This second uncle is not Li Weidong's second uncle, but the second uncle of Li Weidong's eldest brother-in-law, and Li Weidong also called him "second uncle".

Li Weidong's eldest brother-in-law was born in the countryside, joined the army when he was young, and once served as an instructor in a certain company in the northeast garrison. The other relatives of the eldest brother-in-law are still rural residents and stay in the countryside.

In the 80s, there was still a fundamental difference between the urban and rural hukou, and the urban hukou was obviously higher than the rural hukou. In the countryside, if a family has a relative who is "from the city", then this family is also superior to others in the village.

The eldest brother-in-law's second uncle is named Shen Zheng, who is the secretary of Shen Futun's brigade, and also serves as the village head, and he is also a capable person in the countryside.

The relatives of this kind of relatives, one lives in the city and the other lives in the countryside, and they may not be able to see each other for more than ten years.

Li Weidong and Shen Zheng have met four or five times, and the last time Li Weidong saw Shen Zheng, it was the second daughter of the eldest sister's family who invited the full moon wine.

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In the tavern, Li Weidong asked for a few dishes and a bottle of wine.

After a few glasses of wine, Shen Zheng also opened the conversation.

A few years ago, Shen Futun finally solved the problem of food and clothing for the villagers by going to the household, and in the past two years, Shen Futun has relied on planting peanuts to make a little money for the villagers. After the villagers became rich, they raised funds to set up a village-run enterprise, mainly to produce laundry paste.

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Today's post-00s young people may not have seen such a thing as laundry detergent. Laundry paste is a paste, very alkaline, soluble in water, and people in the eighties took laundry paste. After the 90s, laundry detergent gradually became popular, and laundry detergent gradually withdrew from the market.

Shen Futun's village-run enterprise is not much bigger than a workshop, and the laundry paste produced is also a three-no product, which must not enter department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives, so on weekdays, whenever there is a market, Shen Futun's people will carry a few buckets of laundry paste and go to various markets to sell it.

The customers of the laundry paste factory are also farmers or residents of the urban-rural junction, these people have low incomes, and they are reluctant to buy soap from regular manufacturers.

If the product is sold cheaply, it often means that the profit is low, and Shen Futun's laundry paste production capacity is relatively limited, and there is no normal sales channel. So Shen Zheng, the secretary of the brigade, planned to develop some new products and make more money.

Recently, Shen Zheng heard that the No. 2 Chemical Plant was going to eliminate several sets of saponification equipment from the 60s, so he made a special trip to buy this set of equipment, but the doorman of the No. 2 Chemical Plant saw that Shen Zheng was a rural person, so he directly stopped Shen Zheng outside the gate and did not let Shen Zheng enter the door at all.

After listening to Shen Zheng's story, Li Weidong smiled and picked up his wine glass, toasted Shen Zheng with a glass of wine, and then said: "Second uncle, if you want to make new products, you don't necessarily have to make soap, you can make other things!"

"I've thought about it too, but we can't make a slightly difficult product! Soap is a simple thing to make, not much more complicated than laundry paste. Shen Zheng said.

"Then have you ever thought about introducing new technology?" Li Weidong then asked.

"Let's not say we don't have that much money to bring in technology. Let's just say that in our small factory, the people who work are all farmers, and after graduating from primary school, they are highly educated, even if they spend money to buy technology, they can't understand it!" Shen Zheng shook his head and said.

Li Weidong put down the wine glass and asked: "Second uncle, I have a product here, and the process is not complicated, just add things in order, control the temperature, and stir it, are you interested?"

"Isn't that similar to our production of laundry paste?" Shen Zheng hurriedly asked, "What is it?"

Li Weidong took out the piece of sheep shearling material from his arms, handed it to Shen Zheng, and said, "Second uncle, look at it, how about this piece of leather?"

Shen Zheng took the sheep shear, put it in his hand and touched it, and couldn't help but say, "This skin is so soft!"

"How is it better than ordinary sheepskin?" Li Weidong then asked.

"That's really soft and too much!" Shen Zheng gently stroked this piece of sheep shearling velvet, and then said: "What kind of skin is this, why is it so soft?"

"It's sheepskin. Li Weidong replied.

"It's impossible! We all slaughter sheep during the New Year's holidays, and I haven't seen this sheepskin before! It must be harder than this, and the wool is much harder than this! How can this skin be so smooth. Shen Zheng said.

"Second uncle, my sheepskin has been specially treated. There is a chemical product called softener, ordinary sheepskin can become so soft by soaking it in the softener. And not only sheepskin, but also cotton, towels, and blankets, can be softened by soaking them in softener. Li Weidong finally introduced the softener.

Shen Zheng nodded suddenly, and asked, "Weidong, the product you just said is this softener, right?"

"Yes, it's a softener. Li Weidong paused in his voice and said his purpose: "I can teach you the production process of softener, and I can also inject capital into you, but I want to take a share." ”

"You still inject capital into us?" Shen Zheng seemed to only hear the capital injection, but did not hear the shares.

"If you want to produce new products, you have to buy raw materials, right? How many raw materials is enough for your factory?" asked Li Weidong with a smile.

"It's also said that making laundry paste is a small business, and we really don't have much money in the factory. Shen Zheng nodded.

Li Weidong picked up the wine bottle, filled Shen Zheng with wine, and then said: "Second uncle, I think so, after we finish eating in a while, I will send you back to Shen Futun on a motorcycle, and by the way, take a look at your factory, and then let's discuss it carefully!"

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Shen Futun's small factory has only two buildings, plus a boiler room. Fortunately, there is still a yard of more than one acre, and all kinds of equipment are complete.

Li Weidong checked the equipment of the small factory, although it was a little rudimentary, it was still okay to use it to produce softener.

