Chapter 87 The Role of the Association
Luo Jianmin works at Jianshekouzi and has been the head of the Construction Management Office for less than half a year.
Because Yang City has a small administrative level, he is not even at the section level.
Despite this, he still has considerable power, and if he moves up half a step, he will be able to reach the level of deputy section chief.
Of course, Luo Yang knew that his third uncle had retired from this position and moved to the high-speed rail new city to retire a year before his car accident.
There is no other reason, it's just that I've reached the end and I just can't take that next step.
It’s different now. Luo Jianmin is in high spirits.
"Hey, you didn't even bring any fruit when you came here, do you really think this is your home?"
The one who can say this about Luo Yang is naturally his cousin Luo Ting, with whom he always bickers when they meet. She is four years younger than Luo Yang and is a freshman in high school this year.
"Tingting, how do you talk to your brother?"
Without Luo Jianmin's help, Aunt Xu Yaqiu came to his defense first: "Yangyang is here, come in quickly. Your uncle was talking about you yesterday, and I guess you will definitely come today."
"Change into slippers!"
Luo Ting opened the door with a pout, took a pair of slippers from the shoe rack and threw them in front of Luo Yang, then prepared to go back to her room angrily.
"Aunt San, where is my uncle?"
"He's writing in the study. Don't disturb him. He should be out soon. Tingting, go get your brother a drink!"
Xu Yaqiu called his daughter and then said to Luo Yang, "I have a card game appointment and I have to leave soon. Remember to stay for dinner!"
Third Aunt works at the Urban Construction Archives. She is usually very free and likes to play mahjong in her free time.
"Give!"
As soon as her mother left, Luo Ting regained her composure: "In the future, if you want to drink, get your own drinks. Don't rely on others."
"Give!"
Luo Yang took the drink and took out an exquisite small box and handed it to Luo Ting.
"?"
Luo Ting glanced at her cousin warily: "What is that?"
"Would you know if you open it and take a look?"
"Given to me?"
Luo Ting wrinkled her nose, as if she couldn't believe that Luo Yang was so kind, but the thing was right in front of her. She took it suspiciously and looked at the logo on it. The logo was in an unfamiliar foreign language.
Inside the box was a bracelet with a four-leaf clover inlaid with shells that immediately caught her eye.
"Like it?"
I'm used to bickering and really want to say I don't like it, but I can't open my mouth. I can only bite my lower lip and keep silent.
"This is a bracelet from Van Cleef & Arpels. There is a whole series of products."
Luo Yang is like the wolf grandmother who tempted Little Red Riding Hood; "Call me brother, and I will help you prepare before the college entrance examination!"
Luo Ting was extremely conflicted.
"elder brother!"
After a while, I saw her pursed her lips, and the sound was smaller than the hum of a mosquito.
"Yangyang is here?"
Luo Jianmin's voice came from the study, and judging from the footsteps, he had already come out.
Luo Ting rushed back to her room quickly.
"Uncle Three!"
"Did you eat at home before coming here?"
"Well, my dad isn't home."
Luo Yang smiled and replied, "He said he was having dinner with a leader of Yuanfan Group and would be back in the evening."
"You and Jiang Yuanshan's daughter were high school classmates?"
Luo Jianmin looked at his nephew with a strange look in his eyes: "You two have a good relationship, but you squeezed out other people's relatives."
"Uncle San, you can't say that. I'm also related to you, okay?"
"Hahaha"
Hearing his nephew's joking words, Luo Jianmin couldn't help laughing: "Your father was also confused at first, and later he dragged me to set up a plan, and then I realized that you followed the path of Jiang Yuanshan's daughter."
"Jiang Fan and I are in love."
Luo Yang told the truth: "Actually it started in high school, and we are still on good terms now."
"I always thought you were a coward, but I didn't expect you to be so brave in private!"
Luo Jianmin also smiled and said, "Jiang Yuanshan also came from a grassroots background. He used his outstanding abilities to build up this family business in the tide of the times. He will not give it up to outsiders easily. If you really want to get together with his daughter, you might end up being a live-in son-in-law!"
"I am the only son in the Luo family, and I absolutely refuse to be a live-in son-in-law."
Luo Yang joked: "At worst, I can have a few more children, pick one with the surname Jiang, and let him inherit the family business. I don't care."
"Wow, you're quite arrogant."
Luo Jianmin picked up the cigarettes on the coffee table and handed one to Luo Yang out of habit.
Before he could react, Luo Yang took the cigarette very skillfully.
"Snapped!"
Looking at the flames in front of him, Luo Jianmin laughed in surprise. After lighting the fire, the way he looked at his nephew had changed a lot.
"Did you teach us that unbalanced quotation?" After changing his mindset, Luo Jianmin no longer regarded Luo Yang as a college student: "I heard that you got a part-time assistant job in Shanghai with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan?"
I had a lot of questions in my mind, and after meeting Luo Yang today, I finally asked them.
"Well, some of it was learned from professors at school, and some of it was learned from the company where I worked part-time."
This is the only way to explain his evil behavior. Luo Yang brought up two huge problems. "After school started, my mother suddenly came to the school and deposited 10 yuan for me. She also said some inexplicable words. Even a fool would know that something had happened at home."
