[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp":3,"chapter-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-368":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Get Stronger Every Payday—With One Billion Employees!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2264581,4419,"Chapter 368: Wang Xin: When Will This Ever End? Give Me a Break! The 25-Yuan Wage Hike Storm!","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-368",368,"\u003Cp>Shencheng, Zhongsha Technology Park, Orange Phone Factory Headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the packaging workshop, a production supervisor in his forties beamed at the sea of frontline workers and called out: “Good news, uh, cough, my throat’s a bit dry.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A young man pushed forward from the crowd, holding a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, eagerly offering them: “Brother Xiang, here’s a Huazhi to moisten your throat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I remember you’re Zhu Ancheng, right?” Brother Xiang took the cigarette and lighter, smiling as he asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Xiang, you’ve got an amazing memory!” Zhu Ancheng immediately gave a thumbs-up in praise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Zhu Ancheng, Packaging Workshop B7, openly violated company safety regulations—fine of five hundred yuan, second offense: termination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Xiang raised the cigarette and announced loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Ancheng’s smile vanished instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But smiles never disappear—they only shift; other coworkers in the same workshop burst into laughter, grinning like they were watching a clown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhu Ancheng dared not argue and slunk back into line, dejected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Alright, let’s get back to the real matter—our boss just made a new decision.” Brother Xiang paused halfway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Xiang, spit it out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is the boss coming to Shencheng for the annual meeting?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are we getting laid off? Other factories pay ten yuan an hour—we pay twenty. I’m scared the boss can’t afford it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the workers’ chatter, Brother Xiang smirked with disdain, then waved his hand: “Orange Phone sold fifty million units last year, smart speakers over ten million—do you think we can’t afford your wages?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Starting in February, the minimum hourly wage rises from twenty yuan to twenty-five yuan!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after he spoke, there was no cheer as expected—everyone exchanged uneasy glances, unable to believe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Brother Xiang, did you mess up? Did you mean fifteen yuan instead of twenty-five?” someone couldn’t help asking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Absolutely correct—Boss Cao just finished the meeting with us and told me himself,” Brother Xiang laughed loudly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What the fuck? Twenty-five?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Long live the boss!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can I sleep with the boss? Otherwise, I won’t feel right taking this money.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pfft! Daydreaming in broad daylight? You ungrateful little shit!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone in Packaging Workshop B7 erupted in cheers!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dozens of meters away, Packaging Workshop B6 also erupted in chaos!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Employees from A1 SMT, C6 Assembly, B3 Screen Production, D9 Antenna, and dozens of other workshops couldn’t help but cheer and clamor!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brother Xiang grinned until his eyes vanished—he’d risen from the factory floor and knew how vital hourly wages were to workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raising the hourly wage from twenty to twenty-five yuan meant the base salary jumped to 3,300 yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overtime on a workday: 37.5 yuan per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overtime on weekends: 50 yuan per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Overtime on holidays: 75 yuan per hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under current factory rules, workers could work up to four extra hours on weekdays, six on weekends and holidays—easily earning eight to nine thousand a month; during National Day, Spring Festival, or May Day, hitting ten thousand before tax wasn’t hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Workers on screw-tightening assembly lines making over ten thousand a month?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was 2013—this job, though exhausting, paid more than white-collar salaries in Beijing or Shanghai.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>News of Orange Phone’s wage hike spread through Zhongsha Technology Park, then to Saige Software Park and Huaqiangbei, eventually trending nationwide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, netizens thought twenty-five yuan an hour wasn’t impressive—but once they calculated overtime pay, they lost their minds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Based in Lucheng, bachelor’s degree in humanities, currently a website editor, salary four thousand, no meals or housing, no social insurance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m crying! I work as an operations officer in Shanghai—base salary six thousand, plus attendance bonus and incentives, take-home eight thousand—but after rent and food, I can’t save four thousand.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"AliP5 wage slave, my boss psyches me out every day, take-home pay just over nine thousand—but I still think I'd rather be tightening screws.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netizens, eyes red with envy, left bitter comments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Internet workers typically worked 9 to 10, five to six days a week—no easier than screw-tightening—but their pay was no higher than assembly-line laborers, shattering many illusions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“@Chen Yansen I’m a loyal Orange Phone user—can I get priority hiring?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“@Chen Yansen I’m a 2006 graduate of Xu Yuan—on the grounds of alumni ties, can you hire me first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“@Chen Yansen You think money makes you special? Don’t you understand you’re wrecking Shencheng’s labor market?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who forgot to zip their pants and let the lunatic out?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, netizens flooded Chen Yansen’s Weibo comments—some joking, others sincerely seeking jobs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Base salary and overtime pay at Orange Phone were just part of the income—not all of it. There were also quarterly bonuses, 20% monthly housing subsidies, meal allowances, five insurances and one fund, holiday red packets, free health checkups, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Altogether, with four days off per month, pre-tax income exceeded ten thousand yuan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus meals and housing included—saving a hundred thousand a year was possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, an economics professor published a scathing article: “Orange Phone’s wages are too high—they must be lowered to a reasonable level.” A factory owner immediately followed up, raging on Weibo: “Orange Phone maliciously raised wages and disrupted Shencheng’s labor market.