After the Spring Festival, the first branch quickly became busy.

The general factory couldn't wait to transfer Zheng Qiang, a master of Jida, to the first branch factory, and then kept urging the first branch factory to help the general factory complete the expansion of 1041 automobiles as soon as possible.

The two production lines introduced from Riben arrived one after another, and Ludwig, a German engineer from the Lighthouse Mitsubishi Factory, was also here.

As soon as Ludwig arrived at the branch, it immediately attracted the attention of the masses. Even if Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang sternly scolded each other, it could not stop everyone from "seeing the Western scenery". They would not let them get closer and look from a distance.

This cannot be said that the young men in the first branch are rude. Nowadays, foreigners in the mainland are not as rare as three-legged toads, but they are definitely rare like giant pandas. If you take a few glances, you will have the capital to brag about with your friends, right?

"Hi, do you know, there is a bad engineer in our factory, with yellow hair and big nose. He wears a shirt in the cold spring weather. His chest is so furry that it is really resistant to freezing."

"Do you know? He used to be a West German, working in the Santana factory, and then went to the lighthouse. It's so strange. Wasn't it the lighthouse defeated them before?"

""

When Ludwig just arrived in the mainland, he was actually very uncomfortable. Anyone who was watched like this all day would be anxious.

But when he and the workers sorted out the equipment, produced the production line together, and especially drank together, the taciturn and old-fashioned West German gradually fell in love with these flower-planting people who smiled as soon as they saw him.

【They are all very kind.】

This is the most common sentence Ludwig said to Li Ye.

The second sentence that Ludwig said most is "a wage increase."

On this day, Ludwig and the technical team of the first branch completed a wave of technical demonstrations, he brought Zheng Qiang, who was temporarily acting as a translator, to find Li Ye again.

As soon as we met, the guy said bluntly: "Mr. Li, the production conditions of your automobile factory are far lower than the standards I have confirmed with you before.

So I have to pay ten times the workload to get him to the level of normal production. My salary must be raised, which is our respect for each other."

Li Ye sat on the chair, looking at Ludwig in front of him and complained in his heart.

[Damn it, aren't it said that Germans are all old-fashioned and rigorous science and engineering men? Why is this guy so varied?]

The production links and production conditions of the first branch are definitely not comparable to West German Volkswagen and Mitsubishi, but it is already quite good in the mainland.

Moreover, with a learning attitude, Professor Zhao took the lead in forming an excellent technical team for Li Ye, and most of the work was done by mainland engineers and technicians. Ludwig, the chief engineer, definitely did not need to pay any "ten times the workload".

So after Li Ye waited for Ludwig to talk about his hard work, he asked incisively: "Mr. Ludwig, as far as I know, you only work eight hours a day. If you have to pay ten times the amount of work, do you work eighty hours a day?"

Zheng Qiang glanced at Li Ye and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.

In the past few days, technicians and workers in the mainland worked twelve hours a day to land the two production lines, but Ludwig followed the contract and insisted on the eight-hour working system in a regular manner.

So now Li Ye squirted about the other party's words, and Zheng Qiang felt very relieved.

But I never thought that Ludwig said to Li Ye without hesitation: "Mr. Li, the intensity of mental labor is invisible, but if you give me a raise, I am willing to bear the same working time as Engineer Zheng."

[Did you make trouble on purpose? Or is your straight intestine not going to turn around?]

Li Ye was angry and laughing, guarding Zheng Qiang himself. You said that as long as you raise your salary, you will have the same working hours as others. Then how many salary Zheng Qiang will get? Even one-twentieth of yours, right?

However, when Li Ye first met Ludwig, the other party was collectively neglected by his colleagues, it seemed that it was not difficult to understand the other party's workplace emotional intelligence.

"Ludwig, we have a contract. You just worked at Sunny for twenty days in the previous few months, and we still gave you a full salary, so tell me what's the reason that suddenly makes you become so greedy?"

