Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

"Well, Xiao Cao, now we have so many things at hand, and we haven't finished them yet, so we want to set up a film studio? Isn't it too aggressive? Should we focus on the project at hand first? okay?"

The person who said this was Li Siming, the director of the factory, who had the same name and different surname as Cao Zhiqiang's brother-in-law.

The reason, of course, is that Cao Zhiqiang approached him and proposed to apply to the relevant departments to open a film studio in the name of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

Originally, according to Cao Zhiqiang's idea, Director Li should immediately agree this time, but who knows that Director Li actually questioned this time.

That's right, there is no direct denial, just questioning, but this is already an expression of attitude, which means disapproval.

"Director Li, how can this be aggressive?" Cao Zhiqiang said, "This is to better integrate resources and help the factory transform faster."

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang sighed and said: "Director Li, there are more than 5000 workers in the tertiary industry in our factory, and you know the situation of these people, at least two-thirds of them are left over from history.

Strictly speaking, in a factory like ours, the large number of tertiary production personnel has hardly brought any benefits. Instead, it has continuously eroded the resources of our factory and increased the expenditure in the factory.

From the perspective of increasing income and reducing expenditure, I think it is not an exaggeration to abolish two-thirds of the personnel of the tertiary industry, and it is not even a big problem to abolish all of them. "

"I dare not say it!" Director Li waved his hand quickly.

After that, Factory Manager Li subconsciously looked at the door of the office, and found that the door of his office was closed properly, and he and Cao Zhiqiang were the only ones in the whole office, so he was relieved.

Afterwards, Factory Director Li sighed and said, "Xiao Cao, yes, I also know that there are too many people in our factory who just take money and do nothing, but as you said, these are all problems left over from history.

Back then, these people also made contributions to the factory. We can't just abandon these meritorious people just because the factory is in trouble now, right?
We are not a capitalist country, we cannot do this.

If I really dare to do this, if they make a fuss, I, the factory director, may not be able to wait until I retire, and I will step down immediately. "

Indeed, in state-owned factories during this period, ordinary workers are still a force that cannot be ignored.

Especially after those turbulent years, the power of factory workers was actually strengthened, not weakened.

The power of workers was weakened and they were unable to resist the leadership. That would have to be the end of the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, after a lot of reforms.

But in 1983, workers in state-owned enterprises were not so easy to deal with.

Casually dismissing people without reason will arouse public anger, and once public anger is aroused, the factory manager will also be blind.

Just like the rectification incident that Hongguang Machinery Factory is facing now, this is actually the government's desire to rectify.

Ordinarily, Hongguang Machinery Factory is an asset of a state-owned enterprise, so it should listen to the government. If the government wants to rectify, is it not just a matter of one sentence?
But things are not that simple, and the most troublesome thing is the placement of workers.

Among them, the production department of Hongguang Machinery Factory is given to Shougang. This is no problem. The real problem is the huge tertiary industry department.

Since the tertiary industry departments are the burden of the Hongguang Machinery Factory, are these departments absorbed by the government, so they are not the government's burden? …

Obviously not.

If it is capitalism, it would be fine to lay off employees directly, but this cannot be done in China at this time, because doing so will cause major problems.

It is not enough to lay off employees and transform into a public institution, and the employees just change their skins, which is not enough.

You must know that the wages of factory workers during this period may not be much higher than those of government agencies and institutions at the same level, but because of the special nature of the factory, there are also a large number of factory welfare allowances, that is, special tickets, which government agencies and institutions say they do not have. .

Not to mention anything else, let's just talk about things like food stamps for job types and meat stamps for factories, which are not available in government agencies and institutions.

The reason is very simple, that is, the state-owned enterprises in this period generally have many brother units, and these brother units spread all over the country, including other factories, township enterprises, and even some people's communes.

To put it bluntly, due to historical reasons, the large state-owned enterprises in this period actually had a closed trading circle within themselves, and this circle was inaccessible to ordinary government agencies.

If there is no such internal trading circle, why would state-owned enterprises be more popular than government agencies and institutions in the 60 years from the 80s to the 20s?Isn't it more beneficial?

