The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 266 Three Comes and One Supplement

This time, Jiang Cheng stayed in Hong Kong for several days before taking Shen Li and his daughter back to China.

People in Hong Kong usually refer to China as the mainland or the mainland, and only Chinese people would say it as China. Shen Li is also considered a person from China, but she was relatively young when she came here, and she already considered herself a Hong Kong person. So when communicating with Jiang Cheng, she would refer to China as the mainland.

This time Jiang Cheng stayed in Hong Kong for several days before leaving, not because he wanted to accompany Shen Li and her daughter to play here, but mainly because it was too early to go back to Shenzhen and there was nothing to do, so he planned to prepare the vehicle and take the cargo ship together.

Because the customs department in Shenzhen had been notified in advance, a large cargo ship delivered the thirty vehicles there at once. Then Jiang Cheng took Shen Li and his daughter to a high-end hotel in Shenzhen to stay temporarily.

In Shenzhen, the cars had to be registered and a donation ceremony had to be held. In this era, if more than a dozen cars were donated at once, and it was a new city, the top leaders of the city might have to show up.

Back in Shenzhen, I found Ali who was busy in downtown Shenzhen. He came here after the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong and was in charge of the fleet formation. He needed to recruit drivers and buy Jiefang trucks to transport goods to the port.

Many businessmen from Hong Kong come to Shenzhen to build factories and develop their business. They do not focus on the central area of ​​the city, but try to build factories close to the docks to facilitate the transportation of goods to the docks.

The area Jiang Cheng chose is not too far from the dock, but it is more suitable for the central residential area. After all, the development of Shenzhen originally started from the industrial processing near the dock and extended inwards. Many places near the seaside docks were originally prosperous areas in Shenzhen in the future.

But Jiang Cheng needs to set up a special transportation team, one to transport the produced meatballs to a large cold storage, and the other is to need vehicles to transport them back to Hong Kong.

In addition, the Jiangdonglai supermarket will also need to purchase a few trucks in the future. Since it is difficult to purchase trucks from Hong Kong, we can just buy some in China.

"Brother Cheng, it's easy to buy cars in China. After all, we use foreign exchange to buy them. Plus, we came from Hong Kong, so we have to take care of the policies. But the recruitment is different from Hong Kong. Some people in charge here have the final say."

"We are recruiting workers. What does that have to do with the local person in charge here?"

In the hotel, Jiang Cheng and Ali were talking about hiring drivers. Jiang Cheng asked him to come here mainly because he wanted to recruit a group of people who could drive first, and then arrange to keep them on salary.

But unexpectedly, apart from the smooth purchase of the vehicle, problems arose in the first step of recruitment.

"Brother Cheng, the domestic opening only makes it easier for us to return to China. There is no problem with investment, but the domestic employment situation has not been fully opened up." Ali explained.

"Tell me the situation." Jiang Cheng frowned and asked Ali to continue.

Jiang Cheng also didn’t understand how Shenzhen made the transition, or to be more precise, how private enterprises integrated into the country in this era.

In fact, when recruiting workers in Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng considered a problem that was not easy to solve at the beginning. If he recruited workers on his own, there were not many immigrants in Shenzhen at present.

The only people that could be recruited were some local residents and overseas Chinese who had returned from Vietnam. There was no problem recruiting this group of people, but these people were all installed in rural areas, where they earned work points and had no food rations.

If we recruit a large number of "farmers", it's not enough to have money. If these people don't have a fixed amount of food, even food will be a problem.

Now Ali just gave Jiang Cheng an answer through the matter of recruiting drivers, that is, when an enterprise opens a factory or operates a project here, unless the operator designates certain people to take up certain positions, the personnel bureau in Shenzhen is actually responsible for recruiting workers.

In other words, if you want to know what kind of employees you need, how many people you need, and how much salary you want, you can just go directly to the Personnel Bureau and state your requirements.

To put it simply, you don't have to worry about anything except investment. You can arrange some designated personnel, and the local authorities have the final say on the personnel. They even hope that you don't even have to arrange management personnel.

After hearing what Ali said, Jiang Cheng felt a little overwhelmed. He felt that it was a little too early to enter Shenzhen. Or maybe it was a little too blind. He didn't understand the policies here at all.

The main reason is that Jiang Cheng currently does not want to contact local people here as an investor. A big tree attracts the wind. If his identity is exposed, he can forget about his peaceful life.

In this era, a wealthy overseas Chinese who returned to China would be remembered by the villagers and townsmen every day. And a person with such a large amount of wealth as Jiang Cheng would probably have leaders visiting him every day.