""

Ludwig was stunned for a moment, as if he hadn't expected Li Ye, who had always been a good temper, suddenly became so fierce.

At this time, he suddenly recalled the scene when Li Ye pulled his arm to negotiate conditions with him when he jumped off the building.

At that time, he asked for a high price of 10,000 US dollars per month, and Li Ye immediately wanted to throw him down - then you should die!

So later he asked for a monthly price of $7,000.

Looking at Li Ye's appearance now, Ludwig suddenly became a little panicked.

【He won't throw me away again, will he?

So Ludwig finally blushed and said the truth: "I only had the minimum living expenses at that time. I owed $350,000, and the annual interest rate was more than 40,000.

I have two children to raise, and my wife and children also need to have the most basic residence. I can't let them wander on the streets."

Li Ye said coldly with a tense face: "If you don't have enough money, you just say that you don't have enough money. Why do you say that you have ten times the amount of labor? Why do you think we are behind here? If we are not behind here, what else do you have to do?"

"After you come here, you work eight hours a day. As this way, when will my two production lines be run? I have no income, so what can I give you a salary increase?"

""

Li Ye's sarcasm and scolding made Ludwig blush, making the translator Zheng Qiang feel a little pitiful to this West German man.

After all, it is not easy to be an international friend who has sacrificed his family and worked.

So he spoke to Ludwig in English that was not fluent: "You can bring your family to our flower planter. Our prices are low, and there are also schools specifically for children of Wealthy."

Ludwig shook his head bitterly: "Zheng, thank you, I know."

Zheng Qiang was a little puzzled. He believed that Ludwig would take his wife and children to the mainland and even if his salary of 7,000 US dollars was paid off, he could live a life like a god.

Li Ye smiled lightly and explained to Zheng Qiang: "Do you think the bankers in the Lighthouse are all great charitable people? Do you think they are like the mainland. If you owe the bank money, he can't kill you even if you don't pay it back?"

""

After Li Ye's words made Zheng Qiang understand the darkness of the free world, he still gave Ludwig a chance.

"Ludwig, if you can learn Chinese well and let the two production lines go into production smoothly, we will consider giving you a bonus at the end of the year."

The lost Ludwig immediately asked Li Ye: "How much is this bonus?"

Li Ye said seriously: "The minimum is 50,000 US dollars, if you work well, there is no limit at the highest."

"Oak, I will learn Chinese well and I will also have a great job!"

Ludwig, who was quite frustrated just now, immediately became energetic and readily agreed to Li Ye's conditions.

Is it difficult to learn a foreign language? Is it difficult to work hard?

All are ten times easier than dealing with bankers’ collection bills!

Even if Li Ye only gives him 50,000 more US dollars, it can reduce the principal of the debt by a large margin, and the remaining debt will become less and less, rather than the more profits you make.

However, Li Ye's two conditions made Zheng Qiang feel a little disappointed, because as Ludwig's translator, he could learn first-hand experience. If he did not need his own translation in the future, Zheng Qiang would not be able to rank among the researchers among a group of associate researchers.

Li Ye noticed Zheng Qiang's strangeness and left him to ask, "What's wrong, Zheng Qiang, is it because Ludwig's salary is too high that he is mentally unbalanced?"

"No, no, no, we have no psychological imbalance. Ludwig does have the ability we have never seen before. I just wonder why you forced him to learn Chinese well?"

“Isn’t this simple yet?”

Li Ye smiled and said, "Adding him with an interpreter will make him think he is a 'distinguished guest', but after he learned Chinese, he was a worker in the same branch as us," he said.

"If he always relies on translation, if there is a problem with his work, he will easily get into trouble with language barriers."

"But if he understands Chinese, even if I speak Xichuan dialect to him, it is his responsibility if he doesn't understand it!"

""

Zheng Qiang was stunned.

Because he suddenly discovered that Li Ye, who was "extremely kind" in the hearts of workers, had such a cramped and sinister side.
Chapter completed!