In other words, maybe I, an ordinary state-owned enterprise employee, get paid about the same monthly salary as your government official, which is 40 yuan, but I, a factory employee, can issue vouchers every month, such as supplementary food vouchers, supplementary meat vouchers, etc. But there are many more cadres than your agency.

In the early 80s, tickets had not been completely abolished, so people with more tickets were more popular than those with fewer tickets.

That is to say, once Hongguang Machinery Factory is unprepared for rectification, and the tertiary industry in it is directly turned into a public institution, then unless you increase wages substantially, or reissue the same ticket as the factory, otherwise, the original If a large number of factory workers suddenly reduce their welfare benefits as a whole, there will definitely be trouble.

As long as there are too many people and there is more trouble, the relevant leaders will definitely not be able to eat and walk around.

Therefore, this requires a buffer, and we must pay attention to methods and methods.

what method?It's very simple, just blowing the air and changing slowly.

It's like now, let's say that the factory needs to be rectified first, which makes everyone panic.

Then reduce the financial subsidy by half, so that the monthly income of factory workers will be directly halved.

In this case, even if the factory’s special supplementary food stamps and meat stamps are not missing, but the money is reduced by half, it can still make the majority of employees feel heartbroken.

But there is no way. If the money is less, it is less. At this time, the factory has not been dismantled and rectified, and it is still there. Therefore, the object of the workers' anger can only be the factory, and it can only be cadres such as the factory manager. They think that the cadres are incompetent .

If the factory manager doesn’t want to take the blame, he should explain the matter clearly, such as explaining the fact that the factory is not profitable and has always been receiving financial subsidies, and then explain that the government is also in difficulty and cannot continue to support people. .

In this way, the majority of employees will feel ashamed, stop causing trouble, and silently accept the fact that their wages are cut by half.

After all, half the salary is better than no salary.

Then, lasting for half a year, the factory was split up, the production department entered Shougang, and the wages immediately returned to the original wages, which would make the majority of employees grateful for the new factory. …

As for those tertiary industry departments that have been merged into the government, their wages have also been raised, but they have not returned to the original state, and the tickets and the like have also been reduced, but as long as the situation is better than the original salary cut in half, then everyone will still will be satisfied.

This is to cut in half first, vent everyone's resentment, wait for the limelight to pass, and raise [-]% later, and naturally you will only get praise.

But in fact, on the whole, this still cut everyone's wages by [-]%. If other benefits were added, there would only be more cuts.

But through this method of salary reduction, the majority of employees will not be dissatisfied, but happy and happy. This is the problem of the method.

At that time, everyone will only vent their resentment on the original old leader, thinking that the old leader is incompetent, and will not blame themselves.

Director Li knew this very well, that's why he was so sad before, because he knew that if he didn't handle it well, he would be the one who took the blame.

In fact, in the entire reform of state-owned enterprises in the 80s, there were many people who were responsible for the blame like Director Li, and he was not bad.

Is there a way to break the game?
Of course there is.

In fact, the government wants to rectify the Hongguang Machinery Factory at this time. From the root cause, it is not because of the wealth of the Hongguang Machinery Factory.

On the contrary, the government's rectification of Hongguang Machinery Factory is to stop losses in time.

Because Hongguang Machinery Factory is a state-owned enterprise, if it cannot turn over Lilan to the government, it will eat the government's finances instead, which is tantamount to carrying a heavy burden on the government.

It’s okay if the government is rich, it’s not bad, but the government is also poor now, otherwise what reforms are there?

Therefore, the purpose of rectifying Hongguang Machinery Factory is not to spend a large amount of fiscal revenue every year into the bottomless pit of Hongguang Machinery Factory, so as to reduce financial expenditure.

Therefore, if Hongguang Machinery Factory can rely on its own ability to come out without seeking to make money again, even if it can be responsible for its own profits and losses, and can afford its own employees' salaries, then this is a good factory and a good unit, why continue to rectify?

If this factory can not only be responsible for its own profits and losses, but also provide additional funds to the government, it is simply a star enterprise, and it must boast and let everyone learn.

