Chapter 419 Er Mao in Dilemma
At the same time that the research and development of the turbofan 10 project led by Chang Haonan was in full swing.
In the Ivchenko-Progress Design Bureau located in Zaporozhye, a "unique" ceremony is taking place.
Pay wages.
Although it sounds very ordinary, for the employees of this old design bureau, the last time they were paid a real "salary" is indeed a long time ago.
"Everyone lines up in three teams according to their positions. Engineers are on the far left, operators are in the middle, and logistics staff are on the far right. Take your work certificates and ID cards. Everyone in the design bureau has them. Don't mess around..."
Two employees from the finance department held loudspeakers in their hands and shouted at the top of their lungs to maintain order in the huge workshop.
Although this design bureau completed its privatization and restructuring a few years ago, its name has not changed, so everyone habitually continues to use the previous name.
Except that the once prosperous factories, schools and streets have become depressed and deserted, and almost everyone has no enough to eat, nothing seems to have changed much from ten years ago.
Fortunately, queuing is something that old Soviets are familiar with.
Besides, after the alliance disintegrated, they haven't even had to queue up for a long time -
In the past, they had money in their pockets but couldn't buy anything, but now they don't even have any money in their pockets.
Everyone has trouble eating, so there is no shortage of goods.
At least there is no shortage on the shelves.
So everyone has no complaints about being able to experience queuing again, or even queuing to receive wages.
The crowd quickly divided into three lines as instructed and lined up quietly waiting to be handed out money.
"Uncle Ivanov, have you heard anything?"
A young man in the middle line looked left and right, and then looked to the front left of him The gray-haired old man asked in a low voice:
"Why did the bureau suddenly have money to pay wages? Did it receive any new orders?"
China's basic industrial system continued from the Soviet Union. Therefore, the Ivchenko-Progressive Design Bureau is similar to 606. It is a relatively simple design unit. The products designed by it will be handed over to another factory under the same system-usually the Motor Sich Manufacturing Factory for production. .
Now after the completion of corporatization, the two have even been merged directly into the same group in name.
But they all have quite independent authority in terms of operation.
Theoretically speaking, with what Ermao is still holding in his hands, even if he sells off his assets, his life will not be so miserable.
However, after 1991, compared to Sanmao, who almost continued the alliance system, and Da Mao, who had a big business and at least maintained the most basic order of production and life, the situation on Er Mao's side could completely collapse. to describe.
After the collapse, even if these companies after privatization want to sell Soviet heritage like Sukhoi or Ilyushin, they don’t know what they can sell.
And the inheritance in their hands is indeed a bit embarrassing.
In most cases, what Da Mao needs to resume production is to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps, while Er Mao is optimistic that it is Nuwa who can mend the sky.
In other words, although many key links in the industrial chain are on the latter side, if you really want to create the most downstream and most profitable "product", you can almost only Go back and talk to the eldest brother who has been separated.
However, now the eldest brother seems to have found a new love from the south, and his attention to the second brother has become less and less...
So, being able to pay wages, for Ivchenko - progress For the employees of the design bureau, it was both a surprise and an accident.
And like this young man, a quick-thinking person who has not experienced life in the league for too long has realized from these years of troubled life that opportunities cannot come by just waiting. You have to find a way to do it yourself. Just grasp it.
To seize opportunities, the most important thing is of course information.
The old man named Ivanov turned around and looked behind him. He quickly recognized the young man’s identity and couldn’t help showing a slightly surprised expression:
“Oh, it’s little Sashu. Leah, I thought you had left with Alionushka and the others.”
Unlike these old people who have feelings for the design bureau, many young people have experienced years of being unable to pay their wages. After life, they all choose to leave the factory and find another way to make a living. Some people choose to go abroad through various channels, while others choose to engage in other jobs or simply join gangs.
"No, Uncle Ivanov, I am different from Alyona and the others. The design bureau raised me and I will not leave here."
