That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 712 Who is Party A?

Li Ye got up in the morning, had breakfast with his young wife first, sent her to work, and then drove straight to Fangshan.

Fanshan is located 60 kilometers southwest of the capital. It was still a county in 1986. It was not until 1987 that it merged with another Yanshan District to become Fanshan District.

If Li Ye took the bus, it would take two or three hours to travel the 60 kilometers, but if he drove himself, he only needed an hour or so.

However, after Li Ye arrived, he did not go directly to the Fangshan Auto Parts Factory, but first parked his car outside the Fenghua Clothing Store in Fangshan.

When Jin Peng first came to Beijing, he began to expand sales channels around Beijing. When Tian Hongshan and his sister Li Yue took over the surrounding outlets one after another, he began to gradually establish outlets of specialty stores according to Li Ye's plan.

Although Fangshan County at that time was not as prosperous as it is in later generations, the Fenghua Clothing Store was doing very good business as everyone recognized this "branded product".

After Li Ye parked the car, he went in to find the person in charge of the store.

The person in charge, Xiao Meng, is a local. After confirming Li Ye's identity, he began to give him a detailed report: "Hello, Comrade Li, after I received a call from Manager Li yesterday, I asked a few friends in the auto parts factory.
Now their unit’s performance is not as good as it was two years ago, and the two newly built workshops are simply sitting idle and not in use.”

Li Ye came here today to investigate the real situation of the factory. Naturally, he wanted to find out more about the inside story, so he asked his sister Li Yue to help find out.

Through Xiao Meng's explanation, Li Ye had a general impression of the factory.

The predecessor of this auto parts factory was a family factory of the transportation department. It later developed rapidly with the help of its star product, Beijing 130.

Their main product is Jingcheng 130 car lights. It can be said that the fate of the entire factory fluctuates with Jingcheng 130.

In the past decade or so, the sales of Beijing 130 have been very good, even in short supply, so they expanded the production scale a few years ago and built two large production workshops.

But who would have thought that the sales volume of Jingcheng 130 had been in a steady downward trend in the past two years. Not only did the two large workshops fail to play a role, but they also occupied all the working capital of the factory and also cost a bank loan.

Therefore, if they cannot meet the new product requirements of the light vehicle company this time, their future days will definitely be worse and worse.

Because with the production of Jingcheng 1041 and Yuejin 1041, Jingcheng 130, which is far behind in all performance, will not have many good days left.

After listening to Xiao Meng's introduction, Li Ye strolled around Fangshan County again. Taking the opportunity to ask for directions, he chatted with a few talkative old men about the situation of the auto parts factory. It was not until after ten o'clock that he arrived at the door of his destination.

"Hello, I'm Li Ye from the Supply Department of Beijing Light Automobile Company. This is my work ID. I came here today to check on the production of your new products."

"Oh, Comrade Li, right? Our factory director has specifically told me today that you should follow me."

The security guard at the gate actually knew in advance that Li Ye was coming and enthusiastically took him to the sales department.

"Hey, a few days ago, Old Wu told me that today a top student from Peking University will come to our place to give us guidance. We have been waiting for so many days, and finally Comrade Li is here."

The head of the sales department was named Mu. He came up and shook Li Ye's hand. His smiling face made him look very comfortable.

After shaking hands with the other party, Li Ye also smiled and said: "I am a newcomer who has just joined the work. How can I be qualified to guide you?
The company sent me to visit our factory because I am young and want to learn about the situation of our sister companies. Chief Mu, can you take me around the factory?"

Li Ye did not immediately follow Wu Qingyi's order to convey the "ultimatum" to Section Chief Mu, but instead requested a visit.

Section Chief Mu immediately agreed: "Sure, sure. It just so happens that our factory director is out for a meeting and won't be back until noon. Let's go on a tour first. Our factory director has agreed to personally entertain Comrade Li at noon!"

"The factory director wants to entertain me?"

Li Ye was a little flattered. He was just a clerk, so how could he be worthy of being personally entertained by the factory director?
But then Li Ye didn't care anymore, because after he visited the auto parts factory, let alone the factory director personally entertaining him, even if he asked Chang'e to entertain him, it would be meaningless.

