His predecessor failed

Chapter 143 New House

Of course, these people do not include Su Zhuzhu, as well as Zheng Qiwen and several other backbones of the processing plant. They all have access to first-hand information and of course know how much money the medicinal material processing plant and the hot sauce factory make.

At first, everyone had an expression of disbelief on their faces. The leap-forward improvement in life had already reached the ceiling of everyone's imagination, but who would have thought that the ceiling would be broken so easily.

Everyone slowly came back to their senses, and their mumbling became so intense that their faces turned red and their voices almost blew the roof off.

"Quiet, quiet! Look at how little you have achieved. You are just starting over and your faces are red as monkeys' bottoms!"

Su Zhuzhu was instantly amused by the captain's inappropriate metaphor and burst into laughter. Not only Su Zhuzhu, but almost everyone laughed. The joyful laughter was full of happiness. It would be hard for anyone not to be happy after hearing such good news.

"Quiet, quiet! Originally, we wanted to wait until the end of the year to publish the account book, but today, our Red Star Brigade has a big event, so we told everyone in advance."

"Captain, what's the big deal? Do you want a share of the money?"

"I guess it's definitely a new project, I fully support it!"

"What are you thinking about? Dividing the money? It's not the end of the year yet, what's the point of dividing the money? Don't say anything yet, listen to the captain."

The captain looked at everyone, and everyone was looking at him expectantly.

"Originally, we had a plan to rebuild houses for the entire team. After all, most of the houses we live in now are made of mud. There are not many wooden houses, and even fewer brick houses. In the past, we had no conditions and could only be picky. Now that we have the conditions, the first thing we need to do is to improve everyone's living conditions, especially this flood. Several houses collapsed, so we put the planning of building houses on the agenda. It is hard in this weather, but it is worth it."

My goodness, no one expected that the big thing the team leader was talking about was rebuilding houses, and the team leader said it was for the entire brigade, which means every household will have one. My God, this is really a big deal.

You know, in rural areas, it is common for three generations to build one house, and it is a very ordinary house. I didn’t expect that they could live in such a good life!

Suddenly, the discussion became louder, and everyone was imagining what the new house would look like.

The team leader joined the discussion and he and Su Zhuzhu took out the design drawings and sorted them out. When the discussion finally died down, the team leader asked Su Zhuzhu to introduce the planning drawings of the Red Star Brigade residential reconstruction project to everyone.

When they heard there was a plan, everyone came forward with interest, but the captain sent them back to their seats.

"Why rush? Zhuzhu will explain everything to everyone. Just listen carefully. Today we need to finalize this matter. Once it's finalized, we'll hold a general meeting and organize people to start construction. We'll finish building the new house sooner so we can move into it sooner."

Next, Su Zhuzhu showed everyone her own design drawings one by one. Basically, the designs were classified according to the current population of each household and the household registration status, ensuring that everyone's housing needs were met. If there were people in the family who were about to reach adulthood or getting married, they could expand the residence appropriately at their own expense.

According to the design drawings, we still have to demolish and rebuild on the existing residential land. The current situation is not suitable for building a unified house. Houses with separate doors and courtyards are more in line with rural living habits.

In addition to residential buildings, Su Zhuzhu also designed the brigade headquarters, primary school, nursing home and educated youth home. These places were built in the same building for easy management.

As for the medicinal material processing plant and the hot sauce factory, considering the possibility of introducing machines in the future, the noise will be relatively loud, so a large warehouse was built between the two buildings of the factory and the brigade headquarters to separate them. According to the plan within three years, this warehouse will definitely be used.

All the buildings are made of brick and tile structures. Su Zhuzhu referred to the Anhui architectural style, with black tiles and white walls. Just imagining it you can tell how beautiful the Red Star Brigade will be in the future.

All Su Zhuzhu prepared was the design. As for the construction, she was definitely not professional. Some parts of the design drawing would definitely need to be adjusted according to the construction requirements.

Next, the team leader brought out the recognized house builder in the team, and everyone began to discuss the construction process and materials. Since it involved the reconstruction of houses for the entire team, the discussion took most of the day and only half of it was confirmed.

