The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 286 Jiang Cheng's Security Team
On the way to Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng treated his sister and brother-in-law to three meals a day.

Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen were a little terrified by the food, which was basically the standard of three dishes and one soup. There were both meat and vegetables, and they had never lived such a life before.

We arrived in Shenzhen on the third day of our departure, and Jiang Cheng arranged for his sister and her friends to go to the staff dormitory. There were three five-story staff dormitories, divided into male and female dormitories and couples' housing, and of course the structure was the same.

Water and electricity are available, and two activity rooms and dormitory rooms have been built downstairs. They are all new houses, and none of them have been occupied yet. The employees and cadres of the Jiangdonglai Food Processing Factory here have long been coveting these houses.

But after a few months, the manager in Hong Kong told us that they would not distribute houses at present. The people in the factory were very dissatisfied, but after all, they spent foreign exchange to build the houses, so there was nothing they could do if they said they would not distribute houses.

Jiang Cheng directly arranged his sister and brother-in-law in the dormitory management room, and then taught them how to read the water and electricity main meter and sub-meters, and also asked for all the room keys and gave them to them.

Jiang Yan and her family will be responsible for the property management here in the future, but there is no such thing as property management yet. Jiang Cheng gave them a salary of 300 yuan each, and gave them the first month's salary directly.

In addition, they were given a lot of food coupons and meat coupons. Jiang Cheng was in Shenzhen, so it was easy for him to get local food coupons and meat coupons. If he got some shopping coupons, many people would be willing to exchange them. Moreover, even if there were no local food coupons, Jiang Cheng's national food coupons would not be used up.

"Brother, what are we doing here?" Jiang Yan asked.

"Well, you guys go around and see if you can recruit anyone. Recruit some cleaners first, and have them clean every day before the workers move in. Then recruit some patrolmen, and give priority to veterans or those who have served in the militia. However, we are a foreign-funded enterprise, and we don't have a staffing system. People with rural household registration cannot have their household registration changed, and they don't have commercial grain to eat. But our employees here are provided with three meals a day." Jiang Cheng said.

In Shenzhen, Jiang Cheng has already familiarized his sister and brother-in-law with the situation. He has to go to Hong Kong to accompany Shen Li and his daughter. He originally wanted to support his sister and brother-in-law like this, letting them live here and understand that their future job is to manage this place.

But when Jiang Cheng was about to leave, Jiang Yan still asked him what he was going to do with some uneasiness. They were a little scared to take the money, as they were only paid 300 yuan a month just to live here.

When they came here, Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen thought they would be satisfied with earning more than 30 yuan a month. They didn't expect that the work Jiang Cheng arranged would be ten times more than what they thought, and according to Jiang Cheng, their positions were still leaders.

Jiang Yan serves as the dormitory director and is responsible for various matters, including dormitory hygiene, recruitment of dormitory management office staff, recruitment of canteen staff, and some maintenance personnel.

Chen Changgen is the security captain, but even if he recruits people now, there is nothing to do. But it doesn't matter if he recruits people now, so that he can take over the factory security team next year.

You have to know that security guards in any unit now belong to the public security system and can interact with the police station. Those hired by private enterprises are security guards. If they don't work here, they are nothing.

Hearing that something was arranged, Jiang Yan and the others felt relieved. As for such a high salary, Jiang Chengdu said that in Hong Kong, positions like theirs would earn several thousand a month. This is a foreign-funded enterprise, there is plenty of money, it would be a waste not to take it.

"What about the salary? How much do you pay these recruits?" Jiang Yan asked again.

"For sanitation, we can hire some older people, but not too old. It's up to you. The main thing is that they have to be in good health. The salary is 20 yuan a month. The security guards have to be under 40 years old, have served in the army and militia, and can be under 50 years old. The salary is 36 yuan a month. Also, recruit a cook and two kitchen helpers. The cook will get 50 yuan, and the kitchen helpers will get 25 yuan each." Jiang Cheng replied.

This salary is slightly higher than the current eight-level salary system. For example, a chef in a factory usually earns only 36 yuan. 50 yuan is basically the salary of a chef in a restaurant.

Twenty-five is enough for helpers. Two capable women in the countryside can do odd jobs. To prepare meals for the dormitory manager and security guard, three people in total are enough.

Security guards make 36 yuan, it's easy now, but they will have to work night shifts in the future. Shenzhen will be very chaotic in the next few years, so it's best to recruit people who don't cause trouble but are not afraid of trouble.

