I became a poor little sophora japonica in the courtyard

Lou Zhenhua waited eagerly for half a month, and his brother Lou Zhenguo finally arrived in Sijiu City. As soon as the two brothers met at Lou Mansion in Dongdan, Lou Zhenhua immediately took him to the study on the second floor.

"Brother, what happened? Why did you call me here in such a hurry?" Seeing his brother's serious expression, Lou Zhenguo quickly asked.

"Zhenguo, I want to ask you, did Qiming marry another wife behind my back? Don't try to hide it for him, I want to hear the truth." Lou Zhenhua opened his mouth and wanted to confirm the authenticity of the book.

Lou Zhenguo looked at his elder brother in shock! How could something that happened just a few days ago reach his elder brother's ears so quickly? Hong Kong and Beijing are so far apart, could it be that his elder brother has planted spies in Hong Kong?

"Brother! That's true. But you can't blame Qiming entirely. He was set up by someone and had no choice but to marry the other person's daughter." Lou Zhenguo quickly defended his nephew.

"So you are planning to hide this from me, the head of the family! Qiming's new wife and her whole family are gangsters? They are members of the Heshenghe gang?" Lou Zhenhua continued to question him.

"Brother, you even know this? It's all my fault that I didn't discipline Qiming well. He likes to go out drinking at night, and he got tricked by someone without realizing it." Lou Zhenguo quickly admitted his mistake to his brother. His brother gave his son to him, but he didn't discipline him well. I really feel bad for my brother!

But his nephew, relying on the fact that he was the eldest son of the Lou family, refused to listen to his advice. He was hanging out with a bunch of bad friends every day, and he was helpless and at a loss.

"Don't talk about that rebellious son for now! I asked you to buy European steel rolling equipment, but you should stop purchasing it now. Use this batch of funds to expand the shipping company first. When you return to Hong Kong this time, please ship back the batch of gold at home first. When you ship things over here in the future, remember! Don't let that rebellious son know."

Lou Zhenhua had basically confirmed the authenticity of the book, and he had the idea of ​​leaving this place. But there was no rush, as he still had more than a decade to arrange everything.

"Brother, what do you mean? After all, Qiming is your eldest son. Although he violated the family rules, considering his young age, give him another chance." Seeing that his elder brother excluded his own son, Lou Zhenguo hurriedly pleaded for him.

"I have my own arrangements! Is it true that my words as the head of the family are no longer effective?" Lou Zhenhua waved his hand to interrupt his brother. He didn't want to dwell on this issue any more.

He opened the drawer of his desk and took out a piece of paper. On it was the investment plan of Lou's company that he had written based on the economic trends of Hong Kong in recent years as suggested by the book. The two brothers closed the door and began to discuss!

According to the book, Hong Kong will develop rapidly in the fields of international finance, foreign trade, shipping, transportation, and service industries. It will become the third largest international financial center and a distribution center for global trade.

The Lou Group will vigorously develop its subsidiaries, Lou Shipping Company and Lou Import and Export Trading Company, and focus on investing in public infrastructure and real estate services. Some of the physical enterprises invested by the Lou family will gradually be abandoned.

A few days after Lou Zhenguo left with a batch of gold, Lou Zhenhua received a call from above, asking him to attend a meeting at the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.

The content of the meeting was indeed a public-private partnership! There were two options: sell the enterprise to the state, or a public-private partnership. In a public-private partnership, the public side would send someone to run the enterprise, and the private side would only hold shares and not be allowed to participate in the operation.

The state simply cannot afford to buy a large enterprise like Lou's Steel Mill, which employs tens of thousands of people, and can only choose public-private partnership. Lou Zhenhua thought about it and decided to donate the Lou's Steel Mill to the state according to the option in the book.

After the meeting, he immediately went to see Vice Minister Lu of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry and informed him of his decision. This was a large heavy industry enterprise, and Vice Minister Lu did not dare to neglect it and quickly reported the matter to the higher-ups. It even alarmed the top management!

Lou Zhenhua became a patriotic businessman by donating his large enterprise for free. Reporters from newspapers came to interview him about his patriotic deeds. He became a role model for businessmen to learn from, and a large number of patriotic businessmen followed suit and donated their factories and shops to the country.

