1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 396 Gray (1)

(The previous chapter was slightly modified due to review. It seems that some things cannot be mentioned? Forget it, some details are omitted in this chapter, which should not affect the reading.)
Perhaps it was the invisible atmosphere of Yang Mo's team, or maybe it was because newcomers needed to perform well, or maybe Zhuo Mali, who spent her days at Dahua Company, was actually a resolute person.
In short, that afternoon, Zhuo Mali, accompanied by classmate Tugou, met the factory director Zhao.

It has to be said that both the drilling company and Dahua Company have considerable weight in Texas. If it were another company, Director Zhao, who almost lives in the DZ City Administrative Building, would probably not rush back after receiving the call.

Of course, Director Zhao didn't know that his immediate response sent an extremely clear signal in Zhuo Mali's eyes.

Therefore, although Zhuomali and Director Zhao did not chat for long, only about an hour in total, she walked out of the Xinfa Electrical Cable Factory with a smile on her face.

"Minister Zhuo, what you mean by cutting off the source of the trouble... is to suggest that Director Zhao and his team cut down the fruit trees in the orchard to build a shop?"

Tugou looked suspicious and almost thought that the director of the legal and compliance department came here to play.

"Call me Sister Zhuo!"

Zhuo Mali first corrected Tugou's name, then laughed softly: "Yes, this is the first step to remove the firewood from under the cauldron... Yingying, please recall a few details carefully."

“1. We came here today as a brother unit of a central enterprise to visit and express our condolences, and by the way, we discussed with them the possibility of self-rescue of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory… The name of the visit is important, but what is more important is the word [self-rescue] that we emphasized.”

"2. We never suggested that they participate in the expansion plan of the secondary business district. We just suggested that they level the orchard, build a few rows of shops with bricks and tiles, and then rent out these shops... These shops are self-built, not to mention the low cost, but the key is that they have no direct business relationship with us, and the DZ city authorities cannot use this to determine that they have received our assistance... This is the first hook. Do you understand the mystery inside?"

"3. If you want to build a shop on the orchard, you have to cut down the fruit trees, and even demolish the houses that the people have privately occupied and built... This is the second hook, and it is also a crucial foreshadowing. Do you understand?"

Student Tugou was completely confused. The first part was fine. After the old sister reminded her, she gradually figured out the trick. But what was the second hook mentioned at the end?
Seeing this, Zhuo Mali sighed, "Yingying, you are too naive. This is a good thing, but it is not a good thing either... In short, you just need to remember that although the land of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory was approved by the state, the declared use is limited... Once the use exceeds the scope, the local competent authority has the right to manage... Strictly speaking, this orchard itself is a small braid left over from the history of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory. The only difference is whether you take it seriously or not!"

As a local student who has never studied the regulations in this area, I am still confused.

Seeing this, Zhuo Mali shook her head speechlessly: "Forget it, if Director Zhao and his team act quickly, you will know in four or five days."

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The orchard of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory covers an area of ​​about fifty acres.

Perhaps because the factory was indeed in a period of life and death, after receiving guidance from Zhuomali, Director Zhao urgently convened a staff meeting that afternoon. After unifying opinions, he immediately found a construction team, signed a contract, and then mobilized all the employees in the factory to work hard.

As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. With all the factory workers and construction teams working in three shifts, in just two days, all the trees in the 50-acre orchard were cut down and the foundation of the house was built.

As a sister company, Dahua Company did not deceive Director Zhao.

On the third day, the foundation had just been laid. As soon as the rental information of 344 small shops under construction by Xinfa Electrical Cable Factory was posted, more than a dozen people came to inquire about relevant information. Some people even paid a deposit on the spot and reserved the shop they liked on the planning sketch.

Director Zhao, who received a deposit of nearly 50,000 yuan in one afternoon, was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. All the employees were also very excited. They saw such brilliant results at the very beginning. If all these shops were rented out, the factory would really be saved.

So, looking at the several stacks of ten-yuan bills on the table turning into back pay and going into their pockets, although the average salary was only a little, the nearly 1500 employees of the Xinfa Electrical Cable Factory were instantly excited. They looked at the -acre construction site as if they were looking at a treasure pot that depended on their life and death. They would fight to the death with anyone who dared to touch it.

