【Chapter 174】 The current situation of the grain station
After Liu Rui's explanation, Wang Huaguo and Zhang Zhenguang finally understood Liu Rui's intentions and applauded.
In fact, the heads of the two village committees have agreed, and the whole of Liang Village began to take action, and everyone was busy planning external publicity and inviting relevant merchants to come to Liang Village to participate in the public bidding activities.
For these two old and mature village party secretaries, their thinking may not be very open at the beginning, and there are many things that they can't think of. But. As soon as someone reminds them, their rich experience and connections come into play.
Liu Rui didn't even expect that the two village party secretaries still had a lot of rich people's resources in their hands, and once they decided, they began to notify them one by one. Seeing that Wang Huaguo and Zhang Zhenguang had one phone after another, Liu Rui was a little emotional, and these two old men had extremely high work efficiency.
In this regard, Liu Rui understands that the increase in investors will definitely make the competition more intense, and he and Zeng Ying and others will have to pay more if they want to win the right to operate the grain station. However, Liu Rui does not regret it, after all, the tourism development prospects of Liangcun are very impressive, and there is no need to be too stingy in investment.
Liu Rui can always remember his father's words: "Suffering is a blessing!"
There are a lot of things that seem a bit of a loss at the beginning, but the end result is always satisfying.
"It's still your kid's brain, if you follow my idea, it would be a bit too rigid to lease out the grain station to collect rent!" Wang Huaguo, who walked out of the village committee, praised Liu Rui and patted him on the shoulder and said.
"These are all the prospects described by Mr. Yu, which reminds me that since the future development of the village is unlimited, the dead money from renting the grain station is a bit small!" Liu Rui was a little embarrassed and said: "If you can use the resources of the village as shares to cooperate with foreign merchants, that is the source of living water." ”
"In the future, you have to give your uncle more ideas, don't patronize your little family all day long!" Wang Huaguo looked at Liu Rui more and more satisfied, but it was a pity that Liu Rui's mind was now focused on the winery, and he had no time and was unwilling to accept the affairs of the village, which made Wang Huaguo feel regretful.
"Huh!" With a smirk, Liu Rui said, "Isn't there Brother Wang Jun to help you?" He's doing a great job now, too! ”
Seeing Liu Ruizhi's sloppy appearance, Wang Huaguo was a little helpless, knowing that Liu Ruizhi was not here, he could only shake his head. However, Zhang Zhenguang was very proud, after all, his nephew put most of his energy on the operation of the winery and pig farm, which surprised Zhang Zhenguang.
Although Zhang Zhenguang is the village party secretary, it is normal for him to have a little Jiujiu in his heart, after all, everyone has to take care of the small family in addition to taking care of everyone.
The impact of Liangcun's development of tourism on the villagers is much stronger than the opening of a bamboo art company and the cultivation of vegetables to sell to restaurants in the city. At the beginning, the sale of vegetables to catering companies in the city was mostly a spontaneous activity of the villagers, which seemed to be a bit of a natural thing.
As for starting a bamboo art company, because the bamboo weaving industry is not large, and the villagers are not very optimistic about its development prospects, there are few responders. If it weren't for Wang Huaguo and Wang Jun's effective response, coupled with Guo Hailan's continuous orders, their investments would have begun to bear fruit.
However, only Wang Huaguo and others, who are in it, know that the bamboo art company has now begun to enter the state of the cycle of good surnames, and the recovery of costs is just around the corner. Guo Hailan's orders and some newly developed markets have begun to make the villagers of the bamboo art company work overtime to complete the task, and everyone's income has also skyrocketed.
As the saying goes, the meat of the bun is not on the pleat, which is the situation of the bamboo art company!
This time, the two village committees acted with a bit of fanfare, and with the assistance of the research institute, the villagers had a certain confidence in this development. In fact, most of the villagers' confidence comes from Yu Shanwei and others, and in the eyes of most villagers, these great intellectuals are well-informed and will definitely not be wrong in putting forward suggestions.
Another important reason is that this time, the tourism development of Liangcun does not need to be compulsory, and the villagers naturally will not have too many objections. As for the village's decision to use the village's savings to improve the village's sanitation and road conditions, the villagers even raised their hands in agreement.
Although the villagers have lived in the current environment all their lives, with the development of the times, everyone's yearning for a better life is the same. Although the villagers had the intention to change their environment in the past, their individual power was always very small, and the villagers could only bear all this helplessly.
Taking this opportunity, the villagers want to rectify the environment in the village, after all, living in a comfortable atmosphere is something that everyone is willing to do.
No, as soon as the village committee had a meeting, the villagers spontaneously took action and began to clean up the garbage in front of and behind their houses, as well as those weeds and shrubs. Usually if you don't pay attention, everyone thinks that the village is quite clean, but now it seems that it is still a little dirty. Everyone was shocked to find that a large amount of garbage had been swept out and piled up on the side of the road to form a hill.
At the same time, under Wang Huaguo's arrangement, other village officials also looked for suitable places in the village to build public toilets, and carried out corresponding surveys of the water ditches in the village, planning to change those smelly open ditches into dark ditches, and carry out re-planning.
