Chapter 8: The Strugglers in the Shack
Understanding, at any time, is the call of true feelings, the comfort of the soul. Without understanding, there is no support, and without support, there is no mutual help and tacit cooperation. After Liang Shirong returned to his hometown, he found the Paradise Township Party Committee and the town government, and described in detail his plan to return to his hometown to start a paper mill. The township party committee and the township government immediately expressed their understanding and strong support. And sent Pan Fei, deputy secretary of the town party committee, to assist Liang Shirong in setting up the factory.
The strong support of the Paradise Township Party Committee and the Township Government has doubled Liang Shirong's confidence, and he is going to throw off his arms and do a great job.
As the saying goes, "go into battle without leaving the father and son". When Liang Shirong returned him to his hometown to set up a paper mill and asked his son Liang Feihan to give up the chicken farm, the father and son worked together to establish a paper mill and create a plan and plan for a piece of heaven in the paradise countryside, but to Liang Shirong's surprise, he was strongly opposed by his son Liang Feihan.
Liang Feihan said to his father very seriously and decisively: "Dad, I am now obsessed with the chicken industry, the chicken farm has just started, besides, I am not interested in papermaking, and now, if you kill me, I will not give up raising chickens!" ”
The opposition of his son Liang Feihan is like a basin of cold water for Liang Shirong.
Knowing the son is more than the father. Liang Shirong knows that his son's psychology is now in a "rebellious" period, with a stubborn personality and full of ideals, just like when he was young, as long as he recognizes it, he will do it to the end and achieve results.
There was no way, Liang Shirong had to give up the plan of "father and son to fight the world".
Founded a paper mill, Liang Shirong is familiar with it. He carefully calculated the machinery, equipment, and raw materials, and it took 120,000 yuan to set up a small paper mill. He borrowed money from banks, but it was at a time when the bank was shrinking and controlling credit. But fortunately, he encountered a good situation and the policy was relaxed, so he had a way to live, and he decided to operate in a joint stock and mobilize the villagers to invest in the factory.
However, the small producers, who were accustomed to the economic constraints of the small peasants at that time, did not believe in the success of things until they saw vested interests. Fortunately, the policy of "reform and opening up" has made some people conscious, and there are many people of insight who dare to open up and work hard among the villagers, and they have invested in raising funds, and some of them have taken out the "coffin book", and finally formed 19 shares and 120,000 yuan of funds.
What amiable and respectable folks! In order to support Liang Shirong to set up a factory, they helped each other, which is such a valuable quality and thought. Isn't this simple quality and kindness a concrete manifestation of the spirit of Liantang people, a lofty realm?
What kind people! What a sincere love! Isn't this exactly what our people have in mind? The generous is so simple, and the simple is so touching!
Yes, the fathers and villagers in the village, in order to support Liang Shirong to set up a factory, used their true feelings and great love to compose a touching song of true love! Their spirit of great love, in the "establishment of joint-stock enterprises", more and more magnificent, more and more ambitious!
Yes, in raising funds to support Liang Shirong to establish a joint-stock enterprise, the villagers are integrating a spirit, promoting a kind of great love, and running through a kind of concept!
All of this is not only invested in manpower, material resources, and financial resources, but also painstaking efforts, sweat, wisdom, true feelings, and great love......
The 120,000 yuan, but the hard-earned money of the villagers, is also the trust of him, he secretly determined that no matter what, he will run the factory and run it well!
He began to prepare. First go to find the machine, but he didn't go to the machinery factory, he didn't dare to buy a new machine, the 120,000 yuan, every penny has to play the greatest role. He has been in the paper industry for more than 30 years and knows many manufacturers, so he asked if there were any old machinery and equipment for sale.
"You're going to run a paper mill? Now the paper industry is very sluggish, products can't be sold, many factories have stopped production, do you still do it?" Old acquaintances worried about him.
Liang Shirong didn't say anything, but he understood in his heart. With the deepening of the opening up and reform, the production of light industry will have a greater development, and the demand for paper will also increase. He didn't say it.
After a lot of running, he finally bought some machines from a dismounted paper mill, and the price was naturally much cheaper.
Where is the factory located? He chose an old abandoned pumping station near the big ravine in Liantang Village. There are continuous water resources here all year round, and the factory can save tens of thousands of yuan a year on electricity bills alone!
What about installation? Do it yourself!
In this way, Liang Shirong resolutely built a simple shed with bamboo next to this old pump room, covered with plastic sheeting and asphalt paper, which can be regarded as his factory director's room and bedroom. Unfortunately, there was only a bed, a wooden box, a table, and a stool, and that was all he had to offer.
The small linoleum room, as soon as you stand up, you can touch the roof of the shed, and when the weather is hot, the sun shines, and it becomes an infrared oven. It was here that Liang Shirong made his base camp and began his arduous entrepreneurial journey.
