Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 297 Find a way out

Braised sparrow tastes similar to quail, but is smaller. Store it in the refrigerator and the marinated sparrow can be eaten for many days.

Luo Cheng really asked the security department to send a few people to catch sparrows in the granary of the automobile factory for a whole day, and he also deliberately opened the door to let the sparrows fly in.

In this capture, six to seven hundred sparrows were caught, and the sparrows were all packed in sacks. Then let the bus to the industrial area take him to the canteen there.

After the sparrows were cooked, all the senior executives in the industrial zone tasted them and each person got one or two pieces. The rest was taken away by Luo Cheng. The food in the art troupe was very average. Some sparrows were left at home, and the others were taken away by Dai Qianqian. She is the leader of the art troupe here. She wants to make some improvements. Food can also increase her prestige.

After the steel plant had selected a location in the suburbs of Yuxin City, Luo Cheng had previously asked Director Zhang to go to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau to send an engineering team to build the road. A road leading directly to the industrial area.

According to the road, if it really needs to be repaired, it should be repaired from the steel plant to the rolling mill, so as to facilitate the transportation of steel. But Luo Cheng didn’t think about the convenience of transportation. Even if it was built to the industrial area, the transportation route would only take a slight detour, which would be very convenient.

Luo Cheng was willing to build roads and steel plants so generously mainly because it was time to turn over quarterly profits again. The one million and hundreds of thousands of planned funds per month in the province are really nothing to the industrial zone now. If the industrial zone had not been adding various production lines recently, the money to build the industrial zone would have been repaid in a few months. However, the provinces and districts did not support the direct repayment.

Because after one quarter, the profits from the industrial zone have to be turned over, and the money earned by the industrial zone is used to repay the construction costs, so the local government will not receive any money.

The order given by Xiaoguizi requires a deposit, which is actually paid with a large amount of production equipment. But even so, life construction is still going on around the industrial zone, and there is still a lot of money in the account. There are a lot of workers, but even if there are tens of thousands of them, there are a large number of temporary workers and apprentices, and the average wage in the factory is still less than thirty.

If the average salary is to be raised, we must at least recruit people slowly and wait for another year or two. Many apprentices become regular employees after passing the assessment, and only after the recruitment situation stabilizes, the overall average salary will be higher than that of ordinary regular employees.

So for tens of thousands of people, the average salary is less than 30 yuan, and the profit from “touching you” alone is enough to pay for more. In terms of construction, it really doesn’t cost much, especially after Director Zhang took charge of maintenance and construction, he directly arranged for people to build a brick factory at the foot of a mountain outside the industrial zone.

If you burn the bricks yourself and use them yourself, the cost will be even lower. A single-employee room only costs more than 100 yuan.

These days, ordinary people get three to four hundred yuan to build their own houses, the kind of brick houses with a kitchen. The main expense is on bricks and tiles.

As for the automobile factory, the buildings are mainly made of bricks, with the top surface being a cement plane for irrigation. As for cement, the exterior walls of houses today are not painted with cement. The bricks are exposed, but the bottom layer has been painted around, mainly for writing slogans.

If it didn’t require a large amount of cement, the labor cost alone would be less than a hundred. After all, the construction of employee buildings in the industrial zone is done in batches, so large quantities save trouble.

Building houses for 10,000 people only costs more than one million yuan. For example, water, electricity, and tap water pipes are connected for free, but the faucets are connected to the outside of the house. If you want to modify them, you have to pay someone from the water plant to modify them. With so many people using tap water, the water plant must be willing to lay pipes.

For electricity, you have to pay a connection fee. Electrical poles are installed outside the building. If anyone wants to use electricity, the electrician will specially pull a wire and install a meter for you. Luo Cheng originally wanted to get all the rooms in place directly, but the rule was that profits could be directly used to build the staff building. However, the installation of water pipes with cables is not within the scope of allocation. The industrial zone can pay this money, and it must be counted as retention money.

