1983 Small Island, Starting From a Large Farmer

Chapter 260: Raising sponsorship

 As the relationship between the two villages thawed.

　　When people from the two villages were setting up nets at the junction of the sea areas, they no longer cursed at each other, but instead said:

 “If you have time, would you like to come to our village for tea?”

“Okay, I’ll go to your village another day.”

 The business of passenger ships at Dandan Island Pier has improved a lot in an instant. Originally there was only one trip a day, but now many Chenjiacun people come here to take the boat.

 The ship owner decided on the spot that starting from today, he would make two trips back and forth a day.

 In fact, since the two villages became hostile, the two sides have rarely communicated with each other.

 Although they are on the same island, some people live for thirty or forty years and have never been to the next village.

People from Chenjia Village came to Xiasha Village and saw so many families building new houses, and they looked envious.

“Why is your village so rich? So many people are building new houses.”

People from Xiasha Village replied: "I don't have much money. I was just like you before. I only earned these in the past two years."

Chen Jiacun looked at the densely packed fishing boats in the haven: "There must be too many fishing boats in your village."

 “These fishing boats were only bought in these years.”

The people in Chenjiacun couldn't help but sigh. They really didn't expect that the economy of the next door village had developed so well.

 What makes Chenjiacun most curious is that on the dock side, you can see the four characters "Minlong Food" from a distance.

“Is that factory invested by outsiders?”

“That’s not that, it’s an eel breeding factory run by our village director Li Duoyu.”

“That’s the young man with the big trumpet a few days ago.”

 “Well, yes, it’s his.”

People in Chenjiacun whispered: "It costs a lot of money to set up that factory. Your village director is still so young, so he must be greedy. Why do you still support him so much?"

After hearing this, a young man named Liu Jinyuan became serious and said, "Just tell me this. Don't talk nonsense. All this money was earned by our village director himself."

"Impossible? How old is he? How can he make so much money?"

“The people in your village must not have read the newspapers carefully. The kelp farming was spearheaded by our village director, and the oyster farming was also started by him.

As well as the abalone investment at the beginning of the year, our village director helped coordinate it, otherwise your village might not get back even a dime. "

“No way, he also helped with the Baoyu investment, how come we didn’t know about it.”

“How could those old men in your village let you know?”

“According to what you say, your village director is too powerful.”

“No, if it weren’t for him, our village wouldn’t be able to develop so well now.”

 “I really envy you for having a good village chief.”

 The villagers of the two villages have been having friendly interactions these days. Some people even picked up a lot of dry goods and ran to Chenjia Village to propose marriage.

But Li Duoyu has been having a headache these past two days because after the relationship between the two villages has been restored, he has a lot of things to do.

 When the two villages were at odds with each other, they set up primary schools respectively, but now both sides do not have enough teachers.

The council in Chenjia Village hopes to integrate the primary schools in the two villages.

Also, the old men in Chenjiacun attach great importance to rituals and feel that repairing the relationship between the two villages is a big deal and must be taken seriously.

On the third day, the Chenjia Village Council beat gongs and drums and delivered a large plaque reading "Good Neighbors and Friendship".

 According to the rules, this kind of plaques must be given to each other. If Chenjia Village sends a plaque, Xiasha Village must also return one.

The plaque sent by Chenjiacun is still made of nanmu, and it is estimated that one plaque costs hundreds of yuan.

In addition to the plaque, the old men in Chenjia Village hope that they can invite an opera troupe from Xiasha Village to come to the island to sing operas.

Chernjia Village sings for half a month, and Xiasha Village sings for half a month, together to fight off the bad luck of this century.

After the singing, the people from the Chenjia Village Council hoped that the two villages would hold a formal event to establish friendly neighbors and also invite photographers to take pictures.

Li Duoyu's face turned dark as he looked at the requests made by Chenjiacun. He thought that burning the talisman paper in front of Tianhou Palace would be the end of the matter.

I didn’t expect that there would be so many rules and so much money to follow.

In this era, if you invite an opera troupe to come to the village to sing an opera, the minimum cost for a day is fifty yuan, and for half a month, that is seven hundred and fifty yuan.

Including the plaque and various expenses, it would cost at least a thousand yuan.

And there is only eighty-nine yuan left in the capital account of the Xiasha Village Committee. Not to mention hiring a theater troupe, it can't even afford a plaque. How can it still have so much money to carry out these messy celebrations? ceremony.

However, we encountered such a big event.

 The advantages of the clan council in Chenjiacun were immediately apparent.

The clan council can confidently ask the villagers for money. Even if they only contribute one yuan per household, the council will receive more than a thousand yuan.

 But Xiasha Village is different.

In the conference room, several village cadres gathered together, each with an uglier look on his face. Now that the village committee itself can’t take the blame, how can it have the money to do so many tricks?

But Chenjia Village takes it so seriously, and the relationship between the two villages is breaking through, so they are too embarrassed to throw cold water on it.

Zhang Jinsha struggled for a while: "How about I donate a hundred yuan first, and let's make the plaque first and send it to them first."

Li Duoyu thought for a while and shook his head. He felt that this kind of donation trend should not be allowed. Otherwise, if Zhang Jinsha donated money, as the "first burden" of the village, wouldn't he have to donate more money.

  I am here to be the village director, not to be a money-splitting boy.

As a man of two generations, he knows very well that the more you help the village, the more grateful the villagers will be to you.

Maybe it will be counterproductive. Small favors and small favors can nourish nobles, while big favors and big favors can nourish enemies. This is particularly common in rural areas.

I remember that in my previous life here in Shangfeng Town, there was a boss who went abroad to make a lot of money and came back to help the villagers build villas for free.

 Originally he planned to build one for each household, but he underestimated the greed of human nature and some villagers with relatively large households.

I feel that it is unfair for others with two or three people on their household registration to be allocated a villa, and for eight or nine people on their household registration, they are also only allocated a villa.

So they asked the rich man who was a philanthropist to build three villas for them according to the population. In the end, the rich man was so angry that he left the country and did not even want to return to his hometown.

But the villagers still treated him unmercifully. They often scolded him behind his back, saying that he was not trustworthy and ran away after half the villa was built.

As for Li Duoyu, he also has a bottom line. He can help villagers, but it is limited to teaching them how to make money, and he cannot give them money directly.

　　If you give less, others won’t be particularly grateful to you. If you give too much, if you don’t express your displeasure, you might actually harm the people in the village.

 Zhang Jinsha asked:

“What should we do if we don’t have money? The old men in Chenjiacun take this matter very seriously. Yesterday they asked us when the plaque would be ready.”

 Li Duoyu also had a headache and felt as if he had shot himself in the foot. He asked his second brother, who was the village accountant:

“Does our village committee still have assets that can be sold?”

 Li Yaoguo shook his head. "It's all gone. There are only some casuarinas that haven't grown up yet, but I guess no one wants them."

Li Duoyu’s mouth twitched. Damn it, a dignified island village committee could be so poor.

Li Duoyu really wants to learn from the Wang brothers in his previous life and bring in an outside investment company to directly contract the breeding waters of Dandan Island, so that the village committee can receive a large sum of money every year.

 But just when everyone was helpless.

Qingguang ran to the village committee to find Li Duoyu and said excitedly: "Brother, that beautiful sister who dresses very well is here to see you again."

 After hearing this.

Several village cadres looked at each other in confusion, looked at Li Duoyu through colored glasses, and made "tsk tsk" sounds.

Looking at the strange looks in everyone's eyes, Li Duoyu rolled his eyes and said, "Don't think blindly, we're just business partners."

As soon as Qing Guang said it, Li Duoyu knew who was coming, but when he thought of Chen Yuan Yuan, Li Duoyu suddenly slapped his forehead.

I was worried about money just now and didn’t want to send money, so I delivered it to my door in person.

Li Duoyu hurried to the dock and personally greeted Chen Yuanyu, the money-giving virgin.

Invited her to the village committee very enthusiastically, and brought out the old Cong Narcissus that Manager An Yuliang had given him earlier to entertain her.

 After the two parties had a brief chat.

Li Duoyu then learned that Chen Yuanyu’s visit was actually related to the island nation’s inspection team.

Like his kelp farming and eel farming projects, her soon-to-open Japanese food store has also become an important inspection point for the inspection team.

This time she came and added many more varieties of sashimi fish, and asked Li Duoyu to ensure the supply of sashimi fish for that period of time.

“No problem, I will definitely arrange it for you this time. When the time comes, I will personally go to sea and catch some red seaweed, yellowtail, and sea bream for you.”

 “Come, come, let’s drink tea first.”

“Uncle Liao, let’s get some of the sun-dried peanuts from our village.”

Faced with Li Duoyu’s sudden enthusiasm, Chen Yuanyu felt a little uncomfortable.

 The first few times I came.

Li Duoyu seemed to be afraid of something and wanted to drive her away quickly. Not only did he agree readily this time, he also invited her to drink tea with him.

“Director Li, has anything good happened recently?”

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Manager Chen, you really guessed it. Next, we have a major event on Dandan Island. Would you like Xinyuan Company to participate together?"

 “Major event?” Chen Yuanyou asked curiously.

Li Duoyu nodded and said, "That's right. After a hundred years, our Xiasha Village and the neighboring Chenjia Village have finally reconciled. Our two villages plan to hold some activities in the next month."

 Chen Yuan Yuan smiled and said:

 “This is a good thing, congratulations.”

Li Duoyu smiled and said:

“It’s such a big event, if only our two villages are involved, it always feels like something is missing.

If a big company like yours could participate and witness the activities of our two villages establishing friendly neighbors, it would definitely be a great blessing to our two villages. "

Although Li Duoyu didn't say it clearly, the village cadres present heard it. They, the village director, wanted to ask someone to pay for it after going around for a long time.

However, they think this is unrealistic. How can they be so stupid? If their two villages are on good terms and they don’t care about their company, why should they spend money to organize activities for your two villages?

What surprised them was that Manager Chen actually started thinking about it seriously and discussed it with his colleagues.

 Not long after.

Chen Yuanyou smiled and said: "Director Li, if our company participates, what benefits can we get?"

Li Duoyu said seriously: "How can there be no benefit? Doesn't Manager Chen think that having good relations with our two villages is the biggest benefit?"

 Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping twitched their mouths. Anyone who has ever done aquatic products business knows the status of Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company in Rongcheng. On weekdays, farmers and fishermen like them would like to cling to this God of Wealth.

 But Li Duoyu said it as if their two villages were the gods of wealth, and Xinyuan Fisheries Company's friendship with them was already the greatest benefit.

 This is too high a regard for oneself.

It’s so shameless.

What Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping didn't expect was that the beautiful manager Chen actually started serious discussions with his colleagues again.

 This is nothing to discuss.

 There is nothing to discuss about this.

After a group of people discussed for a while, Chen Yuanyou said seriously: "Yes, but we also have conditions. In every scene, the host must shout that it is sponsored by our Xinyuan Aquatic Products Company, and it must be in a conspicuous position. Post an introduction to our company.”

 After hearing this answer, the village cadres looked at each other in surprise, not expecting that the other party would actually agree.

Li Duoyu asked the village cadres: "Can everyone accept these requirements made by Manager Chen?"

 Several village cadres didn’t even think twice and replied directly: “Yes, of course it’s no problem.”

 For them, it doesn’t matter if they read the sponsor’s name in every scene. "

Chen Yuanyou then asked: "Director Li, how much funding will you need for this activity?"

Li Duoyu smiled and said: "Not much, just about one thousand and five."

 The corners of Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping's mouths twitched.

Isn’t this enough?

One thousand yuan is obviously enough, so why add five hundred more.

 Chen Yuanyou smiled but did not agree on the spot: "Director Li, I am just a marketing manager. I have to give the general manager approval before I go back."

 After hearing this, Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping sighed and asked you to open your mouth. If you get five hundred yuan, they might agree.

 One thousand and five words.

Even a large company like Xinyuan Aquatic Products has to think about it carefully, but what the two did not expect was this.

Li Duoyu actually smiled and said: "Manager Chen, please hurry up. The activities in our two villages will start soon. Engraving plaques also takes time. If it is late, these village cadres may go to find them." Other companies.”

 Zhang Jinsha and Tang Ping are very dark-faced, and there is a ghost company that is willing to give us money.

 “Go back, I will report to the general manager immediately.”

 Shortly afterwards, a group of village cadres went to the dock to watch Chen Yuan Yuan leave.

　　After a group of people dispersed.

Zhang Jinsha couldn't help but ask Tang Ping: "Brother Tang, do you think Duoyu is having an affair with this girl?"

Tang Ping rolled his eyes and asked, "If it were you, if you had an affair with this girl, would you still cheat her like this?"

Zhang Jinsha chuckled and said: "If I had an affair with such a beautiful and rich woman, I would be so stupid that I would give her my heart and immediately become my son-in-law. What else would I do like a fisherman?"

“So, this is the difference between us and the village director. We are not at the same level at all.”

 (End of this chapter)