As for Chinese people, what they like most is to watch the fun.
Mr. Lu Xun once used an analogy: a person squats on the ground and watches a small ant. After a while, someone else will squat down and watch it together. Soon, there will be a group of people squatting on the ground, although they don’t know what they are looking at.
Now the deputy regional commissioner and several guests from Hong Kong have come to the factory, and this gossip quickly spread throughout the factory.
It just so happened that Chen Xia and Qiu Yuxing were chatting at the door of the workshop. Soon, they were surrounded by workers.
Some came to watch the fun, some came to see what Hong Kong people look like, some came to see the regional leaders, and many people came just to join in the fun.
When Deputy Commissioner Gu asked if they agreed to the factory's restructuring, a loud shout rang out from the side:
"Leader, how do we convert this? Are we selling it to these Hong Kong people?"
"After the restructuring, will we be able to keep our jobs? Will we be able to earn 100 yuan a month like we do at the pharmaceutical factory?"
"Your region can't just ignore us."
“We want to eat, we also work, we want orders!!!”
Hearing the workers shouting one after another, Fu Guosheng immediately raised his hand and asked everyone to keep quiet.
Gu Wei cleared his throat:
"There is indeed an opportunity before you now. Otherwise, you can continue to sink into despair, earning 25 yuan a month. When the textile factory completely shuts down, that will be the time for you to be laid off and go home."
The male employees remained silent, while the female employees became anxious:
"Leader, we all have elderly parents and young children to support. You can't just ignore us. How are we going to live if we're cleared out?"
"That's right. We are state workers, so of course we have to be managed by the state."
Seeing that the workers were getting excited again, Gu Wei simply stood on a truck and made a quiet gesture.
"If you don't want to be laid off and want to get a high salary, there is another possibility now, which is the transformation of the textile factory. If any of you want to contract a textile factory, the district will consider it and will definitely not set any barriers.
Another way is to sell the textile factory to Hong Kong businessmen, and we will become a wholly foreign-owned enterprise. Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory is your role model, but I don’t know how you are willing to change?
But one thing is certain: reform is imperative. If things continue like this, not only will you workers be unable to bear it, but our region will be unable to bear it either. We will have no money left to invest in economic development."
After Deputy Commissioner Gu's conversation, his meaning was very clear.
Either some of the workers are willing to contract the Second Spinning Mill, or transfer it to Hong Kong businessmen, or wait for it to close down and be cleared out.
Everyone's mind was spinning rapidly.
Closing down and clearing out the business is the worst option, and not every worker wants to see it happen. Will the whole family be left to fend for themselves? Or should they clear out the business and return to the countryside to farm?
This one was ruled out first.
Second, the textile factory was contracted by an individual. What a joke! This is a large factory with 5,000 employees, not a small factory with 50 employees.
If there are only 50 workers, there will definitely be some brave ones who will come forward to take on the contract. At worst, they can fight guerrilla warfare like township enterprises and work harder to sell products in other places.
But if 5,000 people are contracted, even if each worker is paid 50 yuan a month, the annual cost would be 3 million yuan, not including the cost of raw materials, water, electricity, media, machine maintenance and replacement, etc.
By the way, you also have to pay a contract fee in advance.
Who among the 5,000 cadres and workers at the Second Textile Mill could come up with such a huge sum of money? It would take at least 10 million yuan to even ask for it.
10 million? Go to hell. With so many workers, it would be hard for each family to come up with 100 yuan.
So now there is only one way left, which is to sell it to Hong Kong people. Of course, you can put it in a nicer way and ask the company to be transformed into a Hong Kong-funded enterprise.
The workers looked at each other and there was silence.
It was Qiu Yuxing who was the bolder one and asked first, "If we sell our Second Spinning Mill to someone from Hong Kong, can we get high wages like the Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory?"
At this time, Yip Sai Wing came forward and said in a very unfluent Hong Kong dialect:
"You can rest assured about this. The company that is acquiring the pharmaceutical factory is the same one that wants to acquire your textile factory. Of course, they will treat you equally. As long as you work hard, there is no reason why you can't get a high salary.
Of course, our policies are different from your mainland policies. We advocate more work, more pay. Whoever works more will get more. Those who don't work will not only not get paid, but will also be fired."
Coax~~~~
The workers below immediately started discussing it. Thousands of people had gathered at the scene, and the factory office even brought out a primitive loudspeaker made of aluminum.
Chen Xia was just an "outsider" at this time and didn't have much say, but he could liven up the atmosphere.
"Come on, workers, let's do a little survey. Those who agree with the Hong Kong people buying our Second Spinning Mill, stand on the right. Those who oppose, stand on the left. Let's start now."
After hearing Chen Xia's call, the workers were still a little hesitant. The characteristics of Yuezhou people are that they all hope others will take the lead and they just follow suit.
It was Qiu Yuxing who first stepped out of the crowd and stood to the right of the truck. "We're all starving to death. Why are we still guarding this shabby factory? We can only fight for it."
Chen Xia suddenly began to admire this girl. She was brave, quick-witted, decisive, and knew how to adapt to changing circumstances.
He decisively abandoned himself, a piece of trash in love, and later decisively abandoned the young worker in the winery. If he didn't have such courage and decisiveness, he probably wouldn't have been able to do it.
Cough cough.
With Qiu Yuxing taking the lead, in less than 10 minutes, the workers were divided into two halves with the truck as the center line.
There was no need to count, almost 80% of the workers stood on the right, and only 20% stood on the left. It was clear at a glance which side had the majority opinion.
Although this survey is not authoritative, after all, only half of the workers came today, it can still show the public opinion of the Second Spinning Mill.
All this is thanks to the former Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory, now the Pumpkin Vine Pharmaceutical Factory.
After all, the two factories are separated by a wall, and the workers and masters on both sides have been friends for many years. Any movement in the pharmaceutical factory will be immediately spread to the Second Spinning Factory.
What did Yuezhou Pharmaceutical Factory have before? Back then, it wasn't even as good as the Second Spinning Mill. But after it was restructured and sold to a Hong Konger, the factory quickly took off.
Not only did I get advanced equipment and the latest products, but I also received a high salary of 100 yuan every month.
You should know that the average salary of workers in Yuezhou at that time was only more than 60 yuan, which was a 40% increase.
Some people initially feared that after the reform, they would suffer the same miserable conditions as the "contract workers" shown in the movies, where they would not have enough food or warm clothes and would be whipped by capitalists, but this did not happen.
Therefore, the workers at the Second Spinning Mill had no such concerns at all, and most of them agreed with the transformation.
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