Chapter 220: Who doesn’t get stuck in a rut sometimes?
Guo Donglun followed Hao Jian to the first workshop, and as soon as he entered he found that it was different from the ninth workshop.
The workers in the ninth workshop were quick and efficient, expressionless and silent, and the assembly line was connected in an orderly manner.
The workers in the first workshop were in as much chaos as a classroom in a low-rate middle school. Some were concentrating, some were anxious, some were angry, and some were crying.
Hao Jian said: "These are interns who have just come from the southwest. They need to master the most basic production skills in the first workshop before they can officially take up their posts in other workshops. You can think of them as the new recruits of the army."
"The recruit company?" Guo Donglun said with a smile: "The people in the recruit company are soldiers who defend the country, and the people here are workers who work for you. What? Are you comparing yourself to the country?"
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Hao Jian was speechless for a few seconds before he slowly said, "There is a country before there is a family. I am not that noble, nor that great. I can only make their family's life a little better."
"So you're a good person? You want to make their lives better? Just like that little girl who was punished to stand in the corner?"
Guo Donglun pointed coldly at a little girl who was standing with her head down in the corner of the workshop.
Hao Jian didn't notice it just now. He was about to call Lao Yang, the director of the first workshop, to come over and ask about the situation, but the nanny Xiao Liang had already pushed the wheelchair over.
The little girl was lowering her head and sniffling when she suddenly felt someone coming. She looked up and was startled.
Guo Donglun said, "Little girl, why are you standing here as punishment?"
The little girl shook her head continuously and stepped back a few meters, looking as timid as a frightened little animal. She looked very pitiful.
Guo Donglun frowned and pouted at the babysitter Xiao Liang, who was standing in the corner. Xiao Liang went over and asked softly, "Little sister, what did you do wrong to be punished by standing here?"
The little girl shook her head again and wanted to step back, but she was already standing in the corner and had nowhere to retreat.
Nanny Xiao Liang sighed and said, "Are you homesick?"
But when Xiao Liang asked this, the little girl just shook her head desperately.
"I don't miss home. I'm not punished to stand. I just don't miss home."
The girl had a strong southwestern accent, and Xiao Liang and Guo Donglun couldn't understand her.
"She said she didn't want to go home and stand in the corner. She just wanted to cry here for a while."
Hao Jian came over with a slightly older girl. The girl walked quickly to the little girl and said something to her quickly in dialect. As a result, the little girl started crying.
Guo Donglun and the babysitter Xiao Liang both looked at Hao Jian. Hao Jian pointed at the older girl and said, "You should ask her! You don't believe what I say."
After a moment, the girl said in difficult Mandarin: "Qiaomei said she took a three-day train ride to come here to earn money to build a house for her family.
Now that she hasn’t made any money yet, she’s afraid that her mother will scold her when she returns.”
Guo Donglun slowly turned his head and looked at Hao Jian again.
Hao Jian handed him a piece of cloth.
There are rows of stitches on the fabric, and it looks like they were sewn on with a sewing machine.
"She can't read, doesn't know the difference between 4 millimeters and 6 millimeters, and can't understand the instructions for 'left' or 'right'. She is also very timid and is afraid to operate an electric sewing machine.
Not to mention the requirement of 4mm stitch spacing, I couldn’t even run straight and I injured my hand twice.”
Hao Jian sighed and said, "The factory paid her two months' internship salary and bought her a ticket to go home, but she refused to leave. You know, managing workers is like leading soldiers. If one person doesn't obey, it's hard to lead all of them!"
Guo Donglun rubbed the cloth in his hand and said softly, "Just because you can't operate a sewing machine doesn't mean you can't work. As a factory manager, you can't even solve this problem. Aren't you too incompetent?"
Hao Jian had no choice but to wave his hand and took Guo Donglun aside and said, "When we went to recruit workers, we required that they must have been in the third grade of elementary school.
There are already several people like her. If there is really no way to persuade them to quit, they can only be sent to the cafeteria to cook. "
"But cooking in the canteen is also a skill. If the food is not tasty, the workers will curse."
Guo Donglun returned the cloth in his hand to Hao Jian, looked up at him and said, "You brought me to see these things to touch my kindness and let me not ruin your business, right?"
"Then you think too badly of me. I am breaking up with you, but I will have nothing to do with you from now on. However, how Pengcheng Seventh Factory develops in the future depends on your ability. I will never interfere."
"We are the same," Hao Jian said with a smile, "We originally planned that if you wanted to take back Pengcheng Seventh Factory, we would never stop you. We have known each other for a long time and it is a fate. We can't be friends, but we can't be enemies either."
Seeing Guo Donglun's face turned cold again, Hao Jian rushed to say: "Brother Guo, I have known you for such a long time, just tell me the truth!
I think you should go out and do something meaningful instead of wasting your time sitting in the sun. "
“Are you educating me?”
Guo Donglun looked at Hao Jian coldly, and after a long time he said coldly: "Do you think what you are doing now is meaningful?"
"I can't really say for sure," Hao Jian pointed at the trainees who were practicing in the first workshop and said, "But when I saw these kids coming, some of them were still wearing straw sandals, and I felt bad.
But when they officially start working, I usually see their smiling faces. When they earn 100 yuan a month and send money home, I will most likely see the pride on their faces.
