Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Chapter 383 The end is coming

After Li Weidong found out about Kang Guanghong's identity as an authoritative figure, he made the decision to sponsor Kang Guanghong's scientific research funds in order to tie Kang Guanghong and the massage chair together.

After all, a massage chair is a health care device, and whether it is a health food or a health care device, if you want to sell it well, you must be able to deceive it.

In later generations of advertisements selling health care products, an old man who looked like an expert would often appear, bragging about how easy the product was to use, and some foreign experts would be found to add to the spectacle when using the product.

In fact, many of these so-called experts are actors, but even so, many ignorant consumers still believe them.

Li Weidong has no intention of using such deceptive tactics. Even if he wants to deceive consumers, Li Weidong has to find real experts.

The top professors at First Medical University are definitely more convincing than those actor experts, but they are more likely to fool the people.

With half a million yuan a year, it is obviously a good deal to enjoy the aura of a top authoritative expert like Kang Guanghong.

Of course, Kang Guanghong also understood Li Weidong's intention. As the saying goes, no reward will be given for no work. Li Weidong spent 500,000 yuan in real money, just to use his identity and reputation to advertise massage seats.

However, Kang Guanghong is still willing to accept this exchange of interests. After all, half a million yuan of scientific research funding is still very good.

With these five hundred thousand yuan, Kang Guanghong can carry out several more small and medium-sized projects. At least if his research institutes want to start research projects, they no longer have to worry about funding.

Scientists chase fame and fortune, not necessarily to become famous or to make money. Many people really want their scientific research projects to bear fruit, and this will inevitably require a large amount of financial support.

If you can exchange your fame for scientific research funding, why not do it?

What's more, when applying for scientific research funding from the state, the state also needs to consider the reputation of the scholar. It is definitely easier for famous scholars to apply for funding than less famous scholars. From this aspect, scholars are also using their reputation in exchange for scientific research.

The cost is essentially the same.

Of course, if Li Weidong was selling counterfeit drugs, Professor Kang would never ask for Li Weidong's 500,000 sponsorship fee. After all, he is a top authoritative expert and he still needs face. He can't endorse counterfeit drugs.

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Sister Zhang rode her bicycle and drove slowly into the family yard of the transportation company.

The road in the family's courtyard is full of potholes and has not been repaired for several years.

This situation would never have happened a few years ago when transportation companies were booming. At that time, even if the road in the family compound was a little uneven, the General Affairs Office would come to deal with it. But now the General Affairs Office itself can only receive it.

There is no need to count on basic salary, bonuses, etc.

In a transportation company, it is a good thing to be able to receive wages, but "unemployed workers" like Sister Zhang, who belong to the tertiary industry, can only receive a meager basic living allowance, barely enough to buy rice and noodles to survive.

Because the road was uneven, Sister Zhang walked very slowly. She was worried about shattering the tofu in the basket.

Cabbage stewed with tofu will be dinner at Sister Zhang’s house. The reason why she eats such a vegetarian meal is mainly due to financial constraints.

The basic living expenses are really just enough for basic living. It is only 80 yuan a month, which is an average of 2.6 yuan a day. I can only eat cabbage and tofu, which is already a bit overspending.

Sister Zhang couldn't help but recall the glorious days a few years ago. At that time, she worked as a car seat cushion in a clothing factory. Not only did she get wages and bonuses, she was also responsible for the food in the canteen, and she also received overtime pay for working overtime every day. At that time, Sister Zhang's family

You can eat meat every day.

Unexpectedly, since the transportation company took back the garment factory, the garment factory was just like Wang Xiaoer's Chinese New Year. Every year was worse than the previous year, and eventually it simply closed down. Sister Zhang and more than 200 garment factory workers became the so-called "

Unemployed workers”.

But Sister Zhang is not panicked. After all, she is an employee of a state-owned enterprise, and the state will arrange a job sooner or later. What's more, as an unemployed worker, you can still receive wages every month, but there is no bonus. Sister Zhang just does housework every day, look at it.

TV, life is leisurely.

However, this leisurely life did not last long. As the transportation company declined, the basic salary became the basic living expenses of 80 yuan per month.

After entering 1993, even basic living expenses began to be in arrears.

Sister Zhang's husband is a truck driver for a transportation company. In the past few years, when freight efficiency was good, truck drivers were a high-paying profession, and everyone made a lot of money.

