Rebirth: My 80s

Chapter 1149 Heart knot
After returning, although the eldest brother tried hard to keep up his spirits, Li Jiankun, who had lived through two lives and knew him very well, had already noticed that something was wrong with him and that he was hiding something in his heart.

Now that the wedding is over, the plan to establish town-run enterprises to drive the economic development of the entire town is also proceeding in an orderly manner, and some people are more enthusiastic than him.

Chen Zhengjie has been very busy these days, running around the village, county and city.

The project has not started yet, but the materials must be prepared first.

It is both standard procedure and customary practice.

You can gather all the red stamps you need, feel at ease and stay calm when things go wrong.

At first glance, it seems like a good thing to run a town-run enterprise, but there are two difficulties here:
1. There is not much money in the town. Even though the wealthy Li Jiankun is willing to advance the money, he still needs to borrow money, right? A small town is burdened with tens of millions of dollars in debt. Anyway, Chen Zhengjie is definitely not qualified to make the final decision.

When he first found the village chief, he was stunned after hearing what he said, and asked in surprise what to do if he lost the money?
Chen Zhengjie then used his eloquence and the promise made by Li Jiankun to barely convince the village chief, and then rushed to the county, because the village chief could only give spiritual support and he did not think he was qualified to take this initiative.

However, these people do not know that Li Jiankun had his own reasons for borrowing the money. If it were converted into an investment, the two would have completely different meanings.

Borrowing talents is the way to help others achieve their goals, and letting them get all the benefits.

This has nothing to do with the current environment. If he really wants to invest, Li Jiankun has plenty of workarounds. Over the years, he has been thinking about returning to his hometown to do something, but he has never thought about being his own boss. He doesn't have too many ideas, but he just doesn't want to ruin the relationship with his fellow villagers.

He doesn't care if anyone takes advantage of him, as long as his fellow villagers can ultimately benefit from it, then his goal will be achieved.

2. Li Jiankun’s conditions allowed other factories in the town to provide supporting services in the future.

This is indeed feasible, but in reality it cannot be put on the table.

Those who can make the final decision have to be vague, and even take the risk of being attacked by political opponents.

Chen Zhengjie ran with great passion, but also felt somewhat melancholy and bored.

What he didn't know was that Li Jiankun had let him run away on purpose.

This matter will definitely be settled in the end because Li Jiankun has already communicated with Xu Fangguo, who is in charge of economics. The latter shook his shoulders at the time, indicating that he would take the responsibility alone.

Of course, I have to make some noise so that he would accidentally find out.

It’s also a process issue.

Li Jiankun is not the investor, so what is the matter with him secretly conspiring with Xu Fangguo?

The warm sun was hanging high in the sky, and the wind blowing in through the courtyard wall was already slightly warm.

There was a small table with two cups of green tea and a plate of broad beans and melon seeds on it.

The two brothers of the Li family sat opposite each other.

"…It's not my personal problem, nor is it a particular family's problem. You already have enough problems of your own, so don't worry about it. It will be solved slowly."

Faced with his brother's constant questioning, Li Jianxun was still reluctant to tell the truth.

"Brother, do you really want to argue with me so much?" Li Jiankun asked quietly.

Li Jianxun raised his eyebrows and said, "It's none of your business if I argue with you."

Li Jiankun looked up at the sky, seemingly digressing, and muttered, "My parents are living in the capital now, and my wife's family is also there. They are right under our noses, so there is nothing to worry about.

"My younger sister is studying in the capital and wants to be an actress. People thought she wouldn't be able to do anything serious because of her naughty personality. In fact, she is doing well in her studies. Now some people want her to act in movies, but I blocked them. I thought she should study hard at her age. I have the resources for this. As long as she is good enough, I can provide her with the best opportunities. This means that I can take care of her for a long time in the future.

