A large tea factory can bring about tremendous changes to a village.
Leaving aside the workers the tea factory needs to hire, the transportation, loading and unloading services, and other related service industries can provide a large number of jobs for the village where the factory is located.
Not to mention the positive impact the factory had on the village's collective economy after it became profitable...
Thinking of this, the village officials wished they could carry the rock back to their village on the spot and not leave until the factory was built in their village!
Jiang Xiaoman was almost dying of laughter watching from the side. Shan Yan was like Tang Sanzang who had fallen into the Spider Cave and had no way to get out. He had no choice but to agree to the village cadres' request to find time to visit their village for inspection. Needless to say, the village would definitely offer the best and largest land, eager for Shan Yan to build a factory in their village as soon as possible. Langshan Village had already really benefited, so why couldn't the villagers have a taste of the soup?
Shanyan decided to increase investment and build a new factory, which made the village officials of Langshan Village both happy and worried!
Fortunately, Shan Yan ultimately chose to go into business, which disqualified him from running for village chief.
The worry is that Shanyan thinks the remaining land in their village isn't big enough, and it seems he's going to choose another place in another village to build a factory. Waaaaah~ Why doesn't Shanyan make any demands on the village?
If he agrees, the village will even clear out a piece of land for him when they demolish his house!
Little did they know, this was exactly the kind of situation Shan Yan wanted: "a family with a daughter would be sought after by a hundred families."
Otherwise, how can he compare prices and negotiate a lower price?
Buying land is no small expense, so we should save money wherever possible!
Thinking of this, Shan Yan couldn't help but feel a little jealous of Lang Ying. They were both young entrepreneurs from rural areas, but the men had to rely on their own hard work. Lang Ying, on the other hand, had the advantage of being born in the women's federation and received a two-year interest-free loan of 500,000 yuan...
Speaking of gender advantages... Shan Yan glanced at his three precious daughters and couldn't help but reveal a smug smile.
Although he and Jiang Yu can't enjoy the advantages of being born in the sexes, their family still has three potential partners!
Shan Yan doesn't think his children have to go to university to be successful. He has already planned to take advantage of his youth to acquire more businesses. When his three daughters grow up, if they are willing to study and have good grades, they can pursue postgraduate and doctoral degrees. As long as they can get into university, he can afford to support them!
If he doesn't like studying, that's fine too. He can go home and learn business from him. With this family background, finding a son-in-law won't be difficult.
If all else fails, there's a long-standing tradition in their old mountain village of "leaving the father and keeping the son," so it's not a big deal for women to take charge of their own lives.
It's just that we need to improve all aspects of our skills.
From that day on, Shan Yan intensified his physical training for his three daughters. Every evening when they returned home, instead of doing their homework, they would follow him to the warehouse to move packages. This was partly to build their strength, and partly to let the girls experience the hardship of earning money in advance, so they would understand how hard-won this family fortune was, and prevent them from becoming like those love-struck girls online who give away all their family's money and resources after being coaxed by a man.
While Shan Yan was busy teaching his three daughters, Jiang Xiaoman welcomed the inspection team from the Agricultural University.
Since the main purpose of this trip was to inspect Lang Ying and her team's project, Jiang Xiaoman only helped with the liaison. However, after the inspection team arrived, worried that Lang Ying and her team might not be able to handle it, he still helped out for two days.
However, what secretly relieved him was that the agricultural university's inspection team seemed to be dedicated to scientific research and practical work. After arriving, they didn't engage in any pretense. Once they entered the mountains, they immediately took out their equipment, some to collect samples, and others to measure data, requiring almost no assistance from Jiang Xiaoman and the others.
Jiang Xiaoman and the others had never even seen those machines before, so of course they didn't know how to help.
There was a female teacher, who, like Sun Zheyuan, was responsible for writing materials for the team. While the others went to collect samples, she pulled Lang Ying and Shan Ying aside and chatted for a long time.
This female teacher probably doesn't use short videos much, so she hadn't come across any videos of Lang Ying and Shan Ying's families. Come to think of it, when Jiang Xiaoman filmed those videos, she never imagined that after so long, the number of views for Lang Ying and Shan Ying's videos would still be steadily increasing, and sometimes they would even be brought up to talk about some hot social topics.
As a representative of rural women's success against all odds, Lang Ying's story of starting a business with her child after her divorce moved and impressed the female teacher. She heard that Shan Ying's husband used to be a lazy bum who was always on his phone, but after discovering that netizens were urging her to divorce him and be independent, he has now "turned over a new leaf" and become diligent and family-oriented. The female teacher couldn't help but burst into laughter.
Before coming here, her impression of married women in rural areas was still that they were hardworking, exploited, and enslaved. But when she actually talked to Lang Ying and others, the female teacher realized that the countryside today is no longer the countryside it used to be.
Decades of enlightenment, the exemplary role of outstanding women, and the assistance from women's federations across the country have enabled some awakened rural women to begin to break free from the confines of the home, just like Lang Ying. In the past, in rural areas, even if a husband had affairs outside, as long as he didn't bring other women home, the wife would have to swallow her anger and stay in the home for the sake of the children.
