Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

"Reborn Industrial Tycoon ()" Find the latest chapter!

In the production workshop of the electric furnace factory, workers are assembling the air fryer, while Li Weidong and Ma Zhongyi are patrolling the workshop.

While walking, Ma Zhongyi said, "Tian Yuming's matter is quite a big deal, I heard that the black gauze hat will be thrown away!"

"Isn't it? To take a card for such a thing is to give a serious warning. Is it that serious?" Li Weidong asked in surprise.

"If it's just to take the card, it's not so serious, the key is other things!" Ma Zhongyi paused, and then said; "When the above came to investigate, it was found that Tian Yuming had embezzled two sums of money, one sum of money. It is a seed subsidy for farmers, and one is an irrigation fee for each village.”

"He dares to move the farmers' money! That's what he deserves." Li Weidong said.

It is unhealthy to say things like taking a card, but if you dare to start with farmers' seed subsidies and irrigation fees, that is really touching the red line.

"It seems that this Tian Yuming is finished! But this is a good thing for our factory. At least it is a wake-up call for other cadres in the town, so as not to treat us as soft persimmons in the future!"

Li Weidong changed his voice and continued: "Our products are to be exported to earn foreign exchange, so the quality must not be sloppy. If the quality is not up to standard, it will not only smash the signboard of our factory, but also make it in China. Shame!"

"Wei Dong, don't worry, as soon as work starts, I will squat in the workshop, absolutely no one dares to be lazy!" Ma Zhongyi said.

"Not only to ensure quality, but also to ensure production, the earlier we ship the goods, the earlier we will get the payment!" Li Weidong continued.

"About the production, there are really some problems, I have to discuss it with you!" Ma Zhongyi continued: "You have received orders for more than 40,000 units at the Canton Fair. According to the current progress, we have to produce at least until July. All these orders can be produced.”

Li Weidong nodded. The township enterprises in the 1980s definitely had no assembly lines, and the technical proficiency of the workers was relatively average, so it was acceptable to have lower production efficiency.

The wages of township and village enterprises are very low, and grass-roots township and village enterprises do not have to bear the social security and medical insurance of workers, so the labor cost is extremely low, and the efficiency of not having an assembly line can be fully compensated for by the quantity.

And from an economic point of view, hiring people is much more economical than building an assembly line. Buying a set of assembly line equipment can hire hundreds more people for the same money, and the efficiency may be higher than that of an assembly line.

Due to cost reasons, the township enterprises at that time were reluctant to upgrade the assembly line. For things that could be done by people, machines were absolutely not needed. Therefore, at that time, many township and village enterprises, whose output value was not high, often had hundreds of workers.

The government is also happy to see this happen. If more people are hired, even if the wages are lower, part-time work can earn more than farming, which can solve the surplus labor in towns and villages.

If an enterprise buys a set of machinery and equipment that can replace dozens or hundreds of workers, what should the employment of these dozens or hundreds of workers do?

Li Weidong thought for a few seconds, then said, "Brother Ma, why don't we do this, let's recruit fifty more people and let them do some of the simplest assembly work first, and leave the more complicated ones to the old workers to do. You are very familiar with the various villages in Xiangyang Town, so this matter is left to you."

Ma Zhongyi shook his head: "Wei Dong, you're wrong, I'm not talking about recruiting people, what I want to tell you is that it's almost June, and most of our factories will have to stop by then. months, the time to complete this order will also be postponed to August!"

"Why should we stop work in June? It's not National Day, nor is it Labor Day. Could it be that our factory still has to celebrate Children's Day?" Li Weidong asked in confusion.

"Weidong, you are from the city and don't understand the affairs of our countryside. Every June is the season for harvesting wheat. At that time, these people in the factory,

But they all have to go back to harvest wheat! "Ma Zhongyi explained.

"So it is!" Li Weidong nodded suddenly.

Winter wheat is planted in North China. May and June each year is the time to harvest wheat in North China. The specific harvest time will vary from place to place. Basically, the farther north you go, the later the time to harvest wheat.

For example, in some areas in southern Jiangsu, wheat harvesting begins at the end of May, in northern Jiangsu and southern Shandong until early June, and in northern Hebei until mid-June.

In China in later generations, when you drive a harvester and walk around the wheat field, the wheat is harvested. Even those retail households with a small amount of planting can use small and micro harvesters for harvesting, and few people harvest wheat manually.

In the rural areas of the 1980s, harvesters were only available in large state-owned farms. The average small farmer could have a walk-behind tractor, even if he was a wealthy family in the countryside. At that time, after the wheat was mature, it was all harvested by manpower.

After the wheat is mature, the sooner the harvest, the better. If the small harvest is too late, the wheat grains are easy to fall, and the straw is easy to lodging, which increases the difficulty of harvesting and easily causes harvest losses.

Therefore, there is a saying in the folks that "nine ripe, ten percent harvest, ten ripe, one percent lost", which means that the best time to harvest wheat is when it is nine mature, and waiting until the wheat is fully mature before harvesting will cause 10 percent of the wheat to be harvested. loss.

