My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 376: Only by combining strategy and tactics can one become a winner.
Old Geng did indeed gather all the vehicles that could be mobilized from the factory area and transported over a thousand people to the zoo construction site.

They were all strong and obedient engineering soldiers, many of whom had never been to a zoo before.

While eating the steamed buns and mantou made by the park, I curiously squeezed in outside the enclosure of several tigers and lions, waiting happily.

His plan was approved after communicating with the city bureau: "Then let people in little by little through the main gate and side gates. The zoo can hold tens of thousands of people. Then, replace the engineers and send them out in orderly lines to clear the way..."

In fact, a zoo covering 50 hectares is 500,000 square meters, so it could easily accommodate 500,000 people.

However, firstly, the animal enclosures take up a lot of space, as well as dense forests and lakes; secondly, moving such a large, uncontrolled animal could easily cause problems.

Let's do it that way.

All Wei Dong could do was bring out the stock of T-shirts and distribute them according to different animal heads and colors.

Not only can they be clearly distinguished like uniforms, but they can also form squads.

The engineers immediately took their assignments according to their battalion, company, and platoon levels, and happily put on the uniforms.

The Black Tigers, White Bears, and Red Giraffes teams started taking turns taking turns to enter the venue from the side gate and the main gate.

Loudspeakers were set up on both sides to explain the situation: "Welcome everyone to visit the zoo during the May Day holiday. However, the number of citizens who have gathered has far exceeded the capacity. Therefore, in order to ensure everyone's safety, please queue in an orderly manner. We salute all the disciplined revolutionary masses..."

To be honest, Wei Dong was quite worried that if only those in the front were allowed in, there might be trouble in the back.

As it turns out, he was overthinking it; the way these kinds of things are handled is quite different in different times.

For example, if people gather in large numbers 30 or 40 years later, they are more likely to cause trouble, which is largely related to the rising self-awareness of young people.

Simply put, it means being disobedient and thinking, "Why should I listen to you? I'll do it my way."

That's not the case now. Everyone has truly suffered, and their sense of collectivism is still very strong.

When it comes to being revolutionary masses, they help each other maintain order.

Moreover, veterans are indeed highly combat-effective.

One person leads another to quickly separate the crowd, ensuring that the entry of tourists who switch places with them will not cause a disturbance.

From the "city tower," the lord could see the dense crowd of tourists, like scattered sand dunes, gradually breaking into smaller groups and entering in an orderly fashion, marveling at the sight.

A team of about a hundred engineers quickly cleared the area in front of the gate, allowing people to enter piece by piece. They gradually spread outwards, using loudspeakers to advise tourists to try again later, as it would be difficult to get in this morning and they would have to wait in line for several hours...

In short, we'll try to get as many people away as possible first.

People started entering from the side gate as well, and they were actually the main force in allowing entry. The five or six lines of people quickly eased the pressure on the street.

In the days before mobile phones could be used for tipping off tourists, the slow turnaround time at the front gate forced many visitors to leave disappointed.

The zoo uses soothing background music for its announcements, and staff members in overalls greet visitors with smiles.

This is a world of difference from the indifferent temporary workers in state-owned enterprises of the past.

The woods and lawns, where citizens love to spread out picnic blankets to play cards, eat and drink, and play with their children, are now not only more beautiful and tidy, but also have many promotional signs: "Protecting the environment is everyone's responsibility", "Cleanliness is everyone's responsibility, building a modern society is a joy", "One small step forward, one giant leap for civilization"... Oh, this is the restroom.

In short, the completely renovated zoo quickly accommodated five thousand, ten thousand, twenty thousand visitors...

The staff, who were temporarily relocated to the entrance, were just like bus ticket sellers, quickly printing tickets and issuing refunds.

Then they'd switch people after selling two thousand copies; the repetitive, mechanical actions were exhausting.

At 10:00 AM sharp, the first wave of floats began, and the citizens were already convinced that the zoo, which hadn't raised its prices, had become incredibly diverse.

Previously, you could only see animals in cages and enclosures, but now there are various performances and parades.

Of course, the most surprising thing was the huge animal market, which was almost as amazing as the "Bird Mountain" of the same size.

Bird Mountain surrounds tourists with all the birds, while the animal market surrounds tourists with consumption.

Almost all tourists regretted not bringing enough money!
These days, people don't carry much cash. A salary of forty or fifty yuan is enough for a bowl of noodles, a bus fare of five or ten cents, and a pack of cigarettes costing eight cents is considered a luxury item.

Carrying ten yuan on your person is definitely a huge sum of money.

What's the cost of visiting the zoo? Pandas don't eat tickets.

Now it's being discovered that the dazzling array of goods at the market is practically ripping off your wallet!
Animal T-shirts cost five yuan each, with colorful and attractive designs, and animal jeans cost nine yuan and ninety cents.

This outfit instantly becomes the most fashionable attire.

To buy or not to buy?
A camera for 29 yuan, a suit for 68 yuan, a skirt for 19 yuan, a floral shirt, skinny jeans, and children's clothes for around 10 yuan.

The keychains and pendants that cost five cents or one dollar are all made of bakelite injection molding in the shape of animals. They are not very colorful, but they are simple and elegant.

A small bamboo cage containing a rabbit, chicks, and ducklings cost two yuan.

Do you want?
Even if you can resist the temptation to buy things, you'll always be ambushed by the ubiquitous snack and ice cream shops.

Ice cream cones, spicy cold skewers, roujiamo (Chinese hamburger), and cold noodles and jelly are all selling like hotcakes.

