In addition to the loss of one life and some basic tools in Wangshawan during this heavy rain, there was no other damage. However, the pond for planting saplings jointly built by Shige Village and Wangshawan was washed away, and the 2,000 beheaded willows planted there were washed away. The branches were also washed away. If you want to plant in the second year, you will have to buy saplings elsewhere.
After several days of meetings and discussions in the village, it was finally decided:
1. Wang Cheng died for the cause of the village. From now on, his salary will be calculated as one-third of the labor force and will be distributed uniformly by the village until the death of his mother. Wang Cheng's mother is a five-guarantee household and is supported by the village in accordance with the standards of a five-guarantee household;
2. As a pillar industry in the village, the sand washing plant will continue to operate, but personnel will evacuate immediately when it rains;
3. Wang Shan, the person in charge of the sand washing plant, left his post without authorization and was recorded a major demerit. He will make amends and continue to be responsible for the operation of the sand washing plant.
This was proposed by the old village chief in order to silence everyone, and it was also a kind of protection for Wang Shan. In fact, facing that situation, even Wang Shan would be at a loss.
If it were handled this way, Wang Shan would not have the same convenient conditions to go to the countryside as before, but Yang Liufang and the others would still have to do their retail business, and at least they would have to provide Hongtu Village with labor protection supplies on schedule. Yang Liufang thought twice and planned to discuss with Li Tongfu to buy a truck. Firstly, it is needed for delivery, and secondly, it is indispensable for the factory. Besides, in July and August, when the weather is hot, it is not the time to collect leather.
One day, when the head of Shitou village came back from taking Li Tongfu to the countryside, Yang Liufang stopped what he was doing and said, "Brother, let's buy a truck ourselves. It will be used sooner or later anyway, and Wang Shan can't get out. The head of Shitou village has to ensure that the factory is safe every day. The villagers here use water, and you are not familiar with the place, so you can't drive a carriage to the countryside."
"It's okay to buy a car, and we have enough savings, but the tannery will have to be postponed."
"I've thought about it. It shouldn't have much impact. It's hot and it's not the season for harvesting leather. We can wait until October to prepare for the factory."
"OK."
"Brother, it's settled. You should seize the time to deal with our existing goods. Then learn to drive with Zhang Feng as soon as possible. Try to learn it as soon as possible."
Within a week, Li Tongfu went to Xizhou to learn how to drive from Zhang Feng. Yang Liufang and his workers continue to work on furniture production in the factory every day. In addition to some antique furniture, there are also several sets of sofas. Day after day, a month later, Li Tongfu was able to drive on the road by himself. But when it came time to buy a car, it became a big problem.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, with the deepening of reform and opening up, although the State Council, the Ministry of Transport and others repeatedly issued orders to allow self-employed individuals to enter the transportation market, and individuals could buy cars to undertake the transportation of goods, this was only a liberalization of the policy. At that time, supplies were still scarce, and the production capacity of large-scale transportation vehicles such as trucks had not increased correspondingly with the improvement of people's living standards, so supply was always in short supply.
In addition, with the deepening of reform and opening up, a chess game has formed across the country, with large quantities of goods being circulated throughout the country. Compared with railways, truck transportation has the characteristics of greater flexibility, mobility, and good service attitude. State-owned transportation units alone are basically unable to achieve this goal. Unable to undertake the transportation of corresponding goods. Therefore, truck driving became the most popular profession at that time, which further exacerbated the difficulty of buying a car.
Zhang Feng bought a car last year because the country had policies to take care of veterans. He still asked many people to help him, and finally bought the car after it was affiliated with the tertiary industry affiliated to the army.
Zhang Feng also tried to go to the unit he was affiliated with. Unexpectedly, he heard that the unit had nothing to do with the army and only received 30% of the management fee, so he could only stay away. I also asked Qin Jiajun and the market bosses Chen and Zhou for help, but there was no news. Just when the two were at a loss and about to give up, Yang Liufang thought of Secretary Lu in his hometown and wondered if he could try it through him.
"Brother, if that doesn't work, let's go to the countryside to find Secretary Lu and see if he can do anything."
