Zhao Shucheng and Song Yunping came back from the county town that day, and brought their newly purchased home appliances to the village entrance and met the elderly people chatting there.
They saw Zhao Shucheng and Song Yunping, greeting him with a smile, thanking Zhao Shucheng for everything he did for Xiao Lei's family, especially the matter of paying pensions to the elderly.
"Dongbao, I told your mother a few days ago that this year, our Xiao Lei family will have another bumper harvest."
"Your secretary has not been a member of the country for two years. Our Xiao Lei family is getting better and better. We have benefited from you."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Uncle, don't say that. I have made some achievements under the leadership of the old branch secretary. What's more important is the result of our Xiao Lei family's efforts. If I rely solely on myself, nothing can be done. As long as everyone is united, the good days of the Xiao Lei family are still there!"
"Dongbao's words are reasonable. The people of our Xiao Lei family should work together so that their lives will get better and better in the future."
“Yes, yes!”
"What are you couple doing?"
Song Yunping smiled and said, "This is not a new house, and the family is also short of things. Dongbao and I bought some things and sent them to my mother!"
"Look, now that such a filial wife has been married, Dongbao is so capable, and he has built a new house for your mother, which makes our brothers envious to death."
Another old man also said, "Dongbao, you gave money before but said that you would turn the farmers in our Lei family into workers. In the future, there will be pensions. Is this true?"
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "Of course it's true, and you don't have to envy us for building a new house. The development of Xiao Lei's family will get better and better in the future. Then, it will be done in one step, so that every family can live in a small building, upstairs, downstairs, lights and telephones."
"It would be great if this could be done, but when will it be possible? You can't wait for all of us old people to kick our legs, can't see it?"
Zhao Shucheng looked at the people who were looking forward to it and said, "Don't worry, you can see it in a few years!"
"That's good, let's wait!"
At this time, Song Yunping looked at Lei Shigen here from a distance and said, "Dongbao, do you see if Shigen has something to look for you?"
Zhao Shucheng looked at the sad face of Lei Shigen, said to the old people, then walked to Lei Shigen, and said, "Shigen, what's going on?"
Lei Shigen hesitated for a moment and said, "Dongbao, it's still a brick kiln. The brick kilns in other villages have been produced for a while now, but their prices have not increased, and they are still two cents lower than ours."
After hearing this, Zhao Shucheng looked at Lei Shigen and said, "Did you tell the old branch secretary about this?"
"Sayed!"
"What did the old uncle say?"
"He said let me ask you what to do."
Zhao Shucheng thought for a while and said, "What about you? What do you think?"
Lesgen said: "I have been in the accounting these days. After the income and expenditure of this brick factory is offset, it will be a profit of a thousand yuan. If we also lower the price, it can last for a month at most. If the price continues to be reduced, it will require a team subsidy, and it is not even a small amount of money. A thousand yuan a month, or even a few thousand yuan is possible."
"What do you think?"
Lei Shigen hesitated for a moment and said, "If we keep fighting a price war, we can indeed kill the brick kilns in other villages, but the reputation of the Xiao Lei family will be ruined. What's more important is that we won't deserve the loss. I think the most important thing is to increase revenue and reduce expenditure."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, Shigen, you have made progress, but it's not enough. In fact, the bricks we produce now are solid bricks. Have you ever known that there is still a kind of hollow brick now?"
Lei Shigen shook his head blankly and said, "I really don't know this, and there seems to be no such thing in our county."
Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "It's true that there is no one. Let's go to the brick kiln with you. In fact, there is very little difference between this hollow brick and solid brick."
When Lei Shigen saw the hollow brick made by Zhao Shucheng with a wooden stick, his eyes lit up and he said:
"Secretary Dongbao, this hollow brick is really good. I think it can save a lot of embryo materials, so that our cost will be much lower than other brick kilns, so we are not afraid of price wars."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "In fact, the benefits of hollow bricks are not only that. They are light in weight, and they are also better at moisture-proof, heat-insulating and sound-insulating than solid bricks. However, their earthquake resistance is slightly worse, so hollow bricks cannot be used for load-bearing walls, but as fillers or unimportant walls, there is no problem at all."
