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The resignation of the old branch secretary did not have much impact on Xiao Lei's family. After all, his role was more of a sitting-in-chief. Instead, the younger generation in the village are the main force in the village's development.

But after he stepped down, Xiao Lei's family welcomed wave after wave of leaders to inspect. In Zhao Shucheng's eyes, these people did not seem to be here to inspect, but rather to find trouble.

From Xiao Lei's family's excessive electricity consumption, the safety hazards in the factory, even environmental protection issues, as well as Xiao Lei's family's planning problems, etc., all the accounts began to be investigated and settled openly and secretly.

In fact, Zhao Shucheng knew very well that the resignation of the old branch secretary gave those who coveted the opportunity. Xiao Lei's family was developing so well, with so much foreign exchange every year, which was a good achievement for those who wanted to pursue a career in politics. But because Xiao Lei's family had the old branch secretary in front and Zhao Shucheng in the back, those people could only watch with envy.

But now it is different. The old branch secretary was kicked out of the village committee of Xiao Lei's family because of his son, so their chance has come. Those coveted positions in Xiao Lei's family, even corporate management positions, are like hyenas, ready to take this opportunity to enter Xiao Lei's family and brush up their qualifications. For this reason, they are making all kinds of connections in Jinling County and competing for positions.

So even though these waves of leaders have come, they have not made a final decision. All parties are struggling, and everyone wants to take the biggest piece of the pie, but there has not been a good balance yet.

In fact, Zhao Shucheng had known that such a situation would occur, and even that this day would come sooner or later, but he did not expect it to happen so soon. In order to prevent others from taking advantage of the situation, or even destroying the future of the Xiaolei family for the sake of power and profit, Zhao Shucheng had to carry out enterprise reforms in advance.

Xiao Lei's family was previously a village collective enterprise. Although every villager could receive dividends, it was still under the jurisdiction of the village committee and theoretically should accept the arrangements of the superiors. Moreover, it had never changed its nature, so it was not a true joint-stock enterprise.

However, Zhao Shucheng knew that with the popularity of individual contracting of state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises, there would be shareholding reform in the future. If Xiaolei's family wanted to develop better, they would inevitably move towards shareholding reform. After all, 80 to 90 percent of township enterprises would have to be restructured in the future, and some would even decline and die.

In order to avoid the blurring of the lines between government and business or excessive intervention, earlier enterprise restructuring can allow Xiao Lei's business to regain vitality and avoid incidents like the old branch secretary who relied on his status to infringe on collective interests.

Zhao Shucheng knew very well that although people had a deep sense of collectivism at the beginning, village cadres were willing to take risks for the collective, and villagers were willing to trust village cadres. However, with the development of society, especially the increase in people's income, this spirit of collectivism will gradually fade, and they will become more and more rational economic people. Especially with the collapse of the old branch secretary, this trust began to gradually collapse.

Therefore, if we still want everyone to work together and strive for the same goal, then enterprise reform is inevitable. The best way is to plan all enterprises under the name of a group company, and each enterprise implements the shareholding system, so that everyone can be the master of the house, so that people working in the enterprise can have a sense of responsibility and help supervise the development of the enterprise.

Of course, Zhao Shucheng was not the first to prepare for the shareholding reform. As early as 1983, the first joint-stock enterprise, Shenzhen Baoan, was established. In 1984, a joint-stock company also appeared in Beijing.

Of course, Zhao Shucheng's more important goal is to avoid corruption and prevent some people from unknowingly transferring corporate assets to their own names and annexing village assets. After all, since ancient times, it is easy to share adversity, but difficult to share happiness. People's hearts are not the same as before. With the changes in the world, all kinds of temptations appear. Only by establishing a clear system as soon as possible can such a situation be avoided.

Therefore, Zhao Shucheng started a vigorous enterprise reform before the county sent people to Xiaoleijia. First, Xiaoleijia Group was established, and all the enterprises in the village were merged into the group company. Then Zhao Shucheng started the shareholding reform. The village held 30% of the shares of enterprises such as brick and tile factories. Every villager held one share, and the workers who worked in the factory held an additional share.

