Rebirth of India: Superior

Although Shakru tried his best to persuade Soros, it was ultimately ineffective. Soros still led international speculators to attack Hong Kong, and the Hang Seng Index fell to more than 6,600 points. The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government fought back, and the Monetary Authority used the foreign exchange fund to enter the stock market and futures market to absorb the Hong Kong dollars sold by international speculators, stabilizing the exchange rate at 7.75 Hong Kong dollars to 1 US dollar. After nearly a month of hard work, international speculators suffered heavy losses and could not realize their attempt to use Hong Kong as a "super cash machine" again.

Although the Chinese government defeated the sniping of the Hong Kong dollar by international speculators led by Soros, it also paid a heavy price, especially at this time when China's major enterprises were reducing staff and increasing efficiency and lightening the system reform period. The use of foreign exchange reserves to fight against foreign countries can be said to have a considerable impact on the domestic economic situation. Changchun, where Shakru's Henghe Pharmaceutical's first branch is located, is a very obvious example.

"Xiao Han, what time do you get off work today?"

When Lu Han heard his father ask this, he secretly cried out in his heart, so he answered hesitantly: "Well, I may have to work overtime today and have to go home later. You and my mother can eat first."

Sure enough, his father got angry immediately after hearing this and scolded: "You are a small factory director of a capitalist factory. How can you be busier than the mayor of Changchun every day? The mayor goes home for dinner every day. I tell you, you must come back tonight. A bunch of relatives and friends have important things to tell you."

After hanging up the phone, Lu Han held his forehead and felt upset. In fact, he didn't need to work overtime these days, and there were not so many things to deal with in the factory. The reason why he made an excuse not to go home was to avoid these relatives and neighbors. Since the beginning of this year, the city and even the province began to reduce staff and increase efficiency and institutional reforms, the whole city seemed to have fallen. Millions of people lost their jobs, and the corresponding families lost their source of income. The whole city was filled with a breath of despair.

There were many more street vendors, most of whom were forced to set up stalls. They sat on the roadside without saying a word, with cheap goods such as socks, gloves, and hats in front of them. I guess they couldn't sell one a day. At that time, when I walked from school to home, there were used book stalls on both sides of the 2,000-meter road. The cover pages of the old books were all stamped by the library of each factory. Not to mention the petitions in front of the government, social security deteriorated greatly, robberies and even murders occurred frequently, and most of them were forced by workers who had no place to live. Parents didn't dare to let their children go into the corridor alone.

In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on these workers, because many laid-off workers were originally trained as "industrial workers". You should be a good gear, do your job well, and be a screw on the production line. What you need to do is to specialize in one field, work hard, and get low wages. The state will help you bear everything else (housing, welfare, pension, medical treatment, children's education, etc.). A person is included in this trajectory from the age of 18, working hard, and when he is 30 or 40 years old, the state suddenly wipes his face and says that you can start all over again, but these four words are not so easy.

In this situation of grief, the first branch of Henghe Pharmaceutical, which does not lay off people or reduce wages, stands out from the crowd. People who used to mutter that the welfare benefits here are too low and the wages are high are now asking whether they are still recruiting here, and those who think they can get in touch with the factory director Lu Han naturally try every means to find him for help.

Lu Han could understand these people's feelings very well, but this factory was not his, and he, as the factory director, was just working for the Indian boss, but his rank was slightly higher. However, for such a big thing as recruiting, if the Indian boss Mr. Pandit did not approve, he could not do anything at all. However, those who came to him were either relatives or old neighbors. Seeing their miserable appearance, he could not refuse them, so he had to hide in the factory these days and turn a blind eye.

However, it seemed that he could not hide today. He knew his father's temper very well. He was able to talk to him like this just now, which meant that someone must be listening. If he did not go back tonight, Comrade Lu, who had lost face, would not know how to deal with him.

After a sigh, Lu Han decided to go back. He would have to face this sooner or later anyway, and hiding all the time was not a solution, so he called the driver Xiao Li and said, "Xiao Li, let's go, drive home."

Speaking of which, Lu Han is very stylish now. His car is an Audi A6 that is more luxurious than the city leaders' special car. This is not because he wants to show off. In fact, this car was equipped for him by Shakru, saying that he, the factory director, is his representative in China, so he can't let people look down on him when he goes out.

But in fact, Lu Han is more depressed than happy about this good car, because this car has almost become the first choice for weddings and funerals in Changchun City, and the city leaders often borrow him for use. Anyway, this car spends more time outside than he uses it himself.

Just when Lu Han's mind was full of random thoughts, the driver Xiao Li suddenly asked cautiously: "Director, when will our factory recruit workers?"

Lu Han answered with some dissatisfaction: "Why do you even ask me about this? I'm almost annoyed by this matter these days."

Xiao Li smiled bitterly and said, "Director, I can't help it. My wife talks to me about this every day, and you know she has a good memory. Last year, I boasted to her that our Indian boss was waiting for a large number of layoffs so that it would be easier to recruit people. I didn't expect that she would bring up this sentence now. Director, do you think the Indian boss just said it casually at the time?"

Lu Han pondered for a while, and then replied, "It shouldn't be possible. I remember he said it very affirmatively at the time."

"Then why is there no movement now? There are laid-off workers all over the streets now."

"How do I know? Maybe the boss has other considerations. Okay, drive well. I'll tell you when there is news."

In fact, what Lu Han didn't know was that Shakru didn't change his mind, but he was busy following Soros's ass and sniping currencies of various countries to make quick money, and then forgot about this matter...

ps: I hope that writing about layoffs will not be censored. It is said that the older you are in the world, the smaller your courage...

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