Chapter 1293

Ten kilometers south of the heavy industrial zone of Jin Ling County, the terrain is flat and open.

In the past, it was a forest, but later all the trees were cut down, and the land was turned over to plant grain. Now, the fertile fields are gone, and instead, a large area of buildings has been built, with chimneys emitting smoke, boilers, large factory buildings, and even a pile of buildings.

Today, it is very lively here.

Everyone in the county who has a say has come, and nearby villagers have also gathered to watch the excitement. Some are beating drums, some are dancing, some are setting off firecrackers, reporters are interviewing, and photographers are recording.

This is a great day for the completion and grid connection of the thermal power plant, and everyone in the county who has a say has come to participate in the grid connection ceremony.

"Solving the electricity problem, our county's development has also stepped onto the fast track." Secretary Xu stood on the side with Wang Yan smoking, looking at the lively scene, and sighed with a smile.

He asked uncertainly, "Can it really increase production capacity and increase employment?"

"Leader, it's already this time, why are you still not confident?" Wang Yan said with a smile, "The factory buildings are all built, and the transformation, upgrading, and installation of production equipment are all completed. It's just that there isn't enough electricity, so there's no way to start full production, right?

The employment list has long been drawn up, and simple shacks have also been built. After the grid connection ceremony is over, we will directly issue a document to let the selected people enter the city. Then, with the old staff leading the work, after one month, the output of our various factories will at least double.

The county's major construction is about to start, Leader. I have already asked people to start producing street lights. Before the end of the year, our county town will have lights at night. Not to mention full county power, the staff in the county will definitely be able to use electric lights. By then, we will also have the conditions to hold some activities at night to enrich everyone's life."

"Street lights are not urgent; let's produce first. If production is brought up, then everything will be there. You must do a good job in ensuring agricultural mechanization and accelerate the speed of promotion. People's hearts are moved; the earlier it's solved, the easier it will be."

Wang Yan responded, then raised a question: "Leader, our county's manpower is not enough."

"Not enough? There are nearly 60,000 people in the county town now, and you haven't even solved all the people in the city."

"It will all be solved before the end of the year. The factory will expand its scale, and it is expected to absorb more than 30,000 people within half a year, which means that by the middle of next year, we will have 100,000 staff in the factory. Last time we counted, our county population was more than 260,000, an increase of 20,000 in three years. This increase has to be taken care of by the elderly, and perhaps women have to stay at home, which consumes a part of the labor force.

At the same time, we have these 100,000 staff members producing, and these 100,000 people are already most of the labor force in the county. The rest are mostly the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant. But the land still needs to be farmed, the county's public construction needs to be done, and staff housing needs to be built, so what should we do?"

Secretary Xu was silent for a while. He hadn't thought about this problem before. Now that Wang Yan said it, he also understood that the labor force in the county could not support larger-scale production and construction.

It was mainly because no one expected Jin Ling's development to be so fast. He, a leader in the midst of it, had also been dazzled. Only then did he realize that in just three short years, Jin Ling had developed into what it was today.

"So fast..." After a long time, he sighed with a smile, "Who would have thought of this day before? It's just a pity that there are too many people and we can't raise them well. But in three years, our county has 260,000 people, but it has reached the point of having no one to use."

He let out a long breath and looked at Wang Yan, "Are you trying to get me to go to the city to coordinate and ask for some support?"

"Coordination is coordination, but it's not support," Wang Yan said, "We are helping the poor brother counties around us, providing a way for the people around us to earn money, the advanced leading the backward, so that everyone can live a good life.

The three counties around us haven't they long since seen that our life is good and been jealous? Many girls have married over here to enjoy happiness.

Just like using the rural labor force in our county now, pay them some money, but it must be lower than the wages of the people in our county. In this way, we let them do the county's public construction and staff housing, and we extract manpower to enter the factory and farm the land.

Of course, it's not extracting them all at once; there must be a gradual process. However, after expanding production, profits increase, and we can expand the production of staff housing. The county's rest homes and other public construction can all correspondingly add some manpower and improve the speed of construction."

"Okay, tomorrow I will first meet with the leaders of the surrounding counties, and then go to the city." Secretary Xu turned to ask, "There is another problem. We have recruited so many outsiders to work, what if they don't want to leave? Our household registration is linked to welfare..."