Zhao Shucheng actually wanted to develop a hollow brick project for a long time, but he didn't feel in a hurry before, but now it's a good time to start. Moreover, hollow bricks are different from solid bricks. They only use clay and require oil shale. As long as confidentiality is done, in a short time, Xiaolei's brick kiln will have no competitors of the same type.
However, when Zhao Shucheng told Lei Shigen that he wanted to sell at a lower price, the young man in the village became a little anxious.
"Secretary Dongbao, can we not reduce the price? My matchmaker just told me last month that I just saw that I work in a brick kiln factory and had my monthly income. Last month, I got thirty yuan in salary. If I can't get so much after the brick kiln price is reduced, what should I do? Then people think I'm lying and not following me anymore. I'm twenty-eight years old and finally found my wife."
As soon as this was said, others complained in a verbal way, and some even claimed that if the salary was lowered or the brick kiln was shut down, their wives would divorce him.
Zhao Shucheng waited for them to finish and then smiled and said, "Okay, so much nonsense. Do you think I am the kind of person who lets you work for free and don't pay? Before, the bamboo weaving factory in our village had no income, and the brigade subsidized them. Do you think the brigade will watch you suffer?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Price war is not the purpose. If we really want to fight a price war, our Xiao Lei family has never been afraid of anyone. Our brick and tile factory can not make a penny, and even lose money to make the brick and brick factories run. What dares other brick factories do this?"
Seeing that the expressions of others looked much better, Zhao Shucheng continued: "Everyone put their hearts in their stomachs, and the brick factory continues to operate at full capacity. You don't have to worry about other things, just do a good job in production and get a salary."
"Shigen, I'll ask Xiaohui back and learn from the university's architecture department and prepare to develop our new products."
Lei Shigen was still worried at first. He just looked at the model made by Zhao Shucheng. What if it failed to produce it? Now when Zhao Shucheng said this, he felt relieved.
After Zhao Shucheng comforted the brick factory workers, he returned to the brigade headquarters and called Song Yunhui.
Song Yunhui was a little surprised after receiving the call. After all, Song Yuping often wrote letters to her before, but she had never called her.
"Brother-in-law, are you looking for me?"
Zhao Shucheng said: "Yes, Xiaohui, I have something to do with you. Now the brick factories of Xiao Lei family are facing competition and are suppressing prices with each other. Although the Xiao Lei family is not afraid of price wars, it is not a solution to continue like this."
"I thought about how to sell bricks cheaper and make money. The best way is to reduce the cost. I heard that there is a hollow brick technology, but we don't know how to produce them."
"I think you are a famous university in the province, and the Department of Architecture must understand the situation, so I want you to ask the Department of Architecture that the technology of hollow bricks. You can write a letter or call me to tell me."
When Song Yunhui heard this, he was very happy to help Zhao Shucheng, so he agreed happily. After hanging up the phone, he ran to the Architecture Department and asked the teacher of the Architecture Department about the production process of hollow bricks and the required materials. He was afraid that he couldn't explain it clearly on the phone, so he wrote a letter to tell Zhao Shucheng.
The problem with the brick kiln was solved, but the cement prefabricated board encountered another problem. After all, reforms have just begun in this era, and the planned economy is still implemented. The cement and steel bars required for the prefabricated board are still produced according to the plan by the factory, and it is difficult to obtain the planned materials.
The prefabricated board raw materials in the Xiao Lei family were indeed supplied by the county, but they just met the needs of the Xiao Lei family construction team. However, now seeing that the Xiao Lei family construction team is so good, there are so many people who are jealous, they naturally start to stumbling.
Therefore, Xiao Lei’s prefabricated plate factory wanted to expand its production scale, but due to the raw materials, the pace of development was restricted, and even the raw materials that could have been supplied began to be restricted.
Zhao Shucheng went to the county town with Sibao to find County Mayor Xu, hoping to help solve this problem.