Liang Shirong and his fellow villagers have been fighting here for more than 10 months, eating and living in the workshop, working two shifts and three shifts a day......
Finally, the first township enterprise jointly run by farmers in XX County, Paradise Paper Mill, was completed and put into operation, showing strong vitality and great attraction.
In only 2 years since the establishment of the factory, it has produced more than 3,000 tons of kraft cardboard and corrugated paper, with an output value of more than 3 million yuan.
Some people say it's time to build a decent dormitory. But Liang Shirong shook his head firmly: "I am nearly 50 years old, and I want to do a few more things in my lifetime." ”
He began his second campaign to set up a second paper mill on the side of Dawan at the head of the river. However, after the profits of the first factory were returned to all the shares, only 20,000 yuan remained. This amount of money is not enough to level the site, what should I do? Raise money again!
Hearing that Liang Shirong raised funds to set up a factory, the masses came to support, and the shareholders of Paradise Paper Mill also returned their shares to him, so that he could keep running Dawan Paper Mill. Soon, more than 700,000 yuan was raised. The newsprint factory in Dawan has been launched again, with a plant area of more than 900 square meters, an annual output of 2,000 tons of newsprint, an output value of more than 2 million yuan, and all the investment can be recovered in 3 years.
The villagers not only believe in Liang Shirong's credibility, but more importantly, they see the way to get rich by bringing capital into the enterprises run by Liang Shirong, believe in the greatness of the party's policy of enriching the people, and believe in the wisdom of the policy of building industry to develop the economy, and their enthusiasm is a powerful driving force for the revitalization of China.
Liang Shirong succeeded in setting up a factory and became a rich man, and the news spread all over the county. A relative came to the door and said, "Uncle, I am getting up now, and I don't have enough money on hand, can you support me?"
Liang Shirong fell into embarrassment all of a sudden. Reasoning says that he is a relative, and when he returned to his hometown to set up a factory, he also helped himself, and it is difficult to refuse. However, how much more work to do, and the need for funds, really embarrassed him.
However, Liang Shirong still stubbornly said: "I want to use this money to expand reproduction, if I lend it out, the factory will not be able to do it." ”
Once, he went to Guangzhou to contact business, and when he returned home, his daughter happened to come back from the city sports school, and when he saw his beloved daughter, Liang Shirong's heart was full of sweet emotions. The daughter approached her father and asked him to buy her a gold chain. The wife also interceded for her daughter on the side: "Now the girls in the city are all interested in admiring gold and jade, so you can buy one for her." ”
Why doesn't Liang Shirong want his daughter to dress decently? However, seeing that the parents and villagers in his hometown were still living so hard, his heart was even more uncomfortable, so he comforted his daughter: "Dad made a promise when he went back, to share weal and woe with his father and fellow villagers, and now every penny Dad earns must be used in production to make his hometown rich, if only for his family to live comfortably, what is the point of me going back to my hometown to set up a factory?"
The daughter is reasonable and understands the father the most.
Some people may think that Liang Shirong is too emotional.
No, Liang Shirong doesn't pay attention to feelings, but he contains the deepest emotion in his heart.
He refused to borrow money from relatives to build houses, but when the villagers lacked funds to develop production, he funded them with thousands of yuan;
He refused to spend money on his daughter's gold chain, but when the village and town ran welfare undertakings, he generously supported him.
It is much more difficult for a person to turn words into action than it is to turn actions into words. However, Liang Shirong always remembers his promises, and uses simple thoughts and simple feelings as the driving force to turn his promises into action. For his hometown, he always has a pure feeling, and his enthusiasm for repaying his hometown has never been reduced by half a point.
He found that schools and hospitals were in difficulty and helped in time, and mountain villages had difficulties in building water projects and electricity projects, and he gave full support, and he gave a gift to the old people in the village every New Year's holiday. He also turned his home into a refuge for the village elderly, and whenever an elderly person was spurned by his family, he took the initiative to take them in, provide them with free food and lodging, and then went to work with his family, so that his family took the initiative to take the old man back. His kindness has made the local people grateful.
In 1984, at the three-level cadre meeting, the county party committee called on all townships (towns) to set up township enterprises, and ******** Du Jianbo led the secretaries of the township (town) party committees and the main leaders of the county mayors to visit and learn from experience. If people hadn't been there, who would have believed that a few years ago, it was a deserted hydropower plant, and now there is a sizable paper mill!
In January 1985, he was honored to attend the Commendation Conference for the Construction of Two Civilizations in Zhaoqing and was awarded the title of "Advanced Individual in Zhaoqing Region" by the Municipal Party Committee and the Government;
In February of the same year, at the commendation meeting for the construction of two civilizations in XX County, the county party committee and the county government awarded him the honorary title of "Model Township Entrepreneur".
