The new year begins again and everything is renewed. When the New Year arrives, the first thing every household in Jintan Village does when they open the door is to set off firecrackers.
Looking at the rising smoke, Ma Defu's lips unconsciously revealed a bright smile. Last year, not only did he receive many awards from his superiors, but his younger brother Debao also achieved great success.
Although Depot's business has just started, it is gaining momentum. Now the construction team formed by Depot has become famous throughout the Yuquanying area. In addition to the largest state-owned construction unit, the Jintan Village construction team has taken on the most projects.
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In addition, the development of the Jintan Village Brick Factory is also in full swing. Now the brick factory is at full capacity and can produce 350,000 bricks a month. Each brick is exported at a unit price of 10 cents, and the raw material of clay bricks is the least valuable.
The production cost of each brick is only four cents.
Even after deducting a series of costs such as labor, machinery depreciation, transportation, sales, etc., the profit from each brick can still be a penny.
350000*0.01=3500.
If you earn 3,500 a month, you can recover the investment cost of the brick factory in one year. If you continue to recruit people and expand production, you can earn it back in less than a year.
As of today, no one doubts whether brick factories can make money.
At the beginning of the establishment of the brick factory, although most of the investment was made by Li Jie, he himself did not think highly of a brick factory. Therefore, this brick factory was regarded as a joint venture.
Among them, Li Jie exclusively owns 30% of the brick factory shares, and the remaining 70% of the shares are divided equally among all the villagers. Of course, these shares are not given to the villagers in vain. After all, there are always people who will not cherish things that are easily obtained.
For those villagers who did not come up with real money, all their shares were purchased with borrowed money, and the borrower was naturally the biggest rich man in Jintan Village, Li Jie.
The brick factory has been operating for more than half a year and has yet to recover its costs, so except for Li Jie, most others have not received the first dividend payment.
Although they did not receive dividends, the villagers saw the booming momentum of the brick factory and basically no one worried about not making money.
It is precisely because the performance of the brick factory is booming that some in the village are happy and some are sad. The happy ones are the villagers who gritted their teeth and bought a few more shares, and the sad ones are those who only bought the marked number of shares.
"Blessed, it's time to eat."
Just as Ma Defu was counting down his achievements in the past year, his wife's voice reached his ears.
Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and Ma Defu and Shui Hua are eating at home, along with their two children, of course.
"Hey, come on!"
Sitting at the dining table and looking at the table full of food, Ma Defu couldn't help but sigh, these days are really getting better and better.
Seeing her son's dazed look, Defu's mother couldn't help but said.
"What are you doing standing there? Why don't you eat quickly?"
Ma Defu glanced at his mother holding her baby, put down his chopsticks and said.
"Mom, come and take care of the baby. You eat first."
Defu's mother smiled and shook her head, pointing to the wine glass on the table: "No, I don't drink. You and Debao have a couple of drinks with your dad."
Shui Hua also advised: "Mom, let's do it."
"Go, go, go, don't delay taking care of your grandson."
After saying this, Defu's mother withdrew her gaze, lowered her head and began to tease her eldest grandson in her arms.
Seeing what the young couple was going to say, Li Jie, the head of the family, came forward and said decisively.
"Okay, let your mother take care of it."
The young couple didn't say anything after seeing this, but after the meal started, Shui Hua obviously accelerated her eating speed, apparently planning to pick up her mother-in-law as soon as possible.
Ma Defu is the party secretary of Jintan Village, Ma Debao is the general contractor of the Jintan Village engineering team, and Li Jie is an indispensable person in the development of Jintan Village. When the three of them get together, it is natural to talk about the village.
Current situation here.
"Brother, can the brick factory recover its costs in the first half of this year?"
It was Ma Debao who was the first to mention the current situation in the village. He had his own little intention in asking this question.
Although the largest shareholder of the brick factory is Li Jie, he is not involved in the specific management work. The village party secretary Ma Defu is usually in charge of it. Therefore, Ma Defu knows everything about the brick factory, and he only hesitated for a moment.
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"Well, that's about right. Based on the production in the second half of last year, I estimate that the cost will be recovered in April. What's wrong?"
Ma Debao smiled coquettishly, revealing a slightly flattering smile and said.
"Brother, when the brick factory becomes profitable, can you first repair the primary school in the village?"
Although Jintan Village Primary School is named "Jintan Village", the primary school's students cover five villages with a radius of 30 kilometers. If the Yuquanying area is to establish a township in the resettlement site in the future, it is estimated that Jintan Village Primary School will have to be renamed.
XX township/town primary school.
Since Jintan Village Primary School is nominally Jintan Village Primary School, but is actually a township primary school, the funding of Jintan Village Primary School has nothing to do with the village, but is directly under the jurisdiction of the county.
Naturally, Ma Defu, as the village party secretary, knows these inside stories very well.
Looking at his brother's frown, Ma Debao quickly explained.
"Brother, I don't mean to ask the village to pay for the primary school. I just want the quota for a batch of brick factories, and then use this batch of bricks to repair the village primary school."
With the development of the economy, the lives of Diaozhuang households are getting better and better. When they have money, the first thing they think of is to build a house. Generally speaking, to build a small farmhouse, less money is needed.
About 20,000 bricks are needed, and those with more than 30,000 to 40,000 are needed.
The Jintan Village Brick Factory is the only private brick factory in the surrounding area. Faced with such huge market demand, the production capacity of the Jintan Village Brick Factory cannot meet it at all.
Therefore, these bricks became a scarce commodity for a while. Basically, every batch of bricks produced was shipped out on the same day. Not only that, the brick factory's orders were all scheduled until May this year.
Hearing this, Ma Defu probably understood his brother's thoughts. The other party suddenly proposed to repair the elementary school, presumably because of Principal Bai.
Who is Principal Bai?
Mai Miao's father is Debao's future father-in-law.
The school building of Jintan Village Primary School is indeed not enough. With the influx of more and more immigrants, the number of students attending school is also increasing.
However, the school only has three classrooms in total, which is simply not enough.
Principal Bai also applied to the Education Bureau many times, but for some reason, the superiors never approved the application for campus expansion.
Seeing his brother's silence, Ma Debao couldn't help but urge.
"Brother, is that okay?"
"OK!"
To expand the campus, we will only use 50,000 to 60,000 bricks at most. Although the factory's production capacity is insufficient, we can still squeeze out these few bricks. Besides, this is still a great thing. How could Ma Defu not support it?