Courtyard House: My Wife is Xu Huizhen

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He Yuzhu spread his hands and said, "Whether you believe it or not is irrelevant; we'll just have to see how things develop."

Xu Xiaomei was also very helpless. Although she cared a lot, she could only keep it to herself and wait and see if the police could solve the case.

It was past 9 o'clock when the phone rang. He Yuzhu picked it up, and Sun Tie's voice came through:

"Zhu Zi, do you have time to come to the police station?"

"What's wrong, brother-in-law?"

"This is not a matter for your department. Come over here for a moment, we would like to ask for your opinion."

He Yuzhu said, "Okay, I'm coming right now."

After hanging up the phone, He Yuzhu rode his bicycle to the police station and went straight into Sun Tie's office.

After exchanging a few polite words with him and discussing his studies, Sun Tie inquired about the feud between the He family and Yi Zhonghai.

He Yuzhu then recounted all the past grievances, since it was Yi Zhonghai who had stirred up trouble and schemed to make He Daqing raise his child.

Of course, there are some things that can't be said, but this is enough.

Sun Tie said, "So it seems there were quite a few conflicts between your two families before."

"Yes, so I think it must be that the two brothers were beaten up and then they tried to shift the blame onto us."

He Yuzhu simply did not believe what Yi Wending said, that the other party would mention He Daqing's name.

Sun Tie said, "I also believe it couldn't have been the old man who did it. Do you have any clues about the murderer?"

This was the real reason Sun Tie invited He Yuzhu over. The matter wasn't a big deal, but it involved He Yuzhu's family, which made him very concerned. He wanted to solve the case as soon as possible, but he didn't have any clues at the moment, so he invited He Yuzhu over.

He Yuzhu said, "Actually, Xu Wude's family also had conflicts with the Yi family."

“Hugh Wood?” Sun Tie asked, “You mean that film projectionist who just got out of prison?”

"Yes, it was Yi Zhonghai who reported Xu Wude when he was taken in."

He Yuzhu explained why Xu Wude went to jail, making Sun Tie understand the cause and effect of the matter.

Sun Tie said, "If that's the case, then the conflict between their two families is actually more suspicious than that between yours."

"Yes, after all, Hulwood spent nearly four years in prison and suffered a lot during that time."

He Yuzhu changed the subject and said, "Actually, there's something else that no one else knows. On the same night that Yi Wending was beaten, Xu Damao also got into a fight."

"Oh, how did you know the specifics of the situation?"

"I'm neighbors with his sister, and that night..."

He Yuzhu said that Xu Damao went to his sister's house that night with all his injuries, which he saw with his own eyes. However, Damao never said who he fought with, and he also denied that he hit Yi Wending.

"What a coincidence!"

As a police officer, Sun Tie certainly couldn't believe that such a coincidence could happen.

The two sides had a history of conflict, and it was quite a coincidence that Xu Damao got into a fight with someone else that very night.

He Yuzhu said, "I don't believe in such a coincidence either, but he denied it all."

Sun Tie said, "Then leave this matter to me. I will definitely get to the bottom of it."

This was exactly the result He Yuzhu wanted. He couldn't investigate it himself, so he could only tell Sun Tie. They were the ones who were more professional at solving cases.

He Yuzhu stayed at the police station for a while, and then returned to the factory.

Another phone call summoned me to a meeting at the neighborhood committee.

"What? The government is going to reorganize and merge the various jurisdictions?"

After liberation, the entire capital was divided into districts. Nanluoguxiang, where He Yuzhu lives, is now part of District 5.

The entire inner city is divided into seven districts, from the first to the seventh.

外城分成5个区，从从第8区到第12区，前门大街就是第8区和第9区的分界线，何雨柱所在的大栅栏地区就是第9区也叫外二区。

Li Hongying said, "Last year, the higher authorities wanted to adjust the administrative divisions, but it has not been implemented until recently. They have also issued a document requiring all localities to carry out preliminary preparations. The regional planning will be adjusted soon."

He Yuzhu asked, "Then how should we adjust it?"

Li Hongying said, "District 5 will be abolished and then divided in two. One part will be combined with District 3 to form Dongcheng District. The other part will be assigned to Xicheng District."

He Yuzhu knew that the districts hadn't been divided by numbers for very long, but he didn't know exactly which year the districts of Dongcheng, Xicheng, Xuanwu, and Chongwen were established. He didn't expect it to happen this year.

He said, "This doesn't really concern us, does it?"

"The regional division is indeed not a big deal due to the policy of the higher authorities, but our street will be adjusted. Nanluoguxiang will be merged with Jiaodaokou to form Jiaodaokou Street."

He Yuzhu nodded. Previously, Nanluoguxiang and the 16 hutongs on both sides belonged to the 5th District, while the hutongs east of Jiaodaokou Street belonged to the 3rd District. The two sides were not administratively subordinate to each other and had no interaction.