"My second sister is the weakest among our four siblings. She married to the Special Administrative Region and has a husband who loves her very much. As you know, the Huadian Industrial Park is in the Special Administrative Region, and my connections there are stronger than those in the capital, so my second sister will not suffer any grievances.

"Only you."

Li Jiankun retracted his gaze and looked at his elder brother with a complicated expression:
“You don’t come to me for anything now.

"What, do you want us to settle accounts clearly among brothers?

"Two brothers in one life, is that necessary?"

Li Jianxun moved his lips as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, no words came out.

"Don't you feel that you are the eldest brother, but you don't do much for the family, which makes you, the eldest brother, embarrassed?"

Li Jiankun suddenly grabbed his eldest brother's hand.

Snap.

Throw it in your face.

Li Jianxun opened his eyes wide, "You are sick!"

Li Jiankun smiled and said, "Whether I am right or wrong, if you, Li Jianxun, want to hit me, I will bear it. After all, you are my elder brother."

"What about me?" A voice came from the side. The lazy Guifei appeared out of nowhere and stood at the doorway connecting the backyard to the main room. His eyes were shining and he was eager to try.

Li Jiankun said without even turning his head: "Go cool down over there!"

Guifei lazy man: "..."

"Brother, I only have three wishes in my life, to make my family live a happy life, to live comfortably, and to do something meaningful within my ability. But now that I've become successful, my own eldest brother doesn't even bother to look for me when he has something to do. What the hell am I doing?"

The tough guy Li Jianxun's eyes turned red. After a moment of silence, he said with a blushing face, "It was my fault."

"Can you?"

Li Jiankun smiled and said, "You are so wrong! People have different circumstances. Your brother is doing well now, but you don't take advantage of him. You don't know how to climb up. If you don't climb higher, how can we take advantage of him?"
"When you have the chance to let me take advantage of you, I'll annoy you to death!"

Biaozi blinked and thought, damn, this seems to be the truth.

Although Jiankun is rich and famous, he is not a member of his circle after all, and his circle happens to be the one in charge.

Is there ever a time when Jiankun needs help?
Of course there is!

He is being attacked in the newspapers right now.

But what can Li Jianxun do?

Every day he thought about doing something for his family, his elderly mother, and his younger brothers and sisters, but he always felt that he could not find any opportunity and that everything had been done by Jiankun. In fact, this was not the case.

With his current level, he can’t help Jiankun with his difficulties at all.

At this point, Biaozi, who had been stubborn since childhood, suddenly became clear-headed.

He wants to climb up!

As long as you climb high enough, you can help Jiankun!

Staring at the changing expressions on his eldest brother's face, Li Jiankun almost cried for joy. It is not easy for a thousand-year-old iron tree to bloom.

In fact, I have wanted to talk to my brother for a long time, and this is a good opportunity.

He doesn't care how high his elder brother can climb, as long as his elder brother doesn't reject his kindness, including Xiao Ping'an's future. Otherwise, they could have done better, but they didn't. Do you think he, as a brother and uncle, is upset?

The family of three spent only 80 yuan in total, including visiting relatives during the New Year.

According to local customs, my elder brother and his wife had to give Miss Shen a red envelope yesterday, which contained 880 yuan. My elder sister-in-law felt embarrassed and borrowed 600 yuan from her mother-in-law.

This morning, my mother secretly told Li Jiankun.

He felt like a knife was cutting into his heart. To be honest, he really wanted to slap Biaozi at that time.

"Is it the factory's debt problem?" Li Jiankun asked.

Biaozi was shocked, "You know all this?"

In an instant, he flew into a rage, "I know that, but why are you asking for information?"

"I'm just guessing." Li Jiankun laughed and asked, "Do you owe more to other people or more debts to the outside world?"

"Too many!"

Biaozi glared at him fiercely, then shook his head and sighed, "You must understand the operation of state-owned factories. The upstream and downstream are all brother units. We get production materials from the downstream factories, and the upstream distribution units get finished products from our factory. There is almost no such thing as payment and delivery.

