Chapter 196 We Live in Wonderland (1)
The final stop of the bus is Lingxi Oasis.
Of course, the only people who finally arrived at Oasis Station were Taotao's family and a few people who came to visit relatives in Lingxi Brigade.
Song Zhi stood in this...
For him, it was a very incredible land.
If he had not seen Lingxi Oasis before, he would not doubt his eyes at this moment.
How could the change be so big?
——The area of clear lake water is more than twice as large as it was three years ago! But it should be due to human intervention that the lake water is expanding far away.
The breeze blows gently across my face, carrying with it moist water vapor and the fragrance of plants and flowers.
So comfortable.
Tao Tao asked with a smile, "How is it? Big change, right?"
Song Zhi nodded, "It's so shocking!"
Tao Tao whispered, "Since the year you left, I have been giving suggestions to Jiang Hongzhi... The reason behind the successful tree planting is that water sources have been retained. So Lingxi Lake will become bigger and bigger. If we don't want the village to be flooded, we have to dig a water diversion channel in advance. At that time, the opinions in the village were quite divided. After all, there were no work points for digging water channels..."
"Most people thought that it would be better to open a few greenhouses to grow vegetables and directly increase economic benefits. Fortunately, Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu withstood the pressure and arranged to dig a water diversion channel. Sure enough, the water level increased in the second year... The people who opposed it before had nothing to say, and from then on, they would spend time digging water ditches every year..."
Song Zhi said sincerely: "You are an expert in this area."
Taotao chuckled, pointed to the distance, and continued, "The area of Lingxi Lake is getting bigger and bigger. I told Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu that it's time to standardize the water intake rules for water trucks. Water is a gift from nature and shared by all mankind. But our Lingxi Oasis Brigade is the manager of the water source, and we have the right to charge management fees to water trucks... But before that, Jiang Hongzhi must get the support of the water conservancy department before he can charge fees. We charge fees not for profit, but to better manage and maintain this water area."
Song Zhi looked carefully.
——There are still water trucks queuing here waiting to be filled with water. But three years ago, everyone parked their cars randomly, creating a chaotic and dusty scene. Now, not only has a cement road been built leading directly to the lake, but there is also a plan.
All water trucks followed the road signs and drove to the "Water trucks queue here" area, and then slowly drove into the "water filling area" under the command of a special person...
The most amazing thing is that in the past, to add water, the driver had to drive the car to the lake, then build a pump and pump the water from the lake directly into the car tank. But now, cars no longer have to drive to the lake. People set up four water filling piles like those at a gas station, allowing four vehicles to add water at the same time. All they had to do was connect the thick pipe coupling on the water filling pile to the top of the water tanker on the water delivery truck and they could add water by turning on the switch.
Since the bridle is thick enough, it takes about half an hour to fill a car's water tank. Half an hour later, the four trucks filled with water left, and the next batch of four trucks slowly drove over...
Tao Tao continued to explain with a smile, "Now every truck that comes to fetch water has to pay a management fee of one yuan. This is supported by a red-headed document from above... We can earn about two to three hundred yuan a day. Part of this money is used to pay the villagers for digging the water diversion channel. In addition, Jiang Hongzhi and his men send people to patrol the lake every day, rowing small boats on the lake to check the water quality, and do water quality tests every day. In addition, the water pipes and bridles for water diversion have to be cleaned every day..."
Song Zhi nodded repeatedly.
But what shocked Song Zhi the most was the lush vegetation in the oasis that looked like a tropical rainforest.
It wasn't like this before.
In the past, there was certainly vegetation in the oasis near the lake, but it was sparse and looked half-dead.
Now?
Standing on a high ground and looking far away, the clear blue lake water meanders to the horizon, and the lush green trees accompany the lake to the horizon.
It looks like the land is green for dozens of miles!
Song Zhi turned his head and looked at Taotao with eyes full of admiration and shock.
Although, he and Taotao came to Oasis ten years ago. In the first seven years, the oasis didn't change much. How come it was completely different as soon as he came back from abroad?
Tao Tao smiled and said to Song Zhi: "Why are you looking at me like that? This has nothing to do with me... This is all thanks to Jiang Hongzhi and his team! It's because of their accumulation in the past few years... Of course, it's also because they believe in me and believe in science!"
When she said this, even Taotao herself laughed.
She comes from the fairyland. When she was still in Xuanye Ancient Continent, she had heard of a female fairy with wood spiritual roots sowing beans to form a forest in a desert ghost town, but that was relying on her powerful magic power and spiritual energy...