Alexander Chulsky shook his head, He replied with a righteous expression:
“Besides, I have grown up and can’t do anything else except carpentry. Even if I go out, I may not be able to find any job, so I might as well stick with you. "
Hearing the other party's words, Ivanov's eyes were even more moved:
"Okay, but there is nothing new in the bureau. For the order, I heard that they cooperated with Tupolev and exported the technical data of the D436 engine along with the Tu334 passenger aircraft in exchange for a large sum of money.”
As a senior engineer in the design bureau, Ivanov is naturally much better informed than a small ordinary carpenter.
While chatting along the way, two people had already taken their turn in the queue to collect the money. For engineers, the fee is US$40 plus 600 hryvnia per person, and for ordinary employees, it is US$20 plus 400 hryvnia per person.
“Why are most of them hryvnias?”
Ivanov complained to the financial staff in front of him with some dissatisfaction:
"Chinese people will never pay in our currency. What they give must be US dollars."
The hryvnia was a currency issued by Ermao in 1996 to replace the currency issued in 1991, but it had already been Kuban coupons, which are similar to waste paper.
Although inflation has not been too serious in the past year, the experience of the past few years still makes everyone uneasy about the new currency.
In such an environment, the US dollar is naturally a well-deserved hard currency.
"How much and how to pay are all mentioned above. Mr. Ivanov, we are only responsible for the operation. I haven't received enough money myself..."
The person being asked also had an angry look on his face.
It is naturally impossible for the Chinese to pay hryvnia, they will either barter or pay US dollars.
The financial employees sitting here distributing money have the same standard as the "logistics staff" in the row on the far right, which is 10 US dollars and 300 hryvnia.
This amount of money is barely enough for one person, but it still cannot guarantee enough food for a family of four or five.
Obviously, someone poured a hand in the middle.
However, for Chulsky, who had enough to eat and the whole family was not hungry, it was quite satisfying to receive a salary with US dollars in it.
And he is concerned about another thing now.
Chursky was indeed an orphan raised in an orphanage affiliated with the Design Bureau, but this was only the least important reason why he chose to stay in the Design Bureau.
There is indeed a local smuggler responsible for smuggling people. It is said that he has a way to take people to France or the United States, and promises to help people who have passed by find a job.
But being naturally calm, he did not sell off his little property in exchange for travel expenses when his brain got hot. Instead, he first spent about a year and a half learning English.
Although he is not fluent enough, he can at least speak a few words without making his eyes black.
And also took advantage of this period of time to carefully observe the operation mode of those snakeheads.
It turned out that most of the targets that the other party finally sent away were young and beautiful girls.
Including Alyona Melnikova, whom Ivanov just mentioned.
Then the so-called "a job" seems more suspicious.
After all, most serious industries seem to need more young and powerful men.
More importantly, although he is just a carpenter responsible for making wooden models, his intuition tells Chulsky that the design bureau he works for should be a real gold mine, but he has not yet. Just find the right way to dig.
What happened today undoubtedly verified his guess.
Although each person can only receive 10-40 US dollars in hard currency, considering that the entire design bureau still has thousands of employees, the total amount is quite large.
"Uncle Ivanov, I will invite you to eat at Aunt Bestmyanova's restaurant outside at noon, but you have to tell me what happened recently, the Chinese people you just mentioned What’s going on with people?”
Zulsky pulled Ivanov out of the crowd and said to the latter.
"This..."
Ivanov hesitated.
After all, things are not easy for everyone these days. The price of a meal at a restaurant outside is often enough to cover two to three days of food expenses.
“I don’t have other family members to support, so I can save enough money to live on for two months.”
"Okay, but it has to be vodka."
In the end, he couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food (and wine).
“Of course...”
Personal names in Russian or similar languages have a very complex nickname system. There may be more than a dozen names used to refer to the same person. Sashulia is One of Alexander/Alexandra’s nicknames, which is more intimate than the commonly used Sasha
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