"Over the years, there haven't been any major problems. Last year, the supply of goods was clearly in short supply. Who knows what happened? The market suddenly stopped turning, and the upstream goods couldn't be sold. All the problems came out at once.

“The upstream has no money to give us, so we naturally have no money to give to the downstream, and we are all unable to make ends meet.

"Let's go collect the debts. OK, take out a bunch of IOUs and say they are not short of money, but other companies owe them a lot. Some people also come to our factory to collect debts, and we have no choice but to follow their example.

"It's frozen, like a machine made up of thousands of parts. If one core part stops working, the whole thing will be paralyzed." "But the workers have to eat and support their families!"

When Li Jianxun reached this point, he held his forehead with sorrow.

Although he was not in charge of finance, his position before his promotion was production director. At that time, he stayed in the workshop most of the day and had a close relationship with the workers. The workers were willing to come to him when they had problems.

He still can't forget the hopeful looks in the eyes of the workers who came to his desk in groups on the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month to look for him.

These are families with elderly parents and young children, and perhaps even a sick person.

He went back and stole the money from his wife's safe, distributed it to them for emergency use, and then locked the door and told them not to tell anyone.

That was the dirtiest day in Li Jianxun's life.

But even if we can handle it this time, what about the next time? What about the other employees in the factory? The situation is getting worse and worse.

"It's like a triangular debt." Li Jiankun sighed inwardly, but it finally came.

To make matters worse.

No one knows what the situation is, but he does.

"Yes, yes, it's a triangular debt! But it's not just one."

Li Jianxun felt that this description was too apt, and he sighed and said, "Jiankun, you may not be able to solve this problem. It is a systemic problem, not a problem of a certain factory.

"It's just an analogy, but I definitely won't let you do that. You have money, but even if you use it to fill the hole in our factory, it's only temporary help. If the goods can't be sold and the upstream is stagnant, it means that we can't turn our goods into money, and sooner or later we will still be stuck in a deadlock."

Li Jianxun said with some despair.

"This situation is only temporary. When people have more money, they will still spend. However,

Li Jiankun paused and said, "The tide of market economy is unstoppable. There will be more and more similar products from outside. You will inevitably face greater competitive pressure. Brother, as a county-level factory, a traditional factory, your unit has too many people. The Huadian Industrial Park is several times the size of your factory, but the number of employees is less than half of yours."

Li Jianxun smiled bitterly and said, "There are too many mouths in the factory. This is not a problem that we only know about on the first day. What can we do? Follow those 'pioneer factories' and lay off half of the people? How will everyone survive?"

Li Jiankun also felt a headache; the more he discussed, the more problems he came up with.

It’s hard to reverse the situation!
He waved his hand and said, "Let's do this for now. Let me think about it."

Li Jiankun is not arrogant enough to solve all these various problems. In fact, it is impossible to solve them all. History has told us that pain and sacrifice are the prices that must be paid.

He just wanted to do his best to help his big brother, and it would be even better if he could benefit some people in the process.

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A white van drove into Qingxidian like a joyride.

There were five well-dressed men sitting inside, all with pleasant expressions.

It was afternoon and the sun was shining brightly. On the main road leading into the village, some villagers were taking a walk to digest their food. When they saw this unfamiliar van, they naturally cast their eyes in its direction.

The driver was a short, dark-faced man with a stocky build. He tried to relax his eyebrows and eyes, and looked quite nice. He always had a warm smile on his face. He slowed down the car, stuck his head out of the window and said, "Fellow villager, can you tell me which house Li Jiankun lives in?"

"Looking for Jiankun?"

"Yes, my friend asked me to bring something to him."

The villager being questioned suddenly realized that someone had sent a cart of fireworks yesterday. Jiankun, of course, knew a lot of people, so he laughed and said, "You're probably going to delay your friend's business. Jiankun had a wedding yesterday, and you're sending something today?"

"Oh! I see. I really didn't know that. My friend only asked me to send it over in the next two days."

