Chapter 169 Senhe Electronics Factory
Suksi is an industrial area located on the north coast of Daga. It is not the largest industrial area in Daga, but it is the industrial area with the most concentrated Chinese-shang factories and the place with the most concentrated Li family factories.
After hanging up Juan's phone, Zhou Ming drove here with Su Han. Now that Indonesia has just ended the riot, Ambassador Liu Chuanming has a lot of work to do, Zhou Ming is embarrassed to let an ambassador follow him every day as a nanny.
As the concentration of Chinese-style factories, Sukxi Industrial Zone is naturally impacted by the wave of anti-Chinese. Compared with the newly repaired Hongxi Village and the covered Daga city, the situation in Sukxi Industrial Zone is relatively real. Not only are the gates of various factories broken, but all kinds of discarded garbage on the street are uncleared, and you can even see the blood on the beach in the middle of the roadside.
"It seems that President Toha just did something superficially for us and the international community to see," said Su Han.
"I'm not surprised at all. After all, if he really cared, he wouldn't have caused an anti-Chinese incident." Zhou Ming said.
Then they came to Senhe Electronics Manufacturing Factory, which is a factory affiliated to the Li family and is also a relatively core enterprise.
When they arrived here, although the door had not been completely repaired, it was still hanging on both sides, and the iron door was torn open, at least the factory entrance had been cleaned and rinsed, except for the crack in the ground, there was no blood stains visible.
Several Chinese were surrounding a sign at the door, and Zhou Ming and Su Han decided to get out of the car and take a look.
"Sorry, what are you doing?" Zhou Ming went over and asked.
They originally saw Zhou Ming and the others get off the car, and subconsciously ran away, but then they heard that Zhou Ming was speaking Chinese, so they breathed a sigh of relief. It was obvious that they had just experienced the anti-Chinese wave, which made them all become frightened birds.
It is also for this reason that although Zhou Ming and the others speak Chinese, they are still very alert and said, "Who are you?"
But before Zhou Ming could answer, someone else shouted, "He is Zhou Ming, the hero Zhou Ming who saved all of us Indonesian Chinese and kidnapped and forced Toha to terminate the anti-Chinese epidemic! I was fortunate to meet him at the clan conference, and he is Zhou Ming!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke. Not only did he dance excitedly, but he also swayed and jumped up while holding their heads.
Of course, no one would dislike him at this time, because others were surprised and excited to look at Zhou Ming, and came over to say hello to Zhou Ming one by one. They did not retreat until their heads stopped. Although they were a little unwilling, they were not disappointed and still full of excitement, as if seeing Zhou Ming was something they would be proud of in their lives.
Including their heads, because he drank them back, he came out with a shy face to shake hands with Zhou Ming.
This made Zhou Ming a little helpless. Although he had been reborn for several years, he was never ready to be an idol!
But this also has a benefit. At least they know it is Zhou Ming, so they can tell everything they have to say. Zhou Ming also knows that the factory manager is Li Shusen, and his name is very suitable for the factory he manages.
After tidying up his mood for a moment, Li Shusen, the young factory manager here, replied: "Sir, we are recruiting workers. This is the recruitment notice we posted."
"Is it because of the previous anti-Chinese wave that caused all the workers in the factory to run away? But now everything has passed, and they are not coming back to work?" Su Han asked in confusion.
This problem made Li Shusen feel a little embarrassed: "In fact, it is not. Although anti-China has a certain impact on Chinese workers, most of the workers in our factory are still mainly Indonesian locals. After the wave, many workers came back to work, and the workers here were not enough."
The people next to him seemed to want to show it in front of Zhou Ming and said, "Yes, it was not enough, but now there are even fewer people in the anti-Chinese wave. It was originally planned that the factory needed a thousand workers, but now there are less than three hundred."
"three hundred?"
Zhou Ming and Su Han looked at each other and saw surprise in each other's eyes. They came out of the factory and mine, so they were very clear about the situation in the factory. Generally speaking, as a commercial factory, if more than 30% of the workers are lost, it will be very uncomfortable, and more than half will feel unsustainable. Now there are less than 300 people left, which means that only more than 20% of the workers in this factory are working.
Moreover, through the thick layer of recruitment notices on the propaganda column, a "paper wall" is almost formed on the propaganda column. It can be seen that even though the recruitment here is not stopped much, it is not a whim to post it again today.
"Why is it so small? Is it a matter of salary? Or is it discrimination against Chinese businessmen?" Zhou Ming asked him.
