Chapter 31 Shifting Interests
Under the influence of Botai, Zhang Haifei began to develop a new interest in farming. He began to feel that he belonged here, and he listened to the complaints, and he cheered up. He had a new self-assertion. The Shangwuwei Farm contracted by the Zhang family is the largest farm in the village, and in the final analysis, he is the greatest hope for the village!
Most of the people who stayed behind were working for him. He had a new sense of power, which he had run away from and from this responsibility out of fear.
Not only did he have a new self-assertion about the farm, but he even gave Hirota a new task to help him walk every day! He tries to stand for an hour every day, and he wants to get back on his feet!
There are only two large farms in Xiyong Village, one of which is Zhang Haifei's family, both of which were established in response to the call of the state. Sheung Uk Wai Farm was at its most glorious around the turn of the millennium, when prices were higher, but its golden age was over.
The men and women of the village left here and went to Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and the nearest ones went to Huizhou or Huidong.
Bo Tai continued her gushing: "You haven't seen the newly built farm in the next village, have you, Young Master Zhang?" ”
"Oh, you're going to have to take the time to check it out someday, it's brand new, there's a processing plant next to the farm, it's not so much like a farm, it's more like an industrial area."
"They say that they make more money from by-products than from selling vegetables, I forget what kind of non-staple food they process, I guess it's Hakka kimchi or something? The new houses for the workers are the same as the villas in the big cities! A lot of people from Xiyong Village have gone to work there, and they are much better than the people here in our place. ”
"They said that the Shangwuwei farm was going to be finished, and it would only be a matter of a few years, and sooner or later it would have to be closed, and if the income was so low, they would have to join other villagers to take back the contracted land. That's right, they would rather default and pay liquidated damages! They want to contract to Boss Zhang in the next village! ”
When Zhang Haifei heard this, a cold sweat broke out, and he couldn't help but stand up! Hirota hurried over to help him.
Although this land belonged to the village collective, if it was taken back from his hands, it would be unacceptable to him in any way. However, the traditional greenhouse vegetables are indeed too competitive, and if you are not careful, you will lose money.
"If the farm is closed, it will be a real annoyance to re-contract. At that time, when your father, Secretary Zhang, contracted this land, he was the hope of the whole village. At that time, who wanted to contract this farm, the rent of the contract was still so high. Some people in the village say that Secretary Zhang is a savior, but others say that he is a fool. But it turned out that he was worthy of being the first full-fledged college student in the village, and he set Shangwuwei Farm on fire, and he sold free-range chickens and organic vegetables at a high price in Shenzhen. He proved that he was a man with brains. ”
"But now it's not going to work, the streets are full of free-range chickens, and the streets are full of organic vegetables, and they can't be sold at high prices!"
Botai's words really aroused Zhang Haifei's new fighting spirit. His income, as Botai said, was ironclad, because his father also bought five peasant houses in Longgang, Shenzhen, at a very low price. At that time, the total price of a peasant house covering an area of 100 square meters and seven floors was less than 200,000 yuan! It's already sky-high!
The farm didn't bother him at first, he really didn't care about it! What he wanted to grasp was another world, the world of literature and fame, the world of fashion, and he didn't pay attention to this group of peasant villagers.
But now, he realizes the difference between fame and success at work. The former is to entertain the public, and the latter is a group of workers. As an individual, he has been working hard to entertain the public, and he has become popular.
Underneath the surface of the entertaining masses are ordinary laborers, poor and rude. These people also have to be helped by someone, which is an even more disgusting errand than entertaining them. While he was busy tinkering with his novels and using them to "get ahead" in the world, the upper house was approaching its end.
He now understood that the goddess of success had two main appetites: one needed praise, flattery, soothing and teasing, and writers and artists could satisfy her appetite; The other is even more terrifying, she has to eat meat and gnaw bones, and the people who open factories to make money can satisfy this appetite.
So there were two groups of people vying for favor before the goddess: one group of flatterers, who provided her with amusement, stories, films, and plays; The other, though less ostentatious, was more savage, and they gave her meat to eat, which was real money. Those well-dressed and grandiose people tore at each other in front of the goddess.
Botai's words lured Zhang Haifei to join another group of pets, using industrial production to capture the goddess's heart. He's starting to gear up anyway. In a sense, it was Bo Tai who made him a man, but Huang Siyao didn't have this ability. Huang Siyao let him out of society, so that he had a sensitive and sober understanding of himself and his situation. And Hirota made him only pay attention to the things in the outside world, and his heart became weak and helpless. He's starting to be outgoing and he's going to do something.
He even went to the farm so often that he even sat down on the bucket and went down to the well!
Zhang Haifei studied business administration in college, but after graduation, he first played extreme sports and mountaineering. After becoming disabled, he devoted himself to writing, and he almost never used his knowledge of business administration. What he learned in college but seemed to have forgotten is now remembered. He was in a wheelchair, and the farm manager told him about the current situation of farm production and operation, and told him about the market trend, and he listened to it with relish.
He was silent, but his mind began to spin.
He began to pick up the business administration books he had studied in the past and re-read them. He also read the relevant government reports, insisted on watching news broadcasts every day, and carefully studied the various policies and preferential treatment given to agriculture and rural areas by governments at all levels. Even the seven sets of programs in the central government have become his favorite channels.
Of course, the most valuable thing is to pay attention to the Internet - Internet +. Once he started all kinds of research on the Internet and agriculture, the methods and means of studying it, the establishment of websites, the kind of by-products were the most popular. He was amazed at how amazing the Internet was, almost unbelievably magical, as if the devil had given all his wisdom to the Internet.
Zhang Haifei feels that whether it is industrial technology or Internet +, it is more interesting than literature and art. How stupid those Internet writers are to tinker with those poor men and women every day!
In the field of technical science, man is like a god or a devil, inspired to discover and strive to put it into practice. In this activity, the person transcends any calculable mental age. But Zhang Haifei knows that once he returns to his feelings and people's lives, some people's spiritual age is only thirteen years old, and they are fragile children.
Let it be. Let people slide into stupidity in terms of feelings and the spirit of "people", Zhang Haifei doesn't care about this. To hell with that, he cares about the current Upper House Wai Farm and how to free the Upper House Wai from the abyss.
Day after day he went down into the field, he studied, he interrogated the farm manager, the directors of the various businesses, the whole of people, which they could never have dreamed of. Strength! He felt a new force surging up within him, the power to rule over all these people, over a hundred or so workers. He's going to bring it all back to life!
He did feel like he had been given a new lease of life. Now life is back to him! In a closed artistic and spiritual life, he and Huang Siyao are gradually dying. Now, to hell with that life! Let it go to sleep!
He felt life rushing into him, from the farm, from the woods. The smell of manure on the farm was better for him than pure oxygen, because it made him feel a kind of strength, power. What is he doing, he is going to do something. He wants to win, to win, not to mediate in jealousy and malice to win popularity, as in writing novels, but to win life.