Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

Sitting in the business car, looking at the scenery outside the window, Kong Zhenlong said with emotion: "Qinghe City has changed quite a lot. When I came here last time, there were not so many buildings here!"

"The development of cities will only get faster and faster. Many cities will change in the next three to five years." Li Weidong paused and then asked: "Has Reporter Kong been to Qinghe before?"

Kong Zhenlong nodded: "I've been here before. The last time I came to Qinghe, it was because domestic media reported that a 'ghost castle' was built in Qinghe City, so Taili sent me to investigate on the spot."

"Are you talking about our textile wholesale mall in Qinghe City?"

Li Weidong continued: "I developed that wholesale mall. Since the expressway was opened, the wholesaler's business has been very prosperous. A logistics park has been built next to it, and the second phase of the wholesale mall is also under construction. In a moment We have to go take a look.”

"It turns out that the textile wholesale mall was developed by Chairman Li, so we are really destined." Kong Zhenlong said, pointing to a manned motor tricycle parked on the roadside, and then said:

"The last time I went to the wholesale mall, I was riding in a three-wheeler like this. The man who drove the three-wheeler was a disabled person. He rode a three-wheeler with a prosthetic leg, drove without a license, and drank while driving. So, The mistress was driving so fast on the road that it almost scared me to death!

Speaking of which, many of these dodgy people do not have driving licenses and do not understand traffic rules. It is too dangerous to run rampant on the road. Many big cities have begun to ban this kind of three-bouncer. "

Li Weidong smiled awkwardly: "Actually, this kind of motorized tricycle is also a product of my company."

Kong Zhenlong was slightly startled and thought to himself, why are you everywhere?

Li Weidong went on to explain; “Actually, when I developed this kind of motorized tricycle, it was only for laid-off workers and groups with employment difficulties. They have few life skills, some are older, and have difficulty finding a job.

In order to solve their livelihood problems, I developed this passenger-carrying motorized tricycle. At that time, it also solved many employment problems. However, there are gains and losses. The normal traffic order was disrupted by this passenger-carrying tricycle. . As a result, many traffic accidents occurred.

This kind of passenger-carrying three-wheelers are basically unlicensed and undocumented. They are not registered with the traffic police department and are very difficult to manage. Relevant departments conduct rigorous inspections several times a year, but with little success. When the inspections are strict, they will fight guerrillas with the traffic police comrades. Once the inspections are not strict, they will immediately reappear and fill the streets.

Our Qinghe City once planned to learn from big cities and completely ban passenger tricycles from the road, but after investigation, we found that these things cannot be banned at all. Too many people depend on this for a living, and most of them are middle-aged and elderly people without skills. Once a total ban is imposed, these people's jobs will be lost.

In addition, the masses do have demand for this kind of tricycle. For example, the elderly take their children to and from school, or go to the wet market to buy vegetables. It is very convenient to drive a tricycle. This thing is cheap, not difficult to drive, and easy to learn and master. "

"Chairman Li is still concerned about the livelihood issues of ordinary people. It seems that I have found the right person for this interview." Kong Zhenlong replied.

Li Weidong replied: "The reason why those laid-off workers drive three-wheelers is ultimately because they lack the skills to make a living. For example, workers who know some crafts will not worry about finding a job even if they are laid off.

The same goes for those workers who go to the northwest to pick cotton. Most of them are farmers and have no other skills except farming. Some may not even be proficient in farming skills, so they can only pick cotton. .

Even simple labor such as dry picking cotton will be replaced by cotton harvesters one day. If they knew how to make a living, these problems would disappear. "

Li Weidong said and pointed ahead: "So what we are going to next is a place that teaches others how to make a living, our vocational technical school in Qinghe."

As Li Weidong finished speaking, the car turned a corner, and the gate of the technical school appeared in sight.

Knowing that Li Weidong was coming, the principal had been waiting for a long time.

"Chairman, you haven't been here for a while." The principal greeted him with a smile.

Hearing this title, Kong Zhenlong showed a puzzled expression.

If the principal calls Li Weidong "Chairman Li", this is a relatively normal title, but the word "Li" is omitted and he is called "Chairman" directly, which is more like a subordinate's title to his boss.

Li Weidong saw Kong Zhenlong's doubts, so he said: "I invested in the construction of this technical school. Reporter Kong, let me take you in for a visit!"

"You really are everywhere." Kong Zhenlong thought to himself, and then said: "Chairman Li has so many properties."

The first stop was a car maintenance class.

In the late 1990s, family cars began to enter wealthy families.

