Unexpectedly, Fang Chen actually said that, and Ma Jinquan was a little shocked. However, seeing Fang Chen's insistence, he had no choice but to take Fang Chen and others to Rainbow Company.

Like most old state-owned enterprises, Rainbow Company occupies a large area and is located in the central city of Weiyang. It is surrounded by various family areas, restaurants, vegetable markets, convenience stores, etc., which are scattered like stars.

The breath of life.

Of course, the factory building was as dilapidated as most old state-owned enterprises. Fang Chen took a quick look and found that, apart from the office building, the youngest factory building in the entire Rainbow Factory was probably built in the 1960s, at least thirty years ago.

history.

And what surprised Fang Chen the most was that although the employees of Rainbow Company were actively cleaning the factory area, their complexions were not very good. Some could even be called fair-faced, with their cheeks down.

She was so concave that she lost face.

"Director Ma, can all employees in the factory go to work normally? How is the salary payment situation?"

Fang Chen glanced around and asked casually.

Hearing this, Ma Jinquan's expression changed drastically. He never expected that Fang Chen would ask this question.

After a few seconds, he said with a bitter look on his face: "Because the factory used to mainly support black and white TVs, but now who still watches black and white TVs, so since the early 1990s, the economic efficiency has been declining.

We can only survive on a small number of orders and government grants."

"This situation has not improved so far. Therefore, except for some technicians who have invested in CRT picture tubes, the employees in the factory are basically on the sidelines. To be honest, if you were not here today, there are many employees.

I haven’t seen them in almost a year.”

"As for the salary..." Having said this, Ma Jinquan glanced at Fang Chen with a guilty look, and finally gritted his teeth and said directly: "Only 0% of the basic salary is paid a month, which is about one hundred and twenty yuan.

"

"I know the price given to you is a bit high, but don't worry, I guarantee that I will be able to produce qualified 19-inch or above CRT picture tubes, so that the company can enter normal operation and contribute to Qingtian's revenue. If I can't

, I will no longer work as the factory director."

Ma Jinquan's eyes turned red and he patted his chest vigorously, as if giving a military order to Fang Chen.

According to the current market, Caihong Company can only survive if it produces CRT picture tubes of 19 inches or above.

After all, the smallest color TV produced by color TV companies now is 19 inches, and if it is smaller than 19 inches, consumers will not be willing to buy it.

This is also the reason why he imported a 19-inch CRT picture tube production line from Dongbo.

But it has to be said that for a company like Caihong Company, which has just developed a 1-inch CRT picture tube, the 19-inch CRT picture tube is really a huge challenge, even if there are Japanese people who can provide guidance.

And even if we can invite Dongwa people to come over for guidance, we can’t always do so because the cost is too high and we can’t afford it.

He still feels pain from the three previous invitations.

Fang Chen turned his head and looked at Ma Jinquan with a strange expression.

He listened to Ma Jinquan's report. It sounded good just now, but now the taste has changed.

What do you mean by only paying 0% of the basic salary per month? One hundred and twenty yuan is a bit high?

And why did Ma Jinquan, the factory director, quit his job when 19CRT picture tubes could not be produced?

"Director Ma, I think you seem to have misunderstood something. I don't think it's high for everyone to stay on the job without coming to work, and then pay 10 yuan a month, and I'm not forcing you to move here immediately."

Come out with the 19CRT picture tube, take your time, don't rush, and I'm not here to find fault, but to solve your problem."

Fang Chen looked at Ma Jinquan and said seriously with a slightly helpless expression.

"You really don't think it's high for me to give you 10 yuan a month as living expenses?"

As soon as Fang Chen said these words, Ma Jinquan looked excited and said with bursts of joy in his eyes.

The reason why he felt guilty just now was actually because of this.

You know, the factory had basically run out of gas as early as two years ago. If he hadn't been able to hold on, the factory would have gone bankrupt and closed down, becoming a ruin under the tide of the times.

After all, Weiyang City doesn't want to be burdened with Rainbow, so it's better to dump it directly.

Therefore, in the first two years, there was basically no money in the factory. Not to mention those who were waiting for jobs, even those who were still working in the factory were owed wages and other things.

Not to mention pensions, medical reimbursements, etc.

And the reason why it has become like this now, that it can pay out 10 yuan, and pay half of the money owed to the big guys, it still has to start with the 50 million yuan investment in Qingtian Chip.

Well, that’s right, the 10 yuan for the current unemployed employees in the factory actually comes from this 50 million.

Logically speaking, the 10 yuan should not come out of the 50 million. After all, the 50 million given to him by Qingtian Chip was used to purchase a 19-inch CRT picture tube production line to ensure that Caihong Company can

Stay on the right track and create benefits for Qingtian.

In other words, Qingtian should not have to bear the burden of Rainbow Company’s past history.

