Chapter 148: Life Like a Year 2

Some discordant factors began to appear in the world situation, and some major countries tried to divert the attention of their domestic people, but after decades of development, the opponents worth a dozen have become giants, and it is still "undesirable" to speak provocatively. As a result, politicians from various countries began to have frequent contact, the economic crisis 100 years ago caused the world's second world war, and the casualties of various countries were heavy. Moreover, the people in the country are still in dire straits, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the people to be fooled, and it is not easy to fight a war; except for a few countries with serious nationalism, most countries can still live in peace and try their best to suppress the right-wing forces in the country. The plan and policy of saving the economy were quickly proposed, and the countries competed to formulate corresponding countermeasures according to their national conditions, such as rectification, development, reform, and pacification!

But the world economy has already taken a heavy beating, and by the beginning of 36, world trade had fallen by more than 40 percent, the gross national product of all countries had fallen by more than 35 percent on average, and unemployment among workers had skyrocketed. According to statistics, the number of unemployed workers in North America has reached 13 million, that in Japan has reached 8 million, in some major countries of the European Union has reached 12 million, in India there have been 11 million unemployed workers, in Brazil has reached 4 million, and in China there have been 17 million registered unemployed workers, ranking first in all countries in the world. A large number of workers have lost their jobs, and the price of production has risen, making life difficult for people, and the pressure on government relief is very heavy. By the beginning of '37, world trade continued to shrink to only 30 per cent of what it was before the crisis, GDP fell to about 60 per cent of what it was before the crisis, years of construction had come to naught, production had regressed by at least 20 years, and social development had regressed by at least 30 years...... The major countries of the world dare not slack off, since no one can eat anyone, so they have to cooperate with each other, and the interests of small countries are exchanged by large countries, even at the expense of some traditional allies. In May '36, 10 months after the outbreak of the economic crisis, the leaders of the world's major powers announced a declaration to save the world economy at the initiative of the United Nations, which was signed by the leaders of the United States, Japan, China, Russia and the European Union.

From the very beginning of the economic crisis, various countries have adopted targeted measures according to their own conditions, on the one hand, to expand domestic demand, and on the other hand, to expand foreign trade, especially regional trade. China's large population, uneven regional development, and growing number of unemployed workers did not give the central government any face because of the convening of the World Congress. As a country with a large population and rapid economic development, although the situation is better than similar countries such as India and Brazil, it is still far from the level of developed countries, although before the crisis, the whole world was saying that "China is already a developed country", but the crisis really came, everyone found that it was not the same thing at all, and the situation was much more complicated than imagined! By June '36, large-scale corporate layoffs had taken place one after another, and the number of directly unemployed had risen to 23 million, and the momentum of layoffs in factories and enterprises continued unabated...... The pressure on the companies was too great to bear this heavy pressure, so they had to pass it on to the society, and the companies pushed the workers into the society one after another, and the state departments appeased them.

But on the other hand, East Asian countries, especially although unemployment is serious, but there is no social turmoil, first of all, the Chinese are more conservative, do not like to take risks, as long as they can get by, they do not like to make trouble, especially when the situation in this country is extremely grim, as long as social relief can keep up, people with deep-rooted Confucianism are more content with the status quo. Second, decades of rapid development have also enabled the country to accumulate a large amount of funds, which can be used for social relief, and at the same time, because macroeconomic regulation and control are still playing a role, although the currency has depreciated and the price of gold has risen unreasonably, the prices of basic living materials have stabilized, and administrative interventions have made the rising prices fall again, such as the prices at the beginning of 36 years are basically the same as before the crisis! Third, the Chinese have always had the habit of saving, the investment in the stock market is only a small part of their property, especially the money deposited in the big banks has not disappeared, so the basic life can still be maintained, most of the middle class is in a relatively good situation, most of the changes are in the social poles of the rich and poor families, the poor people are poorer, the rich people are relatively richer, although the poor have nothing to lose, the rich also become nothing in an instant or even the family is broken! By the end of the year, the number of unemployed was rising, reaching 28 million, while the number of semi-unemployed workers was said to have reached 30 million. According to statistics, during the entire period of economic crisis, there were 30 million unemployed workers and 34 million semi-unemployed workers in China, and the country's gross domestic product fell to 60% of the pre-crisis level, and social development regressed by nearly 20 years.

