Chapter 881 The Life of Ordinary People

At the entrance of the waste centralized processing center, Xu Chuan and Xu Hou stared at each other with surprise.

No one expected the other to appear here.

On the side, Liao Cheng, the director of the lithium-sulfur battery factory, who was following him, was stunned for a while, and was also a little surprised. He couldn't help asking: "Do you know each other?"

Xu Chuan smiled and nodded, saying: "My childhood friend from the same village, I didn't expect to meet here."

Hearing this, Director Liao was stunned again. He couldn't help but look up and down at Xu Hou, who was standing opposite and a little "strong", and was surprised.

He didn't expect that there would be a childhood friend of Academician Xu in his factory.

Although the workers recruited by the lithium-sulfur battery factory they built in Baling are definitely local, the probability is really too small, isn't it?

After all, Baling is located almost at the central border of Hunan, Jiangxi and Hubei, and these three provinces have always been major provinces for the export of foreign labor.

If there is a chance to work closer to home with better benefits, I will definitely fight for it.

The development of Yunxi Industrial Park in the past two years is undoubtedly an ideal destination for the labor force of these three provinces.

With a population of more than 160 million, the probability of meeting the childhood friend of Academician Xu in the factory is indeed a little too small.

As for this childhood friend named Xu Hou, judging from the uniform he wears, he is not a security guard, but a technician/engineer or operator type in the waste centralized processing center. He should be responsible for daily operation and maintenance of equipment systems and execution of production tasks.

Of course, these things are irrelevant. He will know after he goes back.

The important thing is that he is the childhood friend of Academician Xu Chuan, which is very critical.

With a flicker in his eyes, a lot of ideas emerged in Liao Cheng's mind in an instant.

Xu Chuan didn't pay much attention to the little thoughts of Director Liao.

Just as Liao Cheng thought in his mind, even if he met today, it didn't matter whether he said it or not.

As long as he showed his familiarity with Xu Hou, Director Liao would definitely inquire about their relationship.

There is even a high probability that he will be promoted for his sake. He doesn't even need to say hello. This is human nature.

Looking at the centralized waste treatment center in front of him, Xu Chuan asked curiously: "Are you working here now?"

Xu Hou smiled and nodded, touched his head, and said: "I studied environmental engineering technology in vocational college."

"I have always worked in the garbage treatment station in Xingcheng. Last year, I found that there was a job opening in my hometown. The position was suitable and the salary was quite high. In addition, it was close to home, so I submitted my resume and applied for the equipment engineer here."

While chatting, he took out a pack of Furongwang from his pocket, gave one to Xu Chuan, and distributed two to Zheng Hai and Liao Cheng who was standing next to him.

He had never seen the factory director here, and naturally didn't know Liao Cheng. Seeing him wearing a suit and following Xu Chuan, he thought he was with this childhood friend, so he didn't pay much attention.

Standing there watching his employees passing cigarettes to him, Liao Cheng had a face full of laughter and tears. He didn't smoke, but he still took the Furong Wang obediently.

On the side, Xu Chuan took the Furong Wang and held it in his hand. He looked at his childhood friend with a strange face and said, "Haven't you met your factory director?"

"Factory director? No."

Xu Hou shook his head and said, "I heard that BYD invested 15 billion in this factory. How can a small Karami like me meet the factory director of a 15 billion factory?"

After a slight pause, he shrugged and took out a lighter, and came to Xu Chuan to light his cigarette.

After letting him light the cigarette, watching this childhood friend come over to light Liao Cheng's cigarette, Xu Chuan smiled slightly and said, "The one in front of you is Liao Cheng, the factory director of this lithium-sulfur battery factory."

"Fuck?"

Hearing this, Xu Hou was shocked. His hand shook and the fire on the lighter was shaken out directly.

He looked at Xu Chuan in bewilderment, and then at the middle-aged man who was lighting a cigarette just now, who was half-lowering his head and shielding the wind with his hands, wearing a neat and expensive-looking suit, and was completely stunned.

"Factory director?"

Unable to help swallowing, Xu Hou looked at Xu Chuan and asked, "Isn't this the secretary assistant who works with you?"

Xu Chuan smiled and shook his head and said, "He is not. He is the director of this lithium-sulfur battery production plant, the real one."

"It's over, I was tricked by you."

Subconsciously shivering, Xu Hou couldn't help but sneak a glance at Liao Cheng, and was completely embarrassed.

He knew that this childhood friend was a great scientist, a very powerful one, and thought that everyone with him was Xu Chuan's people, and thought they were his secretary assistants or drivers, so he didn't care too much.

