My Lord, you need to stand up!

Chapter 590 Steel can only be forged.

That's how people are; only by enduring the bitterest hardships can one rise above others.

Only through tempering and removing impurities can steel be forged into its finest form.

Within about a week, the hundreds of college students who had worked with Wei Dong on the "construction site" all showed a sharp, blackened look.

The more than seventy girls who followed He Yuemei did not dodge. They worked in the makeshift shed, making reports, budgets, preparing for projects, forecasting sales, and stockpiling materials.

We brought over boxes of sunscreen for the girls to use.

The guys can just stay in the sun. Even Wei Dong got so sunburned that his skin was like a boiled shrimp, and it hurt like his skin was about to burst!
Zhuoma was moved to tears. How could her brother suffer so much? I was sitting in the shed with my child in my arms, and Xiaodie kept saying "Wow!"

But whenever she got up, Mao would quietly pull her back, and He Yuemei would find all sorts of things to distract her little aunt.

what is this.

The lord's investment in winning people's hearts has yielded enormous returns.

When Lao Geng arrived, there was already a group of nearly 500 college students. Wei Dong, who was following him, had a military bearing. He was dark-skinned and strong, and he preferred to fight rather than talk.

It completely squeezed out the arrogant and spoiled air of the weak scholar.

Only those elites who survive this period can stand tall and not fall when facing the infrastructure team!
Because Lao Geng brought with him a construction team he was taking over in southern Jiangxi. More than 3,000 people were crammed into more than 120 trucks, with construction machinery towed behind them.

They were all wearing faded military uniforms, some with worn-out vests, clearly part of an iron army working on some kind of infrastructure project.

They were parked in rows along the roadside, stretching as far as the eye could see.

The momentum is amazing.

But every vehicle slid to the edge of the construction site to drop off people.

Despite being described as 100,000 square meters, this area is a wild land overgrown with weeds and lychee trees.

Even with hundreds of amateurs working hard, they could only cultivate a plot of land about a hundred square meters in size.

It's about the size of two football fields, and it's not very flat.

But now, seeing the soldiers lined up in neat rows, I feel a sense of pride, like reinforcements have arrived. We have captured the position, and we are fully entitled to stand here and face your pride.

Emotions that you only experience firsthand.

Wei Dong's dark, shiny muscles were stretched taut over his sweat-soaked basketball jersey, and there were even sunburned, whitish patches on his shoulders and neck.

But at this moment, he looked as if he were wearing medals, smiling as he watched more and more soldiers gather and line up.

The initial excitement of arriving in a new place was quickly replaced by the military discipline and the presence of many young people wearing glasses, prompting them to immediately quiet down and line up.

Finally, I heard Lao Geng standing in front of the line with two retired officers of similar age.

With heads held high and chests puffed out, he shouted in a familiar military tone: "The Seventh Construction Engineering Company of Jiangzhou Urban Construction Company is ordered to proceed to Pengzhen Wharf Industrial Park in eastern Guangdong. 3745 people were expected, and 3745 people are present. Please give instructions!"

Several thousand people stood quietly and elegantly in the open space by the roadside, their neat and upright lines prompting the university students to quietly adjust their clothes and stand in a more orderly fashion, avoiding the disorganized and crowded disarray of a mob, so as not to embarrass their leader.

Even the girls quietly came out and stood proudly side by side under the eaves.

Having dealt with the infrastructure team for over a year, Wei Dong was familiar with their militaristic style: "Attention! At ease!"

Listen up, everyone: "My name is Rang Weidong! I'm the chairman of the Urban Construction Company, responsible for setting strategic directions for the company, which currently has 12,000 employees. Each company is like a division, responsible for its own operational objectives. Let me tell you where this is!"

Pointing to the overgrown weeds stretching into the distance, he exuded the commanding presence of a military commander: "That's Hong Kong over there, the Pearl of the Orient across the sea, a model of developed capitalism. Countless people are waiting to see us fail, to see us fail in building our great motherland. So we're going to shove our most beautiful and magnificent construction right in their faces! We're going to build the best and most beautiful factories, homes, and office buildings here. Can you do it? Tell me!!"

The construction corps shouted "Yes!" without hesitation. The college students were indeed a bit disorganized and scattered, but after a pause, they regrouped and shouted "Yes!" with all their might!

That's how the flame was started.

Wei Dong waved his hand and said, "We are a leading commercial construction company in the country. What does 'commercial' mean? It means that every drop of sweat you put in will be rewarded. Your construction wages and bonuses will not be less. We also need you to take care of your health and pay attention to safety. We will build this beautiful home together and watch this land become more and more beautiful. Many of you may get married and have children here and settle down. So, balancing work and life is the future for everyone. You need to think carefully about whether you like it here and whether you are willing to settle down here. Jiangzhou Construction actually has construction sites and projects in the southwest region, including Beijing and Shanghai. We can gradually provide you with opportunities for adjustment. Whether you want to achieve results in the construction industry or earn more money to settle down and enjoy life, it's all fine."

Even the infrastructure team couldn't help but be slightly taken aback; this was a stark contrast to their previous focus solely on dedication.

