Siheyuan: Starting from Building a Village

After a round of toasts, Liu Guozheng and his companions left, leaving space and time to Li Xiangdong and his comrades.

After returning to the office, Liu Guozheng called the Hongqi Police Station and discussed the matter of the factory police point with Yue Zhen. Yue Zhen said that he couldn't explain it clearly over the phone and wanted to come in person to discuss it with Liu Guozheng.

But Yue Zhen didn't arrive until dinner time. He didn't ride a bike but walked here. Liu Guozheng understood that Yue Zhen was greedy again, not only for meat but also for wine.

Yue Zhen knew that the food in Xiwang New Village was much better than that in their police station.

After eating and drinking, they talked about the issue of the police point. Yue Zhen said that he could not make the decision and needed to ask for instructions.

Liu Guozheng was so angry that he wanted to beat him up.

Before leaving, this guy also took away a fish, saying it was for Liu Guozheng's future daughter-in-law.

The fact is that Yue Zhen really has a five-year-old daughter, whom she dotes on very much. Every time they meet, she says she wants to arrange a marriage for the baby with Liu Guozheng.

Liu Guozheng was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Yue Zhen had betrothed his daughter to another man early just because of his stuttering.

Besides, how old is Liu Guozheng’s son? He is just a baby less than one year old.

However, Yue Zhen argued that it was better to have an older child so that he would be more caring in the future.

After arranging for Li Xiangdong's comrades, he asked Xu Fang to drive Yue Zhen and Song Changlin home. Then it was time for him to spend time with his wife and children.

The next day, the weather was nice and it was another sunny day.

According to Liu Guozheng's arrangement, Erlang, Laosan, Li Xiangdong and others all went out to the surrounding villages and several villages in the mountains to publicize the recruitment of workers for the Hope New Village Factory.

The name of Hope New Village is well known to everyone in the surrounding villages. They would never have thought that this village, which had only been established for three years, would build a food factory.

The important thing is to recruit people from villages like theirs. This is great news.

But they know that in this area within a few miles, the people in the new village are the ones who live a real life, while they are just existing at best.

After receiving the news, the whole village gathered and held a meeting to discuss which people should go to work in the food factory. This was a big problem for their village. They could not delay the production of grain, but they had to make money at the same time. This issue needed to be studied and discussed carefully.

Someone came to the village entrance for an interview in the morning. Yes, Liu Guozheng chose the village entrance as the interview location.

Those who came for the interview in the morning were those who had received the news early and were from the villages closest to Hope New Village.

The people who maintained order were Chen Sanliang, Cao Youwei, and Cai Shitou. They just lost an arm, so there was no problem in maintaining order. Liu Guozheng had not prepared anyone to maintain order originally, because there wouldn't be too many people in the morning, but there might be more in the afternoon, after all, walking takes time.

The writing job is done by Zhang Hai and Changxiang. Their arms are intact, and they can recognize and write.

Under the strong request of the five people, Liu Guozheng had no choice but to arrange such a task for them according to their respective situations.

There were also acquaintances who came in the morning. They had come to work for a few days when the village was building houses.

However, when they heard that they needed to learn to read and write for three to five months, many people chose to leave directly, saying that they couldn't do this job. Liu Guozheng had no way to help such people.

Not everyone is like this. There are also those who are willing to learn. They wanted to learn but didn't have the opportunity before, but now someone teaches them for free, and they are provided with free meals when it is time for meals. The time is mostly in the evening, before the factory starts work, and it does not affect their work in the production team. Such a good thing is definitely not to be refused.

What’s even more outrageous is that one person directly asked whether the household registration problem could be solved and whether he could eat commercial grain. Liu Guozheng said on the spot that this was impossible.

As a result, the man turned around and left, and before leaving, he fooled away several people who came for the interview.

As for those who don't want to learn, don't ask anything, and habitually believe what others say, I have recorded them all and stated that I will not consider them if there is a chance in the future.

A group of six people who passed the initial test were taken directly to the Jingxi Mining District Hospital. They were to have an experience of hoping that a food factory would be built in the new village. For those who have diseases, especially those with infectious diseases, no matter how good you are, as long as the disease is not eradicated, I'm sorry, you will be temporarily unqualified.

If you really want to work in the food factory, then find a way to get your illness treated. It won't be too late to join the factory after you've recovered and passed the physical examination. You will need to pay for the treatment yourself. Even if Liu Guozheng has a second world, he is not here to help people without bottom line.

Song Changlin interviewed only those who could read and write. During the training, these people would skip learning to read and directly learn some technical theoretical knowledge. All they had to do was to remember these theoretical knowledge firmly before the actual operation, and wait until three months later when the technicians sent by Datang would come to train them on the job procedures.

As long as these people pass the physical examination, are willing to come to the food factory and are willing to learn, they will receive a subsidy of five yuan per month.

Of course, this requires assessment. It is not enough to say that you can read and write. They also have an assessment process, and only if you pass it can you get a pass to enter the food factory.

Those who cannot read and need to learn again do not receive any subsidies except free meals. This is also a disguised way of telling them the importance of learning.

Just like some people in later generations said, since I will be looking for a job after graduating from college, why should I go to that college and waste so much money?

In fact, what Liu Guozheng wants to say is that after going to college, you will have more choices. You can engage in mental labor as well as physical labor, which is equivalent to giving you one more chance.

In the afternoon, Yue Zhen also brought news, saying that the higher authorities agreed to set up a police post at Xiwangxincun Food Factory, but also stated that they would not add staff to his team, which meant that he could only transfer people from the Hongqi Police Station.

Seeing the arrival of the public security comrade, who was also the director of the police station, those who were a little worried at first were no longer worried at all. With the presence of the people's police, they felt more at ease.

Just as Liu Guozheng had guessed, more and more people gathered. Fortunately, they had made sufficient preparations in advance.

In this way, we kept welcoming and seeing off guests, and the day passed quickly.

By the end of the afternoon, only about fifty people had passed.

Liu Guozheng is not worried because there are not many people. There are so many people in the Jingxi mining area, so he is not worried about not being able to recruit people.