My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 184 Lord, you better stand up
Now the old leader of Shangzhou is the one who controls the main framework and does not move it at all, and only lets Weidong lead a few local attempts.

He can change his attitude at any time according to the general trend and the performance of these people.

Anyway, he didn't give Weidong even a single word of written proof.

It's quite similar to the way Wei Dong fooled Jin Zhuoqun. Giving money and guns is not called revolution. It's powerful to earn it with your own ability. He didn't even give 500 yuan.

So anyone who is a little timid will find it thrilling.

But Weidong and others smiled and sent away those who withdrew, and emphasized the second important point: the use, handling and reimbursement of every penny of money must comply with legal procedures. Never think about getting benefits for yourself. This matter is like dancing on the edge of a knife. If you still deal with economic issues, you are seeking death.

Start eating immediately after saying that!
There was not even any dinner to eat or drink. The seven of them simply made their arrangements and asked Weidong to pay and find a transportation company to arrange a fleet to transport sand, gravel and construction materials, while the others contacted various personnel.

There was no discussion, no approval, nothing, and the work started early the next morning.

The best engineering machinery that Shangzhou City can currently find, the few excavators and bulldozers, are all in the road maintenance section of the transportation department and are usually not open to the public.

Now we pay the Transportation Bureau and construction workers according to their labor hours.

Because the market here is on the 25th and 28th day of the lunar calendar, we have two days now!

A large open space was dug out with a crackling sound, first covered with gravel, and then construction materials were piled along the periphery.

They worked day and night to build the brick walls along the street. The construction company, which was already very familiar with the sand and stone business, was measuring and confirming the construction plan of the glass building. They also sent a construction team to complete it and paid them a lot of money.

After all the chaotic farmers who came to the market were driven to the open space in the yard, the curious and fresh-faced farmers who came to the market had already started washing and cleaning the streets outside.

By the way, the abandoned land opposite was also cleared, and then the construction machinery was moved to the outskirts of the food factory to forcibly demolish those bungalows.

Dong Xueying also worked very efficiently, taking Li Erfeng, Accountant Li and the staff to clear out everything in the bungalow.

In just one day, the brick house was reduced to ruins, revealing the glass workshop and the specially preserved freezer behind it, all covered in thick dust.

Anyway, in just two or three days, people from all over Shangzhou came to watch the swift and decisive action.

Li Erfeng said she also saw Teacher Shi.

You Qili also came to the scene to communicate with Rang Weidong.

The process is very interesting.

Let Weidong describe to Dong Xueying that he had been persuading Lao You to leave Shangzhou and develop in Jiangzhou, but the next day he was doing drastic things in Shangzhou that neither the district head nor the county head had the authority to do.

The expression on You Qili's face when he just came out of prison.

It's hard to say.

But You Qili was busy meeting with people from various sects and had no time to say more. The two agreed to go to Jiangzhou three days later and talk on the way.

But in the next three days, Weidong further demonstrated his decisiveness to the whole city.

The brand new courtyard, which is about 100 by 80 meters, was under intensive construction all night long on both sides and the opposite side, and seventy or eighty small shop compartments, which were three by five meters in size, were arranged.

It is open for rent, with a monthly rent of 20 yuan during the trial period. The entire courtyard floor is leveled with cement, and there are several rows of long cement platforms. All farmers can come in and trade freely for free, but they must abide by hygiene rules and market management.

People from all over the city came to visit the market out of curiosity, but the old leader could hold back and didn't show up.

Because Weidong didn't report it, he pretended not to know.

But how could they not know? The news spread among all the civil servants in Shangzhou’s government agencies, enterprises and institutions.

This young man, who was just a husband's porter last year, saved the young woman in the old street at the end of the year and also saved the English teacher of the No. 1 Middle School in the city. Faced with various condolences and praises from the city, he just asked to learn how to drive.

From then on, the ascension trajectory began.

He was engaged in transportation and sand and gravel business, opened a food factory to sell prepared food, and I heard that he also made a lot of money selling cameras and sanitary napkins.

Now we have received special approval from the leaders to carry out planning and construction in Beijiaochang.

The Beijiaochang intersection, which was once notoriously dirty and messy, was completely transformed in just a few days.

We haven’t asked the city for a penny of funding yet.

After clearing the mud and water from the roadside, they did not touch the damaged and old road surface. Instead, they focused on building neat curbs. Large stones neatly separated the road surface and the sidewalk, planted trees to make flower beds, and covered the area with thick gravel.

It's a brand new face-saving project that is impeccable to find fault with.

And the most ridiculous thing is that this kind of "face project" is only concentrated at the three-way intersection and in front of the market, and it only extends for 20 to 30 meters toward the highway outside the city, and the factory road here only extends for about ten meters.

It is a very clear model project, but they are too lazy to even do the extra work and just sweep the snow in front of their door.

The most audacious move is across from the market, near the weeds on the dingy riverbank. After a simple clearing of the weeds, they've begun pouring a concrete foundation. They're rumored to be building a two-story district development office. This will be the public office space for both the Beijiaochang Industrial Park and Beijiaochang Urban Development Co., Ltd., operating under two different names and with one staff.

In accordance with Rang Weidong's requirements, the construction site was very standardized and enclosed with the only bamboo boards that could be found. A notice was painted on it introducing the purpose of the building and emphasizing that it was a temporary illegal building and would be demolished after use!

