Chapter 16: The Walking Beast

The three of them drove to the construction site of the Shawan River, and Yang Xiaojun looked along the river, and there were indeed several construction teams using cranes and some water work boats to work downstream, but the upstream was indeed empty. Then he turned his head and asked Lao Qian: "This is the original location of the stone turtle that the Hunter Group said?" ”

"This was originally a small fishing village, and their boss grew up in this village since he was a child, and he still remembers the location of the stone turtle vividly, do you think there is still a stone pedestal there?" Old Qian looked around, then pointed to a large stone platform opposite.

"How thick is the quicksand in this stretch of the river? Underneath the quicksand is the bottom of the river with hard stones? Upstream and downstream are the same? ”

"According to the data surveyed by the Hunter Group, the Shawan River is about 5 kilometers upstream and downstream from this point on," Lao Qian said with great certainty.

"Okay, then let's take a look upstream," Yang Xiaojun said.

"Upstream? Everyone is busy downstream, what's the use of seeing the upstream river," Da Xiong asked incomprehensibly, looking at Lao Qian with the same question.

"You just follow, and you'll know when the time comes," Yang Xiaojun said mysteriously. The three of them walked up the river for about 2 kilometers, and the riverbed has always been relatively gentle, without much drop. Yang Xiaojun pointed to the river and asked Lao Qian: "If you start searching from there, how long will it take to find the location of the tree, and how much will it cost?"

"This is a little bit away from finishing the work in one day, and 100,000 yuan is at the top. But I don't understand why all this useless work is being done here? Experts have said that it is within a range of no more than 2 kilometers downstream. "Old money still doesn't understand.

Yang Xiaojun smiled and said, "Then did they find it?" What the experts say is not necessarily right, you just listen to me, you can't be wrong. ”

Lao Qian wanted to say something, but was stopped by the big bear. "I don't know what experts are not experts, Xiaojun must have a reason for what he said, so let's just do it. It's the opposite."

On the same day, Lao Qian contacted the crane and the work boat, and the next morning he took a dozen workers to start searching in the area designated by Yang Xiaojun. At first, everyone looked at them like they were looking at a nervous disease, but at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the stone turtle was slowly lifted out of the water, everyone's expressions were incredulous except for envy.

After hearing the news, Mr. Li, the chairman of the Hunter Group, immediately came to Shenzhen from Hong Kong, and he wanted to talk to the person in charge of this small construction company.

Mr. Li is 75 years old this year, he wants to make some contribution to the construction of his hometown after working hard all his life, and he is happy to see Shenzhen from a small fishing village into an international metropolis that has attracted worldwide attention, and at the same time regrets that the bits and pieces of childhood memories have basically been replaced by modern buildings, which is also the inevitability of social development and cannot be stopped. He wanted to leave some memories for himself and those who missed his hometown as much as he did, so he thought of the "Zhenhai Turtle" that used to stand by the river, which was the name they gave to this stone turtle. Through investigation, it was known that the landmark building of this fishing village was pushed into the river in the sixties and has never been salvaged. Something like this, which has no archaeological value and no practical use, is hard to pique people's interest. So Mr. Li wanted to salvage it, repair it and put it out, which could be regarded as leaving a little historical memory for this young city.

When he was planning to invest here, Mr. Li asked people to look for it nearby, and he also asked a famous feng shui master in Hong Kong to calculate, but he didn't find it. In the end, based on the construction period and professional level, he thought of using the strength of the engineering team, so he put forward such a special requirement.

"Everyone is salvaging downstream, how did you come up with the idea of going upstream to find it?" Mr. Li looked at Lao Qian and asked, and Lao Qian glanced at Yang Xiaojun.

Yang Xiaojun gestured with his hand and said: "Mr. Li, you see, the water flows in this direction, but no matter how big the water flow of a heavy object like a stone turtle is, it is impossible to wash it away, and what is washed away is only the sediment in the river. After a pause, everyone nodded in approval. But at the same time, I thought, it should be standing still, why did it go upstream? At least that's what Da Xiong and Lao Qian thought, but they didn't ask based on politeness, and Mr. Li also tilted his head sideways, waiting for Yang Xiaojun's next words.

