Infrastructure masters in the red building

After Village Chief Tao finished speaking, the entire meeting room fell silent, and all eyes were focused on Jia Fang's face, some were very excited and some were quite puzzled.

——Is it all right to ask the gods?

But in Taoyuan Village, almost everyone believed that gods existed, and in their eyes, Jia was almost the spokesperson of the gods.

There are several memories of gods in Taoyuan Village.The villagers of Taoyuan Village still have vivid memories of the time when they sent the stored grain in their village to worship the gods. The cartloads of grain were transported into the Xianliang Temple, and when they opened the door, the grain disappeared. , The gods collected all the food offered to the gods.

But worshiping the gods is also beneficial. When Taoyuan Village faced bandits, the gods also bestowed excellent weapons and equipment through the Xianliang Temple, which greatly boosted the morale of the villagers.

There is another incident, it is not clear whether it must be related to the gods, and that is the fall of the "Wangwu" and "Taihang".At that time, the two mountains collapsed, not to mention opening up the road from Taoyuan to Wuyuan, and brought a large amount of limestone resources to the cement factory in Taoyuanzhai.

Therefore, the villagers in Taoyuanzhai did not regard the landslide as a disaster, but as Jia Fang said, the Wangwu and Taihang were overthrown by the wrestlers.

At this moment, Village Chief Tao brought up this issue, and everyone looked at Jia Fang together: "Master Jia, this matter...do I have to ask you to ask the gods?"

Jia Fang: Er...

Of course, some people wondered whether the gods really existed in this world, so they further asked Jia Fang: "Is it true that the gods can help us?"

Jia Fang: What should he say?

When he just discovered the ground whip and Taoyuan Village before, he was ignorant, and the villagers were also ignorant -- but now it's different, the people sitting in this office, except for Village Chief Tao and a few other old people, are all the new generation Promoted young grassroots staff.Most of them received basic education and passed the elementary cultural examination.Many of them did not stop there, but went on to receive advanced studies at Xiaoxiang Academy.

Lao Shao, Zhang Youshi, and Gui Xiaxue who were present were the best of the three.

In other words, the group of people in front of them are a new generation of laborers who grew up under materialistic education conditions, but now someone tells them: Don’t panic when encountering difficulties, we have gods.

Jia Fang himself is also extremely contradictory. He has received modern materialist education since he was a child, and he has erected a scientific outlook on the world and development—if he hadn’t come to this world because of a scroll, he would not have believed that such A kind of "traversal" of this supernatural phenomenon.

But what to do now, should we tell the villagers that we don't need to work hard to develop, just lie down and wait for the blessing of the gods?

Of course not——Jia Fang pondered for a moment, raised his head, looked at everyone solemnly, and said, "I'm sorry, everyone. About the Xianliang Temple, I have something to hide from you."

"The transmission between Taoyuan Village and Xianliang Temple is not the heaven where the gods are. It is a certain place in the capital."

All the people present were stunned. There was silence in the big conference room, and for a while, the sounds of chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and people coming and going outside the conference room could be clearly heard.

Among the whole audience, only Lao Shao opened his mouth wide and wanted to speak for a while but couldn't.Jia Fang looked at him and nodded: "Yes, Lao Shao, that's where I picked you up back then."

Back then, because of the "Jinyindao" case, Lao Shao's reputation was ruined and he was wanted by the government.Jia Fang knew that he made the sacrifice to save the people, so he rescued him and brought him to Taoyuan Village.From then on, Lao Shao took root here and created a unique agronomy.

At this time, Jia Fang mentioned that the Xianliang Temple is the passage between the capital and Taoyuan Village. Lao Shao remembered the old things and suddenly realized.

"The food you used to 'sacrifice to the gods' was actually transported into Beijing to relieve the refugees who left their homes due to the drought in the north." Jia Fang said.

Old Shao nodded silently.The original story was much more complicated than what Jia Fang briefly described, but it was roughly the same.

"Master Jia, then... the armor and armor given to us by the gods are actually you..." Suddenly someone realized something.

Jia Fang nodded slightly, and said: "It was a gift from a friend of mine who heard that Taoyuan was in danger in Beijing and sent it overnight."

All the people present looked at each other in surprise, but they all felt that the explanation given by Jia Fang was acceptable.

The [-] stone grains that Taoyuan Village contributed back then, although said to have come from Taoyuan Village, were nominally Jia Fang's property.It is beyond reproach that he sent it to Beijing for rescue and disaster relief; and Taoyuan Village is also Jia Fang's territory. In order to protect it from the attacks and infringements of bandits, Jia Fang brought in weapons and equipment as it should.

