Wan Fengzheng found it difficult to understand why Xiao Jun was working so hard. He only owed him 2,100 yuan. Could a mere 2,000 yuan make him work so hard?
For a sixteen-year-old boy to fight so hard, Wan Feng could only say that he must be born with a masochistic tendency.
Golden October is the season with the greatest changes. Wan Feng came back from the county town on a motorcycle. He felt that he had only been away for half a day, and the paddy fields with surging rice waves had turned into a flat land.
The corns in the fields that were originally flirting in the wind have now returned to dust and are lying in the arms of the earth. The view is very wide at a glance.
When Wan Feng arrived at the team office, he saw Zhang Hai sitting bored on the steps in front of the building, and he and the old accountant were as silent as two statues.
"Are you two pretending to be a monument here?"
Zhang Hai coughed twice as if he was choked. "You are not good like that, kid. Sometimes you talk without any respect."
Wan Feng got out of the car and sat on the steps. "All along the way, the mountains and plains are full of people returning to the mountains, but we are the only ones in Wahou who are really free."
Zhang Hai scratched his head. "Isn't this strange? In the past, I used to shout and scream when harvesting crops. Every day, I would walk dozens of times back and forth on this small piece of land in Wahou. Even with this small amount of land, it would take me a month or so to harvest. But now, I'm so idle that I can only watch ants climb trees, but the crops in the field have been harvested in a daze. I feel like I woke up in the morning and the fields are bare, not even a hair left."
This is probably the only advantage of the contract responsibility system.
"That's not good, don't you want to be free?"
"I've got nothing to do anyway, so how about I set up a stall with some of your clothes and shoes from the shoe factory? I've been sitting here watching for a while, and that kid from the Jiang family in front of the depression just sold two pairs of pants. I think I can make three or five yuan a day setting up a stall."
"I'm not holding you back, if you do it, I support you!"
Zhang Hai shook his head: "I can't afford to lose that person."
After more than twenty days of development, the market in Wahou has finally grown to a certain scale.
The open area of several hundred square meters in front of the shoe factory is now lined with shops.
In addition to those selling shoes and clothes, there are also many vendors selling local specialties, such as fruits, seafood, eggs from the nest, mushrooms from the mountain, farm tools used for harvesting in the mountains, etc.
What surprised Wan Feng the most was that Manager Glass Flower also appeared here, strolling with his hands behind his back, looking leisurely.
Wan Feng stood up and walked over to the manager of Glass Flower. "Manager Yu, why are you here even though you're old and blurry-eyed?"
Manager Yu rolled his eyes at Wan Feng and said, "Who are you calling old and blurry? I came to see. I didn't expect there would actually be a market here."
"Haha, it's not only a market, but it's open 24/7. There are people here every day. If it weren't for the crowds of people here right now, you'd be determined to open a branch here, right? I've already picked a location for you. I'll build you a few rooms next to the shoe factory. You'll mainly sell non-staple foods. I guarantee that the annual turnover will not be less than that of the main store of the brigade."
"The secretary of the commune supply and marketing cooperative approved the addition of a branch here. Otherwise, I would just be hanging out here. I will be the head of this branch in the future."
Wan Feng was overjoyed.
Rural shops are the commercial centers. If there is no shop here, it will feel like something very important is missing.
It’s a pity that the country didn’t allow opening shops until 1984, otherwise Wan Feng wouldn’t have bothered.
With the shops, this place becomes a real commercial center.
Wan Feng took Manager Yu to the west side of the shoe factory, where there was a small path leading to the river. There was a vacant triangular piece of land between the path and the west wall of the shoe factory.
This piece of land is about ten meters wide. Building five rooms on it is a bit of a stretch, but building four rooms is not a problem.
"Reach it level with the west wall of the shoe factory, and just this length to the side of the small road to build you a store. Then, follow this triangular shape to build you a warehouse. You can store any unused goods here. Okay?"
Glass Flower nodded.
"Since it's settled, shall we arrange for people to start work tomorrow?"
"good!"
"You can come here in half a month at the earliest. Bring two sets of radiators from the shoe factory. You won't even need to light the furnace in winter."
When Glass Flower heard this, she said, "That's a great idea. Lighting the stove every winter is a very annoying thing."
There is a large boiler room behind the team building, which is equipped with a large boiler that is enough to heat the team's machinery factory and shoe factory in winter, and there are no shortage of two sets of radiators for the shop.
They got to work right away. The next day, a team specializing in building houses came in. It didn't take much time to build four simple bungalows.
Just half a month later, four simple bungalows rose from the ground.
After a simple beam-raising ceremony, it took another week to officially establish the Wahou Branch of the Wei Brigade Supply and Marketing Cooperative.
On the opening day, the secretary of the Yongshi Commune Supply and Marketing Cooperative and Zhang Hai cut the ribbon for the opening ceremony.
On the opening day, this branch sold over a hundred yuan in sales.
It was already the end of October, and there was no trace of crops in the fields. The weather began to turn cold, and people began to put on more clothes. Autumn shirts and autumn pants began to appear on people.
The shoe factory's current production capacity has reached 1,000 pairs a day. The local market is finally unable to absorb such a large output, and the shoe factory's warehouse is starting to have inventory.
But when the staff training for the second set of equipment was completed and started working, the shoe factory's output reached a peak.
The buyer responsible for purchasing raw materials was extremely busy.
The products on this second set of equipment are different from those on the first two.
This set of equipment takes the high-end product route, with greatly improved design style and workmanship. The most obvious is that the sole has a sponge pad like the Warrior shoes, and wearing it feels like stepping on a spring.
The uniform retail price of this kind of shoes is five yuan, which is almost the price of a pair of cowhide shoes.
It was loved by urban youth as soon as it was launched on the market, but its sales in rural areas were very average, simply because it was expensive!
This was within Wan Feng's expectations. This type of shoes was not intended for the rural market. It was designed to enter shopping malls in big cities in the future.
After Zhang Guangchong and Na Wentan spread the word, some traders from Goudong County and Huaiyuan County came to pick up goods, and even traders from Dongdan City came here because of the reputation.
To Wan Feng's surprise, with the publicity from the tractor drivers of Sutun Agricultural Machinery Company, some people from Shenyang who had just started doing business also came to purchase goods.
Jiang Ming even brought in more than a dozen customers from Harbin one after another. In the north, these were the first ordinary people to do business. It took a lot of courage to be able to start a business in the city at that time.
One is state-owned, two is collective, and the other is an individual.
This group encountered a lot of contempt and discrimination at that time.
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