Now, she, a peach fairy from the fairyland, is actually studying science and believing in science in the human world, and teaching people not to be superstitious?
It's very interesting.
Tao Tao took Song Zhi to her research station and said, "My research station has changed a lot now! It's even better than... my experimental garden in Kyoto!"
Even though it was quite far away, Song Zhi had already seen it.
——Taotao’s greenhouse used to be a plastic shed due to financial constraints.
Now?
What we are building now is a tall, spacious and transparent glass shed!
Taotao smiled and said, "The experimental data I submitted looked good, and the country thought I had great potential, so they allocated more funds! In the previous Desert Symbiotic Ecosystem, my teacher was the first author, and I was the second author. Now I have two more projects on hand. One is the melons that Xiaosui and his team sell abroad, which are cash crops! The other is the improved cotton variety! I applied for these two projects, and I am the person in charge!"
Song Zhi smiled.
Tao Tao added: "Of course, the desert symbiotic ecosystem is my ultimate dream! After all, as long as the desert soil is changed, people can plant whatever they want in the fields without any restrictions!
She took Song Zhi to her research station.
Although Taotao's greenhouse has changed a lot, the research station has not changed and remains the same as before.
However, the simple gray house of the research station was covered with various vines.
Feifei pointed at the vines and said to Song Zhi, "Look, Dad! It's March now, and the vines haven't even grown leaves yet... In two months, our house will be dyed green by the vines, and these vines will bloom!"
"Dad, dad, we live in a wonderland!" Mo Mo screamed excitedly.
Taotao and Song Zhi both laughed.
"How is it?" Tao Tao asked Song Zhi with a smile, "Are you scared?"
Song Zhi nodded with a smile.
Taotao smiled playfully and said, "But you only saw the surface...When you get to know this place more deeply, you will be shocked again!"
Song Zhi, "I'm looking forward to it."
As they were talking, some villagers had already seen Taotao and her family. They greeted Taotao with surprise and then shifted their attention to Song Zhi.
They were stunned for a moment, but soon recognized Song Zhi and asked Tao Tao, "Hey, Teacher Bai, is Teacher Song back?"
Taotao nodded with a smile.
Taotao led Song Zhi and the children into the research station.
The research station was kept clean and tidy, and you could tell there was someone cleaning it every day.
Someone heard the noise ahead and ran over from the greenhouse behind the warehouse, shouting, "Who's here?"
Taotao smiled and said, "Qingjuan, I'm back!"
Xiao Qingjuan, wearing a white coat, looked at Taotao's family and widened her eyes in surprise, "Feifei's mom! Ah, Feifei and Momo are back too... Oh, this is... Feifei's dad is back too?"
"You just arrived. You must have had a hard time on this journey! I'll boil some hot water for you so you can wipe your faces!"
Having said that, Xiao Qingjuan ran to the kitchen to boil water as if she knew the place well.
Tao Tao explained to Song Zhi, "Jiang Hongzhi is too busy at work, so Qingjuan has become my assistant. When I'm not here, my two greenhouses are under her care."
Xiao Qingjuan put a pot on the stove to boil water, and then she used the water in the kettle to make tea for Taotao's family of four. Then she looked at Song Zhi and said with a smile, "Teacher Song has been abroad for three years, right? How do you think we have changed a lot here?"
Song Zhi nodded in agreement, "I can hardly recognize this place."
Tao Tao didn't treat Xiao Qingjuan as an outsider and teased her, "People know that Song Zhi just came back from abroad, so they usually ask him how things are going abroad... Only you, as soon as you see him, ask him how things are going here!"
Xiao Qingjuan covered her mouth with her hands in embarrassment. "Oh, the moon abroad is too round, I can't reach it! Besides, it's none of my business whether it's good abroad or not! I just want to watch over the moon of our Lingxi Oasis and make our Lingxi Oasis better and better..."
It just so happened that Song Zhi rarely went out for social events or travel when he was abroad. Even if I go out to travel, it is to complete the tasks arranged by Taotao. For him, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, without Taotao and the children's company, he would just be going through the motions wherever he goes.
He doesn't want to tell others about his travel experiences abroad!
There is really nothing to say.
Xiao Qingjuan was a talkative person, and she chattered away to Song Zhi about the changes that had taken place at the oasis over the past few years.