Compared with China, developed countries in Europe and the United States are not much better. The economic crisis in North America in August 35 swept through various industries, by the beginning of 36, the number of unemployed workers had reached 13 million, by the end of the year, it had risen to 18 million, until July 37, the number of unemployed workers no longer increased significantly, it is said that it had reached 20 million at this time, and the number of semi-unemployed workers exceeded 30 million; The gross national product (GDP) is only 58 percent of what it was before the crisis, and the United States, the world's largest economy, is particularly serious, falling to 55 percent, almost halved, and the entire social development has regressed by more than 25 years, much more serious than that of other world powers. In this country, which is dominated by foreign trade, there were 16 million unemployed and 26 million semi-unemployed in August of 36 years, and the entire GDP fell to 65% of the pre-crisis level, and international trade fell by about 75%, and the losses were extremely heavy. The difference between European countries is relatively large, the economic span between Western Europe, Central Europe and Eastern Europe is relatively large, especially the social development of Western European countries is relatively mature, and the market in the region is huge, and the damage is lighter than that of other regions, but the number of unemployed workers has also reached 18 million, and the number of semi-unemployed workers is almost 30 million, and the economy of the entire region (excluding Russia) has fallen by 32%, but the losses of individual countries in the region are also extremely serious! Russia's years of hard work have come to naught, with the total economic output falling to 66% of pre-crisis levels, and more than 10 million unemployed workers, more than twice as many semi-unemployed workers. Brazil, a large South American country, was naturally not immune, and the country, which had always wanted to become a world power, had to accept the responsibility of relief for 8 million unemployed workers, and although its gross national product fell by only 35 percent, the social contradictions had deteriorated sharply, and the national situation was extremely grim. Southeast Asian countries are not immune to China and Japan, and they are not as good as Japan and cannot catch up with China's "increasingly loose" alliance of foreign powers and middle cadres, and they have no ability to cope with the economic crisis, and all countries have long been in the same bed and dreaming of different dreams, and now they are looking for big powers outside the region as partners, some are looking for Japan, some are dependent on China, some are sheltered by the United States, some are optimistic about India, and of course there are some centrists, and the economy has regressed for more than 20 years anyway......

The most seriously damaged by this economic crisis is India, the strongest in South Asia and has been trying to become a world power, this large South Asian country has been unable to catch up with China economically, and its scientific and technological development has always been strange, and it is a country with many internal contradictions but is unwilling to become a second-rate country with almost the world's largest population, and at the beginning of the economic crisis, unemployed workers appeared, and by the beginning of 36, it was almost the same as China, reaching 15 million people, and by July, it had exceeded 20 million people, and by the end of the year it had reached 24 million peopleWhat is even more serious is that until the second half of 37, the number of unemployed workers continued to increase significantly, and the semi-unemployed workers even surpassed China, reaching 36 million at the peak, and its GDP fell to 56% of the pre-crisis level at the beginning of 38, and the economic development went back at least 30 years, and its recovery process was the longest among the major powers! According to statistics, by the end of 36 years, there were 124 million unemployed workers and more than 176 million semi-unemployed workers in the world's major countries, with an average decline of more than 40 percent in gross national product and more than 69 percent in international trade......