"Second uncle, I can invest 100,000 yuan for you, plus the formula of softener, but you have to give me 50% of the shares. Li Weidong made his own request.

"Wei Dong, are you kidding your second uncle!" Shen Zheng shook his head: "Just our broken copper and iron, it is not worth 100,000 yuan combined! 100,000 yuan is enough to buy two small factories like this! How can I ask you for so much money." ”

"Second uncle, after all, this is the factory of your village collective, and I can't let you suffer. Li Weidong pointed around, and then said: "Besides, in addition to equipment, there is no land and factory buildings!"

Shen Zheng opened his mouth and replied: "These two acres of land can be worth a few dollars, as for the factory, we have laborers in the village, as long as they take care of the food, one person can build a house with a pack of cigarettes." ”

"Second uncle, after all, this is a collective enterprise in your village, if I buy it directly, it will definitely not be suitable, this is not a matter of money, the key is that the policy may not allow it! Li Weidong said.

"Then you don't have to pay 100,000 yuan, our factory is really not worth so much money. If I charge you 100,000 yuan and give you 50 percent of the shares, I won't be cheating on you! When your brother-in-law finds out, I have to say that I am even a pit on my relatives! We Shen Futun can't do this kind of thing. Shen Zheng said.

"Second uncle, you are too worried, my 100,000 yuan was not given to you for nothing. Li Weidong continued: "I think so, I invested this money, part of it is to buy raw materials, part of it can be used to upgrade equipment, and part of it, let's buy a small truck, and it is convenient to return to the delivery."

In addition, this is a village collective enterprise, and I have to give your villagers some explanation for half of the shares at once, right? So I plan to take out a part of the 100,000 yuan and count it as a dividend to the villagers, and give 1,200 yuan per household, so that the villagers in the province have opinions about me. ”

"Well, it's okay, if there is a small truck, it is more convenient to go back to the village to pull grain, and as for the dividends to the villagers, one hundred yuan per household is a lot. Shen Zheng opened his mouth and agreed.

After all, Shen Zheng is the secretary of the village brigade, of course, he has to consider the interests of the village, and he can buy a small truck in the village, and give a dividend of 100 yuan per household, which is a real benefit, and Shen Zheng will definitely not refuse.

As for Li Weidong, he doesn't care about paying tens of thousands of dollars more.

This kind of village collective enterprise is a local snake, originally from a wild road, and there are many kinds of riotous operations. Dealing with this kind of village collective enterprise or township enterprise is different from that of state-owned enterprises.

The workers of state-owned enterprises are all organized, and they also stress rules and discipline; in state-owned enterprises, leading cadres are authoritative, and when leaders speak, people below will listen. It's a pyramid-shaped, top-down management system.

In village collective enterprises or township enterprises, the workers are basically peasants, and they do not have such good organization and discipline, nor do they have a top-down management system.

The management model of the village collective enterprise is more like the previous production brigade, with one or two team leaders leading everyone to work together. The reason why the leaders of the village collective enterprises give orders is not based on administrative instructions, but on their prestige in the village.

For example, Shen Zheng, the reason why he was able to become Shen Futun's brigade secretary was not because he had that appointment, but because his prestige in the village could convince the public.

In some villages, the villagers are still relatives, and when they walk into the workshop of the village collective enterprise, they first call out the second uncle, the third uncle, the fourth cousin, and the like, and this kind of clan enterprise cannot adopt a top-down management model.

Under the clan enterprise model, it is not so simple for a person from another village to intervene in the enterprise of the village collective.

People in the same village are xenophobic, which is a very common thing in rural areas.

Although Li Weidong and Shen Zheng are also relatives, they are outsiders after all, and if they want to gain a firm foothold in Shen Futun, it is not enough to rely on the identity of a city person.

The best way is to sprinkle a wave of money first, so that each villager can get the benefits, and the villagers will get dividends, and naturally they will no longer exclude Li Weidong, so that Li Weidong can intervene in the management of the laundry paste factory.

With Li Weidong's financial resources, he can directly buy the entire laundry paste factory and engage in a joint-stock cooperative system, which sounds more like a thankless loss-making behavior.

But Li Weidong could not do so, mainly because in 1987, there was no policy credibility to recognize the legitimacy of private enterprises.

It was only in 1988 when the constitution was amended that the legal status of private enterprises was clarified, so theoretically speaking, there were no private enterprises in China before 1988.

In those days, you could apply for a business license and become self-employed. But want to apply for a business license for a private business, sorry, there is no such thing!

Therefore, if someone says that it is pure nonsense to engage in private enterprises before 1988, it is not legal at all!

At that time, there were many workshops employing hundreds of people in the south, and they were still self-employed by the legal definition, not private enterprises, because there was no business license for private enterprises.

If an enterprise does not even have a business license, then its business activities will inevitably be subject to many restrictions.

At that time, there were two main ways for self-employed individuals to become enterprises, one was to be affiliated, such as attaching the enterprise to the township, so that the enterprise would nominally become a township enterprise.

The second way is to find a few shareholders and turn the enterprise into a joint-stock cooperative system, which can also be regarded as a collective enterprise.

Of course, Li Weidong is very familiar with these policies, so he did not buy the entire laundry paste factory directly, but chose to hold 50% of the shares, so as to maintain the nature of the joint-stock cooperative system of the laundry paste factory, and it does not violate the policy.

The reason why it holds 50% of the shares is also to avoid policy risks. Before the private sector was legal, if private ownership exceeded public ownership, it might attract a lot of people.

Although Li Weidong knows that the policies of private enterprises will become more and more open, he cannot afford to test the bottom line of the policy with his net worth of tens of millions.

If the horse stumbles, it will be arrested as a capitalist, then it will be wronged!