Azhu and Zhong Chuhong had never ridden bicycles before. Seeing those Yangcheng citizens riding bicycles so happily, they all wanted to give it a try.

"Master, I want to ride a bicycle. I wonder how much the price of bicycles in China is now?"

Yang Ming didn't answer.

Secretary Zhang next to her said: "Ms. Azhu, the prices of bicycles in our country range from more than one hundred to more than two hundred yuan."

It ranges from more than one hundred to more than two hundred yuan?

For Azhu and Zhong Chuhong's income, it is not high, and they can buy ten units a month. However, for most people in the country, not everyone has a bicycle now.

It seems that many citizens in Yangcheng can afford to ride bicycles.

In fact, bicycles are now also considered luxury goods.

Nowadays, some state-owned enterprise employees in Yangcheng have a monthly salary ranging from 30 to 45 yuan.

Based on a monthly salary of 30 yuan, a Phoenix bicycle costs 180 yuan, which is equivalent to the income of an ordinary person. You can only afford it if you don't eat or drink for half a year.

If a bicycle costs more than 200 yuan, it is more expensive for an ordinary employee with a monthly salary of 30 yuan.

In other words, it is very good for ordinary families to have a bicycle now.

The current price of rice is 0.12 yuan per kilogram (it may be cheaper in some places), and 100 kilograms of rice only costs 12 yuan. In other words, 180 yuan can buy 1,700 kilograms of rice, enough to support a family of four for nearly three years. Food for life.

In China, in thirty or forty years, the price of rice will be around 3 yuan per catty, and high-quality rice may be close to 5 yuan. Calculated according to this standard, the original 180 yuan can buy 1,700 catties of rice. In thirty or forty years, it will be close to The purchasing power is about 7,000 yuan, which shows the depreciation of the currency.

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong feel that domestic prices are still very low. That is because they have not truly realized that the low wages in China are far beyond their imagination.

Rural people like those in Yang Ming's hometown have no other income at all except the farmland in the village all year round.

In other words, at the end of a month, the per capita income may range from a few cents to two yuan, or even lower. In this case, their income is very different from those in cities with a monthly salary of tens of yuan. difference.

"If you really want to ride a bike, give it a try when the time comes."

Yang Ming felt that these two women wanted to try cycling in Yangcheng.

When I returned to Xiangjiang, I relied on cars to get around, so I no longer wanted to do that.

Keep walking forward.

Passed by an ordinary hotel.

There are several trees outside the hotel.

It's not autumn yet, but the trees are losing leaves every day.

Yang Ming noticed two female hotel workers sweeping leaves there.

There shouldn't be many leaves on these trees, but they seem to have nothing else but this job.

Yang Ming stayed there for a long time to observe, and found that it was all like that.

besides.

Yang Ming saw someone repairing the hole in the wall outside the hotel.

A small hole in the wall.

However, these three people have a clear division of labor.

One person holds a plate of plaster, another applies plaster to the hole in the wall, and a third person points to the hole.

This shows what?

Yang Ming had already learned about this era in advance.

Now he realizes it deeply.

"Mr. Yang, I have to take care of them." Mr. Shen thought this was too ugly.

Just a small hole in the wall.

The three of them actually spent more than half an hour there and still didn't finish it.

Instead, they laughed, chatted, and passed the time.

Yang Ming hurriedly pulled Mr. Shen and said, "Mr. Shen, this is human nature and normal."

These people are just working hard.

In Yang Ming's opinion, that hotel was owned by a state-owned enterprise or a company in Yangcheng, so the two female workers sweeping the floor and the three male employees painting holes in the wall all belonged to the iron rice bowl.

Anyway, that's how they work.

Going long is the salary.

Even if you do less work, the salary will be the same.

Only when you get your salary at the end of the month or the beginning of the month are you happiest.

Other times, the grind is over.

If we are in hotels and guesthouses in Hong Kong, like those dishwashers, if they don't wash all the guests' dishes at the end of the day, can they stop and rest?

This is simply impossible.

In fact, those dishwashers may wash their hands until their waists, arms, and whole body feel numb. They cannot stop and rest after working for more than ten hours a day until they are finished.

Azhu and Zhong Chuhong could already tell. They looked at Yang Ming in a low voice and said, "Master, those people are so lazy, how can this be done?"

In fact, this is also a microcosm of this era.

In rural areas, before the distribution of farmland to each household, and before the household responsibility system, rural farmers were the same.

Anyway, it’s all owned by the state and the public, and you eat from the public, and it doesn’t matter whether you do more or less.

When it comes to state-owned enterprises in cities, as well as those employees who have iron rice bowls, they basically have this attitude.

In this case, it is actually time to change.

In Yang Ming's opinion, in a situation like this, the efficiency must be improved at least ten times, otherwise, it will be of no use at all.

If they were in those private companies and these people still had the same attitude of laziness and wasting their time away, they would be fired directly on the first day. How could they continue to work like that?

Mr. Shen, Secretary Zhang is embarrassed.

Yang Ming thought it was normal.

If he were living in China in this era, I'm afraid he would be like that.

Because no matter how much you do, your income will be just that.

On the contrary, if you work too hard, others will think you are a fool.

"Mr. Shen, Secretary Zhang, and the old man proposed that the more you work, the more you will get, which is very important. In my opinion, if they pay a little, they will get a little income, and if they pay ten points, they will get ten points of income. If they pay a little, they will get ten points of income." It’s not normal to earn ten points, or to pay ten points and only get a little income.”

"Mr. Yang, I'm a little worried about people like this. When you come to build a company, will they be so lazy?" Mr. Shen asked.

"Mr. Shen, this is impossible. I can tell you that no capital will allow this kind of thing to happen. There are too many people in the country, many lazy people, and many diligent people. If lazy people don't do it, then there will be no It will be eliminated immediately."

Before this, there were few other jobs in the country except state-owned enterprises, so the vast majority of farmers could only stay in the countryside.

After a large number of industries from Xiangjiang, Wanwan, Dongyang, Korea, and even Europe and the United States were transferred to the Pearl River Delta, more and more companies were actually established.

Like Futukang's foundry in the 1980s, each foundry had to recruit hundreds of thousands of people, which was equivalent to solving the employment problem of the entire population in a small and medium-sized city.

What's more, at that time, Futukang was not the only foundry in the Pearl River Delta. There were too many factories that needed personnel.

In addition, there is a lot of infrastructure.

Including Pengcheng's infrastructure and other cities' infrastructure, too many workers are needed.

This also formed the migrant workers who later came out to work in the countryside.

Chapter two!

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