Chapter 187 Give the Brigade a New Job

At the automobile manufacturing plant, Luo Wen stayed in the breeding house, smoking a cigarette and waiting for Luo Cheng to come back.

He had never received a salary, so he couldn't imagine raising such a small thing. Two girls could earn nearly forty yuan a month. Their two ages together were not that high.

And the most important thing is that there are not many chickens and ducks raised here, just a few dozen, and the eggs they produce may not be enough for their wages. That is to say, as long as those four pigs are there, otherwise the wages of both people will be lost. Are they raising pigs, or are the pigs raising them?

Forget about the breeding ones, the factory is only as big as it is now, and we have to hire people to do the sanitation. Before, it was just my son, the second daughter-in-law, but now a fifteen-year-old girl has been brought in. Daughter-in-law Qin Ru is now chatting with Xiaoyu and the others. She comes to clean once in the morning, once after lunch, and again before getting off work. Because two people did the cleaning, one cleaning session, including cleaning the toilet, only took an hour and a half.

Cleaning a toilet is better than farming in rural areas. In rural areas, manure must be fermented and then poured into the ground to grow more food. Here it is like sweeping food directly from the toilet. How can rural people compare with urban people?

When Luo Cheng came back from the steel rolling mill, it was almost lunch time. In less than half a day, the area where the shed was planned to be built had been cleared. Small trees and the like are dug out directly by their roots. Large trees are dug out by carpenters using saw blades to cut off the trunk first. The dug hole was not only backfilled, but also paved with a layer of small stones.

Stone and sand are not worth much these days. The main thing is the freight. One truck plus freight costs more than two yuan. There are some places that salvage sand and gravel nearby. If you want to use some, give the workers there some cigarettes, and you can pick them up in frames for free. Or get a cart and use bags to load it.

After all, bricks need to be sold to make money, but sand and gravel still cost money. That's a joke. Of course, it means you get a little bit for free. More is still needed, after all, people have worked hard to salvage it.

After returning to the factory, Luo Cheng first took a look at how the car production was going. The frame and seat brackets of the square car were already being worked on. Originally, most of the work was done by assembling, and the speed was not too fast. You must know that there are more people welding now than last time, and there are more people doing it. Unhappiness is the problem.

However, the wheels and tires have not yet been sent to the factory. If this is available, they will actually leave the factory tomorrow. The rear body of the three-wheeled truck is basically the same. It’s almost done, but the handles and brackets on the front of the truck all need machines to bend or shape. It’s not complicated, but there are always a few more processes. Unlike The cube car is a whole stand, and the steering wheel stand is also a finished product that is purchased directly. If everything needs to be customized, it won’t be done quickly.

After looking around the workshop, Luo Cheng was about to go back to the office, but as soon as he got to the second floor, someone told him that his father had come to the factory to see him. He should be in the factory, I don’t know where he is now. Luo Cheng went downstairs and wandered around the factory again before finding him in the breeding house.

Xiaoyu and the others in the breeding house are serious about keeping it clean, but there is still a smell. This means that when the weather is cold, the taste may be more obvious when the weather is hot. Luo Cheng would not wander here except occasionally to visit Xiaoyu and the others. But Xiaoyu and the others felt that there was no smell here, not unpleasant at all.

He took his father Rowan to the office first, poured him a glass of hot water, and began to ask him why he came to the city this time. He had just arrived in the city a few days ago, and there was no way he would run into the city again if nothing happened. Even if he was going to pull feed, there was no need for him to run to the city like this.

Naturally, Luo Wen would not meet his son outside, so he told him about the arrival of a big leader in the town. It was said that he almost became the big leader of the town, but he understood that if it was really long, for him, it would be a dream in the mist, and it was not something he could do casually.

This may be the closest he has come to breaking away from his identity as a farmer. It is impossible to say that he does not regret it. But Rowan didn't come here to express his regrets to his son, but now the four brigades in the town were to be merged into one brigade. The chickens and ducks issued before this can be said to be the third brigade, and other brigade have no control. But from now on, there will be a brigade. Even if he or Luo Baotian is not the brigade captain and someone else is replaced, this chicken and duck still belongs to the brigade. The villagers just adopted them, and the meaning of the installation must be that they all hope that one less person in the town will starve to death.

