March 5, 1987, was an important day for Yangliufang and even the entire Hanwangchuan area. The business license of Yangliufang's Liufang Woodware Processing Factory has been approved. This is also the first private factory in the Hanwangchuan area to be registered with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau. This was just before December 11, 1980. Zhang Hamei, a fellow Wenzhou resident, obtained the approval from the Industrial and Commercial Department. It has been 7 years and 3 months since I received my first individual industrial and commercial business license. This spring breeze of reform and opening up has finally spread to every corner of China.
Yang Liufang looked over and over at this piece of paper covered with dark lines and covered with the seal of the Xizhou City Administration for Industry and Commerce, and felt infinite emotions in his heart. Although he is not yet eighteen years old, the name listed above is his elder brother Li Tongfu, and the registered address is Shige Village, Hanwangchuan Township, Xizhou City, where there is only two acres of land designated by the village chief Shitou through various parties. Industrial construction land. But this does not affect its protection by the national industrial and commercial department, and precisely because it has this piece of paper, it can also undertake projects from government enterprises and other related institutions.
The day after he obtained the business license, Yang Liufang took the drawings of desks and chairs he had drawn overnight and called Li Tongfu, the legal person on the business license, to the Hanwang Chuanxiang Education Committee and signed a contract with him for 450 sets of desks and chairs. Customized contract for desks and chairs for Hanwangchuan Middle School. Each set of desks and chairs was 60 yuan. According to the contract, 50% was paid in advance. Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu went to the tax department non-stop to issue an invoice of 13,500 yuan and handed it over to the township education committee. Under the personal supervision of the township leader Lu , the first payment arrived three days later.
When Yang Liufang received the payment, the first thing he did was to ask Wang Shan to take him and two powerful workers to the countryside to buy trees. At this time, the head of Shitou Village and the villagers had developed a 3-kilometer loess road by carrying on their shoulders and hands, and the villagers were very energetic. Chinese people are diligent at heart, especially when a better life is just around the corner. Suffering and tiredness are just a small episode in life.
When the first batch of timber arrived in Shige Village, the villagers spontaneously took turns keeping vigil to help Yang Liufang look at the site. Yang Liufang thought that this was not a long-term solution after all, so he asked Wang Shan and Li Tongfu to buy some red bricks when they went to Hongtu Village to deliver goods, hoping to build a courtyard wall.
The village chief of Hongtu Village had a set of furniture custom-made by them. When he heard that they were opening a factory to build a yard, he enthusiastically helped with suggestions. It is said that if it is just a factory building, there is no need to build a large number of red bricks at all. There are some burned red bricks in the brick factory, which they can take away and use at cost price, and the roof and walls can be completely replaced with asbestos tiles, which saves money. It saves money on labor and can be put into production quickly.
Li Tongfu told Yang Liufang the good news he heard, and Yang Liufang was also very excited. Not only could the factory be built quickly, but it also saved a lot of money. He immediately decided to let Li Tongfu go to Xizhou to find Zhang Feng to purchase asbestos tiles. As for the quantity, he would first bring back 100 yuan. After the asbestos tiles arrived in Shige Village, the villagers rushed to help unload the goods regardless of the hard work of road construction, especially Those porters who participated in the rotation in Zhaomacuan worked even harder.
Since Yang Liufang had to make furniture in Zhao Machuan's existing wood workshop, he could not keep an eye on the new factory, so he had to entrust the village chief Shitou to help lead people to speed up the construction of the factory. He drew a rough picture of the factory. The layout includes men's and women's bathrooms, canteen, spray paint room, finished product warehouse and raw material warehouse, as well as their sleeping areas. Except for the sleeping area, which is built with red bricks, all other areas are built with red brick foundations and asbestos tile walls and roofs.
After the village chief Shitou received the drawings, he divided the labor involved in road construction into two parts. One part continued to build the road, and the other part followed him to build the factory. They tied the stone rollers from the village's wheat field to two willow poles, and several people took turns to lift them up and tamp them, tamping the foundation. They used the cement that Zhang Feng and the others brought from Xizhou City and the cement that Wangshawan got for free. Sand, mix it up. Using discarded red bricks bought from Hongtu Village, a 20-centimeter-high wall was built on the ground, leaving a 5-centimeter gap in the middle. After solidification, the asbestos tiles were erected and stuffed into the gap. A 2-meter-high wall was The wall was quickly erected.
