Qiaotou of Dazhai Village, Dazhai Township, Gangcheng County, is the first labor market spontaneously organized in the entire Gangcheng County, and the number of expected workers has reached more than 500 at the peak.

Before the 70s, the pillar industry of Gangcheng County was agriculture, and the largest enterprise in the county was the Xinhua Arsenal, but the arsenal had little to do with the local government, neither paying taxes to the local government, nor local villagers working in it. Then in 1970, Qilu Province responded to the call for the construction of the national third line, and Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant was built in Luzhong City, which is located in a remote area and is completely unsuitable for building a large-scale steel plant from the perspective of future generations.

Later, Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant developed rapidly, and once became one of the top ten iron and steel enterprises in the country with an annual output of 10 million tons of steel.

As the saying goes, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the water to eat the water, Gangcheng County is close to the Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant, and the surrounding people will naturally start to make steel articles.

Steelmaking requires pig iron, and such pig iron can be produced in a traditional earth-based iron-making furnace, and then sold to Luzhong Iron and Steel Factory, which will obtain high profits.

In 2003, for example, the waste residue of the cement plant contained a large amount of iron, and the waste residue of the cement plant was generally directly disposed of. Then someone found this business opportunity, bought the waste residue from the cement factory at a price of a few yuan a ton, and then selected the iron beans from the waste residue through the magnetic separator. The cost of the iron beans selected in this way is only one or two hundred yuan, and the iron content is very high, which can reach more than 80%. These iron beans were then sold to the owner of the Tufa iron-making furnace, and the price per ton could reach six hundred yuan. Then the owner of the earth-based iron-making furnace used this raw material to make steel-making pig iron, which cost nearly 1,000 yuan per ton of steel-making pig iron, and sold it to Luzhong Iron and Steel Factory for 2,000 yuan. The Luzhong Iron and Steel Plant used this to produce steel and sold it for more than 3,000 yuan.

In the whole production process, the loading and unloading of waste residue, the loading and unloading of iron beans, the production of local ironmaking furnaces, etc., all require a lot of manpower, and these jobs are short-term and concentrated, and it is impossible to say that they are hired for a long time. Thus, in this case, the labor market came into being.

At that time, the labor price of laborers in the labor market was relatively low, and the wage for loading and unloading a ton of iron slag was only two yuan. Ordinary laborers can load and unload almost ten tons of iron slag a day and earn twenty yuan.

A shovel of iron beans weighs about twenty pounds, and it is impossible for a small force to reach the body of a one-meter-high King Steyr. A ton of iron slag requires a hundred swings of a shovel.

A 120-pound person does about 0.05KJ of work to do a push-up.

And raising a shovel of iron beans to King Steyr does about 0.15KJ.

In other words, for every shovel lift, a laborer in the labor market does the equivalent of doing three push-ups. And the wage for doing 300 push-ups is only three yuan, which is equivalent to 1 cent for each push-up.

The most powerful stevedore can load 100 tons of iron a day, which is equivalent to doing 30,000 push-ups.

In the way of hiring people in the labor market, loading and unloading iron slag is the most popular. Most of the people who come to the labor market are not poor in strength, and the work of loading and unloading iron slag is more profitable than other jobs.

A few days ago, a boss surnamed Wang from Taohualing Village came to the labor market and took more than 20 people to Taohualing Village to dig a tree pit for two days, and one person earned 50 or 60 yuan. Then at that time, Boss Wang said that he was going to find Zhang Baifeng, the leader of the gang of people who dug the pit, to plant saplings today, but no one came.

In this labor market, there are several factions.

Two groups of local people in Dazhai Village basically occupy most of the work of loading and unloading iron slag, and the others can only pick up the leaks.

Zhang Baifeng was lying on the pillar at the head of the bridge, shouting a dogtail grass in his mouth.

It was almost noon, and three groups of people came to the labor market to find someone to work, but none of them were Zhang Baifeng's turn.

In this group of people, Zhang Baifeng and they are a group of vulnerable groups.

Suddenly, Zhang Baifeng stood up suddenly, looked at a Times light truck driving in the distance, and stood up.

"Brother Feng, that car is a little familiar. Zhang Baifeng and his group of more than 20 people did not leave, hoping that when the restaurant was about to reach noon, everyone else would leave, and then they could get a little work.

Everyone is a breadwinner, and if you don't have income, you will inevitably be looked down upon by your mother-in-law when you go home.

Those small iron furnace owners generally come in sedan cars, like this kind of light truck, everyone thinks that nine times out of ten they are looking for someone to do farm work, so many people are not interested at all.

Zhang Baifeng recognized that the person who got out of the car was the son of Boss Wang, who had been working with him three days ago, so he hurriedly greeted him with a smile.

"Little boss, looking for someone to work?"

Wang Shaodong looked at Zhang Baifeng in front of him, he was thinking about one thing, Zhang Baifeng, a famous steel dealer in Dazhai Township, was this person?

"Brother Zhang, call your people to plant trees at Wujiayuzi in Taohualing Village, you have been there. ”

"I know, I know. ”

Then, Zhang Baifeng turned around and greeted his people: "Da Mao Ermao, Taohualing Village, go!"

"Charter three vans, I'll settle the bill after I get to the place, Brother Zhang, you arrange to take my car, let's go together." ”

"Okay. ”

Zhang Baifeng agreed, and hurriedly arranged for his people to call the van, and about 20 people got into the car.

There are not only people in the Qiaotou of Dazhai Village, but also cars, vans, trailers in the front four and eight in the back, and dump trucks and so on.

After getting into the car, Wang Shaodong led the way at the front, followed by three vans.

"Hey, by the way, Brother Zhang, are you from Dazhai Village?"

Wang Shaodong felt that if the person in front of him was Zhang Baifeng, who would be able to count the big money in Gangcheng County in the future, then it was really necessary to have a relationship.

"Oh, it's from Dazhai Village. ”

That's right.

"Oh, then I see that most of these people you brought don't seem to be from Dazhai Village, right?"

Wang Shaodong recognized several of these people who were not from Dazhai Village.

"These people I brought with me don't have any people from Dazhai Village. ”

Wang Shaodong learned that the work of making money in the labor market was basically monopolized by two groups of people in Dazhai Village, and this Zhang Baifeng was also a burly and sturdy laborer, and it was said that those who followed their village would definitely make more money than now.

"Then why don't you follow the two gangs in your village who have a job? If that is the case, you should make more money than you do now, right?"

"Cut, I can't get used to those two groups of bullying and dominating the market, so I won't follow them. ”

Wang Shaodong knew in his heart that most of Zhang Baifeng's men were thin and weak, and they generally couldn't find anything alive, and then he united them to form a small faction. Whenever Zhang Baifeng contacted the living, he would bring these 20 people with him.

"You are quite kind, and we will look for you when our family has a job in the future. ”

Zhang Baifeng also smiled: "Oh, that's good, a boss like you, who took your money and drank your wine, we are willing to do your work." ”