Not many elders have cared about how to deal with this kind of private market that emerged due to the industrialization of Lingao. However, problems will always arise if such laissez-faire development occurs. There must be regulations in the future.
Chinese farmers really don’t lack business sense. Yang Yun smiled bitterly: Just like this, it really feels a bit like when he was working as an HR at a foreign company in a town in the south of the Yangtze River when he walked on the street. With this thought, he led his entourage through the lively small market. His destination was a branch line commuter station under construction, where a large residential complex was being built.
The train platform will bring business opportunities, and it is still effective in the time and space of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, since the land around the station has been occupied by the Senate one step ahead, the business opportunities here are also firmly grasped by the Senate. The cooperative has set up points here early, and farmers The Red Flower Club of the committee also got involved here and opened an Arctic Ice Shop. The products of the companies under the Senate have always been of high quality, so the prices are naturally not as good as bad coins, and the types of services are also limited, so it is not surprising that the private stores not far away are so prosperous.
On the road extending from the commuter station under construction, vendors carrying large thermos bottles and wearing white waistcoats appeared in twos and threes. They gathered here from all over the place and then dispersed. There is a huge red flower painted on the back of the white waistcoat he wears, and a four-digit number is written in black font under the red flower. There is a small red flower and number in the same style as the back on the left chest of the waistcoat, and there is a covered pocket under it. The right pocket is a large pocket that extends to the right chest.
These vendors are ice sellers from the Red Flower Club, specializing in selling various popsicles in the city. Most of these people are people with weak labor force. Some are children who have not yet entered school, as well as the elderly and women. Although many of the people there are not naturalized citizens, for hygiene reasons they have to be purified before they can get this job. So both men and women have the same "green hair".
It is now approaching noon, and vendors are gathering at the Ice Shop here to restock their supplies. There is only one product they sell: popsicles, which are priced at 2 cents and 3 cents. The latter has more mung beans or red beans than the former. The former is just ordinary popsicles, which are divided into five or six flavors according to the added flavorings, but the best-selling ones are ordinary saltwater popsicles. The hot water bottles carried by the vendors are special tumbler bottles - the so-called tumbler bottle is actually just a round-bottom cast iron added to the bottom of the rattan shell thermos bottle, similar to the principle of a tumbler. The outside is covered with a thickened rattan shell.
"Here's a popsicle. Mung bean." Yang Yun casually stopped a boy numbered 0043. Asked for a salt water popsicle. The young man skillfully took the five-cent banknotes from Yang Yun, found two one-cent banknotes from his left pocket and handed them to Yang Yun, but he didn't seem to have any intention of opening the thermos to get ice. Instead, he reached out and whispered something into the ear of a boy numbered 0081 next to him. The 81 boy happily opened his hot water bottle, clamped the popsicle with a bamboo clip inside the bottle, and handed it over carefully.
"My share of the money is enough for today. My brother has just started doing it. He is not very skilled yet, otherwise he would not be able to pay the share of the money." The young man saw Yang Yun's doubtful eyes and said.
The price of thermos bottles is beyond the reach of small traders. Therefore, most of the thermos bottles used by these teenagers are rented. Many of the children who join the Red Flower Society are children of poor local families. They have to have a guarantor as a guarantee to get the job. The rental fee for thermos bottles is 10 cents per day. This is You need to sell 50 popsicles to earn it.
Yang Yun took a bite of the popsicle and tried the taste. Then he said: "Well, the insulation is good. What is your name and where do your parents work?"
"My name is Chen Si. This is my brother Chen Jialuo. My parents are both agricultural workers in Farm No. 17 of the Ma Niao Commune Agricultural Committee." The boy numbered 0043 answered readily, "Our sales area is right here. On the way."
"You are the children of naturalized citizens, why don't you go to school?" Yang Yun asked strangely. Both of these brothers' parents are working as farm workers, so they should be naturalized citizens. However, it is compulsory for the children of naturalized citizens to enter the school, and even if they are not qualified to study, they will be put into the apprenticeship team. They will not be allowed to work as hawkers on the street.
"Our parents don't have a place to live, so we can't get a formal household registration. They can only be counted as a collective household registration. We can't go to school."
Yang Yun nodded and asked about their current housing situation.
Chen Si said embarrassedly: "We just came from Guangdong a few months ago, and we just settled down to work in the commune. I heard people in the commune say: Nowadays, the quota is tight, and we have to be ranked for housing. Our family will have to wait until the year after next. ”
"Then where do you live now?"
"I don't have a house to live in..." Chen Si spread his hands, "My parents live in a dormitory on the farm, and my brother and I live in the dormitory of the Red Flower Club. We share a bed with three people, so we have a place. Can sleep."
"Then your family will be separated?"
"That's better than begging for food and sleeping under the roof of a ruined temple. After all, it's a decent house and a decent shop." Chen Si smiled, "Besides, the cadres in the commune said that there will be a house for us to live in once we are assigned the number. Wait for a while It's over as soon as you get through it." The young man said with an envious tone, "I saw the farm house, it was really bright and clean, it didn't have a thatched roof, I wish I could live in it earlier."
