Transmigrating to the ’70s: Selling the Iron Rice Bowl and Thriving in the Countryside

Lu Qingyang transmigrates into a ’70s-era novel as a pitiful cannon-fodder simp.

His cousin steals his job.

His family sends him to the poorest area to chop wood as a part of the rural ...

Chapter 467

Lu Qingyang naturally had no regrets. After work that day, he did not go home, but went to Zhou Fang's house.

"Oh! What a rare guest!" Zhou Fang shook off the water droplets on his hands, rushed over in a few steps, and slapped Lu Qingyang's shoulder heavily with his strong arm.

"I was saying, you've been back in the capital for so many days and I can't find you anywhere! So what? Are you going to stay here this time?"

As he spoke, he took the oil paper and a net bag hanging on Lu Qingyang's handlebars, "Wow, you brought some hard goods with you? That's very nice!"

There is half a pound of braised beef in soy sauce inside the oil paper, and the aroma can be seen through the paper.

There is fruit soda in the net bag.

Lu Qingyang parked the car and said with a smile, "It has definitely taken root, but not in the way you think."

"What do you mean?"

Lu Qingyang didn't intend to hide it from him, so he told him about the situation at home.

"I found my biological parents, and they found me a job as a deputy section chief in the Materials Bureau, but now I want to resign."

"What?" Zhou Fang almost spit out the glass of soda he had just poured into his mouth, choking him and making him cough.

"I'm telling you, your grandma and uncle treat you like that. You don't act like a biological child at all. But you want to quit your job at the Materials Bureau? Are you crazy?"

He couldn't believe his ears.

That was a great company that so many people were trying so hard to get into! Lu Qingyang was doing well and had a bright future, so he just quit?

Lu Qingyang looked at his shocked expression and smiled: "He's not crazy, he's very sober."

"So what did you want to do before?"

"Do business, and do it for real."

He stopped keeping the secret: "Zhou Fang, we are brothers who have shared life and death together, so I am telling you this. Listen carefully, and don't spread it to anyone else. I have received accurate information that the wind direction is going to change! And it is a real change!"

Zhou Fang's heart jumped and he held his breath.

If it was before, he would definitely not believe Lu Qingyang's words and just thought it was a joke, but now with his background...

"The specific policy has not been officially implemented yet, but the direction has been set. We need to open a window! We need to invigorate the economy! We need to encourage the development of commodity production, allow individual businesses, and even... we need to work hard to attract foreign investment!"

"Foreign investment?!" Zhou Fang gasped.

"That's right!" Lu Qingyang nodded. "The model of 'three-in-one', processing with supplied materials, processing with supplied samples, and assembling with supplied parts, will soon be rolled out on a large scale along the coast, especially in the south! This is our opportunity! A huge opportunity!"

He picked up a chopstick on the table, dipped it in some spilled soda, and quickly drew on the stone table: "Look, the south is close to Hong Kong and Macao, with well-informed information and cheap labor. Once the policy is launched, they will definitely move first! A large number of orders will pour in. What is needed? A factory! A factory that takes orders, produces, and delivers with guaranteed quality and quantity!"

Lu Qingyang pressed his chopsticks a little harder: "What are our advantages? I used to work in the Material Bureau and visited factories! Machinery and equipment, production processes, personnel management, cost control... I am very familiar with these things! We are a hundred times better than those who are just crossing the river by feeling the stones!"

Zhou Fang's eyes became brighter and brighter as Lu Qingyang spoke, and his breathing became heavier.

He seemed to see a golden road spreading out before his eyes, but his excessive caution made him think of the difficulties: "It's easy to say! Opening a factory? Where is the money? Where are the machines? Where is the factory? Where are the orders? Which one is not a life-threatening thing? We are two soldiers with clean pockets, what can we do?"

"I'll pay for the money. What I need now is people." Lu Qingyang obviously had a plan in place.

"Secondly, we don't have to build it from scratch. There are many small state-owned factories in the south that are half-dead, with idle equipment and unemployed workers. These are ready-made shells! We can find a way to undertake them, or cooperate with them! We can use their factories, equipment, and workers, and we will provide management, orders, and sales! This is called borrowing chickens to lay eggs!"

"Where's the order?" Zhou Fang pressed on. This was the most important question.

"This is the point I want to discuss with you! Zhou Fang, I remember my sister-in-law...did her uncle go to Suicheng? Is he in Gangcheng now?"

Zhou Fang was startled for a moment, then responded: "Yes! In Hong Kong, it seems... it seems that he is a manager in a pretty good garment factory?"

"That's right!" Lu Qingyang clapped his hands, "This is our ready-made bridgehead! Hong Kong businessmen are most sensitive to mainland China's policies and act the fastest! My sister-in-law's uncle works in a garment factory, so this is a ready-made way! Our first step is to start with garment processing! This is the easiest to start with among the 'three-in-one' and the one with the highest demand!"

"My idea is that you go back and talk to your sister-in-law, and ask her to find a way to contact her uncle as soon as possible to find out what's going on over there! See if there's anything possible, and let her uncle make the connection. We'll find a suitable factory near Guangzhou that's willing to cooperate and take on the clothing processing orders from Hong Kong businessmen! We'll be responsible for the operation and management of the factory in the mainland to ensure quality delivery! The profits will be divided according to what we agreed on!"

"Zhou Fang, this first move is crucial! As long as we get the first order and make the road smooth, the rest will snowball! The policy wind is right in front of us. If we miss it, we will no longer have this store!"

The yard suddenly became quiet, with only the rustling of leaves in the evening breeze.

Zhou Fang suddenly grabbed the unfinished bottle of Beibingyang soda on the table and gulped down half of it. The cold soda gave him a shudder. He slammed the bottle on the stone table, wiped his mouth, and there was no hesitation on his face.

"Damn it!"

As soon as Lu Qingyang left, Zhou Fang told his wife Yu Shanshan about this.

"I plan to follow Qingyang!"

Yu Shanshan was furious: "You don't want to live a peaceful life, but you have to go out and venture into the world? How are you going to explain this to my father?"

"My dear wife, isn't this our chance?"

"You were fooled away by others' words? How do you know if they are reliable? And if you join, don't you need funds? Our family..."

Zhou Fang thought about it for a while, but made up his mind: "I believe Qingyang. I may have had concerns before, but now I believe in him 100%."

Yu Shanshan felt strange: "What do you mean?"

Zhou Fang whispered a few words in her ear, and Yu Shanshan's eyes opened instantly: "Are you serious?"

"Or you can ask your father-in-law to find out if the situation is true?"

The 뀘 family was something that small people like them could never reach.

Although Yu Shanshan was skeptical, she decided to verify it.

"Then wait for me to get some information. If your brother is really the missing son of that family, then this matter is indeed credible."

Yu Shanshan is not a fool. If Lu Qingyang is really the son of the Wang family, this is an opportunity for Zhou Fang. He is a noble man.