60s Splendid Life

"Tofu tofu flower stewed dried tofu spicy strips... Tofu tofu flower stewed tofu spicy strips..."

"Hurry up, the spicy stick seller is here!"

The children in the village ran out as soon as they heard the voice of the peddler yelling to sell bean curd and tofu flowers. It's a bag of money, as long as the children who have eaten it don't say it's bad, the children who haven't eaten it will want to eat it even more.

However, not many children in rural areas can afford spicy sticks that cost ten cents a pack these days. The child has no money in his hands.

The shopkeeper deftly parked the cart under the big tree in the village, sat down, drank some water, and continued selling.There are people here enjoying the shade under the tree, and adults occasionally spend money to buy tofu flowers for the children at home, or buy a piece of tofu stewed tofu to go home to add vegetables, but today he was surrounded by a group of children as soon as he stopped. A child in the lead asked him, "Is there any hot strips for sale?"

"Yes, [-] cents for a small bag, [-] cents for a large bag, what do you want?" The salesman skillfully quoted.

"I want a dime, two packs."

"I want a pack too."

The rich children all took out the money in their pockets to buy spicy sticks. As soon as they bought a spicy stick and tore a hole, they took out a spicy stick and took a bite, smacking loudly on purpose. , Shouting "It's so delicious."

Children who have no money can’t buy it, so they all surround the children who bought spicy sticks in their hands, and want others to share one of them. This depends on the mood of others. If others are in a good mood, they may share it with you, but more children Still reluctant, the most is to share a little bit with my brothers and sisters, outsiders will not give it.

The shopkeeper is used to selling things in these villages. Some regular customers will come to buy things with him when they see him coming. There are also children who come with adults crying for spicy noodles. Food is included, but there are also some grumpy parents, let alone buying spicy strips for their children, they can eat them with a slap.

Therefore, shopkeepers often see adults beating children when they sell things outside. Some soft-hearted shopkeepers will follow to persuade adults not to beat children, so they leave with their burdens and continue to sell in the next place, but they are followed by another A bunch of kids who don't want to go.

Most of these shopkeepers who went to other villages to sell things were from Lujia Village. They set off from Lujia Village in the morning and came back in groups in the evening. Everyone walked more lightly than when they went out.

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Although they are in the same village, the tofu workshop and the two factories belong to two different divisions.Although the money will still go back to their brigade in the end, because the management personnel are different and the accounts are also different, so even though the food factory's products are sold in the tofu workshop, the accounts still have to be settled clearly.

Every day, how many spicy noodles are taken by the tofu shop and how many spicy noodles are sold, they have a good account book here.

Lu Jin thought that their spicy strips would sell well, but in fact they didn't sell very well. The biggest reason is that today's children have no money and can't afford it if they want to eat, while adults have a little money, it's just that At the beginning of the year, everyone's stomachs were not full, and who would be willing to spend money to buy snacks, so their spicy strips sold worse than he expected.

When seeing the data fed back every day, Lu Jin's face became a little silent.

Their factory is still in production. So much money was invested in the early stage. In addition to the money invested by the brigade, he also invested the little money in his own hands. If the things can’t be sold, let alone the money invested If they can't get out, it means that the wages of the employees will not be paid next month. When the wages are not paid, the workers will go on strike, and their factories will really close down.

When he was in this position, Lu Jincai gradually realized that being the director of the factory was much more difficult than being a master of the tofu workshop. In the past, as a master of the tofu workshop, he could earn full work points every day, and he didn't need to invest any money in it. There is food to eat.But now he is the director of a factory. Whether the factory can survive is related to whether he can continue as the factory director and whether the employees below can finish the job. He has to find a way to let the employees have food. , he can continue to be the factory manager, and he feels the pressure and responsibility from the factory manager position.

The only way for their factory to survive is to sell the products and get the money back. Only then can they have funds to continue to support the factory and pay wages to the employees.

In fact, they have a very good partner right now, the supply and marketing cooperative, but it is not easy to cooperate with the supply and marketing cooperative these days.But if we can cooperate with supply and marketing cooperatives, there are so many supply and marketing cooperatives all over the country, if they can sell their products to supply and marketing cooperatives all over the country, they can make a lot of money in a year.Of course, this is just his expectation. Whether it is good or not will only be known after they practice it. After all, things these days are really hard to sell.

