The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 315: End of the Year Party
Increasing the wages of employees, especially those at the lower levels, can increase their enthusiasm for work and also prevent them from engaging in underhanded activities.

Jiang Cheng has become completely rich. Even if he does nothing, he will still be richer than those apparently richest people in thirty years.

In November 1988, Jiang Cheng began to withdraw from the island country's stock market.

To be honest, the economy of the island country is still crazy now. With Jiang Cheng's investment scale, he would lose hundreds of millions of assets if he left one day later.

But it's really crazy, because there is already a saying that the land prices in Tokyo can buy America.

Even if you work hard for more than ten years, you may not earn as much as you do in a few months in the island country's stock market. How can this not drive people crazy?

In fact, the island nation's economy is so crazy, not that no one has seen how inflated the value of many things is. Many people took advantage of the good, and then saw that the stock market was still so crazy, so they invested again.

Seeing people around them getting rich makes many people feel restless. They all want to make a quick buck and then talk about it. Maybe if they hold on for a while, they won't have to worry about their whole life.

It took Jiang Cheng a long time to completely withdraw from the island country's stock market. Because he had opened many accounts in the beginning, the withdrawal was more troublesome than opening the accounts in the first place.

After the money arrived in the account, Jiang Cheng was about to leave and had to exchange it into other currencies before transferring it to his account in Hong Kong.

Of course, Jiang Cheng in later generations did not pay attention to the exchange rate of the island country's currency. The bursting of the island country's economic bubble actually had no effect on the exchange rate of the currency, and the island country's currency may even appreciate in the future.

When the bubble bursts, only the inflated value disappears. Something that cost one dollar is hyped up to ten thousand dollars, and when people find out that it is not valuable, they no longer want it, and the wealth of the holder is instantly wiped out.

If the price can be hyped up, there must be someone holding and buying it. It doesn't mean that when the value is high, the thing is fake, otherwise Jiang Cheng would not be able to cash out if no one takes over if he wants to withdraw.

Jiang Cheng only knew that the island country had an economic bubble, and he thought that when the bubble burst, the money would become worthless, so he converted all of it into other currencies.

After harvesting wealth in the island country, Jiang Cheng raised the wages of all his employees. In fact, even if there was no wealth harvest in the island country, with the current revenue capacity of Jiangdonglai, there would be no pressure to raise wages.

However, in China, the income of employees of Jiangdonglai supermarkets is far lower than that of employees of state-owned stores and supply and marketing cooperatives.

Jiang Cheng initially only paid his shopping mall and supermarket employees, who were among the highest paid in the industry. Now, with the additional salary, an ordinary cleaner can earn more than 5,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong.

In China, in Shenzhen, Shanghai and other cities, the average salary of workers has reached more than 500 yuan a month. This is the salary that only skilled workers can get, and some leaders of other units may also get this salary.

If you were in a city with a poor economy, everyone would be scrambling to get in with such a salary.

With high salaries, people who work there are afraid of being fired for not doing their job well, so they work very seriously without being urged.

Management salaries have also risen. Under the temptation of high salaries, you should think twice before doing anything for a small profit. It is not worth losing such a good job for a little money.

But even so, it is still impossible to completely eliminate corruption among employees. At least some people with greater power will go far if they want to take bribes.

A month before the Chinese New Year in 1988, the game room became very popular.

The New Year is coming soon, and most people who have returned from working in other places have a lot of money. There are gambling machines in the game room, which attract this group of people. Often several people gather around a machine to place bets.

Jiang Lin was a little jealous of the fact that he made a lot of money in a day. But there was another outsider on duty in the store, so he had to take him into consideration.

"Uncle, who is the owner of the game room? Can we ask him to add a few more gaming machines?"

"Jiang Lin, you work for others. What does their business have to do with you? If there are not enough machines, then there are not enough. Your salary has not been reduced."

Jiang Cheng was sitting in his room watching TV. He had just returned from Hong Kong two days ago when this guy came to his house. It was obviously not the first time he came to see him.

Jiang Cheng asked Lao Li to arrange someone to help collect the money in the game room, and the house for the game room was found by Lao Li.

If Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang had not been arranged in the game room, Jiang Cheng would not have had to do this. And Jiang Lin's little actions in the game room could not be hidden from anyone.

There is no other game room in Changcheng now. The popularity of game rooms is not unknown. But this game machine is not available for purchase. It is not produced in China yet. It was brought from Hong Kong.

Arcade games became popular in Hong Kong only because of the Street Fighter game. In Hong Kong, where the per capita income is so high, arcade games were not very popular at the beginning, so no one wanted to bring them to China to open.

