Chapter 232: Ordinary and dignified work

In the later generations of the Yanhuang Republic of the Main Plane, every child's dream is great under the subtle influence of the surroundings: "I want to be a scientist!" I'm going to be the second Bill Gates! Then as they grew older, the children's dreams slowly faded and disappeared, and each began to work hard to survive. And what about the little ones in the Republic of the Stars and Stripes? Their dreams are ordinary: I want to be a cartoonist, a truck driver, or a barista when I grow up. As a result, they have Disney, FedEx, and Starbucks. I can't say that there is anything wrong with the "big dream" of the children of Yanhuang, it can only be said that in the whole society, most people are ordinary people, and the big work and important work that changes the world are just the dreams that a few people can realize after all.

The first target plane, Xi'an City in the northwest of the Yanhuang Continent.

At this time, it was 4:30 in the morning, in a newly built four-story building in the north of Xi'an, a three-bedroom and two-living room 108-square-meter unit apartment. Zhang Huazhen, the owner of the apartment, just got up, tiptoed to the cottage, carefully looked at the sleeping posture of the two younger sons, and pressed the open quilt uneasily, then gently closed the door, walked into the kitchen, and turned on the kitchen lights.

A year ago, Zhang Huazhen, her husband Liang Chuan, and their two sons were still crammed into a simple wooden house of 8 square meters. It was the old street, and there was a bungalow on the very edge. There is no electricity, no water, not to mention such a thing as an independent water supply and sewerage system, even so, the rent of hundreds of thousands of fiat currency every month (the bald party prints a large amount of fiat currency to cause depreciation) and the necessary food expenses for life still weigh down the couple to work outside day and night, and can only maintain the most basic state of porridge to drink.

But I didn't expect that the situation was unpredictable. In just half a year, the troops of the Red Party, which were originally in Shaanxi, wiped out the "army masters" from all walks of life in Xi'an, and the terrified and trembling devil army, and "recovered" the entire territory of Xi'an and its surroundings, the entire territory of Shanxi Province, and the entire area north of the Yangtze River. But for Zhang Huazhen, I really don't understand much and what impact does it have. What she is most concerned about is whether the shopkeeper who hired her to work will flee because of the change of "military master", whether her rent will be raised, and how long the family's surplus money can support her livelihood.

However, unexpected things happened one after another, and the new "military masters" and "official masters" not only did not increase the new tax assessments, but also distributed three days of rations free of charge to everyone in the city, and held many radio conferences to publicize that they were the people's army, the people's soldiers, and the troops that were established to let the people live a good life.

"Dad, what do you mean by the people's soldiers? I heard that it was with our family! When Zhang Huazhen first heard this, she asked very puzzled and puzzled.

"Silly woman, you really believe it! For more than 20 years, have you ever seen a day of peace? Liang Chuan, who usually likes to listen to comments and has a little knowledge, said with a smile.

Time did not give Zhang Huazhen and Liang Chuan too many opportunities to think and ponder. Soon after the Red Party army entered Xi'an, it was announced that it would hire a large number of residents in the city, and carry out a series of recruitment and employment policies, such as renovating roads, digging sewers, erecting telephone poles, and building additional buildings.

For Zhang Huazhen and her husband Liang Chuan, what "military master" and "official master" are fake, and the white rice and white noodles that can be earned with labor are real. For the sake of themselves and their children, the two of them signed up as soon as possible and were assigned to a building site on the edge of Xi'an together. Until now, Zhang Huazhen still clearly remembers the scene where she and her husband finished their first day of work, and the "foreman" (the person in charge of the Red Party in charge of construction matters, who was mistakenly hatted as the "foreman" by Zhang Huazhen) and several "small foremen" appeared one by one. Oh my dear mother, that's white face! I haven't eaten white noodles in almost ten years! That night, the two of them returned to the rented house, and in the expectant eyes of their children, they made up their minds and cooked a large pot full of noodle soup, and everyone ate until they were full of burps.

As the days passed, the changes in the city of Xi'an intensified little by little. First of all, rows of four-story buildings with water and electricity were built in the closest place to the city wall (not taking into account the number of the highest floors of the stressed structure), and then the Red Party "military masters" gradually divided the houses and keys to the residents of the city in the order of the old, the young, the sick, the disabled, the women, the men, and the strong. After the replacement vacates all the residents in the old urban area of Xi'an, the old urban area will be upgraded as a whole: the dilapidated wooden houses have been pushed, the frontage road has been widened, and a thing called "asphalt" has been paved, which is very dark and beautiful, and people walk on it steadily, and cars are running on it, and at the same time, the towering and beautiful street lamps and traffic lights have been erected, and the neat stone sidewalks have been piled up, and some trees have been transplanted.