But now, Lang Ying is using her success to tell those women who endure hardship for the sake of their children that a wrong marriage and a repressive family of origin cannot bring true happiness to children.
As a mother, only by living a bright and open life can you let your child see the beautiful side of life.
Otherwise, why do so many psychologically twisted people usually come from a terrible family of origin?
When Lang Ying said that since her divorce from her ex-husband, her two daughters have become much more cheerful than before, and because they have plenty of food and drink, they are growing very fast, the female teacher almost wanted to shout with joy!
What no one knew was that the female teacher was not only a member of the inspection team, but also a member of the provincial writers' association. She usually enjoyed writing short stories. Now that she had unexpectedly discovered such good material, she couldn't wait to turn on her computer and write down Lang Ying's story!
After a busy day, Lang Ying specially asked her good friends in the village to help prepare a meal to entertain these distinguished guests in the evening.
So, during the meal, the female teacher heard the stories of a widowed old mother battling her unscrupulous vampire son and Qingshan's sister's "leaving the father and keeping the son." After hearing them, the female teacher couldn't help but slap the table and laugh, "Old Du, the field trip ends tomorrow, you guys go back first, I'm staying in Langshan to collect folk songs!"
What is that?
The other teachers in the inspection team were dumbfounded.
However, once an artist's inspiration strikes, nothing can stop them!
That evening, all the other teachers went to stay at Jiang Xiaoman's homestay, but this female teacher insisted on staying at Lang Ying's house because she wanted to learn more about Lang Ying's bizarre and morally reprehensible ex-husband and his family in order to gather material and use this incident as a negative example to awaken the vast number of rural women who were still indulging in fantasies.
Wake up! Stop believing the nonsense that "young people are all playful and will be fine when they get old."
No matter how old a bad person gets, he's still a bad person. He's accumulated a lifetime of experience in being a bad person, and he might become even worse when he gets old!
Do you think that by enduring this family now, you can wait until the man has had his fun outside and then return to the family to grow old with you?
Keep dreaming!
In the end, all you'll get is an old man who's been out having fun, his wallet empty, and maybe even developed a lot of health problems. You'll have to do his laundry and cook for him every day, and he'll also mentally manipulate you, making you mistakenly believe that it's such a blessing for a man to return to his family.
Bah! This is probably bad luck, not good fortune!
Let's all learn from Lang Ying! When you encounter a jerk, you need to know when to cut your losses. There are countless men in the world; if one doesn't work out, just find another!
Look at Lang Ying, who says that a divorced woman with two children can't live a good life?
Without Jiang Erming and his two selfish and cruel parents dragging her down, Miss Lang Ying is living a wonderful life. Not only has she started a cooperative with her best friend, but she also had a cameo role in a famous director's movie and almost won the Best Supporting Actress award at the film festival. Moreover, she married a wonderful husband. Which woman in the village doesn't envy her?
I heard that now many men in Langshan Village don't dare to beat their wives anymore, and mothers-in-law are less likely to mistreat their daughters-in-law. After all, it seems that women have suddenly realized that divorce is not such a big deal. If their in-laws dare to bully them again, they can just break up!
Anyway, after my divorce, if I want to remarry, there are plenty of men out there who can afford the dowry.
Your family has bullied all the good daughters-in-law away, gained a bad reputation, and is now dirt poor. Do you think your son will ever be able to find a wife? Bah! He can stay a bachelor for life!
...
The female teacher was having a great time gathering materials from Lang Ying, while Jiang Xiaoman was also being pulled aside by several teachers from the inspection team.
“Xiaoman, trust us. Your village’s tea gardens can really be put to good use to develop under-forest economy. The ecological environment in the tea gardens is particularly suitable for the growth of mushrooms, especially king oyster mushrooms. Our team already has successful cases.”
"If you don't believe me, I'll pull up the paper and show it to you. Several years ago, our team had a successful case of intercropping mushrooms in tea gardens with local tea farmers in Y province. At that time, we chose the high-yield king oyster mushroom."
“Look, the ecological environment in Y Province is very similar to that of Langshan. After intercropping king oyster mushrooms in their tea gardens, the yield per mu can reach 4 tons! At a purchase price of 4 yuan per kilogram, the net profit per mu exceeds 5,000 yuan, and this is just the income for a single season.”
"In addition, during seasons when mushroom cultivation is not suitable, free-range chickens and white goats can be raised in the tea garden to increase production and income, while also providing weed control and organic fertilizer..."
Wow! When you do the math, developing integrated tea plantation farming and animal husbandry is actually more profitable than simply selling tea leaves?
Chapter 217
Upon hearing that an inspection team from the Agricultural University had visited, they decided to establish Langshan Village as an experimental base for this year and next. Moreover, it would not be a simple wild mushroom cultivation experimental base, but an integrated forestry and animal husbandry economic experimental base. The town government leaders were thrilled and excited.
I wish I could immediately spend money to get myself trending on social media!
