I don’t know when the topic of conversation at the wine table changed from death in ordinary life. It turned into asking about income, for my girlfriend. And talk to each other about the awards each other's children have received for their academic performance.
However, Yang Dongxu has been bringing cartloads of New Year’s goods to his home since he was a child, and then giving them to relatives and friends. It has been like this for more than ten years. Even if he doesn't come back to celebrate the New Year, he will send New Year's goods. After he comes back, few people talk about his income outside at the wine table.
This year Zhou Ya came back with him to celebrate the New Year, although she didn't say anything. Zhou Ya didn't admit it, but this year she accompanied Yang Dongxu's relatives when visiting relatives. The only difference between getting married in rural areas and other families was that they still needed a banquet, red envelopes from relatives and friends, and Yang Dongxu's wedding. Zhou Ya took the three pieces of gold her mother bought with her when she left.
So after eating and drinking at the wine table, the topic naturally shifted to when Yang Dongxu would have children. This question made Yang Dongxu feel very pained.
Is it because he doesn't want children and doesn't want to have a banquet? But having a child is easy, and Zhou Ya also wants to have a child soon, after all, she is not young anymore. But the matter of marriage is really not something he can decide. If he could make the decision, he would have done it directly when he came back on New Year's Eve.
So when faced with such a problem, he could only smile and respond vaguely. This made his parents very dissatisfied and always glared at him.
After drinking, everyone got down from the table. At this time, several old friends liked to sit down and play a few games. The gambling was not big, just to kill time. But this year the two cousins obviously have something to say.
"Xu Zi, what do you think about setting up a small factory in Jiaxing, or further south?" The second cousin pondered for a while and asked.
Although Zhejiang Province has never had a first-tier city, even when Yang Dongxu was reborn in later generations, Hangzhou was still in the process of becoming a first-tier city.
But Zhejiang Province’s economic development has always been at the forefront of the national team. Especially under the leadership of Hua Xiu, the domestic clothing industry has boomed in recent years and has been exported to foreign countries. It has brought about a large number of small clothing factories.
What He Xin is talking about is this kind of small factory. In layman's terms, it is sleeve sewing, that is, sweater sewing. Such small factories have begun to pop up in Zhejiang Province in recent years like mushrooms after a rain.
Most small factories have 20 or 30 people, while some only have five or six people. They work day and night taking orders for outer sleeves from some large garment factories. Many people in later generations said that both large and small factories now use workers as livestock, which is why there was a labor shortage in the south in later generations.
But you have to admit that it is this humble assembly line that works two shifts a day that feeds thousands of families at this time.
The only difference is that some people make money by doing this, and those with business minds use the money they make to open a small factory, or make other investments and gradually become a boss. And some people use the money they make to improve their lives, but they have no business acumen, and in the end they are still just workers.
The former's successful life of talking day and night became his first pot of gold. The latter failed, so this kind of life has become an unforgettable hardship, with different results and different cognitions for different people.
"Why do you think of doing this?" Yang Dongxu asked curiously.
After my eldest cousin got married, the family went out to construction sites together and made a lot of money. Now my eldest uncle is a medium-sized contractor.
Second cousin He Xin originally wanted to learn cooking. It was said that he was doing well in a hotel and was about to start a small restaurant of his own. Unexpectedly, two people suddenly asked me about gagging today.
"The two of us want to join forces to do some business. This is what Hexin's mother-in-law's family does in Jiaxing. Hexin stayed there for half a year last year. You know more about it because you went to college, so we want to ask your opinion." Lili said.
This is obviously a bit of a fallacy that 'college students should be able to do everything'. But it would be a fallacy to put it on others, but he really understood this when it came to Yang Dongxu. After all, he was the big boss of Huaxiu, the largest clothing factory in the country.
"How do you think about how big and how many workers you plan to recruit when you start?" Yang Dongxu asked.
Yang Dongxu was not surprised that his second cousin's mother-in-law's family was doing this, because in later generations, his old mother-in-law's family was doing this. Although they did not make a big fortune, they made a small fortune. Not long after my second cousin got married, he also made some money by doing this with his wife.
But in this life, two people have more choices. For example, they can take on projects at construction sites, open a restaurant, or follow my grandpa in a sports car. They can even go to the city to find a relaxing job, and my grandpa can arrange it for them.
So after his second cousin got married, he thought he wanted to learn cooking skills and prepare to open a restaurant. Unexpectedly, things went round and round and returned to the established track.
"I asked around and found out that it doesn't cost much to do this. Just 20,000 yuan per person for me and Li Li, and rent a factory to buy some sewing machines. We can take care of food and housing without paying wages in the early stage, and we can give some pocket money every month. Then everything will be settled at the end of the year. This is what my mother-in-law’s family does, so the starting capital of 40,000 yuan is enough." He Xin said.
