"The fermented fish factory is developing well now, and the dividends to the team in the future will not be small. I also plan to build more supporting factories in our commune."
"Like this glass jar factory for packaging, a cardboard box factory, and even a logistics company. We should also establish fish and aquatic product farming factories. Our village has a great future."
Household contracting is necessary, and village collective industries must also be developed. Household contracting is to maintain the enthusiasm of the villagers, allowing them to quickly improve their living standards through individual efforts.
Village collective industries are for better development in the future. While everyone working individually can quickly escape poverty and have enough to eat, later development tends to be imbalanced.
With Chen Yang at the helm of developing village collective industries, the success rate will naturally be much higher than if they were to muddle through.
Whether it's Xiaogang Village or the once-flourishing Huaxi Village, they inevitably declined into the 21st century.
Huaxi Village is still okay; a starved camel is bigger than a horse. At least there are billions in assets. However, later development has been weak, and it's even become a reality that assets are in debt.
Compared to Huaxi Village, Xiaogang Village, also nationally renowned, has truly faded into obscurity. Even in the 21st century, it's still struggling with poverty. Compared to other villages, apart from its historical fame, there's not much difference.
Chen Yang also considered this point and decided it was better to pursue both approaches simultaneously.
Developing collective industries for Shenjiaba Village and the Shenjiaba Brigade now would dampen the villagers' production enthusiasm.
They are currently filled with energy and eager to work hard to achieve a better life. If they were to continue eating from the same pot, with the entire village sharing, it would inevitably lead to a mentality of complacency.
It would be better to first implement household contracting to quickly boost their production enthusiasm. This way, grain production will increase, and various agricultural and sideline products can develop in sync.
Moreover, with Chen Yang's factories hiring people and paying them wages, this provides Shenjiaba Village's villagers with an absolute advantage to quickly improve their living standards.
For all the factories, Chen Yang acquired land from the commune and brigade. He has correspondingly given shares to the commune and brigade. This is the path of collective development for Huaying Village.
For each villager, they have household contracting. They can engage in agricultural production, run handicraft businesses, even become individual proprietors, or engage in aquaculture and contract fish ponds.
However, for the collective, the entire village, the brigade, and even the commune still retain collective assets. Chen Yang is not giving these shares out of kindness.
This is not only his gratitude and feedback to the villagers but also a safeguard for his future business development.
The relationship between the old party secretary and Director Liu of the commune is good with him now, but what about ten or twenty years later?
With new leaders, will they still support the factories in the same way? Chen Yang thinks not necessarily.
Now that he has given collective shares, and the factories are part of the collective assets, if these successor leaders do not want to ruin their future careers, they will at least have to take care of the enterprises during their tenure.
Of course, Chen Yang only gives the right to dividends, directly preventing these leaders from interfering in the management and operation of the enterprises.
In the 1980s and 1990s, how many private entrepreneurs were ruined by the model of joint public-private ownership? All their hard work over the years was seized by certain individuals, and some were even imprisoned, only to be released in their old age.
"Old Party Secretary, rest assured, with me here, the village will not suffer, and the villagers' lives will only get better."
Chen Yang looked at the old Party Secretary. According to the original historical trajectory, this old man might have died of depression this year. But now, the old Party Secretary's health is very robust; he's even going to ride his bicycle to the fermented fish factory tomorrow.
Chen Yang also asked Tu Er Wazi to take the old Party Secretary and Old Master Tu to the provincial big hospital for a physical examination. The results showed that both elders were in very good health.
This also relieved Chen Yang. He genuinely respects this elder who wholeheartedly wanted to lead the villagers to a better life.
The old Party Secretary's good health means less worry for him. At the same time, with the presence of the two elders, he doesn't have to worry about personnel management at the factory.
If anyone dares to slack off or be lazy in the factory, Old Master Tu and the old Party Secretary can beat them out with their walking sticks, unless they don't want to stay in the village anymore.
"Yangzi, I, this old man, trust you in your actions."
"You can rest assured too. If anyone from the brigade or the commune dares to act shamelessly in the factory, I'll be the first one to deal with them."
"Old Master Tu and I have identified a few loyal and honest youngsters in the past six months. We are training them now, so even if Old Master Tu and I can no longer walk, there will be people to manage things for you."
"As the factory business grows bigger and bigger, and the number of workers increases, it's inevitable that there will be pests. You don't need to have any worries. We won't be soft-hearted. No matter who it is, we cannot let one rotten apple spoil the whole barrel."
"Don't be afraid of losing face. If they were considerate of your feelings, they wouldn't make things difficult for you. If you truly can't bring yourself to do it, let me, Old Master Tu, and your father-in-law be the bad guys. We're old bones and don't care about saving face anymore."
The old Party Secretary took a puff of his pipe. Chen Yang had been giving him good cigarettes during his visits. He had smoked hand-rolled tobacco his whole life and found these paper cigarettes too bland and uninteresting. He felt that smoking from a pipe was more satisfying and flavorful.
"Old Party Secretary, rest assured, with your words, the villagers who work diligently in our village will definitely not receive less wages. In a few years, I will make their wages higher than those of state-owned enterprise workers in the city."
"By then, I will make those city folks eagerly beg to marry the girls from our village."
At this time, city dwellers were still arrogant. After all, they ate commodity grain, and girls from the countryside entering the city would not have commodity grain.
Without commodity grain, without a job, and their children could only have rural hukou (household registration), this made many city dwellers look down on rural people, let alone marry rural girls. This was equivalent to bringing immense trouble upon themselves.
Chen Yang knew that the old Party Secretary's youngest daughter's fiancé's family looked down on their rural background. Because of this, the old Party Secretary, such a proud man, had lost face.
"Yangzi, your intention is enough."
"Let's not talk about the past. That girl is living quite well now. She earns fifty yuan a month at the factory. My son-in-law works as hard as two people, he's skilled in both farming and fieldwork, and he's also competent at factory work."
"In less than a year, she has everything: a bicycle, a sewing machine, a radio, and a watch. Can that city boy compare?"
"We don't have the ability to find a wife from a wealthy family, but we have our own hands and feet. We can endure hardship and work hard. I don't believe that my daughter is inferior to anyone."
The old Party Secretary took a big puff of his pipe. Today, the resentment that had been stuck in his heart for so many years truly felt as smooth as silk.