Of course, these projects take a certain amount of time to complete, but the enthusiasm of the villagers is quite high.
Aside from the villagers' enthusiasm to transform the environment of the village, Liu Rui, who left the village committee, rode a motorcycle to the grain station. Standing in front of the already mottled big iron gate of the grain station, the past appeared in Liu Rui's mind one by one, bringing him back to that fiery era.
When he was a child, Liu Rui also followed his parents to the grain station many times to sell grain, and he had a very special feeling for the grain station. Every year during the summer harvest season, the grain station will usher in the most lively scene of the year, and the villagers of ten miles and eight towns use various means of transportation to send their rice to the grain station.
In the past, in addition to handing over grain to the state, peasants also had to sell enough commercial grain to grain stations according to the quantity of their responsible fields, so that they could be regarded as completing the one-year task of requisitioning grain. Therefore, the summer at the grain station is not only busy, but also hot.
Every morning, before the staff of the grain station opened the big iron gate, the road to the grain station was already full of all kinds of cars. At that time, the popularization of agricultural mechanization was not high, and there were very few farmers with walk-behind tractors, and most of the villagers still used oxen and horse-drawn carts.
While comforting their livestock, the villagers craned their necks to look ahead, anxiously waiting for the grain station to open. The southern sun in summer is like a charcoal oven, shining on people's bodies can almost peel off their skins, and bean-sized beads of sweat fall into the dust and disappear in a blink of an eye.
As for a little doll like Liu Rui, she is still a teenager who doesn't know what it feels like, and she is chasing and fighting with her friends, sprinkling pieces of laughter. At this time, it seems that because of the income that is about to arrive, the parents have also become patient, looking at the dolls walking back and forth in the gaps of the car, there is not much anger on their faces.
After the grain station opened, everyone was busy driving their cattle and horses, rushing into the grain station in a swarm, and then came to the warehouse that had opened the door and began to line up to weigh the grain.
Compared with the relatively simple situation of selling grain to private dealers now, in the past, it was quite difficult to hand over the requisitioned grain, and the inspection of the staff of the grain station was quite strict, even a little harsh.
Carrying a handful of iron chisels, they patrolled the grain pile, poked into the snakeskin bag full of grain, and pulled it out to see the grain inside.
Generally speaking, because of the need to store the purchased grain for a long time, it not only needs to be clean and full, but also very dry. According to this standard, the staff of the grain station often let the farmers turn over and dust some grain that they think is substandard on the spot until they meet their requirements.
Naturally, the farmers who were reworked did not dare to have any opinions, so they could only honestly drive the ox carts to the nearby grain drying yard to turn over the drying, which was extremely hard. That's not all, if it is a sunny day with showers, it will be even more fatal, often at this time there will be a scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping at the grain station.
Of course, once someone checks it, there will naturally be personal affairs, and the staff of those grain stations are also watching the dishes, and they will not be so strict when they encounter some farmers with relatively large family forces.
In Liu Rui's memory, when he went to sell food at his own home or a few uncles' houses, he was never made difficult, and he often passed the surname once. Therefore, every sale of requisitioned grain is a very easy journey for the Liu family.
Liu Jiahong, who had completed the task of requisitioning grain for the whole year, was naturally happy, and received the colorful tickets from the cashier of the grain station, and handed a few to his son and daughter. At that time, Liu Rui liked to take his younger siblings under the big banyan tree at the grain station, buy a few snow sticks with those vendors selling popsicles, and sit in the shade and smoke beautifully.
That kind of cool and sweet taste is still unforgettable for Liu Rui for a long time.
However, with the abolition of the grain requisition policy and the opening of the grain market, the grain depot has gradually changed from a hot state to a cold unit with a lot of doors. There were no peasants to sell grain, and all the grain stored in the warehouses was handed over to the unified grain reserve depots, and the workers at the grain stations began to be unable to pay their wages. In a few years, the grain station has been left with an empty shell, and the original busy scene has long become a thing of the past.
If it weren't for the personnel of the research institute to move in, and the development of the tourism grain station came in handy this time, the grain station would have gradually disappeared in the hearts of the villagers.
Seeing Liu Rui coming to the door on a motorcycle, Uncle Li, the old doorman who was guarding the door, walked out of the guard room and opened the door for Liu Rui. Uncle Li's original name is also unclear Liu Rui, only that his surname is Li and he is a five-guarantee household in the village. Uncle Li had no children and no daughters in his life, and after his wife died early, he lived alone, relying on the income from guarding the grain station.
Later, the grain station closed down, and all the employees were shunted and laid off, or there was a new place to go, and Uncle Li was left as a contract worker, and there was no way to deal with it. Later, it was the village that asked Uncle Li to continue to stay at the grain station to guard the door and maintain some facilities of the grain station, so as not to dilapidated the grain station in a short time.
For many villagers in Liang Village, Uncle Li, who has been watching the gate of the grain station for decades, has become one of the symbols of the grain station.
After greeting Uncle Li, Liu Rui continued to ride to the grain station.