In fact, it is not only small factories that do this, but now large factories also do this. Basically, food and accommodation are included, and then the monthly salary is calculated and some pocket money is given, and the salary is paid uniformly at the end of the year.
The advantage of this is that it reduces the financial pressure on the factory and reduces the worker turnover rate, because the salary is gone when the workers quit. But there is also a drawback to this, that is, if the factory collapses, or the boss runs away due to some problem, then the workers' work for a year will be in vain, and they will not even have enough money to go home to buy clothes for their wives and children. No.
So slowly these rules and regulations began to be eliminated, because when workers began to have choices, they simply did not come to work in factories with such regulations.
However, in private small factories, this situation will continue for a few more years, but the situation of small factories is different from that of large factories. Their workers are not recruited from outside, but are contacted at the end of the year from their own village or nearby villages.
In fact, many of the workers contacted were minors aged fifteen or sixteen, and the oldest ones were only around eighteen or nineteen years old. I have never worked outside the home before, so my parents are worried about going out. So when I meet someone I know, I ask my children to go out with me, and I feel relieved to have someone I know. At the same time, because they are people they know, they are not afraid that the boss will run away, so they still settle their wages in this way.
"When I was studying in college in Hangcheng, some of my classmates were from Jiaxing, and their families had some connections in Jiaxing. If you really want to do this, make it bigger and borrow some money from my dad. Let's get the space first. Spread it out, and we will also receive business." Yang Dongxu said after a while.
Although he has not taken the initiative to give any advice to relatives at home for so many years, he supports whether relatives work or do business. He had previously thought about waiting for his elder cousin to complete the project on the construction site, and then he would pay for him to open a small real estate company.
If the second cousin wanted to open a restaurant, he would ask the experienced manager from Yang Jiayan to help him, and he would also invest some money to help him open a bigger restaurant.
Now that the two of them jointly want to make sleeves and open a factory, he is naturally willing to support it. But because he is not married yet, he is younger than the two of them. Don't feel a little uncomfortable lending money to the two of them directly, so you brought up your father.
"Why don't we try this first? I'm afraid it won't mess up when it's so big." He Xin was still a little worried.
It's not that he doesn't want to borrow money, he and Li Li both know that as long as he opens his mouth, his wealthy third aunt's family will definitely lend them money to do business. After all, they didn't have any bad records over the years, and the third aunt always felt that they were conscientious and upright, much more reliable than the uncle from the second aunt's hometown.
"In this case, you can do business by yourself. In two days, you can go over and take a look at the storefront. Isn't the second cousin's mother-in-law over there? Ask his family to help with the check. You first need to clear the place of machinery and workers. What should we do first? Let me help you contact your classmates to see if we can get some business."
"That's great. As long as there are orders, the factory can be up and running in an instant." He Xin looked happy. Although his little cousin was a few years younger than him, he had always been very reliable in his work and had never let them down.
While the three people were talking, a Santana car entered the village and drove directly to Uncle Yang Dongxu's Shengli's house. Thinking of what a few people on the street said about Sanhong this morning, he couldn't help but frown.
"You guys sit down for a while, and I'll go to my uncle's house to see what's going on."
"Okay, you go and do your work. We'll be summarizing it later. I'm a little nervous doing this for the first time."
"Haha, if you think it works, then do it. Our family can still afford it with the money. My opinions may not be correct. After all, I have never been exposed to condoms. I have been doing this for half a year and I definitely know more than I do. Yang Dongxu responded with a smile and walked towards his uncle's house.
Because it was afternoon, the market had stopped and many stalls had begun to close their stalls. The streets that were crowded in the morning were now somewhat empty, with only a few unsatisfied children still wandering around some small stalls.
When I arrived at my uncle's house, the courtyard was very lively. I saw my uncle Shengli, who had a lot of drinks at noon, and was blushing. He was patting Sanhong on the shoulder and calling him brother. Opposite the two people, stood a slightly dark-skinned man with a smiling face.
"I asked you, why are you so ungrateful? Why don't you give up some? Can you spare a piece of meat? It would be great if we all make money together. Why do you insist on taking it all for yourself?" said the blushing uncle with a thick neck, pointing at Shengli. The man lectured with foam flying from his nose.
The man tried his best to keep a smile on his face, holding a cigarette in his hand and taking the initiative to light it for Shengli. Sanhong supported Shengli with one hand, fearing that he would be unable to stand, and looked at the man with a sneer, as if to say: "Aren't you a cow? Why are you pretending to be a grandson now?"
"Xu Zi is here, come..."
"You are everywhere. If you drink a few more glasses of horse urine, you will no longer be you. Why don't you go to heaven if you are so capable?" Seeing that Aunt Yang Dongxu hadn't finished saying hello, Grandpa Yang Dongxu walked in from the door angrily. .
