1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 316: Thousand Layers of Waves
After all, he was a pioneer with experience. It took him only three days to snatch a drilling quota of 100,000 meters from Dongying by making a fuss and slamming the table. Then he returned triumphantly with the contract documents in high spirits.

Although in the 1980s and 1990s, many things in the state-owned enterprise system seemed far more trifling than later generations thought, even to the point of being somewhat unreal, but to be able to grab so many drilling quotas in just three days, even a fool would not believe that such a spectacular result could be achieved solely based on Mr. Wang's qualifications.

It was obvious that someone was quietly greeting me.

Based on the principle of seeing through but not speaking out, people from top to bottom in the company looked at this old leader with more awe... In the past, Mr. Wang would only rush forward alone and recklessly with his subordinates, but after returning, he knew how to let go of his reserve and ask for appropriate help from his superiors. This change is not as simple as one plus one equals two.

The production target increased by more than one-third at once, which meant that many plans formulated by the drilling company at the end of last year had completely become a piece of waste paper. The associated impact was also enormous... This impact was even so great that it could completely disrupt the chess pieces on the board.

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As soon as he came back, Mr. Wang held an emergency meeting and said that due to the significant increase in drilling targets and the need to reserve talent for possible further increases in production targets next year and the year after, the existing number of front-line drillers was seriously unable to meet the demand.

However, since the increase in drilling targets was an emergency, the Personnel Department had no confidence in recruiting 1700 drillers who met all basic standards as required by Mr. Wang before April, nor did it have the confidence to introduce 220 technical reserve talents of various types. So in the face of the military order, the head of the Personnel Department retreated magnificently, saying with a sad face that he had limited abilities and was unable to complete the task assigned by the old leader.

Mr. Wang did not show any mercy. The life and death of the company lies at this point, and personal feelings are not allowed to get in the way. Since you don't have the confidence to complete the task, then just step down and let others take over.

So, with a wave of his hand and after a brief process, he directly changed the head of the personnel department to deputy head, and then sent an official letter to the head office in southern Yunnan, requiring a cadre named Gong to arrive in Qilu within three days to take over the position of head of the personnel department of Drilling Company No. 1.

Although it is a taboo to directly transfer people from the head office to Drilling Company No. 1 because Drilling Company No. 1 is isolated in Shandong Province, the person who issued this order is Wang Xingmin, the founder of Drilling Company No. 1. With his words, there is no need to be taboo.

Furthermore, it was made very clear that this cadre surnamed Gong had been in charge of personnel in both the Second and Third Companies. Not only did he have extensive work experience, he also had a large amount of information on grass-roots employees. Since it was impossible to recruit enough talents from the society in a short period of time, they could only select from the employees who had been suspended from their jobs in the Second and Third Companies... In this regard, the cadre surnamed Gong had an advantage that no one else had.

Although everyone realized that the matter was not that simple, and that the Second and Third Companies were mainly engaged in gas production and did not have many employees with real experience in oil drilling, on the one hand, it was only natural to help brother units of the same bloodline solve the employment problems of employees; on the other hand, the Personnel Department was not actually a real core department in the company, so if the old leader insisted on doing so, they would not object anymore.

In fact, many people have noticed the trick. With so many new employees added all of a sudden, and all of them are grassroots employees, the files directly under the Personnel Department have suddenly increased from more than 2,000 to just over 4,000, and there will be more in the future.
In today's environment, if we follow Mr. Wang's plan and continue to compete for indicators in the next few years even if we have to tighten our belts, the importance of these front-line drillers will increase sharply. If there are more than 200 people who are passive and lazy, the company's production tasks may not be completed, which will trigger a catastrophic chain reaction.

In this way, the Human Resources Department, a department that was not actually taken seriously by everyone, suddenly became a key department that was faintly pressing on the lifeblood of the company.

