Chapter 124 Checks and Balances (Medium)
When Jiang Miao was at Yandunshan Farm in Magong Town.
In Pinghe Town, Haifeng County, on the edge of the fairyland-like Lotus Mountain, when the footsteps of autumn gently step on this land, the Lotus Mountain will show a charming and dreamlike picture.
However, just in the corner of the beautiful picture, a large bare mountainous area appeared, which was abrupt and eye-catching.
Stepping into Lotus Mountain, the autumn wind blew by, 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 improved, making it possible to drive motorcycles up the mountain.
Some of the flowers, plants and trees on the roadside seem to be dyed with colorful colors by the skillful hands of nature. They are like colorful ornaments in the evergreen broad-leaved forest in Lingnan.
Walking along the mountain trails, the fallen leaves under your feet make a crisp sound, as if they are telling the story of autumn.
The grass at Lao Wu's feet was dotted with unknown wild flowers. They still bloomed tenaciously in the autumn wind, adding a bit of vitality and liveliness to the autumn scenery.
Climb halfway up the mountain and have a panoramic view of Gaosha Village.
Not far away at the foot of the mountain, the rice fields are golden, as if the ground is covered with golden silk, and you can see hardworking figures shuttled in the fields.
Looking back, Lao Wu and his party came to Nansheling on the west side of Gaobei Village. This is one of the mountainous areas contracted by Hailufeng Company, namely Nansheling Farm.
The farm covers an area of 5,000 acres, and more than 750 acres have been renovated so far, of which nearly 400 acres have been planted with beautiful kapok and white clover.
Lao Wu and others are the farm workers responsible for planting the beautiful kapok and spreading white clover.
Passing by the terraced fields where white clover seeds were sown two months ago, dense clusters of clover have grown.
Generally speaking, the budding 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 start to spread its stolons around.
However, the white-flowered clover is not blooming at this time, because the white-flowered 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 just built on the farm, and there were two rows of two-story container houses next to it.
There are 7 management personnel dispatched from the company headquarters here, plus 40 local employees such as Lao Wu. As for the reconstruction of the terraces, it has been contracted to the local construction team.
The director of the farm, Gao Xiangyang, counted the number of people and then ordered: "The first group will be responsible for the southern 3 fields today. The second group, please don't plant foreign kapok. Today, we will be responsible for spreading clover seeds. We will strive to spread the remaining 3 leaves within a week." The 350 acres of terraced fields are sown with seeds to prevent weeds from growing back.”
"Know."
"Okay, director."
The two team leaders quickly replied.
"The third group, you will continue to plant kapok in the North 4th District today. The fourth group, under the leadership of agricultural technicians, will apply fertilizer and pesticide to the previously planted kapok."
"Okay."
Lao Wu belongs to the third group.
Ten of them, plus team leader Xie Ming, each drove a tricycle to pull the 3-meter-high saplings and tools to the planting area.
Although it was in a mountainous area, due to a 6-meter-wide gravel road built in advance, they quickly reached the planting area along the foot of the mountain.
Not far away, five excavators, three bulldozers and a gravel excavator, plus four muck trucks, were already busy.
After all, this kind of project is contracted, and there is no way to hire foreign workers.
As for farm workers such as Lao Wu, in addition to their basic salary of 3,500 yuan, they also receive performance commissions for various tasks on the farm.
For example, if you plant beautiful Kapok trees and plant one plant of each species (check after a month), each person in the group will receive a performance bonus of 1 yuan that month.
After the farm is officially put into production, each group will be divided into areas of responsibility. Each group will be responsible for managing 100 acres. Of the profits generated by the 100 acres of durian plantation throughout the year, 10% of the profits will become a performance bonus for each of them.
In fact, a 100-acre durian plantation includes not only 100 acres of durian, but also nearly 80 acres of understory alfalfa and white clover.
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 profit generated by the flow of honey in the orchard, that is, the entire farm and the beekeeping team receive 10% of the profit. Generally, the farm 3% and the beekeeping team 7%.
Although the output performance of the durian orchard was not obtained, the performance in the early stage of building the plantation was also good.
Therefore, villagers from various surrounding villages are now asking if they can come to work on the farm.
After all, the basic monthly salary for an individual on the farm is 3,500 yuan, which also includes five insurances and one housing fund. Plus performance, although the work is a bit tiring, it is already very good.
Although part-time workers in Shanmei's rural areas, such as pruning lychees and longan, or building graves and building houses for people, can generally earn 150 to 200 yuan per day.
The problem is that this kind of work cannot last long. It can only last a few days or a few months.
I'll give you 200 yuan a day, and you can work it out for a month, which is only 6,000 yuan. In addition, for this kind of work, people usually take care of relatives and friends first, and rarely find outsiders they are not familiar with.
Many rural people actually prefer stable jobs.
After Lao Wu lifted a sapling down, he went to the tricycle nearby, picked up a bottle of water, took a sip, and asked in a low voice to Gao Xiangyang, who was controlling the cable car next to him: "Director Gao, I heard that the farm is recruiting people. ?”