In this factory with thousands of employees, non-front-line workers who sit in offices, look after warehouses, or give orders in workshops actually account for a small portion of the workforce.

Among the other half of the workers, there were actually a large number of middle-aged and elderly women who were doing very easy jobs, such as writing down two numbers in a notebook, and then finishing a morning's work.

Li Ye finally understood the meaning of the family factory. It turned out that this was a large nursing home!
The burden is too heavy, the work atmosphere is too lax, and more importantly, they have no urgent pressure to develop new products.

Li Ye asked about the trial production pass rate of the new headlights, and Section Chief Mu actually gave a figure of 50%.

You should know that these 50% are still unqualified products rejected by the light vehicle company, but they were only evaluated as "usable" by Chief Mu.

As for this factory, Li Ye did not think it could provide high-quality new car lights in large quantities. Even if Li Ye invested money in a joint venture, it would not be a good choice.

Now think about it, why was Wang Qinshan so stubborn and conceited? It was because the Changbei Machinery Factory he trained was one of the best among many medium-sized enterprises. "Chief Mu, please give me two more new headlights. I will take them back to the technical department for testing. Time is short and the task is heavy. I will not stay for dinner."

Li Ye didn't even want to eat and just wanted to go back quickly.

But Section Chief Mu held Li Ye's hand tightly and said, "How can this be? Section Chief Wu has specifically instructed that we must treat Comrade Li well. Look, our factory director is back."

The factory manager’s surname was Liang, and he was also very enthusiastic. Without further ado, he pulled Li Ye straight to the company’s canteen.

Now it was not easy for Li Ye to leave, so he decided to have a quick meal before leaving.

But when he arrived at the banquet, Li Ye discovered that the person sitting in the main seat was not the factory director, but Director Zhao from the transportation department.

After the introduction, Li Ye finally understood why no one was willing to take this job. Although this factory was not very good, it had close ties with relevant departments. It was definitely not the kind of supplier that Party A could easily control.

He has someone above him, and he is also a god.

"Oh, Comrade Li, I know you are here today for the new product, but you can see the current situation. The new product designed by your unit is very unreasonable and does not conform to our national conditions."

After the meal started, Section Chief Mu began to complain and pushed the responsibility onto the Beijing Light Automobile Company.

Of course Li Ye would not accept the offer. If he followed Chief Mu's suggestion and purchased the 50% qualified secondary products from the Light Automobile Company,

Then they install the products on the cars like some unscrupulous manufacturers did in later generations, and then let the after-sales service and the buyers argue back and forth after the products are sold. What's the point of supplying them? A dog can do the job, right?

But Li Ye never expected that he had guessed wrongly what Section Chief Mu meant.

Director Zhao didn't say anything for a long time, but when he opened his mouth he made a big splash.

"Comrade Xiao Li, your company and the parts factory have had a 20-year-old relationship. We are all closely connected and should not make things difficult for each other.

How about this! I have a suggestion. When you go back, make a report to your superiors to prove that square headlights are unscientific. You should continue to use the original round headlights!"

Li Ye was stunned.

It turns out that they want him to make a request to the technical department and ask them to modify the drawings! Man, who is Party A?

You said I am Party A, so how strong a relationship do you have to have for Party B to ask Party A to change the drawings?

I am your father!
"Sigh~"

Li Ye took a deep breath and thought, you guys are used to eating the royal food of the planned economy, so you just use whatever products I have, so why don't you just be good and stop nagging me?

"Director Liang, I can't make the decision on such a big matter!"

Li Ye smiled and refused.

Such a big thing, is it possible for Li Ye, a new employee, to decide?

This pit was dug too roughly. He was blind and jumped into it. Would those people in the technical department agree with it?
But Director Zhao said calmly: "Just submit the report and don't worry about anything else."

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Li Ye understood that he was just an instigator, and someone else would push this matter forward in the future.

Businesses in the 1980s really had a hard time, with all kinds of constraints both inside and outside being everywhere.

The two units have been cooperating for twenty years. If Li Ye wants to cut off this relationship, he doesn't know how many people he will offend.

[Hey, come on! Let’s see who will jump out. ]

Li Ye picked up the wine glass with a smile, and decided to get these guys drunk first.

(End of this chapter)