Hong Kong Comic Master

"Our Xingrong Toy Factory currently has about 3,000 employees, and it is already the largest factory in Shekou!

At the beginning, most of the workers were women, but since last year, new companies have opened in the Shekou Industrial Zone, and many women workers in the factory have changed jobs.

Some were hired to be teachers in primary schools and kindergartens, and some went to work as waiters in places such as the Prince Hotel, Sea World and travel companies..."

At this time, Li Wannian was walking in his own factory in Shekou, and the factory director next to him introduced the situation in the factory to him.

Yesterday, Director Yuan invited him to have a dinner at the Prince Hotel. Although the hotel's cooking skills were average, the ingredients were fresh.

After all, there was no nuclear sewage at this time, so there was no need to worry about the mutation of these seafood!

After the meal, Li Wannian met too many people under the reception of Director Yuan, so that he didn't recognize all of them until now.

In this way, Li Wannian spent his first day in Shekou in a hurry.

Until today, Li Wannian had his own time and began to formally inspect these industries in Shekou.

The first destination of the inspection and visit was the Xingrong Toy Factory.

Speaking of which, Xingrong Toy Factory is the first factory to be established and put into production in Shekou, taking a solid first step for the development of Shekou.

Looking at the countless machines and countless workers working in front of the machines, Li Wannian couldn't help thinking:

Such work is really boring!

Each position is an assembly line operation, and each person undertakes a partial manual operation. There is not much technical content. Doing it like a robot is not only hard but also boring.

However, such a young man in his prime has to stay in such a factory at this time and waste his years!

It is no wonder why young people later would rather deliver takeout and race against death than go into the factory to tighten screws. This job itself is very anti-human!

Thinking of this, Li Wannian was attracted by a pretty female worker next to him.

In his previous life, he always heard people talk about factory girls, but Li Wannian really didn't see them!

Now I see one, don't say it, don't say it!

She's really pretty!

So Li Wannian stopped and asked curiously: "What's your name?"

Of course, Li Wannian didn't have any unreasonable thoughts, he just wanted to understand the real situation of the employees in the factory.

"Ah?"

The female worker was obviously frightened by Li Wannian's behavior, and she was stunned, so much so that she even forgot to do the work at hand.

"Ah what? Why are you standing there? Whatever the boss asks you, just answer it!"

The accompanying factory director saw the appearance of the female worker at this time and said impatiently.

Like other leaders and bosses' inspections, the factory naturally received the information in advance and made full preparations for this reception.

As early as a few days ago, various inspections from top to bottom were endless.

And today, even normal production has stopped, and now it's just pretending on the production line.

As for the workers, of course, those with good image and strong ability are placed in the aisle, and those with worse ones are placed inside. As for the worst part, they are simply given a holiday!

Therefore, the female worker in front of her looked quite smart. After being reminded by the factory director, she immediately responded and quickly replied: "Hello, boss, my name is Zhang Yanping, and I am a formal worker in the factory!"

This female worker named Zhang Yanping also emphasized that she was a formal worker. Perhaps in her opinion, formal workers would not be fired?

"Where are you from? How old are you this year?"

"I am 21 years old this year, from Shaoguan!"

"Well, can you tell me your story?"

"Ah? Story?"

This time Zhang Yanping was completely dumbfounded. This factory director had never taught her. How could she answer this?

So, she looked at the factory director next to Li Wannian, her eyes full of help.

"Don't be nervous, just answer whatever the boss asks you!"

Although the factory director is also a big shot for her, and she has not met him many times on weekdays, but at this time facing the pressure from Li Wannian, she couldn't help but obey the factory director in her heart.

"That's right, just tell me what you have to say, don't be afraid, I'm not a man-eating tiger! How many years have you been in the factory? Why did you come here to work?"

"I... I came here in 1981. I had just graduated from high school at that time. Because I didn't do well in the college entrance examination, I was going to repeat my studies and prepare to take the college entrance examination again. I wanted to go to other places. Because our local labor bureau was recruiting workers, I thought I could go to other places and make money, so I signed up.

By the way, when they were recruiting, they told us that the basic salary was 80 yuan a month, which was more than my parents' salary for decades, so... I came."

Although Zhang Yanping's words were a bit confusing, she basically told the story clearly, and the more she spoke, the smoother she spoke.

"Work hard, you will gain more in the future!"

After encouraging Zhang Yanping, Li Wannian came to another female worker and asked her.

After that, Li Wannian asked three or four workers in succession, some from Shaoguan, some from Zhaoqing, and some from Shantou.

The factory manager beside him also explained to him that the early workers were mostly from Guangdong Province, and as time went on, the workers gradually expanded to all over the country.

Listening to these people's stories, everyone's stories were pieced together, and gradually formed a documentary in Li Wannian's mind.

A group of young men and women from all over the world took the train to the station, and then took a truck to come here, living in the newly built dormitory building, eating boxed lunches, and sleeping on iron beds.

The hard work every day, on the construction site with yellow earth everywhere, all industries waiting to be developed, and extremely simple facilities, let factories rise from the ground.

"It's really not easy for you!"

After listening, Li Wannian couldn't help but sigh.

"Boss, life is very good now. Not only do we earn a lot, but we can also go to night school to study. It's very fulfilling!"

The first female worker Zhang Yanping couldn't help but say.

As Zhang Yanping said, looking at the faces in front of him full of hope for the future life, Li Wannian can feel that they are indeed satisfied with the life in front of them.

It's also true that you are not a fish, how can you know the joy of fish.

In my opinion, such a hard and tiring life is simply not for human beings. But for them, the life of hunger in the past is even more unbearable for them.

Today, they can support themselves with their own hands and have the hope of embracing the future. How can such a life be bad?

At this moment, Li Wannian truly felt that what he did in this era had indeed influenced and changed a group of people.