It was late February 1987.

After the Spring Festival, everything gradually returned to normal, and Lin Yuhang's work became busier.

At the end of last year, Lin Yuhang and the comrades of the team reported and discussed the economic work of Chaoxian County, and proposed that according to the actual situation of Chaoxian County, vigorously develop the industrial structure of Chaoxian County with local characteristics, so as to promote economic development, and at the same time establish a local open zone to attract foreign investment.

Lin Yuhang's idea was recognized by the comrades of the team, and a large part of it was supported.

In January, with the approval of the superiors, the Chaoxian Development Zone project was established, Lin Yuhang personally served as the team leader, and the other two comrades of the team served as the deputy leader.

At present, the most important work at hand, in addition to the open area and other industries, the first project is leather products in Chaoxian County.

Lin Yuhang did not know much about Chaoxian leather products before, and after communicating with Song Yuanchao, he returned to Chaoxian for further research, only to find that Chaoxian leather products were not as basic as he imagined, but as early as 1926, Chaoxian County had leather products production.

Founded in 1926, Chaoxian Tannery is the first modern industrial leather factory in China's modern history, and most of its main products are supplied to the Shanghai market, and even many are exported.

At that time, the Chaoxian tannery was not small, and there were many private leather workshops of individual nature in Chaoxian County, and these industries reached a peak around 1950, and in 1956, due to the public-private partnership, the Chaoxian tannery became a state-owned enterprise, and many small workshops were all merged.

Chaoxian tannery has developed to the scale is not small, the whole factory has 173 staff cadres, although the scale of the tannery is not as good as the state-owned enterprises in Shanghai, Yanjing and other big cities, but it is very good in Chaoxian County.

The key is the technical strength and tanning process, although the tannery has gradually gone downhill in the planned economy, but these are still retained, until now, the Chaoxian tannery still has a large number of skilled tanners, which makes Lin Yuhang extremely happy.

There is joy, and so are the problems.

Due to the reform and opening up, Chaoxian tannery did not keep up with the pace of the times, coupled with the long-term planned economy led to the rigidity of enterprise management and backward thinking, although Chaoxian tannery has such and such a foundation, but did not grasp the opportunity.

After the development of the market, the overall domestic economy is changing with each passing day, and some groups have become rich first by their own ability, and these changes have led to many workers in the Chaoxian tannery to think about it, and gradually have the idea of leaving the factory to do it themselves.

Chaoxian is very close to Shanghai, compared with the inland cities, Chaoxian has more sources of information about the outside world, coupled with the flexible minds of Chaoxian people, many ideas, bold, feel that there is no hope for doing so in state-owned enterprises, plus the state has a policy of allowing private registered enterprises to set up factories in recent years, and some people who have the technical ability and channels naturally have their own ideas.

At present, there are several employees of the Chaoxian tannery who have come out to work alone on the grounds of leave without pay or long sick leave, and have set up workshops or small factories, and they are doing very well.

In other words, now the Chaoxian tannery looks like it looks good, but in fact it has been disheartened, except for some people who are close to retirement, or people who are not enterprising, many people have the idea of learning to leave a few people before, and pull out to do it themselves.

Qiu Jianjun is an old man in the tannery, as early as his grandfather's generation worked in the tannery, but he followed the boss back then, and when his father's tannery became a state-owned enterprise, he served an iron rice bowl, and when he entered the factory, it was already the early seventies.

Qiu Jianjun's tanning skills are ancestral, his grandfather was the master of the tannery, his father also served as the deputy director of the tannery, and now the old man has retired, Qiu Jianjun is now the technical section chief of the tannery, mainly responsible for the technical work of the factory.

The whole tannery, in addition to a few old tanners who are about to retire, Qiu Jianjun's tanning skills are the best, and it is precisely for this reason that the factory attaches great importance to him, and he is promoted step by step from an ordinary worker to a technician, and later served as the head of the technical section.

In addition, three generations of Qiu Jianjun's family have worked in the tannery, if nothing else, it is very likely that Qiu Jianjun will become the leader of the factory like his parents and grandparents in the future.

However, the situation in the factory has changed a lot in the past two years, with the impact of reform and opening up, people's minds are becoming more and more active, especially when some old workers leave the factory to work alone, and in just half a year, they have earned the income of ordinary workers for several years or even more than ten years by relying on their own craftsmanship, and people's hearts have changed.

Just like Qiu Jianjun, although he is the head of the technical department, his monthly salary plus bonus is only more than 70 yuan, although it is good compared to ordinary people, but compared with those old colleagues who make a lot of money, Qiu Jianjun's salary is simply not worth mentioning.

