Reborn Industrial Tycoon

Li Weidong returned to the auto repair workshop, found his "28 big bar" in the bicycle shed, and rode his bicycle back to the transportation company's family home.

The transportation company's family compound is actually a large tile-roofed house.

In the early 1980s, Tongzi Towers were only available in big cities. After all, the Qinghe area was not like Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. There were not even decent Tongzi Towers. Even employees of state-owned enterprises could only live in large tile-roofed houses.

Li Weidong's family has three tile-roofed houses, which are considered to be in good condition among the family members of the transportation company. This is also thanks to the fact that Li Dengke is a veteran of the transportation company and is relatively high in seniority, so he can be allocated these three large tiled houses.

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When Li Weidong returned home, his mother Zhou Xiuchun had already prepared dinner, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, a plate of tofu mixed with green onions, and a plate of pickles.

Although the dinner was not meaty at all, when Li Weidong tasted his mother's cooking again, tears could not help but roll in his eyes.

While the mother was eating, she was nagging about trivial matters. Even the neighbor's cat, which had been missing for a month and came back with a big belly, could talk about it vividly for three to five minutes.

His father, Li Dengke, poured himself a small cup of local Qinghe Daqu, took a sip of it, and smacked his lips after the aftertaste. Next to him, his younger brother Li Weimin kept stuffing vegetables into his mouth, as if he was reincarnated by a starving ghost.

Looking at this scene, Li Weidong couldn't help but sigh in his heart, how great it would be if a few sisters came back and the family had a reunion dinner!

Li Dengke and his wife gave birth to six children in total, which could be regarded as a response to the call of "there is strength in numbers" at that time.

For people born in the 1950s and 1960s, it is normal to have four or five brothers and sisters. If you only have two or three children, you are considered to have a small number of children. In that era, an only child was the same as a giant panda.

rare.

Li Weidong has four sisters and one brother. The first three sisters are all married. After graduating from junior high school, the fourth sister was assigned to work in a small county fifty kilometers away and could only come back once a month. His younger brother Li Weimin is now in the first grade of junior high school.

What a scumbag.

People of the previous generation inevitably had patriarchal thoughts. Li Dengke gave birth to four daughters in succession, and it was only on the fifth that he gave birth to a son, Li Weidong. Naturally, he took great care of Li Weidong, and his four sisters were also somewhat "little brothers."

At that time, everyone was poor, and they didn’t have the material conditions to “support their younger brothers”.

After dinner, his younger brother Li Weimin, who was a scumbag at school, ran out quickly to play with his friends. His father Li Dengke turned on the radio and leaned on his chair.

Although there was already a black and white TV set at that time, Li Weidong's family still couldn't afford it due to their financial conditions. It was already very good to have a radio to listen to.

"Xiu Shan hosted a banquet, made friends with me, drank thousands of cups, and knew how to socialize..."

An excerpt from the Peking Opera "The Story of the Red Lantern" played on the radio, and Li Dengke hummed along and beat the beat with his hands.

Li Weidong helped his mother clean up the dishes.

"Weidong, you are tired after a long day in the workshop. Go inside and change your clothes. I will wash them for you." His mother said lovingly.

Li Weidong nodded and went back to the back room to change out of the dark blue work clothes.

The furnishings in the room were both familiar and unfamiliar. Li Weidong looked at his young self in the mirror and was stunned for a moment.

"I took this mirror with me when I moved. After I moved again for the second time, I couldn't find it."

Li Weidong sighed, suddenly feeling confused about his future.

"Normally, I, a reborn person who is familiar with history, should easily become a billionaire!" Li Weidong murmured to himself.

But when it was his turn, he really couldn't think of any good ways to make money.

"Go to the post office and buy a stack of monkey tickets? Not to mention that monkey tickets were issued in 1980, and whether they are still available now. Even if the price of monkey tickets increases, it will be more than 20 years later.

Going out to set up a street stall and become self-employed? I'm afraid my father will beat me to death! I'm a regular employee of a large state-owned enterprise, so I can't afford to lose that person.

Playing with national debt and foreign exchange? I don't have the capital yet, and the severe crackdown in 1983 has just passed. If I engage in that thing, I might be arrested as a speculator. If I don't make any money, I will be jailed for a few years. Then

The gains outweigh the losses.”

Li Weidong sighed helplessly.

In the 1990s, saying that a person was self-employed meant that he made a lot of money and would be envied by many people. In the 1980s, especially in the early 1980s, "self-employed" was definitely a derogatory connotation.

word.

In the early 1980s, self-employed people were synonymous with unemployed young people, or even reform-through-labor prisoners, and were incompatible with mainstream society.

For employees of state-owned enterprises, the concept of "self-employed" sounds irritating to the ears and is even more irritating to look at.

In a family home of a state-owned enterprise, if someone's child becomes self-employed, it will simply bring shame to the whole family, and the parents will not be able to hold their heads high in front of others.

If you are a rural person, if you go to the city to set up a street stall and make money, you will be regarded as the hope of the whole village; but if you are a child of a state-owned enterprise, if you set up a street stall, it will definitely be a shame to the whole factory.

Therefore, the children of state-owned enterprise employees would rather work as temporary workers in state-owned enterprises than work as self-employed traders.

What's more, Li Weidong himself is a formal employee of a state-owned enterprise, so it is even more unrealistic to become a self-employed person.

It's like something written in a rebirth novel. When I was reborn, I went back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. I started a business and followed the spring breeze of reform and opening up. It developed all the way, broke out of Asia and went global, and became one of the world's top 500 companies in a few years.

, entering the Forbes rankings, and being brothers with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, that’s even more nonsense.

In the early 1980s, except for special economic zones, there was no place for private enterprises to survive in China. Although policies had been gradually liberalized, it was still an era when the planned economy was transitioning to a market economy, and the planned economy still held a dominant position.

This means that almost all means of production are allocated within the plan. State-owned enterprises will take away most of the means of production, and the rest will be taken away by collective enterprises. It is impossible for private enterprises to obtain the means of production within the plan.

For example, electricity, energy, transportation, land, infrastructure, etc. are also given priority to state-owned enterprises, and then to collective enterprises. Private enterprises can't get anything.

There is no electricity, no energy, no land, no transportation, and even raw materials. How can private enterprises survive?

Throughout the 1980s, the private economy was almost developed in the form of small workshops, such as frying melon seeds or frying chili sauce. Such small workshops would hardly occupy the means of production and would not be used by various "plans".

"Stuck in the neck.

When you started doing business in 1984, you probably could only do what the early Wenzhou merchants did, carrying a large bag of small commodities and shuttling through various cities.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong couldn't help but cursed secretly: "Rebirth novels are all nonsense! I have been reborn, but I still have to continue to live in a state-owned enterprise!"