Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....
Wan Feng helped at Gu Hongzhong's house until it was almost dark before leaving. Before leaving, Wan Feng threw down another thousand yuan.
"Mr. Wan, what should we do?" Gu Hongzhong ran out of the house with the money.
The boss paid for the moving transportation and rent, and also prepared two thousand kilograms of firewood.
He was given another thousand yuan, and Gu Hongzhong felt very sorry.
Wan Feng waved his hand and said, "Mr. Gu, a broken home is worth a fortune. Every time you move, it's a loss. This money is for you to buy some of the things you'll throw away over there. Money is just a thing outside of your body, it's nothing. Once you've settled your home, you can just work hard to earn a salary."
Gu Hongzhong's eyes were filled with tears.
To win over someone, of course you have to win over his heart.
As a person who works for others, it is the greatest honor to have a boss who treats his employees well.
Wan Feng thinks he is a good boss.
A good boss cannot always fool people with words. You have to understand your employees' thoughts and help them solve their problems.
Wan Feng's help to Gu Hongzhong went far beyond this. In the past two days, he asked about the salaries of these technicians.
The salaries for these technicians were originally set by Wan Feng, ranging from one thousand yuan to five hundred to three hundred to two hundred.
It is formulated according to their own level.
Only Chen Dao and Li Da are level eight craftsmen, the rest are level seven, six and five.
Lu Chaoxian, who brought Gu Hongzhong here, was a seventh-level craftsman with a salary of 500 yuan.
Now Wan Feng feels that the salary setting is a bit unreasonable, mainly because the wages of level 5 and level 6 craftsmen are a bit low.
It’s the same old saying: If you want a horse to run, you have to feed it grass.
A boss who is unwilling to pay wages is definitely not a good boss.
These level 5 and 6 craftsmen are the ones who work harder, and the salary gap with the first-level ones is a bit too big.
Therefore, Wan Feng promoted the salary reform of these technicians. Except for the highest level, the salary of level seven was increased by 100 yuan to 600 yuan; the salary of level six craftsmen and level five craftsmen were all increased by 200 yuan, and now they are 500 yuan and 400 yuan respectively.
Wan Feng took advantage of this adjustment to directly raise Gu Hongzhong's salary to the second tier, 600 yuan per month.
This is mainly because he was afraid that Lu Chaoxian would lose face, otherwise Wan Feng was planning to transfer Gu Hongzhong to the first level.
Wan Feng did not tell Gu Hongzhong about the salary adjustment in advance. This would be a little surprise for him when the salary was paid.
Gu Hongzhong's family has settled down, and all production plans in the factory are proceeding step by step.
All that's left is the residential building.
After a meeting and discussion at the company, Zhou Bingde finally decided to develop the residential area of Weidongling, and came up with a project budget and a model rendering of the community.
Wan Feng took the renderings sent by Yu Jiadong and conducted an on-site inspection, and believed that the plan was feasible.
The community is located on the top of Dongling Mountain, close to Heiwu Highway. It is square in shape and has a total of six buildings. Each building is planned to be four stories high, and each building has a construction area of 2,400 square meters.
"Can we rely on the two and a half people in your third team to handle the construction of the factory and the community?"
"Team Two will be responsible for the residential complex, while Team Three will still be building the factory here."
"I don't care what kind of factory buildings others build, but I want to see my expanded factory open next summer."
Yu Jiadong blinked for a long time. "Construction of ordinary factory buildings and walls in the factory area is not a problem. I guess we won't be able to finish building those buildings. There are too many of them."
There are two three-story factory buildings with an area of more than 5,000 square meters, and a four-story square scientific research building with an area of nearly 4,000 square meters. How could he build it?
It's not built specifically for his family. Yu Jiadong already has other people's factories and his own small buildings.
"That's your business. If I come back next summer and my factory isn't finished, I'll deduct your salary."
Yu Jiadong was helpless: "Can you just fool me? If you do, I promise to cover it up for you."
"I dare you! My building must be built with sufficient materials. Don't even think about cutting corners. You usually say that having a drink or a meal is a small matter, but if you cheat me on my building, I will definitely not give you face."
"I knew you would say that. I'm going to put it this way. I'll do my best. If you really think I can't do it, go find your godfather!"
Yu Jiadong knew that it was sometimes useless to reason with this guy, so at the critical moment he would blame Zhou Bingde.
"Then the scientific research building must be built for me?" Wan Feng compromised.
The sooner the research building is put into use, the sooner we can achieve fruitful results.
"That's no problem. I promise to get the research building for you by July or August next year."
Now that all the things at home have been settled, it's time for Wan Feng to set off for Heihe. Those foreigners will be overstaying their visa in three or four days, and if they don't leave now, there will be big trouble.
There were only three local people left this time, Wan Feng, Han Guangjia and Zhang Xian, plus seven or eight foreigners.
Chen Dao was sure not to go out.
He would go again if necessary, but Wan Feng felt that Chen Dao would not go again in the future.
In the morning at the bay mouth, four beautiful women, Luan Feng, Zhang Xuan, Hao Qing, Liang Hongying, saw the three off.
Han Guangjia hugged Liang Hongying and got into the car.
Zhang Xian also followed Han Guangjia's example, hugged Hao Qing and got into the car.
It’s a problem when we get to Wan Feng, because he has two people here.
"If I hug Luan Feng, Zhang Xuan will definitely be dissatisfied. There are four people here and you're the only one left. You'll definitely be unbalanced. What if you get upset and something happens? I might as well be a bit of a showman and hug you too."
While Zhang Xuan was still confused, Wan Feng hugged him with both hands.
Zhang Xuan's little face turned red and her heart was beating wildly. This was the first time that the gangster hugged her in more than a year.
This left her completely unprepared.
"Okay, let's go!"
Wan Feng waved and got into the car.
In the car, Han Guangjia and Zhang Xian looked at Wan Feng and giggled.
"Why bother!" Han Guangjia said only two words because he was very frugal with his words.
In order to save time, Wan Feng planned to fly the whole way back this time.
Take a bus from Hongya to Bohai, then fly directly to Harbin, and then fly to Heihe.
Even so, it took two days to reach Heihe.
At the base, Zhang Zhiyuan, Li Yong, Li Mingdou, He Xiao and some local people were on duty.
The first thing Wan Feng did when he returned to the base was to give them a holiday.
The second thing was to quickly send these Soviet experts to the other side.
They will come to China again in February after applying for their second passports and visas.
Wan Feng gave them a deadline to gather in Heihe before February 1st.
The Spring Festival of 1988 was on February 17th, and he planned to set off back to Jiangwei on February 1st to deal with the trouble for Han Guang's family.
The river surface has been blocked, but I don’t know how much load it can bear. There is no problem with people walking through it.
The port reopened after being closed for 20 days, but only small-scale transactions between people were allowed, and the trading of bulk commodities would be postponed for a few days.