Chapter 247 Chapter 245 The Car Factory Is Out of Money

I didn’t drink at noon, and I said I had something to go out for, but it was really something. Luo Cheng is going to the post office to pick up letters. Although the content of his correspondence with Dai Qianqian is very serious, for some reason, it makes people miss him even more than his dear ones.

After getting the letter back, just as the workers were starting work, Luo Cheng read the letter with the door closed in the office.

The content of the letter was different from usual this time. Dai Qianxi introduced her current living situation, and then talked about the marriage process of the two. According to her parents' previous intention, they wanted her to marry someone in the army. As for Luo Cheng, her parents would not have agreed at all if it hadn't been for her grandfather's recommendation.

But now, her parents are no longer so tough because of Luo Cheng's performance in Ngee Ann. And they also know that being tough is useless. With Dai Tiande supporting them, even if they object, Dai Tiande will directly come forward to ask Luo Cheng and Dai Qianxi to get married.

The military region in Nghe An is already building an office for the cultural troupe. Dai Qianqian will come here directly after the Chinese New Year this year. But now her parents want Luo Cheng to go to SH, first to meet her family. In addition, Dai Qianqian is a girl after all. How can she have a partner? The distance is still so far. A man doesn't even come to the woman's house, so the girl has to run back and forth between the two places.

At least when Dai Qianqian comes to Ngee Ann after the new year and Luo Cheng goes to SH, he should accompany them.

Luo Cheng thought about the same reason. Even if Dai Qianqian was not a weak woman and there was no need to worry about safety on the road, the etiquette was indeed in place. A girl can travel hundreds of kilometers and take more than a day by train, so she can come as soon as she wants. Even because she was dating, her work was specially transferred here. It would be unreasonable for me not to meet her parents.

I carefully folded the letter and put it away. If I wanted to reply, I would write it after I got home from get off work. The content of the reply was also simple, just agree to the date you agreed to go.

In the office, continue to take out the signed drawings to draw and study. At around four o'clock in the afternoon, the phone in the office rang. It was Jiang Yuanhua. According to Luo Cheng's request, he not only invited his teachers, but also hired several automotive engineers to come over. Luo Cheng has to ensure that they have independent projects, and everyone comes here for this.

Here in Tiando, the industrial environment is good, but competition is also high. Jiang Yuanyuan recruits ordinary engineers, talents that may be scarce in other cities. But in Amado, it is difficult to establish a project without a good idea.

Hearing Jiang Yuanyuan's words, Luo Cheng smiled. The automobile factory didn't have many things, it only had many damn projects. There are so many car models in the future. I am not afraid that there will be no projects, but I am afraid that you will not be able to come up with them.

Of course, as a technical school worker, I don't have access to various car models, but if there is a real need, there is a sign-in system. Just like this time, the heavy truck needs pneumatic braking. Luo Cheng doesn't understand it and can only rely on the system to solve it.

Another day passed, and the guest house in Ngee Ann looked like it was opened by a car factory. Because the staff building was not completed yet, the remaining rooms in the previous staff building were all arranged to be moved out. The sub-district office was also very helpful and arranged a lot of houses. But because the people who came from the military factory were all skilled masters, they didn't even ask for houses that were too bad. Those who couldn't arrange it would stay in guest houses. After the staff building is constructed, it can be placed immediately.

Originally, the guest house was occupied by many people from the military factories who had not been resettled, but now Factory Wu brought another group of people. One and a half floors of the guest house were occupied.

This is because a few rooms must be set aside for normal reception, otherwise the car factory will really be able to take over. After get off work, the logistics staff took Wu Changzi and the others to the guest house. The guest house really had objections, but after making an order to the person in charge of the guest house, the people in the guest house had no objections. Even people from the car factory, Just ask if you need boiling water.

The purchase order for a unit of several hundred kilograms of grain, even though the amount is small, still requires money. But for a guest house, there are not many employees, which is enough for them to divide. Although the person in charge of the guest house also wondered why the automobile factory gave them a food purchase order, the automobile factory did not produce food. But the person behind the order said they could just go to the car factory with the order, and they were guaranteed to be able to buy food without tickets.

It's mainly just a guest house. It gives you a vehicle purchase voucher, but you don't have the money to buy it.

Night, guest house.

"Master Wang, how do you feel about this car factory?"

"It's very energetic and there are many young workers."

"Let's not say such false words between us. Although we are here to cooperate with production, we all know the instructions from above and the actual situation. You must know that the main factory has the right to transfer workers. If we really do that , whether you come here or not, you should work in another factory in our Liancheng."

"It's hard to say, it's just my first day here. But it seems to me that the idea of ​​learning assembly technology here is going to come to nothing. There is actually a workshop that assembles several parts, not just forklifts, but all kinds of vehicles. They are all assembled separately. But this method has to be said to be magical. Workers only need to remember a few steps to get started, unlike our forklift factory, which recruits apprentices who have not been working for several years and can only start at the beginning."

