The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 322 Jiang Zhaozhao wants to help his classmates

In 1989, game rooms really became popular, mainly because there were more fun games that children could easily get addicted to.

Role-playing fighting games like "Street Fighter" and "Commanders" are very popular.

If you open a game room in the city, you can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year. But the investment is not small. You have to know that nowadays, a color TV costs thousands of yuan. A joystick arcade game machine has a screen and a motherboard.

Ordinary people in this era may not be able to afford to open a game room. A game console costs about 3,000 yuan. This is just like the computers of this era, which can easily cost tens of thousands of yuan.

If it can be produced domestically in a few years, it will be cheaper.

After Jiang Cheng came back from Shenzhen, he went to the soy sauce factory to check on his sister Jiang Yan. A small store had been opened there, but the business was quite different from that in Shenzhen.

The main reason is that the wages in Shenzhen are high, there are many migrant workers in the factories, there are also many young people, and many things are easy to sell.

The soy sauce factory uses traditional craftsmanship, and newcomers have to start as apprentices. It's not like in Shenzhen, where some assembly line factories give people high salaries in the second month.

The workers at the soy sauce factory are a bit older, and the newcomers are young, but their wages are not high. If this were in Shenzhen, the low-paid apprentices might not be retained.

However, Changcheng is an inland city, and many employees’ salaries are only over 100 yuan.

In Shenzhen, I run a small shop, and I sell snacks and drinks very well, and I can even sell popsicles when it’s hot. But here, I can sell supplies, cigarettes, and alcohol, but the profit is actually not as much as the small items.

Of course, the income from the canteen is still good, just a little lower than that in Shenzhen. But one month's income is at least equivalent to half a year's income for one person in Changcheng.

But his brother-in-law Chen Changgen no longer had a salary, and his overall income was half of what he had in Shenzhen. So Jiang Cheng built a game room next door, and planned to let Jiang Yan's son, his nephew, manage it. This time, there were no slot machines or anything like that.

The main reason is that there is no reason to give money. I plan to let my sister earn some money first and see if she will have any ideas in the future.

Late April 1989, weekend in Changcheng.

"Panpan, it's time to eat. Your mother made chicken soup. Have a bowl of soup first." Jiang Cheng stood in the corridor of the side room and shouted to the room on the left side of the courtyard gate.

Jiang Zhaozhao and Jiang Panpan live there now. They don’t live with their younger sister and brother, and it won’t affect their homework.

After acquiring Wang Yuzhen's house, Jiang Cheng immediately bought some furniture and home appliances.

Color TV, tape recorder, fan, desk, dressing table, new bed and so on.

"Dad, why do you only call Panpan now and not me?" Jiang Zhaozhao walked out of the room first and responded to Jiang Cheng.

"Panpan is about to take the high school entrance examination. This year, Panpan will be the focus of our family's attention. When you take the college entrance examination next year, your father will take special care of you." Jiang Cheng responded with a smile.

In fact, Jiang Cheng loves his eldest daughter Jiang Zhaozhao very much. When he came back from Hong Kong this time, he brought Zhou Yunu's autographed photo. Zhou Yunu has already made a name for herself in the Hong Kong entertainment circle because she is beautiful and sings well. Many people have posters of Zhou Yunu on their walls.

However, Jiang Zhaozhao didn’t believe that the signature on the poster her father gave her was real. But the printing quality of the poster was quite exquisite, so Jiang Zhaozhao posted it on the wall.

In this era, the Four Heavenly Kings had not yet appeared. There were not many Hong Kong movies in China, and the celebrity posters in the room were basically those of singers. Zhou Yunu could be said to be the rising star of this era, and the one with the most posters on the wall.

Of course, this is talking about China. In Hong Kong, Leon Lai is the real hot star right now.

Jiang Zhaozhao was not angry after being confronted. Instead, she smiled and ran to Jiang Cheng, took his arm and shook it, saying, "Dad, I want to ask you something."

"You don't look like you have any good news. Tell me what it is." Jiang Cheng asked.

"Dad, our soy sauce factory is still expanding and we need to recruit people. I want to recommend someone to work here." Jiang Zhaozhao asked.

"You introduced someone to work at the soy sauce factory? Who is that person? What is his relationship with you?" Jiang Cheng was really curious when he heard his daughter's words.

"A younger brother of my classmate dropped out of school after graduating from junior high school because of poor academic performance. He doesn't have a job now. My classmate came to our house last time and knew that the soy sauce factory in the north was contracted by our family." Jiang Zhaozhao replied.

Jiang Cheng frowned. He had indeed contracted the soy sauce factory a few years ago, but it was no longer a contract now. It had long been Jiang Cheng's personal property, and the contractor had to pay a contract fee every year.

But now, due to the reform and opening up, many enterprises have been seized by the flexibility of private enterprises and individuals, and many product markets have been taken over. In fact, the higher authorities are not willing to contract anything, and they charge such a small contract fee because few people could afford to buy factories a few years ago.