It is worth mentioning that in March of the same year, he was nominated by the county party committee as a candidate for the deputy county magistrate of XX County Industry, but he repeatedly rejected it. For this reason, Li Bingyuan, member of the Standing Committee of the H County Party Committee and director of the Office of the County Party Committee, ******** Du Jianbo, talked to him many times and did ideological work. But he insisted on running a factory and not engaging in politics.
The value of life lies in creation, but also in giving. If a person does not want to become an official in politics and make the enterprise bigger and stronger, it is not a success in the real sense. However, if he learns how to behave as a human being, and thus becomes a person who is beneficial to others and society, then he can be called a successful person. Liang Shirong undoubtedly belongs to the latter. His principle of "operating with integrity and treating people with sincerity" has won him the reputation of customers, employees and even everyone around him.
Liang Shirong returned to his hometown to set up a paper mill, engaged in agricultural development, opened up a wide range of ways to get rich, promoted the development of the local commodity economy, and also promoted the development of the local private economy, providing employment opportunities for the local surplus labor force. The people of Liantang Village and nearby villages basically work in Liang Shirong's company, and most of them are young people in the village. Liang Shirong is very concerned about the work and life of these young people, not only teaching them professional and technical knowledge, but also teaching them the principles of life; It has helped some young people who have lost their footing to correct their mistakes and gain a new life, and has also helped nearly 100 young people to tie the knot, start a family and live a happy life.
Once, soon after the Paradise Paper Mill received an order for paper products, the price of raw materials for papermaking skyrocketed, and if the goods were delivered according to the previous price, the factory would have to pay more than 60,000 yuan. The deputy director of supply and marketing who pre-received the order wanted to call the other party to explain the situation, but Liang Shirong refused without hesitation. And require the production workshop to complete the order task on schedule with quality and quantity.
Later, the customer somehow learned that Liang Shirong would rather lose money and make him a perfect paper product, which made the customer very moved and felt that Liang Shirong was a truly honest entrepreneur.
Whether it is the integrity of customers, or the sincerity of employees' relatives, it is due to the most simple and kind soul in the heart of Liang Shirong, who has experienced the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, and cherishes today's peace and stability very much, and is full of infinite love and gratitude for the motherland and the people. He vigorously advocated the concept of "loving the factory as home, loving and dedicating to work, customer first, and creating civilization together" in the factory, and took this as the entrepreneurial spirit of Paradise Paper Mill. In terms of system management, rewards and punishments are clear.
In human management, people-oriented, regard employees as their own family, remember to celebrate the birthday of each employee, and remember to reward every employee with outstanding contributions...... Bit by bit, Liang Shirong's elegant demeanor and tolerant spirit are demonstrated. Love employees, he is not just in words, when employees are in trouble, Liang Shirong shows his parental nature and stretches out his generous and warm hand.
In the face of rampant materialism, many bosses are consumed by profit, deduct employees' wages, deliberately shirk responsibility for work-related injuries, and avoid incidents, which are reported by the media. But in contrast, Liang Shirong has a strong sense of responsibility and morality for employees, shining with the brilliance of humanity.
It was one night in 1988, an employee recruited from other places went out to fall in love with his girlfriend, and was attacked by three robbers in the remote woods, the employee was brutally stabbed by the gangsters for 10 times, and when he was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment, his life was already hanging by a thread. However, the hospital demanded that things be done according to the rules and regulations, and that the money should be paid first and then rescued.
After Liang Shirong learned of this, he immediately sent 10,000 yuan to the hospital, and the hospital began to rescue him. Early the next morning, Liang Shirong personally rushed to the hospital to visit the employee. Liang Shirong saw that the employee had not yet passed the danger period, so he eagerly asked the doctor if he could take any more effective measures. The doctor said, "Of course, but you still need money." Liang Shirong didn't think about it, and promised: "As long as I can save him, I will take the money again." ”
The young life of the employee was finally pulled back from the death line, and the stone in Liang Shirong's heart also fell to the ground. At that time, "Nanfang Daily" and "Yangcheng Evening News" both reported on the incident with the headline "Gangsters Commit Murder, Employees Bleed, Hospital Talks About Gold, and Bosses Talk about Heart". There are many more incidents in which we are responsible for our employees and put the interests of our employees first. However, when others praised him, he only replied lightly: "I just did what I could, and I felt at ease when I did it, otherwise my heart would not be steady." Liang Shirong's benevolence has always been remembered in the hearts of every employee.
Liang Shirong returned to his hometown in 1983 to start a self-made business in Liantang Village, Tiantian Town, XX County, and after several years of hard work, he has four enterprises such as paper mills and transportation fleets, with fixed assets of more than 13 million yuan. The annual output value is more than 30 million yuan, the profit reaches 1 million yuan, and the tax is more than 500,000 yuan, becoming the enterprise with the most taxes and fees paid by local private enterprises at that time, so that the villagers who have the ability to work can wash their feet and go to the fields, go to work in the paper factory, and embark on the road of working to get rich and well-off.