Chapter 2270
Encouraging People to Venture Out
"Why?" Old Niu couldn't help but frown and ponder deeply.
He Yuzhu pondered for a moment before saying seriously, "What we used to believe in was that man can conquer nature."
That's correct.
But capital always tends to favor the easy and rejects the difficult; this is the nature of capital and will not change.
Therefore, in terms of production costs, only places with convenient transportation and mature upstream and downstream industries are more likely to attract capital investment.
We must face up to our strengths and weaknesses.
The country is vast and rich in resources, with a huge labor force.
There is significant room for improvement in consumer spending power.
This is our strength.
He Yuzhu paused, looking troubled, and continued, "But our east-west span is too large, and the temperature difference between the north and south is also huge."
Think about it: if you were a business owner, would you rather build a factory in the southern coastal areas or go to places like northern Hebei or beyond the Great Wall?
The development of our family will inevitably follow a process of first going south and then north, first going east and then west.
At that time, the workforce in non-priority development areas will definitely move to development areas spontaneously.
We need to be prepared for both possibilities in this regard. ..."
He Yuzhu said a lot that day.
Industrial relocation and upgrading will allow outdated production capacity to extend to inland areas, addressing the issue of migrant workers potentially returning to their hometowns with new technologies for future development.
And how most migrant workers can settle down and make a living in a different place.
Some of the things He Yuzhu said were too ahead of their time.
He Yuzhu would definitely not talk about these things with others.
But with Lao Niu, he felt that Lao Niu was a very good person to confide in.
"...Putting aside other things, those migrant workers in the southern coastal areas are in their prime."
His wife and children stayed in his hometown.
If they were forced to live like this for over a decade...
That's too cruel for them.
So, could we focus our efforts on social services?
Wherever they work, they can find housing there.
"So that they can live a comfortable life locally, and it's easier for the children to go to school near their parents?" He Yuzhu's words were a heartfelt expression.
After all, he had seen these problems in his previous life.
Although solving these problems will inevitably require social costs.
But the reason those problems persisted for so long in the previous life was because we developed too fast.
In terms of social services, the pace of development is lagging behind.
But in this lifetime, He Yuzhu has already reached this position.
Giving a heads-up in advance can solve many problems.
As for the social costs,
To be honest, it can be transferred here.
Putting aside other things, if we established a few schools in areas with a large number of migrant workers...
Those migrant workers would certainly be willing to share the cost of their children's education.
It's that simple.
The same principle applies to food, drink, and home arrangements...
He Yuzhu didn't go into too much detail about these points.
After all, these kinds of things shouldn't be something a mere school principal like him should be thinking about.
He was afraid that if he said too much, Lao Niu would actually drag him into doing something specific if he was transferred to Shanghai.
He Yuzhu did not want his life to undergo too much change.
Putting everything else aside, He Yuzhu, who has lived in Shanghai for most of the year, is not used to the climate there.
Furthermore, to put it selfishly...
He also has elderly parents to care for and young children to raise. His mother-in-law is in poor health and doesn't seem to have many years left.
There's also He Daqing. Although He Yuzhu hates him to the core, He Yuzhu still hopes to be by his father's side and see him off in his old age.
It's just that simple an idea.
During this period, He Yuzhu did not pay much attention to what was happening outside.
During his business trip, Chen Yong and Xiao Qian helped him manage things at the school, and they handled it quite well.
But there were still many things left for him to deal with.
The school's expansion, the establishment of research and development projects, and the allocation of students.
In the blink of an eye, the group of young people that He Yuzhu has painstakingly trained are about to enter society.
Currently, the allocation is unified.
But He Yuzhu also had his own ideas.
He didn't want the students he had painstakingly taught to go back to where they came from, to waste their time in those old-fashioned machinery factories from the 1950s and 60s.
So recently, he organized several seminars at the school to allow graduating students to think carefully about their future.
He Yuzhu took a considerable risk in this matter.
He Yuzhu can keep the best students at the school.
Whether it's teaching or working in the school-run factory, He Yuzhu has this priority.
Even if local leaders complain, this merit-based retention policy is still plausible.
Another group went to work in the small, specialized factories under his leadership.
That's where the problem lies.
Those who stayed in Beijing were in a better position, since they were all from collective work units.
It's like keeping the good stuff in the family.
However, recruiting staff for a factory in a small southern city is not such an easy task.
Now they're following the lead of Hong Kong businesses, offering their workers high wages but low benefits.
The subsequent guarantees are very vague.
First of all, a large number of students who are qualified for the program are unwilling to go.
They would rather go back to their hometowns, work in small machinery factories, and earn a stable monthly salary of fifty or sixty yuan.
They also don't want to go to the south and take a job that might pay only two or three hundred a month.
The former is certain, while the latter is uncertain.
As a famous comedian once said, you can earn five or ten yuan a day in Tianjin, but you might earn ten thousand yuan a day if you venture out to Beijing.
But actually taking this step is extremely difficult.
Even if those students are thinking of taking a chance, their family and friends will inevitably remind them that if they go to the south, they may have to turn back and lose their secure job that pays fifty or sixty yuan a month.
"...I'm here, and I dare to make this guarantee to you."
As long as you work hard and study diligently in the South, even if the future treatment does not meet your expectations...
I'll bail you out.
I'll arrange jobs for you then.
If you're really out of food, come to my house for a meal.
I'm a pretty good cook.
"Your teacher Chen and General Affairs Officer Qian can attest to this." In the small conference room, He Yuzhu looked at the twenty or thirty young people below and couldn't help but pat his chest to assure them.
These twenty or thirty people were all misled by He Yuzhu, willing to give up their job assignments after graduation and choose to try their luck in the south.
These people are willing to trust him, and He Yuzhu is also willing to give them more assurances because of their trust.
If all else fails, we can just set up a few more school-run factories.
For He Yuzhu now, that's not too difficult.
If he doesn't protect his own students, then who will he protect? (End of Chapter)