Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 298 The reason why we must go to Xiangjiang

Luo Cheng wanted to go to Xiangjiang. After making a thorough decision, he contacted Dai Tiande. Let Luo Cheng wait first. Now, it is different there than in China. Before liberation, there was no ID card system in Xiangjiang.

Before 1949, Chinese people could come and go at will when going to Hong Kong or from Hong Kong to China. However, after liberation, a large number of domestic people poured into Hong Kong, so an identity registration system was implemented in Hong Kong. However, the so-called earliest ID card was actually similar to the domestic letter of introduction. It’s just a piece of paper to fill in. There is no photo or anything. Just fill in some information, where you live, and stamp it.

Before the 1960s, if you went to Xiangjiang, even if you got a fake seal, you could forge your identity certificate. And it can’t be found out at all. In fact, we didn’t check it very strictly.

But in June 1960, Xiangjiang implemented a new identity certificate. It is beginning to officially restrict domestic people from entering Xiangjiang directly. However, the control is still not very strict, and people will be able to apply for an ID card as long as they go to Xiangjiang and have someone to guarantee them or give them some money.

Only those who have just gone there illegally, been caught and have no money will be sent back. The compatriots in Xiangjiang are also very enthusiastic. Every time someone from China is repatriated, after loading onto the truck, enthusiastic Xiangjiang citizens will throw some supplies onto the truck for the repatriated people.

At the beginning of liberation, why did so many people come to Xiangjiang? In fact, at the beginning of liberation, Xiangjiang was no better than China. But everyone knows that land must be nationalized and socialized. Some capitalists who funded the People’s Liberation Army were still barely cared for.

But before liberation, there was more than just the People’s Liberation Army. The capitalists prefer Chiang Kai-shek’s troops because Chiang Kai-shek didn’t shout slogans to make everyone be like those idiots and be equal.

Even though Xiangjiang was not doing well at that time, many of the people who came here were former landlords and capitalists. Xiangjiang is a British colony, and Britain is a capital society. More suitable for them to survive.

Now, Xiangjiang is still not that good. It seems that there are many factories and workshops. But they are all small and the profits are very low. GDP is now about the same as that of South Africa and Greece. Even Venezuela’s economy is three times that of Hong Kong.

But if the economy in Xiangjiang is so bad right now, why do so many people in China still want to go there? The reason is very simple. If the economy is poor, it is because the government’s economy is currently poor. There are no pillar industries yet. You must know that there are currently 2 to 3 million people in Hong Kong, but there are tens of thousands of factories.

This is because although there are many factories, there are no big ones. The big ones are in the processing industry. Ordinary people can set up a stall, get something to process at home, or even do some hard work on the dock. Large factories are also eyeing the market for eagle sauce, producing cloth, garments, rubber shoes, plastic products, electronic parts and hardware products.

They are all scattered and small things, and the profits are very low, but the profits can go directly to the workers themselves. People with brains can earn a little difference in price, while people without business acumen can do better by working hard than at home.

Of course, when we say things are better here than in China, we are only comparing them to unemployed rural people. If you have a job, people in China are more stable now than here in Xiangjiang. But it is also the case in Xiangjiang that almost all the people are industrialized, laying the foundation for industrial processing in Xiangjiang.

When Hong Kong really started to flourish, it was after the emergence of electronic products, and some people who made money, they gradually became dissatisfied with just processing. There are many foreign trade companies in Xiangjiang, and those who are capable can negotiate cooperation directly. At most, they can also advance some capital here. Then it gradually opened up the domestic economy. Not only did it become an overseas world processing port, it even developed its own products. The entertainment industry also gradually developed after Xiangjiang’s economy rose.

Luo Cheng wants to go there. Someone in China will contact him to prove his identity, arrange a photo, and get a fingerprint. Then just wait in China. If you don’t have this ability, then you are looking down on some people in China now.

