Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

Unknowingly, Cao Zhiqiang opened his eyes.

When he found that he was still lying on the big Simmons bed and the curtains were all closed, making the room very dark, Cao Zhiqiang frowned, then quickly got up and opened the curtains.

I opened the curtains and took a look at the sky, and found that the sun had begun to shift to the west, and it was well past noon.

After being stunned for a moment, Cao Zhiqiang took his watch over again.

Looking at the time, it was already 3:53 pm.

"No?" Seeing that it was almost four o'clock in the afternoon, Cao Zhiqiang was stunned again, "This, this, have I slept for so long? Why didn't anyone call me?"

Thinking of this, Cao Zhiqiang quickly put on his coat and shoes, walked out of the room, and then went straight to the room of Mr. and Mrs. Chen Jiabang.

After knocking on the door, the door to the room was quickly opened, and it was Chen Jiabang.

"Zhiqiang?" Chen Jiabang smiled slightly when he saw Cao Zhiqiang, "Are you awake?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Old Chen, why didn't you call me?"

"Haha, come in." Chen Jiabang opened the door.

After Cao Zhiqiang entered, Chen Jiabang said while making tea:

"At noon, your two sisters came to see us, and then your little sister, oh, that is Qiao Simei we are planning to adopt.

Qiao Simei said to us that you were sleeping soundly and couldn't bear to wake you up. Please let us not disturb you and let you continue sleeping. Then let us help you order food.

As soon as I heard this, I agreed, then called room service and asked them to bring some lunch boxes, and we all had a meal together.

Although it is a box lunch, the quality is really good and it actually contains roasted meat.

It’s just that the price is a bit expensive, a box of lunch costs seven yuan, which is really a rip-off!”

Cao Zhiqiang smiled and said: "Seven yuan, that's not expensive. After all, this is a foreign-related hotel and the tallest building in the country."

"That's right." Chen Jiabang nodded, "By the way, if you are hungry, you can also call for food delivery service. They say they provide food 24 hours a day."

"That's it." Cao Zhiqiang shook his head, "Forget it, let's eat together tonight. I'm not hungry yet."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang looked at him: "Where is my sister-in-law?"

Chen Jiabang said: "Oh, that's right. My wife was a little bored here, so she took her two children out to play. In fact, she just took pictures in restaurants. She wanted to keep some photos so she could show off when she went back."

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "That's right, it's okay. It's a rare visit, so I should take a photo to keep it as a souvenir."

"Thank you for your camera." Chen Jiabang said with a smile, "By the way, I've actually wanted to ask you for a long time. You must not have slept last night, right?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Yes, I have been busy reading, um, writing novels, songs and poems recently. I often stay up late, and then my biological clock changes. I get up later and go to bed later."

"No wonder." Chen Jiabang brought a cup of freshly brewed hot tea, "Come and try it. The tea here is Biluochun. I have tried it and it tastes okay. It is good tea."

"Thank you, Brother Chen."

Cao Zhiqiang smiled, picked up a cup of hot tea, blew it on, and then took a sip.

After Cao Zhiqiang took two sips of tea, he put down the cup and said, "It's really good, it's quite refreshing."

Chen Jiabang smiled: "You, you, don't blame me for telling you. Although you are young, don't work too hard. Pay attention to your health. If you don't pay attention when you are young, you will get sick when you are old.

The old factory director has said that you are the hope of our factory and cannot fall."

"That's what I said." Cao Zhiqiang smiled and shook his head, "Director Li thinks highly of me."

Chen Jiabang said: "Actually, I think this is something Factory Director Li can't do."

Speaking of this, Chen Jiabang sighed: "Xiao Cao, you don't know how deeply our old factory director feels about Hongguang Machinery Factory. It can be said that he grew up in the machine factory since he was a child.

After decades of ups and downs, he worked his way up from a small worker to a factory manager.

This kind of emotion is incomprehensible to ordinary people.

In a sense, Hongguang Machinery Factory is Director Li’s home, and more importantly, Director Li’s biological son.

But the result is that after decades of hard work, the factory has become increasingly withered, and will eventually be split up for rectification.

Once it is really split up and rectified, this factory will really be dead.

As long as Director Li has some ideas, he won't put all his hopes on you.

In fact, Factory Director Li has tried various methods, but none of them look good.

On the contrary, it was you who suddenly intervened, giving Director Li some hope.

If our factory had not faced internal and external troubles and faced a huge crisis, normally you would have no hope of becoming the factory director, and Director Li would not be able to support you with all his strength.

Therefore, the burden on you is very heavy!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "Don't worry, since I dare to boast and take on this responsibility, I naturally have a certain degree of confidence. If nothing else, I can lead our factory out of the predicament and avoid being forcibly split up, so I am still somewhat confident."

Indeed, although people in this era find it difficult to keep a large state-owned enterprise with more than 8,000 people, it is not difficult at all for a reborn person like him who has cheats.

In fact, even if there are no system plug-ins, it is not difficult to lead a state-owned factory out of trouble with Cao Zhiqiang's advantage as a reborn person.

