"Ma Yuqing! Ma Yuqing! ”

Ma Yuqing was doing nothing at home, and suddenly heard someone shouting his name downstairs in the factory dormitory.

He was very bored at home, and when he heard the sound, he opened the window, looked down, and sure enough, it was Zu Dawei and Zhou Fang, who was playing together. The two raised their heads and looked at the window of their house on the third floor, Zu Dawei's expression was very anxious, and he put his hands to his mouth, made a trumpet shape, and shouted one after another.

"What's the matter?" He shouted below.

"Come down!" Zu Dawei saw him poking his head out and hurriedly beckoned. Zhou Fang also waved at him with a smile, signaling him to hurry up.

"My dad won't let me out!" There must be something fun, Ma Yuqing's heart is itchy, he can think of his father's stick, and he is timid again.

Zu Dawei looked around, his lips moved, but he didn't make a sound.

"Come down, I'm looking for you!" Zhou Fang was also anxious and helped Zu Dawei shout.

Ma Yuqing hesitated for a while, but after all, he couldn't resist the curiosity in his heart, took the key, closed the door, and rushed downstairs in one go.

"What...... What's the matter, so godly...... Mysterious? He ran in a hurry, a little out of breath, crossed his waist and breathed heavily, and asked.

"Your dad is still locking you up? Can you get out? Zhou Fang didn't answer, but asked rhetorically.

The three of them were parents who were employees of the metallurgical machinery factory, and the three of them went to kindergarten, primary school, junior high school, and high school together. Just last year, they all graduated, but the factory was already full, and even temporary workers had no place and had to wait.

When they first graduated, they all had a great time. There's no adult to take care of it anymore, and I don't have to go to class or do homework, it's just a crazy fun.

But what is there to play in this era, this is the county seat again, and after playing for a few months, they have released their pent-up emotions for many years, and they are beginning to worry about work. After waiting for so long, there were only ten people in the factory, all of whom were temporary workers. Every time someone entered, the factory was noisy, and they fought for a place.

Such a grim form made them lose their interest in playing, and they didn't know when they would be able to get a job.

Anxiety, worry, resentment, when they play outside, there are more cases of trouble. If you don't have a job, you don't have an income, and after you enter the society, you find that there are so many places to use money. I don't have money in my pocket and it's hard to ask my parents, what should I do?

As a result, stealing chickens and dogs has become the main side hustle of the three of them. From the factory to break the copper and iron to sell, while people are not paying attention, quietly throw some copper wire aluminum outside the plant, and then go out to pick up, sell to the scrap collection station.

After walking for a long time at night, they finally encountered ghosts, and they were caught by the workers who found out that something was wrong. If it weren't for the children of the workers of the factory, they would have been sent to the police station a long time ago. Even so, the three families said all the good things, lost money, and went back to be beaten violently and then grounded.

But fighting can't cure the root cause, and if they don't solve their work matters for a day, they will have no sense of security for a day.

The factory is not good at stealing, so I went outside to steal, so after a while, the three families had to go to the police station to get the child and lose money.

This time, they were discovered when they went to steal the castings stacked in the foundry. Zhou Fang is a girl, responsible for letting off the wind outside, and running the fastest. Zu Dawei was at the head of the wall at the time to pick up things, and when he saw the figure shaking, he slipped off the wall and ran away. Only Ma Yuqing, who stayed in the wall, just jumped up and climbed the wall, and was pulled down by someone by the trouser tube. The other party also hated these bastards very much, and without saying a word, he was punched and kicked, and he was angry enough before he was sent to the police station.

I was beaten outside, and when I came home, I was beaten up by my father again. This time the father was really heartbroken, and he also made a dead hand, making Ma Yuqing cry and call his mother, and die and live. The mother wiped her tears vigorously, but she did not persuade her. It wasn't until my father broke two wooden sticks that he finally stopped, and left a sentence: If you dare to go out and steal again, you will be killed directly!

Ma Yuqing lay in bed for more than a month before he could heal the injury on his buttocks, and stayed at home honestly for another two months, and his parents stopped locking the door when they went out. Otherwise, unless he came down from the third floor with a rope, he wouldn't want to get out of this door even if he was itching in his heart today.

"What the hell are you looking for me? If you want to steal something, I'm not going. My dad said that if they dare to steal again, they will never go to the police station to collect people again, and I deserve to be sent to prison or re-education through labor! Ma Yuqing said stupidly.

"You are born to be a thief, if the factory arranges a job, the turtle son will steal!" Zu Dawei was very dissatisfied with his attitude and said.

"Don't worry, we're not going to steal. Now our reputation has long been stinky, even if we are wandering around, there are workers staring at us from afar, even if we want to, we can't do it. Zhou Fang stroked her hair, and her beautiful face showed a mysterious expression, "Just now we were wandering around the movie theater and saw someone setting up a stall and posting job announcements. As soon as we saw it, we ran to you and called you. ”

"Recruitment? Where to Recruit? Ma Yuqing was stunned for a moment and blurted out.

