I have already got the house, so what does this subsidy mean?
So Li Xu and others all acted righteous and said that they would not be angry. As members of the unit, they should contribute to the collective.
The director's mouth twitched when he heard this. If I didn't know you well, I might have really believed it...
After finishing the business, Li Xu and others began to ask about matters related to staff housing.
"Director, how many houses do you plan to build?"
"It depends on how much idle funds the unit has to build."
"Ah?" Li Xu and the others were stunned. "You haven't gone to build a social science consulting firm yet?"
"No, I plan to go there this afternoon."
Li Xu et al: ...
Good job.
So you promised us without knowing anything.
After a moment of silence, Master Qi hesitated and asked, "Director, what if the cost is too high?"
He was worried that the institute's funds were not enough to build many houses, so he finally gave up the plan, leaving himself disappointed.
The director understood his idea and said with a smile, "If the cost is high, build less and continue construction when you have money later."
Hearing this, Li Xu's mouth twitched.
He knew very well that the money for building the house was the result of the supply and marketing cooperative's accumulation over five years.
There should actually be more money.
However, in 1966, the county government took away half of the money earned by each factory unit in those years and made the units responsible for paying pensions to retirees.
You have to know that this policy was not promulgated and implemented until 1969, with a gap of nearly three years. You can imagine how much money was spent on it.
What’s even worse is that in the next few years, more people will retire and the pensions paid by the companies will continue to increase.
This means that after building this house, the supply and marketing cooperative will hardly have the spare capacity to build another house within ten years.
Of course, none of this matters, as long as you have your own in the first batch of houses.
After receiving the guarantee, Master Qi and the others were overjoyed and quickly moved on to the next question, "Director, what kind of house do you plan to build?"
"We'll have to wait until this afternoon to find out the exact cost before deciding."
"So how big do you want the house to be?"
"I'll consider this matter after we decide on the style of the house."
Seeing that she knew nothing about anything, Li Xu and others immediately lost interest in talking and said goodbye and left.
Back at the car team, no one discussed the matter anymore to prevent others from hearing it.
What they never expected was that when it was almost time to get off work in the afternoon, the director asked Wu Mao to come and call them.
As soon as I walked in, I saw the director with an embarrassed expression, "There's a problem with the house. I need to discuss it with you."
This shocked everyone and asked her to speak quickly.
As the director explained the situation, everyone realized that it was a cost issue.
At that time, there were no such things as tube-shaped buildings in Tang County, and only two stories could be built with cement and steel bars.
Moreover, it is very expensive to build. With the same amount of money, you can get more area by building a brick house or a one-story bungalow.
After repeated discussions, the director and other leaders of the supply and marketing cooperative unanimously decided to build a bungalow with a yard.
Although the price of steel bars is not cheap, the price of tiles and beams is not much lower, and the difference between the two is not big.
Most importantly, using steel bars saves time.
If the director wants to build more houses, he cannot build too many for each household and can only build two at most.
But the problem is that a household must have at least a main room, a kitchen, and then a bedroom.
This is quite embarrassing, as it would be inappropriate to build less of either one.
What's more, even if both rooms are used as bedrooms, it would not be enough for a family.
So the director and other leaders came up with a solution: the supply and marketing cooperative would apply for a site for building houses and build two rooms for each household. If they wanted to build more houses, the assigned employees would pay for it themselves, and the institute would handle it all.
The director called everyone in the car team over to ask for their opinions and let them see if this method was appropriate.
After listening to it, Li Xu was deeply moved.
People in small places are very down-to-earth. They have never seen a tube-shaped building, so they just divide the rooms according to the courtyard.
Of course, this is related to the way Tang County has always distributed housing, and also to the scope of the county.
Tang County is only this big, and it doesn’t take long to walk from one end to the other. No matter where the houses are built, it won’t delay people from going to work.
It’s different in big cities. The space is huge, and if the staff housing is too far away from the workplace, it will take a long time to walk there, which is very time-consuming.
Therefore, factories in big cities usually build staff housing not far from themselves.
When there is not much vacant land near the workplace, it is necessary to build the most houses on the smallest land, and the most suitable one is the tube-shaped building.
In fact, the cost of building a tube-shaped building is not small at all, and the area of each house is very small, so the experience of living in it is extremely poor.
So even if Tang County had tube-shaped buildings, Li Xu felt that the director and other leaders would not choose to build them as staff housing.
Unless they want to be scolded every day...
After understanding what happened, everyone in the car team breathed a sigh of relief. Then Master Song said angrily, "Director, what you said almost scared me to death. If we were discussing something, we should just discuss it. Why are there any problems?"
"That's right, how can that be considered a problem?" Master Duan agreed. "This is a good thing for me. Director, how much does it cost to add a room?"
"No matter how much it costs, I'll build five more rooms."
"Me too, five rooms."
"Me too."
This opportunity is so rare. Not to mention that the car team members are not short of money, even if they were, they would have to borrow money to build two more.
The number of rooms is generally an odd number. Most courtyards in Tang County are divided into two types, one with five rooms and the other with seven rooms.
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