and Lao Lu finalized the general direction of their next move, and the two discussed the details for a while, and then began to act separately.

First of all, Lao Lu informed Zhong Zhiwen's team and asked them to go to Hongcheng and Jingdezhen separately to inspect the local investment environment and conduct a new round of project evaluation. And Lao Lu sat in Hongcheng to preside over the overall situation, and at the same time, he also participated in the activities on the scene.

"It's been a long time and now it's all my business, what about you, Xiao Li, what are you going to do next?"

"I'm going to go back to my hometown in the next few days. ”

"Back to your hometown? Now that the leaders of your hometown have come to Hongcheng, what are you going to do at this time?"

"There are two main things to go back, one is that in addition to this ceramic factory project, don't forget that there is a marble mine there, it's been so long, I went to see if the procedures for opening the mine have been completed. This second, Uncle Quan, didn't we just say that unless there are "other factors", it is best not to put this project in Shimen County, so I still want to go back and see it in person. ”

Lao Lu looked at Li Huayong and smiled: "Xiao Li, in the final analysis, you still hope that this project will settle in your hometown, since this is the case, then go ahead." By the way, what about the lotus flowers, are you going to let her stay in Hongcheng or go back with you?"

This time it was Li Huayong's turn to laugh, and he pretended to be clear: "I can't be the master of the affairs of the two eldest ladies, they can do whatever they like, they can leave if they want, and stay if they want." ”

"Hehe, that's right. ”

Li Huayong said so in his mouth, but he knew in his heart that Lin Wei would definitely go back with him. You must know that Lin Lianhua is the first time to know the joy of fish and water, it is the time to eat the marrow and know the taste, and I can't wait to be together every day, where is I willing to part at this time.

In Li Huayong's opinion, it is the other literary young woman who is a troublemaker. From the bottom of his heart, Li Huayong actually didn't want to bring this light bulb, although this light bulb was even more beautiful than the main one. However, there is no way, a few days ago Lin Hui said that he wanted to meet Europe, and Lin Wei's excuse for leaving her was to let her sister "stay with her for a few more days" in the mainland, in this case, at least there was no excuse to leave her alone in Hongcheng.

So in this way, the day after Uncle Gen and the others came to Hongcheng, Li Huayong did not alarm the others, he drove a car, carried a pair of beautiful sister flowers, and returned to Shimen County from Hongcheng.

It will be a little more than 200 kilometers from Hongcheng to Shimen County, but Li Huayong ran on the road for more than five hours. Li Huayong drove a good car today, and it didn't take so long. Mainly because from the map, Lijiaao seems to be closer to Hongcheng than the county seat, so Li Huayong did not take the normal route.

The normal route should be to take the national highway, the provincial highway first enters the county seat of Shimen County, and then returns to Lijiaao from the county seat. And Li Huayong saw an opening on the provincial road, and from the map, this opening should be very close to Zhujiaji, so he took the rural dirt road directly from this mouth to Zhujiaji.

It's just that I didn't expect that I wanted to take such a shortcut, but the three of them ran on the rural dirt road for nearly 1 hour more.

"I really don't know what's wrong with you, if you don't take a good road, you have to take such a bad road. ”

Facing Lin Wei's white eyes and complaints, Li Huayong replied to the question: "More than 30 kilometers." ”

"What did you say?"

Li Huayong smiled and said: "It's nothing, I'm just saying that Zhujiaji is the closest provincial highway, and the straight-line distance is about 30 kilometers." ”

It may be that the bumps along the way are very uncomfortable, and Lin Lianhua is furious: "Hey, Ah Yong......, are you wrong?"

However, Lin Hui quickly stopped his frantic sister: "Ah Yong should be calculating the location of the future factory, he is calculating how far the future factory is from the nearest road, Ah Yong, isn't it?"

Li Huayong glanced at the literary young woman in a little surprise, and then glanced at his decent girlfriend with a smile, thinking that I heard that women in love are easy to become stupid, forget it, I will forgive your ignorance today.

Lin Lianhua was a little embarrassed: "Then, where are we going now?"

At this time, Li Huayong turned to Lin Hui: "Let's go, let's go to the small brick kiln where Sister Orchid often goes first." ”

The distance of the small brick kiln is not far, just on the very edge of the entire Zhu family set. After arriving at the location, Li Huayong got out of the car and stopped to watch and began to observe the surrounding terrain.

