That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 903: Be worthy of the country and the people

Li Ye acted much faster than Lai Jiayi had imagined. The next morning, he called together all the employees above the level of team leaders for a meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Lu Zhizhang said, "Everyone is here! Today we are mainly going to talk about welfare housing distribution. Before we talk about it, each department and team should take down this employee housing registration form first."

Then, Xiao Zhiyu from the computer room took a large stack of registration forms and started distributing them.

"Team Leader Wang, the Mechanical and Electrical Maintenance Team of Workshop 1, there are four people in your team, right? That's right."

"Transportation team, Captain Li, there are 26 of you in total, and 26 forms in total. Please take them."

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As the forms were distributed, everyone started to take them seriously. Printers were still very expensive these days. There were thousands of employees in the factory, and each of them had a piece of printed paper. It looked so "formal".

"After each department and team takes the registration form back, it must be distributed to each employee and filled out carefully according to the requirements. Now let me explain the precautions for filling it out."

Li Ye actually took out a slide projector and displayed an enlarged version of the housing registration form on the white wall behind him.

"In the first item, you need to fill in the ownership of the house you currently live in, such as your parents' house, your spouse's house, or you live with your children.

These must be filled in according to the facts! Because after the housing allocation results come out, these will be posted at the entrance of the department and workshop for public display. If any false behavior is pointed out by others, then don’t blame the factory for being ruthless.”

"This time, the housing allocation takes into account the actual housing situation of the employees, their length of service and age, and their marriage needs."

As Li Ye explained each point in detail, Lai Jiayi's eyes gradually became colder.

She felt like she was being played.

Since Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang obviously have their own ideas about welfare housing distribution, then why did they assign this research to me before?
Moreover, the trick played by Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang was to delegate the right to know and supervise the welfare housing distribution to the team or even individual level, which was really ridiculous.

For things like welfare housing distribution, it is best to make sure that the employees below do not understand the specific distribution rules and "deal with special cases in special ways" so that various operations and adjustments can be made.

If all employees are aware of this, can the allocation still be controlled? I want to allocate the house to my own people, is there any room for manipulation?
In that era, many employees didn’t know how they were fired. When they went to the Housing Management Office to ask, no one would pay attention to them or give them an explanation. They would just send them off with a “factory decision.”

And from what Li Ye said now, length of service, age, and per capita residential area are of paramount importance, and job level is ranked fourth or fifth.

It has been a practice for many years that the old house is given to the team leader only after the section chief gets a new one. Aren't you putting the cart before the horse?
Li Ye's next words almost made Lai Jiayi go crazy.

"I must emphasize here! We only recognize the spouse and immediate family members of employees. Do not fill in the names of nephews, nieces, aunts, sons-in-law, etc.
The housing situation of your immediate family members must also be listed. It is up to you if you are willing to take care of a large family, but that cannot be used as a reason to separate the rooms."

Lai Jiayi now lives in the same house with her husband. In principle, it is not easy to separate the house. However, her housing application stated that she lives with her parents-in-law, daughter and son-in-law, and it is too crowded, so she must separate the house.

But in fact, her parents-in-law have an old house. If she gets a building in a branch factory, the current house will be given to her daughter.

But now, according to the standards Li Ye mentioned, Lai Jiayi actually does not meet the criteria for housing allocation.

As the third in command of a branch factory, you can’t even get a new house. Are you kidding me?

Lai Jiayi looked at Lao Qi, Lao Li and others in the audience.

She had already talked to these people yesterday, and now Li Ye's behavior has confirmed Lai Jiayi's prediction that none of them will get a house.

Lao Qi immediately raised his hand and asked to speak.

"Deputy Director Li, isn't this housing allocation standard too inhumane? My parents and grandparents are getting old, so it's easier to take care of them if they live together. Why do they have to be divided so clearly?"

Li Ye raised his eyebrows and said, "Master Qi, if some things are not clearly distinguished, it is easy for others to take advantage of it, and it is also easy to cause conflicts and criticisms. By then, everyone will compete to see who has more relatives, so how can we divide it?"

"And if my parents and in-laws don't have a house under their name, they can of course be given priority in housing allocation. But if they have a house under their name, will the old house be handed over to the unit after the new house is delivered?"

Old Qi pursed his lips, weighed the options quickly in his mind, nodded and said, "If we get a new building, the old house should be returned to the unit."