They are about to merge and become a completely new street.

He Yuzhu asked, "Why did you call me here?"

Li Hongying said, "This is a very troublesome matter. I won't go into the specifics of how troublesome it is. Right now, I just want to discuss with you how to arrange the money in the accounts for the several factories."

That was before. Now that the merger is imminent, money matters are extremely sensitive, and mishandling them could cause a lot of problems.

He Yuzhu asked, "There's quite a bit of money in the account that hasn't been spent yet. What do you mean by that?"

Li Hongying said, "This is my plan: from the beginning of the merger until its completion, we shouldn't have too much cash on the books, do you understand?"

In principle, this money should be handed over to the neighborhood committee, since both the cannery and the machinery factory belong to the neighborhood committee's property.

All profits obtained should be handed over to the street office.

However, the street is currently under District 5, and if the money is received, it may be used by the district, since the district is currently taking stock of the finances of each street.

Normally she wouldn't do this, but at this crucial moment, Li Hongying wanted to discuss with He Yuzhu where the money should go.

Although He Yuzhu was only a director, and the nominal factory director was Lao Shen, He Yuzhu actually oversaw all the work of the machinery factory, while Lao Shen was only in charge of the cannery.

He Yuzhu certainly didn't want to hand over the money to the street office at this time, as it might be allocated to the district.

"Sis, what do you suggest we do?"

"Don't put it so harshly. We're working together to build the machinery factory well."

He Yuzhu chuckled and nodded, saying, "Okay."

Li Hongying said, "This is what I'm thinking: you should store some raw materials and bring in more."

He Yuzhu said, "This matter is easy to handle, it's just that there's too much money involved."

The profitability of machine factories is even more terrifying than that of canneries. Pig iron is worthless, and raw materials are purchased very cheaply. After processing, they are turned into machine tools and then sold at high prices.

Now, as long as production can be completed, cash can be received immediately, while the orders in the queue will take up to six months to be completed.

One after another, new orders came in, making the machinery factory a fortune, and its accounts were filled with cash.

Li Hongying said, "So I plan to continue to expand the factory and make some improvements to it."

When talking about the scale of the factory, He Yuzhu found it somewhat amusing.

Later generations pursued a small but exquisite approach, focusing on cultivating a single industry and striving for perfection to achieve the best.

But now a factory has a completely different development direction. Take a steel rolling mill as an example. It can not only produce various steel raw materials, but also has many processing workshops to carry out deep processing of steel.

This is somewhat related in terms of business, but the steel mill also has its own small hospital, nursery, primary school, junior high school and high school.

In addition to these schools, there are also guesthouses, clothing factories, printing plants, cinemas, supply and marketing cooperatives, shops, clubs, ice cream factories, and all sorts of unrelated factories and businesses.

To put it bluntly, a person's life from birth, schooling, work, marriage, childbirth, aging, illness, and death, to working in a steel mill, can all be solved.

Even cremation facilities have their own furnaces, and after cremation, there are public cemeteries and police stations to maintain order.

Throughout a person's life, all needs can be met by the factory.

He Yuzhu had never been interested in these things before, always thinking that as long as he ran the machinery factory well, he wouldn't need to waste energy building these other small factories.

Anyway, the street can handle it.

Li Hongying's idea of ​​improvement was to add these unrelated subsidiary factories to the machinery factory.

He Yuzhu said, "Is this necessary?"

“It’s very necessary. Right now, the machinery factory is the most profitable in the area, even more so than the cannery. So we can only build around the machinery factory.”

He Yuzhu thought about it and realized that this was the general trend, so he said, "Okay, what should we do?"

Li Hongying said, "The first thing is to turn the previous printing plant, candle factory, flour mill, clothing factory, and transportation team into auxiliary factories of the machinery factory."

These were all existing facilities; it's just that the small factories with 10 or 8 people were all brought under the management of the machinery factory.

Li Hongying said, "There is another piece of land on the street that is planned to be allocated to the machinery factory, which will fund the construction of an affiliated primary and secondary school."

At that time, prices were very low, and it was not easy to spend the money in the account. The best way at the moment was to carry out construction.

Li Hongying's idea is to build another primary and secondary school affiliated with the machinery factory, so that the money spent will also benefit the residents.

This could allow for the addition of more primary and secondary schools in the area.

He Yuzhu nodded and said, "That's a good idea."

Li Hongying had already prepared a plan and gave the address. The place was originally a local temple, but it was destroyed in the war along with the nearby houses and had never been repaired.

It would be perfect to allocate that entire area of ​​land to the machinery factory and let them carry out the construction.

After completion, it will house the primary school and the middle school affiliated with the machinery factory, with the middle school having both junior and senior high sections.