The leisurely life of farmers in mountain villages

Chapter 124 Dazhai Village Labor Market

Qiaotou, Dazhai Village, Dazhai Township, Gangcheng County, is the first spontaneously organized labor market in Gangcheng County. At its peak, there were more than [-] workers waiting for it.

Before the 70s, the pillar industry of Gangcheng County was still agriculture, and the largest enterprise in the county was Xinhua Armory, but that armory had little to do with the local area. It neither paid taxes to the local area, nor did local villagers work there.Then in 1970, Qilu Province responded to the call of the country’s third-line construction and built the Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant in Luzhong City, which is located in a remote area and is completely unsuitable for the construction of large steel plants from the perspective of future generations.

Later, Luzhong Iron and Steel Works developed rapidly, and once became one of the top ten iron and steel enterprises in the country with an annual output of [-] million tons of steel.

As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains, relying on water to eat water, Gangcheng County is close to the Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant, and the people around will naturally start to make iron and steel articles.

Steelmaking requires steelmaking pig iron, and such pig iron can be produced in traditional indigenous ironmaking furnaces, and then sold to Luzhong Iron and Steel Works, which will earn high profits.

Take 2003 as an example, the waste residue from cement factories contained a lot of iron, and these waste residues were generally dumped directly from cement factories.Then someone discovered this business opportunity and bought the waste slag from the cement plant at a price of a few yuan per ton, and then used a magnetic separator to separate the iron beans from the waste slag.The iron beans selected in this way cost only 200 yuan and have a high iron content, which can reach more than 80.00%.These iron beans are then sold to the owner of the local method iron smelting furnace, and the price can reach 600 yuan per ton.Then the owner of the indigenous iron-making furnace used this raw material to smelt steel-making pig iron. The cost of each ton of steel-making pig iron was close to 1000 yuan, and he sold it to Luzhong Iron and Steel Factory for 2000 yuan.Luzhong Iron and Steel Works uses this to produce steel, and then sells it at a price of more than 3000 yuan.

In the whole production process, a large amount of manpower is required for waste slag loading and unloading, iron bean loading and unloading, indigenous ironmaking furnace production, etc., and these tasks are concentrated for a short time, so it is impossible to say that long-term employment of labor is impossible.So, in this case, the labor market came into being.

The labor price of labor in the labor market was relatively low at that time, and the wages for loading and unloading a ton of iron slag were only two yuan.Ordinary labor can load and unload ten tons of iron slag a day, earning 20 yuan.

A shovel of iron beans weighs about 1.3 kilograms, and it is impossible for those with weak strength to lift it onto the [-]-meter-high Steyr King cart.One ton of iron slag requires one hundred swings of a shovel.

A 120-jin person does a push-up about 0.05KJ of work.

And throwing a shovel of iron beans onto King Steyr made about 0.15KJ of work.

That is to say, every time a shovel is lifted, the laborers in the labor market are equivalent to doing three push-ups.And the wages for doing 3 push-ups are only three yuan, which is equivalent to 1 cent for each push-up.

The amazing thing is that the most powerful stevedore can load one hundred tons of iron a day, which is equivalent to doing thirty thousand push-ups.

Among the ways of hiring people in the labor market, loading and unloading iron slag is the most popular.Most people who come to the labor market are not short of strength. Compared with other jobs, the job of loading and unloading iron slag is more profitable.

A few days ago, a boss surnamed Wang from Taohualing Village came to the labor market. He took more than 60 people to Taohualing Village to dig tree pits for two days, earning [-] yuan per person.At that time, Boss Wang said that he wanted to find Zhang Baifeng, the leader of the group of diggers, to plant saplings today, but no one came for a long time.

In this labor market, there are several factions.

The two local groups in Dazhai Village basically occupied most of the work of loading and unloading iron slag, and the others could only pick up the leaks.

Zhang Baifeng was lying on the pillar at the end of the bridge, shouting a piece of foxtail.

Near noon, three groups of people came to the labor market looking for work, but it was none of Zhang Baifeng's turn.

Among this group of people, Zhang Baifeng and the others are considered a group of vulnerable groups.

Suddenly, Zhang Baifeng stood up abruptly, looked at a Times light truck approaching in the distance, and stood up.

"Brother Feng, that car looks familiar." Zhang Baifeng and his group of twenty or so didn't leave, hoping that when the restaurant was about to noon, everyone else would leave, and then they could get some work.

Everyone is the breadwinner, and if they go home without income, they will inevitably be looked down upon by their mother-in-law.

Those small iron stove owners generally come in sedan cars. People think that light trucks like this are looking for people to do farm work, so many people are not interested at all.

Zhang Baifeng recognized that the person who got off the car was the son of Boss Wang whom he had been working with three days ago, so he hurriedly greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Little boss, looking for someone to work?"

Wang Shaodong looked at Zhang Baifeng in front of him, and he was thinking about one thing. Is this the person Zhang Baifeng, who later became famous in Dazhai Township as a big steel dealer?

"Brother Zhang, call your person to plant trees in Wujiayuzi, Taohualing Village. You have been there."

"I know I know."

Then, Zhang Baifeng turned around and greeted his people: "Da Mao Er Mao, Taohualing Village, let's go!"

"Purchase three vans. I'll pay the bill when I get there. Brother Zhang, please arrange to sit in my car. Let's go together."

"okay."

Zhang Baifeng agreed, and hurriedly arranged for his people to call the van, and about twenty people boarded the van.

There are not only people at Qiaotou in Dazhai Village, but also cars, vans, trailers with front four and rear eight, dump trucks and so on.

After getting into the car, Wang Shaodong led the way, followed by three vans.

"Oh, by the way, Brother Zhang, are you from Dazhai Village?"

Wang Shaodong felt that if the person in front of him was Zhang Baifeng, who would be counted in Gangcheng County in the future, then it was really necessary to establish a relationship.

"Oh, it's from Dazhai Village."

This is on point.

"Oh, then I see that most of the people you brought with you are not from Dazhai Village, right?"

Wang Shaodong recognized a few of these workers, none of whom were from Dazhai Village.

"The people I brought along didn't even come from Dazhai Village."

Wang Shaodong learned that the two groups of people from Dazhai Village basically monopolized the money-making work in the labor market. This Zhang Baifeng is also a burly and strong laborer.

"Then why don't you follow those two gangs in your village to work? If that's the case, you should make more money than you do now, right?"

"Tch, I can't understand those two groups of people who bully and dominate the market, so I won't follow them."

Wang Shaodong knew in his heart that most of Zhang Baifeng's subordinates were thin and thin, and they generally couldn't find any work. Then he united them and formed a small faction.Whenever Zhang Baifeng contacted Huo, he would bring these twenty or so people with him.

"You are quite a kind person. If we have a job in the future, we will come to you."

Zhang Baifeng also smiled: "Oh, that's good. Bosses like you take your money and drink your wine. We are willing to do your work."

(End of this chapter)