"Absolutely cannot let people easily move their household registration. How can we afford such huge welfare expenses? The construction in the county definitely cannot stop, and there will only be more and more.

But this problem is placed in front of us, so we must consider it well... In this way, Leader, let's study a standard for settlement.

It's definitely not possible for anyone to settle in Jin Ling and enjoy our welfare. How would the people in our county think? They worked themselves to death to create it, and let others come over to eat and drink for free?

So we must have such a standard, for example, having some particularly important ability, being talent we urgently need, or making some special contribution to our Jin Ling can directly join. Others must meet what academic qualifications, what majors, how many years they have worked for our Jin Ling, and how much contribution they have made, only then can they join.

The standard must be set high; one is to screen talent, and the other is to give our people an explanation, letting them know what kind of people are enjoying their welfare.

Speaking of this, Leader, the construction of our staff's ideological awareness still cannot be relaxed. If people are rich, their thinking will be relaxed. Don't let good comrades in the collective evolve into bad elements in the collective.

And on the other hand, with the increase of the floating population from outside, the situation in the county will be more complex. The problems of social security, stability, and yellow, gambling, and drugs are a challenge for our public security system."

Secretary Xu nodded and said: "Now the county is the factory, and the factory is the county. Divide your security section into the county public security bureau, and transfer the establishment over. Unified management is much more convenient. Let's take precautions, do a good job in the county's police construction first, and don't be so passive when chaos starts."

"The leader is far-sighted. No problem, I will promote it when I go back."

Wang Yan didn't refuse and directly agreed to this matter. What Secretary Xu said was the truth; the security section in the factory was actually not very useful now. What was currently playing a role was the factory's supervision and inspection group, as well as the supervision and reporting mechanism of the staff regulations, and the resolute crackdown on the administrative style within the factory.

After the rectification campaign in the factory, a large number of senior leaders stepped down, and a pile of small leaders around them left the factory, all doing hard and tiring work on the construction site, and the staff were already somewhat trembling.

Although the breeding of corruption could not be avoided, fear made these people dare not do big things.

On the other hand, the supervision and reporting mechanism within the factory continuously cultivated the staff's sense of being masters, continuously repeating the idea that every grass and tree in the factory was shared by everyone, and no one was allowed to cause damage. The staff's supervision of the leadership was very enthusiastic and active.

Don't let "not reporting" become a conventional tacit understanding, and don't let reporting be said to have nothing to do with you, etc. These are all shameless malicious distortions and sophistry; absolutely don't let the staff have this kind of thinking...

Public ownership, public supervision, continuous self-examination and self-correction, self-innovation, the atmosphere in the factory will not be bad, and the future of Jin Ling people will not be bad...

So now there are people in the factory who steal things, who embezzle for personal gain, who take more and occupy more, and they are always exposed, forming an atmosphere in the factory, which is very good.

Naturally, there is no such need for the security section, so turning to public security, maintaining the overall public security in the county, is exactly professional, and people are used to their best...

Secretary Xu nodded, sighed, and asked: "I remember your brother-in-law should graduate next year, right? Not coming back?"

"The child has ambition, saying he doesn't want to rely on my nepotism, and our county's chemical development is not very good, so he wants to go to a large factory."

Seeing Wang Yan raise his eyebrows at him, Secretary Xu reacted and said with a smile: "Jinzhou Chemical?"

"Isn't it? I said let me say hello, but he wouldn't do it, insisting that his grades are the best, not believing that others can compete with him."

"Then should I say hello or not?"

"Not for now. If he can get in, it's better. If he can't get in, it's not too late for you to speak."

"Okay, find me anytime. I dare not say anything else, but I guarantee there will be no problem with this matter."

Secretary Xu gave his guarantee, then walked to one side, letting the reporters interview and take pictures...

The thermal power plant construction was completed. Because of the construction period, the hydroelectric plant had to wait until next year to end. Just as mentioned before, Jin Ling solved the electricity problem, and the whole county started construction on a larger scale.

The textile machinery began to launch more machinery, the footwear and clothing factory began to increase more clothing styles, the chemical fiber project was separated from chemical engineering and became an independent chemical fiber factory, and also began large-scale production of various raw materials. The textile factory added more production lines, producing various different blended materials, and because of the different materials, it was distinguished from the footwear and clothing factories that followed the trend nationwide, still maintaining the lead.

