Chapter 6 Private Enterprises

  "Mom, I'm going to Tiger Uncle's house to borrow a car and take a look at the factory." The more he thought about it, the more Fu Xin felt that he should hurry up and take a look. This compound fertilizer thing, if they start working on it now, is still a bit too ambitious. Not to mention compound fertilizer, even single-element fertilizers are not enough to sell, or else his father's factory wouldn't be so prosperous.

  "Son! For goodness' sake, put down your things first, have a meal and take a good rest. You can go again tomorrow. Now it's too late, even if you get to the countryside, there's nowhere to stay...” Li Fanghua looked at Fu Xinfeng, who was in a hurry, hadn't even stepped into the house yet, and wanted to put down his things and run out again, couldn't help but feel somewhat unhappy.

  "This..." Fu Xin suddenly remembered that he had just returned and hadn't even entered his house yet, so doing this was indeed excessive.

  "Alright, mom, if dad doesn't come back tonight, I'll go to the factory early tomorrow morning to find her and see what kind of technical problem she's dealing with that requires her to be away from home day and night..."

  All I can say is that at this time, the confidentiality of ordinary enterprises is really not strong. If it were in later generations, once encountering technical difficulties, let alone going to visit, even family members wanting to know a little bit about something would be impossible, and all would be vague answers.

  Of course, this situation also gave those corrupt elements an opportunity to take advantage of it. What's going on a business trip? What's the technical breakthrough? All are vague words. The fact is, heh heh, you can fill in the blanks yourself.

  ……

  Fu Zhenbang had four sons and one daughter: Fu Xin, Fu Jiu, Fu Wen, Fu Jing, and Fu Wu.

  Among them, the big and small ones are not worth repeating. Let's talk about the other three. Lao Er paid old, compared to paying new, is two years younger. To be honest, sometimes names can really affect people. If Fu Xin wasn't reborn, he would always be a very rebellious guy, while Fu Jiu, as his name suggests, is on the contrary, he is a good boy at home, very kind and honest. He is now in junior high school. In his previous life, Fu Xin, after a few months, he took the exam with excellent results and became a teacher.

  Lao San paid for Wen, Lao Si paid for Jing. These two are twins, and Wen was just a few minutes older than Jing. Both of them were five years younger than Fu Xin. Fu Zhenbang named them Wenjing, hoping that they wouldn't be as disobedient as Fu Xin. Just thinking about how naughty Fu Xin was at the age of five...

  The name was taken, but the fourth child was a quiet girl. The third child, however, went in the opposite direction and developed into a skilled martial artist. In the village lived an old man named Li Shuwen, who was said to be a disciple of the legendary "Divine Gun" Li Shuwen. Although he did not inherit Li's mastery of the spear, he had learned Li's Baguaquan very well. Being recognized by Li as his disciple meant that he must have had some natural talent. When Fu Wen was five years old, Fu Xin heard about this master and wanted to go learn from him, but instead of becoming his apprentice, Fu Wen ended up being taken along to help with chores like grinding soybeans.

  At that time, Fu Zhenbang was not very willing for his son to learn martial arts. As for why he agreed later, Fu Xin didn't know.

  Originally a very quiet child under the care of Fu Zhenbang, from then on, he was trained by this old man to become an expert. At least within ten miles, no one dared to provoke Fu Wen. However, Fu Wen was taught with good martial arts morals and never dared to take action casually. But Fu Wen's academic performance was really poor. Now at the age of 12, four years later, he was sent into the army by Fu Zhenbang. This little guy relied on his excellent martial arts skills and made a name for himself in the military, with a golden star on his shoulder.

  ……

  It was still early at night, and during this period, TVs were high-end goods. Although Pinyin's new family had a good income, they couldn't afford one. If they wanted to watch TV, they had to go to the village committee, where there was a TV set, also the only TV in Dongcun Village. After dinner, Pinyin and his family didn't go out, so there were no entertainment activities.

  At this time, except for those who are still in their hometowns studying in the third year of junior high school and need to attend evening self-study sessions, basically everyone has started sleeping.

  The food eaten at night was not as luxurious as the big fish and meat later on, but it was a warm welcome to the returning traveler. However, there was no welcome without anything, during this period of material underdevelopment, meat was a good thing, and it was difficult for families to afford meat, and it was hard to buy, buying this stuff required a meat coupon.

  Li Fanghua took out two treasured eggs to treat her son who had just returned home and made a scallion omelette. Although eggs were quite common in the countryside, it was not long after the period of eating from the communal big pot had passed, and eggs could be sold to the supply and marketing cooperative for money to supplement household expenses, so they weren't something that could be eaten casually. Therefore, having an extra scallion omelette on the table made the three little ones very happy for a while.

  Lying in bed, Fu Xin hadn't fallen asleep yet. The scene of just having dinner made him a bit heartbroken. He was thinking to himself whether he should use his knowledge to make some money, no, he must go make some money.

  Still remember the last life, his only younger sister, Fu Jing, was because of not eating well and dressing warmly when she was a child, her body was relatively weak, which led to frequent illnesses in later years, leaving a deep root of disease. So much so that Fu Jing passed away unexpectedly at the age of 18 when he went to high school, this matter had caused the Pinyin family to be in grief for many days.

  This history must never be repeated. Fu Xin secretly decided in his heart that he had to think of a way to make some money, relying on his salary alone would not change the situation at home much.

  It's just that making money is a headache, and spending new ones is even more so. First of all, let's not talk about making money, it requires capital to invest, taking out some retirement allowance and military merit award from one's own body, one is not enough, two, I'm afraid this money will have to be handed over to father, otherwise he will think that he took the money out to fool around.

  Another important reason is that the great turmoil had just passed, and reform and opening up had just begun. State-owned enterprises were still at a loss for the settlement of that turmoil, let alone individual and private enterprises, which didn't even exist. So even if you had money, there was nowhere to find goods to do business with.

  Crossing the river by feeling for stones in reform and opening-up, encountered many setbacks. Private enterprises were not defined until August 28, 1988. At that time, it's better to keep a low profile, don't be the bird that gets shot when it sticks its head out, it's not just talk.

  I still remember it clearly, on that day, the National Bureau of Statistics and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce jointly issued a "Regulation on Classification of Enterprise Registration Types" (August 28, 1998, Guo Tong Zi [1998] No. 200). Article 9 of which stipulates: "Private enterprises refer to profit-making economic organizations established or controlled by natural persons with hired labor as the basis. Including private limited liability companies, private joint-stock companies, private partnerships and private sole proprietorship enterprises registered in accordance with the Company Law, Partnership Enterprise Law and Interim Regulations on Private Enterprises."

  It was from this point on that private enterprise was truly defined and gained legal recognition.

  It's just that doing nothing won't work, relying on earning a small salary, what can be achieved? To change the family history, first and foremost, you must have money!