Cars such as Alto and Xiali are completely stress-free for many families in first-tier cities. If your family is a little richer, you can buy a Jetta. Santana is probably the top model for families. Cars that are more luxurious than Santana are basically used by work units or bosses.

On another level, with the improvement of traffic conditions and the crackdown on fare tyrants, the number of passenger and freight vehicles is also growing rapidly. There are few state-owned transportation companies running long-distance vehicles, and they are basically purchased by individuals. vehicles, or vehicles contracted by individuals.

Also because of the increase in the number of cars, the auto repair major has become more and more popular, and its popularity has surpassed that of the motorcycle major.

At that time, it was very easy to open an auto repair shop at the crossroads of the national highway and earn 50,000 to 60,000 yuan a year.

Just listen to Li Weidong's introduction: "Auto repair has only emerged in the past two years, and the employment prospects are very broad. The salary of our graduates starts at 800, and it includes food and accommodation!"

After all, it was 1999, and they were paid 800 yuan including food and accommodation, which was a very high salary for a blue-collar worker.

"Can I go for an interview?" Kong Zhenlong asked.

"No problem, just ask." Li Weidong nodded.

Kong Zhenlong walked forward, found a relatively young face, and asked: "Young man, how old are you this year?"

"Sixteen!" the man replied.

"Sixteen years old, the same age as Gen'er." Kong Zhenlong couldn't help but think of the boy he met on the train.

"Why do you want to learn car repair?" Kong Zhenlong asked again.

"I didn't get into high school. My family told me that I needed to learn a trade, so I came here. I heard that you can make a lot of money by doing auto repair, so I learned auto repair." The young man answered.

"Do you plan to go to an auto repair shop after completing your studies?" Kong Zhenlong asked next.

The young man nodded: "Work with others for a few years, save some money, and then open a store by yourself. You can earn tens of thousands a year!"

"You are really ambitious!" Kong Zhenlong sighed lightly.

Compared with the cotton-picking "root", the life goals of this auto repair boy are obviously higher.

At first he just wanted to save some money and marry the neighbor's girl, but the auto repair boy had a dream of becoming a boss.

Li Weidong took Kong Zhenlong to the next stop. In a steel structure shed like a large warehouse, more than 200 people were holding iron pots with sand in them. They were practicing spooning.

This is the chef class.

Chef has always been a very popular major in technical schools, and the number of people studying cooking has always been high.

The so-called food, clothing, housing and transportation, filling the stomach is always the most important thing. Moreover, when you are a cook, you don’t have to go hungry. You can fill your stomach by just tasting the salty food when cooking. Therefore, even in an era of famine, a cook will never starve to death.

Kong Zhenlong also interviewed a young man who had not studied well since he was a child. He barely managed to get a junior high school diploma and no longer went to school. He was idle at home all day long. His family couldn't stand it anymore, so they sent him to a technical school.

This kind of scumbag is not good at learning anything and not eating enough. Parents are also worried that he won't be able to learn other skills, so he might as well learn to be a chef.

Cooking is difficult to learn, but very easy to learn. Even the most stupid people should always know whether it is salty or not, so it is very suitable for scumbags to learn.

And this poor student also has lofty ideals. His goal is to open a food stall that sells all kinds of cooking, barbecue and seafood.

"The food stalls are quite profitable once they are ready." Kong Zhenlong nodded silently.

As a reporter who travels all over the country, Kong Zhenlong often eats at food stalls. He also knows that this industry has low investment and high profits.

The entire gas tank, gas stove, and a few tables, chairs, and benches can be placed in an open space on the roadside and turned on. Earning one or two yuan from frying a plate of vegetables can easily make a profit of dozens of yuan a day.

Even if the ingredients you prepare cannot be sold, you can still fry and eat them yourself. At least you can have a full meal.

Next, Kong Zhenlong came to the beauty and hairdressing class.

This is also a popular major all year round, and compared with other majors, beauty and hairdressing work is much easier. The working environment is basically indoors, without exposure to wind and sun, and it is not heavy physical labor.

What's more, everyone loves beauty, and doing hair has been very common since ancient times.

There are many female students in the beauty and hairdressing major. Kong Zhenlong interviewed two female students. They both hoped to open a hairdressing shop after graduation.

Next is the highlight of the technical school, the excavator major.

The scene of dozens of excavators working together in the open space is indeed majestic, and the roar of the machines is like thousands of horses galloping in.

Kong Zhenlong stared at an excavator for a long time.

As a man, I really have a soft spot for excavators.

"Reporter Kong, do you want to interview some more students?" Li Weidong reminded from the side, and Kong Zhenlong came back to his senses.

