Chapter 1037: Persuasion
"How many sprayers did you order from the factory?"
"Five thousand."
"Add another five thousand."
"Xiao Wei, when can you find the time to call the tractor factory? I want to buy two more tractors.
Also, Wang Shulin came over in the rain, he also wants to buy one."
"Sure, once the road clears and cars can get through, I’ll make the call. I won’t be going this time, Village Chief Li, you can find someone to go with you. Chaoyang can’t go either."
Li Yungui nodded, maybe he had thought this through long ago. So next time, let Yun Qiang go along.
"I just went to the chicken farm, and the chickens are fine. They’ll start laying eggs in two more months."
Everything is heading in a positive direction, and even Wei Kaiyun has returned. Li Yungui feels at ease.
"Village Chief Li, judging from our side businesses, apart from the chicken farming, everything else may go public by next year."
Initially, Li Yungui had a smile on his face, but after hearing Wei Kaiyun’s words, the smile froze.
Last time when he went to the county to get money, he had a bad feeling, but he was unwilling to think about it.
Now with Wei Kaiyun saying it directly, Li Yungui feels like his heart is bleeding.
"Xiao Wei."
"In a few days, let’s go to the city together, Vice Mayor Li will talk to you.
I’ve also refused to head this issue in the city, but each household in our village can work in the city and get official worker positions."
Li Yungui frowned, "Xiao Wei, why won’t you go?"
"Village Chief Li, I don’t want to get involved, I’ve just secured this opportunity for everyone. Tell them, if they haven’t split up the households yet, they should hurry, so more people can go.
As for your worry about the lack of strong laborers in the village, the remaining farm work can be done by women now.
You can ask everyone what they think, I suppose everyone would be willing."
Li Yungui still hadn’t relaxed his frown. However, since Xiao Wei didn’t go deeply into this and told him to find Brother Cunshan, it left no room for negotiation.
"Xiao Wei, then our income will be reduced significantly in the future."
"Village Chief Li, you’re missing the point, everything we’ve been doing wasn’t really by the book. You should think deeper, we need to strive for the greatest benefits now.
Think about it, voluntarily offering it is better than being forced to hand it over, right?" Old Yang said with a smile.
Li Yungui sighed, "I know that’s the rationale, but it’s hard to accept."
"Village Chief Li, I heard you want to get electricity, I think if you propose it actively, they should agree to supply it.
I already have a plan in mind. Once we have electricity, we can make a threshing machine, so the wheat can be threshed by machine. It’d be much more convenient, save time, effort, and reduce labor costs."
"Xiao Wei, it pains me."
Wei Kaiyun smiled, "Village Chief Li, out with the old, in with the new. We will develop in the future, and our village can produce many official workers. That could offset your unwillingness."
Li Yungui sighed, "I guess that’s it. When I went to the county a few days ago to get the money, I already had this feeling, just didn’t want to believe it, didn’t want to think about it. An arm can’t twist a thigh."
"Haha, that’s not entirely correct. Overall, it won’t hinder our future development. This afternoon, let’s call Wen Zhenzong over, let him write it down. You won’t lose face in terms of reputation."
"I hope I won’t lose economically either."
Old Yang and Wei Kaiyun both laughed. This isn’t something they can solidly take hold of.
"Xiao Wei, you really don’t want to take charge?"
Wei Kaiyun nodded, "What can I say? I think trading my position for a couple hundred job positions is worth it."
Li Yungui isn’t a fool, he knows Wei Kaiyun doesn’t want to get involved. But the benefits he secured for everyone should earn him everyone’s gratitude.
"I understand now. I need to go back and digest this slowly."
Seeing off Li Yungui, the two entered the study, not to hide anything from their family, but because the less they knew, the better.
Li Yungui returned home dazed, frightening Qu Xiaoli.
"What’s wrong, dear?"
Li Yungui lay down on the kang, "It’s all gone," he repeated, making Qu Xiaoli even more frightened.
"Dear, what’s really going on? What’s gone?"
"Xiao Wei just told me that our corn sheller, pesticides, all have to go public."
Qu Xiaoli was stunned by this.
"Dear, has something happened?"
"Xiao Wei says Brother told him so. But Xiao Wei really has a big heart, refusing to take charge of this, and secured working opportunities in the city for every household in our village."
"Can every household send people?"
"Yes. Xiao Wei said to tell everyone to hurry up and split up the households.
In a few days, I’ll go ask Brother about it."
"Dear, won’t we be losing quite a bit of money from this?"
Hearing his wife’s question, Li Yungui felt even more heartache.
"Dear, has Xiao Wei agreed?"
"He said our village could get electricity. I haven’t even submitted the application yet.
He said in the future we need to make a threshing machine. Then we won’t need manual labor for wheat.
But that doesn’t make up for my heartache. He said only the chicken farm can remain."
"Alright, stop thinking about it. You should talk to Yun Qiang and Brother Cunshan."
"I don’t want to talk about it."
Qu Xiaoli knew her husband really couldn’t let go of it. But who could?
"You lie down, I’ll have Cheng Lin and them call Brother Cunshan and the others."
Li Yungui just lay on the kang, thinking about the future loss of money, rubbing his chest in heartache.
When the four team leaders, Li Yunqiang and Li Cunshan arrived, Li Yungui still hadn’t gotten up.
Everyone was startled. They had never seen Li Yungui like this, wondering if something happened?
"Second Brother."
"Yungui, what’s wrong?"
"You’re all here? Sit down, I have something to tell you." Only at this point did Li Yunqiang sit up.
Several people looked at his dispirited appearance, staring at him.
Li Yungui recounted what Wei Kaiyun had said.
The room was silent, not a word said.
Li Cunshan, the oldest, sighed, "Yungui, Xiao Wei is right, I understand his point. If we propose it ourselves, there’s a chance we’ll get work positions, otherwise we might get nothing."
The rest listened and felt what Li Cunshan said made a lot of sense.
"Once the road is passable, I’ll go to the city to ask Brother."
Everyone knew they didn’t have any suggestions to offer, so they simply listened.
"Yungui, all of this was created by Xiao Wei himself. If he can let it go, you shouldn’t act like that. Xiao Wei can create this; he can create more. Look at you looking so dejected!"