County Magistrate Xu scratched his head when he heard this. Although he hoped to help Xiao Lei's family, the materials under the plan were not given to anyone he said he would give them to.
County Mayor Xu said: "Dongbao, I didn't expect that the Xiaolei family is developing so well now. You are indeed helping the county to create foreign exchange, but the tight materials such as cement and steel bars are not given to anyone. But you must understand that no matter how well your Xiaolei family develops, it is difficult for the county to provide you with too much help."
"Why, we are also doing this for development. You can praise it a few words, right?"
County Magistrate Xu said: "Xiao Lei's family has gone too fast. When the ten thousand households in our county are still a small number of ten thousand households, your Xiao Lei's family has already had ten thousand households per capita. You divide the fields to households, build kilns and burn bricks, build fish ponds, and even now develop farms, bamboo weaving factories, and prefabricated plate factories. You have caused a lot of debate outside, and there are a lot of debates."
Zhao Shucheng smiled and said, "County Magistrate Xu, are there some people who are jealous of our Xiao Lei family now, so they are going to get stuck in our necks?"
County Magistrate Xu was silent for a while, looked at Zhao Shucheng, and said, "So your Xiao Lei family should cause less trouble, not cause trouble, talk less and do more, and should bury their heads and work hard to develop. This is the best way that your Xiao Lei family can take at present."
Zhao Shucheng was speechless when he heard this. He originally thought that after he had built a bamboo weaving factory to create foreign exchange for the county, he could help withstand the ups and downs outside, but now it seems that it is not enough.
In fact, Zhao Shucheng quickly figured it out that although this foreign exchange investment is beneficial to the county, most of the benefits are from the county magistrate and the Finance Bureau, but other departments have not received enough benefits. Moreover, there are many conservative people in this era, so they naturally don’t like the appearance of the Xiao Lei family.
"County Magistrate Xu, don't worry, the Xiao Lei family will not be defeated by this difficulty. We will not sit still and wait for death. Instead, we will go to the next level and let those who don't like it know that the wave of the times is not something they can do to be a car."
When County Magistrate Xu heard Zhao Shucheng say this, he nodded and said, "Okay, we must stick to the development path of the Xiao Lei family and firmly believe in the path we are taking. I hope your Xiao Lei family will develop higher. Lei Dongbao, do you dare to agree to me?"
Zhao Shucheng nodded and said, "Of course I dare, don't worry, our Xiao Lei family is willing to try all the ways to get rich and walk out of their own path."
After returning from the county town, when the brigade headquarters held a meeting, the others were suddenly panicked when they heard that the county could not provide support.
Especially when Sibao went to the county to purchase goods again, he was directly rejected by the sales department, saying that Xiao Lei's family had no indicators and could not provide steel and cement.
Sibao still had a glimmer of hope, hoping that the county could give indicators, but was rejected, saying that Xiao Lei's family was a brigade enterprise, with no indicators and no approval from the superior competent department, so the steel bars and cement cannot be provided.
He was a little unwilling to do so, and ran to the market again, but the same was true. He still couldn't give it without indicators.
When Zhao Shucheng saw them dejected, he said with a grudge: "Look at you like this, you will knock you down with a little difficulty? We didn't have the support of the county before, so we also came through like this? As the saying goes, relying on the mountains and mountains to fall, relying on the trees and running by everyone, only we ourselves are the most reliable."
In fact, Zhao Shucheng did not expect that the approval of the letter has already happened now, and it has begun to occur in the county. In fact, Zhao Shucheng has some understanding of this. In this case, various raw materials are scarce and consumption is high, and the goods can no longer meet the people's growing material and cultural needs, so it presents a seller's market.
Many people with backgrounds find that they can make a lot of money without having to work hard, which is to make a lot of money. In this regard, they have a natural advantage and understand more about procedures and approvals than others.
When the planned economic transformation is transformed, those companies that had to rely on the state for their own income began to find food on their own, and the raw materials became scarce supplies. Naturally, whoever can get the right raw materials will get rich, and they will get 100% rich. As long as they are taken out, someone will buy them, and they will still rush to buy them.
Chapter completed!