Chapter 464 Establishment of a Jewelry Design Company
As they were talking, Secretary Zhao's two grandsons, Chaoyang and Qiming, came in.
Chaoyang was sixteen years old and Qiming was fifteen years old.
When the two saw Xia Juanjuan and Li Zhan, they greeted them politely, "Uncle Li, Aunt Juanjuan."
Secretary Zhao said proudly, "These two boys are really hardworking. Chaoyang just submitted his application for enlistment, and Qiming is good at his studies and plans to go to university next year! Qiming, you should work harder and try to get into Peking University like your aunt Juanjuan!"
Qiming smiled a little embarrassedly and said anxiously: "Grandpa, what are you talking about? It's not that easy to get into Peking University!"
Everyone laughed.
Li Zhan asked Chaoyang: "What branch of the military did you apply for?"
Chaoyang said, "I wanted to apply for the Air Force, but I was afraid of the strict requirements, so I applied for the Army. Anyway, as long as I can be a soldier and carry a gun to defend my country, I will be happy even if I have to be a cook!"
After hearing this, Li Zhan nodded and said with a smile: "Do a good job! As long as you have good physical fitness and strong will, the army welcomes young people like you!"
Chaoyang felt embarrassed by what he said.
After talking for a while, Li Zhan and Xia Juanjuan came out of Secretary Zhao's house with Jiaojiao in their arms, and went to Aunt Wu's house and several other families in the village to pay New Year's greetings and chat.
I stayed in a house in Qingshui Village that night and returned to the county town early the next morning.
A few days later, Xia Juanjuan took out all the farm machinery and other items that had been stored in the space, and asked Li Jie and Wu Feng to drive them back to Qingshui Village.
With these seed drills, threshers and the like, farm work in the village can be much easier.
In addition, she also funded the construction of a small library at school, and bought various encyclopedias, new desks and chairs, etc.
Lizhan also paid close attention to Chaoyang's military service.
Chaoyang submitted the application in Hebei Province. However, both Hebei Province and Beijing City belong to the North China Military Region, so it is the same thing.
I heard that Chaoyang passed the strict physical examination and physical training, as well as the political review. Lizhan was quite happy, so this should be stable.
When the recruitment was coming to an end, he went to ask again, wanting to know where this guy was assigned.
You don't know the result until you ask. Once you ask, Li Zhan was almost angry to death.
Chaoyang was eliminated in the end!
It turned out that he was the son of a small leader in the county's military recruitment office, and he replaced Chaoyang's qualifications.
Lizhan naturally couldn't sit idly by, so he asked someone to investigate the matter, and eventually restored Chaoyang's eligibility to join the army.
However, Lizhan did not interfere too much in the assigned troops, and the guy was later assigned to Lu Province.
Spring in the north is always very short. It was chilly and snowing yesterday, but it suddenly became warm.
In April and May, Xia Juanjuan used the space to go to Yangjia Village in Zhejiang Province.
In the past few years, Xia Juanjuan has been raising river clams and pearls in the Castle Fish Pond in the village. Now, the earliest batch of clams is four years old, and she plans to go there to collect the clams.
Zhejiang Province is close to the coast and has developed well in recent years. New houses have been built in Yangjia Village, giving it a brand new look.
Secretary Yang warmly received Xia Juanjuan.
Xia Juanjuan only wanted pearls, so she directly commissioned the villagers to do the labor of opening the clams and taking out the pearls. She didn't want the remaining clam shells and clam meat.
She had already opened some clams last year, and didn't want the clam meat, so the village started raising ducks, which has now become a popular trend.
Not only that, many other villages also followed suit and started raising river clam pearls. However, they had no way to sell them now, so they eventually found Xia Juanjuan and asked her to buy them all.
Xia Juanjuan did not refuse, but she only accepted pearls of good quality.
She had already discussed the farm in Yangjia Village with Party Secretary Yang and the villagers. They planned to start a township enterprise with the villagers holding 40 percent of the shares and being responsible for breeding and opening clams, while Xia Juanjuan would hold 60 percent of the shares and be responsible for recycling and sales.
The villagers receive a handsome dividend every year, so why wouldn’t they work hard?
Of course, some people were jealous of Xia Juanjuan. They clamored to split up the work they had done, but within two years, they regretted it and returned in disgrace.
Xia Juanjuan collected the pearls and still went to the market from time to time to sell them to Smith.
She has also developed several other luxury goods companies, so there is no problem with sales.
However, she also knew that simply selling raw materials was too crude, and further processing and development would yield greater profits.
In the second half of the year, Xia Juanjuan opened a jewelry design company in Shenzhen, specializing in the production of pearl jewelry. Moreover, the products were directly targeted at the wealthy wives and upper-class people in Hong Kong.