The Personnel Department is responsible for the performance evaluation of each well team, the issuance of regularization quotas for each well team, the professional title evaluation of each well team's grassroots technicians, and the settlement of the unemployed family members of the drillers is also the joint responsibility of the Personnel Department and other departments...and these things are directly related to the work enthusiasm of the drillers.

Now that the company's situation is gradually turning around, whoever can have a greater influence on the front-line drillers will have more say.

the most important is……

These more than a thousand new drillers are outsiders. Although they also come from the southwest region, they have no deep ties with the various small companies of the company.

You can tell with your butt which side you will subconsciously lean towards when they come over.

After being away from the drilling company for nearly ten years, Mr. Wang returned with only his reputation and bloodline suppression power. To put it bluntly, he was a commander without troops. After a while, or if there were slight mistakes in decision-making, people's awe of him would naturally be greatly reduced.

But once there are more than a thousand new drillers and more than two hundred technical personnel of various types to support them, the situation will naturally be very different.

However, even though some people vaguely sensed the old leader's intentions, they still did not dare to question Mr. Wang's decision.

There was no way. To these former soldiers, the aura of the mountain pioneer was too oppressive... This kind of oppressive power could be seen from the Luohe Meat Processing Factory, which was well known to later generations. It was absolutely an unsolvable existence.

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The head of the personnel department had just been promoted to deputy head, and the next morning, Mr. Wang held another meeting.

The topic of this meeting was the position change of He Yongyi, head of the Finance Department.

In fact, everyone was mentally prepared for this personnel change, and the old leader didn't even need to find any special reasons.

However, Mr. Wang’s proposal was still somewhat beyond everyone’s expectations.

This eccentric dismissed He Yongyi from the position of Chief of the Finance Department on the grounds that a cadre proficient in finance was needed to take charge of the daily work of Momo Baitou after Yang Mo was stationed in Dezhou, and directly promoted him from acting chief of Momo Baitou to deputy chief... There is nothing much to say about this.

However, he talked at length about the importance of reducing production costs through procurement, citing the fact that the company would face financial difficulties in the next two years but would have to purchase a large amount of drilling materials. He then proposed to transfer Zheng, the head of the Asset Management Department, to the Finance Department as the head, and to give him the responsibility of tracking procurement costs and financial supervision, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

Although there are many tricks in the procurement, it does sound like a very reliable decision to have the former head of the asset management department who is proficient in such tricks supervise future drilling material procurement.

But the problem is...

Aren't you letting your left hand supervise your right hand?

More importantly, the Asset Management Section has always been the core position of the Southern Yunnan faction, and Section Chief Zheng was one of the first people to follow Wang Yinuo in voting old General Wang out of office. Not only did the old leader fail to place his own confidants in the Finance Section, a top-notch core department, but he transferred the subordinate who had "rebelled against him" there to be the top leader.

What's happening here! ?

Unlike the others who were confused and puzzled, Section Chief Zheng, who was hit by the pie in the sky, was stunned for three minutes and then his face turned grim.

He was very suspicious that this was a scheme by his old leader to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

With the company in financial difficulty nowadays, if he dares to make any mistakes at work, the result will be immediate death.

As it happens, he was the head of the asset management department and is definitely the person in the company who knows the actual costs, prices and purchasing tricks of various drilling materials best. Once a problem occurs, he can't even use the universal excuse of "not being familiar with the situation", and he may even be charged with the crime of "knowingly letting the crime go" and punished doubly.

Nima!

What a great mission to be entrusted with in a time of crisis!
What a sharp knife!

What a great logic!

The old leader must have someone behind the scenes giving him advice, otherwise he would never have come up with this kind of counter-espionage strategy + divisive means of cutting off the source of the problem!

Thinking of this, Section Chief Zheng glanced at Zhang Wenshun, who had been sitting quietly in his seat, with some resentment.

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In the afternoon, Mr. Wang, who seemed to have unlimited energy, continued the meeting, with a fighting attitude as if he was determined to adjust the organizational framework in the shortest time possible and prepare to meet future challenges with the strongest attitude.

