After Wang Guibing left the Zhangji Xifengdu Fishmeal Shop in the No. 1 Middle School in the city, he returned to the Longjingyuan Canning Factory, and the first thing he did was to chat with his mother. The scene of the Wang family's mother and son talking heart-to-heart is really rare. In the past, Wang Guibing was not at home all day when he walked on the street, but now he is following Zhang Yunqi to start a business, and he will not be able to stay home.

Wang Guibing and his mother were talking about the cannery.

This matter Wang Ma is also concerned about, although now her son has a chance to earn a lot of money, she does not have to rely on the salary of the canning factory to make a living, but after all, she has worked and lived in the canning factory for most of her life, and her feelings are not shallow, especially looking at the old workers who used to work and live together, they have sold most of their lives for the factory, and now they have stopped working for more than half a year, and the wages have not been paid for almost a year, and many of them have run out of food, but they are a lot older, and they don't have the heart and ability to start a business, in order to beg for food, the woman secretly went to the vegetable market to pick up rotten vegetable leaves, and the man went to the cement factory to sell coolies, she felt really uncomfortable。

However, these hardships are nothing, they of the older generation always believe that the country believes in the government, can help the cannee through this difficulty, they do not seek to be rich and expensive, as long as the factory is there, resume production, can buy rice and oil, coarse tea and light rice will not die of hunger, then it will be fine, but her son Wang Guibing told her with a firm face: "The canning factory can't go on, and all the workers will be laid off and diverted." ”

Not only for Wang Ma, but also for the nearly 200 workers of the entire canning factory, this sentence is a bolt from the blue!

However, after Wang Guibing told his mother about this, he didn't care, and then he contacted several suppliers of Longjingyuan Canning Factory who owed debts, and went to Longjingyuan Canning Factory every day to pull banners and block the door to sit in to collect debts, while Wang Guibing and Li Jilin continued to grind the matter of contracting and operating the cannery.

During this period, Wang's mother took on the role of a broadcaster very well, and the elderly people were so idle that they loved to talk about their parents' shortcomings, and she said to some of the old workers who were close to her, and it didn't take long for the entire canning factory to know about it - all the workers had to be laid off and diverted! And the words are conclusive, but in the end, it is not even clear where the news came from, and the day before yesterday, Li Jilin, the director of the factory, promised some employees that a big boss would buy the cannery, and the promise that the workers would be resettled was not realized, and the supplier blocked the door every day and pulled banners to collect debts, which made the canning factory rumorful.

When these things come together, it's really a spark thrown into the dry pyre, and the whole canneyard is going to explode!

Being laid off is the last bottom line for most of the workers of the Longjingyuan canning factory, and it can also be said to be the last bottom line for tens of millions of workers of state-owned enterprises in the 90s. Looking back at the wave of layoffs in the 90s, it should be a painful memory for several generations, but if we investigate the reasons, there are too many, the efficiency of state-owned enterprises is not good, and the overcapacity caused by repeated construction, and the market demand is so much, but for the sake of political achievements and promotions, leaders in many places blindly approve projects and expand production capacity, resulting in a serious excess of supply. There is also backward technology and equipment, heavy historical burden, the impact of private enterprises, foreign enterprises, imported goods, redundant personnel, compared with private enterprises, state-owned enterprises have to pay more labor costs, weakening competitiveness, but in state-owned enterprises, as long as employees abide by the law, you have to be employed for life, layoffs are extremely difficult, after all, it is a matter of offending people.

As a result of the above reasons, state-owned enterprises have suffered losses year after year and have accumulated high debts.

You know, the previous state-owned enterprises were allocated by the government, but in 1983 it was changed to bank loans, due to poor management, state-owned enterprise loans continue to rise, the ability to repay principal and interest is poor, the money lent out by the bank is difficult to recover, but the bank's money is not falling from the sky, seventy or eighty percent are the people's deposits, depositors to withdraw money, you have to have money for others. If this company does not come back today, and another company will not come back tomorrow, the number of non-performing loans is getting bigger and bigger, which can easily lead to a financial crisis. If it really happens, who will the people's life savings ask for?

