A twelve-year-old boy may not have a clear plan for the future, but for most boys, joining the army and carrying a gun is definitely their ultimate dream.
"If you keep causing trouble and inflict a few more injuries, you won't be able to continue as a member of the group," Sheng Xiping sneered.
"Those with visible scars on their face or body are ineligible to join the army."
This isn't meant to scare Sheng Xinhua; it's not wartime anymore, and not just anyone can join the army.
In the future, the requirements for military enlistment will become increasingly strict. People with obvious scars, knife wounds, cigarette burns, or incompletely removed tattoos will be ineligible.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Xinhua raised his right hand, looking worried. "Dad, will my hand be scarred?"
"How would I know? If gunpowder residue seeps into the flesh, it'll leave a black scar." Sheng Xiping rolled his eyes at his son, this brat could really drive him crazy.
Upon hearing this, Sheng Xinhua pouted, his eyes welling up with tears. He was truly filled with regret at that moment. "Dad, I was wrong."
"Serves you right, that'll teach you to cause trouble again." Sheng Xiping turned and went back to the east room, ignoring his son.
Sheng Xiping was quite ruthless; Sheng Xinhua ate standing up while having dinner that night.
That evening, when Sheng Xiping and his wife weren't paying attention, Aunt Li applied some ointment to Sheng Xinhua and told him to try to sleep on his stomach.
The next morning, the red marks on Sheng Xinhua's buttocks had all turned bluish-purple, which looked a bit scary.
Sheng Xiping forbade his son from taking leave and made him go to class as usual.
Fortunately, Sheng Xinhua was a tough kid. Despite being beaten so badly, it didn't stop him from getting going. After breakfast, the two brothers went to school with their backpacks on.
Sheng Xiping took his two daughters to the preschool, then drove to the factory to discuss future developments with Zheng Hua and the others.
Huayang Furniture is now beginning to make a name for itself. With Sheng Xiping in charge, as long as the factory doesn't encounter any major accidents, Huayang Furniture's future is definitely bright.
Sheng Xiping's idea was to simply separate the furniture workshop and establish Huayang Furniture Factory.
They plan to expand the workshop, hire more workers, and then not only sell their furniture domestically but also try to export it to earn foreign exchange.
"Going forward, our factory's main products will be furniture and wood panels, and we will focus our efforts on these two areas."
The furniture market, in particular, currently faces a significant shortage in the domestic market.
We must seize the opportunity, take the lead in the market, and strive to gain a foothold in the domestic furniture industry.
Therefore, we need to establish a research and development department, send them to learn, and design furniture that better meets current trends and customer preferences based on existing knowledge.
Sheng Xiping called a meeting with the factory's main leaders and put forward some requirements for the development of the furniture factory.
"President Sheng, we have no objection to focusing our main efforts on furniture."
However, our factory also processes other wood products, especially disposable chopsticks. We have a lot of orders, and the workshop is working overtime to keep up with demand.
"How should we arrange this?" Deputy Factory Director Yu Haitao asked after Sheng Xiping finished speaking.
"Simple, just outsource all the orders for disposable chopsticks."
Our bureau has so many forest farms, each with its own processing plants. We can cooperate with them, process the goods, and then buy them back.”
Ever since Qianchuan Forest Farm partnered with Huayang Processing Plant, leaders from other forest farms have either approached Sheng Xiping directly or relayed messages to him through Zhou Mingyuan.
Everyone wants to get some orders from Huayang to support the workers at the forestry processing plant.
So this isn't a problem, as long as we control the quality.
"Yes, what President Sheng said is a good idea. If we can outsource the orders, we can free up the workshop and workers."
Zheng Hua nodded; he thought the suggestion was quite good.
"Going forward, our factory will mainly focus on technology-based products that are not easily imitated or replaced."
Those disposable chopsticks really don't require much technology; in a couple of years, factories making them will be everywhere.
Sheng Xiping proposed, and the factory director and deputy factory director unanimously agreed, and thus, Huayang Furniture Factory became independent.
The factory advertises for workers, and for those who live far away, the factory provides dormitories and a canteen to ensure that workers have no worries about their livelihood.
Sheng Xiping is only responsible for controlling the overall direction; specific matters are handled by others, so he doesn't need to oversee everything.
After finishing the meeting and arranging various matters at the factory, Sheng Xiping went home.
"Honey, does Dad have a day off? Let's go see him this afternoon. I haven't seen Mom and Dad in a long time, and I miss them terribly."
"Since you're on holiday, let's take the kids over this afternoon." Sheng Xiping was referring to his father-in-law and mother-in-law.
"I don't know if Dad will have a holiday. Mom said he's been quite busy lately."
"It's okay, we can go back now. Dad will definitely be home tonight."
Zhou Qinglan rarely gets a day off. Yesterday, she and Aunt Li took apart and washed all the bedding, and today she spent the whole morning making quilts. She hasn't had time to go back to her parents' home yet.
"Okay, let's go to the market after we finish eating and buy some more things."
We're going to my parents' house this afternoon, and tomorrow we'll go back to the forest farm.
"It's a rare holiday, so I'll go back and visit my parents. We have a car, so we can come back after dinner."
Sheng Xiping chose to set up a factory in his hometown because he wanted to be closer to home and have time to spend with his parents, wife and children.
He's been away for days, and now that he's back, how can he not go home to visit?
And so, the couple reached an agreement.
In the afternoon, the children went to school, and the two of them went to the market and bought a lot of food and supplies, then took half of them to Zhou Mingyuan's house.
As expected, Zhou Mingyuan was not home. Wang Chunxiu was overjoyed to see her daughter and son-in-law return.
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