Another point is that the environment there is a bit chaotic. After all, it is such a big place and development is concentrated in one place. It’s not like in China, where someone is in charge of everything. It can be said over there that where there are people, there are rivers and lakes. If you go there as a commoner, like Luo Cheng, you will be looked down upon working as a coolie at the dock.

Moreover, there are many cliques at the dock. Even if it is not the dock, there are some related people there, including various Baotou. It’s a big trouble if you accidentally get into it.

If Luo Cheng wanted to go, he would have to be accompanied by a few people to protect him. Over there, he was more popular as an investor. There is also a liaison officer in Xiangjiang. When Luo Cheng passes by, he will also take the initiative to contact him.

All Luo Cheng can do now is wait and take care of things in the industrial zone first.

Therefore, Luo Cheng held a management meeting inside the industrial zone. Without any scruples, he directly talked about the current problems in the industrial zone and said that we could no longer cooperate with the little devil in such depth. He is going to Xiangjiang to find a new export outlet, and the industrial zone here is already quite large. He wants to temporarily expand domestic supply and demand, but he must do one thing, so that if the scale becomes larger, the welfare of workers will decline.

Exports to little devils cannot be expanded, and the production intensity of forklifts can be appropriately increased. In China, there are many sales, but only money. If employees are expanding, they must also expand their planting and breeding bases.

Now there are 20,000 to 30,000 employees in the industrial zone. If the number of employees reaches 50,000, the benefits will be reduced. Those of them who are leading cadres will, of course, have higher positions and higher power because of their large scale. But equally, they have to consider that the industrial zone is developing too fast, and even Luo Cheng himself is being suppressed and not given the corresponding level. The qualifications of others are enough. If you insist on seeking scale, be careful that your superiors send people to pick peaches.

Just like Du Yongkang, the current director of the industrial zone, even if the number of employees in the industrial zone is doubled, Luo Cheng will not even be able to become the district director here. It is guaranteed that his current qualifications are not even enough to be a deputy district chief, and the higher-ups will definitely parachute personnel over.

Nowadays, factories and industrial zones have a responsibility system of factory directors and district directors. When people attending the meeting heard Luo Cheng’s concerns, many people actually persuaded Luo Cheng to simply give up cooperation with the Japs. Given the current situation in the industrial zone, profits are so high that at most the entire industrial zone will stop recruiting people. As long as the supporting breeding and planting industry is developed for a period of time, even if other countries do not export, food security will still be as good as it is now.

In addition to food, the vegetables in the industrial zone are now provided by cooperatives and plantations in Longjin Town. There is no need to buy vegetables, and the planting area has cooperated with the Agricultural University. Now they are building large greenhouses. After the construction is completed, they said that watermelons can be grown for another season and can be eaten in October when the weather starts to cool down. watermelon.

In winter, except for the coldest month or two, there are many varieties of vegetables to eat.

I feel that there is absolutely no need for Luo Cheng to take that risk and go to Xiangjiang. It’s just rice. If we wait for a year or two, as long as there is no drought or anything else, we will have it.

Luo Cheng still refused everyone’s well-intentioned suggestions. It wouldn’t matter if he only had rice. The key is the various fruits, milk powder, candies, clothing, soybeans, etc. that the little devil helped buy.

The department store has only been open for more than a month now, and it has become a place that almost everyone in the surrounding area talks about.

Many people come almost every day, including the leaders from the province who came last time, because each of them handed out a lot of papers. But they were busy themselves, so they gave the money to their wives and children. The wives and children who took the rolls were disdainful at first. Ngee Ann City is a backward city in this province. Who can go to Ngee Ann City on this hot day?

If it weren’t for these husband leaders who really said that the department store over there, even the surrounding area would be a magical place. He also asked them to bring more money with them if they went. There is milk powder on the first floor, which is imported and cannot be compared to malted milk. It is a great gift to buy a can and give it to some elderly elders.

There are also clothes and shoes. Some children who go to school are still somewhat competitive. If it looks good, it’s okay to buy one. The styles are not too different from those in China, but there are many clothes with lines and plaids, and clothes with flower patterns.