Fortunately, unlike what some people worried, the old leader did not continue to work on the other core departments, but only made two not very sensitive adjustments.

First, we should re-emphasize the importance of the service team and upgrade it to a deputy-section-level department.

The reason is very sufficient. The next two to three years will be a critical period for the company to recruit a large number of people. As an important logistics department of the Drilling Company, the service team must shoulder the burden and work with the Logistics Department and the Personnel Department to settle the new employees and their families... Without any worries, the drillers can meet this year's enormous production pressure with high morale and go all out.

Of course, in view of the serious problems exposed by the service brigade last year, the service brigade will not have a brigade leader for the time being, but will be directly managed by the general manager's office;

In addition, although the organizational framework of the service brigade remains unchanged, the core cadres of each office must undergo review and screening by the Organization Department and the Discipline Inspection Department before deciding whether to continue to stay in office.

This is equivalent to cleansing the service team again.

After all, everyone knows the nature of those people in the service team. Anyone with a little power in their hands, who can withstand investigation?

But no one could say anything. Last year, a number of core members of the service team, including the new and old team leaders, were taken away twice in a row. Not only was the impact extremely bad, but the drilling company also lost face.

The front-line workers in the oil system are really working at risk for their lives. If the service team still behaves in the same state, it will be a severe blow to the morale of the new drillers who don't have the help of the little hillocks to coordinate secretly.

Second, the former director of the General Manager's Office was dismissed and replaced by Zhang Wenshun. However, since Zhang Wenshun was also responsible for important work in the General Office and there was no suitable successor, both departments were managed by Director Zhang.

In addition, in order to avoid confusion and facilitate work coordination between the two departments, after the company appointed Zhang Wenshun to take over the position of Director of the General Manager's Office, it immediately removed him from his positions as Director of the General Office and Director of the General Manager's Office and promoted him to Assistant to the General Manager.

In fact, no one was surprised by this personnel change.

Although the position of assistant general manager is equivalent to that of vice president in actual power, and even has half of the power of executive vice president, successive general managers of the company rarely use this position in order to take care of the overall situation.

But Zhang Wenshun was the main contributor to Wang Xingmin's return, so it is unreasonable to treat him unfairly. However, after the team list was released, the deputy general manager-level positions could not be changed at will, and Zhang Wenshun is still just a small deputy section-level cadre. Due to the huge difference in professional titles, even if Wang Xingmin wanted to promote him to deputy general manager, it would be impossible... After all, the deputy division-level titles of these positions are stuck there.

Therefore, the position of assistant to the general manager, which is a "low-ranking but powerful" position, becomes the most suitable choice.

Of course, whether it was unexpected or not, the feeling of rejection in everyone’s hearts was actually very strong.

Ten years ago, Zhang Wenshun was almost a smaller version of Wang Xingmin. Not only was he extremely irritable, he would also beat and scold people at will.
Although Zhang Wenshun seemed like a different person ten years later and had a smiling look of Maitreya Buddha when he saw everyone, after a year of getting along with them, everyone became more wary of him... This man had evolved from a flat-headed brother on the African savannah to a hyena that liked to hide under rocks and secretly observe its prey. He was far more dangerous than the old fool who only relied on his thick skin and toughness.

The astonishing changes in just a few days after Mr. Wang's return also made them realize that something was wrong;
If this ruthless guy who likes to sell you off with a smile becomes the assistant to the general manager, everyone will have to live in fear from now on.

But there was no way. It was a common practice that a new emperor had new ministers. Not to mention that Mr. Wang had already given him a lot of face by not touching any of the core departments except the Finance Department. Even if he really had a major reshuffle from top to bottom, with his status as a pioneer, everyone would have no choice but to accept it with a pinch of their nose.

Therefore, instead of opposing Zhang Wenshun from becoming the assistant general manager, which would eventually cause the old leader to show off his iron-blooded tactics after he got angry, it would be better to just accept it.