Moreover, the use of paraffin paper in sanitary napkin packaging allowed Weidong to discover this material, which was later widely used in cold drink paper cups. There was no need for any complicated paper cup machines; the paper mill simply cut white cardstock with paraffin coating on the inside and monochrome cartoon zoo designs printed on the outside into fan shapes and sent them over.

A sanitary napkin factory sets up a manual production line. They roll white cardboard into a funnel shape, apply glue, and sell them for two or three cents each, folded like egg rolls.

As long as the food isn't scalding hot and wouldn't melt the paraffin, these cold drinks and foods can definitely keep the paraffin from leaking for two or three hours.

Perfect for this one-off occasion.

Then, disposable bamboo chopsticks and bamboo skewers for eating also led farmers in Shangzhou to start delivering them in bulk on a regular basis.

That's why they actively promote the idea of ​​being a civilized tourist and trying to throw away disposable items in the trash can.

This greatly increases the intensity of the cleaning work.

Garbage trucks that secretly collect and transport garbage along the outer ring road have to change nearly a hundred garbage bins every hour!
But as long as the cleaners are given a peak-hour subsidy of ten yuan per day, no one wants to lose their job.

There's no such thing as a job that can't be handled well; it's just that the pay isn't enough.

Anyway, by noon, all the food and goods shops were wondering if they would run out of stock prepared for the three-day holiday in just one day.

Restock now!

The entrance fee was only tens of thousands of yuan, but the market's spending quickly climbed to 500,000 yuan!
At this moment, everyone was grateful for the back door of the construction site, which allowed them to quietly send all kinds of goods in from the back, and garbage trucks also left from there for transfer.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Wei Dong personally drove a van and led a group of people to visit and express his gratitude to the police officers and community security personnel who were on duty and persuading people to turn back on the outskirts of the city.

Each person received a T-shirt, a baseball cap, and three tickets—quite a presentable amount.

Even those who had their workload increased were greeted with smiles.

In short, when the group from the municipal government quietly entered through the back door after 5 p.m., what they saw was a scene of exhaustion and teetering on the brink of collapse, but still operating relatively normally.

It is estimated that more than 200,000 visitors have flowed through the zoo, with a peak of 80,000 visitors!

The zoo originally had more than 300 employees. Apart from more than 100 experts and office staff, the rest were zookeepers and cleaners who did hard and tiring work.

This time, following the earliest sanitary napkin workshop, two hundred college student volunteers were recruited from Jiangnan University.

It also includes a T-shirt, a baseball cap, three tickets, and a daily job allowance of ten yuan.

Together with 300 family members of construction soldiers who worked as cleaners and market vendors.

They handled their temporary jobs, such as market sales and animal exhibit tours, in a very organized manner.

Finally, the engineers who were temporarily transferred there withdrew to the outer perimeter, leaving only a few hundred engineers working on the site to stay and assist in maintaining order.

It takes a team of over a thousand people to maintain this situation.

Wei Dong was tasked with leading the team to identify and address any shortcomings. Despite his boundless energy, he was so exhausted that he fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Finally, I managed to take a nap in the sun on the lawn behind the office, alongside a bunch of waiters, tour guides, and engineers who had just finished their shifts.

It feels so good.

But everyone in the city looked like soldiers who had been killed in a fierce battle.

I was quite pleased and asked them not to disturb me so I could rest. I looked around with curiosity and satisfaction.

Despite her hoarse voice, Dong Xueqing, dressed in a skirt suit, insisted on accompanying and introducing the place.

It wasn't until the parade at six o'clock sharp, with lively music playing everywhere, that Wei Dong finally recovered a little.

I jumped up and saw several leaders sitting on temporary chairs outside the management office, drinking tea and watching the lively parade pass by.

He quickly picked up the teapot and went over to serve: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I took a break for a while. There were just too many people at noon, and I was too tense."

Several people in the city looked back at him, but none of them criticized or blamed him: "Young people should be tempered in such fierce battles. Remember that you can now influence and change many people, so you should have the dual combat power of controlling the overall situation and handling every detail."

"Can the income and expenditure be balanced? I see staff everywhere, who are very meticulous and thoughtful, and have a great service attitude. The citizens also seem quite satisfied."

Wei Dong still had a rough idea: "There will definitely be profits. Essentially, this is about attracting more customers to the shopping mall and food center through the zoo. The park performances are all commercial activities centered around this consumption. The current turnover of about 800,000 yuan is not much compared to the expenses of more than 1,000 employees. But the key is to spread it out over 365 days and how to ensure a relatively stable income every day. This is the key to whether we can revitalize the zoo project."

Someone immediately countered, "Will this revitalization of the zoo ultimately serve the surrounding real estate development?"

In fact, sitting on the high ground of the two-story office building in this park, you can see into the dense forest and the construction project that has already risen to about ten stories.

It stood out in the city buildings of the 1980s, which were mostly five or six-story "high-rises".

So what you're all concerned about isn't just the zoo, a public cultural project; the real focus is on the booming real estate development.

Wei Dong even wanted to invite everyone to that Military Intelligence Bureau building at the foot of the mountain to sit and enjoy the river view while chatting about the current situation.

But at this time, it's not just about serving a few bowls of cold noodles, cold rice noodles, fried dumplings, and pan-fried buns as snacks; we also have to watch the fireworks show at eight o'clock.

We must make this scene truly memorable and dazzling.

(End of this chapter)