To put it bluntly, most state-owned enterprise managers during this period were still stuck in the old ways and did not dare to take too big a step in reform.

Just think of Hongguang Machinery Factory. If only the tertiary industries are integrated and transformed, they can also exert great earning power.

In addition, Hongguang Machinery Factory has brother units in various places, and even if they are engaged in logistics and trade, they can make a lot of money.

Of course, doing trade is not that easy, mainly because the barriers are too tight.

After all, Hongguang Machinery Factory is still fundamentally a factory, and it mainly provides military parts.

The market for these military parts is very small, and they are not universal industrial products like bicycles. Once you buy a house without them, it will be an immediate disaster.

Even if we don’t talk about military parts and just make ordinary industrial products, we still can’t just sell them to other places.

Because the current industrial production enterprises have not yet implemented a dual-track system, they still use a planning system, that is, the top makes plans, and the bottom produces and distributes according to the plan, so it is useless to produce more and cannot be sold to the market for money.

Currently, the only companies that can implement the dual-track system are mining companies, such as crude oil and coal. Currently, they have implemented a dual-track system for production means. That is, if they do enough planning, the remaining parts can be sold at market prices. However, such as machinery factories and steel plants

Production-oriented enterprises have not yet started this dual-track system.

But others don’t know it, but Cao Zhiqiang himself knows very well that by 1984, that is, next year, major production-oriented factories will begin to implement a dual-track system for production materials. Unplanned overproduction can be used to increase the price by 2% above the list price.

For sale at a price of ten.

By 1985, the 20% limit was also lifted, and the excess production was sold entirely at market price.

No matter how depressed the Hongguang Machinery Factory is, the large-scale machinery and equipment are still there, as are the production drawings and technical reserves.

Even if some high-level technicians are severely lost, there are still many intermediate technicians such as fifth-level fitters and fourth-level forgers. This alone is enough to outperform most factories in the country.

You know, in most local factories in China, it is good to have a level 4 fitter, who should be treated as the highest technician.

But in state-owned enterprises in Beijing, level five fitter can only be regarded as the entry standard for state-owned enterprises.

From this perspective, Hongguang Machinery Factory is actually stuck on the entry standards for state-owned enterprises.

In other words, Hongguang Machinery Factory is actually on a slippery slope, but it is not rotten to the core. It is a rotten ship with only three pounds of nails.

As long as you persist until next year, when the reform of the dual-track system of production means officially begins, you can make a lot of money just by selling steel bars and steel plates.

There is also the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill outside Dongzhimen, which is the factory where Si Zhu stayed, and is now also a target of rectification.

If there are no exceptions, the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill will also be split and reorganized this year, that is, in 1983. The production part will belong to Shougang, and other tertiary industries such as hospitals, cinemas, and schools will belong to the local government.

It's no wonder that Shazhu has been so eager to open a restaurant recently. At this time, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill is really in a state of panic.

But in fact, as long as it is acquired by Shougang, people like Shazhu will not be fired, and they will probably stay, and the relationship will be directly transferred to Shougang.

In the original plot, Shazhu just stayed and was still working as the canteen director after 1984, but at that time he was the canteen director of Shougang Branch Factory.

Of course, this is not the point.

The point is, be it Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill or Hongguang Machinery Factory, they were actually deceived. The people who deceived them were senior leaders from the Ministry of Metallurgy and the government.

The reason is very simple. Be it Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill or Hongguang Machinery Factory, as long as they can survive until 1984 and the dual-track price system is introduced, they will be able to come back to life immediately and make a lot of money by relying on the market price of the excess production.

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Let’s not talk about anything else, just ordinary rebar. Fifteen years from now, it will be a hot commodity on the market, and it can only be obtained with approval.

Both Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and Hongguang Machinery Factory can produce rebar, steel bars and steel plates for building materials.

In other words, as long as they start to implement the dual-track system of production enterprises, Hongguang Machinery Factory and Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill can become rich instantly.

However, before this policy was introduced, some kind of merger and acquisition rectification was first carried out. It was necessary to split up the perennial loss-making enterprises such as Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill and Hongguang Machinery Factory. Moreover, the rectification policy happened to be this year, which was the year before the dual-track system.

If there wasn't something fishy in this, I wouldn't believe it even if I killed Cao Zhiqiang.

You must know that a system like the dual-track system cannot be decided at once. It will definitely require many meetings, research, and discussions beforehand.

The cadres below may not know, but the senior leaders must know the approximate time of the dual-track system in production enterprises.

Knowing the approximate time, but rectifying some large state-owned enterprises in Beijing in advance, isn't this a complete setback?

Of course, from a high-end perspective, they are right to do this.

Because Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant and Hongguang Machinery Plant both have a great feature, that is, they are very close to the center of Beijing, basically within the third ring road and outside the second ring road.

By the 1980s, Beijing had begun to expand in a step-by-step manner. During the development process in the 1980s and 1990s, the Third Ring Road was a top priority.