Yang Xiaojun continued: "When the stone turtle falls into the river, part of it will definitely be buried by the sediment. After the impact of the current, the sediment is gradually washed away in the direction of the current, while the sediment in the direction of the current is not changed much or even silted due to the stone turtle blocking the water flow. The sediment facing the current is becoming less and less, and the stone turtle will naturally fall on this side over time, and this situation has formed over the past 30 years. ”

"That's right, why didn't I think of it" Mr. Li couldn't hold back his excitement, slapped the table and said a sentence, which was also what everyone wanted to say.

"What kind of water conservancy experts and geological experts are invited, such a simple truth, everyone didn't expect that it is still a young person's brain, the future world is yours, it seems that we should give way to the position" Mr. Li said with emotion.

"If you don't find it downstream, I wouldn't have thought of this truth," Yang Xiaojun said from the bottom of his heart.

"Anyway, you have fulfilled my dream for me, I should thank you, this project is fully responsible for several of you, if you have any questions, just find Mr. Liao, I hope we will cooperate happily" Mr. Li stood up and shook hands with Yang Xiaojun and said.

Then he said to a few subordinates next to him: "You all have to cooperate well, if there is any problem on their side, you can help solve it together, and you can't change the construction company without my consent, this is my only request." Fate, you have to follow the trend in everything you do. What is potential? It's called momentum."

Since receiving this project, the three of them have basically not had a day off, the construction team is equipped, the progress is tracked, the quality is grasped, the deployment of the main personnel, and the addition of various qualification procedures, the response of government departments, the phased acceptance of the third-party supervision company, etc., the three of them are so busy that it is dark. Half a year has passed, and everything is finally on the right track, and they have the spare energy to take on other businesses. The total duration of this project is 18 months, and the rest of the year is normal construction work, and as the helmsman of the company, you need to think about the rest of the matter.

During this period, Yang Xiaojun had been thinking about the direction of the company's future development, and when the three of them had time to sit down and discuss, Yang Xiaojun immediately said his idea. He said he wanted to enter China's real estate industry, and when this idea was proposed, he almost didn't knock Lao Qian and Big Bear's jaw to the ground. Construction and real estate are two different fields, and the resources and strength needed to do real estate are beyond their dare to think of at the grassroots, but Yang Xiaojun not only thinks about it, but also starts to put it into practice now.

"We can now walk on two legs, the construction work continues, and the real estate development work is starting to be prepared," Yang Xiaojun said categorically.

"Where to start, we have a little money to do the project, the land, demolition, and construction are all money-burning, and even the gap between the teeth is not enough" Although the old money also thought, but the actual situation of the company made him have to face the reality. Da Xiong has always believed in Xiaojun unconditionally, he often says that he is a general, as long as the direction is determined, I will do it, and the specific strategic problem is what "Shuai" should do, and the "Shuai" in his eyes now is Yang Xiaojun.

"If we only do engineering, our strength and level will never be able to compare with the giants of China State Construction and China Railway, and we can only survive in the cracks and be their subordinate contractors. But real estate is different, we can make our own brand, design life according to our own ideals, and even build a city according to our own style. Yang Xiaojun said wistfully looking out of the window.

"I know that doing real estate is definitely better than engaging in engineering, the key is that our strength does not allow it, and we must not proceed from reality," Lao Qian said a little frustrated.

"In order to solve the worries of the company's employees, isn't Zhongwei Group going to build a staff residential community in Longhua? Now I am discussing the plan with the design institute, and I heard that the plan is basically decided, and Daxiong has just come out of it, and all these situations are known," Yang Xiaojun said.

"I've been arguing for nearly a year, and I just arrived in Zhongwei and listened to the internal rumors, but what does this have to do with us, at most we will still contract some projects to do?" Big Bear asked, puzzled.

