In Langshan, there aren't so many rules. If two people like each other, they just sleep together and have a baby. Why do they have to meet each other's parents and invite all the relatives to dinner? What kind of family can afford such waste?
Jin Yonghua glanced at his relative thoughtfully.
If he remembered correctly, this person seemed to be a relative from his father's side. She had even brought her niece from her maternal family to their home before. Yan Susu seemed to have mentioned it to him, saying that she wanted to strengthen the family ties and suggested that A-Jie give the other person a try.
Jin Yonghua did not agree at the time.
It's not that they look down on the girl, it's that they look down on her parents.
What, you can't stand seeing others drink soup just because you didn't get to eat meat yourself?
He hasn't even announced the shares he's given to Rui Rui Jin Yan yet, and these people are already getting restless.
"Hehe~ Susu was diagnosed with a health problem a while ago and is currently hospitalized for conservative treatment. She didn't tell the relatives because she didn't want to cause them any trouble. As for Ajie getting married, I, his own father, am enough. Why make his mother come to drink this cup of tea for her daughter-in-law while she's suffering from all sorts of health problems? If she gets even more tired and her condition worsens, it will only make things difficult for her in-laws."
“I told Susu not to come back. Since you miss her so much, you can go and see her on your way after the wedding banquet,” Jin Yonghua explained with a smile.
For a family like theirs to visit a sick person without bringing a wild ginseng or some expensive tonics, would that be appropriate?
Since you're so eager to send money to my house, how can I be polite to you?
The relative who deliberately stirred up trouble: "..."
Chapter 285
Langshan Village, the second phase of the industrial park, which was originally planned to be launched at least 5 to 8 years later, immediately entered the design and preparation stage with the strong support of General Manager Jin, thanks to the explosive popularity of the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" series.
Mr. Jin also has his own little schemes.
Jin Yan's shares are not easy to move for the time being, but he really dotes on his eldest grandson so much that he can't help but want to get something from him. Looking around, hey! This new clothing brand that the company and Jiang Xiaoman jointly established looks like it has a very good prospect?
Then it's you I choose!!!
Jin Yonghua rolled up his sleeves and allocated 50 million yuan to the second phase of the industrial park to build a new factory in Langshan!
The shareholders had some complaints.
It's not because Mr. Jin used company money to subsidize his eldest grandson.
It's not because of this promising new project, but because Mr. Jin didn't include them!
Isn't that going too far?
"Hehe~ You're all wrong about that. This time, it's not me subsidizing my grandson, it's my grandson earning me face!" Jin Yonghua held his head high, like a proud rooster. "You don't know, this second phase project, Langshan originally wanted to build a garment processing factory on its own. Later, President Jiang, oh, that is, my Rui Rui's uncle, said he wanted to save up for Rui Rui's future wife, so he asked me to put up 50 million, giving Rui Rui 25% of the shares."
"Sigh~ It's all thanks to the child's uncle's kindness. As the grandfather, I can't refuse!" President Jin couldn't help but make a Versailles-like gesture.
The company's other shareholders are incredibly envious.
It's no use being so sour~ If they can steal Mr. Jin's shares, can they really steal someone else's child's uncle?
Sigh~ They wish they had an uncle like that too o(╥﹏╥)o
...
Another factory is going to be built in Langshan Village!!!
The bulletin boards of Langshan Town Government and the village committees within its jurisdiction have been plastered with recruitment notices copied in bright red paper.
Jiang Xiaoman and her team recruited quite a few employees this time!
The project construction site needs to recruit a total of 130 people, including masons, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, etc.
The garment factory also needs to recruit a batch of sewing, cutting, quality inspection, and ironing workers, with an estimated recruitment of 200 people. These workers will first be sent to Jin Yan's contract factories in various places for training, and they can be brought back to work as soon as the new factory is completed.
There are also some non-technical positions, such as cleaning, logistics, security, canteen, and dormitory management. These positions do not require much technical skill, but they are considered stable jobs in the countryside. The boss, Jiang Xiaoman, is from Langshan himself. As long as you work hard in this position and don't cause any trouble, you can definitely work there until retirement.
The whole surrounding area was in an uproar.
Now, people in Langshan Village are too afraid to wander around the market unless they have something to do, for fear that they might be stopped by an acquaintance and asked about job openings in the village.
It's a sweet dilemma, really. The people of Langshan Village never imagined that they used to be the ones carrying their luggage and working all over the country. Now, every household in the village has joined the cooperative and become small business owners with Jiang Xiaoman and Jiang Yu.
These positions in village-run enterprises that used to be highly coveted are now looked down upon by even the villagers themselves, forcing them to recruit workers from other villages. It's a pity, but not really, just a bit disheartening.
But no one would give up their family business to work in a factory; this opportunity would only benefit other villages.