At the very least, although the position of assistant to the general manager has considerable power, it is, after all, a role that is like a jack of all trades. Aren't there still several vice presidents restricting it?

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After two days of meetings, Lao Wang finally calmed down a bit, and everyone in the company began to work hurriedly according to the new plan that had been drawn up overnight.

I have to say that this is actually a good thing. This busy scene, which is somewhat similar to the initial preparations for the large-scale production campaign, or even more so, has not only allowed employees from all levels of the company to return to a familiar state, but has also eliminated most of their fears about the future.

Of course, this is the business of the production department and related sections. For a department that is only involved in tertiary industry projects and foreign investment, no matter how busy the rest of the people are, it has nothing to do with them.

So, seeing that the new office in Texas would take nearly a week to be built, and that the executive matters were handled by a large group of incompetent subordinates, the section chief finally had two rare days of leisure time.

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Gululu~
The water in the kettle on the induction cooker, which may seem a bit tacky in the eyes of later generations but is now definitely a high-end fashion item, has begun to boil.

Deputy Section Chief Mu, who was enjoying a brief moment of leisure after get off work with his leader, gracefully stretched out his delicate hands and skillfully heated the cup.

"Yang Mo, while the company is busy scheduling and allocating production tasks, should we go to Texas in advance to inspect the infrastructure work and inspect the asset management company's preparatory work?"

Miss Mu's movements were extremely graceful, but there was a hint of worry between her brows: "Boss Wang came back this time and showed an extremely strong attitude. I'm afraid that after the production mobilization work is completed in the next two days, he will target you."

Miss Mu's worries were not without reason. Just one week after Mr. Wang's return, three core departments and two important departments had undergone major personnel changes.

Even the most slow-witted people have gradually realized that this pioneer wants to recreate the grand occasion when he decided the world with a single word... and he doesn't want to get everyone's support on the surface, but he wants to achieve absolute control.

So in this situation, Yang Mo, who has the most financial allocation power in the company, becomes the person that Mr. Wang must face.

Although it stands to reason that for a god of wealth like Yang Mo who holds financial power and has a series of dazzling achievements, no matter who becomes the top leader, the best choice is to bring him under his command;

But at the first formal meeting after his return, Mr. Wang clearly expressed his intention to crack down on Yang Mo.

Therefore, facing the pioneer who returned victoriously from Dongying, the wisest way for Yang Mo was to temporarily avoid the limelight and not give Old Wang a chance to attack him in person before he made any wrong decisions.

The asset management company was about to be officially listed, and it was a perfect excuse to inspect the construction work of the office area, or to travel between regions after getting the roster to check the personnel and project preparations;

The round trip would take at least ten days to half a month. By then, the asset management company would have been officially listed, and Yang Mo could go to Texas openly to take care of the new company's affairs. This involved a huge amount of 1 billion yuan of funds in Dongying. Even if General Wang was at the command center, it would not be convenient for him to deliberately cause trouble for Yang Mo, the trader, at this stage when the new company had just been listed.

Yang Mo was silent for a while after hearing this, but he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. I will stay here until the asset company is listed."

Miss Mu suddenly became anxious: "Yang Mo, don't act on impulse. After Mr. Wang came back, he clearly used the Thousand Layers of Waves method... Even if there is a small break in the middle to consolidate the previous results and let everyone gradually get familiar with this feeling, there will be another wave in a few days. He will not stop until he achieves his goal!"

Yang Mo waved his hand, signaling Miss Mu to continue making tea, but his tone was a little nonchalant: "I don't really know what Mr. Wang's style of doing things was before... But don't you think that Mr. Wang's actions when he came back this time are somewhat familiar?"

familiar?

Miss Mu was stunned, frowned and thought for a while, her eyes widened, her tone full of disbelief: "Now that you mention it, I have some reaction... Although the style of doing things is completely different, the order and rhythm of these actions... Why do they feel a bit similar to you?"

In the past week since Mr. Wang returned, the biggest feeling he has had is that the order in which he does things is very different from before, and the scale he uses is much more precise.

