Chapter 135 1956 with mixed flavors

The bank's large-scale wage cuts have had too much negative impact. It is said that non-Party democrats reported to the central government and alarmed the top management.So one year later, in 1956, all bank employees raised their wages by one level, and their father’s monthly income was changed from 65 yuan to 74 yuan, and the administrative level was set at 20 levels; Party Secretary) was dismissed and demoted to the director of a meat processing factory.But that's where it ends.As for some old banks who hope to "correct any mistakes", restoring wages from two digits to three digits (even if it is partially restored, more than 100 yuan is fine) is nothing but a daydream.In 1957, some old banks who were ignorant of current affairs mentioned that the mistake of reducing wages should be corrected, so they were labeled as rightists, and they couldn't even get double digits.

By 1956, the number of bank employees had finally stabilized, and most of them went to different places: 1.Supporting construction in other places is not necessarily a bank; 2.The city's education system (a good place to go); 3.In the financial and trade system of this city, a small number of people go to factories.I know a few of them: My neighbor, Mr. Wang, was transferred from the bank to Zhabei District Teacher Training School to teach biology because he graduated from the Department of Biology of Zhejiang University; (equivalent to today's chief accountant), at this time he was sent to a small vegetable farm as an accountant, and soon he was given the title of vegetable farm manager, so he often sold vegetables at the stalls of the vegetable market; his father's old colleague Mr. "The dim sum shop works as an accountant and sometimes cash register. He keeps the visor of his hat down and wears a mask, and never greets acquaintances.My father said that these old colleagues are all talents.Needless to say, Mr. Shen has worked as an accounting director, Mr. Wang is an expert in rural credit, and Mr. Liu is an expert in international financial business.Now that banks have lost a large number of talents, what else can banks do?It is just an institution that prints and releases money.

The Bund in Shanghai is a traditional financial district. Hundreds of banks and financial institutions once concentrated from the Bund westward to Henan Road.Many towering and solid buildings are specially designed and built for banks. Bank buildings must give people a sense of wealth, permanence and security, so that people will have a sense of trust in the bank and trust the bank to take care of their money with confidence.Therefore, the construction cost of the banks along the Bund is extremely high, and their firmness is unparalleled in China.After several years of tossing, banks were closed and merged, and bank employees were almost driven out.However, the buildings were not empty, and those bank buildings were turned into agencies, factories, design institutes and restaurants, and the interior of the buildings was destroyed arbitrarily, especially the bank buildings used as factories, which were in a mess. I went to the Shanghai Clock Factory in the 1960s, which used to be the Continental Bank.The originally resplendent business hall was divided into two workshops, with blackened oil stains all around and on the top. Who can imagine the exquisite marble reliefs under the black stains?The most indestructible part of the bank is the treasury. The left, right, top, and bottom are all made of steel-framed concrete (it is said that there are steel plates sandwiched therein) that cannot be pierced by shells. The only entrance and exit between the treasury and the outside world has a half-meter-thick steel door.Now this door is always open, and the treasury has been turned into a warehouse for labor protection articles, using the original iron gate.Someone tried to use this steel door during the steel smelting process, but later gave up because the steel door was too heavy and could not be dismantled.What a waste to think of the use of the treasury.

In 1956, my father raised his salary, and his mood improved a lot.After all, this is the first time my father has raised his salary after liberation, and it was always a wage reduction before.For an art lover like my father, 1956 was a happy year for him.One is that Beijing operas that were banned in the past can be staged, such as "Siro Visits His Mother", "You Long Xi Feng", etc.; second, you can see long-lost Western movies, such as the British film "Lonely Star Blood and Tears", the French film " The Adventures of a Warrior" also includes some old domestic movies "Angels on the Road", "Singing at Midnight", and "A River of Spring Water Flows Eastward".When the old movie was re-released, all three of us went to see it. He laughed heartily when watching "A Warrior's Adventure", praised the actor's excellent performance and the heroine's beauty, and even Han Fei, who voiced Chanel Philippe , he also commented that the dubbing was good, and it would be bad if it was replaced by Sun Daolin who dubbed "Prince's Revenge".Father didn't appreciate Sun Daolin at all, and the actor he admired most was Shi Hui.It was also in 1956 that Shanghai Renyi performed "Heroes and Beauty" by the British drama master George Bernard Shaw. He listened to the radio broadcast and said that Qiao Qi performed well, but it might be better if Shi Hui performed it.

It was also in the late summer of 1956 that catastrophe struck our family: my mother was diagnosed with cancer.She came back from the hospital crying. Cancer was a death sentence in the 1950s.Her father forced her to calm down and comfort her, and assured her that she would be cured.My mother is not well-educated, and she is easy to deceive, so my mother fell asleep that night, but my father stayed up all night.I woke up in the middle of the night to find him sitting by the window smoking a cigarette.