Song Zhi didn't need to say anything, but he was very interested in the oasis and would raise his hand to ask questions when he heard something fascinating...
Taotao took advantage of this opportunity to pack her luggage and help the children take a bath and wash their hair to get rid of the dust on their bodies. Finally, she even took a shower, washed her hair, and changed her clothes.
While Song Zhi went to wash his hair and take a shower, Xiao Qingjuan was cooking in the kitchen while reporting to Taotao on the progress and data of various projects in the laboratory during the past six months when she was away.
At noon, Xiao Qingjuan's daughter Niu Niu and Zhou Chunni's daughter Honghong came over together after school. Honghong said to Taotao, "Mrs. Tao, my mother asked you to wait a while before eating. She hurried home to make pancakes and will bring them over in a while."
Taotao agreed with a smile, and Feifei, Niuniu and Honghong started playing together.
Soon, Zhou Chunni hurried over with a basket. As soon as she entered the house, she saw Song Zhi and said with a smile, "Taotao, you guys are back? Well, your brother Jiang was nagging me a few days ago, saying that you should come back in the next few days... But just now I heard that Song Zhi is back too! I was thinking, Song Zhi has been gone for three years, and he hasn't eaten the pancakes I baked for three years, right?"
Xiao Qingjuan scolded with a smile, "Come on, stop embarrassing yourself here! Teacher Song has been eating steak and drinking coffee abroad and it's still not enough... why would he want your pancakes!"
Zhou Chunni, "How can they be the same? This pancake is from our hometown! No matter where you go, you will never forget your roots!"
"You have no shame! This is not Teacher Song's hometown... Besides, Oasis is not your hometown!" Xiao Qingjuan said.
Zhou Chunni, "Screw you! It was just the day before yesterday that you asked me to make pancakes but I didn't have time to do it. Why are you making such a petty fuss? Why do you care where my hometown is? Oasis is my home now! Song Zhi is also in Oasis now, so this Oasis is also his home!"
Taotao watched the two of them bickering with amusement.
Song Zhi also laughed, "Yeah, when Taotao and I talked about going back to the Northwest, I wanted to eat pancakes..."
Zhou Chunni glared at Xiao Qingjuan with pride, "Listen!"
Then he turned around and put the basket on the table. "Here are twenty pancakes. Don't save them. Eat them to your heart's content!"
Taotao thanked Zhou Chunni with a smile.
Xiao Qingjuan, "Hey, those ten pancakes I asked you to make..."
Zhou Chunni glared at her and said, "I've asked Junjun to send her to your house!"
Xiao Qingjuan was so happy that she quickly called her daughter, "Girl, let's go! Let's go home and eat pancakes! Let's make some egg soup with vegetable leaves and eat pancakes with soybean paste... I feel happy just thinking about it! Feifei's mom, Teacher Song, Feifei, Momo, we are leaving now. Come back this afternoon!"
Taotao tried hard to keep her for dinner, but Xiao Qingjuan refused and left with Niuniu.
Zhou Chunni also refused to stay for dinner and wanted to take Honghong with her. But before leaving, he said to Taotao, "Remember, we'll have dinner at the Lianfang Square tonight! Song Zhi, I'm leaving! Feifei, Momo, see you tonight!"
Taotao agreed with a smile, and Zhou Chunni left.
Song Zhi asked Tao Tao, "What does setting up a meal mean?"
Feifei quickly explained to her father, "Dad, every time we come to the oasis, and every time we leave the oasis... Uncle Jiang and Aunt Caizhu will call many uncles and aunts in the village to the joint defense square to report to mom on the work situation and summarize the work progress..."
Momo added, "To set up a meal means everyone cooks at home, then brings their bowls to the Lianfang Square and eats together!"
Tao Tao smiled and said, "The Joint Defense Square is the open space in front of our door!"
Song Zhi looked at Taotao, his heart filled with indescribable admiration.
Taotao's main job is just agricultural research.
However, she seems to have become a poverty alleviation worker.
She led the oasis people to plant trees scientifically and improve the water and soil environment; taught them to build greenhouses to grow cash crops; and taught them to manage water resources, because clean water is more precious than soil! In addition, she also taught them to read and popularize various scientific knowledge...
Taotao represents a spirit.
Feifei said, "Mom and Dad, let's eat too!"
