Chapter 471 Sheng Xitai's College Entrance Examination
Having finished all their chores, Sheng Liancheng and his wife were thinking about their home, so Sheng Xiping drove his parents, Sheng Xinyue, and Sheng Xinqi back to the forest farm.
With nothing much to do this time, Sheng Xiping made a special trip to the farm to take a look and had a discussion with Liu Yujiang about the farm's daily management and future development.
The farm is some distance from the villages, and unauthorized personnel are not allowed to go there on weekdays. All staff members must change clothes and disinfect themselves before feeding the animals.
In terms of epidemic prevention, we must be very careful. If we are not careful, all our efforts will be wasted.
Developing the aquaculture industry is not something that can be accomplished overnight; it must be done step by step and gradually, without rushing it.
Sheng Xiping and Liu Yujiang were both well aware of this.
"Brother, let's work hard. The farm will definitely have a bright future. Trust me, you won't regret it."
Sheng Xiping has other plans for the future of the farm, but it's too early to say too much.
"Of course! My brother's idea, how could it be bad?" Liu Yujiang put his arm around Sheng Xiping and laughed heartily.
Since it was a rare occasion for Sheng Xiping to return to the forest farm, he naturally went to see Zheng Xianyong and gave some gifts to everyone at the farm headquarters and the shuttle bus driver to thank him for providing the transportation.
In the evening, Zhang Shuzhen cooked some good dishes and invited Liu's father and son, as well as Zheng Xianyong, to her house for drinks.
At the dinner table, Zheng Xianyong suddenly brought up the idea of having his youngest son go out and try his luck with Sheng Xiping.
Zheng Xianyong has two sons. The elder son, Zheng Xing, is one year older than Sheng Xikang. A few years ago, he was hired as a mass laborer and is now a chainsaw operator.
The second son, Zheng Hua, was a classmate of Sheng Yunfang. He was unlucky and was not recruited as a general laborer, but as an agricultural and forestry worker.
Agricultural and forestry workers, as the name suggests, not only do forestry work, but also agricultural work.
Just like Sheng Xiping and his fellow educated youth back then, they planted crops and vegetables in the spring and summer, and went up the mountain to harvest trees in the winter.
Zheng Xianyong felt sorry for his children, so he arranged for his youngest son to work in the processing plant, thinking that he could train him for a few years and then promote him to be the plant manager.
The processing plant at Qianchuan Forest Farm was quite profitable a few years ago, under the leadership of Sheng Xiping.
Sheng Xiping resigned and went to the south to seek his fortune. The processing plant was missing a person who could really take charge. It couldn't get new orders and was just relying on the old ones to survive. It was a place where they wouldn't starve but wouldn't make a living either.
Even so, jobs in processing plants are highly sought after by many.
There's no way around it; the forest farm has wave after wave of unemployed young people, and last year they recruited a large number of agricultural and forestry workers.
Compared to the work in the agricultural team, the processing plant was a much better place, and many people were eager to get in.
"That's right, the processing plant isn't very profitable, so it doesn't need that many people."
The collective wanted to develop ginseng cultivation, so they transferred agricultural and forestry workers to work in the ginseng fields. The second son didn't want to go to the ginseng fields and kept nagging me about it.
"I was thinking, why don't we let him come with you? Whatever he does, it's better than him having to farm and grow corn," Zheng Xianyong said, sighing.
The leader in charge of the collective at Qianchuan Forest Farm thought that ginseng cultivation was profitable, so he took out a loan from the bureau and approved a plot of ginseng land at the bald spot to develop ginseng cultivation.
Therefore, all the agricultural and forestry workers in the field had to be transferred there to work in the ginseng fields.
Zheng Xianyong is an honest man who also cares about his reputation. Since all the forestry workers in the forest farm have gone to work in the ginseng fields, he is afraid that people will gossip about him if he keeps his youngest son in the processing plant.
So Zheng Xianyong persuaded his second son to go work in the ginseng field first, and then they would think of other ways when the opportunity arose.
Zheng Hua is twenty-two years old this year. He's young and ambitious, and he's always felt that he's not happy about graduating from high school only to end up farming.
In addition, Sheng Xiping led Wang Jianshe and others south to make a living and earned a lot of money, which Zheng Hua envied.
So he repeatedly told his parents that he wanted to quit his factory job and go live with Sheng Xiping.
Zheng Xianyong and his wife were naturally unhappy. No matter how bad the treatment of agricultural and forestry workers was, they were still workers.
Even if Sheng Xiping makes a lot of money, he's still an individual. Right now, he seems to be making a lot of money and doing quite well, but in the long run, workers are still more desirable.
When you're a worker, you're managed by your employer, and you can retire when you get old. But who can you rely on if you're self-employed?
However, Zheng Hua kept nagging, and Zheng Xianyong and his wife got annoyed by their son's constant chatter.
Furthermore, the Sheng family's wedding this time broadened Zheng Xianyong's horizons, and his original views began to waver.
Just then, Sheng Xiping returned, and Zheng Xianyong, emboldened by alcohol, brought up the matter.
"Uncle, I've acquired a large plot of land north of Songjianghe Railway Station, and I plan to build a comprehensive timber processing plant."
The initial idea is to include a furniture workshop, various types of board workshops, and workshops for disposable chopsticks and popsicles.
"If Xiaohua really doesn't want to stay at the forest farm, Uncle, why don't you ask him if he'd be willing to work at my factory?"
Sheng Xiping wants to build a comprehensive timber processing plant, not a single product, but a comprehensive utilization of timber.
The factory occupies a large area. The planning map was drawn by people from Linjian Design Institute at Sheng Xiping's request. Several workshops have already been planned.
After some time, the factory will break ground, and it is estimated that it will be able to start production no earlier than next year.
Such a large factory requires a lot of workers, not to mention management.
Sheng Xiping is a single person, and he doesn't have eight arms, so there must be someone familiar with wood processing to be in charge of workshop management.
Before returning, Sheng Xiping had already arranged for his two cousins to work as apprentices in a composite board factory and a fiberboard factory, respectively.
The wages were paid by Sheng Xiping. The two of them mainly went there to learn the relevant technology. They didn't need to be experts, but at least they needed to know some of the production processes.
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