China's domestic economic situation is extremely severe, and the constant statistics make people unbelievable, and the reality of the large number of unemployed people around us and the withering market make everyone have to admit that this is indeed an economic disaster! The wealth that people had accumulated over the years was wiped out in an instant, stocks devalued, workers lost their jobs, real estate devalued, and their wealth shrank dramatically...... Although the government has tried its best to maintain the normal functioning of society and try by all means to eliminate the undesirable consequences of the economic crisis, the overall situation has become chaotic, and it cannot be saved in a moment! In the first few days of the economic crisis, the dollar depreciated sharply, and then various currencies such as the yuan also depreciated, the international market gold prices continued to rise, at the end of the year, the international gold price rose by more than 25%, after the efforts of all parties, fell back to the price of 15%, but a few months later, that is, in June 36, it rose to 30%, and at this time the situation of various countries was severe, and after the joint efforts of all parties, the party maintained a "low price" of 10% until the end of the year, and then rose to 15%. On the one hand, while stabilizing the money market, while starting economic replanning, some enterprises went bankrupt or were merged, some engineering projects were urgently started, the state launched emergency "extraordinary measures", strictly limited the number of starts in all walks of life, to maintain the balance of domestic economic growth, on the other hand, to expand domestic demand and increase the number of employed people with some engineering projects, although there were still workers unemployed, until the end of 37 years the market situation improved in an all-round way, the social productive forces gradually recovered, and the gross national product began to gradually pick up. During this period, as the most powerful private enterprise in China, Fairy Company has shown its due demeanor, made a lot of contributions to the production and development of the society, and made a lot of contributions to the welfare of the society, of course, she has also reaped enough benefits!

In this economic crisis, a large number of companies go bankrupt every day, small companies are unable to operate, and some large companies have also sought the "protection" of the legal department, and bankruptcy applications are filed one after another, many of which are very famous large companies in society. This economic crisis is like a political purge, and the slightest stain will not be let go, and each company has come up with its own efforts to press the box, and do everything possible to make up for the loopholes in the previous operation and the previous inconsiderate consideration. The market is ruthless, the market at the time of the economic crisis is even more cruel and ruthless, every day of losses are in the millions, small companies simply can't afford to delay, so everyone has begun to lay off employees, anyway, there is no market for products, the production industry has stopped, the recovery is even more far away, as for the reduction of workers' wages is a merciful approach! There is hardly a company in the world that is not laying off workers, and there is hardly a company that is not cutting workers' wages. For the owners of the company, it is good to be able to not push the workers directly into society, who knows how many years, two years, three years or more of this crisis will last, and the company will have difficulty protecting itself, and will it be possible to take care of these hired workers? Among the industrial and civilian companies in the world, there is hardly a company whose profits are not declining, and almost no company that is not losing money!

China is no exception, this industrial power, known as the "factory of the world", almost 80% of the companies are in a state of shutdown or semi-shutdown, and even many garment companies are in a difficult situation, the entire business network is in a state of stagnation, and the service industry is almost completely paralyzed...... Fairy company and Xixing company naturally can not get rid of the fate of losses, although the real estate companies of Xixing company have sold some "unsuitable" real estate, but the economic crisis is really coming, everyone feels that the difference with the original estimate is too big, some hotels, guesthouses are completely in a state of stagnation, the daily loss is hundreds of thousands, so that the management of distressed straight tears, Xu Peng's company is basically in a state of standstill, the entire Xixing company's monthly subsidies amounted to hundreds of millions of yuan, of course, this is a net loss. The fairy company is not much better, textile and steel companies they don't care, electronics companies except for Donglin Electronics, all of them stopped production, the name of "company rectification", but the loss of at least 10 billion per month, of course, Donglin Electronics Company can still maintain a surplus, speaking of the company's overall situation is not bad, but counting the loss of machinery at least 3 billion yuan per month; The loss of Fairy New Material Company is even more huge, according to statistics, the actual loss (excluding wages) every month is nearly 3 billion yuan; The basic parts company is basically empty consumption, although the loss of 50 million yuan per month can be said to be "nothing", even if the energy company is counted, "it is nothing". In addition to the wages of workers, the loss of the three major departments of the fairy company is more than 5 billion yuan per month, plus the loss of Xixing Company, it reaches 5.5 billion yuan per month! But even so, these companies are among the relatively lightest in this economic crisis!

