Chapter 167

The old village chief and the brigade secretary did not come. Those who came to the Jiang family were the people with the highest status in the village, including Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai.

Even ten years later, Jiang Guotai's influence even surpassed that of Mayor Jiang. He was the first person in the area to have assets exceeding 100 million yuan. When his total assets reached the highest, they reached nearly 10 billion yuan, and his connections extended all the way to the provincial level.

Jiang Ning's previous life was so successful, not only because she followed the right leader and was steadfast, but also because this cousin also made great efforts behind the scenes. However, on the surface, the two of them had no relationship at all. His connections in the province were not with her, and he was not even in her line of business.

Unfortunately, because this cousin was involved in such a major political struggle as the country's change of leadership, the downfall of his backers also implicated him. He was sentenced to ten years in prison for crimes such as bribery and provoking trouble.

Jiang Ning never visited him, but Jiang's father often visited him, brought him many books, and wrote him letters frequently.

Father Jiang sometimes called her and said that in just a few years, the hair of this uncle who used to be so high-spirited and arrogant had turned completely white.

Implicitly, he wanted Jiang Ning to help him get out earlier.

What Jiang's father didn't know was that his cousin was only sentenced to ten years in prison because of her secret help.

This was the first and only time in her career that she used her connections to secretly help someone.

Look, even she has her own selfish motives.

But just like this cousin helped her secretly but never had any contact with her, only she knew it, she helped him and no one else knew it, only this cousin knew it vaguely and kept persuading Jiang's father to be nice to Jiang Ning. No matter what Jiang Ning said, he supported her.

Only if she is well, the whole family will be well.

Jiang's father's personality is actually somewhat similar to Jiang Song's. Among the family members, he can only listen to Jiang Ning's words. He can't listen to anyone else's words. In fact, he has a kind of arrogance of a scholar in his heart. He thinks that his family members know nothing. Only Jiang Ning is better than him and speaks wisely and reasonably, so he will listen to her. But most of the time, he, like Jiang Song, can only listen to outsiders.

The difference is that Jiang's father's friends are truly wise, resourceful, and experienced in life, and they truly want the best for him, Jiang Ning, and the entire family.

However, some of Jiang Song's friends wanted to bite off a piece of meat from him, or even directly kill his drinking buddies and other evil friends who harbored evil intentions.

Also because of the advice of this cousin, even though Jiang's father wanted Jiang Ning to help Jiang Song, he always kept Jiang's mother under control. In response to Jiang Song's advice, he also advised him to please Jiang Ning and bring his grandchildren to visit Jiang Ning, hoping that Jiang Ning would be closer to his nephews and nieces and get some help from his aunt.

But with Jiang Song's temper, how could he listen to Jiang's father? He has always looked down on his two younger brothers and sisters. Even though Jiang Ning had later become successful and a very promising person in the village, Jiang Song knew this in his heart, but he just couldn't bring himself to please Jiang Ning.

He also knew that he didn't need to please others, as Jiang's father and mother would do it for him. If anything really happened to him, his parents would not ignore him, and he would always have a way out.

Jiang Ning used her actions to tell him that she would never be his escape route, and if he dared to cause trouble to her, she would be the first to kill him, or to send him to jail and increase his sentence.

It can be said that Mayor Jiang and Jiang Guotai are the group with the highest vision, the broadest knowledge, and the smartest in the entire Jiangjia Village.

Especially Mayor Jiang.

Jiang Guotai is still just a businessman, currently just a small factory manager, who has just contracted the construction of a highway and has not yet become the richest man in the neighboring city more than a decade later.

But Mayor Jiang really started from the grassroots level. He once governed a township and is now the local leader who governs a town.

He could never have imagined that Jiang Ning, who was only eighteen years old, had so many things in his mind... They were not wild ideas, but things that could be put into practice and could lead the people of his hometown to prosperity.

This is a Peking University student, this is the student who won an international gold medal, this is the Wenquxing?

It is so simple, and one thing leads to another, it is a completely feasible idea. It sounds simple, but in fact, among all of you here, it is almost impossible for anyone to think of it except Jiang Guotai. Even Jiang Guotai is limited by his knowledge and experience. His thinking and ruthlessness are all used to deal with the government, such as snatching projects and land from opponents and expanding his own business empire.

Not to mention that Mayor Jiang was looking at Jiang Ning in shock, wasn't Jiang Guotai also shocked?

Jiang Guotai had never thought of this before, but his knowledge and experience limited his thinking. He had never thought about it in this regard. He even thought, like many people, that the only way to make his hometown rich was to build the Shahe Bridge and connect the two sides.

He believed that the way out for the entire village lay outside, so he had been working hard outside over the years. He bought a house in the town early on, and then bought a house in a neighboring city and settled there.

I never expected that I would come back to build my hometown.

It's not that he had not thought about coming back to build his hometown, but that was more than ten years later. Even when he fell, no matter how many crimes he was charged with, the entire Linhe Brigade, including the people of the neighboring Shijian Township, had nothing but praise and gratitude when they spoke of him.

