Walking into the workshop, the eye is full of old equipment, and there are tattered and tattered everywhere. The more Chen Xu looked at it, the more lost he became, and his ambition to return to China to do something big had been knocked to the bottom by the scene in front of him.

The name of the tank factory sounds bullish, but as long as you go deep into the workshop, you will understand that this is actually a tractor factory, and it is also the kind of hand-cranked single-cylinder diesel tractor, and even the steering wheel does not have two iron rods to control the direction like a horse-drawn carriage, it is an iron frame with four wheels, without any electronic equipment on it, and there are really no lights.

Accustomed to seeing the modern factories of later generations, and seeing the place where he started so dilapidated, the disappointment is irrepressible.

If college students are allowed to work in such a unit in the future, I am afraid that they will turn around and leave after a glance, and no one will waste their youth in such a place.

There is no way to record the notes anymore, there are too many places that need to be rectified, and I can't finish it in ten notebooks. Looking at the workshop, except for a few heavy machinery that can be used, other supporting equipment has been old and rusty, and it can't be sold for a few dollars to make scrap iron.

These machinery and equipment are good for ten years, bad for ten years, and tinkering for another ten years, from the construction of the factory during the First Five-Year Plan period to the present almost 30 years. There was no other way for the plant to go but to completely replace it and purchase the latest equipment to improve production efficiency.

Once the reform and opening up is launched, if there is no housekeeping ability to make money for industrial upgrading, this backward factory will soon be eliminated and lost in the tide of the times.

It takes more time and money to renovate a modern factory than building a new one. It's better to tear down all the old factories and start over, but where does the money come from?

There is no need to look any further, Chen Xu put the pencil in the notebook, then stuffed the notebook into the pocket of his jacket, turned around and walked out with a disappointed expression, he didn't want to look back for a second look, waved his hand and greeted: "Big brother, let's go home!" It's almost half past five, so it's only serious to go back to eat early. ”

"Why did you leave...... Aren't you going to see the factory? I haven't seen it inside the door! Chen Weiguo, who was walking in front and greeting several workers around him, turned around when he heard the voice, and found that Chen Xu had walked out of the workshop and hurriedly chased him out.

Chen Weiguo is not a fool, his younger brother was full of interest before entering the door, and walked out of the workshop for half a circle, the whole person was like a frosted eggplant, obviously he just didn't like it here.

"Speaking of which, the factory is now half-dead, and the annual benefits are not even enough to pay wages, so it is indeed a grievance to leave you, a high-achieving student who has gone abroad, here. If you don't want to stay here, Big Brother will find a way to help you find a better unit. ”

Although Chen Weiguo sincerely hopes that Chen Xu can stay and work in the machinery factory, his family knows his own affairs, and the factory cannot retain talents, and it is indeed unfair to him to bind Chen Xu here in the name of his family.

"Big brother, you think too much, I go to other units with a lot of leaders on my head, and I hate this kind of thing the most."

Chen Xu showed a stiff smile, looked back at the workers who were lazy and lazy in the workshop, weak and unmotivated to work, and blinked his eyes hard and said: "Although the equipment in the factory is dilapidated, it is still somewhat usable, not to mention that we still have so many skilled workers, they are the most important property of this factory, as long as they have them, I can still show my strength here." ”

Chen Xu was serious when he said this, he knew very well that skilled skilled workers were the backbone of a factory, and they could not be trained in ten or twenty years. It is not difficult to build a new plant and modern equipment as long as you are willing to spend money for a year and a half.

Chen Xu is just worried about the lack of money, and everything will be closed without money!

"Hey......" Chen Weiguo's beard couldn't see that his younger brother was forcing a smile, his white face didn't have a single beard, and his loss and sorrow were written on his face, so he changed the topic and said: "Let's go home first and finish eating, my mother and your sister-in-law have been cleaning up since the morning, and our two brothers have a good drink tonight, has the kid learned to drink in the Soviet Union?" I heard that Lao Maozi is very good at drinking. ”

Everything is difficult at the beginning, before entering the factory to work, Chen Xu will not rashly make the scene too big, you can't become a fat person in one bite, take your time!

Thinking of this, Chen Xu also let go of his mind, patted his belly, and licked his lips: "It's a little bit of drinking, the place in the Soviet Union is very cold, Lao Maozi drinks vodka by the bottle, and when he gets drunk, he lies on the ground and freezes to death. In that kind of environment, anyone can practice their drinking power, not to mention that I am now eight taels of white wine, and I can't shake when I walk. ”

"That's good, tonight, our family won't get drunk and won't return!" Chen Weiguo patted Chen Xu on the back and laughed.

While talking, the two brothers got back into the jeep, and Chen Weiguo started the car and drove a distance on the muddy road in the factory area, then turned a corner and drove a few hundred meters along the root of the fence to enter the dormitory area.

Entering the dormitory, the breath of life came to his face, and surrounded by children playing on the way home from school, Chen Weiguo had to slow down the speed and slowly move forward in the aisle.

