Chapter 124 Checks and Balances

Chapter 124 Checks and Balances

Chapter 124 Checks and Balances (Medium Cup)
When Jiang Miao was at Yandunshan Farm in Magong Town.

In Gongping Town, Haifeng County, on the edge of the fairyland-like Lotus Mountain, when autumn footsteps gently step on this land, the Lotus Mountain presents a charming and dreamy picture.

However, in a corner of the beautiful picture, there is a large bare mountain area, which is abrupt and eye-catching.

As we stepped into Lotus Mountain, the autumn wind blew, bringing a hint of coolness.

A dozen farm workers had already gone up the mountain early in the morning. Fortunately, the road here has been renovated and motorcycles can be driven up the mountain.

Some of the flowers, plants and trees on the roadside seem to be dyed with colorful colors by the clever hands of nature, and they are like colorful ornaments dotted among the evergreen broad-leaved forests of Lingnan.

Walking along the mountain path, the fallen leaves under your feet make crisp sounds, as if telling the story of autumn.

The grass under Old Wu's feet is dotted with unknown wild flowers. They still bloom tenaciously in the autumn wind, adding a bit of vitality and liveliness to the autumn scenery.

Climb to the middle of the mountain and look into the distance, and you can see Gaosha Village in its entirety.

Not far away at the foot of the mountain, the rice fields are golden, as if the earth was covered with golden silk. You can see hardworking figures shuttling through the fields.

Retracting their gaze, Old Wu and his group came to Nansheling on the west side of Gaobei Village. This is one of the mountain areas contracted by Hailufeng Company, namely Nansheling Farm.

The farm covers an area of ​​5000 acres, and more than 750 acres have been transformed so far, of which nearly 400 acres have been planted with beautiful silk cotton and white clover.

Old Wu and others are farm workers responsible for planting the beautiful silk cotton tree and sowing white clover.

Passing by the terraced fields where white clover seeds were sown two months ago, dense clover has grown.

Generally speaking, the germination period of white clover is 7 to 14 days, and then it only takes 28 to 42 days to grow into a relatively large plant, and then begin to extend creeping stems around.

However, the white clover is not blooming at this time, because white clover usually blooms in late spring or early summer every year, and the flowering period can last for 1 to 3 months.

We arrived at the three-story concrete office building that had just been built on the farm, and next to it were two rows of two-story container houses.

There are 7 managers dispatched from the company headquarters, plus 40 local employees including Lao Wu. As for the transformation of the terraced fields, it has been contracted to the local construction team.

Farm manager Gao Xiangyang counted the number of people and ordered: "Team One will be responsible for the southern 3 plots today. Team Two, stop planting kapok and start sowing clover seeds today. Try to sow seeds on the remaining 350 mu of terraces within a week to prevent weeds from growing again."

"know."

"Okay, Captain."

The two team leaders quickly replied.

"Group three, you will continue to plant kapok trees in North District 4 today. Group four, you will follow the guidance of agricultural technicians to apply fertilizers and pesticides to the kapok trees you have planted before."

"Ok."

Old Wu belongs to the third group.

The 10 of them, plus the team leader Xie Ming, each drove a tricycle and pulled the 3-meter-tall saplings and tools to the planting area.

Although they were in the mountains, a 6-meter-wide gravel road had been built in advance, so they quickly reached the planting area along the foot of the mountain.

Not far away, five excavators, three bulldozers, a gravel excavator, and four dump trucks were already busy.

After all, this kind of project is a contracted one, so there is no way to slack off.

In addition to a basic salary of 3500 yuan, farm workers like Lao Wu also receive performance-based commissions, which are based on their work on the farm.

For example, if a silk cotton tree is planted and each tree survives (checked after one month), each member of the group will receive an extra RMB 1 in performance bonus for that month.

After the farm is officially put into production, each team will be assigned a responsibility area. Each team will be responsible for managing 100 acres. 100% of the profit generated by this 10-acre durian plantation throughout the year will become a performance bonus for each of them.

In fact, the 100-acre durian plantation not only includes 100 acres of durian, but also nearly 80 acres of alfalfa and white clover under the forest.