The current soy sauce factory has long been sold to Jiang Cheng at a low price. Now, low-price packaging has appeared all over the country. But almost all of them have a premise: the factory can sell it at a low price, but the employees in the unit must make proper arrangements.

Jiang Cheng arranged all the employees of the soy sauce factory, added more production lines, and hired many new workers. In addition, the soy sauce factory contracted by Jiang Cheng was a traditional manufacturing factory with few mechanical equipment.

The entire soy sauce factory was sold to Jiang Cheng at an estimated price of 10% to 20% off.

Enterprises are losing money, facing triangular debts, and workers are being issued basic living wages, which is happening in many cities in China. The next step is basically the wave of layoffs.

The current employment situation in Changcheng is not optimistic. It is hard for people to find jobs. But most people have little experience and do not want to leave their hometown. They would rather live a tight life than go to Shenzhen or some coastal cities to work.

Jiang Cheng brought Jiang Zhaozhao to the dinner table. Jiang Zhaozhao was still young and didn't understand some things. If they were relatives of his family, Jiang Cheng would arrange for them to pay for them, and it didn't matter because the money was his own and he was happy.

But helping others, even if it was just a job, was not a big deal for Jiang Cheng. However, this was his daughter's first time getting involved in society, so Jiang Cheng had to let her know that some things could not be solved with just a word.

"Zhao Zhao, the soy sauce factory is run by our family. You are my daughter, so you can do whatever you want. Even if you want the entire soy sauce factory, I will give it to you. So since you want to help your classmate's younger brother, you can arrange the salary and position. You also know that I seldom go to the soy sauce factory. You just need to make a plan and bring the people to go to the factory with me." Jiang Cheng said.

"What? I will arrange the salary and position. I don't understand anything." Jiang Zhaozhao was a little confused. She didn't expect her father to say such a thing and let her have the final say. What did she know?

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. The soy sauce factory makes a lot of money a year now, so it doesn't matter if we support one person for nothing. You just take care of the arrangements. I'll talk to the factory director over there and it will be fine as long as it's a household related to our family." Jiang Cheng said, patting Jiang Zhaozhao on the shoulder.

"How can I be called a relative of someone like that, Dad? My classmates said I can do anything I want." Jiang Zhaozhao immediately defended himself.

The soy sauce factory belongs to her father, which means Jiang Zhaozhao's own family. After hearing what her father said, she felt that why should she support a person for nothing, why should she let her classmate's brother be a relative. "So, you can arrange it. Since you want to help, you have to take this responsibility. You can't let dad arrange it directly to the factory when you don't even know what your classmate's brother is capable of. If the arrangement is not good and he doesn't want to work, what will you do when you blame dad?" Jiang Cheng said.

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"What are you talking about with Zhao Zhao? It's time to eat. If you have anything to talk about, we can talk after dinner."

Just when Jiang Zhaozhao began to realize that introducing a job to someone was not such a simple matter, Zhou Lingying came over with the other children.

Not active in eating, thinking problems. But at this time Jiang Zhaozhao was indeed a little absent-minded. She didn't know her classmate's brother at all, although she didn't think of arranging a good job for her classmate's brother, because her brother was only sixteen years old this year.

She had originally thought about becoming an apprentice in a soy sauce factory. People said that the salary of apprentices in her father's soy sauce factory was not low. But even if it was an apprentice, the factory would not recruit anyone casually. For soy sauce made with traditional craftsmanship, apprentices also had to be guided by a master.

Jiang Cheng directly gave Jiang Zhaozhao the power to arrange people. Jiang Zhaozhao thought it was a small matter just now. There were so many people in his father's factory, so it was nothing to arrange for his classmate's brother to go in.

But now Jiang Zhaozhao understands that one must be responsible when doing things. If the people introduced work hard, it's fine. But if they don't work hard, people will say they are relatives, which will ruin the reputation of the introducer.

Jiang Zhaozhao was very smart and quickly understood her father's intention. She was also seventeen years old and would be in her third year of high school in the second half of the year. Although late marriage and late childbearing have been promoted in this era, there are still people in the countryside who get married and have children at this age.

Jiang Zhaozhao should be mature about some things and have his own thoughts on some things.

Of course, Jiang Zhaozhao would not fail to introduce a job to her classmate's brother. She would have to inquire about the reputation and situation of her classmate's brother, and then meet him to talk. If she felt that it was possible, Jiang Zhaozhao would use her status as the daughter of the factory director to arrange for her classmate's brother to do something.

As for the future, Jiang Zhaozhao understood that some things would touch upon principles, and she could not easily agree to help others.

"Mom, Dad just said that he would give the soy sauce factory to me in the future." Jiang Zhaozhao said with a smile at the dinner table after he figured it out.

"Why do you, a girl, need a soy sauce factory? After you finish college, if you can help with the management, then go and help. Your parents will not treat you unfairly." Zhou Lingying responded.

