The Lord of the World Begins from the Siheyuan

Lou Xiao'e was familiar with his routine, "You want to be lazy again!"

"Things like the quartz clock project have just begun."

"What's more, there are foreign matters such as the Japan Branch, the Magnesium Branch, and the Ouzhou Branch that you have to make decisions about."

Li Ming said with a smile: "Big brother and you, consultant Huang and the managers are here to help."

"You can handle the company's business."

The eldest brother-in-law said mercilessly: "My little sister may only be good at settling accounts, but she is not very good at other things. She still needs to practice more."

Lou Xiao'e rolled her eyes and said, "It seems you are very unconvinced! Dad praises me for doing things better than you and my second brother."

The eldest uncle chuckled: "Dad is just trying to coax you! Just feel happy after hearing this, don't take it too seriously."

Li Ming looked on with a smile as the brother and sister Lou Xiao'e choked each other.

Lou Xiao'e's mouth twitched slightly, "If you are not convinced, you should quickly go to Magnesium Country to establish a sales network."

"Consultant Huang and Manager Tang are responsible for the renovation of the Hong Kong City Watch Store. You don't need to dictate."

The uncle crossed his legs and said, "I've booked the air tickets, just wait and see!"

"I'm waiting." Lou Xiao'e did not continue to argue, "Consultant Huang, please tell Director Li the latest situation first."

"Okay, Chairman."

After Huang Fuyi summarized and introduced the news of the past two days, he finally reminded:

"The night before yesterday, another dangerous goods warehouse was robbed, and a large amount of nitroglycerin explosives and fuze devices were lost."

"A lot of explosives have been lost these days."

Hearing that someone was accidentally bombed yesterday afternoon, Li Ming clicked his tongue, "We should pay more attention to ourselves."

"Although most warnings are actually fake to scare people, we must treat all warnings as if they are true."

Lou Xiao'e responded: "I will ask them again not to be careless."

Li Ming emphasized: "We also need them to keep their mouths shut and not cause trouble outside."

Lou Xiao'e nodded and said, "I've been emphasizing it all the time."

Huang Fuyi interjected: "The host of commercial radio station 'Lin Bin', because of the accidental bombing yesterday afternoon, the people at the To Kwa Wan headquarters scolded him even more fiercely today."

"There are already rumors that we might give him some color."

Commercial radio is the property of the He family, whose buttocks sit on the east coast of the Taiwan Strait.

Li Ming had also heard about this person's style, "Shameless, unscrupulous, filthy, dirty, low-spirited, and a bitch. He is probably the first to use such a long series of phrases to curse people on the radio, right?"

The eldest uncle said disapprovingly: "There are many people who curse, but this person is just a bit fierce."

This mentality is the mentality of the vast majority of people in Hong Kong City.

Everyone is just scolding each other in newspapers and radio stations, and it is impossible to actually take action offline.

I think back then, in the 20s and 30s, when we were in such a difficult situation, we didn’t even go offline to create the mouthpieces of the Republic of China.

The Industrial and Commercial Times and commercial radio stations in Hong Kong City, which are based on the east coast of the Taiwan Strait, are now confident.

Unfortunately, they should have thought that their opponent had changed this time.

Real and fake bombs have popped up, what else is impossible to happen?

There were also some timid people in the port city who cautiously chose to run away with buckets.

Huang Fuyi changed the topic and continued his report: "There is another land for sale near the Tsuen Wan factory. This time it is residential land, and the land price is the same as that of our Tsuen Wan factory."

At this time, residential land in Hong Kong City is slightly more expensive than industrial land, and the price of the two is far lower than the price of land for commercial buildings, office buildings, entertainment venues and other service industries, with a difference of more than ten times!

Li Ming ordered: "Continue to pay attention."

"After the settlement of this quarter, the company's working capital will be calculated and a large amount of industrial land will be acquired."

Huang Fuyi responded: "Okay."

The uncle said casually: "This morning, Councilor Hu suggested that we go to the top of the mountain to buy property."

Li Ming said casually: "I won't go for the time being, you can do whatever you want."

The elder brother-in-law remembered that his brother-in-law was a person engaged in secret work, and it was really not suitable to live in the mountains. There were too many British people working in the security field.

Although living on the top of a mountain is a symbol of status and strength, there is nothing you can do if it is not suitable.

Lou Xiao'e has no such worries, "If there are cheap villas in the future, you can also pay attention to them."

"Buying all industrial land means the investment risk is too concentrated. Villas on the top of the mountain are easy to sell. When you are short of money, it is easy to raise money and realize it."

Li Ming said, "Okay."

In fact, investing entirely in industrial land is the most cost-effective deal.

By 1980, compared with 1960, the price of industrial land had increased by 280.8 times, that of residential land by 82.2 times, and that of commercial buildings and office buildings by only 73.5 times.

