PFC Chapter 627 Lao Tao's Happy Life
Chapter 627 Lao Tao's Happy Life
Tao Chunying is a stonemason and an artilleryman of the Yimeng Guerrillas. He is proficient in blasting. He is 45 years old this year. In terms of age, he is considered a veteran of the Yimeng Guerrillas. When the Tiger Regiment attacked the Jinpu Line, they were slow in dismantling the artillery and were counterattacked by the Japanese mortars. A shell fell, killing two people and seriously injuring one in an artillery team. Tao Chunying was the seriously injured one. The captain performed surgery on him personally in the Bamboo Garden. He survived, but could not do any heavy work.
Although he received some subsidies every year after retirement, his parents were mostly ill and his three sons were between the ages of twelve and fifteen, which was the time when the young boys were eating their parents out of money. The family lived an extremely difficult life. The working group entered the Tao family and explained the Yimeng guerrilla immigration policy to Tao Chunying. Without any hesitation, old Tao took his family to board the ship at the seaside of Shibi Mountain.
The Tao family had been here for half a month and had already settled in their home. The five-room cement and stone house was more than enough for a family of seven. However, two acres of land was a little too little, so after Chen Guoqing's adjustment, the family was divided into two families, with the parents having two acres of land and Tao Chunying's family of five having two acres of land.
With his wife and children to take care of in the fields, Tao Chunying threw himself into the vigorous quarrying work. As the captain of the blasting team, Tao Chunying's daily salary was three yuan, ninety yuan a month, which could buy more than 1,300 kilograms of rice, which was more than enough to eat and more than enough for one person to support a family.
The three children went to school and only attended for one morning every day. They had a day off on Saturdays and weekends. Going to school was free. Not only was it free, but they also received two meals a day, which saved a lot of money. The three boys could save two kilograms of rice a day.
The seedlings at home have been planted. I heard that they will be ripe in a few months, and they can be planted again when they are ripe. Three crops can be harvested a year. In the first three years, the Holy Spear Group will not collect any grains of food, and the excess can be sold to the Holy Spear Group at the market price. The seven members of the Tao family are all full of hope.
Although the two old people are in poor health, they are more than capable of taking care of the half-acre vegetable garden. The Chinese cabbage has sprouted, and the half-acre of land is planted with coriander, carrots, radishes, daylilies, and leeks. The three half-grown boys are responsible for watering. Life is not easy, and the three children are very competitive and study very hard. After school, they try their best to help their mother and grandparents with work, and the four acres of land are tidy.
Apart from the fact that the weather was a bit hot and humid, and the requirements for hygiene were particularly high, it seemed like this was a fairy-like life. What to do if the humidity was too high? It would be best if I could drink some strong liquor every night. All the supplies were transported from the seaside, and the cost was very high. As a father who had worked as a laborer in a winery for more than ten years, Lao Tao had some plans. He asked his son to take him to find Chen Guoqing, who was busy with all kinds of things, and wanted Chen Guoqing to get some tools for making wine.
Chen Guoqing was very impressed. It was the embryonic form of a business! His brother was right. Let everything take its course. Residents will always find the right path in life.
The contract sample had been prepared long ago. All equipment and tools were sponsored by the Holy Lance Corps, which held a 10% share but did not participate in any production or sales.
Lao Tao and Old Lao Tao were naturally ecstatic. They were still a little nervous when they came. They were prepared to invest all their belongings this time, and they would have to ask Tao Chunying to borrow some money. The risk was too great. Once there was a deficit, Lao Tao's salary would have to be used to pay off debts, and the family might have to go back to a life of hunger. Now, they could only use their own money to buy food. They would start with 100 kilograms, and then carefully expand and strengthen the business based on the trading situation.
Chen Guoqing's control was very strict, and the city was designed to be very grand, but there were only about five or six hundred actual residents. Together with the soldiers of the Holy Lance and the workers who built the city, the total population was just over seven thousand. Although relocations were still continuing from various places, it would be difficult to reach the scale of a big city in a short period of time.
For the time being, only one restaurant is allowed to invest in each industry, of course restaurants are not included. Now there are five restaurants on this restaurant street, all of which are opened by overseas Chinese who have been living abroad for many years. They sell Danxian mutton soup, Guangdong clay pot rice, Fujian Shaxian snacks, and of course, rice cake shops and tofu shops are not considered restaurants. They all produce at home, and they can rent storefronts on the commercial street for free.
Just one day later, the wine-making equipment that Uncle Tao needed arrived. It didn't cost much, but it was a bit troublesome to transport it from the small town of Pidai.
Tao’s Distillery was officially established. In addition to the Dan County Mutton Soup Factory which has already opened, this is the first factory established by residents who migrated from Shandong Province. Although it is still just a small family workshop, with the help of the east wind, it has a chance to soar to success.
In this hot and humid rainforest, a new city is rising at a rapid pace. No matter whether they are indigenous people or overseas Chinese, once they come here, they don't want to leave. Beautiful concrete houses are free, business and farming are tax-free, and you can make a fortune quickly if you have some small skills. Even if you are good for nothing, as long as you are hardworking and stand hard work, you will have food and clothing, and most importantly, you will be safe.
Old Chen used Chen Feng's connections to order a large amount of high-quality arms from the United States in the name of aiding China to ensure that every city had dense anti-aircraft firepower.
The urban construction here was on the right track. All the small coastal towns had garrisons and established permanent fortifications. Everything was stable. Li Ergou led the main battalion to start expanding the territory again.
From the small town of Xiachi and Meilun all the way south, they only attacked but did not occupy, and cleared out the remaining forces of the Windmill Kingdom with lightning speed. Half of the battalion attacked the eastern coast, and half of the battalion attacked the western coast.
Old Chen organized two merchant ships and followed the pioneering route of Li Ergou's team. Every time they conquered a place, they transported money and supplies. They were only friendly to the local natives. It was estimated that after they conquered this island, they could make up for the losses caused by the expenditure on building a new city.
Lao Tao's winery has produced wine with an alcohol content of about 50 percent. Only 63 pounds of wine were produced out of 100 pounds of rice. Lao Tao is confident that he can continue to make improvements and strive to produce more than 80 pounds of wine out of every 100 pounds of rice.
The financial organization of the Holy Lance is researching a new currency. For the time being, they still use silver dollars as the main currency in circulation. One hundred kilograms of rice costs seven silver dollars, plus auxiliary ingredients such as yeast and sucrose, plus labor costs, the total is less than ten silver dollars.
Sixty-three kilograms of liquor, taking into account that the output will increase in the future and the labor cost can be saved with larger quantity, the total cost is eight and a half dollars, and it is sold for twelve dollars. One dollar for five kilograms, which is a truly conscientious deal.
Worried that it would be dangerous to keep strong liquor in a residential area, Chen Guoqing rented a shop specifically for the Tao family, the winery, and also did not charge rent in the first year.
The Tao family, together with the overseas Chinese Liu's family and the indigenous widow Salia's family, moved the liquor to the shop. They accidentally broke a jar, and the whole street was filled with the aroma of liquor. Lao Tao did not blame the clumsy Salia, as she was taught how to plant rice. The working group repeatedly stressed the need to maintain good relations with everyone.