"I heard that workers in this automobile factory can buy internal quotas of food every month. People like us can buy thirty kilograms of rice a month. And the dishes cooked by the chefs in the canteen here are really good. If we were in our hometown, Liancheng, I definitely won’t be willing to finish it all, I have to bring some food to my family.”

"Thirty kilograms? That's a lot. Someone went to see the announcement at noon. Isn't it twenty-five kilograms for a regular worker? It seems that you have to be a team leader to have thirty kilograms."

"There is also a subsidy for employees' technical level. Technical workers above level four are given 30 kilograms. If they are skilled and become a team leader, it is 35 kilograms."

"If you get it every month, it's really good. It's all fine grain. If you save a little, it's enough for two people."

"Not only that, when we visited this morning, did you see the house under construction in the southeast outside the factory? It was the one we passed by when we came to the guest house."

"I saw it, what's wrong?"

"I asked the workers here and they found out that it was a primary school for employees. If it were our forklift factory in Liancheng, there would only be so few workers, so it would be impossible to build an elementary school for employees. The welfare of the automobile factory here is really good."

"Why, you don't want to be transferred to work here, do you?"

"Not yet. Even if I want to, I have to go back and discuss it with my family. And we have to stay here for a month and wait and see the specific situation. Maybe there are many employee benefits that we haven't seen. What I am most concerned about is The recruitment situation here, when we came in the morning, there were many young people standing at the door of the factory, not wearing work clothes. I feel that they are all new employees recruited by the factory here. Anyway, in a month, if it is really If we often recruit workers, it’s not impossible to live here.”

"We are often recruiting workers here. Do you have any concerns about being transferred here?"

"Think about it, factories don't always recruit workers internally first, and then recruit workers externally. What if some of the people at the door are recruited externally?"

"Recruiting from outside? What do you mean~~~."

"You should know about my family's situation. Everyone above and below me is counting on my salary, so my technical level is not bad. But the people below are all old enough to start a family, so I'm counting on the forklift truck factory to solve the problem for my family. Anyway, it only takes a month. , I have to figure out the situation at the automobile factory here."

Except for the room where Wu Changzi lives, basically this kind of employee dialogue is going on. When I came from Liancheng, everyone had reached a consensus that the wages were the same. Who would be willing to leave their hometown and come here? Of course, this was indeed incited by someone, but even if someone instigated it, what they said was true.

Talking about dedication, wouldn’t working in Liancheng and working in another factory not be dedicated? The most worrying thing for workers is disobeying orders from above. Workers these days are also very particular about obedience.

The next day, it was sunny.

It seems like the weather has been good these days since it snowed last time. It's mid-to-late December now, and the days are flying by. People who work are busy with the things at hand, and the day must have passed in the blink of an eye. And Luo Cheng was also punished by himself. He drew this and looked at that every day, and had to go down there if he had nothing to do. There isn’t much time to really be lazy, so I feel like the days go by quickly.

At this time, the busiest thing is the finance department. On the day when the accounts are due, the machine shop needs to give money. After a few days, the accounts from the steel rolling mill will be collected first. As for the money owed to the materials there, one payment will be made, and the money can be offset. But the documents must be separated, otherwise it will be difficult to reconcile.

As for accounts outside the city, the money is not given through the bank, because the bank currently does not have cross-city remittance business. Instead, go to the local finance department, first contact the unit that wants to pay, and then give the money to the local finance based on the profit handover model. The money from local finance also reaches local financial units in other cities through some methods.

For example, you don't need a purchase certificate to buy shock absorbers sold by automobile manufacturers. Therefore, in the absence of receipts, the items that can be shipped directly and the money sold are actually collected from the local financial department after notifying each other.

In this way, with just a phone call and a receipt number, the other party can get the money quickly. This is actually a function of banks in later generations, but in the absence of the Internet, it was implemented through local financial departments.

Today, in fact, in addition to the accounts collected by the shock absorbers, the automobile factory also needs to go to the transportation station to settle the accounts of the transportation team affiliated to the transportation station. The rest are basically settled by other factories coming to the automobile factory.

Even the steel rolling mill sent people to collect money for the manual forklifts and pallets supplied to the steel rolling mill, although the quantity was quite large. But there is more money owed to the steel rolling mill for materials. All kinds of vehicles basically use materials from the steel rolling mill. The forklifts have only collected 80 tons of grain now. As for the money, they can only ask for the money for four vehicles at most. For other ordered vehicles, Luo Cheng has not yet produced the forklifts.

The cube car 2.0 was also produced but not sold. The cube truck 1.0 and the three-wheel truck were not sold to the steel rolling mill, so it is normal to owe the steel rolling mill money.

However, the automobile factory and the steel rolling mill still have debts to offset each other to some extent, but for the machinery factory, it is pure debt. At most, some of the unplanned manual forklifts were given to the machinery factory, but two hundred manual forklifts were not worth much. Equipment can easily cost thousands, and a set can cost tens of thousands.