Then, one after another furniture stores with different styles (Jiayi store), food stores (Kenmai chicken fast food restaurant), tea shops (typhoon shelter teahouse) have also opened, plus the red party "official master", "military master" to encourage the old merchants to enter the commercial pedestrian street, together with the opening of customers, and so on to the end of October, a new Xi'an city is generally presented in front of Zhang Huazhen, and Zhang Huazhen himself also moved into a set of 108 square meters of three-bedroom and two-living room units, although there is no such magnificent and luxurious decoration as later generations, The house is just a simple cement floor, the toilet and kitchen have achieved simple wood decoration, but Zhang Huazhen still feels that this is a good life that can only be lived by the gods in the sky, she and her husband worked hard to save money, and used the living expenses of about three months for two people, from the furniture store to purchase a complete set of bed, wardrobe, dining table, dining chairs, bottles and cans and other daily necessities. Although she began to gradually get used to this kind of life, every time Zhang Huazhen woke up, she always felt that her hard life for more than 30 years was like a nightmare of a long sleep, but she suddenly woke up recently!

Now Zhang Huazhen's identity is a sanitation worker under the jurisdiction of a detachment in Xi'an City, after the construction site work was over, the couple who had no work were specially questioned by the "foreman", asking them what skills they had and what hopes and requirements they had for future work. Husband Liang Chuan was very obsessed with the tricycle coming and going on the urban road, and the driver's majestic appearance, so he did not hesitate to hide his desire to learn to drive, so he was sent to Xi'an driving school to learn. Zhang Huazhen is more responsible, and thinks about taking care of his two sons who have just gone to school (the enlightenment school established by the Red Party), so he just said that he can do any job, and he has no skills. So in the end, Zhang Huazhen's place of work was in the community and surrounding streets, and she was a sanitation worker.

If in the future life, if a person wants to be a front-line sanitation worker, that is, a street sweeper, he will definitely be shaken his head, frown and sniff by the people around him, in short, look down on him! But this is the first target plane, the first target plane where Wang Fan has profoundly exerted his influence. In order to fundamentally solve the problem of unfair treatment of lay managers who sit in the office more than the production line in later generations, and the unreasonable treatment of lay managers who do not know how to do it compared with the most important and core technical experts of the factory, Wang Fan asked Yadi to formulate a set of salary standards for border areas that have been formulated based on the advantages and disadvantages of the salary system of various countries, regions and multinational enterprises in the past few decades, and plan to promote and implement them throughout the country in the future.

The core starting point of this set of wage standards is to let "those who can hear the sound of artillery command" and respect the hard work of the dirtiest and most tiring manual workers.

For example, although Zhang Huazhen is engaged in the most basic and brainless sanitation and cleaning work, his level salary is the same as that of a clerk who pours tea and water in the office, but due to his poor working environment, his salary coefficient is 1.5, that is to say, the office clerk is 20 yuan per month Meritorious coin, then Zhang Huazhen's monthly salary is 30 yuan, which can basically be equivalent to the treatment of the government department.

A similar system was implemented in the factory, and the strange phenomenon in the factory in later generations was that those who actually worked had the technology in their hands, and they received not very high performance wages. However, the managerial positions that are out of production are given large and large annual salaries. In order to avoid the phenomenon of hanging upside down, the butt deciding the head, and the loss of a large number of craftsmanship and technology, Wang Fan implemented a two-level parallel wage system in the state-owned factory in the first target plane: the same low-level assembly line technician, whose salary level is 1.2 times that of office copywriting (the working environment is much better than that of sanitation workers, so the coefficient is lower than the former), but once the worker gradually grows from a junior worker to a skilled worker (there are special assessment standards and an examination process with video to prevent substitute examinations, cheating, and personal debts), The rate of wage growth will increase rapidly. The salary of a second-level worker can be 2 times that of an office clerk, 3 times that of a third-level worker, 4 times that of a fourth-level worker, 6 times that of a fifth-level worker, 10 times that of a sixth-level worker (equivalent to the level of deputy factory director), and an annual salary system for seventh-level workers and above.

The result of this is: take the management route, the competition is fierce, the survival of the fittest but the winner is the king and enjoys a high salary; Take the technical route, eat with real skills, and once you reach the level, you can immediately increase your salary. However, the penalties for counterfeiting are also very severe. Once the level fraud is exposed, and the social inspection organs arrange three hands-on tests are unqualified, not only need to return all the extra wages, and enjoy the treatment back to the original level, in addition, will also be subject to family housing allocation, children's education and other aspects will be punitive adjustments, the current year's examiners will also be held accountable, it can be said that the price is heavy, making the fraud more than worth the loss, so as to put an end to the problem of "taking shortcuts and being smart" that Yanhuang has had since ancient times.

It is with such a system and guarantee, Zhang Huazhen feels that as a sanitation worker, there is no inferiority and self-shame, the sanitation company distributes four sets of work clothes every year, two sets of summer clothes and two sets of winter clothes, the style is novel, calm and beautiful, and she herself washes it clean every week. If you are willing to work hard, seize the time to learn sanitation-related knowledge and sanitation equipment control, after obtaining a first-class certificate, your level salary can be adjusted again, reaching 24 yuan, multiplied by 1.5 will die 36 yuan (roughly equivalent to 3600 yuan in later generations, but the purchasing power is roughly doubled due to Wang Fan, which is equivalent to 7500 yuan in later generations). So not only the family is happy to support them, but even the two children are proud of their parents' respective work, and they have just learned to write, and they wrote in the day book: Mom and Dad, I love you! Sanitation, drivers, my dreams!