Great Power Fighting Falcon

The dilapidated machinery factory was very prosperous in the early years. About ten years ago, the machinery it manufactured was exported to earn foreign exchange. However, at the end of the year, it was notified that it was closed down and laid off. After a few years of trouble, everyone has accepted their fate. Those who should make a living find another way to make a living, and those who should receive subsistence allowances receive subsistence allowances. Life will eventually go on.

The factory closed down, but the popularity did not dissipate. On the contrary, it became more and more popular. The wealthy people bought houses outside and moved out early, and the welfare houses in the factory were rented out to villagers in surrounding villages. There is a primary school for children in the factory, and villagers rent houses in the factory in order to send their children to a "primary school for urban residents".

The popularity just soared.

Stepping into the 1980s-style factory gate, Li Zhan smiled at the few middle-aged people sitting in front of the guard room converted into a canteen, smoking and chatting. Unfortunately, it was not until he was far away that his fellow workers remembered him. who is it. The main road in disrepair was dilapidated. As he walked inside, looking at the marks of the times on both sides, Li Zhan felt better than ever.

There are tile-roofed houses in the 1960s, flat-top houses in the 1970s, small buildings in the 1980s, commercial buildings in the 1990s, and tall and large Soviet-style factories in the distance. Every time I go home, I feel like I have traveled back in time. Even the plants and trees are still telling the story of the years.

"A Zhan? Oh, Jianguo's son who flies a plane is back!" A few aunts came towards me, riding bicycles, apparently going to buy groceries.

Li Zhan greeted me obediently, "Hello, Aunt Mei, it's me, I'm back."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's so high, it's really good, really good." The aunts praised, "I said your mother killed chickens and ducks early in the morning, so it turns out you are coming back."

"Will you return to the army when you come back?"

Li Zhan replied, "I came back from leave. Now I am transferred back to Xi County, which is the airport on the west side of the city."

"Hey! This is a great thing! It's so close to home and you can come back anytime you want!"

After chatting for a while, Li Zhan continued to walk home under the envious eyes of the aunts. The home is located in the deepest part of the common living area, with vegetable fields and fruit trees in front and behind it, giving it an absolutely pastoral scenery rarely seen in the city.

Li Jianguo walked around the balcony early in the morning, frequently looking at the top of the slope not far away. We reached home after descending the long slope. My son would definitely have to pass the top of the slope when he came back.

"What are you doing here and there! Should you stir-fry the vegetables or should I stir-fry them?" Ye Huihua tore off the packaging of the medicinal ingredients and came over, opened the lid of the pot and poured them all in. There was a chicken stewed in the big pot and boiled in the other pot. holding a duck.

Li Jianguo pointed to the triangular stove built with stones against the balcony wall and said, "Am I not watching the fire? Then you watch the fire and I will cook."

After adding a few pieces of wood, Ye Huihua chattered, "Look, look, let you look, I'll cook."

Li Jianguo secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mom, I'll do it. Isn't the bed in A-Zhan's room not made yet? Go and clean it." The eldest sister Li Ling and her husband Qiu Guohao came, and Qiu Guohao held his three-year-old son in his arms.

Seeing their grandson, the two elders were in high spirits for a while, and continued busy with their duties. Li Jianguo looked at the time and saw that it was past ten o'clock. He frowned and said, "Why isn't Li Xiang back yet? Huihua, please call him quickly! What are you doing!"

The younger son Li Xiang has not come back from his class reunion last night. Now that he is a twenty-two-year-old undergraduate intern, Li Jianguo is no longer as strict as before.

"I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll call Ah Xiang." Qiu Guohao said quickly, put down his son and took out his mobile phone to make a call.

A soldier appeared at the top of the slope.

Li Jianguo was stunned and shouted excitedly into the room, "Huihua! Ah Zhan is back!"

There were hurried footsteps in the room, and Ye Huihua ran out without putting down the quilt, "Where are you? Where are you?"

People still see tears coming out first.

"We're over the top of the slope. We'll be there soon. Go, go, clean up the room quickly." Li Jianguo waved his hand impatiently, turned around and suppressed the sourness in his nose.

Qiu Guohao hung up the phone and said, "Axiang said he would come back later, so don't wait for him to eat."

"What is he doing!" Li Jianguo said angrily. When he thought that his eldest son would be home soon, he temporarily put his younger son aside and looked forward to it.