The road has not yet been repaired, but the wall masonry of the factory building has been completed. It was just the purlins on the ridge that gave them a problem. Due to space requirements, the use of ridge purlins was different from the usual willow trees used for furniture, which were only two or three meters long. Instead, they needed to use straighter trees that were five, six or even more than ten meters long. . Village Chief Shitou also went to various villages to purchase. Either it was inappropriate, or he raised the selling price out of jealousy, or simply did not sell it.
There was no choice but to go to Zhaomacuan and Yang Liufang to discuss it. He wanted to sell the two big poplar trees at the entrance of his village, but he felt embarrassed. After all, he had won the factory by himself and should provide the maximum price. of convenience. But the villagers couldn't explain it without taking the money. Yang Liufang felt relieved after hearing this.
"Brother Shitou, we have to settle the accounts with our own brothers. What's more, it's public property. Since it can be settled, you can just ask for payment based on the market price."
"Oh, we'll do it when we get back."
"You pull the machine saw back, wait until the wood is felled, and then use the saw to cut it to avoid waste."
"You're still thoughtful."
Yang Liufang used a machine saw to cut down enough materials for one day, and asked workers to carry the machine saw and load it onto the donkey cart of the village chief Shitou.
Within two days after the village chief Shitou returned, he completed the work of felling the tree, and cut the trunk of the tree into four purlins. The branches were also cut out with the materials of one and two purlins respectively. As for the branches, they were all cut. rafter. Half a month later, a red brick foundation, gray asbestos tile walls and the factory building on top were built.
Yang Liufang asked Zhang Feng to pull away the equipment and materials from Zhao Machuan's woodworking room three times. He said goodbye to Village Chief Zhao at the end. Looking at the village where he grew up under his protection, Yang Liufang felt extremely emotional. Man, you may not know where you will find the help to become a successful person in this life. At least Zhaomacuan, a small village with a civilization based on sand digging, was a starting point for Yang Liufang to take off.
From the Lantern Festival to the present, the villagers of Shige Village have been working voluntarily for free for their furniture factory. Yang Liufang felt sorry for it and discussed with the head of Shige Village to compensate the villagers for some expenses. The head of Shitou Village refused, saying that he wanted to provide operational support to the established enterprises on behalf of the village.
Yang Liufang couldn't help but read the report in the "People's Daily" that he had read, in which national leaders repeatedly emphasized planting trees and grass to increase the income of people in the west. Arbor Day has just passed, and the news on the radio said that national leaders have taken the lead in planting trees. He made a suggestion that he would buy a batch of willow saplings at his own expense and send them to the village, and plant them beside the newly built road out of the village. This would not only protect the roadbed from wind and sand, but also solve the problem of subsequent wood use.
After hearing this, Village Chief Shitou clapped his hands and applauded, saying, "Why are you so smart?"
"It's news from the People's Daily. I just paid more attention to it."
"Well, no matter what the news is, it is good news if it can bring income to the villagers and prevent them from poverty."
On March 20, Yang Liufang's furniture factory in Shige Village officially opened. In order to save costs, he did not hold any ceremony. Zhang Feng simply asked Zhang Feng to drive the 200 willow saplings he bought to the village headquarters. When Village Chief Shitou announced the good news on the radio, the villagers learned that they did not have to spend money to buy saplings themselves, and that the trees would grow in the future. They were all so excited that they could be sold to factories for money when they grew up. In addition to being grateful to the village chief, Shitou, for helping him attract this hen that laid golden eggs, some villagers also took out the chickens that their families were reluctant to put away during the New Year. Firecrackers went to the door of Yang Liufang's factory and set off a blast of firecrackers.
Yang Liufang asked Zhang Feng to buy more than 30 saplings and a huge plastic bucket and put them in his factory. He asked workers to plant the saplings around the factory, and asked the village chief Shitou to deliver the first bucket of water every day. factory to meet the factory's domestic water needs and tree watering purposes.
The factory recruited eight workers from Shige Village, four of whom participated in job rotations, and two spray painters and two apprentices were responsible for future furniture spraying work. The other two young workers, who are smarter and have roughly learned how to assemble mortise and tenon furniture in Zhaomacuan in the past two months, have also been given fixed jobs, with a salary of 8 yuan per person per day and paid breaks every month. one day. The workers cherish this hard-won job opportunity very much, and no one is willing to take a break, lest their position be taken away by workers who are eager to participate in the rotation.