In the 70s and 80s when industry was booming, it was difficult to find a room in industrial factories in Hong Kong City.

In the evening after dinner.

Beijing, the front yard of No. 95 Siheyuan.

It’s time to enjoy the cool air and chat.

Li Junyi came out with a stool and saw Wu Ming, Uncle Dong and others already sitting in the yard.

"Wu Ming, is your factory's staff building going to be shut down again?"

Uncle Dong was sitting leisurely in a recliner, fanning a big cattail leaf fan, "I didn't hear anything happened to the steel rolling mill, why did it stop working again?"

Li Junyi said as he walked: "The superiors issued a new notice yesterday. It is strictly prohibited to misappropriate funds for unplanned infrastructure construction."

"This notice should be posted all over the streets. You can take a closer look at it then."

Uncle Dong nodded and said he understood.

Wu Ming held the 23 cents with only the butt of his cigarette in his mouth and spoke without any delay.

"The employee building in our factory has already passed the approval. The demolition and land acquisition were all arranged by the city and were not unplanned capital construction."

“Previously, there were not enough building materials, so the factory was divided into several phases to build slowly.”

Li Junyi asked: "First phase, second phase? Are you in the third phase now?"

Wu Ming replied: "It's the third period. Anyway, the factory held a meeting today to study the documents, and I didn't hear that work was going to be suspended."

"And what our factory uses is not working capital, but self-raised funds from additional profits, so it should not violate regulations."

Article 12 of the regulations states that financial departments at all levels must actively ensure the funding needs for capital construction in accordance with national plans.

Each construction unit must pay attention to mobilizing internal resources, saving financial allocations accordingly, and is strictly prohibited from misappropriating working capital for unplanned capital construction.

For some construction projects that are postponed to next year due to insufficient materials and construction capacity, this year's budget will require a corresponding reduction in allocations and unified arrangements within next year's budget.

Li Junyi said with envy and emotion: "It would be great if our noodle factory also had capable people like Xiao Ming."

"With him here, all the workers in our factory can live in the building."

Wu Ming said with a smile: "I heard from people in the factory that by exchanging ham sausage for pork, the ham sausage processing factory now earns thousands of yuan in profit every day."

"Next month, the processing plant will receive an order from the food import and export company, solve the pork problem, and the profit will quadruple."

"There's no reason to hand over the money. It can be used to build houses."

The output of the Haidian plant in September will be used for export, and only a little production capacity can be allocated to the domestic market. The National Day is not far away, and now all the units that have resumed work in the capital are rushing to exchange pork for ham, so that their units will not have nothing to distribute during the National Day.

If the new leader wants to stabilize his position in the unit, he must make arrangements for food for all employees in the factory.

Packaged ham can be stored for a month or two and is a good thing.

Yan Jiecheng, who was wandering over from the outer courtyard, said: "The processing factory itself owes a lot of money and cannot help with the construction of houses in the factory for the time being."

"The current housing construction funds are squeezed out from Lujiashan Building Materials Factory."

Li Junyi said with greed: "Your building materials factory was also built by Xiao Ming."

At this time, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong entered the front yard holding their bicycles one after the other.

"First Master, Second Master is back." "It's quite late today!" "Have you had dinner?"

Yi Zhonghai smiled and responded to everyone, "I bought some food from the cafeteria and ate it in the workshop."

Liu Haizhong said happily: "Today we discussed the problem of the rotating shaft of the dryer, which wasted a little time."

"After thinking about it for several days, I finally got some ideas."

Li Junyi said obediently, "With the ideas given by Xiao Ming, and with your technical experts, we can take care of things."

Liu Haizhong smiled happily when he heard this and pretended to be modest: "I didn't do anything. Everyone in the factory worked hard together."

Yi Zhonghai smiled and said nothing.

The butt of the cigarette burned his mouth. Wu Ming reluctantly put it out and did not continue smoking. "It seems that the feed production line that Xiao Ming wanted to build has been completed again."

"Our factory has another business, and the machinery branch is stable."

The better the factory develops, the more financial resources it has to improve the lives of all factory workers. The more stuff it distributes, the more spare money it has to smoke.

Liu Haizhong affirmed: "It can be said to be stable."

Yan Jiecheng said disapprovingly: "The factory has held meetings to discuss the machinery branch plant several times. The project of the machinery branch plant has long been stabilized."

Wu Ming reminded: "Our factory has no say in this matter. We still need the approval of the Metallurgical Department. Having another big business will give us more certainty."

Li Junyi thought further, "With the establishment of a new branch factory, your factory will need to recruit new employees, right?"

Yan Jiecheng had already inquired with others, "People will be transferred from various workshops. There are cadres who were previously assigned to work in the workshops by the department. Basically, we will not recruit people this time."

