Chapter 159: Hanka and the Directly Operated Store
In the dead of night, Li Yi couldn't sleep over and over!
Reliving a lifetime, Li Yi is full of confidence.
Thinking that he must earn the first pot of gold before everyone reacts, and then in the next ten years, he will crisscross the business world and become a business tycoon who is better than the second horse and achieve financial freedom.
Although money is definitely not the only pursuit in his life, Li Yi has always believed in a truth, money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible.
If you want Tang Xue, her parents, and her sister to be happy and healthy, you can't do it without money.
And Li Yi also has his own ideals, he wants to retire at the age of forty, and then take Tang Xue around the world.
Many people have the idea that "the world is so big, I want to see it"!
But more people can only sigh the reality of "the wallet is so small, you can't go anywhere", and then bury your dreams deeply!
Therefore, dreams need strong economic support, otherwise they can only stay in dreams forever.
Before today, Li Yi had never worried about anything, and he believed that with his own ability, he would definitely realize this dream.
But he forgot the most important thing, it was 1980, the reform had just begun, and the state did not allow the existence of such an imaginary wage worker.
And this is a national red line, which cannot be touched!
Fortunately, this matter has now attracted the attention of high-level officials, and not long ago, an article titled "A Controversy on Contracting Fish Ponds" appeared in the party media, causing widespread discussion across the country.
This is about a farmer, Chen Zhixiong, but it touches a sensitive nerve of hired labor and exploitation.
Chen Zhixiong, a farmer in Guangdong, began contracting fish ponds in February 1979.
At that time, the contract per mu of fish ponds had to pay 60 yuan to the production team a year, and no one in the village dared to contract, as a "capable person" in the team, it was also with the original intention of solving the problem of making ends meet for the family, Chen Zhixiong contracted the team of 50 acres of fish ponds.
Back then, Chen Zhixiong took the whole family to take care of the fish pond. By the time of harvesting, after deducting various costs and expenses, a total of 3,100 yuan was earned.
Naturally, the following year, Chen Zhixiong expanded.
He contracted another 50 acres of neighboring villages, and he needed to cut grass to make feed for the fish, so his family was too busy, so he had to hire someone to help.
In the end, there were more than 30 short-term workers who came to Chen's house to help mow the grass, each of whom was paid 2 yuan a day, and there were 7 long-term workers at one time, with a monthly salary of 50 yuan.
This year, Chen Zhixiong's net income from 100 acres of fish ponds was 7,250 yuan, while a farmer's gross income from farming at that time was no more than 1,000 yuan a year.
However, Chen Zhixiong's approach directly touches the "red line", because the hired labor touches the core problem of the country, and the hired labor is associated with sensitive words such as capitalist and exploitation.
Chen Zhixiong and his career directly challenged the ideology of the time.
However, this kind of existence is by no means an isolated case.
In Anhui, a self-proclaimed "fool" farmer also stirred up the "employment problem" by frying melon seeds.
His name is Nian Guangjiu, and when he was 42 years old, he had a reputation for fried melon seeds, and at most he could sell two or three thousand catties of melon seeds a day.
When they couldn't get busy, they successively invited some unemployed young people as helpers, and by the autumn of 1979, there were 12 helpers.
But how can a "fool" be an exploiting class?
He can only write five words in his life, which are "Nian Guangjiu" and "Tongyi". He started collecting cigarette butts on the street at the age of 7 to earn money, worked as an apprentice child laborer in business at the age of 9, and took over his father's fruit stall as a teenager to make ends meet. Looking at his resume, it is clear that he is the lowest level of the working masses.
Looking at the whole country, there are quite a lot of self-employed people at present, with dozens, more than 20, and even hundreds of employees.
How to deal with the employment problem is also a problem for the top management, because this is not only a people's livelihood issue, but also a serious political issue.
It was not until 1981 that the above came to a preliminary conclusion on this matter, believing that Chen Zhixiong could contract across teams and hire workers, and that hiring workers was not exploitative, because his "income was higher than others, mainly because he worked more and got more, which was beyond reproach."
This is a conclusion to the discussion of the employment issue, but this "conclusion" does not completely resolve the "employment issue" debate.
Throughout the 80s, there were several ups and downs in the employment problem, and the issue was inconclusive.
It wasn't until 1987 that a relatively clear conclusion was reached.
But can Li Yi wait until then?
Obviously, it can't, because from December this year, with the opening of Yiwu as a pilot city for industrial and commercial self-employed individuals, individual industry and commerce across the country will usher in an explosive development.
It was also from this time that the first business-minded people began to get rich, and then gradually developed into various fields.
I can't leave them behind!
After thinking about it again and again, Li Yi decided that he should not be too publicistic at this stage.
Liu San must be dealt with here, and he must use the people, otherwise the personal safety of the third sister will not be guaranteed.
But the employment relationship between the two parties cannot be disclosed, that is a real handle, and whoever gets it will hammer him half to death.
After careful analysis, Li Yi felt that the employment relationship could be converted into a cooperative relationship.
The specific operation is to let Liu San'er and the third sister go to set up a stall together, and the remuneration is not paid in the form of wages, but according to the dividend model.
In this way, the relationship between the two parties has changed from employment to cooperation, and if someone really talks about it, this is also an explanation.
We're just doing business together, not hiring others.
In addition to Liu San, the mountain goods business in the village also has to be low-key.
Now many people in the village know that he earns money, and none of this building a house or marrying a daughter-in-law is made with money, and they are very envious.
Now that the big guys need him, no one will say anything.
But after a long time, there may be people who will be envious and jealous.
Once a person commits pink eye, he can do anything, and he has to prevent it.
After thinking about it again and again, Li Yi decided to let his family accompany him to act in a play - crying poor.
That's right, it's crying poor!
He had to let the people in the village know that he wasn't making money from them now, but was losing money every day!
It is necessary to make these villagers feel ashamed, instead of slowly breeding some bad emotions.
In fact, Li Yi is really not crying poor, and this is indeed the case.
Now he can earn seven or eight hundred yuan a day in the mushroom business, and with the addition of cold skin, he can earn almost 900 yuan.
But the cost is also very terrifying, and the mushroom business in Nianzi Mountain Village alone has to cost 700 yuan.
In addition, the second brother-in-law also has to consume about 500 yuan, that is to say, after careful calculation, he has to post 200 yuan a day.
Fortunately, he did earn some money before, otherwise he really couldn't withstand such consumption.
So, it's also true that money is tight!
Of course, the difficulties are real, but the future is bright.
As long as you survive these few months and usher in the shipping season of mountain goods, it will be considered the end of the day!