Jiang Cheng did not go to negotiate himself, so he naturally did not understand many situations and took many things for granted.

Some things were not sorted out, so Jiang Cheng quickly ended the conversation with Ali. If the local personnel bureau helped recruit drivers, then Ali's stay in China would be useless. His wife and children were in Hong Kong, and he could help deal with the RMB issue of scalpers in Hong Kong.

On that day, Jiang Cheng asked Shen Li to go in the capacity of the wife of the chairman of Jiang Donglai, along with several people who came from Hong Kong, to inquire about the details.

After Shen Li came back with her people and explained the details of the situation, Jiang Cheng almost got depressed.

In later generations, people said that money is earned in India and spent in India, and it is difficult to take the money earned in India away.

During this period in China, overseas businessmen were not allowed to make money in China.

What is being implemented in China now is 'three-in-one and one-in-one', where the three-in-one means 'processing with supplied materials', 'processing with supplied samples' and 'assembly with supplied parts'.

In other words, China now only wants to earn your foreign exchange processing fee and help you process. You can bring production materials to help you process, or you can give a sample and China will help you produce the same. Another option is to bring accessories to help you assemble or something.

You only need to place an order, and you don’t even need to build a factory. China will build a factory and organize personnel to process for you. If some equipment is needed for processing, if there is no such equipment in China, you will be asked to provide it.

In this way, the workers in the unit actually still belong to the state, so Jiang Cheng naturally does not need to consider recruitment and employee quota issues.

When Jiang Cheng built the Jiangdonglai supermarket in Shenzhen, people here really did not welcome it because its business items overlapped with those of state-owned stores and department stores.

Moreover, Jiang Donglai wants to build its own meatball food production factory and cold storage. In fact, as long as the order is placed with Shenzhen, they will build the processing plant themselves.

Of course, Jiang Cheng is going to build the processing plant and cold storage by himself, which saves Shenzhen from the expense of building a factory. Although this factory belongs to Jiangdonglai, the people here think that it is OK as long as they are in control of the workers and middle-level managers. The meatball products of Jiangdonglai are equivalent to the "sample processing" in the three-way process.

When the time comes, we will send some samples and send people to train on the processing steps, and Jiangdonglai Company will not need to take care of the rest.

Anyway, in the final analysis, it was Jiang Cheng who asked for trouble. Because no matter whether the factory was built domestically and belonged to the state, or built by Jiang Cheng and belonged to him, the worker was still an employee of a state-owned unit, and Jiang Cheng had no power to fire him. At most, he could report the problem to the management, and then the management would transfer the worker away.

However, it was precisely because Jiang Cheng was building a factory himself and promised to purchase raw materials from domestic sources that the Jiangdonglai supermarket entered Shenzhen. Otherwise, foreign investment in doing business in China is not supported at all.

After knowing the situation here, Jiang Cheng asked Ali to arrange his own time to return to Hong Kong. At present, China is still very backward, there is no nightlife at night, eating and drinking are troublesome, and tickets are required to buy anything.

Ali has been staying in the hotel these days and hasn't walked around much. He has long wanted to return to Hong Kong.

In this situation, Jiang Cheng wanted Shen Li to take her daughter back to Hong Kong and come back next year when Hong Kong became a special zone. But Shen Li was unwilling to do so. She would rather live in a harder life and stay with Jiang Cheng with her daughter.

Finally, Jiang Cheng and Shen Li agreed to let her watch the construction progress here, and spend the first half of each month in Shenzhen, and the second half of each month in Hong Kong. Jiang Cheng also tried to come to Shenzhen in the first half of the month.

After all, Jiang Cheng now wants to get a car and also needs a "job", just like the original plan, he comes to Shenzhen to "work" for more than ten days every month and then goes back.

On the fifth day in Shenzhen, the cars brought from Hong Kong were all licensed, and the local leaders held a donation ceremony for Jiangdonglai's donation.

Jiang Cheng also met with Director Zhang Jincai on the same day. Zhang Jincai felt very much that it was a gift from Jiang Cheng, although he did not know what the relationship was between Jiang Cheng and the company that donated in Hong Kong was. But he understood that his unit was designated to donate ten cars, which must have been due to Jiang Cheng's efforts.

"Jiang Cheng, you've tricked me into this. Please let me change my job. My life is so uncomfortable." Zhang Jincai said to Jiang Cheng in the law enforcement hall.

"Your life is comfortable now, but you have a car to drive when you go out. Your salary has increased by several levels, right? This is better than the boring life in the BF unit every day." Jiang Cheng replied.

