The two of them naturally didn't know that Guo Zhuocheng had such a black belly, and later after they received the instructions written by Guo Zhuocheng, they had to grit their teeth and take office. Frightened, they did not dare to slack off, and began the arduous infrastructure work with the engineering and technical personnel and workers who had rushed to Iraq in the early stage, and at the same time prepared for the arrival of a large army.

Although these two people still have doubts in their hearts, they still do things seriously, after all, they have been promoted, and the organization trusts them, so they must do what they do, so as not to let their colleagues flatten, let alone disappoint the leaders.

The two of them are okay to say, but the hearts of others may not be so easy to turn. Many workers in the early days couldn't figure it out: why did so much crude oil not be extracted in the country, but it spent countless manpower and material resources to transport bulky equipment to Iraq, which was so hot? We admit that Iraq's crude oil is of good quality, but the cost of consumption is also high. If you use RMB, it's eight yuan a ton!

When we were in China, when did we not pump from the nearest rivers and lakes? It was free. But it costs a few cents to wash your hands here, which is a big loss.

Five dollars seems to be not much, but it can't stand the product of a huge quantity, you must know that the Chinese, especially the Chinese in the south and the Chinese in the northeast, because they grew up by rivers and lakes when they were children, the concept of water conservation is not strong, and a casual wash of the face is a big basin, and a casual bath for ten minutes is more than a ton of water. As long as the hands are slightly dirty. As long as they feel that their face is a little cloudy, the first thing they think about is to wash it.

Here it almost scared the hell.

Five dollars of water is really easy to use. What is the concept of five dollars, which is equivalent to one-eighth of the salary of an apprentice worker and one-twentieth of the salary of an average worker. If you take a salary according to domestic standards, here you will spend all your salary on buying fresh water.

Fortunately, I heard that the wages paid by the superiors to the people here greatly exceeded the domestic salary, and I heard that the basic salary was five times the domestic salary, and there was also five times the performance salary. They don't understand performance pay or something, they only know that if the task progress is completed according to the requirements of the superiors, the performance salary ♀ of five times the original salary is enough to make them excited.

The leader also said that if it is done well, there are more rewards, and there is no cap. Of course, if the completion is not good, the performance pay will be discounted, and there may even be no penny.

Chinese workers have a tradition of not being able to leave their homeland, and they really don't want to come here, they really don't want to live this kind of life away from their homeland. Although the superiors promised that the family could come over in the future, it was not easy for the wife and children to come over once because they were so far away from the motherland, and they would only come once or twice a year.

If it weren't for such a high level of wages, they really wouldn't have moved.

There is no danger that some workers start the country so lavishly, and the country will not have money to send out in the future. Some intellectuals even settle accounts with the state in private. Wonder if the state is making money at all:

First of all, it is necessary to spend a huge amount of money to build roads and railways, but also to build accommodation houses, especially to erect derricks, and to carry out large-scale exploration, but it is a big thing to burn money, whether there is oil or not, a well has to burn a large amount of money. Moreover, the oil produced still has to pay taxes to Iraq, and even if it is transported back to China, it will still need to be transported by tankers ship by ship, how much does it cost? In this way, what else can the state earn? It's good if you don't lose money.

The workers of this era were very owner-oriented. They all think about the problem from the standpoint of the state, and they can't figure out why the country is doing this, and they are doing a good job in the country, and the crude oil in the ground gushes out like water, and then it is sent to the refinery to be processed, and then it is sent to all walks of life across the country, and they are very proud. Now the country's money is being wasted here, and they are helpless.

As for some people saying that it is nonsense to preserve China's underground crude oil for future generations ♀? There is a lot of crude oil in the ground, and there is still it after pumping here. Just like coal, since the existence of human society, what dynasty has not dug coal, coal mines have been dug for tens of thousands of years, and it is not the same? Aren't many of the newly discovered coal mines the same as they can't be dug up? In their minds, this reason is naïve and ridiculous.

"We don't pump crude oil that we don't need money at home, and we spend money to pump crude oil abroad, so that our workers are far away from our hometowns, which is really a poor toss." Therefore, some people asserted, "The person who came up with this idea must be an opportunist, and must be a bad guy who does not hesitate to waste state money in order to become an official." We must sue him! ”

Every time the workers got together, thinking about their relatives in China, and thinking that they themselves were proudly walking on the streets in China to be envied by everyone, they all said the same thing, and scolded Guo Zhuocheng, the initiator, several times.

Fortunately, Guo Zhuocheng couldn't hear it, otherwise he would still be scolded to death by others?

