"Dad, how are you doing now? Has everything been sorted out in the forestry department of Heilongjiang Province?"

Sheng Xiping was busy, and Zhou Mingyuan was even busier. The father-in-law and son-in-law could only talk on the phone occasionally, and they would only chat for a few words before hanging up.

Therefore, Sheng Xiping was unaware of Zhou Mingyuan's specific situation in Heilongjiang Province.

"It's alright. Anyway, wherever you work, the first three days are always the hardest."

In particular, because I strongly advocated against touching firewood, many people in the forestry system initially had some prejudice against me.

Zhou Mingyuan smiled upon hearing this; he didn't consider those difficulties at work a problem at all.

"However, ever since your branch factory started construction and you started cooperating with several forest farms, these people have changed quite a bit."

Isn't that right? I did as you said and talked to the ginseng farm about cooperation to build two small berry planting bases and two edible and medicinal fungus cultivation bases. Next, I plan to set up a few more breeding farms.

The people below also think it's feasible, and they're all cooperating quite well now.

Heilongjiang Province is home to the Greater Khingan Mountains, Lesser Khingan Mountains, Zhangguangcai Mountains, Laoye Mountains, and Wanda Mountains, boasting abundant forest resources and a wealth of usable understory resources.

Zhou Mingyuan plans to develop forest resources in a planned and gradual manner, make comprehensive use of them, and develop the understory economy.

These projects can show results in just three to five years.

These people weren't stupid; they saw hope and knew there was profit to be made, so of course they were happy to cooperate.

"Well, that's good." Sheng Xiping was quite pleased to hear that.

Zhou Mingyuan is already this age, so we don't expect him to achieve anything great. As long as he doesn't make any big mistakes, we just want him to retire peacefully.

Of course, it would be even better if forestry workers in Heilongjiang Province could benefit from Zhou Mingyuan's series of plans.

As everyone chatted, it got late, so Wang Chunxiu arranged for Sheng Xiping and the others to stay.

Fortunately, Zhou Qingyue had four rooms, which were a decent size. They could squeeze in at night and still have enough room.

After having breakfast early on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Sheng Xi'an drove north again, returning to Harbin.

Sheng Xiping took his wife and children to visit Chen Ruiqing to offer New Year's greetings. Afterwards, Sheng Xiping met with some provincial leaders.

After a while, the conversation turned to the business of shopping malls.

With Chen Ruiqing mediating, the deal to build the shopping mall was easily reached.

Sheng Xiping invested in building a comprehensive super mall in Changchun, and the province of Jilin provided certain preferential policies and substantial loan support.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, Zhou Qingyang and his family set off to return to their unit. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, Zhou Mingyuan returned to work in Harbin.

Sheng Xiping also drove his wife and children back to Songjianghe, where those who needed to go to work went to work and those who needed to go to school prepared to go to school.