Signing a big order all of a sudden is naturally a rare opportunity for Zhou Yuan.
The main reason is that the construction team was established not long ago and has no technical strength.
After being contracted to clean up the river this time, at the suggestion of Jiang Yuan, the young master of the Jiang family, the construction team began to recruit some technical backbones in addition to the workers.
For example, full-time construction workers, architects, part-time legal advisors, and some other related personnel.
We also spent money to purchase some equipment. In addition to the excavator brought from the warehouse, we also needed bulldozers, water pumps, sand pumps, and other equipment.
The money used to purchase these equipment is an advance payment on the project cost.
The river cleaning project that Zhou Yuan contracted this time is different from other projects in that there is an advance payment, and as the project progresses, the advance can be made at any time.
This way, you don't have to advance the money yourself, and there are fewer risks. Money makes things easier. With money in hand, you can hire more people, buy more equipment, and the project will progress faster.
Zhou Yuan brought Liu Yiming, Wang Xiaohua, Zhou Quan, Ouyang Xiaomei and several brothers to the project department with Jiang Yuan to report, and then began to prepare for the preliminary work.
The main task is to handle some necessary procedures, and then use the advance payment to build sheds, buy equipment, recruit personnel, etc.
The river pollution cleaning project department of the construction team was established and the entire project started in full swing.
It is said that everything is difficult at the beginning. In the beginning, you have nothing and you have to build or buy everything yourself.
It includes food, accommodation, a warehouse for storing tools, etc., so every day is very busy.
However, when we thought about such a big order, we were all very motivated.
After another busy day, the shed was finally built. In the evening, after everyone finished their meal and lay down in the shed, Liu Yiming sighed and said:
"Boss, I've been so tired these past few days. Now that the shed is built and we have food and shelter, we have a day off tomorrow. How about we go to the provincial capital and have some fun? It's so relaxing.
I've been here for so long, but I haven't had a chance to go to the provincial capital to have some fun."
"Yes, yes, I want to go too." Wang Xiaohua quickly echoed. Although it was only 1986, the capital of the southwestern province had already built high-rise buildings of 20 or 30 floors.
Nowadays, twenty or thirty stories high is nothing, there are even buildings with hundreds of stories.
But at that time, everyone thought that buildings with 20 or 30 floors were very tall, very tall, and very spectacular.
In addition to tall buildings, the provincial capital is also very prosperous, with lots of fun and delicious things to do, so, haha!
Everyone wants to have fun, that's normal.
Before Zhou Yuan could speak, Ouyang Xiaomei snorted and said, "Look at what you have accomplished. Isn't it just the provincial capital? We live in the suburbs of the provincial capital now. It's easy for us to go to the provincial capital if we want to."
The key is that we have to have money, do you understand?
If you don't have money, what's the point of having fun? Even the tallest building you own belongs to someone else. How can it be used to make a living?"
Ouyang Xiaomei's words were like a basin of cold water poured over everyone's heads, chilling everyone's hearts.
At that time, although everyone had worked with Zhou Yuan for several months, they only earned about a hundred yuan a month.
It’s only three or four hundred yuan for three or four months, so I would have taken it and sent it home a long time ago.
Everyone in the construction team is a child from the countryside. They have to plant rice and harvest grain at home, send their younger siblings to school, and take care of the expenses of the whole family.
That little money is nothing.
Everyone is actually a little short of money, of course, except for the boss Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan saw that everyone wanted to go out and play, but sighed because they had no money, so he patted his pockets, laughed and said,
"Don't you just need money? Tomorrow is a day off. Let's go to the provincial capital and have some fun. I'll cover all the transportation, sightseeing, and food expenses. Just have fun and eat well.
But you are not allowed to get drunk, you are not allowed to go out and cause trouble, and when you come back you must work hard, understand?"
"Yes, I understand. Thank you, Boss."
When they heard that the boss would pay for the reimbursement, everyone became more energetic and answered in unison.
But it was still Ouyang Xiaomei who expressed a different opinion. She sighed and said, "I'm not interested in playing. I really want to go home. I've been away for a few months, and my family will soon enter the busy rice harvest season.
Autumn harvest is the busiest time of the year. Do you think we should go back and help?"
"Yes, yes, yes. My mother wrote to me a long time ago asking me to harvest the grain and to remember to go back and not to delay."
Zhou Quan said somewhat dejectedly. He is Zhou Yuan's cousin and the eldest in the family.
I have a younger brother, a younger sister, and a sick grandmother. We are a family of six who contract land, so we are very busy during the autumn harvest.
Back then, it was different from now. People only planted one season of hybrid medium-season rice. Every family planted double-season rice. After harvesting the early rice, they had to plant the late rice, so it was very busy.
Some families were outside planting rice in the middle of the night, working with flashlights.
Speaking of going home to help harvest rice and plant rice seedlings, Zhou Yuan remembered that his parents had not contracted out their land. It was just that his parents knew that he was very busy at the construction site outside, so they never asked him to go back to help.
He had been out for a few months and should go back to take a look, so he sighed and said to everyone, "Old Two is right. It's busy farming season now. We have to go home quickly to help. We can come back after we finish the farm work. How about we go through the provincial capital and spend a day there?"
"Okay, okay, let's do it." I heard that he would not go into the city to play for the time being, but go home to help harvest the grain.
Everyone was not in a very good mood, but they also knew that there was no choice in this matter.
So Zhou Yuan quickly arranged the project matters, said goodbye to the command center, and took the bus back with his brothers.
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