Xiao Qingjuan is a hardworking woman, and she is always thinking about Taotao's help to her and her daughter. In her heart, Taotao is her teacher and also her relative. So just now, while Taotao's family was taking a shower, washing their hair, changing clothes and packing their luggage, she had already prepared meals for them, and cooked them according to their tastes.
There are three dishes and one soup, the staple food is rice - steamed bacon, scrambled eggs with black fungus, fried eggplant with tomatoes, plus a fresh mushroom, loofah, salted egg and shrimp soup.
However, Xiao Qingni did not consider the issue of portion when cooking.
Song Zhi has a big appetite, and Feifei is a teenager now, and his appetite is no less than his father's...the food is not enough at all. Taotao took the big basket that Zhou Chunni brought and took out the pancakes from it.
The family of four had a hearty meal and then went for a nap.
In the past few years, when Song Zhi was away, Taotao and her two children slept in the same room.
Momo has grown up and can no longer sleep in the small bed that Song Zhi made for him, so Taotao takes Momo to sleep in the big bed, while Feifei still sleeps in his old single bed.
But Feifei is already eleven years old, and it is not suitable for her to sleep in the same room with her mother.
Song Zhi didn't say anything. First, the four of them squeezed into Taotao's bedroom. Song Zhi, Taotao and Momo slept on the big bed, while Feifei slept on the small bed...
Song Zhi only slept for about half an hour before he got up quietly.
He tidied up the guest room opposite that was cluttered with debris, fetched some water, and cleaned the room until it was spotless.
——After Taotao and the children woke up, he moved Feifei's single bed to the guest room. There was originally another bed in the guest room, so the two brothers had their own bed.
After a while, Taotao also got up.
After a full lunch and a good sleep, she felt that all the fatigue from the journey had disappeared!
Did you see Song Zhi cleaning the room opposite?
"Do you want to move Feifei's bed over there?" Taotao asked.
Song Zhi nodded.
Tao Tao subconsciously said, "Then move the lamp over there too."
lamp?
Song Zhi raised his eyebrows.
Is there electricity here?
Tao Tao was startled, stuck out her tongue, and smiled playfully, "It's my fault for letting it slip... I wanted to wait until the evening to give you a surprise!"
As she spoke, she took Song Zhi out of the research station and walked towards the greenhouse at the back.
Song Zhi saw a row of solar cells.
Tao Tao pointed at the batteries and said with a smile, "The power collected by these batteries has two uses. One is for the nighttime electricity use of the research station and the temperature control of the greenhouse, and the other is for the street lights in the entire oasis area. In addition, it can store a lot of electricity. Villagers bought batteries and took them to the joint defense to charge... At night, every household can use electric lights!"
After a pause, she smiled and said, "It's lively at night! The nights here are no longer pitch black... The stars are so beautiful!"
Song Zhi was speechless for a long time.
"However, even if they use batteries to charge, the electricity they provide is limited to... they can only keep the lights on for about four hours at most. So now everyone in the village basically turns off the lights after 10 o'clock in the evening... because the electricity will run out!" Taotao explained with a smile.
Tao Tao pointed to a large greenhouse built by the villagers in the distance and said, "Look, before you left, they only had three greenhouses, just enough for them to grow vegetables. Now it's different, look at those greenhouses, there are more than a dozen now... Not only are there more, but the output is also greater."
"We have now developed soilless cultivation. The output of just one greenhouse is enough for this village to eat fruits and vegetables for a whole year! In addition, we have contracted vegetables for everyone within a radius of 100 kilometers... and the foreign orders that Xiaosui and his team received, those melons... are all produced in these greenhouses!"
Song Zhi said sincerely: "Taotao, you are so amazing!"
Tao Tao said proudly: "This is just the first step! In the future, I will make this place...even better!"
Song Zhi smiled.
Taotao tilted her head and asked him, "What about you? You never tell me about your work situation."
Song Zhi thought for a moment and said, "I dare not say that I have mastered the core technology. Anyway... I hope to achieve the initial goal within ten years!"
Tao Tao nodded and said, "Your mission is different from mine. Yours is to create something from nothing. And mine is to improve existing conditions. So it's easier for me than for you. It's okay, Song Zhi, let's keep up the good work! Let's become stronger together! Let's... let all the people in the country live a life where they can eat as much meat as they want!"
Song Zhi held her hand tightly.
The joint defense office is located at the entrance of Taotao’s scientific research station.
There are only a few old men guarding the place during the day, and at night strong men are sent out to patrol in teams to protect the safety of the entire village and oasis.