"Hey, you don't understand. This treatment is much better than before. But there are too many twists and turns in local affairs. Take the ten cars donated by the unit today. It seems that they are for my unit, but I am lucky enough to keep half of them." Zhang Jincai said, shaking his head with some distress.

In the past, in the army, the relationships between people were much simpler. Although it was a bit boring to carry out tasks every day, life was also simple.

Now that I am the leader of the Law Enforcement Department, I have many tasks to do and have to attend meetings frequently. The key is that I have to deal with many departments. In the past, I only patrolled and caught some illegal immigrants, but now I am responsible for all those who break the law.

Of the ten cars donated today, five were given to local departments. But with so many departments at the local level, one car would not be enough for each unit.

The ten cars in the Law Enforcement Department's hands at most gave Zhang Jincai an extra choice. He had to hand over several of them and then exchange them for some sidecars.

If they were really given ten cars to enforce the law, it would be a problem to find ten people who could drive a car. It would be more beneficial for Zhang Jincai to give a few cars away, sell some departmental face, and get some sidecars in return.

Jiang Cheng understood Zhang Jincai's words. He was actually afraid of entering such an environment. Otherwise, when he drove for Ouyang Chengfeng, the president of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, he would have had the opportunity to enter the official career.

Jiang Cheng even has a fountain pen in his space that was given to him by a big shot. He can have a little protection in his career with that fountain pen. But even so, Jiang Cheng is still afraid. People who don't have much brains can be easily bullied.

Zhang Jincai is different from Jiang Cheng because he is older, now in his forties. He will retire in his 90s, so he is still doing well.

"There is gain and loss. Anyway, I think you are much more powerful as a leader than a captain. Besides, we catch some illegal immigrants every day, and those people are just pitiful. It would be great to go to the countryside. Once Shenzhen develops, it will be interesting to catch prostitution and gambling." Jiang Cheng said.

Those who need to be arrested should be those involved in prostitution, gambling and drug abuse, but catching drug addicts is not interesting, it is a matter of risking one's life.

But now nothing can be caught, and there is no market for prostitution and gambling in Shenzhen. It will take at least two years for this place to be truly open, and then the criminals will appear.

"Then why don't you take a position here? I'll let you catch them when the time comes." Zhang Jincai said as he lit a cigarette with a match, then took a puff and continued, "There are too many fake cigarettes in the army to smoke, and now I have to buy cigarettes to smoke."

"Okay, you can set up an anti-pornography team or something, and I'll be the leader of the team."

Jiang Cheng joked that he liked to recreate the crime scene, so he was asked to be the anti-pornography team leader. But forget it, that was the dream of the poor.

As for Zhang Jincai's recollection of the smuggled fake cigarettes, Jiang Cheng was also smiling inwardly, knowing that in the future he would never be short of cigarettes in his position.

Jiang Cheng came here to catch up with Zhang Jincai, and there was nothing serious to talk about. The two chatted for a while, and then Jiang Cheng left. The Law Enforcement Department has been quite busy recently. There are many people from other places in Shenzhen, which makes Zhang Jincai feel that something is wrong, but he can't put his finger on it.

After Jiang Cheng left the Law Enforcement Office, he drove back to the hotel. This time he went from Changcheng to Hong Kong first, and then stayed in Shenzhen for a few days. It was time for him to return to Changcheng.

Because the size of the car can be directly stored in the space, Jiang Cheng plans to buy a train ticket back to Changcheng. When he arrives in Changcheng, he will take the car out.

When the time comes, I will drive Zhou Lingying and my daughter for a ride, visit nearby cities, and go hunting.

Shen Li also learned that Jiang Cheng was going to Changcheng, and she was going to take her daughter back to Hong Kong by boat. She had a good time with Jiang Cheng that night.

Shen Li also told Jiang Cheng that she also wanted to have another child. The reason for wanting to have another child was somewhat related to the fact that Zhou Lingying had given birth to four daughters. She didn't want to have a son to compete with them. She just simply thought that Jiang Cheng should have a son.

As for having children, Jiang Cheng really didn't care. Before he traveled to this era, his idea was that when he got married, he would have at most one child. Life was too stressful, and having one child was just for the sake of having an heir, so he wouldn't care about the gender.

But now I realize that if a man has money, his wife is willing to have children. She really doesn’t care how many children she has. If she has to worry about problems, that’s something she will have to worry about after her children grow up.

(I’m a bit stuck today, and it feels like I wrote it a year too early, but it also feels about right. Because it will take more than a year to complete the construction of the supermarket.)
(End of this chapter)