1 Chapter 1 The Worst Start

"Only half of the salary is paid again, this day can't be passed! How can I support my family?"

"Yes! The salary level of our mechanics is already low, and only half of the salary is paid. I really can't survive!"

"Send towels for half of your salary. Can towels be used as meals?"

In the office of the machine repair shop of the NA City Towel Factory, the workers who were receiving their wages all complained with unhappy faces.

After receiving a salary of 80 yuan, Xu Zhenming was sure that he was not dreaming, but was really reborn.Now is not 2019, when the industry is developed, but it is the end of September 1994 when there is inflation.

He was puzzled. He only took a nap, and when he woke up, he had returned to the age of jingling poverty!

Before he was reborn, Xu Zhenming was the head of the production department of a large robot manufacturing company with an annual salary of several hundred thousand. He had a car, a house, and his wife and children, and his life was very comfortable.

And now, he is just 18 years old this year. He has just graduated from the NA City Industrial School in Southern Anhui Province. He has only been assigned to work in the NA City Towel Factory for two months, and his internship salary is only 160 yuan a month!

Even with a monthly salary of 160 yuan, because the Nan'an towel was not profitable by the factory, he could only get half of the cash, and the other half of the salary was offset by the backlog of towels.

With this salary, you can't support yourself at all!

NA City Towel Factory was once a star enterprise in NA City. It was very prosperous in the 1970s and 1980s. The towels and blankets produced were sold well in Southern Anhui Province.Since 1994, due to the backward business philosophy, the backlog of products can not be sold, the efficiency of the factory is getting worse and worse, and it has been in a state of semi-stop production.

After Xu Zhenming entered the factory, more than a dozen production lines for towel weaving and blanket weaving were completely shut down. The workers had nothing to do in the factory and were playing cards.

He is a full-time junior high school student who is in the top ten in the high school entrance examination before he was admitted to Nan'an Industrial School. He was transferred from a rural residence to a non-agricultural residence.For this happy event, the parents also specially organized a banquet to celebrate.

Unexpectedly, I have just served the iron rice bowl, but I am facing the crisis of laid-off and unemployment!

In the early 1990s, formal employees of state-owned units were said to have served iron rice bowls and ensured income from drought and flood!

In enterprises like Nan'an Towel Quilt Factory, many people have sharpened their heads and drilled in.Xu Zhenming was assigned to work here, and his parents in his rural hometown laughed from ear to ear.

No one would believe that Nan'an Towel will be closed by the factory!No matter how difficult it is, everyone is struggling!

Xu Zhenming would not believe it before!

However, he now knows the ending of the Nan'an Towel Quilt Factory-one of many state-owned enterprises that have disappeared!

After receiving the salary, all the workers in the workshop have to go to a meeting, and the workshop director has to announce the reuse news!

Xu Zhenming put his salary in his pocket and followed the crowd to the meeting room of the machine repair workshop with a stack of towels.

The machine repair workshop is the workshop with the largest number of male workers in the Nan'an Towel Factory. There are more than 80 mechanics responsible for repairing the textile machinery of the whole factory.They do the dirtiest work, dealing with oil and machinery all day long, because they are not the first-line textile workers, their wages and bonuses are the second-tier of the whole factory.

"Comrades! Tomorrow is the National Day, and the whole factory is on holiday, so the salary is paid in advance! Next, let Director Ma speak!"

After everyone was seated, the deputy director of the workshop touched his forehead and spoke.

The meeting room suddenly became quiet.

Xu Zhenming was also silent, scanning the meeting room that was both strange and familiar!

The second floor of the conference room was built in the 1960s, and there are rows of wooden stools and desks painted in yellow-green.

On the wall opposite to the rostrum, there is also a portrait of a great man saying that "the sea depends on the helmsman".The portrait is a wooden oil painting, already black and yellow!On the blackboard behind the rostrum, the party group training slogan "Learning from the Southern Tour Speech" was written.

This meeting room can be used both for meetings and for training employees!

"Comrades! After the research of the factory party committee, it was decided that all employees in the factory have one size fits all, and all employees in their forties and over forty years of age are laid off and go home and wait for notice! During the waiting period, half of the salary will be paid!"

At this time, the gray-haired Director Ma announced with a serious expression.

Xu Zhenming had heard this sentence once, and was not surprised at all, his expression was calm!

The workers in the conference room have already exploded!

"It's not fair! I have worked so hard for a whole life of revolutionary work, how can I be laid off in the end!"

"I lost an arm on the Laoshan front line, who dares to let me off the job!"

"Let us all the veteran employees over forty years old who are laid off and go home. Can these young people like them?"

In the meeting room, only about 30 people were employees under the age of 40, and everyone else yelled angrily.

Xu Zhenming didn't want to look at others, but looked sideways at his master Li Quan.

Li Quan is a rural man. He once worked on the Laoshan Frontline and moved to work in the Nan'an Towel Factory.

He has good skills and is proficient in turning, milling, planing, grinding and welding.He is introverted and can't make a fart with three sticks.At this moment, his face was pale and his hands and feet were trembling constantly.

Li Quan is a single worker, and the important task of feeding a family of three lies on his shoulders.Why don't you panic after hearing the news that you are about to be laid off?

Seeing this, Xu Zhenming comforted Li Quan: "Master, don't panic! It will be fine!"

In his previous life, he said the same, and took the initiative to lay off and leave the post to his master Li Quan.

"Comrades! You have to be considerate of the difficulties in the factory and the city! The money issued today is the loan from the bank guaranteed by the municipal government! The comrades of the business department are not closed on National Day, and they are all outside to collect arrears. Now, most of the shopping malls are losing money, we can't pay for the goods of our factory, there is no way..."

At this time, Director Ma knocked on the table of the rostrum and explained to everyone with all his heart.Finally, he told everyone: he and several senior workshop leaders will be laid off.In this way, everyone gradually calmed down.

Afterwards, he announced another news. The factory decided that the machine repair workshop could be contracted to individual operation. Everyone is welcome to take the initiative and find a way out.

"Director Ma, we believe in you! You come to the contract and take everyone together!"

The workers who were about to be laid off all ignited the fire of hope at this time and elected Director Ma to contract.

Director Ma smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I am old, and I will retire in two years, so I can't do it!"

"Hey……"

Everyone was very disappointed, and they didn't know how to explain to their lover about being laid off after returning home!

Seeing these familiar scenes, Xu Zhenming decided to stand up and speak.

In this life, he decided not to work anymore!Instead, it is preparing to contract a machine repair shop to start a business and break a path.He calmly stood up and said: "Director Ma, leaders, I want to be laid off! I want to contract a machine repair workshop!"

"You? What can a hairy boy do?"

"Isn't this a new secondary school student Xiao Xu? I don't know how to open machine tools, so I dare to contract a machine repair workshop?"

"You're so brave! What a pity..."

Everyone is not optimistic about Xu Zhenming!

Li Quan quickly pulled Xu Zhenming's clothes corner to persuade: "Naruko! Don't mess around! You go to work and learn more skills!"