Thanks to a special boss, who had taken precautions before the economic crisis and had tried to minimize the losses, the fairy's actual losses were relatively minor in the first few months. Generally speaking, the first few months of the economic crisis are the time when the losses of companies are the most serious, and after a few months of suffering, everyone is almost the same, and they are just "gritting their teeth and drying up". Due to the unpredictability of the economic crisis, the production of the vast majority of companies is suddenly braked, with huge advertising expenses, a large number of production orders, and full operation of the company...... So when the economic crisis suddenly comes, the snowflake return order makes the goods that have been ready to be shipped unable to be shipped, and can only be returned to the warehouse, and the products that have been on the production line are in a dilemma, or the raw materials that have just arrived cannot be produced...... As a result, production costs, freight costs, storage costs, and bank loans ...... In particular, a large number of payments are not recycled, and some payments are not easy to recover, not to mention that in this period when everyone is in a precarious period, but the money owed to others is forced to be repaid, and many large companies have lost tens of billions of yuan in August alone. In the last months of 35 years, companies with losses of tens of billions of dollars abound! Even after this hurdle, there is still a price to pay for the initial hecticism, and many companies are forced to exit the market early because they can't repay the bank loans.

Compared with peers who lost tens of billions of yuan or even tens of billions of yuan at the beginning, fairies and Xixing are much luckier, employees found that their previous stage of work is completely prepared for the present, production has been greatly reduced, inventory has been reduced to the lowest point, arrears have been fully or mostly recovered, there has been no "useless" advertising for a long time, some inappropriate industries have been abandoned, what should be sold is sold, and those who can be given away will be given away, and the two major system companies of Nuoda have lost less than 10 billion yuan. That's an incredible number! The employees of Xixing Company are even more surprised by the general manager's resolute sale of so many real estates, if those real estate are still in their hands, just the maintenance and maintenance costs will be hundreds of millions of dollars every month, which is unimaginable! It is quite rare for such a huge industry as Fairy and Xixing to lose only 32 billion yuan in the first five months of the economic crisis, and of course, in the midst of the chaos, no one has noticed these things except for the relevant personnel. The loans of the companies have become a nightmare for the operators, as long as the banks do not go bankrupt for a day, they have to carry the interest for a day, and they do it needlessly when production is no longer going on, although the earlier repayment can reduce some of the interest, but few companies do so, because these loans, although not used for production, have become their working capital; However, the loss of hundreds of millions or even billions of yuan every month (a considerable part of which is bank interest) is really "very unbearable". Most companies only minimize the company's losses in the month of 36 or April, and at this time everything that can be given up has been discarded, "whoever wants it will go". Losses can also be reduced by laying off employees and cutting the wages of incumbents, which are of course fully utilized. And among all of this, the most sad thing for large companies is that a large amount of arrears cannot be recovered, because many responsible companies have even gone bankrupt, and there are a lot of debts that need to be returned, which makes the major companies live like a year!

Fairy and Xixing are not having a good time, and the economic crisis is "really not a thing, the losses are too great." The tens of billions of yuan in arrears that have not been recovered in the previous stage have only recovered 6 billion yuan, and the rest are really not coming back, so they signed an agreement to "settle accounts after the autumn", "forget it", the fairy has to be generous, and people really can't pay it back. This money did not have to come back a few points, more than 100 billion yuan was spent in July, of course, relatively speaking, these money is also worth it, and the average of each listed company is only 20 billion yuan. But less than the end of September, some companies from the fairy to take a large amount of money, this, the fairy has always been very good to speak, has long been prepared, and as long as the contract expires to return, even not due as long as the people speak, also returned, the fairy's generosity, all of a sudden spread out, so that less than October, all the arrears were taken away, even "more convenient than normal", the fairy not only did not ask for any benefits, but also sent good blessings. This made the fairy suddenly a star company on the Internet, "Look, this is the attitude of the fairy to deal with partners in the crisis"! So, in October 36, in addition to the salary expenses of the company's employees, Fairy and Xixing shared 790 billion yuan, the company's book funds were less than 280 billion yuan, and by the end of the year, the two major company systems still had more than 200 billion yuan!

If you say that the days are like years, it is the company's responsible for people's affairs, fairies and a total of 377,000 employees of Xixing, it is another image, the arrival of the economic crisis, most people are also deeply affected, many people's stocks have shrunk several times at once, and finally the money in hand has been left, or even has been gone, and some of the bonds held have become a pile of waste paper; Prescient". Whether it is luck or foresight, anyway, many people have a "bottom" of the company, and the actual monthly losses of the branches and the head office are clearly seen by everyone, and some of the staff in the head office are only staggered, the company's strength is so big, but ...... So no one is worried about the company's prospects. Of course, another measure of the company will soon go deep into the grassroots.