Built in the 50s, the grain station is clearly built in a pre-Soviet style, with square buildings, thick pillars and crimson facades, all of which make people feel completely different from their surroundings.
Now all the warehouse doors of the grain station are already the handles of the iron general, and Liu Rui can even see that some places are already rusty and mottled, and they are no longer the scene of the city.
A hen and a few chicks strode across the concrete floor in front of the warehouse, and the sound of chirping added a bit of life to the lonely grain station. Since the closure of the grain station, Uncle Li is the only one in the entire grain station, and he has raised a lot of three yellow chickens in the grain station, which has also increased his income a lot.
In the open space around the warehouse, some weeds emerge from the cracks in the concrete floor, showing their tenacious vitality while making the grain station even more dilapidated. Liu Rui even saw a wild guava growing in the corner of a warehouse, which was now the thickness of a calf and a story high.
A few sparrows heard the sound of the motorcycle, flapped their wings and flew up from the grass, but they didn't fly far, and landed in a nearby clearing, staring at Liu Rui with a little curiosity. Also alarmed by the motorcycles were two hares, which poked their heads out of the grass and disappeared into the bushes near the outer wall of the grain station.
Because no one has been to the grain station for many years, the empty and lonely grain station has naturally become a paradise for many small animals. They burrowed through the broken walls into the grain station and lived in a paradise with no natural predators and abundant food.
Some time ago, Qiu Rong and the others caught several hares in the grain station when they were idle and bored, and pulled Liu Rui to have a full meal.
Walking through several neat rows of warehouses, a group of white-walled and blue-tiled bungalows appeared in front of Liu Rui's eyes. This row of buildings was originally a dormitory for the staff of the grain station, but after the grain station was abandoned, it has been idle. If it hadn't been for the researchers' presence some time ago, this place would have become a paradise for rats and other wild animals.
In front of this row of houses, there are several huge mango trees, all decades old, that shade the sky and bring shade to the people. Under the tree, a hand-pressed well stays quietly, and the shiny handle tells people that it once had a very long history.
This row of houses does not need to be demolished, as long as it is cleaned and simply renovated, it can be turned into a dormitory for farm employees. As for those huge warehouses, they can be transformed into restaurants, guest rooms, entertainment clubs, and so on. Of course, the specific situation will have to wait until Guo Hailan and Zeng Ying's management team arrives, and according to the specific situation of the grain station, the appropriate design can be made.
In the past, when Liu Rui came to the grain station, he always looked at it with a bystander mood, but this time when he came here, his mentality changed a little. For Liu Rui, the future development prospects of the grain station are limitless, and he naturally wants to cooperate with Zeng Ying and Guo Hailan to win the right to operate the grain station.
After passing through the dormitory, there is a forest in the depths of the grain station, which was originally reserved for expansion, but before that day, the grain station has closed down.
Most of the tree species in this forest are ornamental trees such as camphor and osmanthus that are common here in Liangcun, and of course, there are also many huge local mango trees interspersed, which are very conspicuous. Most of these trees were planted decades ago and have become an important asset to the grain station after weathering the storm.
In Liu Rui's plan, this forest can be built with a few cobblestone paths, installed some stone benches and stone chairs, and turned into a good place for tourists to walk and rest.
Standing on the high ground at the edge of the woods, you can see that behind the lush trees is the red fence that has been badly corroded by the wind and rain. Outside the wall, there is the beach of Xiaojing Lake, and you can see the sparkling waves of Xiaojing Lake when you stand in the grain station.
Standing on the high hill, you can feel the coolness contained in the gusts of water vapor brought by the wind, as well as a hint of fishy smell, and the lakeside breeze is intoxicating. In the future, if a gate is opened on this side of the forest, visitors will be able to walk along the path of the grove to the lake after dinner in the evening.
After walking around the grain station, Liu Rui began to think of the future planning and design of the grain station in the future, and he already had some hazy understanding of the outline of the leisure farm.
Of course, Liu Rui's ideas are just some assumptions, and they may not all be implemented. Based on Liu Rui's life experience and insight, he cannot make an accurate judgment on the development of leisure farms and tourism, and can come up with a very appropriate plan.
He came to the grain station today just to have a clear understanding of the grain station, so that he can have a clear idea of it in the next bidding activities. However, when Liu Rui stared at the grain station with a scrutinizing eye and estimated the value in his heart, he found that the entire grain station was indeed a bit amazingly large.
Aside from the huge rows of warehouses, dilapidated barnyards and dormitory quarters, there is still a great deal of undeveloped land within the walls of the grain station. Overgrown with weeds and shrubs, this land is a paradise for small animals, and if enough facilities can be built on it in the future, the grain station could be transformed into a huge leisure center!
It's just that the more he sees the situation of the grain station, the more worried Liu Rui is, and if he wants to participate in the development of the grain station, it may be a head-scratching thing. According to Liu Rui's estimate, it is impossible to occupy a certain percentage of shares in a huge grain station without hundreds of thousands of cash.
It's just that according to the current situation of the Liu family, it is difficult to get this money, and Liu Rui is a little worried!
(To be continued)