Break out of the courtyard

At noon on November 1976, 11, his mother Ma Xiuzhen happily told Zhang Heping that Director Wang was applying to transfer him from Yundu back to the Nanluoguxiang Sub-district Office as deputy director.

In the afternoon, Zhang Heping went to the street office to ask about the reason, and then took the tiger penis wine south to Hong Kong Island.

Four days later in the morning, Zhang Heping got off the green taxi, carried a 50-pound glass wine jar, and carried his luggage back to Villa No. 9.

During lunch, Zhang Heping gave the several kilograms of filtered reddish-brown tiger whip wine to his father-in-law Tang Ming with a wicked smile, and also poured him a glass on the spot for him to taste.

After lunch, my father-in-law was sitting at the dining table and refused to get up.

The remaining tiger whip and medicinal materials were soaked in a glass wine vat with ordinary sorghum wine bought on the street, making it transparent so that outsiders could see the whip and two eggs inside.

Zhang Heping spent a few days on Hong Kong Island and inquired about the prices of chemical equipment and raw materials.

After venting his anger for five days, Zhang Heping left a shopping list, asking Chen Shuting to keep an eye on the prices, but did not let her buy.

Afterwards, Zhang Heping returned to the mainland. In Huadu, he called the Nanla Town Health Center and asked He Zijiang from the pharmaceutical factory opposite to help him pack his school luggage and send it back to the capital.

On December 12, Zhang Heping returned to the capital, rested for two days, and then went to Director Wang to find something to do.

His temporary job transfer has basically been finalized and is still going through the process.

In the first week, Director Wang just asked him to follow Ma Xiuzhen to get familiar with the people and things in the street, as well as the types of small workshops in the street and their operation modes.

By the way, my mother, Ma Xiuzhen, has been working at the street office for almost 66 years since she was transferred to the street office in 11.

Her salary increased from 30 yuan at the lowest level 23 to 26 yuan at level 33.

In 1975, wages were increased for low-income people. She now earns 37 yuan per month and is a grade 8 clerk.

If you want to get a promotion and a salary increase, you have to have a high school or technical secondary school education.

As for Zhang Heping’s salary level, it’s hard to say yet.

Most of the people in Nanluogu Alley looked familiar; Zhang Heping couldn't remember their names, but most of those people knew Zhang Heping, especially the people near Courtyard No. 95.

Among the small workshops on this street, the largest number of people are textile processing.

It was Chen Liqin, the mother-in-law of my eldest cousin Ma Lili, who helped pull the thread. Director Wang went to negotiate with the Capital Garment Factory, and then Ma Lili became the master and organized some families with sewing machines to do the processing.

However, the garment factory stopped working at the beginning of the year. After recently resuming production, no more processing tasks were assigned, and the people in the street lost an income.

The second most popular one is mash processing that can be brewed in every household.

Because the brewing method is simple, just take an enamel basin with a lid, steamed glutinous rice, mix with a little fermentation, wrap it in a quilt and put it in the house to keep it warm for fermentation.

Such a simple operation, but because some people were greedy and ate the glutinous rice prepared at home, they were unable to submit tasks to the rice winery. As a result, the street office owed the rice winery several hundred kilograms of glutinous rice.

By the way, the glutinous rice was in short supply, and Director Zhao was very helpful. He sent the glutinous rice from Nanla Town to the capital, so that the hole was plugged up and the rice winery was willing to continue to cooperate with the Nanluoguxiang Sub-district Office.

It was half a year later that Zhang Heping heard his mother, Ma Xiuzhen, mention this at home.

After the accident, it was Ma Xiuzhen who called Zhang Heping in Nanla Town to ask if he could buy some glutinous rice in the countryside, because Zhang Heping said before that the locals eat glutinous rice every day.

Zhang Heping happened to be away, so Director Zhao asked casually, and Ma Xiuzhen said calmly that the matter was settled, but the money to buy rice was given by Zhang Heping afterwards.

If Lao Zhao hadn't been so upright, Zhang Heping wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about helping Nanla Town, even if they were friends with each other.

Then there are the old chores of collecting shoe soles, gluing matchboxes, and washing dirty clothes.

After a while, Zhang Heping was thinking about what kind of livelihood he should find for these people, but they were thinking about Zhang Heping.

Many people with unmarried daughters came to Zhang's house with matchmakers to inquire about marriage, which made Ma Xiuzhen smile bitterly.

It was hard for her to say that Zhang Heping was already married. Not only did the eldest daughter-in-law give birth to 6 younger children, she also took the initiative to recruit a younger daughter-in-law...

At the end of this matter, some people began to gossip about Zhang Heping, saying that he had become a cadre and his vision was as high as the sky.

On the morning of Monday, December 12, Director Wang talked to Zhang Heping and asked him what he thought of the small street workshops.

"This is somewhat similar to processing with supplied materials!" Zhang Heping frowned and said:

"It's just that there is no organized and disciplined processing factory here on the street, and the external units that provide raw materials are just charity, not cooperation; therefore, there are great limitations!"

“The sub-district office is caught in the middle, and it feels a bit thankless.”

Director Wang leaned back on his chair and asked casually: "What do you think?"

"I took a look and found that there are several rotten houses in our street that no one lives in. Children can easily get into trouble if they go in and play. Street gangsters and speculators like to do bad things in those places. So we should just knock them all down..."

Director Wang spread his hands and interrupted Zhang Heping, "No money!"

“Find a factory with good profits to beg for alms!”

"You go!" Director Wang smiled.

"These are all trivial matters." Zhang Heping frowned and said, "Does the current policy allow street offices to set up small collective factories by themselves? If I can start a small garment factory first, I am confident that I can sell the finished clothes to foreign businessmen, and then there will be The money is used to set up other factories.”

Director Wang said helplessly: "It was okay last year, but it won't be okay after that. I don't know when the authorities will let go."

Zhang Heping thought for a while and then asked: "It is affiliated with the Capital Garment Factory and we are responsible for our own profits and losses. We only need them to give us some fabric quotas. Is this okay?"

Director Wang heard this idea, thought for a moment, then picked up the phone and called.

One, two, three...

Finally, Director Wang put down the phone and said helplessly: "Neither the garment factory nor the textile factory agrees with our affiliation."

Zhang Heping frowned, feeling restricted everywhere, "We can still talk about it at the factory, mainly because of whether the policy allows it. If it is allowed, I will hunt a few prey, and then we will visit the capital's garment factories and textile factories. Leaders talk.”

Director Wang seemed to be affected. He frowned and thought for a moment, then picked up the phone and made another call. Finally, he sighed helplessly, "I'm not even sure, so I don't dare to act rashly!"

Zhang Heping leaned back in his chair and didn't want to talk anymore. What should he do?

Director Wang thought for a long time and said: "Let's keep it as usual for now! Wait until the policy changes and then use your idea."

"As usual, let the clerks handle it!" Zhang Heping waved his hands habitually, "I'm going to bulldoze those rotten houses and free up the space first."

"When you go to deal with the bad houses, call Lao Li. He is in charge of renting houses and knows which houses can be sold."

"Okay!" Zhang Heping said, taking out a stack of paper from the desk drawer next to him and placing it on Director Wang's desk, "You can save this for future reference."

Director Wang glanced at the title on the front page of the thread-bound book and couldn't help but be startled. This brat had been pretending to talk to her for a long time. It turned out that he had already expected that he would not be able to start work.

"Planning for Street-run Factories"

Director Wang opened the first page of this planning book and saw that the catalog contained policy analysis first, then a guide to operating a garment factory, a guide to operating a handicraft factory, and the production process of Liubiju pickles...