Under ideal conditions, 100 acres of durian can produce 200 tons of durian per year; 80 acres of alfalfa and white clover can harvest 800 tons of fresh grass.

As for the honey income generated by the orchard nectar flow, the entire farm and the beekeeping team together get 10% profit, usually 3% for the farm and 7% for the beekeeping team.

Although we did not get the output performance of the durian orchard, the performance in the early stage of building the plantation was also good.

Therefore, villagers from surrounding villages are now asking if there is anyone who can come to work on the farm.

After all, the basic salary on the farm is 3500 yuan per person per month, which includes five insurances and one fund, plus performance bonus. Although the work is a bit tiring, it is already very good.

Although short-term labor in rural areas of Shanmei, such as pruning lychees and longans, or repairing graves and building houses for others, can generally earn 150 to 200 yuan a day.

The problem is that this kind of work cannot last long, at most a few days and at most a few months.

If you are paid 200 yuan a day, working full time for a month would only be 6000 yuan. Plus, for this kind of job, people usually take care of their relatives and friends first, and rarely hire unfamiliar outsiders.

Many rural people actually prefer stable jobs.

After carrying down a sapling, Old Wu went to a tricycle nearby, picked up a bottle of water, took a sip, and whispered to Gao Xiangyang who was operating the cable car, "Director Gao, I heard that the farm is recruiting?"

"Yeah." Gao Xiangyang was very frugal with his words.

"My son just graduated from vocational high school this year..."

Gao Xiangyang pressed the unloading pause button, then picked up the intercom: "The saplings have been brought up, arrange for someone to unload them."

"Hiss... received!" came the response from the intercom.

Gao Xiangyang then looked at Old Wu. His face was very calm. "Your son wants to come to the farm?"

"Really?" Old Wu wiped his hands, took out a box of Huazi and handed it over: "Director Gao, please help me."

"No need for cigarettes. Your son is still young. Can he endure the hard work on the farm?" Gao Xiangyang also graduated from a vocational high school. After all these years of hard work, he faced the reality and chose to work on the farm.

"This...I will supervise him." Old Wu promised.

However, Gao Xiangyang shook his head: "The farm is the company's property. According to the company's employment principles, young people will not stay in the local area. If he wants to come in, after training, he will either go to the Gannan branch or the Qiongzhou branch."

“Can’t stay here?”

Gao Xiangyang explained: "Yes, after training, young people are suitable to go to farms outside the province to be team leaders or agricultural technicians. You should know the treatment of team leaders."

Old Wu knew that the basic salary of several team leaders on their farm was 4500 yuan. He thought about it and said, "Then when I get back, should I let that kid apply for a job at the company?"

Gao Xiangyang reminded: "You should talk to the child! After all, young people have unstable minds. If he doesn't want to, don't force it."

This was also a dirty trick that Jiang Miao came up with. He deliberately designed the separation between work and family to see how determined the applicants were. It was equivalent to a disguised obedience test.

If someone is unwilling to work in another place, it only means that this person is not determined enough. He comes here to apply for the job just to find a job where he can just eat and wait for death near his family.

If someone is willing to work in another place, it means that he has the desire to strive for success. Such people are worth cultivating and can serve as the backbone reserve of the company in the future.

At the same time, this method can also reasonably reject favors from some local employees and prevent them from trying to arrange young people in their families to work on the farm.

After all, as an enterprise, if a department has a large number of employees with nepotism, it is easy for them to cover up for each other or even harm the public interest for personal gain.

These local people in their thirties and forties are only recruited on an emergency basis in the initial stage, and they will be allowed to work locally. For the next employees recruited, the company will gradually adopt the method of arranging them in different villages and towns to mix the employees.

Moreover, Jiang Miao has informed his brother-in-law to recruit 500 young people in southern Jiangxi and bring them back to Shanmei’s farm to serve as team leaders.

After all, there are more than 5 mu of durian plantations, and every 100 mu requires a team, that is, 11 people, which means a total of more than 5000 people are needed.

It is very necessary to introduce foreign employees from other regions to check and balance local employees.