As a result, Xu Chuan told him that this was the director of their BYD factory?

What did he do?

Damn!

It's okay to be caught slacking off in front of the boss, but he doesn't even know the boss.

Oh my god, can I still keep this job? Will he be bullied in the future?

He had offended the director of the recycling station at the garbage disposal plant before, and was forced to resign.

Now he has offended the factory director, his immediate superior, and he may not be able to live well in the future.

On the side, Liao Cheng smiled kindly and said, "Comrade Xu Hou is a good employee. Although he is not from the security department, he always maintains the safety work in the factory."

"The lithium-sulfur batteries produced by our factory are the world's top technology. Many foreign spies want to come in and steal the technology."

"You are maintaining the company as if it were your own home. You are very good, very good and very motivated!"

Hearing the surprising words and seeing Xu Chuan's indifferent smile on his face, Xu Hou more or less reacted.

From the previous situation, his childhood friend might be more powerful than he imagined.

The director of this 15 billion factory seems to be just a younger brother in front of him?

It's not his fault that he didn't think so much.

After all, in the traditional impression, no matter how powerful a scientist is, he is doing research for a big company.

Although he knows that Xu Chuan is very powerful now and often sees him on TV and news, he is a grassroots person like him and still lacks some specific concepts about these things.

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "It's just right. We are going to go into the waste treatment center to take a look. Brother Hou, can you help explain the operation?"

"Is this appropriate?"

Xu Hou hesitated for a moment, looked at Xu Chuan, then looked at Liao Cheng, and hesitated: "I'm still at work. I just came out to use the toilet."

"Appropriate, why not appropriate."

Liao Cheng said with a smile on his face: "Our grassroots comrades must know more about the operation of various equipment than I do. Please take us around."

Hearing this, Xu Hou was relieved, nodded, and said, "Okay."

Compared to the previous assembly line production workshop, Xu Chuan looked more carefully and asked more detailed questions in the centralized waste treatment center.

BYD did follow his requirements to achieve harmless treatment of lithium-sulfur battery production.

Its wastewater, waste, debris and other garbage have special treatment methods and equipment.

For example, heavy metal wastewater treatment is cyclically treated in professional equipment through chemical precipitation, ion exchange, electrochemical method, membrane separation and other chemical and physical means.

After recycling various heavy metal ions, dissolved salts and other valuable recyclables in the wastewater, they are fully purified and then re-entered into production.

Basically, zero discharge is achieved.

As for those wastes that take longer to process, they are processed by professional equipment and confirmed to be harmless to the environment after multiple random inspections before being discharged or sent to professional recycling plants for mineralization or crystallization.

After spending more than an hour wandering around the waste centralized treatment center, Xu Chuan was relieved after confirming his uneasiness.

Of course, he will find a professional waste treatment assessment company and a team to conduct a data-based assessment here to ensure that every indicator is true and there is no problem.

After checking the waste centralized treatment center, it was almost evening.

Looking at the time, Xu Chuan found a restaurant near Yunxi Industrial Park and sent a message to his childhood friend.

After waiting for a while, Xu Hou, who had changed into a down jacket, also rushed over.

"Brother Hou, this~."

Xu Chuan shouted with a smile. It had been almost two or three years since they last met. Today, they happened to meet and get together.

The two of them ordered four dishes. Xu Hou glanced at Zheng Hai standing outside and asked, "Why don't you call your driver in to eat together?"

Xu Chuan smiled and said, "No, they have their own things to do. Let's just have a drink."

"Okay!" Xu Hou nodded, opened a bottle of beer with a screwdriver, and handed it to Xu Chuan first.

The two drank a little, talked about the past and warmed up the atmosphere. Xu Hou looked at Xu Chuan with some curiosity and said, "By the way, is your academician title so awesome? Why do I feel that Director Liao is so timid in front of you?"

He didn't know what the concept of a director of a 15 billion factory was, but he could definitely make him get out of this hard-earned job with just one sentence.

But seeing the fawning look of Director Liao in front of his childhood friend, his brother is even more powerful than he imagined.

Of course, it may also be that the title of academician is awesome.

He is not very clear about what level of scientist the academician is, but it is definitely more powerful than he imagined.

Sometimes people cannot imagine things they have never encountered, and cannot understand the class that does not belong to them.

It's like a farmer imagining the emperor's golden hoe.