So a few days after the department store opened, some high-end items began to sell. The food business is also very good, the price is cheap, and if you have rolls, even the workers can afford it.

So it didn’t take long for the news about Ngee Ann Industrial Zone, a shopping ‘holy place’, to spread in the province and surrounding areas. Not only can you visit department stores, but the tickets here can also be used to buy meat, chickens and ducks at some farmers’ markets in the living area, and can even be used appropriately at the supply and marketing cooperative.

In this case, you really can’t take the rolls to buy rice and some meat and come back. It only costs a few cents to take a shuttle bus there.

And what to do when the first batch of tickets given to the leaders gradually runs out of people around them. As cadres, their salary is one to two hundred a month. It is true that they often have money but no place to spend it. Before this, I didn’t know that there was an industrial zone in Ngee Ann. From the name, you might think it was a place for industry, but it is actually an area where life and industry are combined.

There are newly built cement roads there, which are hygienic and clean, and the living areas are also full of buildings. There are no dilapidated wooden houses and tiled houses, all of which are workers or workers’ families. There are no street people like other places who can’t find jobs and idle around all day long. There are basketball courts, table tennis courts, and an ice rink. There is a cinema at the top of the department store, and there are benches for people to rest in the square outside the building. In the evening, there were people selling candied haws on a stick and people making popcorn. Of course, the people selling candied haws on a stick are actually employees of the candied haws store on the second floor.

But it would be good to sell it in the square in the evening. Moreover, the industrial zone has specially opened shuttle buses to the provinces and districts, but the buses do not enter the provincial and district passenger terminals because the shuttle buses in the industrial zone are self-operated and are not managed by the passenger terminals. The shuttle bus here in the industrial zone is not only beautiful, but also has air conditioning.

This has made many people who have been to industrial zones remember the bus stops in industrial zones. If you take the shuttle bus to the industrial area, you don’t need to take the bus to Ngee Ann City Bus Terminal and then transfer to the industrial area. Instead, you will go directly to the industrial area.

Various counterfeit rolls in the industrial area became popular. When these rolls flowed into Pigeon City, they quickly became circulated locally. There are many employees in the industrial zone, and they can receive some every month. Some people are really reluctant to use it. After all, the food is enough to eat. There are some things that they are not willing to consume, so they try to ask if there is anyone in the pigeon market to collect it.

And after this attempt, I found that not only were some people accepting tickets, but they were also more expensive than normal tickets. This is passed down to ten, and ten is passed down to a hundred. Many people understand that this volume is basically no different from money. It’s just that the price they sell it for is similar to the actual face value, but the people who buy this volume spend more than the face value.

Therefore, with the establishment of a circulation place, even if the industrial zone does not issue any more tickets to the outside world, the people who come here to play are often people from other places with good family conditions.

Especially those who live in compounds can only live after reaching a certain level. After a few young people of the same age got a batch of papers, they went to Ngee Ann City Industrial Zone in groups.

In the food area on the second floor, new delicacies have recently been introduced, including sea squid, large crabs, and many kinds of sea fish and shrimps. Served as a BBQ. As long as you have the roll, the price is not expensive. If you don’t have any rolls, you can also buy a roast duck and try it.

If Luo Cheng wants to maintain the status quo of his living area, or even maintain a ‘paradise’ situation, he still has to go to Xiangjiang. Some things can be taken slowly, but some things are in short supply in the country and cannot be bought even if you have money, so there is no way.

In fact, there is a more important point. Luo Cheng’s ability to create a large amount of foreign exchange is his biggest advantage at present. Otherwise, how could it be possible that the industrial zone has not even arranged for a deputy district chief to come over, nor even for the senior district officials who can confront the district chief.

I just don’t want to restrict Luo Cheng from producing new products and obtaining more foreign exchange. If Luo Cheng gets rid of the little devil restrictions and concentrates on developing domestic supply and demand production, then the industrial zone has reached such an extent that even with the existence of Dai Tiande, it is worth someone trying to pick peaches.