In recent years, more and more private car owners have participated in freight operations. Wave after wave of price wars have made it increasingly difficult for state-owned transportation units to sustain themselves, and the freight business of transportation companies has also plummeted.

When the freight business failed to receive business, Zhu Shicong, the general manager of the transportation company, made a decision to sell all the trucks, which was equivalent to giving up the freight business entirely.

Sister Zhang’s husband also became unemployed because all his trucks were sold and he had no car to drive. He also received a basic living allowance of 80 yuan per month.

The result of selling cars is that the relatively new Dongfeng and second-generation Jiefang have successfully found sellers, while no one is willing to take over the older generation Jiefang.

After selling more than 300 trucks, the transportation company suddenly received more than 20 million yuan in blood, which can provide basic living expenses to the "unemployed workers" for several years.

In addition to trucks, transportation companies have also sold a lot of assets in the past two years. Basically, all the dozens of tertiary industries that were originally owned have been sold out. Half of the wealth accumulated in the past forty years has been sold. If the passenger transport business

If it can be sold, it will probably be sold for money.

This act of selling everything has allowed the transportation company to obtain a large amount of funds. This money can continue to support the salary expenses of its employees, and the company's leadership team can continue to be glamorous.

However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is killing the goose that lays the egg.

Selling out everything also has a sequelae, which is the creation of a large number of "unemployed workers."

Fortunately, unemployed workers can get a basic living allowance. Although 80 yuan is not much, it is given for free. It is relatively stable for the time being and no one is going to make trouble.

Nowadays, Sister Zhang and her husband can only receive basic living expenses, and their quality of life has naturally been greatly reduced. They only have 160 yuan a month, and since they are older and younger, they can only eat some green vegetables, tofu and pickles.

In the transportation company, it is not uncommon for both husband and wife to work in the transportation company like Sister Zhang, and this kind of family is also the hardest hit.

It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. A few years ago, a truck driver who was a high-income earner is now living on subsistence allowances. You can imagine the change in mentality.

Sister Zhang's bicycle was riding slowly in the family yard, but she saw several old colleagues from the garment factory gathering together, as if talking about something.

After one of them saw Sister Zhang, he immediately said hello: "Sister Zhang, are you going out to buy groceries?"

"It's Xiao Wang! I didn't go shopping specifically. I just stopped by and bought some tofu when I came back." Sister Zhang replied. She didn't want others to know that she made a special trip to the vegetable market and just bought some.

I got this small piece of tofu, so I said it was a way to go.

Xiao Wang then asked: "Sister Zhang, are you going to go to the electrical appliance factory?"

"What electrical appliance factory?" Sister Zhang asked with a puzzled look.

"Sister Zhang, it seems you don't know yet!" Xiao Wang continued to explain: "Our former factory director Li set up an electrical appliance factory, you have heard about this, right?"

Sister Zhang nodded: "I heard that Accountant Wang and Deputy Factory Director Wang have been furloughed and are still there."

"That electrical appliance factory is now recruiting people to work! Do you want to go?" Xiao Wang said.

"You should have specialized skills to make household appliances, right? Apart from making clothes, I know nothing else." Sister Zhang shook her head.

"People want people who are good at making clothes, and they say they want to process cushions. Sister Zhang, when Factory Director Li was here, we were asked to make cushions. Now we are still processing cushions, and we have returned to our old business!"

Xiao Wang said.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Sister Zhang said: "I heard before that after Director Li left the garment factory, he also took a leave of absence without pay and went into business as a self-employed person. Wouldn't it be wrong to work with him?

Are you working as a self-employed person?

That's not okay. Our transportation company is a state-owned enterprise after all. We are unemployed workers now, but we are also serious state-owned enterprise employees. We can't work with self-employed people. It would be embarrassing to tell anyone!

And if we go to Factory Manager Li, and the transportation company arranges jobs for us unemployed workers in the future, wouldn’t it mean that we won’t have a share!”

"Sister Zhang, you still expect the company to arrange jobs for us! The clothing factory has been closed down for many years, and we have been idle for so many years. How can anyone pay attention to us? And now we all know the situation of the transportation company. It can be sold.

Everything has been sold, how can there be any jobs to accommodate unemployed workers like us!"

