Several farmers bent over working in the fields raised their heads and watched the small trucks and tractors filled with goods forming a long queue and driving lively into the village.
"Oh! Which family is building a new house? There are so many cars." A village woman wearing a bamboo hat and her legs covered with mud said in surprise.
"Why do you want to build a new house? The pig farm of Mr. Meng's family knows how to spread it? This is to transport material there." Another village woman said.
"I know, but how big is that pig farm? Does it need so many trucks to pull materials?"
"You must be ignorant, what you are talking about is just old almanac!
Let me tell you, Gang Sa, not long ago a big boss took a fancy to our Mengjia Village. He directly bought the pig farm of Mr. Meng's family and planned to invest a large sum of money to establish a company.
What's it called... Oh, by the way! It seems to be called Mengshan Animal Husbandry."
"real or fake?"
"That can still be a lie. My family is in the village committee. I heard that the second son of the Meng family signed a contract with the village a few days ago and bought the dozens of acres of land at the west end of our village directly!"
"Hey~ You bought dozens of acres of land? Then you don't have to spend hundreds of thousands just to buy the land?"
"What's hundreds of thousands, 1.5 million!"
"Oh my God! How big of a pig farm are they planning to build?"
"Anyway, we transported several trucks of piglets in the past few days. There must be at least more than a thousand piglets. There is also a forest pond next to it, where chickens, ducks, and fish are raised. We also need to build a septic tank. They say they are going to engage in ecological breeding.
And I also heard that this is the first phase, and it seems that it will be expanded later!"
"You want to expand? Then you can't buy all our Mengshan Village?
I've only been back to my parents' home province for more than half a month, and this village is about to change?"
"Who says otherwise? Haven't you seen that the village chief has recently been to Meng Lao'er's house more frequently than to the township government? I heard that even the leaders of the town have been alerted and want to inspect."
"What the hell! Is Mr. Meng's family going to get rich? Where do they know such a rich boss?"
"Who knows? Now I am the general manager of the new company. I heard that apart from the big boss, he is the only one who matters."
"There's really smoke coming out of the ancestral graves, eh! That brat of mine has been doing nothing all day long. You ask me, is such a big company still hiring?"
"We're recruiting! They also said they would give priority to recruiting people from our village. They will be paid 4,000 per month, and they will also be provided with five insurances and one housing fund. They are a regular company."
"4000?! The conditions are so good? Then I have to get our brat to sign up!"
"Yeah! Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, I heard that after hearing the news, many people from the neighboring village came to apply for the job. If you go late, maybe the quota will be gone."
"Okay, okay!" When the village woman heard this, she didn't care about the crops anymore and hurriedly prepared to go home.
Before leaving, she didn't forget to turn around and remind her, "Hey! Fangfang's mom, didn't your Fangfang just graduate this year? I'll call you Yike!"
"Oh! Our family Fangfang doesn't need it. I just mentioned it to Sister Hui yesterday. When their family Xiaolang comes back, we will have a blind date."
"..."
…
On the west side of Mengjia Village, the original pig farm has been expanded several times on the original basis.
There are piles of reinforced concrete on the construction site. Looking around, a large number of new factory buildings are being built. The foundation of the planned Mengshan Animal Husbandry Office Building is also being laid. The construction scene is in full swing.
A temporary iron shed next to the construction site.
A somewhat rough handwritten wooden sign hung at the door, with the words "Mengshan Animal Husbandry General Manager's Office" written on it.
"Brother, what happened with my nephew..."
"Village Chief, your nephew is not my nephew, he is also the one I grew up watching. If you can help me, I will definitely help!
But then again, you also know that I don’t have the final say in this company. The big boss even sent a ‘business management consultant’ here.
He said he was a consultant, but what others say only counts..." Lao Meng looked confused.
"I understand! Isn't it just like the supervisor in ancient times? Then it's you who is the general!"
"Village Chief, if you ask me to arrange an ordinary employee position, I will definitely accept the matter without saying a word.
But this management position still has the final say, and I really don’t have that much power.
Think about it, I have just taken up the job, and I will arrange for all our relatives regardless of my qualifications and academic qualifications. If the big boss thinks that I want to make a statement, then I will not be able to directly take the position of manager?
To put it bluntly, I am just a part-time worker!"
"Yeah! That makes sense. Okay, ordinary employees can do it too. Let's do it first. You can mention it later when you find an opportunity."
"Okay! I will definitely take care of it!"
"Come on! As long as you say this, it will be done!"