But one thing Luo Cheng can rest assured is that if they really want to form a brigade, unless Luo Baotian or Luo Wen don't want to be the captain. Otherwise, if they become the captain of the brigade, there will be no problem in appointing some relatives from the Luo family to earn work points for pig raising. There is no need to talk about favoritism. Feng Zhenchang will dismount, and the other brigade will know where the pigs, chickens and ducks came from.

People now just envy the Luo family in the third brigade. They get things by relying on the Luo family's connections in the city. If other people have the ability, they can go to the city to do it. If they don't have the ability, and they plot behind their backs, the rural people can't afford to lose face.

After Luo Cheng heard his father's words, he had nothing to say. But it was good for him to be the captain. In fact, he was already a little dissatisfied with the matter of raising chickens and ducks when the relatives of the Luo family could not be left to eat alone. But who makes this world always pay attention to the collective system? The entire third brigade must be involved.

"Dad, the brigades in the town have been merged into one brigade. If you become the captain, you will have the final say on some things."

"Production matters should have the final say, but other matters are hard to say. And the above means that the town will be merged this year. If it is merged, we still have to listen to the leaders of the town."

Luo Cheng nodded, but that's okay, at least he can talk about it for more than a month. Although Luo Cheng is the director of this automobile factory, he can't make much money except salary and benefits anyway, so he might as well outsource some work to his hometown. I decided to temporarily outsource the work for two months, and asked my father to arrange for relatives to earn some money. Then I would go to the pigeon market to buy some grain, and I would be able to survive the spring harvest tomorrow.

After chatting with his father in the office for a while, before dinner time, Luo Cheng took him to the workshop. It's a very simple wooden pallet, but it takes a little bit of skill to nail it. You know how to nail it, so it will be stronger. But basically everything a carpenter apprentice knows, even if he doesn’t know it, just teach him.

In addition to being slightly stronger, this wooden pallet is mainly about the height of the suspension, and the error cannot be too large.

Lumber and machinery are not provided by the car factory. If you buy the cut wood directly at the lumber factory, you only need some hacksaws to cut the wood. But there are so many trees in the mountains and forests in the town. According to the temperament of rural people, how can they spend money to buy wood? They will definitely cut down trees. But the trees have been cut down, and if there is no machine, it would be very laborious to turn them into wooden strips by hand.

Luo Cheng now has a wood-cutting machine in the factory, but it was prepared to facilitate carpenters who need wood of different sizes. The wood used to make wooden pallets is actually purchased finished wood cubes, which are definitely more expensive than processing them yourself. But Luo Cheng is not so stingy that he won't let the wood factory earn this money.

Moreover, for some production, it is not good to go too fast. After my father becomes the captain of this thing, he can arrange some people to do it slowly. If he earns too much, Luo Cheng feels jealous again. Anyway, this thing is only one yuan and a half. As a car factory, it doesn't make much difference, but it can't advance money either.

If it is really produced by Longyang Town, even if they produce it and send it to the factory, and the factory sells it, they may have to deliver it to others. It is necessary to charge 10 cents each for shipping, so one is 1 yuan per piece.

Anyway, Luo Baotian and the others came to the city today to collect feed, and they should be back after noon. If they think they can do it, they can go to the finance office and pay one dollar and fifty cents and bring back a sample. Then sign a short-term supply contract with the factory. If they join forces and the new leader insists, then they will withdraw directly.

Luo Chengcai could guess that when the time comes, the wood felling will definitely belong to the town. Now, while the Luo family can work, the wood felling and wood strip processing work can be done by other people in the town. The relatives of the Luo family can simply hammer nails, and it just so happens that the aunt, uncle, and the others will be part of a team, so they can all take care of it.

Luo Wen was very moved when he heard this. Rural people would not let him produce cars and assemble things, but he could only hammer a nail. There are still people in the town who are good at carpentry.

Because I knew my father was coming and it was time for dinner, Xiao Yu Luo Bing and the others came over. This lunch meal must be eaten by everyone in the cafeteria together. Shishi and the others also knew very early on that the canteen in the factory was not a place where you could just eat whatever you wanted with a ticket. They knew this when they were watching a show and having a reception meal on the second day after entering the city.