Xiao Wang smiled coldly and continued: "Sister Zhang, I blame me for not making it clear just now. This time, Factory Director Li is not hiring regular workers, but temporary workers."

"Let us state-owned enterprise employees work as temporary workers with self-employed people?" Sister Zhang's face changed slightly, as if she had been greatly insulted.

Xiao Wang went on to introduce: "They are said to be temporary workers, but they are actually just helping out. There is no basic salary, and the wages are completely calculated on a piece-by-piece basis. Each product is made and the price is calculated. The key is that there is no requirement for commuting time.

, you can go and leave whenever you want, and you don’t have to check your attendance. If something happens the next day, you can just say hello, and your salary will not be deducted. How free!”

"If you don't have to check attendance and can take leave at any time, that would be pretty good!" Sister Zhang nodded.

Married women of that era would definitely put their family first. This kind of job, where you could arrive late and leave early, and there were no restrictions on taking leave, was indeed very suitable for someone like Sister Zhang who had to take care of her family all the time.

Then Sister Zhang asked: "How much is the piece-rate wage? How much does it cost to make a cushion?"

"It's fifty cents," Xiao Wang said.

"So much? If you do twenty pieces that day, it costs ten yuan, which is more than the normal salary!" Sister Zhang said in surprise.

If you could earn ten yuan a day, excluding weekends and working six days a week, you could earn at least 240 yuan a month. In a small city in 1993, this was already equivalent to the average wage level of state-owned enterprise workers.

Xiao Wang then explained: "What I made this time is not the kind of car seat cushion I used to make. It is a massage seat, and it has to be filled with sponge. It is probably more complicated. I can't make twenty pieces in one day. But.

Even if you can earn five yuan a day, it is still more than the basic living expenses of 80 yuan now!"

Sister Zhang nodded. She agreed with Xiao Wang's statement. If she could earn five more yuan a day, the pressure of life would be reduced a lot. At least she wouldn't have to scrimp on food, and she could buy some meat from time to time to improve her life.

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There was a knock on the door, Zhu Shicong shouted "Come in", and Wang Haibin opened the door and walked in.

Over the years, Wang Haibin, as Zhu Shicong's confidant, has entered the leadership team of the transportation company from the director of the procurement department. Now Wang Haibin is the deputy general manager of the transportation company.

"Leader, here are two documents, please sign them." Wang Haibin handed a stack of documents to Zhu Shicong, including an expenditure of 300,000 yuan.

As long as Zhu Shicong approves the three hundred thousand yuan, Wang Haibin can get a kickback of thirty thousand yuan.

The rebate rate of 10% is quite high.

Zhu Shicong trusted Wang Haibin very much, so he signed without looking carefully.

Wang Haibin then said, "Leader, there is one more thing I want to report to you. Do you remember that Li Weidong set up an electrical appliance factory?"

Zhu Shicong nodded: "I heard that the electrical appliance factory is doing quite a lot of business! Then Li Weidong even got into the car and ran away!"

Wang Haibin continued; "Now, Li Weidong's electrical appliance factory is poaching people from our company!"

"Poaching people? Who are they poaching?" Zhu Shicong asked subconsciously.

"Many of the unemployed workers in the garment factory have now gone to work in Li Weidong's electrical appliance factory! Li Weidong pays them wages," Wang Haibin continued.

"There is such a thing!" Zhu Shicong frowned, feeling unhappy.

If one of his employees goes to work for someone else, the leader will naturally be unhappy, not to mention that this "other person" is Li Weidong, who has a grudge against him, which makes Zhu Shicong's mood even worse.

Wang Haibin said: "Leader, I think we have to take care of it. When these people work for Li Weidong, aren't they helping Li Weidong make money! We can't take advantage of Li Weidong!"

"It's really outrageous to openly poach people from our unit! We have to report this bad situation to our superiors!" Zhu Shicong nodded in agreement, and then asked: "Those who go to work for Li Weidong, what should I do?

Are you furloughed without pay?"

"That's not true. I heard that they are temporary workers at Li Weidong's place. They don't even get a basic salary. Making one product counts as the cost of one product." Wang Haibin replied.

Zhu Shicong immediately sighed angrily: "If we don't apply for suspension of salary and leave, then we are still employees of our unit, and the human relations are also with us, so it can't be regarded as poaching! Even if this matter is reported to our superiors, we will not

Reasonable!"