"Yeah." Gao Xiangyang cherished his words like gold.
"My son just graduated from a vocational high school this year..."
Gao Xiangyang pressed the unloading pause button, then picked up the intercom: "The saplings are up, arrange for people to unload them."
"Hiss... Got it!" came the response from the intercom.
Gao Xiangyang then looked at Lao 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."
"There's no need to smoke. Your son is still young. Can he bear the hardships of working on the farm?" Gao Xiangyang also graduated from a vocational high school. After years of hard work, he recognized the reality and honestly 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 industry. According to the company's employment principles, young people will not stay locally. If he wants to come in, after being trained, he will either go to the Gannan branch or the Qiongzhou branch. ”
“Can’t stay local?”
Gao Xiangyang explained: "Yes, after young people are trained, they are suitable to work as team leaders or agricultural technicians in other farms. You should be aware of the treatment of team leaders."
Old Wu naturally knew that the basic salary of several team leaders on their farm was 4,500 yuan. He thought for a while: "Then when I go back, let that kid apply for a job in the company?"
Gao Xiangyang reminded: "You'd better talk to your child! After all, young people are unstable. If he doesn't want to, don't force it."
This is also a destructive move that Jiang Miao came up with, which is to deliberately separate work and family to see how determined the candidates are, which is equivalent to a disguised obedience test.
If he is unwilling to work in other places, it only means that this person is not determined enough. He came to apply for a job just to find a job where he could live and die close to his family.
If you are willing to work in other places, it means that this person has a fighting spirit. This kind of person is worth cultivating and can be used as the backbone reserve of the company in the future.
At the same time, this method can also reasonably reject the favors of some local employees and prevent them from trying to arrange young people in the family to work on the farm.
After all, as an enterprise, if there are a large number of nepotistic employees in a department, it is easy for them to shield each other and even harm the public and enrich their own interests.
These locals in their 30s and 40s will only be allowed to work locally during the initial emergency recruitment. For the next employees recruited, the company will gradually adopt the method of arranging employees in different villages and towns to mix employees.
Moreover, Jiang Miao has notified his brother-in-law, asking him to recruit 500 young people in the southern Jiangxi area, and then bring them back to Shanmei's farm to serve as team leaders.
After all, a durian plantation of more than 50,000 acres requires a team of 11 people for every 100 acres, which means a total of more than 5,000 people are needed.
It is very necessary to introduce non-local employees from other regions to check and balance the local employees.
In fact, Gongxin Town itself does not have that many laborers. According to information provided by the town government, the permanent population of Gongxin Town in 2024 will be about 110,000. Considering that Gongxin Town is an area with a large outflow of labor, the proportion of the working-age labor force will be about 50%. Around 55,000 people. Among the 55,000 working-age labor force, after excluding civil servants, teachers, small self-employed people, pregnant women, and some unsuitable groups, such as those who are frail, spoiled, notorious, lazy, etc., there will only be about 30,000 people left. about.
It is obviously impossible to recruit 5,000 farm workers from among 30,000 people.
After all, many have regular jobs or run farms at home, and not everyone can tolerate the intensity of farm work.
Therefore, bringing in labor from other places is an inevitable choice.
Old Wu on the side handed Huazi to Gao Xiangyang: "Mr. Gao, you're welcome."
"Don't do this next time."
After listening to Gao Xiangyang's reminder, Lao Wu felt that he should ask his children what they thought first. After all, many young people today cannot endure hardship.
Although he thinks the farm work is good, for middle-aged and elderly people like them who have been in the countryside for many years, the labor intensity is relatively low.
For example, tricycles and cable cars are often used to transport things. When they were young, they could only carry them on their shoulders when they went into the mountains to chop firewood.
Lao Wu just returned to his tricycle and prepared to move the saplings.
Another middle-aged man from the same village came over and asked in a low voice: "Brother Shui, what did Team Leader Gao say?"
The two of them lifted a sapling together and placed it on the external shelf of the cable car. Then they used a special fixed rope buckle to fasten the sapling tightly.
Lao Wu whispered back as he walked: "The company does want to recruit people, but if they are young people, they have to work in other places. Although we middle-aged people can stay locally, we cannot stay in our own villages."
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"It seems that my daughter has no choice."
Old Wu moved a sapling again: "Your daughter has just graduated from junior high school and is spoiled. She will definitely not be able to do farm work. Clerks in the company must have a college degree or undergraduate degree. It is better to find someone to marry as soon as possible! She is already twenty-eight. After a few years, it will be harder to get married.”
"I also introduced it to her, but unfortunately she didn't like it at all."
Suddenly an idea flashed through Old Wu: "Our company's farm team leaders are all good, you can take the opportunity to match them up."
"Them? Can they like my skeleton dragon?"
"Give it a try!"
The two of them were chatting and moving things.
other side.
Lu Weibin and Chen Guohui, the mayor of Ping Ping Town, were in Xishan Village on the north side of Ping Ping Town.