It seems that it is not enough to rely on tofu sellers to sell sales. They still need to recruit a few people to train them to become professional sales talents.

Thinking of this, Lu Jin called Zhang Kai over.

"Factory Manager, what do you want from me?" Zhang Kai entered the small office of their factory manager and asked.

"Close the door and let's talk about something." Lu Jin, the factory director's office, is a small workshop at the end of the factory separated by boards. There are three desks inside, and the innermost one is for him. My own, and there are two working places outside that belong to Zhang Kai and Lu Bowen.

Now Zhang Kai is the production supervisor of their factory, mainly responsible for the production of the workshop and the internal work of the factory; while Lu Bowen is the general manager of the factory, in fact, he is mainly responsible for external work. He often travels around and rarely returns home. Come over to the office.These two people, one outside and one inside, cooperate with his work as the factory manager. As for himself, he is a bottle of panacea. It is busier than any employee in the factory.

Lu Jin motioned Zhang Kai to move a chair over and sit down, and then said, "I have something to tell you to do here. Among the educated youths who came with you, are there any ones who are more cheerful, eloquent, and well-connected?" What? You go to contact them and tell them that our factory is looking for sales staff, and those who are willing to do it can come for an interview."

"Yes, yes, there are several good young people living with me, and we also have contacts with educated youths in several nearby villages. If we recruit people here, they should also have some people over there." There are several educated youths in their own village. Except for him who is currently working in the factory, the rest of the educated youths are still doing farm work on the ground. When their factory recruits workers, the first thing Zhang Kai thinks of is to work with him. Educated youths living in the same courtyard.

But even though Zhang Kai was happy, he didn't forget to ask clearly, "How many people are we going to recruit, sales is just recruiting them to sell things, right?"

"Yes, the main thing is to help us promote our products and run business in various places. It is best to recruit salespeople from big cities, and the places should not overlap. In this way, if we can arrange business trips for them in the future, they can go to different places. But in the early stage The salary is not very high. The first three months are the probationary period. In addition to the reimbursement of the car fare and board and lodging expenses, you can only get a commission if you sell something. If you can’t sell it, you don’t even have a basic salary. The work may be very hard, so if you want to do it, you have to think carefully before coming for an interview." It's not that Lu Jin is stingy, but their factory is really in trouble right now, and he can't spend money to hire a group of employees back. If he can't run the business, he still needs to pay wages. He can reimburse the car fare and board and lodging.

When Zhang Kai heard that there was no wages, Zhang Kai paused in his heart, but considering the current situation of their factory, they hired more people and paid more wages. If the things could not be sold, their factory really couldn’t pay employees When the salary comes, let alone recruiting other educated youths, even his own job may be lost.

Therefore, people are selfish, and they will hesitate when their own interests are involved.

After figuring this out, Zhang Kai didn't ask why he didn't pay the salary, but just nodded and said, "Okay, I understand."

"Okay, then you go write a few recruitment notices and send them to some educated youth friends you know, and the people in your village will say yes, and then notify them to come for an interview." Later they set the interview time and the number of recruits, Lu Jin handed over the job of recruitment to Zhang Kai.

Zhang Kai returned to his seat and sat down. Before writing the recruitment notice, he remembered a very important matter, turned to ask the factory manager Xiaolu, "Hey, if someone comes to work in our factory, is he Has the account been transferred to our factory, or is it still in their original village?"

"For this, we have to wait until the probationary period is over. If after the probationary period, you decide to stay and work in our factory and want to transfer to our village, then I will go to our secretary to discuss their transfer of account." Lu Jin knew where the educated youth's food would be distributed wherever his current household registration was, but he thought that if he could continue in the sales business, would he be afraid of running out of food wherever he had money?

Not long after, Zhang Kai took the written recruitment notice to their factory manager Xiao Lu for review, and after confirming that there was no problem, he copied a few more copies, put them together with the letter in an envelope and sealed it.

It was Lu Jin who reminded him, "Send the written letter to the tofu workshop. If someone goes to sell tofu in a few nearby villages tomorrow, you can ask who went to which village and which village you can send it to." Go give it to the educated youth there."

"Oh, good." Zhang Kai almost wanted to run to deliver it by himself. Since someone can deliver it for him, he doesn't have to do it himself.