1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 468 Knocking on the door
As we all know, compared with the protests and small-scale strikes that seem to be more noisy, factory closures and blockades are actually more serious problems.

Even if it is a small-scale strike and production stoppage, it is nothing more than a gesture to seek concessions and compromises from the headquarters in some aspects... Since it is not an all-out strike and since they are still willing to yell at you, it means that the other party does not have the ability to mobilize all the employees, and everything is negotiable.

But sealing off the factory and blocking the door is different. It means that people don’t want to talk to you at all, and don’t want to accept any of your reform measures... And it’s not just the management that is unwilling to accept the reform, but most employees reject this kind of change.

To put it bluntly, in this era, sealing off factories and blocking gates is a manifestation of collective will, and you should not think that the so-called sealing off factories and blocking gates is as simple as just closing the gates.

So, if you were the headquarters, how would you handle this situation?
Should we start with the easy and then move on to the difficult, starting with Shunshang Food and Deying Hardware Factory where there is more room for maneuver, using kind words to appease the employees and management and let them fully guarantee production, then spending a lot of time to slowly smooth out the problems, and then turn to tackle the tough nuts that are left at the two factories that have closed their doors?

Or should we just face the challenge head on, first tackle the two tough nuts that have sealed off the factories and blocked the doors, then press on with the victory, using them as a template case to solve all other troublesome tertiary industry units at once?
Although these two approaches have their own advantages, they also have their own difficulties...

But it was obvious that Zhuo Mali was a utilitarian person. She wanted to perform well in front of Yang Mo and get more opportunities, so she chose the sealed and blocked Xinxin Plastic Factory as the first stop of her trip without any hesitation.

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Wucheng County, old town, suburbs.

Two buses with the Dahua Company logo printed on their bodies came to a halt on an already bumpy asphalt road.

As the car door opened, Tugou, a classmate who had not been seen for a while, followed closely behind Zhuo Mali and appeared in front of Du Chuanming.

Seeing the two reinforcements who had been "late" for three whole days, Du Chuanming, who had two blisters on his mouth during this period, immediately went up to them and shook their hands enthusiastically: "Minister Zhuo, Manager Lu, you are finally here."

Zhuo Mali was indeed a woman who was well versed in the ways of the world. She glanced at Du Chuanming, who had a hint of madness and cruelty in his eyes. She did not exchange pleasantries with him as she usually did in the company, but asked directly, "Old Du, how is the situation now?"

The call of "Old Du" clearly conveyed Zhuo Mali's inclination and attitude. Du Chuanming felt more at ease immediately. He calmly glanced at Tugou, whose face seemed to be sunburned, and said with a wry smile: "What else can we do? We can only remain in a stalemate! The guidance team comes here every day, but is blocked outside the door every day and cannot get in. No matter how we communicate or shout, their Director Li doesn't even show his face... Apart from being in a stalemate like this, what else can we do!"

As if she didn't hear the frustration and complaints in Du Chuanming's words, Zhuo Mali turned her head and carefully looked at the historic concrete wall and dilapidated gate not far away.

As Du Chuanming said, the rusty iron gate was tightly closed, and several iron chains as thick as an arm were locked on the outside as a show of defiance;
Through the gap under the gate, you can clearly see that the door is blocked by layer upon layer of sand bags, as if it says "If you have the guts, just use a bulldozer to break the door open."

If it were just this, it would be fine. After all, although the main gate is locked, you can still enter through the small door on the side of the main gate. The guidance group came here with a mission, and completing the mission is their top priority. They don't necessarily have to insist on going through the main gate.

But the problem is, looking inside through the grille of the small door, in addition to a group of employees gathered at the entrance with cautious and alert expressions, about five or six meters away from the iron gate, there is clearly a U-shaped trench that is one meter and eighty deep and at least three meters wide!
Judging from the more than 30 iron oil drums and boxes of various sizes standing like warnings at the back of the deep trench, if necessary, they will pour the gasoline, rubber, plasticizers and other items in the iron drums into the deep trench and set them on fire, thus achieving the effect of complete blocking.

Don't ask Zhuo Mali how she knew that. People of her generation are no strangers to all kinds of combat readiness training. They can roughly guess the other party's intentions with just a glance.

Huh~
Fortunately, only a simple main trench was dug, and no support trenches or communication trenches were dug. The workers only had shovels and sticks in their hands and did not take out the privately hidden 7.62.