"Village Chief, please walk slowly!"
Lao Meng sent the village chief to the door, then turned around and wanted to go back to the house to relax, when two more people walked in outside the door.
"Second brother!"
When Lao Meng looked up, he found that it was his elder brother Meng Li and a middle-aged man wearing glasses.
As soon as Meng Li entered the room, he slapped a list on the table angrily.
"Second brother, take a look for yourself. I managed to get a batch of materials from the supplier, but you, Consultant Sun, said there was a problem and refused to allow them to be put into storage!
I have more than a dozen vehicles at my disposal, and now I have to go haul the goods. How much money will I lose if I am delayed for half a day?"
The middle-aged man wearing glasses said nothing, glanced at Meng Li, and then looked at Lao Meng.
Lao Meng looked at the middle-aged man aside with confusion.
"Consultant Sun, what's going on?"
This polite-looking Consultant Sun is the "professional" specially sent by Gao Yuan to assist in the management of Mengshan Animal Husbandry.
If the consultant hadn't taught him step by step about various management details and given various professional suggestions these days, he felt that he could have turned the general manager into a coward in just three days on the job.
"Manager, we have just randomly inspected the materials and found that the cement labels are partially different from those on our purchase list. In addition, after measuring with a scale, this batch of steel bars is a 'slimming' steel bar that does not meet the specifications.
For the sake of project quality and safety, I asked them to temporarily stop warehousing."
"What?!" Lao Meng frowned and looked at his elder brother.
"Brother, is this happening?"
Unexpectedly, Meng Li showed no signs of guilty conscience.
"Second brother, you are not an engineer, so you don't know the meaning behind this. This batch of materials I have is to be used to build factories, not high-rise buildings.
Most of the engineering cement and steel bars on the market here are used in this way, which has no impact on the quality of the project. Didn’t I also supply the materials for your original factory? Has there been any problem after so many years?
These are all routine operations in engineering!
I said to Consultant Sun, it’s true that you are a management consultant, but you are not from engineering background, right? Do you know what it means to adapt to local conditions?
Is such a trivial matter such a big fuss?"
Consultant Sun had a good temper and was not angry. He just looked at Lao Meng with a smile.
"Well! What you said seems to make sense, but it is also out of my duty as a consultant to explain the situation to the general manager and give my opinion.
As for the specific decision...it will naturally be up to Manager Meng to make the decision."
After hearing this, Lao Meng felt helpless.
He is not a fool. He is not talking about adapting measures to local conditions. This is just Meng Li's excuse to get some profit from this purchase.
It's just that he wants to take advantage of his status as the eldest brother of the general manager to pressure others.
"Consultant Sun, please sit down for a while. Brother, come out with me." Lao Meng sighed and walked out of the room.
"Humph!" Meng Li glanced at Advisor Sun, snorted coldly and followed Lao Meng out.
After walking two steps away, Lao Meng turned around and said helplessly.
"Brother, don't even look at it. The professional quality supervision team that Consultant Sun hired is a professional quality supervision team. If you tamper with this material, aren't you embarrassing yourself!"
"Second brother, what you are saying is that he is an outsider, and we are our own. It is just some trivial problems, and he is taking matters seriously with us here.
In this company, are you the general manager, or is he the general manager?
Besides, we are brothers wearing the same pair of pants.
How many shares of the company do you hold? The company is a company and we are us. You can clearly distinguish this second brother!"
Meng Li's words had hidden meanings, and if he got it well, Lao Meng's would naturally be indispensable.
The two of them should be allies of interest!
Lao Meng sighed secretly in his heart.
How could he not be aware of his eldest brother's naughty nature? It's just that due to the feeling of being a brother, he couldn't say it too harshly, so he could only say it.
"Brother, this matter is neither big nor small. Don't look at it. He is just a consultant. He doesn't seem to have any real power.
But that means writing reports to the big boss behind you every day!
In ancient times, that was the Jin Yiwei who had direct access to Tianting!
Do you really think that this company is run by our family when you are degrading the public and enriching yourself in front of him?
Brother, don't talk, listen to me! I don't know much about the twists and turns of doing business. I only know that taking away my position is just a matter of words.
If you offend others, it's not impossible to just withdraw your investment and stop doing it.
We in Mengjia Village can barely get enough food and clothing on weekdays, but now there are so many villagers, elders, relatives and friends from all over the village, and they are making fortunes with the help of Mengshan Animal Husbandry.
You said you were looking forward to it after a long time, but if this thing goes wrong, it will be because we two brothers are not honest in handling things, everyone will poke their backs!