After a few years, everyone saw the business opportunity, and basically there would be a store every other street. And in some places, if you want to open a store without connections, you won't be allowed to do so.

If you don't give some money as a token of respect, people will come to cause trouble every now and then.

Jiang Lin was a little embarrassed by Jiang Cheng's words. The profits he made in the game room had long exceeded his salary. He couldn't put all the money from the children's game coins into his pocket.

But some people lose a lot of money on the gambling machines, some lose dozens of dollars a day. All Jiang Lin has to do is to open the game machine with the key and take it out when the game coins are full. Then he puts ten or twenty dollars in his pocket and no one will notice.

And it is true, because the current "slot machine" motherboard does not have a counter. Some people in later generations specially put some slot machines in some venues, and split the profits with the venue owners 50-50, and their machines have integrators.

Even if the boss is playing by himself, he still has to pay if he loses.

Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Lin and shook his head. What a mess he was wearing. And Jiang Yang was following behind him, and he was about to be led astray.

Jiang Cheng originally planned to let them work steadily for a year, and then find a reason to rent the game room to them, so that they could earn a stable income, but now Jiang Cheng regretted it.

It doesn't matter if you don't have much to offer, but you can't hang out with some of the bad people in society. They smoke, play cards, and may even learn to play with women.

When setting up the game room, Jiang Cheng also built a lounge, where Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang could live. But Jiang Lin occasionally went out at night.

Don't think that Jiang Cheng doesn't appear there often, so he doesn't know the situation. After all, he is his nephew, even if he borrowed the original owner's body. But he has called him uncle for more than ten years, and the interest on his wealth in the bank for one day is enough for him to lie down for the rest of his life.

Jiang Cheng didn't want him to go down a criminal path, but he didn't know how to do anything, so he couldn't just give him a sum of money for free. "Jiang Lin, there's no future in this kind of work. And look at what you look like now. Your hair is so long that it covers half of your eyes. Look at your sister, she's going to Shenzhen to be the general manager soon, with a monthly salary of 5,000 to 6,000 yuan. A blacksmith must be strong himself." Jiang Cheng looked at Jiang Lin's appearance and couldn't help but scold him loudly.

Jiang Lin was still a little afraid of Jiang Cheng, although he looked down on this uncle privately. He used to look up to him, but now he felt that the little money his uncle earned from driving was nothing.

Jiang Lin was angry when he mentioned his sister Jiang Juan. After graduating from university, his uncle used his connections to get him a job as an intern manager at the Jiangdonglai supermarket, with a monthly salary of 2,600 yuan.

It's more than 3,000 a month now, but Jiang Lin wants to borrow some money from his sister to start a business. Jiang Juan has no problem borrowing money. As long as her uncle nods and approves the business he wants to do, she will lend it immediately. Uncle Jiang Cheng is different. She won't give him a penny.

Of course, Jiang Lin could still borrow some pocket money from him.

Seeing Jiang Lin lowering his head, Jiang Cheng could only continue, "Don't go to the class in the game room after the New Year. Your brother-in-law will follow your sister to Shenzhen after the New Year. Go and help your brother-in-law and contract the canteen together. Bring your brother Jiang Yang with you. He will earn at least hundreds of thousands a year there. You will take 30% and your brother will take 10%."

"Earning hundreds of thousands a year, uncle, is that true?" Jiang Lin raised his head and asked in shock when he heard that he could earn that much a year.

"In Shenzhen, we not only contract a canteen for employees of a shopping mall or supermarket, but also a food factory, a clothing factory, and the headquarters of a foreign company's branch office are also there. However, even if we are contracting, we have to take it slow, starting one at a time. If we do well in the future, it is not impossible to earn millions a year." Jiang Cheng said seriously.

As meatballs and the like have started to sell a little bit, the economy of some big cities in China has improved. The business of the clothing factory has always been good, because Jiangdonglai has done a lot of charity work in recent years and has been supported.

Many companies in Shenzhen directly look for Jiangdonglai's garment factory to process work clothes, and other cities have also received many orders. In addition to the popular styles in Hong Kong, the factory's workers have already exceeded a thousand.

Now, in Shenzhen alone, there are more than 2,000 employees under Jiangdonglai. Meals are distributed with meal tickets, and it would be a waste if they are not eaten. They are also allowed to take the food home.

Therefore, the employees will basically use up the meal coupons issued every month. Even if each person only earns a few cents from the contract, the profit is still thousands of yuan a day.

In addition, the company provides various reception meals and there is a small restaurant where you can cook.