In the 1980s, when every family had to save leftovers for the next meal, this practice was considered a luxury.

Finally, on the long street wall, separated by a large iron gate into two sections, a large red cloth slogan read:

"Agricultural trade, meat and poultry, free trade", with small print next to it listing various vegetables, fruits, grains, rice, oil, salt, chicken, duck, fish and eggs. Except for the cattle and horses that are under special management and are used as production tools and cannot be bought and sold at will, almost all other rural outputs, bamboo weaving, reed mats, herbs, and handicrafts can be bought and sold freely. Of course, game must be identified as wild animals.

On the other side is written "Daily necessities trading, make a fortune", which encourages citizens to rent storefronts and open shops here to sell various daily necessities such as clothes, shoes, socks, candies, toys, pots, pans and bowls. As long as the monthly sales are less than 1,000 yuan, there is no need to register qualifications. You can sell anything you want after paying a fixed tax of 5 yuan, but you must accept inspection to prevent any contraband.

There is a horizontal banner on the big iron gate that reads "Shangzhou Free Trade Market".

Basically, it was announced with great fanfare that such incidents of people being arrested for selling melon seeds would never happen again.

It feels like You Qilifu only opened a shop of dozens of square meters, but he paid the price of a year in jail.

Now Weidong is left picking up the fallen peaches.

They have intensified their efforts by opening a free trade market covering nearly 10,000 square meters, with police patrolling the door!
Everyone couldn't believe their eyes.

Doesn’t the city care?
The red flags all... Oh, they didn't even land on the wall, so Weidong asked for a bunch of red flags to be put on the wall. They were very conspicuous.

The farmers were delighted to stop squatting on the roadside and looking up to sell their goods and instead stood up straight to do business with the city people.

I heard that this place is open every day, and some people are already thinking about selling things here every day.

Small businesses like collecting bacon, sausages, vegetables, chickens and ducks from the countryside can definitely change the family's financial situation if they are established.

This is no different from the pioneers in later generations who engaged in live streaming and used AI to make money. If they seize the opportunity of the tide of the times, the gap may be completely widened.

The shops were mostly empty with no one around.

Except for a few spicy oil shops, pickle gardens, cooked food stores and sanitary napkin stores on West Second Street, the rest are empty.

Department stores and hardware exchanges in the city are all in a wait-and-see state.

Some people have thought about opening a private shop in the city, but they don’t dare to rent one. What if it is closed down in a few days?

So in the crowded free market, the business of agricultural products is brisk, while the shops along the wall are deserted.

It has become the core topic of discussion among people in Shangzhou. Let's see what kind of scene this porter can create.

But Wei Dong left this shocking scene to the people in the Reform Committee, and accompanied You Qili and others to Jiangzhou by boat.

Dong Xueying stayed to take care of the building construction because her sister said that with the assistance of Shen Laosan, she had stabilized the work situation in Jiangzhou, so her staying in Shangzhou was also a bit like deliberately making room for her position.

It was only thanks to Rang Weidong's stack of letters of introduction from various units that I was able to buy a third-class ticket.

Rang Weidong, who was still watching and thinking at the free market in the morning, rushed over exhausted to board the passenger ship at noon.

You Qili brought three people with him. They had just left the detention center and were going to Jiangzhou to see the rapid changes, and then go to Shanghai for inspection.

It was You Qili who noticed while reading books and newspapers every day in prison that there was a national reform and opening-up exchange conference in Shanghai before National Day. He decided to immediately seize this opportunity to gather information about the local situation in all walks of life.

If it were somewhere else, Weidong would most likely follow along.

As for Shanghai, he subconsciously wanted to avoid it.

But when facing You Qili and others, he had no intention of avoiding them at all.

Because among the people who followed me, there was still the guy who was acting weird in the hot pot restaurant last time.

Even after seeing Weidong suddenly create a large-scale free market in the week that had shocked him, he didn't restrain his words and actions. Perhaps his inner rage was even more intense: "Aren't you selling out the privileged opportunities we have obtained?"

With his wife away, Weidong still liked to sit in the corner of the lower bunk. "How much do you think you can sell for? I put so much effort into it, and was even forced to open a food factory in Shangzhou. My goal was to prove that reform and opening up, commodity circulation, were imperative. There was no point in accusing Old You. This was the only way to gain his freedom. You're just a bonus after he was released from prison. What right do you have to bark at me?"

His posture was relaxed, but his words were blunt.

This immediately made the other two people look unhappy.

Although what he said was true, it was too harsh to hear.

You Qili also felt uncomfortable listening to this: "Weidong, I know we can get out. You and Xiaodong have spent a lot of energy running around, but he is also my partner..."

Rang Weidong waved his hand: "I don't know if you still remember, but before the incident last year, I warned you that there were spies in front of your store, and that your brother Ba Zi was obviously an undercover agent. You didn't care and were caught in the net without any vigilance. After you finally got out, I thought you could learn some lessons, but look at this guy who is more likely to cause trouble than help. You still keep him around. He doesn't understand that it was our efforts that allowed him to be free. He has no gratitude at all. Instead, he has been targeting me and Sister Dong since the day of the dinner. Hey, you kept this guy around because you have some handle in his hand so that you can have a New Year's banquet with him?"

Is this the right way to talk to your lord?
(End of this chapter)