Chapter 386
Ji Wanmei and Lei Tingjun stayed overnight in Pingquan County.
The next day, they set off, first returning to Pingdong City, where Lei Tingjun needed to go back and handle some company matters.
The following day, they set off again to return to Lei Tingjun's hometown, Xiahe Village.
The brick factory in Honghe Township has expanded its scale in recent years and has become one of the dedicated building material supply channels for Dongfang Construction Company.
The muddy mountain road leading out of Honghe Township was also repaired last year thanks to the strong support of Lei Tingjun and the local government.
A wide cement road winds its way through the mountains of Honghe Township, like a silver snake, leading to the well-developed cities in all directions.
The repaired road has also created more job opportunities for the local residents of Honghe Township.
Some shrewd villagers saw the promising prospects of small businesses outside, so they went out to become peddlers, while others went to work as construction workers on development projects like those undertaken by Lei Tingjun. Some even became production workers in small factories through introductions.
In short, repairing the road out of the village will open up an opportunity for the local villagers to access the outside world.
Whether or not you can seize this opportunity depends on yourself.
This year, Lei Tingjun also discussed with Ji Wanmei the idea of helping the villagers of Honghe Township sell their surplus red pomelos and sweet tangerines.
Because Honghe Township has abundant red sandy soil, fertile land, and sufficient rainfall and sunshine, these fruits grow well, are large, and are juicy and sweet.
Previously, due to inconvenient transportation and limited access to information, farmers could not sell the fruit they grew. They could only sell it cheaply at the local market or let it rot on the trees. They couldn't possibly eat it all themselves, and there were no good techniques to preserve it.
Lei Tingjun wondered what he could do for his fellow villagers.
He can help local farmers set up an agricultural and sideline product purchasing station. As long as the farmers grow red pomelos and sweet tangerines, they can bring them to his agricultural and sideline product purchasing station, which will purchase them at the fixed average price. Then the purchasing station will resell them to other places.
This is not Lei Tingjun's main job. His main job is land and commercial engineering development. He has this idea only because he wants to help the folks in his hometown change their poor lives.
The acquired red pomelos and sweet tangerines will be distributed to some manufacturers that cooperate with Gongdong Construction.
Because many factories give holiday benefits to their employees during festivals.
For example, during festivals like Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, they would give out small gifts. Anyway, the factory also has a special employee welfare purchasing department. Considering that Lei Tingjun is a partner, they would also buy dozens of boxes of fruit as a favor.
Lei Tingjun also distributes [money] to his company's employees.
Their company also has regulations that provide workers with various subsidies during holidays, and their treatment is even better than that of state-owned enterprises.
Whenever the fruit season arrives, the purchasing station in Honghe Township collects the fruit, and Lei Tingjun has people distribute the fruit as a benefit to the employees.
This move also boosted another industry in Honghe Prefecture besides resource-based industries such as brick factories and coal mines: agricultural and sideline products.
This agricultural and sideline product purchasing station has also become an important source of income for the villagers.
Many local farmers began to cultivate their surplus farmland and mountain land to grow fruit, planting large areas of pomelos, sweet tangerines, and pears, among other things.
In short, plant whatever is suitable for the season, make full use of it, and never let the land sit idle.
Ordinary people are like this: whoever makes their lives better, they will recognize and praise.
Lei Tingjun's reputation and prestige in Honghe Township now surpass even that of their township head and town mayor; his words carry more weight than anyone else's.
This indirectly shows that this is also a reality.
Interestingly, once a person becomes successful, famous, and wealthy, their childhood stories are often spontaneously circulated and embellished.
In Honghe Township, Lei Tingjun, the big boss, has several versions of his childhood exploits told by the villagers.
Some say he was born with a different destiny than others, and that he was strong, powerful, and exceptionally brave. When he was a child, he went into the mountains with his parents to collect wild ginseng and encountered a tiger.
A boy of about ten years old, fearless, actually killed the tiger with a hoe.
Others say that when Lei Tingjun was a child, a flood and mudslide occurred on the mountain, and his family drowned except for him. He was very lucky and that's why he became very successful when he grew up.
Some say that Lei Tingjun grew up on the charity of many families, and that he has always been grateful. Whenever someone gave him a meal when he was young, he repays them many times over now that he has become successful.
Those who looked down on that poor boy back then, those who bullied and humiliated him, are now filled with deep regret.
In short, as soon as you arrive in Honghe Township, you can hear all sorts of rumors, some true and some false, which makes Ji Wanmei laugh.
However, seeing Lei Tingjun so well-received and praised by the local villagers in his hometown, Ji Wanmei still felt a sense of pride.
Who was she praising? She was praising her boyfriend.
The smaller the place, the slower the change.
Because of the deep-rooted clan culture in the countryside, Lei Tingjun broke this clan culture in Honghe Township, bringing hope for economic development to this small and backward village.
Lei Tingjun drove to Honghe Township without stopping.
Once he stays, if the people at the brick factory or the leaders of the township committee find out that he has returned, they will definitely have to enthusiastically invite him to dinner.
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