Jiang Cheng letting Jiang Lin go is no different from giving him money directly. But this is a partnership with others, and the main force is on Xu Kai's side. Letting Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang go is to hope that someone will discipline them properly.

Even for the sake of money, Jiang Cheng hopes that Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang will listen to their brother-in-law.

Jiang Juan and Xu Kai got married a while ago. When asked what Jiang Juan thought of Xu Kai, she always replied that he was okay and that she would follow her uncle's arrangements.

Xu Kai also agreed to Jiang Cheng's request, quit his job at the hotel, and contracted the "Jiangdonglai" employee canteen in Changcheng.

Jiang Juan was going to be transferred to Shenzhen to be the general manager, managing the store managers under Jiangdonglai and preparing for the opening of new stores. Jiang Cheng asked Xu Kai to go there as well, saying that helping him take over the cafeteria of a factory with 1,000 employees would bring him hundreds of thousands of yuan in revenue a year.

If you don't agree to such a good thing, you'd be a fool. Xu Kai asked his brother to quit his job and take over the canteen for employees in Changcheng, and it opened.

As for Xu Kai's father, he is a veteran and will follow Xu Kai to Shenzhen. After all, it is a canteen with thousands of people, so Xu Kai is a little nervous when he goes there.

"Okay, uncle, I'll listen to you." Jiang Lin said excitedly with a smile.

"Go to the barber shop to get a haircut. What will you look like?" Jiang Cheng really couldn't stand Jiang Lin's hairstyle, so he grumbled again.

Only a bigger temptation can make Jiang Lin give up the benefits in the game room. If he is not allowed to earn tens of thousands of yuan a year now, he will not care at all. If this still cannot change him, Jiang Cheng will go to Lao Zhang and ask Lao Zhang to use his connections to get him directly into the BF unit.

The army is a good place to train people, but it is also very hard. The key is that his sister-in-law wants Jiang Lin to get married soon, and going to the army will delay him for a few years.

When Jiang Lin heard that he was asked to get a haircut, he felt uncomfortable staying at his uncle's house, so he went out.

But after going out, Jiang Lin no longer looked down on his uncle. He couldn't understand his uncle. He only made a few thousand yuan a month driving a car. But he couldn't understand his uncle's ability at all.

He had the ability to contract a factory canteen, and it was the kind of canteen that guaranteed profit. He could easily make tens of thousands of dollars a year by partnering with others, but he just gave it to him and his brother.

Jiang Lin is now thinking, if he and his brother don’t join his brother-in-law, will his uncle get a share, or will he give it all to his brother-in-law?

Apart from the canteen that my brother-in-law has to contract, my sister's job doesn't seem like something a college student could do to become a general manager so quickly.

College students are great, but you have never eaten pork, but you have never seen pigs run. In Changcheng, college students in the system only make a little over 100 yuan a month. How can you be like my sister, who made a few thousand yuan as an intern, and now has become a full-time employee, and can become a millionaire with two months' salary.

After Jiang Lin left, Jiang Cheng rubbed his head. Jiang Juan, Jiang Lin and Jiang Yang went to Shenzhen, especially Jiang Juan, and they would definitely have to deal with the propaganda department there.

There is nothing wrong with meeting Zheng Ke, the key is that Zheng Ke sometimes brings his daughter to work. The nephew and niece are about to meet Jiang Cheng's illegitimate daughter. Fortunately, Zheng Ke's daughter does not have the surname Jiang, so it is not so easy to be exposed.

Zhou Lingying went to the street to buy vegetables, and the children were not finished from school yet. When Zhou Lingying came back, Jiang Cheng told his nephew about arranging for him to go to Shenzhen with Jiang Juan and the others.

Zhou Lingying also agreed, thinking that Jiang Lin had become a completely different person after he started working in the game room. She also heard that there had been several fights in the game room, and it was really chaotic there.

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Night, Shenzhen, a dance hall near the garment factory staff building.

In some big cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai, disco and break dancing are very popular now. Especially break dancing, those moves are funny to Jiang Cheng, but he has to admire that not everyone can dance well.

Those who are good at breakdancing in Shenzhen are definitely the most handsome guys of this era.

"Brother Long, it's almost the end of the year. I've won a lot for that kid recently. He's been taking advantage of Xiao Hong a lot. It's time to start a fight."

"That guy really has no background? How could he be the security captain of the factory and run a small shop under the staff building?"

"Xiao Hong has already found out that his wife's brother is the driver for the leader of the foreign company. There is no such person in Shenzhen, but since he can drive for the leader, he may have some power. Let's not make things too harsh."

"Okay, let's use him to have a good year this year and let Haozi organize the party."

(End of this chapter)