That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 945 No wonder some people say he is a capitalist

After the Spring Festival, the first branch quickly became busy.

The main factory could not wait to transfer Zheng Qiang, a master's degree holder from Jilin University, to the first branch factory, and then kept urging the first branch factory to help the main factory complete the expansion of the 1041 car as soon as possible.

The two production lines introduced from Japan also arrived one after another, along with Ludwig, the German engineer from the Lighthouse Mitsubishi Factory.

As soon as Ludwig arrived at a branch factory, he immediately attracted the attention of the crowd. Even Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang's stern rebukes could not stop everyone's enthusiasm for "watching the Western spectacle". They were not allowed to get close to see, so they just watched from afar.

This cannot be said to be that the young men in the factory are impolite. The fact is that these days foreigners coming to the mainland are not as rare as three-legged toads, but definitely as rare as giant pandas. After taking a few glances at them, they can brag to their friends, right?
"Hey, do you know that there is a foreign engineer in our factory with blond hair and a big nose? He only wears a shirt in the cold weather, and his hairy chest is really resistant to cold."

"You know what? He used to be from West Germany, working in the Santana factory. Later he went to Lighthouse. It's really strange. Wasn't it Lighthouse that defeated them before?"

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When Ludwig first arrived in the mainland, he was actually very uncomfortable. Anyone would become anxious if being watched by people all day long.

But when he worked with the workers to organize equipment, work on the production line, and especially drink with them, this taciturn and old-fashioned West German man slowly fell in love with these flower growers who smiled whenever they saw him.

【They are all very kind. 】

This is the sentence Ludwig said most often to Li Ye.

The second most common phrase Ludwig said was "salary increase".

That day, after Ludwig and the technical team of the first branch completed a wave of technical demonstrations, they took Zheng Qiang, who temporarily served as his translator, to find Li Ye again.
As soon as they met, this guy said bluntly: "Mr. Li, the production conditions of your car factory are far below the standards I confirmed with you before.
So I have to work ten times harder to get him to normal production levels, and my salary has to go up, and that’s the respect we have for each other.”

Li Ye sat on the chair, looking at Ludwig in front of him and complaining in his heart.

[Fuck, aren't Germans said to be old-fashioned, rigorous science and engineering men? Why is this guy so cunning? ]

The production process and conditions of the first branch factory cannot be compared with those of West German Volkswagen and Japanese Mitsubishi, but they are already quite good in the mainland.
Moreover, with a learning attitude, Professor Zhao took the lead in forming an excellent technical team for Li Ye. Most of the work was done by engineers and technicians from the mainland, and Ludwig, the chief engineer, definitely did not need to put in "ten times the workload."

So Li Ye waited for Ludwig to talk about his hard work, and then asked directly: "Mr. Ludwig, as far as I know, you only work eight hours a day now. If you want to work ten times as hard, does that mean you have to work eighty hours a day?"

Zheng Qiang glanced at Li Ye and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

In recent days, technicians and workers in the mainland have been working twelve hours a day to implement the two production lines, but Ludwig has insisted on the eight-hour work system in accordance with the contract.

So when Li Ye said this to the other party, Zheng Qiang felt very relieved.

But Ludwig didn't hesitate at all and said to Li Ye: "Mr. Li, the intensity of mental work is invisible, but if you give me a raise, I am willing to work the same hours as Engineer Zheng."

[Are you deliberately making trouble? Or are you just being straightforward? 】

Li Ye was angry and amused. He looked at Zheng Qiang himself. You said that as long as you raise your salary, you will work the same hours as others. How much salary will Zheng Qiang get? Not even one twentieth of your salary, okay?
But when you think about the first time Li Ye met Ludwig, he was collectively ignored by his colleagues, it seems not difficult to understand his workplace emotional intelligence.

"Ludwig, we have a contract. You only worked for 20 days in Riben in the past few months, and we still paid you the full salary. So tell me, what is the reason that made you suddenly become so greedy?"

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Ludwig was stunned for a moment, as if he had not expected that Li Ye, who was usually good-tempered, would suddenly become so fierce.