It's so fresh, and there are still recruits. The work of these years and months is all organized and arranged, and college students do not mention it, it is allocated by the state. Junior and senior high school graduates, either solve it themselves in the factory, or help recommend it through the neighborhood committee and the neighborhood office, no company recruits employees through social recruitment, so when he heard it, his first reaction was not excitement, but stunned.

Zhou Fang smiled: "Long Kang! 291 Brigade! ”

"291 Brigade!" Ma Yuqing jumped up when he heard this, his face was full of excitement, and he was in a mess in place, obviously his mind was already confused.

Because of the deliberate downplay in the country, very few people know about the 1st Special Army Division of the People's Party and the 291st Brigade, and few have even heard of this name. However, in southern Xinjiang, especially in several autonomous prefectures, counties, and cities close to the border, this name is like a thunderous and resounding gold-lettered signboard, and at least more than half of the 100 people know about them to a greater or lesser extent.

In particular, the new city construction plan has simply subverted the cognition of many people.

At the end of last year, on that territory, the People's Army and the Wei Ding Army fought to the death, and the sound of guns and artillery was deafening. It has only been half a year, and the economic construction of the same land is in full swing, as if the previous bloody war never existed.

And in the past few months, names such as the 291 Brigade, Guan Fei, Zhang Shengguo, and Sun Yaohua have been poured into people's ears again and again.

The brigade commander of the 291 Brigade personally went to Hong Kong, opened a company, and made a lot of money! The 291st Brigade bought back grain from Hong Kong, bags of snow-white rice, and transported them to the base area by truck! The 291 Brigade has invited hundreds of teachers from the country, and everyone who goes can go to school for free! The 291st Brigade wants to build a new city, and they want to build a new city in the mountains!

At first, there were people who joked, but as truckloads of cement, steel bars, and various construction equipment were brought from China, there were fewer and fewer people who joked.

Later, the news that all those who studied with them and obtained a high school diploma could be assigned to them caused a sensation in the surrounding counties and cities.

Immediately afterwards, news about the wage system and seniority standards came one after another, which was like throwing a big stone in the hearts of all those in the know, arousing a violent reaction - this wage standard is too high, so much higher than in China! In China, the income of workers is already calculated, much higher than that of administrative organs and institutions, but the wage standard of the 291 Brigade is even higher, and if you count the seniority salary and technical level salary, it is at least two-thirds to one-double higher than that in China!

Before everyone came to their senses, they heard the division again!

Housing!

This is a separate room! Or the elevator apartment!

Ma Yuqing didn't know what about other families, but he knew very well what the family building of the Metallurgical Machinery Factory was like. More than a dozen family buildings in the entire machinery factory, all of which are three-story red brick buildings, are all single rooms of one water, and each single room is a family!

There is a public toilet and a communal stove on the first floor, and every day in order to go to the thatched house and stir-fry vegetables, the neighbors have to fight for half a day.

Since they are all communal, no one is willing to take the initiative to clean them, and the smell in the toilets is so bad that in the summer, the smell can spread throughout the building, and everyone can't eat. But even so, no one bothered to clean it, so they all endured it to see who was more calm.

That's okay, at least there's a place to live.

Since entering the factory, the young workers in the factory have lived in a dormitory for several people, and they have lived for several years. Many people talked about friends, and even talked about marriage, and the factory couldn't move a single room for them, forcing these young workers to go to the park and the grass by the river in order to quench their hunger and thirst!

There was a young worker in the factory who made his girlfriend's belly bigger, and ran to the factory leader to force him to ask for a house, but the factory could only spread his hands and smile bitterly.

Comparing the housing status quo on both sides, the 291 Brigade's housing policy is tantamount to an atomic bomb, which makes everyone dizzy and envious.

It's just that no matter how envious you are, people are also giving their own people's welfare, and it has nothing to do with the country.

But today, Ma Yuqing heard from a good friend that the other side actually came to the county to recruit workers, which is unprecedented good news!

"What's the rubbing about, go right away!" Ma Yuqing couldn't hold back any longer, and he didn't care that his parents were still grounding him, so he ran towards the county movie theater.

"If it weren't for the announcement of you, we would have signed up a long time ago!" Zu Dawei and the others complained, and they also caught up.

When they rushed to the cinema, they found that it was already crowded with people, and countless people who got the news flocked to the recruitment office.

"I knew it was so pretty, let's sign up first and then call you......" Zu Dawei was also dumbfounded when he saw the crowd of people. He didn't expect to run to add someone, and after a delay of less than half an hour, so many people came to hear the news.

In the early years, when the People's Party recruited soldiers, it also set up a movie theater in the county seat, but not many people could sign up. Influenced by the old impression, he also thought that it would be okay to be a little later.

