Li Haiyang
A Special Era: Only One Yuan for Checking In Every Day?
- Original Name:
- 李海洋 (lǐ hǎi yáng)
- Gender:
- Masculine
- Kind:
- Character
- Scope:
- Novel-specific
- Status:
- Active
- Source:
- AI
- Occurrences:
- 50
- Chapters:
- 12
- Context Up To:
- Ch. 50
- Wiki Model:
- GPT-6.1 Sol
- Updated:
Biodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Li Haiyang (李海洋) |
| Alias(es) | Brother Li; Xiao Li 6 |
| Gender | Male |
| Age | Nearly thirty at his introduction 6 |
| Affiliation | Supply and marketing cooperative system; third purchasing team 6 11 |
| Occupation/Role | Procurement worker; experienced colleague assigned to train Liang Xin 6 |
| Worker Grade | Grade one 11 |
| Monthly Wage | 33 yuan 11 |
| Family | Has children already in their teens 6 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 6 |
Background / History
Training Liang Xin
Li Haiyang has worked at his unit for more than ten years. When Liang Xin joins the third purchasing team, Zhou Aimin assigns him to accompany Li Haiyang and become familiar with the surrounding towns and villages. Their duties include arranging carts through logistics, purchasing agricultural products, counting goods, and loading and unloading deliveries 6 11.
On their first documented trip together, Li Haiyang handles discussions with the villagers. Purchases follow fixed requirements for quality, quantity, and price rather than terms the procurement workers can freely set 6.
Gifts and Returned Favors
During a village lunch, Liang Xin gives Li Haiyang two boiled eggs. The first earns Liang Xin three system experience points through Li Haiyang’s gratitude; the second produces no additional notification. This helps Liang Xin recognize that the same person apparently contributes experience only once per day 10 11.
Li Haiyang reciprocates by letting the exhausted newcomer rest while the others finish loading. He then persuades a cart driver to let Liang Xin ride back on the loaded ox cart, drawing on his standing as a veteran graded worker. Liang Xin subsequently gives cigarettes to him and the drivers, securing their agreement to finish unloading without him 11 12.
When Liang Xin pretends to be ill, Zhou Aimin asks Li Haiyang to look after him. Li Haiyang is already willing to help because of the eggs and cigarettes, although he initially declines the full packs offered as compensation for the extra work. He later wakes Liang Xin for lunch and asks whether he feels better 19 20 23.
Releasing His Regular Drivers
After Liang Xin receives permission to lead assignments independently, he wants the two drivers who regularly work with Li Haiyang. Rather than have the team leaders simply reassign them, Liang Xin privately gives Li Haiyang cigarettes and offers to reserve one jin of meat for him, possibly two 31 41.
Li Haiyang initially looks troubled but agrees to let Liang Xin discuss the move with the drivers. The prospect of meat removes his remaining displeasure, while the drivers accept the opportunity to switch to medium-distance routes with allowances 41.
Cigarette Exchange
Team Leader Xiang later approaches Li Haiyang to obtain Liang Xin’s high-grade export cigarettes, offering five packs of Economy cigarettes for each pack. Li Haiyang offers the drivers only three packs in exchange for theirs, keeping the two-pack difference for himself 43 44.
He avoids asking Liang Xin directly because he believes Liang Xin has influential relatives and considers him someone whose goodwill is important to preserve 44.
Personality
Li Haiyang is attentive to a struggling junior colleague, noticing Liang Xin’s exhaustion and arranging both rest and a ride home. His helpfulness also follows the reciprocal customs of the workplace: valuable gifts of eggs and cigarettes make him more willing to shoulder Liang Xin’s share of the labor 11 12 20.
He is practical about scarce goods and workplace relationships. Promised meat persuades him to release his preferred drivers, while Xiang’s cigarette request gives him an opportunity to profit quietly from an exchange between colleagues 41 44.
Abilities & Skills
Procurement Experience
Li Haiyang handles village purchasing and the physical work involved in transporting supplies 6 21.
- Discusses purchases with villagers within standardized quality, quantity, and price requirements 6.
- Coordinates carts through the logistics department 6 20.
- Regularly works with the same two drivers because they cooperate comfortably and reliably 20.
Workplace Connections
His seniority and graded-worker status give him influence with less-established coworkers 11.
- Persuades an ungraded driver to accommodate Liang Xin on a loaded cart 11.
- Serves as Xiang’s intermediary for obtaining export cigarettes from the drivers 43 44.
Relationships
- Liang Xin — Junior colleague and trainee who calls him “Brother Li.” Their working relationship develops through instruction, gifts, and returned favors 6 10 11 20.
- Zhou Aimin — Team leader who assigns Liang Xin to learn from him and later asks him to care for the supposedly ill newcomer 6 20.
- Two regular cart drivers — Longstanding work partners whom he prefers to request for procurement trips; he later agrees to let Liang Xin recruit them 20 41.
- Team Leader Xiang — Logistics leader who commissions him to acquire Liang Xin’s export cigarettes 44.