Even according to the cases of other companies being acquired and taking shares, the first thing he should do is actually to negotiate with the government, and both parties should jointly contribute a sum of money to buy out all the so-called unemployed employees with their seniority, that is,

laid off!

After all, now that they can't create any benefits, it's normal for them to be abandoned, which can be regarded as allowing the new company to go into battle with ease.

But he didn't want to let it go. He really didn't want to let it go.

These employees have dedicated half their lives to Rainbow Company. Young people can say it better. But if they are laid off, what will happen to those people who are already in their 40s and 50s?

Therefore, he secretly hid it from Zhang Rujing and paid everyone a salary of 10 yuan per month. He also reimbursed half of the previous wages, pensions, and medical benefits owed.

As a result, the R&D and production funds for 19-inch CRT picture tubes are indeed a bit stretched.

After all, this CRT picture tube production line, even if Hitachi does not want it, is worth almost 20 million. And then shipping it across the ocean, including disassembly and installation, the cost will already be 30 million.

Moreover, installation and debugging are always impossible to do all at once. They will always encounter various problems. If they can be solved, they will try their best to solve them by themselves according to the installation instructions.

If it really can't be solved, you can only ask Hitachi's engineering and technical personnel to come over for guidance.

It doesn't matter if you come here, it's just a team of two or three people, and if you come here for about a week, you'll get two hundred thousand from him!

It’s so expensive!

This 200,000 yuan is enough for him to provide living security to one-third of the entire factory, and less than 2,000 employees.

So, he can do it without inviting people from Hitachi, but sometimes he really has no choice.

So far, he has hired people from Hitachi three times and spent 600,000.

It was precisely because of this that he felt so guilty when Fang Chen asked this question.

"I really don't think it's high, but I feel it's a little low. And Director Ma, you should actually report this matter to Dr. Zhang earlier."

Fang Chen looked at Ma Jinquan and said with a somewhat complicated expression.

When he saw the appearance of those employees just now, he felt that something was wrong. Why were so many of them disheveled and with sunken cheeks? It looked like they were living a bad life and couldn't even satisfy themselves with normal food and drink.

Thinking about the current situation of many state-owned enterprises, he immediately guessed something.

However, the reality was more cruel than he imagined. Only one person was given 10 yuan.

If it was the early 1990s, 10 yuan would be barely enough, but now it is 1997, and wages and prices have already increased. The average urban employee earns almost 500 yuan a month.

Yuan, like Qingtian employees, the average income is already fifteen or six hundred yuan.

And 10 yuan is not even a quarter of the normal salary of ordinary urban workers, so what can they do?

Not to mention, there is a high probability that for these people, 10 yuan is enough to support a family and a child, which is even more insufficient, and even food and drink cannot be guaranteed.

Of course, he also knew that under normal circumstances, if Ma Jinquan secretly handed out the 10 yuan, it would have been overdue.

After all, capital is not charity. When capital invests in an enterprise, it allows the enterprise to make money for it, and the more it earns, the faster the better.

As for the baggage on the body, the lighter it can be, the better.

And he is obviously also a capitalist. After all, a person with a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars, a company with 500,000 or 600,000 employees, an annual output value of more than 200 billion Chinese dollars, and is called the richest man in the world. In this world, it is difficult to

Don't be called a capitalist.

He has all the characteristics of a capitalist, and he is not a philanthropist.

But within the scope of his ability, when he could solve the problem by pulling out a hair on his body and benefit thousands of families, he didn't mind releasing a small amount of kindness.

In addition, perhaps using simple money and interest calculations, these people in front of him cannot create benefits for him, but he believes that with his investment and the self-struggle of these people, all his investment can be recovered, and

obtain benefits.

It's just that this day may come a little later and the benefits will be less.

Just like all the employees of Qingtian, even if they receive wages that are unattainable in ordinary people's eyes, in his opinion, the labor these employees of Qingtian have put in is worth the money he has paid.

In the final analysis, it is the Yang Zhu school of thought that can only benefit the world by plucking a few cents, and it is those capitalists who have been blinded by lard and blood.

He was glad that his heart was not that dark yet.

In addition, judging from the fact that so many people came to the factory voluntarily to clean up after Ma Jinquan said hello, it can be seen that Rainbow Company has not been disbanded yet, and there is still a force surging in people's hearts.

"Indeed, if you had told me earlier that you had these difficulties, it would have been perfectly fine for the company to invest some more." Zhang Rujing said with some regret.

Although this may sound unbelievable, investment companies, far from blaming Ma Jinquan for doing this, can actually invest more.

But what Zhang Rujing wants to say is that in Qingtian, this is indeed achievable.

Compared to Ma Jinquan, he naturally knew more about Fang Chen. Fang Chen was willing to pay such seemingly impossible and unnecessary money.

Qingtian Chip is a good example.
To be continued...