There are hundreds of welding machines, and the automobile factory has bought dozens of them this month. When dealing with metal processing and assembly, there are many things to weld. In addition to various equipment, a lot of supporting equipment is also added to the production of engines.

Anyway, the current situation is that the automobile factory still has a lot of goods and materials. But the money is almost empty, so we can’t fiddle with it any more. Even if we have to fiddle with it, it has to be past the 24th. Once the settlement day has passed, any further purchases can be settled on the 24th of the next month.

The 25th is the day when employees' wages are calculated. It only lasts three days, and wages will be paid on the 28th. Wages must also be retained. If wages cannot be paid, no matter what unit or enterprise it is, it must immediately apply for funding from the financial department and file in advance. Otherwise, if trouble occurs, it will not be a small problem.

This is also the era of planned economy. After the reform, it is proposed that enterprises are responsible for their own profits and losses. We still use this method of using first and paying later. Once there is a surplus of products and there is no local finance to cover the bottom line, triangular debt will immediately appear.

The automobile factory is now almost in debt. It is not that there is a surplus of products that cannot be sold, but that there are too many raw materials and cannot be produced. The excess money is used to purchase equipment and build houses.

So before getting off work in the afternoon, Wang Hui from the Finance Department came to see Luo Cheng. There is still some money in the account, enough to pay wages. Don't bother anymore, just be patient for a few days. As for the deputy factory manager who will report tomorrow and be in charge of production, if he proposes areas where production needs to be strengthened, don't approve.

Of course, as a deputy factory, in addition to expanding the entire production line, the deputy factory actually has the power to order the purchase of some things. What Finance means is to ask Luo Cheng to tell the deputy factory who will report tomorrow not to approve things randomly, otherwise he will not be able to buy things after approval. Then it will be the deputy factory himself who will be embarrassed.

In other words, because of Luo Cheng's unplanned expansion, the deputy director who will come to work tomorrow will be eliminated in disguise. Of course, it will only be less than a week. By then, the deputy director will be in the factory just to learn how to watch. As long as money is involved, it is okay to buy something that does not exceed a thousand yuan. If it exceeds, you have to be cautious.

Another day later, Du Yongkang, who served as deputy director of the factory, came to report. As soon as he reported, he participated in a unique meeting of the automobile factory. Luo Cheng has always had a hands-off attitude towards the power of the factory. Since the sub-factory is responsible for production, and production is not about asking employees to work overtime to produce more products. Rather, under the situation of planned production output, we should try to increase production as much as possible while ensuring that there will be no overproduction.

This is the case when workers’ work progress remains unchanged and there are no specific overtime tasks to increase production. If you are responsible for planning production, you will naturally need to recruit people if you are short of people. If you are short of equipment, try to add equipment as much as possible.

Therefore, at the meeting, Luo Cheng asked all departments to cooperate with deputy factory director Du Yongkang to start work. However, cooperation is cooperation, but it must also be done when conditions permit. For example, the current finance of the automobile factory, excluding the reserved workers' wages and retention money, the total funds are less than 10,000 yuan.

The self-retention fund is actually a small treasury of the factory. No factory will use this money for factory development. This money can be used to purchase things other than the development of the factory, such as New Year's benefits, barbecue charcoal for people in the factory office, chickens and ducks purchased for breeding, etc.

When Du Yongkang heard about the factory's financial situation, the first thing he didn't believe was that he didn't believe it. Not to mention other things, the planned income that can be found is that a manual forklift has a guaranteed minimum of 100,000 yuan a month, a block truck has a guaranteed income of 40,000 yuan, and a three-wheeled truck has 200,000 yuan. And this is still within the plan. Unplanned vehicles are sold to various companies, so there are always some.

There are also processed iron pallets, shock absorbers and steering booster pumps in production, as well as engines and motorized forklifts.

No matter how you calculate it, after deducting costs, the car factory has an income of 400,000 yuan a month. Even before the end of this month, there is no money in the account. However, at the meeting, Du Yongkang did not question anything. In fact, the finance department was only responsible to the factory director and had no obligation to answer to the deputy factory director.

So it depends on whether Luo Cheng can delegate power. Some departments can assist the deputy director in carrying out his work, but if you really don't want to give him face, you really can't interfere in the work of other departments without formal reasons. The deputy director can check the purchase price of equipment and the wages of workers, but he can check the entire financial status of the factory without the approval of the factory director.

However, Luo Cheng was better. On his first day of reporting, Luo Cheng asked all departments to cooperate with him. If Du Yongkang hadn't just arrived, Luo Chengdu would have used him to host every meeting. Then he doesn't have to worry about anything. He is responsible for providing benefits for the factory. After designing new things, he will attend meetings to ask the department to cooperate.

You must know that since the establishment of the automobile manufacturing plant, Luo Cheng has never had a holiday. Even if he is lazy, he is still in the factory office. At least most of the time, if something happens, he can be found to make decisions. If he is not in the factory, he will also say hello to the human resources department and explain where he is.