But that's true. If they took out those things in front of the guidance team sent by the headquarters, the nature of the situation would change completely. No matter how stupid the people at Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory are, they wouldn't be so stupid.

With a sneer on her lips, Zhuo Mali turned her head to look at Tugou classmate next to her and asked inquiringly, "Manager Lu, do you want to open the door or should I?"

Tugou, who was looking at the trench behind the small door with curiosity, thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we trouble Minister Zhuo... After all, this is a subsidiary of your Dahua Company. If an outsider like me says something, it will easily cause conflicts."

Upon hearing this, Zhuomali nodded, then took light steps and quickly arrived at the gate accompanied by four security personnel.

Ignoring the cowardly attempts to stop her from the "factory protection team" behind the small door, Zhuo Mali looked around at the eyes that were either fierce, uneasy, greedy, or confused, sneered, then took out her work permit, shook it, and threw it in through the grille of the small door.

"I'm Zhuo Mali, the director of Dahua Company's Legal and Compliance Department. I'll give you fifteen minutes to either open the door or call out your factory manager Li Bo and three deputy factory managers for a confrontation on the spot!"

"Remember! It's only fifteen minutes. Once the fifteen minutes are up...you will bear the consequences!"

Zhuo Mali's expression was full of arrogance and dominance, as if she was facing a group of little lambs at her mercy.

As soon as these words came out, the faces of the factory protection team members who originally had different expressions suddenly changed. The leader, a young man in his early thirties, looked at her fiercely: "Oh~ This little wife is quite arrogant! She is so arrogant, and she will bear the consequences at her own risk... If you say she is the minister from the headquarters, then she is the minister!?"

Zhuo Mali's expression remained unchanged: "Is he the director of the Legal and Compliance Department of the headquarters? If you pick up his work ID and take a look at it, you will know."

The young man lowered his head to look at the rather thick leather book with deep steel stamps not far from his feet, then looked away, his expression becoming more and more perverse: "I can't read, I can't understand these things, anyway, I don't recognize them, who the hell knows whether they are true or false... Get out of here! If you don't leave, I'll hit you with a brick, I don't care if you are a woman or not!"

Zhuo Mali sneered and glanced at the half brick in the young man's hand. She ignored him and just raised her left hand to check the time: "It is 9:46 now. You have 14 minutes left at Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory."

The young man seemed to be irritated by Zhuo Mali's ant-like look, and he smashed the brick against the small door in anger: "F*ck! You don't understand what I'm saying, I told you to get out!...F*ck 14 minutes, I'll be here with you for 14 minutes, I want to see what you can do after 14 minutes... If you have the guts, ask someone to drive a tank over here and blow up this door!"

This is a joke-like provocation in later generations, but at present...

Well, it's also a joking provocation at the moment.

Hearing this, Zhuo Mali sneered: "If it were ten years ago, I might have really called a few tanks to blow up this broken door, but now... humph, whatever you want, just waste time here if you want."

After saying that, he leisurely put his hands in the pockets of his thin windbreaker, looking calm and calm: "But as the director of the Legal and Compliance Department, I have to remind you that if any of the above two conditions cannot be met after fourteen minutes, according to the "Provisional Regulations on State-owned Assets Management", when the state-owned assets management party determines that the state-owned assets under its command are in danger of loss of contact, coercion, or occupation, even if the specific situation is unclear and the facts are not yet clear, based on the principle of emergency risk avoidance, Dahua Company has the right to take relevant response measures... So, you can't blame us for not giving you a chance at that time."

The young man was a little confused by this nonsense, but the words "Interim Regulations on the Management of State-owned Assets" were still a bit intimidating. He looked at the beautiful female executive in front of him with a guilty conscience: "What can you do then?"

Zhuo Mali glanced at the group of factory guards who couldn't help whispering behind the door, and sneered: "Not so good, it's nothing more than the headquarters will determine that the state-owned assets of Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory are in a state of being held hostage, and 76 cadres in the factory will be automatically identified as suspected of embezzling state-owned assets; the remaining 577 employees will also be automatically suspected of assisting in the crime... According to the principle of emergency risk avoidance, the company will also, in accordance with applicable regulations, immediately and unilaterally terminate the labor relationship with all employees in the factory without having to bear compensation, and require them to cooperate with the investigation of the Discipline Inspection Division and relevant local departments."