Chen Guohui smiled broadly and pointed to the large 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 opposite the road was the Gongping Reservoir, so water was very convenient.
"If your company determines the location, we can expropriate the land at any time." Chen Guohui has seen the strength of Hailufeng Company in the past few months.
The more than 40,000 acres of mountainous land granted to the other party by Pinghe Town has been transformed into 3,000 acres in less than two months. In addition to some mountainous areas that do not need to be transformed, the area of high-standard terraces currently available has reached Tens of thousands of acres.
And it seems that Hailufeng Company is serious.
In fact, Chen Guohui no longer doubts the strength of Hailufeng Company. After all, many companies say they are here to invest, sometimes to defraud subsidies, or listed companies deliberately make PPTs to defraud investors of their money.
However, Hailufeng Company did not ask for subsidies from Haifeng County. It asked for tax exemptions from Shanmei City. It is not a listed company. With such a large-scale investment now, it is obvious that it really wants to invest locally.
In addition, the market has already informed him that if he still dares to neglect Hailufeng Company, he will be fined for not eating the toast.
"Chen Town, this location is good. Our factory needs at least 1,000 acres, with a minimum of 1,200 acres. If you encounter difficult villagers, you can consider avoiding their farmland." Lu Weibin expressed his thoughts.
"1,200 acres? Okay, give us one month, and we will expropriate this land." Chen Guohui assured.
But Lu Weibin knew that one month was too urgent. If he forced it, it might lead to some not-so-good situations, so he smiled and shook his head:
"It's not urgent. It doesn't have to be in Xishan Village. It can also be done in other places. Chen Town can communicate with Xishan Village first. It is best to talk to the villagers where the land is located. If the villagers are generally opposed, then we will change the place. .”
"That's fine." Chen Guohui also knew that land acquisition was troublesome, and villagers in some places would not be too cooperative.
Lu Weibin added a condition: "In addition, our company can also promise to recruit a suitable employee in each household as long as the villagers involved in land acquisition are involved. Of course, we follow the formal recruitment process. This is not an iron rice bowl. If they violate our company's policies in the future, Relevant regulations must be dealt with. ”
"Don't worry, Manager Lu, I will make it clear to the villagers."
"It doesn't matter, take your time. Anyway, just decide on the location before June next year."
In fact, Lu Weibin prefers to set up factories in Gaobei Village, Xiadong Village, Hutou Village, Lianhe Village, Xikeng Village, Hengkeng Village and other places near durian plantations.
In these places, Hailufeng Company has a mass base. After all, these villages have a large number of villagers working for the company. If land is to be acquired locally, the villagers will give them more or less face.
Xishan Village, which belongs to the core area of Fairness Town, has no business intersection with Hailufeng Company, so the villagers here will most likely not be too cooperative.
If there is a mess due to land acquisition, then Hailufeng Company would rather move to another place.
Lu Weibin and Chen Guohui visited a part of Pinghe Town suitable for building factories for more than three hours, 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.
This factory is divided into two parts, one part is used to process durian and process durian; the other part is used as a forage processing plant to process alfalfa and alfalfa.
Among them, Lu Weibin's favorite place is Gaosha Village in Gaobei Village, because although this place is mountainous, there are many low hills around it that can be transformed. In addition, it is in the center of the durian production area, making it convenient to transport durians to the factory.
After the durians arrive at the factory, you only need to select them, soak them in turmeric powder, and then ripen a part of the fruits to process the durian puree.
This means that the transportation distance should be shortened as much as possible, which can reduce the consumption of some manpower and material resources.
The last stop happened to be Gaosha Village.
Lu Weibin stopped by the Nansheling Farm where Gaosha Village is located.
The pickup truck came to the dirt road in the middle of the terraces. Gao Xiangyang, who was on the terraces halfway up the mountain, immediately saw the pickup truck. He immediately knew that someone from the company was coming, and quickly asked the team leader of the group to control the cable car for him. , he hurried down.
Come to the foot of the mountain.
"Xiangyang, are you still used to working?"
"Manager Lu, I'm still used to it."
Looking at Gao Xiangyang, who was as tanned as black charcoal, Lu 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 are all former employees of Nanhu Farm. They have been working in the company for almost a year and 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 real money directly instead of telling employees about dedication, filling them with chicken soup, and drawing big cakes.
The 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, "Xiang Yang, please take some time in the past few days to test the attitude of the local villagers towards our company building a factory nearby."
"The company plans to build durian and fodder factories here?" Gao Xiangyang was a little surprised.
Lu Weibin shook his head: "We haven't decided yet, but I'm more optimistic about this place. After all, we don't have a mass base in the other two places, and land acquisition is too troublesome."
Gao Xiangyang knew how Hailufeng Company's land acquisition in Xinxiang and Yan Town was carried out. With the cooperation of a large number of company employees, the land acquisition work could be completed easily. He also nodded:
"Indeed, if it is near Gaosha Village, our farms are here. In addition, we need to recruit a large number of local people. It is the least difficult to persuade them to cooperate with the land acquisition."
(End of chapter)