It is precisely because of this that Director Li began to look for various ways to save Hongguang Machinery Factory, and promoted Cao Zhiqiang exceptionally.

Because after thinking about it, Director Li couldn't think of anyone other than Cao Zhiqiang who could solve the salary gap of Hongguang Machinery Factory.

This is not to say that Hongguang Machinery Factory only has a salary gap, but that the salary gap cannot be delayed for a moment, unlike other gaps such as water and electricity, which can continue to be owed.

Anyway, everyone owes money now.

Hongguang Machinery Factory owes money to others, and others owe money to Hongguang Machinery Factory. It's just a triangular debt. Don't laugh at anyone.

In addition to the planned economy, there is absolutely no shortage of energy and raw materials, because they are all deployed uniformly from above.

So it seems that the factory's biggest funding gap is raw materials and energy, but in fact these things are not lacking, and they are still operating normally.

On the contrary, it is the wages of workers who seem to have a small amount of funds. There is really no way.

Workers' wages are cash and cannot be paid through internal virtual IOUs.

This is also the reason why Cao Zhiqiang's Hongguang Publishing House's loan can save Hongguang Machinery Factory. …

Because Cao Zhiqiang's publishing house only needs to pay half of the wages of the workers in the machinery factory.

If they are also responsible for the raw materials and energy bills of the factory, they will not be able to afford to kill Cao Zhiqiang.

"Director Li." Cao Zhiqiang followed suit with a sigh, "It doesn't matter whether publishing houses or convenience kiosks are in full swing, but in fact, the number of people that these projects can absorb is very limited.

As for the convenience kiosk project, in the long run, it can indeed absorb a large number of people.

Theoretically, just this convenience kiosk project can absorb all the tertiary industry personnel in our factory, and turn these tertiary industry departments that can only go out into a new profit growth point, allowing the tertiary industry personnel to support themselves. It can also feed back the factory and expand the factory.

But this cannot be accomplished overnight, there is a process of gradual expansion.

Moreover, the convenience kiosk project is actually based on policy. Once the government does not allow it, it will be all for nothing.

Therefore, we can't put all our eggs in one basket, we need to bloom more and prepare with more hands.

To set up a film studio is a new project I thought of for the factory.

You see, as long as the film studio is established, it can be regarded as a subsidiary of our factory. In this way, at least we can get rid of the big burden of the art troupe, which only spends money but does not make money.

Once the new film studio makes money, needless to say, if it does not make money, we will not suffer a loss if we spin off a separate film studio and let the film studio be taken over by the government and change from an enterprise to a business, don't you think? "

"Well..." Factory Manager Li rubbed his chin, "That's the truth, but everyone is not stupid. If something goes wrong, our main factory can't ignore it. It's also very difficult to explain."

"That's good." Cao Zhiqiang said.

"Factory director, if you are still worried, then transform the film studio into a contracted operation model, like a publishing house, contracted to me for personal management, or like Huaxia Audiovisual Company, a public-private joint stock system model, I will still be in charge.

I am personally responsible, I personally guarantee it, you should believe it, right? "

Director Li looked at Cao Zhiqiang, and suddenly smiled: "Xiao Cao, tell me the truth, what do you think? Or do you think the film studio is really doing something? Can it really make a lot of money?"

Cao Zhiqiang also laughed: "Director, whether the film studio makes money or not, you should understand better than me."

"That's right." Factory Manager Li nodded, "It's because I understand too well, I know too well that today's film studios don't make money at all, they are all supported by finances, so I don't want you to suffer."

Indeed, in the era of unified purchase and marketing, all domestic film studios do not need to consider commercial benefits at all.

It only needs the script to be approved and the project to be approved, and then the above will allocate funds to start shooting. After the filming is finished, it will be sold directly to China Film Company for distribution and screening in a unified way.

The buyout price of this movie varies, and the price depends entirely on the preferences of the leaders of the China Film Company.

That is to say, during the whole process of making a movie, the studio does not need to consider the issue of cost accounting, nor does it need to consider the issue of box office efficiency, so the result is that almost [-]% of the film studios are operating at a loss. …

Otherwise, we would not have continued to reform the film system. In the 80s, film studios had been changed from public institutions to enterprises, and independent accounting had been done.