"That is to say, if we don't get any feedback after fourteen minutes, the headquarters' finance department will immediately freeze all the accounts of the mold factory, and all employees of Xinxin Plastic Mold Factory will be fired... After being fired, whether you can re-sign a labor contract with Dahua Company after passing the review of the Discipline Inspection Division and relevant local departments may be an unknown, but after 14 minutes, none of you will get a penny of salary, which is a foregone conclusion!"

As soon as these words were spoken, they caused an uproar.

You should know that Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory is a tertiary industry unit under Dahua Company, and all the grassroots employees there are contract workers.

And what does contract work mean?
It means that their promotion is limited, and most of them can only climb up the worker line forever!
This means that their welfare benefits and bonuses will be much higher than those of regular employees!

More importantly... this means that they don’t have a stable job!

Therefore, for these contract workers, what they fear most is that the company terminates their labor contracts!
Especially this kind of unilateral dismissal after being accused of a crime, not only without any compensation, but it will be extremely difficult for you to find a job again in the future... Not to mention the state-owned enterprise system, even in the private system, no company is willing to hire a worker who was fired for a legitimate reason!

And the people at Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory didn't really suspect that the pretty female executive from the headquarters was trying to scare them.

You have to know that the large-scale employee standby and diversion work at the Dongying Command has caused a great shock. Even the contract workers and regular workers at the grassroots level of the oil system will lose their iron rice bowls, and then be diverted to the remaining "marginal township enterprises" to start over just like garbage sorting and processing. What are these contract workers in the tertiary industry units who are already on the margins considered?
Maybe the headquarters is eager to fire them all quickly to make room for the remaining unemployed workers!

"You are slandering us! You just want to frame us! When have we ever coerced or embezzled state-owned assets? The factory is just sitting here, the equipment and raw materials are all in the factory, and production has not been delayed for even a second. Have you ever seen state-owned assets being embezzled like this?"

A member of the factory protection team who was about 40 years old grabbed the grille of the small door tightly, his face flushed as he retorted loudly. The anger in his eyes could almost burn Zhuo Mali to ashes.

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately caused a huge response, and countless workers and their families who came to join in the fun responded.

This is not an excuse. In fact, as a member of Dahua's tertiary industry system, Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory, which has seen a slight increase in orders for various parts during this period, is like an aphrodisiac. Everyone is working hard to meet the orders. Even if the door is blocked and a lot of manpower and material resources are spent on guarding against those "ill-intentioned" reform guidance groups, it has not affected the production tasks at all.

Everyone is tired of being poor, and they finally start to get more work. How could they be willing to give up those orders?
Therefore, you can say that the people at Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory contradicted their leaders, you can say that they were dissatisfied with the arrangements, or you can even say that they expanded the contradictions;
But if you label them as "holding back state-owned assets" or "encroaching on state-owned assets", they are more wronged than Dou E.

You have to know that under the shared accounting center model, most of the funds of Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory are handled and allocated by the headquarters. In addition, all the accounts of the factory must be submitted for review. Under the deterrence of a series of internal control work, they have indeed not sold any equipment and raw materials privately.
Moreover, basically 70% of their orders come directly or indirectly from other sister units within the Dahua system. The products produced are also delivered to them and then finally assembled into finished products. Moreover, they are often not settled until these goods are sold. You say that they are coercing and encroaching upon state-owned assets... This logic does not make sense at all!

Looking at the very excited scene in front of her, Zhuo Mali waved away the security personnel who rushed up to protect her, then sneered and told the red and angry faces a cruel fact: "Regarding whether your Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory coerced and embezzled state-owned assets... your words don't count, and neither do others' words. Even the steering group and Minister Du who were blocked outside by you for five days and not allowed to enter the door, it doesn't count!"

"However, although what the Internal Management Reform Steering Group and Minister Du said does not count, I, as the Minister of the Legal and Compliance Department, have the right to make a judgment on the spot... If I say that you are coercing and misappropriating state-owned assets, you are suspected of coercing and misappropriating state-owned assets!"

"As for whether it's unjust or not, we'll have to wait until the Disciplinary Inspection Division and other relevant departments intervene and investigate before we can say anything!"

When these words came out, it was like a bolt from the blue, shattering the hopes of many people. They had never imagined that in the land of China, there would be such overbearing remarks that did not distinguish between right and wrong and were like those of a feudal dynasty!
But they also knew that Zhuo Mali's words were not meant to scare them. Although they were not very clear about what the Legal and Compliance Department did, since it was a professional legal department, it should have the right to make on-the-spot decisions, just like the judges on TV.