Looking at the young man walking away, Yang Yun raised his hand to confirm the time, 7:11 pm. I thought that if I had diarrhea again within two hours, I would tell Nanhai that the new director of the popsicle factory, a naturalized citizen, would have to go to Fuyoudina to work as a miner with the old director. In the 18th century, millions of British people were infected with tuberculosis because of the sharing of ice cream cups. So now only popsicles are allowed to be sold on the street. All thermoses come with 50 popsicles as standard. Vendors are strictly prohibited from touching or grabbing the popsicles. Upon arrival, they will all be sent to a labor camp for three months, and working parents will also have their wages deducted. To ensure hygiene.
Due to lax management, large-scale food poisoning has occurred several times due to contamination during the production and sale of popsicles. Although diarrhea is not fatal in the current Lingao situation, the loss of hundreds of people being unable to work normally is still a big loss. After the last outbreak of food poisoning caused by popsicles, some elders even proposed at the Standing Committee to close the popsicle factory and suspend the sale of this highly contaminated food. However, despite the efforts of the Ministry of Light Industry, the Ministry of Commerce and the Committee of Agriculture, it was attacked and failed.
After crossing the platform, we soon arrived outside the construction site. It was lunch time: the workers of the Senate had no such concept of taking a lunch break. In order to squeeze manpower, except for jobs that require high physical strength or technical skills, most jobs are only divided into day shifts and evening shifts. During the period, a meal is provided at a certain time, and work starts after eating. The same is true here. The workers all eat on the construction site. At this moment, the meals have been prepared in the canteen and carried to the construction site by the workers on burdens. Groups of workers lined up to prepare meals.
Yang Yun went directly to the building headquarters. The two guards at the door saluted immediately when they saw the leader.
"Lao Yang, why are you here?" Zhang Xingpei was sitting on a recliner, chewing on chicken legs, with a look of surprise on his face.
"It's not that you're worried about the progress."
"Let's talk about business after dinner. I don't want to suffer from indigestion. Have you eaten?"
"No, you kid is still eating a small stove." Yang Yun found the coal stove and pots and pans on one side.
"The chef in the cafeteria is not good at his craftsmanship. Come and let's eat together." Zhang Xingpei was quite enthusiastic. He was supervising the work here alone. Not many elders of the Democratic National Construction Association paid attention to it. It was rare for someone at the leadership level to come to express condolences.
Zhang Xingpei's secretary and Dai Xiu went to bring the food together, and Yang Yun also sat aside. Under his instructions, the two guards took the food from Zhang Xingpei's apprentice and carefully took turns eating.
"You kid eats so extravagantly, such as chicken fillet with lotus root, fish fillet with pickled cabbage, twice-cooked pork fillet... you even pay for stewed turtle!"
"Absolutely wild."
"Find me a breeder to turn it into a rarity." Yang Yun smiled. He was not interested in this stuff, but was more interested in meat and chicken.
Yang Yun picked up a piece of twice-cooked pork with chopsticks and swallowed it with kvass. It tasted really good - only commercial restaurants can make such authentic Sichuan cuisine. Although the cooking level of Bairencheng's special canteen for veterans is very high, it always feels a bit boring after eating it all the time, and the big pot dishes can't be cooked too carefully. It's completely different from what's served in this restaurant.
"The local foreman is a filial man, and if he doesn't eat, he won't get anything for free."
In order to make more use of manpower outside the system, Lingao now uses this model of local foremen to organize temporary work. Naturally, local foremen will take the initiative to establish a good relationship with the direct manager.
"You're quite a bitch."
"Hey, if I don't come here, what's the point?"
"This person is short-sighted and easy to take advantage of. If you eat like this, what if someone cuts corners to do something fancy for you?"
Zhang Xingpei smiled and did not answer, but kept advising Yang Yun to eat more.
Zhang Xingpei was full quickly. Seeing that Yang Yun was still munching, he suddenly became interested in talking. Of course, discussions between elders mainly focus on the Executive Committee, the Standing Committee, and various ministries and commissions. All in all, it’s just a black man’s squirt.
"Nah, our civil construction is a tragedy. No one pays attention to it. We need people but no one. We need equipment but no equipment. We need materials but no materials!"
"Before he came to power, Qian Shuiting, a member of the house party, was boasting that he was going to form a large-scale cabinet and straighten out the relationship between the operation of the government. Now, he has formed a cabinet on his own. We, the fringe, continue to wash their feet!
"They don't even look at it: in the history of the Turkish Communist Party, those large state-owned enterprises engaged in residential construction, such as Anyang Iron and Steel Works, from 1958 to 1961, they only built buildings jointly with Anyang Construction Corporation. Thirty-six buildings, actually 25 of which belong to it, and 40 bungalows. It has more than 30,000 employees of Anyang Steel and more than 1,000 families. In three years, it has arranged 16,000 singles and 50,000 singles. There are more than a hundred households, and the rest are not just work sheds!" (To be continued...)