It's not like you haven't seen how happy our father was some time ago.
If the old man knew that we messed up this matter, do you think he would break our legs?
Brother, you have to decide whether you want to make a one-time deal or keep my position for a long time."
Meng Li's expression turned gloomy when he was told this, and he stared at Lao Meng for a long time.
In the end, I don't know whether I was really convinced or moved by the words "a thin stream flows forever", but I finally nodded reluctantly.
"Second brother, you have already said this. As the eldest brother, if I insist on it, won't I be cheating my own brother and the whole village?
Okay! I listen to you, if this batch of materials is not up to standard, I will return all of them and replace them with new ones!"
When Lao Meng heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.
As the saying goes, there are many celebrities, not to mention that it also involves a huge investment of nearly ten million.
Recently, people come to sell products, people come to negotiate project contracts, people come to seek connections, offer favors and prepare to meddle with others...
During this period, the threshold of Lao Meng's family was almost crossed.
For Lao Meng, who had only taken care of more than a hundred pigs at most, he suddenly had to take care of more than a hundred people, and he felt a little powerless.
Whether the production equipment is good or bad, whether the project supervision is strict or lenient, are originally very simple questions.
But as long as people are involved, especially those who are close relatives, no matter how simple the problem is, it will be unimaginably complicated.
The village chief wants to come to ask for a favor. Please agree. It’s not like he doesn’t know the virtues of his nephew.
Don't agree. If you offend someone, it will be difficult to do the work in the village.
Relatives and friends within the fifth server come over to ask for help. Say yes. If others call you "uncle", how can you take care of them when they do something wrong?
Don't agree. Is this relative still getting along?
The people who contracted the project were all smarter than monkeys, and they could find your seventh uncle and grandpa through a roundabout relationship.
If you do these bad things, you won't get any benefits. If you don't do them well, you may become a traitor...
Lao Meng has been walking on thin ice these days, and he has had several gray hairs.
How did that sentence come to be? After staying with people for a long time, he realized that he liked pigs more...
He now understands why it is difficult to attract investment to backward areas.
In addition to infrastructure, the more backward you are, the more you value human relations and sophistication, and the more deeply rooted the society is based on family blood ties.
The intricate network of relationships not only requires a lot of energy to maintain, but also drives up operating costs and inhibits the competition mechanism of the market economy.
In the words of Consultant Sun from Sioux City, this is the inherent disadvantage of family businesses...
After seeing off Meng Li, he returned to the temporary office.
"Consultant Sun, I'm really sorry. My eldest brother has agreed to replace all the unqualified materials, which has caused trouble to everyone."
Consultant Sun raised his brows slightly when he heard this, as if he was a little surprised. The next moment he revealed a more sincere smile.
"Mr. Meng is serious. I am just a management consultant responsible for providing you with suggestions. These are all my duties. As for the specific decisions, you still have to make the final decision."
It’s this sentence again…
Lao Meng had a smile on his face and curled his lips in his heart.
These so-called urban elites who wear glasses like to mince words and hide things when they talk.
Oh! The big boss sends someone to give advice, do you really think he is a jury?
What’s more, it’s me who ultimately makes the decision?
Have you ever seen a general manager who bought shares in a pig farm worth RMB 150,000 and then became the boss of a company with assets worth RMB 10 million?
I believe you as a ghost!
Based on this "self-showing weakness" mentality, Lao Meng never dared to neglect the opinions of Consultant Sun.
As long as it doesn't offend the fellow villagers too much, I will basically rely on Consultant Sun's suggestions.
Even because of the presence of Consultant Sun, he could use this as an excuse to politely refuse many pressures from human relations, which was quite a bit of a fake and a bit of a show of force.
However, what he didn't know was that Consultant Sun had no less worries than he did!
How did Director Gao explain it?
In addition to reporting the work progress to her in detail every three days...
[First, delegate power to the maximum extent.
Second, provide professional management advice with due diligence.
Third, maintaining relations with local residents is the first priority, and rapidly expanding production scale is the second priority.
Fourth, there is no need to pursue short-term profits. Even if you lose money, you cannot violate the first three items.】
Listen! Everyone, listen! What kind of weird job is this? Consultant Sun said that rich people just know how to play.
General Manager Meng, Mengjia Village, Mengshan Animal Husbandry...
Just based on the association of these names, if you want to say that it is not a local family-owned enterprise, it is not convincing!
It seems that Director Gao just wanted to throw in 10 million to improve the happiness index of life in Mengjia Village...
