Chapter 97 Village-run Enterprises
At this time, Xu Qiang finally felt a sense of crisis.

When doing business in this era, policy risk is one of the risks, and the other is the jealousy and viciousness of people.

At present, speculation and profiteering is still a serious crime in the country. The peat farm that Xu Qiang has been running for some time is actually walking on a tightrope. If he cannot operate legally in the future, he will be walking on thin ice all the way and it is difficult for nothing to happen. The sudden incident last night has actually sounded the alarm for Xu Qiang.

Xu Qiang understood the principle that a tall tree attracts the wind. He also knew that there is no impenetrable wall in this world, so in order to keep the business going for a long time in the future, he had to think of other ways.

"Okay, we'll do as you say." Liu Jun said.

"If we keep doing this business like this, it will definitely not last long." Xu Qiang frowned and continued, "We don't have a business license and we don't have any connections. To put it bluntly, we are operating illegally. Even though we haven't encountered any problems in the past period of time, as time goes on, something will definitely happen one day..."

"Then...then what should we do?" Erhu asked anxiously after hearing this.

In fact, not only Xu Qiang, but the other three also understood in their hearts that what they were doing now was illegal operation and speculation, but Xu Qiang was the leader, and they didn't know what to do, so as long as they could continue to do it for the time being, they didn't mention it.

But now that Xu Qiang mentioned this matter, several people suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

"My idea is very simple, that is to find a village to cooperate with and give them a portion of the profits. To put it bluntly, we spend money to use the name of a village-run enterprise. In this way, we don't have to worry about being caught by the police for illegal operations in the future." Xu Qiang said after a moment of hesitation.

In fact, Xu Qiang had already planned to affiliating the village-run enterprises.

In today's country, village-run and township enterprises have developed rapidly like mushrooms after a rain, especially in the southern Jiangsu region not far from Jiangxi. Each city, county, township and village government has established a large number of township enterprises. The government invests in the enterprises, and then capable people designated by the government serve as the heads of the enterprises, which makes the industries formalized and rationalized, and also brings rich returns to the local people.

Even though the development in Jiangxi is relatively slow, in fact, as early as the production team period, there were already many village-run enterprises in various parts of Jiangxi. These enterprises had good performance. Even after the production teams were disbanded and the members separated, these village-run enterprises still existed intact.

But there is a problem here. That is, if Xu Qiang is looking for a village to cooperate with, which village is the most suitable? First of all, he should rule out Shangzhuang Village where he is located, because he has conflicts with the village chief Zhao Xigui, and his four sons have a grudge against him. So no matter what, Xu Qiang will not register the peat field in his own village.

Of course, in addition to his own village, there are several villages around this peat field. However, Xu Qiang is not familiar with the village cadres in these villages, so how to find them to negotiate is still a problem.

"Yes, uncle is right. We can't work in fear all the time." Erhu expressed his approval, and then he said, "How about... we go and discuss it with Zhao Xigui?"

"Looking for him?" Liu Jun frowned immediately.

Although Liu Jun and Zhao Xigui did not have any deep hatred, he had been irritated by him in the past, so Liu Jun really did not have a good impression of Zhao Xigui. After the separation, he did not want to continue dealing with him. "Our village chief is not good. This person is difficult to deal with, and he has a grudge against me. This matter is definitely not negotiable." Xu Qiang paused and continued, "Besides, our tractor was smashed yesterday. It is probably done by the four brothers. So it is nonsense to discuss business with them at this time!" "Did the four brothers really do this?" Erhu was a little unbelievable. After all, he was not from the same village as Xu Qiang, and there were some things he didn't know.

"I can't say I'm 100% sure, but I can go back to the company and ask. If they didn't go to work last night, then this matter is inevitable. Apart from them, no one in the village has such a big grudge against us that they would risk the crime of destroying farm machinery to do this." Xu Qiang said.

"Well, then can we go to the police station to report the case?" Erhu said again.

"Don't you have a brain? My uncle is afraid that our business will be discovered. If the police come here to investigate and find out that we are operating a business illegally, we will be finished!" Liu Jun rolled his eyes at Erhu.

"Yes, yes, I forgot about that."

"Erhu, how is your relationship with the village cadres in your village?" Xu Qiang asked.

"It's okay, at least they didn't let me starve to death, and sometimes they even took care of me." Erhu said.

Erhu was doing pretty well in their village. The main reason was that he knew Wang Zhong, the director of the town supply and marketing cooperative. So whenever anyone in the village wanted to buy some scarce goods, such as bicycles, radios, etc., they would use Erhu's relationship to get them. Of course, the benefits still had to be given, and Erhu could also earn a pack of cigarettes or a good meal from it.

"Then how about this, you talk to the village chief and see if he is willing to cooperate with us to set up a village-run fertilizer factory." Xu Qiang pondered for a moment, then said: "Don't talk about our business first, test him first, if he is interested, I will come forward to discuss the details with him."

The current peat field can be said to be unused land in the surrounding rural areas. Unused land refers to land other than agricultural land and construction land, which can be used in accordance with national regulations but cannot be occupied.

For a long time, the swamp in this ravine has been where local people dig peat. Several surrounding villages can come here to dig, and there is no clear property rights. If you want to set up a village-run enterprise here, you only need to obtain approval from your superiors. However, individuals have no right to occupy this land. It can only be a village-run or township-run enterprise.

Xu Qiang wants to cooperate with the neighboring village to set up a factory. There are many things he needs to consider, two of which are the most critical. One is the profit distribution issue. Xu Qiang's bottom line is that he can take out half of the profits to cooperate in setting up the factory. It sounds like a lot, but in fact, the current fertilizer products have reached a bottleneck, and the profit is only a hundred or so yuan a day. The by-products he produces, such as shampoo and soap, have earned more than humic acid fertilizers.

At the same time, during the busy farming season, Xu Qiang can also make good profits by renting out pumps, generators and tractors, so even if he makes less money from fertilizers, it will not have much impact on him.

Another issue is the registered assets of this village-run enterprise. Xu Qiang wants to draw a clear line between his own assets, such as pumps and tractors, and the company's assets. He only provides technology, product development and sales channels, and other things can only be provided to the cooperating enterprises for use. However, he will never let his own things become collective assets!

"Okay, I'll talk to our village chief about this later." Erhu nodded.

(End of this chapter)