Of course, buying trending topics is out of the question, because there's simply no budget for that kind of publicity...
Although they lack funding, they have millions of influential online figures!
"Xiaoman, hehe~ The town's idea is that such a great thing shouldn't be kept quiet, so why don't you send a video to our town to promote it?"
"Don't worry, the Party Secretary said he won't let you work for nothing. By the end of this year, the town has decided to hire you as our Langshan Town's external publicity ambassador. How about it? We'll take your picture and make a big sign for you, and put it at the entrance of our town so everyone can see you!"
Sun Zheyuan enthusiastically promoted the product.
Jiang Xiaoman, the person involved, said that just listening to it made her so embarrassed that she wanted to dig her toes out of a three-bedroom apartment. She begged for mercy!
Can I send a video to the town for free?
No promotional fees whatsoever!
Seriously, please, please!
Don't hang my headshot at the market entrance!
Otherwise I'll die of embarrassment o(╥﹏╥)o
Jiang Xiaoman had agreed to do a free promotional video for the town's "Old Tea Garden Reopening Plan," but she was struggling with how to film it.
After all, netizens (including himself) don't like watching ads. Jiang Xiaoman used to follow a few jungle streamers and enjoyed watching them. But later, for some reason, these account owners started putting ads in 40 seconds of almost every one-minute video they updated, which made Jiang Xiaoman so angry that he unfollowed them.
Therefore, Jiang Xiaoman almost never inserts advertisements into his videos. When he wants to sell products or collaborate with brands on events, he usually just posts a simple event preview video. Those who want to support him in the live stream can enter the live stream, and those who don't want to watch ads can simply avoid clicking on them.
This is also an important reason why his fan base has remained stable.
Jiang Xiaoman pondered for two days how to make this "advertisement" so that fans would want to keep watching. Then, when Sister Shan Chunhua, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, came to find him with a basket of eggs, Jiang Xiaoman immediately found new material!
Shan Chunhua came to ask Jiang Xiaoman for help.
She and her husband have been running a chicken farm for over ten years, making money one year and losing money three years in a row. From the outside, they look like they have a big business, but in reality, the couple has hardly saved any money over the years.
Chunhua's sister-in-law came to see Jiang Xiaoman this time to join their tea cooperative.
She was unaware that the town had decided to reopen the old tea plantation, but last year, due to the super flu outbreak, the chicken farm suffered severe oversupply, losing all the money earned in the previous two years.
With the hatching of new chicks about to begin this year, the couple sensed that the situation for the livestock industry would remain grim. They also heard that the villagers in Langshan Village were making money by making tea cakes with Jiang Xiaoman.
After discussing it, the two decided to first sound out Jiang Xiaoman's opinion.
After all, they're not from the same village. Jiang Xiaoman is from Langshan Village, so when doing business, she naturally has to take care of her own villagers first. But if her own village doesn't have enough tea, can other villages join in?
Shan Chunhua's family had several acres of tea trees, but they were all abandoned. Her husband, Lang Dezhi, also had several acres of old tea trees.
The couple thought that if they could get through to Jiang Xiaoman, they would merge their tea gardens together and make money with her family. Then they would close the chicken farm.
Jiang Xiaoman was delighted upon hearing this.
Isn't this a perfect coincidence? He wanted to promote the "Tea Garden Reopening Plan" for the town, and Shan Chunhua and her family wanted to bring their abandoned tea gardens to the tea factory's contracted farmers. It was like a pillow being delivered just when you were sleepy!
"Sister Chunhua, come on, let me see your old tea trees first. Oh, and may I take a video?"
"Sure, feel free to take pictures! Let me tell you, the old tea trees at my mother's house, even though they haven't been tended to for many years, are growing really well. Your brother Dezhi and I go back every year to pick some new tea leaves for ourselves. They taste much better than the green tea you buy outside."
After listening for a while, Jiang Xiaoman couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness: she heard that these old tea trees were planted by Shan Chunhua's grandfather's generation, so they are almost a hundred years old.
How could tea leaves grown from century-old tea trees not be fragrant?
What a waste of resources!
Shan Chunhua's family home is quite far from their town. It is said that her ancestors had kinship with the people in the old mountain valley, and they were also a branch of the mountain people. The area is vast and sparsely populated, and almost every family occupies one or two hilltops. Jiang Xiaoman asked Shan Yan to drive the small truck of the tea cooperative. He took two bottles of wine and a box of instant noodles from his own small shop. It took more than forty minutes to drive to Shan Chunhua's house.
I thought we would have to climb the mountain again, but I didn't expect that in recent years, the villagers have moved down the mountain and Shan Chunhua's family has also built a house down the mountain. The car actually drove all the way to her doorstep!
This is good too, as it makes transportation convenient and will significantly reduce the cost of transporting tea in the future.
Shan Chunhua's family members had probably long heard of Jiang Xiaoman's reputation as a "God of Wealth." When they heard that their eldest sister had brought the God of Wealth to their village for inspection, not only Shan Chunhua's younger siblings but even the village chief came personally.