The Changhe Brigade started building factories and houses in a great hurry, with everyone in the brigade pitching in.
The city also sent a special engineering team. Professionals are professionals, and their work was much more thorough and meticulous than that of the village bricklayers.
Lu Yuan plans to build the factory first, and then slowly build the buildings after the factory is operational.
The factory was quite large; the production brigade allocated over a hundred acres of wasteland outside the village to it.
This made Lu Yuan very happy.
Even if a few more apartment buildings are built after the factory is finished, there will still be land left over, which will make it convenient for him to do other things later.
The factory and the staff housing were built at the same time, so when we recruit workers, we need to prepare the employee dormitories.
The first batch will need to recruit over a thousand people, and they certainly won't be able to fill all the positions with people from their own village. They will have to find people from surrounding villages or even the county.
It's inconvenient to travel back and forth from a distance, so we definitely need to arrange accommodation.
When the Changhe Brigade built its factory and constructed buildings, Jiang Haishan was the happiest person. When bricks and tiles were needed, Lu Yuan naturally thought of him first.
"Uncle Jiang, I'll take as many bricks and tiles as your factory has."
"Haha, great!"
Jiang Haishan smiled broadly, knowing that their factory would no longer have to worry about orders.
"However, we must ensure quality," Lu Yuan said.
"Of course, don't worry, I'll personally oversee the process."
Lu Yuan naturally still trusted the quality of the brick and tile factory; otherwise, he wouldn't have come to Jiang Haishan first.
They needed a lot of bricks and tiles to build their factory and buildings, and the commune's brick and tile factory alone was definitely not enough to supply them. So Lu Yuan went to the county and city, and with the recommendation of Luo Yaoguo and Qian Weixin, he found two brick and tile factories with good quality.
In addition, we finalized agreements with several building material factories and ordered a batch of furniture from a furniture factory.
As for the factory's machinery and equipment, Cheng Yanqiu and Sun Maodou were in charge.
The two stayed at the Changhe Brigade for a week before leaving in a hurry.
Cheng Yanqiu returned to Gangcheng, while Sun Maodou stayed in Pengcheng.
Half a month later, Lu Yuan was supervising the construction site. The withered grass and rubble on the wasteland had been cleared away, and one-third of the factory's foundation had been laid. He thought that in another two months, the foundation should be almost finished.
Just then, someone rushed over and told him to go back to the brigade to answer the phone.
The call was from Sun Maodou.
"Ah Yuan, guess who I saw in Shenzhen?"
"who?"
"Lu Guoqing".
"who?!"
For many years, Lu Yuan had hardly heard anyone mention this name, and had almost forgotten about him.
"That's Xiaojun's dad. You wouldn't believe it, he's really living the high life these days."
"oh?"
Lu Yuan couldn't imagine what kind of person this man could become.
The voice on the other end of the phone was clearly very excited.
"That guy always wore a suit and tie, a shirt and a tie, and carried a briefcase under his arm wherever he went."
That's incredibly pretentious!
This sentence popped into Lu Yuan's mind.
“I inquired and found out that he also came from Gangcheng to invest in Pengcheng.”
"Is Hong Kong coming to invest?"
This was truly beyond Lu Yuan's expectations.
"That's right. I heard that he came to Shenzhen on behalf of a construction company from Hong Kong. A few years ago, he unintentionally saved his current boss, and the boss has trusted him ever since."
"I never expected him to have such a wonderful encounter," Lu Yuan remarked.
"Yes, but this person is not very capable. He doesn't understand many things about the company. No matter how much their boss trusts him, he can't be valued. He's not the one who really makes the decisions about their company's investment in Pengcheng. He's just a figurehead."
"Who cares if he's hooked up with a big boss now? Since he dares to show up on the mainland, he's just walking into a trap. Back then, he escaped from the Changhe Brigade."
"Ah Yuan, what do you mean?"
"Now that you're back, it's time to go inside."
“But he is now a resident of Hong Kong, and he is here to invest on behalf of his company, so this matter will be very difficult to handle.”
Lu Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly; this identity was indeed a problem.
The country is now vigorously attracting foreign investment to develop the economy, and these foreign businesses are protected. In the end, Lu Guoqing only harmed Lu Yuan and his family back then, not other crimes that endangered society, and did not damage the national interests.
But if Lu Yuan were to take action against him now, it would harm the national interest.
Faced with the conflict between personal and collective interests, Lu Yuan knew without a doubt that his superiors would force him to make concessions.
"No rush. Now that he's back, there are plenty of ways to deal with him."
"But what about Xiaojun and Xiaoqin..."
After all, he is the biological father of these two siblings, and Sun Maodou is worried that he will become estranged from them.
“Lu Guoqing is Lu Guoqing. Ever since he abandoned his two children and ran away, he has no right to be their father.”
If these siblings can protect him in front of him, then he might as well treat them as strangers from now on.
Anyway, no one can stop him.
“Okay, I got it, A Yuan. I’ll have someone keep an eye on him later,” Sun Maodou said.
Two days later, Sun Maodou called again.
“Brother Yuan, I actually ran into that bastard Lu Guoan again today. He saw me and even greeted me.”
"That guy acted all high and mighty in front of me, but no matter how arrogant he was, he couldn't outdo me. I'm younger and more handsome than him, and most importantly, I can make decisions at the company."
"Hilarious! He's so old and he's still seeing young girls everywhere he goes. That girl is probably even younger than Xiaoqin. Calling her 'baby' makes me want to throw up."
"Also, he said he wanted to take that woman back to Changhe Brigade to pay respects to their ancestors. I advised him not to go back, lest he embarrass the Lu family patriarch. If he really went to pay respects, I'm afraid the Lu family patriarch's coffin lid wouldn't be able to hold him back and would jump out to slap him. He was so angry he was half-dead, hahahahaha..."
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