Li Zhan is home. The last time he went home was when his eldest sister got married. He was still in his second year of education at Huaqing University. With the aura of being a student of Huaqing University, it really gave my eldest sister a face at that time, and her in-laws were also flattered. The impact was far-reaching. Now that he has returned to the local area as a military cadre, the eldest sister's in-laws are even more cautious about her.

It has been reasonable since ancient times for a person to attain the Tao, a chicken or a dog to ascend to heaven.

There was inevitably a sigh of relief, and after the excitement, my parents were busy preparing lunch. Brother-in-law Qiu Guohao packed away the crabs, green shrimps, lobsters, Dongfeng snails and other large seafood that inland people had never seen before. At noon, a table of dishes was slowly put on the table.

Li Xiang hurriedly returned home before dinner, and brought back a bottle of Wuliangye. He said, "Brother, I bought it for more than a thousand with my scholarship. Congratulations on your becoming an officer!"

"You are enjoying your life now. You are an intern. What do you think?" Li Zhan asked, letting Li Xiang give him a thumbs up.

Li Jianguo said, "What do you think? After taking the civil service exam, if you are not a cadre, do you still want to be a boss?"

"It's much easier to be a boss than a cadre." Li Xiang glanced at me. Apparently they had communicated on this topic many times and could never reach an agreement.

Li Zhan is very clear that he has a complex of state cadres. To be precise, in the eyes of his generation, no matter how big the business is, it is empty, and no matter how good the foreign company is, it is not his own. The only way is to eat the royal food, be a cadre, and the government Cadres and army cadres. In his eyes, the status of a boss who makes millions a year is inferior to that of an ordinary civil servant.

If it weren't for this kind of family support, Li Zhan 80% would not have chosen to join the army. When he was recruiting, the emergence of the J-10 was just a motivation. In the final analysis, his parents put a lot of pressure on him. He actually preferred to engage in theoretical research on how to carry forward communist ideas.

Li Zhan realized that this was an important matter and said to Li Jianguo, "Dad, listen to what A Xiang has to say. After all, forcing him to do a job he doesn't like is not a long-term solution."

"Did you hear that?" Li Xiang rolled his eyes and said, "I have already thought about going to graduate school. I will find a job that can accommodate both my needs and graduate school first. I have investigated and found that the threshold for many corporate units is now higher. , the requirements for academic qualifications will definitely become higher and higher in the future. Now there is not so much pressure to go to graduate school. If I go back to study after I find out that my academic qualifications are not enough when I start working, I guess I will not be able to study well."

Li Zhan was surprised, "That's good. I'm relieved if you think so."

"Okay, if your brother agrees, I will agree. Read, how much does it cost?" Li Jianguo decided. Since Li Zhan joined the army, the say in the family has begun to shift from his hands to Li Zhan's. Some are even asking Ye Huihua transferred it in his hands. After being the head of the family for decades, he still had to get used to it.

Li Ling hugged the child and said with a smile, "Dad, you don't have to worry about Axiang's tuition."

"Yes, yes, Dad, my seafood business is doing well. A Xiang is studying for a Ph.D., so money is no problem." Qiu Guohao said quickly.

Li Jianguo waved his hand and said, "Keep your money, whether you are old or young, you will have a lot of expenses in the future."

The seafood business of Mr. and Mrs. Li Ling has just started, and they can barely get by with a tuition fee, but there is no more money left. Li Jianguo knew this very well.

"Eat, eat, let's talk after dinner." Li Zhan said, giving the chicken legs to his mother, and beckoning everyone to eat.

It took more than two hours to finish the meal. I was so happy that I drank up a pound of Wuliangye. Li Xiang's drinking capacity was limited and he went to sleep directly. Li Jianguo took a cup of tea and went out for a walk. In fact, he was bragging about his son everywhere. Li Ling and the others drove their motorcycles back.

Li Zhan had nothing to do, so he helped his mother clean up and wash the dishes, then called her to sit down in the living room, took out his bank card and bankbook, and said, "Mom, my current salary is more than 7,000, plus The talent subsidy is over RMB 8,000. When I came back, I took a look and found that housing prices in the county have increased a lot compared to previous years, so I thought about buying a house in the county."

Ye Huihua was happy and relieved that her son was successful. After feeling relieved, he immediately had new worries and said, "I have to buy a house. Nowadays, many girls get married based on whether you have a house. After the Chinese New Year, you will be twenty-seven, it's time to find a partner." ”

"Mom, it's only twenty-six after the new year." Li Zhan corrected with a wry smile.

"There are already several children on your level in the village. We can't delay them any longer." Ye Huihua said.