As for self-retention funds, only 40,000 of one million can be retained for oneself. In addition, the retention money from exports was exchanged for grain. In the country, work clothes for apprentices and temporary workers. Occasionally purchased extra meat from the meat factory, as well as mung beans and sugar bought when the weather is hot, charcoal for burning in cold weather, and even some kitchen supplies, all have to be paid for through self-retention.

Therefore, in the end, the cost of opening and upgrading water and electricity was not paid for the workers.

But building roads is different. You can directly use profits for construction. The only controversial point is that roads between cities should be built by provinces and districts. Even in the case of urban construction, the two cities have negotiated and built each other to the junction of the cities. Luo Cheng went directly to someone else’s house, which was an advantage for Yu Xincheng.

However, Luo Cheng finally talked through Secretary Jiang. It would be of great benefit to Ngee Ann if this road was opened. The road was built in the industrial zone, and in the center of the industrial zone now, there must be a lot of people coming to spend money. After the steel plant was built, there were still thousands of workers. At that time, the Automobile Industrial Zone will arrange a shuttle bus to go directly there. It is guaranteed that the workers there will come here to spend money when they are free. People from Ngee Ann City will not go there to play.

When you come here to spend money, the profits generated belong to Ngee Ann City. So a road is nothing at all, and it can also make Ngee Ann look grand and support the establishment of the steel plant.

The most important thing is that even after the road is built, the industrial zone can still turn over hundreds of profits this time. You must know that last year, the profit handed over by Ngee Ann City was only more than 40 million. The average amount per quarter is more than 10 million, and now the automobile factory has completed dozens of percent of the previous year. Coupled with the existence of the automobile industrial zone, the profits of other industries have also increased significantly.

It can be said that if the industrial zone had not been investing in the construction of equipment and living areas, the profits handed over by the industrial zone in this quarter might have been enough for the previous half year. Of course, the industrial zone still retains 30% of the turnover in proportion.

When handing over the profits, Secretary Jiang took the time to visit Luo Cheng. Ask him what his plans are for the next quarter. For the arrangements for the next quarter, he will develop one or two products, but the investment will definitely not be large. Even the construction of living areas will slowly slow down. In terms of production and export, there may be more investment in forklifts and more production lines. Otherwise, take your time.

Generally speaking, it won’t be too radical, because the bigger the cooperation, the more difficult it is to break. The above attitude is that they want to run faster and earn more foreign exchange, but if something goes wrong, Luo Cheng, the helmsman, must be held responsible.

Anyway, overall, the investment in industrial zones will be quite large in the next quarter, because many products have always been in high demand domestically. But with the current profits in the industrial zone, a lot of profits will be retained every month. When the profits are handed over next quarter, it will be a huge amount.

At the end of June and the beginning of July, the grain harvest season ushered in. It’s time to pay back the hundreds of tons of grain borrowed by Secretary Jiang on behalf of Ngee Ann City every month. Ordinary rural people are also facing the time to pay public food again. But this year is okay. It’s not a huge harvest. At least the weather is good and the harvest is passable. This is mainly because the grain seeds have not been improved and there is no fertilizer in the fields. Even if the weather is good, the yield will not be much higher.

At night, cicadas were chirping and it was a little hot.

But Luo Cheng’s room has air conditioning and is connected to the living room. If other people feel hot, they can move a bamboo bed into the living room to sleep. Anyway, they can sleep very comfortably. If there are other people sleeping in the living room, it will be difficult for Luo Cheng and Qian Qian to do some things.

My sister-in-law is due to give birth in two or three months at most. These days, there is maternity leave, one month before and one month after the birth of the child. For two months in total, I received the same salary, but no benefits.

Many people who are pregnant still go to work normally and do not go to the hospital for check-ups. Many people suddenly have babies while at work, and some even give birth quickly, thinking that they just want to go to the toilet and give birth right away.

However, the plan here is to send Qin Ru back to her hometown to give birth in another month, so that there will be someone to take care of her. No one here has experience in taking care of pregnant women, but Qin Ru wants to go back to her parents’ home for some time before returning to her hometown. As for where to live, Luo Cheng can’t control that much.

“Sissi, I plan to find a time to go to Xiangjiang. I have discussed this matter with your grandfather.”

