When Liang Liang returned to Yahe, the first person he sought out was Qin Wenju, not to discuss the quality of the car with her.
"Is Lu Yueli's business construction complete yet?"
"The construction is complete, and the equipment is being installed now. Some key workers from their side have come, and they have already started recruiting locally. This time, they can provide over a thousand jobs for our Yahe."
"Who asked you how many jobs you've created? They didn't say the specific opening date!"
"The 21st is an auspicious day, so we chose that day to open for business. After the opening, we started production and training workers in the factory."
Training workers while producing?
It seems that the production difficulty of Lü Yueli's company is not too high.
Liang Liang calculated that there were still five days left.
There's still time to do anything; he can get a lot done in five days at home.
Will Lü Yueli come on opening day?
"They say they'll come, but it's not certain."
That sounds like something a fortune teller would say, it's like they've covered up both sides, as if they haven't said anything at all.
"She sent a manager here to oversee the overall situation," Qin Wenju added.
"I'm not going to chat with you anymore. I need to go home and check on how my little factory is getting ready. My brother told me it's all set up, so I need to go back and tidy it up."
After saying goodbye to Qin Wenju, Liang Liang and Banya drove back to Liangshui Bay, and instead of going home, they drove directly into the old brigade's courtyard.
The yard was spotless, with no trace of construction.
The house on the north wall was repaired neatly, and the ground was completely paved.
The building to the north is used as a production workshop, and workers are installing equipment inside.
The western half of this courtyard is the production area, while the eastern half is where timber is stored and processed.
The equipment being installed is a drying system manufactured by a company in Lianwan City. It's a steam drying system that can dry nearly 100 cubic meters of timber at a time if several workshops are working simultaneously.
After receiving a call from his younger brother informing him that the factory construction was complete, Liang Liang immediately notified the companies that had already ordered equipment, asking them to come and install the equipment ahead of schedule.
This drying equipment is one of them, and they arrived in Yahe two days earlier than Liangliang.
They will be able to install the equipment this afternoon, and tomorrow they will test the machine and train the workers here on how to use it.
Besides the drying equipment, other workshops are also installing equipment, but they are all small pieces of equipment. Only the band saw installed in a large building in the eastern half can be considered a large piece of equipment.
The advantage of steam drying equipment is that it can better preserve the original shape of the wood, but the disadvantage is that it takes a long time.
It takes ten days to dry a batch of timber.
After learning that microwave drying saves more time, Liang Liang ordered another set of imported microwave drying equipment from Xianggang.
The equipment won't arrive until next month.
Microwave wood drying equipment dries wood much faster than steam drying equipment; some types of wood can be dried to a workable state in just a few hours.
I'm just not sure what the disadvantages are of using well-dried wood to make guitars.
These are all problems that Liangfeng will have to face, and he will have to figure them out on his own.
What kind of wood, and to what extent, needs to be dried to maintain its shape for a long time without cracking or warping, resulting in a guitar with a perfect tone?
These are things he could work on for several years.
Once he's figured all these things out, his skill level will probably reach that of a guitar manufacturing master.
At that time, he will be able to produce high-end guitars.
After Liang Liang finished setting up all the equipment for his small business, he called Qin Wenju and asked her to hire the Yahe Transport Team to haul all his timber to Liangshui Bay.
He would include the cost of hiring a vehicle and loading/unloading in the timber cost.
More than a dozen trucks from the Yahe Transportation Team No. 2, which specialize in hauling timber, brought the timber that Liang Liang had bought from Qin Wenju into the yard of Liang Liang's guitar factory, truckload by truck.
Another portion was transported to the area behind his house where timber used to be stored.
Hundreds of cubic meters of timber filled both of his sites to the brim.
Looking at the mountain of timber, Liang Liang was troubled.
Safety is a big deal, and he suddenly realized that putting the timber in the yard was not a wise decision.
It's never too late to mend the fence after the sheep are lost.
Liang Liang then communicated with the village and leased the orchard on the top of Dongshan Mountain, where the fruit trees had reached the age of maturity and were about to be abandoned due to low productivity.
Of course, that's it for the timber this time; there's no way to make any more money from it.
The next time the timber arrives, it will all be piled up in the fruit tree team's square.
The equipment was installed, and the timber was all moved in.
The small workshop that used to be in Liang Liang's yard has all been moved to the new factory building.
Liang Liang then asked someone to choose an auspicious date for his business opening.
There are two auspicious days after March 20th: March 21st and March 27th.
The 21st was the opening day for Lü Yueli and her supporting factories, so Liang Liang could only choose the 27th to open his guitar factory.
Although the opening ceremony will not take another few days, it will not delay the employees' work at the new factory.
The new factory and new workshops are much more spacious than Liang Liang's old shack, so working here is naturally more pleasant.
The workers using band saws process different types of wood and then put them into the dryer to dry.
The drying equipment factory specifically left two technicians to instruct employees from other factories on how to use these drying equipment.
All the employees in the guitar factory are young people from Liangshuiwan Village.
Apart from Xu Hebin and his sister and Sui Fulu, almost all the young people in Liangshuiwan Village work in Liangliang's small business.
In the past six months, including the gifts they received during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year, each of them earned 2,000 yuan.
These actual incomes showed the people of Liangshuiwan Village another way to make money. As a result, with the expansion of the factory, almost all the young and middle-aged laborers in Liangshuiwan Village found their place in this small guitar factory in Liangliang.
Anyway, they don't have much land, so one person at home can manage.
They can earn more than 4,000 yuan a year by working in Liangliang, which is much better than farming the ten or twenty mu of land they used to cultivate.
Xu Mei's mother came to find Liang Liang with a smile, and her first words startled Liang Liang.
Where did you take my daughter?
"Auntie! You don't think I sold her, do you?"
"So when you came back this time, she didn't even send a message back?"
"Xu Mei isn't in the same place as me in Lianwan. She works at the Haiyun Disco in Jinzhou District, while I usually work at the Haiyun Dance Hall in Ganjing District. It's quite a distance of several dozen miles between us. I left in a bit of a hurry this time, so I didn't go to see her and I don't know if she had any messages for you!"
"You young people are so unreliable. When you leave, take something for me."
"It will be more than a week before I leave."
"You can take it anytime."
If there's no time limit, that makes things much easier.
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