"That's fine. Anyway, we've found all the people we should look for now, so we're just going to treat the dead horse as a living horse."
The two came to Hanwangchuan Township and first went to the office director of the Education Committee who had business dealings with Li Tongfu. They talked about buying a car and hoped to ask him to help contact Secretary Lu of the township to see if there was any way to buy a car. The director of the township education committee was too junior, but due to business reasons, he went to find the leader of the education committee. The leader of the education committee tried to contact the township and made an appointment to go to the township to meet Secretary Lu the next day.
When they arrived at the township government, Secretary Lu warmly received them.
"Secretary Lu, you see, I keep causing you trouble."
"It's okay, it's our duty to serve you."
"Why do I hear that I'm having trouble buying a car?"
"Yes." So Yang Liufang and Li Tongfu said one by one, and the other supplemented, telling them one by one about the development of their factory, the inconvenience of hiring a car back and forth, and the difficulties they encountered when buying a car. After listening to the narrative, Secretary Lu immediately called the person in charge of the township traffic control department and asked how to handle this situation.
"Secretary Lu, they can temporarily be affiliated with the Township Transportation Management Office, but they have to pay 10% of the management fee."
"What standard is 10% based on?"
"The existing ones are all based on this."
"Can you accept it?"
"Since everyone is the same, we can't do anything special." So after several twists and turns, it was decided to be affiliated with the Township Transportation Management Office. After issuing relevant certificates in the countryside, Li Tongfu, led by Zhang Feng, went to the truck manufacturing plant to pick up the truck. At that time, there was no concept of 4S stores. To buy a car, you could only go to the manufacturer and pick up the car yourself, and you couldn’t even think about after-sales service.
It was convenient to have trucks delivering goods to the furniture factory and going back and forth to the city, but the cost of doing small business in the countryside was not affordable. Sometimes there was not enough gas money to go out for a day, so the needlework and thread business gradually stopped.
In addition to delivering goods to furniture factories and completing the delivery of labor protection supplies to regular customers, Li Tongfu also occasionally followed Zhang Feng on freight runs in Xizhou. In this way, it was no problem to maintain a car, but it was difficult to make a lot of money. So I came up with the idea of a tannery factory.
The construction of a tannery factory cannot be separated from water, so the location cannot be chosen in Shige Village, which is short of water, like the furniture factory. It can only be located near Zhaomagou. However, considering that the battlefield was flooded last time, everyone is still There is lingering fear in my heart. Therefore, it is not a good choice to locate a tannery factory near a sand washing ground. There might be another heavy rain at any time, and the factory buildings and leather cannot grow long. Then it will be too late to move, and the losses will be heavy.
After choosing and choosing, they chose the small courtyard that Yang Liufang had used in Zhaomacuan. The two drove to Zhaomacuan and talked with the village chief Zhao.
"Sou (Uncle), our brothers want to rent the original small courtyard to start a leather business."
"Raw hide or cooked hide?"
“We want to process the hides ourselves.”
"This is a bit difficult to handle. Do you have any ideas on how to discharge the wastewater from leather washing?"
"Not yet, we may have to go to Zhaomagou eventually."
I can't agree to this for the time being. Let's hold a meeting in the village to discuss it.
Two days later, the two went to the village again to ask for a reply. Village Chief Zhao told them that after everyone held a meeting and discussed it, they decided that the water used to wash leather was always too dirty when discharged. Although it was eventually discharged into Zhaomagou, the water coming out of the village was A section of it will still cause pollution to the village. So they both disagreed, so they had to give up.
I also inspected several surrounding villages. They were either too far away from the water source, or the transportation was inconvenient. Some of them couldn't even drive in. And except for selling goods and dealing with goods, it is basically a state of unfamiliarity with the place.
At this time, Yang Liufang felt that the development of everything seemed to have entered some kind of bottleneck. It was not like when he first came to Xizhou. Although it was very hard, life was different every day. Through hard work and opportunities, there was always something ahead. Full of hope. Now, although the furniture factory's projects have continued and the delivery of goods has never stopped, this kind of unchangingness has gradually made him lose interest.
He wanted to find a new outlet to break this bottleneck and let life present itself in another way.
