My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 286 People Create Their Own History
Because Weidong missed a factor that he had completely overlooked.

Farmers move to the city.

The reason so many people were scrambling for opportunities to work in sanitary napkin factories wasn’t entirely because of how much money they could make.

Instead, they see this as the only way to become a city dweller.

In 1984, when urbanization had not yet begun, farmers who had suffered for many years, especially those rural children who had received education, could not wait to go to the city to broaden their horizons.

There is a huge gap between urban and rural areas.

People are scrambling like crazy for this opportunity to buy a house!

Weidong lost his hand and got a job, and stayed in the security room, but he didn't experience the process of rural-to-urban transformation, which is the dream of many people.

In the past, people had to worry about whether they could get a city household registration.

After working for a few months now, these migrant workers from rural areas are very clear that the household registration is actually not that important.

In the past, the main constraint for farmers to move to the city was the relationship between grain and oil. Without a household registration, they could not eat public grain, and without grain coupons, they had no living space in the city.

It just so happens that the cafeteria of the sanitary napkin factory allows you to eat as long as you have an employee ID card, which perfectly solves this problem.

Besides, you can buy rice in the free market outside now, so it’s no problem to cook for yourself if you really want to.

The key is to have a home in the city.

Last night, I asked Weidong to tell Wu Xi that the daily output of the sanitary napkin factory with three shifts can reach 400,000 packs.

As a result, about 3,000 rural employees were crowded into factory dormitories.

Many dormitories have more than ten or twenty people crowded together.

The other two thousand or so people are city employees who can go home and stay.

So there is a huge and urgent need for housing in this area.

Many hardworking employees can earn three to five hundred yuan a month, and lucky working couples can get seven to eight hundred yuan or even more a month.

This money is perfect for buying a house!
If there is no room, do we have to do that in the dormitory? I’m so anxious!
This is equivalent to letting Weidong perfectly replicate the act of buying houses for employees in Jiangzhou in Shangzhou.

They also secretly moved forward and started pre-sale.

Forty-eight sets? Four hundred and eighty sets aren't enough!
Moreover, because the notice was first posted at the free market and the entrance of the sanitary napkin factory, the employees who got the news rushed to the development company and the industrial park to sign up and queue up without saying a word. Some of them were so anxious that they directly brought 2,000 yuan to pay and refused to leave until the money was collected!

Ding Haifeng later had to call his wife over to act as the financial officer, and he easily collected 48 households on the spot.

Others were still reluctant to leave and begged their comrades to register and pay the fees.

In fact, after getting along for a few months, I realized that this office is not tough and is easy to talk to as long as you follow the rules.

Adhering to the service attitude, what we do is to make everyone's life better.

The factory had experienced this before when recruiting workers. There were so many people applying, so they softened their heart and recruited quite a few more.

So now they are piled up in large pieces.

In a sense, this is also the consequence of being too kind to command an army.

Then those in the city who got the news called to inquire and were told that the quota was full, so they hurried over to participate.

Many people almost caused trouble.

When fate can change in a moment, decency, dignity, and face are all disregarded.

Desperate commotion.

The poorer the place, the more people believe that making a fuss will bring good results.

Fortunately, Ding Haifeng had experience and quickly called a lot of people from the joint defense and police station to maintain order.

They announced with a loudspeaker that registration was open, but subsequent construction had to be done step by step. Anyone who could not queue up in an orderly manner to register would be kicked out and not allowed to participate.

Then the other side sent people everywhere to look for the boss, and finally found out that he was having a meeting in the cafeteria, so they hurriedly asked for his advice.

I still know that I can’t just say I’ll build a few more buildings.

That's an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars per building.

Let Weidong think about it and he can only face it by himself, so while they chat here, he followed the person who came with a big horse and a golden sword.

Wu Xi must go and see how excited the people are.

Li Erfeng quickly followed with the tea she had prepared for the man.

The crew was chatting animatedly, so Wei Dong sat quietly beside them, looking inconspicuous.

But when he left, it seemed as if he took away some aura.

Qin Yuye and Yu Xiaoqiu were both a little absent-minded and fidgeting.

Wang Zhiwen seems to truly understand women's hearts: "I want to go and see it. I've heard descriptions of the grand scene of so many people gathering together and shouting from a high place. I want to see it for myself. I've never seen it before."

Jin Zhuoqun also thought it made sense: "Go ahead, go ahead. Weidong's language expression still has his own unique characteristics."

The cameraman actually took a look and picked up the camera with satisfaction.

The two girls were already trotting to the front.

It just so happened that they were both seventeen years old, with Yu Xiaoqiu being a few months older. "Brother Dong is in Pingjing, and hundreds of college students are all very impressed by him. Even at Brick TV Station, there are so many talented people, and he's still not afraid of the stage." Qin Yuye had no problem understanding the standard Mandarin. He only observed the big-butt girl in the flowery clothes in the distance ahead: "He's so difficult to deal with. There are so many pretty girls, hey, call him..."

Yu Xiaoqiu was surprised, but didn't respond.

The entire three-way intersection was packed, and it was obvious that some people were deliberately making a fuss.

A down payment of 2,000 yuan is beyond the reach of most city dwellers.

In particular, many city people have always looked down on rural areas. As a result, these migrant workers and factory girls dared to save up 2,000 yuan to buy a house after working in a sanitary napkin factory for two or three months.

There are many people who are jealous.