Zhou Ming’s problem is very serious. As the small factory manager said, no matter how big the anti-Chinese wave is, it has ended now. The original workers will come back. Unless a massacre of hundreds of thousands of people broke out thirty years ago, it is impossible to make a thousand-man factory fall to less than 200 people. There is only one possibility, that is, there were not many workers in this factory, and even fewer after the impact of the anti-Chinese wave.
Sure enough, Li Shusen shook his head and told Zhou Ming: "No, there is anything discrimination against this thing, but no one can get over money. Besides, our electronics factory is also a factory that the Li family attaches more importance to. The salary and benefits are not bad. The most important problem is that there are not so many qualified workers here in Indonesia."
After Li Shusen said this, the cadres of other factories around him also said: "Yes, it's not that I'm racial discrimination. Those Indonesians are really stupid and stupid and lazy. Usually, we Chinese workers can learn the work that we just need to teach it three or four times, but we Chinese workers can finish the work that we Chinese workers can do in an hour, but they need three or four hours!"
"We usually don't dare to use such workers, but there is no way to do this in Indonesia, but it's okay if you are a little stupid or slow. They also have a very bad habit. They don't have the spirit of contract. They often fish for three days and run the Internet for two days, and they will bluntly skip work after getting the money. So before the anti-China period, our factory had an average of more than 600 workers every day, so I thank God!"
"Mr. Zhou Ming, you said that these people are just these people. Why do they say that we have robbed their wealth and their jobs? But they don't think about what they can do! You must know that our factory has tried its best to give all the technical work to Chinese workers. All the most basic manual work is left to them, which can be done with just a pair of hands!"
"If this is the case with us Chinese, I don't know how much more we can do than them. We have done more than them, so why can't we have more wealth..."
Seeing their nagging intensified, Zhou Ming had to interrupt them.
"I sympathize with your experience in Indonesia, but have you not reacted to the clan's situation? A factory with a scale of 1,000 people work on average less than 600 workers a day, which is too exaggerated!" Zhou Ming said.
Li Shusen sighed again and said, "Why didn't there be any response? It's like this, both the Chinese-shang factory and the Indonesian factory are like this. Moreover, the financial statements and funds in our factory are also very good, as long as the factory can operate, it's enough."
Zhou Ming frowned: "No one works in the factory, how can the financial report and funds look good?"
Li Shusen still shook his head: "I don't know this either, but it is said that there are many foreign investors investing in Indonesia. As long as our factories can continue to produce output, no matter how much quantity and quality, as long as one-third of them can meet the standards, those foreign investors will continue to invest additionally."
"After saying this, I remembered it. Just a week before the anti-Chinese wave, a group of Japanese people came to our store and factory for inspection. It is said that they also wanted to carry out investment and cooperation projects. It seemed that they signed a contract worth billions of Indonesian rupees that day. With so much money in the company's account, as long as the factory is not as hard as it is now, it is still good."
Zhou Ming nodded and said that it was the case. He then asked: "Then can we go to the factory to see your production workshop?"
Li Shusen hesitated for a while before gritting his teeth and said, "There are definitely not the rest of the world, but Mr. Zhou Ming, you can make an exception!"
Then Li Shusen let Zhou Ming and the others go in, and personally served as a tour guide for Zhou Ming.
In fact, it is not entirely true for the tour guide. After all, this factory only has two factories, so Zhou Ming and the others first came to the larger factory.
"This is our assembly center and the place where we lack the most manpower." Li Shusen told Zhou Ming.
However, even if he didn't say it, Zhou Ming could see that in this huge factory, there were more than a dozen rows of workbenches arranged in a dense array, enough to accommodate hundreds of workers to work at the same time. But now there are only two rows of workbenches on lights, and even these two rows of workbenches are not full of workers.
This makes the entire factory look empty. If you put aside other ideas and just look at the situation here, Zhou Ming would think that the factory will go bankrupt soon, but in fact, there is a lot of funds in the account of this factory.
"In fact, the work here is not complicated. It is to assemble the parts we produce on the workbench in the order of the drawings we give. Generally, even if no one teaches you, you can be skilled in the order marked on the drawings. "
Li Shusen continued to introduce to Zhou Ming carefully: "We also gave a two-month probation period, which means that during these two months we calculated our salary by day, and after two months, we will be paid on time by regular business insurance stipulated by Indonesian government. This is already a very good way to take care of the workers here, but... there is no one!"
Li Shusen sighed heavily at the end of his speech, feeling very helpless.
Zhou Ming frowned at the empty production workshop, dazed and dazed, thinking about something.
Chapter completed!