This second uncle was not Li Weidong's second uncle, but the second uncle of Li Weidong's eldest brother-in-law, so Li Weidong also called him "second uncle".

Li Weidong's eldest brother-in-law was born in a rural area. He joined the army when he was young. He once guarded the border in the Northeast and served as an instructor of a certain company. After he was discharged and transferred to the city, he was assigned to work in the city, which was considered to have solved the problem of urban household registration. The other relatives of the eldest brother-in-law are still Rural household registration means staying in the countryside.

In the 1980s, there was a fundamental difference between urban and rural household registration. Urban household registration was obviously higher than rural household registration. In rural areas, if a family had relatives who were "city dwellers", that family would also be considered superior to others in the village. .

The eldest brother-in-law's second uncle is named Shen Zheng. He is the brigade secretary of Shen Futun and also serves as the village chief. He is also considered a capable person in the countryside.

One of the relatives of this kind of relative lives in the city and the other lives in the countryside. They may not be able to see each other for more than ten years.

Li Weidong and Shen Zheng had only met four or five times. The last time Li Weidong met Shen Zheng, it was the second daughter of the eldest sister's family who invited her to have a full moon drink.

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In the tavern, Li Weidong ordered a few dishes and a bottle of wine.

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Shen Zheng also started chatting.

In the past few years, Shenfutun finally solved the villagers' food and clothing problem through household contracting. In the past two years, Shenfutun has allowed the villagers to make a little money by growing peanuts. When the villagers got rich, they raised funds to start a business. Village-run enterprises mainly produce laundry detergent.

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Today's young people born in the 2000s may have never seen such a thing as laundry detergent. Laundry paste is a kind of paste, which is very alkaline and can be dissolved in water. People in the 1980s used laundry paste for laundry. In the 1990s, After the 1990s, laundry detergent gradually became more popular, and laundry paste gradually withdrew from the market.

This village-run enterprise in Shenfutun is not much bigger than a workshop. The laundry detergent it produces is also a three-no product. This three-no product will definitely not enter department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives, so on weekdays, whenever there is a market, , people from Shenfutun carried several buckets of laundry detergent to various markets and sold them by weight.

The customers of the laundry paste factory are also farmers or residents of the urban-rural fringe areas. These people have low incomes and are reluctant to buy soaps from regular manufacturers. This kind of three-no products based on weight scales are most suitable for these low-income groups.

Selling products cheap often means low profits. Shen Futun's laundry gel production capacity is also relatively limited, and there are no normal sales channels. So Shen Zheng, the secretary of the brigade, planned to develop new products to make more money.

Recently, Shen Zheng found out that the Second Chemical Plant was going to phase out several sets of saponification equipment from the 1960s, so he made a special trip to buy this set of equipment. As a result, the guard at the Second Chemical Plant saw that Shen Zheng was from the countryside, so he just bought the equipment. Shen Zheng blocked the door and refused to let Shen Zheng in.

After listening to Shen Zheng's story, Li Weidong smiled and picked up the wine glass, toasted Shen Zheng with a glass of wine, and then said: "Second uncle, if you want to make new products, you don't necessarily have to make soap. You can make other things." !”

"I've thought about it too, but we don't know how to make even slightly more difficult products! Soap is simple to make, and it's not much more complicated than laundry detergent." Shen Zheng said.

"Have you ever thought about introducing new technology?" Li Weidong asked next.

"Let's not mention that we don't have that much money to introduce technology. Let's just say that in our small factory, all the workers are farmers. They have a high degree of education after graduating from elementary school. Even if they spend money to buy technology, they still can't understand it!" Shen Zhengyao Start talking.

Li Weidong put down his wine glass and asked: "Second uncle, I have a product here. The process is not complicated. I just add things in order, control the temperature, and stir it. Are you interested?"

"Isn't that similar to how we produce laundry detergent?" Shen Zheng asked hurriedly: "What is it?"