He didn't think that there was too much difference between recruiting and recruiting.

Recruitment is to fight, not to mention suffering and crossing mountains and mountains, fighting often dealing with death, it's okay to be a little injured, but it's bad luck to die! And what is there to be afraid of recruiting workers, but to be a worker, what is the difference between it and domestic industrial and mining enterprises?

I heard that there is no war anymore, and safety is guaranteed. Even if you start fighting again, it's too late to run!

With this mentality, almost all the unemployed young people in the county who heard the news came, not to mention thousands of people, and by the evening, more than 3,000 people had come to sign up, completely blocking the street in front of the movie theater. All passing vehicles had to take a detour from the side streets under the command of the traffic police.

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This scene was staged at the same time in Zhenkang County and Mangshi, which were adjacent to the military sub-districts.

The recruitment information together has aroused huge repercussions in the two counties and cities. There are tens of thousands of people who are temporarily unemployed in these two places, and it is not that there are no jobs in the country, but that there are not enough jobs to accommodate them.

They are looking forward to a job position. The recruitment information announced by the military sub-district is tantamount to a sound falling from heaven to them, and every family is unwilling to give up.

Since this was only a trial recruitment, the military sub-district only set up recruitment points in these two cities, and the total number of recruits was only 500.

In order to compete for the 500 places, unemployed young families in both cities have exerted all their strength.

In the Northeast Military Region, which is separated from the military sub-district by a river, the recruitment point was also set up in the center of Guogen County, and the impact was even greater than that of Zhenkang and Mangshi.

Unlike Zhenkang and Mangshi, which are supported by the state, as a large province of mineral resources, the metallurgical and machinery industries are supported, and there are many enterprises and institutions. Although employment is tight, there is still hope. Guogen has been Tusi autonomous since the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there has been no change during the Republic of China, coupled with the discrimination and exclusion of them by the government of Dingding, there is no industry in the local area at all.

After the rise of the People's Party, it has been at war with the Wei Ding Army all the year round, and it has eaten domestic aid, and the upper echelons have the mind, energy, and ability to develop the local economy.

Until now, Guogen's population of 130,000 people is still working in the old way, from sunrise to sunset, and there is no modern atmosphere of the 70 years of the 20th century. With its ancient rammed-earth walls, low, blackened tiled bungalows, and potholed stone and brick pavement, the entire county still looks like a city in old photographs.

Of the 130,000 people in the Northeast Military Region, only 20,000 live in the county seats, and only a few thousand of the 20,000 have permanent jobs. The vast majority of them can only work part-time to earn some money to make ends meet.

The Northeast Military Region is surrounded by mountains, and the only agricultural basin of several tens of square kilometers has fallen into the possession of the other side because the Qingshui River estuary was occupied by the Wei Ding Army.

At the time when the People's Army had just suffered a crushing defeat, the Northeast Military Region had a very difficult life.

Fortunately, thanks to the construction of the new city of the 291st Brigade, it recruited people from the Northeast Military Region on a large scale, and this side was also ecstatic, and nearly 40,000 people were sent at once. The salary of one and a half catties of rice per person per day is tantamount to life-saving food, which makes 130,000 Guogen people grateful to Dade.

After the land leveling was completed, the 291st Brigade finally selected 18,000 hard-working and hardworking people from 40,000 people, and together with the people of the military sub-district, they formed a full-fledged engineering team.

In the words of those who were chosen, it was "to eat the public meal"!

The remuneration for their labor has also increased from one and a half catties of rice per day to an additional five cents a day! In a month, in addition to rice, they can also get an income of 15 yuan, which can be used to buy cloth, salt, monosodium glutamate and other daily necessities in the foreign supply and marketing cooperatives of the 291st Brigade.

Therefore, as soon as the information about the recruitment of workers in the 291st Brigade spread, it was immediately surrounded by a crowd of people who swarmed around the three layers inside and three layers outside, and everyone rushed to sign up.

As for the treatment, it is the same as they have heard: basic salary, education salary, skill salary, performance salary. During the training period, only the basic living expenses will be paid, and the three-month probationary period after the end of the training, the salary will be halved.

Such a good treatment even those who have been recruited into the engineering team are moved.

If it weren't for the timely announcement by the leaders of the engineering team, the workers of the engineering team would have enjoyed the same treatment after the three-month probationary period, and I am afraid that many workers of the engineering team would also go to the recruitment point to sign up.

It only took half a day, and a total of 1,500 people were recruited.

The person in charge of the recruitment point repeatedly said that more and more enterprises in the new city will be completed and put into operation in the future, and more workers will be needed, even if they are not recruited this time, they will also have the opportunity next time, and tens of thousands of people will use their eyes full of anticipation to loosen a road, so that the people who came to recruit workers from the 291 brigade left smoothly.