunity to go to university and studied very diligently.

As long as she is familiar with it for a period of time, Song Yunping can be competent in the work.

As for the most important R&D directions and so on, those were naturally all Wang Mou's business. If Song Yunping could lead people to execute along the direction he pointed out, that would be success.

Wang Yan's main energy was still placed on the merger of the three counties and the corresponding industrial adjustments.

The set goal was to finish the industrial redeployment and adjust the industrial structure before the end of the year, and to finish building the newly planned industrial zone next year. Concentrate resources to speed up the construction of Jin Ling, while also taking into account the infrastructure construction of the three counties.

By the end of 1984, except for work needs, let all the original Jin Ling people be able to move into the city to live. Even those working in various agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery stations should be provided with better living and life environments.

Reaching this point actually already marked that the people of Jin Ling had taken one foot into socialism. But because of various needs, and having to merge the two surrounding counties, the earth-shattering nature of this very iconic achievement was weakened. After all, the population was larger, the requirements were higher, and what had been achieved was still far from enough.

Of course, it wasn't just blindly focusing on construction. In terms of ideology, discipline, and law, another campaign to rectify unhealthy trends and evil practices began.

The original Jin Ling people looked down on the later people and said things that damaged unity, which had to be dealt with. This was because their ideological awareness was not enough, their personal understanding was insufficient, and they didn't know that the land of one Jin Ling county had already limited development and needed to expand territory and increase manpower. They still needed to continue learning.

As for the other two counties, a severe investigation campaign was carried out against various government cadres, resolutely dealing with illegal and disciplinary behaviors. Among the people, a "strike hard" campaign was carried out. Small mistakes were judged largely, and big mistakes were judged heavily.

This was also following the highest instructions from Beijing. In order to better develop economic construction and solve public security problems, Beijing adopted severe crackdown actions, and at the same time, began a campaign to rectify the atmosphere within the Party.

Relatively speaking, the people of the three counties were fortunate. Except for those who had to die, they were all considered forgiven, it was just that the prison sentences were relatively long, and they were all brought out to work.

Militia defense and people's supervision, at the same time, the internal security detachment, which was upgraded synchronously due to the merger of the three counties, was also pulled out. Nearly two thousand soldiers with live ammunition set up checkpoints and patrolled the whole county. No one could run away, and everyone had to honestly contribute to the people's cause to eliminate their crimes.

Speaking of the internal security troops, the internal security here in Jin Ling also lived a good life along with the people of Jin Ling. The finances of the local teams themselves were allocated by both Beijing and the local government.

Jin Ling was rich and powerful, not to mention sufficient funds, and had all kinds of messy things. Whenever there was nothing to do, they would send truckloads to the internal security troops, and their food and drink were never lacking. These were not allocated funds, but welfare given by the people of Jin Ling, so the internal security troops here lived very comfortably.

In short, the situation in Jin Ling was very good, and not many people were killed, but a lot of labor force that didn't cost money and only needed food was added. Not only were they working hard on bitter and tiring work, but they also had to concentrate on ideological learning and ideological transformation at night.

It was also at this time that Song Yunhui anxiously called Wang Yan, saying that Xun Jianxiang had been arrested for beating Yu Shanqing. Catching up with this time, he was going to be sentenced for several years, and he asked if his good brother-in-law had any way.

Wang Yan certainly had a way; fishing someone out was still doable. But Xun Jianxiang was not his father, and at such a time, touching such a brow, it was really not worth it. So he helplessly indicated that he couldn't do it, and synchronized the news of Song Yunping's pregnancy with Song Yunhui.

It was already October by this time, and Song Yunping finally realized she was pregnant in hindsight. She went to the county hospital, used an ultrasound to check, and confirmed the news of the pregnancy.

In the original drama, Song Yunping was already dead by this time. Wang Yan came over to defy the heavens and change fate, went to university for four years and came back, and only then was she just pregnant.

Speaking of which, Lei Dongbao already had no news, and their pig farm had been merged away. Wang Yan arranged for Lei Dongbao to go raise pigs; they had experience in raising pigs, and others with levels were also arranged to go together, with Lei Dongbao serving as the deputy factory director.

Other villagers in Xiao Lei Jia were also arranged with other places to go, all becoming staff in the factory, honestly engaging in production every day, enjoying some entertainment life and high welfare in the county, and all stably looking forward to the distribution of housing.

Xiao Lei Jia only had some old people and children left, waiting to move to the city. Their land was also taken back, most of the poor land was divided into plantations, and other land was retained.

Actually, originally, the people of Xiao Lei Jia still hadn't entered the city, but as time passed, the people of Xiao Lei Jia watched the people in the city getting better and better, and the gap getting bigger and bigger. They were tired to death raising pigs, and couldn't bear to eat a few bites all year round, but as a result, they supplied them to the factory, and others ate them for every meal. As a result, the villagers didn't find raising pigs and farming fragrant anymore, and they started to make trouble.

Lei Dongbao and other village cadres could still suppress it at first, but after a long time, they couldn't control the situation. At this time, the matter of rural population entering the city was almost done, so they went with the flow and arranged for the villagers in Xiao Lei Jia to enter the city, and they were satisfied...

"Xiao Hui's friend is also something, knowing about the strike hard campaign, yet still hitting the muzzle of the gun?" Song Yunping complained helplessly.

"Is Xiao Hui alright?" Song's father and mother were a bit worried.

"It's Xiao Hui's friend, it has nothing to do with Xiao Hui." Wang Yan smiled, "This person, when his temper comes up, he doesn't care about anything. That Xun Jianxiang, at a glance, is a irritable one who can't take anger. I think it's almost certain that Yu Shanqing squeezed him, otherwise he couldn't have been so reckless."

"Hmm, I have an impression of Yu Shanqing, I feel this person has a lot of thoughts."

The couple talking about people behind their backs was actually quite interesting.

They were picking vegetables, Wang Yan was cooking in the evening, Song Yunping said she wanted to eat the food Wang Yan cooked, it was delicious, so Wang Yan cooked, he never cared about these little things. If there was a need, he could do it; if there was no need, he was happy to be idle.

"Wang Yan, do you like a son or a daughter?" Song Yunping's voice was gentle.

"Either is fine, both are good. I don't have the old thinking of valuing boys over girls. As for incense or something, there are even fewer such sayings. We don't believe in that, and you shouldn't let your imagination run wild."

"I didn't think, I was just asking."

"Then you were asking unnecessarily."

"Alright, alright, I shouldn't have asked. It's almost cleaned up, hurry up and cook, Chef Wang."

After laughing and joking for a few sentences, Chef Wang went to wield the big spoon...