Chen Changgen is only a temporary security captain. After a year, Jiang Cheng will go to Zhang Jincai to poach people.

Jiang Yan wrote down everything that needed to be done in a small notebook so that Jiang Cheng could focus on his own things.

In fact, there is a question that Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen are very confused about, that is, it seems that her brother Jiang Cheng has the final say on how to arrange things here. Who to recruit, how many people to recruit, and how much salary to pay are all decided by Jiang Cheng with just a few words.

But Jiang Yan couldn't ask about these questions. After all, it was said that those who could serve as drivers for leaders were the leaders' confidants. Maybe this was the ability of being a driver for a leader, being able to arrange many things on behalf of the leader.

After explaining some recruitment work, Jiang Cheng went to buy a boat ticket to Hong Kong. On the way to Hong Kong, Jiang Cheng roughly calculated in his heart that it would take more than half a year to arrange these things now, but the salary of half a year would only be more than 10,000 yuan.

More than ten thousand yuan is not as much as the high-end storefront he rents out in Hong Kong. It is nothing at all.

The day after Jiang Cheng left, Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen took their daughter to the nearby rural areas to recruit people. Shenzhen is not very good even in the city now, and many factories are built near ports, and some are originally near rural areas.

It is really easy to recruit people here now, but in two years, we will have to fight for talent. If it were always easy to recruit people, the wages of workers in Shenzhen would not change every year. Other cities, let alone raising wages, are still worried about solving the employment problem of urban youth.

On the one hand, Shenzhen is looking for people everywhere, and on the other hand, it is difficult to find a job in other cities. After the opening of self-employed businesses, many industries have begun to face a wave of layoffs.

Jiang Ben originally wanted to give priority to retired security guards and those who had served in the militia. If he couldn't recruit such people, he would consider recruiting some young farmers.

But Jiang Cheng forgot one thing. In this era, unless a soldier from the rural area has technical skills, he or she will not be guaranteed a job after being discharged from the army.

Generally, when rural veterans return to their hometowns, the commune will enlist them in the militia in order to take care of them. The militia does not have a regular salary, but only work points and some subsidies.

Besides training, militiamen also have to farm, which is essentially the same as farmers. But with some subsidies, they are slightly better than farmers.

Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen went to the countryside to recruit people, and they almost didn't come out of the first village they entered. They were stopped by the village chief, who wanted to take up all the recruitment quotas held by Jiang Yan and arrange for people from his own village to go.

Some young people who were relatives of the village chief said they were from the militia in the commune. Chen Changgen had also participated in militia training and knew what kind of people they were.

In the end, they only recruited people with military discharge certificates, and randomly recruited a few women to do the cleaning. Anyway, it was agreed that it was a foreign-funded enterprise, there was no regular staff, and those who did not do a good job would be fired, so some people could have no demands.

As for the chef who cooks the big pot, he hired a man who was in his fifties. He had cooked in collective canteens when China set up collective canteens in 1959.

Generally speaking, it was easy to recruit workers, even if they couldn't solve the problem of household registration and eating commercial grain. But the company provided food, and with money, at most they could buy expensive grain, which was better than farming in the fields. So when Jiang Cheng came back from Hong Kong, the team here had expanded from his sister and brother-in-law to nearly 30 people.

I don't know what the recruited security guards do. They come here to work every day and train, just like they did when they were in the militia.

There is no one else living in the dormitory building, so the cleaners will clean every room for you.

The cooks were big pots, plus two kitchen helpers, who were the chef's son and daughter-in-law. It was like a contract, three people were paid 100 yuan. Every day, they cooked for less than 30 people, and that included the three of them. It was so comfortable and relaxed.

As soon as Jiang Cheng came back, Jiang Yan and Chen Changgen knew to call him leader instead of brother in front of outsiders. And they pulled the security team out for training in front of Jiang Cheng that day.

Jiang Cheng thought it was quite interesting. In this era, he could get someone to work for him for just over 30 dollars. With his wealth in Hong Kong, he could build a very large team.

It just so happened that he had a few sidecars in his space, so he simply distributed them to them for patrol. And on the second day, Jiang Cheng drove his car, followed by four sidecars, each with three people sitting on it, to Zhang Jincai's law enforcement office.

Jiang Cheng asked his security team to assist the law enforcement department. There are many outsiders coming to Shenzhen every day, and there are not enough patrol officers.

These dozen people were sent here, and they all served in the military. They may have been discharged for many years, but they are much more obedient to orders than ordinary people.

