Rebirth 1979: Marrying a poor girl at the beginning

The drinking party lasted until two in the afternoon.

But Lin Zhengjun, Bai Weiguo and others did not leave and chatted for a while.

Bai Weiguo has already come up with several ideas for the state-owned hotel project.

Sometimes they say they’re going to cook Huaiyang cuisine, sometimes they say they’re going to cook Lao Yanjing’s copper pot mutton hotpot, but there is only one location, and it has to be right opposite the state-owned Workers and Peasants Restaurant on North Street!

Lin Zhengjun had no objection to the location.

It’s not that he had to compete with the state-owned Workers and Peasants Restaurant, or to make trouble for the manager and waiters there. He was not that bored.

It’s because North Street is actually quite prosperous, with the largest passenger flow and the greatest consumption potential!

In the area of ​​Guangbei Street, there are several large factories and mines, including a meat processing plant, a flour processing plant, a clothing factory, a supply and marketing cooperative, and a bank, with thousands of workers and hundreds of cadres.

But he vetoed all these projects.

"If the plan I proposed doesn't work, then tell me what exactly you want to do?" said Mr. Bai.

"Let me suggest one. For breakfast, we'll have pork offal soup with sesame biscuits, and for lunch and dinner, we'll have pork offal noodles, and a special dish and a few small cold dishes to pair with it!"

"Low level!" Bai Weiguo said dissatisfiedly.

He Jian interrupted, "Offal? It's fishy and not tasty!"

"That's because you don't know how to cook it. If you use more seasonings and follow the right process, the offal will be quite delicious!" said Lin Zhengjun.

"What Zhengjun said makes sense!"

Liu Yin shook the rattle to amuse the child and said with a smile, "People in Luoshan County next door like to eat pig intestine soup. Pig intestines are stewed with tofu and pig blood. It is so fragrant and has no strange smell at all!"

"I ate it once on a business trip two years ago, and I studied it for half a year!"

"Pork offal is cheap, fragrant, and not greasy. Paired with a few sesame cakes, workers and farmers can afford to eat it without spending much money, and they will be satisfied and happy after eating it!"

Lin Zhengjun said: "Only senior officials would like to eat the Huaiyang cuisine and mutton hotpot you mentioned. Besides, only they can afford it!"

"In addition, pork offal is easy to store. It doesn't matter if it's fresh. You can cook a pot in the morning and eat it until the evening. It's the most convenient and fastest way to save labor costs!"

"Finally, the common people here don't eat pork offal very much. They all like to eat fatty meat. It's not only cheap for us to buy pork offal, but it's also easier to find coupons, so we can buy in large quantities. Otherwise, we need dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of meat a day, and even your face, Mr. Bai, may not work!"

After some analysis, Mr. Bai was completely convinced. He clapped his hands and said with a smile, "Okay, I'll listen to you. You are a model of family sideline production, so let's do it. By the way, I have found a suitable store. Let's go check it out together. It'll be like a walk to digest the food!"

"Row!"

Lin Zhengjun readily agreed, and the two of them rode their bicycles out of the Public Security Bureau’s staff quarters and soon arrived at the county flour processing factory on North Street.

Bai Weiguo pointed to a red brick and gray tile house against the wall and said, "This is the house. It's an abandoned warehouse of the flour mill. What do you think of it?"

Lin Zhengjun looked around.

Next to it are several large factories, including a meat processing factory, a clothing factory, a textile factory, the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and a bank. Opposite it is the state-owned Workers and Peasants Hotel, so the flow of people is quite good.

This location is well chosen!

These days, the countryside is poor, but the factories are booming.

Being a worker is also considered the best job by people, even better than being a cadre in an office.

Because the competition for promotion among government officials is fierce and it is difficult to get promoted, some people spend their entire lives as just a small clerk.

However, workers' professional titles are evaluated once a year. As long as they do not make mistakes, they can be promoted and their wages increased according to the time nodes. The advantage is stability.

Anyone who could get a job in the factory as a worker would be immediately proud, matchmakers would come to the doorstep, and even the parents and children would be taken care of by the factory.

At that time, workers in state-owned factories enjoyed very good welfare benefits.