On the fourth day, I don't know if it was Dahua Company that was helping, but anyway, more people came to the factory after seeing the rental information, and the corridor of the Xinfa Electrical Cable Factory's office building was blocked. Director Zhao had no choice but to drive out all the office staff in the building to free up the office to accommodate these rich people who came to bring money... Although everyone in the Finance Department, Administration Department, and the Factory Director's Office was exhausted after a whole day, everyone was smiling from ear to ear when they saw that they had received a deposit of nearly 50 yuan.

On the fifth day, when the workers of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory got up early before dawn to clean up everywhere, intending to make the factory the cleanest to welcome the God of Wealth on a new day...

But an "uninvited guest" came up.

The group of people who came were staff from the forestry department. After inspecting the site, they told Director Zhao that the Xinfa Electric Cable Factory had originally been granted industrial land, which could only be used for the construction of factory buildings and living areas. Building an orchard was a violation of the rules, but because the enforcement was not strict at the time, it was built anyway.
Although the illegal construction of the orchard can be ignored, according to relevant regulations, the local forestry department has the management right of the trees in these orchards. Therefore, cutting down trees without declaration and approval is an illegal act. The department required the construction to be stopped and fined, and issued a ticket of 70 yuan... This ticket was given to the factory.

After an ineffective argument, Director Zhao took the ticket expressionlessly. After the forestry department staff left, he ordered the construction team to continue with the work and not to delay the construction period.

The foreman of the construction team was a little timid and told him that they were not allowed to do the job.

Director Zhao, however, didn't care and slapped a stack of ten-yuan bills in front of him and asked a question: "Did I give you the money, or who gave you the money?"

So the result was obvious. After the foreman received part of the project payment that was settled in advance, he immediately encouraged his subordinates to work quickly, while Director Zhao tore the ticket in half without any care.

On the sixth day, people from the forestry department came again. They found that the work had not been stopped, the fine had not been paid, and they had not even been able to see Director Zhao... The people in the factory told them perfunctorily that Director Zhao was on a business trip and to come back next week.

The people from the forestry department knew what was going on as soon as they heard it. Needless to say, they immediately called the forestry inspectors, who came in two vehicles with seven or eight people, and demanded to stop the work and seal off the construction equipment.

The workers who were working in the joint construction team laying the foundation were dissatisfied and started arguing and fighting. They gave seven or eight forestry inspectors a good beating and overturned their car.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the people from the forestry department immediately ran outside and made a phone call.

Not long after, several three-wheeled motorcycles arrived, but the people in white uniforms on the motorcycles just turned around from a distance and left.

Seeing this, the people from the forestry department had no choice but to run back in shame. Then they turned around and sued the Xinfa Electric Cable Factory. However, since the Xinfa Electric Cable Factory was a central enterprise, there was not much point in suing the DZ city, so... they quickly submitted the lawsuit to the provincial government.

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Seventh day.

Tugou handed the text message copied by Xiang Hui to Zhuo Mali, frowning: "Minister Zhuo, they have gone to the provincial government to complain, do you think...will it delay things?"

Zhuo Mali took the message, glanced at it, smiled and shook her head: "It's hard for an honest official to judge family affairs. After all, Xinfa Electric Cable Factory is a central enterprise, and its nature is different. In addition, the current economic environment is not good, and Xinfa Electric Cable Factory's starting point is to save itself. Even if it is reported to the provincial government, at most both parties will be asked to sit down and negotiate... I estimate that after more than a dozen rounds of negotiations, it will be nothing. This matter itself is not a big deal."

Upon hearing this, classmate Tugou breathed a sigh of relief. After all, Zhuo Mali was a second-generation girl, and she must know more about the size of some things than a silly girl from the countryside like her.

"As a result, there is no turning back for Xinfa Electric Cable Factory. It is unlikely that they will be able to participate in the local restructuring."

Student Tugou sighed with mixed feelings. It was not until two days ago that she found out Zhuo Mali's intention in persuading Director Zhao to raze the fifty acres of orchard and build a simple shop.

As for those merchants who rushed in to pay the deposit at the first opportunity, and the forestry workers who had a keen sense of smell and showed up in the factory just after the foundation was laid... It's obvious that it must be Minister Zhuo who secretly did something.

Zhuo Mali glanced at Tugou, who had a complicated expression on his face, and smiled softly: "With a store deposit of less than 70 yuan, the retreat of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory has been blocked. I personally think it is worth it!"

"Although 70 is indeed not a small amount of money, it is nothing compared to the time cost... Yingying, you should be very clear about the importance of the commercial demonstration zone to Mr. Yang, and the importance of the current secondary business district expansion plan to the commercial demonstration zone."