Li Weidong took out the piece of sheepskin material from his arms, handed it to Shen Zheng, and said, "Second uncle, take a look, how does this piece of leather look like?"

Shen Zheng took the sheep shearling and touched it in his hand. He couldn't help but say, "This leather is so soft!"

"How is it better than ordinary sheepskin?" Li Weidong asked next.

"That's so soft!" Shen Zheng gently stroked the piece of sheepskin leather and then said, "What kind of leather is this? Why is it so soft?"

"This is sheepskin." Li Weidong replied.

"Impossible! We always slaughter sheep during the New Year and festivals. How can I never see this sheepskin? It must be harder than this, and the hair is much harder than this! How can the leather be so smooth?" Shen

Just opened his mouth and said.

"Second uncle, my sheepskin has been specially treated. There is a chemical product called softener. Ordinary sheepskin can become so soft by soaking it in the softener. And it's not just sheepskin, it's like

Cotton cloth, towels, and blankets can be softened by soaking them in softener." Li Weidong finally introduced the softener.

Shen Zheng nodded suddenly and asked, "Weidong, the product you just mentioned is this softener, right?"

"Yes, it's softener." Li Weidong paused and said his purpose: "I can teach you the production process of softener, and I can also inject capital into you, but I want to take a share."

"You're still injecting capital into us?" Shen Zheng seemed to have only heard about capital injection, not shareholding.

"To produce new products, you have to buy raw materials, right? How many raw materials can your factory have enough funds to buy?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

"That's right. Making laundry detergent is a small business, and we really don't have much capital in the factory." Shen Zheng nodded.

Li Weidong picked up the wine bottle, served Shen Zhengman wine, and then said: "Second uncle, I think this is it. After we finish eating, I will take you back to Shen Futun on a motorcycle and take a look at your factory, and then we will discuss it carefully.

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The small factory in Shenfutun only has two workshops, plus a boiler room. Fortunately, there is also a yard of more than an acre, and all kinds of equipment are considered complete.

Li Weidong checked the equipment of the small factory. Although it was a bit crude, it could still be used to produce softener.

"Second uncle, I can invest 100,000 yuan for you, plus the formula of softener, but you have to give me 50% of the shares." Li Weidong made his request.

"Weidong, are you kidding your second uncle!" Shen Zheng shook his head: "We, the scraps and scraps, are not worth a hundred thousand yuan! One hundred thousand yuan is enough to buy two such little ones.

Factory! How can I ask you for so much money?"

"Second Uncle, after all, this is your village collective's factory, and I can't let you suffer." Li Weidong pointed to the surroundings, and then said: "Besides, besides the equipment, there are also land and factories!"

Shen Zheng opened his mouth and replied: "How much are these two acres of land worth? As for the factory buildings, we have a lot of labor in the village. As long as they take care of the food, one person can build a house with a pack of cigarettes."

"Second uncle, after all, this is your village collective enterprise. If I buy it directly, it will definitely not be suitable. This is not a matter of money. The key is that the policy may not allow it! So, let's establish a joint-stock cooperative system, and I will Participate in shares and get dividends." Li Weidong said.

"Then you don't need to pay 100,000 yuan. Our factory is really not worth that much money. If I charge you 100,000 yuan to give you 50% of the shares, I won't be cheating you! Your brother-in-law will know later. , I have to say that I can even trick my relatives! We, Shen Futun, can't do such a thing." Shen Zheng said.

"Second uncle, you are worrying too much. I didn't give you this hundred thousand yuan for free." Li Weidong continued: "That's what I think. I invested this money. Part of it is to buy raw materials, and part of it can be used." To upgrade the equipment, we also need to buy a small truck to make it easier to deliver goods back.

In addition, this is a village collective enterprise. If I take away half of the shares at once, I have to give your villagers something to say, right? So I plan to use part of the 100,000 yuan as a dividend to the villagers. , I will give each household one to two hundred yuan, which will save the villagers from having any objections to me."

