Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Director Wang took a sip of water and continued, "But I didn't expect that many older men were not willing to go to the textile factory."

Chen Changan thought, of course I don't want to go. You make the same money, but you let those grown men who don't know anything work in a factory with a lot of women.

That would be fine, but you let so many grown men go to the textile factory and do the same work as the female workers, and they still can't beat the female workers.

What do these grown men think of you? Are you laughed at and looked down upon by a bunch of women every day?

Chen Changan didn't believe that Director Wang would make such a mistake. You said that if a young college student took Director Wang's position, it might be possible.

But who is Director Wang? He has been doing this job for so many years, how could he make such a mistake?

Director Wang continued, "I had taken a lot of money from the processing plant, and I felt a little sorry for Liu Yixun. He said that the people who were fired were all the people you kept in the workshop, and they all had some skills.

Going to the textile factory, repairing machines was no problem.

I thought that your workshop could even produce motorcycles, so repairing a machine might not be a big deal.

As a result, Liu Yixun fired all the workers who made honeycomb coal by hand and asked them to report to the textile factory.

As a result, when the person in charge of the textile factory saw so many people coming, he directly refused to accept so many male workers because he had not received any notice.

Chen Changan sighed. He could imagine the helplessness and pity of these workers.

They were originally a poor family, and were arranged to work in the honeycomb coal processing factory by the street office according to their degree of difficulty.

Now they have been kicked out of the processing factories and the textile factories won't accept them, so the blame is being passed back and forth between the two sides.

Deep down, these workers still want to go back to work at the honeycomb coal factory.

After all, they have been doing this for quite some time and are familiar with it. Working in a textile factory and dealing with women every day is not what these honest people are like.

I had no choice but to go back to the honeycomb briquettes processing plant again. It happened to be a power outage and the motor burned out.

Liu Yixun thought that he would fire these people sooner or later, and since the machine was broken, it would be a good opportunity to let these people continue working.

Wait until the machine is repaired and then drive them away.

Unfortunately, Liu Yixun's idea was somehow known to the workers. Since they can't resist, their factory will be destroyed as well.

These workers simply changed the unit ratio of coal and yellow mud while they were working.

Even though Liu Yixun has been the factory director for such a long time, he has never paid close attention to production.

He had no idea about the ratio of the ingredients, and was cheated by the workers he was about to fire.

Just now in Director Wang’s office, Liu Yixun was also feeling aggrieved. The reason he was fired was because he wanted to save money for the factory.

He did not enjoy the money he saved, but handed it all over to the street office.

I also hope that the subdistrict office can use the money from the honeycomb briquettes factory to do more things and benefit more people.

He felt that Chen Changan had built the honeycomb briquettes machine but didn't use it, and even hired so many temporary workers to make honeycomb briquettes every day. This was completely a dereliction of duty.

So not long after Chen Changan left, they prepared to change the way the honeycomb coal factory operated during Chen Changan's time.

At the beginning, we did save a lot of money in many areas, but gradually the factory's income decreased.

Coupled with the request for money from the street office, Liu Yixun increased the intensity of the reform.

After listening to Director Wang's description, Chen Changan was speechless.

Is Chen Changan stupid? Doesn't Chen Changan know that with the honeycomb briquettes machine, so much manpower is not needed?

As long as the task is not urgent, Chen Changan rarely turns on the machine. The reason is.

The small and micro enterprises under the street office are basically not for profit-making purposes, but are mainly used to solve the difficulties of the people within the street.

To allow some people to have jobs and support their families is the most important role of enterprises under the subdistrict office.

However, some people, including Director Wang, believe that if you run a factory, you must make money, and if it does not make money, it is not a good business.

However, Chen Changan also understood that in this era of planned economy, from top to bottom, there was basically no concept of economics.

When you run a factory, you don’t know why it makes money or loses money. Most factories survive only by completing tasks within the plan.

Haven’t you seen that as soon as the reform and opening up began, a large number of factories went out of business?

Chen Changan looked at Director Wang's depressed expression and comforted her by saying, "Auntie Wang, I want to tell you the truth.

When I suggested you to set up a briquettes processing plant or a textile factory, I never thought about how much money these factories could raise for the subdistrict office. "

Director Wang looked at Chen Changan in disbelief. In Director Wang's opinion, these were all top-notch factories, and they were all suggested by Chen Changan.

Director Wang also regarded Chen Changan, who had made the suggestion, as a business genius.

Who would have thought that the advice I gave myself was not for the purpose of making money?

Chen Changan continued, "In my opinion, the earning capacity of these factories under the subdistrict office is really limited.

For example, the textile factories on the streets cannot compare with the newly built state-owned factories in terms of equipment or personnel.

Apart from anything else, the cloth they produce is dozens, hundreds, even thousands or tens of thousands times that of our street textile factory.

So what do you think is the point of opening such a small factory run by the street office?

My original suggestion was actually to help the poor residents, the suffering families, and even the families that cannot survive among us street residents to find a way out.

You can't expect much money from these small factories. Your street office also receives funding from higher authorities. To put it bluntly, how much money can you be short of?

Setting up a few small factories can give hope to those who are in financial difficulty. If they can really make some profit, then the military dependents and five-guarantee households in the street office can live a better life. That would be enough.

This is the real reason why I suggested you to set up several small factories under the sub-district offices.”

Chen Changan's words made Director Wang completely understand many things.

Indeed, the factories run by the street offices can never surpass the regular large factories.

To put it bluntly, even if you pluck a single hair from their body, it is still many times better than these small factories.

It also made Director Wang understand Chen Changan's original intention. He really didn't expect that Chen Changan's original suggestion was based on such an idea.

At this moment, Director Wang looked at Chen Changan with some appreciation and some regret in his eyes.

After all, in the wishes of Director Wang and his generation of veteran comrades, a better life for the people is a great affirmation of the success of their work.

And Chen Changan was helping her find a solution in a disguised way.