An old man greeted Taotao and said that the newspapers and magazines she had subscribed to were already piled up very full, and asked if he would help her move them to the research station.
Taotao thanked the old man, and Song Zhi went forward and carried back to the research station a thick stack of newspapers and magazines that Taotao had subscribed to, including Banyuetan, Zhiyin, Xiaoxiaoshaonian, Story Club, Mathematical Olympiad Genius, People's Daily, etc.
In the afternoon, Xiao Qingjuan came to work.
Taotao was looking through the diary in the office and saw Xiao Qingjuan holding something in her hand with an expression that was hard to describe.
"Qingjuan, what's wrong?" Taotao asked her.
Xiao Qingjuan suddenly came to her senses, hesitated for a moment, then handed the thing in her hand to Taotao.
Taotao took it and looked at it. It was a remittance slip. The amount on it showed that it was two hundred yuan. The remitter was Hua Fugui and the remittance location was Shenzhen.
Xiao Qingjuan whispered, "...Since he left home to work last year, he has been sending me 200 yuan every month. I wrote to him and asked him not to send money anymore, saying that I can support Niuniu. But he refused and still sent money back every month."
Taotao smiled and said, "Want to remarry?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "No! I saved the money he sent back for him. I left half for Niuniu, and I'll give the other half back to him when he comes back! But Feifei's mom, I feel... you can't earn 200 yuan by working so hard in this village for a whole month! I..."
Xiao Qingjuan hesitated to speak.
Tao Tao understood, "You also want to go out to work?"
Xiao Qingjuan sighed, "If I didn't have a child, I would really like to go out and see the world! Making money is one thing, and seeing the world is another."
Taotao showed a thoughtful expression.
In the evening, Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu, who were working outside, were very happy to hear that Taotao and Song Zhi had returned. They went home, took their bowls of food, and came to the Joint Defense Square.
Many benches have been set up here in the square.
In the afternoon, Taotao opened a bag of mung beans and used them to boil a pot of mung bean soup, which she put in a large iron basin and placed outside. I picked a lot of ice grass and made a hot and sour cold dish.
Everyone sat around the Joint Defense Square, eating and chatting.
Many children and women came with bowls to join in the fun, scooping up some mung bean soup or eating some hot and sour ice grass from time to time.
It was mainly Jiang Hongzhi, Lan Caizhu and Taotao who were chatting and talking.
The content is about the melon export business that Song Sui received.
Lan Caizhu said: "The first batch of melons has been delivered. Song Sui arranged a young man to come and tell us the ins and outs of exporting. Oh, it's really not easy! One box can only hold four melons, and they have to be about the same size. The maturity must be just right. They can't be too ripe, or they will go bad before they reach the hands of foreign customers! They can't be too raw either, or they will go bad when they cross the ocean and reach the hands of customers!"
"And each melon must be packed in a bubble gum net bag. The cartons must be brand new, the right size, and printed on the outside... This is a big problem! We just grow melons, who knows where to find these cartons and bubble gum bags? Especially since that guy told us that we need to do some kind of testing..."
"Oh! Taotao, you don't know, the melons from the first order really annoyed us! We are not afraid of growing melons, but the procedures are too troublesome..." After talking for a long time in one breath, Lan Caizhu took a few more mouthfuls of rice.
Tao Tao asked Jiang Hongzhi, "Brother, have you figured out the trick?"
Jiang Hongzhi pondered for a moment and said, "The guy Song Sui sent was a very nice guy. I didn't know where to buy the bubble gum bags and cartons, nor did I know where to find the testing company... He led me and we worked hard together to complete all the procedures. The process was indeed quite tortuous."
Tao Tao asked again, "Then can you handle the next few orders by yourself?"
Jiang Hongzhi: "If you don't do anything else, it should be fine."
Tao Tao pondered and immediately gave a suggestion, "Brother, go register a company! Register an...import and export company!"
The place, which was noisy just now, became quiet in an instant.
There were still a few heartless children screaming, but they were restrained by the other adults and quieted down.
Jiang Hongzhi asked doubtfully: "I, I...we should start an import and export company?"
Taotao nodded seriously.
Jiang Hongzhi, "But, but there are only five orders in total, and they will be gone once we finish them... Is it worth it?"
“It’s necessary!”
Taotao said word by word.
She looked at Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu with a serious and earnest expression, "Last year was the first National South Trade Fair... To put it bluntly, there were not many manufacturers participating! So Song Sui has a great chance. I know Song Sui very well. With his vision for expanding customers and business, he will only receive more and more foreign trade orders!"