Li Zhan regretted mentioning buying a house. He said, "I just joined the army, and now I am a new comrade. I haven't achieved any results at work, so why are I anxious about getting married? There is no rush for this. Let me concentrate on it for a few years. There are some Let’s talk about the basics. This housing problem needs to be solved as soon as possible. Our family lives in a suite converted from a welfare dormitory privately. The situation in the factory is really unsafe. I have housing public funds and took out a loan to buy a house, which solved this problem. I can do my job in the army without worries."

"You make up your mind, I have no objection." Ye Huihua said, with some objections in her heart. At this time, many people in small counties do not have a deep understanding of housing prices. How can they expect to lose money after spending so much money to buy a house. In a few years, housing prices would skyrocket, and then the whole country would panic.

Li Zhan said, "Okay, I'll go around in the afternoon to check out the prices."

Buying a house is definitely a big deal. Ye Huihua couldn't sit still and hurriedly went out to find Li Jianguo. Li Zhan smiled and let her go, mentally calculating how much savings he had. What many pilots at the same time didn't know was that Li Zhan had already been rated as a third-level pilot when he was at the training base, which was also rare. Once you are graded, you will receive a grade subsidy, which is about 1,000 yuan.

Speaking of which, there is no difference in the basic salary of his captain's deputy company and that of the lieutenant's deputy company in the army and navy. The basic salary of the entire army's cadre level is basically the same. The basic salary is more than 3,000 yuan, the level subsidy is about 1,000 yuan, and the lever fee is about 300 yuan per hour. Plus other miscellaneous things, such as the subsidy for the old and young border areas, I can get more than 7,000 yuan a month, which is considered very high in the army. He also has an Air Force talent subsidy that many people don't have, which is more than 1,000 yuan a month, and his monthly income is as high as more than 8,000 yuan.

Of course, it is obviously not comparable to that of civil aviation pilots, whose annual salary can easily reach hundreds of thousands or millions. Besides, we are only entering 2009 now, and the decision on salary increase will not come out for another month or two.

What is the drawbar fee? It is often referred to as a flight subsidy. The subsidy is calculated in hours from the time the fighter aircraft drives to landing. Therefore, there is a position at the tower called a timekeeper, who is responsible for calculating this time. It concerns the vital interests of the pilots and cannot be careless.

What forced Li Zhan to risk his life to train and work harder than others during school and the training base to achieve his current results?

It's poverty.

It's the tie rod fee.

Before he joined the army, his family was really poor, and Li Xiang had to borrow money for his first year of college tuition. He joined the army as soon as he entered school. Although he carried the cadet epaulettes and his salary was not high, it was a timely help to his family at that time. Later, I started to teach as a beginner, and the rod fee was only half of that of a teacher, but it was a considerable income. So when he was at the training base, he tried every means to fly. As long as he was in the fighter plane, he almost paid for the drawbar fee. Just like that, his flying hours were almost several times that of other students.

It can be said that the real pressure that forced Li Zhan to work hard and prepare for a solo flight as soon as possible was that his family's financial situation was poor, and God could get him three hundred yuan an hour in draw rod fees. Generally, each person flies about 200 hours a year, but he flies 500 hours because he can earn 150,000 yuan a year!

Of course, the reason why his current salary is nearly 8,000 is because the rod fee is included. Tie rod fees are paid monthly and separately, one month later than wages. Because the army is paid first and then works. For example, the wages paid on January 1st are for January, not December of the previous year as ordinary people understand. Tie rod fees cannot be paid in advance. Usually, the flight time of the previous month is calculated at the end of the month or a few days before the next month, so that the tie rod fees can be paid according to the quantity.

All in all, he has a big heart. Flying 500 hours a year is almost impossible but not impossible. Calculating this way, you can get an extra eighty or ninety thousand yuan a year. A mortgage loan of hundreds of thousands is really not that stressful.

In other words, in addition to yearning for the J-10, the high salary of pilots was definitely the main factor that drove Li Zhan to participate in the recruitment.

Another reason why he insists on flying third-generation aircraft is that the drawbar fees of third-generation aircraft are high! The SU-27's drawbar fee is three times that of the J-7! Li Zhan felt unbalanced when he thought that Zhang Xueyang, that rich bastard, could fly third-generation aircraft, but he, a poor man, could only fly J-7.

In addition to the tens of thousands I remitted to my family earlier, this is how I saved the 100,000 yuan in my bankbook. After joining the army for more than five years, I made more than 100,000 yuan, which seemed like a lot, but in fact, for a pilot, it was really shabby.

A down payment of 100,000 should be enough, he thought.