That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 780 is booming
Someone once said that if your boss always emphasizes the glorious history of the unit and paints a bright future for you, but never mentions the "present" that you care about most, then he is just painting a rosy picture.

Of course, these words are not entirely derogatory, because the skill of making big promises is an essential skill for every manager. A good cook cannot cook without rice, and the leader is also helpless, okay!

Now, Li Ye has become the "leader".

Although he was only the deputy leader of the reform pilot group, he led more than a dozen people, and influenced even more people.
Moreover, the team leader Lu Zhizhang was "very busy" and basically just came here to go through the motions. He did not object to any suggestion made by Li Ye.

So Li Ye decided to be a different leader. He did not talk about the past or the future, but only let everyone look at the beautiful present.

At the trial group meeting that day, Li Ye suggested: "Director Lu, I have contacted Changbei Machinery Company. They are willing to receive us for a visit. Why don't we organize a few dozen people to visit!"

Director Lu nodded happily and said, "Okay, I'll go and coordinate this matter today, but how do you think we should allocate the places for the visitors?"

Li Ye had already prepared: "One quarter management, three quarters workers, especially front-line workers."

Director Lu smiled and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away."

When Ma Zhaoxian was competing and balancing with the big factory director, the reason why he was willing to let Lu Zhizhang get involved was actually for the purpose of "arrangement" and "coordination".

Although Ma Zhaoxian and Li Ye obtained the rights of a branch factory and a pilot management reform group with the help of Guan Liang, they still had to deal with numerous intricate relationships if they wanted to carry out their work.

All things are difficult at the beginning. If there was no Lu Zhizhang as the team leader, Li Ye would probably be annoyed to death by all kinds of problems. People just don't object, cooperate or coordinate. What can you do?
Now that Lu Zhizhang has been brought in as the "full-time" person, he is responsible for solving various problems much more smoothly than Li Ye could.

Of course, if Lu Zhizhang was playing a double undercover role with Li Ye, then Li Ye would have buried a time bomb for himself.

But Li Ye believed that as long as Lu Zhizhang saw something, this danger would not exist.

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Three days later, Lu Zhizhang gave Li Ye a list with some apology.

"This is the list of people who are willing to visit Changbei Machinery Company. It's a little different from what we expected. People don't seem to be very interested."

"Not too high? Why?"

Li Ye was surprised by the result list, but after taking a closer look, he immediately understood.

Most of the people on the list were those who were going to be assigned to a branch factory, and there were only a few people from other workshops and departments.

This is what it means to not cooperate!
It's a bit infuriating to say, but when the idea of ​​setting up a branch factory was first proposed, it was planned according to the standard of a "factory within a factory". It was quite large, with all the necessary facilities, and a staff of at least a thousand people.

But now Ma Zhaoxian is in full charge. This branch factory is half the size, with only two large workshops and several miscellaneous small departments, with a total staff of only three or four hundred people.

In the military, this means going from a regiment to a battalion! How big is the difference between a regimental commander and a battalion commander?

And judging from the current situation, this management reform will be limited to one branch factory for trial implementation.

Seeing that Li Ye remained silent, Lu Zhizhang whispered, "It seems that several old masters have been instigated to take the lead in boycotting front-line workers from visiting. I asked everyone to sign up voluntarily, but the effect was not ideal."

But Li Ye smiled: "No, this is ideal."

The reason why Li Ye laughed was that any small tricks would be like shooting oneself in the foot in front of strength.

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March 1987, 3, Sunday, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the day when the dragon raises its head.

Two large buses carrying seventy or eighty employees of the Light Automobile Company followed Li Ye's Santana and swayed out of the capital and headed towards Changping County.

"Director Lu, why don't you take Li Ye's car? You are a higher official than him, why are you squeezing into this big, drafty bus with us?"

"What are you talking about, Old Mu? What kind of official am I?"

Lu Zhizhang smiled and said, "Li Ye's Santana is a private car. He bought it with his own money to serve his family. What qualifications do I have to sit in it?"

"Hey, that Li Ye. How can I describe him? He's not a bad kid, but he's young and hot-tempered, not tactful enough."

"He's not smooth enough. He's already in charge of us. But you're so smooth and ruthless. Why don't you make us a deputy section chief?"