And the "Taihang" and "Wangwu" were not transported away by strong men like the myth of Yugong Yishan, but collapsed on the spot, which can be fully explained-geological reasons.

But Jia Fang's unreserved frankness here made the staff of Taoyuanzhai realize the fact that they had not worshiped gods before, and no gods would specially help them.

"Mr. Jia, but this channel, can you tell us the reason?" Among the crowd, Gui Xiaxue was the only one, staring at Jia Fang, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

Jia Fang hesitated for a moment, then said: "Based on what I have learned, there is no way to fully explain this phenomenon. But according to my experience, it should be that there is a special force field here, under the action of this force field , resulting in space folding.”

What Jia Fang said, more than half of the people present could not understand.Only Gui Xiaxue gave a "wow" and said, "It's really so amazing? I just studied the magnetic force field, but I didn't expect such a magical phenomenon to appear."

Jia Fang: "If you have the energy to study, I'll find books on special relativity and general relativity for you to learn."

Gui Xiaxue had never heard of this before, but he was extremely curious about all new things, so he nodded his head and said yes.

"I'm sorry, everyone. I didn't tell you the truth before. Firstly, it was because of this phenomenon of 'shrinking the ground'. The important place in Gyeonggi has a lot to do with me, so it is inconvenient to disclose it to the outside world. It is my fault for not disclosing the truth." Jia Fang solemnly apologized to those present.

But everyone shook their heads: "No, no, Mr. Jia, you don't have to explain this to us." The Xianliang Temple and the entire Taoyuan Village are owned by Jia Fang in name, and he really has no obligation to explain to everyone. these details.

But Jia Fang's current attitude makes people feel quite comfortable.

At this time, someone else asked Jia Fang: "Then, Mr. Jia, are you actually saying that there are no gods in this world?"

Jia Fang thought for a while and said, "I can't say that." The fact of time travel made it impossible for him to categorically deny this possibility, and he also couldn't explain the scroll.

"But I can assure you that Taoyuan Village can become what it is today, not because the gods helped you do it, but because you did it yourself." Jia Fang said.

As soon as he finished speaking, all the faces in front of him were shocked.

Indeed, with the help of the gods secretly, it is easy to see at a glance which one is more fulfilling than what they achieved with their own efforts.

"What I want to say is, whether there are gods or not, we still have to do what we should do," Jia Fang shrugged. "We can't just lie down and wait for the gods to help us, can we?"

"Going back to the topic just now, even if it takes many, many years, we still have to do what we should do."

Village head Tao, who made the suggestion early in the morning, now looked at Jia Fang with a smile on his face and said, "I'm just waiting for Mr. Jia's words!" the truth".

What a grinning old fox - Jia Fang couldn't help thinking.

"According to everyone's discussion just now, I suggest that we follow the steps discussed earlier to explore the possibility of expanding water transportation for Taoyuan Village. In the watershed below Qingfang Lake, explore the possibility of deepening the river, widening the watershed, and building a wharf. After all We can't just think about transporting steel into the stockade, we also have to consider that we have many products that can be further exported."

After the meeting, Jia Fang went to inspect several properties in Taoyuanzhai, especially the textile factory and cement factory in which he had shares.

He came to inspect the industry, one is to fulfill the obligations of shareholders, and discuss the development plan with other shareholders; affected the local ecological environment.

It turned out to be fine.

Ordinarily, textiles are enterprises that are prone to pollution. Bleaching, dyeing and washing of weaving materials may affect water quality.Unexpectedly, "Jinhua" uses special channels for drainage, and drains the used river water into special cement pools. After waiting for natural clarification, the clear water will be drained away. The polluted sewage continues to be exposed to the sun and evaporated in a special small pond, and finally forms a solid before being dug out for landfill.

"Of course the water can't be drained randomly. There are fish and shrimps raised in Qingfang Lake down below. The fish are nothing more than those big white shrimps. If we put a little bit of sewage down there, wouldn't those shrimp farmers be anxious with us? ?”

This is the simple and natural environmental protection concept of the villagers. After all, we are all in the village, and we should not let other people's livelihood be ruined because of our own business.

Besides, after the "Jinhua" repaired the new spinning and looms, the production efficiency was further improved, and the profit margin left was enough to support them to hire people to deal with the sewage.

And the satellite town "Qingfang City" where "Jinhua" is located is already full of people working in "Jinhua" and "Hongxiang".

"Red Fragrant Sugar Factory" is okay, it is seasonal.Tian Youming and his son built some staff dormitories in advance, recruited a large number of workers during the busy season, and rented out these dormitories in their spare time.