"Now that we have reform and opening up, we need to develop a market economy, and the country also encourages exports to earn foreign exchange. When it comes to export orders, our Lingxi Oasis is the first in the Northwest to get it! This is an advantage!"
"You apply for the qualification of an import and export company at this critical moment... Even if it is impossible to do so under normal circumstances, the country will only encourage you! And we set up this import and export company not just for these five orders. Will there be no South China Fair next year? Will we never receive foreign trade orders again in the future?"
"Even if we can't get it, maybe other companies in the northwest will receive such orders...Do they know where to buy those bubble gum protective bags? Do they know where to buy those boxes with foreign words printed on them? Do they know where to get agricultural and sideline products tested?"
"They definitely don't know either, so... we can let foreign businessmen place their orders with our import and export company. We will charge the price difference and help the manufacturers sort out the export procedures. If the commission is generous enough, we can even help inspect the quality of the products..." Taotao said.
Jiang Hongzhi opened his mouth stupidly, and half of the biscuit he was biting fell out... He quickly caught it and stuffed it back into his mouth, then started chewing it with an expressionless face.
Lan Caizhu also looked at Taotao in shock, and after a long while she said, "Taotao, we are all farmers..."
Tao Tao said seriously, "There is no distinction between high and low professions! Although it is not appropriate to apply it here, no one has limited the profession of farmers to a certain level. I am also a farmer, so can't I do scientific research and become a professor? The same is true now. You are farmers, but can't you start a company and do business?"
Jiang Hongzhi asked: "Can I apply for the qualification of an import and export company in my own name?"
Tao Tao, "If we can't do it individually, we can do it in the name of the group! Besides, while we have foreign trade orders... we must seize this opportunity!"
Jiang Hongzhi nodded slowly, "Tomorrow I will go and find out how to proceed with the procedure, and then ask my superiors for their opinions... If they agree, we will come back and vote!"
Taotao smiled.
She knew that Jiang Hongzhi was a reliable person. Since he cares about this matter and is willing to spend time and energy to understand it... there will always be a result.
At this time, the conversation between Qiao Yingniang and Xiao Qingjuan on the side fell into the ears of everyone.
Qiao Yingniang, "Did Fugui send you money again?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "Yeah."
Qiao Yingniang, "Another two hundred?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "Yeah."
Qiao Yingniang, "He can do it! Where is he working? Didn't they say that his back is not in good condition?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "I heard it was an electronics factory in Dongguan City, sitting on the assembly line..."
Qiao Yingniang, "What is an assembly line?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "This... I don't know either."
Qiao Yingniang, "But he can send back 200 yuan every month... That's impressive! Our family can only save 200 yuan a year... Hey, can you ask him to introduce a job?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "I heard that his factory is indeed hiring workers all year round. He earns 350 yuan a month. He keeps some for himself and sends the rest back home."
Qiao Ying's mother said, "My cousin Qiao Ying, the son of my eldest sister from my mother's family, has always said that he wants to go out and try his luck, but he has never been out of the house because his mother won't let him. If Fuguier comes back next time, let him take Qiao Ying's cousin out with him!"
Xiao Qingjuan, "Well, let's wait until he comes back. I don't even care if he sends me money..."
Other people were interested in the topic of Qiao Yingniang and Xiao Qingjuan and started discussing it.
No matter how grand or beautiful a person's ideals are, only by taking good care of his current life can he have the energy to work hard for his dreams.
What's more, one hundred people have ten thousand dreams.
Watching the villagers chattering and calculating that if they saved 200 yuan a month, that would be 2,400 yuan a year, and in five years they would be able to become a millionaire...
Taotao fell into deep thought.
Later, she found an opportunity to talk privately with Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu.
Tao Tao urged Jiang Hongzhi, "Brother, you have to speed up the process of setting up the import and export company."
Jiang Hongzhi asked her, "What if there are competitors?"
Taotao shook her head. "The effect of reform and opening up in coastal cities is too obvious. I am worried that our Oasis will have strong laborers leaving. If it were in other units with a surplus of labor, the strong laborers leaving would be a win-win situation. But our Oasis has always been a place with a shortage of labor... If there is a shortage of labor, we still have so much work to do. How can we compete with the coastal areas? After all, we can't afford to pay 350 yuan a month!"
Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu looked at each other.
