Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Heihe City has a total population of only 220,000, which is even less than the population of Hongya City. Even the Jiangwei Industrial Zone has more than 40,000 people, and the population density is much higher than that of Heihe.
If Heihe really has an enterprise like Nanwan Group, together with its downstream supporting factories, the entire Heihe will have enough economic take-off if it really has such a leader.
After visiting Nanwan Group, Wan Feng took Qu Yang and others to have lunch.
After lunch, we went to visit the supporting factories.
"You can set up an office here, purchase these parts, and then send them to Heihe by train. Your only advantage here is that you don't have to worry about wagons. We have plenty of wagons to go around."
Of course, if you want to set up an office, you can't stay in a hotel. While strolling around one afternoon, Wan Feng rented a house for Qu Yang.
The fourth floor of a house on the second row behind Wankou Street is vacant, but the annual rent of two thousand yuan makes Qu Yang speechless.
"Holy crap! There's no such expensive housing in Heihe, unless it's a shophouse."
"If you think it's too expensive, you can rent one in a village farther away. Three hundred a year is enough."
Qu Yang thought for a moment and said, "Never mind. Two thousand is fine. Setting up an office here should at least give it some respect."
By nightfall, Qu Yang had almost finished everything he needed to do.
It’s better to have acquaintances. If you don’t have acquaintances, these things may take several days to complete.
Many years later, a bad trend emerged in Northeast China, where people would pick up the phone to call someone for help even if it was a small matter.
I don't know if this is where the trend started.