Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

Liu Guozheng and Lou Xiao'e returned to Hope New Village and spent a happy and peaceful Spring Festival with their family, friends, and villagers young and old.

The weather was nice during the Spring Festival. As usual, the village had a group worship on the morning of New Year's Day, and a sports meeting in the morning and afternoon. This year, a lot of people participated in the sports meeting, not only from the village, but also some employees of the food factory and some children of appropriate age from the Dongcheng District Welfare Institute. It lasted for three days.

The holiday lasted until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the holiday ended and the food factories and offices started working.

Busy times always pass quickly. When spring comes and flowers bloom, the hardening of the main roads near the food factory officially begins. This was agreed upon by Liu Guozheng and Jiao Kangzhan.

When Liu Guozheng proposed to build roads together with the district government, Jiao Kangzhan agreed with both hands. Although it was impossible to connect every village, at least the main roads had to be built.

This is a real political achievement, how could Jiao Kangzhan refuse?

Besides, Jiao Kangzhan only needs to be responsible for coordinating the various communes along the line, organizing manpower and material resources, and ensuring the progress of the project to the greatest extent possible.

As for the money, there were four parties contributing: Hope New Village, the food factory, the district government, and the Hope Fund headed by Lou Xiao'e.

Let me talk specifically about the source of the Hope Fund. A small part of it came from the money that Liu Guozheng asked Xu Qing to make by selling wine on the black market, and most of it came from donations, including donations from the so-called Liu Guodong family business far away in the Tang Dynasty.

If you want money, you have money; if you want people, you have people; if you want things, you have things.

Finally, some other factories and enterprises in the Jingxi Mining Area also joined in. The Jingxi Mining Area worked together to start a vigorous main road pavement hardening project.

In particular, the slogan "Build roads first if you want to get rich" put forward by the Jingxi Mining District directly made the front page of the newspaper and also received recognition and support from higher-level leaders.

The entire Jingxi Mining District was united in purpose and after three months of continuous efforts, they finally achieved their set goals. From the moment the goal was achieved, the main roads of each commune in the Jingxi Mining District and the main roads into the city officially left the old dirt roads and bid farewell to the mud puddles.

After the hardening of the main road surface was completed, the things Liu Guozheng needed were also transported from Datang, including equipment for two production lines, canned fruit and canned beef and mutton.

Some of the equipment needed by New Hope Technical School, as well as professional training cars prepared for the driving school.

Of course, there are also a few jeeps. All the items are ostensibly donated in the name of Liu Guodong, Liu Guozheng’s cousin. Those who have ulterior motives can do nothing even if they are jealous.

Even if one wants to find fault, one has to consider the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom. At this point in time, the experts who are assisting the Xia Kingdom in all aspects are all from the Tang Dynasty. The experts from the Hongxiong family withdrew as early as 60 years ago.

Therefore, as long as the food factory does not violate laws and disciplines, no one can do anything about it.

This is also the reason why Liu Guozheng decided to add two more production lines. He does not have to worry about equipment or technical personnel. As long as he needs it, he can get it as a gift in the name of Liu Guodong.

With the arrival of production equipment, the food factory also started the second round of recruitment.

The second round of recruitment went much more smoothly, and the same model was still adopted as at the beginning. Those who could not read or count were required to concentrate on learning for three months first.

For those who know how to read and can spell skillfully, as long as they pass the interview, they will be directly trained and can start work directly after passing the test.

This recruitment is open to the entire western Beijing mining area. The nearby villagers all want to work in the food factory, which is obviously impossible. There must be enough people left in each village to farm, and agricultural production should not be delayed. This is the premise.

At the same time, the food factory has reserved some positions for the disabled, families of martyrs living in rural areas, and some veterans.

It can also be regarded as taking on some social responsibilities through one's own practical actions.

With the expansion of the food factory and the further expansion of the school, some corresponding positions have also been further adjusted, mainly in finance. Starting this year, Chen Xiaolan is no longer responsible for the financial work of the food factory, but has been transferred to New Hope School and New Hope Technical School to take charge of financial work.

A large amount of money and equipment are invested in these two schools every year. Liu Guozheng and some elderly people in the village do not want the money to be spent in an unclear manner.

The heads of other departments have basically not changed, except that some new staff have been added to each department. The main one is the warehousing department under the charge of the third brother, which has the most new staff. It is also easy to recruit people in his department. As long as they can work and are willing to work, it will be fine as long as they know some common characters and can do basic arithmetic.

Liu Guozheng had originally thought of setting up an independent review department, which would be mainly responsible for reviewing the various expenditures of Hope Village, the food factory, the office, and the Hope Fund. However, due to the lack of necessary financial personnel, he had to give up.

He also believed that there would be no problems at this stage, as these financial people were his own people and could be trusted.

When the food factory and the office expand again and need new financial personnel, the audit department will be established. At that time, Lou Xiao'e, Chen Xiaolan and other veteran financial personnel will be placed in the audit department to do audit work.

During this period, with the help of Zhang Xia from the Hongxing Sub-district Office, Xiwang Xincun set up a sales outlet in Xicheng, mainly selling soda, sausages, and canned food that would soon be put into production.

We also accept reservations for live fish, live chicken, pork, beef and lamb, etc.

The sales outlet was set up, but there was no suitable candidate. After considering for a long time, they finally got a robot from the second world, named Lu Fang, and temporarily let him take charge of the West City sales outlet.

Although it is called Xicheng Sales Outlet, it occupies a courtyard with two entrances. It was secretly acquired by Liu Guozheng two years ago and it is now in use.

Everyone performed their duties and all work progressed steadily according to plan.

After the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, the canned beef and mutton production line has been in operation for two months, and the products have been gradually displayed on the counters of various supply and marketing cooperatives. Of course, our own offices and sales outlets are also indispensable.

The apples and pears in the village, as well as the hawthorns on the mountains, also had a bumper harvest. The canned fruit production line was officially put into production, mainly producing candied hawthorns, candied apples and candied pears.

Only after everything was on track did Liu Guozheng and Lou Xiao'e have time to visit the Dongcheng Office.