Seeing that his sisters had all come over, Luo Cheng was a little embarrassed and paid for some extra meal tickets. He, the elder brother, had long made excuses to exchange his coarse-grain meal stamps for their few fine-grain meal stamps. But he gave a little more in quantity. Now that the father is here, we can't let him eat Wowotou for the first time in the cafeteria.

Luo Cheng was originally going to go to dinner with him, but he was delayed by something. The printing factory sent a little girl over, and this little girl was not a printing employee. She was a part-time student at school and could draw.

Luo Cheng wanted to print an exclusive receipt for purchasing tickets from his car factory. He wanted to imitate the cube car of this era, so he printed the appearance of the cube car into the receipt. If it were a plot for a later novel, readers would definitely suggest Luo Cheng to print his own avatar, but Luo Cheng is not that fancy yet.

Because this drawing is a part-time job for students, the price and the method of payment are actually left to the students themselves to discuss. The printing factory is not responsible. The printing factory also has artists, but they have a fixed salary. They try to let some students earn such things to subsidize their families or living expenses.

Originally, there was no need to approach Luo Cheng about this matter, but it seemed that the price could not be agreed upon, and he was crying in the Propaganda Department.

What this factory director does is just nonsense. Everyone has ordered their meals, but they are all eating unsteadily. When Luo Cheng came to the Propaganda Department office, Li Xiaotong was eating with a lunch box. It's strange~, the meal has just arrived, but she has already prepared the meal and is still eating it.

Luo Cheng also saw a female student carrying a drawing board with brushes and paints. He murmured in his heart why he hadn't seen her in the factory just now. Maybe she had just arrived, and he happened to be talking to his father.

When Xu Haitang saw Luo Cheng coming, he complained before Luo Cheng asked. He said that this classmate didn’t even draw anything, so he came to negotiate the price and said it would cost one yuan. Although she, Xu Haitang, couldn't draw a dollar, she thought it was too easy to earn. If the painting is not good, it will feel too high.

The other party’s album contained some old paintings, and he said he could show them to her. Xu Haitang looked at it and thought the painting was quite beautiful. But he didn't completely relent, saying that he would only be satisfied if he was satisfied with the painting. If he was not satisfied, if he could not use it, he would not be given a penny.

At this time, the painting classmate began to tell Xu Haitang the rules of painting, saying that if the painting was not good, she would be given a few cents if she did not use it. She bought the paint and paper with her own money.

Because of this kind of thing, Xu Haitang felt that it was unreasonable. Even if there was no use for the drawn things, they would be paid. Just let her not want to leave, and then the classmates who came would not leave or draw, so they cried.

After Luo Cheng heard what Xu Haitang said, he looked at the female student who came to draw. She was a bit pretty, but compared with Xu Haitang and Li Xiaotong, she was far behind. But this does not affect his pity for women. Of course, what Xu Haitang said is not wrong. Paint and paper require money, but if the painting is not satisfactory, and the car is not three-dimensional or has that feeling, the factory will It's not a waste of money.

"Xu Haitang, you go to eat first, I will handle this matter."

"Director, don't think she's pitiful. She can't help her. She can't even ask her to draw first. She just doesn't have the ability."

Xu Haitang said as he took the lunch box and left.

How dare you show off to the factory director, Xu Haitang, if you have the skills, you can save this dollar. If you have to fight with someone for a long time over one dollar, well, one dollar is indeed a lot for an individual.

Seeing Xu Haitang leaving, Luo Cheng did feel a little embarrassed, because it was indeed difficult to meet a painting student. He just wanted her to paint, and if he didn't like it, he would earn the money for her.

For this one dollar, you have to go from school to here, draw it, and then take it to the printing factory to reduce the scale before printing. Although the printing fee is paid extra by the factory, the other party still has to worry about it for a long time. After deducting the coating and paper, I can earn at most seventy or eighty cents.

After asking the female student if she had eaten, and seeing the girl obediently take out the cornbread she brought, she knew that this student was indeed not living a good life. But they are still better than people in rural areas. If you study painting, you must either have good family conditions, or you can only work and study for your hobbies and interests.

Luo Cheng took her to the canteen, ordered three steamed buns for her, and told her not to ask for money if the painting was not good. If the painting is good, the finance department will give you money. And you can only look at the square car drawings outside the workshop, which will affect the work of the workers inside the workshop.