Then I feel like what I’m doing is meaningful.”
"What's the point of this?" Guo Donglun laughed, "This is just an excuse for you to exploit the fruits of their labor."
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Hao Jian was silenced by Guo Donglun's words.
Did he exploit?
If she said no, where did the money come from? How did she cure her daughter's illness?
Finally, Hao Jian said slowly: "I heard someone say that if you become rich first and no longer care about those poor people, then you have forgotten your original intention.
But if you are not rich yet, but you talk about sympathy and warmth to the poor, then you are just daydreaming and wasting your time. "
Hao Jian said seriously: "Brother Guo, you have money and time, but you don't know how to spend it. Then you can go to the southwest to see that there are many 'meaningful things' waiting for us to do."
But Guo Donglun said, "I've been to the southwest, and I know it's very poor there. One hundred yuan a month can really make a family rich, but I'm more interested in the person you just mentioned."
"I want to meet that person. If he can convince me, I will give him a Crown that comes from the right path, but he will not be convinced by me."
Guo Donglun smiled and said, "I have blocked it for you several times. You are the factory director, but you are a deputy!"
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Hao Jian hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Wait a moment, I'll try to contact him."
After a while, Hao Jian came back and said to Guo Donglun, "Let's go eat first. It's hard to contact him. He may not be able to reply to us until the afternoon or even evening."
Guo Donglun raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean by difficult to contact?"
Hao Jian sneered and did not answer. He couldn't say, "My boss is still in school, right?"
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The hospitality of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory was indeed "pragmatic". Hao Jian directly took Guo Donglun to the cafeteria for dinner.
When he arrived at the canteen entrance, Guo Donglun heard the chirping of hundreds of birds in dialects, as if at a meeting. Even the factory director Hao Jian could not resist the workers' excited laughter and chatter.
Guo Donglun, who was used to silence, frowned and said, "You should improve the dining order. It's too noisy and affects the efficiency of eating."
"After all, this isn't a real recruit company, how can we be so lenient?"
Hao Jian smiled and said, "Someone said that if the workers of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory don't smile when they eat, and are as numb and exhausted as the contract workers, they will send me directly to the capitalist countries to harm others."
Guo Donglun pondered for a moment and nodded silently.
On the surface, the employees of Pengcheng Factory No. 7 are at least happy, and their average salary is far higher than that of large companies in Guangzhou.
If I can help them make money happily and bring smiles to their families, would that be a meaningful thing?
But Guo Donglun was still hesitant about whether to take the risk.
At the beginning, he provided convenience to Hao Jian and others. He was just doing it casually because he had nothing to do. Hao Jian was abiding by the law, but he always gave people some reasons to criticize him for using connections to get raw materials. If he brought trouble to his family, it would not be worth it.
After finishing his meal, Guo Donglun watched the workers return to the dormitory for a nap. All the dormitories were equipped with electric fans, which were better than those in most factories in Guangzhou.
Pengcheng Factory No. 7 has a mandatory lunch break, otherwise these workers who are paid by piece would really become machines.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the call from Beijing finally came.
After Hao Jian communicated with the other side, he came over somewhat embarrassedly.
"Brother Guo, he said that if you can wait, he will come to see you during the summer vacation, but if you are in a hurry to meet, please go to Beijing."
"Let me go to the capital? You seem to be putting yourself in a very high position!"
Guo Donglun laughed, but then he asked, "Since there is a summer vacation, then he is a school teacher?"
Hao Jian shook his head and said, "No, he is still a student."
Guo Donglun finally showed a surprised expression. If he was not very familiar with Hao Jian, he would have thought he was joking.
"Then I am more interested in him."
The 212 jeep drove out of Pengcheng No. 7 Factory, and Guo Donglun sat in the back seat with his eyes closed to rest.
Xiao Liang, who was driving in front, looked in the rearview mirror and wanted to say something, but felt it was not appropriate.
Guo Donglun said, "Are you hesitant? Should I tell my family about my plan?"
Xiao Liang remained silent, which was considered as his agreement.
Guo Donglun laughed again and said, "Do you believe how happy my brothers and sisters would be if they knew I was willing to go out for a walk?"
Xiao Liang couldn't help but ask: "So you knew? Then why?"
"I just can't think straight!"
Guo Donglun smiled awkwardly and said, "Who doesn't have a time when they get stuck in a rut? Have you ever had one?"
Xiao Liang pursed his lips and refused to answer.
But her evasive eyes revealed a hint of joy.
Lao Feng squeezed out some time today. He had originally intended to complete the promise of three updates by the end of the month, but he had to go out for something urgent. I can only say sorry again.
Lao Feng is really not a bad account. After all, it is on the shelves now, and every extra chapter he writes can make a little extra money.
It’s the end of the month, and I’d like to repeat my debt situation to show that Lao Feng has remembered it!
I owe two chapters to the leader HanSoHee, two chapters to Fengwu Jiutian and other brothers who gave me rewards, and one chapter to the three updates that I haven't fulfilled. I owe five chapters in total, but I will make up for it eventually.
Thanks to book friend 20200710235236859 for the reward, and thanks to book friend "已是大叔" for the reward.
(End of this chapter)
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