The whole Shimen County is dominated by hilly terrain, and Lijiaao and Yangjiazhai are even more mountainous. Although the terrain where Li Huayong is standing now is not flat, it is already a rare piece of flat land in the surrounding area. And the reason why it can be a little flatter here should be because of the small river not far in front, the "Linbian Creek" that flows out of the mountains deeper than Lijiaao.

Just when Li Huayong was observing the terrain, someone suddenly came up to say hello:

"Yo, isn't this Dunzi, when did Dunzi come back?"

Li Huayong knew someone who came, but he was Zhu Jiaji's "Zhu Mangu", and he seemed to have a good relationship with Uncle Gen. Li Huayong smiled at the visitor: "Just came back, what's the matter, is Uncle Barbarian also working in this brick kiln?"

"Hey, we don't have any other livelihood in Zhujiaji, except for farming, we can only do things in this brick kiln, but the red bricks we burn here are good, strong, durable, and in the nearby townships. ”

Of course, Li Huayong has long been mainly interested in the soil quality here, and he said in his heart that the red bricks here can not be good? The red bricks are usually fired with ordinary clay, but the soil here is a really high-quality "kaolin" that can be used to fire porcelain, and it is strange that the red bricks fired from such soil are not of good quality.

"Uncle Man, let's use this soil that can be used to burn bricks like this," Li Huayong pointed to the adobe bricks with his finger:

"There should be a lot of them, right?"

"It's a lot, it's a lot, especially from where we go, you see, the hills over there are basically like this. ”

Li Huayong nodded, he noticed the direction of Uncle Man's finger, that is the direction of the northeast and east, and what is the direction from here? That is the direction of Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital.

It is not without reason that Jingdezhen can become the "porcelain capital", first of all, a necessary condition, that is, the area must have high-quality materials for firing porcelain. The quality of the kaolin produced in Jingdezhen is recognized by the world, to what extent? The internationally accepted scientific name of kaolin, Kaolin, actually comes from a certain mountain in a town and a village in the Jingdezhen area.

Although Shimen County does not belong to the Jingdezhen area, the geographical location of the two places is actually very close, according to Li Huayong's observation and the description of the villagers, Li Huayong believes that if a ceramic factory is set up here, at least the raw materials will certainly not be a problem.

"Dunzi, I heard that a big boss wants to invest in a ceramic factory in our place, is there such a thing?"

Uncle Mangu said "big boss" while looking at the car, it is obvious that the local villagers are still better informed than ordinary people.

Li Huayong didn't reply positively, he asked the other party with a smile: "Uncle Man, then we are here, has anyone burned ceramics before?"

"Yes, why not, in the early years, there were a lot of porcelain kilns in our local area, and I told you that we burned a kind of "exquisite porcelain" locally, which was no worse than the "blue and white porcelain" in Jingdezhen, but in recent years, it has gradually stopped burning. ”

"Hmm, why haven't you burned it lately?"

Uncle Barbarian told Li Huayong two reasons, the first is that the government is controlling, because the traditional porcelain is burned with firewood, which has led to many trees being cut down, in recent years, the government has introduced some policies to close mountains and forests, so that many small porcelain kilns are closed.

The second and more important reason is that porcelain was not very profitable in the past, after all, the local porcelain was not famous, and the porcelain fired in the past was some ordinary porcelain, pots and pans or something, so of course, it could not compete with the Jingdezhen porcelain next door.

It is these two reasons that have led to the gradual decline of the local ceramic industry.

"Uncle Man, let me ask you again, do we have a coal mine in our local area?"

"Coal mines? We don't have them, but in other towns and villages in the county, there are many coal mines, large and small. ”

"Oh, what about electricity, Uncle Mangu, do you know how the electricity situation in our county is......"

The two stood in front of the small brick kiln and chatted for nearly 20 minutes. When the two chatted to the end, Uncle Mangu asked again:

"Dunzi, you haven't told me yet, we're going to run a ceramic factory, isn't it true?"

Li Huayong laughed: "Uncle Man, let me tell you, I don't know about this yet." ”

"Oh. ”

Seeing that Uncle Mangu looked slightly disappointed, Li Huayong decided to reveal something, he came to Uncle Man's side, pretending to be mysterious:

"But Uncle Man, I can tell you the truth, and you don't want to spread what I'm saying now. ”

"Don't spread it, don't spread it. ”

"I think it's very possible to set up a ceramic factory here!"