The leading cadres are a little better than the workers, not because they don't want to scold in their hearts, but because they are more organized and disciplined, they know the truth that trouble comes from their mouths, and they don't dare to express their opinions lightly, but just observe quietly.

At first, these cadres thought that their superiors had sent them over, but they didn't know if they had offended the leaders or because they were on the wrong side, so they were sent to suffer in the desert here. However, slowly they found that this is not the case, these people who come are basically people with outstanding ability in the unit, they are all capable people, it is understandable that a unit squeezes out people with ability, it is impossible for so many units to squeeze out all the capable people, right? What does this mean? Not only does it show that they weren't assigned, but it also shows that things here are really important.

The cadres thought about it along this line of thought, and their hearts became brighter and brighter: Since this place is very important, as long as you work well here, won't it be a kind of capital in the future, and it will be the capital for promotion in the future? This is the equivalent of what is often referred to as gold-plated properties. Although the conditions here are more difficult, although the climate here is different from the domestic climate, it is difficult to adapt for a while, but as long as you remember to suffer here for a few years, you will be reused and promoted after you go back, what is there to bear? What's more, wage income is five to ten times higher than in the country? In addition, I heard that there are also high temperature subsidies, field work subsidies, subsidies for going abroad, and even subsidies for learning foreign languages, these sporadic subsidies add up, plus normal income, working here for one year is equivalent to working in China for ten years.

As time went on, a strange phenomenon arose among these Chinese who came to Iraq: what the workers thought, said, and nagged about here was a matter of national affairs, that is, two people idle and play chess, arguing about whether the country concerned is losing or making money by doing so.

Sometimes they were bitter, sometimes they made generous statements, some scolded the villains in the court, and some scolded the leaders for blind command. Of course, there are also a few workers who are calculating when they will go home, how much money they can bring home, and what they can buy for their wives and children, but there are very few such people, and they are not ashamed of their companions, they just hide and calculate secretly and shamefully.

The cadres got together to talk about their own business, what mosquitoes bit people last night, and asked the country to bring flower water [why the Arabs wear headscarves is the result of adapting to the environment, and if we wear headscarves, it is likely that it will be really cooler......

They don't have the world-minded posture of the workers.

Whether it is the thoughts of the workers or the thoughts of the cadres, Guo Zhuocheng does not care at all, he is thinking about what to do next, and guessing whether these two future bigwigs can open up the situation after the past.

Like Yu Gangqiu's thoughts, Guo Zhuocheng is not only thinking about pumping oil from Iraqi land to sell it to make money, but more importantly, how to train all the cadres here into talents with modern management knowledge and modern economic theories, and train the workers here into people with the best thinking ability, so that they can pass on the benefits of this place back to China and change some habits and traditions of the Chinese people.

It can be said that Guo Zhuocheng is under the command of the central boss, and he plays a big game of chess.

The central government should build this place into a modern large-scale oil enterprise, as a bridgehead for the reform of Chinese enterprises, and try to let as many Chinese enterprise leaders come here for further study.

In order to achieve this goal, Guo Zhuocheng submitted to his superiors for approval, and prepared to hire managers from developed Western countries such as Europe and the United States with high salaries to implement management. As for whether this enterprise can make him and the country how much money he or she can make, this is not the focus of Guo Zhuocheng's consideration, and he also knows that it does not need him.

First, there is an abundance of crude oil here, and with the recovery and rise of crude oil prices, it is difficult for this company to make money as long as it does not throw money around, as long as it does not encounter war. Second, the last thing Guo Shucheng lacks now is money. As long as a large number of outstanding modern management talents can be cultivated, even if they lose some money, what does it matter?

When the oil workers boarded the ship and set off, Guo Zhuocheng had already asked people to look for all kinds of senior management talents around the world, and even prepared to give the position of general manager to foreigners, so that everyone in the company could get in touch with modern management knowledge as much as possible.

Giving up the position of general manager to a foreigner requires a lot of political courage and a lot of risk. It is estimated that there are many people who will say that Guo Zhuocheng lost power and humiliated the country, and even handed over administrative power to the people of capitalist countries to manage the socialist cadres and workers. What kind of evil intentions are harbored?

But Guo Zhuocheng still decided to take a gamble, he believed that as long as the supreme leader was in power, no other clown would dare to do anything to him, at most it would be some gossip, at most it would be a letter of complaint. But if it succeeds, the country benefits greatly.

After these elite soldiers return to China to take up important posts, won't the future reform be twice as effective with half the effort?

(To be continued.)