After the frail beauty went to the countryside, she went crazy with scientific research.

Chapter 416, Episode 0451: Language barrier is a big problem.

“Three villages away from the military region have signed contracts with textile factories. Almost every household in those three villages grows ramie, and we buy all the ramie that meets the quality standards.”

After Chongyang City was completed, the textile factory was transferred to the government and became a state-owned enterprise.

Although it's not allowed without explicit regulations, it's just not right for the military to control a textile factory that makes a fortune every day.

That's not an exaggeration at all.

Before they could run a proper business, thanks to Qi Jianbin's connections, the textile factory never had trouble selling its products.

It's not that Qi Jianbin has any special background. In fact, Qi Jianbin's family situation is only slightly better than Wang Datou's. He didn't come from the countryside, but he was just an average family in a small town.

Qi Jianbin was lucky. On his way back to his hometown to visit relatives, he saved two cousins ​​surnamed Cheng who were almost being brutally murdered. At that time, the two cousins ​​were quite down on their luck, and their family was not doing well either. They were a capitalist family, and they could hardly take care of themselves.

However, they didn't really remain silent, at least not all of them. Those two cousins ​​weren't honest. On the surface, they were educated youth sent to the countryside, but secretly they controlled a local black market. That time, they were almost killed because of a fight between black markets.

The textile factory on Chongyang Island didn't dare to expand too much at first, and the products produced were limited, enough for the two cousins ​​to handle.

After the economic liberation, he became very successful and opened a shipping company in Shanghai.

The shipping company has an excellent network of connections, both domestically and internationally, and most of them are business people.

At that time, the textile industry was also allowed to operate more freely. The Cheng brothers would help sell whatever goods you had, since they earned quite a bit as middlemen, and the more you sold, the more they earned.

Initially, the troops on the island had no money to set up a research institute. Later, they were able to build the institute and hire researchers, all because there was a textile factory there.

Back then, things were really tough for our troops. Life was hard for everyone. We even went out to Northeast China to "work" for others.

As a result, Wang Datou and his gang inadvertently expanded their business, and their income became so high that it not only attracted the envy of many, but Wang Datou was also warned.

Although it's hard to part with them, sometimes you have no choice but to.

The handover went smoothly; the textile factory had already been divested from the military before Feng Xiaoyu officially took office.

No one expected that things would fall into chaos in less than six months.

“During the period between our handover and Feng Xiaoyu’s appointment, which lasted about four months, some problems arose.”

“We signed ten-year contracts with those three villages. Other villages also signed contracts, but none of them were for as long as those three. Especially one village called Ga Zi Village. That village is quite remote, and the villagers are not very educated. They are the kind of people who don't reason with you.”

“We went to collect ramie from the whole village. There were three soldiers in Gazi Village. These three almost died in Gazi Village. One was because of the language barrier, so the two sides could not communicate. Another was because the people of Gazi Village did not want to listen to what the soldiers had to say. They were not afraid of the soldiers’ uniforms. They arrested the soldiers, beat them half to death, locked them up, and stole all their belongings. Then they even dared to use the three soldiers’ identification to ask the army for ransom.”

That's how arrogant they are.

And they're truly fearless; if you point a gun at them as a threat, they'll dare to point their chests at the muzzle of the gun and yell at you to shoot.

The old man patted Wang Datou's shoulder heavily, his face somber. "You've worked hard."

Wang Datou paused for a moment, then grinned, revealing a not-so-good smile. "It wasn't hard, it's all in the past." How could it not be hard? It was incredibly difficult back then. Every time he thought back, he couldn't believe that they had actually persevered, and not only persevered, but also completed the task assigned to them by their superiors almost perfectly.

To put it bluntly, many of the islanders are in a state of uncivilization, and they had great difficulty even starting to work.

Language barriers are a big problem. On Chongyang Island, there are more than a dozen languages ​​spoken, but no one speaks Mandarin. Can you believe it?
It can be said that each village has its own language. The villages are quite far apart, and their way of getting along tends to be one of non-interference. If two villages clash for some reason, there is no pre-arranged communication as we might imagine; they resolve the issue directly with force.

Perhaps for this reason, they don't need to communicate with each other much.

The islanders initially interacted with the troops in the same way: they kept their distance from the soldiers, and if they accidentally bumped into them, they would usually avoid them. If there was a conflict, they would come at you fiercely and fight to the death, without any other option.

In such a situation, how easy is it to get work started?

Wang Datou recalled something funny yet somewhat sad: "Back then, we often lost canned goods. When we first arrived, we brought a batch of canned beef and canned peaches..."

They came with half a year's worth of military supplies. Originally, there were no canned foods, but Wang Datou was shameless, and he had just made a great contribution before he was put in charge of Chongyang Island. Originally, Wang Datou could have been promoted, but he wasn't. However, many people thought that it would have been better not to be promoted at all. Being "thrown" to this broken island for construction was a kind of compensation. The superiors transferred the canned foods that were originally intended for another unit to them first.

Back then, canned food was a rare commodity, with limited production. Each unit was issued it in rotation, so Wang Datou and his men knew they didn't know when the next batch of canned food would be their turn.

So that province.

First, to motivate everyone, each person was given a can of food, and then the remaining cans became rewards.

The higher-ups knew this, and the soldiers were also aware of it, so they ate sparingly, or even hid what they couldn't bear to eat.

Then, it was a young soldier's birthday. His squad happened to have a day off that night, so the squad leader took them to the beach to celebrate the young soldier's birthday. The squad leader even brought out canned beef that he had been saving for months.

There wasn't enough meat in the can to give everyone a slice, so they set up a pot, made a beef broth base, and had a lively seafood hot pot meal.

The aroma was so enticing that it overwhelmed a group of villagers who were collecting seafood nearby.

Before long, the logistics department started throwing away canned food; a few less today, a few less tomorrow.

"The logistics staff set a trap and stayed up all night to catch people. They did catch them, but it turned out they were all children under ten years old."

There's no way to communicate. After a group of kids are arrested, if you ask them a few questions in a nice way, they'll cry. But if you're a bit fierce, it's a different story. They'll bar their teeth and fight you like a pack of little wolf cubs.

Several people in the logistics department were bitten, and each wound was so deep that the bone was visible; they needed to get vaccinated.

“We almost got into a fight with the people from that village over this.”

That night, a group of children were arrested. The next morning, the entire village, young and old, came and blocked the entrance to the army base. They were all armed with weapons and yelling in a language that the villagers couldn't understand. They rushed at anyone they saw and tried to beat them.

I'm not afraid to say it's embarrassing, but the two soldiers on guard at the gate were so scared when they saw it from afar that they closed the gate.

This is really dangerous.