If this is defined as coercion and misappropriation of state-owned assets, then the rest of their lives will be ruined!
Just as everyone was looking pale and anxious, the young man leading the factory protection team had a violent look on his face: "You can accuse me of anything you want, and I'm afraid of you!? If you have the guts, I'll get a bunch of media here today, and we'll all argue about right and wrong in front of the media cameras... Damn, you keep encroaching on state-owned assets, I don't believe that the headquarters can really cover up everything!"

Everyone was delighted upon hearing this.

Yes, in recent months, Texas has been the darling of media from all over the world. Even after the Asian Games are over, there are still a lot of foreign media wandering around Texas looking for materials.

Now is still a critical period for Texas to create and promote a good business environment. If something like this happens in front of a group of foreign media, regardless of whether the headquarters can suppress it, the director of the legal and compliance department will definitely not have a good ending!
Upon hearing this, Zhuo Mali first glanced at the young man with a little surprise, as if she had not expected that a small leader of the factory protection team could actually think of using the media to exert pressure, but then she pursed her lips in contempt... My part-time job is to be in charge of media publicity, if you try this with me, I will kill you!
Seeing that Zhuo Mali just smiled disdainfully and stood there without saying anything, the young man felt a little uneasy. As if to encourage himself, he turned around and raised his hand: "Don't be afraid, everyone. The headquarters wants to fire us, so they can fire us if they want! As long as we guard the factory well and show our attitude, the local authorities will definitely not have the courage to force us... As long as we don't compromise, there will always be a day when the clouds will clear and the moon will appear. By then, the country and the media will definitely clear our name!"

"As for not paying wages?"

"Humph, send it if you want! Right now, the demand for various plastic parts in Texas is huge. As long as we continue to work overtime and find a way to sell the parts we produce, and then use the cash and goods to get by, we can get through this period of time...what can the headquarters do to us?"

It is clear that the young people are pointing out four things.

1. Don’t think you are great just because you are the direct superior unit of Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory. Dahua Company is only a second-level unit, and there is Dongying Command Center above it!

2. Don't force us to make a big deal out of this. Once we make a big fuss with the help of the media, the headquarters will intervene openly. Instead of letting the matter end in disgrace, you'd better be sensible now.

3. Don't look down on us just because Xinxin Plastic Factory is a small unit with only a few hundred people. These days, every unit doesn't have some fire sticks and tools. If you really push us to the limit and take out our weapons, and you let the local authorities intervene, they will do nothing but watch.

4. We all come here to make a living. If the headquarters really stops paying us, it will certainly be a blow to our lifeline, but we are not fools. At worst, we can produce and sell by ourselves, produce during the day, transport goods at night, and pay the money directly... Anyway, this situation cannot last too long. Under special circumstances, I will bypass your headquarters and deal in cash and spot goods until the headquarters starts to intervene. What can you do to me! ?

Zhuo Mali once again looked at the leading young man with some surprise. She was now very sure that this guy must be a relative of a factory leader, and these countermeasures were part of the contingency plans that had been discussed privately.

Thinking of this, Zhuo Mali sneered and did not argue with the other party. She just turned her head and gestured to Tugou classmate.

Tugou, who had already known a lot about the situation before coming, looked at the leading youth with some disgust, then walked up and took out three work IDs from his pocket and showed them: "I am Lv Yingying, the manager of the Qingfeng Food Brand Management Department;"

"He is also the special senior consultant of the Dahua Commercial Demonstration Zone Investment Promotion Company and the honorary vice president of the Xialiu Sales Agency."

After holding up the three work permits in his hand so that the factory protection team members behind the small door could see them clearly, Tugou carefully put away the work permits and said with an undisguised contemptuous tone: "As the representative of the three units, I can tell you responsibly that no matter whether it is the Dahua Commercial Demonstration Zone Investment Promotion Company or the Jianxialiu Sales Agency, we will not continue to cooperate with any unit suspected of misappropriating state-owned assets;"

“Not only will we not continue to cooperate, but as a member of the public economic entity, we have the responsibility and obligation to inform and mobilize all cooperative units to cancel and jointly boycott all economic exchanges with units suspected of misappropriating state-owned assets;”

"That is to say, you can do whatever you want, but before you clear the suspicion, whether the products you secretly produce can be sold, and whether the workers can get paid in the end, you have to ask your own ability... Do you understand!?"