"I want to make this our first foray into real estate. The land in Zhongwei was approved by itself, and the design of the community was designed by the Architectural Design Institute, but as far as I know, if the feedback from the employees of Longhua is good, the same living area will be replicated in Weishan Lake in Dongguan. The Longhua factory is now resident with about 50,000 people, and it is expected to reach 150,000 people at Weishan Lake eventually. They're designed with this capacity in mind, right, Big Bear," Yang Xiaojun asked Big Bear.

"Seems so, I haven't paid much attention to these things all along, you don't have to sell it, hurry up and say how can we get involved" Big Bear was a little anxious to know the final answer.

"I don't give you an analysis of what to do, I also want you to help me see if there is a problem" Yang Xiaojun explained, and began to say his thoughts in one go.

Zhongwei Group has offices or branches all over the country, and these overseas personnel add up to nearly 50,000 people, and there is also a need to buy real estate in Shenzhen. Second, Zhongwei Group simply wants to build a residential community this time to solve the problem of accommodation for employees at the bottom, but they still have a large area of undeveloped land reserved for the factory, so that the lack of an overall plan will cause the boundary between the factory and the residence is not very clear, affecting the comfort of the residence, so we can start from the overall planning to persuade the group to change the existing ideas, so that there is an opportunity to create a high-quality living community for them, and completely separate the factory production from the life of the workers.

"They have a master plan, which I've seen hanging on the wall of the company lobby, and it's very detailed. Where are the factories in the first and second phases...... Until the fifth phase, where is the living area, there is also the leisure and entertainment area, I can think of all kinds of things, your idea is unrealistic," Da Xiong retorted rarely.

"It was designed by your administrative department and the design institute, and there are many places worth discussing, and it was when I saw this that I thought of taking Zhongwei Group as a breakthrough, which saved us the funds and time for land approval." As he spoke, Yang Xiaojun took out a plan printed on A3 paper from the drawer, pointed to the map and said:

"Look here, there are five phases of factory planning, three phases of residential planning, and behind it is a barren mountain, which has also been allocated to Zhongwei, which is not within the planning scope for the time being. Now the factory has been in normal production in two phases, the scale is equal, the third phase, the fourth phase is under construction. According to the current personnel calculation, the average number of people in the first phase of the factory is 10,000 people, 5,000 households, and the total design capacity of the house is now 20,000 households. But have you ever thought that all the residences are 70 square meters of small apartments, dozens of high-rise buildings, like collective dormitories, can everyone's quality of life be high after a long time? The annual income of Zhongwei low-level employees is almost more than 60,000 yuan, and this income is far ahead in the country. My idea is to develop the barren mountains that are not planned in the future, not only to have residential functions, but also to add kindergartens, schools, hospitals, shopping malls and other daily life functional areas. Yang Xiaojun said as he drew on the paper.

"Isn't that just a small town?" Big Bear said in surprise.

"At least it's not smaller than Julu County," Yang Xiaojun said with a smile.

"Although we save the money to get the land, this investment is not something we can afford" Lao Qian still feels that it is not feasible.

"Of course we can't afford it, it's not a good idea. We are developing with him with the aim of improving their quality of life and making the company more attractive, which is also the corporate culture that Zhongwei senior management has been advocating. Now the most critical first step is to directly find the top management of Zhongwei, point out the unreasonable aspects of their current design, and then persuade them to accept my plan and be willing to cooperate with us to develop it," Yang Xiaojun said confidently.

"The director in charge of sales is okay with me, I can ask him to help us talk about it?" Big Bear asked.

"This level is still not enough, you need to find a director level, and it is better to discuss it with their chairman," Yang Xiaojun said.

"Then I can't help it, I've only seen the chairman once, and I have spoken for less than a minute. And if you want to meet, you need to make an appointment with his secretary, and it is estimated that the chairman will arrange for the director of the administration department to deal with things like ours, and it is estimated that there is little hope of success at that time. Isn't the acceptance of our plan by the Administration Department an admission of its previous mistakes? No one wants to do this kind of slap in the face," Big Bear shook his head helplessly

Should you think carefully about how to take the first step, Yang Xiaojun fell into deep thought.