“Ah, why do you want to go to Xiangjiang suddenly? What are you doing there?”

Sissi turned over and leaned on Luo Cheng’s chest in a semi-lying position. She is not a weak woman, but after living together with Luo Cheng for so many days, the two of them have become accustomed to a sleeping position. That is, Sissi’s back was leaning against Luo Cheng, and Luo Cheng was sleeping with her in his arms from behind.

The main thing is that when Luo Cheng sleeps from behind, he has room to put his hands. He feels that he has two supports in his hands and sleeps peacefully. In addition, although Sissi resents the patriarchal preference of this era, some of her thoughts have been baptized by this era. When a man and a woman get married, they have to have children. Luo Cheng’s younger brother got married less than two months ago, and his sister-in-law got pregnant.

Dai Qianqian calculated that she and Luo Cheng had been sleeping together for almost four months, and there was no movement in her stomach. When it came to making a baby, she took the initiative, but there was no movement in her stomach, so she had no choice. This kind of sleeping position is actually convenient for Luo Cheng. It’s hot today. Even if the air conditioner is turned on, she wears a pair of looser shorts at night. Her butt faces Luo Cheng when she sleeps at night. It’s very convenient if he wants to have a baby.

Luo Cheng sighed and talked about the industrial zone. He took the lead in cooperating with Xiaoguizi directly with the person in charge of a certain group of Xiaoguizi. Industrial zones are making money, and they are also making foreign exchange. But the little devils are also making money. It makes sense to insist that the industrial zone is now helping the little devils make money. But if the kid doesn’t make money, why should he cooperate with us?

The key point is that everyone hates the Japs. Most of the movies being filmed now are about fighting the Japs or liberation. Now the scope of cooperation is small, and there are military-communist cooperation projects, so foreign exchange is normally withheld. But once some people with ill intentions bring up the matter of helping the little devil make money, Luo Cheng will definitely not be able to serve as the district chief.

We can only simply sell things to the little devils, but we cannot do this in the form of cooperation. If you want to cooperate, that’s a matter from above. Luo Cheng can’t do this anyway. If you want to change the partner, it will work, but the little devil will not.

Luo Cheng has been thinking about it for many days, and recently read some newspapers to learn more about some domestic situations. At this time, the Rabbit Country was really in a difficult situation. Even if the relationship was good, it was North Korea and Yue, but others were still lagging behind. If you get some vehicles to sell, they will definitely want them, but they can’t afford much, and they like to bargain with you for extra money. And even if you are talking about business, they will still talk about politics with you. Finally, for the sake of friendship, maybe Rabbit Country will show off its big brother style and just give some away.

The other country is just like this. It only wants and is not willing to pay for anything. There is no use for it at all. If you go to promote the product, it will make no difference if you beat the dog like a meat bun.

After thinking about it, Luo Cheng still thought of his compatriot Xiangjiang. Although it has not returned yet, it is a British colony. But it is precisely because there is no return that there is an external market. If we return now, it will be difficult to face the world from Hong Kong.

However, Luo Cheng doesn’t know the specific situation in Xiangjiang now. What he knows about are some celebrities who were born after the 1980s and 1990s. As for the current economy and situation in Xiangjiang, Luo Cheng didn’t know anything. However, when Luo Cheng planned to go to Xiangjiang, Dai Tiande asked someone to make statistics about the situation there and informed Luo Cheng.

What can I say about the situation in Xiangjiang? It’s certainly better than what’s happening in China, but it’s not rich now either. But without the domestic droughts of several years, and with the fact that it is a large port, there is no shortage of supplies.

It is now under British rule and is considered the closest capitalist region to the country. Many foreign countries use Xiangjiang to collect domestic information, but similarly, although Xiangjiang is currently ruled by the British. But the people are compatriots, and the country also collects some overseas information there.

In the past few years, the number of factories there has increased from more than 3,000 to tens of thousands, but most of them are small factories and workshops. It’s all big factories that process some things to small factories. A small factory can start working by recruiting a dozen or a few people.