"Besides, the 70 yuan deposit is not something that will never come back. When the simple shop over there is built, we can transfer it out or run it ourselves!"

Tugou shook his head: "I'm not worried about the 70 yuan, but I'm thinking... Is this the right thing for us to do?"

Zhuo Mali stared at her for a long time, with a hint of subtle sarcasm, mockery, and... envy flashing in her eyes. She crossed her legs gracefully and gently brushed away the non-existent wrinkles on her professional skirt: "Yingying, I must admit that I am really a little envious of you... You are protected too well by Mr. Yang!"

"Although from a friend's perspective, being able to protect your childhood friend to this extent is indeed a blessing you earned in your previous life...but from a work perspective, I really don't know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing."

At this point, Zhuo Mali tilted her head and said, "You know what, Yingying... Although your business ability is comparable to that of some department-level backbones, your mental level is not even as good as those of ordinary contract workers... Sometimes I even doubt whether you are really a formal employee of our central enterprise?"

Whether it was a friendly teasing or a malicious questioning, Lu Yingying had heard similar remarks countless times in the past year. She shook her head and said, "Minister Zhuo, I know what you mean. I also know that the world is not black and white. Whether it's me, Section Chief Yang, Lao Yan or Lao Tan, we are not opposed to reasonably taking advantage of loopholes in the rules, nor are we opposed to skirting the rules when necessary."

"The reason I asked that just now is that I want to ask, although Minister Zhuo's actions have basically blocked the possibility of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory participating in the local restructuring, but you have so many people booking their simple shops, it is also easy to create a trend and let more people grab their remaining shops... There is even a very high probability that when supply is less than demand, they will rent out at a large premium."

At this point, Lv Yingying looked at Zhuo Mali seriously and said, "I don't think this is wishful thinking. If you carefully study the business rental information and consumer portraits of the commercial demonstration zone in the past two months, you will understand how great the commercial potential and attraction of the current commercial demonstration zone is, even if it is only a secondary business district."

"Then the question is, if Director Zhao is not a conservative person, and after discovering that the simple shops of Xinfa Electric Cable Factory are popular, he starts to rent them out at a large premium, or even plans another suitable piece of land to build a circle of shops, they can borrow the commercial potential of the land near the commercial demonstration zone to collect enough funds to overcome the current difficulties."

"It's not impossible. Unlike other industrial parks, the industrial land where the Xinfa Electric Cable Factory is located has a large piece of land that is tapered and directly inserted into the Dahua Industrial Park. They have a unique advantage in this area."

"After a year or so of accumulation, once they have relatively sufficient funds, they will inevitably resume production... Once they resume production, the negative impact of various noise, light, air and even water pollution on the commercial demonstration area will be obvious."

At the end, Lu Yingying's tone was slightly questioning: "So, what I'm asking is... is it really appropriate to harm the long-term interests of the commercial demonstration zone for the sake of short-term goals!?"

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Mali was stunned for a moment, then she laughed and waved her hand nonchalantly: "Don't worry, Xinfa Electric Cable Factory will not resume work... At least, it is unlikely to resume work in full."

Lu Yingying frowned: "How is it possible?"

Zhuo Mali looked at her with amusement: "How is it impossible? Yingying, you know, whether it is the drilling company or the Xialiu Sales Agency that you often deal with, they are all outliers among outliers... You can't judge other units by their style, understand?"

Ok?
Classmate Tugou looked at her, not knowing what this meant.

Seeing this, Zhuo Mali sighed helplessly: "To be frank, Yingying, you still don't know much about these companies in our Qilu area."

"Let me put it this way. The reason why Xialiu Sales Agency is so efficient and always unwavering in its pursuit of what they believe is right is because they are a collective enterprise formed by villagers from the same village, and they also have an idealist leader who is good at brainwashing people by setting an example!"

"As for the drilling company, they are a southwestern enterprise isolated in Shandong. Not only are they fighting alone in a foreign land, but they are also surrounded by enemies. This forces them to work extremely hard. They dare not slack off or be careless in their core business, which is the foundation of their existence."

"So, if you think that all companies are as dedicated to their main business as the drilling company or Xialiu Sales Agency that you deal with all day, you are totally wrong... The cruel fact is that even in the oil system that shoulders a heavy burden, there are very few companies that work as hard as drilling companies. Even if you go to their southwest base, you will definitely not find another one."