The family is very rich now and can safely deposit the money in the bank. In Zhou Lingying's opinion, the family is so rich now because of their own soy sauce factory. How could this soy sauce factory be given directly to the eldest daughter Jiang Zhaozhao?

Zhou Lingying was a bit biased towards boys, and loved her son Jiang Ping a little more. But not to an outrageous degree, and he also wanted to make money from the family soy sauce factory. Even if the eldest son Jiang Zhaozhao went to college, he would only earn a few hundred yuan after graduation.

It would be better for me to help manage the soy sauce factory in the future and give my daughter tens of thousands of yuan a year. At least my daughter won’t suffer a loss.

Jiang Cheng listened to Zhou Lingying's words and said nothing. It's about the pattern. When people are poor, they have a small pattern.

It's just a soy sauce factory, you wouldn't really think he was joking, right? Jiang Cheng just talked to Jiang Zhaozhao and said that if she wanted it, the soy sauce factory would give it to her, and that was serious.

The soy sauce factory is worth only a few dollars, and it is just one of the future self-produced products of Jiangdonglai's food safety.

Moreover, Jiang Cheng didn't take the entire "Jiang Donglai" seriously. He said that Jiang Fan, who had said he would leave it to Hong Kong, would really keep it.

If Jiang Zhaozhao and her friends want to develop in business in the future, Jiang Cheng will bring out the mineral water and bottled water industries that he is currently planning.

The key point is that all the industries that are visible now are not Jiang Cheng’s trump card now, but the huge cash flow he has created in the island country.

The island nation's bubble this time basically has a total amount of 30 trillion US dollars. It is really too crazy, and it is precisely because of such a huge amount that Jiang Cheng withdrew such a huge amount of funds from it without any shock.

If it were in an ordinary stock market, Jiang Cheng's investment and withdrawal of this amount of money would cause shocks, it was too huge.

Of course, 30 trillion is the total amount, and even if there is an economic bubble, it is impossible for it to disappear completely. It is impossible for all the stocks of the island country to be cleared and the land price to be worthless.

Jiang Cheng's hundreds of billions of inflows and outflows did not cause much trouble in the face of 30 trillion. The key point was that he withdrew when a large amount of overseas capital was pouring in.

Now Zhou Lingying is still arguing with her daughter over a soy sauce factory. This pattern needs to be cultivated slowly.

After dinner, Jiang Cheng took Jiang Ping out on a sidecar.

First, I went to the game room to play some games, and then when the sun was setting, I went to the wild ditch outside the suburbs to catch snails and frogs. I had been following my sisters all year round, so I was a little weak. In this era, there were still nine-year-old boys who didn't climb trees to steal fruits or play with slingshots to shoot birds.

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A week later, also on the weekend, Jiang Zhaozhao brought her classmate and her classmate's younger brother to her home.

During this week, Jiang Zhaozhao seriously asked about her classmate's brother's situation. He was not very good at all. He had graduated from junior high school for almost two years, and because he was young, he was idle all day.

But many people are in this situation, graduating from junior high school at the age of 14. If no one takes special care of them, they can't even become apprentices in the factory.

To learn skills, being an apprentice in this era not only means no salary, but you may also have to give gifts or even spend money.

Fortunately, there was no problem with their conduct. Jiang Zhaozhao had promised to help her classmate before, so she decided to help. However, before bringing them to see her father, Jiang Zhaozhao warned her classmate's younger brother in advance that he would be expelled if he did not work hard.

Since his daughter had brought people here, Jiang Cheng would not refuse her face, but he would not say anything either. He let his daughter Jiang Zhaozhao take the lead throughout the whole process and drove directly to the soy sauce factory.

After arriving at the soy sauce factory, Jiang Cheng went straight to see Director Liu Guoqiang. In front of Director Liu, Jiang Cheng still did not interfere in the matter.

Let his daughter take people to talk directly to Director Liu. Director Liu is also a shrewd person. He is not bad at managing a soy sauce factory with thousands of people. Seeing that Jiang Cheng looked like he didn't care about it, he really talked seriously about the work arrangement with the daughter of the Jiang family.

It's all because of Uncle Liu and you, Miss Jiang, that you can arrange any position in the factory. But the responsibilities of each position will be explained clearly. You, Miss Jiang, will have to consider whether the person you introduce is capable of doing the job.

There are also some things to take care of. If the people arranged by the daughter of the Jiang family are here to be apprentices, Director Liu will arrange for a master to guide them. But the masters in the factory also have tempers, and those who are disobedient and don't study hard will not be accepted.

There were also people doing odd jobs and moving things around in the factory. Even if Jiang Zhaozhao really wanted to assign a sinecure, Director Liu would still obey.

During the whole process, the sovereignty was in Jiang Zhaozhao's hands. Her classmate was listening on the side, and she didn't expect Jiang Zhaozhao's power to be so great. She felt that Jiang Zhaozhao could do whatever he wanted in the soy sauce factory.

If the classmates in the class knew about this situation, Jiang Zhaozhao’s classmates would find it hard to imagine.

(End of this chapter)