The most intuitive point is that if it was the old CEO Wang, he would have definitely made a major change in the company before leaving for Dongying. After all the core departments were replaced by his confidants, he would go to the headquarters to ask for indicators.
But this time it was not the case. Instead, after successfully obtaining the quota from the headquarters, they came back to adjust the personnel structure of each core department.
You can say that this is a way of gaining authority by taking advantage of the victory, but if you look deeper, you will understand that this is actually an exchange of value... I have proved that I am still as skilled as ever, and have secured valuable development opportunities for the company, and also provided you with the possibility of maintaining your foundation, so in exchange, you must completely listen to my arrangements.

As for the subsequent personnel transfers, the scale was controlled to an extremely delicate degree. Not only was the number of core departments affected much lower than everyone's expectations, but he also did not place his own confidants in all of these core departments.

On the one hand, this is to PUA these former subordinates in a way that is slightly close to everyone's psychological bottom line;
On the other hand, I am implicitly telling them that this value exchange will continue, and I will not cut off everything I want with one knife; but when I have secured enough benefits for the company and you in the next wave, you must also be mentally prepared and wait for me to cut the second piece of meat.

This approach of "asking me to cut is seeking death, not letting me cut is waiting for death" is very similar to the methods Yang Mo used to deal with those external units in the past.

Hearing this, Yang Mo laughed and said, "It seems that although Lao Zhang is a little old, he still has a strong learning ability. He is quite competent as a military advisor."

As he spoke, Yang Mo took a sip of the tea that Miss Mu passed over, and said slowly, "But it is precisely because of this that I am less worried that Mr. Wang will come to trouble me now... Things always have a gradual process. Before he has recovered enough control, if he directly troubles me, it is hard to say whether the false trouble will become real trouble... Unlike other people in the company, Lao Zhang knows my situation very well. Even if Mr. Wang has this idea, he, the dog-headed military advisor, will definitely try his best to stop him."

Gently putting down the tea in his hand, Yang Mo took out a cigarette and lit it. After exhaling a puff of green smoke, the expression on his face suddenly became mean: "In fact, I hope that Mr. Wang will not listen to my advice and come to trouble me now... Anyway, this year's work plan is full, and there is only a little free time in the past few days. It would be very good to solve some of the problems before the asset company is listed!"

Seeing this fellow with a shabby look on his face that said "Come and punish me, come and punish me", Miss Mu was very upset.

What is this guy thinking about all day long? When other people encounter such things, they are afraid and try to avoid them, but why does it become something that you wish for the most?

Miss Mu was complaining in her heart, but Yang Mo sighed with regret: "But with Director Zhang, the great hero, standing by to stop us, it is highly likely that Mr. Wang will not come over to pick a fight right now... What a pity."

After saying that, someone thought for a moment and said, "But you're right. It's boring to stay in the company all day. Aren't the joint venture projects with Sangong Corporation officially recruiting workers from the society? What do you think, Miss Mu? Are you interested in accompanying me to the site to observe tomorrow?"

Mu Liya looked at the jerk's malicious expression and immediately blushed: "Bah! I won't go... Do you think everyone can be as carefree as you? I have a lot of work to do on foreign trade projects here, and I have to review the roster sent over from Dongying... If you want to go, go by yourself!"

She now had a deep understanding of this jerk's aggressive behavior. During this period of time when they were alone together, he became even more outspoken.

After what happened in the snow pit, she was really afraid that this bastard would tear off the mask on his face when no one was around, and then do something to her, or even lose control of himself and take advantage of her. Then she would really not be able to face her parents.

Seeing Miss Mu's expression of being on guard against the big bad wolf, Yang Mo sighed regretfully, then shrugged: "There's nothing I can do about it. I'll have to go alone tomorrow."

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PS: Where do you teachers get the monthly tickets worth more than ten or twenty yuan? You are too rich!
Okay, I'll prepare to add another chapter, and try to finish it before 12:30 in the morning.

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