Then those enterprises within the third ring road are naturally the targets of rectification.

For example, once the Hongguang Machinery Factory is rectified, the large tract of land vacated can be owned by the Beijing City Government, and then the land can be enclosed and buildings built. This cost is much lower.

On the contrary, if Hongguang Machinery Factory does not accept rectification and purchases land formally, the price will be too high.

However, after all, it is an old state-owned enterprise with a very long history. Directly saying that it will be abolished does not sound good and may easily cause trouble. Therefore, it is given a chance to make rectifications and allows you to be responsible for your own profits and losses, and the government will no longer provide funding.

It seems to give you a chance to survive, but in fact it just gives you a step down.

Because normally, as long as the dual-track policy is not implemented, it is generally difficult for a long-standing company like Hongguang Machinery Factory to survive without government funding.

Using this method, workers can gradually become aware of the job problem and slowly accept the fate of being rectified.

After all, for the majority of workers, the so-called sense of collective honor is actually no match for their own jobs.

It can be said that the leaders who came up with rectification policies were a complete conspiracy. They calculated that Hongguang Machinery Factory could not survive without government funding, so they pretended to be generous and gave them a one-year buffer period.

In other words, if Hongguang Machinery Factory cannot be responsible for its own profits and losses by the end of this year at the latest, it will not escape the fate of being split and rectified.

At that time, if the superiors ask you to split and rectify things, no one can say anything.

Because when the time comes, your leaders will tell you, it’s not that they didn’t give you a chance in the factory, it’s that they gave you the chance and you failed to use it!

From this perspective, Hongguang Machinery Factory is indeed forced to a dead end.

So far, government funding has not been cut off, but it is already about to be stopped by half.

In other words, if Cao Zhiqiang cannot find a way to make money as soon as possible, starting from next month, that is, in May, the wages of workers at Hongguang Machinery Factory will be collectively halved.

Then by October, government funding will be completely stopped.

By that time, Hongguang Machinery Factory cannot be responsible for its own profits and losses and can solve its internal financial problems on its own, especially the salary issue of cadres and employees, and must accept the rectification arrangements from above.

Once this happens, the majority of cadres and workers will have no choice but to accept that the factory will be split up, reorganized, or annexed for the sake of their own jobs.

Because of the annexation, at least the cadres and workers can still find a place to arrange things. If you still resisted the pressure from above and did not make corrections at that time...

If you don’t have money, you won’t be strong-willed. If you don’t have any money, how can you keep talking?

Not to mention anything else, the vast number of cadres and workers in the machinery factory can eat you, the factory director, alive just for the sake of being able to pay wages on time!

It's no wonder that Director Li was so sick that he rushed to the doctor and directly used Cao Zhiqiang as a life-saving straw.

It’s true that Director Li can’t find any other lifebuoy now. It’s rare for a capable person like Cao Zhiqiang to appear, so why don’t you grab it quickly?

"Are you really sure?" Secretary Chen said worriedly.

"To be honest, that's a population of more than 8,000 people. Even if it's only half of it, let's count it as 4,000 people. That's not a small number.

I asked about finance, and preliminary calculations show that if government funding is halved starting next month, our factory's monthly wage gap will be as high as 250,000.

Can you really guarantee that you will earn 250,000 yuan every month and then use all of it to subsidize your salary?"

Cao Zhiqiang laughed: "What do I think? It's only 250,000, what's the point?

You only earn 250,000 yuan a month, who are you looking down on?

Not to mention anything else, I have earned more than one million just from "Jiang Hu Xing"."

"Yes, that set of books is very profitable, I know." Chen Jiabang said, "But the money is not yours alone, you have to share it with others, and even if you really make one million, you may not be able to get it back.

Publish a best-selling book like this.

Don’t forget, your set of books is selling dog meat under the guise of selling a collection of poems, but in fact it’s selling martial arts novels.

There is a ban on martial arts now. You were able to succeed this time only because everyone turned a blind eye, which allowed you to take advantage of the loophole.

If you try to do this again in the future, you probably won't be able to do it. At least Xinhua Bookstore will never dare to buy your goods."

"So." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Shouldn't I develop my own sales network and start my own bookstore chain? As long as we establish our own sales network, even if the network is not as wide as Xinhua Bookstore, it will be better because of the larger share and higher profits.

As long as you establish this bookstore chain, you will just sit back and wait for the money.

Furthermore, I don’t plan to write martial arts novels in the near future. I plan to release an album.

Martial arts novels are not allowed, but pop songs are allowed, right?"

"Release a record? Pop songs?" Secretary Chen was stunned, "Is this okay for you?"

"Why not?" Cao Zhiqiang curled his lips, "I not only want to publish records, I also want to publish magazines. Don't worry, Lao Chen, where are you? The real way to make big money is behind you.

You will know in the future, let alone two or three million a month, even if you make two to three million a month, it is just a waste to me."

Secretary Chen frowned, and just as he was about to speak, the door was suddenly opened, and then he saw Mrs. Chen walking in with Cao Lili and Qiao Simei, packed with bags.