Chapter 1322: Year-End Assembly (Nineteen)

"In a place like this, sending the elderly here only requires paying some grain, and then this grain is used to cover the daily meals for the elderly, as well as to hire people to take care of them, which also provides job positions for young people."

"Within this, Huaxia will specifically allocate some additional grain to cover areas where funds are insufficient. Furthermore, you Landlords can choose to undertake the construction and take on this task yourselves."

"Compared to a Hospital or school, a Nursing Home does not require any professional knowledge. If you can come up with a good idea and a good operating charter for me right now, you can directly become the Dean with full decision-making power over the entire Nursing Home."

Baifeng did not state the nature of this Nursing Home, nor would anyone care about its nature. In Baifeng's view, the Nursing Home would eventually be a place that could turn a profit and could not be considered a public institution; the leaders within it naturally could not be considered officials. If the response from these Landlords was good enough in a moment, Baifeng felt he could announce the Establishment System, for which he had already drafted a rough copy, tomorrow, and in the future, divide government units, public institutions, and enterprises in advance, although no enterprises had appeared yet.

The Landlords clearly could not clearly understand the ins and outs of this; they did not understand these powers and such. They could only receive the message that they could obtain power; as for the other content, it was not blocked, just slipped directly out of their ears.

The others present understood a little more or less. To put it very bluntly, it was grain in exchange for special privileges. As holders of power, they did not object, because power and special privileges were not the same thing.

What the Landlords wanted was merely a bit of special privilege that surpassed ordinary people, to be able to obtain a larger share, a share to purchase meat, industrial products, and other such scarce items. If they did not have that special privilege, no matter how much grain they had, they could not buy them.

As for the power holders, these special privileges were merely incidental; the real benefits were something more. A nominal Deputy Dean position could bring more funds and more support to their own units; this was entirely possible and beneficial, so they could not possibly speak out against this.

As for the Nursing Home, those with keen minds felt that this was still a good thing. If it were them, they would certainly choose a place like a Nursing Home, and they were looking at the pricing, the pricing for sending an elderly person into the home.

If the pricing was low, then it would certainly require subsidies from Huaxia and subsidies from the Landlords, but if the pricing was high, there was still profit to be made in this. The investment was only that initial construction, and everything after that was purely profit.

However, listening to the names of the Orphanage and the Veterans Service Center, there should not be much profit to be made; it was probably just purely filling them with grain, a true exchange of grain for power. But fortunately, there was no competition from others either. Hospitals and schools had permanent Deans, making it hard to rise; such newly established units had no permanent Deans, making it easier for Landlords to move up.

Sure enough, Baifeng then began to talk about the Orphanage: "The Orphanage, just by hearing the name, you know it is to serve the orphans of our Huaxia. According to statistics, our Huaxia has over a thousand orphans, which is not many, and currently, they are all placed in the homes of their own relatives."

"But after all, they are not their own biological children, and one does not know whether the foster parents are good to them or not. In the future, Huaxia might produce more orphans for various reasons, whether large or small. Huaxia must have policies and must have places to help these children without parents."

"The Orphanage, a purely service-oriented institution, is for taking in and caring for those children who have no parents. Huaxia will provide a portion of the subsidies; as for the rest, it depends on who is willing to provide continuously. As long as it can be provided continuously, right now, from the Dean down to perhaps some section chief or staff member, there is not a single person."

"Huaxia also lacks people, and such a place does not require you to have any professional ability; as long as you love children and can take care of children, that is enough. The treatment for the Dean and the treatment for the Vice Dean—Huaxia can provide all of that in full."

Baifeng then played another trump card: "If someone makes an outstanding contribution, such as gaining the recognition of all the children and taking such good care of the children that Huaxia no longer has a single orphan with nowhere to go, then I can grant such a person Nobility and bestow a surname!"

"Me! Me! King, I am willing!" Hearing the words "grant Nobility and bestow a surname," a Landlord no longer cared about the occasion and stood up with a slap on the table. If he had known earlier that Nobility could be exchanged for grain, he would have exchanged it long ago.

Seeing that someone was going to snatch it, the other few Landlords also hurriedly stood up and shouted loudly that they could do it, arguing extremely fiercely; the entire conference room was in an uproar.

The others also did not expect it to be such a situation, because Baifeng had never mentioned the matter of granting Nobility and bestowing a surname. After all, buying and selling Nobility would cause the value of Nobility to plummet directly; no one would be willing to struggle for Huaxia and would just go buy it directly.

But Baifeng spoke with great skill; it was not that you could obtain Nobility just by building an Orphanage; you still had to reach a series of standards. If one could truly make it so that Huaxia had no orphan with nowhere to go, that would truly be a merit, and giving a title of Nobility was truly possible. However, it sounded like this title of Nobility could only be given once and would not be available again in the future.

Thinking of this, let alone the Landlords, even the others without Nobility wanted to compete for it. Isn't it just giving grain? Even if they emptied their family assets, it wouldn't be a loss to exchange for a title of Nobility. But this policy was tailored by Baifeng for the Landlords; how could he let it be given to others?

The order in the venue was a bit chaotic. The people arranged by the Ministry of Rites immediately came forward to stop them, telling them to sit down and be quiet. The Landlords then sat down with flushed faces, but they were still uncontrollably excited. At this moment, looking at the other Landlords, they all felt they were their enemies, their competitors.

With the few orphans Huaxia had now, they would certainly only build one Orphanage; building more would leave them with no orphans. They couldn't go and create orphans themselves; that would probably result in their own children becoming orphans.

The effect was extremely good, and a strong smile appeared on Baifeng's face: "Good! Seeing you are so proactive, I imagine you must also want to solve the problem of the existence of orphans in our Huaxia early and give orphans a home. I am very happy; you have a great sense of responsibility."

"However, this kind of matter must be done according to the process. It is not that you can do it just because you have this idea. First, you must submit your proposals regarding the Orphanage—how to do it, how to operate it—think about it carefully yourselves."

"You yourselves come up with a plan, then submit it to me, and I will review it, select the best one, and hand it over to them to handle."