Xu Chuan smiled, clinked his beer bottle with Xu Hou, and said: "Maybe it's not the title of academician that is awesome, but the lithium-sulfur battery technology produced by this lithium-sulfur battery manufacturer was developed by me."

"To be honest, I still have half of the shares of this factory."

The technology licenses of lithium-sulfur batteries are from multiple companies, and he can take 50% of the share of each technology license. It's not a big problem to say that he has half of the shares.

Xu Hou: ".????"

Hearing this, he opened his mouth, exhaled a breath of alcohol, and looked surprised: "What? This 15 billion factory, you own half?"

He didn't understand R&D technology, but he understood that he owned half of the shares.

A 15 billion super factory, his childhood friend actually owns half?

Isn't this too fucking rich? !

After taking a sip of beer, Xu Chuan looked at the workers in the restaurant who were talking loudly and drinking beer. He squinted his eyes and smiled, "You can say that, but I didn't invest money, I invested technology, and half of it is profit sharing."

"Awesome!"

Xu Hou raised his thumb and said with emotion, "Half of the profit sharing, this must be at least several hundred million every year? Fuck! You have to treat me to dinner tonight, I'm poor!"

Xu Chuan smiled and said indifferently, "What about you? Speaking of which, how do you feel about changing jobs and returning to your hometown? How is your sister-in-law? My niece should also go to school, right?"

Talking about himself, Xu Hou sighed, but there was a smile on his face. He took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, took a puff, and squinted his eyes.

"It's certain that I can't compare to you, but life is indeed much better than before."

"I switched from the garbage disposal plant in Xingcheng to here two years ago, and my salary has increased a lot."

"I used to make 6,000 to 7,000 yuan a month in Xingcheng, but now I can make about 16,000 to 17,000 yuan a month, plus the provident fund and other things, there is no pressure to pay the mortgage, and I can also save some money."

"As for Dandan, she also found a job in a nearby factory. Although her income is a little less than mine, it is also about 10,000 yuan."

"With the two of us together, it will take about four or five years for the money we save to pay off the mortgage."

"When the time comes, I will get a car, and I can take her out for a walk during the annual leave. I heard that she always wants to go to Dali to see the sea."

Maybe because he drank, or maybe he really thought so in his heart. When talking about his own life, Xu Hou talked a lot more.

The employment prospects of environmental engineering majors are actually quite narrow. The places to go are nothing more than functional departments related to government agencies, colleges and universities, research institutes, and related enterprises and companies in the industry to do research, as well as work such as pollution control and waste treatment.

With his secondary school graduation degree, there is no need to think about the above, there is no possibility at all.

Of course, when Xu Hou first took the exam for this major, he didn't think about this, but that majors such as environmental engineering are unpopular, and there is less competitive pressure after graduation. Although the work is a bit tiring, the treatment should be good.

Unexpectedly, after graduating from this broken major, the salary for working at a garbage dump is only 4,000 yuan a month.

Taking a cabbage-priced salary and doing the dirtiest and most tiring work, this is almost the hard part of this industry.

But unexpectedly, after a few years, he suddenly found that this major didn't seem to be so bad.

Although I don't understand why, the salaries offered by major companies have been rising in the past two years. It seems that environmental engineering, which was originally unpopular, has become a hot commodity.

From the original salary of 4,000 to 5,000 yuan at the garbage disposal site, he finally switched to BYD. Even if he was just an ordinary equipment engineer who was responsible for ensuring the normal operation of production equipment and doing daily maintenance work, he received a salary of 1.5 or 1.6 yuan.

Sometimes bonuses can be higher.

In addition to wages, benefits have also changed from the five insurances and one housing fund that were guaranteed at the garbage disposal site to the current six insurances and two housing funds.

With this salary and the year-end bonus, he, an ordinary worker, can now earn more than 20 yuan a year, close to 30 yuan.

The most important thing is that the money is more durable.

Some people say that it is the upward cycle of economic development, and everyone has money. Some people say that it is the national regulation, and prices are well controlled.

He doesn't understand the specific reason, but some things related to daily life are his personal experience.

For example, the housing price. In 2021 and 2022, the original housing price in Baling, his hometown, soared to 8,000 or 10,000 yuan.

Now, even if it is a school district house, the housing price is only more than 4,000 yuan, less than 5,000 yuan.

He heard that this was forcibly controlled by the state.

And daily shopping, pork, which used to cost 17 or 18 yuan per pound, now only costs 7 or 8 yuan, and vegetables and fruits are much cheaper. Watermelons that used to cost 3 or 4 yuan per pound are now available.

In this situation, life is indeed pretty good.