The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 75 Arrangement
"Brother, your brother-in-law and I have never been workers. Would it be inappropriate for you to arrange for us to work in the factory?" Liu Honglei hesitated.

Both of them were educated youth who went to support the development of the southwest.

In the Construction Corps, we all did some farm work.

"Sister, brother-in-law, don't worry, you two can definitely do the job." Liu Tao smiled and said, "Our factory provides training, and you can only take up the job after passing the training."

"The salary is mainly composed of three parts: basic salary, performance-based salary and welfare allowances. The basic salary is further divided into basic salary, seniority salary, position salary and other salary. As long as you pass the training and take up the job, your minimum monthly income can reach 40 yuan." Liu Tao said.

Under the leadership of Liu Tao, the wage system was adjusted and the 24-level wage system and the eight-level wage system were implemented. The originally stipulated 24-level wage system and the eight-level wage system became basic wages.

This resulted in a substantial increase in wages for everyone in effect.

Because Panshan Machinery Factory is now responsible for its own profits and losses, even if someone knows about it and is envious, jealous, and resentful, they can't say anything.

For example, Liu Tao’s administrative salary is 159 yuan, but the salary he receives every month has not been less than 500 yuan in the past few months.

"So high? An apprentice can earn such a high salary?" Chen Weimin was very shocked. You know, the combined salary of both of them was only 60 yuan per month.

If Liu Honglei's parents hadn't given them help from time to time, their family would have had a much harder life.

"Our Panshan Machinery Factory is a pilot factory and is responsible for its own profits and losses. At the end of last year, we increased bonuses to stimulate the enthusiasm of workers. This year, we adjusted the salary system to use a more complete salary system to stimulate the production enthusiasm of workers." Liu Tao explained.

The new salary system began to be implemented in June.

As a result, everyone's income has increased significantly. As long as you work hard, it is normal for your income to double.

This also mobilized everyone's enthusiasm for production and unleashed powerful production capacity.

To be honest, in Liu Tao's opinion, the current salary system still has very low wages.

However, the workers are already very satisfied with their current salary and benefits and are grateful to Liu Tao.

"And our factory is distributing houses. As long as you perform well and work hard, you may be able to get a house. When you come, you should see houses, and each house is 120 square meters," said Liu Tao.

Liu Honglei's eyes were filled with disbelief. "Your unit is still distributing housing?"

The practice of allocating housing to employees does exist across the country, but it is more common in cities.

I guess there is no other factory in the whole country that provides housing distribution in such a remote mountainous area.

They were in the Construction Corps, and they also lived in dormitories, where the conditions were very average.

"And it's a big house of 120 square meters!" Chen Weimin also exclaimed.

The dormitory they used to live in was only 26 square meters in size.

"If you are an eighth-level worker with extremely sophisticated skills, it is not impossible for you to be assigned a villa like this!" Liu Tao said with a smile: "Not long ago, an eighth-level worker in the factory was assigned a villa!"

"In a few days, the factory will carry out the second batch of housing allocation. You will know then!" Liu Tao knew that no matter how much he said about this matter, it would be useless. It would be better to see it with your own eyes.

After chatting for a while, Liu Tao and Liu Honglei went to the kitchen to cook. The two siblings cooked and chatted. Liu Tao kept asking Liu Honglei about her experiences over the years, and Liu Honglei also asked about Liu Tao's experiences over the years and the situation at home.

Before I knew it, the meal was ready.

Liu Tao specially took out a bottle of Moutai that he bought in Kun City. When he returned to Panshan Machinery Factory from Kun City, he specially bought 7 bottles of Moutai, which he usually didn't want to drink.

Now that his sister and her family were coming over, Liu Tao was naturally willing to take it out. "Moutai? This wine is expensive. I heard that a bottle costs 7 yuan." Chen Weimin's eyes lit up.

"Yes, it's Moutai, a bottle costs 7 yuan!" Liu Tao nodded with a smile. In the era of planned economy, the price of this wine was between 7 and 8 yuan nationwide. The price varied slightly in different regions, but the difference would not exceed 1 yuan.

Of course, most of the time you can’t buy it with money, you have to use the corresponding wine ticket.

This era is also the era of tickets, and in many cases, tickets are even more useful than RMB.

Liu Tao poured a glass for each of his sister and brother-in-law.

The air was filled with a strong aroma of wine.

"Good wine! It's worthy of being the national wine!" Chen Weimin took a sip and couldn't help but exclaim in praise.

Liu Honglei also took a sip.

The three children have already started eating.

Liu Honglei not only has to eat herself, but also has to feed her young son.

The family ate and chatted, and after Liu Tao and Chen Weimin each drank a glass or two of wine, the sense of strangeness disappeared.

Chen Weimin is three years older than Liu Honglei and became an educated youth after graduating from high school.

Before the college entrance examination was resumed, Chen Weimin also took part in it. Unfortunately, he had neglected it for more than ten years and his conditions were limited. After hasty preparation, he did not pass the exam.

You know, the door to the college entrance examination, which had been closed for more than ten years, opened again. 570 million people from different backgrounds and ages flocked into the examination room. In the end, 27.3 people were admitted, and the college entrance examination admission rate was only 4.74%!

4.74% does not refer to the first-tier undergraduates, but all undergraduate and junior college students!
The full score of the college entrance examination is 400 points, with 100 points each for Chinese, mathematics, and politics, and 100 points for physics and chemistry (science, geography and history for liberal arts) in total. In many places, you only need 200 points to reach the admission line, and 240 points are often enough to get into undergraduate studies.

But at that time, too many people had not read or studied for a long time.

As a result, most of the students failed the exams even though they reviewed in a hurry.

Liu Tao rarely worked overtime at night. He stayed with his sister and her family and introduced the situation of Panshan Machinery Factory to them.

At the same time, Liu Tao was also considering arrangements for them.

My brother-in-law Chen Weimin has a high school education, which is considered a high level of education and talent in this era.

Maybe he has forgotten a lot after so many years, but he has a foundation after all. With proper training, he can take the technical route. It just so happens that rifle grenades, sniper grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft machine guns will be produced next, so he can be sent to the technical department to familiarize himself with the equipment first and then work as a skilled worker in these three workshops. It is not impossible for him to become the director of a production workshop in the future.

My sister has children to take care of and she only has a junior high school education, so she is suitable for office work, which is relatively easy.

The next day, Liu Tao personally took the two to the human resources department to complete the entry procedures and then arranged for them to receive training.

As for the three children, the older one was arranged to go to primary school, and the two younger ones were arranged to go to kindergarten.

After making the arrangements, Liu Tao no longer cared about it. He had already arranged the work, and how far they could go depended on themselves.

Liu Tao began to busy himself with the design drawings of the new anti-aircraft machine gun. Now he had to come up with all the drawings himself, as the technical department did not have the technical personnel yet and could only do tracing at most.

As for drawing, Liu Tao has become quite proficient with practice and can draw more than ten drawings a day. It is not like before when he was not familiar with it and would be exhausted after drawing three or four drawings a day.

(End of this chapter)