Behavior requires underlying logical support. If a person suddenly changes, there must be a fundamental reason behind it.
Luo Yang's narration explained the reasons for his changes. As for the highlights, the simpler the better, and the adults would fill in the missing parts by themselves.
“You’ve really grown up.”
Luo Jianmin looked at Luo Yang with more relief in his eyes: "Our ancestors were right. Boys need to experience hardships early. When people of our generation were your age, we had already started to support our families."
"Dad, I've made an appointment with my classmates to go to the movies. We'll eat outside tonight and be home before nine o'clock!"
Luo Ting walked out of her room carrying a backpack, changed her shoes in a hurry, and ran out the door in a hurry.
"Ok?"
Luo Jianmin suspected that he had misheard: "Did Tingting call you just now?"
Luo Yang's mouth twitched: I earned this call of "brother" by spending a gift worth tens of thousands of dollars!
Fortunately, Luo Jianmin quickly drew his attention back: "You majored in civil engineering, so it's a good thing that you can work part-time in a real estate company. Besides, you've become the chairman's assistant before you even graduate. It will be very beneficial to you after you graduate."
"Uncle San, I plan to go back to my hometown after graduation!"
"what?"
Seeing that Luo Yang didn't look like he was joking, Luo Jianmin was stunned for a moment: "Are you planning to come back to help your dad? Or are you planning to take the civil service exam?"
“It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to take the civil service exam.”
Luo Yang smiled and said, "Jiang Fan asked me about my plans after graduation. I can see that she will definitely come back. If I stay in Shanghai or go somewhere further, our relationship will definitely end in failure."
"That's true"
Luo Jianmin thought for a moment and said, "Jiang Yuanshan only has this one daughter, so he can't let her wander around. But why doesn't she take the civil service exam? This combination is not bad, either."
What he meant was that Jiang Fan was doing business and Luo Yang was taking the civil service exam, and this kind of couple combination was the most common pattern in small places.
“I still want to do something on my own.”
Luo Yang did not hide his thoughts in front of his uncle: "Besides, taking root in my hometown does not mean closing myself off. The integration of the Yangtze River Delta has been going on for so many years, and the economic and trade exchanges between cities are already very close. For example, even a local tyrant like Jiang Yuanshan has to do business outside!"
Being able to express such insights shows that Luo Yang's desire to come back and develop is not just a momentary impulse.
Luo Jianmin became more and more satisfied with his nephew.
"From your tone, it seems that you already have some ideas. Tell me about it?"
Although you may be satisfied, as elders you still need to supervise and give guidance.
"Uncle San, I do have a vague idea in my mind, which can be considered a way. I'd like you to give me some advice."
Luo Yang was very calm. He had come to Luo Jianmin's house today just to find an opportunity to talk about something.
"Is mixed mortar still used in the construction industry here in my hometown?"
"Why are you asking this? Using a mixer to make cement mortar on site is done at all construction sites. You should know this, right?"
The Construction Management Office where Luo Jianmin works is in charge of this opening, so of course he knows the situation inside, but he doesn't understand why Luo Yang asked this.
"The country is now advocating energy conservation and emission reduction. This is a general trend, and it will only get more and more attention in the future!"
Luo Yang said calmly, "Uncle San, I remember there is a wall renovation office under your Construction Management Office. Isn't it promoting energy-saving bricks?"
In the early years, buildings were built with baked red bricks and blue bricks. With the booming construction industry, the number of bricks used in the market increased dramatically, and brick kilns sprang up in villages and towns across the country.
Brick kilns consume a large amount of coal. At the same time, since many small brick kilns do not have any pollution emission treatment facilities, the polluted gases emitted by burning bricks contain toxic pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, which will affect the air environment.
Therefore, in the context of energy conservation and emission reduction, construction departments in various places have begun to promote the use of energy-saving bricks, and the Wall Renovation Office is responsible for this work.
See Weizhi book.
Luo Jianmin is very experienced. When Luo Yang talked about energy conservation and wall renovation, he immediately associated it with mixing mortar.
"You want to try mixing the mortar?"
"Uncle San, it's not that I want to move, but it's the general trend."
Luo Yang flicked the ash from his cigarette expertly: "I don't want to, but others will. As policies become more and more transparent, there will always be people in the industry who will smell the business opportunity. Whoever gets involved first will get the biggest bite!"
"What do you think?"
Luo Jianmin did not comment for the time being, as he wanted to hear Luo Yang's more detailed insights.
“Premixed cement mortar!”
Luo Yang exhaled a puff of smoke and then said with a smile: "Uncle San, why can we have prefabricated commercial concrete but not premixed commercial cement mortar?"
"hiss"
Luo Jianmin took a breath of cold air.
He couldn't help but be surprised, because the interests involved in this area were too huge.
If it succeeds, it will monopolize the supply of cement mortar in the whole city, even if there is more than one company in the future.
“How to promote it?”
Luo Jianmin had a serious expression: "Who will control the market?"
"Industry association!"
Luo Yang put out his cigarette and said, "Construction Industry Association!"
The layout of my hometown has begun, please give me some monthly tickets
(End of this chapter)
