It's not that Hou Baolin was stingy; it's just that this thing is indeed quite expensive.
How expensive is it?
According to the rural work points system, a family's work points for a year might not be enough to buy a three-pound lobster.
No one seemed to care about the argument between the two.
Then they started toasting and drinking.
Hou Yongping and Wu Guangfa were the main ones offering toasts, but Tao Qiuyan and Ye Beiping were even more involved, as their son in Hangzhou still needed their care, and they were very particular about etiquette.
Soon the women had almost finished eating and went to the side to eat sunflower seeds and peanuts.
Only a few men were still drinking.
Wu Guangfa suddenly said at this moment: "Beiping, my son went back and told me that you mentioned something about a collective economy to help the whole village get rich. What exactly does that require?"
Hou Yongping, who was standing nearby, immediately realized what was going on.
"What, are you going to start a collective enterprise?"
Ye Beiping smiled and explained softly, "I just thought that Pingba Village was so poor, so I gave Uncle Wu an idea. It's just an idea."
"I see..."
Hou Yongping pursed his lips and finally spoke to Wu Guangfa: "Old Wu, let me tell you, collective enterprises are good, I've heard that some people in the neighboring counties are doing it. But many of them are not successful. Some state-owned factories are not even going out of business now, let alone the collective enterprises you've started."
After he finished speaking, he sighed.
A look of melancholy appeared on his face.
Seeing this, Ye Beiping guessed that Hou Yongping, as the brigade secretary, had probably heard some rumors.
Hou Yongping is probably worried that the communes will be abolished in a few years.
really.
Without the commune, farming their own land would offer him no advantage. After all, with the communes abolished, the fate of local officials like Hou Yongping was uncertain.
Although Ye Beiping was reborn, he really didn't have any memory of this aspect.
It's estimated that they'll send all these people back home to farm.
Wu Guangfa was startled by Hou Yongping's words: "Really?"
"Would I lie to you?" Hou Yongping rolled his eyes in annoyance and said, "Collective enterprises also require everyone in the village to contribute money. If they lose money and fail to operate, those people will skin you alive."
“I know of two village secretaries who are blocked from leaving their homes by villagers every day.”
hiss!
After hearing this, Wu Guangfa, Hou Baolin, and Wu Di all gasped in shock.
Ye Beiping, however, smiled faintly and did not speak.
In business, how can you not lose money?
If everyone thought like that, there probably wouldn't have been so many millionaires and billionaires in our past lives.
There are collective enterprises that do well, and some of them can even give each villager millions of yuan. Although these are a minority, they are still successful.
After thinking for a moment, Wu Guangfa said to Ye Beiping, "Beiping, maybe we should just let this matter go."
Wanting everyone to get rich is one thing, but making him, the village chief, take responsibility is another.
This is a common problem of this era.
Ye Beiping nodded slowly, without trying to say anything to salvage the situation.
Wu Di frowned when he saw Ye Beiping's expression: "Dad, you're too timid. Beiping does business in Hangzhou, and he doesn't seem that scared."
Actually, what he said made sense. After all, when the stall was transformed into a chain store, he and Hou Baolin truly knew how Ye Beiping turned losses into profits.
They couldn't say they turned a profit, but they were close. They really admired Ye Beiping's courage.
Wu Guangfa was embarrassed by his son and scolded him irritably: "What do you know? If we lose money, how will we explain it to the hundreds of people in the village? People only earn a few dollars a year, and those few work points aren't even enough to cover the losses."
Ye Beiping nodded slightly in agreement with Wu Guangfa's words.
Because these villagers are simply unable to withstand storms, once the collective enterprise is established and encounters difficulties, if it is spread by malicious individuals, the impact will be enormous.
This is why, out of so many collective enterprises, only a few ultimately succeed.
It's not just about the products and production; it's also about the unity of the team and the leadership's decisiveness.
Given the current situation in Pingba Village, with village chief Wu Guangfa and brigade party secretary Hou Yongping both in this state, it's better not to run the collective enterprise at all.
Ye Beiping could already imagine that once he did it, the problems he would encounter would likely cause him to collapse at the first blow.
Hou Yongping, who had remained silent, had been observing Ye Beiping's expression. He knew Ye Beiping had made money in Hangzhou, and his proposal wasn't wrong, but he still wanted to know Ye Beiping's attitude.
Upon discovering this attitude, Hou Yongping sighed slightly.
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