"Well, that's okay. If you have a small truck, it will be more convenient to go back to the village to haul food. As for the dividends to the villagers, one hundred yuan per household is quite a lot." Shen Zheng agreed.

After all, Shen Zheng is the brigade secretary of the village. Of course, he must consider the interests of the village. He can buy a small truck for the village and give each household a hundred yuan in dividends. This is a real benefit that Shen Zheng will definitely not refuse.

As for Li Weidong, he doesn't care about spending tens of thousands more.

These village collective enterprises are all local snakes, they are originally from wild backgrounds, and they do a lot of various tricks. Dealing with such village collective enterprises or township enterprises is different from state-owned enterprises.

Employees of state-owned enterprises are organized and follow rules and disciplines. In state-owned enterprises, leading cadres have authority. When the leaders speak, the people below will listen. This is a pyramid-shaped top-down management system. .

In village collective enterprises or township enterprises, the employees are basically farmers, and there is not such good organization and discipline, and there is no top-down management system.

The management model of village collective enterprises is more like the old production brigades, with one or two team leaders leading everyone to work together. The reason why the leaders of village collective enterprises give orders is not based on administrative instructions, but on the people in the village. prestige.

For example, Shen Zheng, the reason why he became the brigade secretary of Shen Futun was not because of his appointment, but because his prestige in the village convinced everyone.

In some villages, the villagers are all relatives. When you walk into the workshop of a village collective enterprise, you will first call someone like second uncle, third uncle, fourth cousin, etc. It is impossible for such a clan-based enterprise to adopt such measures. Top-down management model.

Under the clan enterprise model, it is not that simple for a person from outside the village to get involved in the village collective enterprise.

It is very common in rural areas for people in the same village to stick together and be exclusive.

Although Li Weidong and Shen Zheng are considered relatives, he is an outsider after all. If he wants to gain a foothold in Shen Futun, it is not enough to rely on his status as a city citizen.

The best way is to spread money first, so that every villager can benefit. When the villagers receive dividends, they will naturally no longer reject Li Weidong, so that Li Weidong can intervene in the management of the laundry paste factory.

With Li Weidong's financial resources, he could directly buy the entire laundry paste factory and establish a joint-stock cooperative system. This sounds more like a thankless and loss-making behavior.

But Li Weidong could not do this, mainly because in 1987, there was no policy letter recognizing the legitimacy of private enterprises.

It was only when China revised its constitution in 1988 that the legal status of private enterprises was clarified, so theoretically, before 1988, there were no private enterprises in China.

In that era, you could apply for a self-employed business license and become a self-employed person. But if you want to apply for a business license for a private enterprise, sorry, there is no such thing!

So if someone says that private enterprises were established before 1988, it is pure nonsense and is not legal at all!

At that time, there were many workshops in the south employing hundreds of people. From the legal definition, they were still self-employed rather than private enterprises because they did not have a business license for private enterprises.

If an enterprise does not even have a business license, its business activities will inevitably be subject to many restrictions.

At that time, there were two main ways for self-employed individuals to turn into enterprises. One was to affiliate the enterprise, such as anchoring the enterprise in a township, so that the enterprise became a township enterprise in name.

The second way is to find a few shareholders and turn the enterprise into a joint-stock cooperative system, which can also be regarded as a collective enterprise.

Of course Li Weidong is very familiar with these policies, so he did not buy the entire laundry paste factory directly, but chose to hold 50% of the shares. This maintained the nature of the laundry paste factory's joint-stock cooperative system and did not violate the policy.

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The reason for holding 50% of the shares is to avoid policy risks. Before private enterprises are legal, if private shareholding exceeds public shareholding, it may cause serious trouble.

Although Li Weidong knows that the policies of private enterprises will become more and more open, he does not have to use tens of millions of his own wealth to test the bottom line of the policy.
Chapter completed!