After correcting Tugou's cognitive bias, Zhuo Mali sighed with some regret: "In fact, I can tell you responsibly that under the huge economic pressure, Qilu enterprises are much more short-sighted than you!"

"Prepare enough funds for production?"

"That's impossible. The Xinfa Electric Cable Factory has owed all the factory workers wages for at least half a year. How could those workers who were just trying to get by watch so much money pile up in the account book and not ask for it? Instead, they would rather starve than save the money to resume production like the members of the Xialiu Sales Cooperative?"

"Full resumption of work?"

"It's impossible. Working so hard to produce and find customers is so tiring. How can it be as comfortable as lying on the bed and counting money with a few hundred shops?"

"In the past, the Xinfa Electric Cable Factory was so obsessed with resuming production that Director Zhao would go to the municipal office building every day before dawn to discuss restructuring. That was because in the past they could only generate income by producing and selling cable equipment!"

"Now they can earn money just by selling a few shops, and the money they earn is much more than what they used to earn by working so hard in production. Do you think that after half a year of this comfortable life, the employees in their factory will be willing to return to their old ways?"

At the end, Zhuo Mali concluded meaningfully: "Yingying, people are lazy. Once ordinary workers without pursuits and beliefs live a leisurely and stable life, they will take their lazy nature to the extreme; they may even tie others down for the sake of the little bit of profit in front of them."

"So... full resumption of work?"

“Will it harm the long-term interests of the commercial demonstration zone?”

"nonexistent!"

Classmate Tugou stared blankly at Zhuomali, who had a sarcastic look on her face, and was completely dumbfounded.

How can it be! ?
Isn’t Xinfa Electric Cable Factory a third-level unit of a central enterprise?
Aren’t employees of state-owned enterprises supposed to regard their workplace as their home?
If they don't fully resume work, don't maintain production, and don't persist in honing and improving their skills and business, how can they gain a foothold in the market in the future?
If this main business is abandoned, then wouldn’t this unit also be ruined?
But her intuition told her that the old lady in front of her was not fooling her, and things would most likely develop in this way.

This was hard to accept for her as she was used to everyone around her working hard.

Zhuo Mali looked at Tugou's messy and confused eyes and felt an indescribable pleasure in her heart.

It was no secret that Yang Mo looked down on the employees of the Dongying branch of Dahua Company, and even looked down on those people in the headquarters.

As the saying goes, what the superior likes, the subordinates must follow. Therefore, those units of Yang Mo's faction, whether it is the Business Department 3 and Asset Preservation Department 2 brought over from Momo Baitou, Xialiu Distribution Agency, Qingfeng Food, and even the people from the Fifth Farm, all look down on the Dongying faction.

This made people like Zhuomali feel aggrieved and even unacceptable.

But there is no way, with this monster Yang Mo around, his achievements are more dazzling than yours, his work efficiency is higher than yours, his work enthusiasm and drive are stronger than yours, and even his professional skills and comprehensive qualities are half a step higher than you... The gap is there, you have to accept it even if you don't want to.

However, God has mercy on them. These employees and cadres of Dahua Company are elites transferred from various subordinate units by the Dongying Command.

To be fair, no matter how lazy the employees at the Dongying Command are, they still belong to the oil system after all. And due to historical reasons, employees in the oil system are ultimately more diligent than those in other units in most industries.

In other words, these employees and cadres of Dahua Company are already excellent as long as they are not put together with those crazy people from Yang Mo's faction!

Although comparing oneself to others is not an honorable thing, people like us who are clearly not useless have to face the sense of superiority and contempt that comes from people looking at us all day long. Anyone would feel very suffocated.

In fact, Zhuomali wanted to say it out loud a long time ago: Please open your eyes and take a closer look at the outside world. Not everyone is like you crazy people. Relatively speaking, we are already the tallest among the short ones, okay!

Therefore, with Xinfa Electric Cable Factory as a scapegoat, this charming old sister could say these words in almost straightforward language in front of Yang Mo's most valued childhood friend. That feeling...

It’s so refreshing!
But it was obvious that Tugou, who was deeply influenced by Yang Mo, did not think that 59 points was more glorious than 0 points. After digesting the shock that somewhat turned her worldview upside down, she quickly calmed down.

"Minister Zhuo, as one of the project leaders, I must make my own risk assessment for the next work progress plan... So, please let me know in detail what you plan to do next."

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PS: It was originally a long chapter of 10,000 words, but after thinking about it, it is better to divide it into two parts, with one chapter left at midnight.

(End of this chapter)