In the economic crisis, the general concern is unemployment and the payment of wages, in this extraordinary moment of the economic crisis, once unemployed, it means the loss of previous possessions, the loss of basic security of life, and if the wages are not paid, it will mean that life will be difficult. In the panic of the people, a large number of companies laid off employees, cut the wages of employees information overwhelmingly, who knows if the boss will be himself shabu shabu! The salarymen are worried one by one! Since June 35, the fairy company has rapidly reduced production, and the order has been issued as soon as possible, under the pretext that the company's internal sorting requires one hand to deliver and one hand to pay, and the ordered raw materials are also compressed as much as possible or even no longer accepted...... The fairy company has entered a state of emergency before society! In July, the wages and bonuses of the companies were still paid as usual, and in August, the employees went to work in the company every day as usual, production is impossible, and those that can stop are no longer producing, and the holiday counseling and work arrangements are still to be implemented, which lasted for nearly a month, and the wages are still paid as usual, but the bonuses have begun to be strictly controlled; In September, the fairy headquarters formulated the "Emergency Time Rules and Regulations" on the "emergency", which were issued to each subsidiary, and then the subsidiary was issued to the branch, and the document was urgently transmitted down layer by layer; At the same time, various companies of Xixing Company have also issued similar documents. The center of the document is the company's response to the crisis and its commitment to its employees, one of which is very important to ask employees to "be strict with themselves" and "maintain social stability" in times of economic crisis; What concerns employees the most is that "Fairy Company (Xixing Company) will not lay off a single worker during the economic crisis (except for those who violate public security laws and regulations and are fired in accordance with the company's rules and regulations), and the company will ensure that employees get enough living funds." The fairy company also adopted an economic policy of cutting employees' wages and reducing the company's daily expenses, but the company only appropriately reduced the high-income class in the company, and even issued some "economic crisis subsidies" to some low-income workers, so that "everyone can tide over the difficulties together". In the two major companies, there are about 16,000 people with an annual income of more than 500,000 yuan, about 60,000 people between 200,000 and 500,000, about 140,000 people between 100,000 and 200,000 yuan, and the remaining 160,000 people with an income of less than 100,000 yuan. For employees below 200,000, there will be no changes, and the company will give appropriate subsidies to employees with special difficulties! This makes the company's financial expenditure greatly reduced, for example, in August, the company paid a total of 5.65 billion yuan in wages, and in September it dropped to 5.22 billion yuan, and by the end of the year, a total of nearly 30 billion yuan was paid to employees, so that at the beginning of 37, the two major systems of fairy and westbound still kept more than 240 billion yuan of book funds.

Therefore, the two major system companies are really living like a few senior leaders of the company, the company's situation is known to everyone, the West Star company as a whole is losing money, and the fairy departments in addition to Donglin Electronics, the other companies are all completely suspended, only in August, the company lost 13.7 billion yuan, and in September also lost 11 billion yuan, which is far from the end of the economic crisis, and the company does not have much money (of course, they deliberately ignore the large amount of money that someone has siphoned off), especially the production stoppage, Although the companies have tried their best to maintain the machine and train employees, in this situation, the company's various response effects are not at the bottom of everyone's hearts, "difficult"! Like many people, like most large companies, the top executives of the fairy are counting their fingers to live, day after day, "difficult"! Most of the employees of the fairy company have arranged vacations, in addition to the personnel who want to protect the factory and regularly train the company, most of them have taken vacations, and it is not good to always train, as long as they ensure that they are "on call" at any time!

However, there are a large number of left-behind personnel in the head office and the fairy headquarters, especially the fairy headquarters, and the consulting department has even increased the number of staff and work funds, and does not let go of any dynamic information of the society, from the situation of various countries to the living conditions of the people, from the industry dynamics to the market situation, from real estate to finance, especially the financial market, is a focus of their attention; At the same time, there are also scientific researchers from various research institutes who continue to work, production has stopped, but scientific research cannot be stopped, although scientific research funds have been compressed, but they are still relatively sufficient, this is the fairy at the beginning of the economic crisis!