Chapter 61 Salary Increase

The pit brother Li Weimin was playing with the TV outside, while Li Weidong went back to his room, closed the door, and hid the 25 million yen cashier's check.

Although the yen is not the US dollar, it is also foreign exchange. In that era of foreign exchange shortage, as long as foreign exchange from developed countries is a good thing.

25 million yen is equivalent to 100,000 US dollars. If you go to the black market, it is enough to exchange 1 million yuan. However, Li Weidong is a little worried about whether black market merchants can get 1 million yuan.

In 1985, there was 1 million RMB, which should be regarded as the top rich man in China at that time!

With this 25 million yen, Li Weidong will also have funds when he goes to sea in the future. At least it is more than enough to acquire a few township collective enterprises that are about to go bankrupt.

However, Li Weidong does not intend to move here for the time being. It is only 1985, and the state's policy and attitude towards private enterprises is still unclear.

The second reason is that the Plaza Accord is about to be signed.

After the Plaza Accord was signed, in just three months, the yen appreciated by 20%, which means that Li Weidong only needs to wait three months, and the 25 million yen can be exchanged for an additional 20,000 US dollars.

Do nothing for three months and make a steady profit of 20%, isn't it better than going to the sea to do business incense!

How can it be possible to get 20% of the profit within three months if you keep yourselves in business, don't speculate, and don't play finance?

Therefore, Li Weidong's best choice is to take the cashier's check of 25 million yen and wait for the yen to appreciate.

It is also because of the Plaza Agreement that Li Weidong offered to ask for 25 million yen instead of 100,000 US dollars.

Tianfeng may feel that paying in Japanese yen is what it earned by itself, but in fact, with the appreciation trend of Japanese yen, it is more cost-effective to hold Japanese yen than to hold US dollar in the next few years.

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Early the next morning, Li Weidong returned to the freight office and reported to the director Zhao Guodong about the translation.

After listening to Li Weidong's report, Zhao Guodong nodded happily and said, Our freight forwarders travel from south to north, and we need to have a good relationship with various agencies, not only our local agencies in Qinghe, such as those in the province, but also Organizations and units in other places must also have good relations, so that if our car encounters trouble in other places, we can also find someone to solve the problem.

Xiao Li, it is a good thing that you can connect with the foreign trade department of Tianjin this time. Tianjin has a port, and if there is a port, the transportation of goods is indispensable. If we have business dealings with the port of Tianjin in the future, we must Count on you to go out! By the way, when did you learn Japanese? I remember that this is not taught in our company's children's school.

Li Weidong had long guessed that Zhao Guodong would ask about this matter, and he had already thought about his words: When my father was studying, he just caught up with the devils to call, and North China became an occupied area at that time, and many schools were forced to Teach Japanese.

So it is. Zhao Guodong nodded, and he did not ask in detail.

Mr. Li Dengke was not from a poor peasant background, and Zhao Guodong also heard a little about it. In that era, not being a poor peasant was a very shameful thing. Zhao Guodong felt that if he asked in detail, it would be more like exposing people's scars, so he seemed to be a master and talked about martial arts. .

Li Weidong got up and planned to leave: Director Zhao, I have nothing else to do, I will go back to the dispatch room first.

Okay, you go back first! Oh, yes, there is one more thing, our office will raise wages soon! Zhao Guodong added.

The salary increase should have nothing to do with me. I have already done it on behalf of workers. Li Weidong said.

Li Weidong was originally paid for the cadre's salary, and the dispatcher can get a bonus of 35 yuan, so Li Weidong's salary has reached the ceiling level, and basically there is no way to increase it.

However, Zhao Guodong said: This time the salary increase is also due to you. Not only you, but our entire company, the salary will change.

There's such a big commotion? Li Weidong was slightly surprised. The salary changes of thousands of people were quite complicated.

Zhao Guodong continued to explain: This wage reform is nationwide. At the beginning of the year, didn't the state issue a document, and now the detailed implementation rules have come out. What our Qinghe Prefectural Committee means is to start reforming from large enterprises first. Then there are medium-sized enterprises, and finally small enterprises, so our transportation companies are the first to be reformed.”

Li Weidong nodded suddenly, he finally remembered the matter of the wage reform of state-owned enterprises.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state still practiced the supply system. As employees of state-owned enterprises, all daily necessities were issued by the state.

For example, in East China, each person has two sets of single clothes, one set of cotton-padded clothes, two pairs of socks, one pair of cotton shoes, two towels, one coat for three years, one mosquito net for five years, one piece of soap per month, and two haircuts per month. and many more.

In the mid-1950s, the state carried out wage reform, and enterprises adopted an eight-level wage system. In this salary system, rank is more important than position.

Positions can only determine powers, responsibilities and tasks, while rank can determine status and remuneration. Therefore, there will be a situation where the salary of the eighth-level worker is higher than that of the factory director.

This wage system has been going on for more than 20 years. After the reform and opening up, the wage system formulated in the 1950s has not been able to adapt to the pace of economic development, and the basic salary can no longer meet the needs of employees. change.

In the 1950s, working hard is what it should be, and what kind of bonus is needed. At the end of the year, an advanced honor, a model worker, a certificate of merit, and a big red flower are the best incentives.

In the early 1980s, bonuses were still limited, capped at $35 a month. At that time, the principle of equal distribution was still adhered to. Even among employees of different enterprises, there would not be too much gap between the rich and the poor.

The state also realized that equal distribution hindered economic development, so it began various reforms. The state allowed enterprises to have a certain amount of independent property and management authority, and allowed enterprises to combine production responsibilities with economic benefits, and then implemented the reform of profits and taxes. The introduction of corporate income tax into the field of profit distribution of state-owned enterprises enables state-owned enterprises to embark on the road of self-management and self-financing.

In this series of reforms, the wage reform of state-owned enterprises is a key point.

The state hopes to break the drawbacks of egalitarianism and eating a big pot of rice, link the wages of state-owned enterprise employees with the economic benefits of state-owned enterprises, and thoroughly implement the principle of distribution according to work and more pay for more work. Only in this way can the enthusiasm of the workers be mobilized.

So at the beginning of 1985, the state officially issued a notice to reform the wages of enterprises. The specific implementation measures are to cancel the so-called wage standard and implement floating wages and floating bonuses.

Simply put, as long as the business benefits are good enough, more money can be given to employees. In the same way, if the company's efficiency is very poor, and it loses money every year, you should not be able to pay wages.

State-owned transportation companies are obviously the kind of companies that are profitable enough. In the era of waiting for trucks, every truck was a money printing machine.

At that time, truck drivers were originally high-paying occupations, but they were all paid dead wages. No matter how good the efficiency of the transportation company, the truck drivers also ate a big pot of rice, but they only had two spoonfuls more than others.

After the wage reform, the more truck drivers deliver goods, the higher the bonus the company will give. It is possible to increase the bonus from 35 yuan a month to more than 100 yuan.

The high bonuses in turn motivated drivers, and the so-called Dora Run transportation pattern was officially formed.

The state-run transportation industry has finally ushered in its most glorious era.