The state can only carry out supply-side reform through administrative means, end redundant construction, clean up excess capacity, merge and bankrupt backward enterprises, and lay off and divert labor.

The massive reform of China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) launched in the early 90s, which reached its peak in 1998, was in essence a large-scale and long-lasting corporate dismissal without responsibility, which undoubtedly violated the labor contract However, the hunger and cold caused by the layoffs of more than 20 million workers in state-owned enterprises are too heavy.

In 1998, Liu Huan sang a song "Start Again", which was popular all over the country: "All the honors of yesterday have become distant memories. I have spent half my life hard, and tonight I am in the wind and rain again...... If the heart is in a dream, there is still true love between heaven and earth, and life is heroic to see success or failure, but it is just starting from the beginning!"

At that time, this song was sung as an inspirational song for laid-off workers, but the laid-off workers who were inspired might have to ask, "It's just, you spend most of your life changing to 'start all over again' and show me!"

In 1999, Huang Hong acted in a sketch "Cheer Up": "The factory director paid special attention to me, saying that the unit should be merged with the factory due to downsizing, and I made a statement at that time, who will be laid off if I am not laid off!"

Then, Huang Hong was caught by public opinion.

In Jia Zhangke's "Tale of Twenty-Four Cities", a worker asked the factory director: "For more than 20 years, have I been late? For more than 20 years, when was I not advanced? Why should I be laid off?"

However, it didn't work, he was honorably laid off.

Young people go to the countryside, and middle-aged people are laid off. This is a time when you can't choose where you come from, and you can't choose where you live. In the face of the torrent of history, most people are like a grain of sand, carried by the wind and waves, drifting around, trying to break free, but helpless.

The same is true of the workers of Longjingyuan Canning Factory, they are helpless, but they are distracted by the news of laid-off workers, because the real problem in front of them is that after being laid off, they lose their source of livelihood, how can they survive?

It is better to die than to live, is the idea of the vast majority of workers, the former glory of state-owned enterprises and extremely high welfare benefits have corroded the enterprising spirit of most people, sick people, can go to the staff hospital for treatment; in winter, the weather is cold, there is a staff bathhouse; bored, there is a movie theater in the factory, after working for decades, the body is not good, after retirement, the children can inherit the position of their parents, even if one day to drive the crane to the west, the unit has to send a few people to help take care of the aftermath.

Such a welfare package is unimaginable for future generations of enterprises.

However, when the once favorable conditions were gone, the former glory was extinguished in a factory covered with cobwebs and dust, countless families were shattered, and even the most basic bowl of rice was no longer given, the originally lifeless Longjingyuan canning factory suddenly became extremely lively, like a dying patient returning to the light, panicked, helpless, and angry...... The turmoil of workers mixed with these desperate emotions has become a hot news in the streets and alleys of Jiangchuan for a while.

For these, Zhang Yunqi didn't have time to understand, that is, Wang Guibing passed through his anger with him, but he could also feel some from Li Yufei's body.

Classes are held as usual every day, the campus of No. 1 Middle School is still so happy and happy, most of the boys are used to running to the game hall at the moment when the school bell rings, the girls always love Qiong Yaoli's love entanglement, spitting between classes, it is always who and who and who Wang Ba look at the mung bean, and Li Yufei's birthday is coming in such an atmosphere, it seems that most of the students in the class know about it, probably because of her excellent popularity in school.

During a recess on Thursday morning, Zhang Yunqi ran to the toilet to put water, and when he passed by the corridor, he saw Li Yufei and Xiao Xuemei, Chen Xiangping, several girls and Wang Xiaokaitian Zhuangzhuang gathered together to talk and laugh, under the winter sun, the atmosphere was particularly warm, and when he saw Zhang Yunqi who came over, Wang Xiaokai asked him to go over and run the train.

Zhang Yunqi smiled and waved his hand: "Pee." ”

After pouring water in the toilet, Zhang Yunqi went out to wash his hands, but he didn't expect to meet Li Yufei, she was washing her hands in front of the pool, Zhang Yunqi walked over and turned on the faucet and asked nonsense: "Why didn't you chat with them?"

