If their salary had originally been two hundred yuan but dropped to one hundred after being posted overseas, they would have to be fools.
But Master Tan was certainly no fool. He immediately changed the subject. "But do we really need an engineer who costs eighty thousand dollars a year? We clearly have engineers of our own!
"Old Xing from the Technical Department has been rated as an engineer for more than ten years, and Zheng Qiang, who just arrived, is a master's student from Jilin University. Why can they only earn two or three hundred yuan a month?"
"First Branch Factory was originally part of the main factory too, but you, Li Ye, are always setting up little mess halls and secret funds, making your own calculations. You pay whoever you want however much you want,
"The main factory's average wage is only one hundred and ten yuan now. Everyone works for the country, so why should some earn one hundred, some earn three hundred, and some earn eighty thousand? Is First Branch Factory your own private family property?"
"..."
Master Tan went on for more than two minutes in one breath, expounding at length on the necessity of eliminating the gap between rich and poor. He looked ready to launch into the tradition of "striking down the local tyrants and dividing up the land."
But just as he was getting fired up, he suddenly felt someone tugging at his sleeve.
Master Tan was furious, because the person sitting beside him was his prized apprentice.
I'm firing on all cylinders here! Why the hell are you dragging me back? What, did my getting blacklisted implicate you, so now you're abandoning darkness for the light?
But when Master Tan saw his apprentice repeatedly winking and making faces at him, he