The managers of the enterprise are elected by all shareholders and can only be selected from the managers within the enterprise, not other people in the village or outsiders. The shares held by the village committee are held by Zhao Shucheng first, and no one else can occupy them.

After the superiors sent people down, those who were ready to pick peaches suddenly found that they only had the management rights over the villagers of Xiaolei's family, but had no way to get involved in Xiaolei's family's enterprises. They investigated Xiaolei's family's enterprises and thought that Zhao Shucheng was embezzling collective assets, but when faced with the shareholding agreement and shareholding reform measures that Zhao Shucheng brought out, they were speechless for a while.

After all, Zhao Shucheng didn't put a penny of public money into his own pocket, nor did he get any special treatment for himself, so naturally there was nothing for people to talk about.

Those people were still preparing to check the accounts unwillingly, but Zhao Shucheng let them do it. Anyway, Xiao Lei's family had already completed the shareholding reform, and the factory leaders had the final say in each enterprise. The group leaders were in charge of the enterprise development, and they had long been two sets of teams with the village committee, and had nothing to do with each other.

Naturally, those people were unwilling to lose the opportunity to show their political achievements, so they used their connections to remove Zhao Shucheng from his position as deputy secretary, preventing him from participating in the management of the village, and even wanted to remove him from his position as chairman of the Xiaoleijia Group.

Zhao Shucheng just smiled and was not surprised. He had been prepared for this long ago. Even when those people were preparing to pick peaches, he had already thought of this day.

The reason why he proposed the enterprise restructuring and even implemented the shareholding reform was to deal with such a situation. So on the day of his dismissal, he directly convened a general meeting of all villagers in the village square to give a corporate presentation and asked everyone to continue to support him as the chairman of the group company and hold shares in the village on their behalf.

Although the villagers were somewhat surprised by Zhao Shucheng's dismissal, they also knew that the development of the village was inseparable from Zhao Shucheng. Even if some people hoped that Zhao Shucheng would step down and they would take over, because of the shareholding reform, they could only hold their own shares. At most, they could persuade some people, but they could not stop other villagers from trusting Zhao Shucheng, let alone stopping the villagers from supporting Zhao Shucheng.

So Zhao Shucheng soon took up his post again and served as chairman, taking charge of the development of the village's enterprises.

This made those people dumbfounded. They spent half a day working hard just to serve as village cadres in Xiao Lei's family, but they could not interfere with any of Xiao Lei's enterprises. Of course, they could also go to the enterprise to inspect, but they were closely watched by the workers, as if they were worried that they would do something bad.

The news that Zhao Shucheng was fired soon spread throughout Jinzhou. You have to know that the news that Zhao Shucheng made Xiaolei's family rich was not a big news in Jinzhou or even in the province, but his dismissal was the big news. Many state-owned enterprises or township enterprises that were in financial difficulties wanted a leader like Zhao Shucheng to help them get out of trouble, so they came to Xiaolei's family without stopping, hoping that Zhao Shucheng could go there to guide their work.

But after they arrived, they found out that although Zhao Shucheng was not a village cadre, he was still the actual controller of Xiao Lei's family business, and he held 30% of the shares of the village enterprises, and his position was unbreakable.

Of course, some people were curious whether Zhao Shucheng's actions were an infringement of the village's collective property, but when they knew that Zhao Shucheng was elected by the villagers, they naturally did not dare to say anything. You know, they themselves had no confidence that they could still hold their current positions if the people in their factory voted.

After Zhao Shucheng left his management position in the village, he felt relaxed and could devote himself to enterprise management, formulate corresponding systems for the enterprises, and plan the development direction of each enterprise.

Zhao Shucheng knew that the villagers had not yet fully adapted to the enterprise restructuring, so he held a meeting with Lei Shigen, Hongwei, Sibao, Laowu, Siyan, and Lei Zhongfu, and directly formulated the development plan for the next five years of the Lei family, as well as the ten-year outlook and twenty-year development strategy. As long as they develop according to this plan, although the Lei family may encounter some challenges, it will not develop badly in the end, and at worst it can maintain the status quo.

By the time everything was sorted out, it was already 1987.

Xiao Lei's family developed well during this period, and everyone in the village lived well, except for those village cadres who came to gild their reputation but were left hanging.