The dark-faced man slapped his thigh and said hurriedly, "Hurry up, fellow villager, hurry up, which house is it? I'll take it there right away. By the way, is he home?"

"We had a wedding yesterday, where can we go today?"

When they heard about Jiankun's matter, the villagers were extremely enthusiastic. Not only did they give them detailed directions, they also volunteered to take them there.

The black-faced man thanked him again and again and declined politely.

The van accelerated slightly and drove calmly along the cement road that the villagers unanimously agreed to build to Jiankun's doorstep when the road was first built.

A few evil laughs were heard in the carriage.

"Don't be so cocky, check your guns again. We might have to fire twice, or else they'll think we're bluffing."

"Don't worry, big brother, it's fine!"

"Li Jiankun, including everyone in Qingxidian, would never have thought that we would come in in broad daylight."

"Brother is smart. Even if we want to escape now, we may not be able to escape judging by the depth of the water behind those camouflage uniforms. We may be blocked at some intersection. It would be safer to capture a valuable hostage."

"All the people in this small county put together are no match for Li Jiankun."

"Hey, what I'm thinking now is, asking him how much is a number? This guy has more money than the bank, damn, the problem is that it's too much for us to carry, Zhenjier, fuck it."

There were people on the side of the road. The big brother with a black face coughed, and the other four people quickly shut up and showed their harmless smiles again.

The black-faced man deliberately slowed down his car, and the villagers on the side of the road just looked at him and didn't ask anything.

After driving past, the black-faced elder brother lowered his voice and said:
"Everyone, be alert. We only have one chance. If we mess up, we'll be in big trouble. Everything depends on catching Li Jiankun. Look, his house is on that slope. The car shouldn't be able to drive up. We have to adjust our plan. Listen carefully!

"When the car stops at the bottom of the slope, Yongzi, carry the bag and come up with me. The three of you sit in the car and don't move. If anyone asks, just say that a friend asked you to send something to Li Jiankun. It's normal for someone to give him a gift.

"Before you meet Li Jiankun, don't show any sign of betrayal!
“Hehe, as long as Li Jiankun shows up, everything will be fine!

"No matter how much noise he makes, his life is worth a thousand times more than ours."

The dark-faced brother licked the corner of his lips.

"Where did the car come from? What's it for?" a voice came from outside the car window.

"Hey, fellow villager, don't mention it. A friend asked me to deliver something. Just now, someone from your village told me that Li Jiankun had a wedding banquet yesterday..."

"Ha ha!"

No matter who he meets, the black-faced brother always says this, which always causes a burst of laughter.

The journey went smoothly and we were less than 20 meters away from Old Li's house.

At this moment, a guy with an extremely exaggerated body size suddenly walked out from behind a house on the side of the road.

squeak--

The black-faced brother slammed down on the ground.

This beast-like guy seemed not to have seen the van and walked to the middle of the road without even raising his head.

"Fuck, brother, how tall are you? I haven't heard of such a tough guy in Qingxidian." The dark-faced brother leaned his head out of the car window and greeted with a smile.

“Not from Qingxidian.”

Fugui responded in Mandarin, then glanced through the window glass into the car, smiled and asked, "What do you do?"

The black-faced brother still said the same thing, but his heart was beating fast. He had already guessed the other party's identity, but on second thought, he felt that it was natural. How could a person like Li Jiankun not have bodyguards around him?
"Oh? What is the gift? I am quite familiar with Li Jiankun. I have to take a look at the things before they reach him." The smile on Fugui's face became more honest.

The dark-faced elder brother had a gloomy expression, "Actually... it's pretty vulgar."

"What?"

"money."

"Give money to Li Jiankun? Haha, oh, a red envelope, right?"

"Yep."

"Take one out and see."

"……for you!"

boom!
The black-faced brother raised his hand toward the window and fired a shot.

Like a cannon shot, like thunder.

(End of this chapter)