The textile production chain was fully fired, operating in all directions; as long as it made money, they would build it. The textile factory's sales staff ran around the country like crazy, promoting products.

The agricultural machinery factory also began to manufacture agricultural machinery on a larger scale and put it into the rural areas below. The rural labor force was densely entering the city, filling various factories in the county.

Steel, copper and aluminum, meat processing, canning, chemical engineering, cement, concrete, cooked food, breeding farms, plantations... a pile of factories all began to expand and improve production capacity.

The industrial development in Jin Ling County was an entire industrial chain model. To this day, Jin Ling could produce the vast majority of things itself. Machine tools were also slowly upgrading, rather than importing all high-end ones like other regions.

The things Jin Ling took out were still a minority. Wang Yan had been tinkering day and night for three years and had already laid a solid foundation. From materials to manufacturing, he had improved everything in all directions.

Secretary Xu also communicated with the leaders of the three surrounding counties as discussed, and discussed with the city, and then transferred 3,000 people from each of the three counties to Jin Ling.

This belonged to the increased labor force, some went to build houses, and some carried out public construction.

The construction of the county town must be accelerated, because after the thermal power plant was built, the speed of farmers entering the city accelerated, and the problems of food, clothing, housing, and transportation must be solved as soon as possible.

Of course, there were too many people, and it couldn't be solved in a short while, but it was always necessary to ensure a certain digestion speed.

Similarly, people from other counties who came over also had to farm, and they only worked for half the time in a year. So these 9,000 people were just a beginning, and there would be 90,000 people later.

The development and construction of the city were the blood and tears of the farmers. The achievements of the socialist Jin Ling County could not escape this point either. Relying entirely on the Jin Ling people themselves was impossible. And outsiders coming in to work, making contributions to Jin Ling's development, and wanting to have equal pay for equal work with Jin Ling people was also impossible. And this was the difference in household registration...

But in any case, the whole of Jin Ling started working in full swing in a very short time. Slogans about struggle, socialism, and safe production were hung everywhere.

Every day, entering and leaving the county town, either delivering raw materials or pulling away goods produced by Jin Ling, there were thousands of vehicle trips. The freight capacity of the train station was stronger, and naturally, more goods were transported back and forth, which was very busy.

Even though it was winter and already a bit cold, it didn't affect people's enthusiasm for struggle at all...

The advanced nature of socialism and the key role of the collective were vividly reflected at this time. Resources were concentrated, goals were unified, highly obedient, and everyone worked in one direction.

If you want to do something, as long as the conditions are met, there is nothing that cannot be done.

Even if the conditions are not met, there is still the spirit of struggle of "creating conditions to go up"...

Also because of another outbreak, Jin Ling's products began to diversify, and also became more refined, the quality was higher, and the output was also raised to a considerable degree. At this year's Canton Fair, Jin Ling's transaction volume was also a leap forward compared to last year, directly doubling, reaching more than 30 million US dollars.

Various clothing, shoes, and hats, various textile machinery, and even steel and other alloy materials, and even a batch of small agricultural machinery produced by Jin Ling were sold...

For a time, everything was competing, and it was full of vitality.

By the time all this was spread out, and production operations were carried out in an orderly manner, stably producing various things, it was already the end of the year.

The New Year atmosphere in Jin Ling also rose, which was not inferior to the liveliness of big cities. Of course, it wasn't that the population was larger or the city was bigger, but that the consumption places were more concentrated.

The whole city, the whole province, and even the whole country knew that Jin Ling people had money, high consumption ability, and the local government had a very relaxed attitude towards vendors. During such a lively time of the New Year, people from all over the place transported various things to sell here.

Last year, the county drew a street for small vendors to set up stalls, and at that time, the market had already been planned. After more than a year, a row of steel-framed shed-style buildings had been built on the west side of the city.

It both sheltered from wind and rain and centrally managed small vendors, and the demolition work was also very simple. Except for the buildings already built and the industrial zones already planned, all other buildings were prepared for demolition later.

