A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

Chapter 229 The food factory may need to be restructured

Li Wude was truly numb.

At this moment, he wanted to ask Hu Dahai if he really thought building a factory was free.

"Your mushroom cultivation room isn't even finished yet, and the garment factory has only just started construction. Why are you building more now?"

Li Wude suppressed his shock and said to Hu Dahai.

Hu Dahai smiled and said, "I didn't want to either, but I just didn't want to give up on a good project and wanted to start implementing it as soon as possible."

"So which piece of land do you need this time?" Li Wude knew that Hu Dahai's words meant he had made up his mind and thought everything through. He didn't want to persuade him further and asked directly.

“No need for new land,” Hu Dahai immediately objected. “Let me think about it. Let’s use the land over there near the mushroom cultivation room. That area is quite large; a three- or four-acre plot should be enough to build a three-story factory. So, that’s fine.”

Hu Dahai was actually thinking that since the ingredients were all going to be used for food, he might need to get the raw materials from the mushroom cultivation room next door.

He heard that Sun Tai's team was not only researching superior varieties of wood ear fungus, but also some superior varieties of mushrooms. Since the cultivation environment of wood ear fungus and mushrooms is similar, he planned to cultivate them together with wood ear fungus.

Ma Mei's sauce, on the other hand, requires the use of some mushroom products.

Li Wude nodded upon hearing this: "That works too. The foundation there is more solid, which can save a lot of work in laying the foundation."

"Then, Captain, the construction of this factory is also entrusted to you. I'll send you the blueprints later, and you can help me get people to help build it," Hu Dahai said.

“Okay.” Li Wude nodded. He was willing to help with this matter, but he thought of something and reminded him: “This time, our brigade may not have enough bricklayers. We have the manpower, but I’m worried that they may lack the technical skills to build a factory.”

"So I might go to the other brigades and call some people to do the work."

He was worried that Hu Dahai would be angry when he found out that it was people from other brigades who had come to help with the work, so it was better to tell Hu Dahai in advance.

"That's not a problem," Hu Dahai replied readily, not finding anything unacceptable about the situation.

However, just as Hu Dahai was about to leave, he turned back and said, "Captain, you've worked so hard on building this factory. I can't let you have worked for nothing."

He pulled out a wad of ten-yuan notes from his pocket: "How about this, I'll give you 100 yuan a month as a tip. Here's 200, I'll give you both last month's and this month's money together."

"What are you doing?!" Li Wude jumped up from his chair upon seeing the money. He said with obvious resistance, "Take it back! Take it back! I don't want it!"

“I’m the brigade leader, and the township pays me a salary. How could I possibly ask for your hard-earned money? Aren’t you insulting me?”

"Besides, I'm helping you entirely for the sake of our brigade. The better and faster your factory is built, the sooner the people in our brigade can come to work at your factory. So this is also part of my duty."

"Besides, my son has been working for you all along, and you've already paid him a very high wage. I don't want it anymore. Don't even think about giving my son more money. Don't think I don't know how much money you give my son in your New Year's red envelope. If you increase it again next year, I won't let my son work for you anymore."

Given Li Wude's resistance, Hu Dahai felt embarrassed to force him to give it to him.

I can only remember this kindness and find a chance to repay it.

In fact, he himself did not expect it to be like this.

In my previous life, I heard a lot of news about brigade leaders and village chiefs who would use their positions to rake in huge benefits for themselves.

Including what he saw in Du Tianchuan and his group, who were blatantly trying to gain benefits.

At first, he thought that Li Wude was trying to help him so diligently in order to get something out of him, and he was already prepared to share some benefits with Li Wude.

Unexpectedly, Li Wude was such a fair and honest man, incorruptible, with only the villagers of Qunyi Brigade in his heart.

In the following days, Hu Dahai went to Zhang Zhaoxing and asked him to help purchase the equipment needed to open a cannery, as well as materials such as empty cans and trademarks.

Zhang Zhaoxing was very familiar with these things because they usually had many friends like this.

So he quickly gave Hu Dahai the contact information for the equipment and raw material factories, and even helped Hu Dahai contact the factories.

Because of Zhang Zhaoxing's influence, Hu Dahai got a preferential price from the factory there. The total cost of a production line and all the equipment would be around 5 yuan.

The price was within Hu Dahai's budget, so he agreed without hesitation and purchased the equipment for a production line.

However, just as Hu Dahai was about to leave...

Zhang Zhaoxing pulled Hu Dahai aside and said, "Dahai, there's something I need to tell you."

"Huh?" Hu Dahai was taken aback, stopped in his tracks, and turned to look at Zhang Zhaoxing, asking, "What's wrong?"

After a long pause, Zhang Zhaoxing finally spoke: "My food factory may be about to be restructured by the higher-ups."

Hu Dahai suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"What? So fast?" Hu Dahai remembered that in his previous life, the food factory was not going to be restructured so quickly.

So he always thought he could slowly save money and wait for it to be converted.

But it came so quickly, it really surprised everyone. He didn't even feel like he had saved enough money.

“Yes.” Zhang Zhaoxing nodded helplessly: “It’s probably because of the Li family. Their investment here attracted a lot of Hong Kong businessmen to invest as well. At the same time, Huang Renfa didn’t pick up a huge piece of land from the Hong Kong businessmen.”

"Now it has also attracted some other wealthy people from the mainland to invest in Hangzhou. They all hope to find a bargain, so some of them invest in this and some in that, which has revitalized Hangzhou's economy."

"The higher-ups thought that instead of working themselves to the bone running state-owned factories, which was thankless and didn't earn much money, it would be better to sell the state-owned factories directly and transform them to earn money from selling or leasing land, and then generate some tax revenue in the future."

Hu Dahai hadn't said anything yet.

Zhang Zhaoxing then continued, "I'm telling you this because I'm thinking that I might not be the factory manager of this food factory anymore in the future."

"I may not be able to help you with those fish anymore, but I'll try my best to help you get them. As for any questions you may have about the food factory in the future, feel free to ask me anytime. I'll answer everything I know."

Hu Dahai looked at Zhang Zhaoxing and felt a warmth in his heart. He had indeed helped Zhang Zhaoxing, but Zhang Zhaoxing had also given him a lot in return. It could be said that the reason he was able to get started was because of Zhang Zhaoxing's help.

Zhang Zhaoxing's food factory is about to undergo restructuring, but he's still thinking about himself.

"Do you know roughly when it will be put up for auction?" Hu Dahai asked.