Moreover, there is a market economy there, and those who are capable or willing to work will indeed have better income than at home. But at present, Xiangjiang has not yet become the paradise that Chinese people think of it. In the past few years, there has been a drought in China, and a large number of Chinese people have poured in there.

As a result, the area there couldn’t bear it all at once, and many places there were filled with wooden houses all over the mountains and plains. It’s common for a family of eight to squeeze into one bed. The only advantage is that it’s easy to find work there, and if you work hard, you won’t starve to death. But now it is impossible to say that you can make a lot of money just by going there.

But even if you can work, earn money, and have food to eat, for many places in the country, it is very good. There is no Luo Cheng in Ngee Ann City to build an industrial zone and export supplies. If it cannot recruit so many workers, many people will not have enough to eat even this year. And even now in Ngee Ann City, the counties, districts and towns below, except for Longjin Town, are not all worried about food.

There has been a bumper harvest of food, but at most we have food to eat, so we have to eat sparingly. With the current output, farmers had never had enough to eat before the disaster.

Going to Xiangjiang these days has both advantages and disadvantages. The good thing is that there are now 400 to 500 foreign-invested companies there, so there are many suitable opportunities. And it’s easy to get through there now, because it’s a British colony. In fact, the British are not strict in management there. If you have money, it will be easy to get things done there.

The disadvantage is that there seems to be a lot of industry there, but they are all light industrial products. The products Luo Cheng wants to export are all vehicles, and he still wants to use that place as a jumping-off point to sell to other countries. Going there is no different from starting from scratch.

Sissi believed that Luo Cheng was making sacrifices for the motherland’s industry. After hearing about Luo Cheng’s current situation, although she was reluctant to part with it, she supported Luo Cheng in going to Hong Kong. She also hated the Japs and felt that her husband could not cooperate with the Japs. Even if it’s just a normal product cooperation.

Luo Cheng became taller in Qianqian’s inner image, but in fact, he didn’t want to go to Xiangjiang at all. But now the industrial zone has expanded a lot and has a lot of employees. If the cooperation with the little devil is cut off directly and the current welfare can be maintained, he will definitely choose to follow the above and all products will be labeled as domestically produced in the future. If you want to buy something, just buy it with a label. If you buy it back to Little Devil Country, you can remove the label and put on your own.

But domestically or internationally, Xiaoguizi still claims that it is a vehicle produced and developed by itself. The domestic government will directly refute it. Even if they don’t ask for your foreign exchange this year, they will not let you claim that the products of the Rabbit Country are yours.

Now the industrial zone is actually adding production lines and recruiting workers, but the scale is not as dramatic as it was at the beginning. The increases are all for domestic sales. But domestic sales basically bring nothing except money. At most, if the sales are good, the factory will give you a lot of bills, and you can buy bicycles, sewing machines and the like.

Luo Cheng wanted to maintain various benefits for his employees, including his own, so he had to find another way. The current sporadic exports from Britain and France cannot support this. Unless the output of forklifts can be increased, a thousand units can be produced a month and sold for tens of millions. But it cannot be directly stamped and formed, and even senior workers from the entire province can’t be made to knock on the car body.

You must know that domestic Hongqi cars are loud and awesome. Now the annual output is only a hundred vehicles.

Luo Cheng was a little depressed. He actually didn’t want to go to Xiangjiang. Mainly because I heard that things are not that good over there now, and we have to slowly pave the way to get there. How can I be comfortable at home, with air conditioning on hot days and nights, and with a goddess-like wife by my side. When you are in a bad mood, you can use the slogan of passing on the family line to relax.

For example, now, Luo Cheng wants to think about future generations again.

“Don’t mess around. My sister-in-law and the others are still sleeping in the living room outside the door.”

“Just cover yourself with a quilt and slow down. Didn’t you say you wanted three children?”

“Then~~, try your best to get me pregnant.”

Sometimes I have to say that the beds these days are really amazing. The workmanship is old-fashioned and there are no nails. Even if you shake on it, the bed will still be stable. There was no sound at all. No wonder a better-made bed costs eight dollars these days.