Because Qiu Jianjun's technology is obvious to all, there are naturally many people who dig him. For example, a small private tannery promised that as long as Qiu Jianjun was willing to work at his side, he would be able to pay him a salary of 500 yuan a month, and the company could withstand Qiu Jianjun's income for more than half a year.

However, Qiu Jianjun still has deep feelings for the tannery, plus he is not an ordinary worker, he is the technical section chief of the factory, if he also leaves the tannery, not to mention how bad the impact will be, and it will bring great losses to the factory.

After thinking about it, Qiu Jianjun resisted the temptation, refused the other party's invitation, and still stayed. His behavior is incomprehensible to others, and some people even privately ridicule Qiu Jianjun for being stupid, why do you stay in the factory when you have the opportunity to make a lot of money?

Not to mention outsiders like this, even Qiu Jianjun's wife complained about him in private, people couldn't ask for such a good opportunity, but he pushed it out, I really didn't understand what he was thinking in his head.

On this day, Qiu Jianjun got off work on time, and as soon as he pushed his bicycle out of the factory gate, he heard someone shouting his name.

"Haoqiang? Why are you here? Turning his head, a familiar figure beckoned to him not far away, and Qiu Jianjun hurriedly pushed the cart over.

"I'm here for you." Shao Haoqiang said happily, and asked at the same time, "Are you okay after work?" Walk! I'll invite you to drink. ”

"Okay! It's been a long time since we've been drinking together, you wait, I'll call home and let the phone booth pass a word, your sister-in-law's temper you know, go drink without saying hello, she has to wait for me stupidly until midnight and don't eat. Qiu Jianjun explained with a smile, then parked the car in place, and then trotted to the factory guard room, and after a while, he turned back after making the call.

"Let's go!" Holding the car, Qiu Jianjun said, Shao Haoqiang agreed, the two of them ran two steps with the cart, got on the car with their right foot, and rode into the distance.

Half an hour later, the two sat in a private tavern in Chaoxian County, Shao Haoqiang ordered several side dishes and asked for a bottle of good wine, seeing that he was still thinking about what to order, Qiu Jianjun hurriedly stopped and said that it was too much, and his brother didn't have outsiders to make such a sumptuous thing, these were enough.

"That's okay, just eat it first, and then add it when it's not enough." Shao Haoqiang agreed with a smile.

"What? Are you rich again? Qiu Jianjun handed a cigarette to Shao Haoqiang, who was not only a classmate and fellow countryman, but also a comrade-in-arms.

Back then, the two went to school together, served as soldiers together, and returned to the place together. Qiu Jianjun entered the tannery because of his father's relationship, and finally his son continued his father's business, while Shao Haoqiang went to work in Chaoxian Wujiaohua Company. The so-called Wujiaohua is the collective name of hardware, jiaodian and chemical industry, which is also a state-owned enterprise.

Unlike Qiu Jianjun, who usually likes to specialize in technology, Shao Haoqiang has been working since he was a child, and he is particularly bold, and he has found a way to make extra money by working in Wujiaohua Company for a short time, and by virtue of his own convenience and the advantage of Chaoxian County's proximity to Huhai, he has started the purchase and resale of labor protection supplies in the two places.

This deal is also simple to put it bluntly, because there are many large state-owned enterprises in Shanghai, especially the Wujiaohua company where he works has business contacts with these large state-owned enterprises, and often goes to Shanghai on business trips. Taking the opportunity of a business trip, Shao Haoqiang privately purchased the labor insurance supplies that the employees usually received through the relationship of the other party's unit.

The labor protection supplies of these large state-owned enterprises are issued free of charge, especially the consumables such as rubber shoes, sleeve covers, and gloves, which can be received from the logistics department with an application.

The extra labor protection supplies will be taken home for their own use, but these things are too many and cannot be used at all, some people have similar things at home that are piled up like a hill, gloves are stacked, and even the rubber shoes are packed in sacks.

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Shao Haoqiang was very smart, and saw a business opportunity from this, and he found someone familiar with him and privately offered to use money to buy these extra labor protection supplies that they didn't need. The other party pondered that this is not bad, anyway, it is a waste to put too many things, who would not want to exchange money? Even if it's cheaper, it's not a loss!

In this way, Shao Haoqiang obtained labor protection supplies from these people at a very cheap price, and then brought the labor protection supplies back to Chaoxian County, and then sold them to those who needed them at a price lower than the market in Chaoxian County.

After going back and forth, he really made a lot of money in this business, and because of his careful and secretive work, he did it secretly for several years without being noticed.

After the reform and opening up, Shao Haoqiang's courage gradually increased, and after the market atmosphere changed, he mustered up the courage to develop more online directly in Shanghai, personally ran a few new units to attract a lot of people, and even got two tricycles to hire people to help him pull goods, and soon became a well-known local 10,000 yuan household.