The Ministry of Metallurgical Industry renamed Loushi Steel Rolling Mill into the state-owned Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. It was designated as a department-level unit and was directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry.

A group of new factory leaders began to hand over to Lou Zhenhua. The leaders of the factory, including Secretary Zheng at the department level, Director Yang at the department level, and Deputy Director Li at the deputy department level, all matched his book. This time, Lou Zhenhua completely believed everything written in the book.

When the new factory leadership team took up their posts, Director Yang began to inspect the work in the workshops. When he brought people to the metal processing workshop, Yi Zhonghai was simply stunned!

Isn't this newly appointed Director Yang the leader that the old lady mentioned? Now he has become the director of the steel mill. This department-level cadre is at the same level as the mayor of an ordinary prefecture-level city.

When Director Yang came up to him and shook hands with him cordially, he quickly introduced: "Hello, Director Yang, we have met before. In the compound at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang! The old lady is a martyr's relative and a five-guarantee household. We all respect her in our compound."

"Oh! I remember! You are not only the technical backbone of the factory, but also the manager of the courtyard. Haha! The country now needs technical workers like Master Yi to contribute to the country." Director Yang held Yi Zhonghai's hand and encouraged him.

Haha! I have the old lady as my backer, let alone a small courtyard. Now I have the final say in the entire steel mill. Yi Zhonghai was secretly very proud.

When she went home and told the deaf old lady about it, she also smiled happily. Now that Xiao Yang was the director of the steel mill, wouldn't she have another helper?

The private factory became a state-owned enterprise, and tens of thousands of workers became masters. The small canteen suddenly had no class divisions, and now all the workers in the workshop could eat in it. The originally leisurely Sha Zhu immediately became busy!

The steel rolling mill also introduced a batch of equipment from the big brother, the factory began to expand and recruit workers, and the scene was full of bustling and prosperous.

Lou Zhenhua stopped working and started to stay at home, drinking tea and chatting with a group of old friends. But he was secretly selling off his property and collecting hard currency. He used his own Lou's Shipping Company to travel back and forth between the two places and slowly transferred his wealth to Hong Kong.

He is now very close to Le Zhengqi, the owner of Renxintang, and often asks him for advice on how to maintain health. After the Renxintang pharmacy was merged into a public-private partnership, Le Zhengqi had nothing to do, and the relationship between the two families became closer and closer.

He also took his daughter to visit the old house of the Le family on Qianmen Street several times, intentionally or unintentionally. Seeing the 14-year-old Le Mingxuan playing shyly with Lou Xiaoe, Lou Zhenhua also felt that the book was true to him.

In the same year, the commodity coupon system was implemented for urban residents, and people's communes were established in the vast rural areas, and land was taken back as collective ownership.

Today's urban residents rely on grain and oil supply certificates, commodity supply certificates, non-staple food supply certificates, and coal supply certificates in their hands to meet all their daily needs.

Urban residents can go to state-owned grain and oil stores to buy grain and oil with their grain and oil supply certificates. The monthly ration for an adult male is 30 kilograms, and for a female 28 kilograms. Employees of units can receive different types of work-related supplementary grain every month based on their different types of work.

For example, among the three uncles in charge of the courtyard, the one with the highest grain ration is Liu Haizhong. He works as a blacksmith, and his monthly grain allowance for his job is 11 kilograms, which adds up to a monthly ration of 41 kilograms.

As a fitter, Yi Zhonghai's salary allowance for his job is eight kilograms, which means his monthly food ration is thirty-eight kilograms.

As a primary school teacher, Yan Bugui did light physical work. His salary was only five catties of grain, which added up to thirty-five catties per month.

The worst off family in the courtyard is the Jia family. There are four people in the family, but only Jia Dongxu has a city hukou. They only have 38 kilograms of food rations per month. If it is not enough, they can only buy bargain food!

Jia Zhang's land in the countryside was also taken back by the collective. If she didn't go back to work and earn work points, she wouldn't get any food. Food immediately became the top priority for the Jia family!

She also wanted to transfer her household registration to the city, but how could she do that? It was no use letting her cry and throw a tantrum at the Beixinqiao Police Station.

Finally, the newly established Jiaodaokou Subdistrict Office sent people to send her back to the countryside. Jia Zhang was so scared that she rolled and crawled back to the compound at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang.