Reborn in 1977

Chapter 653: Ready-Made Achievements

Lunch was naturally eaten at Chen Fan's place. It was rare for Master Chen to cook himself, and Team Leader Zhang and the others ate two extra bowls of rice.

After lunch, Chen Fan brought out a large blackboard and hung it on the nails on the outer wall.

Team Leader Zhang and the other three each held a teacup, a cigarette between their fingers, and sat together on the benches in the veranda, waiting for Teacher Chen to start the class.

This blackboard was used by Chen Fan when he taught Jiang Lili and the others back when they were still around. He made it himself, and the quality was only so-so, so don't expect too much.

Now it was perfect for drawing diagrams.

First, draw an irregular triangle, Chen Fan said as he drew, "Nanhai Commune is surrounded by rivers on all sides, shaped like a pyramid, with a pointed top and a square bottom, and a waistline in the middle, which is where the commune is located.

The pointed top north of the commune is our Lujiawan, and the other four production teams are all south of the commune."

Soon the drawing was finished, and Chen Fan tapped a certain place on the blackboard with chalk, "Now the sideline companies are all in this area of Lujiawan, which is right next to the brigade headquarters. Every morning, each team has to send poultry and livestock to this place.

At the same time, the other four brigades are also cooperating with us. They also have to deliver goods, either by walking the levee on the west side, or by passing through the only road in the commune. From a freight perspective, moving the sideline companies to the area designated by the commune is beneficial in all aspects."

Zhang Wenliang immediately raised his hand.

Chen Fan picked up a small bamboo stick and pointed at him, "This classmate, please speak."

Zhang Wenliang took a puff of his cigarette, frowned, and asked, "If we move, won't we be further away ourselves? And what about water transport? It used to be enough to go to the No. 7 team's dock, but now it takes an extra ten minutes by boat to dock at the commune's dock, which is much further."

Chen Fan smiled slightly, "Then, is the smell of slaughtering every day pleasant? Is the smell of so many chicken feathers, duck feathers, and goose feathers pleasant?

Although the breeding farm and the cooked food workshop are not next to each other, they are not far apart. It used to be fine when the scale was small, but now it has multiplied several times, and it will only increase in the future. What do you plan to do?"

Team Leader Zhang nodded thoughtfully, "So, the commune's request comes at the right time?"

Chen Fan shrugged, "It can't be said to be just right. All sideline companies have to be re-planned, but it doesn't necessarily mean moving to the town. Lujiawan has more than 5,000 acres of land. After deducting more than 3,000 acres of paddy fields, two or three hundred acres of residential areas, and several hundred acres of scattered dry land, there are actually many places that can be used.

What I originally thought was to make use of these places, distribute the sideline companies to each team, and concentrate on processing them according to different categories, so that each team has its own flagship industry.

For example, the No. 6 team has its own pottery factory, so they can focus on developing in this area, and finally form a pattern with different characteristics and a hundred flowers blooming."

Ye Shubao slapped his thigh and said with excitement, "Good, good, good, this is good."

He grabbed Zhang Changjiang, "Lao Zhang, think about it, when the time comes, the No. 5 team will mainly engage in breeding, the No. 6 team will mainly engage in pottery, and our No. 7 team has a dock, so we can put the cooked food factory and the food factory that is being prepared in the No. 7 team. Once the things are made, they can be directly pulled to the dock, which is much more convenient than pulling them from the No. 5 team now!"

Zhang Changjiang was not very happy, "Why leave the breeding farm to the No. 5 team and the food factory to the No. 7 team? Why can't the breeding farm be moved to the No. 7 team and let you smell the stench every day."

Ye Shubao smacked his lips, "Moving the breeding farm is also okay, I'm not picky. Hey, when will we move?"

Zhang Changjiang opened his mouth, was stunned for two seconds, then rolled his eyes, "Bah, you bad thing, the breeding farm and the food factory are both from the No. 5 team, why move?"

Ye Shubao was very innocent, "Didn't you say yourself to move the breeding farm to the No. 7 team and let us smell the stench every day."

Xiao Liewen couldn't stand it anymore, "You two are over a hundred years old together, one is the brigade leader and the other is the deputy brigade leader, and you are still fighting for things for your own team, what's that like?"

Saying that, he shook his head, looking disgusted.

Then he turned to look at Chen Fan, pointed at him with his dry tobacco pipe, "Ignore them, you continue to talk."

At this time, Chen Fan also lit his dry tobacco and started smoking. Seeing that they were not making trouble anymore, he said with a smile, "Keeping the sideline companies in the team is what I thought before. The advantage is that everything is internal, and there is no need to discuss with others. We can solve any problems ourselves."

After a pause, he took a puff of his cigarette, turned around and looked at the blackboard, "But, there are also advantages to moving the sideline companies to the town."

Xiao Liewen puffed on his cigarette, "What are the advantages?"

Zhang Changjiang looked around, "When I went to the commune for a meeting yesterday, Secretary Qian and the others said a lot of things, saying something about giving policies and resources, but we don't really understand these things. Is that what you're talking about?"

Chen Fan nodded lightly, "The first advantage is indeed this."

He turned around, pulled up a chair and sat down, and said slowly, "What is the biggest problem now? It is that the higher-ups do not have clear management policies for collective enterprises, especially sideline units run by production teams.

How much money can the production team's sideline company make in a year, how to collect taxes, how much management fee to pay to the commune, whether the production raw materials are solved by themselves or coordinated by the commune, there is no very clear standard.

And this standard is generally set by the commune. Is the tax rate higher or lower? Is the management fee 10% or 30%? Does the commune go through the Bureau of Commerce to get approval for production raw materials, or do you find your own way to buy them?

The difference in interest between these ins and outs may be several times."

Xiao Liewen stared, "We have never bought raw materials from the commune from beginning to end when running sideline businesses."

Chen Fan chuckled, "Well, you didn't buy raw materials, but has the commune provided any help?"

Xiao Liewen was immediately stuck, and mumbled, "Anyway, they can't help with anything buying or selling, but they didn't make things difficult when building factories and buying building materials."

Chen Fan's mouth twitched slightly.

Is that called not making things difficult? Don't look down on just a small commune, the enterprises and units in the town also have to accept production tasks. Now Lujiawan can be said to be the largest customer of several related units in the town. For example, when building houses at the beginning of the year, many other production teams couldn't buy steel and cement, because a large part of it was approved for Lujiawan.

This is already very supportive, okay.

But you can't say that, everyone wants to take more advantage, of course you have to help relatives and not help reason.

Chen Fan smiled and said, "Well, well, so if you move over, you have to talk to the commune carefully and see what kind of support they are talking about. Also, the management fee ratio and tax policy must be clarified.

When the time comes, you can use what I said to talk, saying that we can completely distribute various sideline businesses to the teams, but we are willing to talk at the invitation of the commune, but if the conditions are not in place, … cough cough, even the brigade leaders can't explain it to the members of the whole brigade!"

Xiao Liewen and the others pursed their mouths and looked at each other, nodding in agreement.

After a few seconds, Zhang Changjiang grinned and smiled, "I am better at this aspect than Lao Yang. We used to cry back a lot of things. I will go with him to talk about this matter, and we will definitely not suffer."

Chen Fan looked at him in surprise. He didn't expect that Team Leader Zhang, who looked honest and simple, would have this ability?!

The next second, Secretary Yang's voice came from afar, "Lao Zhang, what bad things are you saying about me again? Anyway, I heard you talking about Lao Yang, don't try to quibble."

Everyone turned around and looked over, only to see Secretary Yang with his hands behind his back, slowly climbing up.

Zhang Changjiang immediately laughed and scolded, "Are you a dog? You can hear from so far away?"

Secretary Yang stood on the platform, took a couple of breaths, and turned around in place before continuing to walk towards them, saying, "You're the dog. Don't you look at the environment here? It's not only high terrain, but also has woods on two sides and is open on the other two sides. Whispering can probably be heard by Team 5. Besides, your voice is louder than a loudspeaker. Not hearing it would be deafness."

Zhang Wenliang had already given up his seat and sat on the very edge. "Dad, have they all left?"

"Yeah, they left after eating. They just wanted to freeload, learn my ass."

Secretary Yang muttered, striding directly over the bench and sitting in the seat he had vacated, looking up at the blackboard. "What are you doing?"

Xiao Liewen pointed with his tobacco pipe, "It's about the thing Secretary Qian mentioned yesterday. Little Chen is giving ideas."

"Oh."

Secretary Yang nodded in realization and then looked at Chen Fan. "What do you say?"

Chen Fan briefly repeated what he had just said and then continued, "If we move according to the commune's requirements, the first benefit is that we can ask them for policies and resources.

The second benefit is from the perspective of the unit's own development."

He tapped his cigarette ash and pointed to the area planned by the commune, saying, "In foreign countries, this kind of place where factories and units are concentrated together has a special name, called an 'industrial zone.'"

Zhang Wenliang suddenly reacted and asked, "Is it the same as the area north of Yunhu where the machinery factory and cotton mill are located?"

Chen Fan nodded, "That's right. Although Yunhu hasn't officially used this name to manage it, it is, in fact, a relatively mature industrial zone."

Of course, it's only relatively mature and far from meeting the standards of a truly mature industrial zone.

A mature industrial zone must first have a dedicated management committee to handle all the problems in the park.

This includes complete infrastructure, namely water, electricity, roads, and site leveling. The "three connections and one leveling" often mentioned during investment promotion refers to this.

In addition, there are energy, safety, environment, enterprise services, land and real estate, equipment, and facilities.

If Lujiawan were to do it themselves, not to mention anything else, the things related to enterprise services alone would exhaust people.

If the commune were to come forward, it would be the opposite. Services would be delivered to the doorstep, and everything would be easy to discuss.

For example, the previous electricity problem wouldn't require Lujiawan to negotiate cooperation with Qingshan Commune themselves. Letting Nanhua Commune come forward would solve it just the same.

There's no way around it. As I said before, the current commune has a "three-level ownership system." The team is responsible for production, the brigade is responsible for coordination, and the commune is the administrative management of the grassroots units.

In other words, only the commune has administrative power. The production brigade only has the obligation to coordinate production and provide output, not the power to demand.

Oh, I can't say that.

When the harvest is bad, the production team can still ask for relief grain.

So, in theory, the commune can be described as "taking whatever it wants" from the production teams within its jurisdiction, and it's reasonable, legal, and compliant.

Of course, it wouldn't actually be done this way. After all, everyone is afraid of being ambushed!

Chen Fan thoroughly analyzed the pros and cons of moving the sideline company to the commune and then said, "In addition, within this industrial zone, we must also manage the sidelines separately.

For example, the clothing factory will produce a lot of cloth and down dust during the production process, so it cannot be too close to the food factory. This involves the layout of the factory.

Then, although it may be inconvenient to put different types of factories together, if planned properly, it can also help improve efficiency. Just like a chicken, after coming out of the farm, it goes to the slaughterhouse, then the chicken meat goes to the cooked food factory, the chicken feathers go to the down factory, and then each goes its own way..."

This is called upstream and downstream enterprise collaboration."

Chen Fan talked for more than an hour, his mouth dry, so he simply went to the kitchen to cook a pot of mung bean soup.

After putting the pot on the coal stove and turning back, he saw Secretary Yang asking, "So, is your final opinion to move or not to move?"

Chen Fan looked at his expressionless face and then at Captain Zhang and the others, who looked like they agreed, and felt uneasy.

What did I just say?

Don't you have any opinions of your own?

The next second, Secretary Yang and the others burst into laughter.

Zhang Wenliang patted Chen Fan's arm and took out a filter-tipped Yulan cigarette from his pocket. There was even a hint of disgust in his eyes. "Why isn't it a Zhonghua?"

He took out one, put it in his mouth, and put the remaining half-pack in his pocket, saying, "Since you've said so much, then we'll plan to move as soon as possible."

Zhang Changjiang stopped laughing, searched Zhang Wenliang's pocket for cigarettes, took one for himself, and handed the rest to Ye Shubao, saying, "We'll go to the commune to talk again tomorrow. Once we've negotiated the conditions, we'll prepare to move."

Secretary Yang took the cigarette Ye Shubao handed him, lit it, and said, "Fortunately, the food factory hasn't started construction yet, otherwise, it would be a troublesome matter."

Xiao Liewen still smoked his own dry tobacco. "When we were building houses at the beginning of the year, we organized several construction teams ourselves. Now, only Team 6's decoration team is still around. We can take this opportunity to reorganize the construction team, so we don't have to pay the town's construction team."

He said with indignation, "That construction team was originally from our village, but the commune insisted on taking it away, without even giving us any benefits."

Zhang Changjiang said, "Officials at a higher level can crush people to death. What can we do? Anyway, this time the tables have turned. They can't take away our Lujiawan's sideline company. Instead, the commune is begging us to move all the sideline units over. I'll be sure to get a good deal!"

Finally, Secretary Yang made a concluding speech, "This matter is settled. We'll go talk tomorrow."

He turned to look at Chen Fan. "Do you have anything else to add?"

Chen Fan smacked his lips, looked around at everyone, and smiled, "My idea is, don't rush to move."

The others were stunned and looked at each other in confusion.

Xiao Liewen looked at him in confusion, "Why not rush to move?"

Zhang Changjiang said, "You were saying before that the clothing factory and food factory should be built as soon as possible, to make money sooner. Why aren't you in a hurry now?"

Secretary Yang seemed to have thought of something, his expression changed slightly, and he looked at him and asked, "Could it be that there's a problem with the down jacket fabric production line at the cotton mill?"

Ye Shubao wanted to join in, but he couldn't think of the problem, so he just looked at him expectantly.

Chen Fan smiled slightly and said, "Didn't you say that Secretary Qian and the others want achievements? In that case, there's another month before the meeting in Beijing. Why not wait another month and see what the results of the meeting are?

If, as many people think, the focus is on grasping the economy and setting policies, then after the meeting is over, we can officially announce the establishment of the 'Luwan Industrial Park' in Nanhua Commune. Wouldn't that be a ready-made achievement?!"

Hearing this, Secretary Yang and the others' eyes lit up.

Captain Zhang narrowed his eyes and muttered, "If this isn't an achievement, then what is?!"

Xiao Liewen smacked his lips, "Good家伙, this is going to be a 'first uprising'."

Ye Shubao said, "At the very least, it's the 'first uprising' in the Yunhu area."

Zhang Wenliang looked left and right, his eyes a little puzzled. Isn't it just a production team's sideline industrial zone? Is it that important?