20 years of spring breeze

Chapter 317 Anton
After eating, get in the car and continue walking, go around the foot of Fenghuang Mountain, walk Tanghe Wulongbei, and you will arrive at Andong when you leave the mountain.

Andong is a long and narrow city that stretches along the banks of the Yalu River, across from Uiju, North Korea.

This is a border city open to North Korea, and the railway directly crosses the bridge to Pyongyang on the opposite side.

At that time, Andong Railway Station was one of the few train stations in the country where the door was locked to get off work every day. The tall statue of Mao Zedong on the square in front of the station looked towards the west, waving his big hands to protect the little North Korean brothers behind him.

The Friendship Store in front of the station is very large and has a complete range of goods. Many high-ranking North Korean officials or political and military personnel will come here to buy things.

Walking 600 meters east from the square in front of the station is Jiangbian Park. You can see the Yalu River Bridge connecting China and North Korea. You can see the opposite bank directly in the park.

You can also take a yacht to go around the river. The yacht will occasionally cross the center of the river and drive to the opposite bank to shake a few times. There are factories on the opposite bank, and the riverside has not been repaired. There are often piles of children crowded on the bank to watch Here, waiting for tourists to throw something down from the boat, or biscuits, or apples, and then swarm over to loot them.

There is a store in the park that sells these things. Poor biscuits and shriveled apples are packed in a bag for five yuan a bag, which is for you to buy and throw on the other side.It is very similar to the one selling bear food and monkey food at the entrance of domestic zoos.

In the middle of the train bridge is the boundary line. Soldiers from the two countries guard the bridge next to each other. Residents there are not allowed to go on the bridge, and the punishment is very severe.At that time, our control here was not so strict, but the boundary was fine.The soldiers guarding the bridge on the opposite side will also ask for things from the guards or tourists on our side, that is, cigarettes, apples or biscuits.

In the early 90s, the opposite side was very poor, very, very poor. I heard the legend of Yizhou changing sons and eating, but I don’t know if it’s true or not. A lot of people came running over. It is by no means a legend that one bag of rice can be exchanged for two daughters-in-law.

The Koreans have a tradition of running to our side whenever there is something wrong. It has never been broken since history. Most of the Koreans in northern Jilin Province came from this way, mainly concentrated at the time when Russia and Japan wrecked the peninsula. , around 1900 that time.

It was already [-]:[-] in the afternoon when the car arrived in Anton.

Han San's equipment was sent to a biscuit factory on the outskirts of the city, and the trucks were unloaded here. Han San led Xiaowei and Chen Hui to the factory director's office.Xiaohong and Chen Xiao didn't come over, they got out of the car and moved freely.

These days, there are not many private companies that set up a factory manager's office, which feels strange.Moreover, the factory manager didn't show his face when the goods arrived and the truck was unloaded. The workshop director was always in charge.

Pushing the door open and entering the room, Han San greeted warmly: "Director Yu, how busy are you?"

A thin old man wearing reading glasses raised his head from behind the large old desk, glanced at Han San, nodded slightly and said, "San'er, sit down, the machine is here?"

Han San sat down, took out a cigarette, lit one for the factory manager, and said, "Well, I've brought them to you, and I'll call them at home to make sure there's nothing wrong with them."

Director Yu nodded and said with a smile, "I'm still relieved when you do things. Who are these two young men?"

Han San turned around and pulled Xiaowei to his side and said, "Director Yu, this is the Xiaowei I told you about last time. He came from the countryside and came to accompany his wife to school. This is his friend Chen Hui. Their little girl Brothers have set up a stall business, just what I told you last time."

Director Yu let out a sigh, nodded his head and said, "I remember, you opened a food factory, right? Okay, how much is the monthly output?"

Han San turned his head to look at Xiaowei, Xiaowei smiled at the factory manager, and said: "I don't produce much now, I just find someone to sell it at a few farmer's markets in Longcheng. Not many people eat biscuits now." Director Yu How much do you want here? Let me see if I can produce it."

Director Yu slowly nodded his head and thought for a while, then asked Xiaowei: "Is [-] yuan enough?"

A piece of old-fashioned biscuits is about five grams. The biscuit machine Xiaowei bought last time can produce about [-] catties an hour, and less than [-] catties a month.At that time, the biscuit machine was much worse than later generations in terms of production capacity and technology.

Xiaowei said: "Okay, I can add another piece of equipment, there is a place."

Director Yu was overjoyed, and said to Han San: "This kid is honest. My supply contract here and there is 40 catties of biscuits and [-] catties of trough cakes a month. The production capacity can't keep up. Look at my small place. , the equipment is also being added, why don’t you send a batch of them today. There is no way, the factory is so big, the contracted one, and the expansion application has been handed in for half a year, and no one has paid any attention to us. If you want to buy it, you have no money. Don’t look at the factory. Big, there are about [-] workers, many of them are retired, and they have to pay rent to the food company every year, so there is no money left.”

Xiaowei asked: "Then what else do you want him to do?"

Director Yu sighed, shook his head and said, "I was originally the director of the factory here. Two years ago, the production stopped and the wages could not be paid, so I led everyone to toss and toss. Fortunately, the wages can be paid, and everyone has a mouth. Food. You can’t just watch me starve to death, can you? Many of the retired are my old buddies, and it’s not easy for everyone.”

Xiaowei looked around the room and asked, "Uncle Yu, how much does it cost to buy this factory?"

Director Yu looked down at Xiaowei from behind the mirror, and said with a smile, "What's the matter? Do you want to buy it? The factory doesn't have much money, around 320 yuan, and there are 160 retired workers and on-the-job workers. If you want to buy this factory, you have to throw in at least [-] million yuan. With this money, it’s good to build a new one.”

He shook his head: "Now I've contracted it, and everyone can earn some monthly wages to live at home, don't worry about anything else."

Xiaowei said: "What about your order of hundreds of thousands of catties a month, wouldn't it be enough for half a year or a year?"

Director Yu said: "It's not that simple. The order is obtained from him with this old face. If the price can't go up, he still has to make money. There's nothing left. A catty of biscuits costs me a lot." Get eight cents back, and if you want your goods, I can give you seven cents. I can produce about [-] catties a month, and the rest will be sold everywhere."

Xiaowei said, "Wouldn't it be over if you add a few more devices?"

Both Han San and Director Yu laughed, and Han San patted Xiaowei on the shoulder and said, "Dude, I just like your sincerity. This factory is contracted, and the food company has the final say on buying equipment and changing equipment. You If someone buys it and others don’t recognize it, then the money will have to be paid by someone.”

Only then did Xiaowei understand and nodded.

The factory director said: "Your side is personal. If you have spare money, you can expand the production capacity. Now no one eats old-fashioned biscuits in China. Many factory managers have switched production. If you increase production capacity, I will save it. I searched everywhere, and I asked someone to give birth last month."

(End of this chapter)