However, although simple, it was always a concentrated place. And after the county solved the electricity problem, the first road to be powered was the road from here to the county government, for the convenience of buying and selling at night.

It was mainly because factories were mostly on three shifts, with people stopping but machines not stopping. The staff's work and rest were inconsistent, but they all had the same consumption and entertainment needs. So the various theaters, mahjong parlors, bathhouses, cinemas, libraries, Xinhua bookstores, state-run shops, state-run restaurants, supply and marketing cooperatives, and other places opened by the county were all open twenty-four hours a day.

Now that electricity was solved, having light improved safety, and at the same time, public security patrolled day and night, guaranteeing safety to the greatest extent.

Reform and opening up were accompanied by monsters and demons, especially since Jin Ling was famously wealthy, and the problems were still quite severe. Even though Jin Ling had very strict control over the population, and every person entering and leaving Jin Ling had to be registered, the scope of a county was so large, and people fleeing from all directions could not be managed.

So within Jin Ling County, losing things, and even losing children, and other things like arson, happened from time to time, and the management difficulty was very great.

For this reason, Wang Yan had already started to research surveillance. This technology appeared a few years ago and hadn't been popularized. China's large-scale installation of surveillance would not happen until after the year 2000.

So this move could not only improve the safety in the county, but also be a lucrative business in the future...

There were three steel-framed large buildings in total, one selling daily department stores, one selling food, and one selling other miscellaneous things.

At present, it could be completely said that all the people in the county had escaped poverty, and basically every family had young people aged 16 to 25. Regardless of age, regardless of marriage or childbirth, these young people had all entered the city.

One person's wage was enough to support a family, and their family members in the rural areas still participated in the distribution, which could already be said to be well-fed and well-clothed.

Grain and oil were still rationed, and still required coupons, but people could already afford non-staple food in their daily lives. They couldn't buy it every day, but they could always eat a meal every ten days or half a month.

During the New Year, of course, the consumption ability was even higher.

The market here was densely packed with people. The merchants who came to do business not only filled the three markets, but also filled both sides of the road outside, and it was almost to the gate of the county government.

Wang Yan walked with his hands behind his back, crowded in the tide of people, enjoying this liveliness.

He was not a person who liked noise, but if this noise was created by his own hands, the feeling was of course different...

The things sold here were varied: firecrackers, couplets, red paper, yellow paper, candy, tea, drinks, soda, clothing, shoes, hats, and various small commodities, chickens, ducks, geese, and various eggs, pigs, horses, cattle, sheep, donkeys, dogs, fish, shrimp, and seafood, many of which were killed on the spot.

There were also various snack stalls, mutton soup, pancakes, wontons, steamed buns, etc., which were varied, a truly lively New Year.

These things well satisfied the needs of Jin Ling people and filled the blank market in Jin Ling.

They already had the appeal to open their own shops and had reflected to the county more than once. Before, the county also had some ideas. But for this matter, the county and the factory still hadn't made up their minds.

On one hand, there was no conclusion above, and on the other hand, this involved the choice of Jin Ling people themselves.

Outsiders coming to open shops would definitely make money, so what about factory people? What if they wanted to open shops? How to calculate the money? Are benefits given or not? All these were problems.

After a period of discussion, last month, through the dual voting of the County Committee and the Factory Staff Representative Congress, it was decided not to allow outsiders to open shops, and all shops were operated by the factory. However, a market was drawn for outsiders to supplement things not available in the county.

It was just that at present, the county didn't have enough energy to manage these, and having some entertainment places, restaurants to eat, and places to buy daily necessities was enough. Wanting variety would require slow operation later, which was not necessary at present. However, it could be considered later, after all, this could also provide many jobs...

After enjoying the liveliness of the market here, Wang Yan strolled back to the factory.

Just as he arrived at the factory gate, he saw a young man squatting there from afar.

"Factory Director, hello."

"Yang Xun, you called me from far away, didn't I tell you to call me brother-in-law?"

"Brother-in-law, hello." Yang Xun scratched his head, smiling embarrassedly.

"Looking for me for something?"

"Uh... there is a little..."

Wang Yan stood still, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit one for himself, and offered one to Yang Xun, who waved his hand to refuse.

"Let's hear it." Wang Yan tilted his head at him.

"I... I don't want to work in the factory anymore..."