As Weidong plunged into the crowd, he could hear people talking everywhere: "It seems farmers don't qualify for housing, so they spend money to buy houses. Impossible! Do you think you can become a city dweller just by buying a house?"

"No one cares. Now you can buy a house with money. What do we who have been waiting in line for more than ten years think?"

"But it's incredible. After just a few months of work, you can save two or three thousand to buy a house, and you still have to pay back dozens of dollars every month. Those of us who live on a fixed salary can't even think about it."

"This is a poisonous weed of the bourgeoisie. It must be eradicated!"

Even though it didn't touch any direct core interests, it still caused such great criticism and resistance.

It is conceivable that the interest groups that are the first to be affected by the reform will inevitably engage in a life-and-death struggle.

But most people were still queuing and talking. The further you walked, the more you saw people lining up, their backs pressed against each other, so afraid of being cut in line that the line was probably made up of hundreds or even thousands of people!

Weidong was protected and quickly passed through, then jumped onto the stairs.

The office building of Chengkai Company has only two floors. It is a temporary illegal building and will definitely be demolished in the future, so the structure is also very simple.

It is just a few dozen square meters, and the first floor is a public service hall where people can come directly to inquire and handle any issues concerning the free market.

There were cement steps on the side leading up to the second-floor office. Rang Weidong took the loudspeaker handed to him by Ding Haifeng and stood higher. "Hello everyone, I'm Rang Weidong. Two years ago, I was working as a porter with a group of brothers at the docks. But I've been riding the wave of reform and opening up. Now I'm traveling all over the country and planning to spend 500,000 yuan to build houses for people who are in urgent need. For this reason, the buildings at our food factory are slowly..."

This conversation, which started with the fact that she was a cheating husband, easily attracted everyone's attention and they all quieted down.

Including when Weidong raised his finger and pointed at the food factory on the other side of the river, it was like rolling waves of wheat, and everyone turned their heads to look that way.

In fact, it cannot be seen at all because of the stone arch bridge blocking the view.

They all turned back in unison.

Rang Weidong pointed behind the free market and said, "The building is right behind this. The money for its construction was paid for by the sanitary napkin factory, the food factory, and the government. You'll put your down payment in the bank as a deposit, and then starting next month, you'll pay a small amount every month. These are called monthly installments. This is a method I came up with during my study tour in Hong Kong. It allows everyone to use their hard-earned income to buy a house as soon as possible and have a happy and fulfilling family."

There are always people who can't help but say: "I know! But it's too little! There are not enough houses now, so you should think of a way!"

The noise started again, but when Wei Dong put the loudspeaker to his mouth, it immediately quieted down: "Anything, if you want it quickly, it may not be so good. If you want it well, it may not be so fast. After this first building, there will definitely be a second, a third, a tenth, a hundredth. As long as you work hard, there will definitely be a room for you there, and a happy and complete family!"

These were words that came from his heart. During the countless years of being single, lonely and helpless, he understood that he was hiding in that little comfort zone and was afraid to face life.

There is no excuse for being disabled in this life, so I must live my life well.

These words are naturally full of emotion.

Even though it was amplified by crude electronic sound, it still spread throughout the entire venue.

There was light in many people's eyes.

It's not greed for money, nor is it excitement with tears in the eyes, but it's the ignition of hope.

Wu Xi can see it.

He was originally standing at the bottom of the stairs, relying on his strong body to help Weidong block the entrance of the stairs. He wanted to experience this scene in person.

The result is that we see countless people looking up, longing for happiness.

I couldn't help but quietly move myself up the stairs, took out the cheap camera I carried with me, and took a picture.

Let Weidong make a choice: "Okay, for our next building, should we stick with this eight-story tube-shaped building, or build a twenty-story apartment building with an elevator? That one will definitely be more expensive, but it will be more comfortable and satisfying. I've been working hard and saving more money lately, so the monthly payments might be over a hundred or two hundred. For a dual-income family, wouldn't that be the better choice? Which one do you think is better?"

Is there still a choice?

When I saw hope and choice, the hostility that had been stirred up just now disappeared.

Instead, there was an enthusiastic response: "Okay! All good!"

“Cheaper is better!”

"Is the elevator the iron room where people can go upstairs by standing inside it?"

That’s right, there are no elevators in the entire Shangzhou, not even in the city.

After getting Weidong's confirmation nod, the whole audience simply couldn't believe that such advanced and modern things could exist. They had only seen such advanced things on TV and in books and newspapers. Could they appear in our lives?

Weidong has become a mature and excellent salesperson: "Tube-shaped buildings cannot be any taller because climbing up is very tiring, so each building only has 48 households. But our elevator apartments can have 100 to 200 households per building. What are we working hard to build the four modernizations for? It is to give ourselves and our children the good life we ​​long for. Doesn't this work and this life give us hope?"

It was at this moment that the applause broke out involuntarily.

But if Weidong had to make a choice, he would take them all: "So, now we will simultaneously open up the registration for the tube-shaped building and the elevator apartment. The first building will start construction tomorrow. As long as the progress can keep up, the second and third buildings will emerge endlessly. It's up to you to choose. We implement the three guarantees!"

The warm cheers that broke out immediately, like the light of righteousness, shattered all the cynicism and ridicule of the surrounding onlookers.

The TV crew was so excited watching the film that they wanted to capture this kind of thunderous atmosphere.

(End of this chapter)