In the age of manpower harvesting wheat, every time the wheat was harvested, those farmers who worked in cities or towns would all return to their hometowns to rush to harvest wheat. Even many civil servants, public institutions and state-owned enterprise employees who have been admitted from rural areas will take leave to go home to harvest wheat.

Usually, at this time, there will be a short-term labor shortage in cities and towns. Construction sites with a large number of migrant workers, as well as township enterprises, simply stop work and start work after the wheat is harvested.

From the current point of view, it is inconceivable that a company shutting down and letting workers go home to do farm work is completely inconsistent with common sense in economics. However, at that time, if the enterprise dared not to let the workers go home to harvest wheat, the workers would dare to leave without work.

In the concept of the people at that time, returning to the village to harvest wheat was definitely more important than the normal production of the enterprise.

The electric furnace factory will face such a situation. Once the wheat harvest season comes in June, the workers of the electric furnace factory will return to their hometowns to harvest wheat. At that time, the electric furnace factory is bound to stop working for a period of time, so the output will inevitably be affected.

Harvesting wheat in rural areas is not the end of harvesting the wheat. The first round of harvesting and the second round of gleaning also need to transport the harvested wheat to the store in time, and quickly stack it before it rains. Stalls and mills are required, followed by raising, drying, and returning to warehouses. In some places, still wheat is piled up to be used as animal feed for a year.

Waiting for the workers to finish all this, then return to the factory, and then restart the work, it will take two weeks to say the least. If the gods don’t make a few rains and the harvest is affected, it is possible to waste a month’s time. of.

"This is a force majeure factor!" Li Weidong shook his head helplessly.

Li Weidong wanted to increase production, but could not prevent workers from going home to harvest wheat, so he had to find another way.

"Introducing an assembly line?" Li Weidong immediately rejected the idea.

Not to mention that it takes some time to introduce an assembly line, that is, the cost of introducing an assembly line is much more expensive than hiring hundreds or 80 people.

As for hiring people, it is impossible to quench thirst from afar. A township enterprise such as an electric furnace factory can only hire some surplus rural labor.

These surplus rural laborers have a relatively low level of education. Many of them have not even completed primary school and cannot read a few big characters. Training them is inherently complicated.

What's more, what Li Weidong has to solve now is the problem of workers returning to their hometowns to harvest wheat. Even if they hire migrant workers, they will have to go back to harvest wheat at that time.

"The only way to increase production capacity is through management." Li Weidong secretly said in his heart.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong said, "Brother Ma, what do you think of our piece-rate wage?"

"That is to calculate wages according to the number of pieces produced?" Ma Zhongyi asked.

"Yes! One day of work, a basic salary of 1 yuan." Li Weidong stretched out a finger and continued: "In addition, as long as an air fryer is assembled, I will pay a salary of 1 yuan, but only on the premise. It's quality!"

"One dollar per unit. If you assemble five units a day, wouldn't you be able to earn 150 yuan a month? Add in the basic salary of 30 yuan, and it will be 180 yuan. No, it's too high. Yes!" Ma Zhongyi said with a look of surprise.

In 1988, the monthly salary of employees of large state-owned enterprises was about 150 yuan, which was much higher than the previous two years. This was mainly due to rising wages and state subsidies.

Because in that year, the country implemented a price breakthrough, and the price liberalization led to a rise in the prices of various commodities. For example, the price of pork rose by 60%, the price of vegetables rose by 31%, and the 18-inch color TV rose from 1,300 yuan to 1,900 yuan.

Due to rising prices, the state decided to give workers part of the subsidy. However, the implementation of such subsidies in state-owned enterprises and institutions is relatively in place, while most township and village enterprises do not implement such subsidies.

Therefore, in 1988, the wages of state-owned enterprises and public institutions increased substantially, but the wages of township and village enterprises remained unchanged.

The piece-rate salary of one yuan per unit given by Li Weidong had already reached the wage level of employees of state-owned enterprises at that time, and was three or four times higher than that of other township enterprises.

However, Ma Zhongyi disagreed, he felt that the salary was too high.

Li Weidong had no choice but to ask: "Brother Ma, how much do you think the piece rate should be for assembling an air fryer?"

"Just give me two or three cents, that's fine!" Ma Zhongyi said.

"No, there are too few, so it can't mobilize the enthusiasm of the workers." Li Weidong said.

"Then add one cent, four cents!" Ma Zhongyi said.

Li Weidong shook his head: "I think I'll give you eighty cents."

"Eighty cents? If you can assemble five units a day, you can earn four dollars. That's one hundred and two a month. No, how can a township enterprise like us offer such a high salary." Ma Zhongyi vetoed again. .

"That's seven cents, it can't be any lower!" Li Weidong said.

"Seven cents is too high, at most four cents!" Ma Zhongyi still clenched the four cents tightly and did not let go.

Li Weidong smiled slightly and asked, "Brother Ma, based on 70 cents, a skilled worker should earn 100 yuan a month, right?"

"Definitely! The workers in our factory, with better skills, can assemble five air fryers a day. Even if they have average skills, they can assemble four a day. Including the basic salary, they can earn 120 per month. It's a dollar." Ma Zhongyi said.

Li Weidong immediately asked, "If you can earn 120 yuan in that month, do you think the workers would be willing to go back to their hometown to harvest wheat?"