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netizens burst into laughter—could raising wages be “malicious”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If raising wages is malicious, then let this malice come even harder!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can’t sleep! Who the hell is this professor? I suggest cutting his salary to three thousand—see if he still complains!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our county sanitation workers make only fifteen hundred a month—let him try doing their job for a few days.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Netizens swarmed, forcing the professor and factory owner to shut down their comment sections—but when they checked private messages, they found nothing but sweet, flattering words about their relatives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both fled, deleting their accounts overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen hadn’t noticed the online uproar—he’d spent the whole afternoon in a meeting with Wang Teng and others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Orange Tech would establish the official open-source community for Aurora Future System—AuroraFutureOpenSourceProject, abbreviated AFOSP—open to global developers to advance the Aurora Future open-source project.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The source code repository contained all necessary components to build the Aurora Future OS—developers could customize and develop using these codes; anyone could download, view, modify, and redistribute them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, launch the Aurora Future Bug Bounty Program with a reward pool of thirty million U.S. dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who discovers a system bug and submits verified proof to the official team immediately receives a reward of no less than fifty thousand U.S. dollars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen knew clearly: the more users Aurora Future OS had, the stronger its vitality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After finalizing the plan with Wang Teng, he sent a video conference invite to Mao Chaorong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, Orange Tech would fully promote Aurora Future OS through Mimo short videos, developer BBS, Facebook, and Wired magazine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old Wang, help me win this battle.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he stepped out of the meeting room, Chen Yansen clapped Wang Teng on the shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, boss,” Wang Teng nodded firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just now in the meeting room, Chen Yansen had fired him up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuck it—overthrow Android and iOS dominance in smartphones, build China’s own mobile OS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss, the wage hike at Orange Phone has gone viral online,” Ye Qiuping rushed over, holding a file.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Think I’m too stingy?” Chen Yansen joked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They’re accusing you of malicious wage hikes,” Ye Qiuping said slowly, each word deliberate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Yansen shrugged, amused—Orange Phone’s hourly wage was only twenty-five yuan, base salary just 3,300 yuan—he didn’t think that was high at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Nobody praises me?” Chen Yansen asked, frowning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Everyone else wants to go tighten screws at Orange Phone—your Weibo DMs are overflowing,” Ye Qiuping said helplessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Handle it yourself,” Chen Yansen said dismissively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had protection above—he didn’t give a damn!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Meng Yuanzhi’s connections, he could walk sideways in Hui’an!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Cao Dahua—if real trouble came, he wouldn’t skimp—he’d at least get him a titanium alloy urn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ye Qiuping watched Chen Yansen’s back, a faint smile slowly forming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She’d once thought Chen Yansen was a mess in every way except looks, physique, earning power, and emotional intelligence—womanizing, perverted, lusting after her body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, she saw he wasn’t utterly rotten—he genuinely cared for his workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Yun Su’s couriers and Kuai Run’s delivery riders received valuable stock options.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “Dialogue” team’s host, Chen Hongwei, froze upon hearing the news—he recalled Chen Yansen’s remarks on the show. Had he planned this all along?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the episode even aired, Chen Yansen had already triggered a major scandal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was easy to imagine the impact when the episode finally aired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Teacher Chen, the producer wants you in a meeting,” came a voice from outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hongwei replied, pushed his thoughts aside, turned, and walked out of the lounge to the control room behind the studio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The director, producer, and editors were all there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We just got a call—they told us to delete every sensitive topic from Chen Yansen’s interview,” the producer sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they cut everything, what was left to sell?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wasn’t yesterday’s version already approved?” Chen Hongwei asked, then added: “Is this related to today’s news?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They want Chen Yansen as a public face, not a lightning rod—of course they’ll protect him,” the director chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A few shots need reshoots, Old Chen, you’ll have to work hard,” the producer added.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chen Hongwei nodded—he’d seen this countless times; he was used to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, discussions about Orange Phone’s benefits dwindled on Weibo, forums, and major portals—all related reports were quietly buried.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xin, thinking the storm had passed, immediately received new news: the Tang City Consumer Association had received massive complaints demanding Meituan issue an official explanation and resolve local customer grievances within three working days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Xin knew that Pei Yi had struck again, and muttered under his breath: When will this ever end!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1607,"2026-06-19T19:17:19.606Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","f7a9694377c05b3b0f63a8bca287066d78da35db938002e6026c4323a4353ed7","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-369","i-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-chapter-367",387,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-get-stronger-every-payday-with-one-billion-emp-cover.jpg"]