The leaders frowned slightly, and Lao Geng quickly covered his mouth and whispered, because he understood best that this kind of talent could truly drive greater combat effectiveness.

The college students couldn't help but look around, probably imagining what this place would become. But when Wei Dong raised his hand again, everyone immediately fell silent: "This direction is south, and Pengzhen International Wharf is just a few kilometers away. I see their progress is so-so, it seems to be some kind of infrastructure unit in charge. I guess after we finish the battle in this area, we'll have to go support them. It's okay, just pay them, I promise I won't laugh at their progress!"

The construction soldiers felt like their caps were about to fall off; were they really going to talk about money so openly?
But why does it feel so good at the same time?

The college students were already laughing, and some of the bolder ones were shouting, "That's right, that's right, the boss is right!"

The construction soldiers were secretly laughing too.

Wei Dong himself laughed: "Let me introduce this construction site. It's about 100,000 square meters. We're going to build a 100,000-square-meter multi-story factory, followed by a cluster of high-rise residential buildings. The construction company and the garment factory will have matchmaking events to introduce people to potential partners. Of course, the residential buildings will also be for us to live in..."

The thousands of construction workers finally couldn't contain their cheers!
Old Geng laughed, proudly introducing to his two new subordinates how many people in our Jiangzhou unit got married this year, saying that the sanitary napkin factory and the garment factory were all female workers.

Those two finally relaxed from their tension. That's good, that's good. Now that the commanders and soldiers can finally settle down and live in peace, everyone's sense of mission can be considered fulfilled.

They were caught in the midst of a restructuring at this critical juncture, leaving them completely bewildered.

But this did not mean that their leadership careers were over. After Wei Dong simply divided the areas, he handed over the details to He Yuemei.

The officers at the regimental, battalion, and company levels immediately began directing the construction of barracks, and engineering machinery was deployed to clean up the site... Let's dismantle these substandard sheds in a couple of days; what kind of rubbish are these?

He came over and met with several regimental and battalion commanders. After shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries, he finally revealed his identity. It turned out that some of them knew Lao Fang: "He's an old regimental commander from the Third Field Army. Are we now his direct subordinate units?!"

I was overjoyed.

Wei Dong was unclear about the affiliations of these troops: "He is in charge of economic investment promotion in the entire HK region and also oversees this district. It's a test of different reform and opening-up paths. We have arrived as external reinforcements, so we need to make this place a success. If any of you want to stay and work here in the future, keep an eye out and let me know so you can sign up and settle down. If you want to lead the construction company to conquer the north and south, then listen to Lao Geng's experience and lessons. I can lead you through twenty years of struggle and then retire successfully."

Even after all that, this infrastructure team still hasn't completely shed its burdens and is fully committed to the construction.

That's how the infrastructure team does things—they sweep everything aside.

There were no land acquisition procedures, no approval procedures, and not even the specific location of the land was known.

Didn't Lao Fang go to Hong Kong to pretend he didn't know anything?

It means temporarily handing over the entire industrial zone to Wei Dong so he can act as he sees fit.

In the second week, the entire 100,000-square-meter area had been cleared, and the foundation for the factory building had been excavated. Construction had begun on the first phase of the factory building, which is 100 meters long and 40 meters wide.

That's right, Wei Dong is still using the same old method of building a stepped factory, only this time the construction team is strong, so they can start directly from the second step and don't need to go all the way to the sixth step.

Now that we're repairing it, we realize that the allegory of arranging wheat on a chessboard is quite true. The sixth level is too big, so big that even Wei Dong doesn't know what to do with it.

But since we've already started repairing it, let's just get it repaired and see how it goes. Anyway, we can never have too many factories built over the years.

The sales students also moved into the temporary barracks built by the infrastructure team, and began to establish a trading company in the dock industrial park and a branch of Dongsheng Trading Company, and began to stockpile and receive various supplies delivered by the convoy.

All construction workers received new denim overalls, several spare T-shirts, and even underwear.

There are also construction safety helmets purchased in bulk, with colors indicating job positions and responsibilities, and green helmets indicating the highest level of authority.

Following the key points outlined by Wei Dong, He Yuemei began selecting several company managers, department managers, and factory management personnel from among the college students.

As the supplies arrived, some of the managers and key production staff selected from the factory workshops also arrived by train.

Employee training has already begun even before the machinery and equipment have arrived.

The families of the construction team can be arranged to work in the factory first, or they can be recruited to work in impoverished areas of western Jiangxi and southern Hunan.

In the third week, Wei Dong finally had time to take Lao Geng and two leaders from the Seventh Construction Company to the dock for a distant view.

Old Geng and his colleagues are experts. This is a large-scale deep-water port construction project, involving a huge amount of work. Even the deputy general manager of the Seventh Company could see signs of land reclamation.

This is a super large international deep-water port, it's huge!

It was only at this point that Wei Dong remembered that he had mentioned giving me some of the dock shares.

He's focused on his work and hasn't even asked how the shares he got in exchange for the $20 million are going to be calculated.

It's a subtle way of showing off.

(End of this chapter)