In fact, Gongping Town itself does not have that many workers. According to information provided by the town government, the permanent population of Gongping Town in 2024 is about 11. Considering that Gongping Town is an area with a large outflow of labor, the proportion of working-age workers is about 50%, or 5.5 people. Among these 5.5 working-age workers, we have to exclude civil servants, teachers, small self-employed people, pregnant women, and some unsuitable people, such as the weak and sick, spoiled, bad, lazy, etc., and there are only about 3 people left.

It is obviously impossible to recruit 3 farm workers from 5000 people.

After all, many people already have stable jobs or run farms at home, and not everyone can endure the intensity of farm work.

Therefore, introducing labor from other places is an inevitable choice.

Old Wu at the side pushed the Huazi to Gao Xiangyang and said, "Master Gao, you're welcome."

"Don't do this next time."

After hearing Gao Xiangyang's reminder, Old Wu also felt that he should ask his own children what they think first. After all, many young people nowadays cannot endure hardship.

Although he thinks working on the farm is pretty good, for middle-aged and elderly people like them who have lived in rural areas for many years, the labor intensity is relatively low.

For example, when transporting things, they often use tricycles and cable cars. When they were young, they could only carry things on their shoulders when they went into the mountains to chop firewood.

Old Wu just returned to his tricycle, preparing to move the saplings.

Another middle-aged man from the same village came over and asked quietly, "Brother Shui, what did Team Leader Gao say?"

The two of them lifted a sapling together, placed it on the cable car's external rack, and then used a special fixed rope buckle to tightly fasten the sapling.

As they walked, Old Wu whispered back, "The company does need to recruit people, but if they are young people, they have to work outside the province. Although we middle-aged people can stay in the local area, we cannot stay in our own village."

"It seems my daughter has no other options."

Old Wu picked up another sapling and said, "Your daughter has only graduated from junior high school and is spoiled. She definitely can't do farm work. A clerk in a company needs a college degree or a bachelor's degree. It's better for her to find someone to marry as soon as possible! She's already 28 years old. In a few years, it will be even harder for her to get married."

"I've been introducing her to other people, but unfortunately she doesn't like them at all."

Suddenly, an idea flashed through Old Wu's mind: "Several team leaders in our company's farms are good. You can take this opportunity to bring them together."

"They? Can they be interested in my bone-transforming dragon?"

"Give it a try!"

The two chatted while moving things.

the other side.

Lv Weibin and Chen Guohui, the mayor of Gongping Town, are in Xishan Village on the north side of Gongping Town.

Chen Guohui smiled and pointed to the large piece of wasteland on the west side of National Highway 236: "Manager Lu, is your company satisfied with this piece of land?"

"It looks good." Lu Weibin observed with a telescope. It was close to the road, and the Gongping Reservoir was across the road, so using water was very convenient.

"If your company has determined the location, we can expropriate the land at any time." Chen Guohui has witnessed the strength of Hailufeng Company in the past few months.

Of the more than 40,000 acres of mountain land granted to the other party by Gongping Town, 3,000 acres have been transformed in less than two months. Together with a portion of mountain land that does not need to be transformed, the area of ​​high-standard terraces that can currently be used has reached more than 10,000 acres.

And it seems that Hailufeng Company is serious about this.

In fact, Chen Guohui no longer doubts the strength of Hailufeng Company. After all, many companies say they come to invest, sometimes to defraud subsidies, or listed companies deliberately make PPTs to defraud shareholders' money.

However, Hailufeng Company did not ask Haifeng County for subsidies, but only for tax exemptions and reductions from Shanmei City. It is not a listed company itself, and its current large-scale investment obviously shows that it really wants to invest locally.

In addition, the city has already notified him, so if he dares to neglect Hailufeng Company, he will be punished for not accepting the toast.

"Chen Town, this location is good. Our factory will need at least 1000 acres, with a minimum of 1200 acres. If we encounter difficult villagers, we can consider avoiding their farmland." Lu Weibin expressed his thoughts.

"1200 acres? Sure, give us a month and we will expropriate this land." Chen Guohui promised solemnly.