The captain waved his hand and asked everyone to come over in the afternoon and try to settle the matter today.

However, Su Zhuzhu still took a leave in the afternoon. She gave the drawings to the team leader and asked him to call her if he needed her. The clinic was quite busy these days.

As soon as the news that the Red Star Brigade was going to rebuild all the houses spread, the whole area was in an uproar, and the gossip was intense. Some people were jealous and ran to the commune to make a scene, asking why the Red Star Brigade could build a processing plant and give all the team members new houses when they were all from the same commune. They just pointed at the commune leaders and complained that it was unfair.

The commune leaders have been suffering these days. Every day, people from various brigades come to the commune in waves. Those who are more reasonable cry poor, and those who are unreasonable start cursing. They don’t care whether they are leaders or not. Only visible benefits are real.

However, the leaders of the Red Star Commune were no pushovers, and they criticized these troublemakers who were not motivated to make progress but only wanted funding from above without any mercy.

"You ask me why the Red Star Brigade was able to build a processing plant? It was because they didn't ask the commune for a single cent! The Red Star Brigade raised funds bit by bit to build it. If you have this ability, can the commune stop your brigade from developing?"

"You are jealous when you see others are developing and building well. You are so short-sighted! They have earned their money with their own ability. If you have the ability, you can try to develop one too. The commune will be the first to support you! Look at you, and you are still looking at me with a squint. What are you looking at? If you look at me again, return the funds just allocated for road repair to me! That was the profit of the processing plant that the Red Star Brigade paid to the commune last quarter. The commune did not support them with a single cent. They did not forget their roots after making money, and they made it clear early on that they would hand over a certain proportion to the commune. The commune did not deduct a single cent and distributed it all to the various brigades for road construction. You have enjoyed their blessings for nothing, but you have become ungrateful before you even eat it?"

"You are the team leaders, but you are the ones who are causing trouble. You are the ones who are rebelling. With such low awareness, how can you lead everyone out of poverty and into prosperity? Go back and write a 1,000-word self-criticism and hand it in tomorrow!"

Waves of troublemakers came and went, and the commune leaders could no longer bear it. First, they took drastic measures to remove the captains of the two brigades from their posts, and then withheld the special funds for road construction.

The commune leaders did not lie at all about this money, which was really paid from the profits of the Red Star Brigade's processing plant. The establishment of the processing plant must have been supported by the commune, even if it was just an attitude. After all, only public assets were legitimate at that time.

At that time, Su Zhuzhu proposed to hand over a portion of the profits to the commune, just like paying public grain, and the team leader went to implement it. Nothing else, but high consciousness, loyalty, and attitude, the team leader relied on his bitter face to send the profits to the commune. The Red Star Commune had no experience in the brigades running their own factories, and more importantly, they did not expect the Red Star Brigade to run two factories so prosperously, and the commune did not support them for a minute, so at that time, the approval document only asked for a small share of the profits, and then gave the license to the Red Star Brigade.

So even though the people in the commune are jealous now, it is even more difficult to do business. Fortunately, as the processing plant of the Red Star Brigade is getting bigger and bigger, the profits are getting higher and higher, and the part that is handed over to the commune has been increasing. Now there is money to allocate to build roads. Many roads in the Red Star Commune are too bad. If they all build a road like the Red Star Brigade, it will definitely be beneficial to development.

No matter what, the commune certainly doesn't dare to take advantage of the Red Star Brigade. The commune leaders have sharp eyes and are experienced people with decades of experience.

The captain of the Red Star Brigade had no background, but the educated youth who proposed to build a processing plant was a big shot. Even the county party secretary and the director of the county hospital came to support their processing plant. What did they, the commune leaders, think of as anything?

Besides, during the festivals, the Red Star Brigade never lacked their holiday gifts, even the ordinary clerks received one, and the gifts were in compliance with regulations and very practical, much better than those who just liked to make trouble. Which leader would not like this kind of brigade? So he severely criticized these jealous guys.

As a result, before the commune leaders could go to the Red Star Brigade to have a heart-to-heart talk and do ideological work to get them to keep a low profile, the Red Star Brigade was in the news again.

That’s right, the Red Star Brigade has opened an open bidding process.

