Chapter 974: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 974: A Promising Youngster Indeed

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Wang Erhai spoke his thoughts frankly.

Finally, he had everyone state their position.

Those unwilling to let him help reclaim the farmland should tell him; when he starts work, he will deliberately bypass their family's farmland.

The vast majority expressed willingness to let Wang Erhai help reclaim the land.

Only a small handful of people said there was no need for Wang Erhai to do it; they could reclaim it themselves.

Wang Erhai did not insist on the matter.

He merely silently noted down their names, then located their farmland and marked it clearly to avoid confusion.

The next morning, Wang Erhai returned to the county town company for work, and on the way found an excavator team in the county town, advanced the funds himself, and hired the excavator team to come to Shanggou Village to reclaim high-standard farmland.

After agreeing on a price with the excavator team and signing a contract, another day passed, and the excavator team arrived at Shanggou Village and began work.

Wang Erhai could not supervise every moment; he still had county town company matters to attend to, so he hired a few reliable people from the village to help supervise.

These supervisors, as agreed beforehand, were to be paid 150 yuan a day.

"Rumble—"

The sound of excavators rang out across the wasteland of Shanggou Village.

A grand high-standard farmland construction project thus kicked off.

High-standard farmland must not only be leveled, but also have road access and water access.

If done by manual labor, these requirements would certainly be very troublesome.

Because the abandoned fields, after several years of change, even the irrigation ditches have fallen into disuse and become blocked; new ditches must be dug.

Using excavators, these modern machines, for reclamation is different: not only is it fast and efficient, but the quality is also good.

For leveling, just push the ground flat directly.

For road access, just dig a road directly.

For water access, just re-dig the irrigation ditches properly.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed.

Those already abandoned farmlands in Shanggou Village had actually been reclaimed, plot by plot.

And they were all standardized, neat and square, flat and even.

Once the land is reclaimed, grain must be planted for it to count as high-standard farmland.

So Wang Erhai mobilized the villagers to cultivate it.

For villagers unwilling to cultivate, he contracted it himself and then hired people to cultivate it.

This day, He Gaofeng and Zhong Hongtao came to Shanggou Village for an inspection.

Originally, He Gaofeng planned that if Wang Erhai took no action, he would remove him and replace him with someone willing to obey to manage Shanggou Village.

Upon arriving and seeing for himself, he discovered that Shanggou Village's high-standard farmland construction was unexpectedly fast.

At least among the many villages he had visited, Shanggou Village was currently the fastest and also the best done.

"Comrade Erhai, didn't you say before that the task couldn't be completed? How come you're doing it so swiftly now?"

He Gaofeng asked with a face full of smiles.

Wang Erhai chuckled:

"This is largely thanks to Town Mayor Zhong's wake-up call. If we can earn a bit for the villagers, let's earn a bit; it's better than letting that land sit there abandoned."

He Gaofeng nodded in satisfaction:

"A promising youngster indeed; your political awareness is very high — three or four stories high!"

Wang Erhai couldn't help asking:

"Secretary He, a year from now, how should these high-standard farmlands be handled?"

If the high-standard farmlands are created but abandoned after a year, Wang Erhai felt it would still be too wasteful.

He Gaofeng said:

"However you think they should be handled, handle them that way. If you think it's wasteful, just contract them yourself and plant grain. I heard Town Mayor Zhong say you have a chicken farm and a restaurant; you can plant grain to use as chicken feed, then sell the grown chickens at the restaurant — that counts as a green, eco-friendly economic ecological chain."

Wang Erhai laughed dryly:

"My chicken farm isn't large-scale; how could it consume that much grain?"

He Gaofeng chuckled:

"Let's not talk about this for now; we'll see when the time comes, one step at a time. Right now, the higher-ups' push for high-standard farmland construction is also at the feeling-the-stones-while-crossing-the-river stage."

Wang Erhai said nothing more.

Watching the grand high-standard farmland construction project underway in the village, his inner emotions were somewhat complex.

He both wanted to bring some tangible benefits to the villagers through this project.

And did not want this massive project to fizzle out.

If these reclaimed high-standard farmlands were abandoned again in a year or two, that would truly be too much of a pity.

While the village was bustling with the grand high-standard farmland construction, over in the county town, Liguo Mountain Decoration Company was also conducting a grand business sweep.

With Zhang Sheng and Niu Chunsheng backing Liguo Mountain, plus Huo Guoqiang's financial support, Liguo Mountain Decoration Company has now seized over sixty percent of the county town's renovation business.

The original supervision team had only five people, each running several construction sites a day, and they couldn't keep up.

So now they face a problem:

Is it expanding the foreman team, or expanding the subcontracting business.

If expanding the foreman team, the salary is a small matter, but we must find trustworthy people.

And if completely subcontracting out a portion of the renovation business, it can reduce costs and increase efficiency, only the risk will also increase accordingly.

For this, Huo Guoqiang convened the company's management, and specially held a meeting.

At this time, inside the conference room, Huo Guoqiang sat in the chief seat, on the left and right sides respectively were Wang Erhai and Wu Moli. Then further down, was General Manager Huo's nephew Huo Zhihui.

On the left and right rows of the conference table, respectively were the management of each department.

Additionally he also hired all members of the foreman team to come attend this meeting.

Zhou Hongwei, Liang Xinghua, Liu Dahe, Zhao Shoutian, all arrived.

In order to attend this meeting, they even specially wore suits to come over, truly looking the part, even to the point of being a bit unable to tell they were formerly rural mud workers.

"Nowadays our Liguo Mountain's business has already occupied over sixty percent of the entire county's renovation market share, with the expansion of business, the company must make some adjustments, very obviously the foreman side right now, we are somewhat too busy to cope, everyone thinks is it expand the foreman team, or how to solve this problem well?"

Huo Guoqiang actually already had his own idea, holding this meeting, was just to see how the people below thought.

Wu Moli was the first to speak up and answer:

"General Manager Huo, you are the professional, however you think is good, then do it that way!"

Wu Moli doesn't understand the renovation business, and moreover she doesn't want to manage it.

She just wants to be a hands-off shopkeeper, sitting and waiting for dividends.

Huo Guoqiang hehe laughed and said:

"General Manager Wu, this still needs to solicit everyone's opinions, many hands make light work!"

He was very satisfied with Wu Moli's answer.

Thinking back to when the company was first established, he and Wang Erhai had intended to sideline Wu Moli's decision-making power, now Wu Moli is this tactful, not meddling in company decision-making matters, that naturally is everyone happy.

"General Manager Wang, what is your view on this?"

Huo Guoqiang at this time looked toward Wang Erhai, consulting Wang Erhai's suggestion.

Wang Erhai thought carefully for a moment, then spoke his view:

"I think..."