Rebirth of the Age of Wealth

Chapter 1 The summer heat makes my heart feel cold

The location is Qizhou, the capital of Handong Province, the largest city where the Han River, the Mother River of China, passes. But in Li Weidong's eyes, the place he was going to was a large rural area with the smell of earth everywhere.

As the atmospheric bus drove further and further, the landscape became more and more desolate. Although there were green corn seedlings about half a foot long all around, you could occasionally see farmers wearing bamboo hats thinning and tending the seedlings.

This scene had long been forgotten in a certain corner of my mind, but now it was brought out again, blurry and clear.

He raised his hand and looked at a Shanghai brand watch in his hand. There were cracks on the dial, and the hour hand pointed to two o'clock. It was the sleepiest time of the day, but the passengers in the entire carriage gave off various smells, making people not sleepy at all.

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"If I had known about this damn place, I wouldn't have come here!" A young man in slightly formal clothes complained to the pretty young lady next to him.

Although it was very hot, the young man still did not take off his clothes, which looked different compared to the people wearing white vests next to him.

Li Weidong withdrew his gaze and continued to look out the window.

It had been two weeks since he came back to this world. On the night when everyone's destination was announced, Li Weidong, who had drunk too much, seemed to have had a dream.

But he knew that it was not, otherwise everything in the dream would not be so real. He spent another half a month to prove that it was not a dream and that he had really lived.

On July 6, 1990, after graduation, without any rest, he came to this city with his files, household registration and dispatch certificate, and lived in this city for most of his life, a half of his life that was more than satisfactory.

Four years ago, 19-year-old Li Weidong took the college entrance examination twice and finally became the first college student in his county's history to be admitted to the capital.

It was a feat that had not been achieved since the imperial examinations, and it was also done by the extremely famous Gyeongsong Institute of Technology, now Kyoto University of Science and Technology.

Decades have passed since he was a man for two generations, and he still remembers the scene that day. Several leaders from the township and county came.

The principal of his high school also specially applied for a Shanghai brand watch as a reward for Li Weidong.

Four years later, Li Weidong returned to Handong. He did not return home in glory, but was assigned to Handong Machinery Factory. In the entire carriage, except for the reception staff of Handong Machinery Factory, he was the biggest one.

Most of the other colleagues are technical secondary school students, the current iron rice bowl, the plastic bowl that was knocked over under the table five or six years ago, and a few junior college students.

He was assigned to the Handong Machinery Factory. Even now, he has some resentment. How could he, a proud man of heaven, enter the factory? He should go to the ministry.

However, the number of places in ministries and commissions is really limited. The competition for such places will be somewhat fierce, and all methods will be used. In the end, Li Weidong was provoked to participate in a fight and was almost expelled.

In the end, the department leader felt that Li Weidong was still good-natured, but had a bit of an impulsive temper, so he was placed on probation, but eventually it had to be recorded in the files.

In his last life, Li Weidong came here on a hot summer day with his heart still feeling cold.

For half of my life, I was depressed and resentful. After I came to the company, I was assigned to the workshop and worked as a "manufacturer". Sometimes I had to tighten screws, and most of the time I used a rag to wipe engine oil.

It wasn't until four or five years later that I got the honor of being a cadre, but if I missed it, I would never be able to catch up. I couldn't catch up step by step, and coupled with the poor performance of the unit, I finally left the unit at the turn of the century.

With the support of my father-in-law, I went to Shanghai to start a mechanical processing business. I struggled all the way. After more than ten years of hard work, I finally achieved financial freedom.

It was just a good day, but why did it start back to the starting point, even if it was an earlier day?

But now he has looked away. In this case, he has let go of his thoughts and walked out of a new world.

"We're here after passing this cornfield. Hold on, everyone. We reported to the factory leaders before getting on the bus. The factory leaders will greet us at the factory gate!"

Seeing that the atmosphere in the carriage was getting more and more violent, the two comrades in charge of reception, a man and a woman, quickly calmed down.

“The factory leaders attach great importance to our group of college students and specially called the bus team leaders to request two buses to pick us up!”

Li Weidong remembered that there were many cars in the whole factory, but there were really only a few with roofs. Thanks to the excellent profits of the factory in the past few years, the factory leaders equipped them with a Jeep with shiny paint, which was better than the ones produced by their factory.

The tractor is much better.

Handong Machinery Factory mainly produces tractors. The main models are 24-horsepower tractors and the 50 tractors that have just begun mass production. With these two products, they have been a star in the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Enterprise, but the good times did not last too long.

Two years later, a brother company in the same province began mass production of more convenient tricycles, turning tractors that were once hard to find into a slow-selling item.

Handong Machinery Factory, as a medium-to-large state-owned enterprise in Qizhou City, had many employees and was overburdened, so it eventually declined.

After Li Weidong left, he naturally paid less attention to it. Twenty years later, due to the expansion of the city, the original dilapidated factory became the tallest building in Hanzhong, but Li Weidong returned here before he saw it.

Li Weidong fell into deep thought. It wasn't until someone called him that he realized that all the new colleagues around him had already left and gathered under the big tree nearby to enjoy the shade.

"Young man, what are you thinking about? I've been calling you for a long time, and the leaders have already come down!"

The comrade from the Labor and Management Office who received me was a little unhappy, and it showed on his face.

Others may not know about this college student who came here with the stigma of fighting, but he knows in his heart that he handles the files of new colleagues every year, so it seems that he is not a good person.

"I'm sorry, Director Qi, I was a little distracted when I saw our factory just now. I'd like to thank you for your trouble. I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"

Let’s play ball. Although there is no distinction between government and enterprises now, Handong Machinery Factory is only a subsidiary of the Municipal Machinery Bureau. The leader of the factory is just a division chief, and then he goes to the Labor and Management Department below. Although he is a division, he is actually a deputy section.

level department.

Director Qi was still a deputy in the department, and could be considered a stock-level cadre at most. Li Weidong directly promoted him two levels.

Director Qi was very happy and his face became amiable. In the past, Li Weidong could not say such words no matter what. He had never experienced severe beatings from society. He always felt that he was awesome and everyone was a fool. In the end, he found out that the clown was himself.

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"Come down quickly, Secretary Wang is coming downstairs soon, you are the one registered with Secretary Wang!"

Come on, this was written down before I even arrived. No wonder I have been a worker in the workshop for four or five years. Although the salary is the standard for a serious cadre, the working environment is different.

Li Jianzhong, the boy who wears Chuiliang, is one of the few college students in this group. He entered the factory and directly entered the technical department, even skipping the workshop internship.

The year Li Weidong left, he happened to be the sales director. Later I found out that his parents' friend was a leader in the factory.

Wang Ji seemed to be an old man, and there were several middle-level people who came down with him. All of them had round waists and fat bellies. We have not yet reached the era of weight loss madness where thinness is regarded as beauty. The third high school student is also nicknamed "the disease of wealth".

The leader's speech is naturally from a high position, and the audience who is spoken to is naturally nodding his head as if enlightened, otherwise the leader would not have that atmosphere.

Li Weidong was an excellent listener. He nodded, shook his head, looked confused, and then suddenly realized something, which made the factory leaders think that his level was really high.

Naturally, the talk became even more passionate, and I almost stopped. If I hadn't seen a thin little girl showing signs of heat stroke, I might have continued.

(End of chapter)