At most, Luo Cheng will be transferred to the military industry, but this industrial zone is built locally, and products that involve the military industry can be divested. Considering the current scale of the industrial zone, the district chief should be a department-level cadre.

Luo Cheng is currently a C-level cadre, but the treatment he enjoys is one level higher. He enjoys a one-level salary increase, which is the position he holds. If he leaves here and goes to other places, he will not have this salary.

Luo Cheng has already thought about it. Before electronic technology and the like came out, he actually had nothing to worry about. If the industrial zone expands a little, there will be no additional expansion. Like the steel rolling mill in Sijiucheng, it’s awesome, with tens of thousands of people. But so what, when the factory was small, you could just find a relationship with a meat joint factory and get one or two pigs, and everyone could have a big meal of meat.

But when the scale reaches the level of 10,000 people, a few pigs per person will be gone. According to the supply and demand situation, the industrial zone area can still expand greatly, but it is currently at this scale. In fact, when it comes to eating meat, it is no longer as frequent as when Luo Cheng first established the car factory. That is to say, relying on a large amount of seafood, fish and the like instead. Eating a scrambled egg costs tens of thousands at a time, and it is not something you can arrange casually. Gotta figure it out.

If it was still the earliest days, when the car factory had just come up with the cube car. Even if we recruit the first batch of workers, there will only be two to three hundred people. During that time, Luo Cheng and Director Zhang used their products to help many companies. Eggs and meat come every few days, and even the defective cloth comes every month.

Now, in fact, the benefits of defective cloth disappeared before the cancellation of rice bran and soybean meal. Nowadays, industrial areas still get a lot of defective cloth every month, but compared with the base number of workers, it is indistinguishable. They can only be used for some rewards. Only those who work actively and are rated as outstanding workers can receive the defective cloth.

I used to look down on matches because I could get a lot of them just by asking for favors. At that time, Luo Cheng and Director Zhang also said that these match tickets could be used for a lifetime. But now the industrial zone consumes tens of thousands of boxes every month. If you want to distribute one more box of matches, it will cost tens of thousands.

As for other soaps, gloves, etc., not to mention.

This is mainly because after the establishment of the industrial zone, more people were recruited from outside, which created pressure on many local livelihood enterprises in Ngee Ann, but it also brought profits.

When going to Xiangjiang, Luo Cheng has already thought of the entry point. The vehicle must not be able to get there at the beginning. Xiangjiang is not wealthy at the moment, and as for vehicles, Luo Cheng just wants to use Xiangjiang as a jumping off point and sell them to other countries. Try to sell to some big countries.

The currency of a big country will be recognized by many other countries and can be used to directly repay Su’s debts. If it is a small country, then exchange supplies.

In Xiangjiang, refrigerators and air conditioners are a better entry point. There are many factories there, although many are small factories and workshops. But there are thousands of bosses, not to mention four to five hundred foreign-funded enterprises. In addition, it is also a hot coastal area, so the local market will not be small.

Then first use the air conditioner and refrigerator to live there, and then discuss cooperation with some foreign companies. That will be much easier. But over there, everything must be done as a Xiangjiang person, and the identity here cannot be revealed. Once your identity is exposed, you can get along in Xiangjiang, but you will easily attract attention.

If you just want the market in Xiangjiang, it would actually be better to expose your identity. He just wants to make money by directly darkening his image. Damn it, being a district chief in China only costs more than 200 yuan a month. It’s boring. He came to Xiangjiang and found a private way to get goods. He just wanted to make a fortune here.

At that time, things from China will be smuggled over, and things from over there will be smuggled over. Luo Cheng has become an Infernal Affairs figure, but for such a figure to sell vehicles, unless the vehicle factory is also built in Xiangjiang. Otherwise, it was found that everything exported in Xiangjiang was obtained domestically, and all the funds were in the hands of the state.

Luo Cheng basically has only one way to go, run away.