"I am a working class person, how can I promote you to deputy section chief? Old Huang, please stop interfering here!"

"What's wrong with the working class? You can work in exchange for work! Show us how to do it!"

Many people on the bus started teasing Lao Mu, and Lao Mu was unhappy.

"Go away, stop making fun of me! If I had known this would happen, I would never have come today. Isn't it good to sleep in on Sunday?"

"Hey, Director Lu, why do you want us to visit on Sunday? How many workers can we see on Sunday? Are you going to ask us to talk nonsense with the gatekeeper? Does the cafeteria provide lunch at noon?"

"You're still in charge of the wine! I'll keep you drunk!"

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Lu Zhizhang cursed with a smile, then quietly turned his head to look at an old man. The old man was nearly sixty years old, and his body was very strong, but he didn't speak, and didn't say a word all the way.

The old man’s surname is Miao, and he is the only level 7 worker in this visiting group.

This time, many master chefs in the factory collectively boycotted Li Ye's management reforms. The reason was that Li Ye's speech at the meeting that day harmed their interests.

A master chef like Lao Miao has a lot of apprentices under him. Each of them has the final say in the workshop, and he can scare away management cadres with just a wave of his hand.

At the meeting, Li Ye said that it was wrong for the production process to be extremely dependent on the master chef, and that it should be changed to rely on the standard. Was this going to destroy their jobs? No, it was going to kill them!
Only Master Miao was assigned to a branch factory, and it would be inappropriate for him not to come.

Just looking at Master Miao's expression, he was obviously not very happy.

"Drip~"

The Santana in front honked a few times, attracting everyone's attention.

The workers on the bus behind looked forward and saw the gate of Changbei Machinery Company.

"Isn't this gate old? Isn't it said that the factory is very profitable? Why don't they even repair the gate?"

"Maybe it's because the meat is not in the folds, so people don't care about these appearances?"

"How is that possible? Have you ever seen a family that makes money but doesn't repair its gate?"

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The big iron gate opened, and three cars, two large and one small, drove in one after another and stopped in front of the old office building.

"Hey, this office building is really shabby. Is Li Ye lying to us?"

"Let's put aside the question of whether we are bragging or not. We are guests after all. Why are there only these few people here to greet us?"

There were only three people standing in front of the office building to greet people. This shabby scene made everyone feel a little unhappy.

To be honest, the scene before them made them very disappointed. Li Ye said that the salary and efficiency here were high, so why did it seem to be worse than the Light Automobile Company?

But Master Miao, who had been silent all the way, suddenly frowned and shouted sharply: "Don't talk!"

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No one on the bus spoke. Master Miao’s prestige was very high, and everyone had to give him face.

Master Miao simply opened the car window, stuck his head outside, and listened carefully with his ear tilted.

After a few seconds, his frown gradually relaxed.

"Pay attention, everyone! Stop talking nonsense."

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Everyone was a little stunned, and Master Mu asked in a low voice: "Master Miao, what do you mean?"

Master Miao snorted and said, "You are also an old master, can't you hear the sound of the machine?"

Master Mu was stunned, then he opened the car window, stuck his head out, and listened attentively.

He was younger than Master Miao and had better hearing, so he quickly said, "Yes, there was a sound of machinery, but I understand this."

Master Miao suddenly realized, "Listening to this sound, the machines in the entire workshop are all ringing, and it's not just one workshop. In order to accommodate our visit, they won't let so many machines run in vain. In other words, they are still working hard on Sunday."

Master Miao nodded and said, "So, they really have endless work to do, but they don't care about the facade of the gate and office building. Deputy Section Chief Li arranged for us to come on Sunday so that we can see that they are doing well."

"Booming?"

Master Mu repeated it, his expression suddenly becoming bleak.

Their generation also once had prosperous days!

When I first joined the factory in my twenties, we worked hard against all odds. Life was hard, but we were happy.

Now that I’m in my forties or fifties, that kind of happiness is long gone, but that “bitterness” is still there.

The salary is never enough to spend, the house is never big enough to live in, and the good days once promised never seem to end.

And even if half of what Li Ye said is true, it would be fine!
"Let's go! We're already there. We'll know if it's real or fake, a mule or a horse, once we go down and take a look."

A group of workers who had just been extremely disappointed were full of hope again.

(End of this chapter)