Of course, there are also some bad sides. The profits of brick and tile factories and prefabricated board factories have further declined. The dividends each worker can earn are less than half of the dividends of other companies. Therefore, those workers are trying every means to work in other companies instead of staying in brick and tile factories and prefabricated board factories.

Fortunately, Zhao Shucheng had anticipated this situation long ago, so after discussing with the villagers, he contracted out the brick and tile factory and the prefabricated board factory. The factory only paid dividends to the village every year, and other villages did not interfere.

But even so, few people are willing to take the contract. After all, everyone has done the math. If they calculate based on the dividends offered by Zhao Shucheng, they would only be earning hard-earned money by taking the contract. It is not cost-effective at all, and they might even lose money.

So in the end the brick and tile factory and the prefabricated panel factory were closed, and all the workers were assigned to other companies of Xiao Lei's family. Some young people were even directly arranged to work in the newly established steel plant in Jinzhou.

The rabbit fur factory and wool spinning factory had much less income than before because of the changes in the international market in 1986. Fortunately, Zhao Shucheng had already found a way to trade with the north. Although he could not get cash, he could exchange it for more valuable northern heavy industrial products, so he still made a profit.

The cannery is also developing very well, especially in the north where there is a huge demand. Basically, the products are consumed before they even leave the factory. The actual profit is a mystery to outsiders.

Just when everyone was satisfied and even complacent, Zhao Shucheng was worried about the future of the Xiao Lei family. After all, foreign capital would enter China on a large scale soon, and the Xiao Lei family would become their prey.

Xiao Lei's family is not well-known in China, but it has a great reputation abroad. On the one hand, it is because of the high-end brand image that Zhao Shucheng had established for Xiao Lei's family, and on the other hand, it is because Xiao Lei's family earns a lot of foreign exchange from abroad every year, and they have long been eyeing them. However, Xiao Lei's family only did foreign trade business in China before, and they could not suppress it even if they wanted to, especially after Zhao Shucheng opened up the northern trade, they could not do anything to Xiao Lei's family.

But after foreign capital can enter the country, they will definitely not sit back and watch Xiao Lei's family continue to grow and develop, so they will definitely take action against Xiao Lei's family. As for their tactics, it is nothing more than buying at a high price, then hiding it, and finally letting Xiao Lei's family become the nutrient, so that their own brands can rise to the top. This tactic has been tried and tested since the 1990s. Many domestic big brands have been made invisible in this way. Even if you occasionally see a familiar brand, it has already become a foreign-funded brand, just disguised as a domestic brand.

Zhao Shucheng naturally couldn't bear to see the company he founded encounter such a situation, but he also knew that if he didn't want to be acquired, he had to have enough funds as a moat.

But the development of Xiao Lei's family is fast enough now. If they expand the scale rashly, it may not bring in more funds, but will consume a lot of funds. Zhao Shucheng thought about it and decided that if he couldn't get the money from China, he had to find a way to get it from abroad.

Anyway, the development of Xiao Lei's family has always been based on foreign exchange, so they don't mind getting more foreign money to make Xiao Lei's family develop faster.

For Zhao Shucheng, the best way to earn foreign exchange is actually the stock market. Especially this year is 1987. You have to know the power of Black Monday, which is of great significance to a certain island country.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the operation, Zhao Shucheng directly entrusted someone to register a company in Hong Kong. While ensuring the normal operation of the enterprise, the foreign exchange for all orders was intercepted in the Hong Kong company. He planned to use the money to speculate in stocks and accumulate enough ammunition in his hands.

In order to avoid other people's attention to his situation, Zhao Shucheng arranged the work of the group, and left Xiao Lei's house directly under the pretext of discussing business with the north, avoiding the sight of others and finally entering Hong Kong.

However, it is not yet August, so Zhao Shucheng is not in a hurry to take the funds to the island country. Instead, he took part of the funds and directly entered the Hong Kong stock market.

Although the U.S. economy has entered a period of slow growth from rapid growth, the economic slowdown has led to a soft landing where the surge has stopped, so the fear of economic recession has not erupted immediately, and the stock market is still thriving. (End of this chapter)