Although Tugou's level is far inferior to Zhuomali, her words made even the leading young man's face stiffen, no longer as violent and tough as before.

You have to know that since it is called a "plastic mold factory", the main products of Xinxin Plastic Mold Factory are various plastic accessories and daily plastic products.

The main customers of plastic accessories are industrial product manufacturing companies from Wucheng and other areas of Dezhou; many of these orders come from derivative projects of the commercial demonstration zone, or are orders reached through the commodity trading zone... Even if a small number of such orders come from other companies, with Yang Mo's promotion to a department-level cadre, Dahua's status in Dezhou has risen again, and no one would be stupid enough to buy their goods before the ban is lifted.

Well, actually, they had thought of this a long time ago. If the plastic accessories used in various industrial products cannot be sold, then they cannot be sold. Anyway, it is just a short-term protest. There should be no problem in making some daily plastic products... Nowadays, all kinds of plastic daily necessities are very popular in the market. As long as they are made, even if only half of them are sold, it will be enough for the workers in the factory to make ends meet.

But Tugou's other identity directly extinguished their hopes.

You have to know that although Dahua Company is famous for its strong influence at the grassroots level in rural areas, more than half of this influence is attributed to Xialiu Sales Agency, a seemingly inconspicuous township enterprise.

It is precisely because of their consistent, considerate and down-to-earth after-sales service and the JIT model based on the actual needs of the masses over the years that the people who have truly enjoyed all kinds of conveniences have such faith in Yang Mo's various products and projects.

It can be said that in the rural areas of Dezhou and Lanling today, as long as you reveal your identity as the Xialiu Marketing Agency, no matter how weird the things you sell are, or how unrealistic the project you want to promote seems, the people will support you unreservedly without hesitation.

This is a very terrifying influence, which is manifested in an occasion like today, that is...

As long as Xialiu Sales Agency clearly expresses its boycott, no one will underwrite or buy the plastic daily necessities produced by their Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory, even if they sell them at a loss.

A very cruel reality is that all the vendors active in the grassroots rural areas and towns in Dezhou and Lanling areas basically have more or less business connections with Xialiu Sales Agency;
Some of them need to purchase goods from Xialiu Marketing Co., Ltd., some need to negotiate prices with Xialiu Marketing Co., Ltd., and some even need to go through third-party monitoring and certification by Xialiu Marketing Co., Ltd. before they can rely on this credit to be accepted by the people in the grassroots market.

The rural market is like this, and the market in the county town is even worse... If the rural market is not feasible, it will be even more impossible to sell goods in the county town market under the three-way attack from Dahua Company, the local competent authority, and Xialiu Distribution Agency.

Therefore, the destructive power of Tugou's speech, which seems to have no direction, can be imagined. It is equivalent to cutting off all hopes of Xinxin Plastic Mould Factory to "be self-reliant"!
And no one doubted that the little girl in front of them was just pretending.

Tugou's rank is far lower than Zhuomali's, but her fame at the grassroots level is undoubtedly several levels higher than Zhuomali. Everyone knows that this pretty-looking girl who likes to jump around in the grassroots of the countryside is Yang Mo's childhood friend. Not only does she have a strong voice in the Xialiu Sales Agency, she also has a strong influence at the grassroots level in the rural areas. She even has a large number of fans thanks to her various struggles and efforts in the past two years.

It can be said that in terms of the rural grassroots market, what Lv Yingying said is almost equivalent to the joint voice of Yang Mo and Yan Laoxi, and its true weight is astonishing.

Seeing Tugou put away his work ID and stare at him with hidden anger, the leading young man suddenly felt very guilty and didn't even have the courage to look him in the face.

Seeing this, Zhuomali snorted noncommittally, then raised her wrist to take a look, and said without any fluctuation in her tone: "The time is now 9:55 in the morning... You only have 5 minutes left."

Looking at the extremely indifferent expression of the beautiful executive from the headquarters, the leading young man's face turned pale and blue. Looking at the pale faces around him, he pinched his trembling hands hard, then gritted his teeth and rushed into the communication room at the door at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.

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Three minutes later.

Wow~
The lock on the side door was unlocked.

Watching from afar a few bloated middle-aged men running towards the door in sweat, Zhuo Mali and Tugou looked at each other, then a hint of sneer appeared at the corners of their mouths.

Ah……

(End of this chapter)