Because the whole brigade needed to rebuild their houses, there was a demand for building materials and manpower. The brigade leader called everyone to a meeting because he thought that their current prosperity would surely attract jealousy from others. He happened to be short of manpower, and the Red Star Brigade did not have its own brick kiln or tile kiln, so Su Zhuzhu came up with a new term: bidding!

After figuring out what it meant, the captain made the final decision.

Once the specific notice came out, everyone in the surrounding area knew what it meant, and even a notice was posted at the gate of the commune.

The Red Star Brigade is renovating its houses and is inviting bids for bricks, tiles, sand, wood, labor and other items. The prices are favorable. Those who are interested can prepare the materials and go to the Red Star Brigade to participate in the bidding next Sunday.

As soon as the notice came out, the brigade that had been the most violent in the commune ran to the Red Star Brigade the most happily. Why? Because this brigade had a tile kiln, and now people had to run faster if they wanted to buy tiles, because there was more than one tile kiln in the county.

Not only them, the threshold of the Red Star Brigade has been almost flattened recently. People with projects come to promote their projects, people without projects want some manpower quotas, and some even come with gifts and cash.

The team leader was extremely annoyed. If he had known, he should have moved up the date for the bidding. Life was unbearable. In this area, he knew which bricks were of good quality, which tiles were durable, which people were the most diligent, which people were the most cunning, which was rich in wood, and he, who had been the team leader for decades, didn't know all these. The bidding was just a name, so that their Red Star team could rebuild their houses safely. Those petty people could really do bad things.

The team leader couldn't stand it anymore, so he used the excuse of going out for a meeting and hid at home every day to study the details of the project with everyone. He told no one to disclose his information and said that he was on a business trip or out for an inspection. He only left a message asking those who were interested to attend the bidding on time, and everyone should speak based on their strength.

In this way, the gap in materials and manpower needed for building the house was settled in one day, and the price was favorable. The team leader expressed his satisfaction. There was no other way. Where there is competition, there is pressure. If others are eager to lower the price, then they have to follow suit, otherwise it would seem that their Red Star Team is insincere.

Of course, in order to prevent further problems from happening due to unfair treatment, Su Zhuzhu suggested to the team leader that as long as there were no problems, the business could be contracted to several companies at the same time. The demand was huge anyway, so every company could get the business and everyone would be happy.

Therefore, this bidding meeting was quite successful. As long as the materials arrive on time as agreed in the contract, the reconstruction project can start immediately.

There is a big gap in manpower this time, mainly because the team leader wants to pay attention to speed. The sooner it is completed, the better. Of course, the quality must also be guaranteed.

The young and middle-aged laborers in his team basically work in the processing plant. Even the fields of his team are basically cultivated by the neighboring team, not to mention building houses. After all, the processing plant cannot be short of people, so he selected several experienced people in the team to form a construction team, which is responsible for organizing and arranging the project.

After discussion, everyone unanimously decided to adopt assembly line operations. According to the order of reconstruction, the families to be renovated were notified two days in advance to move into the brigade's auditorium for a transition period.

The construction team was divided into several groups. The demolition group was responsible for demolishing houses. After demolishing one house, they would immediately move on to the next. After the demolition, the builders would come in without any delay. They worked in the order of building houses, including the foundation group, wall-building group, tiling group, wall-painting group, etc. With a set of assembly lines, the building speed was very fast. New houses with black tiles and white walls rose from the ground, and the houses looked different every day.

This time, the Red Star Brigade invested a lot of money. Bluestone slabs were paved in every household, and there was also a road leading to the road outside. In the end, all the roads in the village will be paved with cement, so that they will be clean on rainy days.

Of course, some people also suggested using some cement to build a bathroom at home, just like when they built the house for Su Zhuzhu. Everyone who went to help at that time gained some knowledge. It would be much more convenient to take a bath and go to the toilet. The team leader also said that it was no problem to pay for it yourself. The team would be responsible for contacting the cement and they would just pay the price.

Although the income of every household in the Red Star Brigade has increased a lot, the cement is really expensive, and many people are reluctant to spend the money. Only a few families are willing to pay for themselves to build a better bathroom and toilet.