Jiangcheng's security guards need to learn patrol experience. Although they are veterans, they still need to learn how to patrol systematically. This way, when factories and supermarkets open, they can quickly integrate into the work.

Zhang Jincai assigned a captain to the security team to patrol the bus station. The workload was not small. A few days ago, they only had simple training, and the days of having food to eat and getting paid were gone.

However, these security guards are truly relieved because the foreign companies that hired them have no guarantees and they don't have to do anything. Some of them are worried about whether they can get their salary or whether they will be asked to do something illegal.

Now they are working to assist the Law Enforcement Department. They are all extremely excited. At least they feel like they have become regular troops.

With a temporary pass, they can enter and exit the law enforcement office at any time. Although the work is hard, one person is responsible for the security of an area. And they may actually encounter danger, but they feel very at ease.

Shenzhen, Public Security Law Enforcement Department, Zhang Jincai’s Office.

"Lao Zhang, you look much more haggard. Go and meet your sister-in-law tonight~~"

"You, stop joking. Things are not peaceful in Shenzhen recently. What happened a few months ago cannot happen again."

"Then don't worry. I have news from Hong Kong that the policy there has changed. It won't be long before you don't have to worry about this. Ask someone to call me over. It's not to invite me to dinner just to chat. Just tell me what you want to say."

It was normal for Zhang Jincai to be worried about what happened a few months ago. He didn't know where some news came from, saying that some policy in Hong Kong had caused a frenzy of illegal immigration here. In fact, in the first half of the year, the number of people crossing the border from Guangdong reached 120,000.

In September, there was a wave of tens of thousands of people crossing the river at the same time. The BF troops were simply unable to control such a large number of people, and the local security bureau deployed a large number of personnel to assist, but they were unable to stop the tide.

Jiang Cheng went to Hong Kong every month, and he felt that it was abnormal. Some news made Jiang Cheng feel that it was a conspiracy by the capitalists in Hong Kong, a conspiracy against the high wages of Hong Kong workers.

With so many people going to Hong Kong, the first thing they need to solve is food and drink, and then housing. No matter what the problem is, it all depends on money.

Anyway, with so many people going there, the rising wages in Hong Kong have been temporarily suppressed. At the same time, it has also caused a group of "old Hong Kong" people to officially start to get tired of people who went there from China.

So many people from the mainland need to work, and they don't mind lower wages in order to survive. This undoubtedly took away many jobs of Hong Kong locals and lowered wages.

The derogatory term "mainlander" in Hong Kong appeared at this time, just as Shanghai looked down on outsiders for a long time.

But it must be said that it was during this era that Hong Kong natives were indeed superior to mainlanders. A Hong Kong native would naturally feel superior to a mainlander.

Some Hong Kong natives have a sense of superiority, but some people who have only been in Hong Kong for two or three years and can speak a little Hong Kong dialect will deliberately seek a sense of superiority in front of "mainlanders".

Hong Kong's red-light district also attracted a large number of practitioners, and Jiang Cheng wanted to save it, but he was powerless.

However, it was also because of this incident that Jiang Cheng, as a member of the upper class in Hong Kong, had received news that Hong Kong was going to cancel its resistance policy.

The so-called "destination" means that as long as people from China successfully reach Hong Kong, they can stay in Hong Kong and apply for documents. When Jiang Cheng came to Hong Kong, he needed a guarantor to apply for an ID card. In 1974, the guarantor was no longer needed, and people who came could directly apply for an ID card.

But because there were too many people coming this time, there were many problems in Hong Kong. In addition, there were too many people in the New Territories, so the resistance policy had to be cancelled.

Hong Kong will no longer be able to issue ID cards, and those who go there will be repatriated if caught. Scalpers will have another business to run, and people with connections can charge at least a few thousand yuan for issuing ID cards for mainlanders.

"Jiang Cheng, I asked you to come here this time because I want to ask if you are still recruiting security personnel. I see that some of the people you brought here have minor disabilities. There are many people in the BF army who have retired due to health reasons. Can you help solve some of them?" Zhang Jincai said to Jiang Cheng.

Among the dozen people Jiang Cheng brought over, Zhang Jin discovered that one of them was missing a few fingers, and one of them had a broken leg.

Such a disability would not affect normal life, but it was generally impossible to stay in the army, and if you were from a rural background, you could not transfer to civilian jobs.

In the BF unit, many soldiers were discharged due to injuries during missions. Apart from receiving some allowances and disability compensation, life after discharge was really difficult.

This time Jiang Cheng brought people to help, which gave Zhang Jincai a way to take care of his comrades.

(End of this chapter)