A week later, Cheng Yanqiu and Sun Maodou returned to Changhe Brigade accompanied by city leaders, county leaders, and commune leaders.
The members of Changhe Brigade lined the road to welcome them. They stood on both sides of the road from the village entrance all the way to the brigade headquarters, waving small red flags and shouting, "Welcome, welcome! A warm welcome!"
The brigade also organized a band to play drums and gongs, making it a lively and festive occasion.
Four or five vehicles pulled up to the threshing ground, where Lu Yuan, Lu Guoan, and a group of brigade cadres were already waiting.
Seeing Cheng Yanqiu, Sun Maodou, and a group of leaders get out of the car, the group hurriedly went to greet them.
"Brother Yanqiu, Maodou is finally back."
"Lu, it's so good to see you!"
Lu Yuan greeted the two men and then exchanged pleasantries with a group of leaders.
"Mayor Luo, Secretary Feng, County Head Qian, Secretary He, welcome, welcome!"
Feng Tao and Qian Weixin stepped forward and, smiling, nudged his shoulders with their fists.
"Alright, we're all acquaintances, stop with the bureaucratic tone."
Indeed, they were all people who knew each other very well. Mayor Luo was Luo Yaoguo, and they were very close. There was no need to be too formal since no outsiders were present.
Lu Yuan joked, "That's what happens when you're the leaders."
"Come on, I've never seen you like this before."
After laughing and joking for a while, the group entered the most spacious office in the brigade headquarters.
They came today for two reasons: first, to accompany Cheng Yanqiu, an overseas Chinese, and second, to finalize the investment and factory construction matters.
Even though we're acquaintances, the work still needs to be done.
Cheng Yanqiu promised to invest 5 million yuan to build a factory, which would be a significant achievement. The Changhe Brigade was under their jurisdiction, which would benefit all of them.
They were unaware that Lu Yuan was the real boss behind Cheng Yanqiu, and they were all waiting for Cheng Yanqiu's business plan.
The real planner was Lu Yuan, and the plan was in his hands.
When Lu Yuan handed the prepared proposal to Luo Yaoguo and the others, they were all puzzled.
"this?"
Cheng Yanqiu smiled and said, "Take a look at the detailed plan for investing in and building the factory."
Feng Tao asked curiously, "Why did A Yuan take it out?"
"It was his plan."
Upon hearing Cheng Yanqiu's words, Luo Yaoguo, Feng Tao, and Qian Weixin were all secretly alarmed. They had originally thought that the investment was made because Cheng Yanqiu had a good relationship with Lu Yuan and was investing in such a remote place out of consideration for their friend. Now it seemed that Lu Yuan was the one who was truly in charge.
The group were all intelligent people, and after a little thought, they understood that Cheng Yanqiu's business in Hong Kong over the past two years was probably also Lu Yuan's.
Looking at the people around Cheng Yanqiu, Sun Maodou and several other security personnel, he became even more certain of his guess.
Wow, their friend has really broadened their horizons once again.
Seeing through things but not saying anything is a good thing for them.
The person who truly had a close relationship with them was Lu Yuan, not Cheng Yanqiu.
The group began to carefully read the proposal.
"You want to rebuild the entire village?"
Qian Weixin felt that Lu Yuan was playing a bit too far.
Lu Yuan nodded slightly, "Isn't it true that after building the factory, we also need to build staff housing? This has taken up some of the commune members' houses, so those members need to rebuild their houses."
“We are a collective, and these members have all been given new houses for free. If other members don’t have new houses, won’t they have something to say? So let’s just build new houses together.”
Luo Yaoguo, Feng Tao, and Qian Weixin's lips twitched in unison. Wasn't this reason a bit too farcical?
He Shenghua had already heard about Lu Yuan's plan, so he wasn't surprised at all and listened calmly from the side.
“I remember there are more than 200 households in your Changhe Brigade. Building so many new houses is no small amount of money,” Feng Tao said.
The government certainly won't allocate funds for building so many houses. They came here to discuss investment, offering land but not money, hoping to increase tax revenue for the local government and provide more jobs for the local people.
"Don't worry, leader. Since our factory will be using part of the building, then our company should be responsible for repairing that part of the building," Cheng Yanqiu said.
"But what about the rest?"
"We'll figure out how to repair the rest ourselves," Lu Guoan quickly added.
Their brigade has a lot of money now and plans to use it all to build houses. Although it's not enough, Lu Yuan said that Boss Cheng would make up the shortfall, as long as the village allocates land for him to set up a factory.
“In that case, I think this plan is feasible,” Luo Yaoguo said, making the final decision.
And so, the matter of Cheng Yanqiu investing in a factory in Changhe Brigade, which would require occupying civilian houses, and all the commune members relocating and building new houses was settled.
Cheng Yanqiu provided the capital, and the local government provided the land; they jointly established the factory.
The local government holds 20% of the shares, the remote company where Cheng Yanqiu works holds 70%, and the remaining 10% was allocated to the Changhe Brigade.
However, when they later went to investigate on-site, they realized that the whole idea of occupying private houses was nonsense.
The factory was clearly built outside the village, about four or five kilometers away, in the middle of the village and the commune. How could it possibly occupy the houses?
The factory Lu Yuan wants to set up is a food processing plant. Over the years, the grains and various fruits and vegetables grown in the space have been sold off in truckloads, but the surplus has accumulated to a terrifying amount.
So he had to find a way to use up the resources in the space.
The best way is to set up a food processing plant, secretly take the things out of the space, process them into other foods, and then sell them openly.
Moreover, Lu Yuan believed that the raw materials in the space would produce food that other manufacturers could not match.
He could imagine how profitable the factory would be in the future.
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