But Lu Weibin knew that one month was too short a time. If he forced it, it might lead to some bad situations. So he smiled and shook his head:
"No rush, it doesn't have to be in Xishan Village, other places are fine. Chen Town can communicate with Xishan Village first, and it would be best to talk to all the villagers where the land is located. If the villagers generally oppose it, then we can change the location."

"Okay." Chen Guohui also knew that land acquisition was a troublesome matter and that villagers in some places would not cooperate much.

Lv Weibin added a condition: "In addition, our company can also promise to recruit a suitable employee from each household involved in the land acquisition. Of course, we follow the formal recruitment process. This is not a permanent job. If they violate the relevant regulations of our company in the future, they will still be dealt with."

"Manager Lu, rest assured. I will make sure to explain everything to the villagers."

"It's okay, take your time. Anyway, just confirm the location before June next year."

In fact, Lv Weibin is more inclined to set up factories in Gaobei Village, Xiadong Village, Hudan Village, Lianhe Village, Xikeng Village, Hengkeng Village and other places near the durian plantations.

In these places, Hailufeng Company has a mass base. After all, a large number of villagers in these villages work for the company. If the company wants to expropriate land locally, the villagers will more or less give it some face.

Xishan Village, which belongs to the core area of ​​Gongping Town, has no business intersection with Hailufeng Company, and the villagers here are unlikely to cooperate.

If the situation becomes chaotic due to land acquisition, Hailufeng Company would rather move to another location.

Lu Weibin, Chen Guohui and his team spent more than three hours visiting an area in Gongping Town that was suitable for building a factory, and finally selected three alternative locations.

They are Xishan Village in the north of Gongping Town; Xinzhai Village in the south of Gongping Town; and Gaosha Village under the jurisdiction of Gaobei Village.

The factory is divided into two parts, one part is used to handle and process durian; the other part is used as a forage processing plant for alfalfa and white alfalfa.

Among them, the place that Lv Weibin is most optimistic about is Gaosha Village in Gaobei Village. Although this place is mountainous, there are many low hills around it that can be transformed. In addition, it is located in the center of the durian producing area, which makes it convenient to transport durian to the factory.

After the durian arrives at the factory, you just need to select it, soak it in turmeric powder water, and then ripen some of the inferior fruits and use them to make durian puree.

This means shortening the transportation distance as much as possible, which can reduce the consumption of some manpower and material resources.

The last stop just happened to be Gaosha Village.

Lu Weibin then came to Nansheling Farm where Gaosha Village is located.

The pickup truck came to the dirt road in the middle of the terraced fields. Gao Xiangyang, who was on the terraced fields halfway up the mountain, saw the pickup truck at once. He immediately knew that it was someone from the company who had arrived. He quickly called the team leader to operate the cable car for him, and he hurried down.

Come to the foot of the mountain.

"Xiangyang, are you used to your work?"

"Manager Lu, I'm still used to it."

Looking at Gao Xiangyang, who was tanned like charcoal, Lv Weibin also knew that they had worked hard: "When the farm is built, you may all get the virtual shares you deserve by the end of the year."

Similar to Gao Xiangyang and others, they were all former employees of Nanhu Farm and have been working in the company for almost a year, so they can be allocated virtual shares.

When it comes to encouraging employees to work hard, Lu Weibin also prefers the boss's approach, which is to give them real money directly, rather than talking about dedication, giving them chicken soup, or making big promises.

Material foundation is the key to winning people's hearts.

After taking a look at the situation on the farm, Lu Weibin turned around and asked, "Xiangyang, take some time these days to test the attitudes of the local villagers towards our company building a factory nearby."

"The company plans to build a durian and forage factory here?" Gao Xiangyang was a little surprised.

Lu Weibin shook his head: "I haven't decided yet, but I am more optimistic about this place. After all, we don't have a mass base in the other two places, and it's too troublesome to expropriate land."

Gao Xiangyang knew how Hailufeng Company expropriated land in Xinxiang and Yancheng. With the cooperation of a large number of company employees, it would be easy to complete the land expropriation work. He also nodded:

"Indeed, if it is near Gaosha Village, these are all our farms, and we need to recruit a large number of local people and convince them to cooperate with the land acquisition, so the difficulty is minimal."

(End of this chapter)