Essentially speaking, in the early 80s, to be precise, the corporate reform of film studios that began in [-] was the same as the reform situation that Hongguang Machinery Factory is currently facing.

Because before [-], except for a very few film studios such as Bayi Film Studio, almost all film studios were public institutions directly under the government, usually directly under the Ministry of Culture or directly under the jurisdiction of the local cultural bureau.

Therefore, the reason why Director Li didn't immediately agree with Cao Zhiqiang to set up a film studio is because he knew that this thing is purely a money loser now.

Don't say that the subordinate units are easy to separate, that's all nonsense.

These days, the relationship between the state-owned enterprise head office and its subordinate companies is very close, and it can even be said to be parallel.

It is impossible for the subordinate company to have an accident, and the head office has no responsibility at all. It is very difficult to separate the relationship.

In more cases, the subordinate companies are in a deficit and unlucky, and the head office is responsible for covering the bottom line, which also leads to the extravagance and waste of a large number of state-owned enterprise subsidiaries.

In the reform of state-owned enterprises in the 80s, one of the important reform directions was to get rid of a large number of subsidiaries that were purely losing money.

Therefore, Director Li did not want to set up a subordinate film studio that lost money, because that would be tantamount to carrying the burden of losing money again.

"Don't worry, Director Li." Cao Zhiqiang patted his chest, "It's not me bragging. Since I started my business, where have you ever seen me lose money? When have you seen me make money? It's just a matter of earning more and less.

As for the film studio, believe me, if this thing is done well, it will be very interesting and profitable.

Even if you don't make much money, it's a good publicity window and you must not throw it away easily.

Moreover, changes are happening everywhere now, and in my opinion, in a few years, film studios will soon also undergo changes.

Once the film studio ushers in the reform and learns from Xiangjiang, it can be self-sufficient in its own profits and losses, and that will be the arrival of a new era.

At that time, with my ability, we can definitely make our film studio the most profitable and famous film studio.

But once the film studio can make a lot of money, the entry conditions will definitely become more difficult, and it will be extremely difficult for us to enter the film theater at that time.

It's better to enter now and get the qualification of a film studio.

Even if you don't make money now, or even lose money, as long as you don't lose too much and wait patiently, there will always be a day when you will see the sun.

Still the same sentence, if you are worried, Director Li, you can give it to me in the form of contract management, or cooperate in the form of a joint-stock system.

With me here, I guarantee there will be no problems.

Even if you lose money, you will lose me, and I can afford it! "

Director Li thought for a while: "Well, now that you've said that, what else can I say? Let's do it.

However, let’s forget about the joint-stock system, just like that publishing house, let’s contract it to you to run it.

I don't expect this film studio to make a lot of money, as long as you can settle the wages of those employees who are included in the film studio, you will be considered a meritorious service. "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Then we can make a deal, don't go back on your word."

Factory Manager Li scolded with a smile: "What is there to regret? You are willing to carry the burden for me, and I am grateful to you before it is too late.

Besides, I am old, this factory will be handed over to you sooner or later, you are not afraid, what am I afraid of? "

Cao Zhiqiang nodded, and said seriously: "Director Li, you are a person who really cares about the factory, I really admire you!"

Factory Manager Li sighed: "I have worked in this factory for most of my life. It is a lie to say that I have no feelings, but sometimes, if you don't have feelings... forget it, let's not talk about it!"

Speaking of this, Director Li put his hands behind his back and said: "Xiao Cao, I have always believed in your vision and ability.

If someone asked me to set up a film studio, I would have kicked it out, but since you begged me, then I will believe you this time.

How about this, I will go to Lao Dong right away, and then go to the leader of the Ministry of Culture together with him, and make sure to get an indicator of the film studio.

You wait patiently and don't rush.

Anyway, the matter of the film studio is not a big deal, and it is guaranteed to be successful.

Now that the college entrance examination is approaching, you, you can prepare for the exam at home during this time, and don't worry about other things. "