At this moment, he suddenly recalled the scene when Li Ye held his arm and negotiated with him when he jumped off the building.

At that time, he asked for a high price of ten thousand dollars a month, and Li Ye wanted to throw him out immediately - then you'd better go to hell!

That's why he asked for seven thousand dollars a month.

Looking at Li Ye's appearance now, Ludwig suddenly became a little flustered.

[He won't throw me away again, will he?] So, Ludwig finally blushed and told the truth: "I only asked for the minimum living expenses at that time. I owed $350,000, and the annual interest was more than $40,000.
I have two children to support, and my wife and children also need a basic place to live, I can’t let them wander the streets.”

Li Ye said coldly with a stern face: "If you don't have enough money, just say so. Why do you have to say that the workload is ten times as much? Why do you say that we are backward? If we are not backward, what do we need you for?"

"Since you came here, you have only worked eight hours a day. At this rate, when will my two production lines be operational? I have no profit, so how can I give you a raise?"

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Li Ye's ridicule and scolding made Ludwig blush, and the translator Zheng Qiang beside him felt a little sorry for this West German guy.
After all, they are international friends who have left their homes and jobs to come here to work, which is not easy.

So he said to Ludwig in not-so-fluent English: "You can bring your family to our flower-growing home. The prices here are low, and we also have schools specifically for children of foreigners."

Ludwig shook his head bitterly: "Zheng, thank you, I know."

Zheng Qiang was a little puzzled. He thought that if Ludwig brought his wife and children to the mainland, he could live a god-like life with a salary of 7,000 US dollars even after paying off the debt interest.

Li Ye smiled and explained to Zheng Qiang: "Do you think that all the bankers in Dengta are kind people? Do you think they are like those in the mainland, where if you don't pay back the money you owe the bank, they can't kill you?"

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After Li Ye's words made Zheng Qiang understand the darkness of the free world, he still gave Ludwig a chance.

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"Ludwig, if you can learn Chinese well and put the two production lines into operation smoothly, we will consider giving you a bonus at the end of the year."

The disappointed Ludwig immediately asked Li Ye: "How much is the bonus?"

Li Ye said seriously: "The minimum is fifty thousand dollars. If you do a good job, there is no upper limit."

"Ou Ke, I will learn Chinese well and do an excellent job!"

Ludwig, who was quite depressed just now, immediately became motivated and readily agreed to Li Ye's conditions.

Is it hard to learn a foreign language? Is it hard to work hard?

It's ten times easier than dealing with those banker's debt bills!
Even if Li Ye only gave him an extra 50,000 US dollars, the principal of the debt could be reduced by a large amount, and the remaining debt would become less and less instead of increasing with interest.

However, Li Ye's two conditions made Zheng Qiang feel a little disappointed, because as Ludwig's translator, he could learn first-hand experience. If he was no longer needed as a translator in the future, he, Zheng Qiang, would not be able to rank among a group of associate researchers and researchers.

Li Ye noticed that Zheng Qiang was acting strange, so he stopped him and asked, "What's wrong, Zheng Qiang? Is it because Ludwig's salary is too high that you are feeling unbalanced?"

"No, no, no, we are not psychologically unbalanced. Ludwig does have abilities we have never seen before. I am just confused. Why do you force him to learn Chinese well?"

"Isn't this simple?"

Li Ye smiled and said: "Give him a translator, he will think of himself as a 'distinguished guest', but after he learns Chinese, he will be a worker in the first branch factory like us."

"If he always relies on the translator, if there is a problem with the work, it is easy to argue about the language barrier."

"But if he knows Chinese, even if I speak to him in Xichuan dialect, it's his responsibility if he doesn't understand!"

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Zheng Qiang was confused.

Because he suddenly discovered that Li Ye, who was "extremely kind" in the workers' hearts, actually had such a mean and sinister side.

[No wonder some people say he's like a capitalist. It turns out there's some truth to that. The more capitalists like him, the better.]

(End of this chapter)