The other villages are sour too.
If they had known that Jiang Xiaoman was the little god of wealth of Langshan, they should have squatted in the market back then, waiting for Xiaoman's mother to throw him away, and then they would have picked him up immediately!
Because of this incident, it is said that now people in Langshan Town walk with their heads down and their ears perked up when they go to the market, constantly watching to see if anyone has lost a child in the market, as if they also want to pick up a lucky charm for free... Jiang Xiaoman herself was speechless when she heard this.
Speechless as I am, I don't know if it's the effect of superstition, but the employees recruited locally for the second phase of the industrial park are working extra hard, probably because they don't want to offend the God of Wealth.
Along with the second phase of the factory, construction also began on houses belonging to several other families in the village. Now, residential land on the west bank of the river is even more scarce than on the east bank; the villagers who received this batch of land were ecstatic.
They only spent a few thousand yuan to acquire it, but now they can't buy it for tens of thousands of yuan. Land prices have increased tenfold!
Who would have thought that the once deserted mountain village, which seemed like it might disappear at any moment, is now more bustling than a town?
People who went out to work have all returned. They grow tea, raise native bees, grow mushrooms... and when they make money, they build big villas and buy cars in their hometowns.
Speaking of villas, I don't know if everyone is just following the trend, but ever since they discovered that the homestay Jiang Xiaoman built behind the express station is more beautiful than the traditional buildings in Langshan, this "new Chinese style villa" style has become popular in the village. Before they knew it, Langshan Village, which didn't even have proper planning, has gradually formed a cluster of new Chinese style villas.
Jiang Xiaoman and a few others who "got rich first" made money and began to slowly change the appearance of the village.
This year, they built a large auditorium for the village, and next year they spent money to install streetlights on the village road. In just a few years, Langshan Village has become the leading "commercial hub" in the surrounding area.
Now villagers don't have time to beat their children at night.
More and more tourists are coming to Langshan, and almost every household has opened a farmhouse inn. At this point, everyone is incredibly grateful that when they were building their houses, they first visited Jiang Xiaoman's guesthouse and built their houses based on his style. For some reason, the houses were particularly suitable for farmhouse inns, and the layout didn't even need to be changed during the renovation.
In addition to guest rooms, skilled families have opened local cuisine restaurants, and some villagers who used to work at night market stalls have even returned to their hometowns to open barbecue restaurants!
As evening falls and the sun sets, rows of small square tables for barbecues line both sides of the clear river in Langshan Village. Besides tourists, the village workers sometimes chip in twenty yuan to enjoy a decent barbecue when they crave it.
What's baffling is that the villagers not only imitated Jiang Xiaoman in building houses, but they also started to "pay homage" to Jiang Youliang in their parenting methods.
Hearing that Jiang Xiaoman had been earning money on her own since she was a child, the parents in the village immediately made clear arrangements for their own children!
Do you find sitting in the classroom reading and writing too tiring?
Sure! I'll buy you some snacks, drinks, and toys wholesale. You can go to the night market with your parents tonight and set up a stall to earn some money!
All allowances are being cancelled. Want to buy snacks and toys? Go earn the money yourself!
The funny thing is, some of the older kids in the village used to like playing games on their parents' phones, but now that their parents are all out making money with their phones, they want to play on their phones? Fine, go earn your own and buy one!
Those little brats used to watch videos online and see people making hundreds of thousands a month, thinking that making money in the adult world was easy.
After they sold beer at the night market for a few days, they realized that it wasn't like that at all!
They promoted beer to the owner of a late-night snack shop, earning a 10-cent commission for each bottle sold. They shouted all night until their voices were hoarse, but they only earned less than 20 yuan!
They want to collect bottles, but damn it, the village has started garbage sorting! Plastic bottles can be sold for money by putting them in the recycling bins! Now every household has a recycling bin in front of their door, so if they want to collect bottles, they'll most likely have to rummage through the villagers' garbage bins... How embarrassing! What if their classmates see them?
After working hard at the night market for several days, I was exhausted, but I didn't even earn enough to cover a month's internet fee. Two unlucky guys even got fined a lot of money for breaking the owner's beer!
"Do you still want to buy a phone to play games? Do you want to drop out of school and go to work in a factory? Tell me!!!" The parent took the opportunity to yell.
"I don't want it anymore o(╥﹏╥)o"
The little rascals got a taste of life's harsh realities and realized that sitting in the classroom studying was still the most comfortable thing. When they got home at night, they just had to do their homework, the air conditioning was on, and they could eat as much snacks and fruit as they wanted from the fridge. Wasn't that more comfortable than selling beer at the night market?
Now that the villagers have made money, besides buying cars and building houses, their biggest obsession is their children's education.