No need to ask, General Manager Meng, who has no management experience, can be so trusted by the big boss, his background is definitely extraordinary!
Before coming here, he was afraid of meeting someone who was incompetent but arbitrary.
Ten million is a lot, but it can't withstand too much trouble. If it's gone in a few months, I won't be able to explain it to my boss.
Unexpectedly, General Manager Meng is somewhat lacking in experience, but he is unexpectedly easy to talk to. He can basically be described as "following the good ones"!
Consultant Sun and Lao Meng, one understands business management and the other understands local customs.
One thought that the other party was a relative of the emperor, and the other thought that the other party was holding Shang Fang's sword.
In a way, they actually have complementary advantages, and they treat each other like guests when they get along with each other. All they have to do is sing "Generals and Prime Ministers in Harmony" together.
The two of them looked at each other with very satisfied eyes, and said the same thing in their hearts.
"It's such a pleasure to work with you..."
…
When he returned to the Meng family courtyard, Lao Meng, who had been busy all day, slumped down on the sofa and let out a long sigh of relief.
"This day makes me tired every day. I finally feel how those people in the city feel. Huier, please get me a glass of water."
Lao Meng tugged at the collar of a shirt he was not used to wearing.
"Pour it yourself, you didn't notice that I was busy! sneeze~"
Lao Meng was speechless and glanced at Yang Hui, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa, blowing his nose and recording something with a dozen photos.
Yang Hui's physical condition is usually poor, but the temperature difference between before and after the change of seasons was large in the past two days, so she accidentally got infected.
Lao Meng reluctantly poured a glass of water for her, and then leaned over to take a look.
Height, age, occupation, income... Good guy, even the personality traits are marked!
"I said, you have been studying this over and over for several days, right? How about the Empress Dowager selecting beauties in the harem?"
"It's easy to choose the beauties in the harem, but it's hard to choose the empress!"
Yang Hui said as she put down the photo in her hand and couldn't help but sigh. "Alas!"
"What's the matter? There are so many girls from all over the country, but none of them fall in love?"
"There are a lot of people I like, but what's the use of being interested in me? If your son doesn't come back, how can I kill him first and marry him first?"
"That's right. You said this brat did such a big thing quietly, but what's the result?
I work very hard at home as the general manager, but he is like a hands-off shopkeeper who doesn't even call me back to ask questions!" Lao Meng said full of resentment.
"Then you call Xiaolang and ask him to come back and check it out. Maybe the big boss will ask about this matter at some point?
Well...I just came back and took a look at these girls!" Yang Hui said with an idea.
"Come on, let me go ahead and ask him to come back for a blind date? It would be weird for that kid to come back!"
Isn’t that your little lover? You can find a way to trick him back!"
"Go! How can a mother lie to her son? I have never lied to him since I was a child!" Yang Hui rolled her eyes.
But when I looked down at the dozens of photos of girls in my hand, I felt a little secretly sorry.
Lao Meng always feels a little weak as the general manager who fell from the sky, and he doesn't know how long he can last as a general manager.
If we don't take advantage of this wave of "concentrated applications" to pick a good one, there may not be a shop like this after passing this village.
If we wait any longer, the good girls inside may be abducted by others...
After thinking about it, for the sake of his son's lifelong event, he picked up the new mobile phone bought by Meng Lang.
"Beep~Beep~" The ringtone rang twice and was answered.
"Hello! Mom?"
"Xiaolang, have you eaten?"
"Mom, it's only four o'clock in the afternoon. Do you want to have dinner?"
"Oh! Mom is confused. You brothers and sisters are all outside. Even your dad is too busy now, and there is no one at home.
Mom just wants to talk to you...ahem!"
"Mom, are you okay?" The voice on the other side suddenly became nervous.
"Oh! It's okay! Maybe the signal is not good. What I want to say is that today is the end of the month, and in two days it will be Labor Day. The rapeseed grown at home is also ripe.
When you were in school, you and that girl Qingqing could come back together to help, but now...ahem!"
"Mom, why do you keep coughing? Are you still thinking about harvesting rapeseeds at this time?
It’s true, Dad, no matter how busy he is, he still has to take care of you, okay, okay, you have a good rest, I’ll go back and collect it for you!”
"No, no, mom can do it alone, really! Ahem!"
"Okay, it's settled, I'll go back tomorrow!"
"I told you no, you kid..."
Finally, she saw Yang Hui put down the phone calmly, then took out a tissue and said, "Sneeze~"