Mr. Qi's family now lives in two rooms, so it is cost-effective to change them into a two-bedroom, one-living room apartment.

But Li Ye's next words left him dumbfounded.

"This situation also needs to be written on the registration form, and then the key to the old house can be handed over to the general office of the first branch factory."

The house where Lao Qi’s parents live now belongs to the main factory. How could it be handed over to the office of a branch factory?

If it is handed over, it actually means that the first branch factory has helped the main factory to alleviate the housing difficulties. Li Ye looked at the people below who were frowning, and explained again: "I know you think it is inhumane. Now I am working in the first branch factory, but I still live in the dormitory of another unit.
But this situation is only temporary, we will continue to build welfare buildings and strive to have every employee live in a new building within five years."

Old Qi looked at Li Ye, then turned his head away with resentment.

He thought that this was Li Ye making things difficult for others.

But Li Ye clarified the standard of immediate family members in order to avoid all kinds of confusion, opportunism and wrangling.

For their own benefit, workers can come up with all kinds of excuses and methods to make unreasonable demands. It would be better to clarify the standards in advance and solve the problem of households with real housing difficulties first.

It’s hard to even take care of a family that has only one house for parents and children, so how can we take care of a family that has two houses but just lives together?

"Ahem, let me add a few words!"

Lu Zhizhang took over Li Ye's words and said simply and straightforwardly: "According to the housing distribution standards this time, Deputy Director Li and I will not participate in the welfare housing distribution, so please understand the difficulties of the factory.
But what Deputy Director Li said was not bragging. We have invested tens of millions of dollars and introduced two advanced automobile production projects from Japan. As long as everyone works together, our profits will increase several times in five years. By then, it won’t be difficult to buy a few houses.”

"Tens of millions of dollars? My goodness, this is more than the amount spent by the main factory to introduce Isuzu technology!"

"But the Isuzu produced by the main factory is not yet in mass production. We..."

"Can we be the same? How much salary did you pay last month? Don't compare a branch factory with the main factory. They are not on the same level."

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No matter what era it is, there are always people who are willing to eat big cakes, not to mention that Lu Zhizhang's big cakes are real, so after he finished speaking, it immediately aroused enthusiastic discussion among a group of workers.

However, Lai Jiayi looked at Li Ye in shock. She seemed to understand why Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang still refused to increase the advance payment of profits to the head office from three months to six months after returning from Japan.

After borrowing so much money, they still have to provide housing for each worker. Do they want to spend all the money on one factory and not keep a single penny of profit?

So Lai Jiayi couldn't help but ask, "Deputy Director Li, does the cost of tens of millions of dollars need to be repaid by our branch factory? Doesn't that mean each person will bear thousands of dollars of debt?"

The workers fell silent.

A debt of tens of millions of dollars is really too large an amount.

But Li Ye said calmly: "No matter how we pay back the money, it won't come out of the pockets of the workers, so don't worry."

"Hahahaha~"

"Yes, yes, yes. Even if the sky falls, our company will support it. Why should we worry?"

Li Ye looked at Lai Jiayi again and said again: "Since the establishment of our first branch, we have followed a principle, that is, to be worthy of the country and the people."

"We pay 10 percent of our profits to the state every month in accordance with state regulations, which is considered to be a good thing for the state,"

"After we made money, we improved the workers' housing conditions and increased their wages and bonuses. This is to repay the people, so I have no regrets about how the first branch develops."

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The group of workers were silent for a moment, and suddenly they all applauded.

They have heard countless lofty words from leaders since they were young, but Li Ye is one of them who truly puts his words into practice and puts the masses at heart.

However, Lai Jiayi didn't understand why Li Ye said these words. She felt that it was inappropriate for Li Ye to say these words in this occasion.

But Li Ye and Lu Zhizhang looked at each other and smiled.

The workers' mouths cannot be controlled, and the saying "be worthy of the country above and the people below" will soon spread throughout the factory.

The projects introduced by the first branch this time exceeded expectations, and someone will definitely accuse Ma Zhaoxian, Li Ye and others of acting on their own.

At that time, if someone says that a branch is "borrowing heavily" or "advancing blindly", we can use this reason to fight back.

With your great abilities, are you worthy of the country? Are you worthy of the people?
I deserve it, you are sorry, what else is there to say?

(End of this chapter)