Wang Haibin came up with a bad idea: "Boss, since they are still employees of our unit, they should obey the management of our unit! I think it is better to issue a notice prohibiting employees of our unit from working for Li Weidong.

"

Zhu Shicong was obviously more sober than Wang Haibin. He shook his head: "After all, our unit cannot provide jobs for unemployed workers. If they are prohibited from going to other places to work as temporary workers, what should we do if these people come to ask us for jobs?

There are no jobs for these idle people in the company now!"

"Then we can't let Li Weidong take advantage of us!" Wang Haibin pouted, and then said; "Otherwise, the basic living expenses of those who work for Li Weidong will be stopped.

This basic living allowance is supposed to guarantee the basic living expenses of unemployed workers. Since they now work as temporary workers and have a certain income, their basic living expenses will not be a problem and there is no need for their work units to provide them with basic living allowances!"

Zhu Shicong thought for a moment and nodded: "This is reasonable and reasonable. Our transportation company is also in a difficult moment now. Since some employees have the ability to find another way out, we don't need to prevent them from making a fortune. As for these monthly

The basic living expenses of 80 yuan should be left to those in need!"

It has to be said that Wang Haibin's move was really underhanded. Since he couldn't punish Li Weidong, he would punish the laid-off workers who helped Li Weidong.

Zhu Shicong agreed to this suggestion not really for those "people in need", but to use it as an excuse to cause trouble for Li Weidong.

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Wang Haibin left Zhu Shicong's office with satisfaction. Although he could not directly retaliate against Li Weidong, he was still very happy to indirectly cause trouble for Li Weidong.

In the corridor, Zhu Shicong's driver was seen walking from a distance.

"Xiao Zhao, is the leader going out?" Wang Haibin asked.

"No, the leader arranged for me to send people off!" The driver Xiao Zhao also lowered his voice and said in order to please Wang Haibin: "The leader asked me to go to the capital to send his daughter-in-law and grandson.

Airport."

"To go to the airport in the capital, are we going far away?" Wang Haibin also lowered his voice and said.

"I heard that I am going to the United States to send my children to study." The driver Xiao Zhao replied.

"Going to study in the United States? Isn't that child not in junior high school yet? He hasn't learned ABC yet, so how can he understand English?" Wang Haibin curled his lips.

The next second, Wang Haibin suddenly realized that going to the United States to study might be just an excuse. In fact, Zhu Shicong was arranging a way out for himself!

Wang Haibin was Zhu Shicong's confidant, and he knew to some extent what Zhu Shicong had done.

For example, in recent years, transportation companies have sold a lot of assets, but they don't have that much money on their books.

Sometimes tens of millions of assets have just been sold, but hundreds of thousands of basic living allowances are paid to unemployed workers for ten days and a half in arrears. Although Wang Haibin did not explain where the money went, he felt that

Know it well.

"Okay, I understand! Go and do your work!" Wang Haibin nodded, and his originally good mood suddenly turned bad.

Zhu Shicong is Wang Haibin's backer. Now Zhu Shicong has begun to leave a way out for himself, which shows that he has sensed danger and is very likely to run away in the future.

Once Zhu Shicong runs away, Wang Haibin's backer will be gone!

"Should I also leave a way out for myself?" Wang Haibin thought to himself.

"But where can I go? There is no royal land in the world, unless I hide abroad. But I don't have as much money as Zhu Shicong to go to the United States!"

Wang Haibin walked into his office with a heavy heart. He suddenly felt that today's reimbursement form of 300,000 yuan was too little. It should have been 500,000 yuan!

Leaning back on the chair, Wang Haibin began to think about what excuse he should use to make a big fortune and leave himself a way out.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. It was someone coming from the mailroom to deliver newspapers.

"Mr. Wang, today's newspaper." The staff in the mailroom placed the newspaper on Wang Haibin's table.

Wang Haibin had no intention of reading the newspaper and threw it aside.

However, Wang Haibin did not notice that the front page of the No. 1 official media contained this article:

"A Powerful Ideological Weapon for Combating Corruption and Promoting Integrity - Re-Study Comrade XXX's Important Exposition on Combating Corruption".

The end is coming!

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