Chapter 5 Gou in a state-owned enterprise

Li Weidong returned to the auto repair workshop, found his two or eight bars in the bicycle shed, and rode back to the family home of the transportation company.

The family home of the transportation company is actually a large tile-roofed house.

In the early 1980s, the packaged towers were only made in big cities. After all, the Qinghe area was not north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and there was no decent package. Even employees of state-owned enterprises could only live in large tile-roofed houses.

Li Weidong's house has three tile-roofed houses, which are considered to be in good condition in the family courtyard of the transportation company. This is also thanks to Li Dengke, a veteran of the transportation company, who is ranked higher in seniority and can be allocated to these three large tile-roofed houses.

When Li Weidong returned home, his mother Zhou Xiuchun had prepared dinner, a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of shallots mixed with tofu, and a plate of pickles.

Although this dinner was not at all meaty, when Li Weidong tasted his mother's cooking skills again, tears could not help rolling in his eyes.

Mother nagging while eating is nothing more than some trivial things in the parents' family. Even the neighbor's cat has been lost for a month and came back with a big belly.

Father Li Dengke poured a small cup of locally produced Qinghe Daqu himself, and took a small sip. The aftertaste seemed to be choking. The younger brother Li Weimin, next to him, kept stuffing vegetables into his mouth, as if he was reincarnated by a starving ghost.

Looking at this scene, Li Weidong couldn't help sighing in his heart, it would be great if several sisters also came back and the family had a reunion dinner!

Li Dengke and his wife gave birth to a total of six children, which was also a response to the call of more people are more powerful at that time.

For people born in the 1950s and 1960s, it is normal to have four or five siblings. If you only have two or three children, you will have fewer children. In those days, the only child was like a giant panda. rare.

Li Weidong has four sisters and one younger brother. The first three sisters are all married. After graduating from junior high school, the fourth sister was assigned to work in a small county 50 kilometers away. She can only come back once a month. And his younger brother Li Weimin is now in the first grade of junior high school, and he is a scumbag.

The people of the previous generation inevitably have the idea of ​​valuing sons over daughters. Li Dengke gave birth to four daughters in a row, and it was only when the fifth son was born that Li Weidong was born. Naturally, he took care of Li Weidong in every possible way. Attitude, but at that time everyone was poor, and there was no material condition to help the younger brother.

After dinner, the scumbag younger brother Li Weimin ran out to play with friends. Father Li Dengke turned on the radio and leaned back in his chair.

Although there were already black-and-white TVs at that time, Li Weidong's economic conditions still made it impossible to buy such a thing. It was very good to have a radio.

Hatoyama will hold a banquet, make friends with me, have thousands of cups, and will socialize...

An excerpt from the Peking Opera Red Lantern sounded on the radio, and Li Dengke hummed along while playing the beat with his hands.

Li Weidong helped his mother clean up the dishes.

Weidong, after a tiring day in the workshop, I went into the house and changed my clothes. I washed it for you. The mother said with a loving look on her face.

Li Weidong nodded, returned to the back room and changed out of the dark blue tooling.

The furnishings in the room were both familiar and unfamiliar. Li Weidong looked at his younger self in the mirror, and was dumbfounded for a while.

This mirror was taken away when I moved, and I can't find it after the second move.

Li Weidong sighed, he suddenly became confused about his future.

It is said that I am a reborn person who knows history well, so I should be able to become a billionaire easily! Li Weidong muttered to himself.

But when it was his turn, he really couldn't think of a good way to make money for a while.

Go to the post office to buy a bunch of monkey tickets? Let's not say that the monkey tickets were issued in 1980.

Can you still buy it now. It will be more than 20 years since the monkey ticket price rises.

Go out and set up a stall as a self-employed person? I'm afraid I'll be beaten to death by my father! I am a regular employee of a large state-owned enterprise, but I cannot afford to lose that person.

Playing with treasury bonds and foreign exchange? I don't have the capital yet, and the wind of crackdowns in 1983 has just been blown. If I go to do that, maybe I will be caught as a speculation. If I don't earn the money, I will go to jail for a few more years.

Li Weidong sighed helplessly.

In the 1990s, saying that a person was a self-employed person meant that the person made a lot of money and would be envied by many people. In the 1980s, especially in the early 1980s, self-employed was definitely a derogatory term.

In the early 1980s, the self-employed were synonymous with unemployed youths and even prisoners of labor reform, which were incompatible with mainstream society.

For employees of state-owned enterprises, the word self-employed is even more dazzling to the ears.

In the family home of a state-owned enterprise, if someone's child becomes a self-employed person, it is simply a shame for the whole family, and the parents can't lift their heads in front of others.

If it is a rural person, if they go to the city to set up a stall and make money, they will be regarded as the hope of the whole village; but if it is a child of a state-owned enterprise, if they set up a street stall, it will definitely be a shame for the whole factory.

Therefore, the children of state-owned enterprise employees would rather go to a state-owned enterprise to be a temporary worker than to become a self-employed person in a training stall.

What's more, Li Weidong himself is a formal employee of a state-owned enterprise, and it is even more unrealistic to be a self-employed.

As written in the rebirth novel, rebirth went back to the late 1970s and early 1980s, started a business, followed the spring breeze of reform and opening up, developed all the way, rushed out of Asia, went to the world, and became a Fortune 500 in a few years. , to enter the Forbes list, to call Bill Gates and Jobs brothers, that is even more nonsense.

In China in the early 1980s, apart from special economic zones, there was no soil for private enterprises to survive. Although the policy has been gradually liberalized, but at that time, after all, it was an era of transition from a planned economy to a market economy, and the planned economy still dominated.

This also means that almost all the means of production are allocated within the plan. State-owned enterprises will take away most of the means of production, and the rest will be taken away by collective enterprises. Private enterprises cannot obtain planned means of production.

For example, electricity, energy, transportation, land, infrastructure, etc., are also given priority to state-owned enterprises, then collective enterprises, and private enterprises can't get anything.

Without electricity, energy, land, transportation, and even raw materials, how can private enterprises survive?

Throughout the 1980s, the private economy was almost always developed in the form of small workshops, such as frying melon seeds and frying chili sauce. Such small workshops would hardly occupy production materials, nor would they be used by various plans. Stuck neck.

In 1984, when they went to sea to do business, they could only be like the early Wenzhou merchants, carrying a large bag of small commodities and shuttling between cities.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong couldn't help but scolded: Rebirth novels are all nonsense! I have been reborn, but I still have to continue to live in a state-owned enterprise!