There are often factory-run hospitals, nurseries, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, and workers' clubs where you can watch movies for free. It is truly like "treating the factory as your home" and you don't have to worry about anything for the rest of your life.

Rural members may work hard and earn full work points throughout the year, but may not be able to receive just a few dozen yuan at the end of the year.

If you were sick or in poor health or something happened, you would not earn enough work points, and then you would get even fewer points. Many of them even owed money to the production team.

There are no other benefits at all.

As for workers, the apprentice salary is 23 yuan per month, plus a 5 yuan subsidy, a total of 28 yuan.

After completing the apprenticeship, you will be a level 18 worker with a monthly salary of 36 yuan and a bonus of 5 yuan.

The highest level is level 10 worker, and above that it falls into the category of engineer, and can even get 86 yuan.

Workers have the opportunity to be promoted and have their wages increased every year.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation are also benefits.

Take clothes for example. The members only had three or four feet of cloth coupons a month, and they had to save up for half a year to be eligible to buy cloth to make a piece of clothing.

When many young members were getting married, the whole family would live frugally and start saving cloth coupons several years in advance so that they could prepare two new sets of clothes and a new bedding for the newlyweds.

As for the workers, they are issued work clothes every year, usually two sets of summer clothes and two sets of winter clothes!

In this way, you don’t have to buy clothes, and the saved cloth coupons can be sold for money.

Not only are the wages and tickets much higher than those of the other members of the cooperative, but the work is also easier.

For example, the clerks in the mail room and the doormen in the security department can easily earn more than 30 yuan a month, which is equivalent to what a farmer earns after working hard for half a year.

In short, workers these days are the group with the greatest consumption potential. If you want to open an individual restaurant, the location must be chosen where there are many large factories and workers!

It's just that the warehouse itself is really not that good.

Although it is on the street, the entrance faces the inside of the factory. It is surrounded by weeds, littered with garbage and smells terrible. It definitely needs some renovation and decoration.

Lin Zhengjun couldn't help but laugh and said, "You just want to put the state-owned Workers and Peasants Restaurant out of business, right? You're so jealous of Manager Hu, but he's corrected his mistakes!"

"That's right, I get angry when I see those arrogant waiters. They look down on us all the time!" Bai Weiguo said angrily with a fierce face.

The two men came to the gate, and Bai Weiguo said to the guards, "Comrade, I have something to ask your Director Lu. Is he here?"

"Hey, Chief Bai, what brings you here? I'm here, I'm here, I'll take you there right away!"

The head of the security department immediately opened the door and gave cigarettes to Bai Weiguo and Lin Zhengjun, as enthusiastically as if he were meeting a relative.

Since Lin Zhengjun was reborn, he had given cigarettes to the security guards several times when he went in and out of government agencies.

At that time, the doormen and security guards were all regular employees, they were legitimate working class and they were very arrogant.

If you don't smoke, people won't even look at you and you won't be able to ask for anything. This is the first time that the security guard gave me a cigarette. I can only say that I benefited from Bai Weiguo's kindness.

Soon, we arrived at the flour mill director's office.

The factory director, Lu Changyuan, was a fat man in his forties, dressed in Dacron and wearing a Shanghai brand all-steel watch.

In those days, everyone ate coarse food and wore tattered clothes, but the workers in the flour mill and meat processing factory never went hungry, and the leaders in the textile factory and bedding factory never froze.

"My dear old leader, I haven't seen you for a while! Are you still in good health?"

When he saw Bai Weiguo, Lu Changyuan was also surprised. He quickly stood up and poured him tea and cigarettes.

As he looked at the long road, Lin Zhengjun revealed a meaningful smile.

Because he knew this guy and they had a deep connection in their previous life!

"I'm in good health. I enjoy eating everything and sleep till dawn. I often do boxing and running, and can do 100 push-ups in one breath. Some time ago, I arrested three thieves who blew up a bank. Am I awesome?" Bai Weiguo said proudly.

Lu Changyuan said with envy: "Oh, Niu Niu Niu, you are still as sharp as ever. Your health is much better than mine. I want to learn from you and exercise more!"

After a few pleasantries, Lu Changyuan got to the point and asked with a smile, "Old leader, you are a very busy man. What do you want to talk to me about?"