Lan Caizhu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Taotao, that import and export company...it sounds so high-end, but is it something we can do? Can it make us money?"
Taotao smiled. "Ten years ago, would you have believed that one greenhouse could grow so many vegetables? Ten years later, would you have believed that a few greenhouses could produce melons for foreign trade orders? Your parents have been farming for their entire lives, do you believe in soilless cultivation? Have you ever eaten our hydroponic vegetables? How do they taste?"
Lan Caizhu bit her lower lip and said with a blushing face, "The main reason is... it's too advanced. I, I'm a little unconfident! I always feel like the past ten years have been like a dream! I can live a good life without going hungry! But I still can't figure it out... No, actually I understand it, but I just find it incredible."
Tao Tao, "It's not good now, after all, our life will be better in the future! Sister Caizhu, we need to look further ahead, especially you and Brother Jiang! You two are the leaders of Lingxi Oasis Village, this year you have to think about next year... No, you have to think at least three or four years ahead!"
Lan Caizhu remained silent.
Jiang Hongzhi pondered for a moment and said to Lan Caizhu: "I'll leave the village team's affairs to you these days. I'll go to the township government!"
Lan Caizhu nodded.
In the following days, just as Taotao worried, many strong laborers in Lingxi Oasis asked to go out to work.
Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu had no way to stop them and could only watch them leave...
Soon after, the superiors finally gave a positive response to Lingxi Oasis’ plan to open an import and export company - after all, the village has foreign trade orders, and this is also an attitude of supporting reform and opening up!
Therefore, with the approval of their superiors, Jiang Hongzhi and Lan Caizhu first established the Lingxi Village Economic Cooperative. Then, under the villagers' economic cooperative, Lingxi Agricultural and Sideline Products Company was established. At the same time, it applied for import and export rights from relevant departments and accepted the management of the Northwest Provincial Foreign Economic and Trade Commission.
The general manager is Jiang Hongzhi and the deputy general manager is Lan Caizhu.
Jiang Hongzhi worked hard outside for half a year before he finally got the license for the village company.
During this process, the spring trade fair for import and export commodities of Nandu was launched.
Song Sui won an order worth nearly 10 million yuan from Nandu in one fell swoop, shocking the whole country! The orders he received included silk, ready-made clothes, local specialties, Chinese medicinal materials, and various bamboo and rattan handicrafts and small furniture...
Song Sui placed all the foreign trade orders in the entire Northwest region to Jiang Hongzhi, totaling about two million MiGold!
Of course there are agricultural products that Lingxi Company can produce on its own, but there are more things that Lingxi Village simply cannot produce...
Jiang Hongzhi was nervous, but he felt at ease because Taotao was there.
Taotao taught Jiang Hongzhi to select literate, smart and clever young people from the villagers to serve as the company's salesmen, and let them follow Jiang Hongzhi to solve problems. She also asked Jiang Hongzhi to seek help from the higher-level township government. The township government immediately asked the county government for help... In the late 1980s, even the county government did not dare to neglect the foreign trade order worth 2 million US dollars, and immediately arranged for leaders to go to the countryside to follow up on the matter.
With the full support of the county government, Jiang Hongzhi felt completely at ease.
All the miscellaneous foreign trade orders thrown by Song Sui were handled properly.
However, Song Sui not only participates in domestic product exhibitions, he also travels around the world. I visited many commodity exhibitions, bought many hot-selling products at the exhibitions and sent them back, asking Jiang Hongzhi to find a way to copy them, but with a little bit of variety. At the same time, sent back along with the goods were many color photos taken by Song Sui related to the goods.
Therefore, with the support of his superiors, Jiang Hongzhi recruited two college students who knew foreign languages, and two college students majoring in fine arts painting... In addition, the salesmen who followed him and worked hard day and night also gained experience.
The framework of a formal foreign trade company is gradually taking shape.
At the same time, because Jiang Hongzhi was focused on foreign trade orders, the management of Lingxi's local production labor tasks fell on Lan Caizhu.
Lan Caizhu was also worried.
——Two or three out of ten local villagers left and all went to coastal cities to work. As a result, Oasis Village, which already had a shortage of labor, became even more difficult. Many planting and production tasks require a lot of labor and are time-sensitive, which makes Lan Caizhu very anxious.
She had no choice but to ask Taotao for help.
Taotao gave her an idea: Now the village (government) is rich, and work points were counted for work before, but now they are not counted.
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