And "Jinhua" is a year-round business.The accommodation that can be found in the Qingfang River area is basically full, and the extra people have no place to live, so they can only rent houses from fellow villagers in Taoyuan Village.

Now the population of the entire Taoyuan Village has increased from 5000 when the Yujiang new villagers first moved in to about 6000, including the natural breeding population, the population who married into Taoyuan Village from other places, and the temporary residents who work here. .

The elder sisters of "Jinhua" came to Jia Fang to approve the homestead, and asked to buy another two acres of land to build staff dormitories for the workers.After all, the textile factory is very short of people, the existing dormitories are full, and the factory can only be opened to [-]% to [-]% of its production capacity.

Jia Fang appreciated their consideration for the employees, thinking that in this way, there would be less chances of conflicts between labor and capital.

However, homesteads cannot be approved casually, and the land used by enterprises cannot be compared with the homesteads received by residents who originally lived in Taoyuanzhai.

Therefore, Jia Fang received a land transfer fee from "Jinhua", and made strict requirements: before using the land to build a dormitory, "two connections and two advances" must be achieved. The "two connections" are water and biogas, " "Two advances" refer to the pre-construction of sanitation facilities and the pre-laying of various sewage and sewage treatment pipelines.

After these four points are fulfilled, "Jinhua" can start to build staff dormitories for the workers.

In addition, if "Jinhua" wants to continue to occupy and expand the land on this basis in the future, the land transfer fee will be doubled.

The women of "Jinhua" must have some complaints about this, but they can't complain directly to Jia Fang - because Jia Fang himself is also a shareholder of "Jinhua", and if they spend more, Jia Fang himself There will be less profit.If it wasn't for the overall situation of Taoyuan Village, Jia Fang would not have acted like this.

"Master Jia, are you really incapable of being accommodating?" A woman asked half-complainingly.

Jia Fang smiled and shook his head: "I can't—"

"Then our factory is almost on this scale." The women couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Jia Fang smiled and said, "I think this scale is pretty good." The fabrics produced by Jinhua Textile Factory can already supply the markets in Taoyuan and Wuyuan.If this expansion continues, the fabric market in the entire Yong'an Prefecture will be monopolized by "Jinhua".

But Jia Fang thinks that "Jinhua" is not suitable for further expansion.Using the water spinning and weaving of Qingfang River, "Jinhua" makes quite a lot of noise every day.Although this kind of noise is also a manifestation of "prosperity", it still has some impact on the lives of the surrounding residents. Even Misandao's bee farm had to be relocated farther away-bees don't like noise, Gather honey as far away as possible.

Jia Fang feels that it is almost the same, as long as the light industry can meet local needs, there is no need to expand.

Originally, he positioned Taoyuanzhai not as a modern industrial city, but as a natural economy that developed modern agriculture, planting and breeding simultaneously, and developed small light industries to a certain extent.

To put it bluntly, he still hopes that Taoyuan Village will be a paradise as its name suggests.

"But..." The women of Jinhua seem to be more ambitious than their men, and they said to Jia Fang, "Master Jia, you know that we can make a few more looms and produce more cloth every day, you Why..."

Jia Fang said sternly: "Every place has an upper limit on the carrying capacity of a certain industry. I thought it would be enough for everyone to use the existing production capacity. If we expand the 'Jinhua', it will crowd out others. resources. The more resources you occupy, the greater the price you should pay.”

The women immediately lowered their heads resentfully—that's right, after all, this village belongs to everyone, and they are the only ones who are busy making money if they don't like it.

But Jia Fang gently persuaded: "Have you ever thought about investing in other places to set up factories?"

"In other places..." The women opened their mouths wide open, they really didn't expect Jia Fang to propose such a suggestion to them.

"Just like I did at the beginning, I will give you space and textile machines, and use this as a dry stock. After the factory is built, you only need to sit and collect dividends every year."

"In the future, the name 'Jinhua' will probably be known throughout Yong'an Prefecture. Here is the 'Jinhua No. [-] Factory', and there is a 'Jinhua No. [-] Factory'..." Jia Fang eloquently painted a beautiful picture for the women.

The women looked at each other awkwardly, they hadn't thought so far before.But what Jia Fang said did provide them with ideas.Since the cost of expanding in Taoyuan Village is getting higher and higher, why not engage in technology export and transfer this machine textile equipment and technology to other villages to support more people?

"However, we have this hydraulic loom because we are next to the Qingfang River..."

Jia Fang comforted them: "The terrain in the southern mountainous area is undulating, and the water resources are abundant. As long as you search patiently, you will definitely find many suitable addresses for setting up factories."

"To be honest, I also hope that your factory will go out, so that I will also buy a share, and I will just sit at home and count the negotiable certificates in the future."