Qu Jingjiang has now partnered with his colleagues to open an after-school care center in the village, which specializes in tutoring children with their homework. Qu's mother has officially resigned from her factory job and become the head of the after-school care center.
The after-school care program arranges for teachers to pick up the children from school every day after class, have dinner, and then help them with their homework. This has been a great relief to some villagers who already have limited education!
You know, they can barely yell at the kids during kindergarten literacy classes, but once they get to second grade, things like writing compositions using the five senses, word problems, and all sorts of craft assignments are just overwhelming!
Now it's so convenient. Just spend a thousand or so yuan a month to send your child to an after-school care center, and you don't have to cook dinner anymore, and someone will help with your homework...
Honestly, parents would rather work in factories at night carrying heavy loads to earn money for their children's after-school programs than personally tutor their children with their homework.
Now, Qu's mother has truly been trained.
At first, she was a little timid, but after being taught a lesson by a few naughty children in the after-school program, the "gentle and kind" Mrs. Qu completely transformed into a tigress!
Not going to do your homework, huh? I'll play along! You won't let your parents pick you up. I'll personally take you home until you finish! And while I'm at it, I'll tell your parents, and they'll give you a good spanking!
In this way, the younger children were placed in the factory-run daycare, and the school children were sent to tutoring classes for a fee. The parents of Langshan Village were completely freed from the group of unruly children, rolled up their sleeves, and followed General Jiang to work hard to make money.
Now the villagers finally understand why Jiang Xiaoman would rather not run a factory herself than not bring this industrial park project to the village.
With the industrial park backed by the government, their village-run cooperative has now expanded to several surrounding towns.
The towns and villages in the Langshan area are actually quite similar to them geographically, and most of them are very suitable for growing tea, raising native bees, growing mushrooms, and so on. Even in areas with relatively poor soil, you can still grow some wild mountain vegetables.
Jiang Xiaoman created a number of new jobs in the industrial park, hiring villagers who were good at tea planting, beekeeping, and mushroom cultivation to lead projects in other towns and townships. They adopted a "township co-construction" model, with Langshan providing technology, resources, and sales channels, while other towns served as planting cooperation points. In just a few years, they grew their local honey and tea cake business to a scale of over one billion yuan per year!
Langshan Village made a lot of money, and the surrounding towns and villages also made a lot of money.
Although it's said to be a small amount of money, many of the first farmers to join are now incredibly wealthy.
Who would have thought that by simply planting a few acres of tea, developing mushroom cultivation under the forest canopy, raising some native bees, and scattering some wild vegetable seeds on their own mountain land, they could earn more in a year than they did working in the city before!
In some families with many able-bodied men, the young couple works in the factory while the elderly stay at home to take care of the household chores. With several people in the family earning money, the family's annual income can easily reach 400,000 yuan.
I'm a little tired, but I'm happy!
Now when they go to the county town to handle business, people hear that they are from Langshan, and they are all filled with envy, jealousy and hatred!
After all, jobs are hard to find in county towns. The ones you can find are mostly odd jobs with a monthly salary of two or three thousand yuan. Unlike Langshan, which has a particularly lucrative industrial park. The companies in the park offer excellent benefits, and I've heard that during peak season, there are many people who earn over ten thousand yuan a month, including wages and overtime pay.
Those who entered the city investment company in the same batch as Qu Jingjiang are now regretting it. If they had known that Langshan was developing so fast, they would have worked hard to get there!
They used to look down on them because they were a remote and impoverished mountain village, but now that they've become successful, they can't even reach their level anymore.
Qu Jingjiang gave up a job at a major internet company with an annual salary of 300,000 to 400,000 yuan to go to a remote mountain village. Countless of his college classmates laughed at him behind his back.
Now look what's happened! I heard that Qu Jingjiang has been promoted to vice president of the e-commerce operations company in the industrial park, and he's even become a company partner. He gets millions in equity dividends every year... No wonder he went to this remote mountain village; he's trying to make a fortune in silence!
Even his partners can earn millions a year. Now, the people of Langshan dare not even imagine how much money Jiang Xiaoman can earn in a year.
Jiang Youliang is getting old, and Jiang Xiaoman is worried about him continuing to live in the mountains. So she hired two people to run the homestay, took back the house in the village that was originally used as a homestay, renovated it, and set it up for the two old brothers, Jiang Youliang and Jiang Baichuan, to live in.
Jiang Baichuan is far from idle.
Less than half a month after retiring, he told Jiang Xiaoman that he planned to continue teaching at the village's tutoring center and help the village children with their homework.
Poor Jiang Xiaoman thought his uncle was asking for his opinion, and he even sat in the office thinking about it for a long time. But when he got off work, he found that his uncle had already gone to his tutoring class with his thermos. (⊙?⊙)