The female student looked at the steamed bun in her hand, took out a handkerchief, wrapped it carefully, borrowed a stool, and went to draw without saying anything.

Of course, everything Luo Cheng did could not escape the eyes of those who were interested. When Xu Haitang passed by Luo Cheng while making food, he said, "It's better to give a few more woofou than steamed buns." ’

Luo Cheng thought about it and realized that steamed buns are so precious. A good meal is not as good as a full meal. This Xu Haitang, it is you who makes others cry, and now it is you who reminds me.

I ordered a portion of rice and took a look at the vegetables. I saw that there had been no trace of meat in the factory for several days. The last time the cube car was built, all the meat was lost in a celebration feast. Although next month is coming soon, the number of workers in the factory has doubled, and the extra rations requested before are not of much use.

After the three-wheeled truck came out, Luo Cheng thought it would be best to run both the meat factory and the livestock factory. Pigs are cheap, and they can be used for cooking and other things. If you buy a pig, there is no place to store it. But just having fun once a month is enough, and many new employees can also show their strength.

Just after dinner, another piece of good news came, a call from the tire factory. The tires ordered by the car factory here have been shipped and should arrive in the evening.

This again requires the factory to organize people to unload the goods, so people have to be left waiting in the factory, but it is not too late. If it's too late, the driver will usually take a day off before leaving, so he can come early the next day to unload the goods. The tires of the square car are not much more, but the tires of the three-wheel truck are quite a lot more.

From now on, shipments and requests for goods will gradually get back on track, and there will no longer be production waiting for goods. Moreover, Luo Cheng placed an order for 500 manual forklifts in a month today, which really shocked Director Zhang. This is a tool-type product that cannot be eaten or drunk. No matter how large the steel rolling mill is, it cannot consume such a large amount of goods. However, all the former apprentices could take this opportunity to become full-time employees.

Luo Cheng asked his father to wait in the office for Luo Baotian and the others, but his father couldn't sit still. He was wearing a cotton-padded jacket and was not afraid of the cold. He ran outside the factory gate to see the construction site. He couldn't understand the car assembly or other things in the factory, so he couldn't understand it. He found it interesting to build a house on the construction site.

It was almost two o'clock when Luo Baotian came back from hauling things from the grain factory. They had to pack the rice bran and soybean meal in bags. This time, they loaded two tractors at once, which was enough for at least half a month. Luo Baotian saw Luo Wen at the factory gate and asked him if he would leave immediately or if he wanted to say hello before leaving.

Walk? Take a walk. He, Luo Wen, relied on his connections to find new livelihood for the team. Don't drive tractors into the factory. There are many people in the factory now and there are many places for construction work, so it's a bit chaotic. Just arrange for a few people to watch outside the factory. Others went to see if a wooden pallet could be made in the town, one piece for four pieces.

Although the trees on the mountain are managed by the Forestry Bureau, the Forestry Bureau is still under the dual leadership of townships and counties. In other words, large-scale planning depends on counties and districts, but towns also have certain autonomy.

Which trees can be cut down and which ones cannot be cut down, although there is a plan. However, towns can actually decide on who to sell and where to sell it. Therefore, the material of this wooden pallet is cost-free for the township in a sense. It is a question of how to distribute the benefits when doing such a thing.

This matter of profit distribution can be discussed slowly back home. This one comes with four trays, just think about it. Luo Baotian asked the cashier and accountant who came with him to quickly pay one yuan and fifty cents. This is the sample fee, and it can be sold back in the future. Of course, it will be one yuan and four cents.

After signing the supply contract, Luo Baotian and Luo Wen hurried back with a sample. This is a big deal. Even if it is only for two months, many people will not have to dig up grass roots next year because of this matter.

People in the factory didn't think there was anything wrong with Luo Cheng's approach. The carpenters in the factory were busy producing three-wheeled truck carriages. As long as Luo Cheng does not continue to recruit carpenters, then this is a job that cannot be produced in the factory, and he cannot make money anyway, so he is not doing it if he is contracted to do it.

If the factory's own workers had no work to do, if Luo Cheng operated like this, someone would really come to talk to him if he was reported. Moreover, this is a temporary short-term contract. Many factories have done this when they cannot produce something themselves.