Li Yufei smiled: "Come and go to the toilet." ”

Zhang Yun nodded.

Li Yufei suddenly said again: "Yunqi ......"

Zhang Yunqi looked sideways at her: "What's wrong?"

Li Yufei's porcelain doll-like face showed an apologetic smile: "I have something to do this Saturday this week, and the birthday party will not be held, I'm sorry, otherwise, I'll invite you to dinner another day." ”

Zhang Yunqi was stunned for a moment, and nodded with a smile: "Okay." ”

Li Yufei glanced sideways at Zhang Yunqi, his answer made her a little surprised, a person's character will always be unintentionally revealed. In the same way, she told the boys who were invited to the birthday party, and they all looked surprised and asked why. However, Zhang Yunqi will not, maybe this is what makes this boy different from his peers. He's really smart, but he doesn't pretend to be smart, he's also good, but he never flaunts his talent, he knows what you're thinking, but he never breaks down embarrassing topics.

This boy's personality and achievements, even if he is placed in the first middle school in the city, should be the outstanding wave, but ...... Li Yufei looked at Zhang Yunqi's face, with a calm smile in silence, but it was not the appearance that every pheasant's flower girl dreamed of, the appearance of Qiong Yao, Prince Charming.

"What are you thinking?"

Li Yufei reacted, retracted her gaze, and shook her head silently: "It's nothing." ”

"Let's go back to the classroom. ”

Zhang Yunqi turned around, and the two went to the classroom chatting.

In fact, Zhang Yunqi could probably guess the reason why Li Yufei suddenly didn't have a birthday party, but he didn't care, and thought that this matter was over.

However, the world is unpredictable, and life is rich and colorful. What Zhang Yunqi didn't expect was that in the afternoon, Li Yufei's best friend Xiao Xuemei found him and asked, "Did Yufei tell you that the birthday party was gone?"

Zhang Yun nodded.

Xiao Xuemei asked curiously, "Then do you know what the reason is?"

Zhang Yunqi shook his head.

Xiao Xuemei said: "This is Ren Yufei's 16th birthday, whether she can do it or not, we can't inquire about what's going on, but do you think we are good friends, do we have to express it? On her birthday this Saturday, why don't we make a surprise for her?"

Zhang Yunqi felt quite funny: "Are you asking me what I am doing about this?"

Xiao Xuemei smiled: "Do you have an opinion?" ”

Zhang Yunqi closed the book and waved his hand: "Don't, if you want to do this, then it will be done, count me in, if you don't want to do it, I don't have any other opinions." In short, there is only one meaning, I make soy sauce. ”

Xiao Xuemei was inexplicable: "What is soy sauce?"

Zhang Yunqi was speechless: "If you are sure to do it, I will do it." ”

Xiao Xuemei came up and said: "Then we have to prepare a cake, and the money will be shared equally among the people we go to, and then find a way to ask her out on Saturday, by the way, what birthday gift did you prepare for Yu Fei?"

Zhang Yunqi didn't think about this at all, and he didn't know what Li Yufei liked, anyway, when the time came, he would have to make do with it. It's very troublesome to buy gifts for girls.,What he felt the most about this thing was when he had no money in his previous life and wanted to chase his sister.,After all,Pure love has to be on the basis of the economy.,Only then can you have the courage to court.。

He still remembers chasing a girl for her birthday when he was in secondary school, but he was short of money, and he wanted to come up with the most decent gift at the smallest cost, so he meditated in the library for three days, and finally gave the girl a hairpin in a condom box. Hey, don't say it, the effect is good, and all the animals who give a cake and puppet on the spot are compared. Tragically, it left the impression of a hooligan for the girls.

Life continues to move forward with this inertia, over the years, he has experienced many scenes, met a lot of people, and also found some of the true meaning of human nature that is not difficult to peek into: real hooligans have always been quiet and gentle, they will only show their true colors in the background, in the shadows, on the chopping board two meters long and one meter and five meters wide.

As for him at that time, at most he was young and naïve to be grandiose.