industrial overlord

Chapter 62
For several days, Hanhua Machinery Factory was immersed in a state of turmoil.

On that day, Peng Jun, who committed suicide by taking poison, was sent to the county people's hospital in time by truck in the factory. After gastric lavage and rescue, his life was saved. In the hearts of many workers in the whole factory.

It turned out that the reason for Peng Jun's suicide was that the partner he had just talked with for half a month had blown away again. This was already the fifth partner he had blown off, and there was only one reason why the partner had blown up the lamp with him, and that was that he was still a temporary partner. work.

The 27-year-old Peng Jun, like many older children in the factory, has been working as a temporary worker in the factory since he graduated from junior high school, waiting indefinitely for the opportunity to recruit workers into the factory.

The recruitment of state-owned enterprises in China has gone through several different periods.In the 50s, factory recruitment was open to the whole society, including peasant children, who also had the opportunity to enter the factory and become workers who ate commodity food.Before rural communes, the economic conditions of peasant families with sufficient labor force were even better than that of workers, so the desire to become a worker was not urgent.

After entering the 60s, the gap between urban and rural areas began to gradually widen, and the state strictly controlled the number of urban residents who ate commodity grains.At this time, the scope of factory recruitment is narrowed to urban residents, and rural children have almost no chance to become workers.However, during this period, the pressure of new employment in cities was not great, and almost all children in cities could be arranged by the state to work as soon as they reached adulthood.

Since the end of the 60s, the employment situation in cities has become tense. A large number of children born after the founding of the People's Republic of China have entered the workforce. However, the country's economy has stagnated due to frequent political movements, and the increase in jobs has been very slow.In order to solve this problem, the state has launched a policy of sending educated youth to the countryside, pushing some urban youth to the countryside to reduce the pressure of urban employment.

At this stage, the recruitment quotas of state-owned enterprises have become an extremely scarce resource, and all provinces, cities, and industry systems strictly limit the scope of recruitment within their own jurisdictions, and refuse to flow out easily.For example, the recruitment quotas of Hanhua Machinery Factory are generally issued by the Department of Light and Chemical Engineering, and the scope of recruitment is limited to the children of the Department of Light and Chemical Engineering and the students who graduated from the chemical engineering school.

Even so, in the face of the birth wave in the 60s and 1979s, the employment opportunities that various enterprises can create are still very limited. In [-], the state launched a policy of returning educated youth to cities, and tens of millions of educated youths flocked back to cities from rural areas, which brought catastrophic pressure on urban employment.

Hanhua Machinery Factory was built in the late 50s. When the factory was built, most of the workers were in their 30s and 27s. Now it is just entering the stage when their children need employment.According to the statistics of the factory office, there are as many as [-] children of employees in the factory who need employment.Peng Shaozhe, Chu Hongyang, Zhao Yongqun, Yang Xin and others all belong to this category. However, they are still relatively young and have not yet reached the age of marriage, so they are not so urgent about becoming regular workers.But for a [-]-year-old boy like Peng Jun, the problem is very serious.

In later generations, not getting married at the age of 27 is nothing at all, and it is quite rare to be able to get married before the age of 30 in big cities.But back then, the legal age of marriage for men was only 20 years old, and most people got married when they were 22 or 27 years old. It is definitely too late to delay to [-] years old.

Peng Jun's family conditions are not too bad, his parents are dual-career, and for the sake of his son's marriage, Peng Gang and his wife have saved a whole set of furniture, and they can spare a room in the house.There is only one obstacle that prevents Peng Jun from dating, and that is his status as a temporary worker.

As a temporary worker, Peng Jun's monthly salary is only more than 20 yuan. After marriage, unless he has the cheek to ask his parents for money, otherwise, the life of the small family will be relatively tight.Girls in this era are very practical, and no one wants to marry a man who cannot support himself financially.

In this way, Peng Jun talked to five people back and forth, and without exception, he was "kicked off" by the woman first.Peng Jun felt that he couldn't hold back his face, and he had lost hope about recruiting workers into the factory in the future, so he stayed at home alone while his parents were going to work, and drank a small bottle of dichlorvos, which is used to kill mosquitoes. go down.

Fortunately in the misfortune, Peng Gang's wife happened to be busy and left the workshop early to go home.As soon as he opened the door, he smelled a strong smell of medicine. After a closer look, he found his son lying on the bed, foaming at the mouth, and immediately screamed in fright.The neighbors ran over together, and after finding out the situation, some rushed to find a doctor in the clinic, some went to the workshop to call Peng Gang, and some went directly to call the factory car.Everyone rushed to get Peng Jun onto the truck and sent him to the hospital, so that no tragedy happened.