Wu Ming added: "Building a factory requires money from above. Even if we recruit people, it is not our factory that has the final say this time."

"Today's notice just emphasized that it is not allowed to recruit people on its own, and even recruiting temporary workers must be approved by the municipal committee."

Uncle Dong, who had listened for a long time, interjected: "I have never seen such a good thing in the past few years, like Xiao Ming, who set up a cooperative to recruit hundreds of people and paid wages comparable to first-level workers."

Wu Ming smiled and said: "This time the machinery branch will probably have Xiao Ming as the factory commander."

"He has a lot of things to do. If this continues, he won't even have time to eat."

Uncle Dong expressed concern: "I'm busy working from morning to night, and I don't even have time to talk about a partner."

Yan Jiecheng kept his mouth shut, "I heard from Yu Li that the research institute that developed ham sausage visited the Haidian processing plant."

"There is a little girl who seems to have a better relationship with Xiao Ming."

Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong, who were about to go home, stopped again. Big deal! Listen a little longer!

Wu Ming quickly asked: "What does the little girl look like?"

Yan Jiecheng didn't think much and replied: "Yu Li said that the person is very good-looking, just like a porcelain doll."

Wu Ming's wife appeared out of nowhere and said, "Then there will be a show."

"Xiao Ming has already said that there is only one condition for him to marry a wife, and she is beautiful! He also emphasized it three times."

Uncle Dong stopped fanning himself and said with a smile, "It would be best to have a partner who can help him take care of the house."

Wu Ming said noncommittally: "Then it must be from a good family."

Yi Zhonghai warned: "Xiao Ming didn't say it, so we can't let him spread it. You guys shouldn't spread it either."

After finishing speaking, Yi Zhonghai did not stay any longer and carried his bicycle back to his home in Zhongyuan.

"As long as everyone knows, don't spread it randomly." Liu Haizhong added.

I didn't think of this in time just now, so I let Lao Yi become a good guy again, and Liu Haizhong went home regretfully.

"The first and second uncles are right, don't make such nonsense." Yan Jiecheng thought of what happened last year.

Li Junyi smiled evilly and said: "Xie Cheng, take the initiative yourself and show what you should show."

Wu Ming's wife joked with a smile: "In that case, Li will have to deal with Yan Jiecheng when she comes back from get off work."

Li Junyi smiled and answered: "Not too much. Give everyone some candies, we will keep our mouths shut."

Wu Ming laughed and said, "I don't need candy, just give me two big front doors."

Yan Jiecheng pointed at a few people and said, "You just have to be so evil. I won't say anything good about you in the future."

Another person came back from outside the courtyard.

Yan Bugui asked: "Why are you talking so lively?"

Uncle Dong, who had been watching the excitement, smiled and said, "We were talking about the steel rolling mill."

"Lao Yan, what kind of activities is the street office planning this time?"

Yan Bugui helped the bicycle down the steps, "No activities."

"Director Wang held a meeting and told us about saving coal in Xiamen and asked us to strengthen publicity."

“I’ve thought about it and published an issue on coal conservation on the blackboard on the courtyard wall.”

Uncle Dong asked strangely: "Didn't I say it on the radio the day before yesterday? The Ministry of Coal has already held a production mobilization meeting. Do we still need to save coal?"

Coal was the main energy source at this time and could be said to be the food of industry. Almost all walks of life relied on the power provided by coal.

Naturally, special emphasis is placed on coal production, and the 'big steward' personally handles this work.

People from the Ministry, the Coal School, and the Design Institute dispatched most of their people to various coal mines to promote and work.

Let the workers in the coal mines stop being violent and focus on digging coal for production.

"Now go dig coal. It will take a long time to deliver it to the city." After Yan Bugui finished speaking, he parked his bicycle back to the corridor of the west wing and went home to get water and a big cattail leaf fan.

The truth is that there are different opinions on who should save money.

Li Junyi complained: “Let those big coal users save money!”

"No matter how frugal our family is, we still burn three or four briquettes a day. There is no waste at all and there is no room to save."

Uncle Dong felt the same way, "Junyi, you are right. Saving money mainly depends on factories and government agencies."

"I read the newspaper and the staff of the 'Market Coal Conservation Office' said that they surveyed more than 1000 unit canteens and found that an average of 1 catty of coal is used to cook each catty of cooked grain."

"The units that save only need 3 or 4 taels of coal, while those units that waste energy actually use 4 jins of coal."

"Four pounds of coal! This is too much use. It consumes more coal than the small coal stove we use at home. It is such an outrageous waste."

Wu Mingti suggested: "Uncle Dong, it's possible that the coal was not burned in the canteen."

Uncle Dong asked: "You mean someone stole the coal from the unit?" (End of Chapter)