Because the cement road in their hometown was built by him donating money to his fellow tribesmen.

Jiangjia Village is also the first village among all the nearby villages to have cement roads built throughout the village so that it no longer suffers from muddy roads. The senior activity center and parking lot in the center of the village were all built by him.

For such a person, as long as you open his mind, he will immediately understand the feasibility of what Jiang Ning said about building his hometown.

"You said that the small peppers that can be seen everywhere on the roadside are wolfberries?" Jiang Guotai looked puzzled: "Are you sure that it is wolfberry?"

They had all seen dried wolfberries, but none of them had ever seen fresh wolfberries. They had never imagined that the thing that was everywhere around them and was being wasted was actually wolfberries!

This thing is everywhere, on the dikes and on both sides of the fields, densely packed, a bright red scene. They have seen it since they were young. The elders in the village said that it was a small pepper or a snake fruit. Even if someone tasted it and found that it was not spicy, the older generation said it was poisonous and could not be eaten. It was passed down from generation to generation, and no one ate it, and no one knew that it was actually wild wolfberry.

Everyone knows that wolfberry is a good thing!

This is the limitation of knowledge. The treasure is right beside you, but you are sitting there with nothing in your sight and don’t know where the treasure is.

Jiang Ning nodded, the corners of his lips slightly raised: "That is indeed wolfberry. Such a large and dense growth of wild wolfberry, I don't need to tell you what it means. Fourth uncle and uncle also know that our land is very suitable for large-scale planting of wolfberry. What we lack now is experts who can teach us how to plant wolfberry, scientific methods of planting wolfberry, and better wolfberry varieties and seedlings."

Jiang Ning thought about the tea mountain on the hill behind him, "There is also the tea mountain behind us. Uncle always brings some Mingqian tea from our tea mountain when he goes out every year, right?"

These Mingqian teas are taken out not for personal consumption but to be given to others.

Give gifts to leaders and friends to build closer relationships.

These teas are produced at home and are not of high value, but they are loved by tea lovers because the tea grown from these tea species has a rich aroma, smooth taste, clear tea soup and sweet flavor.

Very suitable for giving as a gift.

Even Jiang Ning herself had given away a lot of tea from her hometown as gifts in her previous life.

But such a treasure mountain has not been developed, and no one wants to develop it.

Jiang Ning couldn't help but think of a tea village in Province Z that was famous for its tea.

This tea village is located in a very backward and closed area with blocked mountain roads and inconvenient transportation. It is also a remote mountainous area where ethnic minorities and Han people live together.

However, this poor and backward mountain village, under the leadership of their brigade secretary, achieved an average annual income of over one million yuan for farmers through tea planting 20 years later, and became a major taxpayer in the local county and city, and was personally recognized and received by the top leaders to become a nationally famous rich village.

Are there few tea mountains like this in China? Quite a few.

But only this small mountain village has truly made use of their tea mountains, allocated tea fields to every household, and led the entire village and foreign ethnic minorities to plant various varieties of tea trees on the nearby hills, large and small. They also used stories of well-known local celebrities to create a celebrity effect, and step by step, promoted the tea produced in the local tea mountains, even becoming famous at the World Agricultural Expo and going abroad.

Passing by this tea mountain, Jiang Ning talked about the neighboring Shijian Township, which is the township where Mayor Jiang once served as the township head. Because in Shijian Township, there is a mountain that is very famous and popular in the local area, called Wugong Mountain.

Wugong refers to the secluded place of five very famous scholars and ministers during the Song Dynasty. Later generations called them the Five Dukes. The temple on Wugong Mountain that is now very popular is said to be their secluded place back then.

Jiang Ning could even make up a dozen stories about Wu Gong's seclusion in this place and his relationship with tea in an instant.

In this way, the tea mountain tea has its heritage.

Jiang Ning talked about how to distribute tea land to villagers step by step, how to cooperate with the government to select tea varieties and seedlings from experts, how to use the stories of five famous people such as "Wu Gong" to promote and package tea, and how to become famous at the Tea Expo and Agricultural Expo.

In fact, the water in their stone stream is so clear and sweet, the water flow is so large that they need to build a bridge to cross the stream, and the underground water source is abundant.

Just like a gg phrase in later generations: We don’t produce water, we are just nature’s porters.

She said to Jiang Guotai: "Once the tea becomes famous, Uncle can also build a tea beverage factory here, which can not only boost local economic tax revenue, but also create jobs. Uncle has an advantage over the outsiders who are attracted by investment. Internally, Uncle is a local with a large family, and externally..."

She glanced at Mayor Jiang and said nothing, but the people sitting there all understood what Jiang Ning meant.

Within the government, there is also Mayor Jiang, who is not afraid of being exploited by some local people.

Once the hometown economy develops as Jiang Ning said, Mayor Jiang’s next step will be to go to the county, and he might even be promoted to the county committee.

And over the years, Mayor Jiang has not had anyone behind him.