Just listen to Li Weidong say: "Although driving an excavator is very hard, the income is still very high. If you hire an excavator master on the construction site now, it is difficult to pay 80 yuan a day. Many construction sites have opened it to 90 yuan a day. , even 100 yuan!”

"If it's 100 yuan a day, then it's 3,000 yuan a month. Such a high salary?" Kong Zhenlong asked with a surprised look on his face.

Around 2000, it was probably the era when excavator drivers were most scarce.

Under the previous state-owned system, excavators were only owned by state-owned companies. To drive an excavator, it was basically a master who led an apprentice, who taught him how to drive the excavator step by step.

The reform of state-owned enterprises in the late 1990s broke the traditional system of masters leading apprentices. Masters no longer lead apprentices. The excavator courses in technical schools have just emerged, and the new batch of excavator drivers have not been trained yet, so the demand for excavator drivers exceeds the supply.

Therefore, when hiring excavator drivers on the construction site, they had to pay a high salary. If they were paid less, there would be no one to do it.

In 1999, a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan was only available to white-collar workers in many foreign companies. Civil servants and public institutions certainly could not get such a salary.

At that time, you could still find houses priced at 3,000 yuan per square meter in the inner ring of Shanghai. For any era, if one month's salary can buy one square meter of urban housing, it is an absolutely high salary.

Even for an ace reporter like Kong Zhenlong, whose salary plus external subsidies are quite high, he is already a little envious when he hears that he earns 3,000 yuan a month.

Li Weidong went on to introduce: "If you have the courage, you can buy an excavator with some money to pick up jobs everywhere, and you will earn more. If you are lucky, you can get your money back in one year, and you will make pure money in the second year. "

"It's so profitable to drive an excavator!" Kong Zhenlong looked in disbelief and decided to interview the students in person.

Having spotted a target, Kong Zhenlong stepped forward and chatted for a few words before asking, "Young man, why do you want to learn to drive an excavator?"

"I want to get a wife, so I came to learn to drive an excavator." The man replied.

"Finally I met a normal person who wants to marry a wife!" Kong Zhenlong was overjoyed. After interviewing so many people, he was the only one who didn't want to open a shop and be the boss.

However, the man went on to say: "The girl I am interested in is the only daughter in the family. Her father works in engineering and has an engineering team under her. When I learn how to drive an excavator, I will work with her father. By the way, if I marry the girl, her car, house, and engineering team will all be mine!"

"Uh... this ambition is bigger than being the boss! He will take away the people and property directly!" Kong Zhenlong suddenly looked speechless.

After the interview, Li Weidong and Kong Zhenlong returned to the reception room to rest.

"Reporter Kong, I see you have interviewed several students. What do you think of our technical school?" Li Weidong asked with a smile.

"Very good. These colleges have very clear goals and ideals. Most of them hope to open their own shop and become an individual owner after graduation. Only one wants to have both wealth and wealth." Kong Zhenlong replied.

"Having both wealth and sex? What the hell is this? Do we still have such shameless students here?"

Li Weidong complained in his heart, and then continued: "Reporter Kong, you have interviewed many cotton pickers before, right? There should not be many of them. Their future plan is to start their own business, right?"

"Self-employment? What a good word. It sounds much better than self-employed." Kong Zhenlong thought to himself, and then replied:

“The cotton pickers I met really didn’t want to start their own business. They traveled thousands of miles to the northwest to pick cotton, basically to improve their quality of life.

For example, buy new clothes for your children, purchase some household appliances, buy a motorcycle, or save money to build a house or marry a wife. Basically, these are basic needs for food, clothing, housing and transportation. "

Li Weidong smiled slightly and said, "Reporter Kong, you should be able to guess why there is such a difference, right?"

Kong Zhenlong thought for a moment and asked, "Is it because of professional skills?"

Li Weidong nodded: "Yes, the reason why our students here want to start a business is because they have learned a craft that can make them eat, which is what you call vocational skills.

Therefore, if we want to solve the livelihood problem of hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers, the fundamental way is to let them master a craft that can make them eat, rather than letting these people continue to engage in unskilled manual labor like picking cotton by hand.

Not only are there hundreds of thousands of cotton pickers, but there are also hundreds of millions of uneducated and unskilled laborers in our country. To solve their livelihood problem, we also need to use this method of teaching people to fish. "

"Teach a man to fish?" Kong Zhenlong nodded thoughtfully, as if thinking about whether what Li Weidong said was right.

Li Weidong didn't give Kong Zhenlong much time to think. He stood up and said, "Reporter Kong, what you just saw is only part of the answer. Let's go to the next place and I'll show you the other part of the answer."

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