After all, a tank factory is a military factory, and the welfare of workers is much better than that of ordinary state-owned enterprises. The biggest embodiment is the allocated dormitory buildings, all of which are five-story red brick buildings, and hundreds of buildings are densely packed into the distance, and there is no end in sight. Compared to the low-rise shanty towns you see in the city and the adobe houses you see in the suburbs, this is the wealthy area.

In this era, the national policy is to develop heavy industry, and all walks of life, especially agriculture, need to make every effort to subsidize the development of industry. Workers' families can basically be allocated housing, and the unit is also responsible for the usual medical treatment for illness, and the fixed monthly salary is really not much extra except for food and drink. Workers were the wealthiest class of the era, and it was not surprising that they were able to live in buildings.

Chen Xu can vaguely remember in his memory that although the Chen family also lives in the dormitory area, they still have the privilege of sharing an extra house with their special status. And ordinary workers, no matter how many people you have in your family, unless your brothers have split up and are all workers in the factory at the same time, even if three generations are in the same house, you can only get one house.

This kind of dormitory building is six units, each unit has one ladder and two households, and each household has two bedrooms and one living room. The Chen family opened up the two houses, and the house seemed very spacious.

Maybe it's just time for the meal, and you can hear the sound of stir-frying in the open window next to you and the "snorting" of the pressure cooker, and the air is filled with the aroma of food. In this era, there is no hybrid rice, and there is no feed pig hormone meat, and the meals made are really extraordinarily fragrant, and the gluttonous insects in Chen Xu's stomach have long been noisy, and he keeps urging his eldest brother to drive home to eat quickly.

In a small open space, the eldest brother parked the jeep on it, the car is still a luxury in this era, Santana is a real luxury car, more than 200,000 cars, folded into a modern Grandpa Mao and a Bentley are almost the same. Generally, only public institutions have a few cars, all of which are wool cars like Dala, and personal travel basically relies on bicycles, so parking is very arbitrary, and no one will rob you.

After getting out of the car, the two brothers hurriedly rushed home with three suitcases, and Chen Xu followed the eldest brother for a short time, and came to the door of the stairwell of a building. The building was no different from the other buildings next to it, with a crooked incandescent lamp hanging from the cement rain shield above the door frame, a somewhat dark corridor inside, and an old and mottled façade full of creepers.

Seeing that he was about to enter the corridor, Chen Xu swallowed his saliva, chased after him and asked, "Who lives here in the family now?" ”

Chen Weiguo didn't look back, he plunged into the corridor, and his voice came from the stairwell: "Now I live here with your sister-in-law, and your sister-in-law doesn't work, so she takes the children to do housework at home." After the old man got high blood pressure, he followed his parents to live in the city, which is a suburb, and I am afraid that it will be inconvenient to send him to the hospital in case of an accident. ”

"What about the second sister?" Chen Xu asked.

"Your second sister has been living in the city since she got married, and a few years ago, your second brother-in-law's glory was promoted to the provincial hall, and her life is comfortable!" Chen Weiguo's words showed envy, they are all brothers and sisters who grew up together, his sister became a senior official at the provincial and ministerial level, but he is still only a deputy factory director, and the gap is a little big.

"The second sister has become such a big official!" Chen Xu couldn't help but sigh that he was really a powerful family, his grandfather was an old revolutionary, his eldest brother was in charge of a military factory, and his second sister was a department official.

Suddenly, he thought that his parents, whom he had never met, were still unclear, so he coughed twice and asked, "What about our parents?" What a situation now! ”

"Our dad also moved his buttocks, the year before last he was transferred from the Armed Police Corps to the Public Security Department and became the director, our dad's official is at the top of this son, and he can't be promoted at such an old age. Mom is still the same as before, and I used to take care of a few of us growing up, and after you went to the Soviet Union, you finally had a chance to rest. Who knew that the old man's body would collapse, and now he will have no time to take care of the sick old man. ”

Hearing this, Chen Xu was no longer able to complain, his father was the true god! is actually a regular army-level official, and he is also a boss in a powerful department like the director of public security. Grandpa risked cutting off his head to join our party, and sure enough, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, future generations can enjoy the blessings, and it is a powerful family that can walk sideways in the local area.

While Chen Xu lamented his noble status, he also lamented the simplicity of people in this era, the eldest brother is the second generation of gold like himself, and his father and sister are both high-ranking officials, which can be regarded as powerful. I actually live in such an old unit, there is a light at the door in the corridor, and the stairwell is pitch black, and I have to hold on to the wall when I go upstairs. This is unimaginable in the future generations, which of the powerful families is not worth tens of billions, and it is impossible to account for a single stock in a private enterprise, and the worst thing is to get dozens or hundreds of houses in the town, otherwise they are embarrassed to say that they were born powerful.

The two climbed to the third floor, and the eldest brother put down his suitcase, wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, and knocked on the big green iron door of the unit on the left.