More than four months later.
At the cost of adding more than 2,000 new graves on Nanshan Mountain, the chaotic Tang County finally returned to its former tranquility.
However, the situation outside was getting worse and worse, and the Red Guards even started a large-scale chain reaction and ran around everywhere.
Fortunately, transportation to Tang County is inconvenient, and no one is willing to spend two days walking here, otherwise the county leaders might have killed them again...
This morning.
Li Xu came to the car team and saw several people gathered together chatting. He got into his car as if he was familiar with the place, took out a small stool and sat down.
This has been going on for four months.
Now they are like they are back to the drought of a few years ago. Apart from transporting goods to the supply and marketing cooperatives every month, they are basically idle the rest of the time.
There was no way. When the storm hit, all the factories and units in Tang County were inevitably forced to shut down.
As for now, although these factories are willing to resume production, it is difficult to obtain raw materials from outside under the current environment, so they can only continue to shut down.
In this way, they naturally no longer need the help of car fleets to transport goods, and the car fleets become idle.
After sitting down, Li Xu listened with great interest to everyone's dirty jokes, and would occasionally interject a few words.
After about two hours, Director Wu Mao came over with a troubled look on his face. He said with a grumble, "Masters, the director wants to see you. I want you to come over."
Li Xu and others looked at each other, then followed him towards the director's office, leaving a few temporary workers sitting there looking at each other.
On the way, Master Song asked, "Director Wu, seeing you like this, this isn't a good thing, is it?"
Wu Mao responded with a wry smile, "You'll know in a moment."
This confirmed Master Song's suspicions. Then Master Duan grabbed him and feigned anger, saying, "Director Wu, do you think you won't need us in the future, so you're unwilling to disclose this information in advance?"
Since it is not a good thing, you must know it early so that you can be mentally prepared and not be caught off guard and not know how to deal with it.
So Liu Gang echoed with dissatisfaction, "Director Wu, when you asked us for help before, we never said a word. Now it's your turn, and you won't even help with this little favor?"
"Director Wu, if you refuse to tell me, don't come to us for help if you have any problems in the future." Master Wang threatened vaguely.
Hearing these words and seeing the fierce looks of Li Xu and the others, Wu Mao's face became even more distressed. "It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that I'm afraid if I say it, you'll beat me up."
"Beat you?" Everyone was stunned, and then Master Qi said thoughtfully, "How about this, as long as you tell us the truth, we won't do anything. How about that?"
"real?"
"Really." Everyone responded at the same time.
Although the people in the car team were arrogant, their credibility was guaranteed, so Wu Mao gritted his teeth and said, "The institute needs to lay off temporary workers."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Xu and the others' expressions changed. Wu Mao quickly added, "You know the current situation. To be frank, no one knows how long this situation will last. In order to save money, we have no choice but to lay off temporary workers. This is not just the case in our unit, but in all factories."
Li Xu pondered for a moment, then asked, "Director Wu, with the units earning so much money in the past two years, it shouldn't be a problem to keep going for five years. Why are you talking about saving money after just four months?"
"We have to be frugal. So many people died and were injured recently. To pay for pensions and medical expenses, the county has taken half of the money each unit earned in the previous two years. Just now, the director went to the county for a meeting and heard another piece of news: due to the impact of the movement, pensions for retired employees can't be paid. Those who survive to retirement are basically grandparents. You can imagine how many people are in their families.
Without this money, these families might not be able to make ends meet, and they might even cause trouble. All the county's previous efforts would be wasted, so the county leaders are demanding that their pensions be paid out first by their original employers. Do you understand now?"
The more than 2,000 new tombs on Nanshan Mountain are not all those people's.
And there are those who died in order to maintain stability.
So the county needs to pay a huge amount of pensions and medical expenses for the injured.
But the county's funds are completely insufficient to cover the cost.
So the county leaders turned their attention to factories and units.
Only by withdrawing half of their funds can the hole be filled.
As for the pensions for retired employees, this has been implemented since 1954.
Li Xu also knew that in a few years, an order would be issued from above that pensions, long-term sick wages and other labor insurance expenses would be borne by enterprises.
Therefore, Tang County's approach can only be said to be ahead of policy.
After hearing Wu Mao's explanation, Li Xu and others looked at each other in confusion.
These arguments are sufficient and reasonable, and they have no reason to object.
Then Master Song said with a mixture of laughter and tears, "Director Wu, you really think we're a monster. You have good reasons, but you're still worried that we'll beat you up."
Wu Mao showed an embarrassed expression, "I'm just worried that you won't understand and will act impulsively."
Liu Gang smacked his lips and said, "You really are the director's confidant. You're afraid of getting beaten, but you're not afraid of the director getting beaten."
Upon hearing this, everyone burst into laughter.
Seeing them like this, Wu Mao naturally understood that they agreed, so he laughed too.
He knew very well that as long as these uncles had no objections, the director would not care about what he said.
Everyone came to the director's office.
Without waiting for the director to speak, Master Qi said directly, "Director Wu told us about it on the way here, and we have no objection."
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