Chapter 395: Epitome of the Times!

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong, they have never ridden a bicycle before. Seeing the happy appearance of the citizens of Yangcheng riding bicycles, they all want to give it a try.

"Master, I want to ride a bicycle. I wonder how much the price of a bicycle is in China now?"

Yang Ming did not answer.

Secretary Zhang next to him said: "Miss Azhu, the price of bicycles in our country ranges from more than 100 to more than 200 yuan."

More than 100 to more than 200 yuan?

For the income of Azhu and Zhong Chuhong, it is not high. It is okay to buy ten bicycles a month. However, for most people in China, not everyone has a bicycle now.

It seems that many citizens in Yangcheng can afford to ride a bicycle.

In fact, bicycles are also a luxury now.

Now some state-owned enterprise iron rice bowl employees in Yangcheng have a monthly salary ranging from 30 to 45 yuan.

According to a monthly salary of 30 yuan, a Phoenix brand bicycle of 180 yuan is equivalent to the income of an ordinary person, and can only be afforded if he does not eat or drink for half a year.

If it is a bicycle of more than 200 yuan, it will be more expensive for ordinary employees with a monthly salary of 30 yuan.

In other words, it is very good for an ordinary family to have a bicycle now.

The current price of rice is 0.12 yuan per catty (it may be cheaper in some places), and 100 catties of rice only costs 12 yuan, which means that 180 yuan can buy 1,700 catties of rice, which is enough to support a family of four for nearly three years.

In 30 or 40 years, the price of rice in China will be around 3 yuan per catty, and high-quality rice may be close to 5 yuan. According to this standard, the original 180 yuan can buy 1,700 catties of rice, which will be close to 7,000 yuan in purchasing power in 30 or 40 years. It can be seen that the currency has depreciated.

Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong think that domestic prices are still very low, because they have not really realized that the low wages in China are far beyond their imagination.

Like those rural people in Yang Ming's hometown, they have no other income except the farmland in the village all year round.

That is to say, at the end of the month, the per capita income may be only a few cents to two yuan, or even lower. In this case, their income is very different from those in the city who earn dozens of yuan a month.

"If you really want to ride a bicycle, then give it a try."

Yang Ming felt that the two women just wanted to try riding a bicycle in Guangzhou.

Back to Xiangjiang, they would rely on cars to travel, and they would not be willing to do so at that time.

Continue walking forward.

Passing an ordinary hotel.

There are several trees outside the hotel.

It is not autumn yet, but the trees will shed leaves every day.

Yang Ming noticed that two hotel workers were sweeping leaves there.

There should not be many leaves on these trees, but they seem to have no other job except this one.

Yang Ming stayed there and observed for a long time, and found that they were all like that.

In addition.

Yang Ming saw someone repairing a hole in the wall outside the hotel.

A small hole in the wall.

However, the three people had a clear division of labor.

One person held a plate of plaster, another one was applying the plaster into the hole in the wall, and the third person was pointing at the hole next to him.

What does this show?

Yang Ming had already understood this era in advance.

Now he deeply understood it.

"Mr. Yang, I have to take care of them." Mr. Shen thought it was too ugly.

It was just a small hole in the wall.

The three of them spent more than half an hour there and didn't finish it.

Instead, they laughed and chatted while killing time.

Yang Ming hurriedly pulled Mr. Shen and said, "Mr. Shen, this is human nature, it's very normal."

These people are just slacking off.

In Yang Ming's opinion, the hotel is a state-owned enterprise, or an enterprise in Yangcheng, so the two female workers who sweep the floor and the three male employees who paint the hole in the wall all have iron rice bowls.

Anyway, this is how they work.

The salary is the same if you do more.

The salary is the same if you do less.

Only when you get the salary at the end of the month or the beginning of the month, you are the happiest.

The rest of the time, slacking off will pass.

If it is in hotels and inns in Hong Kong, can dishwashers stop to rest until they have washed all the dishes for the guests in a day?

This is impossible.

Even dishwashers may wash until their waists, arms, and whole bodies are numb. Before they finish, they cannot stop to rest unless they have worked for more than ten hours a day.

Ah Zhu and Zhong Chuhong have seen something, and whispered to Yang Ming: "Master, those people are so lazy, how can this be possible?"

In fact, this is also a microcosm of this era.

Before the land was divided into households and the production was contracted to households, rural farmers were the same.

Anyway, it is all state-owned, public, and they eat public food, so it doesn't matter how much they work.

In the state-owned enterprises in the city, and those iron rice bowl employees, basically all have this attitude.

In this case, it is actually necessary to change.

In Yang Ming's opinion, in this case, the efficiency must be increased by at least ten times, otherwise, it will be useless.

If these people were in private enterprises and still had the same lazy attitude, they would be fired on the first day. How could they continue to waste time like that?

Mr. Shen and Secretary Zhang were embarrassed.

Yang Ming thought it was normal.

If he lives in China in this era, I am afraid he will be the same.

Because no matter how hard you work, your income is just like that.

On the contrary, if you work too hard, others will think you are a fool.

"Mr. Shen, Secretary Zhang, the old gentleman's "more work, more pay" is very important. In my opinion, if they pay a little, they will get a little income, and if they pay ten points, they will get ten points. If they pay a little and want ten points of income, or pay ten points and only have a little income, these are all abnormal."

"Mr. Yang, I am a little worried about this kind of people. When you come to build a company, will they be so lazy?" Mr. Shen asked.

"Mr. Shen, this is impossible. I can tell you that any capital will not allow this kind of thing to happen. There are too many people in China, many lazy people, and many hardworking people. If lazy people don't work, they will be eliminated immediately."

Before this, there were few other jobs in China except state-owned enterprises, so most farmers could only stay in the countryside.

After a large number of industries in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and even Europe and the United States were transferred to the Pearl River Delta, there were actually more and more companies.

In the 1980s, Foxconn had factories in this area. Each factory had to recruit hundreds of thousands of people, which was equivalent to solving the employment problem of all the population in a small or medium-sized city.

Moreover, at that time, it was not only Foxconn that had factories in the Pearl River Delta, but there were too many factories that needed people.

In addition, there was a lot of infrastructure.

Including the infrastructure of Pengcheng and other cities, too many workers were needed.

This also led to the later migrant workers who came out of the countryside to work.

Chapter 2!

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