A factory is a small society, and the affairs of Peng Gang's family cannot be hidden from others at all.In just half a day, all the workers in the factory knew the reason for Peng Jun's suicide. When the more than 100 unemployed workers' children heard about it, they all felt a sense of sadness.As for those children who were about the same age as Peng Jun, they were even more dejected, as if the person lying in the hospital bed at this time was himself.

"Isn't it just a regular job? As for going to a dead end for this?" Lin Zhenhua couldn't help mentioning this topic when he had dinner with Yang Xin.

"You are a regular worker yourself, of course you don't know what we temporary workers think." Yang Xin retorted.

"Are you a temporary worker?" Lin Zhenhua was taken aback for a moment, and then he remembered that Yang Xin was also a temporary worker, and he was in the same camp as Peng Jun. He quickly picked up the bowl and sniffed it, and looked at Yang Xin suspiciously.

"What do you smell?" Yang Xin asked.

"Let me smell it and see if you put dichlorvos in your meal."

"You're going to die!" Yang Xin scolded, "Even if I want to drink dichlorvos, I won't drag you to drink with me."

"Then I can rest assured." Lin Zhenhua said.

"You don't care about my life or death?" Yang Xin said angrily.

Lin Zhenhua said: "Isn't it? If you are a temporary worker, you will die. If the factory closes down and everyone is laid off, why not turn the Hanhua factory into a cemetery?"

"What are you talking about? Why did the state-owned factory close down?" Yang Xin said.

"Hey, people have no long-term considerations, and there must be near-term worries." Lin Zhenhua said, he put away his teasing face, and said to Yang Xin seriously: "Yang Xin, let me tell you, no matter what happens, you can't talk to Peng Jun Go learn. You have to remember that there is no hurdle in the world that cannot be overcome."

"Brother Xiao Hua, you put it lightly. If I were a temporary worker, do you think anyone would want me?" Yang Xin asked tentatively, this was actually her biggest worry.

"How come no one wants it? No one really wants it, so I want it." Lin Zhenhua blurted out.

"Bah, if you want it, who will give it to you." Yang Xin cursed with a red face, but her heart was warm.

"I'm serious." Lin Zhenhua said, "Yang Xin, in fact, you don't need to care about regular workers or temporary workers. Let me tell you, with the further advancement of the reform, the employment system will definitely change. At that time, What kind of establishment and so on are just floating clouds, as long as you have the ability, a monthly salary of tens of thousands is not a dream. If you don’t have the ability, even if you are a regular worker, if you are laid off, you will be laid off.”

"A monthly salary of tens of thousands?" Yang Xin smiled, "Brother Xiaohua, you can rely on some tricks for bragging, okay?"

Lin Zhenhua said: "How is it impossible? Do you know how much Xiong Lijun earns a month now?"

"Well, I know he earns a lot of money, does he have 200 yuan a month?" Yang Xin asked, she knew that Lin Zhenhua's shares were in Xiong Lijun's business, but she didn't know that Lin Zhenhua was actually the real boss.

Lin Zhenhua said disdainfully: "200 yuan? Who are you scolding? Let me tell you, Lao Xiong earned at least 2000 yuan last month."

"2000!" Yang Xin's eyes widened, "How can he earn so much money?"

"Do you know what a market economy is?" Lin Zhenhua said, as if thinking of something, he got up and took out an envelope from the drawer, handed it to Yang Xin, and said, "By the way, this is a dividend for you, not much, 200 piece."

"What do I want to share?" Yang Xin raised her hands, avoiding the envelope from a distance.

"Lao Xiong's store is called Xinxin Store, and it uses your name. The money is the name usage fee." Lin Zhenhua said nonsense. After he made money, he always wanted to give some money to Yang Xin.Although he has not officially decided to take Yang Xin as his girlfriend, the relationship between the two is very deep.Even if the relationship between a man and a woman is not considered, and for the sake of brother-sister relationship, he is not willing to make a lot of money by himself, and let Yang Xin's family live a tight life.

"You lied to me, I can't take this money." Yang Xin insisted.

"Just take it." Lin Zhenhua stepped forward and grabbed Yang Xin's clothes.Yang Xin couldn't struggle any more, otherwise it would become very ambiguous.Her face was flushed hot, both hands were still raised, and then she watched Lin Zhenhua stuff the envelope into her pocket.

At that moment, the two of them were so close that Lin Zhenhua could even feel the heat radiating from Yang Xin's face.

Will he take the opportunity to kiss me?Yang Xin thought tremblingly.

Do you want to take the opportunity to kiss her?Lin Zhenhua is also fighting against heaven and man.

To kiss, or not to kiss, that is the question...

(End of this chapter)